Word: leaping
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Italy's Prime Minister, Giovanni Spadolini, called the Red Brigades' action "a quantum leap in which the terrorists are trying to transform their armed movement into an armed party." He said that the Italian secret service was investigating possible ties between the Red Brigades and West Germany's Red Army Faction, a band of left-wing terrorists mentioned as potential allies by Dozier's captors. The West German group has been linked by authorities to the September attempt near Heidelberg on the life of General Frederick Kroesen, commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. Said Spadolini...
Jimmy Johnson got the thinclads off to a fast start with a tremendous performace in the long jump. The event had become a duel between Johnson and Northeastern's Russ Hartman with each one topping the other's last leap. Hartman broke 23 feet first, but Johnson met his challenge with a leap of 23'11'', his finest jump ever. Johnson's ecstasy only lasted a few seconds, however, as Hartman flung himself through the air for all of 24'1". And at the end of the preliminaries, Hartman's leap was the longest...
...crowd that had formed around the sand pit for the finals became hushed as Johnson bowed his head and began the approach of his first jump. As soon as he left the ground it was obvious that this was no ordinary leap. Before the length was announced the crowd burst into applause, and once the official announced the 24'7" distance, the applause became frenetic. Hartman had two more chances to top it, but neither jump came close, so Johnson took the event, besting his own personal record by over a foot, and missing the University record by inches...
...theory is that the Red Brigades, having failed to throw Italy into chaos with the assassination of Moro and other prominent Italians, were desperate to regain their credibility. "The society did not collapse," says Bertram Brown, a terrorism consultant for California's Rand Corp. "Thus they had to leap the firebreak to internationalism by kidnaping an American." Adds Franco Ferracuti, a Rome University professor of criminology: "The Red Brigades want to embarrass the U.S., to undermine NATO and, not incidentally, to reestablish themselves as a force to be reckoned with...
Patterson did not stop at tying her newly-set record but went on to capture the long jump with a 16 ft., 9 in. leap and take third in the 200 meters in a time of 27.8 seconds...