But the thrust of his address was to bitterly assail once again the news media and the opposition for what he described as "an attempt to overthrow the Government."

A8 On TV, Mass Burial in Chechnya Russian officials bitterly assailed a German television station that presented a videotape showing Russian troops conducting a mass burial of Chechen soldiers.

Democratic officials yesterday bitterly assailed an accusation that as many as 1,000 ballots might have been cast in the race for State Attorney General in the names of voters who had died before the Nov. 3 election.

The memory of Lothar's own son assailed him so suddenly and bitterly that he winced and swayed on the high branch, and then drew the kicking, yelling child more securely against his own body and smiled, a painful, lopsided smile.

At the same time, the Government spokesman, Jerzy Urban, bitterly assailed the strike leaders on national television, accusing them of fomenting "terrorist activities," and attacked Mr. Walesa, whom he accused of threatening Poland with "bloody revolution."

At its root, the logic is that of the Grand Inquisitor, who bitterly assailed Christ for offering people freedom and thus condemning them to misery.

In a long address to the 15-member Council, which moved here from New York to hear him, the P.L.O. chairman bitterly assailed Israel and outlined an approach for ending the violence in the occupied areas.

Some environmentalists bitterly assailed the vote on the ancient forests.

The teachers union, which had endorsed David N. Dinkins for Mayor in 1989, has been bitterly assailing him during the contract fight in television and radio ads, depicting overcrowded classrooms and poor conditions in city classrooms.

But Mr. Dukakis went on to bitterly assail the Reagan Administration's record on civil rights.