Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month the Dean of Students' office sent out some 6600 invitations to an outdoor black tie affair on October 11, as partial compensation for holding the bulk of the 350th celebration while undergrads were out of town. I saw it for what it was: a tail-between-the-legs attempt to avoid student criticism and smooth our ruffled feathers. But what the hell, I'm always up for a good party...
...failed assassination attempt represented a dramatically sharp escalation of opposition to Pinochet's repressive regime. Though he is now highly unpopular, even among many conservatives who supported him when he led the military coup that ousted the government of Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens, this was the first attempt to kill the President...
...Communist Party." An armed leftist insurgency emerged in Chile only three years ago. Last month Chilean authorities claimed to have uncovered a huge arms cache that rebels had smuggled into the northern part of the country. A Washington diplomat says the finding of the weapons, together with the assassination attempt, indicates the leftists have decided "to up the ante...
Exiles, though, have become a source of embarrassment to Pinochet. All told, 3,717 Chileans have been banned from their country since 1973, but many of them continue fighting the regime from abroad. In an attempt to draw attention to last week's 13th anniversary of the Pinochet coup, a group of 29 exiles arrived by plane in Santiago from Argentina. They were not permitted to leave the aircraft, and after four hours were flown back to Buenos Aires. Later in the week Pinochet announced that a plan to permit about a third of the exiles to return to Chile...
Administration officials believe the Soviets arrested Daniloff to gain leverage in their attempt to win the release of Gennadiv Zakharov, an employee of the United Nations. American security agents arrested the Soviet physicist and charged him with spying on August...