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The years from 1946 to 1949 saw the Dutch trying to reassert control; however, weakened as it was from years of Nazi occupation, the Netherlands was not able to muster the huge forces needed to recapture all the islands.
But as elections get closer--for congressional Democrats in 1998 and for Al Gore in 2000--the attraction of "defending" Medicare will reassert itself.
Even if the GOP somehow loses seats in both houses, it can ignore its relative setbacks and reassert its absolute supremacy.
Western analysts now fear that the generals are using Chechnya to reassert control over national security and foreign policy.
Akbar rushed back to reassert his power but he died soon after, poisoned, it is rumored, by his son.