Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unsmiling Portuguese sailor, folded by a Portuguese airman and entrusted to a Portuguese soldier. Then three African soldiers in starched fatigues ran up the new flag of the People's Republic of Mozambique. As tribal dancers beat animal-skin drums and a 21-gun salute boomed outside Machava Stadium, the militantly Maoist President of the new state, Samora Moises Machel, 41, embraced Portuguese Prime Minister Vasco Gonçalves. Thus ended 477 years of Lisbon's colonial presence in an African territory that until 15 months ago the Portuguese had vowed they would never surrender...
...event. It is defined to show "that the horse and rider could cross any terrain and surmount any obstacle to carry a message or scout a position." And while this cross-country steeplechase event is the most heavily weighted aspect of the competition, it is the final day's stadium jumping that draws the crowds...
...object of the stadium jumping is simply "to prove that on the day after a severe test of endurance, horses have retained the suppleness, energy and obedience necessary for them to continue in service...
...next day was the meat and potatoes of the competition, approximately 16 miles of speed work, jumping and endurance. Dr. Dennis O'Keefe, mastermind of the stadium jumping course, explained some of the thought behind the design of a jumping course. "We're not out to get the riders but instead to present them with imposing inviting and jumpable obstacles," he said...
...eighth spot in the two-day standings. Another woman. American Beth Perkins, held the lead at the end of Saturday's gruelling event. Perkins, who early in the month had set a record low score for the Dressage, was riding high in the saddle going into the stadium jumping, and since she had been training for nearly a year in Hamilton, the local folk were mumbling much about Beth...