Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Various cities are already lobbying to land the potential New York refugees. No one is doing so more actively than the persuasive mayor of Indianapolis, William Hudnut III, a Presbyterian clergyman who helped engineer the nighttime raid of Baltimore's Colts last year. His city is already home to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and Hudnut is quietly but insistently hymning the praises of Indianapolis to various Protestant officials. Some church staffers, accustomed to the cosmopolitan lures of New York, are shuddering at the prospect of a town that once kiddingly called itself Dullsville. Even if none...
This occurred recently at India's St. Stephen's college Male students had staged a panty raid by prying open lockers in a women's bathroom. They displayed their trophies by hanging the underwear from a crucifix on a school tower...
...police. Tensions increased the next day when at least 100 gendarmes surrounded a farmhouse near La Foa, 55 miles northwest of the capital. There, Eloi Machoro, a leader of the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front, a militant Separatist party, and 50 of his followers were gathered. In a dawn raid, Machoro and one of his aides, Marcel Nornaro, were killed. Jean-Marie Tjibaou, the president of a provisional Kanak government formed last month by the Liberation Front, charged that Machoro had been "assassinated" with Pisani's blessing. New Caledonia's High Commission had already issued a report claiming the deaths...
...their seats. Four Arabic-speaking hijackers, thought to be linked to the same pro-Khomeini Lebanese Shi'ite terrorist groups that some U.S. officials believe carried out murderous bombing attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut, were arrested without a struggle in the midnight raid...
...Iran's options also appeared to be limited. Given the Khomeini regime's past expressions of support for anti-American terrorists in the Middle East, Iran was not likely to besmirch its image by staging a daring raid to rescue American and Kuwaiti hostages. Even if Tehran had the political will to challenge the militants, it probably lacked the military know-how to carry off such a risky mission without endangering the lives of all the hostages on board. And without the direct cooperation of Iranian officials, no outside power was likely to intervene to end the deadlock...