Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet secret police may have touched off a blast in a Moscow subway so as to have an excuse to crack down on dissidents. The following day the department released a statement not only defending Sakharov as "an outspoken champion of human rights" but also warning Moscow that any attempt to "intimidate" him "will conflict with accepted international standards of human rights...
President is talking in terms of doing it in at least two bites." The first would be an attempt at an agreement, adapting the Vladivostok ceilings in some way that would include the cruise missile and the Backfire. For the second bite, the Administration would push for a SALT in deal with lower overall ceilings...
Giscard's choice for the job was Michel d'Ornano, 52, an old friend now serving as Minister for Industry and Research. But the Gaullists resented the selection of Ornano, an Independent Republican, as a presidential attempt to undercut their political strength in the Paris municipal council, where 36 out of 90 seats are currently held by Gaullists. In past years the office was hardly worth fighting over, since Paris mayors took orders directly from the central government. But thanks to a reform measure proposed by Giscard and enacted a year ago, the next mayor and city council...
...make up their own minds about Skytrain. A British appeals court last month invalidated a government ruling that had disallowed Laker's original permit to operate the shuttle. In effect, Skytrain now has a green light in Britain. But the British government is in the midst of an attempt to renegotiate with the U.S. the so-called Bermuda Agreement divvying up transatlantic air traffic between the airlines of the two countries (TIME, Aug. 23). Skytrain is unlikely to get off the ground, if it does at all, before a new agreement is reached-and that may not be until...
...caused an early election," explained a Cabinet official, "and no party wants to see that happen again." Still-with a careful distinction between government and party-the Christian Democrats dutifully monopolized the final debate making 13 last-ditch speeches against the passage of the bill, then made an unsuccessful attempt to block it with a motion of unconstitutionality...