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...more than 20 years, Luis Vigoreaux and Lydia Echevarría ranked as Puerto Rico's leading husband-and-wife show biz team−he as the island's top TV game-show host, she as his co-host and a favorite soap-opera actress. Then, early last year, their lives went awry. The couple were on the verge of divorcing, and Vigoreaux was planning to marry a younger woman. On Jan. 17 his charred body, which showed at least eleven stiletto-type stab wounds, was discovered stuffed in the trunk of his red Mercedes-Benz...
...straight right and went on to win unanimously. Nigerian Peter Konyegwachie gave Taylor all he could handle in a hotly contested final, but Taylor, surprisingly, won a unanimous verdict. His flamboyant teammate Whitaker, who sometimes mocked opponents, fought stylishly for his gold, easily defeating Luis Ortiz of Puerto Rico...
...assembling an aircraft carrier to ply the waters between Staten Island and the Battery." Murray wonders: "All this to beat Uruguay?" Behind former North Carolina Tarheel Michael Jordan, the Americans crushed Uruguay, 104-68. As yet no international incidents have fulminated from Knight, who is still wanted in Puerto Rico five years after menacing a gymnasium guard at the Pan American Games. He has caused some celebrity to be visited on French Translator Marie Holgado, who is having to fumble for literal meanings to some of his characterizations, and who has set a press-conference record...
...thing, Hart may challenge the seating of six of Mondale's 77 Florida delegates and all 53 of his Puerto Rico delegates, arguing that election procedures in those areas violated party rules...
...Phillies' quarters at Clearwater, Roberto Clemente Jr., 18, is among the fledglings starting out in gray T shirts without numbers, just names stenciled on the back. There seem to be thousands of them. Clemente's shirt says BAMBI "because that's my nickname in Puerto Rico," he says, "and because I want to have my own name." Not intending that to sound harsh, he quickly goes on, "I think of my father all the time, both the player and the man. They say I was six and don't remember him as a player...