Word: attacked
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...audience. He saves the day of course, hitting the heavily protected weak link in the planet-fortress of the Empire that reduces the forces of evil to a pyrotechnic starburst signalling the end of the dark days in the universe. While the dogfight that leads into the last-ditch attack is a mite drawn out, the denouement amply compensates for any peccadillos of self-indulgence that Lucas commins as he films the dueling spacecraft...
...election results were almost universally interpreted in Israel as a vote against Labor rather than for Begin, even though the strong-willed little Polish immigrant has long been recognized as one of the country's most dynamic politicians. Begin suffered a heart attack (complicated by pneumonia) at the beginning of the eleven-week campaign, but he displayed surprising vigor when he appeared before hundreds of cheering supporters last week in Tel Aviv at Likud headquarters?known as "the Castle"?to claim victory. He was asked, as Premier-designate, what his plans were for the occupied territories in the West...
...incident that shocked the world was an assault on the Arab village of Deir Yassin in April 1948. Begin claimed that the Irgun warned the villagers to leave Deir Yassin before the attack; in fact, the truck carrying the hit team's loudspeaker fell into a ditch. Using Sten guns, rifles, hand grenades and long Arab knives, Begin's men massacred more than 200 villagers, mostly old men, women and children. Many were mutilated and the women raped...
...Prime Minister Ian Smith that Zambian support for black nationalist guerrillas might lead to pre-emptive strikes, Kaunda dramatically announced that ua state of war" existed between his country and Rhodesia. To prove the point, the Zambians lobbed several mortar shells at the resort town of Victoria Falls-an attack that did not prove serious enough to cancel the nightly sundowner cruise for tourists along the Zambezi River...
Died. Carlos Lacerda, 63, fiery, flamboyant anti-Communist journalist, publisher and politician; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. As governor of Guanabara state, which included Rio de Janeiro, he vociferously supported military leaders in overthrowing President Joao Goulart in 1964. Briefly thereafter a contender for President himself, he eventually, in 1969, was stripped of his political rights for opposing the military regime...