Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Defense Secretary Melvin Laird explaining that the bomb damage near Hanoi reported by the North Vietnamese may have been caused by their own missiles fired at U.S. planes. Then, when Hanoi put some exploded U.S. Shrike missiles on exhibit, came the Pentagon admission that there had been a diversionary attack by fighter-bombers to support the P.O.W.-rescue attempt...
...there came a far more serious disaster-the Nazi invasion of June 22, 1941. At first, Soviet commanders were ordered not to return the German artillery fire. Says Khrushchev: "Stalin was so afraid of war that he convinced himself that Hitler would keep his word and wouldn't attack...
...Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde). Guerrilla fighters from PAIGC now control anywhere from one-third to two-thirds of Portuguese Guinea, pinning down some 30,000 troops. The party's founder and leader, Amilcar Cabral, was in Europe during last week's raid and missed an attack on his house...
...attack came shortly after the Pontiff stepped out of his chartered Alitalia DC-8 into the bright sunshine at Manila airport. As Paul and Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos pushed through throngs of admirers, a crewcut man in gray clerical garb, holding a crucifix, rushed forward. Suddenly he slipped a foot-long Malay dagger out of his sleeve and lunged. Churchmen around the Pope blocked the assailant, and security men swiftly wrestled...
...Pope "a long time ago," and would try again if he were free. Filipino acquaintances agreed that Mendoza was "a frustrated artist." A New York gallery owner, Louis Ruocco, noted that the painter was a "user of people," who admired Salvador Dali and his methods of attracting publicity. The attack, Ruocco guessed, was probably a publicity stunt. But Ligoa Duncan, another gallery owner, suggested that the "modest man" she knew would not have attempted such...