Word: contests
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SEVILLE, Spain--Anatoly Karpov, the challenger, scored a dramatic victory yesterday in the next-to-last game of the World Chess Championship, putting him in position to take the title from champion Garri Kasparov with a draw in the final contest...
...last week the Sail America group reluctantly accepted the challenge, amid indications it would seize every rule advantage to dismast the pesky Fay. As the defender, San Diego may choose the contest's locale but will not announce it until 90 days beforehand. Tentative plans are to race the New Zealanders late next summer, then (assuming a victory and no other wild-card ^ challenges) return to using 12-meters for a San Diego regatta in 1991. Meanwhile, the San Diegans are exploring some distinctly un-America's Cuppish designs, notably a "killer mosquito" hydrofoil. They have even suggested that...
...Most Haitians think new elections would do little more than install a pro- military puppet regime. Namphy has pledged a fair contest, but many people are bitterly skeptical. "To the sons of the Duvalierists, words are like bullets: they are both used indiscriminately," says a former army officer who, like most Haitians, is fearful of reprisals if his name is seen in print. While Washington has called on Namphy to provide a "free, fair and secure electoral process," a U.S. official concedes, "We frankly don't maintain much hope that they will do the right thing." In Haiti, a consensus...
That was hardly an auspicious start for the man the 50-member council finally, at 4 a.m., elected Chicago's acting mayor. Normally calm and courtly, Sawyer was so shaken by the twelve-hour wrangle that he considered pulling out of the contest. He feared not only that he could not unite blacks but that the rising emotions might turn violent. Five aldermen supporting Sawyer said they had received death threats; at least one wore a bulletproof vest during the wild debate. But after asking ministers to pray with him in an upstairs office, Sawyer decided to stay...
...appears to be gaining momentum as the middle-of- the-road candidate. Notes Han Sung Joo, a Korea University political scientist: "Both Kim Dae Jung and Roh Tae Woo are opposed by a majority of the voters. Kim Young Sam is clearly the most electable." He adds that the contest is becoming a race between Roh and Kim Young Sam. No one, however, is quite ready to count out Kim Dae Jung. Though Han believes Kim Dae Jung will capture little more than 30% of the vote, he could still win if the minor candidates do better than expected, while...