Word: elena
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California: "It was a beautiful mission from the outset." Well, not exactly. Discovery's launch had been postponed twice at the last minute, first by bad weather, then by a faulty backup computer. The third try seemed doomed to failure too when the storm system that later spawned Hurricane Elena darkened the sky and began pelting Cape Canaveral with rain shortly before launch time. But NASA officials were determined to make this one good. Stretching the agency's own rules, which forbid blast-offs in the rain or through clouds that could generate lightning, they spotted a thinned-out area...
...women surveyed do not want to go back, and they work to root themselves in the U.S. The price is high, but the reward is something they would find hard to achieve at home: a sense of their own autonomy. Says one successful Cuban- American businesswoman in Miami, Maria Elena Torano Pantin, "I became my own person. Not my parents' person, not my kids' person and not my husband's person. But mine." Mali Peruma Davidson, who came from Sri Lanka, says, "Oh, my God, I'm glad I'm in America! In Sri Lanka you are always subjugated...
...ELENA HANGGI, president of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), is describing the protests--and the protestors--her organization led at last month's Republican convention in Dallas. Almost for gotten in a month's worth of Mondale glitches and media forums about Reagan and religion, and soon likely to be forgotten altogether, the protests were expressive of much that is right and wrong with...
Sakharov and his wife Elena Bonner, Tatiana Yankelevich's mother, were exiled to the city of Gorky in 1980. Since then, his case has been a cause celebre for human rights activists around the world...
...commanding partnership in pairs skating. The long reigns of the Protopopovs and Irina Rodnina and her succession of partners, Sergei Ulanov and Alexander Zaitsev, had come to an end. Since Lake Placid, several pairs had taken aim at one another, among them the Carrutherses, two Soviet pairs (Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, and Veronika Pershina and Marat Akbarov) and East Germans Sabine Baess and Tassilo Thierbach. Compared with the liturgical certainty of pairs skating during the past three decades, the Sarajevo Games were a free...