Word: raids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration refused to link the postponement to the Beirut raid. It even refused to admit that there had been any postponement at all. After reading a statement, written at the White House, that "the U.S. deplores this intensified violence" in the Middle East, State Department Spokesman Dean Fischer insisted that no decision on the F-16s had been made, and none would be announced until Tuesday. But that was not the full story. President Reagan had summoned his top foreign policy advisers shortly before 10 that morning to discuss the Beirut raid. The weapons that the U.S. supplies to Israel...
...Reactor Raid...
...Israeli warplanes screamed north across the border. About eleven miles into Lebanon, they swooped to the first attack, firing rockets and dropping bombs. Their targets: three Palestinian guerrilla outposts. The raid, the first in more than a month, was reported by Lebanese authorities to have killed three people and wounded 20 others. More significantly, it indicated that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who was confident of his ability to form a new government after the close elections of June 30, was again ready to pursue a tough policy against Israel's enemies. The situation, in short, had returned...
...lost my Jewish parents in Treblinka and endured twelve years of Israeli citizenship, including combat in three wars. Nevertheless, I emigrated from Israel in disgust with Begin's settlement policy on the West Bank. The raid on the Iraqi reactor was pure electioneering...
Last week it was suddenly the other way around. The nation's ninth largest oil company, Conoco Inc. of Stamford, Conn. (1980 sales: $18.8 billion), became the reluctant target, rather than the proud suitor, in a corporate takeover raid. The predator was none other than Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, U.S. subsidiary of Canadian-based Seagram Co. Ltd., the world's largest liquor distiller, with 1980 global revenues of $2.5 billion...