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JAMES LEACH (R) District 1 (East--Cedar Rapids; Davenport; Iowa City...
BORN: Oct. 15, 1942, Davenport EDUCATION: Princeton U, B.A., 1964; Johns Hopkins U, M.A., 1966 FAMILY: Wife, Elisabeth Foxley-Leach; two children RELIGION: Episcopalian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Propane-gas-company executive; foreign-service officer POLITICAL CAREER: Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1974; U.S. House, 1976- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1088, Bettendorf...
...RUSH (D) District 1 (East--Cedar Rapids; Davenport; Iowa City...
...excellence (in the heroic third-straight gold of 4-ft. 11-in. Turkish weight lifter Naim Suleymanoglu); integrity (in the radiant face of Jonathan Edwards, the British triple jumper who said he was thrilled to get silver and made you believe it); sportsmanship (in the tears of American Lindsay Davenport after she beat her "very best friend," Mary Joe Fernandez, in the women's tennis semifinals); and brotherhood (in the 82-kg wrestling bout in which Elmadi Jabrailov of Kazakhstan beat Lucman Jabrailov of Moldovia--his elder brother and coach--before the two went off to relax together...
...from the Olympic tennis tournament, rallying from a 5-3 third-set deficit to win 7-5, 3-6, 8-6. "She played better than I did at crunch time," Seles said. The other U.S. women won, which means a semifinal showdown Wednesday between Mary Joe Fernandez and Lindsay Davenport, who are close friends as well as teammates. At least one of them will take home a medal. Novotna's opponent in the semifinals will be No. 3 Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario of Spain. In women's basketball. the U.S. team finished the preliminary round with another rout, beating South Korea...