Word: assaults
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...stamps are believed to be still left. Conservationists estimate that 40% of the vertebrates that have become extinct around the world in recent years have died off in the Caribbean. Scientists can only guess how many species of plants are permanently gone. Such losses represent a tragic assault on the splendid diversity of terrestrial life. They deprive us of genetic varieties that could have been valuable for any number of purposes, from supplying natural pharmaceuticals to offering the genes for crossbreeding hardier plants...
...latest University Police statistics, released for the week ending March 26, show that since July 1, 1982 there have been no ho-nictdes, one rape, one sexual assault, 19 assaults, seven robberies, 353 thefts of more than $100, 40 breaking and entering, 94 bike thefts, and two exhibitionists reported on Harvard grounds...
...Honduras the Israeli-supplied equipment in use by the armed forces includes Galil assault rifles and Super-Mystère jets that Israel bought from France in the mid-1950s, refurbished and sold to Honduras in 1976. Israel is on the verge of selling its Kfir-C2 jet fighter to the Honduran air force, but it must first secure U.S. permission because the Kfirs are equipped with American-built General Electric J79 turbojets. Despite warnings from some U.S. Government quarters that such a deal will simply invite the stationing of Soviet MiGs in Nicaragua and escalate the Central American arms...
...insurgents' assault intensified dramatically in January with a media one-two punch. First came a piece in Reader's Digest (circ. 17.9 million), then a broadside from the top-rated CBS-TV show 60 Minutes (audience: 22.9 million households). In a scene that Protestant leaders were to denounce as unrepresentative, cameras panned a Methodist church in Logansport, Ind., and Correspondent Morley Safer intoned that members had discovered that some collection-plate money was being spent "on causes that seem closer to the Soviet-Cuban view of the world than Logansport...
...Pythonized seven ages of man, birth is an occasion either to satirize the technological and administrative absurdities of modern medicine or to assault the Roman Catholics (in a musical number complete with dancing nuns and singing bishops) on the matter of unfettered procreation; death is an inconvenient guest arriving belatedly at a middle-class dinner party. As for the other ages, they are seen variously as: a sex-education class in which, despite a live demonstration of the subject, the students pay about as much attention as if it were algebra period; a battlefield in which the officer class sleeps...