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...When we began, everyone said we could not get the Soviet Union out," exults David Balsiger, national executive director of the Ban the Soviets Coalition. "But we did it against great odds. We were responsible for them dropping out." Balsiger is like the rain maker who, after a downpour happens along, claims credit for it. Nevertheless, the buzz and bother stirred up by his group seemed to give credence to the security concerns that the Soviets used as an excuse for staying home. Peter Ueberroth, president of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, pulls no punches when he talks about...
Because if the freezing drizzle in the first half didn't do enough to dampen spirits, the freezing downpour in the second certainly...
...come drizzle, rain and downpour, the Laxwomen staved off Mother Nature and a vastly outclassed University of Rhode Island squad, 12-3, before a handful of crazy spectators...
...Fischbein, 34, vice president and assistant general manager of the New York Post. A week ago last Sunday, the couple left a restaurant in the Bucks County resort town of New Hope, Pa. It was 7:15 p.m., and they had not been drinking. Moments later, in a heavy downpour, Fischbein apparently mistook a poorly marked towpath for the restaurant parking-lot exit. His rented station wagon tumbled some 15 feet into the water-and mud-filled Delaware Canal, coming to rest upside down. When the car was discovered four hours later, Fischbein was still strapped behind the wheel...
...heavens have rarely responded. In the space of six weeks, 100 of the 8,000 inhabitants of the town of Solankiya died of malnutrition and other drought-related diseases. Even when rain does fall, it comes in the wrong place at the wrong time. A sudden torrential downpour in the western state of Gujarat last week caused raging floods that claimed more than 800 lives. Although this year's monsoons have begun, U.S. experts are predicting major droughts during the next two years. In all, the government estimates that more than 250 million Indians are seriously affected...