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BEAUTY QUEEN-ACTIVIST NELIA SANCHO, 71

BEAUTY QUEEN-ACTIVIST NELIA SANCHO, 71

Michael Pingol

Nelia Sancho, a Pitoy Moreno model who won the 1971 Queen of the Pacific beauty pageant in Melbourne, and who went underground during Martial Law and later cofounded the women's group Gabriela, died on 31 August. She was 71.