Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israel was putting no time limit on Habib's diplomatic efforts, there were fears that Israel might take advantage of his absence to attack the contro versial missiles. Instead, just 24 hours after Habib left, Israeli warplanes launched bombing forays against Palestinian positions, followed up with a naval raid that shelled the coast near Damur, south of Beirut, and landed commandos who ambushed guerrilla vehicles. The air strikes, the first in a month, hit Palestinian strongholds and refugee camps in and around the towns of Damur and nearby Naameh. According to Lebanese estimates, some 25 people were killed...
...members in the secret Masonic lodge designated "P2" (the P standing for "Propaganda"). The list had been found at the Arezzo villa of Licio Gelli, 62, a seemingly innocuous Tuscan-born businessman. Police carted out more than 1,000 letters, documents, diaries and ledgers in a dawn raid. Among the papers were confidential police intelligence reports from the 1960s that the government had ordered destroyed in 1974. Said an investigator: "The documents have a potential for blackmail in political, economic and journalistic circles. Licio Gelli had his hand in everything...
...evidence quickly mounted that the bank raid was only the first step of a plot against Spain's faltering democracy. After questioning the captured terrorists, Barcelona police hurried to a carpenter's shop in the Calle de Casanova. There they uncovered a newly dug, 10-ft.-long tunnel leading toward the Avenida Diagonal, a major thoroughfare along which King Juan Carlos and a huge armed forces day parade were to pass six days later. The shop had been rented by one of the bank raiders, Jose Maria Cuevas Jimenez, the one person to die in the police attack...
After three tense and exhausting weeks on the diplomatic trail, Habib could already be credited with helping to forestall an Israeli air raid on the missile sites. But the future joustings of bitter Middle Eastern rivalries remained uncertain, even if the immediate crisis could be resolved. Said a Western diplomat: "I hate to think that he might have to live like this for a couple of years...
...precisely 11 a.m. one day last week, air raid sirens across Israel sounded a single, high-pitched "all clear" blast for two minutes, and the country came to a standstill. On Jaffa Road in the heart of Jerusalem, pedestrians froze in their tracks. Lounging border troops sprang to attention. Vehicles braked to a halt in the middle of intersections. Bus passengers rose to their feet-as did people all across the nation. In stores, restaurants and offices, conversations stopped, forks were put down, typewriters and business machines hushed. It was Israel's Memorial Day. In the silent vigil, Israelis...