Word: reassertions
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...scent of blackmail there, yet the hard fact remains that the U.S. could restore a much needed degree of transatlantic calm if its fair-weather allies were not quite so nervously eyeing the thunderheads over Soviet-American relations. With calm restored, the U.S. might then be able to reassert the strong leadership and the discipline within the alliance that will be necessary the next time trouble brews between East and West...
Seeking to reassert his control over restive union locals, Walesa then embarked on a tour of some of the country's main trouble spots. He went first to the southern town of Rzeszow, near the Soviet border, where government representatives were meeting with some of the 300 farmers who have occupied a local government building for five weeks. Their key demand was legalization of Rural Solidarity, the independent farm union. Kania last week reiterated his opposition to the farm union as a potential instrument of "political struggle against the people's power." The supreme court is expected...
...them based on volatile political grievances, thus for the moment relegating Walesa to chasing his movement rather than leading it. Walesa traveled to the southern city of Rzeszow last week, where dissident farmers and workers had occupied a government building to dramatize their demands for Rural Solidarity. Hoping to reassert his authority, Walesa joined the strikers, vowing to remain on the site until the issues were settled...
...need for increased cooperation between Honduras and El Salvador armed forces to reassert government control over disputed border areas currently held by Salvadorean guerrillas...
That mandate is specific: to control inflation, to reduce unnecessary governmental interference in private lives and in business, to reassert America's prominence in the world. That is all there is to it, and that is plenty. The mandate does not necessarily include far-right hit lists, censorship, the absence of gun control, prayer in schools and a constitutional amendment banning abortion. These things are significant if problematical, but they do not represent majority wishes. Nor does the Reagan mandate suggest approval of a national pulpit for Jerry Falwell's lethal sweet talk or of the National Conservative Political Action...