Word: sided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steffi never gave much thought to losing. "It would not be the way to go to the Grand Slam," she said. Australia, France and England are in hand, and only next month's American Open remains, in the first sweeping quest on either the men's or women's side since Margaret Court's in 1970. A "special player," a "super player," Martina called Graf, and some say she may soon be as strapped for an opponent as Mike Tyson. "Except I'm not talking about retiring," Steffi said...
...videocassette recorders sold in the U.S. last year, not one was built by an American manufacturer. Now a small Arizona company, Go-Video, has launched a battle to change that. Go-Video's design for a dual-deck VCR, which won U.S. patent approval last month, contains two recorders side by side. It would enable users to copy tapes, edit them or tape one program while watching another on cassette...
There is another product in high demand but short supply on the Soviet side these days, thanks to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's antialcohol campaign. As a result, Chinese traders make room in their sample cases for bottles of mao-tai, a fiery 120-proof sorghum liquor -- not to sell but to lubricate negotiations with their Siberian hosts. Says Dimitri Krolov, a Soviet regional trade official who joined the train in Zabaikalsk: "Business is booming. We manufacture what they want, they grow what we want...
Except, of course, that the plane identified by the Vincennes as a 62-ft.- long F-14 Tomcat fighter turned out to be a 177-ft.-long Iran Air Airbus carrying 290 civilians on a regularly scheduled flight to Dubai on the other side of the gulf. As a horrified world last week watched the pictures of torn bodies displayed by Iran on TV screens, questions mounted. Outside Iran, hardly anyone seemed to doubt that the shootdown had been a genuine mistake. But how could so sophisticated and costly ($600 million a copy ) an intelligence-and-weapons system...
...sure, that is not the only consideration: simple inattention on both sides also figures into the tragedy. On the American side, the military claims that it does not systematically monitor civilian air traffic over the gulf. In fact, a Pentagon official told TIME that the Navy had not even provided the Vincennes with a schedule of Iran Air flights. Captain Rogers did ask a crew member to look into whatever material on civilian flights he had aboard. But none of it mentioned Iran Air Flight 655. Had Rogers known that a commercial flight was scheduled overhead at that time (Flight...