Word: attacked
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...purpose of the massive maneuvers was to give the Americans practice in moving reinforcements to Europe from U.S. bases. Two weeks before the Orange "attack," the U.S. 1st Infantry Division was airlifted from Fort Riley, Kans., the 3rd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division arrived from Fort Carson, Colo., and the 2nd Battalion (Ranger) of the 75th Infantry came from Fort Lewis, Wash. The exercises were the first large-scale test of "interoperability"-coordination of the somewhat different communications systems, tactics and equipment used by the alliance's armed forces. Thus U.S. Cobra helicopters, armed with TOW antitank missiles...
Specifically, the demonstrators suspect Bologna party leaders, who have proudly and smoothly ruled that city for 32 years, of conspiring with the police in the arrest of 100 student leaders last March. The trouble began when an auxiliary policeman killed a student who had joined in a leftist attack on a moderate Catholic group. The boy's death sent thousands of students out of overcrowded Bologna University, whose 60,000 volatile undergraduates face a bleak future in Italy's recession-bound economy. For three days, the students occupied a 20-block commercial area, manhandling citizens, looting stores...
...triumvirate of Davis, Gay and Nadine Henley, Hughes' onetime assistant. The institute is a tax-free foundation that Hughes established in 1954 as sole owner of Hughes Aircraft, a major defense contractor (estimated 1976 sales: $1.6 billion). Hughes Helicopter has won a defense contract-to build a new attack helicopter-that could run as high as $3.5 billion...
DIED. Marion K. Sanders, 72, journalist, novelist (The Bride Laughed Once) and biographer of Journalist Dorothy Thompson; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. While working for the State Department, Sanders helped develop its publications program and served as editor in chief of the Russian language magazine Amerika. She later worked as an editor at Harper's and Atlas World Press Review...
...that point, Brown went to the bench despite the fact that he had connected on six of nine tosses. For the second week in a row, the Crimson ground attack was going absolutely nowhere...