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THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1981
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17-year-old now famous
Medalist still rehearsing
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Most people would
think a 17-year-old high school drop-out had
little future when she walked out the school
doors for the last time.
But when you’ve just become the first
American to win a gold medal at the Moscow
International Ballet Competition, then the fu-
ture is a little brighter.
; Amanda McKerrow, who conquered Mos-
-cow with her partner Simon Dow, says, “Life
»is busier and there’s an added something extra,
but it really hasn’t changed me as a person. I
. still have to practice and rehearse every day if I
want to grow as a dancer.”
»' She and 19 other dancers make up the
• Washington Ballet, created in 1976 by Mary
. Day, who wanted to form a company for gradu-
; afes of the Washington School of Ballet.
Her life is dancing. She spends six hours a
day practicing and keeping in shape and trying
to adjust to the attention and fame that came
with the gold medal.
‘ - “People stop me on the street now and say
‘Aren’t you Amanda McKerrow?’ and my first
reaction is to say, ‘Yes. How did you know?’ It
takes getting used to. But I still feel the same as
I did two months ago.’’
Miss McKerrow left high school after the
10th grade and would have graduated this
year. She is working on a correspondence
course and will soon take an exam for a Gov
ernment Equivalency Diploma.
She entered the world of ballet at the age of
10, partially because her older sister Melissa,
now 21, was doing it. “But she quit before I
even started.” Miss McKerrow said.
“When I was young I used to tag after her
like kids do. But then I realized that I loved
watching dancers. She didn’t like it, but I fell
in love.”
But after five years of serious training and
competition, she knows it is not an easy profes
sion and many dancers can’t handle the press-
“It’s a very hard career,” Miss McKerrow
said. “Dancing is emotionally difficult and
physically draining. You need total support
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Miss McKerrow says she knew what she
wanted by age 12 after two years of dance
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anything else.”
“I really love to swim, but I don’t get much
chance to,” she said. “Plus dancers can’t get
too suntanned because the (stage) lighting will
make you look green or something. ”
Miss McKerrow can’t picture what she’ll be
doing five or 10 years from now, other than
dancing. Choreography is pretty much ruled
out, though she admits that she might want to
try it sometime.
Beyond Moscow?
“I still have to work hard every day. I still
have a lot further to go and farther to grow as a
dancer. ”
She would like to do “Romeo and Juliet.”
“It’s my favorite ballet all around. It’s my favo
rite Shakespearean play and Prokofiev is my
favorite composer. It would be a wonderful
role to sink your teeth into.”
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Reagan delays release ol
planes destined for Israe
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The on-again, off-again ship
ment of U.S. warplanes to Israel has again been
embargoed by President Reagan, but an aide says he
is likely to let the planes go soon.
The embargo, imposed Tuesday, swells to 16 the
number of warplanes Reagan has denied Israel since
June 10 in response to its bombing raids on an Iraqi
nuclear reactor and on Palestine Liberation Organi
zation targets in Lebanon.
“The Foreign Ministry expresses its dismay at the
continued delay in supply of plane deliveries to
Israel,” the Israeli government said in Jerusalem.
“This is an unjust and damaging action and borders
on breach of contract.”
But White House aide said Reagan was expected
to give the go-ahead next week for shipment to Israel
of 14 F-16s and two F-15s. The president, he said, is
“leaning toward letting them all go.”
Reagan blocked deliveries of the first four F-16s to
Israel June 10 pending a determination of whether
the Israelis used F-15s and F-16s already in their
arsenal for “legitimate self-defense” in their June 7
raid on the Iraqi reactor.
Congressional sources said Reagan had been pre
pared to lift the suspension on July 17. But Israeli
bombed PLO targets in the center of Beirut,r t
portedly killing more than 300 people andheinsta
suspended delivery of six more F-16s July20becau
of the “escalating cycle of violence” in the Midi
East.
State Department spokesman Alan Romberga
Tuesday’s decision was consistent with the previu
orders.
“Simply the same rationale applying to delivai
of the F16s applies now (to the F-15s) until 4
president makes his mind up, makes his decii
Romberg said. “So the same criterion of not
highly visible aircraft into that situation still a]
until that decision is made.”
Officials said a major factor in Reagan's decision
whether to resume aircraft deliveries to Israelwii
the unofficial cease-fire agreed to last montkii
Israel and elements of the PLO.
Even if Reagan does lift the embargo, deliven
the F-16s could be further delayed by unreW
problems.
The Air Force last Friday it grounded all its Fi
because of problems with their electrical and flijl
control systems. The order, which followed thetra
of an F-16 in Utah, would apply also to planesis
tined for Israel until corrections are made.
F-16 planes ready after modificatioi
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WASHINGTON — F-16 fight
er-bombers, grounded last Friday
[because of problems with the
flight control system, will begin
flying again next week after com
pletion of modifications, the Air
Force says.
In an announcement Tuesday,
the Air Force said all 269 of the
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turned to duty within four or fc
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Technicians from the Air Foe 1
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gium and Holland followed i
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ited States. Those countries
expected to carry out similarm*
ifications to their planes, an It
Force spokesman said.
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lem with the flight control comp ^
ter was caused by an overl
electrical energy that forced B
system to shut down for its
protection.
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