Word: aims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...global Sino-Soviet competition that has gained new impetus and urgency because of the firefights on the Ussuri River border. Though the Soviets claim they have evacuated the disputed island in the Ussuri and have called for a negotiated settlement of the issue, the competition continues. The immediate aim of both sides is to recruit supporters for the world meeting of Communist parties, now scheduled for June 5 in Moscow. The long-range objective is to gain a strong foothold in the adversary's own backyard...
...office. Around the conference table in Paris, Nixon's new negotiating team, led by Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, gives every impression of men still awaiting their instructions. The Communists fight on too, drawing fresh U.S. headlines daily through the fourth week of their post-Tet 1969 offensive. The blunt aim of their attacks seems to be to kill...
...business of running the government, Thieu has also had to start with the most basic object?survival. Among the top aims of the 1968 Tet offensive, after all, was the overthrow of the U.S. "puppet" government in Saigon. The Communists made no headway whatever in provoking civil disorder, and that aim was notably absent in the current offensive. But because of that presumed vulnerability, Thieu has spent more than a little effort in simply assuring the nation that he is alive and well in Saigon...
Almost at once China put its border clash with Russia to use in a new domestic propaganda campaign. The aim is "to convert the workers' indignation at the Soviet revisionist armed provocation into revolutionary energy," as the official New China News Agency put it. According to the agency, miners promised to "produce more top-quality coal, so as to burn the Soviet revisionists, a paper tiger, into ashes." Workers at the Anshan Iron and Steel Company were reported so angry at the Russians that they opened a new furnace ahead of schedule...
...problem is still inflation-a fact that was underscored last week by a Government survey predicting an increase in capital spending of nearly 14% in 1969, compared with only a 4% gain last year. To fight inflation, the Nixon Administration intends to extend the surtax, keep money tight and aim for a slight budget surplus-much the same policies that Lyndon Johnson pursued in his last days as President. Nixon will undoubtedly try to dispel the common belief that Republicans are irrevocably probusiness, especially since his overriding domestic goal is to "bring together" a nation that is already rent...