Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reagan still claims the loyalty of about one-third of his party in state after state. The large number of Republican candidates (nine) challenging him tends to split the anti-Reagan vote and thus strengthen the front runner. Reagan, however, carries some weighty burdens. He is 68 years old. If he wins, he will be the oldest President ever elected in U.S. history. Perhaps more important, the theatrics of American politics tends to make any three-time candidate seem shopworn...
...hovers above 90°. After comments on the weather, conversations with leather-faced Iraqi peasants, sipping lemon tea or sweet Turkish coffee, or with natty young chain-smoking bureaucrats from nearby ministries turn these days to politics. That means the ascendancy of Saddam Hussein, who has moved decisively to strengthen his grip on the country...
...basic disagreement over Israeli policy for the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. A day later, the country's Supreme Court struck a body blow at the Begin government's policy of permitting Jewish settlements to be established in the West Bank on the pretext that they strengthen Israel's ''security...
...Moscow, unusually attentive to Western journalists, argued that the missile build-up was an attempt by the U.S. to circumvent SALT II. Communist parties and other left-wing groups in Western Europe were enlisted to spread the word that the U.S.S.R. might have to take unspecified steps to strengthen its security...
...Tuesday, one year and two weeks before the final election. California Gov. and unannounced Democratic candidate JERRY BROWN [left] demanded increased public control of private business and criticized forced busgng before a jampacked Sanders Theater audience. Republican presidential hopeful JOHN B. ANDERSON [R-Ill.] (right) said the country must strengthen itself domestically to reaffirm its standing in the eyes of the world...