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...product has plunged about 20% since 1978, and analysts expect a further slide this year. The unemployment rate is approximately 30%. Two years of guerrilla warfare have nearly bankrupted the country and have destroyed tens of millions of dollars' worth of crops, roads, bridges and power stations. Says Georgetown University's Georges Fauriol: "The Administration will have a very hard time convincing any businessman who has to respond to his shareholders that investing in El Salvador is a good thing...
...Georgetown played in his hometown of Boston, the Boston College fans chanted: "Ewing can't read .. . Ewing can't read." To charges that the university made a mockery of its academic standards by admitting him, Georgetown President Father Timothy S. Healy answers: "Had Patrick Ewing been a Washington resident and gone through our Upward Bound [remedial-education] program, as he did in Boston-and had he been 3 ft. high-we'd have taken him. If he were 3 ft. high, nobody would have fussed...
Ewing is not 3 ft. high, and the fussing around Georgetown throughout the tournament was enough to prompt Coach Thompson to house his team 87 miles from New Orleans in Biloxi, Miss., making him the first black on record to move to Biloxi for peace of mind. First-black distinctions are not what move him, however. When someone asked how it felt to be the first black coach in the Final Four, Thompson snorted: "I resent the hell out of that question. It implies I am the first black to be accomplished enough and intelligent enough to get here...
...game was physical and yet becoming. Ewing flared at James Worthy once, but they patched it up quickly. Worthy, who is 6 ft. 9 in., ran down Georgetown's 6-ft. 3-in. guard Sleepy Floyd one time and then worried whether his friend was all right; both come from Gastonia, N.C. Carolina Guard Jimmy Black had some rough words with Floyd during the game but only sweet ones for him later. And Brown, who mistook Wor thy for a teammate and in a horrifying misfire tossed his team's last chance away, stood up bravely to waves...
...cover of the Georgetown basketball brochure, the five graduating seniors on the team may look a little silly standing around a piano in warmups and mortarboards, but the coach does not think so. He keeps a deflated basketball on his desk back at school, symbolizing that the air can be let out of a basketball career any time. When the players arrived home, a message was waiting for Brown on a banner draped on a campus building...