Word: commandos
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...ranch in the county, they were horrified. Tales spread that the black separatist cult planned to bring hordes of blacks onto the farm, seize political control of the county and drive out the whites. Some rumors even had the Muslims using the farm as a staging area for commando raids on the dingy nearby towns of Pell City and Ashville...
...north, Lebanon continued to encounter trouble in its attempts to keep Arab commando organizations in check. Villagers near Israel's borders are alarmed that guerrilla raids will bring savage reprisals. In Hasbaya, demonstrators stormed the office of the Syrian Al-Saiga commando group. In nearby Nabatiya, where Al-Saiga also had an office-and therefore a potential target for the Israelis-dangerously close to a school, residents protested to the government. Beirut ordered the commandos to close their offices in both towns and to move their bases away from populated areas...
Five of the first seven boats had sailed from Cherbourg before De Gaulle's embargo was totally invoked following Israel's commando raid on the Beirut airport. The Israelis, who are familiar with such situations (see box following page), had no trouble getting the other two. They sailed the pair out of Cherbourg on a trial run, as they had done in the past, carrying a limited fuel supply. Just beyond the territorial limit. Israeli planes appeared overhead and parachuted enough additional fuel for the long run to Haifa...