Word: aims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets: in 26 years in his job, Gromyko had given only a handful of news conferences in Moscow, and this was the first broadcast outside the U.S.S.R. The two-hour session was beamed live to the U.S. starting at 2 a.m. Saturday, Eastern time (see box). Gromyko's aim was obviously to keep European nuclear fears high by quashing any hope that Reagan's initiative could lead to a breakthrough in the Geneva INF talks...
...primary aim of the ad was awareness," said committee member Robert Lange, a Brandeis physics professor. He added that there are many stories about the harassment of institutions in the Israeli press, but very little gets into the American press...
Adams argues that some of the Carlucci reforms might make cost problems worse. The initiatives aim at reducing the number of reviews that top officers must conduct of the decisions made by lower-ranking contracting officials. The aim is to speed decisions and cut paperwork. But the effect, Adams says, might be to let contractors get away with overruns that a high-level review might spot...
...there was more: the bodies of two FBI agents, apparently executed at close range. Leonard Peltier, a leader of AIM, was convicted of the murders on circumstantial evidence. Employing trial transcripts and FBI documents secured under the Freedom of Information Act, Matthiessen argues that the authorities were out to get Peltier long before the crime and that the FBI infiltrated the movement and provoked anti-AIM sentiment among the majority of law-abiding Indians...
Matthiessen makes Peltier's trial something very like a 1960s-style conspiracy drama. He rehashes an "ambush theory" advanced by the defense and makes too much of the negligent autopsy of a former AIM member. Finally, the author drops all pretense of impartiality: "From the Indian's viewpoint-and increasingly from my own-any talk of innocence or guilt was beside the point...