Word: reasserting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fitfully but emphatically, the old polarities of the '60s could still reassert themselves. At Berkeley, the cradle of student radicalism, some 1,000 demonstrators marched with Viet Cong flags to cheer the Communist victory. Activist Tom Hayden called the fall of Saigon "the rise of Indochina...
Sanford told a less-than-enthusiastic group of about 50 at the Science Center that if elected he would work to organize a national economic council to oversee the fine tuning of the economy, to guarantee full employment and to reassert America's lost role of "moral leadership" in world affairs...
...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...