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...televised press conference last week. "If we don't give the aid, there is no hope." There was a note of urgency in Ford's voice as he made a last-ditch appeal for quick congressional approval of his request for $222 million in emergency funds to bolster the tottering regime of President...
Inevitably, arms exports are an instrument of foreign policy. In the years immediately following World War II, arms-exporting states carefully weighed ?and often rejected?offers from foreign customers. The U.S. has exported weapons in order to bolster anti-Communist regimes; a congressional act of 1951 explicitly forbade sales to neutral nations and insisted that purchasing countries contribute to "the defensive strength of the free world." To the Soviets, arms sales to the Middle East have been a means of challenging Western influence. By transferring arms to India, the Russians sought to create a regional counterforce to Peking...
...denigrate the success and poison the esteem of a wide audience for a man whose earthy and forceful works do not fall into the critic's category of approved art constitutes the sourest of gripes. For him to state that,every self-respecting art historian since 1965 would bolster his argument against Benton is ridiculous...
Dean Rosovsky issued a letter this month to help bolster laggard alumni contributions to the 1974-5 Harvard College Fund drive...
Predictably the four convicted men plan to submit a barrage of arguments to bolster their appeals. They expect to remain free for two years or so as those appeals are fought through the court system. Most legal experts close to the case, including at least one defense attorney, see no real chance that the charges will be dismissed. At best, a new trial could be ordered, but even that is highly doubtful. The appeals, of course, will only add to the high cost of legal fees for the defendants. Ehrlichman revealed last week that he now owes his lawyers...