Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...document asserts that Vietnam at that time was holding 1,205 American POWs. Quang said the Americans were in 11 prisons scattered around North Vietnam. The number of prisons had been increased from four to 11, he said, so that the POWs could be dispersed following a failed U.S. raid on the Son Tay prison in November...
...Administration wants NASA to come up with three options for a cut-down version of the space station, reducing the cost over the next five years from $14.6 billion to $5 billion, $7 billion or $9 billion. If NASA selects the $9 % billion model, it will have to raid other programs to fund part of it. Thus the agency will probably go with one of the cheaper options, making the use of inexpensive Russian know-how more likely...
...neighborhoods, the fear of new riots rose on an updraft of rumor. This time the gangs would not be content to bounce the rubble in their own neighborhoods but would descend instead on the suburbs. On a radio call-in show, a young gang member said he plans to raid the "three Bs," meaning the rich domains of Brentwood, Bel-Air and Beverly Hills. One rumor had it that thugs planned to disguise themselves with stolen police uniforms...
...grimy streets of Cairo's Imbaba neighborhood, Islamic fundamentalists have taken charge, running protection rackets and intimidating the police. Gun battles have disrupted the southern city of Asyut as heavily armed police raid the havens of militants. Terrorists have set off bombs in the cities along the Nile, where tourists, foreign residents and Egyptian Christians are usually the targets. The violence ignited by extremists and police retaliation has killed 116 people in the past year, 29 in the past month. In a brutal campaign to put down the militants, the government has rounded up thousands of suspects and ordered almost...
...failure of the assault led to criticisms that ATF had fatally underestimated its adversary -- or overestimated its own capabilities in a bid for the media spotlight. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, whose department includes the bureau, promised a full inquiry. ATF officials claim that the raid failed largely because Koresh was tipped off. About 45 minutes before the shooting began, an agent who had infiltrated the cult's worship services saw Koresh get a phone call that he believes warned him that attackers were on their...