Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Khrushchev and his successors, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, the old, unbending creed of unconditional war against capitalism has yielded to the cautious dialogue of coexistence. It has had to, for the workers of the industrialized world today are not likely to be inveigled into violent assault on social systems that have given them so large a measure of prosperity...
...local guerrillas who can be ordered up from farm or village as needed. In reserve stand nearly 10,000 North Vietnamese regulars, infiltrated south since the beginning of the year. No longer are the Viet Cong armed mostly with captured U.S. weapons; quantities of Red Chinese assault rifles, machine guns, mortars and rocket launchers have poured into the country via North Viet Nam, either down the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...Senate voice vote, a bill making it a federal crime punishable by death to kill a President, President-elect, Vice President, and in the absence of a Vice President, the person next in line to succeed the President. The bill also makes it a federal crime to kidnap, assault and conspire to murder, abduct or injure any of these officials. The Warren Commission urged such legislation in its report on the assassination of President Kennedy. If Lee Harvey Oswald had lived, he could only have been tried under state law in Texas. The House has passed a similar bill...
...Less than an hour after a military court-martial in which, as prosecutor, I had lost the decision in a clear-cut assault case, I read a perfect analysis of the key issue of the trial, that is: Does the initial failure of an investigating officer to warn the accused of his right to remain silent invalidate later voluntary admissions? In my case, the investigating officer had talked with the accused at the scene, realized that he was a prime suspect, then warned him of his rights. The accused's two separate voluntary statements, made later, clearly established...
...only is it just that one should not be convicted of a crime if he selflessly attempts to protect the victim of an apparently unjustified assault," said the court, "but how else can we encourage bystanders to go to the aid of another who is being subjected to an assault...