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...Khmer Rouge and the North Vietnamese with a helpful propaganda tool in their efforts to rally the rural population to their side in Cambodia's unresolved war. If the Communists also step up their military efforts in the countryside, Lon Nol's troubles are bound to worsen drastically...
...have been a persuasive of the leitmotif of his '68 : "Nixon's the One!" He may not be the want, but he is the one you're with. At --writing a piece on the first anniversary State was one of my own--the Nixon affliction seems to threaten to worsen from the chronic to the malignantly permanent...
Drawing Card. Oddly enough, the chief reservations expressed in Congress came not from Democratic welfare reformers, but from Republicans. Liberals considered the bill such a paper tiger that they did not bother to campaign against it, despite denunciations from welfare groups. Nixon supporters feared that the bill would worsen the odds for passage of H.R. 1. John Byrnes, ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, voted for the bill but lamented that the Talmadge package "contains the stick, but not the carrot." With workfare pre-empted by the Talmadge legislation, the Administration loses its most powerful drawing card...
...Bengali refugees who have spilled into India since civil war broke out in East Pakistan last March. Instead, Mrs. Gandhi praised Indians for their "courage, dignity and self-restraint" in meeting the "danger" and exhorted them to do nothing in anger or haste that might worsen the situation...
...disposal. Soledad, a medium security prison, is by no means a pleasant environment in which to spend your twenty-first year on earth, but Q has long been notorious as the roughest joint in the state. By exhibiting their ability not only to deny him release but also to worsen the conditions of his confinement, the authorities hoped to drive defiance from Jackson by intimately acquainting him with the cost of such resistance...