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...practice, the deans raid our departments for committee membership almost mercilessly," he added...
That December, Carlos staged his single act of world-class terrorism: the raid on OPEC headquarters in Vienna, where 11 ministers were taken hostage and three other people were killed. He introduced himself to his captives with the words, "I am the famous Carlos. You will have heard of me." He tortured one hostage by shooting him in the hand, knee and stomach before finishing him off. Midway through the operation, Carlos canceled plans to assassinate two of the ministers when Algeria brokered a monetary deal in exchange for their lives. Haddad was furious, and their relationship cooled...
...evening raid by Israeli fighter-bombers on a Muslim village in southern Lebanon killed 10 civilians and wounded 15 more. The Israeli army later apologized for what it said was an error...
Give the Bosnian Serbs at least this much: if audacity were the only requirement for winning a war, they would have routed their opponents long ago. But even the most brazen strategists can sometimes trump themselves. And the Serbs did so last week by launching a raid on a United Nations weapons center in an abandoned factory just west of Sarajevo. The Ukrainian peacekeepers guarding the depot were taken completely by surprise, not realizing the predawn smash-and-grab had taken place until they spotted the Serbs rolling a T-55 tank, two armored personnel carriers and an anti-aircraft...
...Friday evening NATO attack planes penetrated the thick cloud cover over Bosnia, trained their Gatling guns on a Serb motorized antitank weapon and blasted it with at least 600 rounds of ammunition. The mobile weapon, which was destroyed, was not among the arms purloined in the Serbs' morning raid. But the target was one of dozens of large Serb guns that have been spotted around Sarajevo, in clear violation of the U.N.-imposed heavy-weapons exclusion zone that has kept the Bosnian capital virtually free of shelling since February. The symbolic NATO strike did the trick. Within two hours, Momcilo...