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University Daily Kansan. August 18, 1983
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Race for gold on at Pan Am Games
By United Press International
CARACAS, Venezuela — Looking to strike pay dirt with its men's basketball team, the United States has begun the game and of oil at the Pan American Games.
The two-week sports pageant, beset by widespread mismanagement and organizational chaos, will feature about 5,000 athletes from 34 countries.
And with 281 gold medals at stake the American basketball team is in excellent position to claim one of them. The U.S. team won the gold medal in the 1979 Games in Puerto Rico, and is the defending champion.
The Americans must adjust to the free wheeling play of international rules, but there is more than enough muscle and savvy to compensate.
COACH JACK HARTMAN of Kansas State said Sam Perkins of North Carolina would be joined on the frontline by Greg Stokes of Iowa and Wayman Tisdale of Oklahoma. North Carolina's Michael Jordan and Leon Wood of Fullerton State will be in the backcourt.
On the bench are forwards Michael Cage of San Diego State, Ed Pinckney of Villanova, Fred Reynolds of Texas and Terry O'Brien of State. Jim Master of Kentucky and
Mark Price of Georgia Tech are in the backcourt.
The team could have been even stronger if not for the loss of guard Chris Mullin of St. John's and center Patrick Ewing of Georgetown. Mullin broke his foot in an exhibition game last week, and Ewing had to leave the team to take a school language course, ironically, in Spanish.
"WE WANT to be solid in categories," Hartman said. "We want to run, but if we can't we want to set up the offense with good organization. We also want sound defense."
Mexico, a quick squand that can shoot well, does not figure to provide much of a test for the United States. Brazil, Mexico and Argentina likely will be more difficult.
The last venture to the Pan Am Games was not so pleasant for the American basketball team. Coach Bobby Knight was convicted of assaulting a police officer and became the scourge of Puerto Rico. Hartman apparently is not dwelling on that episode.
"Coach Hartman is not getting into that," Perkins said. "What Coach Knight did was Coach Knight's business."
Aside from basketball, there will be competition in baseball, bending, soccer, hockey, judo, weightlifting, softball, tennis and shooting.
THE U.S. BASEBALL TEAM is led by pitcher Tim Belcher, a first-round draft pick of the Minnesota Twins. The men's softball team is also a gold medal possibility.
The United States, Cuba and Canada — traditional Pan Am powers — are again favored to win most of the medals.
The opening ceremony, a splashy celebration of dance and goodwill, was in marked contrast to the fighting and political tensions throughout Latin America. The El Salvador and Nicaragua delegations proceeded in the welcoming parade without incident. The United States was not booed.
More than 14,000 people at Olympic Stadium cheered the athletes while hundreds of helmeted, machine-gun toting soldiers guarded the perimeter of the arena. Many of the same soldiers toiled with construction workers throughout the night to ready the stadium for its unveiling.
FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ, a two-time Olympic boxing champion from Venezuela, lit the Pan American flame, and Venezuelan President Luis Her-
reera Campins proclaimed the Games open.
"This is a beautiful party to show the union of youth of our continent," he said. "This party will be unforgettable for America and the rest of the world. The Pan American Games will contribute to the exchange and integration of our countries and nations for human solidarity and for peace."
To the accompaniment of music and dance and against a backdrop of cloud-covered mountains, the athletes marched into the stadium — from the four-member team of Barbadius to the nearly 700-member team of the United
The U.S. team wore red blazers with white pants, blue-and-white shirts and red visors. They carried small American flags and waved them to the crowd as they circled the stadium.
DENISE CURRY, a basketball player from UCLA who is the only member of the women's team to have appeared in the 1979 Games, carried
The crowd, of course, rallied behind the Venezuelan contingent. And in fitting tribute, the queen of the festivities belonged to one of its own—Miss Universe, Irene Saez of Venezuela.
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