Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lined-up on the basketball court of the Malkin Athletic Center, stretching their arms and legs, they obviously were not ballet dancers. Grace had been replaced by a fumbling attempt at balance. Their bodies, used to high speeds and pounding, now were required to move serenely in an effort to get loose...
...where will all the flowers go? Possibly to the graveyards of the economic reforms. The record of the anti-rightist campaign as well as the experience of the attempt to limit the spread of Western and "bourgeois" ideas, the drive against "spiritual pollution" only three years ago, indicates that such movements inevitably spill over into the economic sphere...
...Greenpeace scandal, General Rene Imbot, a square-jawed French army officer who had just been appointed chief of the Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure, France's overseas intelligence agency, went on television with a startling pronouncement. "To my profound stupefaction," he said, "I have discovered a malignant attempt to destabilize our secret services, I would say even, to destroy our secret services!" Asked to clarify this, Imbot replied, "I won't say any more about it. I am chief of the secret services...
...factors and issues involved in deciding a presidential election notwithstanding, voters ultimately tend to select the individual whose character and ideals they think are most suited to the challenges of the job. This is the first in a series of occasional TIME profiles that will attempt to give a sense of the personal characteristics and individual outlooks of the major potential 1988 contenders...
Auque is one of five Frenchmen and eleven other foreigners, including five Americans, now being held in Lebanon. The kidnaping underscored the frustration inherent in any attempt to gain freedom for those in the hands of terrorists. Informed of Auque's capture, Waite appeared stunned and said, "I am very, very sorry to hear that." He vowed, however, to continue his efforts to free kidnap victims...