Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vance's immediate aim is to bring about a round-table conference between the two sides in what amounts to an ongoing civil war: Prime Minister Ian Smith and his three black partners in the so-called internal settlement, on the one hand, and the guerrilla leaders of the Patriotic Front, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, on the other. The chief failing of the Smith settlement is that its terms are unacceptable to the Patriotic Front leaders, who do not believe that it truly establishes majority rule in Rhodesia; hence they have vowed to continue fighting and accept Soviet...
...shown. But it's better to show close to it than not to show it at all. Already people are saying it didn't happen, they don't believe it. Our children-my twelve-year-old daughter-they don't know. The aim of this showing is not to cry for what happened, nor ask for pity or sympathy, but only this: to look out for it anywhere in the world, so it won't happen again...
...Wednesday, May 3, solar activists across the nation will begin to celebrate "Sun Day" to mark what some of them call the "dawn of the solar age." Their aim is to convince more politicians, financiers and manufacturers that sun power has a glowing future. The celebrations, financed by organizations as diverse as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Department of Energy and the United Auto Workers, will begin with songs of praise to the rising sun in Maine and include talks and solar-power demonstrations in just about every state. In a speech at Golden, Colo., on Sun Day, President Carter...
...troops expected to join the force in Lebanon, about half were in place last week. Their ambitious mission is to restore "peace and security and ensure the return of the effective authority in the area to the government of Lebanon." The aim, in other words, is to give the Lebanese government of President Elias Sarkis a chance to build up its own army, which has only 3,000 men today v. 17,000 before Lebanon's civil war broke out three years ago. If U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim has his way, UNIFIL will gradually be disbanded...
...been much more cautious than his Vice Premier about moving to erase the radical legacy of the Cultural Revolution. Some experts even speculate that the aim of Teng's campaign may be to discredit Maoism itself, or at least that part of the hagiology that is invoked by opponents of the push for modernization. Teng could start, according to some China analysts, by probing the extent of Mao's support in the last months of his life for the activities of his now discredited wife and her radical comrades...