Word: leon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great fight, this second meeting of Muhammad Ali and Leon Spinks, but it was a remarkable fight nonetheless, a dramatic revelation of the changed hearts of two men played out over 15 rounds in New Orleans' Superdome. Muhammad Ali's fight was a statement of will and pride, redemption for the humiliation of losing his title to Spinks and reassertion of his uniqueness as an athlete. Leon Spinks' fight was a cry of confusion, a constrained attempt to retain a title he had not known how to wear outside the ring. When it was over, Muhammad...
...prospect of ending his career as a defeated fighter, no longer the champion he had dreamed of being since he was twelve. And there was the challenge of bringing his body back into condition to fight-really fight, not rope-a-dope-a powerful champion eleven years his junior. Leon Spinks, on the other hand, was overwhelmed by the new status he had so frantically sought. The privations of a ghetto background had suddenly been replaced by $3.75 million purses. The gap-toothed young street fighter was, overnight, the biggest man in sports. There were cars, women and arrests...
Surviving rebels from the towns of Leon and Chinandenga, which government troops recaptured last week, are joining the rebel forces in Esteli, but the total number of rebels is unknown...
Earlier, the guard, Nicaragua's army of 7500, recaptured the towns of Masaya, Leon, Chinandega and Penas Blancas, defeating guerrillas opposed to the authoritarian government of President Anastasio Somoza...
...Cross sources in Leon, the nation's second largest city, said they counted 300 dead and about 3000 wounded when allowed back into the city by the national guard...