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...little man's Games, Teruel is as much a fan as a participant, enjoying a front-seat view of the lions of a sport he took up 20 years ago. One day, he says happily, he found himself at breakfast next to downhill champion Patrick Ortlieb. Downhill combined winner Josef Polig shared an elevator with him the day before the Italian won his gold. Teruel dreams of meeting Jean-Claude Killy or even just wearing clothes from the "Killy Sport" store in Val d'Isere...
After Italian skiers Josef Polig and Gianfranco Martin finished 1-2 in the Alpine combined event, bumping a fourth-place Frenchman from the medal stand, French ski officials tried to have them disqualified on the grounds that the advertising on the winners' jackets was too large. Olympic officials declined to intervene, declaring, "Medals are won on the ground, not in offices...
Germany could afford such a housecleaning because it has skilled noncommunists from the former West Germany to fill critical jobs. But other East European nations need the expertise of old bureaucrats and so are more tolerant of past party ties. In 1989 Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel appointed Josef Tosovsky, an apparatchik whose star rose under communist rule, to be president of his country's state bank. Other ex-functionaries have found comfortable posts outside the power structure. Jerzy Urban, who ran Polish state television during the last days of the communist regime, now edits a satirical magazine that mocks postcommunist...
...collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union's preoccupation with its internal crisis helped deflate some terrorist groups. Moscow directly or indirectly supported many radical factions for years, says Hans Josef Horchem, director of the Institute for Terrorism Research in Bonn, but "now it is almost out of business and has little influence...
...also soon aid scientists in solving a number of historical mysteries. Among them: whether the man who drowned in Argentina in 1979 really was Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele, and whether Abraham Lincoln suffered from Marfan's syndrome, an inherited disease characterized by gangly limbs, poor eyesight and a weak heart. "The applications of this technology are literally as wide as your imagination!" exclaims University of Virginia geneticist Dr. Thaddeus Kelly...