Word: raids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday, at the end of a week of thrust and counterthrust across the embattled border, Israeli forces staged a naval raid on Jiyah, 13 miles south of Beirut, and Palestinians responded by sending yet another volley of rocket fire into the settlements of northern Israel. By that time, the 14 days of continuous fighting had become the heaviest between the Israelis and the Palestinians since the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in March 1978. The Palestinians and Lebanese had suffered by far the greater number of casualties: some 450 dead and 1,500 wounded, most of them in a bombing...
...attacks that Begin and the Cabinet authorized were fierce enough. If any one factor turned world opinion against Israel-and thus perhaps hastened the cease-fire-it was the air raid on Beirut. On July 17, aiming at Palestinian guerrilla offices in a crowded neighborhood, Israeli warplanes killed some 300 Lebanese and Palestinians and wounded another 800. Even many of Begin's own countrymen, especially those from the Western-oriented Ashkenazi community, were shocked. Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin declared that the Palestinian command posts and offices had been in Beirut for years but that, because of the political...
Israel's Ambassador to Washington, Ephraim Evron, managed to quiet the fears of most of the 34 Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to whom he talked in New York City at midweek, but many prominent American Jews remained troubled. California Industrialist Max Palevsky called the Beirut raid "appalling,", and added, "Begin's terrorism is as bad as that of the P.L.O. We just can't tolerate that kind of behavior from anybody." Said Meyer Berger, a Pittsburgh businessman and a member of the national board of the American Jewish Committee: "Never has the anti-Begin sentiment...
...Hasbaya. Then on Friday morning, in their fifth strike within seven days, the Israelis launched their assault on Beirut, hitting not only at Palestinian and Syrian positions near Beirut airport and the Kuwaiti embassy but also at the Shatila refugee camp. On Saturday, as Israeli planes made still another raid on southern Lebanon, Palestinian guerrillas lobbed a few more Katyusha rockets at northern Israel. The Palestinian action was noteworthy less for its scope than for the fact that it occurred so soon after the Israelis had knocked out so many bridges in the region. Israeli authorities concluded that the Palestinians...
...California's booming Silicon Valley, the center of the computer and genetic-engineering industries, companies actively raid each other's employment rolls. Says Art Young, corporate benefits manager of Hewlett Packard, the electronics firm: "Everyone's concerned about losing people." Hewlett Packard's answer is a program that puts 10% or so of its pretax profits into a long-term profit-sharing plan that pays out fully to workers only after they are on the job for 13 years...