Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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History seems to show that modern dictatorships cannot be maintained in relaxed societies: they require a visible enemy and an atmosphere of struggle and danger. One effect of détente with the West is to strengthen more liberal groups in totalitarian societies that favor domestic reforms and are opposed to adventuristic expansion abroad. détentes also erode the authority of Communist regimes that have little or no popular support. Contacts and exchanges with the West tend to give fresh impetus to East Europe's aspirations for independence from Moscow...
...keen ambition of Lin Piao. The longtime defense chief knows full well that his chances of succeeding Mao some day depend on close ties with the army commanders in the provinces. It became Huang's task, when Lin promoted him to Chief of Staff 15 months ago, to strengthen those ties. Along the way, Huang has been making some ties of his own. To sidestep the aging marshals in the Peking Pentagon known as the Military Affairs Commission, Huang set up a small administrative office, from which he and a group of supporters effectively run the army. In serving...
...enveloping stink of rotten eggs, which turned out to be a massive belch of hydrogen sulfide. Though officials blamed the offensive odor on an oil company plant, they were unable to prosecute for "lack of sufficient evidence." Like the Japanese, though, they did begin at last to strengthen antipollution laws and enforcement measures of the kind that have lately been applied to Sydney's famous beaches, which are now fouled by a daily outpouring of 200 million gallons of sewage...
...Fiat. Since Fiat's sales are much greater than Michelin's ($2.3 billion compared with $1.1 billion last year), many French observers expect that the Italian company will ultimately dominate Citroen, which lost money last year on sales of $1.4 billion. The deal will strengthen the position of Gianni
...French looked to Hollywood for their archetypes and developed a narrative freedom from that base, Belocchio has turned to the Italian comic opera. China is Near has the lineality, characterization and coincidence of the nineteenth century novel, and is thus unfashionably paced. Bellocchio employs this style to internally strengthen his characterization of politics mired in conflicts between self-interest and ideals...