Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well-orchestrated raid by local police, the FBI and other federal agents netted a fearsome arsenal of weapons, ranging from UZI submachine guns to antitank weapons. Most of the bikers surrendered quietly, but in Connecticut a state trooper was shot in the hip by a suspect. The eleven-state offensive was the culmination of a three-year undercover operation dubbed Roughrider, part of a larger effort by Washington to snuff out new and unorthodox forms of organized crime. Authorities confiscated $2 million worth of illegal drugs during their investigation, including methamphetamines, cocaine and LSD. A similar multistate raid in February...
...commander of destroyers early in World War II, says Ziegler, Mountbatten was popular but reckless: "If a destroyer could leave skid-marks, (H.M.S.) Kelly would have disfigured every sea in which she sailed." Even so, the author largely absolves Mountbatten of responsibility for the failure of the bloody 1942 raid on Dieppe, a sacrifice made inevitable by pushing and shoving between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. And Ziegler argues convincingly that Mountbatten's handling of the transfer of power in India in 1947 was a success, considering political realities there. He opposed the splitting off of Muslim Pakistan from...
THERE is an attempt to create a sub-plot but only an attempt. A senior police officer violently kills an innocent child during the hostility of the initial drug raid. To avoid dismissal from the force he plants a gun in the hand of his prone victim but his cover-up is witnessed by a rookie. As vet unaccepted by his peers the rookie goes along with the cover story but later struggles with his conscience...
According to Mexican officials, Fonseca told them last week that he had seen Camarena and Caro Quintero at the ranch the day after the kidnapings. Fonseca said that he and Caro Quintero were angry with the agent over a police and army raid on a plantation in Chihuahua, owned by the two drug dealers, in which 8,000 tons of marijuana were burned. Fonseca added that the intention had been to question Camarena and offer him a bribe. He also claimed that he was too drunk to talk to Camarena until the next day, when Caro Quintero allegedly told...
...things, like a belching scene, in your teenage comedy," says Jeff Kanew, director of Revenge of the Nerds and the upcoming Gotcha! "They're basically about guys trying to get laid. When I became involved with Nerds, the script already had a party scene, a peekaboo scene, a panty raid, a food fight, a beer-guzzling contest. The studio's instruction to me was, 'Give us Animal House.' I gave it to them but tried to layer it with some humanity and real characters. I didn't think anything was tasteless as long as it was funny." But tasteless...