Word: aims
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...aim of Warsaw's "normalization" campaign, apparently, was to sway Western European opinion and prevent the NATO governments from joining with the U.S. in denouncing martial law and imposing economic sanctions. But as the NATO foreign ministers assembled in Brussels last week, the generals' strategy had clearly failed. It did not take U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig's dismissal of the Polish gestures as "phony moderation" to convince the Europeans; their intelligence reports contradicted the rosy announcements from Warsaw...
...crackdown were being held. Union members in Paris also published the text of the loyalty oath that employees were being forced to sign in order to keep their jobs. The pledge stated: "Bearing in mind the fact that . .. Solidarity recently opposed the constitution and government . . . with the aim of undermining the socialist system, I hereby resign from the above-mentioned organization...
...routine spy in the sky. Because a mole in the National Security Council has been passing policy secrets to the Soviets, Oakes is asked to fake a forced landing in the U.S.S.R. and allow a packet of forged documents to fall into enemy hands. The aim of this counterespionage is to neutralize a Soviet agent and drive a wedge into Chinese-Soviet relations. Can Blackie pull off this caper and get home in time for such bourgeois sentimentality as marrying his sweetheart and celebrating Christmas? Not to worry; the East and West love to swap important captured agents...
Made edgy by the conversation, Mrs. Khalil emphasizes that the aim of her society is to teach the children to love the beautiful things in the old country, and not to frighten them. "You don't want to start striking out right and left." She waves right and left with her arms; her English rolls in a heavy swell. "You want to make distinctions. A good Jew from a bad Jew. A good Arab from a bad. Also you want to show that life is not all hardship. There is joy here...
...alliance must in chorus shout its outrage over the Polish crackdown. Nothing would be more dangerous or morally reprehensible than cowering in front of the Soviet Union for this reason, the maintenance of a strong joint defense is necessary. But to aim for elusive military superiority as the Administration has suggested it is doing, is no substitute for diplomacy; the U.S.S.R., after all, cannot be destroyed. Hence, the West must begin carefully thinking through the long term implications of its actions. A strategy to bring to the forefront Soviet moderates--specifically through economic, technological and cultural exchanges, coupled with serious...