Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Botha also made a new offer of statehood for Namibia, proposing an August 1 target date for starting moves toward the territory's independence. He made it conditional on a withdrawal of Cuban troops from neighboring Angola...
...year-old Afrikaner president offered to implement a U.N. resolution granting independence to Namibia if the Cubans left Angola. Namibia, or South-West Africa, is under South African administration and is a target of guerrillas operating from Angola...
...just as I was born and raised Black. For the past two decades of my life I have unhappily watched the erosion of the long-time alliance between Blacks and Jews (an erosion I do not have the time or space to get into here). I have been the target of intolerant behavior from both groups, and find distasteful in the extreme any measure of intolerance from a member of an oppressed group; needless to say, I have many days when I despair of social harmony. Still, it is precisely because I am at bedrock an optimist that...
...target of their wrath is Keith Rupert Murdoch, 54, the proprietor of Wapping and one of the world's most powerful press barons. Murdoch has acted audaciously in the past, but never before has he accomplished so much in a single bold stroke. For 50 years Fleet Street's print unions have exercised a viselike control over the national newspaper industry, blocking the introduction of new technology and shutting down the presses at will. Murdoch broke that costly stranglehold in one weekend last month. He abruptly fired nearly 6,000 striking printers and moved his London papers...
...recent months Gorbachev has been removing Brezhnev-era holdovers with a blend of maneuver and muscle. Grigory Romanov, the Politburo member responsible for the Soviet Union's military-industrial complex, who reportedly tried to block Gorbachev's rise to power and became the target of a whispering campaign about alleged alcoholism, retired from the Politburo last July. One day later Andrei Gromyko, who had served as Foreign Minister since 1957, was promoted to the honorific post of President. Last month Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, who had commanded the Soviet navy since 1956, was replaced. Nikolai Tikhonov, who had been Premier since...