Word: assaults
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...December 1984, Bernhard Goetz has been alternately hailed as a hero in the war against crime and condemned as a trigger-happy gunman. Now a jury will be asked to decide which label fits him. The New York State Court of Appeals last week reinstated attempted murder and assault charges against Goetz, ordering him to stand trial as early as Sept...
...craft made for the Lebanese shore near the border, where the crew leaped onto the limestone rocks, scrambled to the cliffs above and deployed for battle. As illumination flares from Israeli helicopters lit up the area, the would-be invaders attacked Israeli troops with Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades. When the shooting ended three hours later, two Israeli soldiers were dead and nine wounded. The bodies of four terrorists, one of them clad in blue jeans and a Che Guevara T shirt, lay sprawled on the white cliffs...
...majorities, as some Justices agreed with parts of one opinion but not others. However, the twin decisions were resoundingly clear on one essential score: six of the court's nine members emphatically rejected the rationale that the Reagan Administration has been urging as the basis for its all-out assault on racial goals and quotas...
...problem grew out of the 1984 killing by Israeli security forces of two Palestinian bus hijackers. A total of four Palestinians commandeered a bus south of Tel Aviv, and one Israeli woman soldier on board was killed. Officials initially said that two of the terrorists died in an army assault on the bus, and the other two were wounded and died on the way to the hospital. But, in fact, two terrorists were photographed being led away alive. Former senior officials of the internal-security agency, known in Hebrew as Shin Bet, later charged that Avraham Shalom, head...
...teaches and practices in New York City, and his accounts of loss, excess and aberration always seek the individual behind the disorder. Perhaps because such a readable combination of erudition and compassion is so rare, Sacks' four books have earned him a quasineurological disorder of his own: the assault of fame. "There are too many letters and phone calls," he laments. "After a while I long to get away." He has just done so, visiting his home in London. One's roots can, after all, inspire one to keep going. His father is a physician who still practices...