Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strengthening Prestige. In exchange for its largesse, France will be assured of enough Algerian oil to satisfy growing French consumption (which doubled to 309 million barrels between 1959 and 1964) and thereby will attain Charles de Gaulle's goal of independence from the Anglo-American oil companies. By paying francs for oil from the only major source within the franc zone, France will also save $280 million a year in foreign exchange. Perhaps most important, the agreement is a long step toward returning Algeria politically-as well as financially-to France's sphere of influence. It also serves...
...seeds of the Viet Minh-the underground outfit that would carry him to power. During the five-year Japanese occupation of World War II, he carefully nursed alliances with the Chinese Communists, the Kuomintang and the American OSS, receiving some aid from all three. His steady aim: to strengthen the Viet Minh and one day kick out the French...
...these moves will strike Parliament when it reconvenes next September remains in doubt. Members of Pearson's Liberal minority government applauded his loyalty to Favreau. But Pearson failed to strengthen the leadership of a government in which the bribery scandal was only one of many difficulties needing attention-most importantly the conflict between the provinces and federal government, and the dangerous split between French-and English-speaking Canadians...
Mary I. Bunting, Radcliffe's President who is currently completing a one-year term with the Atomic Energy Commission, delivered the Commencement address. She said that her year in Washington had served to strengthen her "conviction about the importance of thinking and working in an international framework for the benefit of mankind...
Pusey said that the middle group between timidity and aggressiveness could be found with "awareness, knowledge, and understanding, and concern. These are qualities which Harvard would like to have helped to strengthen...