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...tries to take control of his riven country, Gemayel also suffers from a more personal handicap, a reputation as a violent and ruthless strongman (see box). His stature was hardly helped by the brutal tactics that ensured his election last week...
...named the team's most valuable player in its title year, and was awarded the Jack Fadden Award his senior year-following shoulder surgery-for performing under a physical handicap...
James St. Clair, 62, Nixon's chief defense lawyer. Working under great handicap of his client's lies, he lost battle to protect tapes. Practices law in Boston, teaches part-time at Harvard...
Critics of the emphasis change contend that admissions tests on specific material handicap underprivileged students whose high schools offered less sophisticated programs...
Andropov's odds are enhanced by the fact that each of the other three leading contenders for Brezhnev's mantle has a major handicap. Kirilenko, who has rarely been seen in public in recent months, is believed to be ill. Chernenko, though a Brezhnev protégé, has no power base of his own. Gorbachev, who runs Soviet agriculture, lacks broad experience. Still, he is young and aggressive enough to accumulate power within the next few years as the elderly Politburo members...