Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Starting in late May, 100,000 U.S. servicemen were funneled into Viet Nam in 120 days. Warships from Task Force 77, the assault unit of the Seventh Fleet, launched round-the-clock bombing raids, trained their six-inch guns on Viet Cong concentrations as far as 15 miles inland...
Tyrone Collins had been indicted last May in Mobile for assault with intent to kill for his part in a rumble with boys from a rival school. Freed on $500 bail, Collins later moved with his family to Philadelphia and failed to appear in the Mobile court when his case came up for trial last month. Thus he forfeited his bail, and the bonding company dispatched two freelance agents to bring him back...
...family's charges hold up, the two Alabama bondsmen may be liable to prosecution in Pennsylvania for assault and impersonating officers. But on the more serious issues-illegal entry and kidnaping-they are unlikely to be touched. Although police must conform to established legal procedures before extraditing a prisoner from one state to another, bail bondsmen remain curiously above the law. They got there by old British common-law tradition; they stay there because of an 1872 Supreme Court ruling which declared that the rearrest of a defendant on bail "is likened to the rearrest of an escaping prisoner...
...well-organized riot, the entire student bodies of Radcliffe College, Lesley College, and the Longy School of Music assault the Yard and herd all freshmen into waiting trucks with all their belongings except their pants. The girls put on the pants. New York Mayor John V. Lindsay uncovers an eternal spring of fresh water by striking his rod against the Empire State Building. Ronald Reagan engages California Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown in a series of debates. Reagan, clasping his shawl tight to his shoulders, persists in calling Brown "Senator Douglas" and talking about his boyhood in Illinois...
...Justice Malbin sentenced the killers to life imprisonment-then angrily noted that they will be eligible for parole in 26½ years. Worse, said Malbin, "there is a paradox in the law": had their victims lived, the men could each have been handed 120 years in consecutive sentences for assault and robbery-and not been eligible for parole for 40 years. "I'm not a tough guy," said the judge, "but when a man kills three people, I believe he has forfeited his right to life in society...