Word: goals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...innovations, the Soviet leader has hardly, at 56, become a convert to Western-style democracy. He rose to power through the Communist hierarchy and deeply believes in the tenets of Marx and Lenin. His goal is not to scrap that system but to save it from permanent economic decline through a series of bold, pragmatic measures. As he told a gathering of editors and propagandists in Moscow on July 10: "We intend to make socialism stronger, not replace it with another system...
...denouement to a once sparkling career. Before his appointment to the NSC, Poindexter was considered the model of the fast-track Navy officer. His superiors seem to have marked him early as a potential Chief of Naval Operations -- a position that was long thought to be Poindexter's own goal -- and to have carefully groomed him for the job through a judiciously chosen mixture of Washington assignments and sea-duty posts...
...draw of pre-professionalism skews the consciousness of the new generation. Trapped in a goal-oriented society, today's would-be Renaissance Man often sacrifices perspective for high-level performance in a chosen field...
...aided Communism. This it will do by actively assisting, and perhaps even trying to create, resistance movements struggling against Soviet-allied Marxist governments in the Third World. Said Stephen Rosenfeld of the Washington Post, writing in Foreign Affairs: "The Reagan Doctrine goes over to the offensive. It upholds . . . the goal of trying to recover Communist- controlled territory," especially in countries "where the Marxist grip is relatively recent and therefore presumed light...
Angolan officials described his release as a "goodwill gesture," presumably to smooth the way to the establishment of diplomatic relations with the U.S. That is a difficult goal, given the presence of 35,000 Cuban troops in Angola and the $15 million in military aid the U.S. provides to UNITA, a pro-Western rebel group trying to overthrow Angola's Marxist government...