Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jean-Bernard Diederich, a photographer working on this week's World story about Haiti's tragic attempt at free elections, had arrived only a few minutes earlier at L'Ecole Nationale Argentine Bellegarde, a Port-au-Prince elementary ) school. What he saw was a polling place turned into a killing ground. Bodies lay everywhere, some riddled by bullets, others hacked to pieces by machetes. A band of 50 Tonton Macoutes, former henchmen of the Duvalier family, had slaughtered almost a score of people as they lined up to vote...
Ironically, what defeated the initiative of Polish Leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski was an electoral provision designed to foil any attempt by opposition forces, however unlikely, to hold a referendum someday on abandoning the Communist system. Under that rule, approval requires a majority not merely of those who actually vote but of everyone eligible to do so. Thus, ( while approximately two-thirds of those who went to the polls voted in favor of both issues on last week's referendum, both were defeated. Only 44% of Poland's 26 million eligible voters responded affirmatively to a question on economic reform...
Brandeis introduced pork and shellfish in one of the university's two dining halls this September in an attempt to "establish an international kitchen facility which will better serve Asian and other ethnic and religious groups' preferential tastes," according to a report by the committee which approved the change...
During the three intervening days, the students will spend most of their time in committee meetings, representing the views of their various countries in an attempt to form resolutions addressing real world problems. The 1950 delegates are divided into 20 committees, ranging in size from 12 to 200 delegates. Each committee debates on two topics and then chooses one on which to write a resolution...
...Crimson netminder faced seven shots--allowing five, saving one, and seeing one deflect off the right post. He also blocked San Diego St.'s third penalty-kick attempt, but Aztec Gerardo Jiminez was given a second attempt when Hall was called for moving too early. Jiminez netted the ball in the upper center on try number...