Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cuban Premier Fidel Castro insisted to the ranking American diplomat in Havana, Lyle Lane, that no Cubans had participated in the Shaba raid. In fact, said Castro, Cuban advisers had learned of the raid beforehand and tried to talk the Katangese out of going through with it. Washington officials could not prove Castro wrong and were not quite sure how to interpret his words. In any case, there was no doubt that over the years, the Cubans and the Angolans had armed and trained the Katangese and were therefore implicated in the mischiefmaking...
...Dana Reed Prize was established in memory of Dana Reed '43, who was reported missing after a 1944 bombing raid over the Adriatic Seas. A native of Cambridge who attended Belmont public schools, he had been executive editor of The Harvard Crimson, editor-in-chief of the 1943 Class Album, and undergraduate editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...Rome, police made what may be an important breakthrough. They raided a small print shop where they believed Moro's kidnapers might have prepared the messages that were sent to the government and his family. The raid turned up an IBM typewriter of the kind used in the messages, arms, and Red Brigades leaflets claiming responsibility for the kidnaping of Piero Costa, a Genoa shipping magnate, in 1976. The shop's owner, Enrico Triaca, 30, was arrested along with nine other suspects, whom police were investigating for possible connections to the kidnaping...
...raid came only one day after a SWAPO attack on a hydroelectric station at Ruacana Falls on the Namibian side of the border. Other terrorist incidents this year have included the assassination last month of Chief Clemens Kapuuo, the black leader of a multiracial group that opposes SWAPO, the murder of several tribal leaders in Ovamboland, the planting of land mines and booby traps, and the hijacking to Angola of a bus with 73 passengers on board...
...called crime of the century had been financed by ODESSA, the secret international organization of ex-Nazis who were eager to channel their war loot into venture capital. The reputed leader of ODESSA was Otto Skorzeny, famous as the Waffen SS officer in charge of the 1943 raid on an Apennine ski resort that freed the deposed Mussolini from his captors. Skorzeny died of cancer...