Word: wrest
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Just a year after the Geneva agreement consolidated Laos' three warring factions into a single government, the precarious arrangement is falling apart. Reason: the Communists are simply ignoring the truce, as well as their longtime alliance with Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma, and are seeking to wrest control of the vital Plain of Jars in central Laos from neutralist troops. Though at first suspicious of the neutralist regime, Rightist General Phoumi Nosavan sent four battalions to help it. Despite such assistance, the neutralist forces under General Kong Le have only one strategic position left on the plain - Phou Theneng mountain...
Ryan's first victory against Tammany came in 1957, when upper West Side Democrats chose him as district leader. By 1960 he was popular enough to wrest the Congressional nomination for New York's 20th district from Tammany's inert Ludwig Teller. This fall, when Tammany and upstate Republicans reapportioned him into a largely unfamiliar district, Ryan scored a strong victory over De Sapio's man, Herbert Zelenko...
...Young Democrats have had similar problems. Last year a group of Lowell House activists tried to combine with Dunster members in an effort to wrest control of the club from the Quincy element. The attempt, which was only partially successful, was made for purely House, rather than ideological commitments...
...Documents. Ferreting out these criminals is the fulltime task of the Central Office for Nazi Crimes, a Wrest German government investigation agency organized in 1958 to coordinate the faltering prosecution efforts of the separate West German Länder (states). Operating in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart, the Central Office includes a judge or prosecuting attorney from each of the ten Länder as well as West Berlin, plus a staff of 25 specialists who search out and study cache after cache of Hitler's wartime records. Their goal is always the same: new names and new evidence. The Central...
...areas--Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan. Though Indian influence was originally very strong in all of them, the Indians have of late been losing ground to the Chinese. In the extreme east, where India and Tibet meet directly, some-what more than 100,000 Chinese troops are currently trying to wrest the area from Indian control...