Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vigilance is not enough. Instead, activists must stave off campus complacency with new, aggressive tactics. The establishment of the Endowment for Divestiture two years ago was an example of such a new approach, and one which has proved effective in gaining support. Today's mass rally marks another fresh assault on the established patterns of the movement. The issue deserves nothing less...
...furthering of universal freedom. Black Harvardians have an opportunity to share the tradition of John Quincy Adams who defended the Black liberation, Cinque, of the absolutionists Emerson, Longfellow and Thoreau. Robert could Shaw volunteered to lead the Black 54th Massachusetts regiment into battle and was killed in a bloody assault on Fort Wagner in South Carolina. Shaw was buried in a mass grave with his slain troops. His family wrote. "He could have no finer honor...
Thus did a vaunted Iranian offensive come to an end last week, crushed by the weight of Iraqi firepower in the desert strip between the Tigris River and the Huwaiza marshes. Thousands of Iranian and Iraqi troops had been killed during the week-long assault; even so, there was no indication that the latest flare- up in the 4 1/2-year-old gulf war had brought the conflict any closer to a solution...
...Iranian offensive, which had been expected for months, was remarkably successful in its first two days. The assault troops crossed the marshes and set up positions on the banks of the Tigris; a few units even crossed the river on pontoon bridges to the vicinity of the highway between Baghdad and Basra, Iraq's second city. When the Iraqis eventually counterattacked with heavy concentrations of armor and artillery, the Iranians dug in and fought back. That they had put up a valiant struggle was demonstrated by the burned- out hulks of Iraqi tanks and armored personnel carriers littering the battlefield...
...Huwaiza marshes ended much as had the first one a year ago, though the two encounters were otherwise dissimilar. In the first confrontation, the Iranians had attempted to prevail by sheer weight of numbers, throwing thousands of relatively untrained Revolutionary Guards into the fray. This year, by contrast, the assault troops were disciplined and well equipped; they wore boots and carried German-made gas masks. Their aim was to break through the Iraqi defense lines and then hold out against a counterattack, and for several days they did exactly that...