Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken from him for three months in 1980 because the father had punished with the thwack of a ruler? Greg Dixon, a Baptist minister and head of Indiana's Moral Majority, says Trueblood was "just giving a normal whipping." Says he: "Reasonable people can detect whether it's assault and battery...
...determine if it is safe for the youngster to return home. The adult can confront the offender, warn someone else in the family, or seek outside professional help. Most large communities have child-protection agencies, community mental-health centers, a children's hospital and police departments with sexual-assault specialists...
...roles and rights of women in society. In cities and states scattered across the country, legal structures and social service networks, prompted by grass-roots women's organizations, have begun to redefine spouse abuse as a violation of the victim's civil rights and a criminal act of assault subject to the same punishments as other acts of violence. Marital abuse has been called "the silent crime." Bringing it out into the open by talking about it is the first step toward a solution. But for most people, including even the victim and the abuser, the almost reflex-like response...
...Precinct. To a frightened woman, though, even a reluctant policeman offers more hope than an insensitive one. Sergeant Louis Mancuso of Manhattan's Ninth Precinct, for example, does not think arrests are always the best solution. He believes there are often extenuating circumstances, observing after hearing about one brutal assault, "Maybe she wasn't giving him what he needed sexually." Detroit Executive Deputy Police Chief James Bannon explains such lingering attitudes. "Police officers are as violent in domestic relations as others. Probably more...
...swung low over the Chari River, beside the capital, and heavily laden trucks moved out of the French military camp near the airport. The French troops were being equipped with both antiaircraft and antitank missiles so that they could be ready for either an aerial attack or a ground assault. At the same time, U.S. C-141s flew into N'Djamena carrying Jeeps, artillery and other supplies promised by President Reagan two weeks...