Word: reasserted
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...government as a first order of business, a task which would only be more difficult in the wake of a civilian slaughter. Continuing the aid will guarantee a bloody, protracted struggle for the city, Congress should refuse the aid and begin to work with the Khmer Rouge to reassert Cambodian self-determination and repair the damage of half a decade...
Significantly, Chang is a civilian; so is Teng, though he is a former member of Peking's National Defense Council and a political commissar who is highly respected by most army commanders. Their elevation to top army posts symbolizes Peking's ongoing effort to reassert firm civilian control over a professional military. The appointments also had political meaning. Just two years ago, Teng was still in disgrace, a victim of the Cultural Revolution's excesses; now, highly placed in all three of China's most powerful institutions, the party, the government and the army...
...Myron is a staid and politically conservative Southern Californian, a caterer of Chinese food, a dog fancier and the husband of the lovely Mary-Ann, whom Myra lusted after in Book I. Yet deep within Myron the old Myra lives on, awaiting the moment to reassert her evil nature - or, as she likes to put it, to become "the Embodiment of Necessary Mutancy on the verge of creating a superrace, in my image...
...suspense settled on the question of whether Chris Evert could complete her rapid transit from crown princess to empress of the sport. Grass is not her favorite surface, though that did not stop her from taking the Wimbledon crown this summer. But King's grit could reassert itself, and a number of foreign competitors, including Australia's Evonne Goolagong and Russia's Olga Morozova, are around to keep the action crisp...
Long before Watergate, it was obvious that the balance of power between the U.S. presidency and Congress (as well as, to some extent, local government) had been seriously upset. For American leadership to reassert itself, this imbalance will have to be righted, and the current constitutional struggle relating to Watergate is only part of the picture...