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...duel began well enough for the New York Yacht Club's America II. The 12- meter sloop led its competitor, New Zealand, for most of their 24-mile match race on the choppy Indian Ocean off Fremantle, the port for Perth in Western Australia. But then the Fremantle Doctor, a blustery afternoon wind so-called because it cures the 100 degreesF temperatures of the antipodal summer onshore, blew in and riffled the pages of the record book. The fiber glass- hulled New Zealand, dubbed the "Plastic Fantastic," surged ahead on the wind and crossed the finish line 15 seconds ahead...
...Australia last week. Arriving directly from a six-day tour of Bangladesh, Singapore, Fiji and New Zealand, the peripatetic Pontiff marked his first visit to the island continent with a blitz that , included stops in the capital, Canberra, the state capitals of Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, and the outlying -- very outlying -- city of Darwin and town of Alice Springs. Despite the hectic pace, his Holiness was never too busy to shake an outstretched hand or, in the case of a sedentary koala named Simon, a diffidently proffered claw. The Pope-koala encounter came at Brisbane's Queen...
Foreign entries are down this year, probably because most teams, looking ahead to the Olympics, are conserving their resources. Kingston College at Oxford has an entry in the championship fours and Charles Luckman from Perth. Australia, home of the America's Cup, is competing in the lightweight singles. Each year as a reward for the season, Canada sends its national team to the Head and its boats should be contending throughout...
...Manhattan mansion and taken to Newport by armored truck. Next day, at Marble House, former summer home ("cottage," in local parlance) of Harold Vanderbilt, himself an America's Cup legend, the unlovely pitcher was presented to its new owners and started the 11,620-mile trip to Perth. But first Liberty Syndicate Head Edward du Moulin gave Skipper Bertrand Liberty's dark blue burgee. Then N.Y.Y.C. Commodore Robert Stone presented Bond with "the bolt that's kept the Cup in place for 132 years." And Lexcen, who once told a reporter that he would like to steamroller...
Ronald Reagan had a last word. At a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, as the teams (only Conner was missing) stood stiffly in their blazers and slacks, the President congratulated both and offered "one final bit of advice to the Perth Yacht Club." Said he: "Don't bolt that Cup down too tightly." -By Michael Demarest. Reported by Richard Hornik/Newport and Ernest Shirley/Melbourne