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...controversial gold medal awards in the pairs figure skating competition for the same reasons most fans were: the beauty of the sport, the excitement of high level athletic achievement and, of course, crazy French judges. But Butler also had a bit more at stake in the success of the Russian skaters Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharvlidze because he handpicked their gold medal soundtrack. The pair glided to an Olympic gold medal on Feb. 11 after completing their long program, which was set to “Meditations from Thais” by the French composer Jules Massenet, which Butler selected...
Three thousand Russian soldiers lost their lives, and up to 10,000 Russians were wounded...
Khrushchev also traced current Russian President Vladimir V. Putin’s rise to power during alleged terrorist attacks...
...agent and confessed Russian spy Robert Hanssen admitted his guilt last July under a plea bargain that enables him to escape the death penalty if he tells the whole truth about his spying activities. The FBI has just finished six months of questioning Hanssen under a polygraph, but some counterintelligence hands are not happy with the results. They think Hanssen is still not telling all. Sources tell TIME the polygraph indicated possible deception when Hanssen denied stripper Priscilla Galey's claim that he had tried to recruit her as a spy in 1990-91. Hanssen said the attraction was purely...
...sport," Sale said, "the truth still has to come out." Slowly, some of it began to. Le Gougne reportedly told the panel that it was her own federation's president, Didier Gail-haguet, who had influenced her. The idea was that by helping Russia to a gold, a Russian judge might return the favor in ice dancing, in which France is a favorite. (There is suspicion, but no evidence, of Russian collusion in the incident...