Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...permafrost. Alas, few other prophets can speak with the certitude of geologists promising an unfrozen future-as this or any week's news suggests. The Administration claims that Moscow may soon have the capability to devastate the U.S. with a formidable new battery of nuclear missiles. Yet any attempt to counter the Soviet threat (if it is real) would divert scarce funds from urgently needed domestic programs. Of course, the argument goes, social ills may speedily be cured as soon as the Viet Nam war is ended. But when will that...
...Hussein's popularity slips, that of the commandos rises, presenting the King with a tough choice. If he decides to throw in his lot with the commandos, he risks severe retaliation from Israel, and a fourth round of war becomes a distinct possibility. On the other hand, any attempt on his part to crush the fedayeen would almost certainly result in his overthrow. Commando Chief Yasser Arafat has pledged privately not to move against Hussein-but only so long as the fedayeen continue to have freedom of action within Jordan...
...powerful neighbor to the north. In an effort at compromise, Simmons was given to understand that he would "probably" be released if he petitioned for a commutation. Since that might have implied an admission of guilt, he refused. But he had nothing against trying to escape. In 1962, one attempt got him two bullets in the leg. Last week he finally made...
...support the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in its determination to end the academic status of ROTC, and deplore any attempt by the governing board to evade the mandate of the Faculty. Michael W. Bate '58 Robert L. Brandfon GSAS '62 James F. Gilligan '57 Joseph D. Hinkle L'67 Robert H. Johnson '61 Richard J. Levy '58 James A. Sharaf '59 Ralph F. Fuller L'49 John T. Williams '60 Ernest T. Winsor...
...CONCEPT of extemporaneously electing a judicial body to deal with a specific situation--and a highly charged political one at that--is nonsensical. Difficulties are already arising from this attempt to resolve the contradiction between the needs of legal justice and those of political justice. In some of the Houses student candidates are being told that they will not be allowed to run on a platform of amnesty...