Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mounting Mayhem. U.S. money alone cannot strengthen the Vietnamese will to fight-or counteract the rising, deliberate Red policy to break that will through terror. For almost a month, the rate of Viet Cong terrorist "incidents" has been up from an average 300 to 400 per week to 500 to 700, with a higher-than-usual percentage consisting of seemingly senseless mayhem. The Reds have mined and fired on peasant-loaded buses, ambushed three-wheeled Lambretta motor scooters, which are a favorite peasant means of conveyance, and unmercifully harassed junk families on canals and rivers. Last month the Reds burned...
Probably the most important recommendations of the Gen Ed Committee, however, are its proposals to strengthen the hand of the Gen Ed Committee in its battle to staff its courses. Whether or not its recommendations will succeed, if they are adopted, is an open question, but they combine the carrot of sabbaticals and the stick of quotas into a system of persuasion and coercion more extensive than anything yet tried. It is questionable, however, how they will offset the idea in the minds of junior Faculty members that their promotion will depend more upon their work in their departments then...
Currently Dean of Graduate and Professional Women, Mrs. Kerby-Miller will be academic vice-president while Mrs. Bunting serves a one-year term on the Atomic Energy Commission; she said in an interview Tuesday that she hopes to strengthen all of Mrs. Bunting's programs, particularly the House system and the advisory plan...
Perhaps the best policy would be a mixture of the two alternatives. It would be insane to announce our intention to free East Germany, but the relaxation of tensions which would probably follow Khrushchev's death might offer a real opportunity to strengthen U.S. economic and cultural ties with the nations of Eastern Europe...
These are not offensive policies; in the end they might strengthen the peace that Khrushchev and Kennedy achieved together. They are, on the other hand, valid foreign policy objectives for the United States which the Soviets could meet without loss of face...