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...They will, in fact, probably be like the first Olympian defection, at the 1948 Games in London, when Marie Provaznikova, leader of the Czech women's contingent, simply refused to return to Czechoslovakia. The drama will be in the number of Cubans or the names. Is it possible that Felix Savon, the great heavyweight boxer, or a flame-throwing pitcher named Omar Luis or even Linares might bolt before receiving his gold medal? "Anything is possible," says El Gordo. "Something will happen...
...during the long evening of Dec. 17, 1995, Felix Braynin sat transfixed before a television set in the living room of a government guest house in Moscow. He didn't like what he saw. Returns from the elections for the Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, represented a devastating setback for reform-minded parties, including the one linked to Boris Yeltsin. The Communists and their allies were on their way to controlling the body, a disturbing development because in six months Russians would vote for President. Yeltsin's standing in the polls was abysmal, a reflection...
...Cubans, led by nonpareil heavyweight Felix Savon, will probably be the big winners, but they'll have to contend with the former Eastern Bloc teams (Romania, Bulgaria and Russia) that took half the gold medals at the last world championships. Americans can look for big things from stylish light heavyweight Antonio Tarver...
...voters see Bob Dole, Kansan, instead of Bob Dole, Capitol Kingpin. But there is consolation if they don't. Now that he has, as he put it so eloquently, left "behind all the trappings of power, all comfort and all security," he can ascend to what Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter called the highest office in a democracy, above even that of the presidency: citizen...
...Ross Perot mellowing with age, like most people do? No, sir. In an interview with TIME in his museum-like office last week, he lambasted House Republicans for playing a "shell game" with the Contract with America, blamed "idiots" in the Senate for scaring investment banker Felix Rohatyn away from the Federal Reserve Board and slammed lawmakers generally for playacting rather than attending to the nation's woes. "The strutting, the pouting. Congressmen standing on the steps of the Capitol, demonstrating this, demonstrating that," Perot says. "This is great for the evening news, but it does nothing to solve...