Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Western diplomats in Africa speculated that the raid was aimed at driving a wedge between Mugabe, who has insisted that the war will continue until Muzorewa steps down, and his uneasy partner Nkomo, who seems more willing to compromise with the bishop's regime. While attempting to split his external enemies, the Prime Minister has dealt sternly with his political opponents inside the country. In July, Zimbabwe Rhodesian soldiers shot down at least 183 members of the "private army" of Muzorewa's rival, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, who finished second to Muzorewa in last April's "majority...
...German dive bombers off Crete. "Abandon ship or I'm going to sink you!" his admiral signaled when he refused to leave his bridge at one time. "Try it and I'll bloody well sink you!" Mountbatten replied. Mountbatten's later direction of the disastrous commando raid on Dieppe also contributed to a growing reputation for recklessness. Nonetheless, Winston Churchill himself hand-picked the flamboyant commander first as a strategic planner for the D-day invasion, and subsequently as Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia...
Working with U.S. military police, West German agents last month arrested 29 people for illegal possession of heroin in the southern town of Oppenheim. The raid netted 24 American G.I.s from near by Anderson Barracks. Also caught were two Turkish immigrant workers and three West German women, including one 24-year-old who was the ring's alleged leader. In all, police seized quantities of heroin worth $164,000 at street prices. Even though American soldiers were involved, U.S. military personnel have long ceased to be the main source of West Germany's narcotics problem. Trafficking and addiction...
...source for this tale was somewhat less than objective. Two owners of Studio 54, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, had been charged with tax evasion, obstruction of justice and conspiracy in June. The charges followed a raid on the disco in December 1978 in which Schrager had been arrested for possession of cocaine. Rubell's chief lawyer, Roy M. Cohn, onetime aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy, said last week that in preparing for the trial Rubell told him that the discotheque's many famous visitors included Jordan and Powell...
...fastidiously designed compound looks as tame as a set in an oldtime jungle horror movie. His murder, which is archly intercut with the ritual slaughter of a carabao, is the film's only poorly shot death scene. Apocalypse Now's much talked-about discarded ending - another air raid - would not have illuminated this murk...