Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israeli army units last week moved into southern Lebanon, by now familiar territory to them, in response to a terrorist attack on one of their border settlements. An Israeli assault force probed several miles into the war-torn country with armored personnel carriers, bulldozers and more than 300 troops. The armor quickly fanned out into the six-mile-wide border enclave controlled by Israel's Lebanese Christian Militia allies. Other Israeli units, mostly infantry, moved farther north, along areas patrolled by the 6,000-man United Nations peace-keeping force that has been deployed in southern Lebanon...
...Friday, April 11, John Francis was involved in not one, but three separate assault incidents. Two graduate students reported that Francis "knocked them against each other" as they were walking away from the dance. When one of the students went to call the police, Francis pushed the other against a wall. After he was questioned by the Harvard Police and then released, he proceeded inside Phillips Brooks House and pushed Lowell McGee, as reported in The Crimson. Yet the article was silent about the two earlier assaults...
Thomas Daley and Robert Covelman, former Eugene's employees, have charged David Lauria, the head cook at 33 Dunster Street and former head cook at Eugene's, with assault in connection with a scuffle in front of the restaurant on March...
...officer said the man and his friends had separated him and his partner before the incident occurred. He said he grabbed the man, identified himself, and accused the man of trying to fight, "and I told him don't do that or I'll charge you with attempted assault of an officer...
...that the policeman had bumped his left shoulder and that later, "sensing him come up to me, I turned around." The man said after the officer identified himself, he raised his hands, saying "Wait a minute." He said the officer said he would have to arrest him for attempted assault of a police officer and the man placed his hands behind him in a handcuff position as a sign of submission. "Then they slammed me against the wall and told me I was under arrest. When I got in the car they informed me I was arrested for attempted larceny...