Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ensuing fight, a Berkeley policeman broke his leg. Six Hell's Angels were arrested for assault. Charges were later dropped against...
...children to nearby communities. By last week the daily scrimmage had aroused one of Georgia's worst racial flare-ups in years. The Ku Klux Klan announced its own drive to "increase tension" in Crawfordville, and for good measure Georgia Klan Dragon Calvin Craig got himself arrested on assault and battery charges for roughing up a Crawfordville Negro demonstrator. Hosea Williams, a Southern Negro leader directing the Crawfordville campaign, vowed that he would "call out every Negro child in every damned school in the state" in sympathy boycotts. Martin Luther King threatened to descend on the community, and there...
...families whose incomes average $5,004, far above the $2,400 ceiling set by OEO. Five members of the Colorado Springs anti-poverty governing body were found to have police records for such offenses as sodomy, escape from a mental institution, burglary, operation of a disorderly house, and suspected assault with intent to commit murder. In Manhattan, Negro officials of HARYOU-ACT,* which has received $2,400,000 from OEO, were subpoenaed by the district attorney, whose suspicion was aroused when a youngster complained that he had not been paid in five weeks. A suspended aide then accused the officials...
Fortnight ago, everything was ready. Hoare's plan was to send a diversionary column of 100 mercenaries under Major Alastair Wicks up the road from Albertville in the south while his main assault force-160 men-stormed ashore from an "invasion fleet" composed of one ancient gunboat, the lake steamer Urundi, two barges and five patrol boats. His code name for the mission was "Operation Banzai...
Blinking Lights. Long before dawn one moonless morning, an advance patrol of seven heavily armed commandos, their faces blackened with burnt cork, landed on a rocky beach north of Baraka. Soon their signal lights began blinking the all-clear, and a patrol boat churned in with the first assault wave of ten men. Before they had waded all the way ashore, however, a cross fire of tracers arced down at them from machine-gun nests in the bluff beyond, forcing the mercenaries to take cover behind their boat...