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Running against former State Sen. Victor Ashe, Gore successfully went against the grain of Reagan's two-to-one victory in the Tennessee Presidential voting. He became one of three Democrats to wrest a Senate seat from...
...died, along with ten of his followers, on Oct. 19, 1983, precipitating the U.S. invasion of Grenada six days later. Prominent among the defendants are Bernard Coard, 40, and his wife Phyllis, 39. They led an extreme leftist faction within Bishop's government that allegedly sought to wrest control from the popular Marxist leader, presumably with the intention of pursuing even more radical policies after they had gained power...
...honor guard, moved out at a brisk 116 paces a minute, in the goose step that is traditional for military displays in Communist countries. Artillery pieces boomed out a 28-gun salute, a symbolic reminder of the 28 years it took Mao Tse-tung and his Communist armies to wrest the mainland from the control of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists...
That night Helms and James Hunt, 47, the Democrat who hopes to wrest away his seat, met in the second of four scheduled television debates. It was a battle of the Old South vs. the New. Hunt is North Carolina's popular, two-term Governor, an earnest, mild-mannered and moderate Democrat. He favors voluntary school prayer and a sustained military buildup, but supports civil rights and a woman's right to abortion. As Governor he has attracted $13 billion in new business investment, added 207,000 new jobs and raised educational standards through a series of reforms...
...convincing win on the road by the two-time defending Ivy League champion Quakers only reinforced the notion that Penn is the early favorite to wrest its third staright league crown...