Word: raids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bust was carried out with all the speed and precision of a major drug raid. There was nothing sleazy, though, about the locale: Manhattan's pinstriped financial district. On a chilly midmorning last week, a pair of federal agents strode into the gray stone headquarters of the blue-chip Kidder, Peabody investment firm. They headed for the 18th-floor office of Richard Wigton, 52, head of the company's risk-arbitrage and over-the-counter stock-trading departments. As Kidder, Peabody employees looked on in dismay, the officers arrested Wigton, then led the stunned executive away. The charge against Wigton...
...Border Patrol. DEA, an arm of the Justice Department, clears all search warrants. The other agencies have accused DEA of moving slowly when its agents are not part of the action. Suspected drug caches, and the dealers, sometimes vanish before the papers are in hand to make a raid. "The DEA won't work with us," complains a Customs agent in Texas. "We can't even talk to them...
...foiled mission came after daylong clashes in Beirut and an Israeli air raid against Palestinian positions in south Lebanon...
Police said four guerrillas of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization were wounded in the 15-minute Israeli air raid on buildings in the Mieh Mieh camp outside Sidon, 25 miles south of Beirut...
Jackson, as Captain EO, crash lands his ship on a hostile planet, and it's a high-volume, high-speed, high-powered moment, though it borrows a lot from the Rebel Death Star raid in Star Wars...