Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain forced a broader debate, insisting that the Council consider any secessionist problem, from whatever direction, put its weight behind a constructive program to strengthen Premier Adoula's central government. The U.S. was urging that Adoula's army be reorganized and given a "small but effective air force" to back up Congolese ground troops; this would not be good news for Katanga's Tshombe, who, with his own little handful of planes, has been able to launch deadly forays against both Adoula's forces and the U.N. itself from time to time...
...maintained that de Gaulle has failed to strengthen military and popular allegiance to the state because he has appealed to the people as a personality while regarding the army "with more contempt than sympathy...
...Central Kitchen is trying to strengthen its lines of communications with the students," she maintained, and the dining hall supervisors "make a report every evening of complaints they have heard during...
...issues of Civil Rights, automation and the political role of labor has been one of retreat. Realizing that a passive labor movement is a respectable one, he has done all he can for the respectability of American unions. He is running for re-election next month, and nothing could strengthen organized labor more than his defeat...
...their chance to try a comeback. On Malaya's east coast fanatic Moslems in the Pan Malayan Islamic Party preach Malay race supremacy over the Chinese. Any downward plunge of the economy-always a possibility should there be a precipitous drop in world rubber or tin prices-would strengthen the extremists. "All this implies a state of balance so precarious.'' says U.S. Far Eastern Scholar Willard Hanna, "that one stumble might lead to disaster. The miracle is that so far no one has stumbled...