Word: defective
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...competition as a refuge from the troubles afflicting mankind. Probably since 776 B.C., but certainly since 1936, the summer of Adolf Hitler's Nazi festival, the games have been irresistible forums for social, racial and political causes (as well as a handy time for athletes from totalitarian states to defect). There was pause on the part of some countries as to whether they wished to party with the Third Reich. But the I.O.C. assured everyone that it had met with Hitler and "no one since the Greeks had captured the Olympic spirit so well...
...short, the movie is anything but slick in structure or glib in tone. But that is far from a defect. In fact, the best thing about it is the serious but never sobersided spirit in which it was made. In the first memo he wrote about the project, Writer-Director Philip Kaufman, 46, mentioned some movies he admired, such as The Searchers and The Grand Illusion, and said he would strive for their rambling, episodic quality, in which " 'truth' is found along the way." In the end, that is exactly what he achieved...
...tried to contact the intruder" on the frequency assigned for international emergencies, but there is no evidence of this in the published transcripts. President Reagan charged that Soviet planes are not equipped with the emergency radio frequencies because the Kremlin fears they might be used to allow pilots to defect. The Soviets deny this. In fact, Soviet aircraft have the capability to use the emergency frequencies while participating in air and sea rescues with NATO planes. Whether the Soviets were so equipped this time may be beside the point, since there is no indication that the Korean plane, which seems...
...elder Berezhkov charged that the State Department's demand to question Andrei privately, in an effort to establish firsthand whether he wanted to defect, was "an attempt to use our boy as a pawn in a new anti-Soviet gambit." Reagan Administration officials acknowledge privately that they were not averse to letting the Soviets suffer a bit of embarrassment over the incident. They also admit that any attempt to prevent Andrei's departure would have been legally dubious, since he was both a minor in the custody of his parents and held a diplomatic-status visa, which prohibits...
...game of their own. First Viktor Korchnoi, 52, the Soviet defector who now lives in Switzerland, was set to face U.S.S.R. Whiz Kid Gari Kasparov, 20, in a semifinal match at Pasadena City College in California. But Kasparov never showed because, it was rumored, the Soviets feared he might defect. Three days later, former World Champion Vassily Smyslov, 62, was also disqualified, for boycotting a match against Hungary's Zoltan Ribli, 31, in Abu Dhabi ostensibly because the Persian Gulf emirate was too hot. So Korchnoi and Ribli will meet for the right to confront World Champion Anatoly Karpov...