Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Delhi, an Indian spokesman hailed the battle of Kasur as one of the most decisive victories of the war. The column advancing on Kasur had been the southernmost of four columns whose aim seemed to be to encircle and capture Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city. The Indians now claim that all four drives were decoys. Each column advanced only a few miles into Pakistani territory and then dug in: infantry in the front line, tanks huddled beneath trees and behind houses in the second, and in the third, artillery massed beneath camouflage netting. The Indians reasoned that Pakistan...
...Trouble could break out again, for the rebels demand more aid and more jobs as well as autonomous statehood for the lightly populated areas they occupy. But pointing to dozens of government posts recently handed to the montagnards, Ky for the moment had damped the smoldering discontent. His ultimate aim: to use the breathing space to bring all the montagnards back into the front line against the Viet Cong...
...renewal, to be achieved, much like L.B.J.'s dream of the Great Society, by consensus?a goal that can easily thwarted by compromise or by inaction where no reconciliation is possible A man genuinely humble in person, he is eager to preserve the prestige of his office?an aim that sometimes leads urn to empty or overly ambitious gestures. Within the past two weeks, the Pauline manner has been dramatically visible in three major acts of his pontificate: the announcement of his trip to the U.N.; the issuance, just prior to the opening of the council, of his encyclical...
...have been demanding an end to the limp management and wasteful labor practices that make the British economy creak. Results to date: roughly zero. Last week the Labor government released its long-expected five-year economic plan, which was designed to give British industry and labor a goal to aim at-and a bit of a kick in that direction. Drawn up by Economics Minister George Brown and in preparation for eleven months, the 494-page plan marshals impressive statistics, recites almost every known flaw in the industrial machine and insists that Britain speed up the growth of its economy...
Imperialists? Communists? Israelis? Not at all. Behind the whole thing was Egypt's powerful Moslem Brotherhood, an organization of religious fanatics who want to ban such modern immoralities as pictures of the human form, return to the laws of the Koran. Their aim: to set up a sort of Prophet's Republic, whose President would be declared caliph of the Moslem world...