Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to help a population that stands at 36 million and increases by 750,000 more every year. For the past year, he has been both President and Premier, but he is now ready to relinquish the premiership as part of a broad move to a peacetime economy. His aim is to temper Arab socialism with more Western-style free enterprise...
...Endorsed creation of a new National Court of Appeals to hear certain kinds of cases and render decisions that would be final unless the Supreme Court intervened within a set period of time. The aim is to reduce the high court's work load. Many delegates wanted to table the matter, but Smith persuaded them to take a firm stand in support of the idea...
...failure of the cease-fire has led many South Vietnamese, including high military officers, to charge that the primary aim of the Paris accords was not to end the war but to create an umbrella under which the U.S. could extricate itself from Viet Nam. While that judgment may be too cynical, the fact is that only about 5,000 U.S. Government employees and Department of Defense contractors remain in Viet Nam; U.S. casualties in the past year totaled only one. However, one American was captured during Saigon's recent naval battle with the Chinese (see following story...
...reacted hardly at all. Then, barely a week after the disturbances that had left eleven people dead, 807 automobiles gutted and 144 buildings damaged, the government retaliated. It shut down nine newspapers and arrested 775 persons, including 21 of Jakarta's most prominent intellectuals. The government's aim, declared one of the President's personal assistants, General Ali Murtopo-who had been accused of corruption and burned in effigy by students -must be to eliminate the country's "intolerable subversive elements...
...praised NBC for its journalistic enterprise. (The show later received a George Foster Peabody Award as a "shining example of constructive and superlative investigative reporting.") But Accuracy In Media, a nonprofit, nonpartisan (though generally conservative) group in Washington that acts as a self-appointed watchdog on press performance, protested. AIM Executive Secretary Abraham H. Kalish, a former professor at the U.S. Defense Intelligence School, formally complained to the FCC that the NBC program gave "a grotesquely distorted picture" of the private pension systems in the U.S. He contended that AIM'S monitoring of NBC programs had turned...