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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1977
Page
8
Terence Reese explains a four spades contract where South defeats East's defense by trading a heart loss for a diamond loss. South ruffs, discards clubs on hearts, and uses a trump entry sequence to make five heart ruffs and secure the contract.
A reader asks if the two club double was takeout after the sequence 1 clubs 1 spade 2 clubs double. The answer: doubles at that stage are for penalty once three suits have been bid. On this date in 1967 US and South Vietnamese marines advanced into the Mekong Delta amid light resistance in a major early operation.
The fragment shows a bridge deal with West North East South. After a Pass by West and a 2 level response, a 4 level bid, and a Pass sequence, the opening lead is a 7 4. The position lists cards including K Q 6 3 2 and A J 8 2 in various hands, but the exact contract and final outcome are not specified.
The Central Narcotics Bureau in Kuala Lumpur accuses drug syndicates of using Western tourists to transport heroin and other drugs from Asia to the West and between Asian capitals. They are paid roundtrip tickets and about $2000, with increased searches for Asians in Europe prompting the switch. No Westerners have been arrested locally.
The male silkworm moth shows the keenest sense of smell in nature, able to detect female sex signals from 6.8 miles distant, highlighting extraordinary olfactory abilities in insects.
A reader questions maggot therapy and Dr Solomon confirms its use in certain stubborn infections. Johns Hopkins physician William S Baer pioneered wartime wound care with maggots and the method returns as bacteria resist antibiotics rise.
A Churchill aphorism defines an ap peaser as one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.
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