Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oppose the Viet Nam war!" and "Down with the Security Pact!" Many were stained by the purple dye which had been mixed with the water in fire hoses used to fight them off in an earlier attack on Japan's Defense Headquarters. Though students had also tried to assault the Diet building and the U.S. embassy, Shinjuku had been chosen as the major target because it is the departure point for many of the supplies sent to U.S. forces in Viet Nam. But the rioters' declared aim was to force the suspension of the U.S.Japan Defense Pact...
...secret assault on a Viet Cong stronghold? No. What took place last week was a strike against speculators in Military Payment Certificates, the U.S.-issued scrip used to pay American fighting men in Viet Nam. Colonel Richmond happens to be the U.S. military command's top comptroller, and C-day was the moment chosen for a surprise conversion in the $50 million worth of MFCs in circulation in Viet...
Found and Lost. Sharp-tongued and harder-hitting, Beard shattered the myth of America's perfect past by a frontal assault on the Founding Fathers. In An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, he argued that the great document, far from promoting the general welfare, was the reactionary work of wealthy men who in 1787 stood to profit from the creation of a strong, central and, above all, solvent government (nearly half the signers had lent the Government money). By suggesting that economic interests play a strong role in human events, Beard helped bring American history closer to the bitter...
...detective told me there are 10 or 15 thefts or beatings around the Square each week," Corey said. Cambridge police yesterday declined to release assault statistics. They have made no arrests in the case...
...country's business, last week pulled a stunning coup. With a stealth that would have impressed Machiavelli, they gained virtual control of the biggest Italian private company, Montecatini-Edison, a widely diversified manufacturer of chemicals and many other basic products. The maneuver was accomplished through an unprecedented joint assault by the government's two largest industrial complexes, ENI and I.R.I., which between them have substantial interests in 275 firms and control all or most of Italy's steel, oil, shipbuilding, aviation and banking. The government's new stake in "Montedison," whose sales exceed $2 billion, puts...