Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israelis frequently asked Washington to pressure France as well as Italy, another Iraqi nuclear supplier, into reconsidering their deals with Baghdad. The U S. tried but did not succeed. Says a U.S. official: "We thought there were clear grounds to exercise self-restraint. France and Italy disagreed." The two suppliers maintained that Iraq had given sufficient guarantees of its peaceful intentions...
Suppose a small nation with limited technological skills wants to build an atomic bomb. Could it succeed? Yes, most nuclear experts think the answer is yes, especially if the country already possesses a nuclear reactor and the know-how to run it. One of the unhappy facts of the nuclear age is that the same reactors used in peaceful nuclear research and in the production of electricity can also serve as the starting points for fabricating A-bombs...
...days, Arnaldo Forlani had tried to resolve Italy's latest political crisis as if the scandal that caused it could be ignored. Last week he gave up the effort to find enough support among five political parties to succeed himself as the leader of Italy's 41st government in 35 years. Italians thus settled in for a prolonged period of political paralysis brought on by allegations that a 953-member secret Masonic group, the P2 Lodge, included some of the nation's political, military and business elite-and three of Forlani's Cabinet ministers. Police have...
...chosen by President Sandro Pertini as the next candidate for Prime Minister-only the third non-Christian Democrat in 35 years asked to form a government. The first two failed. Despite the esteem in which he is held, he was not given a much better chance to succeed than Forlani. Whatever the outcome, though, the new mandate virtually guaranteed that the crisis would drag on, as repercussions from the Masonic affair shake the nation's Establishment...
...same time, the Chief Justice asked that "a national academy of corrections" be created to help train prison personnel "for the sensitive role they should perform." Burger admitted that his proposals might not, in the end, really succeed in helping more released prisoners go straight, but, he pleaded, "we must try." Burger's proposals clash with the experience of most penal officials, who have virtually abandoned rehabilitation as a practical possibility in prisons...