Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senator Dodd was on target when he said that "if Central America were not racked with poverty, hunger and injustice, there would be no revolution." The long-term solution to the problems of those nations is agrarian reform, redistribution of wealth, and economic assistance. If Central America were economically stable, the Soviets would have nothing to exploit...
Anything associated with Israel's existence--from her founding ideology of Zionism to the manner in which she carries out public works projects--tends to prove an acceptable target. The U.N. has voted to condemn Israel for achaeological digs in Jerusalem--digs proposed and defended by U.N. experts. Other U.N. organs have not gone uninfected by this venom; Arab delegates at a 1980 Women's Conference changed the agenda from women's rights in general to the status of Palestinian women under Israeli administration, perhaps fearing that their own countries would be criticized for denying women the right to vote...
...continuing this pattern. Looking at various nations 'links to South Africa is, of course, an eminently worthwhile activity for the U.N. to pursue: South African delegates were booted from the General Assembly in 1981 for "not representing a majority of South Africans," and the apartheid regime has been the target of richly deserved economic and political sanctions since the early 1960s. But most nations have proved unwilling to pay more than lip service to sanctions, and more than $20 billion worth of goods quietly cross South Africa's borders every year...
...Soviet government refused to announce production figures for the past two seasons. But this year the U.S.D.A. forecasts a total Soviet grain production of around 200 million metric tons. That figure falls far short of 1978's record 237.4 million tons and of this year's optimistic target of 238 million tons. But, after two consecutive years of 160 or 180 million tons annually, the projected upswing heralds a notable improvement...
...scrawny little devil," as his father remembers, George was a target for neighborhood bullies, who would throw his shoes into the sprinkler and tease him until his younger sister Wendy chased them away. A terrible student (the loyal Wendy would sometimes get up at 5 a.m. to correct misspellings in his English papers), he found comfort in fantasy. Whenever he or Wendy got a dollar, they would march down to the drugstore and buy ten comic books, which they would then read in a shed behind their stucco house on Ramona Avenue. Several carloads of comics were passed...