Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past five years had erupted in a round of destruction and death. In an all-out effort to crush right-wing Christian militiamen with whom it has been fighting a months-long war, the 30,000-man Syrian peace-keeping force launched a devastating block-by-block assault on Christian areas of Beirut. By week's end it had left at least 800 dead and thousands more wounded. As an unmistakable signal of warning to Syrian forces, Israeli warships bombarded Syrian positions in the Lebanese capital, underscoring Jerusalem's determination to prevent the "genocide" of its Christian allies...
James B. Hill of Somerville, a ticket taker at the theater, has filed charges of assault and battery with the Cambridge Police as a result of the incident...
...Cambridge Police night report Hill stated that he observed five white males between 17 and twenty years of age stealing a sign from the front of the theater. When he attempted to stop them they began to assault him, and his fellow workers who came to his assistance, the report added...
Hill replied no and asked the assailant to leave. The youth threw a flashlight at Hill, hitting him in the face. The youth continued his assault picking up a standing ashtray and hurling it in the direction of the theater employee's head...
...other youths joined the assault, knocking one theater employee to the ground, and kicking him in the face...