Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bade farewell to his Senate years at a party in Washington last week and took steps toward two possible new careers. On the political track, the Colorado Democrat launched an exploratory committee for his 1988 presidential campaign. This week bookstores will begin stocking copies of Hart's first solo attempt at fiction, The Strategies of Zeus, an arms-control thriller. The book features a Vice President who manipulates his doddering Commander in Chief into secretly launching a killer satellite. The hero is a Montana-born arms negotiator who exudes an "aura of separateness (that) made him seem . . . strong but elusive...
...Jordan's King * Hussein. Said one senior official in Jerusalem: "The P.L.O. feels frustrated that it is not succeeding. It has been thrown to the wolves by Hussein, and it's afraid of seeing its grip lessened in the West Bank. After all, there has been a major attempt by Hussein to restore his own influence in the territory...
...revolutionary onslaught," which was sweeping the country, amounted to a "coordinated attempt to overthrow the government." With that piece of hyperbole by an information official, South Africa last week imposed one of the most draconian censorship policies in the non-Communist world. Only six months after it had decreed a harsh emergency rule in an effort to quell rising racial unrest, the government of State President P.W. Botha now sought to shroud the country's apartheid-torn society in a veil of secrecy and intimidation. Though the move was aimed principally at curtailing the domestic and foreign press, its overall...
Pages, many too many pages, have been spent analyzing and debating the similarities and differences between this latest fiasco and Watergate. Some argue breaking the law in the already dirty world of partisan politics pales in comparison with an attempt to conduct foreign policy illegally. Others argue that the more directly the President is involved, the more serious the scandal, and in that way Watergate is by far worse...
...only evidence whites have of the increasing level of violence and desperation in their country are the bombings that have become more frequent in recent months precisely because resistance groups have found no other way to influence the white population. If the South African government is successful in its attempt to build a wall around the revolution in its midst, it will have also dug the grave of that country's white minority. When the violence finally bursts through that wall, the government will no longer be the only group unwilling to compromise...