Eastern Sun, 22 April 1969

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  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ft Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 976 Tuesday, 22 April 1969. ft MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cent®
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  • 334 1 T ONDON, Mon. (Reuter) The Prime Ministers of Britain and Singapore today reviewed the defence and economic problems of the island Republic in the phased run-down of the British military bases fhere. The Singapore leader, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, was the guest of
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  • 129 1 NAPLES. Italy, Mon. (Reuter) Turkish strike aircraft today started a mock battle with planes from Allied aircraft carriers in the Eastern Mediterranean as NATO's biggest manoeuvres In" recent years got under way. The 'Dawn Patrol" air. land and sea exercise, employing 300 planes and 60 warships,
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  • 233 1 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Campaigners against too much sex in movies have won unexpected support from Miss Raquel Welch, an actress whose films usually put body ahead of mind. "It's really getting to be degrading." Miss Welch complained about the current emphasis on sex In movies.
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  • 98 1 WASHINGTON. Mon. (Reuter) President Nixon today proposed cutting the 10 per cent tax surcharge to five per cent next January 1. and immediate repeal of the seven per cent business investment tax credit. The investment tax credit is the amount businesses can subtract from their taxes
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  • 75 1 WINDSOR. England. Mon. (UPI) Queen Elizabeth II observed her 43rd birthday today with part of her kingdom torn by strife and her son Charles under heavy police guard In another corner of the realm. At her Windsor Castle country retreat the Queen was kept abreast of developments
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  • 154 1 Time Running Out —Hussein LONDON. Mon. (UPI) King Hussein of Jordan said today that the Arabs could not surrender one Inch of the territory Israel occupied In the Middle East war of June 1967. He told a news conference here that Arab rights in Jerusalem. Including Arab sovereignty over the
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  • 280 1 VUNG. TAU. South Vietnam. Mon. (Reuter) A South Vietnamese V.I.P. plane crashed when taking off at this coastal resort today, injuring three senior Government officials and the New Zealand Ambassador, military officials said. They were among 27 people on board the twin-engined DC-3 Dakota. Two others a
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  • 170 1 BONN. Mon. (Reuter) A Government spokesman today announced the defection of an agent of the Russian secret service, the KGB Government spokesman Conrad Ahlers said a number of arrest warrants had been Issued against suspected spies as a result of information supplied by the defector. Several
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  • 185 1 VATICAN CTTY. Mon (Reuter) Pop* Paul told Jesuits fodav that the celibacy law |o r priests must be firmly and fully observed. The Pope speaking to 26 senior members of the order, was clearly referring to the case of two Dutch Jesuits who
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  • 131 1 MANILA, Mon. (I'PI) Philippine Defence Secretary Ernesto S. Mata today ordered the armed forces to work with other Government agencies to strengthen the nation's southern defences as part of a drive to curtail illegal entry of aliens, the Philippines News Service (PNS) reported. After a
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  • 102 1 PRAGUE. Mon. (UPI) Carrying rolled-up blankets and pillows, hundreds of students began a sit-in occufation strike at Charles nlversity today to protest the death of the reform era of Alexander Dubcek. A sign on the front door of the Liberal Arts Bchool said in large red
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  • 62 1 AMERSHAM. England. Mon (UPI) Howard Elson kissed his fiancee Erica Burgess goodnight and was thrown back against the wall, dazed. It wasn't Erica practicing judo. but a freak electric shock. Howard explained afterwards. "I felt an electric shock running through my upper lip." Erica was keepine her
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  • 206 1 CAPE TOWN. Mon (Reuter) Prime Minister John Vorster today told Parliament neither he. the Government nor the South African Cricket Association had had anv official communication with the MCC about the selection of coloured cricketer Basil D'Oliveira for the England team to tour South Africa. But
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  • 169 1 OKEENE. Oklahoma. Mon (UPI» Jay Gasman of Chicago was the big winner in the 30th annual Okeene Rattlesnake Roundup He found one of four marked snakes and collected a US$2O,OOO reward. The event merited naming of a Snakecharmer" or queen of the hunt 16-year-old Patricia Sproul and
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  • 103 1 JOHANNESBURG. M 0 n. fßeuten Heart transplant pioneer Professor Christian Barnard today criticised racial discrimination in South African doctors' pay. In a statement issued here. Professor Barnard who is visiting the equatorial African State of Gabon at present, called for Government assurances that the gap
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  • 134 1 CAMBRIDGE. England. Mon. (Reuter) Bridegroom-to-be ralri<*k Hvlton (23) has 800 tattoos. Trouble Is. *0 of them are girls' names and the firl he is to marry does not approve. Even now that Patrick has demonstrated his love by having his bride's name tattooed on him 17 times, she
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  • 106 1 SYDNEY. Mon (UPI) Australia will stick bv the United States In "rough and smooth weather." Prims Minister John Gorton declared on Monday. In a brief speech during a ceremony to honour the Australian guided missile destroyer H.M.A.S. Hobart presented with the US. Navy unit commendation Mr.
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  • 77 1 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter) President Suharto today received Foreign Minister Adam Malik at the pa'.ace to hear a report on his recent unofficial visit to Malaysia and the Conference of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East in Singapore. Later the President received Home Minister
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    • 92 1 g hi This Issue ECAFE praises Asian Development Bank Page 2. Round-up of ECAFE conference Page 3. Red Cross to hold blood donation campaign-.... Page 4. S pore police clash with pro-Reds Page 9. Tips on eve make-up...• Page 10. Singapore Pestabadminton draw.... Page 11. Asian Youth soccer in Bangkok..
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 801 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. Delegates to the current 25th session of ECAFE today paid glowing tributes to the admirable accomplishments and enviable record set up by the Asian Development Bank since it was established two-and-a-half years ago. r ECAFE Executive Secretary. Nyun. in summing up the debate
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  • 843 2 EXPERTS TO EXAMINE REPORT ON BANKING CREDIT FACILITIES SINGAPORE, Mon. The Economic Commission for Asia and Far East would convene a meeting of expert group of consultants to examine a reportstudy conducted by the International Monetary Fund on existing international banking and credit facilities in the ECAFE region. Introducing the
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  • 68 2 NEW DELHI. Mon. (UPI) Hundreds of persons were left homeless after a cyclone ripped through areas of the southern coastal state of Kerala last nigh*, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported today. One person was killed and six injured when the cyclone smashed more than
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  • 88 2 TOKYO. Mon fUPI) A six-man Japanese ski group plans to scale the 6,000-foot Himalayan peak on ski and then ski down its slopes in mi-Ma.y. The group leader, Akira Okuyama a Japan Alpinist Club member said it will be the first attempt of its kind
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  • 993 2 SINGAPORE. Men. Delegates to the current ECAFE session discussing the work of the Population Division of the organisation today urged for greater collaboration between the various agencies and advisory services dealini with population control. Mr Chan Kong Howe (Singapore) called for co-operation between
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  • 527 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Director of the Asian Institute for Economic Development and Planning, Dr. P.S.N. Prasad today called on ECAFE to consider placing the Institute on a permanent basis with continued support from member countries and the United Nations Development Programme. Speaking at a
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  • 259 3 SINGAPORE. Man. Teng Chin Huat. 37, who rescued his former foreman from the attack of a few members of the secret society was alleged to have been murdered by the same extortioners about 11 days after the incident, the Coroner's Court was told today. The foreman.
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  • 341 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Thailand today made a concrete offer of a piece of land at Rangsit, on the outskirt of Bangkok, to be the site of the new permanent headquarters of the Asian Institute for Economic Development and Planning. Mr. Kasem Snidvongs. member of the Thai
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  • 379 3 SINGAPORE. Mo n. Delegates to the 25th Session of ECAFE today elected seven representatives from seven member countries of ECAFE to serve in the Governing Council of the Asian Institute for Economic Develop- ment and Planninf. The balloting took place during the special plenary session
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  • 177 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. As part of itg ser.es of management courses designed to upgrade the level of managerial skills and standards In local Industries, the Light Industries Services of the E D B will be conducting another course on industrial engineering from May 23 to July 1.
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    • 58 3 STORE DIARY SINGAPORE. Mon. 5.30 p m 9 p.m.: SATA free jnase X-ray station at Alexandra Community Centre, Mei Ling Street. 730 p.m.: Free film shows by Ministry of Culture at Ama Keng Wayang Stage (Lim Chu Kang) and Pasir Panjang Park. 8 p.m.: Magic and illusion class and Chinese
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  • 255 5 LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland, Mon. (Reuter) Britain last night agreed to supply troops if nee Jed to guard key points in Northern Ireland, wracked by civil strife. t The decision was announced after saboteurs followed up a night or rioting here by dynamiting
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  • 131 5 OERKELLJUNGA. Sweden. Mon (UPI» As a protest against "evil, starving and political crises'' in the world a 25-year-old Danish artist voluntarily was buried alive in a cofhn three feet below the ground yesterday. The artist. Finn Soerensen. said he Intended to stav 77 days In his
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  • 225 5 BELFAST, Northern Ireland. Mon. (Reuter) Fires ringed Belfast last night as a wave of arson c>imaxed the British province's stormiest weekend for seven months. At one time five post offices no a bus depot were blazing and there were not enough lire engines to
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  • 239 5 TORONTO, Mon. (Reuter) Three people were killed and 17 injured today when a passenger train was derailed near Toronto international airport. A Canadian National Railways official said foul play was suspected. Mr. Ron Messenger. Toronto-area operations manager for the railway, said at the
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  • Bulletins
    • 121 5 WASHINGTON. Mon. (Reuter) —President Nixon's tnp economic adviser. Mr. Paul W. McCracken. said today that the administration's ant:-inflation measures might begin to produce a business slowdown in the third quarter of this year. In an interview published by U.S News and World Report, the chairman of the
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    • 27 5 PERTH, Western Australia, (Reuter) Andrew Green, 22. and Patricia Burke. 24. who payed squash for 24 hours 32 minutes, claimed a world record here today.
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    • 30 5 JAKARTA. (Reuter) Indonesian censors have blacked out the cover and several picture* illustrating a feature o n sex and art in the April 14 issue oi magazine.
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    • 64 5 BEDFORD. England, (UPI) A free fall parachute instructor plunged 7.000 feet to his death yesterday while his wife looked on. le?s Wool gar, was ki!e>i when his parachute failed to open over a privately owned air strip near Bedford. Woolgar was a member of a group
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    • 99 5 MANILA, (UPI) The first tvphoon to threaten the Phl--1 rpmes this season church towards the southern island, of Mindanao today with mi.e> per hour winds. The weather t ireau raised its first typhoon warning s.gnals over .vlindanao and tiie eastern portions ol the aavJlDrz Visayan inland group
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    • 86 5 TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter) The U.S aircraft earner Horret escorted by six destroyers -1- be :eved to be part oi a L.S>. protective sea and B ir ron Y;°y for intelligence fights ias potte i in the Ea>l Thin?? t>ea heading toward the sea
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  • 161 5 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter»| The Indonesian government has warned rubber remillers that their rubber will be processed in Malaysia if they do not improve the quality of their output. The warning was given by Trade Minister. Dr Sumitro. at a meeting w.th rubber remillers and growers in Palembang
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  • 22 5 QUINCY. Illinois (UPI) Donald Adams, chairman of the i'linois liquor control comrrission, was arrested on a drunken driving charge.
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  • 357 5  -  By Harry Franca THE easiest way to catch a bandicoot is t° run after it with a net. One of the first scientists to leam this fact of natural history was an American Fulbright scho'ar whn did a two-year study of the bandicoot in Tasmania.
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  • 333 5 WASHINGTON, Mon. (Reuter) The U.S. Secretory of Defence Mr. Melvin R. Laird said today that the U.S. was seeking to "Vietnamise" rother than de-Americonise the war in South Vietnam. In what appeared to be a further attempt to dampen insistent speculation about possible unilateral I S.
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  • 128 5 HONG KONG, Mon (Reu-i ten The people of this! tiny British colony celebra'ed Queen Elizabeth's birth day today, while their Chini e neighbours over the border celebrated the Ninth Communist Party Congress Governor Sir David Trench, in snow-white dress uniform and plumed hat. took the
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  • 466 5  -  By Robert Evans MOSCOW. Mon. (Reuter) A young boy was caught killing rats bv stiangiing them with a rope but his father said he had no objection. The game, father said, helped to strengthen his son's nervous system. A group of youths in the same city of Kiev
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  • 160 5 THE VALLEY. Anguilla. Mon. <Reuter) The trouble island of Anguilla was today still rumbling with discontent and rumours of more demonstrations following the departure of British Commissioner Anthony Lee Mr. Lee. who left here by air yesterday to go on leave. ha«= been the target of bitter
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  • 133 5 MANILA. Mon. (Reuter) Senator Genaro Magsaysay. younger brother of the late President Ramon Magsaysay of the Philippines and sometimes tipped as a candidate for this vear's presidential election, pi an.* to Join the opposition Liberal Party according to one member of the party Senator Magsaysay.
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  • 155 5 SAIGON, Mon < Reuter) A Viet con rocket and mortar attack killed 35 cadets and wounded 175 at a military training school on the southern coast early today, military officials said An unknown number ol rockets and mortars thundered into the academy area 25 miles
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  • 96 5 ATHENS. (Reuter) Greek leaaers last nignt attendee a mass rally here marking the second anniversary of the seizure of power by the Army. The rally brought strict security measures m the Greek capital' Police cars toured the streets leading to Athens stadium shortly before tne
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  • 195 5 CHICAGO. Mon. (UPI) Wind-whipped waves chewed at dikes along the flood swollen Mississippi river at two points north of La Crosse. Wisconsin vesierday, bringing hasty appeals lor aid. Twelve-thou-sand homeless refugees awaited a flood crest on the Mouse River at Minot. North Dakota Bridges spanning
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  • 71 5 GRAND RAPIDS. Michigan. (UPI» Sharon Cecchim. 21, of Jenison. Michigan, went to the Kent County jail on Saturday night to visit her hushand. John. 25 of Smyrnia. Georgia, who is held there a s absent without leave from the army at Port MeCle'.lan. Alabama. And when
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  • 93 5 JAKARTA. Mon < Reuter> Australian scientists i» the Djajawidjaja mountain*of West Irian are lookine for leaves with properties said to be useful as contraceptives. Antara News Agency reported today. Antara said local people call the leaves baby-stoppers. There are also leaves in the area which are
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  • 270 6 ANY future attack on American spy ships or planes will be retaliated without warning. This is the directive by President Nixon as a result of the recent shooting down of a U.S. electronic plane by North Korea. Mr. Nixon feels the U.S. surveillance is necessary for
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  • 210 6 UPI. THE Washington Post, observing that new Czechoslovak leader Gustav Husak's role Is "thankless," said on Sunday he "comes to power not with a popular mandate but, Inevitably, in the image of a collaborator..." "Optimists ask if his respect for Soviet desires may not make
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  • 145 6 AFP. T>RESIDENT General Yahya Khan, is to -I have a round of meetings with political leaders, the semi-official Urdu newspaper "Imroze" said today. Gen. Yahya, who is also Administrator of Martial Law, will leave Rawalpindi next Tuesday for Lahore, Dacca and Karachi Though no details have
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  • 331 6  -  BY GEORGE SIBERA PARIS. Mon. (I'PI) The Soviet Union's "cooperative" attitude in the reconnaissance plane incident with North KOrea strengthened the belief on Sunday that Moscow might help in unfreering the Vietnam peace talks. Diplomatic observers believed that Moscow, which evidently is anxious
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  • 112 6 HONG KOXO. Mnn <CPI) Too much homework, television and newspaper reading Komf of the factor* which produce an increasing student population with a short sight. This was the finding of a forum of doctors, educationalists. newspaper editors and civic leaders broadcast by Radio Hong Kong on Sunday.
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  • 237 6  -  By GERD KRIWANEK LANY, Czechoslovakia Mon. (UPI) Czechoslovaks may have lost many outlets for expressing their feelings on developments in this Sovietoccupied country, but they still have the graves of their national heroes. Several hundred Czechs flocked to this tiny village 20 miles west of
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  • 161 6 LONDON. Mon (Reuter) One of the Royal Navy's most modern six million sterling Leander-class frigates has been out of action for six weeks because there are no spares to repair one of her main radar sets. the Sunday Telegraph reported here today Wlthout the set the ship
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  • 754 6  -  (From Sin Chew Jit Poh Recently, under the pressure of the pro-Soviet elements. Mr. Alexander Dubcek had to resign from the post of the Czech Communist Party First Secretary, which has been fulfilled by the Slovak Party Chief. Mr. Gustav Husak. Prior to this, they had a
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  • 170 6 MELBOURNE. Australia Mon. (UPI) Aneh Louis Pincus, President of the World Zionist Movement, said on Sunday Israel will not allow a return to a divided Jerusalem. All other questions of territory, arms and refugees could be put on the table for discussion
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  • 412 6  -  BY JOHN RIGOS ATHENS. Mon. (I'PI) Premier George Papadopoulos. who seized power in Greece two years ago on Monday, has demonstrated that he has, perhaps above all else, staying power. He 1« shunned by most of the old politicians he ousted and has since tried
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  • 77 6 CAIRO Mbn 'AFP> Egypt is working towards Joining the European Common Market In the distant future, the Middle East News Agency announced today. The government has Instructed Its ambas«ador In Brussels to take necessary steps In the matter, the agency said. As a first stage
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  • 572 6 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) Scientists have reported the discovery of enormously powerful X-rav flashes from one of the mysterious hea\enl> b-u. known as pulsars. These X-ray pulses are 500 t mes more powerful than all the enerfy emitted by our sun. Their discovery was made
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  • 13 6  -  Hazlit William The art of pleasing consists in being pleased Hazlitt.
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  • 440 6  -  By Edouard Dillon PFRING. Mon. (AFT) A 90-minute documentary film depicting Sino-Soviet border clashes on the Cssuri River was released here yesterday showing Chinese fishermen and peasants using clubs in clashes with armoured Soviet vehicles. The film. called "AntiChina Atrocities Of The New Tsar?" accuses the
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  • 324 6  -  BY JOHN F BARTON WASHINGTON. >lon. (I'PI) De«pite recent problem*. the economies of South Korea and Hong Kong are booming according to commerce department ofR- cial*. Th* officials also be'ieve economic conditions in Indonesia have improved markedly. According to recent surveys by US. economists. South Korea increased
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  • 166 6 MOSCOW, Mon (AFP) Army units are unlikely to parade through Moscow and other major Soviet cities on Mav 1 as is the traditional May Day custom, according to unconfirmed rumours circulating here today. Instead. Soviet leaders will turn out to watch a
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  • 234 8 NAPLES, Italy, Mon. (Reuter) About 60 NATO warships—watched by Soviet submarines moved into position today for two-weeks of manoeuvres in the Mediterranean after massing at a rendexvous point south of Turkey. The NATO exenise. tode--I.impel "Dawn patrol", also involves 300 aircraft and is the
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  • 177 8 TEL AVIV, Mon. (Reuter) Israeli jets pounded Arab guerrilla posts across the river Jordan early today after Israeli forces had come under bazooka and small arms fire, according to reports reaching here. The reports said two jets swooped across thp Jordan river in the northern
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  • 124 8 MONTREAL. Mon. (UPI) Air Canada was completely shut down late last night by the second machinists strike to hit the publicly owned airline in less than three years. The airline, which cancelled cargo flights late last week but continued passenger flights over the weekend, was halted last
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  • 114 8 SYDNEY, Mon. (Reuter) A 21-year-old Indonesian charged with smoking marijuana said he had smoked the drug s ince he was two years old. police told a court here today. The prosecutor said Solkan Islam. 21, salesman, of Darlinghurst, had told police his parents smoked marijuana as
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  • 224 8 LOS ANGELES. M o n(t*pi) Whatever the penalty decided bv the jury for Sirhan B. Sirhan life Imprisonment or the as chamber it could be more than a year before his fate is certain. Should he be sentenced to death, the sentence would be
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  • 127 8 WORCESTER. England. Mon (Reuter) Four times a 72-year-old grandmother sold up her home and emigrated to Texas and each time homesickness brought her back to Britain. Now globe-trottinz Mrs. Kathleen Hardcastle has decided to stav put in her Englist midlands birthplace of Kidderminister. She hos covered
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  • 119 8 CALCUTTA. Mon (Reuter) The Mayor of Calcutta. Mr. Gibinda Chandra Dev. has resigned from the Congress Party, accusing the leadership of living In an ivorv tower" and moving away from the masses In a letter to the president of the West Bengal Congress committee. Mr. Pratap Chunder.
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  • 113 8 SYDNEY. Mon. (Reuter) The 100.000 th American serviceman to visit Australia on leave from Vietnam arrived here Uxjay to a big welcome antJmfaid he would rather meet pretty girls than politicians. At least staff-sergeant Ernest McComas 21. was greeted by an Australian beauty queen, 18-year-old Belinda
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  • 50 8 JAKARTA. Mon. < Reuter)— Two hundred Communist suspects. including government officials and armed forces members, have been arrested in southeast Celebes, local Military Commander Lieutenant Colonel Hadju has said. Antara News Agency todav quoted the Colonel as saying his troops had also discovered illegal weapons shipped from
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  • 46 8 SOMEWHERE in Israel: An Israeli soldier boards a track vehicle during joint manoeuvres between paratroopers and armoured corps units. Cairo reported that Arab commandos crossed the Suez Canal and wounded 30 Israeli soldiers 4/20, in a raid on an outpost opposite Ismailia. UPI photo. I'PI photo.
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  • 113 8 BANGKOK. Mon. <UPI> A group of hungry hill tribesmen surrounded a store In North Thailand last week, killed the owner and looted It of supplies and cash, according to reports reaching Bangkok today. The reports said the incident took place at a village in Chiangmai Province
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  • 90 8 BANGKOK. Mon (UPI) Authorises in Songhkla province in southern Thailand have arrested 30 persons, seized 12 trucks and recovered USS 50.000 worth of rice believed en route to be smuggled into Malaysia, police reported today. Police said the roundup took place last week They said the trucks
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  • 382 8 MANILA, Mon. (UPI) The Philippine diplomatic service is facing a sex crisis, foreign secretary Mr. Carlos P. Romulo announced today. Mr. Romulo, a former general, told a news conference he was at his wits end how to solve the problem. There was no military
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  • 73 8 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI) About U*****,000 of banknotes In Philippine and five other currencies were seized by customs agents here on Saturday. It was reported today. The banknotes were contained in one of four cases manifested as wood carvings aboard the shio Straat Chatham, which arrived from
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  • 239 8 ORANGE. New Jersey. Mon. (UPI) A 19-year-old girl, who advertised to babysit in her home to earn monev for a trousseau. ha« been left with two children no one seemi to want. Renee Green said the two children, a 10-month-old crippled bov and a four-year-old girl,
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  • 416 8 WASHINGTON. M on. (I'PI) The federal government pays benefits to war widows for the loss of their husbands. And most people agree this is a right and proper thing to do. But what about a woman who never found a husband because of
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  • 83 8 JAKARTA. Mon. (UPI) Lark of funds have forced 7 5 million Indonesian children out of school this year. Education Minister Mr. Mashuri said today. Mr. Mashuri told teachers from 13 Asian and Pacific countries meeting in Jakarta that one of Indonesia's major problems was how to
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  • 84 8 TAIPEI. Mon. (UPl>—The Taiwan University Hospital today said the kidney transpanted into John Hong. a Chinese businessman from Mani a, 'failed to function properly.** "Strong rejection appeared in the body of the kidney recipient." a spokesman said. "Only less than 100 cc urine was discharged last
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  • 121 8 CAGLIARI. Sardinia Mon (Reuten Police used teargas and water-cannon here today to quell i2O Inmate* of Cagllari prison who ransacked the kitchens and stole all the wine in Italy's tenth prison revolt in eight days. The prisoners burned their mattresses and broke windows as
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  • 221 8 PARIS, Mon. (Reuter) General de Gaulle will make a television appeal tj rren .1 v next Friday two days the c°untry »ote« on the referendum on which he has s a future as president, an official stotement_an- nounced today. The broadcast will
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  • 311 8 TOKYO, Mon. (I'PI) fleet of t'.S. warships is gathering in the Sea of Japan today in a show of force in the wake of the downing of an unarmed American reconnaissance plane by North Korea. One of the t'.S. ships was the
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  • 72 8 SYDNEY. Mon. (ReutersMajor Australian mining companies. which have found they cannot keep their workers in remote areas where there is no television, are thinking of setting up their own television stations. A spokesman for the mining industry was quoted in the Financial Review today as
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  • 45 8 UPPSALA. Sweden. Mon. (UPI) A strong earthquake located In Southern Japan was oday recorded at 0730 GMT by the Seismological Institute in Uppsala The head of the Institute. Profe&sor Markus Baath. said ♦he quake was rmsured to 7.1 on the Richter Scale.
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  • 141 8 BALTIMORE. Mon. (Reuter) Eighty-eight people were injured 20 of them with stab wounds and 133 were arrested after a "Youth for riecencv" rally was plunged into disorder here, police said. About 650 police intervened when trouble eruptted at memorial stadium wnere 45.000 people had gathered yesterdav
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  • Bulletins
    • 85 8 NEW DELHI. (Reutert About a thousand women staged a demonstration here oerause they say women and girls were molested after a variety show in a C»lcutt« stadium on April 6 The demonstrators, carrying the saffron flags of Hinduism, paraded outside the West Bengal government guest hous® and
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    • 54 8 HONG KONG, (Reuter> The Llberian tinkers St. George 111 caught Are today while under repair at a Kowloon yard. The fire was put out shortly after It started at the ship's boiler room, a government spokesman said. No ca sua "ties were reported. The R.OOO-t anker was
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    • 27 8 GUATEMALA CITY. (Reuter> A sharp earth tremor rorked this central American capital late last night. There were no immediate reports of damage or Injuries.
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  • 310 9 !Setherl »nds today offered 15 «n n T° conBu,tan *s for the second course K De y elo P me nt Administration to be organisptanning. Institute for Economic Development and El«k H he -> eth la ds delegation. Mr. B. Van s Mr. Van Eldik said
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  • 100 9 SINGAPORE Mon A 25-vear-old Kapala. Tock Kian Ter.g. who pleaded guilty for possessing three pis'ols was todav sentenced to three years" imprisonment by the First District Court Judge. Mr. D. D D'Cotta. Tock who employed by a building contractor and earning about $2OO a month,
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  • 151 9 7 1/2 P er Cent Increase In Australia's GNP MELBOURNE, Mon. <Reuter> Australia's Federal Treasurer. Mr. William McMahon. today predicted a record 7-7$ per cent increase In Australia's Gross National Product this year. "This will be a spectacular increase over the 3* to 5* per cent r.se in the past
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  • 71 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. The young Fowlie School Band had a wonderful time this morning when they were guests of Sheng Huo Enterprises Limited at Tanglin Halt. All of them were given a "big, big treat" with Van Houten chocolates and a refreshing drink of Malcoa. In return for the treat, the
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  • 322 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. ECAFE delegates today gave their endorsement for the continuance of the Asian Institute for Economic Development and Planning and for it to be established as a permanent institution under the United Nations. The endorsement came when representatives from 14 delegations of ECAFE member-countries
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  • 387 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Asian Institute for Economic Development and Planning was today urged to set up research facilities as soon as possible. The call came from a representative of the Indian delegation. Mr. B D. Jayal speaking at the ECAFE plenary session on the Institute
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  • 171 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. Police clashed with pro-Communist unionists today at about 10.50 a.m. at the Singapore Gold and Silversmiths premises at the junction of North Bridge Road and Bras Basah Road. Seven policemen were injured and treated for slight injury at the hospital. Police
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  • 86 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Police opened fire at three men when they ignored an order to stop at the uncompleted portion of the Federal H;gh was in Segambut here yesterday. The men later abandoned their car and ran into some undergrowth beside the highway. Two
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    • 644 10  -  FASHION PERSONALITY OF THE WEEK By Florence de Santis BILL Smith is a designer who is secure with his talent, his ambitions and the world. In fact, his only real problem is his name. "In the fashion field there is also a Bill
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    • 307 10  -  By H. C. Tan IF all colours of a rainbow could go into the make-up of an eye it would. But for the time being, face fashioners insist on at least three to four colours focussing on the interplay of light and dark tones. The
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    • 117 10 COUTURE fashions usually come in luxurious fabrics, no matter how simple or casual the styling Now both St Laurent and Dior have gone one step further and used coun-try-style fabrics. They look just like patchwork. but the designers evidently think of them as a kind of
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    • 133 10 TAKE brown leather with a lacquered finish, add a frosting of white imitation lamb, and a new look results for children's fall clothes. It has a clean outerspace look, especially as the silhouettes are classic. Start with a coat tied like a bathrobe, Its rounded
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    • 233 10 r LOOK FOR... NEW casuals in summer sleepwear. with little dresses that look like Greek togas, tricot shirts with lacy sleeves over bikini shorts. CHARMING jumper suits for summer, consisting of a seam-shaped white jumper a colourful, high-collared shirt and a V-necked little jacket. RI FFLES for summer,
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    • 191 10 Whatever else may be said about wearing pants costumes, they can't be accused of being unleminine. Those designers, notably Yves St. Laurent, doing pants in Paris, are emphasising soft cuts and soft fabrics which take the look entirely out of the masculine mode. Long and wide,
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    • 100 10 A NEW development m combining durable press features with stretch fabrics may revive the fading interest in In stretch. Some have already appeared in menswear slacks, jackets and walk shorts. Development Is now under way on fabrics suitable for women's slacks, particularly In stretch
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    • 398 10  -  By Florence de Santis Designers have been making party several seasons, but only as a whimsv for a few fash-ion-conscious women who wanted something different. This season, however, pants are taking over the whole party scene. One designer of party clothes has done
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    • 566 10  -  Br Teddi Sau PORTLAND. Ore Not all fashion creators crowd into New York or other fashion cities. In an era of big city problems, such firms as Jantzen, White Stag and Pend.eton are happv that they've chosen to live and work in the
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    • 110 10 WITH silhouettes changing little. Increasing fashion emnhasis is being out on sleeves. Paris is showing evening dresses with elaborately puffed and embroidered sleeves. Spring dresses here often feature angel wing and medieval sleeves. First fall collections are elaborating even further Bonnie Cashln has a new sleeves
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    • 257 10  -  By MARY SUE MILLER A TEEN Lovely writes: My family picks on my posture continually. My mother tells me I slouch. Daddy calls It a slump. My big sister says I walk like a rag doll. My dear little brother say* I clomp. Do you
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    • 136 10 WHILE most women seem to have settled for knee-length skirts, no matter what goes up or down, the once-mm;ed set may find themselves in ankle lengths for next fail. The avant-garde designers see lonk skirts as the next step afte r the pants suits, Victor Jons
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    • 111 10 ALTHOrGH African fabrics and materials inspired by African print* have been around for the past two years, they've been limited in pro duction. Now some fabrics producers are spreading their availability by using European manufacturing facilities. Favourites are K h a n g a prints, which
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    • 128 10 IVtIYBODI' knows that fashion often isn't practical. Women have been struggling into those tight boots and suffering their heat indoors. a d been Putting on all the layers of the pantsuits where a drest is a lot easier to get into. Now fashion forecasts an even
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    • 746 11 SS i n Defending champion Darmadi and the current Malaysian Pesta champion, Muljadi, both of Indonesia, are top seeded for the men s singles in the four-day Singapore "Pesta Badminton" championships to to be held at the Singopore Bodminton Hall, Guillemard Road, from Wednesday
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    • 791 11  -  By LESLIE NAKASHIMA TOKYO, Mon. (UPI) Although the Philippines failed to take a single set against Japan in the "A" section semi-finals of the Davis Cup Eastern Zone which ended on Sunday, the future is not entirely dark for the Republic in this
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    • 139 11 MAGDEBURG East Germany. Mon ißeuter* Soviet swimmer Nikolai Pankin yesterday broke his own world record for the 100 metres breaststroke. bringing him his second world record In two days Pankin. competing on the third day of an international swimming match between Russia and East Germany, clocked 1
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    • 135 11 MADRID. Mon. (UPI) Real Madrid on Sunday won the Spanish Soccer League Championships by beating Las Palma9 1-0. Real Madrid, which won the championship unofficially four weeks ago. got the trophy with only one defeat In 30 matches It won 18 (fames and tied 11. Real
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    • 568 11 BANGKOK. Mon. (AFP) Thailand blasted Singapore to the tune of 8-0 in the Group "C" match of the 11th Asian Youth Sorrer Tournament before a 45.000 crowd at the National Stadium here tonight. At half time Thailand led by 3—o. Scorers were Sonthikan
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    • 176 11 BANGKOK, Mon. (Reuter) —Defending champions Burma showed top form last night in the Asian Youth Soccer Championships In their second match to beat Hong Kong 5-0. Nationalist China who earlier held Burma to an upset 2-2 draw, last night drew 1-1 with South Vietnam. In the other
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    • 150 11 BANGKOK. Mon. (AFP) Ceylon created an upset when they held the mighty Iran to a scoreless draw in the Group A" match of the 11th Asian Youth Sorrer tournament before a 40.000 crowd at the National Stadium here tonight. The Iranians despite this draw became the
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    • 98 11 MANILA, Mon. (Reuter) FlUp;no cyclist Domingo Quilban touay won toe lourth day of toe louring lr liipinas" (Philippine Tour) whiie the two survivors of the sixman Japanese team withdrew before finishing the fourth lapQuilban, the first lap winner on the opening day of the tour last
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    • 248 11 CHRISTCHURCH, Mon. (Reuter) Graham Dowling, captain of the New Zealand cricket team to tour Britain, India and Pakistan later this year, yesterday supported the controversial selection of five fast bowlers in the 16- man touring party. He said that the bias toward paceman wa;
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    • 97 11 MONTE CARLO, Monaco. Mon. (UPI) Tom Okker on Sunday became the Ist DuV chman to win the Monte Carlo International tennis tournament. heating John New com be of Australia. 8-10. 6-1. 7-5. 6-3 Okker was presented with the Prince of Monaco Cup by Princess Grace
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    • 1066 12 Weights For Penang First Second Days Weights for the Penang Summer Meet storting Sat. Apr. 26 ore as follows: FIRST DAY Horses Class 5 Dir. 2 About 6 Furs. Straight Flush 900 Siwal 9.00 Hendak Menang 8.11 Mannum Mis* 8.11 Stormy Law 8.11 Perkasa II 8.09 Our Hero 8.08 Okay
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    • 432 12 SINGAPORE. Mon. Eddie Tan of Malaysia established a new record in the qualifying rounds of the Cathay Pacific-Bruns-wick Far East Rowling Championships, which is being held in the various bowling centres throughout the Far East. Eddie scored a sensational three-game scratch
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    • 278 12 ROME. Mon. (Reuter) The men seeds appear for the first time at the *****.000 (£2l 000) Italian Open Tennis Championships here today and the slow courts could bring some upsets. Bespectacled American Negro Arthur Ashe. No. 3 seed, plays France's Patrick Prolsy in a
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    • 122 12 DURBAN, Mem. (Reuter) Reigning Wimbledon champion Billie-Jean King last night captured two more titles In the Natal Open Tennis Tournament here to add to the women's singles crown she won on Saturday. Mrs King paired with fellow American Rosemary Casals to defeat a strong South
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    • 223 12 CARLSBAD California. Mon (UPI> South Africa's Gary Player overcame a double bogey on Sunday In the final round of the US$l5OOOO Tournament of Champions and shot a par 72 to collect first prize of USJ3O.OOO with a 72-hole total of 284. four under par. U
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    • 149 12 BRIDGETOWN. Barbados. Mon. <Reuter» The West Indian cricket team left Seawell airport here yesterday for their 15-week tour of England confident of regaining tfc; prestige lost In recent series against England and Australia West Indies cricket officials predicted that the team would surprise the experts
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    • 193 12 BONN. Moa (Reuter) United States' supermarr In world swimming was shaken on the final day of the West German International Swimming Champion hip* here today as Hans Fassnacht of Mannheim set a new world hest time for 400-metres freestyle Fassnarht underlined his rlaim
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    • 837 12 NEW YORK, Mon. (UPI) Donn Clendenon's three run homei in the first inning enabled the Montreal Expos to snap Chicago 5 sc c game National League winning streak 4-2 on Sunday after the CUDS the opener of a doubleheader 6-3 on Ferguson Jenkin's fire-hitter
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    • 443 12 SWAYTHLING CLP MUNICH, West Germany, Mon. (Reuter) Japan last night defeated Yugoslavia 5-1 to secure a certain place in the final of the men s team Swavthling Cup competition in the World Table Tennis Championships here. In the highlight match of the day's programme
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    • 75 12 COLOMBO MOB. (Router) The Singapore women's hockey team was held tc a 1-1 draw bj a local President's eleven in the visitors' opening match here yesterday. Susan Franklin. Singapore's centre-forward, who works as a teleprinter operator tor the Royal Air Force, put her side ahead
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    • 272 12 London. Mon (Reuter) Leading goal scorers m the English Soccer League and Cup competitions: DIVISION ONE L FA L. Total Cup Cap Jimmv Greaves < Spurs 26 4 5 35 Geoff Hurst (West Ham) 25 2 4 31 Joe Rovle (Everton) 22 4 3 29 Geoff
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    • 984 11 TV and Radio TODAY (CHANNEL 5) PM 300 Opening Announcement in all Language? Morning Star; 320 Be Our Guest Malav Version; 335 Health in the Home Tamil Version; 3 55 House 8i Home English Version; 410 A Diary of Event* in Singapore This Week English Version; 415 Peyton Place Chinese
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