Israeli’s Return Victoriously
MOSCOW, Reuter: A Israeli Basketball Club Maccabi Tel Aviv appeared in the Soviet Union for the first time in 21 years on Thursday, beating the Army Club CSKA Moscow 9792 in a match that mirrored better relations between the countries
The Soviet Union last month agreed 10 Israeli Basketball sides playing in Moscow for the first time since severing diplomatic ties with Israel during the 1967 Middle East War.
Subsequently matches between the two sides have been played on neutral ground but an Israeli Basketball Team did compete here in the 1973 World Student Games which led to brawling between police and flag-waving Soviet Jews.
HOUSTON, Reuter: Spectators waving the flag of his native country spurred Kenyan Richard Kaitany to victory in a course record two hours 10.04 seconds at the Houston marathon on Sunday.
“] felt tired when the race started, but when I saw some people from my country waving my national flag it gave me strength,” Kaitany said after the race run in dense fog.
BARCELONA, Spain, Reuter Soviet world record holder Sergei Bubka won an indoor pole vault contest here on Saturday, but the winning clearance of 5.70 meters ‘was well short of his own best.
HONG KONG, Reuter: Europe and Asia remained deadlocked in their intercontinental table tennis series when honors were shared in third leg matches.
World Champion Jiang Jialing of China inspired a weakened Asia team to a 5-2 victory over Europe Ill while the powerful Europe I side whitewashed Asia TIL 50 top leave the series level at 4-4.
BANGKOK, Reuter: Chinese World Champion Jiang Jialing was knocked out of the Europe Asia individual table tennis championships on Sunday, suffering two successive defeats in preliminary round robin matches.
Article extracted from this publication >> January 20, 1989
