Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1930s and '40s, the sands of northeast Africa were a cockpit of conflict between rival European colonial powers, chiefly Britain and Italy. Today, in both Eritrea and Ogaden, the central issue is the integrity of national boundaries, v. self-determination by individual provinces or tribal groups. The Ethiopians are resolved to retain the territory they acquired during a century of expansion. The Eritreans, whose land was an Italian colony until 1941, are fighting for independence; the Somalis are pursuing their dream of uniting the various Somali homelands under one flag. But these conflicts also have international significance. The Horn...
...Federal investigators scoff at the report that Godfather Carmine Galante, 67, the nation's most powerful Mafia leader, has ordered mobsters into the hunt. He has other worries. He was on crutches last week because rival gangsters assaulted him in Brooklyn as a warning to keep his fingers put of the gambling casinos soon to open in Atlantic City. Then FBI agents served him with a subpoena that requires he appear this week before a Miami federal grand jury probing mob infiltration of businesses there...
...Pulitzer in 1976, and James Markham's dispatches last year from war-torn Beirut should have. But the Washington bureau, the fief of Arthur Krock in the 1940s and '50s, then James Reston in the '50s and '60s, was overshadowed during Watergate by the Washington Post, now its chief rival on the national scene. The New York paper has recovered somewhat, beating the Post to major Washington scoops about CIA domestic spying and drug experimentation on unwitting civilians. The Post has been giving extravagant display to its newsbeats on the Koreagate scandal?in fact, to any stories with the merest...
...fill them (last week's Living devoted an entire page to dill pickles). Still, one close reader agrees that the paper is not going soft. "People who run down the Times ought to have to compete with it every day," says Michael O'Neill, editor of the excellent rival News. "They wouldn't be so quick to criticize...
...little-known players caused much of the excitement in what was one of the more electrifying Wimbledons in years. Sweden's nimble and steely-nerved Bjorn Borg, 21, won the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club championship for the second straight time by defeating his disputatious U.S. rival, Jimmy Connors 3-6, 6-2, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4 in a blistering finals match worthy of a centenary celebration. Both players had been forced to earn their passage to center court by staving off challenges from impressive newcomers, but their confrontation Saturday was a tumultuous struggle between...