Word: assaulted
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...seems clear from the events of recent months that neither these rifles nor any others will be used against white Africa in a major assault for some time to come. The new independent nations have too many problems at home. The war against white Africa will be fought, for the time being, with boycotts and propaganda, and through such limited guerrilla-type actions as Holden Roberto's in Angola. There is, of course, the continuing struggle against Africa's whites in the corridors and debating rooms of the United Nations, where sub-Sahara's independent countries-fully...
This joke, which may be just about right for an eight-year-old, is one of many similar "Cornfucius" gags that will soon assault U.S. households. It is part of a radio ad campaign launched this week by the Kellogg Co. of Battle Creek, Mich., a firm that enjoys feeding the nation corn through its eyes and ears as well as through its esophagus. Kellogg is the world's largest maker of ready-to-eat cereals, and its 25 plants, serving 150 countries, turn out the equivalent of 9 billion bowls of cereal a year in 19 varieties. Last...
This summer will witness a massive, daring, probably bloody, assault on the racial barriers of Mississippi. The nation's chief civil rights organizations from the NAACP to SNCC, are Supporting the Mississippi Summer Project--an ambitious battleplan which breaks most of the precedents of the rights movement...
...sudden arrival of a small U.N. plane, with Canadian Brigadier General Jacques Dextraze aboard. Buzzing the rebels, the plane succeeded in alerting a nearby band of Congolese regulars to their presence. When the government troops arrived, the rebels had vanished into the bush, doubtless to plot their next assault in terrorized Kwilu...
...investigating committee last week found Cuba guilty of attempting "to overthrow the democratic government of Venezuela through terrorism, sabotage, assault and guerrilla warfare." Venezuela's documented evidence included a three-ton cache of smuggled Cuban arms and a fantastic battle plan for the capture of Caracas by Castro-directed local Communists. Later, Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt summoned the ambassadors of England, Spain and France and warned them to choose between trade with Cuba-about $100 million as presently proposed-and trade with Venezuela, worth some $400 million annually. Betancourt also threatened to expropriate Venezuela's Shell...