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...foolish, even sad, to savor the victory as an act of geopolitical symbolism, Americans nonetheless had a right to be proud of their boys. A pond-hockey pickup crew of collegians, they had knocked off an athletic machine assembled from the best that the Soviet army and the Moscow Dynamo could produce-the best team in the world, professional or amateur. Basically the same Soviet outfit trounced the National Hockey League All-Stars at Madison Square Garden last year. The Soviets have won the title in every Olympics since 1964; the Americans last took the gold 20 years...
...twinkle in his steel blue eyes as he realizes he has caught the press corps unprepared. The scurrying photographers amuse him. As he smiles, he looks like a younger Henry Fonda, at once aristocratic and plebian, handsome and ordinary. He hops on the back of a red pickup truck and moves to a small podium. "I'm George Bush" he says, "and I'd like your support." In a slow northeastern twang, he talks of issues and Iowa, occasionally pounding the podium and moving to the climax of his speech. "I'm optimistic about this country," he says. "I know...
...find one of those friendly, folksy, salt-of-the-earth farmers whom journalists covering the state's political caucuses last week seemed to dote on. Shortly after he pulled into town, Drake spotted a suitably rustic fellow walking out of a seed store toward a pickup truck. The farmer listened politely to the reporter's request for some colorful quotes on President Carter's Soviet grain embargo and without hesitating asked, "Can I go off the record with you?" Says Drake: "I was stunned. I was waiting for the guy to go get his press secretary...
Many camps reported predictable problems of adjustment to the ceasefire: guerrillas grumbling about insufficient rations or insisting on rambunctious "victory marches." One ZIPRA officer at the "Papa" assembly point briefly commandeered a local farmer's beat-up Datsun pickup as his "staff car." But most of the returning rebels showed a firm commitment to the orderly peace process endorsed by their leaders. Said John Muchapesa, a senior ZANLA liaison officer at Alpha Camp: "We are guerrilla orphans. Ending a war is very hard, but the British are now our commanders...
...splats against wheel wells. The transmission howls. Linda Ronstadt, a half-ton Chevy pickup with a ton of yellow birch cordwood aboard, has sunk to her rusty frame in a mushy patch of logging road. Linda has four-wheel drive and a lot of heart, but this is a Sargasso of mud, the kind that bogs the wood lot every year after the leafless forest trees stop drinking water and the October rains come. Linda's friend and owner disembarks to consider the problem...