Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Vietnamese and Viet Cong battalions. The Communists have divided the area into six military subdivisions-one comprising Saigon and Cholon, the other five wedges pointing at the heart of the city-and parceled out their troops among them. Not all of the Communist units are at full strength, but each of the five wedges harbors an infantry regiment, an artillery battalion, four autonomous main-force battalions and guerrillas. Already inside the capital, say intelligence sources, is the so-called A2/C 10 Special Action Command of perhaps 1,600 undercover troops, including both longtime operators and men recently infiltrated...
Three Reforms. Even so, Western diplomats may find temporary solace in the fact that for some time France will lack the economic strength to speculate against the pound and dollar. Despite its announcement of impending nuclear tests, France must also slow down the development of its force de frappe, whose creation runs directly counter to the present world trend of bringing nuclear weaponry under controls. Charles de Gaulle will now have to pay much more attention to domestic affairs. He has already moved fast in the area of greatest peril, the economic front. Despite France's huge foreign-reserve...
...Parliament, one-fifth of whose members would be appointed by the ruling government, would have almost no power over the Premier. Greece's fractious voters would be reduced to casting their ballots for or against the government in power, with no guarantee that they could muster enough strength to overcome the ruling regime's 20% edge...
While years of balance of payments deficits have weakened the dollar and forced the U.S. to curb the outflow of its money to foreign countries, the rising strength of the Deutsche mark has impelled West Germany to take an opposite course. To offset their embarrassingly big trade surplus ($4.2 billion last year), the Germans have started exporting large quantities of investment capital to the rest of the world. Last year that flow of money reached $900 million, and this year it is expected to grow even further, to $1.5 billion. Reinforcing the trend, Germany's aggressive Dresdner Bank...
...Secondly, Johnson completely misjudged, miscalculated the Vietnamese. He thought that if the strongest country, militarily and industrially, decided that something was right for Vietnam, then the other side would capitulate. Johnson is a man of action and feels that if you know that you have the strength, show your strength resolutely, and the other side will cave in. The other side hasn't caved in. To Johnson I am sure that it is inconceivable that this tiny country is beating...