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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more preposterous? We knew it would happen, yet it happened. The athletes strode in and touched us again. China and Rumania brought down the house. When the President said, "I declare open the Olympic Games of Los Angeles," were we supposed to think politics? When we gulped at the sight of Rafer Johnson's face, were we supposed to feel foolish...
...unfortunately out of sight for most of the hundreds who gathered for her first open-to-the-public appearance: Ferraro and Mondale, speaking from the deeply sunken Halladie Plaza, could be seen only by people standing at the front of the crowd above. Nevertheless, the cheers were louder and longer during her short address than during her running mate...
Individuals compete with one another; that accounts for the Games' appeal as well. Some athletes claim to be oblivious of the competition, but the audience never is. One need not argue the merits of winning or playing the game. The fact is that the sight of someone winning is a pleasurable thing. A rarity of the times, it is clean and unambiguous. So is losing...
...outside Srinagar, capital of the mountainous northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on the border with Pakistan. In the overwhelmingly Muslim city (pop. 550,000), black flags of protest flew as at least 6,500 soldiers and police enforced a curfew with the threat of shooting violators on sight. Regular air traffic to and from Srinagar was cut off. The last civilian airliner to leave the capital, with 264 aboard, was hijacked by fleeing Sikh extremists. The plane landed in Lahore, Pakistan, where the hijackers surrendered to the authorities after having held the passengers and crew hostage...
...badger, Stewart notes, can tunnel into the earth so fast that ten men with shovels cannot keep him in sight. Texas horned toads can, when angry or excited, actually squirt blood from the corners of their eyes. No animal seems more, well, humane than the American lobster, as portrayed by Stewart. Most sea creatures are love-them-and-leave-them suitors, impregnating their mates, then allowing them to fend for themselves. Not the crustacean, whose mate must shed not only her defenses but her shell when she visits his underwater den. Sensing something about vulnerability, he lets her stay...