Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hart claims that the administration did everything in its power to harass the Dartmouth Review, a weekly newspaper which Hart and a few friends dreamed up in 1900 as an "all-out assault on the ethos." The Dartmouth Travel Agency and the Dartmouth Cab Company never found themselves challenged for using the college's name, but the administration threatened to see the Dartmouth Review to prevent its use of the name. And, according to Hart, long after the paper had become nationally famous, outsiders who called Dartmouth information and asked for the Review were told that the publication...
Like murder, battery, and assault...
Some U.S. groups offer men as well as money. The Civilian Military Assistance, an obscure anti-Communist organization in Alabama, is said to have sent several men to serve with the guerrillas. Two CMA members were killed in September when their helicopter was shot down during a rebel air assault. The group's leaders have told the FDN that they have the names of 3,000 Americans eager to help the contras. U.S. officials, perhaps skeptical of CMA's figure, profess not to be overly concerned. "If Americans give indirect support to the contras, more power to them...
...nations gathered for a two-day summit last week. Irish officials were holding their breath: less than two months after an Irish Republican Army bomb almost claimed the life of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, an I.R.A. splinter group had vowed to try again. Instead, a different kind of assault came from an unexpected source. As the meeting drew to a close, Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou threatened to torpedo its major goal: a painstakingly constructed agreement on the terms under which Spain and Portugal would be able to join the Community. Papandreou announced that unless the Community provided...
Phillips is expected to fight the assault with all the tricks of the takeover trade. Late in the week, both Phillips and Pickens went into court to block each other's moves. Stay tuned...