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...Daoud claims to have founded the group's intelligence department, called El Rasd (the Observation), in 1968; he was deeply involved in Fatah preparations to wrest control of Jordan from King Hussein in September 1970. Abu Daoud was shot in the leg in one of the early battles of that Black September and spent the rest of the war recuperating in Damascus. After his recovery, he was sent on missions to Europe, North Korea and China to seek support for the Palestinian cause...
They have allowed the state to wrest children out of the parents' control through forced bussing; they have not interfered with the abortion mills sprouting up coast to coast; nor, as another example, have they protested the recruiting by homosexual organizations at colleges and high schools. They are either undisturbed by such activity because "those people have just as much right to their lifestyle as we do," or they don't want to cause controversy in the community...
...votes that enabled him to blank Ford in the Texas primary, and to his support elsewhere by the now leaderless Wallace following. By carrying California and Texas, in both of whose primaries he swamped Ford, and picking off some Southern states he has demonstrated that no other Republican could wrest from Carter, Reagan insists the Republicans would have a better chance to win with him as the candidate...
...leaders had been persecuted by Mussolini's Fascists, and served in the Resistance; their return to power seemed to usher in a genuinely liberal, reformist era. For example, in the brooding, once impoverished Polesine, the Po River delta south of Venice, the Christian Democrats were able to wrest power from the Marxists by pressing a vigorous land-to-the-tillers program. The party spent lavishly on flood control, construction of barns and houses, and equipment for mechanized farming. Industrialization gradually transformed the purely agricultural character of the Polesine, creating a modern working class and urban prosperity...
...freshmen stormed back to wrest the momentum from the Warriors, pelting the enemy net to the tune of three unanswered goals...