Word: wrestliing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sadegh Ghotbzadeh after one U.S. denial: "This runs the risk of destroying any faith the Iranians still have in what the American Government says or does." In both countries, the drama was complicated by presidential politics, with Carter fighting to win primaries and Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr struggling to wrest control of the Revolutionary Council from conservative mullahs...
...there a groundswell for Republican Maverick John Anderson. His support is strongest among voters under 35 and among those with incomes of more than $25,000. But only 32% of the people surveyed would like him to run as an independent candidate if, as now seems certain, he cannot wrest the Republican nomination from Reagan; 48% would not. And if he were to run as an independent, the poll indicates that he would finish third in the general elections, with 20% of the vote. The rest would be divided almost evenly between Carter and Reagan...
Even struggling Chrysler Corp. managed to wrest some good tidings from the generally dismal news by reaching preliminary agreement with 175 of its major domestic and foreign lenders on a $650 million aid package needed to qualify for federal loan guarantees...
...Wrest in Peace...
...represent the U.S. at the United Nations any more, but that does not mean that Andrew Young has slowed his pace or lost his taste for speaking his mind. This time he was in the Western Sahara with leaders of the Polisario Front, an independence movement that seeks to wrest the land away from Morocco. Washington is sympathetic to King Hassan II, so Young's hosts were happy to lay on the hospitality in a desert town and argue their side. The give-and-take got Andy thinking about the folks back home. "In most Government positions you spend...