Word: aimed
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Communists claim to have extracted more than 20 "confessions." Ho Chi Minh still believes that he will win the war by default, and the apparent aim of his prisoners' confessions is to convince the world that U.S. fighting men are sick of the war and guilt-racked over their "criminal" behavior in bombing North Viet...
Though the professed aim of Communism is eventually to do away with all government, such words can hardly please the well-entrenched rulers of the Soviet Union. Even less so, in fact, when they are put in the mouth of none other than Jesus Christ, making his first appearance in Soviet literature in many years. And, to top matters off, the novel containing the passage, The Master and Margarita, was written by Mikhail Bulgakov, who died in disgrace in 1940 and is described by the official Big Soviet Encyclopaedia as a "slanderer of Soviet reality...
...become a mark of the three-year administration of Frei, 56, a former Santiago University law professor. When he swept to a landslide victory over a Marxist candidate in 1964, Frei seemed an ideal choice. An antiCommunist and a knowledgeable friend of the U.S., he professed that his aim was to transform Chile into a modern society without too much turmoil, to conduct what he called "a revolution in liberty...
...arduous years, President Johnson has sought in vain to end the war in Viet Nam, and-with little more success-to convince the world that this is indeed his aim. Abruptly, and to his own surprise, the President last month got an assist from the adversary. By a vituperative rejection of the latest U.S. peace proposal, North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh displayed unmistakably his own hawk's plumage. Last week U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, long a stringent critic of U.S. policy in Viet Nam, was also rudely rebuffed...
...subcultural exponents of acid, pot, Zen, odd sex, no-war and not-much-art. The bohemians bellowed defiance at the Establishment and their rules, paradoxically, were harder to live by than those of the Establishment itself. A republic of art rather than a state of trance was their aim...