Word: assaulted
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...Marine officer in Viet Nam, and it must be doubled in spades being both at the same time. Nevertheless, 1st Lieut. Gerard Nugent, 24, apparently has the situation very well in hand. Commanding Echo Company of the 2nd Battalion 3rd Marine Division, he led his men in a frontal assault on a Communist training camp 20 miles from Danang that killed about 70 Viet Cong, then moved on to silence a sniper nest in high trees near Battalion H.Q. before calling in helicopters to evacuate his wounded. Verdict from Captain R. T. Sheridan, Nugent's battalion-operations officer: "Crackerjack...
Knee-deep in mud, the correspondent pushed doggedly ahead into Viet Cong territory with a U.S. Marine reconnaissance patrol. Later he was up and at them with the Green Berets near Pleiku, then hopped aboard a helicopter to participate in a 1st Cavalry airborne assault landing. "He moves like a worm in hot ashes," said an admiring U.S. officer, but that came as no news to the folks at home. The newsman was eye-patched Moshe Dayan, Israel's former chief of staff come to a war as a correspondent for a Tel Aviv paper. And as one soldier...
Sociologists are further disturbed by the FBI's "index crimes" - murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and auto theft, which are usually lumped together in determining whether U.S. crime is rising. The index is misleading, charges Professor Robison, because "less serious crimes account for approximately 85% of the total arrests." Critics of the statistics also question FBI indications that murder is rampant in the streets. In the fine print, the 1964 FBI report itself noted that 80% of U.S. murders are committed indoors by the victim's friends or relatives...
Backward Clocks. Another debate rages over the FBI's "crime clocks." In tallying crimes against the person, the 1964 crime clock registered one murder every hour, one robbery every five minutes, one aggravated assault every three minutes. By ignoring the number of people actually vulnerable to such crimes, says Professor Robison, the crime clock presents a distorted picture: "Since the base figures cover an entire year, the number of offenses should be divided by 365 days to represent the chances that any one person would risk. Utilizing this method, rough calculations for murder in 1964 suggest that...
...secret route like the one that brought him Sinyavsky-Tertz's The Trial Begins in 1960. That grotesque account of a woman who procures an abortion during the black days of the Stalinist "Doctor's Plot" of 1952 was a key element in the prosecution's assault on Sinyavsky...