Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rudd wants, let's call it, a revolution. His activities--stopping registration, holding buildings as ransom for six demands--have been an attempt to influence decisions students normally couldn't change and building strength for an even greater power in decisions. But how what the revolutionaries are doing at Columbia ties into what they hope is a world revolution Rudd can't tell...
...Brutal Showdown. Recently, dissenters in Russia have sounded the alarm that a return to mass terror is at hand. So far, however, the leaders have confined themselves to selective terror in an attempt to silence the most outspoken writers and intellectuals and to curb their influence on public opinion. Still, the regime finds itself in an impossible dilemma. Without a return to mass police terror, new voices will be raised in dissent as soon as others are stilled. But the regime knows too that the cost of restoring Stalin's terror would be incalculably high. It would reverse the effect...
...magic, are perhaps the prime movers behind the phenomenon. Not only do they sport beads and amulets that have supposed magical powers; they also believe firmly and frighteningly in witchcraft. Some of the hippie mysticism is a calculated put-on-as when Abbie Hoffman and his crew attempted to levitate the Pentagon last October-but much of the new concern with the arcane is a genuine attempt to find enrichment for arid lives...
...Lovell predicted, Jodrell Bank's great telescope tracked the craft back to within 50,000 miles of the earth; then it was lost below the horizon. When Zond failed to reappear over the opposite horizon, Lovell announced that the Russians had probably brought it down in a recovery attempt. Then, after hours of silence that led many scientists to believe that the spacecraft had not survived its plunge into the earth's atmosphere, Moscow made a dramatic announcement: Zond had splashed down "in a pre-set area of the Indian Ocean," its scientific mission ''fully carried...
Anderson quoted the intelligence report as saying: "Plans made for second disruption at Columbia University when school opens for Fall term. Students reportedly will not negotiate with university officials but attempt to shut down school operations...