Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that FBI agents on May 17, 1974 stood by during the massive assault on the Los Angeles hideout of the S.L.A. that killed DeFreeze, Wolfe, Atwood and three other members. With the Harrises, Patty had watched the gun battle on TV in a nearby motel. To Patty, the attack was proof that the FBI would not hesitate to kill her. The agency's apparent callousness toward her caused her to fear for her life. She recalled: "The commentator said everyone believed I was in the house...
...federal court, though U.S. military tribunals have acquitted prisoners of war who claimed that they had been brainwashing victims. Richard Sprague, the Philadelphia prosecutor who won four first-degree murder convictions in the killing of United Mine Workers' union leader Jock Yablonski, warns: "It would really attack the fundamentals of criminal law, which holds an individual responsible for his actions. If this happens, you are going to be turning the criminal courtroom into a psychiatrist's couch." Georgetown University Law Professor Samuel Dash, the majority counsel for the Senate Watergate hearings, believes brainwashing falls "somewhere in-between...
Once again, China seems to be embroiled in a power struggle between its ideological factions. One week after the unexpected appointment of the relatively unknown Hua Kuo-feng as the country's acting Premier (TIME, Feb. 16), leftists in Peking's leadership launched a violent attack on their "rightist" enemies. The radicals' rhetorical onslaught, if it continues to grow, could upset the plans for a smooth leadership succession carefully worked out by Chou En-lai before his death last month...
Violent Polemic. That was not all. Shortly after Hua's appointment, People's Daily published its most violent polemic in years-an attack on the large group of bureaucrats, Teng chief among them, who had been restored to power since their disgrace during the Cultural Revolution. "Before it is too late," urged the editorial, "go and tear down their masks, arrest the black hands that have attacked the proletariat, and seize hold of the tails of these foxes who push for the restoration of capitalism...
...becoming Premier are dim at best; but he still holds more top posts than any other official in China-First Vice Premier of the government, Vice Chairman of the Communist Party and Chief of Staff of the Army. It is possible that Teng and the rehabilitated bureaucrats now under attack have the strength to withstand any radical effort to oust them from their positions. A majority of China's powerful regional military commanders are believed to have good relations with Teng. Sinologists were betting that the army would back him and the moderates if it came to a showdown...