Eastern Sun, 5 January 1971

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  • 272 2 rTHREE robbers, two armed with revolvers, held up a goldsmith in his shop in Hill Street and escaped with jewellery worth $lO,OOO yesterday. As soon as they entered the Chip Hak Long Goldsmith shop at 9.20 a.m. ona of the robbers unloaded his revolver
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  • 132 2 An unskilled abortionist caused the death of a woman who could have had a safe abortion in a government clinic. This observation was made by an assistant pathologist, Dr. Chao Tzee Cheng, at an Inquiry Into the death of Madam Chew Slew Klan, 40.
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  • 80 2 A kerosene stove which exploded and killed a housewife had a badly corroded base and should not be used at all. This was the finding of Assistant Coroner. Mr. Chan Chee Pew, yesterday when the stove was produced at an inquiry into the death of Madam
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  • 139 2 Three armed robbers last night held up a cigarette and liquor shop at Victoria Street and escaped with $1,300. The three employees of the shop Including the owner Quek Hock Sen* were herded into the back of the shop by two gunmen. While one
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  • 97 2 low Jeffrey BP looks every inch Ike ■»>*• dor bead held high, nostrils flaring, beary mkom ud sidokurns ud stance proudly erect And when ke swings his red caps at the imaginary kal. even adults kad to say -oleT Jeffrey, Ave, appeared is this outfit during
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  • 307 3 A $200,000 treasure in rare jade and porcalain antiques and jewellery have been stolen from a dealer's shop in South Bridge Road. The theft possibly committed on Sunday night was discovered at 8.30 a.m. yesterday by an employee of the Wing On Cheung Arts
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  • 86 3 MR. P. Valupillai was elected Chairman of the Sri Satya Sanmarka Sang am for 1971 at a meeting held recently. A committee comprising 12 members was also elected by the society during the mee<The other members of the committee are: Vice-Chairman Mr. D. H. Devamurari. Hon. Secretary
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  • 33 3 A coroner yesterday recorded verdict of death by misadventure on Heng Yeow Nlng, 11. who fell from a cherry tre«. at Lorong 29, Qeylang. on December 16 laat year.
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  • 116 3 A cook who wan fed to give Chinese sausages as Now Year gifts for friends found himself in trouble with Hie law. The First District Court yesterday sentenced Koh Liang Aw, 49. to a day's jail after he pleaded guilty to importing sausages valued
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  • 74 3 A refrigerator falling from its bate yesterday caused Hie death of stall assistant Mohamet Shaheed bin Majid even though it did not touch him. A* Mohamed 23, Jumped clear, he slipped and fell, striking his head hard against the concrete floor of the Geylang Serai Market.
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  • 98 3 THE Singapore AntiTuberculosis Association's Donation Draw will be held on Saturday. January 9, at 4.00 p.m. The First Prlae Is a Morris 1100-8 4-door Saloon Car. The Second and Third Prizes are two return air tickets to Tokyo, and Hong Kong, donated by MalaysiaSingapore Airlines and
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  • 236 3 CANBERRA Three Asian doctors one Malaysian and two from Hong Kong ware ordered to leave Australia at the ««d of their training because the government believes granting their requests to stay would "contradict" the basic •im of iti aid
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 76 3 AROUND TOWN I.H PJ». Opening Ceremony of the works of artist T>n Book Leong by the British High Commissioner Mr. Samuel Falle at the Gallery of Fine Art. t OO p.m. Prise-giving ceremony of the Chinese Chess Tournament by Mrs. Jek Yuen Thong at the Queenstown Youth Section Forfar House.
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  • 172 4 Thirty one participants from eight countries yesterday attended the Uxaugm ration of the month-long workshop on Financial Analysis and Planning for Industrial Projects at the King's Hotel. They are from Ceylon. Indonesia. Malaysia Nepal, the Philippines Taiwan. Thailand and Singapore The workshop, besides theoretical and
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  • 155 4 AN RAF rescue and search team yesterday rescued three Singaporean fishermen from their waterfoqged and sinking sampan. The Whirlwind helicopter from the 102 Squadron based at Changi wos scrambled shortly before 9.00 a m. The helicopter piloted by Flying Officer Geoffrey GUI* and
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  • 300 4 Tk* Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labour, Mr. S. Rajaratnam will opeo HM Singapore Professional Centre on January 18. This was disclosed by the Chairman of Ihe board of trustees, prof. Phoon Wai CH> at a press conference yesterday. The SPC com
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  • 123 4 KUALA LUMPUR Th e recent, .spate of resignations from the University of Malaya was attributed to unsatisfactory conditions of service and failure of the authorities to get the Revised staff Service Agreement honoured. the Academic Staff Association of the Unlverstty said. Itj, president. Dr.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 295 5 MONTHLY CONTEST 39 Valuable prizes must be won! RRSTPRIZEuptoS2,OOO/-Plusldayancn night all expenses paid stay in Singapore or Kuala Lumpur. Fop further details see your NATIONAL Dealers now I MONTHLY RESULTS -FREE SHOPPING CAMPAIGN Fir* Prize: I MR. LEE GEE BENG MR. JOHN ALBERT ROBLESB MR. LAWRENCE ONO, MR.LE.SENG MR. YAP9OO
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  • 422 7 NATIONS Dr. Gunnor Jarring, U.N. Middle East envoy it preparing for the resumption of the long-stalled Arab-Israeli peace talks later this week. Although no dote hos yet been sci for the resumption of negotiations diplomatic sources said there wos nothing to delay the
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  • 73 7 The skeleton of a man named Yehohanan who was crucified 2,000 years ago has been found by Israeli scholars in a cave near Jerusalem. In the drawings here, an artist attempts to reconstruct how Yehohanan might have looked like (L) and the
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  • 155 7 DENVER, Colorado The wife of a Colorado agriculture expert who has been held hostage tor nearly five months by rebel forces in Uruguay says the United States has not done enough to secure her husband's release. Mrs. Claude Fly made the statement in
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  • 252 7 JAKARTA Two Indonesian parliamentary leaders yesterday promised their support for the Arab nations in the Middle East confrontation with Israel. The pledges were given by the chairman of the People s Congress General A.H. Nasutlon, and the Lower House speaker, Ahmed SJalchu. This was done
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  • 140 7 LONDON The London Dally Express reported yesterday Britain is negotiating a ***** million deal to ■ell Chieftain tanks to Iran. Defence Ministry and Foreign Office spokesmen refused to comment on the report. The Express said the British Government had heen holding seeret negotiations
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  • 645 10 ¥>ROF*. Bernard K. Gordon has the creden*- tials to write a serious and meaningful book on Southeast Asia and when he envisages a military role for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, he should not be dismissed as "another American making silly observations about things he does not know."
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  • Article, Illustration
    544 10  -  By Art Buchwald WASHINGTON It is with regret that I must inform everyone that there will not be a New Yeor at least not on the first of January as originally planned. The reason for this is that the bill to authorise .1971. is now bottled up
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  • 339 10  -  By Thaung Myine Ban Huai Mai Pen, Northern Thailand Heavy road-making machines belonging to the Thai government are ly' n 9 here dose to the Burmese border under the protection of border patrol police. The equipment bulldozers, gradera, crushers and caterpillars have been brought
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  • 301 10 SYDNEY Singapore had become sceptical of Australian promises and Malaysia was moving rapidly towards neutrality. the Australian Financial Review said today in an editorial oomment on the Fivepower defence talk* which begin in Singapore tomorrow This problem of the credibility of Australia's commitment to regionalism would
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  • TODAY'S WORLD
    • 1150 11  -  By Kim Willenson TT's always fascinating to be near Hie centre of a brand new Asian war, just to see what kind of driftwood floats up on the beach, and Cambodia b no exception. Fbr a town In which there are by formal count no
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    • 207 11 OOUTH Africa la considering castration as a way to curb sex crimes. A government commission of inquiry hag asked various bodies concerned with mental health for their opinion on the possibility of sterilising certain types of mentally-ill per sons, such as rapists and habitual sex offenders.
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  • THE COMMONWEALTH
    • 2053 12/13  -  FROM DEREK INGRAM T)RIME Minister Pierre Trudeou of Conodo, President Nye- rere of Tanzania and Prem er Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore could emerge os the key figures at the most fascinating and perhaps the most important Commonwealth summit conference of them all
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    • 908 12/13 The Commonwealth conference of 1971 is o product of tradition and evolution. The rules of the game are unwritten, quite strict, and they are surprisingly weil obeyed. For instance, there is no show of hands by Prime Ministers and Presidents at a Commonwealth meeting. They
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  • 713 14  -  By Adam Lynford, A Mjfcti—J little boy w ate tod bis parents' hot, along with thousands off otfcer squatter shacks, go op in Homes. Today, 17 years later and aged 23, he is a top administrative officer In the resettlement programme which gave his family
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  • 535 14 PERTH, Australia Fall-scale excavations of BATAVIA, a Dutch sailing ship which foundered off the Western Australian coast in 1629, started in Nov. 197®. BATAVIA and VERGHULDE DRAACK are two 17th century Dutch shipwrecks which investigation parties identified in Western Australian waters in the early *****. Eighteenth
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  • 612 15  -  by Harold Heffernan, Maybe you're checking out at the supermarket and a few carta down the line you hear the loud clear voice of this woman airing her views to the others. "We saw the greatest movie of the year last night," she says. "Our whole family
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  • 445 15  -  By Vernon Scott, NBC, like a sealous parent with a backw a r d child, will (thankfully) continue to piuf away at ecology and man's environmental rape of the earth. T)n Jan. 8 the network will beam "Say Goodbye," a documentary on the disappearing spec
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  • 612 15 "Baby Rose Marie," as she was billed and Idolised coast to coast until the crowing-up process took over, has been an entertainer since she was three years old. And while she Is no longer a star, the vivacious blond "Second Banana" In television's "The Doris Day
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  • 213 15 HOLLYWOOD A new generation of young fans whipping up an almost mad fascination for the movie idols of old, are shaking up the TV guest star market. The kids want, to see more and more of these revered people, many retired ana living far from the screen
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 141 15 ODEQM ***** 13TB DAT! II Mi. 1M 4.00. Ml IN "H«im Of Dark Shadows' Jonathan Prld. Color.<MOM| iIMX, ORCHf PD 3 765 8 8 13TH DAT! No Pro* List Dally t Shows I.M, 8.4S IM p.m. "TOBA" Starts: t.M. I M t.M p.m. (Suns. <St Hols Bxtra Show 'at 11.00
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  • 138 16 NEW YORK-An American tobacco executive said today that part of the mill. on* of dollars formerly spent on el{[arette advertising, newt y-banned from television. will now go towards research Into smoking** relation to health. Mr. Joseph Cullman. Chairman of the Tob* cco Institute's Executive Committee, said
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    • 1004 17 E T TT Fa CHANNEL 5 Opening Announcements, followed by General Hospital Daytime serial about the staff and patients of a hospital. For The Family A magazine series presented in the National Language. A Diary Of Everts In Singapore This Week (National Language). It's Happening In Singapore (Repeat) (National Language)
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  • 604 18  -  DATELINE By Eto Walt Dulaney DEAR ELK: ill my school there's one clique of girls who run every ihlnf. I'm not bftter and calling "sour grapes" because I'm a member of that clique. But now It's starting to crowd me and I'd hke to
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  • Article, Illustration
    712 18 This century has seen many developments in the fields of science and technology. Doing the first few dscaflm of this century, the only means of communication was by land and sea. Today, less than half a century fly as. Jumbo lets are carrying hundreds of passengers from one
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  • 499 18 This term It was my claas's (ors to he is charge of the school •■tees and I was choses to represent my classWhen it was recess time, I went to the canteen a little earlier than usual. Aa I was walking
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    • 46 18 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe Hi. Eastern SM'I «uy writing cfttrt tor boys and 9M1 al 14 aatf ntfat (Jwlar) and boys and firtg ovflf 14 (Sanior) appeal* hi PRIZE MONEY WIU. NOT fti FOR WARDED TO WINNERS WHOSE ESSAYS ARK FOUND TO HAVE BEEN COPIED.
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  • WOMEN
    • 107 19 The world-famous House of Christian Dior tost week presented their latest fashion collection to an audience at Bangkok's Rama Hotel This was the first visit to that part of the world for the eight mannequins, who brought with them over a hundred of Dior's latest creations.
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    • 301 19 There's a new shoe material on the market, the latest advance in man-mades lor shoe uppersThe upper is all that part of a shoe which isn't the sole, and Clarino, according to Its makers, offers new foot comfort with its softness and specially porous properties.
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    • 448 19  -  ANN LANDERS DEAR ANN: Will you please tell m* Idiot sister (age 3s, husband killed in an accident) that Just because a guy has been married and fathered a child does not mean he is straight. Everybody in town seems to know B la
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  • 309 20 rpRADING in the Stock Exchonge of Moloytio ond Singapore yesterdoy gave o booming start to the year with turnover ot 2,254,000 units. The healthy start, at predicted by moat operators, posted majority of the industrial counters to new levels with gain above 10 cents. The
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  • 281 20 January fint grade rubber buyers doted at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 50-3/8 cento per lb. The tone of Hie market wa» quietly steady. The market got off to a steady start following the constant r&ln. and flooding in producing areas during
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  • 55 20 (Manager Price* for Jan. ft) ASIA UNIT TKl'BTf M Invest Fund 1.19 1.t4 Pro«. 1.06 111 riIAttTKKKD I Ml TRl'm 8.0 rand 1.02 1.07 <*INUAPORK TNII TRI'BTB 2nd B'pore 1.90 3rd S'pore 1-23 Coin. Ind. 1.00 1.05 Thr «i*lot Fnnd 104 1.09 BP. Fnnd .98 1.03 (Manager Price*
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  • 249 20 THAI International today will boost the seating capacity on Its routes between Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and The Increases In seats Is the result of additional flights a* well as replacing DC-9s with DC-8s on some of Its routes. "The Increase In passenger traffic between these
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  • 108 20 HONG KONG Yesterday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Buyers) (Sellers) 196 197 per 100 Straits dollars 145.75 147.75 per 1.000 Taiwan dollar* 0.745 6.77 per Australian dclJai 340 360 per 10.000 Burmese ky&t* 460 480 per 10,000 Indian rupees 149 164 per
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  • 606 20 BID aid offer prices officially listed at the close of bnsJoess la the Singapore a a d Koala Lompor trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday AMU Altui «ra>k, AUI Allied ChM B LX1 ll S 1X4 L16 L6S Mvra 13 Bora** IN BOMUX ill C. Plywood -PS
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  • 1097 20 BUSINESS done In and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded In brackets In lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified INDUBIVIALB Allied Choc. $2 70 (1); Ren 92 eta. (1) 05 eta (1); 96 C
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  • 302 21 QYDNEY Nickel shores started the year off on o bright note with ..improvements on most stocks on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Southland Mining headed a solid rise Hiii section wirti an increase of .IS to 2.8 a International Mining advanced to the 1.00 mark.
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  • 513 21 MHIVIU MS i a> MSA in Ink (Ml* IJO ka JOa.ni 11 96 a n Ltnpvr MH14K NMm. kuata I urn par MM IU timatm MM Ul luk 1 llfipot M«A U4 r*UB( Ittl* 11 1JV P HI Mx"'5j JrtuU MMA 4AI K«. thiu MhT Ml Hotp lUHrt.
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  • 153 21 ELDCTRONIC Supplies are expanding their telecommunication department to meet the growdemand for their Philips radio communication equipment in Malaysia, Singapore and Sumatra. Mr. J. C Tollenaar. the General Manager of Electronic Supplies, said "We are expanding not only to meet the growing market for Philipe equipment but also
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  • 444 21 LONDON The stock market limped out from 1970 on Hit downtrock and showing little sign that 1971 could bo o better year. Since last January when prices hit their best levels of the year industrial share prices have fallen by more than 16 per
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  • 171 21 A portable sawmill fk« Port-O-Mttl «4ich makes it possible to take a sawmill to a log in the forest rather than the log to the sawmill has been designed and manufactured in A us- tralia. The Port O-Mlll (seen above) was demonstrated at the recent Forest Industries Machinery
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 1014 22 The following arc the race-weights for the weekend race* at Buklt Timah. SATURDAY CLASS 3 DIV. 3 6 FURLONGS Rickshaw Lass 9 00 Fiery Dragon 9.00 Bukit Benders 8.13 Johnny Reb 8.12 Pilot 8 12 Sugar Daddy 8.12 Glamour Princs 8.12 Altar Boy 8.12 Gallant Son 8.12
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    • 414 22 Ma ran, a four-year-old bay Australian gelding by Coney Island out of Alpine Lady# looks Hie pick of Hie newcomers entered for th« Singapore Turf Club January meeting beginning this Saturday. He had a total of 31 runs for two wins and 13 places. He won
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    • 96 22 SAN FRANCISCO About 100 police were called In Sunday to break up scores of flstflghta that broke out at Kesar Stadium after the Ban FranciscoDallas football came. At least 11 arreata were made, most of them for disturbing the peace. An attendant at a r k Emergency Hospital
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    • 128 22 ADELAIDE A south Australian hockey official yesterday blamed the Malaysian Hockey Federation for the cancellation of a proposed tour of Malaysia. State coach Dennis Olencross said the state association had made all arrangements to tour late this month, but had received no reply to Its approaches. Olencross
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    • 254 22 MIAMI BEACH Fla. The United States, with straight-set tingle* victories by Harold Solomon and Brian Gottfried, beat Sou Hi Africa Sunday to clinch their second straight Sunshine Junior Tennis Cup title. Solomon, twice Orange Bowl champion, was too steady for Byron Nertram. winner of the Junior
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    • 88 22 SYDNEY John Benaud gave the Australian selectors another reminder as he hammered 102 in 194 minutes for New South Wales against Queensland in their Sheffield Shield match here yesterday. Benaud, who hit 66 in the first innings, shared a 167-run second wicket stand with opener Alan
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    • 554 23 Scotland To Mrs. Maureen Oswell, watching from four storeys above, it looked as if the earth had opened up to swallow people in scream- ing hundreds. "We just couldn't take i» what was happening," iim wii "We MV hole* sppMrwg in HM crowd where plOpla Wad
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    • 318 23 THE Singapore Badminton Association Ls appealing for donations from its affiliates and the bublic to enable former junior badminton chamCon, Koh Kum Seng to ive a set of artificial hands. Of the total cost of $3,000 for a set of three artificial arms one for social
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    • 294 23 HEW YORK The Dallas Cowboys and the Baltimore Colts Sunday slugged their way into pre foetheN's Super Bowl with second-half scoring bursts that won their conference championship*. Baltimore and Dallas will meet Jan. 17 in Miami at the Super BowL Dallas, trying to
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    • 91 23 WELLINGTON Keith Campbell hit an aggressive 97 In Otag<y A first Innings of 220 against Auckland In their Plun. ket Shield cricket match In Auckland yesterday. Campbell cracked 17 fours and one six as the remaining Otago hatsmen made Heavy weather against the pace bowling of Bob
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    • 233 23 BfCLBOUBNK Winner* of (he oae-day crioket ***** between Autralla and England here today will receive 2.400 Aailraliii dollars <S*7.2oo>. The nonev is part of 5515,000 dollars put up by international cigarette Arm Rothmana for the game, which was organised following Saturday's decision to abai»don the third
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  • 531 24 LUMPUR Two hildren drowned yesterday os floods hit Kuala Lumpur after four days of rain. Two boys were reported missing from flooded kampongs off Jalan Bangsar last night, bringing the total death toll to 24. One was a 21-year-old boy
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  • 224 24 AUCH, France An explosion yesterday ripped out Hie back of an eight-storey apartment building, killing 13 people. More than 10 people were injured. The explosion occurred in a garage on the ground floor of the building. The force of the blast tore off
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  • 85 24 KUALA LIJMPUR Heavy rain caused 80 feet of road and some land near a house in Persiaran Swettenham to subside 12 feet yesterday. No one was injured. The occupants of the house, Mrs. J. Craig* wife of a businessman and her daughters, Galina, 12, and
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