Word: aims
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...fields of security and foreign affairs, Nixon was moving to make good his aim of restoring the National Security Council as the prime policymaking body. His first important post-Inauguration meeting was with the N.S.C. and its principal advisers: Presidential Assistant Henry Kissinger, General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Richard Helms, who is being retained as director of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...Israel is concerned, and would like to work out solutions at the conference table if Israel and their own people would permit. Others are militants and see no answer but the gun and the grenade. Israel's attack pulled the rug from under the moderates, whom they should aim to strengthen, and added tremendously to the backing of the militants...
...wake of the latest flare-up in the Middle East, occasioned by the Arab terrorist attack on an El Al plane in Athens and Israel's reprisal raid on Beirut airport, the Soviet Union last week stepped up its latest diplomatic offensive. Its aim: a four-power agreement among the U.S., Russia, Britain and France on a peace package to offer to the Middle East's antagonists...
...exercise, called Reforger I, will be the largest American maneuver in Europe in the past five years. Its aim is to demonstrate the U.S.'s ability, in the event of a crisis, to airlift swiftly large numbers of U.S. troops to the NATO theater. The flown-in army units and F-4s are particularly suited to illustrate the point since they were permanently stationed in West Germany until last year. They were withdrawn at that time to the U.S. in order to reduce American military spending abroad, and thus help stem the outflow of U.S. gold reserves...
...dispute creates a serious split in the M.L.A. Either the non-radicals will manage to end what they consider the dissidents' "subversion" or many of them will quit. The dissidents insist that it is not their aim to take over the association or drive its members out. All they want, they say, is to "put humanism back into the humanities." In the process, they are raising another problem: how to keep professors in the organization...