Word: strengthened
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...helicopters. Such spending will grow at least 10% annually for the next five years. The Safe Streets Act, which Lyndon Johnson signed in June, will increase federal anti-crime aid from $63 million in 1968 to as much as $500 million in 1972. Richard Nixon also wants to strengthen the nation's undermanned police forces and generally "make it less profitable and a lot more risky to break our laws...
...deeply involved. In the French view, the mark was so strong that it was pulling other currencies off balance. By refusing to devalue, De Gaulle could perhaps bring about a situation in which the Germans would be frightened into increasing the exchange rate of the mark. That would automatically strengthen the franc by making German goods dearer on the world market. De Gaulle also knew that a devaluation would frighten the French, reminding them of the financial instability of the Fourth Republic before he came to France's rescue...
...aimed at III Corps, the region comprising the ten important provinces around Saigon. Earlier this month, the highly mobile First Air Cavalry Division with its complement of more than 400 helicopters was shifted from northernmost I Corps into the Cambodian border fringe north and northwest of the capital, to strengthen allied defensive screens there. The U.S. command estimates that the jungles along the sievelike frontier harbor as many as four Communist divisions, some sheltered in newly built base areas. Throughout III Corps, the Communist order of battle has risen from 60 main and local-force battalions last summer to about...
...Black Sea and, hence, Mediterranean power," the government newspaper Izvestia proclaimed, declaring that Soviet ships were in the Mediterranean to stay. In Red Star, the organ of the Soviet Defense Ministry, Vice Admiral Nikolai Smirnov said it was "imperative for the Soviet Union, in the interests of security," to strengthen its fleet. The presence of Soviet ships in the Mediterranean, the admiral wrote, "does not allow the Sixth Fleet to carry out the Pentagon's designs with impunity and behave as unceremoniously as before...
...hawks (or eagles, as they prefer to call themselves in Saigon) on the negotiations issue. Moreover, there were reports that able, popular-but ailing-Premier Tran Van Huong and other Ministers might be replaced. The idea behind such a Cabinet reshuffle would be to strengthen the Thieu government internally in preparation for the negotiating period...