Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faction in Angola to win out in a three-way civil war. Last week it appeared likely that a band of soldiers, with the blessing of the Angolans and the Cubans, was on the brink of a sudden new victory in Zaïre (formerly the Congo). Their apparent aim: the republic's copper-mining region, one of the treasures of Africa...
...result of last week's unusual defeat for the government. The subject was the annual White Paper on public expenditure. During the debate, the Tories charged that the projected 1% cut in government outlays was too little, too late-an argument that masked Thatcher's aim of forcing elections now, while the Tories are 16 points ahead of Labor in opinion polls. Liberal M.P.s also raised questions. Translation: Liberal Party Leader David Steel wants a larger voice in government decisions for his 13-member delegation. Scottish and Welsh Nationalists, annoyed by Labor's fumble last month...
After that, it is the Communists' turn. They are represented by a husband-wife team of rich dilettantes, whose aim is to turn the widow into a proletarian heroine. Their sheer companionship is helpful, especially since Frau Kusters' son and his pregnant wife flee to Finland to avoid the scandal, while her daughter uses all the sudden notoriety to try to further her tacky career as a cabaret artiste. But the party is not really interested in clearing the Kusters name, just in exploiting it as propaganda. Finally, Mother Kusters goes off with a building janitor, who offers...
...council's 14-man executive committee, was planning to try to convince his deeply divided followers that it is necessary to 1) participate in a Geneva Conference, 2) come to terms with Jordan's King Hussein, and 3) moderate, if not abandon the P.L.O.'s avowed aim of establishing a "secular democratic" state in all of Israel rather than merely on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip...
...Asian Americans, The Committee for Women's Studies, The Committee Against Racism, and the Task Force on Affirmative Action) presented statements of solidarity--but this was not mentioned anywhere in the Crimson article. This omission was critical enough, we feel, to have undermined our entire effort by misrepresenting our aim to The Crimson's wide readership...