Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dawn Raid. Last week it appeared that Scientologist methods had aroused a half-sleeping giant: the U.S. Government. Federal prosecutors began parading Scientology officials before a Washington grand jury following a door-busting dawn raid by FBI agents on church offices in Hollywood and the District of Columbia. Cartons of documents were seized, including dossiers on the private lives of federal judges hearing the church's suits, data on agency personnel, and other material that originated in Government files. Authorities charged that the Scientologists had pilfered scores of confidential documents after infiltrating the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service...
...symbolic act of defiance in 1969. He moved to Milan and began organizing small revolutionary groups in the city's major factories, then moved on to kidnaping factory executives and shooting government officials. Police captured Curcio in late 1974, but his wife, Margherita Cagol, led a commando raid against the lightly guarded prison and rescued him. Four months later, police closed in on Curcio's wife at a farm where she and some confederates were holding a kidnaped wine merchant. In the fight, Margherita, 29, was shot dead. When the authorities finally trapped Curcio in January 1976, they...
...conspiracy theory that surrounds the assassination of Ray's victim, Martin Luther King Jr. Our Nation staff pieced together the Ray saga, as our World and International staffs began work on another late-breaking story, the Dutch marine attack on the South Moluccan kidnapers; their story on the raid includes an eye-witness account by TIME'S Peter Kronenberg...
...raid was carefully planned by a team of army and air-force experts, summoned to the crisis center in The Hague. It was a challenging assignment. A surprise attack on the train was difficult because it stood in the open, surrounded by soggy pastures that would not carry the weight of armored cars. Knowing that the Moluccans had infrared field glasses, the operation planners decided to use the Starfighters to drop smoke bombs as cover for the marines and to warn the hostages that something was up. Valuable intelligence about the Moluccans' activities came from listening devices planted...
Even by the standards of the securities industry, whose firms constantly raid each other for experienced employees, spiriting away an entire branch office was an unusual act, and last week it brought an unusual judgment. An arbitration panel of the New York Stock Exchange ordered Paine, Webber to pay Bateman Eichler almost $1.1 million in damages. In addition, the arbitrators assessed damages totaling $45,000 against three of the former Bateman employees for conspiring to engage in unfair competition. The damages were less than the $2.5 million that Bateman had asked in a California court suit filed on the Monday...