Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chad. The expectation is that the retreating troops will make the arduous 500-mile desert trek north to a Libyan base in the Aozou Strip, a 50-mile-wide, mineral-rich area that has been in dispute since World War II. If Habre decides not to push his fight with Gaddafi into the Aozou Strip, Libyans may push Gaddafi to leave the rest of Chad to Habre. But predictions involving the erratic Gaddafi are always risky. Last week, for instance, he threatened to join the Warsaw Pact. The Kremlin was so taken aback by Gaddafi's suggestion that Soviet Foreign...
Toward the end of his second term, President Eisenhower remarked that he would like to see Robert Anderson, his Treasury Secretary, succeed him as < President. "Boy, I'd like to fight for him in 1960!" Eisenhower said. Anderson, who had also served as Eisenhower's Secretary of the Navy and Deputy Secretary of Defense, never ran for office. He became a businessman, an unofficial diplomatic envoy for President Johnson and chief negotiator of the Panama Canal treaty for President Nixon. Last week Anderson, 76, was again in the limelight, but for a different reason. He pleaded guilty to felony charges...
...Columbia two weeks ago, a fight broke out between whites and blacks after a white student patted black Senior Michael Jones on the head, according to bystanders, and taunted, "Chickie, chickie." Someone cracked Jones on the head, felling him, though without serious injury...
...UCLA, posters announced a rally for "the white students who have stood by while minority students have their hands held . . . Whites are prepared to fight to preserve their rights! God bless America!" At about the same time, there was, in fact, a fight -- when a fraternity tried to bar a black from an open party...
...billion authorization bill for highways and mass transit that may be vetoed by the President. Ronald Reagan, who is all for upping the speed limit, feels that the bill is on the expensive side. Congressmen, however, want those federal dollars for their states, and will gun their engines to fight a veto...