Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Phills, the path to the top was not easy seeded third, he had to defeat the tournament's number one and two seeds, both of whom had downed Phills at last year's Eastern. In the final match against top seeded John Dougherty of Syracuse. Phills scored a tie breaking takedown with nine seconds remaining to earn a 13-11 decision. Beforehand, Phills disposed of second seed George Fears of Navy by Scoring an unexpectedly quick pin at the 1:27 mark of the match...
What made the defeat particularly bitter for the commanders was that the Druze had succeeded because the Israelis had prevented Christian reinforcements from reaching Aley. The Christians' relations with the Israelis have been in decline for some time, particularly as the result of Ariel Sharon's heavyhanded treatment of Phalangist elders, including Party Chief Pierre Gemayel, during a meeting last month. For their part, the Israelis are angry with Amin Gemayel for refusing to sign a peace treaty with them, and are trying to show him that he needs their support. But Gemayel is convinced that to sign...
...gathering at the Club des Pins, a seaside oasis outside the Algerian capital, was the first by the P.L.O.'s unofficial parliament-in-exile since the organization's military defeat by Israeli forces and the subsequent evacuation of its fighters from Beirut last August. Amid the tearful reunions, there was a defiant sense of triumph that the meeting was taking place at all, a public affirmation that the P.L.O. had not been destroyed by Israeli military might. Declared P.L.O. Spokesman Ahmed Abdel Rahman: "This meeting is an open message to the Arab world, to the U.S., and above...
...dramatic change; his Republican platform called for the appointment of judges who would restore respect for "traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life." The ideological thrust so distressed a group of 61 practicing lawyers and law professors that they signed an advertisement urging Reagan's defeat be cause he was a threat to an "independent judiciary." Last week TIME completed a straw poll of the signers to see if they still believe as they did in 1980. Of those who were willing to record their opinion, the vast majority said they would sign the ad again...
...growing national debate on the subject when it was released last October. The panel, led by Bishop John Baker of Salisbury, called upon the government to abandon its nuclear arms. Reason: nuclear war is so potentially disastrous that disarmament is worth even the risk of "blackmail and defeat" by an enemy...