Word: sarajevo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Olympic Games are sure to beckon him to Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, next February, but for now the call is muffled, perhaps only by distance. "I don't really have any goals, other than to enjoy myself," Mahre said. "If you go to the Olympics, you have to be healthy and lucky that day." At Lake Placid in 1980, he took second in the slalom to Stenmark, whose Olympic eligibility probably ended three years ago when he shifted his residence to the less taxing principality of Monaco and took out a license to sell himself commercially at seven figures. Adhering...
...Fuscos hope their emulation of the Clearys doesn't end at the collegiate level. Both Mark and Scott have their eyes on spending a couple of weeks in Sarajevo. Yugoslavia for the 1984 Olympic games...
...Carruthers pair along with Blumberg and her dance skating partner, Michael Scibert however will be a great distance from Sarajevo, Yugoslavia tonight Instead they'll join Harvard skaters and other World class amateurs in Eliot House's "An Evening With Champions," a 12 year-old fundraiser for the Jimmy Fund benefitting the Sidney Farther Institute of Cancer...
...easy to imagine places that could become the Sarajevo of the nuclear age: Eastern Europe, where armed resistance to Soviet occupation could spread; Iran, where the U.S.S.R. might be tempted to fill the vacuum created by the collapse of Khomeini's rule; the Arabian Peninsula, where the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force and Soviet airborne units could fight over the oilfields; the Caribbean Basin, where even last week Washington believed Brezhnev was hinting at the possibility of another Cuban missile crisis...
First came a violent, momentary loss of equilibrium. Commentators talked about a Middle Eastern Sarajevo, the single death-by-terror that unhinges everything. Then a stabilizing weariness set in, and even, about this one, a sense of inevitability...