Word: aimed
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...petroleum industries of both countries, and particularly Iraq, are quite vulnerable. After its attack on Iran's Kharg Island faculties last week, Iraq reportedly warned Japan that its tankers should stop using the island. If Iran decides to retaliate in kind, it would probably aim first at the Iraq-Turkey pipeline, the only export route now available for Iraqi oil, and at the scattered fields to the west of Basra. A determined Iran could take Iraq out of the oil business for as long as two years. But even if warfare should paralyze the oil industries of Iran, Iraq...
Despite the ceasefire, the P.L.O. continued to stage raids behind Israeli lines. Five Israeli soldiers were wounded in the hills east of Beirut when their patrol was ambushed at night. The aim of such small-scale operations, as a P.L.O. commander put it, is "to keep up a war of attrition that the Israelis will not be able to tolerate for long." But Israeli anti-terror squads were confident that they could wipe out the guerrilla threat with mopping-up operations in the low-lying hills between Tyre and Damur. According to Israeli intelligence officials, the area is "far from...
Lighting is the vital element in main-taming the illusion. Full-time Technical Director Carl Callaway, who has spent 38 of his 48 years working on the pageant, has mastered the art of creating an impression of flatness, the opposite of most canvas artists' aim. A brawny, cigar-chomping character who doubles as carpenter, electrician, painter and engineer, Callaway faces the major problem of lighting a show that is held after dark in a variety of weather conditions...
...economy was in a "state of collapse without precedent." Radical therapy was needed. In a televised 18-min. speech, Dagnino Pastore announced last week what amounted to a 180° turnaround in economic policies. Argentina will move away from the liberal, free-market approach that has been an aim of the country's military government since it took power in 1976 and back toward the kind of protectionism that has been characteristic since World...
...idea is to seek broad appeal, not to write for the scholar or the government official," said Huntington "We will not emphasize any one argument or take a partisan point of view Our aim is to provide an intelligent framework for this very important debate...