Word: raids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some 7,000 miles away from Middleport, schoolchildren in Tokyo practice drills very much like the air-raid exercises of the '50s, ducking under their desks at the screech of an alarm. Reason: if a large earthquake hits the city-as one did in 1983-the network of gas pipes that circulates throughout Tokyo could explode, unleashing, among other things, a deadly blizzard of flying glass...
...holding three Americans hostage in Lebanon: U.S. Diplomat William Buckley, first secretary of the embassy's political section; Cable News Network Correspondent Jeremy Levin; and Presbyterian Minister Benjamin Weir. Last week a fourth American disappeared: Peter Kilburn, a librarian at Beirut's American University. A retaliatory raid in Lebanon might seal their fate...
...Swiss alerted the Italian secret service, which immediately swung into action. In a predawn raid, agents broke into two apartments in the seaside resort of Ladispoli, 24 miles northwest of Rome. There they rounded up seven young Lebanese, all students at the University of Rome. In the apartments the Italian agents found volumes of propaganda for Islamic Jihad, the outfit that claimed responsibility for the Beirut embassy bombing, as well as last year's suicide attack on the U.S. Marine compound in Beirut in which 241 American servicemen died. The agents also discovered a suspiciously accurate plan...
Once again the familiar tremors swept through Nicaragua. In the streets of Managua, the capital, dozens of Soviet-made T-55 tanks clattered into defensive positions. Antiaircraft crews manned their batteries, while zealous neighborhood defense committees scurried to dig air-raid trenches. Some 20,000 volunteer coffee pickers were reassigned to local militia units as the Sandinista government announced a "state of alert" affecting the country's 100,000-member military and security forces. For the third time in two years, the Sandinistas were loudly convinced-or so they said-that U.S. troops were about to invade their soil...
...second major raid since Pinochet declared a "state of siege" on Nov. 6. The measure, adopted for the first time since 1978, came in response to a rash of bombings, labor strikes and street protests, which have become a regular feature of Chilean life since May 1983. It allows the authorities to ban all public meetings, make mass arrests, impose censorship and send the secret police ram paging through the offices of political parties and unions. In addition, the Rev. Ignacio Gutiérrez, a Spanish-born Roman Catholic priest who heads the Vicariate of Solidarity, the most active human...