Word: assaults
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...Chicago, a jury of seven men and five women found Illinois Congressman Mel Reynolds guilty on 12 counts of sexual assault, criminal sexual abuse, solicitation of child pornography and obstruction of justice. Translation: he had sex with an underage campaign worker and tried to derail the ensuing investigation. Reynolds faces at least four years in prison. At week's end his colleagues in the House were urging him to resign...
...CONQUER! ASSAULT! I WAS DISMAYED AT seeing these words describe the continuing exploration of the depths of the seas. I have been awed by the underwater beauty of the ocean on just one snorkeling trip, and feel privileged to have beheld it. Surely man can leave this last frontier alone! True, there may be medicines to be found in the sea, but more people will die of starvation than by the diseases these might cure. If we are to survive, our primary focus must be worldwide population control. Where do we go after we have depleted the resources...
...HUGHES NOTED, "THE CONSERVATIVES' all-out assault on federal funding is unenlightened, uneconomic and un democratic." As the Senate goes to conference with the House on this matter, Americans should voice their conviction that the mark of true patriotism is to take pride in American ideas and American culture. Preserving federal support for the arts and humanities will help preserve American culture for all America's children and their children as well. JOHN BRADEMAS, Board of Directors Americans United to Save the Arts and Humanities Washington
...ASSAULT ON CULTURE...
ONCE AGAIN TIME HAS FAILED TO PRESENT anything approaching an objective view of the proceedings in our nation's capital. Robert Hughes' rantings about the Republican assault on the "arts" is more liberal drivel. To equate the pseudo art funded by the National Endowment for the Arts with Thomas Jefferson's library or the Lincoln Memorial shows clearly the inability of the left to discriminate between junk and true greatness. DOUG KLASSEN Tempe, Arizona AOL: Ferd94...