Word: aime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shortly after the split between Hussein and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat, who had failed in their efforts to pursue a joint peace strategy. The collapse of that coalition has deepened the existing political divisions among the 1.3 million Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Declaring that his aim is to "revive the Palestinian economy," the King announced several weeks ago a contribution of $34 million toward a $l billion, five-year development plan for the West Bank. Among the goals are a rebuilding of factories, schools and other basic services...
...hottest item of the season. Getting right down to bang-bang-you're-dead business, younger ones like to charge with StarLytes blazing, making the StarSensor glow and sound every time a hit is scored. Bigger kids (including daddies) prefer to lurk and prowl, hide and take careful aim. Either way, Lazer Tag is a more elegant way of working out aggression than the Rambo toys, and it sure is sleeker than G.I. Joe. It is the kind of game that could turn into a phenomenon. Keep your head down, and, oh, yes, more of those batteries at hand...
...DESTRUCTION OF NATIVE CULTURES has often been the aim of colonizing powers. It is doubtful whether it has ever happened on such a massive scale as in today's Afghanistan...
Indeed, doubts persist about how genuine Jaruzelski's conciliatory gestures really are. Shortly after the September amnesty, Solidarity leaders gathered in Gdansk, the birthplace of the movement,to announce the formation of a Temporary Council of Solidarity. The organization's stated aim: to propose ways of cooperating with the regime in improving the economy and advancing political freedoms. Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban denounced the organization as "yet another illegal body." In the new era of openness, Warsaw clearly does not intend to share power with anyone, particularly if his name is Walesa...
...last week's demonstrations recalled the heady days of May 1968, when hundreds of thousands of radicalized French students took to the streets to protest a wide range of university and government policies. But the new generation of student demonstrators had more modest goals and more orderly manners. Their aim: to defeat an educational-reform bill that would tighten admissions standards and raise tuition fees...