Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Suárez González and dominated by his Democratic Center Union. Voters in India swept Prime Minister Indira Gandhi out of office after 18 months of her emergency rule. The new Prime Minister, Morarji Desai, launched civil and criminal investigations into the discredited Gandhi government, but by year's end had still not focused his attention upon India's real problems of overpopulation, economic inflation, unemployment and growing labor troubles...
Other Arabs have grudgingly acknowledged Egypt's leadership. They send their sons to learn in Cairo, the great teaching center of the Middle East. Al Azhar, founded in the 10th century, is older than Oxford, Cambridge or the Sorbonne; Cairo University, with 95,000 students, is not only the biggest university in the Middle East but one of the largest in the world. Cairo's four universities, indeed, turn out more graduates than the impoverished Egyptian economy can absorb, and more than 1 million of them now work, often in key positions, in other Arab countries. The remittances they send...
...sorry, sir, but the National Hurricane Center has named this one Bernard...
...episode in the Los Angeles Forum began when Washington and Houston Center Kevin Kunnert jousted briefly under the backboards after a Rocket rebound had sent the rest of the players upcourt. Suddenly, Washington slugged Kunnert. Tomjanovich, leading the other Rockets, raced back upcourt to assist the dazed Kunnert. As Tomjanovich ran by, the 6 ft. 8 in.. 230 lb. Washington wheeled and swung, catching him squarely in the face. Tomjanovich, also 6 ft. 8 in., but 10 lbs. lighter, went down like a felled tree, his head striking the hardwood court with a thud. There he lay, unconscious, bleeding...
Only last month the Lakers' Kareem Abdul-Jabbar broke his hand by clobbering Milwaukee Buck Rookie Center Kent Benson, who suffered a mild concussion. After that incident, O'Brien formed a committee to examine proposals for reducing the violence in pro basketball. Among the possible rule changes: penalties, similar to those in hockey, that remove a player for specified times; the use of a third referee to help sort out infractions that occur in the confined area under the basket, where elbows fly and tempers flare. The people who usually lurk beneath the hoop are heavyweights; most N.B.A...