Word: raids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dramatic raid, Italian commandos free a kidnaped U.S. general...
...Interior Ministry, sensed that they were getting close to Dozier. But ironically, their successes played only a minor role in finally locating him. A major drug bust in Verona last Wednesday seems to have yielded the final link to Dozier's whereabouts. Among those arrested in the raid was Paolo Galati, 22, brother of Michele Galati, who is currently in prison for terrorist acts. Sources said Galati's name had been mentioned by Stefano Petrella after that brigatista's arrest in Rome. Police flew Petrella to Padua to confront Paolo Galati. Somehow, that meeting led police...
...week came a new, but hardly unexpected, brush stroke: a drastic increase in assistance to the controlling military regime of El Salvador. Drawn, appropriately enough, from the Pentagon's increased revenue, $55 million will go to the Central American country, $25 million ostensibly to replace helicopters destroyed in a raid last week by leftist guerrillas on a military airbase, the rest to fund renewed opposition to that guerrilla insurrection against the nation's coalition of civilian and military rulers. According to Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr., the United States is now committed to insuring that El Salvador will...
...continuing search produced no solid clues to Dozier's whereabouts, but did lead to the discovery of some fascinating details about a Red Brigades plan to attack the congress of the Christian Democratic Party on Jan. 22. Police learned that the Brigades had scheduled the raid for 1:30 p.m., the hour when live television coverage had been due to begin. While about 15 terrorists would throw grenades and spray the delegates with machine-gun fire, according to the plan, one of their comrades was supposed to dash before a TV camera to read a political manifesto...
...saddest thing Ahmed has ever seen, he says, is the sight of children without their parents. In the Fakhani Street air raid last summer, he came upon three such children wandering dazed in the streets. He took them to his house, where they lived until a home was found for them. Yes, he does feel older than 15. "Because I do a job greater than myself...