Word: assaultive
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...Unsurprisingly, the Israelis don't see it that way. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday vowed that the army would carry out "pin-point" operations using helicopter gunships to halt the rockets pouring out of Gaza. He ruled out a larger assault on the Palestinian enclave in Gaza, according to several military sources, because aside from causing more damage to civilian Palestinian homes, it is doubtful that a big offensive could stop the rocket crews. A drawn-out siege in Gaza last summer, sparked by the capture of an Israeli corporal, killed hundreds of Palestinians but failed to halt...
...quantity of firearms, especially handguns, that a customer can obtain in a given period of time—it is difficult to conceive of a legitimate circumstance that would call for the simultaneous purchase of multiple handguns. Similarly difficult to comprehend is the need for personal ownership of assault weapons; renewing the federal ban on such weapons should be a Congressional priority. Background checks must be thorough and make use of all available resources—they should not be “instant” enough to be completed in 15 minutes. Finally, the federal government must...
...Word of yesterday's deadly assault in eastern Diyala Province spread quickly among U.S. troops as far away as the western city of Tikrit, where soldiers with the 82nd Airborne kept a close watch on reports of their comrades sent to the Baqubah area to deal with rising violence there. The strike was what U.S. soldiers call a complex attack, one involving elaborate planning to maximize casualties. Initial assessments suggest that first a suicide car bomber rammed a vehicle into the gates of a small U.S. patrol base outside Baquba in the same area where single car bomber attacked...
...Yeltsin's to carry so much popular weight. Nothing if not spontaneous, Yeltsin demanded on live television last month that Gorbachev resign. Only a few short years ago, he would have landed in the Gulag for such an attack on the leader of the Soviet Union. Today a verbal assault on Yeltsin by Gorbachev's allies only seems to increase the Russian leader's standing among the people...
While we regret the prosecutorial misconduct in the Duke Lacrosse case, we regret even more that over 50 women experience sexual assault at Harvard each year. We choose instead to lend our sympathy and support to the hundreds of thousands of rape and sexual assault victims nationwide. We hope that in this week students from across the political and social spectrum can join us in speaking out against sexual violence and standing together in support of rape victims...