Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy, spurred on by the press and public opinion, will get the bills through. Then they would land on the desk in the Oval Office, where President Ford would face a dilemma. If he approves bills that break his budget, he risks attack from Ronald Reagan, his conservative Republican rival. But if he wins the nomination by saying no to jobs and social programs, Jerry Ford may hobble his chances of being elected in November...
...belt. Though his support was supposed to have eroded in the Deep South, there was no sign of it in the Mississippi caucuses at the end of January. Wallace won 45% of the precinct vote and will probably pick up much of the 27% uncommitted bloc. His nearest rival was former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, who received only 14%-less than expected by his backers. Sargent Shriver, who is remembered for the programs he initiated as director of the poverty program, cut into Carter's constituency, winning an estimated 50% of the black vote and 12% of the total...
...last week presided over a cease-fire in Lebanon that Damascus had not merely proposed but had imposed. At Beirut's presidential palace, the amiable diplomat-many Lebanese have already begun calling him the "Kissinger of the Arab world"-received one delegation after another from Lebanon's rival political and confessional factions. Meanwhile, a team of Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese officers monitored the cease-fire-the 23rd in the nine-month-old civil war-and managed to restore a measure of relative calm to the strife-torn country. Both the highly visible role played by Khaddam...
...troops of the Syrian-trained Palestine Liberation Army, proposed the ceasefire. Under its terms, the P.L.A. was responsible for enforcing order in Moslem areas, while the Lebanese Army and security forces, in cooperation with rightist Christian militias, patrolled Christian sectors of the country. Within a few days, rival groups of gunmen had been separated. Widespread looting stopped after some lawbreakers were shot on sight by the P.L.A. and others were summarily tried and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. At week's end truce violations were limited to a few isolated ambushes and outbursts of gunfire...
...eleven of 15 slalom events last season and is leading the combined standings for this year's World Cup. He has the nerves that are as necessary as goggles to this competition. "A good thing you got married," he wired newlywed Gustavo Thoeni of Italy, his principal rival, last year. "This will be consolation for you in the coming season-especially at Innsbruck...