Word: aims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pilot: Aim taken...
...time, especially over American Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZ), which extend several hundred miles along U.S. borders and are closely monitored for national security reasons. Since last January, 77 Soviet planes have entered the Atlantic Coast ADIZ while on nonstop flights from the U.S.S.R. to Cuba. Their aim has been to pick up U.S. radar frequencies and to record how long it takes for U.S. fighters to respond. U.S. reconnaissance planes have done the same thing near the U.S.S.R. border and have triggered the firing of more than 900 Soviet ground-to-air missiles, so far without...
...withdrawal of the 36,000 Israeli troops in Lebanon. But that understanding was conditional upon the removal of 60,000 Syrian troops, and Syria, it soon became apparent, had no intention of accepting an agreement that it had played no part in framing. Washington's real aim was to get the foreign troops out of Lebanon in order to give Amin Gemayel a chance to rebuild his country. In the end, however, Reagan became fearful that too sudden a withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Beirut area could create an even greater problem for the Gemayel government...
Zhores Medvedev portrays Andropov as an austere, highly intelligent operator whose key weapon in his battle for Kremlin supremacy was the KGB he headed for 15 years. Andropov and his supporters relied on the intelligence agency to discredit the ailing Brezhnev, his family and network of associates. The Andropov aim was to pressure Brezhnev into resigning while besmirching potential rivals from the party chiefs camp...
...avoid being left in the cold, Boston University Athletic Director John Simpson hosted a meeting with his counterparts from Boston College, Providence College, Northeastern and New Hampshire, with the aim of forming a new league, to begin play in 1984-85. The five a.d.'s chose unanimously to invite St. Lawrence, Clarkson, and Maine to round out the octet...