Word: assaults
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Union leaders reacted angrily to Reagan's proposals. The N.E.A. said the President was making a "disgraceful assault" on the teaching profession. Albert Shanker, president of the 600,000-member American Federation of Teachers, lambasted the President's views on education as "embarrassing and destructive." But over a lunch of shrimp salad at the White House last week, Reagan and the feisty union leader had a convivial talk and, in a coup for the President, Shanker said he was willing to explore different methods of compensation for teachers. "Ronald Reagan has been a disaster," he said...
Such were the sounds of the Soviet spring offensive, vintage 1983, perhaps the most savage assault since the invasion. There are, according to Western estimates, some 105,000 Soviet troops now in Afghanistan. Using tanks, helicopters and fighter-bombers, these forces pounded villages throughout the Shomali region. Their objective, presumably, was to obliterate guerrilla strength around the crucial 50-mile stretch of highway leading from Kabul toward the Soviet border, along which the invaders transport their supplies. Meantime, according to Western intelligence reports, Soviet bombers were attacking targets near Herat in the west and around Kandahar in the south. They...
...returned to Dasht-e-Rivat. Farmers can be seen working the fields with wooden plows; young men mix straw and mud to patch bomb holes. One sagging roof is propped up by an unexploded Soviet bomb. But in villages like Jakdalag, 30 miles east of Kabul, the relentless assault upon civilians has taken its toll on the guerrillas. The deserted settlement is pockmarked with bomb craters and littered with spent shells, some measuring 10 ft. in length. Since bombs first began tearing the community apart three years ago, all its farmers and all but one of its 400 families have...
...appeared briefly in each of the Star Wars movies and won friends as the cagey innkeeper in Local Hero. He leads a sprightly revival of the 1929 English musical Mr. Cinders, a pleasant romantic twist on the Cinderella story, with irresistibly hummable songs and some wince-worthy gags (She: Assault and battery! Is that serious? He: I don't know about assault, but for battery they charge you and put you in a dry cell). The attractive, high-spirited cast avoids the twin pitfalls of archaeologist awe and camp condescension. And Lawson is a deadpan delight, a sad-clown...
Although the assault on Lima was the most daring raid yet by the guerrillas, nearly 3,000 government troops and police have been battling them for months in their rugged Andean stronghold of Ayacucho, 200 miles to the southeast. In the past three years, skirmishes between the insurgents and the army have killed more than 1,000 people. Those numbers are now sure to rise: in a sign of the government's new sense of urgency, 50,000 police have been deployed throughout the country...