Eastern Sun, 25 January 1971

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  • 297 3 iTH the ossurance of on experienced bricklayer, the Minister for Communications, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, yesterday laid the foundation stone for Singapore's $lO million satellite earth station. The ceremony, held at Sentosa, marked onother significant milestone in Singapore's communications history. Mr. Yong said the station
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  • 124 3 Two women were found dead at the foot of Housing Board flats early Saturday morning. 1 The first incident was reported at 1.45 am. at Block 57, Lengkok Bahru when Che Hasnah binte Marof, 39. fell out from her six-storey flat. Police
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  • 73 3 President She a re s. yesterday made his first inspection of Singapore Armed Forces personnel at the passing out parade of officer-cadets of the Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute. Among those present were tne Minister for Defence, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, and other Ministers. In his
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  • 211 3 A cool $ll million worth of diamonds and gems were packed iu Singapore under heavy security for a secret destination. The Jewellery had been on display over the week at a Raffles Place departmental ■tore by Graff Diamonds of London. Mr. Laurence Graff 32.
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  • 129 3 An Indonesian merchant, Lim Ek Sun, 23, received a rude shock on Saturday when he was dragged into a car by four strangers. Llm was walking along Chulla Street after he had drawn $5,770 from a bank in Raffles Place when a car stopped
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  • 126 3 Almost all schools, 494 out of 502 or 98% had participated In last year's postal saving* competition, announced Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin on Saturday. Mr. Yong, the Minister for Communications. was addressing the prlze-glvlng ceremony of last year's Schools' Savings Competition at the Victoria
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 18 3 AMY By Jack Tipptt &l sS v> r? "I'm taking you off washing, ironing, cleaning, scrubbing, and dusting."
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    • 91 3 Toto draw Sunday's Toto Draw: 43. 9. 1. 28. 25 Additional Number: 35. Three circle Draw: 1. 30. S. WW SINGAPORE TOWN 3.24 a.m. (5.4 ft.): 857 a.m. (8.9 ft); 404 p.m. (1 ft.): 1.14 p.m. (i.4 ft). rOMORROW 4.10 a.m. (5.1 ft.): 9.51 a.m. (9.5 ft); 4.48 P.m. (0.5
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  • 347 5 CEOUL The co-pilot of a South Korean F-27 oirliner died yesterday after his arms were blown off by hand grenades as he hurled himself on a hijacker on Saturday. The hijacker, 22-year-old roof tiler Sang-Tai Kim, wos also blasted to death ond 16 of the 65
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  • 169 5 CAIRO Sudanese leader Major General iaafar Mohamed El-Nimeiry said in Khartoum that there would be no renewal of the Sues Canal ceasefire unless Israel set a fixed timetable for withdrawal from occupied Arab territories. The Egyptian Middle East New* Agency, quoted General Nlmelry as saying "our strategy
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  • 84 5 PHNOM PENH The second convoy of cargo ships to make its way ap the Mekong River to Phnom Penh within a week arrived safely Saturday night despite light Communist harassment 12 miles south of the capital The ships, three Cambodian. one Thai, and two others apparently from
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  • 190 5 TOKYO Thousands of people who gathered at a memorial service for the Japanese author Yukio Mishima heard his hara kiri suicide likened to the death of Christ. Leading representatives of Japanese literature, theatre and cinema were among 800 people who packed a Buddhist temple In Tokyo's
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  • 72 5 TAIPEI A 38-year-old Chinese seaman has been sentenced to death for the killing of the captain and 21 crew of a Nationalist Chinese Ashing boat in the Atlantic Ocean last year. A court here was told that on September IS Lin Shan Mo, second engineer of
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  • 110 5 HONG KONG Cambodian art looted from the historic Urn pies of Aiffcor Wat since the start of the Cambodian war Is being brought Into Hong Kong for sale, the Sontli China Morning Post reported. The English-ian-gnage daily, however, quoted Hong Kong Archeology Society Professor 8.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 384 6 TON DON Prime Minister Edward Heath returned Saturday from bickering abroad to find fresh troubles waitina on his own door- step. came back from the Singapore conference of Commonwealth leaders and immediately conferred with leading government ministers on Britain's first national postal strike and on
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  • 510 6 PYONGYANG Marshal Kim II Sung delivered New Year address and appealed fulfilment of the programmatic tasks set forth by the Fifth Congress of the Workers* Party of Korea. In bis New Year address Marshal Kim fl Sung, Head of State and Premier of the Cabinet
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  • 336 6 SOUTHEND. England A British oil tanker and a sludge carrier collidrd at the mouth of the River Thames yesterday. There were no injuries and no leakage from the 13.000ton tanker's cargo. The sludge carrier was beached and the tanker anchored for an Inspection REGGIO CALABRIA Italy Demonstrators
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  • 71 6 TRAINING FLIGHT CRASHES ALL SAFE An Air India Boeing 707 on a training flight snapped in two and slid over 400 yards of open country after overshooting a runway at Bombay airport. The crew of five the only people aboard scrambled out unhurt before the aircraft burst into flames after
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  • 82 6 CARLOFORTE, Sardinia, Hope for 15 men missing from the stricken U.S.-owned tanker Universe Patriot slumped Saturday night when an Italian navy official said they apparently failed to launch a lifeboat, successfully. Capt. Mario Sabbadini of the Cagliari Port Author i t y boarded the grounded
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  • 138 6 BELFAST— Troops used rubber bullets and a water cannon Saturday night to break up a crowd of fighting Protestants and Roman Catholics. One policeman was Injured in the fighting and four arrests were made, authorities said. The trouble started when about 150 Protestants marched toward a Roman
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  • 394 7 JJIVERDALE, New York A group of eminent scholars hove come to the conclusion that it is time to gradually increase contacts between the United States and Mainland China. The scholars were holding a two-day roundtable conference on the future relationship of
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  • 321 7 GARRISON, Utah Owners of 1,200 sheep whose death was attributed to a poisonous weed hove soid another 1,300 had been saved by moving them to another range. Don and Clarence Ingram said a headcount of their 2.500sheep herd showed little more than hall still alive
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  • 149 7 NEW YORK An ammonia bomb was set to the balcony of Caraegle UaJJ d«iriO( a weekend performance by StvM violinist Leonid Kagaa. No one wag injured feat perm as sit tin* la the hnaeAtte area were bothered b; the bomb's strong smell They were moved
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  • 313 7 WASHINGTON President Nixon's propoeots to ovirfioal His federal bufeoucrocy and to share revenues with citiessnd states ore likely to rsn into oppo> Hon. Those oppoa'tlon, r*>th in and out of Congrrsa may be stn ng enough to Ml fie them. Democrat* and Republican* alike
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  • 88 7 LONDON The collapse of a brick wall and a wooden fence at two soccer stadiums today injured 34 persons, mostly jounc boys. Five were hospitalised, but were not seriously injured. In Oxford, a 35-foot section of a 974-foot wall collapsed five minutes after the start of
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  • 66 7 WASHINGTON Westera keniiphere f«fip ministers are meeting today to consider measures to combat terrorIsm and diplomatic kid napping* in Latin America. The ministers will hn tack line a problem that has baffled governments of many nations for the last three jean. ...Urngnayan guerrillas are currently holding
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  • 49 7 MELBOURNE M 1bourne*! tin v Nazi Party has announced plana to form a squad of gtormtroopom to stand guard at its demonstrations and rallies An official of the Australian National Socialist Party said that the guards, known aa the "Eagle Corps*' ma v bs armed with batons
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  • 636 8 CJOVIET advice to Egypt to cool off the sabre-rattling speeches of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is both well-timed and In the interests of all countries involved In the Middle East conflict. The peace talks under the aegis of UN. mediator Ounnar Jarring are currently in
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  • 795 8  - HARASSMENT IS OVER REACTED By Max Lerner A T first I thought the prixe for i .ing Hie exactly wrong means ♦or achieving their ends should be awarded to the stalwarts of the Jewish Defence Lcoque, with their bluster and belligetence toward Soviet officials in the United Stitat. But now
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 158 8 SIR: OERHAPS the Commonwealth leaders learned something from their talks here last week. Perhaps they learned the Commonwealth doesn't lend Itself to bizarre theatricals The conference certainly did not seem to do very much and the most important issue, as far as the newspapers were concerned.
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    • 116 8 SIR* TO OUR great relief, the enormous monsoon drain fencing Pearl's Complex, Oriental Cinema and Lam Tien Hotel in New Bridge Road has been completed. But It emits a most oppressive stench as a result of its long stagnated water Every day large crowds of shoppers cluster
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    • 118 8 SIR* IT' rave me a jolt to read your revealing leader headed 'Apartheid" (E.S. Jan. 21) Our Republic is a mul-tl-rac.al country and Is dead set against discrimination of any kind. It has therefore come as a shock to read that our local reporters have been
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 38 8 Letters to SUN SOAPBOX are welcomed, but correspondents are reminded that all letters must be signed even If a non-de-plume is to be used. Every effort is made to publish all letters, but short letters are given preference.
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  • 247 9 Singapore's Prime Minister, Mr. t Lee Kuan Tew, and his British counterpart, Mr. Edward Heath, > engaged In conversation at a dinner hosted by Premier and Mrs. Lee. Mrs. Benjamin Bbe»m, wife of the President, welcomes Malaysian Prime Minister, Ton Abdul Razak. during a reception In honour of
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1179 12 today's tdeiMi CHANNEL 5 P.M. 3.00 Opening Announcement, followed by GENERAL HOSPITAL A daytime serial about the staff and the patients of a hospital. 3.20 Indian Classical Dance (Rpt). 3.50 A diary of events in Singapore this week (Tamil) 3.55 Ifs Happening in Singapore (Tamil) (Rpt) A series on the
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  • 190 13 DLOOD ond thunder font Paramount'* 'The Invincible Six" is right up your street! This film abounds in murders (by every conceivable means) and all the brutality and torture imaginable if it's action you are after, then it's all here. Stuart Whitman, a likeable
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  • 162 13 interesting programme hat been drawn up for members of Singapore's Film Society to start off the new year. Hans Rlchter's "Dreams that Money can Buy" will be shown on Sunday, 31st January at the Cultural Centre. 6 and 9 p.m. February's film Is "Black Orpheus",
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  • 59 13 ALI MacGraw says she and her husband, Paramount's top man, Robert Evans, do not have name picked out for the baby they expect In February. But thev do have one name thev definitely will not use All's own real name, which Is Alice. "I
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 331 13 PSHAWJ i)o^7TjiTl LAST DAT! U mi I.M. 4 4M A lit rtUt Sailers Rtneo Starr lkc Mafic ChrtsUaa" Go.or Oftm Tomorrow Cklaaai New Year Aitraetlaat OEOROE PEPPARD "CANNON far CORDOBA" Panavlsion Color (UA) CAP I TO I. 2B7SH LAKI DAT! Na Free U»« II tm IN I.M I.M fhr Shadow
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    • 38 13 CATHAY OPENS TOMORROW! BIG HOLIDAY ATTRACTION w- I £>* n H IKtMW *Bl' ■<?. ''•iiifMwWw In MGM's Gun-filled* Fun -filled. Girl-filled Story of the WEST, in Panavlsion ft Metrocolor Starring: FRANK SINATRA with Michele Carey. Lois Nettleton.George Kennedy. Ann Jackson
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    • 279 13 CATHAY i:i4o LAST DATI U IJ* IM KM "Children Mam Hart" Mill Palmer Color Par Open* Tomorrow I No Pree Uat MOM'a "DIRTY DINGUB MAORI" Prank Sinatra Color: P'VUfoo CATHAT: OOrON: OBCBABD iNO PREB LISTI Tomorrow wed Than at Mldnlghtl (Alao Special Morning Show at ODEON on Wed. Th u
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  • 523 14 JJEETHOVEN'S Moonlight Sonoto is one of the most beautiful ond moving pieces of music. This is the story of how a blind girl or»d the moonlight inspired it. One evening, Beethoven was walking contemplatively in the slum district of Bonn, when he was suddenly
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  • 323 14 ONE night while I was osleep I felt o pain on the right tide of my itomach. I woke my mother and told her about it but sh« thought it was a stomach ache and gave me some medicine. The pain seemed to stop (or a
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  • 367 14 WHIN we Med to talk of people being "moonstruck" we were usually thinking of poets and lovers. Today, tke really moonstruck crowd •re, of course, the scientists and astronomers. They cant keep their eyes off the Moon. Or their cameras, either They'll be at it
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  • 240 14  -  By Ele Walt Dulaney Dear Waif: What can a girl do about a slow boy? I've been seeing Paul for a year now and we bavent so much as held hands I really like him but he is so slow. Could It be that he is too embarrassed ox
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 186 14 n»e C«stcni Sun's esiav writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under (Junior) and boys and girls over 14 (Senior) appears in this page from Monday to Friday. Pttae money «s: SIC tor Senior* to lunwi foi e*er> essay published All entrants arc reouested tc obwvt t*e toltowir^
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  • 131 16 NEW DELHI India yesterday ordered the expulsion of the Pakistan High Commission first secretary. Zafar Iqbal Rathod, for "active involvement'- in organising and directing an underground organisltlon called "Al Fatah" In Kashmir An official announce* ment said Rathod had been declared persona non grata and ord«red to
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous

  • 372 17 WEEKLY REPORT Share movements wer e undulating in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore last week. Most counteis were subject to profit-tak-ing after Initial runup. Except for selected Issues, other Industrials were thinly traded. The week closed with los 8 e s outnumbering gains. Turnover
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  • 482 17 ANKIVIU lulb M»A Tift Kom Lompn. 19H*. ro MM MS (oloroCKJ. K. Lumpur. 1JH> ajtn MM ICS kuil* I am par. M a.m MSA 49K kuito Lam pur. a MM IM rrn»n« KIM Lrapar MM r»s iiuni IJOfJB MM 4*1 UK*MM MI m» ttabrn ft L» LUpA pnr.
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  • 93 17 JAKARTA Indonesia will lose USss# m. <Bll5O m.) this :ear if the United States releases robber from its stockpile. Foreign Mlaister Adam Malik has said. "We shall cry If the C.S. ignores oar feeling by releasing Its robber stockpile." Malik told reporters. He confirmed that
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  • 129 17 A until herd of Thll elephants was town front Baagkok to Koala Lumpur in tine for the flrst birthday of a Malaysian boy. The three (ally coloured toy elephants were birthday present* for Tharminder Singh, the J st baby who made eadliaes last year when
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  • 88 17 Mr. Rudy Van Vliet, district manager for Air New Zealand (or Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia, will leave Singapore next week to take up a new position with the company in Australia. Mr. Van Vliet, who came to Singapore in January 1967, has been appointed
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  • 149 17 S. H. Benson Advertising Kuala Lumpur reports that last month delegation from the Benson Needham Univas world network was welcomed In Moscow by the Soviet Agency Vneshtorgre- klama. Over the course of two days, members of the international Benson Needham Univas delegation gave a number
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  • Article, Illustration
    50 17 Mr. Tan Teo Meng. Sales Manager of Dainippon Ink and Chemical* (S) Pte. Ltd. will spend two months in Japan to study the latest method of Mika Direct Screen Colour Separation. This course is meant to introduce more advanced techniques to local printers for their plate making.
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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  • 1253 18 KUALA LUMPUR: HAPPPY MELODY II broke the day old course record of Sungei Wong II for 9f when he led ill the way to win the closs one division one race here yesterday. With Lyle Harbridge up, Happy Melody II returned a time of
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  • 178 18 SYDNEY Australia yesterday made one change in the team to meet England in the sixth cricket Test starting in Adelaide later this week, bringing in pace bowler Denis Lillee for his first cap in place of fellow fast bowler Ross Duncan. Queenslander Duncan,
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  • 547 18 PHOENIX, Arizona —Slender Paul Harney emerged from a par-shattering pack of pros Saturday to take a one-strike lead after three rounds of the 72-hole *****,000 Phoenix Open when he shot a 65 for a 54-hole total of 194, 19 under. The 41-year-old
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous

  • 301 19 DETROIT, Michigan —Unbelievable Rod Laver cant from 2 safe down Saturday night to capture hit »ixth straight 5530,000 match in th $5620,000 Tennis Champions Clastic—e 5-7, 5-7, 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 vanquishing of Holland's Tom Okkar. Laver, unbeaten In the
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  • 159 19 1 OXFORD —Six youths were Injured Saturday when a brick wall collapsed during the Football Association Cup tie between Oxford United and Watford. A 35-foot section of the four-foot wall collapsed just behind and to the right of the Watford goal, Ave minutes into
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  • 376 19 Victoria School beat Raffles Institution by three penalty goals to two, to win the National Schools Seven-A-Side Soccer Championship 1971, played at the Raffles ground last night. Victorians' goalkeeper Khlang Wee Sin, deserves praise for his heroic act in saving three penalty kicks, which helped to
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  • 105 19 ALBUQUERQUE. New Mexico University student Robert Mitchell ran 220 yards In a world record time of 21.8 seconds during a 300-yard race here. Officials at the Junior Chamber of Commerce indoor Invitational said last night Immediately after the race that the time would be submitted by
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  • 447 19 MONTE CARLO. Rain fell acroa much of Southern Franco during the night, raising the prospect of wot roods for many driver* Tn the Monte Carlo Rally yesterday. Bat weather forecast! were not as bad as they might have been and drivers
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  • 130 19 MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin Rosemary Casals and Mrs. Blllle Jean King defeated their semi-final opponents Saturday to advance to the final In the Virginia Slims Women's Professional tennis tournament. Top-seeded Mrs. King defeated No. 3 seed Mrs. Ann Jones of England, 7-9, t-3. after No. 2
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  • 402 20 £JAPE KENNEDY, Flo., Project officials, unperturbed by the heli-| copter crash of Apollo 14's backup commander, reported yesterday all was in readiness for Monday's start of the countdown for America's fourth moon landing mission. The countdown begins at 9 a.m. EST Monday and will end
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  • 114 20 NEW HAVEN, Conn. A Standard Oil of New Jersey tanker ran aground on rocks in predawn tog Saturday spilling 386.000 gallons of heating oil over three miles of Long Island sound. Hours later a helicopter filming the slick crashed into the frigid water. The accident happened
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  • 282 20 MANILA The executive director of the world's largest and most diverse travel organisation predicts that the tourism industry in the Pacific area will increase by four times by 1980. The prediction was made by F. Marvin Plake, executive director of the Pacific Area Travel
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  • 311 20 SAIGON The South Vietnamese Foreign Ministry yesterday announced that North Vietnam had refused to accept 40 crippled prisoners of war due to be released at the Ben Hai River near the demilitarised zone later. A ministry communique said North Vietnam was insisting the prisoners be released
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  • 250 20 JOHANNESBURG Next move in the Commonwealth crisis over arms for South Africa looked yesterday lik« being squarely up to this country s whito leaders. But just what that move would be, cabinet ministers continuing to maintain their cool diplomatic silence over the affair were not
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  • 164 20 CARSON CITY. Nev. Wom«n ipembers of the Nevada State Assembly plan Monday to test an order of Speaker Lawrence Jacobsen banning pantsuits and maxi dreases. Two and perhaps three of the five women will be wearing pantsuits when they answer roll call. "If they do. out
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