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LA '84: The Summer Olympics D-4 Tr Ortaodo Smine), Thursday, August 2.1 584 U.S. halfway to reaching its goal Gambril: Team let some medals get away that it could have won Summer Olympics The notebook ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES The Olympic swimming competition starts its second half today with the U.S. team halfway to its stated goal of 20 gold medals. "The tradition of the U.S. swim team is starting to show itself, but we're only halfway through with SWIMMING Gambril had counted on a 100 butterfly gold medal from Morales, who went into the Games as the world record-holder in the event.

Morales bettered his world-record clocking in the final, but Gross lowered the world record even further, giving him two gold medals and two world records in as many individual events. The most unexpected of the 10 swimming golds came in the women's 100 backstroke, where Romanians Carmen Bunaciu and Anca Patrascouiu were favored. Instead, Theresa Andrews and Betsy Mitchell pulled an upset 1-2 sweep. Asked if he expected a sweep in the event, Gambril said, "Yes, by the Romanians. But I thought we had a chance to win.

Mitchell and Andrews did about what they did in the Trials and the Romanians just didn't swim as well as they had before." After Wednesday's off day, the Olympic schedule resumes today with qualifying for six events and finals for five. George DiCarlo of Denver is favored in the men's 400-meter freestyle, the United States should win the men's 4 00-meter freestyle relay and world record-holder Victor Davis of Canada is expected to be the top swimmer in the men's 200-meter breaststroke. In women's events, Mary T. Meagher of Louisville, and Jenna Johnson of Santa Rosa, are favored to go 1-2 in the 100-meter butterfly, and Hir-oku Nagasaki of Japan hopes to make up for her fourth-place finish as the favorite in the 200-meter breaststroke with a gold in the 100-meter breaststroke. In addition, Cohen, of Mission Viejo, will start her bid for a second gold medal in the 800 freestyle heats.

The final of that event will be held Friday. if three days to go," U.S. Coach Don Gambril said. "I'm gratified, but not surprised. We are pretty much where we hoped to be at this point" On Tuesday, the United States doubled its gold-medal output of the first two days with a five-event sweep of first place.

Nevertheless, Gambril was not completely satisfied. "We had a good day, no doubt about it, and it's the golds that really count," Gambril said, "but we have let some medals get away from us that we could have won." Mike Heath, with the best time this year in the 100-meter freestyle, was left on the starting block by the rest of the field and finished fourth behind teammate Rowdy Gaines who set an Olympic record Mark Stockwell of Australia and Per Johansson of Sweden. Another lost medal in Gambril's estimation came in the women's 400-freestyle, where Kim Linehan finished fourth after being favored for a silver medal. As expected, Tiffany Cohen was the winner, breaking Linehan's 5-year-old American record and posting the second-fastest time ever. But with 10 victories in 14 events, Gambril feels "we have had a couple of plusses and only one minus, and that wasn't a minus performance by Pablo Morales, just a great job from Michael Gross." ASSOCIATED PRESS Theresa Andrews and Betsy Mitchell celebrate they won gold, silver in 100-back Tuesday.

Wilson's goal play paces U.S. victory By Eric Sondheimer Police find explosives in man's car COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS SENTINEL OLYMPICS STAFF A i 4 MM WATER OLO MALIBU, Calif. Before the Games of the XXIII Olympiad are completed, Craig Wilson may become a household name in America. Don't confuse Wilson with one of the members of the Beach Boys although his blond hair and it'-; 4f' 8l rr- w'l 1. 4 is Volunteers not enchanted with LAOOC restrictions JOKE OF THE DAV: "Play your part in history" has long been a battle cry of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (LAOOC), and some 50,000 people responded and volunteered their services during the Games.

But the restrictions the LAOOC has placed on their movements, and their mouths, have prompted some of those volunteers to say the battle cry should now be: "Play your part pause for effect or you're history." WORD WATCH SWIM, SWAM A local English professor called the swim stadium during one of ABC's telecasts and expressed irritation over Jim Lampley using "swum" instead of "swam," the correct word. "He said it was very annoying, and he was very insistent that I get the message to Lampley," said Amy Eh-Jersmeyer, who took the professor's call. REDUNDANT WATCH BROKEN RECORD. It's also irritating to look up on the screen and see "New World (or Olympic or American) Record." A record is a record because it is new and to our knowledge, there are no "used" records except those you play on a stereo. GEOGRAPHY LESSON OFF COURSE.

Swimmer Annemarle Verstappen, the bronze medalist in the 200-meter freestyle, does not represent Holland, which is the name ABC's graphic gave to her country. She represents The Netherlands, which counts North Holland and South Holland as two of its 1 1 provinces. MEDAL CEREMONY GOUGING. We've received an envelope holding another winner in our Freestyle Gouging competition. It seems the ABC crew covering cycling wanted to set up a camera at a gas station along the competition route, and Marvin Bader, the network's chief trouble-shooter as vice president of Olympic operations, went out to negotiate.

The station owner asked for $5,000 per day during the week of competition. Bader, who has been around, offered $1,000 for the full week. The station owner settled for $1,500 for the week, yet his attempted holdup makes him a bona fide medal candidate in the gouging event. Just to be fair: Boston Globe sports editor Vlnce Dorla dropped by a food stand near the Coliseum for an egg roll and, noting the price posted was $1.50, handed the lady serving him two $1 bills. The lady accepted the money, looked around furtively, then gave one back to Doria.

"Boss not here," she said. MEDICAL CENTER ALL QUIET. Orthopaedic Hospital in downtown Los Angeles, an "official Olympic hospital" for the Summer Games, is hurting for Olympic business. Only one Olympic athlete, U.S. handball team member Joseph McVein of Brunswick, N.J., has been treated there.

He was in for observation but was sent back to the team with a clean bill of health. The hospital also has treated a swimming event judge for a routine heart problem and a Peruvian team official for dehydration. BUSINESS NO SALES. Vendors, who expected a boom during the Olympics, say they're losing money at a Chinatown building where food and gifts from all over the world are sold. The International Settlement building, a former warehouse, "is a ghost town," said Marcela Posada, who has sold only six T-shirts since opening day June 15.

Vendors blamed the promoters for bad management, poor security, inadequate promotion and advertising. "I believed this city was going to be wall-to-wall people. If we made a mistake, it was opening up for an Olympics that didn't quite happen," said W.E. "Woody" Anderson, a director of the International Settlement building. But vendors said promises of promotions that would attract people never materialized.

"We were told there would be a farmers' market, 100 clowns," said Oscar Gonzalez, who sells clothes and other items from Mexico. On Tuesday, the farmers' market consisted of one farmer with one-half dozen melons for sale. There were no clowns. HOLLYWOOD PARTY TIME. Swimmer Dara Torres tossed a bash for the U.S.

swim team at her parents' home, which borders the plush Beverly Hills Country Club. Family friend Jackie Gleason dropped by to cut a good luck cake and entertain. Beverly Hills' DDL Foodshow threw a party for the Italian Olympic team. None of Italy's athletes showed up. "No one more appreciates the quest for the best" is the slogan now emblazoned on the windows and shopping bags of the Nieman-Marcus store in Beverly Hills.

Store vice president John Marens says it's just a coincidence that the Olympics are on, noting that Quest For The Best is the name of a book authored by store founder Stanley Marcus The Vidal Sas- soon stylists cutting hair in the various Olympic villages are fluent in everything from Japanese to Hebrew. Sasson says: "Don Peters coach of the U.S. women's gymnastics team wrote that he first expected us to be a royal pain in the tush, but found that we've given many of the athletes a sense of themselves that could help their performances." NOTES TIMELY AID. Lord Killanin, the former president of the International Olympic Committee, suddenly started choking during a reception at the First Interstate Bank Olympic Hall of Fame. The people trying to help him were doing no good and Killanin was close to passing out when LA policeman Bill Pavelic came to his aid.

Pavelic gave Killanin a few whacks on the back, the food was dislodged and, after going off to collect himself, Killanin returned for the remainder of the reception. Bill Arey has gone fishing during the Games, which makes him no different from a lot of other LA natives. But here's the hitch: Arey's the media relations manager for the LA Visitors Convention Bureau And some of the groups who are staging Counter Olympics: "Survivalfest '84," "Shock Battallion." "The Summer Games Task Force" and "The Rainbow Coalition Political Action Committee." Compiled by Skip Myslenski and Linda Kay of the Sentinel Olympics staff deep tan reveals that he spends a lot of time at the beach. He is the goalie for the U.S. water polo team, and what a gift he possesses.

He stopped 14 of 19 shots Wednesday to lead the U.S past Greece, 12-5, in the opening game of tournament action before a standing-room-only crowd of more than 5,000 at Pepperdine University. The U.S. team, favored to win the gold medal, was making its first Olympic appearance since 1972. The U.S. team broke open a close game at the outset of the third quarter by scoring three goals in less than two minutes to take a 7-1 lead.

Jody Campbell, Jon Svendsen and Joe Vargas made the goals. Meanwhile, Greece was still trying to figure out how to get the ball past Wilson, who can block a lot of the goal with his 6-foot-5 frame. Besides his saves, Wilson also contributed on the offensive end, starting several breakaways with crisp outlet passes. Wilson, however, was not entirely satisfied. "There were five goals that went in, and there is a lot of room for improvement, and I hope to pick it up the next game," he said.

"I guess, when you get to the Olympic level, you expect perfection, and perfection for me is to block every ball that is shot." The U.S. will play Brazil today. In other games Wednesday, Yugoslavia defeated Canada, 13-4; Holland edged China, 10-8, and Spain topped Brazil, imi UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Greece's Spyros Capralos blocks Jody Campbell's shot. U.S. must defeat Egypt to get into quarterfinals Demonstration or not, baseball immediate hit By Eric Sondheimer SENTINEL OLYMPICS STAFF By Dave Shelburne LOS ANGELES A man following an Olympics bus in a car loaded with homemade explosives and martial arts weapons was arrested on charges of possessing destructive devices, police said Wednesday.

Police said there was no indication the suspect planned to hurt the nine athletes four French, two Japanese and three Italians aboard the vehicle. Police said John Steven Black-well, 38, followed the bus from the Olympic Village at the University of Southern California Tuesday afternoon. The driver noticed the vehicle and alerted officers, who arrested Blackwell. Officers discovered several more explosive devices at his home in Reseda, Calif. Blackwell told police he was "protecting athletes as his patriotic duty," officers said.

"These are not high-explosive devices," Cmdr. William Booth said. "There is no indication that Blackwell attempted or intended to harm any athlete." Blackwell was charged with five counts of possession of a destructive device and was held in lieu of $200,000 bail. He is scheduled for arraignment today in Municipal Court. Romania gets financial aid The International Olympic Committee and the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee helped pay the expenses to bring Romania, the only Communist-bloc country to defy the Soviet boycott, to the 1984 Summer Games, officials said.

The IOC traditionally lends financial support to needy member nations, and the LAOOC had paid last week for an airplane full of Africans 120 athletes from 20 nations to fly to Southern California from Rabat, Morocco. The financial aid given the Romanians was considerable reportedly $60,000 from each Olympic group to match the $60,000 spent by the country. The IOC offers to pay the expenses to the Games of four athletes and two officials from every member nation. That money comes out of the IOC's solidarity fund that comes from the television revenue of the Games. The IOC's share of the television revenue for the 1984 Games was $50 million.

Monique Berlioux, the director general of the IOC, said her organization "helped out" with the expenses of the Romanian delegation but added the IOC did the same for almost all the African nations in Moscow in 1980. The Romanian delegation numbers 171 128 athletes and 43 team officials. "We had some funds in reserve," Berlioux said. "They Romanians are a good team, from a small country and they are in a poor state. We helped out it's solidarity among people." i i i i v- SENTINEL OLYMPICS STAFF 3 j0L Two matches into its most successful Olympic soccer competition in 60 years, the United States is a hit at the turnstiles and is holding its own in the hunt to qualify for the medal round.

The U.S., which has played before an average attendance of BASEBALL LOS ANGELES It may be only a dem-onstration sport, but the Olympic baseball competition received a SOCCER John Hoover son, permitted four hits, struck out five and walked three. Kauo held Team USA scoreless for the first six innings, relying on an overpowering fastball that was clocked at 95 mph. In the bottom of the seventh, however, catcher John Marzano tied the score, 1-1, by slamming a fastball halfway up the bleachers in left field. Marzano's home run seemed to ignite Team USA. Later in the same inning, Will Clark came up to bat with runners on first and second and two out.

He lined the ball to center field for the game-winning single that scored Flavio Alfaro from second. It would have been a close play at the plate, but a strong throw by center fielder Le Chu-Ming hit the pitcher's mound and bounced straight up in the air. "When I hit the ball," Clark said, "I felt I hit it too hard because it was a one-hopper right at the center fielder." "It was the greatest feeling I've ever felt playing a baseball game," Marzano said of the World atmosphere." 70,925, likely will perform before another sizable crowd tonight at Stanford, where an American-record 78,625 watched their Olympic opener. This time, the Americans need more than a big crowd they need to win. Anything less in the final Group meeting, with Egypt, means elimination.

Italy put the Yanks into that situation Tuesday night before 63,624 at the Rose Bowl, scoring a 1-0 victory on a goal by Pietro Fanna in the 54th minute. That left the U.S. 1-1 going into tonight's game. Egypt also is 1-1 after a 4-1 victory Tuesday over Costa Rica. The Americans and Egypt are also tied in goal differential (each at plus two), but because Egypt has scored four goals to the Yanks' three, the Egyptians need only to tie tonight to earn one of the two Group placements in Sunday's quarterfinals.

Italy, a 1-0 opening-game winner over Egypt, is now 2-0 and can clinch the Group championship by defeating winless Costa Rica tonight. The top two clubs in each of four four-nation groups qualify for the quarterfinals. Group placement is determined first by win-loss record, then by goal differential, then by goals scored. The Italian team, which has never lost or yielded a goal in four Olympic meetings with the Americans, demonstrated superior dribbling ability and effective defense when it outshot the U.S., 12-2, in the first half. But they came away empty because of some wide shots from close range and efficient goal-keeping by David Brcic of the U.S.

rousing start Tuesday night when 52,319 packed Dodger Stadium to watch the U.S. Olympic team defeat Chinese Taipei, 2-1, on the first night of the eight-day tournament. It was a night filled with displays of pageantry and patriotism by the boisterous, flag-waving, pro-American crowd. It was everything U.S. Coach Rod Dedeaux had hoped for in his bid to try to make baseball an official Olympic sport.

Dedeaux would love to see another large crowd tonight when Team USA takes on Italy in a battle of unbeaten teams. Italy won the first game of Tuesday night's double-header, rallying for five runs in the top of the ninth to beat the Dominican Republic, 10-7. Taiwan's Kauo Tai-Yuan and Team USA's John Hoover hooked up in a marvelous pitchers' duel. Kauo allowed nine hits, struck out 12 and walked one. Hoover, who was 18-2 at Fresno State last sea-.