Word: goals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though that may be true, Carter remains determined to press ahead in certain areas that give promise of progress. The most important of these is SALT, which remains a primary Administration goal despite Carter's warnings against Soviet interference in Iran. Said one White House adviser last week: "We want SALT whether our relations with Moscow are good or bad. We want SALT whether we are cooperating or competing...
...invading Viet Nam, Peking clearly intended to regain some lost prestige and prove it is no paper tiger. The invasion also presumably had a tactical goal: drawing Vietnamese troops away from Cambodia in order to ease the pressure on Pol Pot's surviving forces. But the risks involved in the Viet Nam invasion were far greater than those involved in the border war with India. Besides a possible Soviet retaliation that could come at any time, China already has suffered a political setback in world eyes. The Japanese, who joined them in decrying "hegemony" when they signed a treaty with...
...recently organized bands of Ugandan exiles, slipped into Uganda amid heavy fighting between regular Tanzanian and Ugandan forces on the border. By last week they had advanced 50 miles and had fought their way to Masaka, a city just 80 miles from Kampala, Uganda's capital. Their goal: to overthrow Idi Amin Dada, 55, the self-styled President-for-Life whose tyrannical regime is believed to have been responsible for the deaths of 300,000 Ugandans in the past eight years...
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Bowersock originally stated that individual tutorials are the "ideal goal" in all circumstances, council members last week had disputed that claim and objected to the implication that group tutorials always rated "second best," a spokesman for the council said yesterday...