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Government spokesperson Marcel Jansen said the Interior Ministry was asked yesterday to start immediate removal of "technical equipment" along parts of the Czechoslovak-Austrian border. Such equipment includes concrete pylons linked with barbed wire and some electronic wire to detect trespassers...
...bobsledder who looked as if he had the fare, Len Murrain of Britain, was questioned about the chances of romance these past two weeks in the Village. "Quite high," he replied Britishly, and sure enough speed skating's resilient sweethearts, American Dan Jansen and his Canadian fiancee, Natalie Grenier, have been seen strolling hand in hand. By Murrain's account, the mixing and matching of the different-colored warm-up jackets preceded by days the dousing of the flame, when the kids always go dancing, and the Canadian, French and Greek flags are raised like songs. It even snowed...
...Brian; Soviet Pairs Skater Katya Gordeeva wins not only the gold but the hearts of Calgary; Downhill Daredevil Pirmin Zurbriggen conquers the horrific Mount Allan course in a brilliant, unforgettable run; West Germany' s Marina Kiehl bests her betters in the women' s event. For Speed Skater Dan Jansen, though, the agony doubles...
...Olympics, for every jubilant Pirmin Zurbriggen skiing to the limit, there is a devastated Dan Jansen suffering to the extreme. One suggests a bright ribbon, the other a black armband. But both are important players. They need each other to describe the Winter Games' opening week, with its fist in the air, its head in its hands, a grin on its face, a tear in its eye, and still eight days...
...touchstones, the Swiss downhiller and the Wisconsin speed skater could have been a little tidier: Zurbriggen, 25, triumphed and fell; Jansen, 22, fell and . . . fell again. The death of his sister on the first morning of competition, following a long siege of cancer, made Jansen's 500-meter and 1,000-meter events seem both less and more significant. "Maybe," he admitted at the last, "there is a slight sense of relief that I can go home now and be with my family." And yet he planned to return after the funeral to cheer Eric Flaim and the other Americans...