Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, by breaking with the President without offering a closely reasoned alternative, said Dirksen, "you only strengthen Ho Chi Minh's determination to hang on. That's been the trouble right along...
...Europe's longest coaxial-cable network. The company's foreign-based operations, however, have always left it vulnerable to worldwide upheavals. During World War II, for example, Behn succeeded in saving his corporation from disaster only by hurriedly negotiating the sale of several overseas holdings. Trying to strengthen the company at home after the war, Behn rushed headlong into the domestic-appliance field, buying up Capehart-Farnsworth Corp. (record players, TV sets, radios) and Coolerator Corp. (refrigerators, air conditioners). Both lost money, were finally abandoned...
About 14,000 Army men will be lifted from the nation's combat-ready strategic reserve force of 41 divisions, which are located in the continental U.S. The Defense Department meanwhile is expected to authorize creation of a new division that, in effect, would actually strengthen the strategic reserve by bringing its force up to five full divisions. The U.S. will continue to main tain five divisions in West Germany and two in Korea...
...fact that the Common Market and NATO countries violently disapprove of the coup. The EEC may no wrefuse to allow membership to Greece, and the Investment Bank has already withheld $72 million of the $125 million planned for Greece. Such political isolation of Greece can in no way strengthen the alliance. And the hostility of Cyprus' President Makarios has damaged U.S. influence there...
...contention that the fall of the junta might lead to civil war is partially valid--it might. But to strengthen the present dictatorship with military aid in the name of stability would be morally unjustified and would also lead to a more bitter reaction from the people. The political polarization would be far greater than in 1965, when a large majority of the electorate bitterly opposed the King after he had dismissed Prime Minister George Papandreou...