Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past two years by kidnaping foreign executives and holding them for ransom. Even more threatening from the government's standpoint is the widespread support won by the 70,000-member Popular Revolutionary Bloc, a broad-based movement that occupied the cathedral in San Salvador last May, triggering an attack by police that resulted in the deaths of 23 protesters...
...attack materializes, Somoza is not likely to lead it. At week's end the exiled dictator was reportedly expelled from the Bahamian island of Grand Exuma, his latest port of call on a Caribbean cruise...
...proclaiming ominous theories on race, genetics and inequality rarely heard since the dark days of the Third Reich. The rise of this bold "New Right" has ignited the liveliest political debate in France since the advent of the New Philosophers, a group of disillusioned leftists who launched a blistering attack on Marxist dogma two years...
...following year, Ottaviani's own domain came under attack when Germany's Josef Cardinal Frings charged that the Holy Office's secretive methods were "an object of scandal" to the world. Pope Paul VI, just after the council closed, ordered a sweeping liberalization of the Holy Office...
DIED. Henry Robbins, 51, distinguished editor in chief of E.P. Dutton's trade book division whose imprint, "A Henry Robbins Book," appears on the current bestseller by John Irving, The World According to Garp; of a heart attack; in a New York City subway station...