Word: moscow
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...note, something that means something to me is that every year since 1980 I have raced in this race with the 1980 Olympic team, which was the last Olympic team I was on, and was the one boycotted by Jimmy Carter when the U.S. team didn't go to Moscow because of the boycott. And we feel as strongly today as we did then that it was a mistake, that it used amateur athletics in completely the wrong way, and I think the rowing team of all the teams on that Olympic team was the most vocal and the most...
...undoing. The survival prospects for the international financier-revolutionary dimmed last week following the coup in Pakistan and a U.N. Security Council resolution threatening sanctions against his hosts ?- Afghanistan?s Taliban movement ?- if they fail to extradite Bin Laden for trial in the U.S. Beijing and Moscow were more than happy to support Washington in passing the Bin Laden resolution, because the fugitive Saudi is alleged to have actively supported Islamic separatists in Chechnya and in western China. "Even more important for Bin Laden, China appears to be the major player in Pakistan now," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell...
...Terek River with their sights firmly set on a triumphant march into Grozny, the Chechen capital. But they could be heading into a trap. "The Chechens are well-armed and well-organized, and they?re just waiting for the Russians to come onto more favorable terrain," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "They haven?t made much effort to resist Moscow?s offensive on the northern flatlands, where they?re vulnerable to the Russians? superior firepower and air support. But they?ll give the Russians a fierce fight in the mountains and forests across the river...
...Despite Moscow?s best efforts to avoid repeating its 1994-96 debacle in Chechnya, its campaign appears to lack coordination and coherence. "This has disaster written all over it," says Meier. "It?s the wrong time of year to be getting drawn into an offensive, and Moscow has rebuffed attempts at negotiation by Chechen president Mashkadov, who remains the territory?s most credible moderate leader. It looks as if there?s very little coordination among Russia?s political leaders and its generals, and there?s no long-term strategy evident." To be sure, analysts agree that a battle for Grozny...
Kotova is scheduled to make her New York City debut this Saturday at Carnegie Hall, where she will play Tchaikovsky's showy Variations on a Rococo Theme with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, followed by a barnstorming tour that takes her all the way from Brazil to Japan. Though she already seems well launched toward stardom, anyone who expects her to take the low road to popular acclaim is in for a surprise. "I am asked so many times," she says, "what do you think, that classical music is dead, dead, dead? Not at all. It's starting to bloom again...