Word: assaults
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...waved off by its president. "It would be wrong to do so," wrote Michael Baroody in a confidential memo obtained by TIME. Barbour nevertheless lined up Hong Kong collateral for a $2.2 million loan to the Forum. The money helped free up funds for the successful Republican assault on Congress in 1994, and it aided the party again two years later when the Hong Kong guarantor absorbed $500,000 of the unpaid balance. Senate investigators are now trying to determine whether the Forum was used to launder foreign campaign funds. The controversy was foreshadowed in the memo by Baroody...
...night. Kansi, who was captured over the weekend with the help of several Afghanis near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, was immediately flown by helicopter to the Fairfax County jail to await arraignment, expected to take place today. He faces charges on two counts of capital murder, three counts of assault and one count of illegal possession of a weapon. If convicted he could face the death penalty. Kansi allegedly killed two CIA employees and wounded three others outside the agency's Langley Headquarters in 1993 with an AK-47 assault rifle as they idled in heavy morning traffic. Authorities believe...
CONVICTED. JESSE TIMMENDEQUAS, 36, sex offender whose trial for killing Megan Kanka, then 7, provoked the passage of a federal bill requiring that communities be warned of the presence of sexual felons; of kidnapping, sexual assault and murder; in Trenton...
DIED. DAVID LUDLUM, 86, weatherwise historian whose meteorological forecasts influenced the course of World War II; in Princeton, N.J. Well before smiling suns and animated cold fronts gained the day (and screen), this soldier-forecaster surveyed the skies to help time a successful assault on a German fortress in Italy...
...When we heard about the assault, we were outraged," Peimer said...