Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambridge officials will launch Wednesday a two-pronged attack to protect elderly residents from evictions because of condominium conversion...
...similar attack was attempted that morning at the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, 200 miles to the north, but that assault failed because authorities learned of it in advance...
...Things are changing, but there has been no fundamental change." Black leaders and even the country's white legal Establishment were shocked last week when a judge in the sleepy Natal town of Pietermaritzburg handed down a death sentence to James Mange, a militant, charged with plotting an attack on a police station. Mange was only the second person convicted of treason in South Africa since 1914; he was the first to be condemned in a case in which there was no loss of life...
DIED. Dewey Short, 81, oft elected (twelve terms), former Republican Congressman from Missouri who became Assistant Secretary of the Army under Eisenhower; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...with the Erie Canal, the native lake trout is again being pulled from the lakes by sports fishermen, who now can also catch coho and chinook salmon from the Pacific Ocean. Still, despite the fact that the waters are cleaner and the lamprey has been contained by a concerted attack on its breeding ground, the game fish population can be sustained only by frequent replanting. Says K.H. Loftus, of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources: "The real criterion of the rebound of the lakes will be when the fish that were eliminated are back taking care of themselves...