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Secret Service Chief H. Stuart Knight indirectly criticized the FBI for failing to inform the Service that Hinckley had been arrested at the Nashville airport for carrying three handguns in his briefcase on Oct. 9. On that day Jimmy Carter had been in the city to make a campaign speech at the Grand Ole Opry house. Yet there was no evidence that Hinckley had been tracking Carter...
...Bobby Knight, a title-and an off-court tiff...
There had been ample warning about Coach Bobby Knight and his Indiana University basketball team. When the Hoosiers rolled into Philadelphia for the final rounds of the N.C.A.A. basketball championships, the team was on a tear, having laid waste to three early round tournament opponents by a total victory margin of 82 points. The coach had kept his mean streak going by insulting journalists, throwing his entire team out of practice and feuding with his star guard, All-American Isiah Thomas. Knight and the Hoosiers lived up to their billings in Philadelphia, storming through the Final Four like panzers...
...victory gives the Hoosiers their second championship under coach Bobby Knight--they won in 1976--and their fourth in the school's history. They started off the season with a dismal 7-5 performance but came into their own in December and ended up winning the Big Ten Conference. The unusually successful Knight capped the Most Valuable Player award for the game...
...first half. The tide switched again, however, as Wood made an inside power move and laid it up-and-in to claim his 2000th collegiate point, and the Tar Hells who socred eight points to Indiana's none in the next two minutes to go up 16-8. Knight said after the game that this was its crucial point, and during a time-out he obviously communicated that to his squad. The Hoosiers mounted a strong comeback and succedeed in tying the socre at 20-20 with five minutes remaining in the half...