Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Skycap Lounge, a nightclub in the heart of Roxbury. Washington told a small crowd of Black businessmen that they were essential to a successful assault on the mayoralty...
...attack, the third such incident in less than a month, forcibly reminded West Europeans of the fierce convictions of Armenian nationalists. In a typewritten note distributed to local press agencies, a little-known group calling itself the Revolutionary Armenian Army claimed responsibility for the assault. "We have decided to blow up this building and remain under the collapse," declared the note. "This is not suicide, but rather a sacrifice on the altar of freedom...
...assault was conducted by only one of a number of well-organized teams of radical Armenian terrorists. According to Western intelligence agents, some of the groups are pro-Western, some are Communist. But all are pledged to similar objectives. Among them: to force Turkish acknowledgment of and to avenge the alleged 1915 massacre of more than 1 million Armenians; and to gain political autonomy over their lost homeland, a 57,000-sq.-mi. region located along Turkey's border with the Soviet Union. Turkey has long maintained that the Armenian claims are baseless...
...gambling, which employs almost one-third of the desolate territory's inhabitants. Nevadans have other dubious distinctions. They have the highest incidence of alcoholism and a suicide rate more than double the national average. There is also Lake Tahoe, whose commercial development the authors call "the most appalling assault on God-given natural beauty on the American continent...
From 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., loudspeakers mounted atop cars and trucks blare out the names of candidates. Men armed with bullhorns bellow party names on street corners, while the shouts of supporters assault the ears of those passing by. Japanese politicians have little choice but to woo votes with decibels: not only are television and newspaper ads forbiddingly expensive, but candidates are prohibited from making their pitches door to door. So deafening was the din during last June's campaign for seats to the Upper House that a Yokohama group called the Association of Sufferers from Noise urged citizens...