Word: sebastians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less than friendly rivalry between Great Britain's marvelous distance runners Sebastian Coe, 24, and Steve Ovett, 25, has become the track world's version of playing chess by mail. Each year, the two set out on separate paths through the summer track circuit, studiously avoiding head-to-head encounters while carefully selecting races where they have the best chance of breaking each other's world records. In 1979 Coe burst from obscurity by snapping the record in the mile, with a 3-min. 49.0-sec. performance in Oslo (only twelve days after setting a world mark...
...struggle, the terrorists have come to draw most of their support-and recruits-from the dismal industrial suburbs that dot the narrow Basque mountain valleys some 20 to 25 miles inland. One such is Renteria (pop. 18,000), which adjoins the old Spanish summer royal residence of San Sebastian. A river running through town has the sickly sweet stench of dumped industrial wastes. A pall of chemical smoke from paper, plastics and cement factories hangs over the area on all but the windiest days. The town has a medieval center with a church and central square; the impression...
...King Juan Carlos' first official tour of Spain's volatile, autonomy-minded Basque country, and the reception was often only lukewarm, sometimes hostile. Security forces outnumbered the crowds nearly everywhere, and at most of their stops-from Vitoria to San Sebastian -the King and his wife, Queen Sofia, also had to endure the presence of angry Basque demonstrators, who were raising clenched-fist salutes and chanting anthems and slogans in their ancient language...
...John Sebastian, programming director at WCOZ said yesterday deregulation is "a positive step that will give freedom back to the airwaves." The station will not change its news stance, Sebastian said, adding that it is too early to tell if its public affairs programming will be affected...
...highest came in the long-awaited confrontations between Britain's middle-distance marvels, Sebastian Coe, 23, and Steve Ovett, 24. When they first squared off in the 800 meters at the end of the opening week, Coe let his countryman build an insurmountable lead, then misjudged his kick. Said he: "I blew it in the backstretch." He was determined not to make the same mistake in last Friday's 1,500. The first two laps were leisurely, with Coe and Ovett a few yards off the lead in third and fourth places. Then East Germany's Jurgen...