Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vera and Torre attempt to secure Lopito's release, but they realize only too late that they are helpless in the government's insidious tangle of lies and deception. Although he is too weak to move, the police force Lopito to push a heavy cement roller across a basketball court, but he collapses and dies. Torre witnesses the entire scene, but even though she calls in her cousin, who is Freddy Fox, she and Vera are too late. Even Fox is powerless in the face of the cackling doctor, who signs Lopito's death certificate saying he died...
Ever the land of intrigue, Haiti is rife with theories about what happened and why. Many believe that Manigat, eager to assert his own authority over the army, simply moved too fast in his attempt to shake up the military's high command. Others assert that the initiative came from army commanders made uneasy by Manigat's campaign to stamp out corruption and contraband, a major source of income for many military men. According to this theory, Namphy was merely a pawn, forced into action by his own men. Others point to a Machiavellian third possibility: that the coup...
...past, the P.R.I. has not had to worry much about opposition, and Mexico's immediate future depends on how it meets the challenge. The first test will be how fair the election is perceived to be. Salinas, 40, in an apparent attempt to dampen the energies of zealous party stalwarts accustomed to ballot rigging, has called for an accurate count. If that plea is heeded, most analysts believe, Salinas will capture about 50% of the vote; in 1982 President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado received 71%. P.A.N., which collected 16% in 1982, is expected to increase its share to more...
...statement was distributed in early June at the Arab summit in Algiers but was not widely discussed until it was published last week in the Arab press. "The means by which the Israelis want to achieve lasting peace and security is direct talks, with no attempt by any outside party to impose or veto a settlement," wrote Abu Sharif. "The Palestinians agree." The P.L.O. plea went on to give a qualified endorsement to United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338, which recognize Israel's right to exist within secure borders, and to state explicitly, perhaps for the first time, that...
...members' outside income specifically exclude book royalties, and a rule against accepting speaking or writing fees "in excess of the usual and customary value for such services" may not apply to book writing. But at best this is a technical defense for what seems an obvious and unwarranted attempt to evade House rules regulating members' outside income. In any case, simply avoiding the commission of an indictable offense is no qualification for either Speaker of the House or Attorney General: Wright and Meese are alike in failing to live up to the standards their important offices should entail...