Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Word of the summary execution quickly spread throughout Yemen. Harazi's family refused to bury him unless action were taken. President Abdul Rahman Iryani, a frequent rival of General Amri, reportedly wanted to try the general for murder. So did many members of Yemen's first elected legislature, the 159-member Shoura Council, which was installed last April. "Killing people like animals cannot be tolerated," declared Councillor Ali Saif Kholi. Many of the legislators were still angered over Amri's strong-armed attempt to dissolve the legislature only the week before...
...activities, but as with all good works, it can be pursued with excessive zeal. That, at least, seems to be the case in Chicago, where some donors complain that goods they have left clearly marked for pickup by one charitable organization have been pilfered by truck drivers for a rival charity. People have reported that Amvets trucks have picked up clothing left for the Salvation Army. An Amvets official denies that this is being done but says witnesses have seen Salvation Army drivers making off with Amvets bundles. And Goodwill Industries of America, which relies on well-marked collection boxes...
...seraglio, however, sex was sometimes secondary to intrigue, and the queen mothers and chief eunuchs often ruled the roost as much as the rooster. Too much ikbal resulted in too many male heirs eligible to succeed as sultan. Aggressive siblings-or their mothers-cut down the rival candidates neatly. As soon as he was named sultan in 1595, for example, Mohammed III murdered 19 half brothers and, to be certain of obliterating all possible competition, also killed seven of his father's concubines who happened to be pregnant at the moment. This was extreme even by Topkapi ground rules...
...prophet, since he was urging price and wage controls long before they were imposed. Whatever they may privately think of him, the Democrats are counting on Meany to help them win the 1972 presidential election. His opposition within the labor movement, meanwhile, has all but vanished. His old rival, Walter Reuther, head of the United Auto Workers, died in a plane crash last year; Reuther's successor, Leonard Woodcock, is friendly with Meany and has moved closer to the A.F.L.-C.I.O., from which Reuther had broken away. Another outcast union, the International Chemical Workers, returned to the federation last spring...
Since a liberalized divorce law went into effect in the Dominican Republic 2½ months ago, 220 Americans have participated in the brisk ritual-and poured more than $36,000 into government coffers in the process. The country's chief Splitsville rival, neighboring Haiti, has been in the foreign divorce business since December, and now records about 100 quickie decrees a month. Both countries are looking for rapid growth of the infant industry...