Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have accepted gifts of cash, trips, women-or all three-from agents of the South Korean government, and it is expected to produce Justice Department indictments of five former Representatives later this summer. But is the House Democratic leadership at the same time covering up its own long-stalled attack on the so-called Koreagate scandal? Countering such suspicions, Speaker Tip O'Neill and Majority Leader Jim Wright last week persuaded former Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski to lead the House ethics committee investigation into the whole affair...
...pleased that Begin was able to do a bit of concrete planning against another possible war while in Washington. In response to an earlier request, Washington agreed to provide $106 million for the production of a new Israeli tank called the Merkava (chariot) and to supply Israel with 18 attack helicopters and an undetermined number of F-16 fighters. As proof that the country was prepared to do a bit of belt tightening before making new requests, Begin's government last week sprang an unpleasant surprise on Israeli consumers. Finance Minister Simcha Ehrlich announced wide-ranging anti-inflation measures...
...actually "fragrant flowers." There has been a continuing purge from government positions of radicals associated with Chiang Ch'ing, who have been replaced by veteran bureaucrats linked with Teng. The new party chief of Anhwei province, for example, is Wan Li, the ex-Railway Minister who came under attack in 1967 when he was denounced as one of Teng's bridge partners. Teng himself was excoriated for indulging in this bourgeois pastime and commandeering a railroad car to take his card-playing cronies with him when he had to travel...
...Rhodesian worth his salt will run away from the terrorist cowards who attack innocent women and children " So said Rhodesia's then Minister of Security Wickus De Kock in 1974. Times have changed. Earlier this month, De Kock now 45, took what his fellow white Rhodesians derisively call "the chicken run" or "the yellow route": he emigrated The former Cabinet minister explained that he strongly disagreed with the Smith government's negotiations toward black majority rule, adding, "I have certain convictions. I also have a life to lead." Once a millionaire tobacco grower De Kock is now helping...
...were flocks of doves and pheasants everywhere. Sometimes Ethiopian warplanes would appear overhead, but we would hide and they wouldn't see us. Once I wondered aloud if there was danger ahead. "Only from snakes," replied Seyoum Geresus, my Eritrean guide, "but it is not their way to attack first." Then we saw a militiaman in a long white gown, with...