Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feuds by backing one P.L.O. faction against another. P.L.O. fighters have been shot at not only by ) Israelis but by Jordanians, Lebanese, Syrians and each other. In 1978 a bomb demolished the eight-story Beirut headquarters of Abbas' Palestine Liberation Front, killing more than 180 people. Presumed bombers: a rival faction. Presumed target: Abbas, who had left the building before the blast...
Although various source have confirmed the Lampoon's involvement in the booklet, members of the Lampoon staff continue to deny any connection with their upstart "rival." However, they do concede that disgruntled Lampoon compers may be at fault...
Eliot House football's shotgun offense may not rival that of the Dallas Cowboys, but it accounted for two touchdowns in Eliot's 23-0 blowout of Winthrop House yesterday at Soldiers Field...
...challenge to that view is led by former Agriculture Minister Michel Rocard, 55, a political moderate and longtime Mitterrand rival. The Rocardiens are urging the party to shed its Marxist ideological trappings and modernize its image along Social Democratic lines. They say it must reject the Communists and court centrist and independent voters. Said Rocard: "The French people do not want another version of the (Socialist-Communist) common program, warmed over for today's taste...
That was not the first time Gorbachev had used a rival's thirst to his own advantage, according to Fridrich Neznansky, who emigrated to the U.S. from the Soviet Union in 1978 and who, by his own account, attended Moscow State University Law School with Gorbachev. In a speech at Harvard University last September, Neznansky, co-author of the thriller Red Square, recalled that one night in 1950, he, Gorbachev and a third man who was active in the Young Communist League, or Komsomol, raised many glasses of beer and vodka together. Gorbachev stayed sober, but the party activist slipped...