Word: olga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tennis community too, freethinking Soviets are multiplying. Olga Morozova, the pig-tailed pioneer who occasionally popped into grand-slam finals during the '70s, now coaches a raft of promising young countrymen and -women known as the Glasnost Gang. The most precocious gangster is Natalia Zvereva, 18, who is also the most perestroika-emboldened. She has won $515,000 professionally, but since much of it has been diverted into state coffers, she gripes, "I still don't have enough money for a Mercedes." When last seen, Zvereva was stomping back to the Kremlin to have it out with her agents...
...gardener," his recent meetings with opponents of the regime suggest that he has not ruled out a future role in politics. Indeed, only two Czechs are known widely enough to serve as symbols for change in their country; both were sitting there on the couch. As Havel's wife Olga noted when the meeting was over, it was "a moment of history...
...November 1987, Olga Gonzalez, 30, was stopped at a traffic light in Miami Beach when a black Corvette piloted by a man with a touch of gray hair pulled alongside. After a brief conversation, she exchanged phone numbers with the charming driver, Mario Rodolfo Portell. He called that night to ask her out, and before long Gonzalez had fallen in love. It was an affair to remember. At Portell's urging, Gonzalez arranged to purchase a kilogram of cocaine through an acquaintance. But federal drug agents busted her and the dealer, and she is now serving a seven-year prison...
Havel holds numerous awards and honors for his plays, which include The Garden Party and Largo Desolato; essays The Power of the Powerless; and Letters to Olga, a collection of missives that he wrote to his wife while in prison. Havel's work reflects the struggle of citizens in a totalitarian state. Although he is both produced and published abroad, his work has been banned in Czechoslovakia since 1969 and must circulate underground...
...women's competition offered greater suspense, though the Soviets dominated there too. The exceptional depth of the Soviet team became apparent when one of its best performers, Olga Strazheva, twisted a knee during her team's rotation on the balance beam, forcing her out of the competition. Still, the Soviets prevailed over the Rumanians through the remainder of the team competition, and like the men they set an Olympic team scoring record...