Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Takeover Artist Carl Icahn, the raiding game is like eating Chinese food. As soon as he finishes munching on one company, he craves another one. Only three days after making more than $16 million in a foiled attempt to take over Uniroyal, the Connecticut-based tiremaker, Icahn disclosed that his next target will be Trans World Airlines (1984 sales: $3.7 billion). Icahn said that he and a group of partners have spent about $95 million to buy 20.5% of the airline's 32.9 million outstanding shares...
Even if authorities manage to stave off a backlash, the terrorist strikes were a severe setback for the youthful Prime Minister. Since he led his Congress (I) Party to an overwhelming victory in last December's parliamentary elections, Gandhi has made significant concessions in an attempt to bring Sikh political leaders to the negotiating table. He released Sikh leaders who had been held in detention since the army assault on the Golden Temple, ordered an independent inquiry into the massacres that followed his mother's death, and lifted a ban on the All-India Sikh Students' Federation, the most radical...
...Sikh state before he died in the army attack on the Golden Temple, suddenly announced the formation of a nine-member ad hoc committee to run Sikh affairs. Joginder Singh's selection of a number of extremists as members of the new group indicated that the action was an attempt to supersede more moderate leadership of the movement...
...annual occasion when Japanese visitors are invited to tour the base and view displays of planes, weapons and vehicles. Among the crowd-pulling exhibits were two Sikorsky CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopters, the Marines' workhorse troop carrier. The two choppers, similar to those used in the ill-fated attempt to rescue U.S. hostages in Iran in April 1980, had flown in for the event from their base in Okinawa. When the display ended, they left for home...
...night last week, they did not buy his story that he had fallen overboard while fishing. A little after 1 a.m., a Coast Guard helicopter had spotted a speedboat running without lights toward Miami. As the craft was pursued across Biscayne Bay, three men jumped overboard in an attempt to escape. Soto is believed to be one of them. The cargo on board: 1,909 lbs. of nearly pure cocaine. With a street value of $575 million, it was the largest coke seizure by the Coast Guard to date...