Word: reassertions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest Gallup poll showed him beating Carter 58% to 31% among Democrats-he still remains enigmatic. As draft-Kennedy groups have started forming in Iowa and New Hampshire, and Cleveland Democrats last week called on him to enter the race, the Senator has made personal telephone calls to reassert his unavailability. And yet at the same time he repeatedly offers coy hints and insinuations that he might still become a candidate. A couple of months ago, the Senator told a favorite columnist in Boston that he would go after the nomination if Carter did not seek reelection, and the writer...
...Ambassador to the United Nations. He launches a rhetorical broadside. It is the same argument he made in the 1975 Commentary article, "The U.S. in Opposition," that vaulted him into the U.N. post; and he is writing here, not just to defend his performance at the U.N., but to reassert the principles upon which it was based. His appeal, then and now, is for a tough-minded confrontation--sleeves up, American style--between American liberalism, a force Moynihan sees as more and more timid, and the principles of "totalitarianism," in whatever forms, ideas or language they might appear. Being...
Nyerere believes that this tragic black-against-black conflict-with a built-in potential for interference by outside powers-can be averted by reviving the Anglo-American peace plan. Mugabe and Nkomo have agreed to the proposal, but Smith has not. In essence, the plan calls for Britain to reassert its legal authority over its rebel colony-which unilaterally declared its independence in 1965-as a prelude to holding elections for a new Zimbabwean government. A U.N. peace-keeping force would guarantee a truce until the creation of a unified Zimbabwe army, composed of guerrillas and "acceptable elements...
...Four major new office buildings have gone up in the revivified district. Only one corporation in Fortune's 500, the Lykes shipping and steel concern, has headquarters in New Orleans (v. ten in Houston, four in Atlanta) but this, too, may change if this exuberant, graceful city can reassert its unique identity...
...sledgehammer and leaves viewers so unsettled that it takes them a while to remember what the rest of the movie is about. Once he appears on the screen with his insipid lackeys and his hapless barber-valet, it is hard for the nicer elements of the plot to reassert themselves...