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COMPLETE VERSION OF THE PAGEANT IN HIGH QUALITY!!
The first time the republic of IRAQ sent a delegate to a beauty pageant was at the Miss Universe contest in 1972, when Wijdan Sulyman represented her country in Dorado, Puerto Rico.
Organizers and local club owners banned photos and media coverage to protect the girls from hard-line Islamists who call such contests a "Zionist creation."
Pageant organizers, who asked not to be identified for security reasons, hope that the new Miss Iraq can get a sponsor to pay the Miss Universe entry fee and help her prepare for the event.
"Pageants give women an edge to represent Iraqi costumes and culture, and show that Iraqi women are beautiful and intelligent," a pageant official said.
MISS PHILIPPINES UNIVERSE 1972
ARMI BARBARA CRESPO was selected as one of the 12 semi-finalists in Dorado, Puerto Rico.
In that year Lebanon’s Georgina Rizk had to crown, but didn’t allow to go the contest because in that year in Holy Week a Lebanese terrorist killer Puerto Rican tourists in Lebanon and the President of her country didn’t allow her to go the contest for security because it would held precisely in Puerto Rico, the winner Australia’s Kerry Anne Wells was crowned by Miss Universe 1970 Marisol Malaret of Puerto Rico.
Kerry Anne Wells won and a few days previously on July 15, in Loyola Center, Quezon City, Philippines, other Australian beauty queen named JANET COUTTS obtained the MISS ASIA-PACIFIC 1972 title.
And few months later on December 1st. of the same year, BELINDA ROMA GREEN won the crown of MISS WORLD (the second for her country).
All won their respective pageants.