Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alarmed by reports of widespread drug and alcohol use at its Laughlin, Nev., generating station, the Southern California Edison Co. organized its own raid. Corporate managers and security officers cut the personal padlocks off 400 employee lockers to rummage through the contents. They searched cars in the parking lot and even frisked a few workers. Seven employees were fired for possessing drugs or alcohol at work in violation of company rules...
Dartmouth's discipliary board on Feb. 11 suspended the 12 for their Jan. 21 pre-dawn raid on the shanties, which anti-apartheid protesters had built on the campus green. Nobody was injured in the attack...
...across the border in their biggest operation since their army withdrew from southern Lebanon last June. The mission: not only to find and rescue the two missing Israelis, but to root out guerrilla bases used for staging attacks inside the border security zone and against northern Israel. During the raid, at least 15 Lebanese and two Israeli servicemen were killed. At week's end, the Israelis began to withdraw troops, following reports that the captured soldiers were not in the area. One of them may have been executed...
...solidarity. Why has Harvard's Southern Africa Solidarity Committee not organized a demonstration in support of the 20 students recently arrested in Hanover for trying to prevent the demolition of a shanty? At the very least, the Harvard divestment movement should have publicly expressed its outrage at the midnight raid on the Dartmouth shanties last month. Similarly, after the disciplining of divestment activists at Harvard this fall, no other campus divestment movement voiced any sympathy...
...money to build textile mills. Residents do not feel the money is being extorted. To them, donations are an investment in their future, in an economy less dependent on farming. Too small to qualify for federal development grants, Sac City and thousands of other towns in rural America must raid residents' pockets for the money to lure companies that can provide jobs...