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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORT (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The International Women's Alpine Skiing Championship from Oberstauf-en, Germany, and the Thousand-Mile Cross-Country Auto Race down the rugged Baja California peninsula from Ensenada...
...their outward journey, the as tronauts managed to send back some spectacular views of the earth - from a distance of 207,000 miles. Jim Lovell acted as commentator of the show. "In the center," he explained, "is South America - all the way down to Cape Horn. I can see Baja California and the Southwestern part of the U.S. There is a big cloud bank going northeast of the U.S. It appears now that the East Coast is cloudy. I can see clouds over parts of Mexico, and parts of Central America are clear...
Djakarta was alerted by the Sura-baja arms raid and reacted quickly. The army launched "territorial operations," occupying suspect villages and replacing village chiefs with military officers. But stronger measures were needed, and in June five battalions moved to launch sweeping search operations throughout South Blitar and its sandstone caves. In two months, they brought in 850 suspects, among them twelve members of the P.K.I.'s old Central Committee. They captured an arsenal of old bolt-action rifles, a few submachine guns and some homemade weapons. The army claimed that Oloan Hutapea, who took over the party...
...play, Chris was a handsome young man freighted with a load of Saviour symbolism. The Christ aspect has been mercifully muted in the movie, but there is still plenty of mystical mystification in the role. It seems that his vocation-conferred on him by a holy man in Baja California-is to help people ease their way into death, and Flora, hemorrhaging into her handkerchief, is his current candidate. She has other plans for Chris-bed. But when Flora finally gets him there, he begins taking off her jewels to prepare her for going forth on that far and final...
...BLACK PEARL, by Scott O'Dell (Houghton Mifflin; $3.25). The author of The Island of the Blue Dolphins has turned out another excellent novel; this one captures all the mysteries and dangers of pearl diving off the Baja California coast. For good measure, it adds a real live sea monster...