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Houston did have its time to shine though and that time came during the diving events. The Cougars boast two world-class divers, Azul Almazan and Anna Kleis, who have both brought home numerous awards and honors for the Houston team. Both divers have qualified and competed in NCAA Championships. Almazan even competed in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney for her home country of Mexico and placed 13th in the three-meter dive event...
...Almazan took home a first-place finish in the three-meter dive as well as a third-place finish in the one-meter dive. Teammate Kleis did even better with a first place in the one-meter dive and a second-place finish in the three-meter...
...Their strategies are thus exposed to the enemy. Material advantage is not a guarantee of success. The Yugoslavs and Russians are excellent chess players. While Russia is not directly involved in the war, Russian advisers may be giving their Yugoslav brethren practical pointers in order to win endgames. NESTOR ALMAZAN Mississauga...
...wired the 27 other Governors, hailing the move as "liberation of the country," and demanding support. They responded by electing him chairman of the President's Advisory Council of Governors. In 1939 he moved to the capital to manage Manuel Avila Camacho's presidential campaign against Juan Almazan. Mexicans recall the ruthless drive with which he carried through the election; to this day many insist that Almazan really won and was counted out by the Aléman organization...
Then the Government's PRM (Party of the Mexican Revolution) came out with a fantastic story, which Almazan denied, of a Nazi-backed Almazanista plot to overthrow the Government. From a pile of swastika-sprinkled documents it said it had decoded papers accounting for 12,000 cases of ammunition and eight knocked down planes, smuggled in off a Nazi freighter. Maps were produced showing Almazanista military centres and broadcasting stations. Almazan's strength was put at 250,000 men under onetime Labor Boss Luis M. Morones, backed by a Nazi warship and 14 more planes. Police uncovered plans...