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...nation with countless soccer fields, West Germans have just one public golf course. But they also have Bernhard Langer, 27, who last week became the first German ever to win the Masters Tournament. With brilliant iron shots and steadier putting than has been usual for him, Langer in the last nine holes came from four shots back to win by two. His final total: 282, six under par for the Augusta National course. The lone West German pro on the P.G.A. tour, Langer is the first of his countrymen to win even the German Open. His Masters victory, he hopes...
BELGIUM Another Soccer-Riot Victim...
...least 30 governments since World War II, Prime Minister Wilfried Martens had skillfully held together a coalition government for more than 3½ years. The odds finally caught up with the popular Prime Minister last week in an unexpected crisis over the government's handling of the May soccer riot in Brussels that left 38 dead in a clash between English and Italian fans. Six Liberal Party ministers quit after Minister of the Interior Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a member of the Christian Social Party, refused to accept direct responsibility for the incident. Martens offered his government's resignation...
...feuding parties agreed to work together until new elections can be held on Oct. 13. Martens had survived previous challenges to his severe economic austerity program and his willingness to accept the deployment of U.S. cruise missiles. The coalition's soccer squabble could open the way for the opposition Socialists, who would probably reverse those policies...
Perhaps the most quixotic quest of all is the faltering effort to establish soccer as a popular American sport. The Major Indoor Soccer League is still limping along with twelve teams, but the North American Soccer League, which played outdoors, disbanded this year. Even so, Peter Bridgwater, majority owner of the N.A.S.L.'s San Jose Earthquakes, is keeping his club together and hopes that a new league will start up. Explains Earthquakes Executive Fred Guzman: "It's a civic matter, like popping for a modern art museum. I mean, what's the satisfaction of owning a string of coin-operated...