Word: akasaka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans. Abandoning their customary ranch outfits ("Thank heavens," said Skier Debbie Armstrong), the U.S. team wore overcoats long enough to hide tommy guns (blue coats for the men, white for the molls) and snowy, wide-brim hats from out of the '30s. "Al Capone!" exclaimed Japanese Speed Skater Atsushi Akasaka, 20, who has no English. It looked a little like a jolly bootlegger's funeral...
...summit started with a bang. During a series of welcoming ceremonies for the leaders (from the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada) at Akasaka Palace, five homemade missiles fired from crude tubes in an apartment window nearby sailed over their target and fell harmlessly to earth. The summiteers were hardly fazed. When asked if he was disturbed by the rockets, Reagan quipped, "No, they missed...