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Wed 11 Nov 2009Sport takes centre stage in war of political wills
SOCCER/DFB v GDR:Despite West Germany going on to win the World Cup on home soil in 1974, the East had earlier taken a significant and historic victory in the competition, writes DAMIAN CULLEN
AT LEAST the US and USSR had other avenues they could explore. In their high-stakes game of chicken, the Americans and Soviets regularly duelled during the Cold War, often using other countries as pawns. And one of both sides’ favourite weapons with which to bash the other, of course, concerned the race into space.
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