Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stories on regular College activities were squeezed out as ROTC and military service news occupied constant front-page coverage. In a strange juxtaposition, one story reported "Air Raid Hits Yard Concert...
Designated students within each house also served as air raid coordinators, who hurried students out of their dorm rooms to makeshift basement bomb shelters whenever practice air sirens sounded throughout the Boston area. The air raid coordinators, trained in disarming thermite bombs, were required to wear helmets and armbands whenever a siren sounded...
...future Lieutenant Colonel Netanyahu--who completed his only full year at Harvard twenty-five years ago--was the only Israeli soldier to die in the 1976 raid on the Entebbe, Uganda airport, during which the Israeli army freed 100 Israeli hostages held by Palestinian sympathizers...
Ironically, Netanyahu was not killed in the heat of battle, according Malin. Rather, Netanyahu was shot after the danger point of the Entebbe raid had passed and it appeared that the troops would escape the airport without any fatalities...
Because Netanyahu survived the more life-threatening parts of the raid--as well as countless other dangerous battles--Malin likens his almost avoidable death to a senseless accident...