Little League
Manila newspapers denounced the decision to strip a Philippine Little League team of the World Series title as American racism and urged the government to protest the move.
“It’s like the Vietnam War all over again,” the daily Malaya said in Sunday’s editions. “The Americans couldn’t prevail over the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong on the battlefield . . . but proclaimed themselves press release winners.”
“U.S. officials . . . stripped our little boys of the title without asking for our side of the controversy,” the Philippine Daily Globe wrote in a front-page editorial.
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