Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...limit. Later, Thatcher increased the pressure by ordering a second, smaller flotilla to leave for the Falklands. Along with support vessels, the new force included the Atlantic Conveyor, an 18,000-ton container ship modified to carry 18 Harrier jump jets, and the newly recommissioned H.M.S. Intrepid, an amphibious assault vessel capable of carrying as many as 700 troops, eight landing craft and five helicopters. In addition, the government requisitioned the cruise liner Uganda, which last week disembarked 1,295 vacationing passengers in Naples before steaming to Gibraltar, where it will be converted into a 1,000-bed hospital ship...
...would keep its word. For weeks, in addition, there had been reports that the Israeli armed forces, spurred on by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, were ready to launch a large-scale strike against Palestine Liberation Organization strongholds in southern Lebanon. Meanwhile, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat, fully expecting an Israeli assault, was exerting all his influence to prevent some of the more radical Palestinian factions from launching their own attack across the Lebanese-Israeli border. In an effort to head off an Israeli strike and hold the Israelis to their promise of withdrawing from the Sinai by the scheduled date...
...behind the assault plan is Defense Minister Sharon, who is described as the "hawk among hawks" by a top U.S. official. Sharon is determined to wipe out the P.L.O. in Lebanon, reduce its influence in the occupied territories and thereby solve Israel's most serious security problem. In 1978 the Israelis invaded Lebanon with 10,000 men and 200 tanks, but failed to dislodge the P.L.O. This time they have 36,000 men massed in northern Israel...
...were rejected had heard of Hussein's previous convictions with two other doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital for the gang rape of a nurse at a Rockport beach house in the summer of 1981. Hussein is currently charged with the rape of one woman and the sexual assault of another while they were under his care at the Waltham hospital...
...more alarming note, we must see to it that we are protected physically as well. The University Police have a good record with the gay community and we have an interest in keeping it that way. We cannot allow the assault victim to hear. "Well, what did you expect" Gay people have a right to expect that they will be protected here. Our campus police must be commended for their understanding and we must help them continue to serve...