Word: claiming
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...committee did not consider Bell's claim, but by a unanimous vote decided that senatorial vanity was indeed exceeding the bounds of modesty. Henceforth, ruled the committee, the pronouns "I," "he" and "his," as well as "the Senator" or the word "Senator" followed by the officeholder's name, may occur no more than five times per page on franked newsletters...
Damascus' imposition of the cease-fire on Lebanon was a personal triumph for Syrian President Hafez Assad. He can now legitimately pose as the protector of the Lebanese Moslems and claim to have prevented an Arab state from destroying itself in a civil war. Moreover, he has acquired some measure of authority over the 400,000 Palestinians living in Lebanon. By using the P.L.A. to stop the fighting, Assad avoided direct Syrian military intervention in Lebanon, which might have triggered an invasion by Israeli troops...
Wrestling for the barren but phosphate-rich former Spanish colony (103,000 sq. mi., pop. 73,000) began in the wake of last November's "Green March"-350,000 unarmed, Koran-carrying Moroccans dispatched by King Hassan II to lay claim to the territory. Though the marchers halted short of Spanish battle lines, Hassan secured from Madrid an agreement partitioning the colony between Morocco and Mauritania. Algeria quickly denounced the deal and warned darkly of "protracted guerrilla...
...December, as Moroccan and Mauritanian occupying forces moved in, guerrillas from an acronymic Algerian-trained liberation group known as the Frente Polisario staged a series of violent clashes and ambushes against both armies. Polisario spokesmen claim to have inflicted particularly heavy losses on Mauritania's tiny (3,800 men) army-219 killed and 37 P.O.W.s. Two weeks ago, Polisario guerrillas downed a Moroccan F-5 fighter flying close cover during a clash between the guerrillas and Mauritanian forces. Meanwhile, Algerian diplomats denounced Moroccan "aggression" in world forums. Some 35,000 Moroccans living in Algeria were deported, and the bulk...
Died. Angelo Ravagli, 84, self-proclaimed catalyst of D.H. Lawrence's novel of infidelity Lady Chatterley's Lover; in Spotorno, Italy. Ravagli made the claim, supported by at least one biographer, that Lawrence's wife Frieda could not resist his graceful good looks and finally yielded to him while the Lawrences vacationed in Spotorno-at which point Lawrence discovered them flagrante delicto. Lawrence took literary revenge by writing Lady Chatterley. In 1930, after Lawrence succumbed to tuberculosis, Ravagli wrote to Frieda: "I am waiting for you." She came. Ravagli abandoned his wife and three children for Frieda...