Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attack, if it did in fact make the Port Stanley strip unusable, meant that the British had virtually destroyed Argentina's ability to resupply its roughly 10,000 troops in the Falklands. The air assault had also considerably eased the task of protecting the British task force of 60-odd ships, some of which were now on battle stations within a few miles of the Falklands. In addition, the attack prepared the way for a possible full-scale invasion of the islands. According to the Argentines, the British task force commander, Rear Admiral John ("Sandy") Woodward, who celebrated...
Lisand testified that he preferred to record summaries of his conversations with the alleged rape and sexual assault victims rather than taking notes while he questions them...
Hussain, 31, of Waltham Hospital, is charged with raping the woman in Waltham Hospital on March 26, 1978. He is also charged with attempted to rape and assault on a second woman in the same hospital on October...
...even as Israeli soldiers were bulldozing the remains of Jewish settlements in the Sinai and removing the last defiant occupants, Israel sent its warplanes northward to bomb and strafe some strongholds of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon. That air assault breached a cease-fire along the Israeli-Lebanese border that had been in effect since last July. The Israelis' immediate explanation for the bombings: retaliation for a series of Palestinian truce violations, including the death last week, in a landmine explosion, of an Israeli soldier who had himself been on patrol in Lebanese territory...
...variety of reasons, the week was filled with tension and uncertainty. The Israeli bombing raid, on various targets in central Lebanon, killed at least 30 people and injured 70. Still, it was a far less serious attack than if the Israelis had launched a ground assault. Such a move, which could involve as many as 36,000 Israeli soldiers massed in northern Israel, has long been expected by both sides...