Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...informally as the "Democratic Opposition" and ranged from monarchists to socialists and old-guard liberals, disenchanted doctors and lawyers to army and navy officers. The opposition platform, which the government labeled "unconstitutional," called for democratic rights, economic progress and an enlightened colonial policy. But the opposition's main target was 72-year-old António de Oliveira Salazar, for as one candidate exclaimed: "The government's only hope is that Salazar is immortal. Like Hitler and Mussolini, this regime is holding out to the bitter moment when all crashes about...
...States arrived, trailing a funereal squad of black-suited aides; nine still photographers, as if on cue, frantically recorded the presidential progress to the podium. At the sides of the room, boxed behind glass, the television sound men put out their pipes. Onstage, television cameras zeroed in on their target. The reporters, the students, the stenographers all rose in deference to the star. It was exactly 4 o'clock in the afternoon. John F. Kennedy's 18th presidential press conference had begun...
...aware of the role being played by the trade union through much of the world, in order to frustrate Communist attempts at infiltration. He cited the American labor unions' recognition of "the menace of Communism" long before other segments of the population were aware of it, noting "the first target of Communism, the trade union, can also be the first line of defense...
Owen Lattimore, a far-Eastern expert who was once a prime target for attacks by the late Sen. McCarthy, last night declared that the U.S. should cease supporting all foreign regimes which rely on American aid to maintain themselves against the desires of their own people...
...Main target of Sholokhov's scorn was plainly Evgeny Evtushenko, 28, the current idol of serious poetry lovers and the young intelligentiki. A shaggy, twice-married Angry Young Muscovite who sports jazzy French suits and boasts a modern, two-room apartment, Evtushenko looks, and at times sounds, rather like a beat Keats. Though he produces periodic Party paeans on such acceptable themes as the Communist worker, Evtushenko is celebrated for vividly erotic lyrics ("Coursing regally, your whole body feels you are a queen") that have drawn down official ire for their "scandalous and somewhat noisy notoriety." One poem that...