Word: assaults
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...think Reagan is in charge." Kissinger's rules for the exercise of power are illuminating. There are no rewards for losing in the cause of moderation, he claims. Nor should a President agonize after making a decision. If he does, it conveys doubt and insecurity and invites renewed assault. Most crises, says Kissinger, get worse with time and get bigger if only nibbled at instead of bitten off. Kissinger's conclusion: if Reagan can sustain his reputation as quick, tough and total, that reputation is not likely to be challenged...
...SASOL coal liquefaction plant, the most spectacular guerrilla attack ever staged in the country, with damage estimated at $7.2 million. Shabangu had thrown a grenade into the home of a black policeman in the sprawling black township of Soweto, near Johannesburg. Tsotsobe had been involved in an armed assault on a Johannesburg police station and in several bombings. As the authorities made clear during the trial, the three men were only part of an increasingly warlike campaign against the government: there have been 38 ANC attacks in South Africa this year, 34 of them in the past three months...
Burdened with the highest inflation rate in the European Community and a slumping currency, the four-year-old center-rightist government of Prime Minister George Rallis is coming under a withering campaign assault from left-wing Socialist Opposition Leader Andreas Papandreou. The onetime University of California economics professor, now head of Greece's far-left Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement, or PASOK, blames his country's misfortunes on everything from membership in the European Community to its return last year to full military participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...damage to nearby buildings (see diagram). U.S. military planners say that small neutron warheads installed on howitzer shells or Lance missiles, which have ranges of 20 and 70 miles, respectively, are the best way to deter or counter the most feared conventional attack by Soviet forces: a massive tank assault across Central Europe. (Warsaw Pact countries have 44,000 tanks compared with NATO'S 11,000.) Said the President: "This weapon was particularly designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the Western front." The Reagan Administration plans to stockpile the neutron bombs...
From start to finish, it is a mournful scene, prisoners in green pajamas and blue robes, shuffling around slowly, trying to stretch their fasts-and lives-as long as they are able. The British will not force-feed them. They claim that such an act amounts to personal assault and, besides, they say the doctors will not obey such orders. Hospital pathologists report that post-mortems reveal no single cause of death. Rather, the young bodies simply wither away. It is a terrible way to die, bodies slowly wearing out, time and faces blurring. The prisoners strengthen themselves from time...