Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christian Okoye had never seen an American football game before 1982. When he did see one, he didn't much like it. The elongated shape of the ball seemed peculiar. He found the repeated stops and starts boring and confusing. Worse, he felt the frequent substitutions from the sidelines robbed the game of the natural flow that is the glory of soccer, his consuming passion since grade school...
...Christian Democrat leader Ricardo AriasCalderon said the confrontation was the result ofother clashes between Panama and the United Statesin recent months
Eden Pastora, the perennial Nicaraguan maverick, returned to Managua last week in a homecoming more quixotic than heroic. The charismatic former guerrilla will campaign for dark-horse Social Christian presidential candidate Erick Ramirez, touting him as an alternative to both the Marxist Sandinistas and the National Opposition Union, a coalition dominated by the right wing...
...requires any West German leader to navigate not with a telescope but with a kaleidoscope. One of Kohl's primary targets was West German voters, and he no doubt hoped to revive his dismal political fortunes. He faces a general election in December 1990, and at the moment his Christian Democratic Party's chances are rated as questionable. Since the tumultuous events leading up to the dismantling of the Berlin Wall began last August, Kohl has been attacked relentlessly for a flat-footed response to a historic moment. When he appeared on the steps of the Schoneberg town hall...
Nancy Ekholm Burkert's luminous accompaniments to the stories of Hans Christian Andersen and Edward Lear are classics of the genre. The French legend of Valentine & Orson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $16.95) further enhances her reputation. Twins are separated at birth; one is raised by a king in a court, the other by a bear in a forest. The boys meet as antagonists, but after a series of picaresque adventures, become reunited and rewarded. This too is staged as a drama, enacted by rhyming players who evoke the best of Ingmar Bergman, Walt Disney and the artist-adapter herself...