Word: assaults
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Neither Harvard nor Cambridge police are increasing patrols of Cambridge Common in response to the armed robbery and assault...
...there was a crucial difference between the Japanese army's "comfort women" and the young women trainees who have been abused by their brothers-in-arms in the U.S. military--a crucial military difference, that is. The comfort women of World War II were captives of war--so every assault they endured could be seen, by their assailants, as a humiliation inflicted on the enemy...
...armed forces. A survey released by the Pentagon in July found that although relations were improving, 52% of the nearly 50,000 respondents felt they had been sexually harassed in 1995. The problem, explains one officer who says her career was derailed after she filed assault charges against a superior, is that the people investigating complaints are often the abusers...
...Ramzi Yousef to Mexican drug tycoon Juan Garcia Abrego. And she has revitalized Justice's antitrust, civil rights and environment divisions. But she has also failed to harness her popularity to win important legislative battles, such as expanding the FBI's wiretap authority. Her darkest day remains the deadly assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas; its devastating effect on the morale of the FBI continues to haunt the agency...
Under the assault, Clinton quickly decided he could not refuse to join in. Even then, however, it was not clear what the interventionists were volunteering to do. They agreed to dispatch armed troops, yes, but before committing itself fully, Washington wanted to make strict, limited rules and stick to them. The list of not-to-dos ran long. U.S. soldiers would be there for four months only. "We are not planning a mission to go in and disarm the factions," said Defense Secretary William Perry, "or to separate military from refugees." The troops would not protect aid convoys, not conduct...