Word: aims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would accelerate Soviet-sponsored subversion throughout Central America. On the other, Administration opponents charge that the U.S. is blundering deeper into an open-ended military commitment to a losing cause. So far, the Administration has done little to back up its most important contention, namely that the real U.S. aim in El Salvador is not a military victory but the political and economic framework needed for democracy to flourish in a strife-torn and bitterly impoverished region...
Such images, and others like Elijah Pierce's elaborately carved wooden panel of the Crucifixion (about 40 figures, including blacksmiths forging nails for the cross and a moon raining blood on Golgotha), are not meant to be "imaginative" in any arbitrary way, though they are deeply expressive. Their aim is to bear witness, to teach. Sometimes they do it in oddly naive ways: Pierce's carving of one person straining at a gnat while another literally swallows a camel, the beast halfway down his throat, comes out of the same impulses that drove the Romanesque carvers at Vezelay...
...Blind Ambition, John Dean reminded us that he decided to snitch on Nixon for the good of the country--not to mention the success of his own plea-bargaining. And G. Gordon Liddy's bizarre autobiography, Will, left no doubt that all his malevolence really had but one aim all along: to protect the U.S. from Communism...
...Reagan Administration's aim in Madrid was to use the meeting as a forum to chastise Moscow and the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski for imposing martial law in Poland. The U.S. also seriously contemplated a boycott of the Madrid talks unless martial law was eased or lifted. European diplomats who believe strongly in East-West dialogue-notably West Germany's Genscher-balked at the plan. But Haig managed to persuade them to agree to a unified gesture of condemnation. The Soviet-initiated suspension of the conference thus played right into into American hands. Explained a Canadian delegate...
...basic U.S. Army fighting skills at two of the country's most important military installations, Fort Bragg and Georgia's Fort Benning. The $15 million program is by far the largest basic training exercise for foreign troops ever undertaken at one time on American soil. Its aim: to boost the Salvadoran military's ability to fight its protracted guerrilla war and to professionalize a major portion of the Salvadoran officer corps...