Word: assaults
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Less complex Soviet weapons, such as rifles and machine guns, tend to be easily produced and highly reliable. The AK-47 Kalashnikov is the most esteemed and bestselling assault rifle in the world today, partly because it uses standardized ammunition available almost anywhere. The U.S. Army's M-16 is far less attractive on international arms markets; it has never lived down a much deserved reputation, earned in Viet Nam, for jamming frequently...
...nearly half the fleet, in the past decade. After the Viet Nam War wound down, the Navy retired a whole generation of World War II-vintage cargo vessels and concentrated its limited funds on building fighting ships. The U.S. has enough amphibious craft to enable a Marine assault group of about...
...county district court judge ruled yesterday that there was sufficient evidence to-convict University police chief Saul L. Chafin on a charge of assault, but decided instead to continue the case without a finding for a year...
...most popular figure of the Sandinista revolution. In August 1978 he led the takeover of the National Palace in Managua, a daring assault that marked the beginning of the end for the forces of Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza. After the Sandinistas seized power, the movie-handsome guerrilla became an almost legendary symbol of the successful struggle. Whenever he appeared in public, crowds would break into spontaneous applause for the man they called by his nom de guerre: Comandante Cero (Commander Zero...
This production by the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park is silly, vulgar and achingly dull. It is a shameless assault on Shakespeare, couched in the parched emotional idiom of the cool urban disco jitters. If the playgoers had to pay anything for their seats, they would probably storm the box office demanding refunds from Producer Joseph Papp...