Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allegations and testimony of police corruption lead to the creation of the Knapp Commission investigation of New York's finest. And as in the movie, Serpico ended his career with a bullet in his head--just barely escaping with his life-received under rather questionable circumstances during a narcotics raid for the NYPD...
Although Lebanese Defense Minister Nasri Maalouf quickly called for the strengthening of his country's armed forces, the raid was considered in Beirut to be not much more than a psy-war gesture. Leaflets scattered by the frogmen admonished Lebanese fishermen against assisting Palestinian guerrillas in launching other seaborne attacks similar to the assault on Nahariya, which Israel believed must have originated in a Lebanese port. "Take this warning to heart before it is too late," the leaflets said in Arabic. "Shun evil. Avoid it at all cost...
...that U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had been stitching together suddenly threatened to unravel last week. In a horribly familiar sequence, three Palestinian fedayeen slipped into Nahariya (pop. 21,000), a seaside resort in the Lebanese border area where 48 Israelis had been killed in three earlier fedayeen raids (see map). This time four Israelis died, as well as the three commandos. Israel's initial response was to shell selected targets in southern Lebanon. The raid and the reprisal touched off charges and countercharges, threats and anti-threats around the Middle East that for the first time seriously...
...latest round of raids demonstrated that the status of 3.5 million Palestinians must be decided, as President Nixon had been warned in his recent tour of the area, before peace would be possible. Last week's events also showed that the Palestinian issue had become so overriding that moderate Arab leaders were wary about even appearing to be against the fedayeen cause. Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry announced that he was commuting the life sentences passed on the eight fedayeen who killed U.S. Diplomats George C. Moore and Cleo A. Noel Jr. and Belgian Guy Eid in a raid...
Even so-called moderate Palestinian organizations are feeling the backlash of frustration. The Nahariya raid was carried out by members of Yasser Arafat's Fatah, the largest and lately the most reasonable fedayeen group. At a Cairo meeting last month of the Palestine National Council-a kind of parliament in exile-Arafat had to modify his views somewhat to please fedayeen extremists...