Word: assaults
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Although that example is an extreme case, police often waver between trying to reassure assault victims and pursuing suspects. Coaxing the victim to discuss information necessary to catch assailants while keeping her calm requires time and compassion--and a lot of training...
...reduce the risk of discovery. But the brass concluded that it would have been prudent to have used at least ten choppers. They also criticized the selection of Navy and Marine Corps crewmen who were familiar with the RH-53 aircraft but not with the kind of tough, assault flying they...
...five-hour strike, which the Israeli government called a "preventive measure," was the most severe assault against Palestinian positions in southern Lebanon in more than two years. As if to emphasize the significance of the attack, Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who is Israel's Acting Defense Minister, spent part of the night at command headquarters for the operation in the border town of Metulla. Coincidentally, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, was directing the defense both in the field and from his headquarters in Beirut. At the end of the raid, Israeli forces withdrew, claiming that...
...order to make their night assault on Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon, Israeli troops had to cross a strategic ribbon of land, some 47 miles long and averaging four miles wide, along their northern border. Presiding over this L-shaped strip is Saad Haddad, 42, a renegade Lebanese army major and a Christian. He grandiosely calls it "Free Lebanon, "but "Haddadland, " as it is irreverently known to some journalists, is actually supported by Israel as a buffer against infiltration by P.L.O, terrorists. TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Aikman entered Haddadlandfrom the Israeli border town ofMetulla. His report...
...Paris and for years enjoyed an uneasy working relationship with "Godmother" Eileen Ford, trading les girls between continents as occasion and opportunity demanded. Then, in 1977, despite an unwritten agreement that he would not set up shop in the U.S., Casablancas descended on Manhattan. He promptly aggravated the assault by raiding some of Ford's most toothsome stars-10s or near 10s all-as well as some of her key operational executives...