Word: assaults
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...intriguing and potentially inflammatory question of seaborne support arose after a contra assault column stormed into the settlement of San Juan del Norte, a remote Nicaraguan village of some 950 people that once served as a haven for the 17th century British pirate Henry Morgan. The attackers were part of the 4,000-member Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (A.R.D.E.), whose leader is Eden Pastora Gomez, a famed defector from the ranks of Nicaragua's Sandinista government. A.R.D.E.'S objective in seizing the settlement was twofold: to secure a toehold on the jungle fringes of Nicaraguan territory as the first...
...contras told TIME'S Jon Anderson, who accompanied the assault group, that prior to their daylight attack San Juan del Norte had been hit by gunfire from the sea. At one point in the fighting, the contras said, they used mortars to drive away a Nicaraguan patrol boat accompanied by two fishing trawlers. The rebel commander said one of the boats had later been sunk and that "your countrymen did it." According to the A.R.D.E. officer, the feat was accomplished by a small boat launched from a ship offshore. Said the rebel officer: "We don't have...
...Reagan Administration's effort to establish a lifetime censorship system for more than 100,000 federal employees is only the most blatant example of this trend. Reagan has also mounted an assault on the Freedom of Information Act--long a tool for watchdogs of the government--including a request to exempt the CIA from FOIA provisions entirely. He has signed an executive order allowing the CIA and FBI to monitor and infiltrate academic and press institutions. The Pentagon has ordered employees to take lie-detector tests, in an effort to root out news leaks...
Wilder was convicted in 1980 of attempted sexual battery in a Palm Beach County case, but placed on probation. Police have discovered that he is a fugitive from sexual-assault charges in Sydney, Australia. He concealed these earlier crimes from his fast-lane friends in Florida; most were shocked by his recent notoriety. Dennis DeFranceschi, a close friend and racing partner of Wilder's, failed to see any logic in his sex crimes. Said he: "If you want to act out a pornographic scene, you just go out and hire a bunch of hookers." Contemplating Wilder's alleged...
...away, and the third arrested outside Jerusalem. All three, reported Israeli authorities, belonged to a pro-Syrian radical faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization known as the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Although bombs have exploded around Jerusalem three times in the past four months, the latest assault was darkly acclaimed by the Syrian paper Al Baath as the dawning of a new era of guerrilla activity...