Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symposium began with an immediate analysis of the consequences of a 20-megaton nuclear assault upon Boston. The speakers detonated one devastating statistic after another: 2.2 million immediate fatalities, 80 percent of medical facilities in the Boston area totally destroyed, all frame and brick buildings within six miles levelled (so much for Widener), 17,000 injured persons for every healthy doctor. And, of course, undetermined genetic effects to haunt future generations...
...escape of the six began on the rainy day of the storming of the U.S. embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4. While the assault centered on the main embassy building, five of the six escapees were working in an adjoining consular section within the compound. Mark Lijek had been processing visas that morning. Among his visitors was Kim King, 27, a tourist from Oregon who had stayed on in Iran for six months to teach English to local businessmen. He had both overstayed his visa and lost his passport, with its date-of-entry stamp, and he sought Lijek...
Guatemala's tough military regime responded with an attack that by week's end was still sending shock waves throughout much of Latin America. Ignoring the fact-Iran notwithstanding-that embassies are "foreign soil," the government ordered police to begin an assault on the Spanish mission. It started shortly after noon, bringing the frantic Ambassador and the former Guatemalan officials to an upstairs window in protest. "Please don't enter!" pleaded the Ambassador. "We have immunity!" He was ignored...
...glare of TV lights in the House of Representatives, the President sent the Soviets a forceful warning in his State of the Union address: "Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America. And such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force." To make that warning more credible, Carter reversed a policy of just a few months ago and decided to ask Congress to authorize the registration...
...unhappy with the rhetoric, but for a different reason. According to a close associate, he was concerned that the language was too flamboyant, giving the impression that Carter was overreacting and raising the danger that he would not be able to deliver on his threat of repelling a Soviet assault in the Persian Gulf...