Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation. True, the raid was the latest in a number of successful skirmishes in what President Nixon describes, more and more plausibly, as a global "war on drugs." In Montreal and Saigon, narcotics officers have recently nabbed some of the bigger wholesalers. Washington, meanwhile, is awaiting the imminent extradition by Paraguay of Auguste Joseph Ricord, French-born boss of a Latin American connection that is alleged to have piped heroin worth $1.2 billion into the U.S. over a five-year period (TIME...
...Ellie's father describes them, "very charming people, most advanced, unprejudiced, frank, humane, unconventional, democratic, free-thinking, and everything that is delightful to thoughtful people." Yet as these ideal people in the final act enjoy the night air in the garden and idly talk of governmental forms an air raid black-out is announced by the housekeeper and bombs start falling from the sky, the first indications in the play of war. The scene is perfectly lit and staged: the actors languish about the terrace under Ellie and Captain Shotover who sit on a balcony above, and the stage...
...death by drowning and famine of millions of people-as occurred in the floods of 1945. Hanoi's allegations were soon taken up by several Europeans who had recently been in North Viet Nam. Jean Thoraval, Hanoi correspondent for Agence France-Presse, told of a U.S. bombing raid that he had witnessed on the morning of July 11. Describing how a dozen planes had dropped bombs and fired rockets on a nearby dike, he concluded that "the attack was aimed at a whole system of dikes." Another eyewitness was Sweden's Ambassador to Hanoi, Jean-Christophe Öberg...
Conceivably the Ustaše hoped its foray into Bosnia would trigger a wave of sympathetic demonstrations on behalf of the accused separatists. If so, the plan misfired badly. Instead of aiding the defendants, the raid came as a windfall for the prosecution; it gave credence to Belgrade's repeated accusation that Croat "chauvinists" at home are linked with Croat extremists in exile. In fact, the timing of the incident was so convenient for the prosecution that it prompted speculation-so far unconfirmed -that the Yugoslav secret police, who have heavily infiltrated the Ustaše, may have lured...
...professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Fiedler subsequently wrote a scathing memoir entitled Being Busted, in which he blamed the raid largely on the fact that he had sponsored a campus group that advocated legalizing marijuana. As attitudes toward marijuana laws eased, he recalls, "I kept thinking that if I went to jail it would be grotesque, even comic." He had no lack of grounds for appeal-the girl spy repeatedly changed her story and the legality of the bugging was at least questionable-but when New York's highest court struck down...