Pan Am crackdown and steroid cases shock Caracas games
Officials at the Pan American Games in Caracas, aided by a German lab, detected steroids in 11 weightlifters amid recent tests. Medals were stripped from Jeff Michels and Daniel Nunez, while 12 Americans left the games early. The reaction calls for stricter enforcement to ensure fair competition and curb steroid use ahead of Los Angeles Olympics.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Germany
Jeff Michels
Daniel Nunez
International Olympic Committee
Solidarity Sellout and Western Policy on Poland
A critical column condemns Western leaders led by Ronald Reagan for backing Poland’s Solidarity crackdown while pursuing loans, grain deals with the Soviet Union, and limits on Voice of America broadcasts. The piece urges sober reflection, warns against appeasement, and laments the loss of U.S. support for Polish and other Eastern European freedom fighters.
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Lech Walesa
Poland
Jaruzelski
Solidarity
Ronald Reagan
Madrid
Congress
Europe
Voice of America
Radio Free Europe
Soviet Empire
America
A Formula For Defeat
Washington analysis argues the Reagan White House risks a Republican defeat in 1984 Senate races especially in the South. It cites vulnerable seats in Texas Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina and Virginia amid perceived administration concessions to civil rights groups and feminist and environmental activism. The piece contrasts Reagan’s 1980 message with current gestures and urges a return to core issues of tax cuts small government and strong defense.
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Moscow
Richard Nixon
Henry Kissinger
Ronald Reagan
Poland
Walesa
Pope John Paul II
Senate
South
Dixie
John Tower
Texas
Howard Baker
Tennessee
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Jesse Jackson
Reagan
Alabama
Jackal
D Reynoldson
Abc-Tv
Jackson
Liberian
el Salvador
White House
Defection and apologies echo in postwar recalls
The passage contrasts Andrei Berezhkov's defection with the State Department's apology to France over Klaus Barbie repatriation. It revisits Andrei Vlassov’s anti communism driven army, the Allied betrayal of millions, and calls for reflection on postwar policy and Soviet repatriations.
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Soviet Union
Siberian
West
U.S
Kremlin
State Department
France
Klaus Barbie
Andrei Berezhkov
THE
Wall Street Journal
Reagan
Administration
Berezhkov
Barbie
Hitler
Russia
Stalin
Andrei Vlassov
Kiev
Moscow
Vlassov
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Milion Rusia
East Eur Ohers
William Sloane Coffin
Yalta
Yugoslavia
Cooper Sees Issues and Humorous Plate Trends
A column mixes sports quotes from Furman Bisher about George Rogers and a retiring House Doctor columnist Herman Baum in St. Petersburg. It notes Baum’s career start in Charleston, his 94 papers distribution, and a lighthearted tour through vanity license plates and trends highlighted by USA Today.
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Herman Baum
Baum
St. Petersburg
Fla
United States
Canada
Herman
Charleston
Atlanta Journal
News and Courier
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M. Stanton Evans
Washington
GOP
U.S. Senate
Jimmy Carter
CMON
NYET
Alfred Cobban
Russian Army of Liberation
Ashley Cooper
By Ashley Cooper
George Rogers
Carolina
Furman Bisher
Dora
John’s Island
USA Today
Dean Martin
Richard Simmons
Connecticut
Julius Irving
Jay
Federal Express
Saturday Evening Post
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