Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plant in Vilnius, armed assault forces opened fire at the plant, known as Press House, shooting into the air and smashing windows. Though most soldiers apparently fired blanks and only one colonel used live ammunition, eight people were reported wounded, one young man shot in the face. As air-raid sirens shrilled across the cobblestone streets of the capital's center, angry young civilians at the publishing center surrounded a tank. "Why are you here?" they screamed at a crew member. "What are you doing?" Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis, charging that troops were "spilling blood," placed an urgent call...
...raid sirens were sounding in Riyadh, as allied forces prepared for an Iraqi strike against Saudi Arabia's capital city. American journalists in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, were told to take shelter at about 7:20 p.m. EST in preparation for an attack by Iraqi Scud missiles...
...single additional soldier" would be sent to the breakaway Baltic states, but that did not stop tensions from mounting in the region. Interior Ministry special forces seized Latvia's largest printing plant and brought publication of major newspapers in the republic to a virtual halt. Moscow officials said the raid in Riga was to recover Communist Party property, which was allegedly seized illegally by the republican government. In neighboring Lithuania, Interior Ministry troops took control of party headquarters, expelling local police units. Such bully tactics have raised questions about how repressive Gorbachev is prepared to be to hold his crumbling...
...Fernando Valley's Sylmar illustrates the size of the problem. Though 21 tons of coke were confiscated, records showed that at least 55 tons, worth $1.1 billion, had passed through the warehouse in the previous three months. According to Deputy Chief of Police Glenn Levant, the raid "made little if any impact on the availability of cocaine that we have been able to measure. There was a big jump in wholesale prices after Sylmar, but in the long term the street price and purity of cocaine remained essentially constant. It didn't make a dent...
...Note--The much maligned Harvard Band paid an unexpected visit to The Crimson's 14 Plympton St. office last night. The band has been on a vendetta against Cambridge's only breakfast table daily for some time now, and band members refused to comment on why they decided to raid the newspaper's offices after last night's hockey game. Still, Crimson editors said they were impressed with the peppy, if not always on-key, rendition of "10,000 Men of Harvard" in their front office. "I should have joined the band," remarked Crimson Editorial Chair John L. Larew...