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...visit was a sobering look at the ways in which hard-line ideologues have imposed their will on a nation." Eddie Adams, a TIME photographer who, while on assignment for the Associated Press in 1968, took the indelible picture of a Vietnamese general shooting a Viet Cong point-blank, also went back in 1983, though reluctantly. "I didn't think I had left anything there," he says. "I was wrong. Everything came back, but it was all off-key: Russians walking down the streets, the bars all turned into sedate coffee shops. I was a stranger in a familiar place...
Lomeiko specifically knocked down speculation that Chernenko might resign at a Central Committee meeting, possibly next month. When Loory asked whether Chernenko was seriously ill, Lomeiko denied it point-blank. Said he: "All Politburo members are entitled to a monthlong winter vacation, and the General Secretary is taking his." Where? Somewhere outside Moscow...
Opportunistic Crimson midfielder Nikhil Singh knocked the gift into the net from point-blank range...
Although the play became more and more concentrated in the Crimson half of the pitch, Harvard did come close in the 53rd, the 57th and the 68th minutes, when Lion 'keeper Jeff Micheli saved from Catliff with panther-like quickness, often from point-blank range...
...cohort Calkins says. "He's the world's finest fundraiser. When you talk about the sheik of somewhere who might have an interest [in giving money to Harvard], his eyes light up and he's off to the airport." Calkins also credits him with being able to tell people point-blank that they aren't offering enough money...