Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protestors who are punished, while apartheid ministers like Duke Kent-Brown and contra murders like Adolfo Calero who are welcomed with open arms. Following last year's protest of arch-racist South African vice-consul Kent-Brown, 14 students were placed on probation. While the administration makes a frontal assault on antiracist protestors, their message to racists is "play ball...
According to briefs in the case, Raposo's attorneys will argue that Raposo should have been granted a trial of his own. They also will argue that Young should not have allowed into testimony Raposo's prior conviction of assault with a dangerous weapon, the briefs stated...
...economic crisis seemed a tonic to Michael Dukakis; he projected a confidence rarely seen in the weeks since his campaign was rocked by disclosure of its role in leaking a tape that helped sabotage the candidacy of Joseph Biden. Dukakis' public words were a careful mixture of reassurance and assault, as he reserved his fire for safe targets like the Reagan deficit. "We cannot operate as a country by continuing to borrow billions and billions of dollars," he declared in Hartford...
...gulf. The Administration has maintained that the resolution does not apply to the U.S. presence. At a meeting with TIME editors last week, Weinberger claimed that Administration officials had done "more than we are obliged to do" when President Reagan conferred with congressional leaders before launching the assault and then issued a cursory written report to Congress...
...ship, the Iran Ajr, when it was caught laying mines; five Iranians were killed. Two weeks ago an unarmed U.S. helicopter was fired upon from Iranian speedboats. Backup helicopters responded, sinking one speedboat and disabling two others; at least two, and perhaps more, Iranian Revolutionary Guards died in the assault...