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A ie. 6, 1997 • T he P ortl and O bserver
Robinson
gets cited
for drugs
M ets Harnisch
returns
New York Mets right
hander Pete Harnisch,
who overcame a bout
with depression and has
not pitched since O p e n
ing Day, returns to the
mound tonight to face
the St. Louis Cardi
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Michael Johnson goes
for gold at World Track
Championships
Michael Johnson seeks
his
second
straight
world title and leads a
large American contin
gent in the finals of
the m e n ’s 400 meters at
the World Track and
Field Championships in
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Athens.
Elway to undergo
MRI on bicep today
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Denver Broncos Quar
terback John Elway is
scheduled to undergo an
MRI today to determine
the extent of an arm
injury suffered in a
preseason loss to the
Miami Dolphins Monday
night in Mexico City.
Elway injured his right
bicep while throwing a
pass in the first quar
ter and did not return.
ess than 24 hours alter
police stopped his Humvee
with a roadblock on the
downtown Portland waterfront, NBA
tree agent Clifford Robinson wor
ried about his image and wondered it
it was really necessary for officers to
take such extreme measures.
Robinson, in a telephone confer
ence call with reporters Thursday,
also said the small amount of mari
juana found by police in the vehicle
was not his' lie told The Oregonian
that it belonged to his brother. lores.
"If you look and see how wide that
Hummer is. the marijuana was found
in the passenger door armrest.
Robinson said. "If it was mine, I
don’t see why I would put it all the
way over there. "
Police eited Robinson for pos
session of less than an ounce ol
marijuana because it was found in
his vehicle.
Robinson was driving. His brother
and two friends were riding inside.
Police said they used a "high-risk
strategy to stop the Humvee on
Wednesday evening after receiving
reports that a man in the vehicle had
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Hard-hitting prodigies
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battle their elders at
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sic in Los Angeles.
Mantilla reaches
second round I
^op seed Felix Mantilla
>f Spain narrowly d e
feated unseeded Rich-
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in 1997, winning three
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tween wild card Omar
Camporese and Davide
Sanguinetti .
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Two-time
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and
10th
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zil tonight in first-
round action of the
$2.05 million ATP Cham
pionship,
a Super
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event in Cincinnati.
a gun. Police discovered four
paintball guns in the Humvee.
"We have information we have to
go on and, for the officers' safely and
for the safety of the public, we have
to do that stop by the numbers,''
Portland police spokesman Lt. C lilt
Madison said.
Just Iwo weeks ago. a Portland
police o fficer was shot to death
while chasing an assault suspect.
"I understand that a police o f
ficer was shot, and I feel had lot
his partners and lor his laniily,
Robinson said. "But at the same
time, they shouldn't treat me like
I'm getting ready to pull a gun on
som eone when that s the last
thing on my mind. The only gun
I own is a paintball gun.
Robinson said police ordered him
and the other three to hold up their
hands and slowly hack out ot the
vehicle. They were told to lie down
on the ground and were handculled.
Madison said officersdid not know
it was Robinson until he got out ol
the vehicle, and it wouldn't have
made any difference it they had
known.
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