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Show n ii iii iii i.i.aiiiniiii ifjyiijpii.ii ' J ' - ' '. ' '" ' " " "5. . 'T "' " ;'"'!' 1 " X ' .... ' I!'. (i ' ... .--Hit: KARATE WORKOUT. Henry Molifua, center, a student at Southern Utah State College, works out with fellow . students Clair Vincent and John Sears prior to state tournament. Henry Molifua Places high in Karate Tourney than fight his brother. Unfortunately, Wally lost the title match to the third man, And since he, too plans to continue to train for the top title, the Molifuas may still have to face each other as adversaries. To further complicate matters, they have another brother, George, who is a black belt champion. Dur-ing Dur-ing his student days at SUSC in 1969, George won the brown belt karate title at the world matches held in Salt Lake City. The Molifuas are a close knit family, as are most Sa-moan Sa-moan families. They' all excell in athletics, and' although most are reluctant to oppose each other in. actual competition, competi-tion, they thrive . on family rivalry and gain many pointers point-ers from one another. A cousin cou-sin to the Molifuas, Buck Paopao, is a "black belt champion champ-ion in karate and was quarterback quarter-back -on the SUSC football team during-1969 and 1970.' Eecau.se he would not fight his brother in the karate ring, Henry Molifua, Southern Utah State College brown belt expert, ex-pert, placed third instead of first in the recent Utah State Karate Meet held in Salt Lake City. However, Henry is happy for now with his high rating, and plans to keep trying for first in the brown belt division divis-ion and then progress on through the black belt ranks. Competing against some 200 karate exponents from Utah and California in the Salt Lake contests held March 11, Henry and his brother Wally, a student at Brigham Young University, were paired off against each other .to determine deter-mine who would compete for first and second place against a third opponent. Henry deferred de-ferred to Wally and automat-ically automat-ically took third place rather |