Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...population would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh." Therefore Diem with U.S. backing did not permit these elections to take place in 1956 as provided for by the Geneva accords. Can we then believe that President Johnson's offer to reaffirm old agreements or to strengthen them with new ones is anything less than an attempt to appease the growing chorus of dissent at home and abroad...
...also there to strengthen world order." This is a clear warning to men everywhere who are struggling to liberate themselves from a "world order" of poverty end oppression. By attempting to maintain this world order our government is directly responsible for the immeasurable suffering of millions. Every day young Americans die in its defense...
Next day the President issued a blistering statement: "Outrages like this will only reinforce the determination of the American people and Government to continue and to strengthen their assistance and support for the people and government of Viet Nam." Johnson, Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Foreign Policy Adviser McGeorge Bundy decided not to launch any massive attack against North Viet Nam in specific retaliation for the bombing. After a long session with the President, Ambassador Taylor said: "We are simply going to stay on our program of doing what we did before. We've just...
...category of Asian leaders, the worst is Indonesia's Sukarno, whose campaign to "crush Malaysia" as a "neocolonialist" plot furnishes Indonesia with a phony national purpose and distracts attention from his own disastrous misrule. Even Sandhurst-educated President Ayub Khan of Pakistan plays up "the Indian menace" to strengthen his political hand, warns darkly: "India wants to settle every dispute with force and aggression...
...talked more often of "citizens' participation" than of the Republican Party. But no longer. He takes seriously his assignment as member of the postelection G.O.P. Coordinating Committee, and is seeking ways to bring dissidents of the right and left into a strong and resolute center. "We need to strengthen the Republican Party," he told a press conference in Detroit. "We need some coordinating thinking...