Word: relinquish
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...general in the North Vietnamese army and former head of the Communist Party's ideology and culture department, who became one of the country's most prominent dissidents; in Hanoi. Do had been under surveillance since 1999, when he was expelled from the party for advocating that it relinquish its monopoly on power...
...over the death of two young teenage girls who were crushed by a military vehicle during a June training exercise on a public highway not far from Tongduchon. Numerous apologies from the U.S. military have failed to cool growing public anger over the incident. The military has refused to relinquish jurisdiction over the soldiers...
...CONTRITION] [Strong stench] The elder Rigas hasn't gone public but reportedly wept in front of creditors after agreeing to relinquish control of his company...
...sending troops and tanks to once again attack Arafat in his office, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is reiterating his demand that Arafat relinquish power as a precondition for progress. But targeting Arafat is, in many ways, a symbolic response for the Israelis to a day-to-day security crisis which has scarcely eased since "Operation Defensive Shield" and the ongoing Israeli operations in West Bank towns that have continued ever since. While some of them support the idea, Israel's security chiefs don't believe that getting rid of Arafat will stop terror attacks. The Palestinian leader's political popularity...
...fate of Palestinian reform depends on three factors: Arafat's willingness to relinquish his almost monarchical grip on Palestinian institutions and accept constitutional limits on his role; Israel's willingness to end its de-facto reoccupation of PA territory in the West Bank; and the willingness of the international community to apply pressure in pursuit of the first...