Word: olga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exile in the West, she has been playing hide-and-seek with Western reporters. She reacted in anger to the latest ambush. "I am not going to talk to you, not one word," she snapped. "You have no right. You are uncivilized people. You are savages." When asked about Olga Peters, her 13-year-old American-born daughter, she responded with a string of obscenities...
Last week word came that Svetlana, now 58, had ended her long flirtation with the West and returned to the Soviet Union. On Oct. 23, utterly unnoticed by the world, she and her American-born daughter Olga Peters, 13, boarded an Aeroflot flight in London bound for Moscow. Once she was back in her homeland, the Soviet press agency TASS announced that the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet had granted Svetlana's request that her citizenship be restored and that Soviet citizenship be granted to Olga. Both had been American citizens...
Friends of Svetlana's expressed surprise and concern at her redefection. She had moved from Princeton, N.J., to Cambridge, England, two years ago, had placed Olga in a boarding school and bought an apartment in the university town. Said her former Cambridge landlord, Professor Donald Denman: "I cannot believe she has asked for Russian citizenship or is requiring her daughter to give up her American citizenship." Olga, a bright and popular girl who speaks no Russian, was unhappy in Britain. "She was pining for the U.S.," said Denman. "I don't know how she will manage in Russia...
Writer Malcolm Muggeridge, who worked with Svetlana on a BBC film about her life, called her return hazardous. She has taken "a very big chance" and will be "quite defenseless," he said. "I feel deeply sorry for her." Most shocked was Svetlana's former husband and Olga's father, U.S. Architect William Wesley Peters, 72, whom she married in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 1970 and divorced in 1973. He is extremely worried about Olga's future. "Her mother was lonely and distraught. She may have left for the U.S.S.R. impulsively, or possibly under constraint," he said...
...that glittered was around Retton's neck. She won the gold medal in the all-around championship, the most coveted prize in gymnastics, since it marks the winner as the finest gymnast in the world. It is the crown Nadia Comaneci once wore, and Lyudmila Tourischeva, and which Olga Korbut, for all her charm, was too limited an athlete to achieve. Retton sealed her claim to it in the most dramatic duel in the history of the sport, winning by performing a perfect 10 in her final event, the vault-not once but twice. A lesser score would have...