Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known, U.S. District Attorney Eugene Propper flew to Santiago to negotiate his expulsion from Chile. "I am a supporter of the junta above everything else, and I have full confidence in Chilean justice," Townley protested. "What the U.S. is trying to do through me is carry out a political attack on the government of Chile." But while Townley's lawyers were still challenging the U.S. request, Chilean police hustled the American onto a northward-bound plane and told the FBI to take him away. The FBI agents had to depart in such a rush that they left their suitcases...
...Kapuuo's cortege passed through Katatura, a black township outside the modern territorial capital of Windhoek, a group of Ovambo tribesmen, the Hereros' traditional enemies, threw stones at the chiefs followers. Enraged members of Kapuuo's home guard immediately retaliated with ancient British rifles in an attack that left five dead and eleven wounded. At the funeral, thousands of Herero women garbed in scarlet mourning dresses wailed and chanted under cloudy skies. Although most of the orators counseled restraint, one warned pointedly: "The grave of the chief is open, but so are the graves of his assassins...
Ellison contends that the study shows the dramatic impact of group living and social disruption on drinking, and helps explain why depressants can be an effective way to attack human alcoholism. The most important finding may be a more obvious one: when it comes to boozing, rats are only human...
Even the most determined anti-inflation program will yield results only slowly, and at first these results may be disappointingly small. That is all the more reason for starting the attack now. Inflation has indeed become part of the tissue of the American economy-and to let diseased tissue spread is a certain way to ensure disaster...
...child prostitution in early 20th-century New Orleans. In Malle's hands, the film could be expected to either purge our inhibitions with sexual explicitness, or plague our consciences with subtle social commentary. But unfortunately, the film turns out to be confused in its subject and unfocused in its attack--a movie that never seems to know where it's headed. In the end it's almost pathetic--about as pathetic as a john in the middle of a whorehouse who can't figure out what to do with himself...