Word: raiding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...attack on the airliner, which happened only twelve hours after a daring Israeli raid on Palestinian refugee camps in northern Lebanon, was a new sign that the Middle East is trapped in a siege mentality. Apparently, the conflicting parties are not capable of moving toward peace under present conditions. As it happened, last week's Israeli actions occurred at a time when Egypt and the U.S., after a long period of coolness, were again taking a tentative step toward talks and reconciliation...
...MIGs flying wingtip to wingtip with him. Actually, the planes were Israeli Phantoms alerted by radar. The Israelis were more sensitive than usual to any invasion of their air space that day, for two reasons. One was an odd rumor that Arab fedayeen were planning some sort of kamikaze raid on Israel using a disguised civilian airliner. The other was a more substantial report that a commando of trained Al-Fatah guerrillas was flying from Libya to Cairo en route to camps in Syria and Lebanon...
...largest newspapers. "Howling like mad dogs," as one eyewitness recalled later, the thugs knocked over desks, broke windows and beat up several reporters. By the time police arrived, the city room was a shambles, and eleven editorial staffers lay injured. Next day, Yomiuri reported that the daylight raid on its offices had been staged by organized gangsters in retaliation against the newspaper's describing them in a story as "a pack of bandits." The thugs have since been captured, and last week police also nailed the leader of the gang, a notorious hoodlum named Michio Sasaki, on charges...
...half of this satirical revue consists of topical skits done in the style of old vaudeville, neobur-lesque, superior college humor, and the antic, abrasive tradition of Lenny Bruce. Many one-liners flick at their subjects with rapid deflationary humor: "In times of stress, remember the Pueblo." A drug raid is announced: dauntless police have just "seized two ounces of marijuana with a street value...
...years, and take a hard look at the world about us. It is not difficult to recall the first semester the Class of 1973 spent at Harvard, though often it seems a lifetime ago. It was the fall after University Hall had been cleared in a bloody pre-dawn raid which most of us had read about, but few of us understood. Parents were having second thoughts about sending their sons and daughters to a hotbed of radicalism, Fair Harvard or not. I remember there was an electricity in the air that fall, a feeling such as most...