Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican committee member, Ohio's William Ayres, a Powell pal whose Akron district has a heavily Negro vote. Ayres, who may some day succeed Powell, was worried that the chairmanship itself would be weakened by clipping Powell's wings. But the rules changes adopted last week should strengthen the committee's hand by eliminating the wanton delays that have often kept important legislation in the pigeonhole...
Like the market itself, Funston has had his downs as well as ups. Insiders complain that he failed to strengthen his spotty staff and that he had a chip on his shoulder in dealing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Relations were much smoother between the SEC and American Stock Exchange President Edwin D. Etherington who, before he accepted the presidency of Wesleyan University this summer, was the favored choice to follow Funston...
...district was ambushed, and ten of its 15 members killed. The attack shocked both Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur into action. Fortnight ago, Malaysian Home Minister Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman and Thailand's Deputy Defense Minister Dawee Chullasapaya sat down in Bangkok for a series of conferences to strengthen joint cooperation-which was encouraged by another clash in the south last week between a Thai police patrol and five armed Chinese who fled into the bush...
Nonetheless, a good deal of firearm violence could no doubt be prevented. By limiting interstate gun sales, the Dodd bill would strengthen the power of states to enforce their own gun laws. In most states, stiffer controls are needed-minimizing, for example, spur-of-the-moment shootings by providing "cooling-off" periods of several days before anyone can obtain a new weapon, as well as prohibiting all gun sales to criminals and known psychotics. Yet, despite the renewed clamoring for action, it is far from certain that the Dodd bill will be enacted, largely because of the influence wielded...
When Russia called the nations of the Warsaw Pact together for their first full-dress ministerial meeting in 18 months, the avowed intention of Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev was to strengthen the military command structure of the Red alliance. Brezhnev insisted that the conference be held in Bucharest in order to demonstrate that even the recalcitrant Rumanians could be pressed into a show of Communist unity. Yet when the four-day conference ended last week, the best Brezhnev had achieved was a standoff...