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...country riven by civil war since 1991, lacking a government until elections were held two weeks ago, the Somali Olympic Committee has struggled to get even those two athletes to the Games. "We are a poor country," says SOC president Farah Addo, with great understatement. The IOC, which routinely offers assistance to smaller countries, granted the team $22,000. That covered the cost of travel, insurance and equipment. "But what about the three years preparing them, buying all the equipment, feeding them, keeping them in training?" Addo says. None of the major sporting goods companies has offered any assistance...
Mourning Bands. The race riot was touched off by the mysterious death of Edmond Asare-Addo, 29, a second-year medical student from Ghana who was studying at Kalinin Institute, about 100 miles northwest of the capital. On the eve of his marriage to a Russian girl, the student's body was discovered near the railroad tracks of a suburban Moscow station. The Soviet police claimed that Asare-Addo, drunk, had fallen down in the 11 °-below-zero weather and frozen to death. But Ghanaians, who knew that the marriage was fiercely opposed by the girl...