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Last week the charade ended with an explosion of headlines, as Customs and ATF agents arrested seven people for illegal gunrunning. U.S. Attorney Michael Yamaguchi described the sting operation as the largest seizure of fully operational automatic weapons in U.S. history. The diplomatically sensitive source of the guns: two state-owned arms manufacturers in China, Poly Technologies and Norinco. The president of Poly Technologies, a defense corporation controlled by the People's Liberation Army, is He Ping, the son-in-law of Deng Xiaoping...
Galindo also chanted four names: Jess, George, Jim, Rick. He is known as a hard-luck skater for good reason. Galindo has been a national winner previously, but as 1992 Olympic ladies champion Kristi Yamaguchi's pairs partner. In 1990, two years before they were to go to the Olympics, she told him she was devoting all her energy to solo competition. Galindo was upset, not so much for himself as for his father. Jess, a trucker, was in dire health at the time, and he told Rudy he was holding on to see him make the Olympic team. Says...
Before leaving for the competition, Galindo will go through his usual drill. He will kiss two stuffed monkeys dolls that Yamaguchi once gave him. Then he will round up the cats, Sky and Trucker (named for his father), and buss them. He used to have more superstitious routines, like lacing up the skate on his landing foot first. But he has eliminated that. "Now," he says with considerable determination, "I rely on training and hard work." And on memories of Jess, George, Jim and Rick...
Berry received a Visionary Award on November 8 in recognition for his work with HDS. Other award winners were Jeremiah Tower '65, owner of Stars restaurant in San Francisco, and Roy Yamaguchi of Roy's in Honolulu...
Away from the rink Yamaguchi is reserved, but not shy. Says U.S. coach Don Laws: "Kristi has the ideal temperament for a skater. She trusts her coach, her parents and her program." She has already been bitten by the ice-show bug after a brief tour with a group sponsored by Campbell's soup. "I just got a little taste," she says, "but it was great -- the travel, the crowds, being with other skaters in a noncompetitive atmosphere. Just like a family...