Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also vividly recalls when he was beaten at the end of the protest by several police officers in the raid...
...some prisoners, including a British doctor and a few enlisted men. I chatted with the doctor about old friends of mine in the Grenadier Guards and reminisced about England, which I knew well. He warmed up a bit, and I asked if he was on a commando raid. At that, one of the enlisted men spoke up: 'Ha ha, it's no bloody raid, it's an invasion, and we're going all the way to Berlin...
...doctor tried to shut him up, but it was too late. Too late for us too. When I tried to reach our division commander, I found he was in Paris. Hitler's headquarters refused to believe me and decided it was only a dummy raid. We were not permitted to counterattack. I believe to this day that if we had counterattacked by 2 a.m., we could have got to the coast and held the bridges on the Caen canal...
Just as he loved secrecy, Nixon hated leaks to the press (though he himself was a dedicated leaker to favored reporters). And so when he first ordered an unannounced air raid against communist bases in Cambodia in April 1969, he was furious to read about it in a Washington dispatch in the New York Times. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover told the President that the only way to find the leaker was to start tapping phones. When Nixon entered the White House and dismantled the elaborate taping system that Johnson had installed, Hoover told him that the FBI, on Johnson...
...Onie Palmer, whose home was damaged during a drug raid, settled a lawsuit for $3 million...