Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets evidently agree. They have kept two small task forces, including warships, steaming off the Viet Nam coast, with the apparent aim of monitoring Chinese military communications as well as showing Soviet support for Hanoi. The U.S., for its part, has kept two Seventh Fleet aircraft carriers, the Constellation and the Midway, poised near by to discourage any rash action...
China's aim in keeping the border hostilities hot is fairly obvious: to try to draw some Vietnamese forces out of Cambodia and thus help Pol Pot's resistance effort. The Chinese also want to restore their dented image as a power to be reckoned with...
...Bluestone is a Vice-President of the International United Auto Workers union [UAW] and director of the UAW General Motors [GM] Department. He has played a leading role in the introduction of Quality of Work Life Programs [QWL] in GM plants. A form of industrial democracy, these programs aim to give workers greater control over decisions concerning the work process on the shop-floor. UAW's programs represent the first effort by a major union to introduce some measure of shop-floor democracy on a large scale in the United States...
...Women's College Conference focused on a constructive exchange of experiences and ideas on topics of special concern ot women in college. Both the conference and R.U.S. aim to promote the interests of women, not denigrate the interests of men. Noreen F. Ferrante '80 Treasurer, Radcliffe Union of Students
Reassuring the Soviets of U.S. even-handedness has been an aim of the Administration since its recognition of Peking. Promised Carter two weeks ago: "We will be cautious in not trying to have an unbalanced relationship [with] China and the Soviet Union." But his willingness to let Teng denounce the Soviets on U.S. soil and the use of the buzzword hegemony will now make that balancing act more difficult. Just how much was a subject of disagreement. A White House aide insisted that Carter believes there will be no effect on U.S.-Soviet relations...