Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Straus Cup competition includes one sport named "Volleyball" and another named "Women's Volleyball" (with fewer points going to the winner of the latter)? Where women trying to study Women's Studies as a Special Concentration are expected to "prove their seriousness" by overcoming obstacles designed to rival the Twelve Labors of Hercules...
...latest streak of violence is a disquieting sign that the fragile tribal coalition that turned white-ruled Rhodesia into black-governed Zimbabwe in 1980 is crumbling. On one side are Prime Minister Robert Mugabe and nearly 6 million members of the Shona tribes; opposing them are Joshua Nkomo, the rival nationalist leader, and the 1.5 million-strong Ndebeles. Mugabe supporters blame the holiday terror on diehard members of Nkomo's ZIPRA guerrilla army, which was disbanded after the nation's seven-year civil war had ended. Nkomo stoutly denies any responsibility for the rebel actions, although he does...
...tribal rivalries stretch back to the early 19th century, when Ndebele warriors plundered the camps of the Shonas. British settlers combined the hostile tribes into one nation in 1890, but the antipathy remained. During the civil war, the Shonas and Ndebeles split into rival guerrilla camps, with Mugabe's ZANLA forces based in neighboring Mozambique and aided by the Chinese, and Nkomo's ZIPRA army at headquarters in Zambia and helped by the Soviets. The rebels agreed on only the most basic goal: the replacement of Prime Minister Ian Smith's white-dominated regime by an independent...
...Luang, a picturesque mountain town straddling the Thai-Burmese border. While Thai border police patrol the streets, three mercenary armies camp atop a 7,200-ft. mountain near by. Among them are Khun Sa's mercenaries and their local allies. In the surrounding jungle are the rival forces of a pro-Communist warlord known as ABe. Periodically, bursts of machine-gun fire echo down the mountainside. Ambushes are frequent, and victims seldom receive a proper burial. Says a Western narcotics agent: "There seems to be only one rule when warlords fight. Kill anything that moves...
...stagnation and rising unemployment have turned the current economic debate into a brawl. Take Nobel Prizewinner Lawrence Klein, who received the 1980 award for his work in the development of economic-forecasting techniques. Klein, a Keynesian who believes in deficit spending to pump up a slack economy, dismisses the rival supply-side school, which Reagan championed. Supply-siders claim that cuts in tax rates should spur savings and investment and release a torrent of new production. "Our dispute with supply-siders is that their theories are nonsense," retorts Klein. Then he adds, in only partial jest: "They pulled a vast...