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...Dominican Republic should be very proud to lose only 8-0." Across town that afternoon, where another dominant Dream Team was on display, the responses were almost identical. "Our objective has been to keep them within a 45-point range," said the coach of the Angolan basketball team, Victorino Cunha, after playing the U.S. True, he had lost by 68, but that seemed a minor victory after being 48 points down at halftime. "For us," said an Angolan, "it's good to lose by 60 points...
Barkley's act of Ugly Americanism was played down by Angolan coach Victorino Cunha. "We know Charles Barkley," he said. "No problem. He does this 10 times a year in the N.B.A." For his part, Cunha deserves a medal for perseverance. In 1975 he started the Angolan basketball program. From scratch. In the 17 years since, he and his team have endured a war that virtually destroyed their nation. On the court they have put up with ridicule. For all who would listen in Badalona, Cunha had one message. "We can play. We can play," he repeated. No one thought...
Last week, at the meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists in Austin, Sereno for the first time revealed details of the find, made last year by a joint U.S.-Argentine expedition. The dinosaur was named Herrerasaurus, after Victorino Herrera, the goat farmer who first led scientists to the area in northwestern Argentina where the bones were found. Smaller than Apatosaurus and less fearsome than Tyrannosaurus, this dinosaur flourished 230 million years ago during the unique period when most of the earth's landmasses were gathered into a single supercontinent, now called Pangea. Until the most recent find, only...
Engaged. Lucio and Simplicio Godino, 21 each, of Manila, Filipino "Siamese" twins (joined at the base of their spines); to two sisters, Natividad and Victorino Malos. Marriage licenses were issued to them by the Philippine Department of Justice, which overruled a license bureau clerk who felt that the twins, whom he regarded as one individual with a dual personality, would commit bigamy by marrying two women...
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