Word: commandos
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Palestinians do not agree, and are increasingly developing their own identity and their own institutions more or less independent of the Arab states. (The commando organizations are only part of this trend. and also one of the driving forces behind...
...thing some people will be condemning Vietnamese militarism. The Magarolas, blindly or willfully, blur the distinction between a militarism that is defensive, and the aggressive kind practiced in Ethiopa (or Vietnam). I don't see any Cuban planes zooming in and dropping bombs on weaker countries. With all the commando raids and sabotage and one abortive Cuban invasion to our credit, with the threats of future actions, with the inflow of CIA agents onto the island, talk of militarism seems like a classic case of projection. The simple fact is that Cuba faces war with the United States. With...
Military activity consists mostly of small but deadly raids or bombardments across the borders separating Israel from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. Last week Israel sent three heliborne commando teams to attack power lines, an army camp and a bridge deep inside Syria, in reprisal for Syrian attacks on Israeli positions on the Golan Heights. Two days later, Lebanon protested to the United Nations over Israeli shelling of three border villages. In a five-hour aerial battle over Suez, the Israelis claimed to have downed a MIG-21 -their 76th kill of an Egyptian jet during the thousand days...
Loyal Bedouins. Whether the commando group was responsible or not, its claim was certain to anger both Switzerland and Austria-whose aircraft were involved-and other neutral nations, which now are presumably no longer immune to commando attacks on their Israel-bound airliners. The action was also certain to heighten passions in the troubled Middle East. Tel Aviv, sensitive to attacks on its communication lines, was likely to react violently to the sabotage of airliners enroute to Israel...
...Cairo, Brown lingered so long with the crewmen of the 14 ships trapped in the Great Bitter Lake by the closing of the Suez Canal that he stood up Arab Commando Leader Yasser Arafat and influential Editor Hassanein Heikal for lunch. During his talks with Nasser, he repeatedly addressed Nasser's adviser on foreign affairs, Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi, as "you wily old bugger...