Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arafat: Do you think this is the first time I am facing trouble? [Israeli General Ariel] Sharon was trying to kill me during the siege of Beirut. Did you forget that? Then there was the air raid against my residence in Tunisia. And the crash of my airplane in the desert. I am a strong leader. Yet nobody can escape his destiny. I am a strong believer...
...immigration of Holocaust survivors from Europe and forced the return of those who had already entered "illegally," actions that drew the wrath of Jewish settlers in Palestine. In the fall of 1945, thanks to his growing status in the Palmach, Rabin found himself a key participant in a dramatic raid to rescue 200 Jewish refugees whom the British were holding at the Athlit detention camp...
...post. He won by a narrow margin, however, which meant he was compelled to include Peres in his Cabinet as Defense Minister (a concession he agreed to, he later confessed, with "a heavy heart"). His first term included several significant events, among them his authorization of the dramatic 1976 raid on Entebbe, Uganda--a decision that Peres, in an effort to undermine his rival, later suggested was "forced" upon a reluctant Rabin by the Cabinet. The youthful Prime Minister was finally brought down in April of the following year, after a scandal exploded over the discovery that...
...Your Lucky Stars and Stripes and His Rocking Horse Ran Away; Don Raye's Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Rhumboogie and Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar. As in any creative assembly, there are spells of emotional fireworks. But the ladies play and sing handsomely, even during an air raid, and especially when remembering their beaux back home...
...storm was Defense Minister Fernando Botero Zea, 39, who resigned amid accusations that he had received almost $6 million in contributions from the Cali cartel when he was Samper's campaign manager. Botero's accuser was Santiago Medina, campaign treasurer, who was arrested two weeks ago after a police raid turned up a check made out to him by a cartel front company...