Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Police, led by Commander Gorski, burn Claverly Hall to the ground in a pre-dawn raid. Later, addressing the University via closed-circuit TV from his Grays Hall bunker, Gorski say, "It was riddled with crime. We had to destroy it in order to save...
...looked like Carlos-or did he? He talked like Carlos-or did he? He said he was Carlos-and then that he was not. At the end of the OPEC affair, one major question remained: Was the man who led the raid on the oil cartel's headquarters the terrorist known variously as Carlos and "the Jackal"? French intelligence was convinced that the leader of the attack was another person and that Carlos had been killed earlier by other terrorists. Israeli agents speculated that there might be not one but four Carloses...
...raid leader was indeed the Carlos, however, his name is Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez. He is 26, the son of a Venezuelan Communist intellectual who gave each of three sons one of Lenin's names: Vladimir, Ilyich and Lenin. Carlos was recruited by the KGB in his homeland and sent to Moscow's Lumumba University for training sometime in the late '60s. He also attended four special institutes run by the Soviet secret police near Moscow, where he took courses in political indoctrination, sabotage, the use of weapons and killer karate...
...those "arctic air masses" start rolling in, the problem of getting exercise without spending a lot of money becomes acute. Most winter sports in this part of the world require a raid on operating capital, and there is no way around that: you want to skate, you gotta have skates; you want to ski, you gotta have skis; you want to swim, you gotta have a pool; and on it goes. (All of which is not to mention the financial and political problems involved in those ever-popular jaunts to Third World countries near the Equator...
...backyard fallout shelters and grade-school air-raid drills is mercifully bygone. But nuclear warfare is by no means implausible. Despite the existence of various accords, the race to accumulate atomic firepower proceeds...