Word: assaults
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...national statistics delineate the extent of the problem, but New York City's Victim Services Agency studied 109 victims and witnesses in Brooklyn who had been threatened by suspects they were to testify against. The 1981 report found that 23% were attacked, either directly by assault, or indirectly when their cars were vandalized or their houses burglarized. Police rearrested almost none of the intimidators. The number of uncooperative witnesses is especially high when narcotics are involved. In Florida, by one state law-enforcement official's estimate, 30% of witnesses in major drug cases disappear, having fled or been...
...weeks ago in the southern town of Anamorós when, after a brief firefight, an army company of 135 men surrendered. Though the rebels announced that they would return the soldiers through the International Red Cross, they pointedly added that they would keep an arsenal that included 153 assault rifles, four M-79 grenade launchers, a 90-mm cannon and 50,000 rounds of ammunition...
...would be superfluous. Though F.M.L.N. claims that 90% of its arms have come from the U.S.-trained Salvadoran army may be inflated, there is little doubt that the guerrillas have all they need. The insurgents claim that during the first five months of 1983, they seized 1,700 assault rifles, 27 mortars, 20 grenade launchers and 37 machine guns. Rebels refer to their rifles as "my gift from Reagan...
Freshman Ingrid Boyum led the Harvard assault, moving from her usual number-two position into the vacant top spot. There, she easily disposed of Bowdoin's Carolyn Donaher in three sets. At the number four and seven, Judy Hung and Debby Carr each posted five set wins, respectively...
...deepest crisis, especially among the young, the leftish intellectuals, and the Protestant Churches, is a moral one. The peace movement is part of a larger romantic, anti-modernist impulse which in turn draws its inspiration and main themes from two sources first, the effect of a political and cultural assault on liberal democracy and capitalism beginning in the new left in the 1960s; and second, the consequences of a simplistic understanding of Detente according to which the age of ideological confrontation with the Soviet Union had given way to a more "sophisticated" and political effort to coexist with the Soviet...