Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Undergraduates are well-advised to keep either a sturdy left shoe or a can of Raid handy to combat the persistent cockroach plague...
...most dramatic exploits of the week was the raid on the Beirut branch of the Bank of America by five terrorists who said they belonged to the Lebanese Revolutionary Socialist Movement. They held more than 30 prisoners hostage overnight while demanding that all Palestinian guerrillas be freed from Lebanese prisons and that the bank donate $10 million to the Arab war against Israel. Next morning police stormed the building and freed the hostages. Five people were killed: three guerrilla's, one hostage, one policeman...
Besides dampening the nightly revelry of Ramadan, the war has affected Cairo in other ways. Street life comes to a halt during the infrequent alerts, as the people duck into air-raid shelters. Thanks to the war, Cairenes are paying more for food and for bus and train fares, driving their cars less because of gasoline rationing, and eating less meat. With the opening of Cairo's universities delayed, many of the 130,000 students have entered the army or the civil defense force. Crowds form in front of the military hospital on Roda Island in the Nile River...
...arrived at a camp near the front, air-raid sirens suddenly wailed, and troops scrambled to the alert, grabbing for helmets and ducking for cover. The camp had been strafed by MIGS early in the fighting. Nearby elements were already being hit by Egyptian artillery. The first thing we were told was, "There is a bunker not far from here if the bombing starts." At an observation bunker, a young lieutenant with curly hair squinted anxiously at the sky and chattered into his field telephone...
...canal, but it tended to accept Egyptian announcements that the buildup was a military maneuver. The Egyptians had held such maneuvers for the past ten years; there was no indication that this year was any different. Moreover, Cairo gave no hint of anything unusual. There were no air-raid drills, no stockpiling of materiel and no rhetoric aimed at preparing the Egyptian public for war. When Syria moved its troops ten miles forward from its secondary line to the 1967 Golan Heights cease-fire line in the hours before the attack, Israeli intelligence officers first interpreted it as a normal...