Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used "force and violence" to stay out of uniform. More important, he did not forgive the 4,500 deserters still at large, or the 88,700 who received less than honorable discharges for deserting or going AWOL. He simply asked the Pentagon to review their cases with the aim of possibly upgrading some discharges. Finally, Carter promised to begin another study of the estimated 173,000 undesirable discharges that had been dispensed during the Viet Nam years. Pentagon critics claim that many men received such discharges for conduct that really stemmed from their opposition...
...with the complaint that he was never granted sufficient power, ambitious and driving Jacques ("Bulldozer") Chirac, 44, has been gunning for President Valèry Giscard d'Estaing. At a massive, brilliantly orchestrated political rally last month, Chirac took personal command of the Gaullist party with the clear aim of replacing Giscard as leader of the government's parliamentary majority (TIME, Dec. 20). For a while Giscard loftily dismissed the ruckus as mere subaltern political maneuvering. But last week Chirac flung down a challenge to the President's authority and prestige that could not be ignored...
Bell and his defenders insisted that he had, in fact, been a "moderate" on integration matters in the years when such a role was unpopular in the South. His aim in advising Vandiver, he said, was to keep the public schools open, rather than abandoned ("Open on a segregated basis," scoffed the N.A.A.C.P.'S Clarence Mitchell). Bell won a resounding endorsement as being professionally qualified from former Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. Some Southern blacks also came to his defense...
...Toronto Star, says he and Murdoch both want "to turn the Post into a dynamic paper and get the town buzzing, to liven up the New York scene." Bolwell plans to emphasize hard news and breaking stories, to cover the arts, business and sports more fully, and aim the Post at "the entire middle class." Despite Murdoch's reputation for turning some of his papers into scandal sheets, Bolwell insists there is no such plan for the Post. Says he: "Rupert knows that schlock rags are not my bag. If he had wanted to turn the Post into...
...judgment not on new evidence but on an analysis of the biology experiments conducted by the Viking landers. The gas exchange test, based on the fact that terrestrial organisms give off gases as waste products, involved dropping a pinch of Martian soil into a warm, moist test chamber. The aim was to determine whether the sample would give off carbon dioxide, as animals would, or oxygen, as plants do. Scientists were surprised when the sample began releasing oxygen far more rapidly than plants would be expected to do. But they noted that the reaction might have a purely chemical, rather...