Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television voice confides: "On at least seven occasions, Senator Barry Goldwater said that he would change the present social security system. But even his running mate, William Miller, admits that Senator Goldwater's voluntary plan would destroy the social security system. President Johnson is working to strengthen social security...
...gloomily read out to the bishops and theologians who serve on the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Signed by Archbishop Pericle Felici, the council's secretary, the letter proposed that the somewhat lackluster declaration on anti-Semitism (TIME, Oct. 9), which a majority of bishops wishes to strengthen, should be reduced to a short chapter in the schema, De Ecclesia (On the Church). Felici also urged that a declaration on religious liberty be rewritten by a special committee of four bishops-three of them conservatives who had already spoken out against the declaration at the council...
Pipes said that the test served to strengthen the Chinese bargaining position. He noted that Khrushchev had planned a meeting of the world's communist parties for Dec. 15, which, in effect, would have "formalized the breech." Pipes said cancellation of this meeting would be a good indication that the new leadership might attempt a rapprochement...
...Presidents of the last 20 years," he said, "have all been willing to go anywhere, to talk to anyone, to discuss any subject, if their efforts could strengthen freedom and advance the peace of the world. And I pledge you here today I will go to any remote corner of the world to meet anyone, any time, to promote freedom and to promote peace." Almost as Johnson spoke, German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard was saying in Bonn that he hoped the American President would travel to Germany after Nov. 3 to discuss the problems of the Western Alliance and the possibility...
...activity need not be the only kind of practical public service for adults in and out of college.) In so doing, VISTA would not replace organizations like Philips Brooks, any more than it would replace the Boys' Club or the Salvation Army. Instead it would collaborate with them, and strengthen them. Affiliation with a national program like VISTA would almost certainly help local charity groups and community action programs to attract volunteers and support...