Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Raikula won the backstroke in 1:55.9, splashed to second behind localite Jack Guathier in the grueling 500, and then finished s respectable fourth in the breaststroke before being hauled off by his stretcher-wielding teammates...
...Harvard women's squash team will go home for Christmas with an unblemished record after squeaking by Brown Saturday, 4-3, for their fourth victory of the season...
...status of the West Bank and Gaza." Hussein was also informed that "it is the position of the U.S. that Israel should refrain from creating new settlements on the West Bank while negotiations are under way on establishing the self-governing authority." The U.S. position is based on the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which forbids the establishment of civilian communities in territory that is militarily occupied. Washington and Jerusalem have hotly argued the interpretation of the convention in the past, and the Israelis were irritated to find the issue revived again...
...Chernenko's thoughts have ever differed from Brezhnev's on any issue, he has kept quiet about it; one Western diplomat in Moscow refers to him as Brezhnev's "paper shuffler." Nonetheless, Chernenko now ranks fourth in the party hierarchy, after Brezhnev, Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, 76, and Central Committee Secretary Andrei Kirilenko, 72. Chernenko now must be considered as a possible successor to his patron, or at least as a behind-the-curtain bossmaker in a post-Brezhnev...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Beverly Bentley Mailer, 48, sometime actress; from Norman Mailer, 55, novelist and journalist; after 15 years of marriage, two sons; in Barnstable, Mass. Mrs. Mailer, the writer's fourth wife, blames her husband's "many affairs" for her suit. Mailer currently lives with Model Norris Church, who gave birth to his eighth child last spring...