Word: aims
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...constitutes a danger to peace and to the future of our civilization. He should make it clear that the U.S. is now ready to engage in serious negotiations with the Soviet Union about substantial reductions and relevant qualitative limitations of strategic nuclear arms, as well as to reach the aim of a zero-option in the Geneva talks on intermediate-range nuclear weapons...
...enough to bemoan Japanese or other Asian competition, to underscore the power of the oil-producing countries, to observe that Third World countries are demanding a more just global order with increasing persistence. Or lastly, to condemn Soviet action in Europe, Asia, Africa or America, undertakings that aim to undermine the free world's resources, markets and close friends...
Washington's aim was to complete an agreement, reached in principle by Secretary of State Alexander Haig during a trip to Marrakesh last February, that would allow the U.S. to use Moroccan military facilities if troops ever have to be ferried to the Persian Gulf in an emergency. The plan was part of Haig's continuing attempt to forge a "strategic consensus" to contain Communist influence in the Middle East. Hassan was amenable to the idea on the basis of an unwritten agreement, though the U.S. was still hoping to talk him into signing a formal statement...
...aim of "Focus on the Figure," a show of some 50 paintings that opened last month at the Whitney Museum in New York, is to put in perspective the developments in American figurative art over the past two decades. It begins with Pop art, with its images of commercial representation; it takes in artists like Alex Katz and Larry Rivers, makes a bow to de Kooning's women, and then sets up some large-scale American realist art from the '70s, contrasted with the perverse and gritty fantasies of Chicago School artists like Jim Nutt and Ed Paschke...
...least some of last week's sporadic military action may have been related to the invasion plan. Early in the week a British frigate nosed into Falkland Sound (now known to the Argentines as the Straits of San Carlos) between East and West Falkland. The aim was to provoke Argentine fire in order to gain knowledge of hostile troop positions. A Lynx helicopter was launched from the frigate, and machine guns and a flare were fired, but there was no Argentine response...