Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Policemen do society's dirty and dangerous jobs for modest remuneration and less gratitude. In this troubled time particularly, they are trapped in a crossfire of contending factions, vulnerable to criticism for being too harsh or too easy. They have also become the targets of physical attack, and behind their badges they fear and bleed as anyone else would. The difference is that for them there is no escape from combat. Last week, New York City's police headquarters was bombed. Though only 13 people were hurt, none seriously, the incident could easily have been a major tragedy...
...view of reality, America is under attack from junior barbarians devoid of all respect and patriotism, spoiled by permissive parents and spineless college administrators, misguided by essentially subversive professors and other intellectuals; under attack also from blacks ungrateful for the favors done them and unwilling to work hard enough when crime is so much easier and more tempting. In the other view, America is ruled by a hypocritical Establishment that prates of virtues it does not practice, instead putting profit above all else, fighting an immoral war for material gain and in pursuit of some insane imperialism, and racist...
...were spirited away from a Cherbourg dock last Christmas in an escape that caused international excitement. Egypt, by comparison, has five destroyers, twelve submarines and 20 missile boats divided between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. A sixth destroyer was sunk by Israeli planes in retaliation for an Egyptian attack on an Israeli fishing boat...
...have hunkered down for so long on the Bar-Lev Line under barely tolerable siege conditions is that their string of hedgehog forts and minefields serve as a kind of trip wire. The line, using relatively few men, is designed to delay any kind of major Egyptian cross-canal attack until troops stationed in the desert behind them can come up to help...
...Israeli pilots are said to be training to fly at 200 ft.-even at night. The Soviet answer is a new and reportedly highly effective defense system called ZSU234, which could be used to protect the SA3 sites against ground-hugging planes if the Israelis should eventually decide to attack them. The ZSU234 is a fourbarreled, 23-mm., radar-directed light antiaircraft weapon mounted to a tanklike tracked vehicle...