Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never come naturally to the Laotians. A gentle, passive people, they traditionally harvested their rice and then relaxed or staged religious feasts. For decades, the French, then the North Vietnamese and finally the Americans have been backing rival factions and educating the Laotians in the ways of combat. They had to be taught to aim their rifles to kill rather than to fire overhead. Opposing armies regularly grouped for great battles, then retreated to regroup for combat some other...
...final settlement was negotiated by Souvanna, now 72, after more than 19 weeks of talks with the Pathet Lao; rival Prince Souphanouvong sent only an intermediary to bargain with his brother. Whether Souvanna Phouma will now retain his top position in the new government is not certain, although the concessions he made to the Communists could have been motivated by his desire to do so. Complained one top administrator: "Souvanna capitulated on every point except one-that he should be Prime Minister-and he didn't even get that in writing...
...most crucial national election in recent French history drew closer last week-and so did the rival forces. The latest nationwide poll, published by the Paris daily Le Figaro, showed that the leftist coalition headed by Socialist Francois Mitterrand had dropped from 46% to 43% in its share of the popular vote. The governing Gaullists had 38% -up 1% from the previous week's results-while independent, middle-of-the-road reformist parties had 16% of the vote, a gain...
...wholly different set of tools by which to find them, tools which cannot be linked with traditional analysis and which (as radical economists would have us believe) render communication between believers and non-believers impossible. A university, as I understand it, is not a multiple-ring circus where rival theologies parade their paradigms in competition, but a place where reasonable men argue with each other seeking mutual understanding and insights. All views should participate in this process but all participants should subscribe to these ground rules of common enterprise in reasoning...
Here's a bill of particulars: not only did Nixon refuse to campaign actively for the Presidency during the summer; he seems also to have sponsored an espionage-sabotage guerrilla action against the rival Democratic Party. Then, come fall and his landslide victory, Nixon began a brutal purge of his first-term administration, replacing deviationists in his Cabinet with party men who could be trusted to implement the correct line. But even his bureaucratic house-cleaning wasn't a sufficient guarantee that his second Administration would bear the imprint of Richard Nixon Thought, so the President decided to create...