Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sadat, however, may have regarded the timing of the measure as a violation of the Camp David spirit. In addition the Egyptians are angry over Israel's tough security clampdown on the West Bank following a Palestinian commando assault on Jewish settlers in Hebron in which six Israelis were killed. And like many other governments, Egypt is both irritated and confounded by Israel's determination to press ahead with the establishment of new Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. Plans for two additional settlements in the northern portion of the West Bank were announced last week...
...authorities believe PTSD is very different from the shell shock or combat fatigue suffered by soldiers in earlier wars, those who do cite the uniqueness of Viet Nam. Says Jeffrey Steinberg, a Santa Rosa, Calif., lawyer who parlayed a PTSD defense into an acquittal for a client accused of assault: "The vets were viewed by the public as baby killers, as a bunch of losers. They found difficulty in justifying themselves...
...Assault on Iran's Anglicans...
...agree with LeRoy Collins (Crimson 16 May) that the assault on a Harvard student by the non-Harvard "thug" at Tommy's Lunch last Saturday was reprehensible, and I admire the courage of the second Harvard student who intervened to defend the first. What I still don't understand, after hearing several accounts of the incident, is why the anger, indignation, sense of the need for action now, that people present felt at the time, did not result in a simple call to the Harvard police as soon as it became apparent (which must have been very early on) that...
...academic assault on bad writing is strongest, and most varied, in the nation's colleges. "The buck is finally stopping with us," says William N. Free, a vice president at the University of Toledo. This semester, with 43 other top-level college administrators, Free attended a two-day workshop sponsored by the University of Iowa's Institute on Writing...