Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would deny MacKinnon's diagnosis that pornography exploits, subordinates and abuses females as well as males. Nor would many disagree with the intent of anti-porn legislation aimed at halting pornographic coercion, force, assault, and trafficking...
...Soviet assault apparently began last month with a massive helicopter airlift of paratroopers into the Afghan town of Gardez, 65 miles south of Kabul. For nearly a month, the small Soviet garrison at Khost, 22 miles from the Pakistani border, had been under siege by the Afghan mujahedin...
...time Soviet relief forces moved on Khost, some 5,000 guerrillas were dug in outside the town. A first assault, which began on Aug. 25, lasted for two days and nights and was finally repulsed. On Sept. 1, the Soviets began their second attack and initially broke through mujahedin lines, after troops on both sides had fought with bayonets and daggers. For a while, the mujahedin were able to hold the Soviet advance. But that night the Soviets brought forward fresh troops, and the guerrillas melted into the surrounding countryside. If nothing else, the campaign showed that Moscow was willing...
Because NBC's prime-time schedule is the most stable of the networks', Tartikoff has time to devote to the rest of the broadcast day. The Today show, the most bracing of the three sunrise coffee klatches, has mounted a strong assault on longtime ratings champ Good Morning America at ABC, while the CBS Morning News continues to flounder with the abrupt departures of Anchors Bill Kurtis and, last week, Phyllis George. The Saturday-morning kidvid schedule remains No. 1. Carson is still king of late-night, and Letterman the hippest of clown princes. Only daytime is a slum...
...Barnett drew a .22-cal. revolver. The bullet he fired struck De- mont in the head. The boy was rushed to Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical Center, where the average daily admissions to the trauma center include four gunshot wounds, three stabbings and three cases of "blunt assault" to the head. Demont died on the operating table. For Dr. Arthur W. Fleming, the chief of surgery, it was nothing new. "This is the closest thing to a combat hospital that you'll find in peacetime," he says...