Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...London police, who shared responsibility for the massive security arrangements, issued a statement saying simply: "We hoped for a happy day to mark an historic occasion. Our wildest hopes have been exceeded." Total arrests for the wedding day: ten, all for such minor offenses as pickpocketing or indecent assault. Along the length of the processional route, the rudest sign that greeted the royals was HI, MUM-which could have been, given the circumstances and the spelling, either a message directed via TV toward home or a chummy salute to the Queen Mother...
...most delicate appointments a President makes: whom to trust with the sensitive task of directing the Central Intelligence Agency. Last week President Reagan's selection of William J. Casey, his former campaign manager, to head the CIA came under increasingly serious assault from Republicans on Capitol Hill. After sounding out the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which oversees the agency, Assistant Majority Leader Ted Stevens of Alaska said that a bipartisan committee majority wants Casey to quit...
...operation was the first real test for Salvadoran forces trained by a 15-member team of U.S. military advisers sent to El Salvador last March. Armed with U.S.-made M-16 assault rifles and supported by mortars and grenade launchers, the troops fanned out in search of refugee camps that harbored leftist sympathizers, then turned their attention to guerrilla sanctuaries at Arcatao and Los Filos, just across the border in El Salvador...
...hours later, Palestinian guerrillas in southern Lebanon had fired as many as 120 Katyusha rockets across the border, concentrating on the Israeli coastal resort town of Nahariya (pop. 30,000) and the settlement of Qiryat Shemona (pop. 20,000). The attacks killed three Israelis and injured 25. The assault had been well aimed and well timed to maximize casualties; salvo after salvo of rockets, fired at tenor 15-minute intervals, fell on the two communities at an hour when many of their residents were homeward bound from work and thus unprotected...
...Thursday, Israeli planes destroyed six important bridges in southern Lebanon, thereby cutting the main roads south from Beirut and isolating such Palestinian strongholds as Nabatiyeh, Tyre and Hasbaya. Then on Friday morning, in their fifth strike within seven days, the Israelis launched their assault on Beirut, hitting not only at Palestinian and Syrian positions near Beirut airport and the Kuwaiti embassy but also at the Shatila refugee camp. On Saturday, as Israeli planes made still another raid on southern Lebanon, Palestinian guerrillas lobbed a few more Katyusha rockets at northern Israel. The Palestinian action was noteworthy less for its scope...