Word: aimed
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Enormous ideological and moral differences are at the root of the difficulties in relations with the Soviet Union. Nothing will make these differences disappear in the foreseeable future. However, we should aim to develop three types of relations: exchanges and contacts that benefit both sides, arms negotiations, and a high-level dialogue that will enable the participants to explain their intentions and so avoid misunderstandings...
Inspiring a general sense of panic among perceived enemies is a major aim of terrorists. So is attracting attention to a cause. Radical Islamic sects want to spread their revolution, and apparently see the U.S. presence in the Middle East as an obstacle. Thus, killing U.S. Marines in Lebanon had an obvious goal: to drive them out by undermining support at home for their deployment abroad. What an Iranian terrorist would hope to accomplish by hitting a target in the U.S. is less clear; perhaps lashing out at "the Great Satan" would be motive enough...
...about nil, since NATO is standing firm in insisting that the Soviets are the ones who must change their INF posture. Nonetheless, at a meeting in Moscow last week with Finnish Foreign Minister Paavo Väyrynen, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko once again echoed the refrain that the aim of U.S. military policy is to "lord it over other countries," meaning the West Europeans...
...Crimson (23 November) asks "what these people (who protested Weinberger) would do to their opposition if they found themselves in power?" Our aim as socialists is to fight for a better world, where every baby born has a right to live a life free from the murder and destruction perpetrated by Weinberger and his ilk in the service of capitalism. Justice would be served when war criminals like Weinberger are extradited to a liberated zone of EI Salvador to be tried by a jury of his victims! Thomas N. Crean Spartacus Youth League
...press, by its nature, is rarely beloved-nor should that be its aim. Too often it must be the bearer of bad tidings. Since World War II, journalists have covered the turmoil of the civil rights movement, conveyed vivid scenes of domestic protest and battlefield gore during the Viet Nam War, and participated in the collapse of a presidency. Within the past two years, the press chronicled the pain of 10% unemployment. Increasingly, this bad news has been brought by the emotional medium of TV, which can seem rudely intrusive at both ends of its electronic linkage: at the scene...