Word: raids
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite the mood of melancholy resignation, the kelpers remain grateful for the British presence. "They are far more concerned about the Argies," says Councilor John Cheek. "People here worry about a sneak air raid or a commando landing. To prevent that, they'll put up with almost anything...
...looks the part of a writer. He has written several articles for Rolling Stone, and has been befriended by Norman Mailer. But to federal law-enforcement officials, Stratton looks more like a drug pusher than a pencil pusher. Arrested a year ago in Maine with 14 others after a raid netted $1.5 million worth of hashish and marijuana, Stratton is on trial as an active member of a drug conspiracy. A gigantic mistake, he says; he was actually no more than a spectator absorbing material for a novel. A ten-member jury will decide, perhaps this week, which portrait matches...
...never be known just how valuable the Mafia's help was in finding Dozier. Rabb's explanation, which minimizes the Mafia's role, may be accurate. The Italian police did indeed make a series of key arrests just before the raid, and law-enforcement officials in Rome insist that these suspects helped lead them to Dozier...
...other hand, Italian magistrates acknowledged that on Jan. 26 Restelli was secretly released from prison at the request of SISMI and the CIA to meet with officials in Milan. U.S. embassy personnel in Rome confirm that Dozier's whereabouts was not known until the night before the raid, which is when the Mafia leader reportedly gave the address to the Italians...
...statute of limitations much of the evidence presented previously will be inadmissible this time in court. But prosecutors have compiled a full dossier for his new trial. He will probably be charged with rounding up and shooting railway employees in Oullins, outside of Lyon, and organizing a police raid in which 86 Jews were arrested. The most poignant case against him centers on the deportation of 41 Jewish orphans, aged 3 to 13, from the village of Izieux to the Auschwitz death camp. If convicted, however, Barbie will escape the guillotine, since France abolished the death penalty...