Word: aims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...block of rock from the Louvre in place as the cornerstone for the new $2.4 million Marc Chagall Memorial Museum in Nice. Beside him beamed Chagall. Then out of the crowd leaped a mustachioed, bald-headed fellow crying "A has Chagalir Splat! With unerring aim he squirted Malraux in the face with a syringe full of red paint. Cat-quick, Malraux grabbed the weapon and squirted the squirter back. "There are cranks everywhere," he shrugged as the flics took custody of the offender, a Riviera artist named Pierre Pinoncelli. "I don't intend to press charges," said Malraux...
Defenders of the Bail Reform Act point out that money bail has always been unfair to the poor. The original aim of bail was only to assure that a man would show up for his trial, and although the Constitution forbids excessive bail, judges commonly set high figures for many crimes. The result is a form of preventive detention for the poor man who does not have the cash or credit to pay. Pretrial jailing not only punishes a man who may be innocent, but effectively prevents him from working to pay for his defense. Moreover, studies have shown that...
...this basic aim there could be no compromise with the politicians and intellectuals in Mexico City. Even alliances with other guerrilla generals had to be entered into with a measure of mistrust. This is particularly true of Zapata's relations with Villa, whose army of drifters, muleskinners, railroad laborers and bandits were "more a force of nature than of politics." Like Zapatismo, Villismo was a populist movement. But unlike Zapata's farmers, Villa's hordes had few fixed aims...
...meeting last night, SDS decided to issue a leaflet stating that "students should demand that the course be cancelled." The aim of the course in SDS's words, is 'how to study to defeat the masses of black people who are fighting against their oppressors...
...inch of progress is an accurate measure of what the Vatican has tried to accomplish in other areas of Eastern Europe. It is the sort of modus vivendi that has been the aim of Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, a veteran church dip omat, who over the past few years has been in charge of negotiations with the Communists. Not all of Casaroli's Vatican colleagues feel that his pursuit of compromise has won more than it has given away, though there is little question that liberalization in Czechoslovakia and recognition in Hungary have improved Catholic status...