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...this time, a bloody raid gets a bloodless Israeli response
...incursion had been provoked by a raid early last week on the northern kibbutz of Misgav-Am on the Lebanese border. Seizing six hostages in the kibbutz nursery, they demanded the release of several Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. Following an abortive predawn rescue attempt, Israeli troops stormed the concrete dormitory. They killed all five terrorists and saved all but one of the hostages: a two-year-old boy who had apparently been killed in the original raid. One Israeli soldier and the kibbutz secretary also died in the attack...
...kibbutz raid was the work of the Arab Liberation Front, an Iraqi-based organization affiliated with the Palestine Liberation Organization. The timing could hardly have been worse for the Palestinian cause, which has lately been gaining support on the diplomatic front while downplaying its terrorist image. P.L.O. officials in Beirut indicated that they had not even been forewarned of the attack...
...year existence, the Republic of Liberia had never experienced a coup d'état, a remarkable record given the turbulent politics of West Africa. Last weekend a group of noncommissioned officers and Liberian National Guardsmen conducted a bold dawn raid on the palatial executive mansion in the capital city of Monrovia. Their target: William R. Tolbert Jr., 66, Liberia's President and the current chairman of the Organization of African Unity. According to one account, Tolbert was shot in the face and killed. His wife Victoria and members of the Cabinet, the judiciary and the legislature were seized...
...former assistant to Henry Kissinger. Howard Hunt, a former CIA agent, was Liddy's coworker. Their priority was to discredit Daniel Ellsberg, whose release of the Pentagon papers, a secret study of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, to the New York Times, had enraged Nixon. In a nighttime raid, they ransacked the files of Dr. Lewis Fielding, a Los Angeles psychiatrist whom Ellsberg had consulted. But they found nothing...