Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some 25 others decided to stay when police asked them to evacuate, but are now stuck inside with no telephone access, since the lines apparently were cut. All of McLaren?s neighbors had better get used to it. While negotiations are proceeding, the feds are reluctant to stage an assault. McLaren reportedly has said that he would rather die than surrender...
...assault on the bureau's competence could not come at a worse time. The Capitol is a stew of scandals and suspicion; the Attorney General is under fire for protecting the White House; the entire top rank of the Justice Department has been hollowed out by transfers and resignations; White House counsels come and go like munchkins. At the same time, the enemy is smarter and more slippery. New technology makes white-collar crime easier to commit and harder to prosecute. Organized crime is a much more complicated threat than in the days when the FBI battled Al Capone...
More than 10 people picketed in front of the Science Center in an effort to publicize the upcoming trial of three men charged with assault and battery during a Chicago anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in June...
...Klan activists--Labor Coordinator of the Partisan Defence Committee Gene Herson, Refuse & Resist! supporter Jeffrey Lyons and a young black worker named Dennis Glass--stand trial for the "crime" of protesting against racist Klan terror. They face from one to two years in jail on trumped-up charges of assault and battery stemming from a successful demonstration that turned back a potentially lethal assault by Klan terrorists. This blow against the KKK's racist genocidal designs was a victory for all working people, blacks and minorities...
...Secretary Robert Mosbacher (his daughter). But one-to-one conversions are no substitute for empathy. Equal rights for gays will be slow in coming if each of us has to find a gay person to love. By that standard, what would it take for a conservative to embrace the assault-weapon ban--mayhem at Starbucks? For expanded health insurance--a sister unable to get cancer treatment? For abortion rights--a daughter who's pregnant...