Word: assaults
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Yale University Professor and former master of Saybrook College Antonio C. Lasaga was arraigned yesterday on two charges of first-degree sexual assault on a minor, following his arrest Dec. 22. Lasaga pled not guilty...
...bombing, it was clear that Iraq was heavily damaged, and there were other casualties, including the stature of the United Nations Security Council and the U.S.'s reputation in the eyes of some nations. It wasn't just Republicans who suggested that Clinton had ordered the assault in a Wag the Dog effort to avert impeachment. That theory--though erroneous--echoed in Britain's Parliament, in French editorials and throughout the Arab world. FOR MONICA'S SAKE, IRAQI CHILDREN ARE DYING read a sign waved during a demonstration at a Cairo mosque. From Russia and China came deep grumblings that...
...President needed no prodding for war. A month earlier, Clinton had ordered a meticulously planned assault and called it off only at the last minute, when Saddam promised full cooperation with UNSCOM. At the time, Clinton declared that war would come without warning if Saddam misbehaved again. Months of Iraqi duplicity had convinced the White House that UNSCOM wouldn't get compliance. So when he got advance word on the contents of Butler's report on Sunday, Dec. 13, the President, in Jerusalem at the beginning of his Middle East trip, had no good choice but to act. He gave...
...last week, the world seemed to be turned upside down. Iraq weathered days of relentless assault without offering much of a defense, yet without UNSCOM's presence the Baghdad regime may have a freer hand for pursuing its destructive aims. Iraq had defied the will of the international community for months, yet now the U.S. is going it almost alone. And, of course, the greatest irony of all: after the most decisive military campaign of the Clinton presidency, the fate of the American President appeared more precarious than that of Saddam Hussein...
...Private Ryan, the flinty, competent G.I.s have a clear mission. The Thin Red Line, from James Jones' 1962 novel, is about military and moral chaos. Its infantrymen are scared and unprepared for the hilltop assault that consumes most of the film. (The Japanese are scared...