Word: raids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Such a raid would once have been unprecedented for London's staid financial district. But since last fall's deregulation of Britain's financial institutions, foreign banks -- previously barred from operating brokerages -- have been fighting madly over a limited pool of experienced financial personnel...
...troubled by the government's handling of the eleven-month-old state of emergency, under which 20,000 people have been detained without trial, they were even more concerned about the possibility of an escalating guerrilla war. Some whites might quarrel with the legality of an occasional South African raid on a neighboring country to strike at the black liberation movement, but the majority obviously approved of such actions. The last days of the campaign were marked by violence surrounding a strike by transport workers in the Johannesburg area and protests by black and white students at several universities...
...unique, in the world of business. Gaudio, 46, is a composer, pianist, arranger and producer who has worked on records with Sinatra, Ross, Diamond, Michael Jackson and Barry Manilow. Valli, 53, is the veteran pop singer whose high-pitched voice (a critic once likened it to an air-raid siren) still packs in audiences at basketball arenas, concert halls, nightclubs and casinos. Both men were original members of the Four Seasons, the famed rock group that next month will launch its 25th anniversary concert tour. The dozens of Four Seasons hits, including such Gaudio tunes as Big Girls...
...blazes!" That was South African Defense Minister Magnus Malan's response last week to those who criticized his army's latest commando raid into black-ruled Zambia. The soldiers had allegedly attacked installations of the outlawed African National Congress, South Africa's largest black political movement. But Malan's angry words, uttered only days before South Africa's white voters were set to go to the polls this week, epitomized the attitude of State President P.W. Botha's government toward all opposition, both domestic and international...
...raid into Zambia, where South African soldiers killed five people in the town of Livingstone, near Victoria Falls, undoubtedly strengthened the Botha government's standing among its right-wing supporters. So did a crackdown on demonstrations by students in Cape Town and Johannesburg. At the University of Cape Town, where some 300 white, black and mixed-race students gathered to protest the commando raid, police used tear gas, leather whips and bird shot to break up the meeting. On May Day, fearing another wave of unrest, the government banned rallies called by 20 black unions...