Word: strengthened
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...Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia and others. Indeed, the main issue no longer appears to be whether SALT II will pass, although that is not yet certain; instead, it is what kind of measures will accompany the treaty to strengthen the nation's defenses and send the right signals to the Kremlin and America's allies...
Washington hopes that the new government's need for assistance in rebuilding its shattered society will keep the junta on a moderate course. The Carter Administration clearly is trying to strengthen the tenuous relationship with the new government that developed during the long negotiations that led to Somoza's abdication. At his Washington press conference last week, President Carter said it was a mistake for Americans to assume that every abrupt change in the hemisphere is somehow "the result of secret, massive Cuban intervention." As for the future, he said, "we will use our efforts in a proper...
...action never let up." So said TIME'S White House correspondent Christopher Ogden last week, describing both Jimmy Carter's drive to strengthen his Administration and our Washington bureau's efforts to cover and interpret the fast-breaking developments. While that task occupied the entire bureau, as well as TIME correspondents around the world, no one was more deeply engaged in the process than Ogden. It was 1:30 Monday morning last week when TIME completed its coverage of the President's dramatic Sunday night address (copies of the magazine were in the hands of readers...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) this week gave Harvard $300,000 as part of a $6 million program to strengthen 25 major research libraries throughout the nation...
Western intelligence experts believe that Pakistan has been trying for at least 15 years to develop a nuclear bomb, primarily to strengthen its defenses against neighboring India. When New Delhi tested its first atomic bomb in 1974, Islamabad stepped up its own efforts. The late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was then Pakistan's Prime Minister, warned that "we will eat leaves and grass, even go hungry" to build the country's own weapon. "There's a Hindu bomb, a Jewish bomb and a Christian bomb," Bhutto once wrote. "There must be an Islamic bomb...