Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still only six days old, they were ready to sound their own sobering crow: a co ordinated offensive against practically every population and military center in South Viet Nam. Significantly, they chose to attack most often with long-range firepower, indicating that their numbers did not permit direct assault, and nearly all the major attacks were aimed at U.S. bases and outposts. Still, in the nationwide scope of the offensive and in the casualties they have been able to inflict on U.S. troops (1,140 dead after three weeks), the Communists proved that they can still threaten nearly any point...
...armored vehicles, swept through sections of the huge, French-owned Michelin rubber plantation in an effort to rout some 7,500 Communist soldiers. Only 40 miles from the capital, the overgrown, colonial-era plantation was being used as a staging ground for what the allies feared would be an assault on Saigon. In I Corps, the 3rd Marine Division completed their eight-week-old sweep through the A Shau Valley, long a Communist-infested staging shelter. From the forested slopes of this valley pour a steady stream of Communist troops bound either for the imperial capital...
...charges that may put Collins, Peter D. Waring, Peter O'Grady, and Edward J. Hyman in jail have no direct relation to their activities at Harvard. Collins faces two years for two counts of assault and battery, plus a third year, to be served concurrently, for possession of marijuana. Waring received one year for assault and battery; O'Grady and Hyman each six months for possession of marijuana...
...assault an battery charge, several University and Cambridge policeman testified that either Collins or Waring struck them in the course of the arrest. Fifteen Harvard and Radcliffe students who were within seven to 20 feet of the paddy wagon then testified that they saw no blow struck--that the defendants were merely resisting arrest. The question is not one of whether body contact occurred, but whether, in the confusion, the police were capable of attributing any blow to the right person...
...what were originally expected to be preliminary hearings. A jury trial in he Superior Court is set for sometime in April. It is to be hoped that the Superior Court will approach the evidence with more of an open mind than did Judge Viola. Certainly the evidence surrounding assault and battery and possession of marijuana is at best doubtful, and thus it is hard to avoid the suspicion that Collins and his friends were framed. All that has been convincingly proved thus far is that Collins'' group disrupted some classes at Harvard. Two years in prison is too harsh...