Word: aiming
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Like Bhindranwale, the radicals are determined to prevent a peaceful settlement. They aim instead to provoke a showdown between Hindus and Sikhs of such intensity that the 14 million Hindus who reside in Punjab would be forced to flee. That, the radicals believe, would inevitably result in the creation of an independent state. As one analyst of Sikh affairs explained last week, "The ghost of Bhindranwale cannot be exorcised." To speed what they hope will be a massive Hindu migration out of Punjab, Sikh terrorists have marked local Hindu leaders for assassination. In recent weeks, three have been gunned down...
...rhetoric with soft sell, but overall his language was tougher than Reagan's. The U.S., he claimed, was "the forward edge of the war menace to mankind." Nevertheless, Gorbachev said his country was ready for a thaw in relations. "From our point of view, detente is not the end aim of politics," he said. "It is needed, but only as a transitional stage from a world cluttered with arms to a reliable and embracing international security system...
...prime American goal, extensively advertised in advance, was to win agreement on starting a new round of talks in early 1986 aimed at liberalizing world trade (prematurely christened the Reagan Round by some admirers of the President). One aim would be to provide the world economy . with a tonic, in the form of speeded-up exchange of goods and services, that it might need to shake off the effects of a slowdown in U.S. industrial expansion. A more political, and more pressing, purpose was to give Free Trader Reagan ammunition to use against protectionists at home who want to limit...
Certain themes have cropped up during all eleven meetings. At every summit, the French have pressed to restrain currency fluctuations, and everybody has implored Japan to open its markets to more imports. The essential aim of summits has been to try to coordinate the domestic policies of the world's major industrial nations so that one nation's targets for trade, inflation or growth are not in conflict with another's. This effort has had mixed and occasionally unforeseen results, most notably in Bonn in 1978, when the seven tried to coordinate their growth targets in a "locomotive" strategy...
...better politician than Ford or Truman, and has had more of an idea of what he wanted to do as President than Ike did. Reagan neatly stood on its head a cherished assumption of most students of the presidency: that vigorous, ebullient presidential leadership would naturally aim at expanding the role of the Federal Government (and the Chief Magistrate), and that any President of contrary outlook would necessarily be a cold, crabbed type or at best likably lazy. Franklin Roosevelt was the exemplar of the bold, joyous activist, Coolidge and Hoover the chill naysayers (so the academic stereotype went...