Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Massachusetts courts will decide whether to admit polygraph tests in four different cases currently on trial. The defenses of three cases involving sexual assault and one of murder are arguing to admit defendants' liedetector tests as evidence...
...midweek the Bush camp brought in former Reagan Wordsmith Peggy Noonan to rewrite his stump speech. The result was a tight, effective assault on the recent lack of congressional leadership, Bush's biggest weapon against Dole. The Vice President scaled back his intimidating Secret Service entourage and toured shopping malls to engage in the "retail politics" required in New Hampshire. Before an audience of retirees in Portsmouth, he pleaded for understanding: "I don't always articulate well, but I always do feel. Nobody believes more strongly." It seemed to work...
...those he interviews are invariably the virtuous and the innocent -- the others presumably do not give interviews. But Kozol is not really trying to be fair. An award-winning gadfly of the Boston schools where he once taught (Death at an Early Age, Illiterate America), he is trying to assault and appall his readers, to jar them from their complacent acceptance of the young beggars on their doorstep. To some extent, he succeeds in arousing anger. He quotes Robert Coles as saying that these are times when people "have to throw up their hands in heaviness of heart...
...Renamo, whose support comes from right-wing sources in South Africa and the U.S. Determined to oust the Marxist-oriented Frelimo government in Maputo, Renamo has cut rail lines, sacked villages and destroyed countless schools and clinics since it began intensifying its attacks in 1981. In a particularly vicious assault on the town of Homoine last year, the rebels massacred nearly 400 civilians. "The destruction is maniacal," says U.S. Ambassador Melissa Wells...
...assault gave Israeli officials one more reason to reject the possibility of pursuing peace talks with the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat. But beyond the policy of beatings, Israeli officials offered no new ideas for dealing with Palestinian unrest. Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader and Foreign Minister in the national unity government, suggested that the elections scheduled for November be moved up in hopes of producing a government better able to deal with the crisis. Predictably, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the right-wing Likud bloc, rejected the idea, saying it "would weaken our standing in the eyes...