Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senator said that he dived several times in an attempt to rescue her but the current was too strong. Giving up, he walked more than a mile back to the cottage and told two old friends, Joseph Gargan and Paul Markham, about the accident. All three drove back to the bridge in another car. Gargan and Markham dived unsuccessfully after Kopechne and then drove Kennedy to the harbor...
...planes to the area to monitor North Korean military movements. U.S. diplomats in Peking and Moscow urged the Chinese and Soviets to use their influence to restrain North Korea. Washington also warned North Korea that the U.S. would "react strongly in accordance with its treaty obligations to any external attempt to exploit the situation...
...Park kept himself in military trim. He was a devout Buddhist, and reputed to be a moderate drinker who detested the Korean equivalent of geisha parties. Always austere and humorless, he grew even more introspective when his wife Yook Young Soo was killed during an assassination attempt on his own life in 1974. After the nine-day period of national mourning in South Korea, his body will probably be buried next to her grave, in Seoul's National Cemetery...
...stops in cautioning about the dangers of a new arms race. Uniformed generals made rare personal appearances on television, to talk about "the peace policy of the Communist Party." Soviet officials in Moscow, unusually attentive to Western journalists, argued that the missile build-up was an attempt by the U.S. to circumvent SALT II. Communist parties and other left-wing groups in Western Europe were enlisted to spread the word that the U.S.S.R. might have to take unspecified steps to strengthen its security...
...resembled each other in many ways, including the surprisingly high number of people who participated in both. Conceding that battling police would be riskier in New York City, demonstrators took a different tack. But many of those camped out on Wall Street also discussed plans for another Seabrook occupation attempt in early spring...