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When Storm is 104, the typical fencer that age will still be taking lessons from his coaches. Or so say the fencers; their sport is passionate, intensely personal, a fierce relationship between eternal mentors and lifelong learners. At 22, Jana Angelakis, the youngest member of the five-woman U.S. foil team, is ranked No. 2. She is studying with her third coach, a Soviet named Emmanuil Kaidanov who coaches the men's team at Penn State, where she is enrolled on a full athletic scholarship. Kaidanov, she says, is teaching her the why of fencing. "Mine has always been...
...Bolivian team-four marksmen, a fencer and a champion walker named Osvaldo MorejÓn-protested. Asked Victor Hugo Campos, one of the marksmen: "How are we to improve our record if we don't attend any major competitions?" The argument won over Bolivian President Hernán Siles Zuazo. On Friday he told the team it could go to Los Angeles...
...Panjshir Valley has already survived six punishing assaults, but never has it faced more men or heavier air strikes. As many as 100 Soviet Tu-16 Badger bombers and Su-24 Fencer fighters saturated the area with high-altitude carpet bombing. In their wake came some 80 Mi-24 Hind assault helicopters, more than 500 tanks and armored personnel carriers and, according to Western diplomats, more than 20,000 troops, almost a fifth of the entire Soviet force in Afghanistan. The target of this unprecedented show of force was not so much the rebels as the civilians, who have apparently...
Kaufer, who finished 13-2 in the Ivies and 20-3 over-all, became the first Harvard fencer in over 50 years to claim one of the three individual weapons titles at the Easterns. The Crimson epee squad, made up of Kaufer and sophomores Giancarlo Cicchetti and Thor Wilbanks, tied Yale for first in the epee division...
...match, the Crimson dominated the foil competition but couldn't top Notre Dame in the other two weapons. Junior Michael Member led the fencer's 11-5 effort in the foil with four solid wins, all of them by at least two touches...