GUARDSMAN FATALLY SHOT BY ASSAILANT.Byline: Daily News Wire Services A man jumped out of some bushes early Sunday and shot two off-duty Indiana National Guardsmen who were helping with Olympic security, killing one and wounding the other. The slain man was identified as Spec. Juventino P. Silva, 25, of Highland, Ind. Sgt. Danny L. Cook, 43, of LaPaz, Ind., was wounded when a bullet grazed graze 1 v. grazed, graz·ing, graz·es v.intr. 1. To feed on growing grasses and herbage. 2. Informal a. To eat a variety of appetizers as a full meal. his head, said police, who classified the shooting as ``a random act of violence.'' The guardsmen, who were hours away from returning home to Indiana after finishing their Olympic service, were wearing civilian clothes. They had left a restaurant and were walking the mile back to their camp at Sequoyah Junior High School at Doraville, Ga., a northeast Atlanta suburb, at about 3:30 a.m., when the gunman attacked them. Drug charges dismissed: In a surprise decision, an arbitration court reinstated two Russian athletes who were stripped of their medals after testing positive for a banned drug. The Court of Arbitration for Sport The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS; Tribunal Arbitral du Sport or TAS in French) is an arbitration body set up to settle disputes related to sports. ruled there was insufficient scientific evidence to disqualify To deprive of eligibility or render unfit; to disable or incapacitate. To be disqualified is to be stripped of legal capacity. A wife would be disqualified as a juror in her husband's trial for murder due to the nature of their relationship. swimmer Andrei Korneyev and Greco-Roman wrestler Zafar Gulyov, saying it gave the athletes ``the benefit of the doubt'' because of uncertainty over whether the drug bromantan is a stimulant stimulant, any substance that causes an increase in activity in various parts of the nervous system or directly increases muscle activity. Cerebral, or psychic, stimulants act on the central nervous system and provide a temporary sense of alertness and well-being as . Afghan defects: Light middleweight light middleweight Noun a professional boxer weighing up to 154 pounds (70 kg) or an amateur boxer weighing up to 71 kg Noun 1. boxer Jawid Aman Mukhamad of Afghanistan and his coach of eight years, Ahmad Samim, surfaced in Buffalo, N.Y., on Friday night seeking political asylum political asylum n → asilo político political asylum n → asile m politique political asylum political n in Canada. Mukhamad said he was afraid to return to Afghanistan because its government branded him a communist. |
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