Word: defeated
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...colossal struggle is now under way for control of the Democratic Party. Carter and his troops regarded their victory in 1976 as the first step toward moving the party to a more centrist position. Carter's defeat of Alabama's George Wallace, they felt, saved the party from moving too far right. And their battle with Ted Kennedy is already seen from the White House as saving the party from New Deal liberalism. All over the country. Democrats are being pressured to pick sides...
...been repeatedly rebuffed in its efforts to have the legitimacy of the Heng Samrin regime endorsed by the world's major powers. Indeed, only the Soviet Union, its satellites and a few other smaller countries have recognized the present Phnom-Penh government. Hanoi suffered a particularly humiliating defeat in September when the U.N. General Assembly, by a 2-to-1 margin, voted to seat a representative of the Pol Pot regime as Cambodia's delegate...
Although the Vietnamese troops in Cambodia outnumber the Khmer Rouge 7 to 1, it is by no means certain that Hanoi can defeat the Khmer Rouge. The Cardamom Mountains are densely forested and remote. The Vietnamese supply lines are long and vulnerable to harassment, and the Khmer Rouge know the country. Continuing Vietnamese efforts to root out the guerrillas may merely add to the chaos in Cambodia...
...Kennedy joked afterward about the defeat. Said he at a Washington dinner...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--A Brown rally for 21 points in five minutes to open the second half dashed hopes of a Harvard upset and sent the Crimson to a 23-14 defeat Saturday on the unplayable, unattractive and unspeakable turf of Brown Stadium...