Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...antiterrorist Delta Force, composed essentially of Navy SEALs (for Sea, Air and Land forces), was not ready to carry out the operation on Tuesday, but was able to launch an attack by Wednesday night. The U.S. plan called for the SEALs, who had been practicing their assault at Akrotiri, Cyprus, to glide from the air ^ onto the Achille Lauro. After the initial assault, Navy helicopters would have brought in more Delta teams. The U.S. apparently knew in advance exactly how many terrorists there were on board, and where they were. "It should have been a piece of cake," said...
...both in the U.S. and abroad. Impassioned and provocative, the document aroused a torrent of reaction that ran to 10,000 pages of comments from Catholics and non-Catholics alike. While many liberals praised the letter as a blueprint for economic justice, conservatives complained that it was an unjustified assault on the foundations of capitalism...
...counterinsurgency battalion, or BLI, plus local troops to the town and called in air support from three Soviet-built Mi-24 Hind helicopters, the gunships equipped with machine guns and rockets that are being used by the Soviets in Afghanistan. The contras retreated and have not mounted a major assault since. A senior U.S. official in Washington conceded two weeks ago that the Sandinista counteroffensive had pushed 5,000 of the insurgents back across the border into Honduras...
Jeffrey Stafford had served eight months in Florida's Palm Beach County stockade for aggravated assault when a judge offered him a choice: he could continue to do time in jail or he could go home. The catch? He would have to spend the remaining months of his sentence under electronic house arrest, with a radio transmitter attached to his ankle and a computer monitoring his movements. For Stafford, 28, it was no contest. Says he: "I had been in the stockade long enough to know I didn't ever want to go back...
...Double Oh-Oh," SOMBJAF's first and most danceable cut, starts Clinton's assault. A metallic beat carves its way through a dense vocal arrangement as singers trade licks on the subject of spies and sperms. By the end, there are two clear meanings to a wailing momma's screams: "Who. Is. For my coun-try? Who. Is. For me?" Love and patriotism, yoked together via the healing power of funk, have been bizarrely fused. At least, that's my guess...