Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is about Shultz a little of the Princeton halfback he once was: a bit battered but more determined than ever to keep running. He views the Democrats who assault him every day as unrealistic. Gary Hart, who wants the U.S. military out of Central America, "has the stop-the-world-I-want-to-get-off idea," the Secretary says. Criticism from allies as well as foes will always be a leader's lot, says Shultz, and so too will be internal doubts and frustrations. But much of what he hears now, he protests, is "a way of saying...
...number of serious crimes reported to the police last year, according to the bureau's Uniform Crime Report, dipped 7%. The downturn comes after a 3% drop in 1982 and no increase in 1981. The 1983 decrease was across the board; violent crimes (murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault) were off 5%, while property crimes fell 7%. The biggest declines: burglary (-10%) and arson (-13%). The trend was consistent throughout the country, affecting communities of all sizes...
...what director Paul Warner is Courtney offering in The Curse of Kulyenchikov a musical showing at Leverett House old Library though May 5. Perhaps the idea is to reassure Harvard students that all is not lost while towns like Kulyenchikov exist: but Neil Simon's shame less half-baked assault on inferior intellects should make most audiences uneasy...
Whether or not it received help from the sea, the assault force did get other kinds of discreet aid. According to their commanders, the new 82-mm mortars and 50-cal. machine guns that the contras used at San Juan del Norte were delivered ten days earlier by a U.S.-built C-47 transport, which also dropped pallets of food and ammunition under cover of darkness at a Costa Rican site ten miles south of the Nicaraguan border. An A.R.D.E. soldier who is a U.S. citizen, George Davis, of Great Falls, Mont., claimed the pilot was an American...
...York, owned by Catalano and a frequent meeting place for lieutenants in his faction of the Bonanno family. The smugglers spoke in obscure Sicilian dialects and in code. Shipments of heroin were called "cheese" or "tomatoes." U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani says the bust was part of a larger assault on the Mafia. "We can substantially crush organized crime," he said. "And we are doing just that...