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Defending champions Graf, Sampras
continue quest for consecutive titles
Payton joins Barkley
in Rockets’ rumor mil
Steffi Graf advanced to the semi-finals and
will face No. 12 Kimiko Date on Thursday.
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Steffi
Graf and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario seem des
tined for yet another Grand Slam final.
Less than a month since they played for
the French Open title, Graf and Sanchez
Vicario are on course to meet again in Satur
day’s championship match at Wimbledon.
Both women reached the semifinals with
impressive straight-set victories Tuesday,
the top-seeded Graf outplaying No. 6 Jana
Novotna 6-3, 6-2, and No. 4 Sanchez Vicario
beating Judith Wiesner 6-4, 6-0.
In Thursday’s semis, Graf will face No. 12
Kimiko Date, who became the first Japanese
player in history to reach the Wimbledon semi
finals by overcoming Mary Pierce 2-6, 6-3, 6-1.
Sanchez Vicario will meet the unseeded
Meredith McGrath, who continued her sur
prising run by beating No. 9 Mary Joe Fer
nandez 6-3, 6-1 to reach her first Grand
Slam semifinal.
Led by top-seeded Pete Sampras, the men
moved into today’s quarterfinals minus yet
another seed. Tenth-seeded Michael Stich, the
1991 Wimbledon champion and runner-up at
the French Open last month, fell on Tuesday
to Richard Krajicek 6-4, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4.
Sampras stopped No. 16 Cedric Fioline of
France 6-4, 6-4, 6-2; No. 13 Todd Martin defeat
ed Sweden’s Thomas Johansson 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-
2; American MaliVai Washington ousted
Dutchman Paul Haarhuis 6-3, 6-4, 6-2; and
Germany’s Alexander Radulescu downed South
African Neville Godwin 6-3, 6-0, 6-4.
Sampras, seeking his fourth consecutive
Wimbledon title, took on Krajicek in today’s
quarterfinals, while Martin was up against
Tim Henman, the first British quarterfinalist
in 23 years; No. 4 Goran Ivanisevic, a two-
time finalist, faced Australia’s Jason
Stoltenberg; and Washington met Radulescu.
It’s the first time in the Open era that only
three seeds reached the men’s quarterfinals.
If Graf and Sanchez Vicario get through
as expected, they will meet in a repeat of the
1995 Wimbledon final. Graf won that three-
set classic, which featured one game lasting
20 minutes and 32 points.
Graf and Sanchez Vicario have met 35
times, including 24 times in a final and six
times in a Grand Slam championship match.
In Paris last month, Graf beat Sanchez
Vicario 6-3, 6-7 (4-7), 10-8, in the longest
French Open women’s final in history.
Nine-time Wimbledon champion Marti
na Navratilova is convinced Graf will
wind up beating Sanchez Vicario in the fi
nal again.
“She (Arantxa Sanchez Vicario) is proba
bly the only one who believes she can beat
Steffi,” Navratilova said. “I think Sanchez
Vicario would be the only one, but I would
put a lot of money on Steffi Graf to win this
tournament again.”
Graf is 6-1 against Date, but the Japan
ese player won their last meeting, prevailing
12-10 in the third set of a Fed Cup match on
indoor carpet in Tokyo this spring. It was
one of only two defeats for Graf this year.
“Of course, I want to do the same thing as I
did in the Fed Cup,” Date said. “But until I go
up to the court and face her, I won’t know what
will happen. Mentally, I just try to keep myself
as usual, not to put too much pressure on me.”
Sanchez Vicario has beaten McGrath in
straight sets in their only two previous meet
ings. But McGrath, a Swiss-based American
who won a warmup tournament in Birming
ham last month, is playing the best grass-
court tennis of her life.
CHICAGO (AP) — If what
Gary Payton and Charles
Barkley are saying is true, both
could be playing for the Houston
Rockets next season.
Payton, a free agent, said
Tuesday the Rockets are bidding
for his services, and Barkley has
been mentioned in a rumored
three-way trade that would send
him to Houston.
"They made their bid. They
done came in with a bid and
they’re trying to do something,”
Payton said.
However, teams are not al
lowed to make offers to free
agents until July 9, and any of
fers tendered before that time
could be viewed as tampering.
Payton, who has spent six
seasons with Seattle and
helped lead the SuperSonics to
the NBA Finals last month,
sounded open to the idea of
playing for the 1994 and 1995
league champions, especially if
Barkley was on board.
“That’ll be a good lineup,
Barkley, the Dream (Hakeem
Olajuwon), Clyde (Drexler) and
myself," Payton said. “That’d be
a nice little lineup and we’d win
a few ballgames.”
The rumored trade involving
Barkley would also send Robert
Horry and Sam Cassell from
Houston to Denver, with the
Nuggets signing free agent cen
ter Dikembe Mutombo and ship
ping him to the Phoenix Suns.
“I hear the deal’s done,
Barkley told the Houston Chro:
icle and Arizona Republic.
“I don’t have any proof
that, but my inside sources se
they’re just trying to sign Mt
tombo. If it works out for Hoiii
ton, that would be a great ho:
or to play there. I think it’sji
ing to happen.”
Payton said he has narrowe:
his list of possible teams to thi*
teams in addition to Houston-
Seattle, New York and Miami.
“Out of the four, I’ve got to:
that I’m going to look at til
hardest and the other two migt
be X’d out. I’m debating,” sai:
Payton, whose asking prkf
could top $50 million for fouri
five years.
‘Tve got to ask for more tha;
that. For somebody to lure®
from Seattle they’ve got to givi
me a little extra to get me awa;
from a team that got to the 5
nals and has been averagin:
more than 60 wins a season foi
four years.”
An eight-day moratorium im
posed by the NBA on signings
trades and negotiations wen!
into effect Monday. After nooc
EDT on July 9, the free agen:
market will be open for business
Payton said he would liken
resolve his status quickly so
can be settled by the time the
Dream Team arrives in Orland:
for its final pre-Olympic training
camp July 15.
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financial aid, private colleges
AUSTIN (AP) — Attorney General
Dan Morales says a U.S. Supreme
Court order not only halts consideration
of race in public university admissions
but extends to student financial aid pro
grams and to private colleges taking
federal funds.
“We will never overcome past
discrimination by practicing dis
crimination today,”
Morales said Tues
day, one day after
the U.S. Supreme
Court let stand a
lower court ruling
striking down the
University of Texas
law school’s 1992
admissions policy.
In a ruling that’s
binding law for Texas,
Louisiana and Missis
sippi, the 5th U.S.
MORALES
Circuit Court of Appeals in New Or
leans said the policy discriminated
against whites.
The appeals court also said a land
mark 1978 Supreme Court ruling allow
ing the use of race as one factor in col
lege admissions is no longer good law.
But A1 Kauffman of the Mexican
American Legal Defense and Educa
tional Fund said Morales is interpreting
the 5th Circuit decision too broadly.
“It does not require the end of affir
mative action policies at public colleges
or universities, let alone private col
leges that are recipients of federal
funds,” Kauffman said.
Morales said, “My office will recom
mend to Texas colleges and universities
that only race-neutral admissions crite
ria be considered in making admissions
decisions.”
“We further advise that Texas insti
tutions tailor their financial aid, schol
arship and fellowship policies to consid
er only race-neutral factors such as eco
nomic need, social and family back
ground,” he said.
Morales also said that while private
colleges can make their own legal deci
sions, “Our view is that the ruling and
the impact of the 5th Circuit opinion
would be viewed to apply to all institu
tions of higher education in our state
that receive any type of federal assis
tance. ... That would probably include
all private institutions in the state.”
Morales said despite his recommend
ed race-neutral policies, he believes uni
versities still can make strong efforts to
recruit minorities and build a diverse
student body.
Mienendez brothers
given life sentences
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Erik
and Lyle Menendez are not a
threat to themselves or others
and should be “an asset to any
institution,” said a probation of
ficer who recommended they be
placed in the same prison.
But a police detective opposed
the request, insisting the broth
ers might plot to escape.
The brothers were sentenced
Tuesday to life in prison without
parole for shooting their parents
to death in 1989.
They probably will be sent to
North Kern State Prison in cen
tral California for four to six
weeks before officials decide
where they’ll be placed perma
nently, said J.P. Tremblay, assis
tant secretary of the state Youth
and Adult Correctional Agency.
“There have been situations
where family members have
been put together,” Tremblay
said. “But there are situations
where we don’t put partners in
crime together.”
The probation report by Gary
McMillen praises the brothers
and is supported by a stack of let
ters from relatives, friends, a cler
gyman, teachers, psychologists
and jurors from the first trial.
A priest says he was uplifted
by the “conversion” of the
brothers in prison, and Lyle’s
fiancee pleaded for him to re
main with his brother.
“In quiet moments, Lyle will
say to me, ‘Aside from my broth
er, you’re the best thing that has
ever happened to me,”’ wrote
Anna Eriksson. “The love he
feels for Erik is palpable.”
Relatives who live in different
parts of the country said it
would be more difficult for them
to visit the brothers if they
aren’t imprisoned together.
The only voices of opposition
were those of Beverly Hills Po
lice Detective Leslie Zoeller,
who said the brothers might
try to escape, and their mater
nal uncle, Brian Andersen, who
rejects the brothers’ claim that
they were sexually molested
and psychologically abused by
their parents.
Independence Day
Continued from Page 1
to be an overwhelming match, as do all other US
and world military efforts — including a full nil
clear strike launched by American stealth bombe:
over Houston.
The president and his advisers are forced to re
evaluate their options, which they do as they ente
Area 51 — the United States’ top-secret Nevads
base rumored to house alien technology from
crash in the 1950s.
While ID4 does not enjoy the big-name actoi
recognition that Mission: Impossible and The Roci
have enjoyed this summer, its balanced cast let
the audience to see many sides of how the alien in
vasion affects Americans.
The finest performances are turned in by Sifiitr,
who pays homage to Harrison Ford’s Han Solo a
the tough, wisecracking ace pilot Capt. Hiller am
Randy Quaid as Russell, a Vietnam vet and cro;
duster who’s as white-trash as they come. Russel
who swears he was abducted by aliens years ag(
seeks revenge when his captors return.
But the finest part of the movie, and the mos:
eagerly anticipated, are the enormous, dayligh'
battle scenes between the alien fighters andthf
American F-18s. The United States’ immense mill
tary buildup since the end of World War II has nev
er been truly tested against any other foe, but thf
military pulls out all the stops against the extrater
restrial menace.
The sight of over 50 American fighter plane:
rocketing toward the alien mothership are unbe
lievable and truly breathtaking, as are the scene;
within the ships that show glimpses of the aliens
bizarre culture.
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