Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Hesse and Bavaria in November could result in a coalition crisis that could end the Brandt government as presently constituted. Even so, Brandt's foreign policy seems to enjoy solid support among a large majority of West Germans, who grew weary of the cold-war posturing of the rival Christian Democrats...
Diplomatic Touch. As army chief, Huang has become an obvious rival to Chou Enlai, whose own power has declined along with that of the party and the civilian government. Personally, the two men could hardly be more dissimilar. Chou is urbane and sophisticated. Huang, born to a farm family in central Hupei province, seems to glory in a sort of peasant earthiness, much as Mao does. He likes to brag about his lack of book learning. "Even if you turn me inside out, you won't be able to find a drop of ink," he says. Huang normally smothers...
...commandos. Nasser, clearly stung by recent demonstrations against him in Baghdad, took an angry swipe at Iraqi military performance, asking sarcastically: "Why has the enemy not been attacking your forces?" In Amman, pro-Nasser and anti-Nasser guerrillas clashed twice, killing at least two of their number and taking rival prisoners. As the splits in Arab unity grew deeper each day, Beirut Columnist Adel Malek declared: "What is really needed now is a cease-fire among the Arabs...
Anthropologist Margaret Mead goes further. In her view, the advent of the atomic bomb in 1945 split humanity into rival camps: the old are "immigrants" in a world they control but do not understand; the young are natives but still lack power. United by instant communications that dramatize crises everywhere, the new youth international views its elders as irresponsible?insensitive to global dangers like nuclear holocaust. In this situation, Miss Mead argues that much of the world is on the verge of a "prefigurative" culture in which "the young, free to act on their own initiative, can lead the elders...
...allied to Science Fiction's aspiration towards myth. The race had no political purpose outside the vague notion of propaganda value. But it did fulfill a widespread public need to make life more endurable. The story had its deaths and triumphs, and may yet have its Frankenstein. It can rival 2001 in its epic sweep and pointed vagueness...