Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...residents hurried toward the black, tubular individual bomb shelters that line the city's downtown streets. After all, never in the history of the Indochina war had densely populated downtown Hanoi been bombed. Last week Hanoi's luck ran out. By the time the air-raid sirens began to wail their warnings, the French diplomatic mission had been bombed into ruins, five employees were dead, and the chief French diplomat in North Viet Nam, Pierre Susini, was critically injured...
Hanoi's reaction to the bombing raid was relatively muted. The reason is that since April 6, when Nixon officially reinstated mass bombing of the North, aerial attacks on civilian targets have become all too common. American jets in search of visible targets have destroyed countless hospitals, churches and even cathedrals, as well as residential suburbs. Considering the sheer size of the bombing campaign-more than 33,000 sorties were flown over North Viet Nam during the first five months of the offensive-it is almost impossible for U.S. pilots to avoid damaging some civilian structures. The North Vietnamese...
Shortly after last month's massacre of Israeli athletes in Munich, Premier Golda Meir angrily announced a "farflung" war against Arab terrorists. But after a bloody raid inside neighboring Lebanon - in which some 200 Arabs were killed - the Israelis have been unusually restrained. The reason, according to some well-placed Israelis: two weeks ago a White House aide - in a direct call to Mrs. Meir - asked Jerusalem to refrain from disturbing the peace for the immediate future. The same message was passed to Israel's Washington embassy, which was told that Lebanon needed at least a month...
Lebanon declared an open-ended state of emergency in the wake of the raid. "Since 1948 we have been in a state of truce with Israel," declared former President Camille Chamoun. "Today we are in a state of war." Premier Saeb Salam, who had long avoided a showdown with the guerrillas, laid down a set of 14 demands to Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat. Their purpose was to hamper any guerrilla movements and prevent further Israeli revenge...
...voice sounds like an air-raid siren with adenoids. The face, a passably good copy of a pickle, is caught between a snarl and a smile, the snarl usually winning out. "You are not talking with just anyone's fool," she snorts indignantly. "I am a high school graduate." Who could doubt that Ernestine, the world's most famous telephone operator, has her diploma-or that Lily Tomlin, her creator, is the funniest, most inventive comedienne to come along since Elaine...