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The protesters quickly departed before they came under direct attack.
Yet turnout was over 60%, and only eight polling stations came under direct attack.
Page A4 YEMENI AIRPORT ATTACKED For the first time since fighting broke out in the Yemeni capital, Sana International Airport came under direct attack in a possible move by opposition forces to escalate conflict with the government.
SANA, Yemen — For the first time since fighting broke out here in the Yemeni capital, Sana International Airport came under direct attack on Sunday night, in a possible move by opposition forces to escalate the conflict with the government.
The "well-rounded boy" came under direct attack in 1960 when a faculty study decried the idea as anti-intellectual and degrading the student body; within two years, the administration was publicly promoting the contrasting concept of "the well-rounded class" with plenty of room for home-schooled piano virtuosi and 12-year-old polymaths as well as football captains from Exeter.
Expected to be Trump v world, the fifth Republican debate did not deliver on Tuesday night as thin-skinned Donald Trump came under direct attack by name from just a couple Republican presidential candidates, Kentucky senator Rand Paul and former Florida governor Jeb Bush.
All the while they were coming under direct attack from neo-Nazis in Hoyerswerda or Rostock-Lichtenhagen.
Just as the Brady Act of 1994 was born of John Hinckley's attempt on Ronald Reagan's life, and as the Gun Control Act of 1968 came in the wake of the murders of J.F.K., R.F.K., and M.L.K., even the earliest attempt to tighten federal firearms regulations would not have reached the floor of Congress if a public figure had not come under direct attack.
Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said it was the fourth time that soldiers from Operation Sentinelle, the security operation set up after three assailants killed 17 people over three days in Greater Paris in January 2015, had come under direct attack.
Children living in countries at war have come under direct attack, been killed, maimed or recruited to fight, and used as human shields.
