Word: sarajevo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other degrees of understanding. Introduced as "George Turkey" by the Yugoslav public address announcer, Tucker muses, "He knows more English than he lets on," and takes off on another practice slide down a jagged icicle that meanders like a teardrop through the piny woods on Trebevic Mountain. With the Sarajevo Games opening this week, rehearsal time is precious even for the lugers who have been at it more than the year Tucker has, and he is puffing as he returns to the start...
...only one around, though, who does not seem to share a vision of Sarajevo as a perennial winter playground, the expressed motive of the Olympic organizers. And as far as the mountains go, the picture is gleaming. But the city, usually deep in snow long before now, is mired in mud. Central Yugoslavia has melted practically into spring. On the Mount Igman plateau, where the cross-country skiers will stride and slide through the forest, their trail is streaked with patches of dire brown. A small battalion of soldiers is scattered in the woods prospecting for snow by the clump...
...SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia--Swathed in splendor, the XIV Olympic winter Games officially opened yesterday...
...Sarajevo, Yugoslavia-Just one game into the Olympic hockey tournament. Team USA is an all or noting situation. After the emotion-packed gold medal performance in Lake Placid four years ago, the 1984 Olympians may not even be in medal contention this time...
...lend their glamour and success to products ranging from Marker bindings to Mentholatum lip balm. Says Heinz Herzog, president of Raichle Molitor: "There's no question that we get a boost in sales every time a top name is seen wearing our brand." When Olympic competition begins at Sarajevo next week, the manufacturers expect to bask in a glow of publicity that peaks once every four years...