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...American men have an Eric who will challenge. It's not Heiden, but Eric Flaim from Pembroke, Mass. The United States' strongest chance for a gold medal lies in the skates of Bonnie Blair. Blair must defeat the strong East German duo of Karin Kania and Christa Rothenburger, both 1984 gold medalists...
When Fantine dies, Valjean comes to the aid of her daughter, Cosette. He finds that the Thenardiers, the couple who take care of the young Cosette (Christa Larson), are nothing but thieving, conniving pub owners who have worked the child like a slave while charging her mother large sums of money. Thenardier (Tom Robbins) and his wife (Victoria Clark) are the show's clowns, and the audience revels in their provincial language and drunken vulgarity...
...West Germans won the return of Christa-Karin Schumann, 52, an East German physician sentenced in 1979 to 15 years. In return, the East Germans got Manfred Rotsch, 63, formerly a chief engineer at West Germany's largest aerospace company. Rotsch was convicted last year of slipping Moscow weapons secrets, including plans of the Tornado aircraft. East Germany also released a West German counterintelligence officer serving a life sentence for espionage, and Bonn handed over two Communist agents described as "small fish...
...deep in the tomb of the unconscious," but what occurred onstage was a fairly standard day in the death of the House of Atreus. The real pleasures of the production were the whiplash performance of Soprano Hildegard Behrens in the title role and the gloriously haunted Klytemnestra of Mezzo Christa Ludwig. Conductor Seiji Ozawa, leading his first Elektra, sought out the brutal score's elusive lyric elements and found most of them...
Settling were the families of Mission Commander Francis Scobee, High School Teacher Christa McAuliffe, Mission Specialist Ellison Onizuka and Payload Specialist Gregory Jarvis. The families, who initiated the talks in August, are expected to receive at least $750,000 each, paid out over several years. In exchange, they have waived their rights to future claims against NASA and its personnel and contractors, including Morton Thiokol, the company that built Challenger's solid-fuel rocket boosters. Last year a Government commission concluded that a failure in one of the boosters caused the orbiter to explode...