Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the bombing raids, Lieut. General Mordechai Gur, Israel's chief of staff, insisted that his pilots had struck the targets assigned them. Said he: "We know for sure that the bombing was accurate and the results were good. We did not attack any civilian areas or refugee camps...
Reports have now reached Hong Kong that Chuang attempted to take his own life in Peking by hanging himself with his belt. The reason: he had come under attack for his association with the Gang of Four, the political radicals headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, who are still being reviled in the Chinese press because they reduced the national economy to "semianarchy" and "rode roughshod over the people, drank their blood and ate their flesh." Soon after the Gang of Four was arrested last year, Chuang, now 36, was kicked...
...matter. The first homeland to be granted its "independence," Transkei, celebrated its first anniversary last month. Although invitations to the ceremonies were sent to most Western capitals, Pretoria was the only one to accept. Transkei's Prime Minister, Chief Kaiser Matanzima, took the occasion to attack "the rejection of our legitimacy" by the outside world. In December a second homeland, Bophuthatswana, will officially become independent, and three more are likely to follow within the next two years. The only one definitely holding out against such independence is KwaZulu, whose leader, Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, dismisses the whole idea as a sham...
Bringing added strength to the Crimson team, junior Robert Homer, a first-year fencer, won two out of three bouts, highlighting his day with a victory over Sandhurst's Reid. In his win over the British captain, Homer twice parried a Reid attack, then followed with touches to Reid's mask...
Marcia Guttentag, research associate and lecturer at the School of Education and resident tutor in Mather House, died November 3 in New York of a sudden heart attack. She was 45 years...