Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Entrepreneurs and its ex-president, Harvard Law student Kevin T. Watkins, appears to have caught the caught the eye of one of the nation's leading purveyors of infotainment. A scout for the syndicated tabloid-style TV show Inside Edition attended Watkins' arraignment Thursday on charges of rape and assault and battery...
Civil rights groups have also been planning a political assault. The upshot of last term's rulings, says University of Miami law professor Mary Coombs, was that everyone "exists as a separate, individual, raceless, genderless person who is allowed to succeed or fail in terms designed for middle-class white men." Several U.S. Senators are drafting legislation to try to overturn some of those discrimination rulings...
...AMERICAN RELUCTANCE. The Administration still seems perplexed over arms control, fearful of both a domestic right-wing assault on its policies and of sliding down the slippery slope of psychological disarmament. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, for one, is determined to stonewall arms treaties until congressional funding of his defense budget is ensured. And although Bush allowed last week that a strategic-arms treaty could be achieved by next year's summit, key White House aides seem inclined to dismiss START as a bothersome holdover from the Reagan Administration...
Easing its assault on underage drinking on college campuses, the Senate agreed late Thursday night to tone down proposed legislation that would have severely restricted alcohol promotion on campus...
Jose Blandon, a Panamanian defector and former close aide to Noriega, said in Washington a leader of the assault told him by telephone Noriega was wounded and captured...