Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disappointed the students. Said one: "If the Marines don't shoot, we take over. If they do, we have our martyr. Either way, we win." Any hopes that embassy officials had once had of preventing attackers from scaling the walls of the compound were abandoned after last February's assault, when Muslim guerrillas easily overpowered a handful of Iranian police guards and the embassy's Marines. The basic defense plan of the embassy was simply to have the Marines hold off any assault long enough for sensitive material to be destroyed...
Before Miller testified, Norman S. Zalkind, attorney for defendant Leon Easterling, said the evidence the detective could offer was "so prejudicial and so irrelevant that it taints the prosecution of this case," adding that it was "not evidence that leads to conviction for murder or assault...
Thomas J. Mundy Jr., Suffolk County assistant district attorney, has also charged Easterling with assault and battery with a deadly weapon in the stabbing of Thomas J. Lincoln...
Says Clark: "On the other side, the small, mostly teen-aged force of Khmers wore stoic, hating expressions and fingered their AK-47 assault rifles nervously. Americans are no friends of theirs, having bombed Cambodia mercilessly in the early 1970s. Only after I gave them some cigarettes did they loosen up and pose for pictures. Meanwhile, the thump of Vietnamese artillery could be heard in the distance." One bright spot in the week's tragic tableau was the harried efforts of international relief organizations in Thailand. "Their valiant work impressed me greatly," says Clark. "In two days, they miraculously...
...used the excuse of some Khmer Rouge raids on Vietnamese border villages to invade Cambodia. Ostensibly, the Vietnamese soldiers involved were "volunteers" assisting a "National Salvation Front" headed by Heng Samrin and other obscure Khmer Rouge defectors. Last Christmas the Vietnamese and Heng Samrin's Cambodians launched a major assault on provincial capitals. On Jan. 7, Pol Pot and his surviving cadres abandoned the capital and fled to a Khmer Rouge mountain hideout...