Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BEST COMEBACK Returning to the ring against everyone's wishes, Sugar Ray Leonard protected his repaired retina long enough to restore his crown in a startling upset of Middleweight Champion Marvin Hagler...
Israel's measures drew harsh denunciations from its Arab neighbors. Jordan's King Hussein, on a state visit to Moscow, declared that the riots represent a "natural and real response of the Palestinian people," while Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah professed pride in the "struggle of the brotherly Palestinian people." There were calls for new terrorist attacks from Israel's neighbors. On Friday evening three Arab raiders, members of Abu Abas' Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, heeded that call and crossed into Israel from the upper Jordan Valley. They were apprehended after a brief fire fight...
...Game 23, a stunned Gary Kasparov, 24, the world champion since 1985, was forced to concede after making an amateurish blunder. With that, Challenger and former Champion Anatoly Karpov, 36, took a 12-11 lead. To keep his crown, Kasparov had to win the 24th and final game. A draw would give him only half a point, and would allow Karpov to regain the title that he had surrendered to Kasparov two years earlier. But in the tense match game, with an astonishing virtuosity, Kasparov forced Karpov to resign. That left the final count tied at 12 and meant...
...plays the game as though he were dissecting a microchip. In his newly published autobiography, Child of Change, Kasparov claims that he is a living example of the new Soviet glasnost and Karpov is a hidebound apparatchik. Karpov, who became champion by default after Bobby Fischer gave up the crown in 1975, has dismissed these charges as merely "part of prematch psychological warfare...
...winner of the contest will hold the championship crown for three years...