The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

cluded this board to perform oversight obligations because it felt that a board of experts would be well suited to carry out thi ...

sius, hence the term “nuclear winter.” Critics of the nuclear arms race used these scenarios to under- score the folly of the us ...

Further Reading Sagan, Carl. “Nuclear War and Climatic Catastro- phe: Some Policy Implications.”Foreign Affairs 62 (1983): 257-2 ...

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Oates, Joyce Carol Identification American writer and scholar Born June 16, 1938; Lockport, New York As a prolific and diver ...

Impact In the 1980’s, Oates built her reputation as one of America’s most prolific and influential writers and scholars. By expe ...

O’Connor, Sandra Day Identification Associate justice of the United States, 1981-2006 Born March 26, 1930; El Paso, Texas The ...

Olson, Clifford Identification Canadian serial killer Born January 1, 1940; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Olson murdered ...

ghanistan guaranteed that his administration would not allow the U.S. Olympic team to participate in the Summer Games, and that ...

It did not take long for the Soviet Union’s allies to join with Moscow. On May 9, Bulgaria said that it would not attend. East G ...

The stunning gold medal performance of the U.S. men’s ice hockey team at the Winter Games pro- vided a morale boost to a country ...

participated in the Olympic Games for the first time in thirty years. China had been a member of the In- ternational Olympic Com ...

Shaposhnikova (two gold, four total) and Yelena Davydova (two gold, three total) among the most decorated female athletes. Sovie ...

Olympic Games of 1984 The Event The 1984 staging of winter and summer international athletic competitions, held every four yea ...

eight medals and was tied with Finland and Sweden in winning four gold medals. Canada acquired two gold medals and a total of fo ...

against using municipal funds to support the host- ing of the 1984 Games. Peter Ueberroth, president of the Los Angeles Olympic ...

Morocco won a gold medal in women’s 400-meter hurdles, becoming the first woman champion from an Islamic country. Ulrike Meyfart ...

most dominant nation in the Olympics, the Soviet Union won eleven gold and twenty-nine total med- als. Its political ally East G ...

Perfection also eluded an American female figure skater, Debi Thomas, who finished without a gold medal. As did her principal co ...

fondly remembering the great performances by U.S. athletes four years earlier in Los Angeles. Forgotten by many was the absence ...

Press, 1995. A good resource to learn about gen- eral information about the Olympic Games, but it lacks depth about any specific ...