Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nationwide search for the would-be assassins. The plotters were reportedly working on a number of options, including firing a surface-to-air missile at the President's plane, Air Force One; shooting rockets at his limousine; and attacking him with handguns. The alleged motive for the Libyan assault: Gaddafi's determination to seek revenge after U.S. military planes returned the fire of two Libyan aircraft and shot them down over the Gulf of Sidra in August. A Libyan government spokesman in Tripoli dismissed the reports as a product of "the CIA fantasy farm." Said he: "There...
...jury deliberated for three days before finally rendering a verdict that was almost as mystifying as the case itself. The jury found Tafoya guilty only of two misdemeanors: third-degree assault and conspiracy to commit this assault. Maximum sentence: 24 months and a $5,000 fine...
...suspect, sometimes with accomplices, was responsible for as many as 130 cases of rape and robbery in twelve states. He usually wore a ski mask. Sometimes he and his confederates tied up the victim's boyfriend or husband and left him within earshot while they committed the assault. As the toll mounted, no fewer than 26 law enforcement agencies from Florida to California joined in the investigation...
Simonis was indicted last Monday by a La Salle Parish grand jury on charges stemming from the sexual assault of a Jena, La., woman last September. Anxious to avoid a trial and the embarrassment it would cause his family, he pleaded guilty to armed robbery, aggravated burglary and unauthorized use of a stolen vehicle; he was sentenced to 231 years in prison without parole. Simonis and two other Lake Charles men, John Glass Dickinson III, 26, a pharmacist, and Frederick A. Boerman Jr., 27, a waiter and musician, were also indicted on charges connected with the double rapes...
Solidarity leaders often react vociferously to government shows of firmness, yet there was little evidence last week that the union's basic eagerness to avoid confrontation had changed. Still, the assault provoked genuine anger among Solidarity supporters. It also made it more difficult for Solidarity to support the proposal for a "front of national agreement" that had been put forward a month ago by the Premier and party chief, General Wojciech Jaruzelski. The plan, which had been endorsed in part by Walesa and the Roman Catholic Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp, would have established a permanent legal forum for negotiations...