Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the first attempt to secure Poppe's entrance into the United States failed, Parsons asked Edward Mason, a member of the Russian Research Center's executive committee, to seek help from State Department official George F. Kennan...
...plot is simple. Booze is forbidden, boobs are not. Action turns on the antics of three main groups--bar-goers, cops and mobsters. The only beer joint in town not run by the mob--Cafe Ole--offers stripteasers to serve up the mixers. The plot centers around an attempt to save the bar, first from getting busted by the Federal Bureau of Prohibition and then from a "hostile takeover...
...Crimson, which defeated Princeton to clinch the Ivy title for the third straight year, faltered in its attempt to finish out the season undefeated in league play, falling to Dartmouth, 5-1, last night at Bright Center in front of 150 spectators...
...effort to patch together a political future for the Moscow-backed regime of Afghan President Najibullah, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze made a quick trip to Islamabad, where he conferred with Pakistan's leaders. But this attempt to cloak the embarrassed retreat with some diplomatic fig leaves failed, surprising few Soviet citizens, who have long since made up their minds about the misdirected war effort. "It was a noble cause," said a returning soldier last week, "and a mistake." Moscow's task will be to resurrect dignity from the rubble of a bitter defeat that cost 15,000 Soviet lives...
Outside, carnival celebrations were reaching their climax. But inside a Sao Paulo municipal lockup, policemen were exacting savage revenge for a failed ! escape attempt. They stripped naked 51 prisoners, allegedly beat them, then crushed them into an unventilated 5-ft. by 10-ft. cell. Whether the prisoners were locked in for 70 minutes or four hours remains a matter of dispute. What is not is that when the door was opened, nine were dead of suffocation and another nine died shortly after being rushed to the hospital...