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...Honduras means something that is even more appreciated by local residents: money. In the towns where U.S.-built airstrips are emerging, for example, there has been a sudden efflorescence of Honduran shopkeepers, motel owners, restaurateurs and others eager for U.S. dollars. Gasoline sales in the Pacific port of San Lorenzo (pop. 20,000), near one U.S. encampment, are up by 25%. Says a Honduran businessman: "If there is money to be made here, we should be the ones to gain...
...shot is rewarded with three points, Whittenburg's mortars were the antidote for Virginia's 7-ft. 4-in. Ralph Sampson. But then, at just two points a shot, N.C. State beat Virginia again in the regionals. A sophomore with a sense of theater, a forward named Lorenzo Charles, made two free throws at the end of that 63-62 victory, just as he had made one with three seconds left in a 71-70 triumph over Wake Forest...
...cool days that followed, people would fault but not blame Olajuwon for permitting Lorenzo Charles the inside position on the rebound. But there was no rebound. Whittenburg's 30-ft. buzzer shot missed completely. Standing under the backboard, Charles caught it and, scoring State's only second-half basket not shot from outside, stuffed it. Against Phi Slamma Jamma. That was the poetry...
ALBUQUERQUE. N.M.--Lorenzo Charles' shot with one second remaining culminated North Carolina St.'s dream season Monday night, giving the Wolfpack a 54-52 victory over top-ranked Houston for the NCAA basketball championship...
...bright blue night pierced through by a multitude of lights, all giving off an unreal glow, is reminscent of other films that focus on three kings and a manger. The scene, however, is not Bethlehem but Tuscany, and the night is August 10, the night of San Lorenzo, when according to folklore, every shooting star grants a wish. A feminine voice intones solemnly and langorously. "What I wish tonight is to find words to tell of another night, many years ago. "So, in classic folk style, The Night of the Shooting Stars emerges at something recounted, an admixture of remembered...