Word: aimed
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...will not emphasize any one argument or take a partisan point of view," Samuel P. Huntington, Dillon Professor of International Affairs and one of the authors, said in July. "Our aim is to provide an intelligent framework for this very important debate...
Although blacks have little faith in Botha's avowed aim of softening the face of apartheid, the biggest threat to his plan comes from the Conservative Party, which was formed last March when 16 members of Parliament defected from the National Party. Led by Dr. Andries Treurnicht, 61, an ordained minister, the Conservatives have attacked Botha's plan as being too radical and accused him of leading South Africa toward "total integration." As Treurnicht said to his supporters at a Pietersburg rally, "The Prime Minister's stance has aroused the tiger in many Afrikaners, and the heartbeat...
...March, "is not to prosecute or to incarcerate, but to get them to register." Barry Lynn, the antiregistration president of Draft Action, maintains that the Government's goal "is really to silence religious and political dissenters against conscription, a tactic used in the Soviet Union routinely." Whatever the aim, the first targets were 160 men who, like Eller, wrote the Government to announce their refusal to register or who were turned in by disapproving neighbors. The Justice Department decided to move against the 70 on the list who were "most adamant" about not complying. By last week, five...
...Americans, not just those who can afford to buy and develop them. As a position paper prepared by the Wilderness Society puts it: "American history has demonstrated that the public is not well served, in the long run, by turning over commodity lands to private interests. The aim of business is short-run profits, not long-run preservation?and experience has shown that conservation of resources is critical to sustaining a high standard of living?or living...
...musters enough seats to help make up the difference and put the Socialists into office, it could ward off a growing challenge from a right-wing coalition led by Popular Alliance Leader Manuel Fraga Iribarne, a onetime minister under Francisco Franco. That, apparently, is Suárez's aim. "The possibility of coalitions is a matter to be reckoned with after elections," the former Prime Minister said last week. "The Socialist Party knows that it can count on our support and our respect if they...