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...might be kidnaped there. The announcement of the actual pullout from the Games was carefully timed to coincide less with the arrival of the Olympic flame in New York than with the Soviet national holiday celebrating victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. And then it was heavily downplayed???a short story on the back page of Pravda, a brief mention close to the end of the main nightly newscast?in the apparent hope that it would be, at least momentarily, overlooked in a burst of patriotic fervor...
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