Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...hundred-year-old American system," it declared, had come under "its most serious attack in modern times, not from the poor, the blacks, or the students, but from the White House." President Nixon's ordering of U.S. troops into Cambodia, it contended, "was in disregard of the Constitution, the tempering strictures of our history, and the principles of the American democracy. It was, therefore, an act of usurpation." Other strictures: "He made war by fiat . . . Our democracy is not an elective dictatorship . . . The President has now declared himself superior to the people, to the legislature, and to the laws...
...punch in the early rounds. Paduano and the crowd of 10,767 soon realized, though, that the son had none of the raw, put-away power of the father. Though slowed by a deep gash over his left eye, Paduano waded through Marcel Jr.'s light attack and rocked him with solid left-right combinations throughout the late rounds. Petit Marcel, a 7-to-5 underdog, fought back courageously, but Paduano only came on stronger to win by a unanimous decision...
Died. Johnny Hodges, 63, saxophonist in Duke Ellington's band and a jazz great for more than 40 years; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...ultimate attitude would be. Last week Defense Secretary Melvin Laird delivered a blunt answer: "I am against exporting American technology to the Soviet Union while they are sending trucks to North Vietnam." Ford had already rejected a similar Laird comment as "not only highly misleading, but also a gratuitous attack upon my common sense and patriotism." Last week, however, at the company's annual meeting, he unhappily bowed to the Administration and announced that the deal was off. Ford is still considering "other Soviet proposals for technical cooperation"-presumably on less sensitive matters than trucks...
...feelings, the thinking and the language of the troops by freer use of description, rhetorical questions, assertive judgments. A longtime freelance journalist now with the Week in Review section of the New York Times, Hammer also adds another dimension -mainly by revealing how dozens of Vietnamese survivors viewed the attack. "I have no idea why the G.I.s come and do this thing," said one despairing grandmother, who had watched much of her family perish. "I am too old. I just want to die." Most of the survivors had been told by the Viet Cong that Americans would rape and kill...