Word: looping
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...about 9 a.m. Saturday and lasted only 20 minutes apiece. No one was injured, and the workers were able to free themselves within an hour. In the Chicago assault, some half-a-dozen terrorists, with white knit scarves around their heads, entered the Carter office in the downtown Loop. Armed with rifles and pistols, they ordered the seven campaign workers, in English: "Cooperate and lie down, and you won't get hurt." The terrorists tied up the workers with clothesline and taped their mouths. One hostage thought that one of the intruders had been a former Carter volunteer...
...Linda Fratianne, 19, but she got off to a shaky start, finishing third in the compulsory figures. Fratianne complained that West Germany's Dagmar Lurz, who finished second, had been rated too high. "I went out and saw her third figure and the second circle of her loop was short, fat and off-axis," said Linda. Her coach, Frank Carroll, said irritably that "the judges always put Dagmar in there as a buffer between Linda and East Germany's Anett Poetzsch, so that Linda has to come from behind to win." A two-time world and four-time...