Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mark in East-West relations remained Russia's position v. Red China's. In Peking fortnight ago, seemingly bent on restraining Chinese aggressiveness, Khrushchev had denounced "wars of conquest" but added that Marxists could still recognize "liberating wars"-precisely the label Red China would apply to an attack on Formosa. From Washington last week, U.S. Secretary of State Herter and Under Secretary Douglas Dillon moved quickly to plug this loophole (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), warned that Moscow must share responsibility for Peking's acts...
...Cairo, Gamal Abdel Nasser was quick to raise his hands in horror at the news of the attack on Kassem ("I am against all this terror and killing"), but many guessed that he was just making a show of propriety. The United Arab Republic's campaign to topple Kassem has reached a screaming crescendo; fortnight ago Syria's tough Interior Minister, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, presided at a clandestine meeting in the Syrian town of El Haseke with anti-Kassem Iraqi army officers to discuss plans for Iraq's leadership should Kassem be overthrown. When the meeting...
Last week the American Council on Education made an angry, 100-page attack on U.S. "diploma mills," which have run a carefree con game around the globe for more than a century. Trouble is that the mills are blossoming as never before. At least 200 crooked schools in 37 states, the council reported, are raking in $75 million from 750,000 victims a year. California alone may have 100 such schools. A top West German investigator of academic frauds used to get 2,000 complaints annually about U.S. diploma mills. Now he gets 6,000, and calls the mills...
...relief pitcher's craft, he should have emerged from the bullpen with stoic mien and plodded his way to the mound like a tired Atlas about to shoulder the weight of the world. But it seemed that whenever the Chicago White Sox managed to mount an attack against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series, the tall, strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 202 Ibs.) righthanded rookie sallied out of the Dodger bullpen with a spring in his step and a grin on his face. Confessed unabashed Larry Sherry, 24: "I just plain like to pitch...
Inside John Hedreen is an important question mark for the varsity. After conquering the effects of a virus attack, he pulled a thigh muscle in the Williams game and will see only limited action today...