Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When my vagina couldn't take it anymore, they raped me through my rectum. I calculate that in 5 days they raped me 60 times." Imagine this woman were your mother, your girlfriend, your sister, or you. Would you support the "right" of these men to speak in an attempt not merely to express their opinion, but to gather public support for money to continue these and other equally ghastly actions? How much more carnage and suffering must we watch before drastic tactics are justified? I wonder if Katz were to travel in Nicaragua and talk to the families...
...Nazis came to Harvard 45 years ago to attempt to elicit government funds so as to continue to eliminate the "Jewish threat," I would hope students would not consider this as part of legitimate debate over a public policy issue. But wouldn't this draw public attention to their crimes? Not if the forces allied with them had the resources (political and economic power, media access) to spread lies and distortions which are only disproven days later perhaps on page 28 of the newspaper or in non-mainstream publications. In the meantime, the damage is done and this damage...
...million in military and humanitarian aid for the contras, which had been narrowly rejected in the House the week before. On Thursday evening the Senate approved the aid package by a vote of 53 to 47. While the raid did not alter any Senator's vote, it did quash attempts to expand upon House limits on how and when the money could be used. Although the margin was hardly the bipartisan mandate that Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole said he had hoped for, it was a concrete boost for Reagan in his attempt to gain approval from the House when...
...Crimson will attempt to extend its four-game winning streak Sunday at 2 p.m., when the squad will host St. John's, again at Ohiri Field...
...former executive director of the Economic Support Fund, a subsidiary of the U.S. Agency for International Development, admitted that Marcos may have pumped $1.75 million of that amount into the last election. Other AID officials denied there were any irregularities, although they said Marcos did make an unsuccessful attempt in late 1985 to siphon off foreign assistance...