Word: groups
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...there was any group that would know of Nauru's track team and stars (it had neither, it turned out) it was the one with which I traveled to Moscow, a tourist contingent sponsored by Track and Field News. "You are in a group," I was told, "of fans like no other-track fans-who will sit in the rain for four hours to watch someone throw a hammer. It doesn't matter to them where they are. They could be watching in the wastes of the Gobi Desert as long as someone grunts and there...
...compete. Every tourist at a Moscow Olympic event finds himself brought up short when he looks out and fails to see the deep-blue warm-up suits with the red-and-white USA on the back of the jerseys. The reaction has had its odd consequences. One tourist group in Leningrad last week began singing God Bless America in the hotel bar - "It made us feel good," one of them told me - and last night about 20 of them had planned to meet and sing the same song in Red Square, near the guards at Lenin's tomb. They...
Whatever their enthusiasm, many of the tourists in my group turned out to have wrestled with the problem of the U.S. boycott. Some had emotional reasons for deciding to come-a string of consecutive Olympics going back to Mexico or Japan (they wore tinkling commemorative pins on their hats to prove it) that no presidential edict (even if they thought well of it) was going to break. A trial lawyer from Washington, D.C., told me that he was in Moscow because he had never seen an Olympics and he could not bear the idea of waiting four years...
Another member of the group, a Minnesota native, told me he was going for more practical reasons. He was a lighting technician. He would not only be able to watch the track and field events but also check out his fellow technicians' artistry at the Bolshoi Theater. "If I had to choose between a visit backstage at the Bolshoi and watching Pietro Mennea, the Italian sprinter, run the 100 meters, I'd go crazy," he said. "I guess I'd watch Pietro. I'd give up any other track event for the Bolshoi...
Tabatabai had been a popular figure around Washington in his days as press attaché at the Shah's embassy. After the fall of the regime, he organized the Iran Freedom Foundation, a vocal anti-Khomeini group that denounced the Ayatullah's regime with leaflets churned out in Tabatabai's basement. The police were quick to launch a man hunt after an eyewitness culled through 400 photos of Muslim militants...