Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ButGorbachev, for all its misdirected stabs at historical perspective, is a rather embarrassing attempt to fashion significance and the ever-crucial Historical Trend out of a series of newspaper headline and some superficial research...
Since Stalin, only Khruschey gave any hint that he could attempt: o back way from Stalinism's monomanic pursuit of the ultimate, indestructible state. Brezhnes firmly dedicated himself to the status quo, and one doubts that Andropov and Chernenko were ever more than a bad artist's conception. of the Soviet state and his brutal, but failed, attempt to impose socialism by force...
Although Brown encourages a good student faculty dialogue regarding the quality of professors and administrators, this award is the first attempt to analyze the quality of educators at other schools, said Andrew Moses '85, who ran the balloting...
...particular ideological motive. Agca claims that Celik was in Sofia, Bulgaria, when the plot to kill the Pope was hatched during July and August of 1980. Italian court documents allege that Celik "actively cooperated in the crucial stages of the planning, final agreement and execution of the attempt on the Pontiff." It was Celik, according to Agca, who purchased four Browning 9-mm automatic pistols in Vienna, including the one Agca was to use to shoot the Pope. Since the attempt on Pope John Paul's life, Celik has been variously reported to be dead, secluded in Bulgaria or prospering...
...Turkish Ambassador Coskun Kirca leaped from a second-story window, breaking an arm and a leg and cracking his pelvis. He lay briefly in the line of fire until a police officer could drag him to safety. Finally, police persuaded the three men to surrender. The attack was an attempt to force Turkey to acknowledge responsibility for the 1915 massacre of an estimated 1 million of its Armenian minority. Said an Armenian community leader in Toronto: "The 1915 genocide has been ignored by the whole world. The Armenian cause is a forgotten cause...