6 09-19-88 11:49 aed Olympics day 3: Heartbreak, controversy, demonstrations By DAVID W.

   6  09-19-88 11:49 aed Olympics day 3: Heartbreak, controversy,
demonstrations By DAVID W. JONES

   SEOUL, South Korea (UPI) _ Elation, heartbreak and controversy
colored day three of the Olympics Monday as Janet Evans  won  the
first  American gold medal but a celebrated diver banged his head
on a diving board and a scheduling mix-up robbed a boxer  of  his
chances.

   At  the site where the Olympic torch was lit Saturday, radical
protesters striving to match the drama  of  the  Games  staged  a
grisly  counter-ceremony  in  which a priest drank the blood of a
freshly killed chicken.

   "We will cut the neck of the (current  administration)  as  we
have  cut the neck of this chicken," said a spokesman for the 400
demonstrators at Kun-Kuk University's Democracy Plaza,  10  miles
north of the Olympic stadium.

   A  shaman,  or  cult  priest, carried the head of a pig onto a
stage festooned with anti-American  images  before  starting  his
dance with fans, knives and the live chicken.  When he killed the
chicken and drank its blood, several students left in horror.

   Students  at another school, Dongkuk University, rallied about
200 people for a more traditional protest of the  sort  that  has
gone  on  almost  daily  for  weeks but failed to dent the public
enthusiasm for the Games.

   Monday, Western nations broke through an East-Bloc blitz  with
their  first  gold medals of the Games but a string of celebrated
competitors had setbacks, among them  U.S.  swimming  stars  Greg
Louganis and Matt Biondi and Capt.  Mark Phillips, the husband of
Britain's Princess Anne.

   With just 12 of the 237 events decided, the Soviet Union, East
Germany  and  Bulgaria  topped the medal table with two victories
apiece  while  the  United  States,  Britain,  Australia,  China,
Romania and Czechoslovakia each boasted one gold.

   Seventeen-year-old  swimmer Evans claimed America's first gold
medal of the Games, breaking her own U.S. record with a  time  of
4:37.76  in  the  400-meter  individual medley, but otherwise the
U.S. squad has a nail-biting day at the pool.

   Australian swimmer Duncan  Armstrong  stunned  a  world  class
field  by  winning  the men's 200-meter freestyle in world record
time and ending speculation that American sensation  Matt  Biondi
might  equal Mark Spitz's 16-year-old feat by carrying home seven
gold medals.

   "I was just looking for a win.  The  world  record  that  came
along with it is a bonus.  I'm tickled pink," said Armstrong, who
shaved  0.19  of  a  second  off the world mark of West Germany's
Michael Gross, who finished fifth.  Biondi won the bronze.

   Britain's  Adrian   Moorhouse,   winner   of   the   200-meter
breaststroke,  teamed  with  Evans and Armstrong to give the West
its first gold medals of the Games after a  string  of  East-bloc
victories.

   U.S.  diving  fans  were  stunned when Louganis, a 1984 double
gold medalist, hit his head on the board during  the  springboard
competition,  but  cheered  and waved flags when he showed up for
his next dive with four stitches in his scalp.

   The mishap  knocked  Louganis  from  first  to  fifth  in  the
standings  but  should  not  affect  his  chances  as  the top 12
finishers will advance with clean slates to Tuesday's finals.

   The  bitterest  blow,  however,  was  suffered   by   American
middleweight  Anthony Hembrick, who lost his boxing match against
Korea's Ha Jong-Ho when he  arrived  in  street  clothes  at  the
stadium just in time to see the referee raising the Korean's hand
in victory.

   "There are a lot of reasons for what happened," said Hembrick,
22.

   Coach  Ken  Adams,  whose  job  it  was to get Hembrick to the
stadium, said the schedule  was  confusing  and  buses  from  the
Athlete's  Village  ran  late, but his excuse cut little ice with
veteran trainer Angelo Dundee, handler of Olympic and pro  greats
Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard.

   "If  the session starts at 10, he should be here 8:30," Dundee
said. "This doesn't speak well for these guys (the coaches).   To
see this happening is sickening."

   Britain's equestrian team leader Capt.  Mark Phillips may have
blown  his  hopes  for  an  Olympic medal when a fierce rainstorm
broke out during his first ride and hampered his performance.

   Although he performed with the elegance one would expect  from
a  royal  family  member,  he failed to negotiate several corners
tightly and finished only seventh out of the first 12  riders  in
the three-day event.

   The controversies also reached International Olympic Committee
President  Juan Antonio Samaranch, the Olympics' longtime mentor,
who  was  slammed  by  committee  member  Sheikh  Fahad  Al-Ahmad
Al-Sabah of Kuwait for permitting the listing of Jerusalem as the
capital  of  Israel  on the giant stadium televison screen during
Saturday's opening ceremonies.

   Samaranch  and  Seoul  organizing  committee  president   Park
Seh-jik   were  guilty  of  "exploitation  of  the  Olympiad  for
political goals," he said.

   Moslems claim Jerusalem as their holy  city  and  revere  holy
sites  there  that were controlled by Jordan until after the 1967
war.  Israel has claimed Jerusalem as its capital since then.