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...reasons for the vodka boycott are political as well as spiritual. Underground opposition leaders have accused the government of trying to demoralize the country by making liquor easily available. While the government would also like to see drunkenness disappear, it hardly wants to cut profits from the $4 billion state-owned vodka monopoly. Polish workers have only once complied with efforts to make them give up their drink: during the August 1980 protest that gave birth to Solidarity. Some Poles feel that the latest call to sobriety would be a fitting way to commemorate that occasion...
...choose between Carrie Steinseifer and Nancy Hogshead, duplicate gold medals were struck, and naturally those two were immediately dubbed the Gold Dust Twins. From their wide expressions on the unusually crowded victory stand, neither swimmer minded the company or gave much thought to absent East Germans. Regarding the boycott generally, the athletes know where the asterisks go, and will cheerfully tell anyone else...
...swimmer, like many of the other veterans on a squad that regards itself as covered by vines and lichen. Of 43 team members, 36 are 18 or older. Hogshead was on the 1980 Olympic team, then slogged through the emotional swamp caused by the U.S. boycott. The next year, worn by a practice routine that had her up at 4:45 every morning from seventh grade through high school, she quit swimming, "I could eat cookies for lunch," she recalled last week. But after a year and a half in dry dock, she returned. "I hadn't finished...
...Carrie Steinseifer, 16, a high school junior from Saratoga, Calif., who was also her Olympic Village bunkmate (Nancy upper, Carrie lower). Steinseifer, a happy camper whose blond hair had just been whacked off in Olympic punk style by Hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, had been only vaguely concerned with the 1980 boycott because "I wasn't really into swimming then." Last year she won a gold at the Pan American Games. Now here she was, wearing out the water with her thrashing crawl. Then, on the other side, in Lane 5, Annemarie Verstappen of The Netherlands, a lanky and apparently boneless...
Mike Heath, at 19 one of the bright new hopes of the U.S. team, swam his 200 meters in front of the pack and beat his West German opponent by a body length. David Larson gave almost a second body length to Jeff Float, another boycott veteran, swimming his last race for the team. Float gave back a little, but when Bruce Hayes hit the water for the final leg, he had a length and a half on the Albatross. Remarkably, Gross had made up almost all of it by the end of the first 50 meters. Hayes kept...