Word: reassertions
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...years ago. By far India's most pro-West party, Swatantra stands for free enterprise, appeals to India's growing middle class and business interests. Third place went to the Jana Sangh Party, which has won 33 seats so far. A conservative Hindu party that wants to reassert India's historic greatness, the Jana Sangh championed a national ban on cow slaughter, campaigned for atom bombs for India and a harder line with Moslem Pakistan and Communist China. Jana Sangh and Swatantra share one goal that may be very beneficial for India: they want to dismantle...
Some Spaniards fear that last week's disturbances may cause Franco to reverse his liberal trend and reimpose totalitarian controls. Now that Spaniards have had a taste of the new liberalism, however, any attempts to reassert the old autocratic rule might only provoke even greater violence among students and workers. That would wipe out Franco's plan to guide Spain into a new era of freedom before his death, and with it his hope that history will judge him as a ruler who knew when to innovate rather than to dictate...
...last determined gamble of Saigon's government to reassert its authority. Premier Nguyen Cao Ky was striking directly at rebellious elements in his own army and indirectly at the militant Buddhists. The clash began with the lightning predawn "invasion" of rebellious Danang by Vietnamese marines loyal to Premier Ky. Soon all the sound and fury of incipient civil war had enveloped the crucial northern base town: the clank of tank treads, the rattle of sniper fire, the sodden plop of tear-gas grenades, the sudden sky-shaking roar of strafing aircraft. Danang's chaotic clangor had its echoes...
...ambition to reassert the dynasty, Siegmund Warburg faces a frustration. His only son left the firm to start his own accounting business, and the two men are not close. The War burg future seems to depend on the smaller branch in Germany, where Eric Warburg is carefully bringing along his 18-year-old son, also an American...
...sign of mellowing in the Chinese revolution. Though Mao would hardly appreciate the comparison, Fairbank said that the Chinese leader actually more closely resembles the prototypical Chinese emperor than any of his heroes in the Marxist pantheon. Eventually, he said, the better side of the feudal Chinese ruler may reassert itself in his successors. China is still governed, after all, by a "great Confucian political fiction, the myth of rule by virtue...