Word: assaults
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...peace movement] and we're not ready at all to give it up." The foreign ministers of the 21-member Arab League issued a tough but predictable resolution condemning the attack, calling for a halt to all U.S. assistance to Israel and demanding U.N. sanctions in retaliation for the assault. Arab League Secretary-General Chedli Klibi declared the session to be "one of the shortest and most successful Arab meetings to date...
...intelligence experts), the Tammuz raid endangered American credibility with moderate Arab regimes, which still see a U.S. hand behind any Israeli military adventure. The attack rendered far more difficult the simultaneous Reagan Administration bid to support Israel, cultivate Arab friendships and further the 1978 Camp David peace accord. The assault also imperiled the Lebanese peacemaking mission of U.S. Envoy Philip Habib, who returned to the Middle East last week after a 12-day absence. Habib had seemed close to working out an agreement among Israelis, Lebanese and Syrians that would cool the missile crisis in Lebanon. Indeed, the Israeli raid...
...could not survive a first nuclear assault and deliver a counterattack. All the country's airbases, for example, could be taken out in a single strike. Nor can Israel afford the enormous expense of keeping warplanes in the air at all times as a deterrent to aggressors. Thus the country feels a particular vulnerability to nuclear blackmail. The Begin view: no Israeli government, or any other government in a similar position, could ever take the risk that a foe armed with atomic bombs would not use them...
...found 22 wounds in Ray's head, neck and chest, but after an hour of surgery and 77 stitches he was out of danger. At week's end Ray was discharged from Oak Ridge hospital and transferred to Brushy Mountain Prison infirmary. The motive for the bloody assault is a mystery. "If they wanted to kill him, they would have used a sharper weapon," says Ron Bishop, director of institutional programs for the Tennessee Correction Department. But, inevitably, conspiracy theorists saw the attack as an attempt by King's real killers to silence Ray. Although the assailants...
...parts of beloved Bangladesh has returned to normal," Dacca's state radio announced triumphantly last week. For 48 hours Bangladesh had teetered toward civil war, following a coup attempt in the southeastern port of Chittagong in which President Ziaur Rahman, 45, was gunned down by an assault force of mutinous troops. Major General Abul Manzur, 40, who led the putsch against his longtime rival, had hoped for help from the military across the country. Instead, army units stormed the rebellious military garrison in Chittagong. While trying to flee to Burma, Manzur was captured and summarily shot by "angry soldiers...