Word: aims
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Last year's drive collected a total of 1700 pints, and "that's what we'd like to aim for this year," Kate Forbes, a Red Cross volunteer, said yesterday...
...Their Aim is True...
...that time, the U.S. had adopted the doctrine of "flexible response," with the aim of first meeting a Soviet attack with conventional weapons and escalating to tactical and then strategic nuclear weaponry if necessary. The Germans, still worried about U.S. resolve, prevailed upon Washington to accept the doctrine of "seamless deterrence." This obligated the U.S. to move on quickly and smoothly to the use of nuclear weapons if need be. In 1974 the U.S. again tried to satisfy European insecurities by promising that it would keep 300,000 troops and 7,000 nuclear weapons on the Continent...
Moscow, perhaps by holding out the hope of returning the peace process to the long-suspended Geneva Conference that the Soviets chaired in tandem with the U.S. That appeared to have been the aim of Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal, who recently spoke approvingly of a possible Soviet peace role in the future...
...Sadat, government officials said the plot was far wider than had originally been suspected. Right after the killing, officials had insisted that only four men were involved. But according to President Hosni Mubarak, who succeeded Sadat, at least 700 people were part of a web of revolutionaries whose general aim was to overthrow the government. Said Mubarak: "Security in our country is my first concern...