Word: footholds
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...years ago, Russia welcomed Cuba's subversive efforts. No longer. Well aware that Castro's guerrilla wars are getting nowhere, that they are doing more harm than good to Communism's image, Moscow is now trying to achieve a foothold in Latin America through diplomacy and trade expansion (TIME, March 31). Such tactics, Castro claims, only help the "oligarchies" that he is trying to overthrow. To make sure that Moscow gets the point, Castro is planning a Latin America-wide meeting in Havana next month to discuss future strategies for his guerrilla wars of liberation...
...School's continuing support of CLAO indicates the school's determination to break with its passive past and take an active interest in the problems of the urban poor. As the program matures, however, it should draw closer to the neighborhood and further from the school, for a real foothold in the neighborhood is CLAO's best insurance against future crises
...controversial new concept in urban planning gained a foothold in Boston last night when Edward J. Logue, the powerful director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority signed a "memorandum of understanding" with a citizens group in Roxbury...
Republicans, who had previously hacked out only a tenuous toehold in the South, last week went a long way toward making it a firm foothold. In addition to returning its first popularly elected U.S. Senator in Tennessee, the G.O.P. provided Governors in Arkansas and Florida for the first time since Reconstruction and may possibly claim a gubernatorial victory in Georgia as well. In 13 Southern and border states, the G.O.P. made a record modern-day gain of nine congressional seats. This year, moreover, many of the South's leading Republican candidates were able to discard the Goldwater umbrella...
...chosen foothold was Gia Binh, a coastal village 300 yards south of the DMZ, and the Communists went to work with a fury. They laced Gia Binh with bunkers and tunnels, brought up mor tars, heavy machine guns...