Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ancient Forbidden City, poised on the rooftops of the Great Hall of the People and Mao ) Zedong's mausoleum, entering the vast, 100-acre square from side streets in a triple-fanged movement from the south, west and east. Ten thousand strong, the army mounted a deliberately vicious assault...
Leveling their AK-47 assault rifles, the soldiers began firing away at the mobs. The gas tanks of commandeered buses exploded. Huge streams of people fled in terror past blazing trees along Changan Avenue -- the Avenue of Eternal Peace. As helmeted soldiers mounted automatic machine guns on tripods facing the square, policemen with truncheons chased people from the sidewalks and the ornate marble bridges leading to the Forbidden City...
...protesters held fast, fighting with rocks and Molotov cocktails. Near a hotel entrance, a group of demonstrators saw two soldiers kill a civilian, then pounced on the pair and beat them to death. An armored personnel carrier that had sped into the square half an hour before the main assault was blocked by a barricade of bicycle racks. Protesters mummified the APC in banners and cloth, then set it ablaze with Molotov cocktails, trapping its crew of eight or nine soldiers...
...disclosed that a freshperson male was charged with indecent assault and battery in December for sexually molesting a woman in his dormitory while she slept. In November, another freshperson woman was molested in her room by an unidentified man who gained access to a dormitory by posing as a student...
...ugly incident at Mather House involving the alleged assault of a gay resident provoked a "kiss-in" demonstration by the gay community in the house's dining hall. Anger erupted when some said the action was "inappropriate," while others said such comments typified the reality of homophobia on campus...