Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reporters were everywhere. The French left-wing journal Libération was covering part of the Olympics from a gay bar. The nonprint reporting was equally assertive. To slake its countrymen's curiosity about Los Angeles and life in the fast lane, British television showed naked ladies sitting in hot tubs sipping daiquiris, looked in on a cocaine-snorting party and reported on esoteric appliances like outdoor vacuum cleaners...
...violence recalled in Bloods is chilling: the slow torture of a North Vietnamese army officer by a company of U.S. infantry; the unspeakable ordeal of a white American soldier who had been half-flayed by the Viet Cong and staked to the ground; he begged for death when his countrymen found him three days later. But the horrors perpetrated in Viet Nam, that most reported and televised of wars, are by now familiar. More surprising and heartening is the sense of affinity that blacks remember toward the people they were assigned to protect or slaughter. Says an Army interpreter...
...make abundantly clear, opportunity is all a good athletic really needs. Thousands of potentially brilliant Black athletes are denied this opportunity in South Africa because of their race: hundreds of whites are denied the chance to showcase their talents because of their citizenship. Maree and Budd have shown their countrymen alternatives that could even be taken a step further. If Black and white South Africans can compete at the same Games, perhaps they could also be on the same team, a squad composed of South Africans who would rather pursue their sports in the world arena than be overlooked--perhaps...
...Memorial Coliseum? The world looked more perilous then; perhaps it wasn't. That Depression year, 34 million Americans were out of work. One day after the 1932 Olympics began, Hitler's National Socialists won a plurality of seats in the German parliament. In 1932 Mussolini told his countrymen, "I foresee a long series of political, economic and military wars." And Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World. And the opening ceremonies of the Olympics came off without a hitch...
McKinney is not the only one with a shot at the gold in a sport his countrymen forget about between Olympics. Kevin Winter is a cheerful, wide fellow, 5 ft. 10½ in. tall and 198 Ibs. heavy, tops, who figures that he has an excellent chance for gold in the 90-kg weight-lifting event. Winter is quick to add that although he was the nation's best lifter, pound for pound, at the May trials in Las Vegas, he would not be a medal prospect if the Soviet-bloc countries were coming. "Maybe a few American medals...