Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most punishing cross-border assault on Pakistan since the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Pakistani officials speculated that the raids were a direct response to an earlier mujahedin attack on targets inside the Soviet Union. That too was news last week. Since Western correspondents are rarely allowed inside Afghanistan, battle accounts are slow to emerge and cannot be verified. According to rebel leaders and Western diplomats in Islamabad, guerrillas based in northern Afghanistan fired rockets across the Soviet border three weeks ago, killing twelve. It was the first report in several years of a mujahedin attack on Soviet territory...
What have they come up with? Nothing strikingly different, though a few shows depart slightly from the network cookie cutter. Married . . . with Children, one of the first Fox offerings, has the trappings of a typical sitcom but turns out to be a wicked assault on wholesome family shows. Another entry, The Tracey Ullman Show, stars the bouncy British singer-actress in half an hour of sketches, songs and variety acts, a mix that does not fit into current network pigeonholes...
...indeed they are. By the time this night of terror is finished, there is only one survivor: the youngest son Anton (played with stunned bravery by Marc van Uchelen). Inevitably, these events constitute the shaping trauma of his life, and The Assault becomes for the most part a subtle anatomization of the curious manner in which Anton deals with...
Anton (who is portrayed as an adult by a wonderfully wary actor named Derek de Lint) keeps running into other witnesses to the assault and its aftermath: the underground fighter who was one of the assassins; the woman who helped move the murdered man's body; even the son of the victim. Indeed, Anton, without seeming quite aware of what he is doing, marries a woman who looks like the Resistance heroine with whom he shared a cell on the night of the assault and who, it is revealed, also participated in it (both are played, with a spirit that...
...Assault of a police officer is a felony in this country, but even this fact did not deter the protesters from attempting to attack police officers at Kent-Brown's speech. The protesters have made it clear that they have no qualms about employing terrorist activities to accomplish their goals. They believe in a "holier than thou" philosophy in which their ends justify their means. And in adopting this stance, they are in effect challenging the Constitution of the United States of America. Indeed they have a right to do this, but they do not have a right to employ...