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Make no mistake. Lithuania wants to beat Croatia. Australia plans to beat them both. The Unified Team thinks it can take home silver in what is sure to be its final appearance in the Games. Puerto Rico has ambitions for a medal. Even Angola has its sights set on ninth place and greater respect. In the most competitive Olympic tournament since the sport was introduced in 1936, none of the other 11 teams think much about trying to beat the U.S. Dream Team. They are not idiots, after...
...answers are: no, no and most definitely not. "Charles is Charles," says Michael Jordan. "He's not crazy. He just likes to push his behavior to the edge." Jordan and his teammates have been trying to push it back, with only modest success. When Barkley threw an elbow at Angola's spindly David Dias in the U.S. team's first outing, he was quickly yanked offstage by director-coach Chuck Daly...
...that virtually destroyed their nation. On the court they have put up with ridicule. For all who would listen in Badalona, Cunha had one message. "We can play. We can play," he repeated. No one thought so after the U.S. obliterated them by 68 points. But the next day, Angola led Germany, only to fall short by a point in the last minute. "We were very lucky," says German center Hansi Gnad. The host Spaniards were not. Behind Jean Conceicao's 22 points, the Angolans buried the favored home team 83-63 in the upset of the week. Angola...
...immediate postwar years, we implemented a two-pronged strategy to blunt Moscow's main thrust in Europe, using military power to deter aggression and economic power through the Marshall Plan to counter the communist ideological challenge. We later beat back Soviet salients in Korea, the Philippines, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Angola, Afghanistan and elsewhere...
Often in the Reagan years, American covert operations (including those in Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Angola) involved "lethal assistance" to insurgent forces: arms, mercenaries, military advisers and explosives. In Poland the Pope, the President and Casey embarked on the opposite path: "What they had to do was let the natural forces already in place play this out and not get their fingerprints on it," explains an analyst. What emerges from the Reagan- Casey collaboration is a carefully calibrated operation whose scope was modest compared with other CIA activities. "If Casey were around now, he'd be having some smiles," observes...