Word: aimed
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...opinions" on these issues. It is not clear, however, how that fact affects the event's legitimacy. A series of angry, polemical arguments presenting extremist views would not, in our opinion, lend itself to the atmosphere of conciliation and compromise that we hoped to create in this conference. Our aim was education through discussion, not point-counterpoint. This does not mean that our speakers are "homogeneous": every MEEP organizational meeting was characterized by heated debate over the choice of speakers, and the ultimate line-up was determined as much by the limited number of Jews and Palestinians available and willing...
...silos, and it refused to appropriate $1 billion for construction of the first MXs until the Administration could come up with a more suitable basing mode. The Pentagon is expected to recommend "Dense Pack," a controversial plan to deploy the missiles in superhardened new silos very close together. The aim is to protect the missiles through "fratricide": an attacking enemy missile would be able to knock out some U.S. missiles, but then the force of its blast would disable the other incoming ICBMs. Dense Pack, known to its detractors as "Dunce Pack," is expected to meet with lots of resistance...
...needed to maintain extensive welfare programs in stagnant economies. In September, Denmark got its first conservative Prime Minister in 81 years, Poul Schlüter, who immediately pushed through an austerity program. Belgium's Christian Democratic Prime Minister Wilfried Martens took office a year ago with the avowed aim of cutting back government spending. In a welter of political confusion, the Dutch are now moving toward a center-right coalition government that is committed to trimming the welfare state. A year ago, Norway formed a minority government under conservative colors, the first in 52 years...
Some U.S. experts believe the real aim of the latest F.D.R. and F.M.L.N. offer was to thwart any attempts toward reconciliation. Still, the rebels appear to realize that talks may be inevitable. To enhance their position in any future negotiations, three weeks ago the guerrillas launched a military offensive in El Salvador's northern and eastern regions. They overran five small towns and hamlets, claimed to have killed 189 members of the Salvadoran armed forces and captured, then released, some 90 "prisoners...
...insists were responsible for defeating Democratic Senators George McGovern of South Dakota, Frank Church of Idaho, Birch Bayh of Indiana and John Culver of Iowa. In the heady aftermath, NCPAC grandly announced that it planned to shoot down 20 more liberal Senators in 1982. But NCPAC's aim has proved less deadly than thought, and its guns are beginning to backfire. NCPAC is now heavily involved in only five Senate races, and its preferred candidates are generally disavowing any connection with the group...