Word: regaining
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Cuauhtemoc Cardenas is not certain, but he thinks that the very room in which he slept as a child 50 years ago is now being used as an office by the President of Mexico. In trying to regain that room -- and the rest of Los Pinos, as the presidential residence is known -- Cardenas has changed the political landscape of his country more than anyone, even he, believed possible...
Amid shouts of "Let's regain our national identity!" some 13,000 student protesters massed at Yonsei University in downtown Seoul last week. Their goal: to accompany an unofficial 13-member delegation to the "truce village" of Panmunjom, 30 miles away, in the Demilitarized Zone. There a matching delegation of 13 from Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, the Communist North Korean capital, waited to hold "reunification talks...
Some diplomats suggested that the Syrians' expanded security role in Beirut could improve prospects for the release of foreign hostages, including nine Americans, believed held by pro-Iranian militants in the Shi'ite neighborhoods. In his desire to regain respectability following Western charges of Syrian involvement in international terrorism, Assad would like to reap credit for seeing the hostages freed. A Western diplomat in Damascus described the security plan for the suburbs as "a move in the right direction...
...brat. Hanks wanted his twelve-year-old to be one who just happens to look 20 years older than the other kids on the block. "The hardest part -- and also the appeal -- of the role was to strip myself of all the adult layers," he says. "It was to regain the kid's sense of play. I dug up memories -- or scars -- of myself in junior high school...
According to the contacts, the arrangement was that Ghorbanifar would help bring the hostages home just in time to ensure Premier Jacques Chirac's victory in the French presidential election last month. Then, after Chirac won, Ghorbanifar would receive the backing he needed to regain his status as a world-class businessman. But Chirac was defeated in the election, and Ghorbanifar once more found himself out in the cold...