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...heard a loud bang, then a deafening roar, and for a few seconds I could see a reddish-yellow flame streaking across the sky," recalled Bear Hunter Herman Sotkajarvi, a resident of the northernmost reaches of Norway, well above the Arctic Circle. "The house quivered, windows rattled, and my three dogs started barking." What Sotkajarvi apparently saw in the early afternoon of Dec. 28 was a runaway cruise missile fired from either a submarine or a ship during Soviet naval maneuvers in the Barents Sea, northeast of the Scandinavian Peninsula. Norwegian radar tracked the supersonic object as it crossed...
...flame came fluttering out of the darkness, into an early morning light. Americans in bathrobes would sometimes stand by the sides of the two-lane roads, and as a runner carried the Olympic torch toward them, they would signal thumbs up and break the country silence with a soft, startling cheer. Their faces would glow with a complex light--a patriotism both palpable and chastened, a kind of reawakened warmth, something fetched from a long way back...
...Israeli athletes had not been seized until the tenth day. "I carried a calendar around in the center of my skull," he says. Crises, small and large, occurred by the hour. The man Ueberroth had picked to climb the towering steps of the Coliseum to light the Olympic flame, former Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson, developed shin splints. Three times Ueberroth was told Johnson could not make the climb, and each time Ueberroth declared he must. Johnson finally did. The day before the opening, a fire broke out in one of the stadium towers, shooting flames into the sky. "We thought...
...hour and a half before the opening ceremony, word suddenly came that the Olympic flame must not be lit. Two unfamiliar electrical wires were discovered leading to the gas jet. General Manager Usher remembers thinking: "Jesus Christ, this is it, it's happening." Security rushed in, and found that TV technicians had laid the new wires without informing anyone. Rumors and suspicions of sabotage were legion. Eighty investigations of bomb scares took place. The dormitory in which the Israelis and Turks lived was evacuated several times...
...wilderness of this country's selfish individualism, the Catholic Bishops Conference has articulated the needs of an estimated 9 million people who slipped below the poverty level between 1979 and 1983. They have called for greater social cooperation and justice, and in doing so, have rekindled the flame of biblical teaching--to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, and clothe the naked...