Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the climactic years of the Viet Nam War, the Communist forces crossed the Cambodian border and established a whole network of secret bases, which they relied on to shelter and resupply their troops. To attack these "sanctuaries," the U.S. bombed the Cambodian countryside, then launched an armored "incursion" into the once neutral nation. Now a book by William Shawcross, who covered the war for the Sunday Times of London from 1970 to 1972, challenges that U.S. policy and charges that it contributed to the Communist takeover...
...underlying personality would threaten me a good deal. He would get up and stride around. I was never quite sure but that he would attack...
...terrorist attack was the third effort by Palestinians to infiltrate Israel within a week, and Israelis were enraged at the latest civilian deaths. At the funeral for the Nahariya victims, Premier Menachem Begin declared: "A fitting revenge for the murder of children has not been devised yet by the devil himself." Later he declared that the death penalty should be imposed against terrorists who use extraordinary cruelty. That penalty has not been used since Adolf Eichmann's execution...
Washington analysts see Yazdi as a bridge between Iran's Western-educated elite and the more conservative forces of religion and nationalism that made Iran's revolution. State Department officials recall that during the attack on the American embassy last February Yazdi's timely arrival on the scene settled the situation and possibly saved American lives. On the other hand, some American reporters in Iran worry about the stridency of Yazdi's public statements. In an address last week to the police academy he denounced "Zionist newspapers like the New York Times and TIME" for denigrating...
...poorer half of the world, like Vietnam," and in "the vast excess in the quantity of nuclear weapons" that the U.S. now has and continues to build. They recommend that we do without our nuclear bombers and land-based missiles; the nuclear submarine force, the most invulnerable to Soviet attack, could also be substantially reduced...