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...watched the finals. Japan's Daichi Suzuki, the Soviet Union's Igor Polanski and Berkoff. Suzuki and Polasnki burst off the blocks. Berkoff started out slow, but his underwater motions kept him close...
...Guarenas, a 32-year-old pregnant woman who was not involved in the rioting was shot to death and at least 126 people were wounded, said journalist Igor Camacho of the Voz de Guarenas newspaper...
Cage was invited to be the Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer this year by members of Harvard's music department and a Norton Lectures committee composed of faculty members. Past Norton lecturers have included Igor Stravinsky, Harold Blum, Frank Stella and Robert Frost...
...Most of the lanes are filled with thrashing swimmers, and Berkoff's is placid. At 35 meters (or 32 kicks, as he counts underwater), Berkoff pops up, half a body length ahead of everyone else. Not, he says, desperate for air, but "quite comfortable." Apparently so. He beat Soviet Igor Poliansky's 100- meter world record by five one-hundredths in the prelims, and then cut off another four ticks in the finals, for a world mark of 54.91. Another submariner, Jay Mortenson, qualified second, and everyone agreed that the strategy, which Berkoff adapted four years ago from experiments...
...high jump. Sweden's Patrik Sjoberg and West Germany's Carlo Thranhardt shared a world record of 7 ft. 11 1/4 in. until last week, when Cuba's Javier Sotomayor soared 7 ft. 11 1/2 in. in Spain. At least three other jumpers, West German Dietmar Mogenburg and Soviets Igor Paklin and Gennadi Avdeyenko, are potential Olympic eight-footers. Sotomayor is among the boycotters...