Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...measure that offers slightly more promise is eradication. In Bolivia, a U.S.-sponsored program has resulted in the destruction of some 3,000 of 88,000 acres of coca plants. A Peruvian police raid last November took 57,200 lbs. of coca paste and 880,000 lbs. of coca leaves out of circulation. But while it makes sense to tackle the drug problem at its source, the narcotics trade is proving to be hydra-headed: as soon as one area is cleared, another opens up. "Eradicating crops has the same effect as an atomic bomb," says a Mexican official...
...encourage future disturbances. It is made up of six to eight people, at least three of them Islamic fundamentalists and the rest with ties to the Palestine Liberation Organization. The P.L.O., initially caught off guard by the spontaneous uprisings, said its main arm, Fatah, was responsible for an attempted raid into northern Israel by three Palestinians. The trio entered the country by cutting a large hole in the security fence along the Lebanese border and apparently intended to attack a nearby kibbutz. The raiders were hunted down by an Israeli border patrol and killed in a firefight...
Unlike Brown and Yale, Murphy has all the right moves. It's just that he's been about as lucky as a cockroach in a Raid factory...
...novel is considerably better than that bleak forecast promises. Certain scenes are vivid and memorable; a zeppelin raid over London achieves an eerie, horrifying beauty. And as the brothers' paths diverge in the 1920s, Deighton skillfully displays the tangled politics and passions that were leading Germany toward another disaster...
Fort spoke directly to Libyan leaders. Though El Rukns never collected from Gaddafi or carried out any of its plots, it was well equipped to do so: on a raid of the gang's headquarters, lawmen found an arsenal that included an antitank device capable of downing an airplane or piercing 12-in.-thick steel plates...