Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deadline three days and allowed an additional 101 captives to fly to Paris. Remaining as hostages were 93 passengers-mostly Israeli or those with Jewish sounding names-and the twelve crew members. It was their lives that hung in the balance as the Israelis decided to launch their raid...
...suicide was the latest turn in the longest, most sensational terrorist trial that West Germany has known. The daughter of a museum director and once a prominent left-wing journalist, Meinhof, 41, already stood convicted of attempted murder in a 1970 prison raid that freed the gang's other namesake, Arsonist Andreas Baader, and began their paramilitary spree. One year ago she, Baader, now 33, and two other gang members-Jan-Carl Raspe, 31, and Gudrun Ensslin, 33-went on trial for a list of charges that included five counts of murder and 54 of attempted murder. Other Baader...
...good sources at the FBI. Hardly had she rejoined the Nashville Tennessean last fall after five years as a housewife and freelance writer when she was able to give its editors late-night details about a statewide FBI strike against illegal betting parlors and tip them off about a raid on a local business suspected of fraud...
...triumph of black leftist movements in Angola and Mozambique has placed the Rhodesian government in an untenable position. Prime Minister Ian Smith's stubborn refusal to cooperate in a raid transition to black majority rule has compelled neighboring black governments to support a full-scale guerilla war. Even such pro-Western leaders as Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda expressed their willingness to accept Soviet and Cuban aid to toppling the Smith regime...
...kids from their closely guarded aerie? By hang glider, of course. Happily, a barnstorming group of gliding fools is playing just down the beach (Greece is full of such folks in the summertime), and James Coburn is on hand to put two and two together and lead the night raid on the monastery...