Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Labor Party. Subsequently Peres began broadening his expertise. He held such diverse jobs as Minister for Economic Development of Occupied Territories, Immigration, Transport and Communications and Information. When he lost a close race to Rabin for the premiership in 1974, Peres accepted the post of Defense Minister in his rival's Cabinet...
...magazine as an ideological soapbox for President Valery Giscard d'Estaing -whose centrist political strategy was badly mauled in last month's local elections (TIME, March 28). Largely because of the magazine's predictable politics and occasional drabness, some readers have shifted to a sprightly, aggressive rival, Le Point. While L 'Express still sells .twice as many copies as Le Point, circulation has slumped by some accounts from 614,000 in 1972 to about 555,000 today. Goldsmith's first priority at L'Express is to reverse the decline in circulation by restoring...
...hard-driving House Democrats, Arizona's Morris Udall, Carter's old rival in the presidential primaries, and Ohio's John Seiberling, almost certainly will try to tack onto Carter's bills an amendment calling for the dismemberment...
...government crushed that movement (with U.N. and U.S. help) in 1963, many Katangese soldiers fled across the border to Angola. Eventually they joined forces with the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), largely because their old enemy, Zaïrian President Mobutu Sese Seko, was supporting a rival Angolan guerrilla group, Holden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.). Now, apparently, Agostinho Neto's M.P.L.A. government is helping the Katangese to even an old score with Mobutu...
Drained Votes. Now Giscard's most serious potential rival on the right, Chirac had accused the President of a "soft" attitude toward the left. A bold tactician, Chirac set out to revitalize a Gaullist party that had fallen into disarray and to woo workers from the left. In Paris, Chirac was helped by lackluster opposition candidates for the mayoralty and by a strong showing of candidates running on an ecology platform, who drained votes from the left. In the provinces, however, many of his close political allies were defeated. "Chirac stands like a white knight in Paris," observed...