Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Practically everybody, however, agrees that his threat to the Americans was designed to divert attention from the murders last month of Ugandan Archbishop Janani Luwum and two Cabinet ministers, and from the continuing massacre of Christian Ugandans. Some observers were convinced that Amin, still smarting from the Israeli commando raid on Entebbe airport last July, feared an attack, this time from the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise, which was standing by off the Kenya coast. At one point, he is said to have considered putting all the Americans aboard a plane and sending them home...
...made contact with younger radicals through Inge Hornischer, a Frankfurt attorney who handled his divorce in 1975. Verfassungsschutz agents, it seemed, regularly tuned in to the telephone of Frau Hornischer, whose radical clientele included Wilfried Böse, a left-wing terrorist killed in the Israeli raid at Entebbe last July...
...Klaus" who regularly chatted with Frau Hornischer was one of Interatom's leading nuclear experts, Verfassungsschutz agents learned to their alarm that Traube had vacationed for ten days in Yugoslavia in 1975 with Hans-Joachim Klein, another young radical who four months later took part in the kidnaping raid on OPEC ministers in Vienna (TIME, Jan. 5, 1976). Verfassungsschutz advised Interatom of Traube's dubious friendships; they decided against dismissing him immediately on the theory that he might go underground and threaten nuclear revenge. Nine days after the OPEC raid, an agent interrupted Traube on a skiing holiday...
...Raid. In Bucharest, thousands were homeless. Many of the terrified survivors streamed into suburban parks and the surrounding countryside in fear of further tremors. An employee at the Austrian embassy in Bucharest reported that there were "rifts and holes more than a meter wide in other houses. Heaps of rubbish lay in the streets. It was sheer madness...
...satisfied by the Americans' answer-and equally clearly unsurprised by it-President Amin then took us off in his British-made Range Rover for a personally conducted tour of the still bullet-and bazooka-shattered section of Entebbe airport, where Israeli troops last July staged their stunningly successful raid to rescue hijack hostages from pro-Palestinian kidnapers...