Word: assaulted
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...times the words "Not guilty." Not guilty of the attempted murder of Troy Canty, 20, and Barry Allen, James Ramseur and Darrell Cabey, all 21, even though the reedy, bespectacled gunman had said in a taped confession that he "wanted to murder" all of them. Not guilty of assault against any of them, not even Cabey, left paralyzed and brain damaged. The courtroom audience gasped at several of the verdicts and at the end applauded...
...from a humdrum summit in Venice and limping from the continuing Iran-contra revelations, the President was looking for a quick score. So Reagan did what he does best: he took to the airwaves and attacked the old "tax and tax, spend and spend" ways of the Democrats. The assault pushed Byrd and House Speaker Jim Wright into hurried meetings with their deadlocked committees, and by week's end the Democrats had agreed on a $1 trillion spending plan for next year, including a $19.3 billion tax increase that Reagan vows he would veto...
...ruling was praised by a wide range of educators, scientists, civil libertarians and religious groups. But Bruce Fein of the conservative Heritage Foundation declared, "The decision is a total assault on efforts to get anything related to religious precepts into public schools." The opinion will help lift the pressures on textbook publishers that have been pushed by Fundamentalists to de-emphasize the theory of evolution...
...year-old Loury, whom President Reagan tapped in March for the number two post in the Department of Education, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Friday to charges of assault and battery, threat to commit murder and willful and malicious destruction of property...
Pamela Foster charged Loury with assault,claiming in the complaint she filed with thepolice that she lived with the K-School economistin a penthouse suite in the South End of Boston.In the complaint, Foster accused Loury of beatingher severely with a dangerous weapon, his "shodfoot...