Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proper and thorough investigation" of the incident, Colonel Oran K. Henderson, former commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade, will be tried by a general court-martial. Of those charged, all have been freed except Henderson, Calley, Medina and Captain Eugene M. Kotouc, who did not participate in the raid but is accused of having assaulted a Vietnamese during interrogation just after...
...Viet Nam, the general was paid $1,000 a month by Crum for favors. Once, when Crum was feeling threatened by the success of a competitor's slot-machine business, he asked Cole to initiate an investigation into the activities of his rival. The competitor was duly raided and forced to close. Afterward, Crum boasted that he had "paid for" the raid...
...infancy of man. To see The Grey Lady Cantata as performed by the Bread and Puppet Theater is rather like waiting in the mystic whispering groves of Delphi to hear the oracle speak. Despite the primordial trappings, this virtual dumb show is as contemporary as tomorrow's bombing raid. It is a cantata of death, an immensely sad and strangely affecting tale of the wartime slaughter of innocents...
Garry originally made the charge in December 1969 after Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were shot by Chicago police during a raid on the city's party headquarters...
Drums Sounding. Since last September the Russians have engaged in ground operations in all three southern provinces. Last month they accompanied Sudanese army units in a raid on the main guerrilla camp, Owing-ki-bul (an Acholi war cry that means "Hear the drums sounding"), attacking the southerners by surprise while many were bathing in a river. The rebel Anyanya (who took their name from the poison of a cobra or scorpion) lost a dozen men and considerable equipment. A bombing raid against a rebel base at Morta near the Uganda border caused nearly 1,000 civilian casualties...