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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smiling, confident Yeltsin cast his ballot from a rest home outside Moscow, rumors that he continues to suffer a heart ailment persist. But for today, anyway, the Russian president was in full campaign mode, reminding Russians to get out and vote. A high voter turnout, which in many areas ran between 60 and 65 percent, was considered vital for Yeltsin's reelection. A smaller turnout would have helped Zyuganov, who has a stronger, more dedicated pool of supporters. Even Yeltsin's own advisers feared that Zyuganov could win if less than 60 percent of Russia's 106 million voters showed...
...unmarried but very eligible deputy, and in the spring of 1972 arranged for Elizabeth to meet a certain recently divorced Senator from Kansas. In her memoir, Mrs. Dole remarks that she found the Senator "awfully attractive" but he didn't call her and she wouldn't call him. She ran into Dole again at the 1972 Republican Convention, and this time he did call. Their romance progressed with all the speed of an omnibus budget resolution wending its way through committee, and they were married in 1975. Elizabeth finally had her trophy husband...
...powerful a merger as theirs, but those barbs seemed real when Dole was named Gerald Ford's running mate in 1976. Mrs. Dole took a leave from the ftc to campaign for him, and returned to her job after Carter's victory. She resigned in 1979 when her husband ran for the 1980 election, and campaigned vigorously for Ronald Reagan after Dole dropped out. Some feminists have criticized her for suspending her own career to help her husband's. Her response: "What we women fought for was the ability to make decisions as to what we feel is best...
...adversity helped him," says Hart. "He was like hammered steel." Johnson stayed healthy in 1990 and began a 47-race winning streak (31 in the 200 and 16 in the 400) that carried him to the 1991 world championship in the 200. At the Olympic trials in '92, he ran the 200 in 19.79 seconds, the fastest time in four years, and he seemed poised for stardom in Barcelona. But then he got food poisoning in Salamanca, Spain, two weeks before the Games and never fully recovered. He failed even to qualify for the finals of the 200, though...
...world track-and-field championships last August in Gothenburg, Sweden, Johnson did something they said couldn't be done. After running in three 400 preliminaries, he won--and nearly broke the world record in--the 400 on a Wednesday. Then he ran three 200 prelims before winning--and nearly breaking the world record in--the 200 on Friday. He topped it all off by anchoring the victorious U.S. 4 x 400-m relay team on Sunday. Asked whether the Olympic schedule would be changed to accommodate Johnson's double dare, Primo Nebiolo, the president of the International Amateur Athletics Federation...