Word: raiding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...public financing of all congressional and presidential elections, primary and general. But the House is likely to rule out public funding for congressional elections. And even if the House does approve public financing of presidential races, Richard Nixon has served notice that he will veto such legislation as "a raid on the public treasury...
...capacity as she trudged to the podium. The mood of the meeting was even more grim than expected: that morning, Palestinian guerrillas had sneaked across Israel's border from Lebanon to carry out a massacre at Qiryat Shemona in which 18 people were killed (see following story). The raid, Mrs. Meir said, "surpasses in its barbarity all that has gone before." She followed up an account of the assault with an explanation of her decision to resign. In a brief, stiff and somewhat bitter speech, she acknowledged "a ferment that cannot be ignored" in Israeli politics and society...
...raid was the worst that Israel had suffered since the 1972 massacre at Lod Airport in which three Japanese terrorists killed 27 people and wounded 80. More ominously, it threatened to touch off another violent round of reprisals and counterreprisals in the Middle East. Within 48 hours, in fact, Israeli army units carried out retaliatory raids on six Lebanese villages across the border from Qiryat Shemona. They blew up houses and installations that they claimed had been used by terrorist organizations and took about ten suspected terrorists as prisoners. The Israelis said there were no casualties, but a Lebanese official...
...small, radical and secretive offshoot of George Habash's P.F.L.P. Threatening "more revolutionary suicide missions" inside Israel, a spokesman for the Command told a news conference in Beirut that "this campaign is aimed at blocking an Arab-Israeli peace settlement." In spite of the potentially appalling consequences, the raid was applauded in much of the Arab world. The Palestine Liberation Organization, headed by Yasser Arafat, praised the action for carrying the battle to "the enemy...
Watergate Conspirator Liddy, who had participated in the raid as an assistant district attorney, is not the first convict to try writing his way to rehabilitation - or at least to use writing as a means of passing prison time constructively. As a participant in a weekly workshop at the federal prison on Terminal Island in Los Angeles Harbor, Liddy is not even unique in his fame. Mobster Scion Bill Bonanno, central character in Gay Talese's Honor Thy Father, was also a workshop student until his parole last week, after serving three years for a stolen credit card scheme...