Word: attacking
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...fedayeen, who are somewhat fewer in number but better trained, trace their origins to the political oppression of the early 1960s. They are sometimes linked to the "Saihkal" partisans, who attacked a village of that name near the Caspian Sea in 1965. U.S. intelligence analysts believe that last week's attack on the American embassy, as well as a raid on the Moroccan embassy, was the work of a fedayeen splinter group called the Cherikhaye Fedaye Khalq (People's Sacrifice Guerrillas). This group is believed to have received training and aid over the years from Libya and radical...
What angered the Carter Administration as much as anything else about the embassy affair was the way in which the Soviet Union tried to exploit the incident for its own ends. The official news agency Tass charged that the embassy attack had been inspired by remnants of SAVAK, under orders of the CIA, to create a pretext for U.S. intervention. The Soviet press further declared that Washington was trying to provoke a split in Iran between the new regime's "religious section" and the "left forces...
...State Department pinned the blame for the reckless decision to attack on the two Soviets, and summoned Moscow's Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin to protest the Soviet role "in the strongest terms." In Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon delivered an equally forceful remonstration to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. But Moscow disclaimed "any responsibility," and from Kabul, TIME Correspondent Lawrence Malkin reported a widespread impression that the attack decision had been made by the Afghans, not the Russians...
...border of our country." With that terse statement, Hanoi radio announced Saturday that Chinese troops, which had been massed along the Vietnamese border since Hanoi's invasion of Cambodia, had poured into Viet Nam at several points along their joint frontier. Hanoi charged that before the predawn attack, the Chinese had softened up the Vietnamese with long-range artillery, followed by infantry and tank assaults. By the end of the day, Chinese forces had advanced as much as six miles into Vietnamese territory...
...attack on RH-827 was yet another indication of the guerrillas' growing strength and further proof that Nkomo seems determined to raise as much havoc as he can before the spring election. Late in January, Rhodesia's white minority overwhelmingly approved a referendum committing them to join 2.8 million black voters at the polls on April 20 to elect a majority-rule government that Smith hopes will gain international recognition as legitimate...