Word: reassertions
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...were heard at commemorative ceremonies last week in Gdynia and Szczecin, the other flash points of the 1970 revolts. The observances themselves could have been construed as a challenge to Moscow, but the Kremlin was apparently prepared to swallow them, for the sake of helping the Polish Communist Party reassert its authority. After weeks of roller-coaster crisis, leaders of the party and Solidarity, the foundation of Poland's independent unions, appear to have reached at least a temporary meeting of minds. One White House aide, delighted that the threat of an immediate Soviet invasion appears to have passed...
Kania needs time to reassert the party's authority. And to gain time, he needs cooperation from the workers...
French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who also had his doubts about Carter's steadiness, expects a Reagan Administration to reassert U.S. power. After meeting with Schmidt last week, Giscard said: "France can only rejoice at the sight of a strong America determined fully to assume its responsibilities...
...fact that the vast majority of Soviet Jews are not religious. The opportunity to follow religious customs, or even to become familiar with them, for the most part does not exist. The choice thus is between continuing to live as before--without religion in their daily lives--or to reassert their faith once they have the opportunity. Few Jewish immigrants choose the former route. Most, at least in a cultural sense, become emotionally or socially involved with the religion and the Boston Jewish community...
Iraq last week attempted to reassert its sovereignty over the 60-mile-long Shatt al-Arab river separating the two countries renouncing the 1975 agreement in which it had partially relinquished control to Iran...