Word: assaulted
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...intended to be. But they feel these potential damages are worthwhile sacrifices for the larger cause of freeing women from the subordination they have suffered throughout history. We disagree. We feel that sexism and violence against women are better attacked by more severe punishments for such offenses as assault, rape, sexual discrimination in the workplace and elsewhere, and by efforts to bring about economic parity for women through comparable worth legislation...
Women need laws that are stringent, focused, and effective. Women need laws that target the real harm being done every day, in the streets and in illicit places. Assault, kidnapping, coercion, and rape--all elements of much of the most egregious pornography--are all illegal. Those crimes must be better prosecuted. In particular, the laws involving reporting and prosecution of rape need to be reworked to offer victims better protection and ensure that rapists are more severely punished...
SASC members shnould think about this carefully, and also about Mr. Anderson's fate, before they follow their leaders blindly in to an assault on the next South African representative who visits this campus. Saied Kashani '86 Conservative Club President
...Just the thing this year if you are Princess Anne spending the day in Warminster, Wiltshire, inspecting the latest weaponry of your Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters. The princess, who shares her family's zest for hunting, took a turn at the firing line to check out her troops' new assault rifle and scored an impressive nine out of ten points. Anne then clambered into a 24-ton armored personnel carrier, scoring five hits out of seven with its cannon and rattling 70 rounds from its machine gun dead into the bull's-eye. Then the fearless princess threw...
...coordinated assault by Goldwater and Nunn began two weeks ago, when they holed up at Fort A.P. Hill in the Virginia countryside with a battery of experts and other Senators to discuss what had gone wrong with the military. Among those present: former Defense Secretaries Harold Brown and James Schlesinger and General David Jones, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Drawing from this discussion and two years of study, the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee will release a 600-page report this week calling for sweeping structural changes. The presidential commission chaired by Packard is expected...