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From Staff and Wire Reports

Olympic moguls champions Donna Weinbrecht of West Milford, N.J., and Frenchman Edgar Grospiron skied through 12-degree cold at Lake Placid, N.Y., and scored narrow World Cup victories.

Weinbrecht remained unbeaten with her fifth victory of the season, compiling 25.14 points on her second run to nip Norway’s StineLise Hattestad’s 25.13 in the Key Bank Freestyle International.

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Magic Johnson won’t be allowed into Indonesia with a basketball team next month because he has HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to one of the country’s officials.

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Indonesia’s director general of information, Roni Sikap Sinuraya said that under a 1992 immigration law, the government can refuse to allow people with such diseases into the country.

Johnson was scheduled to arrive in Jakarta on Feb. 24, along with several other players, for three exhibition games at the invitation of Indonesia’s Basketball Assn.

Johnson’s agent, Lon Rosen, said Sinuraya’s statement was a case of “someone speaking out of place.”

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Tokio managed to stretch its slight lead as it neared the finish of the third leg of the Whitbread Round the World sailing race. Tokio, skippered by Chris Dickson, was reported 175 nautical miles from the finish line at Auckland, New Zealand.

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