Word: raids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frequent denials. More important, the prisoners were tangible evidence of the biggest victory of the Chad army since the latest round of fighting began in 1982. Gaddafi responded to the defeat at Fada by dispatching four MiG-23s to bomb the towns of Arada and Oum Chalouba. The raid did little damage, yet it was important because it carried the war south of the 16th parallel. In 1983 France set that line as the point beyond which Libyan military interference would not be tolerated...
Three days after the Libyan raid last week, French fighter-bombers struck the Libyan air base at Ouadi-Doum, knocking out an elaborate radar complex. The Libyans were caught by surprise because the French, flying almost at dune level, had escaped radar detection. The following day Libya responded with an aerial attack on the small town of Kouba Olanga, just south of the 16th parallel...
This doesn't bode well for Messrs. MacFarlane, North and Poindexter, who, for the sake of their cause, resisted all temptation to raid the till...
...fared little better in its long battle against terrorism. After the Administration launched an air raid on Muammar Gaddafi's Libya in April, the masked face of terrorism was mostly absent from the world's airports and alleyways. Five months later, though, the threat was back with a bloody vengeance. Bombs erupted in downtown Paris, men with machine guns stormed a synagogue in Istanbul, four Palestinian hijackers held a Pan American plane hostage for 18 hours in Karachi, and 17 more foreigners were kidnaped in Lebanon. Many leaders looked to another kind of pressure -- that of economic sanctions -- to push...
...Miami Vice antics of Rivera's show highlighted concerns about the increasingly common practice of letting TV crews tag along on drug raids. A search warrant, says Judge Shipley, does not give police "permission to put the whole nation into somebody's house with TV cameras." Some police officials object that the cameras, lights and onlookers can jeopardize safety. Nor is TV merely an eavesdropper. During one raid on Rivera's show, an officer could plainly be heard to make a telling, and disturbing, inquiry: "We are still live...