Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while, another dispute loomed, involving two rival delegations from Chad. One represented former President Goukouni Oueddei, who had seized power with Libyan military backing in November 1981. The other was led by current President Hissene Habre, who was ousted by Oueddei but regained power in a counter-coup five months ago. Gaddafi demanded that the opposition Oueddei group be seated as the official Chadian delegation...
...would do little more for the once flashy seaside resort than add to the squalor and corruption that had built up since the city's heyday in the 1930s and 1940s. Practically no one had the temerity to predict that gambling on the Jersey Shore would one day rival the goings-on in Las Vegas...
Begin has fared better. According to the same poll, the Prime Minister's support declined from 54% in August to 42.9% in September, but then increased to 44.8% in October. His closest rival is President Yitzhak Navon, with 18.4%, followed by former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, with 11.1%. Opposition Leader Shimon Peres is a distant fourth, with only 3.3%. Reason: the Sephardic Jews who support Begin approve of his hard line toward the Arabs, massacre or no massacre, and the Sephardim now make up more than half of the Israeli population. -By William E. Smith. Reported by David Halevy/Jerusalem...
...offers visual Pablum, the other musical grits. Even in the packaged and homogenized forms developed by such entrepreneurs as Dick Clark and Don Kirshner, TV has rarely accommodated its more rambunctious relative. Until now, that is. Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Co.'s MTV (Music Television) is uniting the rival brethren in amplified harmony...
Konstantin Chernenko, 71, the silver-haired party chief administrator, then rose. As every Soviet citizen knew, Chernenko had been Andropov's main competitor for the succession. Now, in a deft and effective political gesture, the rival was moving to nominate the winner, thus symbolizing the need to close ranks. "Dear Comrades, all of us are obviously aware that it is extremely difficult to repair the loss inflicted on us by the death of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev," Chernenko said. "It is now twice, three times as important to conduct matters in the party collectively." Chernenko, a close protege of Brezhnev...