Word: re-establish
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...Viet Nam business, Shastri's cool unconcern paid off with Indian audiences, proving to their satisfaction that humility pays. Last week Shastri tackled a micro cosm of the problems that plague his nation. He wrapped up his four-day visit to Yugoslavia by attempting once again to re-establish India's image as a crisis mediator, signed a communique that neither damned the U.S. nor praised the Viet Cong. Back in New Delhi, he called in the bosses of India's 16 states and wrung from them approval for a long overdue food rationing plan. He also...
...threat to peace lies between the extremes, between Russia's evolutionary progress and China's hard adherence to a fundamentalist philosophy. In the struggle for power and legitimacy throughout the Communist world, Moscow and Peking could in time be locked in a bitter internecine contest to re-establish the gospel of Lenin in all its belligerent purity. In appeal and purpose, Communism today is unquestionably a failing creed. Yet it is precisely in decline and decay that ideologies, like empires, can prove most dangerous...
...troops did not evacuate the civilians and withdraw. They were told to "re-establish order...
Proponents claim that the only way to re-establish the confidence of minority groups in the police is through the establishment of independent boards that would study civilian complaints against the police and recommend remedies and punishments to police commissioners. They insist that such boards would not interfere with normal police work, but would only deter bullies in uniform from using undue muscle. The end result, they say, would be an improved climate of community trust...
...France was unable to maintain, control over the country-side. Faced with consolidated Communist power backed by the peasantry, they could only have found local support among the disinherited landlords and the remnants of the pre-war colonial administration. Attempts to re-establish the landlords failed, however, and the French were forced to fight a long and increasingly hopeless war against the Viet Minh, the peasant guerilla forces...