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Sunday saw the Crimson four--skipper Gordon Burnes and crew Petra Schumann in the "A" Division and skipper Peter Wagner and crew Jeff Kurland in the "B" Division--hold the lead until the 15th of 16 races...
...have maple leaves tattooed on their chests, and Breaststroker Anne Ottenbrite, who does not, cheerfully threw Frisbees into the crowd on their way to get their medals. The Dutch women may have deserved an award for the most medals from the smallest country: a total of six, including Petra Van Staveren's gold in the 100-meter breaststroke. The Australians took a host of silvers and bronzes and seemed ready for better things. Finally, an unknown 17-year-old Aussie named Jon Sieben came out of deepest anonymity in Lane 6 to win the 200-meter butterfly over...
...Greens and to achieve an absolute majority of our own." If that effort means taking the same position as the Greens on many issues, West German politics will grow even more polarized. Curiously, one of the few people who did not take the environmentalists' success too seriously was Petra Kelly, the U.S.-educated activist who helped found the party. "It was hardly a real gain," she told TIME Correspondent Gary Lee. "In a federal election people would not have been so quick to give the Greens a vote." But as a West German Foreign Ministry official observed, "The Greens...
...become fragmented, and fighting has broken out among the factions. Some Greens had hoped that the caucus would bring reconciliation. A battle over nominees for election to the European Community's Parliament, however, served merely to deepen the divisions further. Other festering disputes were left unaddressed. Said disappointed Petra Kelly, one of the Greens' leaders: "We'll just have to wait...
...George M.A. Hanfmann, Hudson Professor of Archaeology Emeritus, led an interdisciplinary expedition to Sardis. At the time, above ground remains were spectacular at the neighboring archaeological sites of Ephesus and Bodrum in Turkey, Petra in Jordan, and Palmyra in Syria, while those at Sardis were generally deemed undistinguished...