Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the banner of Mesa Petroleum, T. Boone Pickens has launched one corporate raid after another and in the process reshaped the American oil industry. He used Mesa as a vehicle to buy huge chunks of such companies as Cities Service, Gulf and Phillips, then sold the stock to other bidders at premium prices. Last week Pickens moved to end the Mesa saga. In December, shareholders will be asked to convert the company from a public corporation into a limited partnership. After that move, Mesa is not expected to make any further takeover attempts...
...lack of firepower available should it choose to launch a retaliatory raid. The aircraft carrier Nimitz, with at least 60 fighter- bombers and an amphibious landing force of 1,500 Marines, sits just off the Lebanese coast. A Delta Force unit reportedly stands ready on Cyprus, 100 miles from Beirut. The 100-plus Delta operatives are highly trained, but they have been used only twice against terrorists -- both times unsuccessfully. The 1980 Iranian hostage-rescue attempt was aborted in the desert when two helicopters broke down; during the invasion of Grenada the Delta commandos failed to reach the Richmond Hill...
...less than a month after nine South African commandos were ambushed, and one captured, during a clandestine foray into Angola. It showed South Africa's determination to continue hitting foreign ANC bases, even in nominally friendly countries like Botswana, in defiance of international opinion. Already angered by the Angola raid, Washington reacted to the Botswana adventure by calling U.S. Ambassador Herman Nickel home for "consultations," a gesture intended to show extreme displeasure. State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb declared that the two incidents raised "the most serious questions" about South Africa's recent actions. The U.S. response, the angriest since Ronald...
General Constand Viljoen, head of the South African Defense Force, accused the ANC of carrying out dozens of terrorist acts in South Africa from bases in Botswana. He said the organization was planning an assassination campaign against government officials and black and mixed-race moderates. The South African raid resembled a 1982 attack on ANC bases in Lesotho and later operations against guerrillas in Mozambique. South African officials contend that the guerrillas regrouped in Botswana and Angola after being driven from Mozambique, Swaziland and Lesotho. Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha said that South Africa had warned Botswana repeatedly about harboring...
...South African claims that the dead were ANC guerrillas, referring to them instead as "South African refugees." It has accused South Africa of trying to bring pressure on Botswana to sign a formal nonaggression treaty similar to the ones it now has with Swaziland and Mozambique. Last week's raid also appeared to be designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the ANC just before the organization's planned weekend "summit" meeting at an undisclosed location in southern Africa, where the rebels were expected to plan their future campaign against the South African government...