Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These play well against the political passions of terrorists in Northern Ireland and their Irish-American supporters. Fanatical hatred tends to homogenize characters while removing their interesting elements. Their actions, however, are hard to ignore. A daring raid on a Boston National Guard armory nets the boyos a cache of M-16s, 40-mm grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and a wardrobe of flak jackets. Getting this arsenal to Belfast involves the cooperation of members of Boston's Irish underground and I.R.A. sympathizers in the U.S. Customs Department...
Young Bernstein's reaction was to become a patriotic rebel -- class air-raid warden, supersalesman of Defense Bond stamps, proud wearer of an I LIKE IKE button -- and a marginal student who eventually skipped college to become a newspaper copy clerk. He also, quite understandably, became interested in whether his parents had actually been Communists. When he was eight, he first blurted out the question to his father. "I remember the silence that followed and my not daring to look at him," Bernstein writes. "My question offered no escape; there is no Fifth Amendment for eight-year-olds." His father...
...police burst into three houses in New York City last week they got more, much more, than they anticipated. After 17 months of stalking an international drug ring in the U.S., Canada, Singapore and Hong Kong, they were expecting to turn up about 50 lbs. of heroin in the raid. But hidden inside a stack of small rubber tires was an astonishing 820 lbs. of the narcotic, with an estimated street value of nearly $1 billion. It was the biggest heroin bust ever in the U.S. Some 40 people, including the ring's suspected kingpin, Kok Leung Woo, 71, were...
...baggage container provided evidence that the radio-cassette player may have been put on board with luggage in Frankfurt. The evidence further pointed to a radical Syria-based group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. Only two months before the Pan Am bombing, during a raid on suspected PFLP-GC terrorists, West German police found a Toshiba Boombeat portable radio that held 10.5 oz. of plastic explosives. An FAA report on the discovery noted that the device "would be very difficult to detect by normal X-ray inspection, indicating that it might be intended to pass...
...Japanese national, Kikumura was arrested last April on the New Jersey Turnpike by a state trooper, who says he saw the bombs in the back seat of his car. Prosecutors believe he intended to plant them in the New York City area in retaliation for the U.S. air raid on Libya. U.S. District Judge Alfred J. Lechner Jr. said the bombs, packed with black powder and lead shotgun pellets, "were intended for flesh and blood, not bricks and mortar...