Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading figure, Andreas Papandreou, 55, he pulled Greece out of NATO and pointedly hinted that he might close American bases in Greece. Both steps are long-sought goals of the left. "It was uncanny, I must say," said Papandreou, apparently not certain whether to be happy that his own aim was being met or unhappy that he had been deprived of an issue...
...Turkish aim seemed to be, as Ankara claimed, not control of the whole island but of a third of it, roughly following a nearly 70-mile line from Lefka and Nicosia to Famagusta. With this "fact," as the Turks called it, accomplished, they felt that a settlement could be worked out giving the Turkish Cypriots their own geographical area in an island federation. Now the 116,000 Turkish Cypriots are interspersed in enclaves scattered among the 523,000 Greeks, who have discriminated against them and cut them off from sharing in the island's general prosperity. The Turkish area...
...Ford hit the road as a traveling salesman for the presidency and the Republican Party. In his first eight months in office, he flew more than 100,000 miles and made over 500 appearances before groups ranging from a large G.O.P. rally in Chicago to the Boy Scouts. The aim of this energetic odyssey was to rally the party faithful in a time of troubles and give them a glimpse of a new and accessible party leader...
...included the four final lines of Josiah Gilbert Holland's poem, you might have affronted a quibbling press and that faultfinding, do-nothing Congress whose principal aim is to get reelected. I dare you to quote these lines, which apply to Democrats as well as to Republicans...
...whether it can triumph over the brutality of the Russians and the blindness of the British. Director Edwards, who can be a stylish operative, here contents him self with prettily posing Andrews (who is his wife), showing off her Diors against various pleasant beaches and European capitals. Doubtless the aim here was to make an old-fashioned adventure-romance. While the nostalgia for that almost vanished form is justifiable, the slackness of this picture...