Word: raids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debilitating end of the Boer War, three Australian soldiers are brought to court-martial. The charge: murdering some Boer "civilians" they have captured in a vengeful raid, along with a German missionary whose death has provoked a murmur of international reproach. The soldiers' commander, Lord Kitchener, wants to make an example of them so as to disarm world opinion about his unedifying conduct of a nasty...
...table thumpings at staff meetings. Peres was not only guilty of "exaggerated pretensions," Rabin later charged in his memoirs, but also of "trying to disrupt the workings of the government" and even of "lies and untruths." Peres was somewhat more circumspect in his criticism. But after the dramatic Israeli raid on Entebbe in 1976, the Defense Minister let it be known that Rabin had been "forced" by the Cabinet to authorize the raid. Peres privately spread the word that he considered Rabin to be a "weak" Prime Minister who should be replaced...
Piet's wife Gladys (Maria Tucci) lives in the fragile limbo of a mind that has broken its moorings. She regards the confiscation of her personal diaries in a police raid as a spiritual rape, and has precariously survived mental therapy. Piet and Gladys nostalgically anticipate the visit of Steve Daniels (James Earl Jones), one of the valiant veterans of the antiapartheid causer as a healing family reunion. But it turns out to be a conflagration of doubt, rage, lost love, recrimination and remorse...
...Woolf's 3,710 collected letters-here rounded off in the last of six stout volumes that have been coming out since 1975-she scarcely ever troubles to paint a scene or describe great events; even wars are kept to the background: "I write with the usual air raid going on; distant droning; a bomb now and then...
...black nationalists in southern Africa, and seven heavily armed bodyguards were picked up in August, after his blue Jaguar was seen speeding away from a large farming estate outside Salisbury. Only minutes before, Gerald William Adams, 68, a white farm manager, had been gunned down in a daring afternoon raid, while calling for help on his emergency radio. After his arrest, Tekere was held in Chikurubi Prison for a fortnight and released on $75,000 bail. Maximum possible sentence if convicted at his trial: death by hanging...