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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strange as the sight might seem, Foreman's goal is even odder. At the age of 40, after a full ten years layoff from the ring and about 40 lbs. over his best fighting weight, the slugger is in training once again. His objective -- some call it an obsession -- is to recapture the heavyweight title he lost by a knockout to Muhammad Ali in 1974. Exclaims the ex-champ: "I'm ready, and I'm better than I ever...
...arms outstretched, to the crowd. Every old man in the dim arena choked at the visage in the crimson robe -- a middle- aged Rocky in their midst. Around the stands signs shot up, echoing TYSON'S NEXT. In the dressing room Foreman chortled, "Cooper tried to run, but the ring was too small. They're all thinking, 'What's George going...
...want to give them the same shot I had." The ninth-grade dropout got his rebirth in the Job Corps. Since 1984, he's dispensed his own good deeds at the George Foreman Youth and Community Center on Houston's north side. The small gym with its boxing ring and exercise gear is an after-school haven for 400 youths, some of them too poor to afford the $10-a-year dues...
...only noise that Foreman is eager for is the telephone, ringing with Tyson's call. "We keep on winning, and that phone will ring," assures Foreman's brother Roy, his manager. "One day Tyson'll have to come to us." Until that happens, the old slugger is content enough dreaming his dream. "Champeen of the world," he beams. "Champeen. Great stuff there...
Those words had a hollow ring in the state of Michoacan, where the results of the state legislature's race -- another of the five state elections held last week -- remain hotly contested by Cuauhtemoc Cardenas and his Democratic Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.). The old pattern of fraud and stolen elections seemed to be reasserting itself as the P.R.I. claimed to have won ten of the 18 electoral districts while the P.R.D., alleging widespread irregularity, insisted that it had carried 15 districts. At a press conference on election day, Cardenas accused the P.R.I. of cheating by changing the location of the casillas...