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Dave O'Connell, the Provisional I.R.A.'s political-military swing man, took Maria along as interpreter on an arms-buying trip to Europe. Their mission began as Irish low comedy and ended in fiasco. In Amsterdam their cover was blown, their planeload of Czech bazookas, rocket launchers and hand grenades was impounded, and Maria and Dave lammed out just ahead of the cops. She returned to Dublin a celebrity-too much so for the taste of Sean MacStiofain, the transplanted Englishman who was then the Provisional I.R.A.'s chief of staff. Maria McGuire hated the dour, puritanical...
...entirely their own. "The authorities," Rademaekers says, "had organized a togetherness program stretching over two weeks." Reluctantly, G.D.R. officials gave in to the correspondents' request to split up: Rademaekers traveled east to the Polish border, while Nelan went as far south as "Saxon Switzerland" near the Czech border...
Just as West German tourists have a reputation for boorishness in the West, East Germans are detested in the East bloc for being rude and arrogant. "They come over here with their heavy marks and they buy up all the fruit in sight," says a Czech official. "Then they lecture us about how much better life is in the G.D.R." The recent relaxation of travel barriers between the Communist countries has not thrilled anybody...
...NEXT DAY, Radcliffe and Czechoslovakia squared off in the "petite finale." And after battling the wind for 45 minutes at the start, the 'Cliffe jumped off to a three to four seat lead after the first ten strokes. At that point, the Czech boat inexplicably turned into the Radcliffe lane, causing the entire race to be called back...
Then, after battling the wind some more, officials decided not to run the race at all. But Radcliffe and the Czechs agreed to race on their own, unofficially at least, to settle things. Radcliffe again jumped to a quick lead, and at 500 meters had a length margin. At that point the Czech team quit, and Radcliffe paddled home the rest of the way, an easy winner...