Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sounded like a routine office robbery at the local bus depot. But when the thieves took refuge in a nearby house guarded by armed men, the police called in the army and state troopers. What they found when they finally stormed the house resulted in Mexico's biggest assault to date on the international narcotics business...
...assault on the village was one of a series of raids launched by the guerrillas against lightly defended targets. It came at a time when attacks by large units are relatively rare in El Salvador's civil war. Before legislative elections last month small groups of insurgents hit more than 20 small towns, burning government buildings and public records. In response, the Salvadoran government, with the help of U.S. military advisers, has been rejuvenating the country's civil defense network. One of the rebels' publicly declared goals is to undermine that effort; the object of the assault on Santa Cruz...
Judge Samuels, who presided at the original trial in 1979, found Webb's new testimony less credible than that of a seemingly terrified 16-year-old girl who had told a brutal tale of kidnaping, assault and rape. Also troubling were parts of Dotson's testimony last week. While a friend testified that he had spent the evening of the attack with Dotson and two others, Dotson said that he had spent much of the time sleeping in the back seat of a car while his companions were stopping at parties. He might have been separated from the group...
...politics range from Marxism to Tamil nationalism, do manage to triumph, they may find themselves unable to remain united, let alone administer their newly won territory. For the moment, however, such long-term considerations do not keep the guerrillas from pursuing more immediate goals. "When we begin the major assault," warns K. Umamaheswaran, a Tiger leader, "there will be no turning back. We want to see Sinhalese soldiers dead on the ground...
...games. Invited by the Department of Defense, which frequently asks National Guard units to assist in maneuvers, the reservists flew down to play the bad guys in the second stage of the three-month-long joint operation. With 17 tanks and 17 armored personnel carriers, they staged a mock assault on a Honduran hilltop position, sweeping toward the encampment in a 4 1/2-mile-wide front while Honduran warplanes darted overhead...