Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seized Spark. It was, in fact, the dismissal of a member of this ten-man Directory that precipitated the crisis. In a bold bid to strengthen the national government and with the near-unanimous support of the Directory, Premier Ky on March 10 sacked Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the canny and insubordinate warlord of the five northernmost provinces that comprise the I Corps. Though Thi had carefully cultivated the Buddhists in his domain, notably ambitious, extremist Thich Tri Quang of Hué, Ky reportedly had Tri Quang's approval for Thi's removal. When some...
...Secretary of the Communist Party for the old Stalinist title of General Secretary, and the Presidium, or eleven-member steering committee, was renamed the Politburo-another Stalinist label. But party speakers emphasized that the names derived from Lenin's time, not from Stalin's, and would only strengthen collective leadership...
...hearings before the Senate Commerce Committee, New York's Senator Robert F. Kennedy echoed earlier pleas that the Administration strengthen its pending safety legislation and push up the deadline by which manufacturers would have to meet safety standards from the 1970 to the 1968 models. A persistent critic of Detroit's safety record, Kennedy pointed out that astronauts and test pilots undergo much greater shocks than do people in many auto accidents-and survive. He asked the Government to force automakers to do something about protecting passengers from the "second collision" when they slam into...
...were more concerned with finding means to ease Sukarno from the scene, perhaps even into exile. Already the new government is looking for a quiet way to re-enter the United Nations, which Sukarno quit in 1965, and is sounding out other countries on the possibility of aid to strengthen Indonesia's economy. The hope is eventually to slide the island republic from its leftist posture into a genuinely non-aligned position...
...results of the study seemed to strengthen Evans' argument, though other geologists feel that the cause must be something more than mere lubrication of the fracture surfaces. Both the frequency and intensity of quakes diminished dramatically as less water was pumped down the well. Furthermore, the study established that the epicenters of the quakes were located within only a mile of the well and the quake centers themselves were at 12,000 ft.-close to the bottom of the suspect well, where an earth fault was also found. The Colorado earthquakes and the Army's disposal of waste...