Word: reassertions
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...once powerful and privileged Baganda tribe in the south has chafed under a central government and army largely controlled by Langi and Acholi tribesmen from the north. The discontent has given rise to a ragtag insurgent movement that has tried to disrupt Obote's efforts to reassert control. The government has taken brutal countermeasures. Ugandan soldiers have destroyed villages and crops and herded civilians into detention camps in an effort, as Abrams put it, "to dry up the civilian sea that the guerrillas swim...
...World War II, the French decided to reassert their century-old economic and political influence in Viet Nam. But by the mid-1940s they found themselves battling the nationalist ambitions of the Communist Viet Minh and their French-educated leader Ho Chi Minh. By 1954, with Viet Minh control spreading across the countryside, the French chose the valley of Dien Bien Phu to make a decisive stand aimed at checking the Communists. Instead, the one set-piece battle of the seven-year Indochina war led to the slaughter of 1,500 Frenchmen and, at home, to the loss of political...
...required an aristocratic blindness to humane concerns. Bligh is seen losing control of self and ship when his men fail to respond to considerate treatment. The situation worsens when he prudishly disapproves of their licentiousness during their months ashore on the sybaritic island, grows desperate as he attempts to reassert harsh discipline once the ship sets sail again...
OBVIOUSLY, one goal put forth for the pullout is to depoliticize UNESCO, to strip off its radical political edge. Another is to reassert America's leadership in the organization and in the international community generally. And a third is to force UNESCO crats to be more efficient with their money, which comes largely from the U.S. (we cast the lone "no" in the most recent budget vote at UNESCO). But what his attracted more attention than all of these is the outery at UNESCO for the licensing and regulation of journalists. The media here rightly criticizes any international government control...
...world becomes more and more of our own making, it seems less and less under our control. By showing the simple structure which underlies a complex new technology, books such as DNA for Beginners and The Gene Age help us to reassert control over it. DNA for Beginners, in particular, provides a wonderful way to humanize an otherwise bewildering subject...