Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cracked down on its internal dissidents. Following a week-long series of antigovernment riots by Azerbaijani militants, Revolutionary Guards in Tabriz raided and ransacked the headquarters of the Muslim People's Republic Party, which professes loyalty to Ayatullah Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari. Four people were killed in the predawn assault; eleven dissidents were captured and executed by a firing squad after a summary trial. According to reports from Kuwait, several Iranian army officers were secretly executed for plotting a military coup against Khomeini's theocratic regime...
Tatum takes pride in his work. "I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault," he writes, "but at the same time everything I do is by the rule book ... My style of play is mean and nasty, and I am going to beat people physically and mentally, but in no way am I going down in the record book as a cheap-shot artist." He explains the now-outlawed "Hook" tackle taught to him by fellow Safety George Atkinson as "simply flexing your biceps and trying to catch the receiver's head in the joint...
...what gives her the right, and the audacity, to assault the powerful? She interviews "with a thousand feelings of rage," she writes, hoping to understand "in what way, by being in power or opposing it, those people determine our destiny." She is convinced they are "not really better than ourselves; they are neither more intelligent nor stronger nor more enlightened." Leaders now safely dead, like Napoleon or Frederick the Great or George Washington, never had to cope with such a phenomenon, which may be one reason why contemporary political leaders often seem so small...
...spectacle of the Ayatullah's disgracefully successful tent show. But a nation that lives in a surfeit of images and excitements may have a short memory. Since the U.S. emerged as a superpower at the end of World War II, certain conventions of the historical art form-the assault on the U.S. embassy and the U.S.I.A. library, Uncle Sam burning in effigy, YANKEE GO HOME on the compound walls, the vilification of the "paper tiger"-have become so habitual as to represent a rich tradition. Anti-Americanism has grown in direct proportion to American influence in the world...