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...smaller issues were left unresolved. Adenauer promised to strengthen West Germany's NATO contribution from eight to twelve divisions; but he was brusquely turned down in his demand to have some share in the decision to use NATO's nuclear capability if ever a hot war began. Kennedy suggested that West Germany consider making more economic and commercial contact with East Germany; Adenauer demurred, on the ground that any further relationship would approach de facto recognition of the Ulbricht regime. The two disagreed on the need for closer ties between West Berlin and West Germany; Kennedy argued that...
Peabody, who was defeated in his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor in 1960, said that the only way to eliminate party disunity, corruption, and the inefficient handling of day-to-day administration is to strengthen the executive power in Massachusetts...
...Britain forced a broader debate, insisting that the Council consider any secessionist problem, from whatever direction, put its weight behind a constructive program to strengthen Premier Adoula's central government. The U.S. was urging that Adoula's army be reorganized and given a "small but effective air force" to back up Congolese ground troops; this would not be good news for Katanga's Tshombe, who, with his own little handful of planes, has been able to launch deadly forays against both Adoula's forces and the U.N. itself from time to time...
...maintained that de Gaulle has failed to strengthen military and popular allegiance to the state because he has appealed to the people as a personality while regarding the army "with more contempt than sympathy...
...Central Kitchen is trying to strengthen its lines of communications with the students," she maintained, and the dining hall supervisors "make a report every evening of complaints they have heard during...