Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gary Bosnic had a 30-yd. FG attempt blocked by Penn's Kevin Weir at 2:57. Key plays setting up the attempt had been a 34-yd. Rich Horner punt return and an 11-yd. Brown keeper...
...generally excellent article on Hispanics in America [Oct. 16] was marred by an error that I must attempt to correct or my family would never forgive me. You have wronged my grandfather, who was not an illegal alien as you stated. He came to the U.S. legally in 1880, and settled in Brownsville, Texas, where he became a citizen of the state and the nation under the laws then in effect...
...teams of his own toward Danbury. Federal officials learned about them from wiretaps that revealed talk among mobsters about the contract on Galante. Belatedly, Morris Kuznesof, chief federal probation officer in Manhattan, wrote Danbury Warden Raymond Nelson that he had received information "from a highly reliable source that an attempt to murder Mr. Galante will be made at your institution." Nelson slapped Galante into solitary confinement "for his own protection." But Lillo apparently prefers to rely on his own security arrangements, without the feds' help. Contending the plots to kill him were fictitious and that the Government was trying...
...several years. After Amin seized power in a 1971 military coup, Nyerere offered sanctuary to ousted President Milton Obote, who still lives in an ocean-front home in Dar es Salaam. Obote was soon joined by 20,000 refugees who had fled the Ugandan tyrant's bloodthirsty attempts to wipe out all opposition. A year later, the exiles staged a poorly organized coup attempt against Amin, who has never forgiven Nyerere for backing his enemies. In one sneering telegram, Amin told the Tanzanian President, "I love you very much, and if you had been a woman, I would have...
...troops ambushed Amin at the presidential lodge in Kampala, but he escaped with his family in a helicopter. Efforts by loyalist troops to smash the rebellion, which had its strongest support in southern Uganda, spilled over into Tanzania, where anti-Amin exiles joined the fighting. Big Daddy's attempt to disguise the true nature of these clashes, and to divert attention from Uganda's domestic troubles, led to his false charges of a Tanzanian invasion. Amin apparently decided that since his soldiers were already in Tanzania, they might as well try to claim the triangle of land north...