Word: aime
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Desmond Tutu, the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has traveled the world denouncing apartheid, South Africa's system of official discrimination against blacks. But last week the black clergyman took aim at a different target: human rights abuses in black-ruled African countries. "It is sad that South Africa is noted for its vicious violations of human rights," Tutu told a Nairobi press conference at a meeting of the All Africa Conference of Churches. "But it is also very sad to note that there is less freedom in some independent African countries than there was in the much maligned colonial...
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...treaty by the Senate, they require the President to renegotiate certain provisions. Although Reagan is expected to have little trouble getting the two-thirds majority needed to ratify the INF accord, such likely opponents of the treaty as North Carolina's Jesse Helms and Wyoming's Malcolm Wallop may aim to scuttle it by mustering a majority in favor of amendments that sound reasonable but would prove lethal...
Organizers said the conference, funded by a $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), will aim to apply to contemporary intellectual debate the wide-ranging thought of chemist, philosopher and mathematician Charles S. Peirce...
...Just in time for next year's Olympic games, 50 will be retooled as javelins for Soviet track and field teams. New world records are expected, though measuring distances may be tough. The Russians have already provided assurances that throwers will aim for untraveled areas in the Pacific Ocean...