Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite their radically different habits, Rifaat and Hafez Assad share the same political goals. As members of the Alawite branch of Shi'ite Islam, both are determined to preserve the sect's control. The Alawites have dominated Syria for 13 years, mostly because of the adamantine grip of Hafez...
...guerrillas have strengthened their grip mainly in the eastern provinces. They control a strategic 62-mile stretch of Pacific beach and can roam freely through most of the countryside. To the north, the insurgents have streamed down from Chalatenango and the mountain redoubt of Guazapa to infiltrate the province of Cabañas and the fertile strip of northern Cuscatlán (see map). Though command of the villages seesaws between rebel and government forces, the guerrillas have held on to about 50 towns. For the first time in the four-year civil war, the forces of the Farabundo Marti...
Harvard scored twice within two minutes in the second period to claim a two-goal advantage and grab a decisive grip on the contest. But the offense stopped there, and half-way through the third period Northeastern crept to within one. The momentum switched suddenly...
...again, the legislators had bowed meekly to lobbies unconcerned about the broader national interest. Ostensibly, O'Neill and the Democrats control the House by a margin of 268 to 167. But in the 214-to-204 vote against considering the tax bill, the Speaker's slipping leadership grip was evident: he found 65 Democrats voting against him. An even bigger factor in the loss was the partisanship of the Republican opposition. Fully 149 G.O.P. Representatives voted nay, only 13 aye. O'Neill's barbed protest was apt: "The next time I see Republican crocodile tears about...
...Khomeini Shi'ite clerics. During last year's Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon, Musawi was joined by 300 Iranian Revolutionary Guards who had entered the country through Syria with the avowed intention of battling the Israelis. Instead, the Guards stayed in Baalbek to help Musawi consolidate his grip. As the number of Guards grew to some 1,000 during the next few months, they transformed the city and its environs into a miniature Iranian state. They lectured the locals on Khomeini's Musawi under Khomeini's picture teachings, banned liquor and forced women to wear headscarfs...