Eastern Sun, 31 December 1969

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1223 Wednesday, 31 December 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 390 1 Minister Takes BRITISH Minister of Defence for Administration, Mr. Roy Hattersley, yesterday told newsmen that Britain will be available for troop despatch in the region "under certain circumstances" should an emergency arise in the region. He made it clear that after 1971, Britain will not
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  • 88 1 ADDIS ABABA. Tues. (Reuter) Ethiopia today expelled Reuters correspondent Howard Whitten. He was taken to the Ministry of the Interior and told he had been found to be working aeainst the interests of Ethiopia Mr. Whitten replied that he had done nothine except try to report facts
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  • 78 1 MONTREAL Tues (UPI) Montreal wa s digg.r.g out today after the most rrass:ve snowstorms in Its recorded history At least three people d:eri jn the storm Two girls froze to death and one Quebec city m a n was crushes to death by a snow plough Dorval International
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  • 86 1 HAMBURG West Germany. Tues. (Reuter) The wife of West German Economics Minister Karl Schiller 15 a divorce after 1" v ears of marriage, it was disclosed today Court officials san divorce proceedings had been fixed for next January 13 Professor Schiller. 59. married his present wife
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  • 108 1 TAURIANOVA. Italy. Tues. (Reuter) Two people were injured when two motorists involved in a minor ear accident here drew revolvers on each other and o?ened fire, police said todv. One of the injured, reported to be In a serious condition, was a passer-by unconnected with the crash, police
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  • 86 1 KAMPALA. Tues < AFP > President Milton Obote today chaired his first Ugandan cabinet meeting since he was shot in the mouth by an unknown gunman on Dep. 19 V ice-President John Babr.na welcomed him back to his place at the table "Dr OboV left
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  • 22 1 LONDON. Tues. (AFP) Sterling today shot above its official dollar parity of 2.40 for the first time since April. 1968.
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  • 346 1 SAIGON, Tues. (Reuter) President Nguyen Von Thieu today gave a New Year present to South Vietnamese journalists he signed into law a new press code for the country. Under the new code, which hat been tossed back and forth between th e two Houses
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  • 77 1 NEW DELHI. Tues (UPI) A 14-year-old shepherd boy was hacked to pieces as a sacrificial offering by village headman In Uttar Pradesh state who dreamed about getting a fortune of US$4O,OOO. the Press Trust of India reported today. PTI said the wealthy village headman was still at large
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  • 23 1 PARIS. Tues. (AFP) The 48th plenarv session of the Paris talks on Vietnam opened here todav at 10 30 a m.
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  • 346 1 THE GUNBOATS BEIRUT, Tues. (UPI) Arab opinion began to show its anger today for the first time in the Gunboats Affair. Newspapers that had been restrained in their attitude to the French position now said the affair raised doubts about Franco-Arab relations. "Can friendship be based
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  • 50 1 Million Ransom LONDON. Tues. (AFP) A £1.000.000 ransom has been demanded by the kidnappers of Mrs. McKay, wife of the vicepresident of the Sunday newspaper News of the World, a police spokesman said here today. Mrs. McKay was napped last night from her home in the London 'suburb of Wimbledon.
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  • 235 1 JERUSALEM. Tues (AFP) A Jerusalem court today ruled that Dennis Michael Rohan, 28-year-old Australian, found guilty, of setting fire to Al Aqsa Mosque last August, was mentally unstable and should be confined to a mental hospital. Rohan set flre to the mosque. In the
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  • 378 1 MANILA, Tues. (UPI) U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, who has taken on his share of dissent in the United States, said today the bomb-throwing demonstration against him last night "didn't really amount to very much." Agnew held a brief and Impromptu
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 564 2 THE 70s will not look so bleak after all for Mrs. K. Thangarasu, whose world crumbled around her on Nov. 7 when her husband died in a vain attempt to stop a gang of armed robbers who had snatched $140,000 in payroll from the
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  • 353 2 THE Chairman of the Public Utilities Board, Dr. Ong Swee Law, disclosed yesterday that the Board's total revenue has reached $161.7 million —an increase of 10.9 percent. Dr. Ong said this was the first time that the level of $l5O million had been exceeded.
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  • 37 2 Ba'.lotln? for Pasar Malam Pitches will take place on Jan. 5 at 1000 am at the Hawkers Branch. Public Health Division. In Scotts Road. Applicants for Pasar Malam sites are asked to witness the ballot
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  • 68 2 Police are lookin* for the relative* and friends of 10-year-old dumb Malav boy who wa s found loittering at the Odeon Cinema on D*e 28. The bov who had no papers of Identification on him. was wearing a check-ahirt and a blue short Tho«e
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  • 78 2 The Taman Jurong Post Office situated at No. 179 Block No. l will remove to Nofl. 33 and 35 Block 109 Taman Juront with effect from tomorrow. Jan. l. This was announced in a statement by the Postal Servlcea Department of the Ministry of Communications recently. The
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  • 75 2 IPOH. Tues Reacue workers dug out the bodies of two mine workers lite last nisht after they were burled alive on Friday In a landslide In Fusing, eight miles from here. The dead were Identified as Chong So. 63. a nr.nng kapala and Slew Lat Chong.
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  • 125 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues The University of Ma'aya will soon set up a career counselling service for its graduates, the vice-chan-cellor, Prof. Ungku Abdu' Aziz announced here today 'The service is now really needed as more and mnre students would be graduating from the University,"
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  • 142 2 J KUALA LUMPUR. Tue» From the beglnnlr? of next year, rank and file personnel of the Royal Ma'avsia Police Force in West Malayiia attached to general duties will be Issued with the new look uniform of blue grey light material shlrt s and non-crease
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  • 194 2 A cx-mght watchman. Ting Pqi Hwa was committed to stand trial in the High Court at the end of a preliminary inquiry into a rape charge in the Ninth Magistrate Court yesterday. Ting 80. was alleged to have raped a five-year-old girl at Prince
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  • 59 2 Teow Ah Teo 34 wax yesterday fined when he oleaded aui'tv for having in his possession one copy of Novel Book and one copy of Chariot Book Teow who had tw» previous convictions for possessing obscene photographs banned books, said that he had appealed to the Government for a
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  • 109 2 TV NEWS-IN-BRIEF RTS will be extending its news services in the r.ew year with News-in-Brief over TV. These short three-to-five-min-vte bulletins will give viewers the latest important local and international news. News-in-Bnef will be telecast from tomorrow, over Channel 5 at 6.30 P m. and just before the station closes
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  • 69 2 The New Year s Toto Draw on Jan l at the Rediflfusion Auditorium at 8 p.m. will be chaired by Mr. r"Y>o say Ful, Assistant Manager oj a leading hotel here, on the panel of judges. The other two members are Mr Chin Sw*e Sin. a Toto
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 1114 2 TV* and Radio tom r (CHANNEL 51 AJf. 900 Opening Ar.ncts. in all Languages and Science In Action (Aquanum>: 925 21st Century (Jonas SailO; 943 The Right Career (Telecomrnuncation Technician); 10.05 Close PM. 300 Opening Anncts in all Language* and Housewives Matinee <Part 1 of a Mandarin Film "Wong Sin
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    • 85 2 Time 4k Tide TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN: 3.33 a.m. <8 ft.). 9.09 a.m. (4 3 ft.), 3.05 p.m. (8 ft 923 p.m. <3 ft.). NAVAL DOCKYARD: 3.42 am. <9.6 ft.). 9.05 am. (5 ft.). 322 p.m. <9.3 ft 9.16 pm. (3.8 ft.). TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN 4 11 a m (8 ft
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  • 473 3 MANILA, Tues. (UPI) Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos today called for a united Asia and peaceful coexistence with all powers including Communist China. The handsome 52-year-old war hero was sworn into office at noon under slight' ly cloudy skies as
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  • 259 3 TOKYO, Tues. (UPI) Texas millionaire H. Ross Perot, still determined to deliver belated Christmas gifts to U.S. prisoners of war in North Vietnam, made a refuelling stop here early today on a trip he hopes will take him to Moscow. Perot described Communist refusals to
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  • 117 3 NEW DELHI Tries fßeuter) Several Air India flights were delayed yesterday when 600 airline employees followed a decision to work-to-rule in support o? demands for higher salaries elgh'-hour shifts and housing and medical facilities Other airlines which are handled by Air India were also affected by the
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  • 155 3 MOSCOW. Tues. (UPI) Pravda yesterday scoffed a f a U.S. Senate decision to limit US troop additions m Laos and Thailand. The Communist Party daily said the Senate action was merely a means to "legalise the Pentagon's piratical war in Laos." "The Senate adopted this
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  • 147 3 SAIGON. Tues (UPI> The Army's Chief Investigator into the alleged My Lai massacre opened his on-the-scene probe at United States military headquarters in Vietnam, official spokesmen said today A US Command announcement said Lt. Gen. William R Peers spent Monday at the headquarters receiving a briefing. reviewing
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  • 154 3 PORT MORESBY. Fapua. Tues. <Reuter> Australian opposition leader Gough Whitlam has told Pangu Party leaders here he hopes Papua-New Guinea will have Independence by 1976. If Labour wins the i 972 election, Informed sources said The Pangu Party Is the Australian-ruled territory's biggest political party, calling for
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  • 213 3 BONN, Tues. (Reuter) President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam said in an interview published here today he believed the Vietnam war would be over in two or three years, Speaking to the news magazine Der Spiegel Thieu said the Communists would never offlcialy accept
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  • 111 3 NEW DELHI, Tues (Router) The opposition Congress Partv todav described the Bombay conference of Prime Minister Inaira Gandhi s Congress Party as "an unconstitutional gathering of expelled Congressmen. mere coteries of the Prime Minister and rebels." S D Mishra the opposition party's General Secretary, contested »he rulinc
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  • 129 3 MANILA. Tues (UPI) A consortium of French banks has offered the Philippines a 40 million U.S. dollars loan to help finance purchases of machinery and goods for economic development, the Manila Chronicle reported on Tuesday. The Chronicle. quoting "highly placed" sources at the Development
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  • 82 3 NEW DELHI. Tues. (Reuter) Refugees from Chineseoccupied Tibet will be aided under two agreements signed here today between the government of India and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Under the agreements the UN. is to contribute 600 .000 dollars during 1969 and 1970. main'v for rehabilitating mor
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  • 58 3 SAIGON. Tues. (Reuter) The Secretarv General of a South Vietnamese political party was released todav after being arrested on Saturday, party leader Phang Khac suu said. Suu. a former Chief of State and founder of the Phong Trao Tan Dan or New Peoples Movement, to'd reporters no reason had
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  • 45 3 TAIPEI Tues. (Reuter) Peking recently supplied a large quantity of dynamite to Malaysian Communists for subversive activities, the Central News Agency reported today. The agency, quoting informed sources, said part of the explosives were delivered to the Malaysian guerrillas by Thai Communists.
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  • 30 3 TOKYO Tues (Reut«r) The Japanese cabinet today decided to convene a special Diet (parliament) session on Jan. 14 to choose a new Prime Minister following Saturday's general election.
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  • 396 3 SAIGON, Tues. (UPI) Communist forces early today began a proclaimed 72-hour ceasefire to mark the New Year's holiday. Allied intelligence sources said the North Vietnamese and Vietcong would use the truce period to prepare for sustained attacks early in 1970. The Communist ceasefire
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  • 504 4 IsraeliManned Gunboats Head Into War Zone TBAPANI. Sicily. rues (UPI and Reuter) Five Israelimanned gunboats spirited out of a French port early ChristDay. beaded into the Middle East war zone \esterday skirtin? hostile Arab countries and a French order for their arrest Several Israeli ships, including a tanker and two
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  • 216 4 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Crewmen were still fightlng a smouldering fire aboard the giant shell tanker Mactra early today after an explosion ripped through one of her tanks 800 miles north of Durban in the Mozambique Channel. A shell spokesman In London said the fire was
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  • 289 4 Nasser: We Will Regain Lost Land' By Force CAIRO. Tue». (Reuter) Egyptian President Nasser yesterday repeated his view that the territory occupied by Israel during the 1967 summer war could be regained only by force. Speaking before a crowd estimated at 65.000 In a sports stadium in Benghazi. Libya, the
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  • 54 4 DAMASCUS, Tues 'LTD— Svria says its Soviet-built MiG fighters shot down t w o Israeli Mirages during an air attack over Syria yesterday A military spokesman said the planes wer* downed when 12 Israeli pane* tried to enter Syrian air space. The spokesman said all Syrian rvlane*
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  • 42 4 WARSAW. Tues fUPI) A court at Lodz yesterday sentenced engineer Jan Tarsklewicz to six years in Jail for causing a train collision In which five persons were killed and 18 others Injured, the Polish news agency PAP reported.
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  • 232 4 JERUSALEM Tues (UPI) Israeli Premier Oolda Me.r told the Israeli Parliament yesterday recent United States Middle East peace proposals jf implemented would be a danger to Israel's very existence. Addressing Parliament's opening foreign policy debate. Mrs. Meir reiterated Israel's total rejection of
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  • 127 4 PARIS. Tues. 'Reuter) Trench airline stewards and hostesses last night called a 48-hour strike starting this Friday to protest against new regulations concerning their safety certificates The Stewards' Trade Union, which has already staged two 24-hour strikes earlier this month, are
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  • 310 4 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) The world's developing countries are in danger ol becoming the main victims of the credit squeeze imposed by the richer nations to cure their own economic 111* a top International banker sa.d here today. The warning came from Sir Geoffrey Cokayne
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  • 102 4 PHNOM PENH. Tues (UPI> Prince Norodom Sihanouk won a virtual vote of confidence from the National Assembly yesterday, but suffered a moral defeat over the same issue when rank and file members of his political party voted against a plan to re-open Cambodia to foreign commercial banks. In effect,
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  • 172 4 PARIS. Tues. (UP!) Former President Charles de Gaulle Is still the most popular man in France and the United States is this country's best friend, according to an opinion poll released yesterday by the mass circulation newspaper France Solr. The newspaper's
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  • 209 4 LONDON. Tues Reuter) Britain reeled under the full brunt of the influenza epidemic yesterday with more than a million workers on the sick list after the Christmas break. The Confederation oi British Industry set the average figure of absenteeism at between 10 and 15 per
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  • 92 4 KUWAIT Tues (Reuter) A n Arab-French bank with a joint capital of million francs (about sever, million sterling) will be established shortly. National Bark of Kuwait sources disclosed yesterday They that talks between banks in Kuwait. Egvpt Lebanon, Jordan Saudi Arabia. Iraq Syria Libya.
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  • 58 4 ISTANBUL. Tues (UPI) One person was killed and 10 seriously wounded when police and exchanged shots during a demonstration outside a factory near here yesterday. The workers were demonstrating to protest the dismissal of 124 of them Eyewitnesses said both police and workers flred shots when
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  • 413 4 Tues. (Reuter) —Soviet first Deputy Foreign Minister Vossily Kuznetsov will fly bock to Peking in the next few days to resume talks with China on the border dispute between the feuding Com mumst giants. His impending departure was announced at a press conference
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  • 55 4 BOGOTA TUM UTPI) A bus v.*r.t off a mounU.n road ;n south-western Co ombia vesterdav killing a t ]ea«t 10 Persons Police reported an- other 29 persons injured Site of the crash was between ♦he provincial capita;* of i Popivan and Pa*to. Police reported the crash
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  • 55 4 LONDON*. Tue» (UPI) Greek shipping magnate Aris- totl* Onass:s. hi« wife .TacqueUn# anfi her children spent a ®\..et Christmas In London A member of the Landon household of Princess Lee Mn Or.as c .s' ds'.Pr said thev *©ent th* holiday at 'h<» Rad/iwiU countrv es*a*e.
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  • 244 4 SYRACUSE. Sicily. Tues (UPlJ— Little Sabnna Cass a had a ready answer yesterday when asked what she will do with all the money a grand-uncle in America has left her. Buy candy." said Sabnna, aged 4 She could pave the street of Syracuse with
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  • 39 4 UNITED NATIONS Tues (UPI) Secretary General Thar.* left ves'erday for Paris on his u- 'v to pav official visits to the West African countries, which will keen him s«-s» from U.N headquarters until Jan 19
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  • 48 5 U.S. VICE-PRESIDENT SPIRO AGNEW is seen being welcomed at the Manila Airport by the Filipino Vice-Pre-sident Fernando Lopez (left) and Foreign Secretary Carlos Romulo (right) on Mon. On his first stop in a ten-nation tour of Asia and Australia, Agnew attended the inauguration of President Marcos. UPI radiophoto.
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  • 360 5 SAN FRANCISCO. Tues. (UPI) A lady archaeologist named Love says she has discove~ed what is believed to be the site of a famous ancient statue of Aphrodite, Goddess of Love. Dr. Iris Love, an assistant professor at Long Island University. said
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  • 146 5 MEXICO CITY, Tues. (Reuter) A pair of bank robbers one fat and one thin—mounted on a wobbly ancient motor cycle, escaped with 445.000 pesos (15 000 sterling) here yesterday after a hold-up reminiscent of a "Keystone Cop" silent film. The two. with woollen hoods over their
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  • 309 5 WASHINGTON. Tue«. (UPI) —Gerald Smith, Chief U.S. negotiator in talks with Russia on ending the arms race, gave President Nixon an encouraging progress report yesterday and told newsmen prospects tor some accord were "brighter" than in the past. Smith and Thompson former ambassador to Russia
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  • 355 5 LOS ANGELES. Tues. (UPI) Charles Mamon, the bearded hippie guru accused of having masterminded the Sharon Tate murders, is leafing through law books, placing telephone calls and using couriers to prepare his legal defense. The sheriff's office today acknowledged that Manson. 35.
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  • 185 5 PRAGUE Tues. (UPI) A man identified only as 'Rudolf lost a paternity suit recently after his girl-friend Ruzenka asked him to show the court the price he paid for love. Rudolf a labourer, at first denied Ruxenka's claims, but later confessed when she told the lady judge the
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  • 176 5 BOSTON, Tuej. (Reuter) The Earth can support about twice its present population of 3.500 million people, but any more would probably strain resources beyond the breaking point, a leading expert in ecology said yesterday. Dr Barry OmmnnT, of Washington University, told the American Association
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  • 93 5 MINNEAPOLIS. Minnesota, Tues. (UPI) Ronald Hawkins. 16, drummer for a rock music group, is trying to set a marathon record by beating his drums right into the New Year. Hawkins plans to try to top what he says Is the world record for continuous drumming by lasting
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  • 187 5 NEW YORK, Tues. (Reuter) Actress Mia Farrow complained in a letter yesterday, in Time magazine that a double was hired without her consent to appear in nude scenes in her recent film, "John and Mary." Referring to the magazine's review of the film, in which
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  • 132 5 MOSCOW, Tues. (Reuter) A leading Soviet space scientist said today that Russia had not dropped the idea of putting a Man on the Moon. But academician Boris Petrov, writing in the Communist Party newspaper, "Pravda." restated the familiar Soviet view that unmanned spacecraft
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  • 101 5 BUENOS AIRES. Tues. (UPI) A physician sentenced to three years in jail for performing sex change operations was yesterday cleared by a fourjudge criminal court panel. The court overruled a 19M decision by federal Judge Victor Leconte against Dr. Francisco Defazlo The
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  • 32 5 LONDON Tues 'Reuter*— Seventy-seven people were killed Britain's roadf over the flve-dav Christmas holiday compared with 93 In the five-day break in 1987. the Minuter of Transport announced here yesterday.
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  • 238 5 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) The New York 'Times' in an editorial todsy hinted that the French Government Curposely had "looked the other way" when the five gunoats disappeared from Cherbourg Harbour. Likening the Incident to a case for Hercule Poirot. the renowned Gallic
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  • 153 5 NEW TORR. Tues (ITI> One hundred uu] Ave dayi and 10 minute* late. the Mflm. politan Opera opened it, BMb vsuson last night The major delay cause,! by labour trouble. the> minor br the welldressed opening night crowd not bem* a Me to
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  • 465 6 rpHE predictions of doom made by assorted J- Savonarolas in Hong Kong and elsewhere were squelched by the announcement in Moscow that Vassily Kuznetsov, the first Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, will soon return to Peking to re-commence the Sino-Soviet border talks. The Chinawatchers had interpreted
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  • 379 6 FERDINAND E. Marcos, the President of the Republic of Philippines, was always a colourful figure and a clever politician. But since his re-election he has emerged as a statesman of international stature capable of making quick decisions and thinking in terms larger than narrow domestic policy. Therefore
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  • 903 6  -  By PAUL BACKSHALL LONDON, (Reuter) Full frontal nudity on the stage. psychedelic drugs a dirt warning that cockroaches might on a day rula tha world these ware soma of the bizarre souvenirs bequeathed to history by the bewildering Sixties. In a
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  • 283 6  -  •>y Joseph Fleming BERLIN (UPI) After four years of deliberation. East German Communists have reversed their stand on western beat music and re-discovered it as part of "an Imperialist plot to subvert Soviet Bloc youth." The new party line on beat music was
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  • 773 6  -  By Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON. For over three decades, this reporter has lived in the same tree-shaded little block in Georgetown. It has the delightful but mysterious advantage of be»ng wnolly free of flies and mosquitoes; and it has an interesting history. Back in 1937, the people of
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  • 701 6  -  By BOB HAWKINS HONG KONG, Mao Tsetung it alive and apparently well in Peking. And in Taipei, th® spright.y Chiang Kai-shek, six years the Chairman's senior af 81, is still making public appearances and vowing to "recover" the China mainland he was finally
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  • 297 6 PARIS, (FIS) If, while wandering through the Louvre museum in Pari*, you found yourself face to face with that marvel of sculpture the Venus de Milo and she started wagging her bottom, you would most certainly suppose that you had had 'one over th e eight', or
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 397 7 Union Enterprise Ltd., reversed the poor response it received after being officially quoted for the first time on Monday with some substantial business in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Dealings were active and appeared to be institutionally supported. Against the general
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    • 1103 7 TIUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified:- INDUSTRIALS Aerr.a $2 22 <2> $2.23 (1» $2.21; r. DIM $2.25 11' $2.24 <l>: A can
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    • 64 7 NEW YORK Tues. (L"PI> Fibber futures closed un--"hanged to 125 ©oints higher r,r < the New York Commodity Fxchanee vesterday. There were nr> sales. (Close) (Prer.) Jan 24.258 25.00 24.25 March 25.00 24.00 Mav 25.00 23.75 July 23 3'lB 25 00 23.30 Sept. 23.208 25.00 23.20 Nov 25.00
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    • 140 7 TOKYO Tue*. (UPI t Ishi-kawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co (IHI» Japan's top shipbul der. announced it will soon build a super oil tanker of 400. 00n deadweight ton for G'.obtik Tankers Ltd of London The announcement said IHI has a contract with the
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    • 144 7 THE Association of Banks In Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes In Its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency): SELLING T.T. o r O D r*adv Deutsche Mark? SB3 9350; Hol'and Guilder* *B5. Swim Franc, 571 8P25; Belgian FrarXS
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    • 210 7 THE PORT of SINGAPORE Authontv has made the following berth in* arrangements for ships in t*>rt today. Wednesday 31. DEPARTURES Godowns Vessels 3 Kiko Maru 4 Maldlve Skipper 15/16 Ho'.satia 15/16 Santai II 19 Semarang Maru N.W.2 Bruas N W. 3 Pisang Radj a 23/24 Andes Maru
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    • 160 7 SYDNEY. Tues. (UPI) Tuesday's closing Svdnev Stock Exchange selected share*: MINING; Acmex 120 Ass Min 9 00 Austral Min 42 Barrier 1-40 Bh South 5 80 C Gold 10 80 Cra 23 50 Endur 63 Gt Bou'.d 4 60 Ct N'hn .72 Gt We«t .16 Hammers!®* 17
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    • 68 7 TOKYO. Tues. (UPI) •Japan's reserves of gold and fore:gr. currencies as of the end of November totalled US$ 3.476 million, up $242 million from the previous month according to the Ministry ct Finance and the Bank of Japan. A joint release said that the short-term
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    • 89 7 TOKYO. Tues. (UPI) The nation's consumer price index for November droned by 0 4 per cent for the first time in 12 months at 123.7. the Prime Minister's office announced The fa!l was attributed to major declines In the prices of vegetab.es. which dropped 18 3
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    • 217 7 KUALA LUMPUR Tues Pacific Chemicals Berhad, a n associate of the Dow Chemical Company, has announced the appointment of two plant executives for its factory current!? under construction at Bat u Tiga. Selangor Thev are Mr Chan Wai Hah and Mr Can Sum Hung Mr.
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    • 102 7 LONDON Tues. <UPI) R market closed nominal yes'erdav with soot 22 5/8 25. SETTLEMENT HOI SE Feb 22 7 8. 23 1/8 March 23 1/8 23 3/8 Aprl' 23 1/2. 23 3/4 Apr 1 June jj 5/8 23 7/8 Ju'v Sept 23 9/16. 23 13/16
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    • 98 7 NEW YORK Tues. (UPI) Stocks finished lower yesterday after carryover demand from last week evaporated during the f'rst hour trade wa«; moderately active. Some analysts attributed »be nressure to reneweo «e ng for p ;rpo<e« wh:l* another view was that the market was Qg nttinjr ant
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    • 84 7 TOKYO. Tues. (UPl)—Tariff cuts may be made on smallsized foreign cars with an eng:ne capacity of 2.000 ee or less starting next April trade circles said. The sources said the governrr.ent was planning to reduce the present tariff rate of 36 per cent to 20
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    • 360 7 January first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m., in Sin. gapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 68-3/8 cents per lb. uo one and a half cents from the previous close. The ton e of the market was quiet bu» steady. Quotations were marked down fractionally
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    • 209 7 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Australians again dominated the market yesterday. North Flinders fell sharply to 82 <5 from 180/- on the directors' statement that "they knew of no significant developments since the last quaterly report' which was Issued on Dec. 19. The issue recovered to 94/11/2. 85/10-1/2
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    • 689 7 SINGAPORE—Stork Exchange sold and oiher pricea officially listed at the close of botineas. IXUl STK1AL8 Acma AKan Ben Si Co. Borneo Bhd Boustead < <» Came] PI)wood Central bugars CC.M Cold storage Hold*. Carriage tall Itunlop .Malayan lnd. Eastern smelting K i A lnd. E»*o Ordsfcsho
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    • 135 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Gold prices were mixed in routine trading yesterday on markets here and abroad. In London, rold rose 5 cents at the morning fixing but 2$ cents for a second fixin* of 35.20 dollars troy ounce Th* closing range was 35.15
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    • 41 7 NEW YORK. Tues. rUPI) D©w Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 Industrials 792.37 20 Rai] s ***** 15 Utilities 109 28 65 Stocks 2*oBB 40 Bonds <58.21 Commodity futures index 139.74 off 0.49
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    • 94 7 TUB noon price* at the Mait> pore Ctaloeae froflnw fcxchanct jMterdkr wm> Bayer •el tar Cocooat Oil (F OM Balk 00 50 Coconut Oil 62 00 (FOB-) Pram Mixed Copra 17 00 Muntok white Pepper (FOB) 172 50 Haraaak White Pepper (FOR) 170 00 sarawnk penal Black Pepper (FOR)
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    • 15 7 The tin pne# for yesterday wa s $<599 00 x>er picul. down $1.50.
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    • 441 7 *ltul> 4U iN^o. Mi*ft eto ft. Lampar 1X5* m KA> hftVTI Harukok. TMlkrat, lopnitu-•-00 ib. M3A lit K. Lampar 10 10 m-m-O A II Ll 0 ft OftftOO Jikin^ 10.1ft OA MSA 111 ft Lampar 10-23 a m, MBA DOS Pfauu. Ipoft. ft Lampar. MiUcd 10 Ml u
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
    • 970 8  -  Date-line By Ele and Walt Dulaney DEAR Walt: Have you ever heard of a boy getting an upset stomach every time he kisses the girl he likes 3 Janice is understanding and warm-hearted so I couldn't be afraid she'd make fun
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    • 177 8 SEOUL, Tues (Renter) An 18-storey skyscraper is rising on Namsan Hi.j overlook.rg this sprawllnc city wh:<"h will ororid® children with comprehensive fa-ilitie s for work and olay Ground was broken for the bui dine on May .V Children's Dav bv {he Yukyor.g Fcuraation. a cnildren's welfare
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    • 670 8 TVT ELBOURNE TUCS For Australian schoolboys and model tram •U* enthusiasts the Victoria Railways exhibition at the 1969 Royal Melbourne Show was a paradise For railway engineer Mr. Norman Cave of Me'bourne it hos meant years of painstaking work but Mr. Cave would
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    • 111 8 HONG KONG Tups (R?U- Fea? e hair-styies and other "mop ha:r cut? are slowly or. the wav out in Hong Kor.g S~hoo!chi.riren are nougoing ba.k to the clean-cut :mage. thanks partly to steps taken bv schoo authorities Artion to tackle th* "mop" hair problem more tnan
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    • 134 8 BRUNEI Tues (Feuter) A new centre to orovid* welfare and recreatiora* a<"tivi- es for *he voung penpj* of this tiny oil sta> *a s onened rerentiv here by the Deputy Sultar Yar.f Trramst Mull* Serl Paduka Duli Perg;ran Pe-ranrha The rer' re. built ;n the heart
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    • 386 8 NEW YORK. Tues. Jean-Louis d'Heilly. a 28-year-old student, and Maria Josefa Canmo, a 25-year-old graduate of New York's City University, have been appointed by Mayor Lindsay of New York to the Board of Higher Education, 21member unsalaried agency which acts as a board
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 245 8 1. Who wrote the story from the film 'The Old Man and the Sea" starring Spencer Tracy was adapted? 2. Which Venetian merchant and traveller wrote the earliest first hand account of Asia by a European? 3 Who instituted the French decoration, the Legion of Honour? 4. What *as the
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    • 6 8 AMY By Jack Tippff r7i i>
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    • 613 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ann: I am dating a swell kid Jde got out of the service last year and went to work as a dishwasher in a hotel restaurant. It was the only job he could get without a high school diploma.
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    • 374 9  -  S/H-ti i tiff for .lli/vi'/i... Sheilah Graham LONDON, TUM. oscarwinnlng director Fred Zlnnemann. ("A Man For All Season*," "The Nun s Story." etc deserves another award for bravery under fire While Jim Aubrey and other top MGM bras# debated whether
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    • 655 9  -  By Florence de Santis NEW YORK, Tuei. Resort dressing is fun because it's free. A woman can be more daring with resort clothes than she ever would be at home. Whilo a resort wardrobe can. and perhaps should, rest on the easy casuals that
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    • 203 9 TODAY and YOU..! VYednetday, December 31,1969 19 M 2-27-4* frs-73-H-P0 yf TAUKU) £*rAH.tO 7V<M4V m 3-4-T9-33 ffi 3 TAR GAZERS By CLAT POLLAN K Vour-Ootfy Adkity Gu>6* JK ur.U According Slan. To develop massage for Wednesday, rtad words corr«scwnding to v ur^ of your Zodioc birth sign. OCT.u NOT. It
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    • 281 9 ODEON ***** ?nd BIG WEEK! 11 1 SO. 4n« •30 ISO p.m. MOM precent* "KILL THEM ALL AND COME BACK ALONE" Chuck Coanora. Color Scope STN 4th JAN. 8 am. VITADEER Present* THE EARLT BIRD SHOW Internationa' Articles Adm II A 12. BOOK EARLY [CATHAY-*****1 tnd WEEK! No Freo List!
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  • 444 10 NEW YORK, Tues. (UPI) —Jimmy Ellis and Joe Fraxier, both claimants to the world heavyweight boxing title, signed yesterday to meet in a championship bout. Monday, Feb. 16 at Madison Square Garden. Ellis, the World Boxing Association champion, and Frazier. recognized as title
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  • 119 10 RENO. Nev. Tues (UPI) Harrah's Club Monday installed the Minnesota Vikings as 8-1/2 points favourites to defeat the Cleve.and Browns in the National Football League championship game The game will be played Jan. 4 at th« Minnesota Stadium where the Vikings walloped the Browns 51—3. in their rezular
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  • 65 10 LONDON Tues. (AFP) Denny Mancini, manager of British bantamweight Johnny Clark, has had to cancel a scheduled trip to Japan, owing to an attack of influenza, according to today's "Daily Mirror." Mancini was due to fly to Japan on Thursday, to work In Johnny Famechon's corner when the
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  • 109 10 BOMBAY. Tues. (Reuter) India's new batting Ann GR Vlshwanath out-hit Australia's experienced campaigners to head the averages in the fivetest cricket series which ended 3-1 in Australia's favour following their victory in the final test in Madra s yesterday. Vishwanath. who made his debut in the second
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  • 700 10  -  LOOKING BACK By OLIVER CARRUTHERS LONDON Sport hot become fair game for everybody. The Sixties have seen more people and more countries playing more sports for more money. Insatiable, they are. It then hardly seemed surprising that at elite level governments became more involved.
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  • 240 10 SEBRING, Fla. (UPI) With pre-ra ce favourite Mario Andretti watching from the sidelines. David Hobbs of Rugby. England, piloted a black and white SurteesChevrolet to victory Sunday in the $40,000 London Grand Prix for Formula A racers. Hobbs nosed ahead of Switzerland's Jo Bonnier
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  • 272 10 NEW YORK, Tuei (UPI> Curt Flood, on* of the National League's outstanding outfielders during the last decade, intends to bring suit in Federal Court against baseball's reserve clause, it was revealed Monday night by the Executive Director of the Major League Players' Association. Under baseball'*
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  • 84 10 OLDHAM. En el and. Tues. (Reuter) Oldham Athletic. 22nd in the Fourth Division of the Football League vesterdav dismissed manager Jack Rowlev for th* second time in seven years Rowley, a former English international who scoreH two goals in Manchester Unlted's 4—2 victorv over Blackpool i n the
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  • 222 10 LACSANVE. Switzerland. Tuea (CPl)—Officials from thr Colorado capital of Denver and two rival European cities officially tendered todar their application* to host the 1976 Olympic Games Th« Denver representatives were joined by those from Florence. Italy, Tampere. Finland, a t an official reception at the
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  • 558 10 THE visiting F. C. Hertha 03 E.V football club of West Berlin scored a 3-0 victory over the Singapore Royal Navy Wanderers Police Combined team in a tame friendly match played at the Jalan Besar Stadium, yesterday. The visitors who arrived here in the
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  • 84 10 NAPLES. Italy, Tues. (Reuter) Brazilian football star Pele's 1.000 goals have earned him the title of world sportsman of the 1960s in ballot by 184 Italian journalists conducted by the weekly magazine "Sport Sud." Second in the poll, published here today, was American discus champion Al Oerter
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  • 124 10 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) The United Press International too 20 major college basketball teams with first place votes m parentheses (fourth week): TEAM Points 1. Kentucky (19) 321 2. UCLA (16) 317 3- South Carolina 207 4. North Carolina 163 5. Ohio Universitv I^B 6.
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 194 11 HOBART, Tues. (Reuter) British newspaper publisher Sir Mo* Aitken's sloop Crusade crossed the line first in the annual 640-mile Sydney to Hobart Blue Water Classic today. Crusade finished 19 minutes ahead of the West Australian sloop Apollo, according to unofficial results. With two
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    • 226 11 MIAMI BEACH. Tues. (AFP) All four seeded nations emerged victorious today in the hrat round of the Sunshine Cup tennU matches in which 32 countries are participating. Of the sixteen matches played today only one required a pi ay oil in doubles when Costa iiica
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    • 93 11 MUNICH Tues (AFP) A record number of 400 boxers from 60 countries are expected to participate in the 1972 Munich Olympics the 'OlymP'.a Press" service reported today. The same service said that half a million cubic metres of the two million cubic metres of earth and shingle to
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    • 81 11 TOKYO Tues (UPI) Japan's horse racir.a fans bought a total n f 322 843 800 yen (U*****694.f>65) in tickets on the major tracks supervised by the Japan Hors# Racing Association in It representee a n increase of *3 p*r cent o'er the previous ve ar 242 870
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    • 70 11 SEOUL. Tt:es (AFP)— Na»oralist China :t® ear ;er defeat beating the Phi-llpp-.nes 3-2 in a hot seesaw battle on th* fourth day <>f the third Asian Youth Volleyball Championship in Seoul yesterdav The set scores were 12-15 13-2. 13-15. 17 15. 15-12 At their first encounter on Friday the
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    • 176 11 SYDNEY Tens of thousands of Australians lined the foreshores of Sydney Harbour to watch the start of the 25th Sydney to Hobart yacht race seen in pictures above and below A record fleet of 79 ocean racers crossed the line in a spectacular flying start and battled their
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    • 377 11 ADELAIDE. Tues. (UPI) Sheila Scott, the daring British ace woman flier, denied Monday night on arrival at Parafield airport here that her plane in the London- i to-Sydney air race had been sabotaged. Miss Scott was dressed In a purple slack suit with a floral printed,
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    • 140 11 TOULOUSE. France. Tues ißeuter) Only six players who took part m the unsuccessful tour of Australia and New Zealand earlier this year have been given places in France'i Rugby Union team to meet Scotland at Murrayfield on Jan. 10. They are full back Pierre Vlllepreux. centre three-quar-ter
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    • 200 11 LONDON*. Tues (AFP) South Africa and Rhodesia, despite unofficial requests not to compete, are among the first entries received for the 1970 Davis Cup competition, according to today's "Dally Express." Basil Reay. Secretary of the British and International Lawn Tennis Federations la quoted by
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    • 198 11 JOHANNESBURG. Tues. <Reuter> With the Australian team due here on Friday, a fierce tuasle 1* taking place among South Africa# Currie Cup cricketers for Teat honours. The South African season is now in full swing, and th«" Republic's established stars are battling side by
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