Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know about the murder and we intend to find out just who's holding back." The three students are charged with conspiracy to arson (police claim that they were about to burn the gym and a women's dorm) and possession of explosives. Tigner is also charged with "felonious assault," but no one has yet been charged with murder...
Telephone Revolution. Humphrey's changing position on foreign affairs will scarcely win over many McCarthyites, and was certainly not diminishing their activities. Since McCarthy's band of student volunteers first converged on New Hampshire's snowfields six months ago, a vociferous assault on the Johnson Administration has broadened, with the President's abdication, into an offensive against the traditional machinery of the Democratic Party. "Clean Gene's" partisans and many Robert Kennedy dissidents alike dismiss the entire process-the Old Politics-as tired and untrue. Last week, while McCarthy sunbathed on a Minnesota lake...
State of Siege. Every major city is now prepared to deal with a summer of violence. The state of siege that results from crime and assault is even more widespread and lasts year round, from January to December. The President's Commission on Law Enforcement found last year that one out of every three Americans is afraid to walk alone in his own neighborhood after dark...
...units might not be readily committed. There is considerable incentive for "Mike force" troopers. A private gets more monthly pay than a regular Vietnamese master sergeant ($58 v. $48). There is also the promise of booty money for captured Communist weapons: an AK-47 assault rifle brings $25, a 120-mm. mortar $200, a tank...
...once, seemingly unable to resist a Fourth of July attack somewhere on U.S. troops. Early on the Fourth, they opened up with a 500-round mortar and rocket barrage on Dau Tieng, a U.S. fire base 38 miles northwest of Saigon. They followed up the barrage with a ground assault, but were repelled by a quickly assembled crew of U.S. infantrymen, cooks, clerks and drivers. For their part, allied forces probed the countryside around the capital in sweeps and ambushes, but turned up mostly arms and ammunition. They have found several important caches in a wide arc around the city...