Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncommonly revealing photographic session. Posing in the Rose Garden outside the Oval Office of the White House last week, President Carter and his guest, Mexican President José López Portillo, 59, flashed toothy smiles and made an awkward attempt to stand together arm in arm. But the transparent effort to present a buddy-buddy image tailed to camouflage the uneasy relations between the circumspect Carter and the blunt, ebullient Mexican. Their lack of rapport mirrors the testy state of affairs between the U.S. and its angry, increasingly influential neighbor to the south...
...occupation attempt, the first of its kind in the United States, is aimed at preventing construction at the plant by establishing a community there...
Organizers say the occupation attempt will be "open-ended," continuing until they are satisfied that construction of the plant will be halted. "We'll stay there one week, two weeks--as long as it takes," one protester said last night...
...April 1977, 1415 protesters were arrested in the largest previous mass occupation attempt in the anti-nuclear movement...
TODAY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE will pour into Seabrook, N.H., to occupy its now famous nuclear reactor site in an attempt to halt further construction of the plant. Only an hour's drive from Cambridge, the plant deserves the attention of the Harvard community. Even more directly concerned are the residents of Seabrook, who have tried to stop construction, twice voting against the plant in town meetings and filing numerous lawsuits--all to no avail...