Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempting to throw down a challenge to the liberal establishment (he never defines what that now means for him) to take low politics seriously--and to the Third World to recognize liberalism's capacity to fight back. In Moynihan's view, it was necessary to denounce each assault on democracy, no matter how indirect or symbolic, for implicit in each assault on our system was a campaign to extinguish democracy as an idea...
...main theme of this election was the burden of Government. Jimmy Carter is smiling. He has been concerned with that problem rather earnestly for months. He plans now to increase the voltage of his assault on spending and excessive Government regulation...
...Newton has been remarkably successful in defeating the charges against him. Callins, the beaten tailor, changed his story several times, and when the case went to trial last month, he said he could not remember who had hit him. Newton was acquitted of assault, convicted only of the relatively minor gun charge for which he was sentenced last week. Newton was also involved in a barroom shooting in Santa Cruz last May, but charges against him were dropped. As for the killing of Kathleen Smith, Newton says: " don't know anything about it. I had heard I was going...
...summer push by the Ethiopians drove the rebels out of much of southern and western Eritrea. But the drive was blunted when the government troops began to battle a well-equipped 25,000-man EPLF army, which occupies the territory's central and northern plateaus. In one futile assault on Eritrean positions near Keren, a human wave of more than 6,000 Ethiopian militiamen were cut down by rebels firing captured Communist artillery. Ethiopian Strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam, who had vowed to crush the rebels by Sept. 12, the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of the late Emperor Haile...
...unions would limit pay-hike demands to no more than 5%. That stand is fiercely opposed by the 11.5 million-member Trades Union Congress, and was violently attacked by Callaghan's own Labor Party Conference at its annual meeting in Blackpool last month. Thatcher is leading a Tory assault on what she has described as "rigid pay policies" and calls instead for "responsible" collective bargaining...