Word: aims
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...aim was to give ex-Governor John Connally a chance to win early and big in the 1980 primary season and thus get a boost toward capturing the Republican nomination...
...Importance Edwin Warner's Essay on "Strengthening the CIA" [April 30] correctly emphasizes the CIA'S importance to our national security. However, it fails to note the need for intelligence charter legislation. The aim of charters is to authorize proper CIA activities and provide for effective congressional and executive oversight. Such legislation, which will reflect a broad consensus, should do much to remove what you term a "debilitating cloud of suspicion" from CIA operations and let it go ahead with its vital work...
...Israeli extremists. In mid-March, two Palestinians were shot and killed by Jewish settlers during a rock-throwing barrage near the town of Hebron. In late April, a group of Jewish women and children occupied a vacant building in Hebron that was once used as a Jewish hospital; their aim, they said, was to take over all buildings in the town that had ever been owned by Jews. After the Israeli Supreme Court ordered that a parcel of confiscated land be returned to Arab control, vandals destroyed Arab grapevines on the property. On May 2, Israel's independence...
Wallace takes aim and fires in a recent book titled Black Macho & the Myth of the Superwoman (Dial; $7.95). Tracing the breakdown of black male-female relationships back to the civil rights struggles of the '60s, she writes: "During the summer of 1964 hundreds of middle-class white women went South to work with the Movement and, in a fair number of cases, to have affairs with black men. Some of the women were pressured into it (anything to avoid the label of being racist), others freely chose...
...application is not our only aim." Tang countered, saying that there "should be some research that can not be practically applied in the near future" to provide a basis for growth in the level of science and technology in China...