Word: attacker
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Helping the Hawks. Even so, Israel's response was unusually restrained. Israelis have increasingly been goaded by raiding commandos based in Jordan and Egypt and encouraged by the extremist government of Syria. The new attack could only undermine Israel's doves, at a time when Foreign Minister Abba Eban was in Jerusalem for a Cabinet decision on how far to go toward peace with Egypt and Jordan. Eban's hawkish opponents argue that Jordan's King Hussein is not strong enough to make a peace agreement stick, given the adamant opposition of Jordan-based commandos...
...N.A.A.C.P.'s board of directors fired Steel three weeks ago for writing an attack on the U.S. Supreme Court entitled "Nine Men in Black Who Think White" (TIME, Oct. 25). Printed in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the article accused the court of deferring to white public opinion and "condoning or overlooking the ingrained practices that have meant the survival of white supremacy...
Died. Conrad Richter, 78, Pulitzer-prizewinning author (The Town), who wrote of U.S. pioneer life in 20 books, including The Trees, The Light in the Forest; of a heart attack; in Pottsville, Pa. With a sure ear for its speech and a shrewd eye for its manners, Richter brought early America to life. The cowboys, Indians and farmers of his novels are more than fictional characters; they are, as one critic noted, explorers who give the "truest picture of the everyday realities of frontier life...
...however, thinking about the subject of the play, which is a simplistic attack on American blood lust. Ranchman, played with great simian gusto by William Devane, is an accused rapist in police custody. A howling mob, which seems largely composed of teenyboppers, demonstrates throughout-half for him and half against him. A ratty prosecuting attorney introduces highly clinical and irrelevant evidence against him; the alleged rape victims-two women, a young girl and a boy-seem to have enjoyed every minute of the experience...
...Harvard defense, outstanding so far, must be able to stop this powerful rushing attack if the Crimson are to win. To finish ahead Harvard must halt Princeton's notorious sweeps around...