Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Farouk Kaddoumi, head of the political department of the Palestine Liberation Organization, charged that the aim of the terrorists was to split OPEC and deprive the Third World of its most effective weapon against the West. It was so counterproductive to Palestinian goals, he added darkly, that it must have been engineered by American imperialists and Zionists-a patently absurd charge...
Iran's Interior Minister Jamshid Amouzegar, "but plays no useful purpose in this dialogue." Kissinger, however, was not really telling the OPEC nations that they should drastically roll back the price of oil. Rather, his aim seemed to be to drive a wedge between the oil producers and the truly poor. If that was indeed the American strategy, it had little success: the oil-producing states dominated their poorer brethren in the conference's deliberations. Four commissions were set up to examine the world's economic problems-under broad headings of energy, development, raw materials and financial...
...President Muhammad Ayub Khan had staged a lavish anniversary celebration in 1969, only to be forced from power three months later. For another, he recognized that he was under the strongest attack yet from his political opposition, which declared last Friday a nationwide "Black Day." The opposition's aim: to force Bhutto's resignation...
Using motion as the integrating force was Kupka's first step towards a school of' painting Ezra Pound called "Vorticism The (theoretical) aim of the group, as Pound saw it, was "to portray the idea of motion itself." Kupka began trying to capture motion through the vibrancy of color; in "Newtonian Disks" (1912) the pure tones, reds, blues, yellows, are liberated from form. They no longer express the form of an object, but establish their own rhythm, make their own music...
...years, western unity against communism in Africa has been the rallying cry of racist South Africa. South African forces fighting alongside FNLA/UNITA have penetrated 200 miles into Angolan territory. And these forces aim to protect South African investments in Angola, and to eliminate black Namibian revolutionaries operating from Angolan bases. But more importantly, South Africa seeks to prevent the formation of a ring of hostile black states on her borders. Western support for FNLA/UNITA thus contributes directly to the preservation of apartheid in South Africa, a system from which many American firms profit...