Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe men like Editor Herman Obermayer really exist! After the debasement of a rape attack itself, he wants to humiliate the woman even more by printing her name in the paper [Jan. 30]. Women are just beginning to talk about and deal with rape; he'll set us back 20 years...
...Intelligence, recalled a trick that had helped warn off the Soviets during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Using the same ploy, he sent out a deliberately uncoded message, as though by accident, estimating the number of Russian civilians who would die as the result of any Soviet attack on China. The various U.S. tactics had their effect, Haldeman says. U.S. photos soon showed the Soviet nuclear divisions withdrawing from the border...
...Soviet aim, according to Haldeman, was to position "mediumrange missiles" within range of U.S. nuclear command bases. DEW-line defenses that guard against Russian attack from the north would be unable to warn of a Soviet strike from the south. It was Kissinger who blocked this threat, contends Haldeman, by calling in Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin and telling him the U.S. knew about the missiles but did not want another missile crisis. If the Russians desisted, nothing would be said publicly and detente could continue. Construction of the base was abandoned by the Russians...
...herself gave Rhode Island one of its only two victories in her first bout against Lisa Hornyak. Missing with her lunges and parrying slowly, Cooper fell 5-2. In her next duel, however, she came back to edge Susan Wiener, 5-4, forcefully parrying her big opponent's last attack and then counter-attacking for the touch. Cooper then thrashed her last two adversaries...
DIED. Charles Woolsey Cole, 71, former president of Amherst College (1946-60); of a heart attack; on a cruise ship off Los Angeles. The youngest man ever to head Amherst, Cole introduced a core curriculum required for all students and greatly enlarged the college's endowment. From 1961 to 1964 he served as Ambassador to Chile...