Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Prior to the raid, the agents obtained a federal warrant to investigate Lasaga as part of a nationwide crackdown on Internet child pornography rings...
...routine police raid of a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn turned into a riot as the customers resisted arrest and cornered the arresting officers in the bar, throwing bricks at them through the windows from the outside. Later in the same week, two demonstrations in front of the Stonewall turned into riots as police struggled to disperse them. Becoming Visible strives to both challenge the popular assumption that gay liberation was born with the Stonewall riots and to show the wide ranging effects of those riots on gay movements up to the present...
...Security--in reality a front group led by large insurance companies furious with Pallone for heading the charge for managed-care reform--unveiled an anti-Pallone "issue ad": the TV spot blasts Pallone's positions without explicitly advocating his defeat. Among other things, it accuses him of voting to raid the Social Security trust fund to pay for welfare. "Call Congressman Pallone," the announcer says, over a video of disreputable card sharks, "and tell him to...stop gambling with our futures." Pallone says the ad is false, but now he'll have to defend himself until Election Day. Americans...
...calm fears Monday: "They won't be infesting space," laughed payload coordinator Rud Moe. It is, after all, worth $5,000 to the agency if the bugs check in and check out. All the same, perhaps the 77-year-old senator should remember to pack an emergency can of Raid...
...nukes didn't scare off foreign investors, the mob outrage over the U.S. missile strike last month in nearby Afghanistan certainly did. Diplomats and executives from many Western companies fled Pakistan, fearing revenge attacks by supporters of Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden, the intended target of the American raid. In the port city of Karachi, ethnic gangs armed with grenades and machine guns prowl neighborhoods hunting for enemies. Sectarian rivalry among Muslims has become so fierce that some clergymen post bodyguards at their mosques to guard against bomb throwers speeding by on motorcycles. In Karachi, kidnappings of clergymen have become...