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DAVIS, Calif. — Nowhere in the
main of men only, says Debbie
le, is the skill she excels at re
nted more.
She’s a world champion at wrist-
estling, also called arm-wrestling
that he-man test of strength you
in bars and in television soap
immercials aimed at the very-
|uch male consumer.
Lyle, 25, a graduate student at
e University of California at
lavis, wristwrestles competitively
jth other women and wins honors
spite the scoffing and bias she
lysgoes on among male practition-
s.
There’s still a lot of sexism,” she
ys.
Lyle, who is seeking a master of
ts degree in educational psychol-
y,won the world title in Petaluma
1976 in the 135-pounds and
_ ider division for women. She was
k V inner-up last year and will try to
gain the crown in October.
1 used to beat most of the guys
I ienlwas younger, she said. A
end of mine talked me into trying
V e state tournament at Rancho
* irdova (a Sacramento suburb). I
dandwon state titles in 1973, ’74,
1 dinni: iand’76.’
d Wain,; At 5-9‘A and weighing 142
for Aci- ninds, Lyle also scuba dives and
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ional Bari
plays softball, racketball and vol
leyball. She gets into shape for
matches by lifting weights and jog
ging.
She still wrist-wrestles with men,
usually to their grief, but never in
tournaments.
Despite her athletic prowess,
Lyle and her manager, Yvonne
Clearwater, said that she and other
women athletes have yet to be ac
cepted on the same level as male
athletes.
“Women athletes have difficulty
obtaining sponsorship because male
establishments think it’s bad adver
tising to sponsor a woman athlete,”
said Clearwater.
The Champion Sparkplug Co. is
Lyle’s major sponsor, and she also
has received financial backing from
Davis merchants.
Clearwater cited instances at the
National Wristwrestling Champion
ships in Atlanta, Ga., which she said
illustrated the second-class status of
women athletes.
The program manual contained
no photographs of a female contes
tant, she said.
“The only women shown in the
program manual were models ad
vertising the bars,” Clearwater said.
“They wore hotpants, plunging
necklines and were sitting in seduc
tive positions.”
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She said the tournament’s an
nouncer failed to acknowledge the
athletic skills of the female contes
tants, introducing them as “a couple
of the most beautiful gals and
wristwrestlers, too.”
“It was like an afterthought that
they were wrist-wrestlers,” Clear
water said.
The event almost turned into a
free-for-all, she said, when the an
nouncer challenged the men to pre
sent two pairs of women’s stockings
for two six packs of beer.
“It was really deflating for me as a
woman,” said Lyle, who took third
place in the women’s lightweight
division. “You don’t feel like com
peting for a circus. A lot of men
don’t take us seriously and this low
ers the quality of the sport for wo
men.”
Dallas man honors new pope
United Press International
ALLAS — A Dallas restaurateur
j reserved an ornate, velvet-
ivered chair for his childhood
techism teacher, who just hap-
s estate ins to die new head of the
| ort , oman Catholic Church.
tlu I JAlberto Dal Cin, owner of two
lias restaurants, says that as a
in the Italian mountain village
lias 1
the lad l
i Hasten i
where he lived. Albino Luciani was
the beloved bishop who taught at a
parochial school in Bellano. Last
Saturday, Luciani was named the
263th pope and assumed the name
Pope John Paul.
Dal Cin says he was “amazed”
and "delighted when he learned
the humble “mountain man” he
knew as a child had been named the
new pope.
Diets unhealthy?
d JLiquid protein diets have re-
T Ited in 40 deaths in the United
l ! ates, says the Food and Drug
• Iministration.
The FDA has proposed that man-
acturers voluntarily put a warning
i labels, saying the product may
use serious illness or death — and
tint! at it is not intended for weight re-
killnipiction or maintenance.
These diets are dangerous to the
nillionsof weight-conscious people
vho have gone on them, especially
Ll
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•mise of
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those without adequate medical
supervision, warned Mary K.
Sweeten, a foods and nutrition
specialist.
Liquid protein diets are even
more dangerous for infants, chil
dren, pregnant or nursing women,
people taking medications and
people with kidney, liver or heart
diseases, she added.
These people especially should
not take liquid protein products, she
advises.
“He didn’t like pomp, and al
though he held such a high office,
he would meet us wearing the sim
ple black cassock of an oridinary
priest,” recalls Dal Cin. “He always
woidd laugh and talk with us, even
when he was teaching. He is a bril
liant man, but he relates what he
knows in the simplest language."
Dal Cin’s mother and brother still
live in Pope John Paul s hometown
in Italy and know the prelate’s
brother and sister, who the re
staurateur says live very simply.
The pope is conservative in his
theology, according to Dal Cin, but
is liberal in certain areas.
He says popes in the past have
been aristocratic “but this one is
more like Pope John XXIII.’’ “He’ll
be a pope of the poor and under
privileged,” Dal Cin predicts.
Dal Cin, who immigrated to the
United States five years ago, says
the new pope is not a traveled man
but that doesn’t mean he’ll need
reservations to eat at his old
hometown friend’s establishkmeuts
“He’ll have the seat of honor
among the people," Dal Cin says.
pointing to the highbacked chair on
which hangs a sign that reads, “Re
served for the Pope.”
United Press International
BATON ROUGE, La. — The
United States will extend diplomatic
relations to Vietnam within six
months, U.S. Rep. Henson Moore
said Wednesday.
Moore, R-La., one of eight con
gressmen who recently completed
an 11-day tour of Vietnam and Laos,
said he opposed the move.
“I think it will be six months or
less till the time we see diplomatic
recognition and trade embargoes
lifted,” Moore told reporters at a
news conference.
Moore recommends the State
Department negotiate with Vietnam
about forming diplomatic relations.
He said he was leery of
Vietnamese intentions, adding the
U.S. had nothing to gain by extend-
ing diplomatic “respectability to its
former enemy.
Vietnam wants to buy U.S. crops
and equipment to develop its petro
leum industry and wants to borrow
American money on 40 or 50-year
terms to pay for it, Moore said.
He said the reason Vietnam is
seeking help from the United States
is because the Southeast Asian
country is embroiled in a growing
conflict with China.
“The Vietnamese are almost
paranoid about it. They blame all
their troubles on it," said Moore,
one of eight congressmen who re
cently completed an 11-day tour of
Vietnam and Laos.
The Vietnamese are involved in a
full-scale war with Cambodia and
are blaming it on China, he said.
Both China and Vietnam are also
accusing each other of raiding across
their mutual border and thousands
of Chinese merchants are fleeing
Vietnam.
Moore noted that diplomatic rec
ognition was offered to Vietnam in
1977 but was rejected because the
United States refused a Vietnamese
demand for $3 billion in war repara
tions.
A major reason for the visit to
Vietnam was to gather more infor
mation about Americans reported
missing in action in the Vietnam
war. Moore said he was convinced
the Vietnamese were making a
genuine effort to account for the
MIA’s, although they had not been
in the past.
Moore said there was little hope
of finding any survivors but there
were high hopes of finding out
what happened to the MIA’s.
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