Word: bolstered
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...rival, now dean of the Columbia School of Journalism. They have combined scholarship legwork to construct this useful chronology. They also offer a thesis: that the Viet Nam War is not an aberration but part of the "inexorable progression" of past misconceptions and blunders, including the desire to bolster France, the general goal of containing Communism, and finally a specific fear of the Chinese...
Sources near the Laotian panhandle reported yesterday that the South Vietnamese military command is dispatching 16,000 troops to Laos to bolster Allied forces already engaging North Vietnamese units...
...result of the worst military setbacks of the Laotian drive, the U. S. has assembled the largest air armada of the war in an attempt to bolster the stalled U. S.-South Vietnamese offensive...
...Hanoi's interest to keep it. A more convincing objection to the idea is that complete U.S. withdrawal, including support forces, would seriously undermine if not destroy the Saigon regime. Thus it is likely that Abrams' "cavalry" actions are not necessary primarily to protect U.S. troops but to bolster the Saigon regime and assure its survival. If so, that could be an entirely legitimate goal of U.S. policy (though its cost might be subject to debate). But that is not the way the Administration presents the matter...
...first to die since the tommies were sent to Ulster 18 months ago. To prevent the violence from spreading, the government banned a Protestant rally that was to have featured a speech by the Rev. Ian Paisley, Northern Ireland's leading demagogue, and the British prepared to bolster their 6,000-man Ulster garrison with 600 additional troops...