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Perhaps the most tangled case of 1984 Olympic eligibility is that of a tiny teenager, 5-ft. 2-in., 82-lb. Zola Budd. The 17-year-old may be the fastest female middle-distance runner in the world, but she is having a tough time proving it officially. The reason: she is a white South African as well as a hastily minted British citizen. And that quick switch strikes some as too fast altogether...
...farm girl emerged, seemingly from nowhere, in a race near Cape Town last January. Striding barefoot, as she prefers, over the artificial Tartan, Budd ran the 5,000 meters in an amazing 15:01.83, shaving nearly 7 sec. from Mary Decker's world-record time. Although she runs with an unearthly determination-like "safari ants on the march," says her full-time coach, Pieter Labuschagne-her feat remains unofficial. The International Amateur Athletic Federation ousted South Africa in 1976 for its apartheid policies; the country is also banned from the Olympics...
...times he pays tribute to a neglected master like Joyce Gary, of whose The Horse's Mouth he writes: "Depicting low life, it blazes with an image of the highest life of all-that of the creative imagination." At other times he elevates a merely unfashionable craftsman like Budd Schulberg, for whose The Disenchanted he makes the dubious claim: "No fiction has ever done better at presenting the inner torments of a writer in decline...
...discount drug of choice on the West Coast and a multimillion-dollar-a-year business for a new form of organized crime, a California-style Cosa Nostra on wheels. "We've got contract murders, interstate narcotics transactions, shipments of stolen property, cars and weapons," asserts U.S. Marshal Budd Johnson, member of a San Diego drug task force, the Organized Special Investigation Team (O.S.I.T.). "The Hell's Angels today are the new Mafia...
...time to whisk Christmas shoppers to downtown Miami. Now the big day has been postponed until spring. Two federal investigative teams turned up substandard construction work in the nearly $1 billion system, which is almost 70% funded by Washington. Because of a lengthy strike at the supplier, the Budd Co., only 20 of Metrorail's planned fleet of 136 cars are ready for service. "We're not going to accept this thing until it's totally right," declares Dade County Manager Merrett Stierheim. That moment will come none too soon. Traffic inches along 1-95, the area...