Word: attempting
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...Kurdish leaders ought to be joining hands to secure their independence from an increasingly shaky Saddam, who escaped yet another coup attempt earlier this month. Instead Kurds are killing one another, and northern Iraq and beyond are growing dangerously unstable. Meanwhile, neighboring Turkey, at war with rebellious Kurds in its provinces, was in turmoil last week from rioting by extremist Islamic and nationalist groups. "The area is extremely volatile--all of it," says a worried senior Clinton Administration official. Still more tinder piled up last week after Saddam seized two American civilians who seemed to have accidentally wandered across...
...could not keep their mouths shut about the planning. The week before the coup, even reporters were picking up rumors that it was imminent. "If the press knew about the coup, you could be sure Saddam knew," said a U.S. intelligence analyst. He did. The week before the coup attempt, Saddam put his entire military on full alert. He never set foot in Tikrit. Samaraii, it turns out, had overstated the strings he could pull in Baghdad. "Clearly there was a lot of wishful thinking in this operation," admits Walid al-Tamimi, an Iraqi National Congress member in London...
...Almost nothing that the United States government has revealed about [the] case has been true," Torricelli stated. "At no time did the State Department attempt to relay [information regarding Everado's fate] to the public or Mrs. Harbury...
Well, some people are speculating that Brown is fielding an Olympic-caliber crew this season. And that is a formidable obstacle standing in the way of Harvard's attempt at gaining its first national title since...
Things only heat up in the second half, when Nan's calculated attempt to win the hand and fortune of a local Protestant aristocrat goes awry, starting a chain of events that ultimately jeopardizes Benny and Jack's ralationship. At the same time, the death of Benny's father gives Sean a new opportunity to practice his dastardly deeds, which eventually include voyeurism, embezzling, and (almost) rape. In the end, needless to say, everyone who deserves a partner ends up with one and the evildoers, never really menacing, are dispatched harmlessly...