Word: assailants
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...auto-parts-company millionaire and former city councilman, is the candidate of Eddie Chiles, 70, a colorful self-made oil baron and major stockholder in the Texas Rangers baseball team. Chiles has achieved notoriety by sponsoring "I'm mad" TV ads from New Mexico to Montana that assail Government bureaucracy and liberalism. Chiles once supported Wright, but now says of him: "Jim Wright is a socialist. We had a parting of ways. One day I told him I was going to beat him and get him out of Congress." Responds Wright: "Maybe he feels a guy who owns...
...Soviets." British Defense Secretary Francis Pym justifies the nuclear modernization policy on the same grounds: "Whereas [the Thatcher] government has absolute confidence in the U.S. commitment to Europe . . . a NATO defense containing these powerful independent elements is a harder one to predict and a more dangerous one to assail...
...superpowers increasingly seen to be in confrontation. The military strength of the Soviet Union is clearly the equal of the U.S.'s; the Kremlin is seeking to project its influence in Africa, Asia and the Middle East; with rising anger and suspicion, the Soviet Union and the U.S. assail each other on a dozen geographic and economic fronts...