Word: igor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then, when Cameroon made a comeback attempt, they were burned when the officials appeared to miss an offsides call and let stand a breakaway by Canadian Igor Vrbalic 28 minutes into the second half...
...tall, bespectacled young Soviet diplomat drew world attention last February as a grieving figure alongside his father's flower-decked bier. Last week Greek officials announced that Igor Andropov, 38, son of the late Soviet leader, had been named Ambassador to Athens...
Finally the coffin, draped in red and black cloth, came slowly into view, resting atop a gun carriage drawn by an olive-green military scout vehicle. Walking immediately behind were the members of Andropov's family: his son Igor and his daughter Irina, who was wearing a stylish red fox coat. Andropov's widow Tatyana, whose existence was not publicly known before Andropov's death, was too grief-stricken to join in the procession. The Politburo leaders, almost indistinguishable from one another in their fur hats and look-alike overcoats with red armbands, led the last group of official mourners...
...Brezhnev's hand-picked heir, paused for a moment before the coffin of the man who had defeated him in the leadership race last time. Andropov's face was bony and drawn, his nose almost beaklike. His long ordeal seemed reflected on the faces of his wife, his son Igor and his daughter Irina, who sat near the flower-bedecked bier. While an orchestra played Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony in the background, Chernenko went up to Andropov's widow, kissed her and touched her gently on the shoulder. When Ustinov embraced the late Soviet leader's son, Igor broke into...
...widely assumed that he was a widower, until his wife, Tatyana, appeared by his flower-decked coffin in Moscow's House of Trade Unions. His daughter Irina, married to an actor from Moscow's Taganka Theater, remained discreetly out of the public eye. Andropov's son Igor was a ranking member of the Soviet delegation to the Stockholm disarmament conference but also avoided the spotlight...