Word: rivalled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite his penchant for authoritarianism, South Korea's President Park Chung Hee seems positively Jeffersonian compared with his counterpart north of the Demilitarized Zone. No other country can rival North Korea in its thoroughgoing control over every aspect of the lives of its 15 million citizens, or in the total deification of its leader, President Kim Il Sung...
European rulers rarely resorted to assassination abroad, partly because of a sense of fair play inherited from the medieval chivalric code, partly because assassinating rival monarchs inevitably invited retaliation. In the Italian city states of the Renaissance, of course, the Medicis, Viscontis and Sforzas practiced murder against rivals in politics, love or family quarrels with satanic ardor. The first and possibly the worst was Ezzel-ino da Romano, the 13th century despot of Padua and Verona. "Here for the first time," wrote Historian Jacob Burckhardt, "the attempt was openly made to found a throne by wholesale murder and endless barbarities...
...surprising how few clearly government-ordered assassinations of foreign leaders are recorded in history. In some cases, doubtless the bloody trail leading back to a rival capital or throne was simply successfully covered. But in most cases, it seems morality or pragmatic politics allowed the targets, however tempting, to remain untouched. Like modern urban murder, assassination seems historically either a family affair or a psychotic...
...compounded by the results of the Gujarat state election, which became known the day after Judge Sinha's decision. The Congress Party, which had won 140 of the 168 seats in the last election, dropped to a mere 75 in the 182-seat state legislature. Its principal rival, a five-party coalition known as the Janata (People's) Front won 87. That left the coalition short of a majority, however, and prospects were for a shaky, short-lived government that might well collapse before the end of the year...
...annual rate of 80% in Argentina, a country that is approaching the edge of chaos. Isabel Perón, who succeeded her husband as President after his death last July, has been unable to reverse two disastrous trends: the terrorist campaign of kidnaping and murder being waged by rival extremist groups of both the left and the right, and the steady collapse of what was once Latin America 's most prosperous economy. Last week TIME Buenos Aires Correspondent Rudolf Rauch sent this report...