Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accompany us into Nicaragua are part of a 1,000-man F.D.N. task force that operates in Nueva Segovia. They wear U.S. Army-issue fatigues or blue-green Honduran-made uniforms or, in the case of new recruits, civilian clothes. Armed with Belgian FAL or Chinese-made AK-47 assault rifles and trained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in demolition and information gathering, they appear to be a well-conditioned, highly motivated team. Some members of the unit have crossed the border before us with mortars to reinforce other F.D.N. patrols battling advancing columns of Sandinista militia. Our patrol...
Hart's PAC attack formed the focus for a broader assault on Mondale that Hart's strategists hope will halt what seems to be the front runner's inexorable march. Hart won last week in Vermont (46% to 33%) and Utah (51% to 20%), but Mondale holds a 1,135-to-605 lead in delegates; 1,967 are needed for the nomination. Hart's hard-line tactics are expected to continue through the next batch of primaries and caucuses, culminating with votes in Texas and Louisiana on May 5 and Ohio, Indiana, Maryland and North Carolina...
...Panjshir Valley has already survived six punishing assaults, but never has it faced more men or heavier air strikes. As many as 100 Soviet Tu-16 Badger bombers and Su-24 Fencer fighters saturated the area with high-altitude carpet bombing. In their wake came some 80 Mi-24 Hind assault helicopters, more than 500 tanks and armored personnel carriers and, according to Western diplomats, more than 20,000 troops, almost a fifth of the entire Soviet force in Afghanistan. The target of this unprecedented show of force was not so much the rebels as the civilians, who have apparently...
...course, was irritated about being punched, bashed, whammed and scorched, and took Cianci to court, where the mayor was convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon a felony. He got a five-year suspended sentence last Monday, April...
...lesson to be drawn from this shameful assault on free speech and fairness is that these fragile norms must always be treated sensitively and vigilantly defended. Blacks, Jews, Palestinians, and other victims of oppression must recognize their special stake in vigilant defense of fairness and free speech. That some Black students at Harvard Law School fail to recognize this is, as I and Prof. Patterson emphasized in our letter, tragic indeed...