Word: attempted
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SOUTHERN AFRICA. The State Department last week expressed strong approval of South Africa's latest promise to cooperate with the U.N. plan to grant independence to Namibia. But the Administration's attempt, with British help, to bring all parties together to settle the civil war in Rhodesia seems on the verge of collapsing. The Administration's next move might well be to let the problem languish for a while in the U.N.-to let "the dust settle," says Assistant Secretary of State Richard Moose...
...obvious attempt to reassure his opponents, the palace announced that "it is possible that after the installation of a civil government the Shah may go with his family on his routine annual winter vacation." This was calculated as yet a further concession to skeptics, since the monarch earlier had balked at the suggestion that he take a "temporary absence" from Iran so that order could be restored. The skeptics were not impressed, since there was no way that they could be assured that the Shah would keep his word...
...acoustics of their songs. In "Three Miles Down," a song to politicians about coal-mining, the music has three distinct beats, each one in a lower key than the one played before. "Angel Dust" includes mellow backup vocals, giving the song a light, hallucinatory effect. All of their productions attempt to incorporate the setting into music, a testimony to the genius of their creators. The result is not a sermon or a demand but a subtle yet powerful understatement of what's going down...
...committee's changes attempt to create "a more neutral process," which makes race "only one of several factors," Bell said...
...Oglesby Paul '38, director of admissions at the Medical School and an ad hoc committee member, said yesterday the committee's recommendations do not mark a radical departure from past procedure, but primarily attempt to resolve legal differences between Steiner and the faculty. "These changes aren't anything earth-shaking," he added...