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...will. .. The confidence that we have always had as a people is not simply some romantic dream or a proverb in a dusty book that we read just on the Fourth of July . . . Confidence has defined our course . . . We know the strength of America. We are strong. We can regain our unity. We can regain our confidence . . . Let us commit ourselves together to a rebirth of the American spirit...
Mulroney may find that his most trying moments are spent dealing not with Washington but with his Tory colleagues. The new Prime Minister won the election partly because he succeeded so well in uniting a fractious party. With victory secured, however, the Progressive Conservatives could easily regain their penchant for bickering over ideological and regional issues. In a parliamentary majority this lopsided, Tory backbenchers may grow restless, or find it safe to dissent from the government line, or even−form cabals to pursue narrow issues. The 58 Tory members from Quebec may prove especially difficult to control. Most...
...T.S.P.M. was revived by 1980 under the leadership of Nanjing's Bishop Ding Guangxun, 68, a former Anglican. His T.S.P.M. has had an uphill struggle in seeking to regain control of Chinese Protestantism, a battle complicated by a woefully small number of church buildings to accommodate worshipers. The T.S.P.M. estimates there are 3 million Protestants in the country, about the same number as the official count of Catholics. But the respected Chinese Church Research Center in Hong Kong claims that house-church members swell the Protestant total to 30 million or more. Privately, some Chinese officials say the figure...
...Indians, their uniformed shoulders draped with bandoliers, travel on foot, by leaky dugout canoe and on horseback. Using modern, U.S.-made M-16 automatic rifles and M-60 machine guns, they are carrying out a hit-and-run campaign of harassment and sabotage against the government. Their mission: to regain the ancestral lands and autonomy that they feel were taken from them by the Sandinistas who have ruled Nicaragua for the past five years...
After the goal, Iraq quickly regained their composure and pushed the pace, struggling to regain the advantage. Iraq had been pressing the middle of Canada's defense all night and with seven minutes left in the game, Hussain Saeed Mohamed slipped between the defense off a free kick, set play and beat Lettieri to tie the game...