Word: staunchly
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...Staunch Ally. Drawing new attention to Australia's role as an Asian and Pacific nation, Holt traveled widely throughout Asia, strengthened ties with the U.S. and became one of Washington's staunchest Viet Nam allies. He raised Australia's military commitment in Viet Nam from 1,500 men to more than 8,000 and offered Australia as a rest-and-relaxation center for war-weary G.I.s. During two visits to Washington, Holt became close friends with President Johnson, once winking that he went "All the way with L.B.J." "He was steady, he was courageous," said President Johnson...
President Arthur Costa e Silva, 65, the army general who has been in office for nine months, did not quite know what to say. A staunch and faithful Catholic, he has visited Pope Paul twice in the past three years. To help arrange a truce, Costa asked to meet with the church's leading bishops some time next month. He realizes all too well that it was the wrath of the Catholic Church that helped topple Argen tine Dictator Juan Peron...
Molino, one of the five "Puerto Rican representatives" working for SNAP, has become a staunch organization man. And with his mention of SEMCO, he identifies still another competing faction in the power struggle in the South...
...brutal infraction of free speech and movement within the University. This issue, of course, has been resolved by the Faculty vote to place almost one-fourth of the demonstrators on probation. But in the mean-time, it has become clear that much more was involved than the staunch defense of a few time-honored freedoms...
Died. Alexander Wiley, 83, longtime (1938-1962) Republican Senator from Wisconsin; of a stroke; in Germantown, Pa. A staunch isolationist when he came to Washington, Wiley became the complete internationalist soon after the start of World War II. As a member and chairman (1953-54) of the Foreign Relations Committee, he vigorously supported a bipartisan foreign policy, backing the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the United Nations...