Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West German government refused to bow to the demands of a pistol-armed band of two men and two women who had skyjacked a Lufthansa jet and embarked on a 110-hour odyssey of terror from Majorca to Mogadishu, Somalia. There, in a daring middle-of-the-night raid, West German commandos rescued 82 passengers and four crew members, killed three of the skyjackers and wounded the fourth (see following story...
...Probably the most seasoned commando force is Israel's General Intelligence and Reconnaissance Unit 269; its accomplishments include the 1972 rescue, at Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, of 90 hostages aboard a Sabena jet that had been hijacked by Palestinian terrorists, and last year's daring Entebbe raid. Late last week the U.S. Defense Department said that it too has a special strike force, made up of volunteers from several elite units of the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force. Although trained primarily for hit-and-kill commando warfare, these troops have the skills and equipment to fight...
...case, he has more than enough grim incidents to his discredit, including the 1968 skyjacking of a Rome-Tel Aviv El Al flight and the 1970 skyjacking of four passenger jets, three of which were later blown up in the Jordanian desert. Haddad also planned the 1975 terrorist raid on OPEC headquarters in Vienna, which forced the oil-producing states to pay $25 million to ransom their ministers. The commander of that attack was Haddad's sometime deputy, the notorious Venezuelan known as Carlos (real name: Ilyich Ramírez-Sánchez). Carlos has served as the liaison...
Prime Minister John Vorster kicked off his National Party's campaign last week in what is being billed as the country's "crisis election." Looking rather like a grumpy air-raid warden, Vorster warned a rally of party faithful in the eastern Transvaal that only a National landslide on Nov. 30 could hold back the "swart gevaar" (black menace). Vorster has every reason to expect an overwhelming mandate from South Africa's 4.3 million whites. (The country's 18 million blacks, 2.5 million mixed-blood "coloreds" and 850,000 Asians cannot vote.) The latest polls indicate...
...There are more rats running across streets here than children," complains Chicagoan Vernie Ruffin. Indeed, in old neighborhoods on the city's West Side, the rodents, many of which have become immune to the poisons used by the health department, are having a population explosion. They bite kids, raid kitchens and even battle residents for tomatoes and cantaloupes growing in backyard gardens...