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Even before the 1980 Olympics ended, the 1984 Games were causing controversy. Under strong U.S. pressure, the International Olympic Committee last week finally abandoned its plan to raise the American flag and play The Star-Spangled Banner at Sunday's closing ceremony. Instead the flag of the 1984 host city, Los Angeles, was substituted...
When the Titanic went down, a banner headline in the Los Angeles Examiner read "Titanic Sinks; Many Millionaires Reported Drowned." Lord Lew Grade, who put up the money for Raise the Titanic, deserves, if not to drown, then at least to take a bath...
...five years ago and had been living at Islamic House, a home for Muslim students and a center for anti-Shah activists. He had been arrested briefly in New York City last Nov. 4-the date the U.S. hostages were seized in Tehran-for having draped an anti-Shah banner from the Statue of Liberty. Police arrested a postal employee, Tyrone Frazier, 31, who admitted that he had accepted $200 from Salahuddin for the use of his Jeep, and also Horace Butler, 35, another alleged accomplice...
...attempt to organize a tightly-organized convention, the GOP has projected an image of unity behind the banner of conservatism. By dint of the overwhelming majority of right-wingers gathered, the Republicans have demonstrated a remarkable intolerance for differing perspectives. By systematic suppression of dissent, the party is unwittingly undermining rather than reinforcing the precepts of democracy...
...Olympic coxed and coxless fours and double sculls, all entered under the Charles River banner, also won their events...