Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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International economic boycotts rarely work, but few have fared worse than the boycott of South Africa by Russia and 17 African, Asian and West Indian countries. This week the United Nations' Special Committee on Apartheid will will begin a two-week meeting with the aim of persuading more nations to bar trade with South Africa. The world, says Committee Chairman Diallo Telli of Guinea, faces a choice between "violence on the one hand, economic sanctions on the other" - a threat that black South Africans will ultimately revolt unless economic pressures force the government to change its ways...
...couldn't get neutralization even if it wanted it. It would first have to improve the military situation. This means, in effect, urging the South Vietnamese, not to mention the American "advisers," to fight and die with only an uncertain neutrality as the declared prize-a dubious war aim, to say the least. On balance, the State Department and Pentagon are convinced that any agreement to neutralize Southeast Asia, even if one would be concluded, could not be enforced. It would be, in Dean Rusk's words, "a formula for surrender"-merely a cover for Red infiltration...
Died. John Finley Williamson, 76, founder of the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., whose aim was to restore to choral music the prestige it enjoyed in the days of Palestrina and Bach, over 40 years built one of the most highly respected choirs in the U.S., saw his students create carbon-copy "Westminster Choirs" in such faraway lands as Japan and India; of a heart attack; in Toledo...
...Abbey wedding with the boss's daughter (Millicent Martin), he hires an aging, aristocratic wastrel (Denholm Elliott) to guide him through a whirlwind curriculum of fashionable prejudices. "Say 'bloody' a lot," counsels Elliott. "Know a few dirty jokes about the Caesars." When tutor and pupil take aim at the Establishment in a series of daft vignettes-playing squash, touring Cambridge, or off on a jolly shoot-Nothing but the Best looks and sounds like superlative satire...
...Against Americans. During the Napoleonic Wars, when both Britain and France were stopping U.S. ships and seizing their cargo, Jefferson clamped an embargo on all foreign trade. His aim was to keep the U.S. from being dragged into war, but he succeeded only in paralyzing the U.S. economy...