Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gandhi may be directly implicated, since he held the Defense Ministry portfolio at the time the Bofors contract was negotiated. The Prime Minister has also been accused of protecting friends suspected of illegal foreign- currency transactions. As his prestige has plummeted, Gandhi has come under repeated assault by members of his own Congress (I) Party. Over the past month he has tried to reassert control by expelling from the party four former ministers who openly criticized him, including V.P. Singh, the driving force behind probes of corruption early in Gandhi's administration. Singh, 56, has emerged as the leader...
...dead, has moved elsewhere or is just lying low. Indeed, despite the use of the most modern techniques, thwarted investigators know very little about this killer except that his primary targets are young prostitutes and that his lethal attacks may involve a repertory of strangulation, bludgeoning and sexual assault...
...soldiers inside Nicaragua, up from 5,000 last December. Last week the contras announced that 500 soldiers attacked and overran a strongly held Sandinista garrison at San Jose de Bocay in north-central Nicaragua. Although the Defense Ministry in Managua announced fewer casualties and a much less successful assault than contra leaders claimed, the insurgents said it was their biggest victory since the rebellion began six years ago. Contra military progress could help swing moderate lawmakers in favor of continued funding when the issue comes to a vote this fall...
...blood and engaging in prostitution even though he allegedly knew he was suffering from AIDS. In June, James Vernell Moore, a federal-prison inmate who tested positive for exposure to the AIDS virus and who bit two guards, was convicted by a Minneapolis federal jury of two counts of assault with a deadly weapon: his mouth and teeth. In Columbia, S.C., assault and battery with intent to kill has been added to a rape charge in the upcoming trial of Terry Lee Phillips, a drifter who, prosecutors say, claimed to have AIDS and vowed to spread it before allegedly attacking...
...alligator shoes have long ranked among the most flagrant symbols of human indifference to the fate of wild animals. Even among the general public, consciousness has been raised high enough so that anyone sporting finery made from the skins of endangered animals runs the risk of at least verbal assault...