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...Iran. His country, the world's second largest oil exporter, quadrupled its petroleum earnings, to $20.9 billion. Impatient to industrialize and militarize, the Shah pressed the construction of automobile and petrochemical factories, dams and hospitals, and ordered 70 F-4 Phantom jets and 800 British Chieftain tanks to bolster a mighty armed force. This swelling strength raised apprehensions among some Arab governments in the region and evoked new hostility?but also won new respect in Washington, where Iran is valued as an anti-Communist bulwark. Though much poverty and illiteracy hang on in Iran, the middle class is rapidly spreading...
...American press tends to promote Mavros as second to Caramanlis in political clout. Yet, as a minister in the same interim government, the Centrist leader has found it difficult to criticize the premier and project an independent identity. This factor may bolster the faction to his immediate left...
Some of the Yardlings will run for the varsity against Brown in an attempt to bolster the beleaguered upperclassmen, who are winless in three meets...
...community-at-large. And we must assume, and also hope, that when one considers action on any ethical issue that the large implications for society are wieghed into the balance. The cohesiveness and ultimate success of any group greatly depends on the extent that people voluntarily act to bolster the commonwealth. In that sense I agree with the author that explicit laws on abortion are degrading and unfortunate. Yet I feel that however unpalatable are laws that attempt to regulate personal decisions--and they are an affront--I do feel that we must somehow remind or edify the public that...
Further, the defense should have been permitted to call such higher-ups as then Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to bolster the argument that undue command influence had affected the trial. And the defense should have been given access to a confidential House Armed Services Committee report on My Lai. Judge Elliott cited Watergate and ruled that "the Supreme Court in deciding the Nixon [tapes] case also decided the Calley case...