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...suspensions resulted from two separate incidents in 1978. The first--which reportedly involves Caulkins, Pennington, Linehan, Cynthia Woodhead (3 golds, 2 silvers at the World Championships), Stephanie Elkins, Kim Dunson, Gina Layton, Dawn Rodighiero, Greg Jagenburg, Marc Foreman, and two other unidentified swimmers--occurred after the conclusion of a U.S.-USSR dual meet in Austin, Tex., last April. The swimmers had been attending a birthday party for an American team member, a party which sources claimed was sponsored by AAU money and attended by American coaches and Russian team members. Apparently, the swimmers violated curfew (said...
There is first that pause, just after dawn, when a child wonders why he is awake so early. Then comes the realization: it is Christmas morning, and all the visions of sugarplums and electronic video games have been miraculously transformed, he hopes, into a heap of treasures waiting beneath the family tree...
...dawn on Election Day, the haulers began transporting voters?mostly poor blacks?to the polls. Before the people went in to vote, they were given a white card bearing the number five, Leach's line on the ballot. Once they voted, payoffs were usually made in private homes called money houses or in touring vehicles known as floating banks. At a money house next to a Baptist church, haulers pretended to be preparing for a funeral...
...nightmare that has nagged scientists since the dawn of nuclear power. A cooling-system pipe ruptures. The temperature of the nuclear reactor's core fuel shoots up, melting its zircaloy shielding. Finally the heat becomes so intense that the entire domed building disintegrates, leaking out a cloud of radioactive fallout that kills tens of thousands of people...
...which the ambassador would have acknowledged that while some of Amin's remarks were offensive, others deserved wide approval. Moynihan balked. "I let it be known," he writes, "that not one god damn thing Amin had said had won my 'wide approval.' " It began to dawn on Kissinger that his ambassador was more than he had bargained for. Bit by leaked bit, the Secretary indicated his displeasure, until a rebuke via James Reston's column in the New York Times persuaded Moynihan that...