Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...load and sail under Castro's slow and erratic selection of exiles will have greater U.S. protection on the sometimes perilous 110-mile voyage than those hapless earlier captains whose boats were swamped by high winds. The U.S. Navy has the landing ship Boulder and the amphibious assault ship Saipan patrolling the Florida Straits. The Saipan has 14 helicopters equipped for plucking accident survivors out of the sea. The Coast Guard has ten vessels and at least eight helicopters on similar duty. More than 800 Marines were also flown from North Carolina's Camp Lejeune to Key West...
...most part, Britons refrained from drawing parallels between the success of the S.A.S. assault and the failure of the American attempt to rescue the U.S. embassy hostages in Iran, but the point was inescapable. Newspaper editorials, though glowing with patriotic fer vor, noted the vast logistical differences between the two operations. As the Lon don Sun put it in a headline: O.K., SO WE WON, BUT LET'S NOT MAKE TOO MUCH NOISE ABOUT...
...World people, the majority of Harvard students do nothing. Well, for all of the do-nothings out there, the politically active women, gay and Third World students are not oversensitive. Our lives are at stake. In the space of five minutes, I witnessed an attempted gay bashing and an assault on a Black student. Don't tell me that our fears are not well-founded. All white liberal students who claim they support our struggle who did not attend G.L.A.D. day, who will not help us work for a Third World student center (that would be open to everyone...
...landing strip and both erupted into flames, the resulting shrapnel and flying debris from exploding ammunition threatened to damage four other C-130s and strand the entire party. When asked about this last week, Colonel Charlie Beckwith, who was in charge of the 90-man assault force, said tersely: "That wasn't my job. I can't talk to that. I got all my stuff out of there." Perhaps protectively, the Navy has not revealed the name of the Marine colonel who commanded the helicopter crews once they left the Nimitz...
...clash followed a May Day rally at which Fidel Castro urged 1 million cheering supporters to bid "good riddance" to the "lumpen" leaving Cuba. Though the attackers had come in buses belonging to the CUBAN INSTITUTE FOR FRIENDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE, there was little doubt about who was behind the assault. "It was clearly permitted, if not sponsored, by the Cuban government," charged Thomas Reston, U.S. State Department spokesman. Though Havana promised safe transport home to the squatters, most decided to remain encamped there...