Word: raid
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...added in the mid 70's after a drug bust. Entrepreneurial Co-opers had a marijuana farm on the roof of "05," the smaller Co-op house on Mass Ave. The plants grew so tall that pedestrians on the street could spot them, as could police. After the raid, they adapted the name of the physics lab on Oxford Street, establishing a new acronym, HEMP...
...denounces terrorism and steadfastly refuses to negotiate. While in the Christmastime hijacking, the Taliban insisted on a negotiated end to the crisis and forbade India from storming the aircraft - to the point of surrounding it with their own troops to prevent waiting Indian commandos from making a raid - the movement's civil aviation minister Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor called Monday for British forces to storm the Afghan plane. "The British may be reluctant to storm the plane with so many women and children on board," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "They're more likely to simply use boredom as a weapon...
...immediately ordered residents of its northernmost towns into bomb shelters until further notice as it braced for Hezbollah's inevitable retaliatory fusillade of Katyushka rockets. Hours after the air strike, an Israeli soldier was killed in a Hezbollah attack in Israel's southern Lebanon security zone. The Israeli air raid came after five Israeli soldiers had been killed by the Iran-backed militia in the past two weeks, and the likely escalation threatens to jeopardize Israel-Syria peace talks. Although Israel had hoped to achieve security along its Lebanon border as part of a peace deal with Syria, pressure...
...patients and staff hostage in a hospital in the town of Ratchaburi. Big mistake. They had wanted to protest recent shelling by Thai military units, who were cooperating with the Burmese military junta to roust out hill tribes and make way for border trade and roads. But the impulsive raid quickly dissolved into a debacle. Marching into a hospital with guns and explosives squandered any sympathy the Karen rebels had had in Thailand, their traditional safe haven. Within 24 hours, Thai commandos stormed the building, shot dead all the rebels and trussed the bodies in white sheets to show...
...forces to storm the plane. But in the Christmastime Indian Airlines hijacking, the Taliban had insisted that the Indian authorities negotiate with the terrorists, and forbade India from storming the aircraft - to the point of surrounding it with their own troops to prevent waiting Indian commandos from making a raid...