Flashes Of Gold • The 1988 Olympics ·were full of near misses and glorious triumphs. • Debi Thomas comes in third in Women's figure skating when she fell four times in the long program. • Dan Jansen fell in both the 500 meter and 1000 meter Men's speedskating events. • The U.S. bobsled team missed a medal finish by 2/100ths of a second. • Bonnie Blair won the 500 meter speed skating event.
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• Carl Lewis won the gold in the 100 meter dash when Canadian Ben Johnson forfeited when he was caught using steroids. • Florence GriffithJoyner became part ~---------_--_ _ _- -' of the Olympic record books by winning the 100 and 200 meter dashes. • Earthquake rocks Armenia on • Swimmer Matt December 7, 1988. 60,000 Biondi won seven killed; 500,000 were left homemedals, five gold, in less. various team and in• Terrorism continued as bomb dividual events. killed 270 on Pan Am Flight :103 • Overall the U.S. won in Lockerbie, Scotland. 89 medals; 34 gold. • The war in the Middle East between Iran and Iraq ended after 8 years of conflict. • Soviet troops pull out of Afghanistan under Gorbachev's direction. • The U.S. warship, the U.S.S. Vincennes, downs an Iranian airliner due to miscommunication. • 70 were killed at an Air Show in Ramstein, West Germany, as two planes collided in midflight. • The PLO chairman Yasser Arafat acknowledged Israel's right to exist, therefore opening discussions between the U.S. and the PLO. • Hurricane Gilbert swept through Jamaica and the Yuca• Former President tan with winds near 200 mph. Reagan stepped down after his sec• Author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie, was conond four-year term. demned to death by the AyatOl• Republican George lah Khomeini because he Bush soundly defeatthought the book insulted Ised Democrat, Milam. ./ . chael Dukak~, and became the 41$t president.
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