Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, whose Soviet-and Cuban-backed guerrillas, poised along the Rhodesian border, are now believed to number 12,000. The fear is that Smith's limited solution will not lead to peaceful black rule but to a black-against-black civil war among the rival political and tribal factions...
...barricades, the center-right parties scarcely experienced a first-round landslide. Of the 46.5% total, Chirac's Gaullists won 22.6%, giving the rightists a tiny edge of 1,320 votes over the Socialists as France's leading party. At the same time, Giscard, Chirac's rival in the center-right coalition, scored a modest success as a result of the surprisingly strong 21.5% showing of the Union pour la Démocratie Française a group of three small non-Gaullist parties that the President stitched together last month. The group pulled in more than...
...youngest son, and decides to race it in the $1 million All-American Futurity at Ruidoso, N. Mex. Will Dad be able to come up with the race's stiff entry fee by deadline? Will the horse recover from injuries it suffers during training? Will a mean old rival trainer try any hanky-panky? Will mighty Casey strike out in the stretch...
Four Villanova players each scored 19 or more to down rival LaSalle, 103-97, in a shooting spree. Indiana's Butch Carter hit on three free throws in the last 30 seconds of the game to edge Furman, 63-62. Duke came from behind to nip a scrappy URI five, 63-62, while Utah held on to beat Missouri, 86-79, in two overtimes...
...This makes amends for all the games we've lost," Princeton coach Pete Carril said after the game. Of course, the Tiger win insured arch-rival Penn of the title, as the two squads have each won the Ivy crown seven times in the last 15 years. "I wanted Columbia over Penn but how can you blow a game to see another team win?" Carril asked...