As the World Turns to Seoul, It's Showtime From: The Washington Post | Date: September 16, 1988| Author: Christine Brennan | Copyright 1988 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Seven years in the planning, scores of years in the dreaming, the Olympics of a lifetime begin this weekend in a land far, far away from Los Angeles, Moscow, Montreal, Munich and Mexico City.

The Olympics have returned to a pleasant sanctuary-the Far East-for the first time since 1964, when they were held in Tokyo. They come back as a massive but fragile giant of an event, an Olympics on the verge of pure greatness but only one sad, terror-ridden move from disaster. They sit precario...

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