Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opposition leaders say their candidate, Guillermo Endaro, easily defeated Noriega's hand-picked candidate, Carlos Duque, in the presidential race. Endaro and other opposition candidates were severely beaten by Noriega supporters during protests that followed the election debacle...
...THESE people are absolutely shameless!" exclaimed Gerald Ford on Monday, denouncing Panama's election fraud. General Noriega's security forces have publicly torn ballots, closed voting areas and even beaten opposition candidates...
...FUROR over cold fusion began on March 23, as chemists B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann shocked the scientific world with the claim that they had beaten the physicists at their own game. Other scientists were cautious, but Dan Rather dived in headfirst. He led off the CBS Evening News that night with a fusion report, gushing about "what may be a tremendous scientific advance." Only a week later, physicist Steven Jones of Brigham Young University announced that he too had been producing cold fusion independently, generating neutrons but not heat. On April 1, two Hungarian scientists said that they...
...strong is the B.C. team? Its number-six player, Michelle Chau, was playing at number two last year. The Eagles also have beaten Yale, 8-1, while the Eli upset Harvard...
...leader of the white-supremacist group Aryan Nations. The invited guests: young skinhead toughs whom Butler wants to recruit to his bigoted cause. A 21-year-old Californian identified himself as "Whiteman." At a press conference he defined the skinhead philosophy as "retaliation for all the years of being beaten down by other races." He went on to predict that "a new generation has to come. The skins are the next wave...