Word: raids
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...carriers Hermes and Invincible, reached the area of the Falklands on April 29. The first action of the fleet's commander, Rear Admiral John ("Sandy") Woodward, 50, had been to enforce a total air and sea blockade within 200 miles of the islands. In a daring, long-distance raid on May 1, a delta-winged Vulcan bomber blasted the airstrip near the Falklands' tiny capital, Port Stanley. Flights of carrier-based Sea Harrier jets pounded the airfield with more bombs and also attacked a second, grassy airstrip 50 miles away, near the settlement of Goose Green. A British...
...than a day after the Corporation voted to retain its stock in the Gulf Corporation and abstained on a shareholder resolution calling on that company to detail its operations in Angola, some two dozen Black students seized Massachusetts Hall. President Bok's workplace for under a year. The dawn raid touched off a peaceful occupation that was to last a week--and the repercussions of which reflected in Harvard's approach to crisis management and crisis forestallment, remain with us today...
April 20--Two dozen Black students break into a side window using crowbars and occupy Massachusetts Hall in a 5:30 a.m. raid, to protest Harvard's refusal to sell its Gulf stock Bok, though deriding the students' use of force, promises not to forcibly evacuate the building saying. "I would never do anything to hurt a student in this University." That evening, some 2000 students gather in Sanders Theater and overwhelmingly vote to support PALC's demands and protest U.S. involvement in Indochina with a strike...
...variety of reasons, the week was filled with tension and uncertainty. The Israeli bombing raid, on various targets in central Lebanon, killed at least 30 people and injured 70. Still, it was a far less serious attack than if the Israelis had launched a ground assault. Such a move, which could involve as many as 36,000 Israeli soldiers massed in northern Israel, has long been expected by both sides...
...spokesman for the Band of Mercy said the group made the raid to protest the work of Kern, who used the bunnies in her "Rabbit Production and Slaughter" class, which studies ways of raising rabbits for their meat...