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UNDERGROUND DELI AND STORE THE DIET PLACE OPEN BREAKFAST 7:30am - 10:30am LUNCH 10:30am - 3:30pm Mon— Friday “QUALITY FIRST’ You try it. 846-6687 University Lutheran Chapel 315 N. College Main Hubert Beck, Pastor You don’t explain love, or perfume. Page 14/The Battalion/Wednesdav. February 15, 1984 U.S. skater TANK MCNAMARA by Jeff Millar & r close to gold TMekJ You OAv/e mo memory ^ Of SI&MIUG EITtteR Tp|£ MFL ORTf|£ U9FL- RAVER CONTRACTS? United Press International IT’S LIKE THAT WITH GOD, TOO! WORSHIP SERVICES AT 9:15 A.M. AND 10:45 A.M Fellowshio Supper* 6:00 p.m. Topic Discussion 7:15 p.m. i opic Discussion p.m. Midweek Service otlweaitation and Contemplation with Holy Communion this evening and every Wednesday evening at 10 p.m. SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia — Merely a step or two short of perfection, Scott Hamilton put a virtual lock on a figure skating gold medal Tuesday night, helping to overshadow lacklus ter performances by the Mahre twins earlier in the day. Hamilton,* the three-time world champion who hasn’t been beaten since 1980, stum bled ever so slightly on the camel spin during his short pro gram at the Zetra Arena, but still goes into Thursday night’s free skating final with a com fortable lead over Jean- Christophe Simond of France. “I hobbled the camel a little,” said Hamilton, who was second behind Canadian Brian Orser in the short program markings, consisting of seven elements in two minutes. “The combination felt good, the double axel felt good, all the spins were good. “I got a little excited out there and the camel wasn’t ex actly what I wanted to do.” Hamilton said he had been unable to warm up properly be cause he’s been so caught up in all the other activities of the Olympics. “So,” he continued, “it was ‘calm down, let’s remem ber what we’re out here for’ and I went downstairs and got mad. I got really mad and all the veins in my head were standing out. I was looking really pretty.” The continued strong show ing by Hamilton, plus the medal expected later Tuesday night from Judy Blumberg and Mi chael Seibert in the ice dance, lent encouragement to the United States forces following the failure of the men to make an impression in the giant sla lom. Phil Mahre, winner of the overall World Cup championship the last three years, could do no better than eighth in the giant slalom and his brother Steve was 17th. Max Julen of Switzerland, taking heart from the whistling of some 12,000 Yugoslavs who envisioned a gold medal for one of their own, was the surprise winner of the giant slalom, the first alpine event of these Games for the men. The Yugo slavians, nevertheless, were de lighted to take the silver on a pressure performance by Jure Franko, while Andreas Wenzel of Liechtenstein earned the bronze. your Houop.coomsa BOTR Tf4£ PtAlhJTlFP AtT SO WECAKlTlWO. cookies, x lUKfi a ( British ice dancers glide to gold medal United Press International SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia — Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean of Britain mesmerized both judges and audience to win the Olympic Ice Dance gold medal Tuesday, earning the highest marks ever awarded in figure skating. dance competition to 19, a fig ure never achieved by any skater or skaters in a championship before. dance decided the medal. Vol 78 Also winning gold medals Tuesday were Canadian Gaetan Boucher in the men’s 1,000-me ter speedskate and Eirik Kval- foss of Norway in the 10-kilo- meter biathlon. Nick Thometz of Minnetonka, Minn., fifth in the 500 meter speedskate, again missed out on a medal by fin ishing fourth. The Britons’ flawless and hypnotic routine to the haunt ing Ravel’s “Bolero” won a total of 12 perfect marks from six from the judges. Three of the arbiters gave sixes for technical merit, the other six awarding 5.9, but all nine judges agreed Torvill and Dean’s artistry mer ited the highest possible mark. Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin of the Soviet Union, as expected, took the sil ver medal and won almost as much applause as Torvill and Dean for their exciting and quick-stepping free dancing to the balalaika and bells accompa niment of Russian folk dances. Blumberg and SeiJ dance to Rimsky-Korsakol cheherazade was beaut coordinated but rated i than Klimova and Ponoi ko’s more athletic and esj number. From the o opening bam ith Dean W That straight set of sixes brought the British couple’s tally in the three parts of the ice The second Soviet pair, Ma rina Klimova and Sergei Pono marenko, in less expected fash ion, also skated a fluent routine to snatch the bronze medal from Americans Judy Blum berg and Michael Seibert. Both couples finished with the same final points, 7.0 placements, but on the ice and then I vill over his shoulder toil their routine, crowd of!| was enthralled. Four later after a sweeping t display and a breatmakini tiple twist at the end, tlit| tons had unquestional)lv| cured the gold even befor marks went up. flu treatment is here Seattle skier now ‘A’ team A study using the new drug Ribavirin is going on at the Beutel Health Center if you have Flu Symptoms • Fever • Muscle Aches •Chills • Sore Throat Come to the Health Center within the first 24 hours of illness and ask for the Flu Doctor (day or night—Flu Fighters don’t sleep) HO—CH United Press International You may win a paid vacation (about $112.00) in the Health Center Dr. John Quarles 845-1313 SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia —Only min utes before, elf-like 20-year-old Debbie Armstrong had conquered mighty Jaho- rina, one of the steepest, most beautiful mountains in all Yugoslavia. Now, completely surrounded six deep and hopelessly encircled the way Custer must have been, the curvy blonde, blue eyed Seattle skier was on top of the world, yet she couldn’t move an inch. If she did, she risked being crushed by the surging mass of humanity around her. She was struggling to keep from slipping on the uneven, icy snow beneath her, yet she still answered all the questions fired at her by the media. She wasn't going to miss so much as a second of all this because it as suredly had to be one of the fulfilling mo ments of her young life. As a class B member or second-stringer on the United States Ski Team, and the “baby” of the group in terms of seniority, she had made her very first major victory one that she and many others would always remember and talk about by not only win ning the women’s giant slalom but the first gold medal for the United States in these Olympic Games as well. Armstrong took a lot of the heat off America’s male Olympians, who haven’t done a whole lot more here than go shop- j ping and take pictures. Until Debbie came through, the only medal the United States had to show was a silver one in the pairs figure skating won by Kitty and Peter Car- ruthers. What made Armstrong’s victory all the sweeter was that her 24-year-old team mate, Christin Cooper of Sun Valley, Idaho, picked up the silver medal for sec ond place in the giant slalom, and Tamara McKinney of Squaw Valley, Calif., barely missed making it an entirely unexpected 1- 2-3 sweep for the Americans by finishing fourth, only four-tenths of a second be hind the third place finisher, France’s Per- rine Pelen. Armstrong’s combined time for her two runs was 2:20.98; Cooper’s 2:21:38, and McKinney’s 2:21.83. The fourth U.S. girl in the race, Cindy Nelson of Reno, Nev., wound up way back in 18th place with her 2:24.88 clocking, but she might’ve made the biggest and most important contribu tion of all. She’s Armstrong’s roommate in the Olympic Village and she never let up on her before the competition. “Cindy Nelson has been absolutely great,” were virtually the first words out of Armstrong’s mouth after she realized she had won the race. “She kept giving me a kick in the pants. Everytime I turned around, she’d say, ‘You can do it, Arm strong. You know it, and I know it.’ She never let me forget I had the ability to win. She was my personal confidence builder.” When Nelson came overtocong Armstrong after finishing her own I run, the two girls embraced each; with that special kind of warmth anil lion that only comes from puttinginll back-breaking hours of hard wi gether. “Can you imagine?” Armii:| bubbled. “Me, winning?” “Well, kid, you sure picked the: time and the right place to doit,”; the 28-year-old Nelson, a 14-yearvfl of the team the rest of the memtal her “Granny.” All of them took to her immediattl cause of her good nature and sheet: ralness when she first joined theteaitl years ago and they all felt for herwhc broke her leg in Schladming, Austn 1982 after having been named it| World Championship team. Even! likes Debbie, and that’s fair enoug cause Debbie likes everybody, also. “You should’ve heard her in these chute before we started today,” Coop lated. “She was babbling away, let’s! fun, let’s have fun.’” “That’s right,” confirmed ArnisiJ? who had been pegged more as a specialist and had to almost beg to 1 part in the giant slalom. “Sure, it was! work, but it was also a lot of fun." Sangria Pitcher $3.50 Hogs still riding high after upset The : doms th countrie: freedom operatic dent Coi said Wee Fred utive ai broadca; bia Uni Journali feld, pn officer c Inc., pre in sepa opening Friem address off SC< unique press. He s; States is doms Amend) the wor gon Pap Citinj gridiroi can gre traced press th preme 1 pact on He p the pre and libt functio: Beca protect: Friendl into a \ ciety. Figui govern made f sponsit nation United Press International Special good 4 p. m. -7 p. m. 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All Star Audio gives you Low Discount Prices every day! Come by today and Save! — VjacVt -Vo Schoo/. “U4 SPECIALS/ That victory concluded a three- win week, elevated the Razor- backs into the No. 13 spot in the national rankings and raised their confidence level for up coming games with Houston and for what will almost cer tainly be its seventh straight ap- perance in the NCAA tourna ment. TCU, meanwhile, has won just two of 11 conference games despite a talented assortment of young players. Wednesday night’s other f ames find the Baylor Bears at MU and Rice at Texas. On Thursday evening the fourth- ranked Houston Cougarrs will host third-place Texas Tech. SMU is hoping to use this mid-week round of games as a lever to jump back into third place in the league standings. The team that finishes third wins a bye past the opening round of the SWC’s post-season tournament. The Mustangs are 7-4 while Texas Tech is 7-3 in the league race. 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