Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...targeted by the Islamists. As security forces 200,000 strong took up posts in Algiers and other large cities, motorists were stopped every few hundred yards at police and army check-points. At campaign rallies, supporters were often outnumbered by bodyguards and police brandishing pistols and AK-47 assault rifles...
...sexual assault and two other crimes near the Charles River in recent weeks led the Harvard Police to issue a safety advisory urging caution in those areas...
...assault on public health and safety regulation is two-pronged. First, they want to prevent government agencies from accomplishing their goals simply by cutting their funding. Without money to hire employees, investigate health and safety risks and enforce statutes, these agencies will be toothless. For example, House legislation slashes the EPA budget by one-third, to $4.9 billion dollars. In contrast, President Clinton has proposed a modest increase in the EPA budget...
...weeks ago for actors Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger and their three-day-old baby girl turned ugly when Baldwin confronted and struck Alan Zanger, who had staked out their Woodland Hills, California, home in a van with one-way glass. Baldwin faces a Nov. 16 hearing on assault charges...
Robert DeNiro also was charged with assault after grabbing the hair of Joseph Ligier, who DeNiro claims was verbally abusive outside a Manhattan bar last month. When Ligier offered to drop the charges for $300,000, DeNiro's lawyers contacted the office of the Manhattan district attorney, which set up a sting that could result in extortion charges against the cameraman...