Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Explained a White House aide: "The aim was for our action to be read by North Korean President Kim II Sung as well as by the Cambodians." Moreover, Ford and Kissinger were insistent that the U.S. would not repeat its failure to use force to recover the U.S. Navy surveillance ship Pueblo from North Korea in 1968. Said a Defense Department official rhetorically: "What if the Cambodians used the Mayaguez crew the way that the North Koreans used the Pueblo crew?* I'd hate to think what would happen to the remaining American position in Asia. Yet, that...
...Robbins, intent on acquiring a large collection of modern art, had plans to turn the Busch-Reisinger Museum (which is effectively run by the director of the Fogg) into a museum of 20th-century art. Members of the department, however, protested the move as being contrary to the original aim of the Busch, a museum for Northern European...
This clout helps Baryshnikov realize his other thwarted aim from Kirov days-to dance roles drawn from outside the classical repertory. Les Patineurs is one of these, as is Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, which he flew to Paris to learn from Choreographer Petit. In the summer he will add Shadowplay, which Antony Tudor is reworking especially for him. Such innovators as Twyla Tharp and Alvin Ailey are also working on new ballets for him. John Neumeier, director of the Hamburg Opera Ballet, will stage Hamlet for him-probably next winter...
...Operators must pay 35? for every ton of strip-mined coal, and 15? for every deep-mined ton, into a new fund for reclamation of abandoned mines. The aim is to restore some 100 million acres of already stripped land, primarily in Appalachia where deep hillside gashes mark worked-out steep-slope mines...
...interview was taped only four days after the Communist takeover in Saigon. Although Kissinger's aides suggested that his aim was "to make foreign policy understandable," he quite clearly had a second purpose: to show that the Secretary of State was alive and well and not (as some reports have had it) dejected by recent diplomatic setbacks. In fact, while Kissinger was voluble and engaging at times, especially toward the end of the session, at other points he seemed ponderous and even petulant. Fairly typically, one longtime Kissinger-watcher, Brown University Historian Stephen Graubard, judged it "not a vintage...