Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They are calling for blood donations," said a Palestinian doctor with satisfaction as he hunched over a radio tuned to an Israeli station during a dinner party in Jordan's capital, Amman. As he passed on to the other Palestinian guests the news about the fedayeen attack near Tel Aviv, he exclaimed: "What courage those boys and girls have...
...without Moro and his gift for compromise, the faction-ridden Christian Democrats could lose their grip at a particularly sensitive moment-"a big body without the brain," as one deputy put it. But the danger threatened not only the Christian Democrats. Said Communist Chief Enrico Berlinguer: "The calculated, determined attack aimed against one of the most eminent figures of our political life marks a moment of extreme national gravity and a danger for the republic." Added Christian Democratic Deputy Luigi Granelli: "The kidnapers have a political goal-that of destabilizing the country." To cope with what he called "war against...
...have been higher had the Socialists agreed to Communist proposals for updating the left's Common Program, including a sweeping nationalization of industry. Mitterrand offered his own explanation for the poor showing: "The Communist Party, acting in its own partisan interests, had launched an unjust and inopportune polemical attack on the Socialists that broke the dynamism of the union of the left...
...weapons. But a dispute pitting the Navy against the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp. reached an unusually high pitch last week. After months of haggling, the company told the Navy that it will halt work in April on a $1.4 billion contract to build 18 nuclear attack submarines unless Washington ponies up an additional $544 million to pay the company for cost overruns. A shutdown would throw 14,000 employees out of work at the company's shipyards in Groton, Conn., and at Quonset Point, R.I., where components are made, and deal a stunning blow...
...settlement with General Dynamics, the move came as a shock. The Navy immediately threatened legal action. Most likely, it will seek a court injunction ordering General Dynamics to continue building the submarines. The Los Angeles class (SSN 688) nuclear subs are sleek 360-ft. vessels designed to attack surface ships and other submarines, and are the U.S.'s answer to a relatively new class of Soviet subs. Only two of the submarines involved in the General Dynamics contract have been delivered; the remaining 16 are in various stages of construction...