Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Herrera faces serious obstacles. For one thing, Noriega is well aware of his rival's moves, and has dismissed him from the military. Noriega has already stifled one overt coup attempt and nipped other plans. He and seven loyalists known as the "Magnificent Seven" constitute a ruthless faction eager to continue profiting from drugs and corruption...
Despite public demands that the trial be turned into an expose of the Brezhnev era, Defense Lawyer Andrei Makarov last week denounced any attempt "to try to judge Brezhnev under Churbanov's name...
This is the first in a series of articles that will attempt to stimulate debate by examining the issues facing the next President, exploring solutions and analyzing how the candidates are dealing with them...
...then there were the poignant sidebars: the little boy crying "Say it ain't so, Joe," as Shoeless Joe Jackson, greatest of the team's several great players, emerged from the grand-jury room one day; the sports-page paragraph that almost annually recounted Buck Weaver's latest pathetic attempt to clear his name (he was not part of the conspiracy but knew about it, failed to report it and was punished with the rest...
...Tall Ones, and the stockier Hutu, the Short Ones. Although the Tusi represent only 15% of the country's population of 5 million, they have long dominated both the government and the military. The Hutu, by contrast, are mostly subsistence farmers. In 1972, after an aborted coup attempt by the Hutu, the Tusi launched a campaign of terror that resulted in an estimated 100,000 Hutu deaths...