Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will Clinton go about doing this? "There will be a legacy war room," jokes a senior official who can't resist sending up the Permanent Campaigner's assault on history. "We'll bring in [presidential scholar] Michael Beschloss to spin the historians. If any of them has a question, [National Economic Council chief] Gene Sperling will fax him an answer. [Senior adviser] Rahm Emanuel has checked out every biography of a two-term President--and we're going to be bad-mouthing all of them. With the money left over from the '96 campaign, we'll run ads wherever there...
...There was still no suspect, he said, but he thought it would be "healing" to let people know they were doing all they could. (Very Boulder, I thought, in keeping with a place where snow is cleared from bicycle paths before roads.) Accusing the national press of an "intrusive...assault," he said, "[this case] is something that means a great deal to the Boulder community, and that is why we are here tonight. This situation is a curiosity to the rest of the country--and quite frankly, it is a sick curiosity...
...father beat my mother for 15 years while people in authority did nothing. We never knew why or when my father would begin his assault. It could happen any day of the week and at any hour. When Kay Weekley stated that she knew her husband came to her trailer to kill her, she spoke as only a battered woman could speak--from experience. These women fear for their lives. My mother carried a small paring knife for protection against my father. Kay Weekley does not belong in jail. She should be with her children, who need all the love...
...editor regarding the recent incident in which a former Israeli military police officer, Noam Friedman, opened fire on Arab shoppers in the marketplace of Hebron. Fortunately, Friedman did not succeed in taking any innocent lives; he was promptly arrested by Israeli military authorities and will likely be charged with assault and attempted murder...
Hebron celebrated the first day of 1997 with Noam Friedman, an Israeli soldier, emptying his assault rifle at a crowd of Palestinian civilians, wounding nine people. Fortunately, no deaths occurred as fellow Israeli soldiers restrained Friedman while he was reloading his rifle for another round. The shooting, which strongly resonates with Baruch Goldstein's Ibrahimi mosque massacre of 29 Palestinians, vividly illustrates the vulnerability of the Palestinian civilians in Hebron. The attack comes against a backdrop of the growing influence of Jewish fanatics and ultranationalists in the Israeli body-politic. The Jewish settlers community in the West Bank...