Eastern Sun, 25 August 1970

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national nig 10 cents Istd. 1966 Vol. 5 No. 1429 Tuosdoy, August 25# 1970. MC (P) 1616
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  • 432 1  -  Catering department blamed the de By Tony Chandran AN UNOFFICIAL go-slow compoign by o section of MSA workers ogainst BOAC flights has angered passengers on the British line. Till lote lost night MSA officials denied the wildcat action and the Singapore Air Transport Workers' Union
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  • 189 1 MILAN. Italy The magazine, 'Gente' revived speculation of a breakup of the Onassls marriage bv running colour pictures of Aristotle Onassls kissing his former girlfriend Maria Callas during a flying visit to the Greek isle of Tragonissi. 'Gente said Onassis flew to Tragonissi, an island owned
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  • 73 1 Fort De Prance, Martinique Hurricane Dorothy which ravaged this French Caribbean island two days ago, killed at least 42 people, mostly children and old people, according to official figures released yesterday. More than 200 people were reported injured as the hurricane, blowing at 80 miles an hour,
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  • 63 1 WASHINGTON The United States was expected to announce, probably later yesterday, a US$4O million military •id programme for the Cambodian Government of emier Lon Nol. Th# way was cleared for announcing the programme after Marshall Green Assistant Secretary of State for Asian
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  • 509 2 Printer makes defence in trial ORINTER Shum Woi Tong making hit defence in the counterfeit currency trial yesterday told the High Court about his dealings with a Sarawak businessman. Shum, 53, and Oh Ah Kai, 38, are both
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  • 76 2 THE Jackpot prize 'or Toto Draw No. 68/70 Is now $140,000 at; there were no Ist and 2nd group prise winners for the last Toto draw. The Toto draw No. 68/ 70 will be held this Thursday at the Variety Show Stage. Gay World Amusement
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  • 80 2 A coroner yesterday recorded a verdict of misadventure on the death of Lee Seek, 69. who fell from a 17th floor of a Palmer Road Park building on Aug. 4. Lee. a painter, was said to be shifting a ladder from a ledger to whitewash a wall
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  • 441 2 THAILAND'S defence policy during the next few years will decide the nature and scope of the military situation in Malaysia and Singapore. Thi» was stated yesterday bv Mr. Tay Seow Huah, acting Permanent Secretary (Home Affairs). Ministry of Defence. Mr. Tay was
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  • 221 2 CIX persons were yesterday injured in a triple crash which occurred at the 10-mile Upper Changi Road. Of these six, one Mohamed Noor bin Abu Kadar. 30 received serious injuries. The condition of the Ave others. Including a seven-year-old boy, Is reported to be
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  • 70 2 Lim Chwee Yong. 24, unemployed, was yesterday fined a total of $3OO, for exhibiting and possessing blue films on Saturday night at 10.50 p.m. A police party which raided his house at 113 Shrewsbury Road found him projecting blue films to an audience. After
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  • 48 2 A memorial service for the late Bishop John Leonard Wilson, who served as Bishop of Singapore from 1940 to 1949, will be held at Saint Andrew's cathedral at 530 p.m. The Bishop of Singapore Bishop Chiu Ban It and Dr. D.D. Chelliah will conduct the service.
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  • 285 3 TZ UALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, yesterday called on the people to be on guard against the Communists who might try to sabotage the National Day celebrations. "It is up to the people. If they are determined to fight the
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  • 162 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Members of Goodwill Council at National, State, District and Area levels are entitled to recover expenses incurred by them while carrying out their duties, according to a directive Issued yesterday. The directive signed by the Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman, who is
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  • 103 3 Liang Ah Seng, 36. was Jailed for five years when he pleaded guilty to robbing J.E. Homewood of property worth $1,400 and cash $2. He broke into Mr. Ho me wood > house at Chilton Drive, on June 17 between 7.45 a.m. and 6.00 p.m.,
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  • 36 3 A lorry-attendant tries to remove pieces of planks which had fallen from his lorry near the Gillman Circus, yesterday. This caused a small traffic Jam which lasted for 45 minutes. Sunpl*. Sunpix.
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  • 179 4 IN London yesterday, the Adjatant-General of the British Army was expected to present two 'Sunshine Coaches' to the Variety Club of Great Britain. The money for the two mini-coaches for handicapped children was collected by Bourne British Army School In Singapore. Over $lO,OOO Mr. C. Buckley,
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  • 247 4 VEW DELHI The Foreign Office announced the Government will investigate allegations that more than 2,000 girls from Kerala State have been "sold" to European convents. Opposition leaders will raise the issue In Parliament today and question Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi
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  • 184 4 BANGKOK. Foreign Minister Thaaat Khoman anaoaneed mare than 6,000 American troops nil! be withdrawn from Thailand by June next year. Than it explained the withdrawal was made possible because of allied progress in the Indochina War. "Fewer and fewer American planes are
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  • 236 7 NEW YORK, Dean Acheson, former Secretary of State, advised President John Kennedy against appointing Senator William Fulbright as Secretary of State, 'Newsweek' magazine disclosed. The weekly news magazine reported that Acheson made this disclosure on a recording for the oral
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  • 64 7 KARACHI The Pakistan National Hairdressers' Federation has gone to the defence at local barbers who refuse to shave animals as 'part of their professional service.' The Federation threatened to lannch a conn-try-wide protest campaign after noun* that barkers In tribal agencies and villages are being "boycotted and
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  • 51 7 WEST GERMAN TRAWLER, "VEST RECKUNHGAUSEN," is towed and closely watched by a rescue ship daring the return voyage to Bremerhaven Harbour, Germany. A fire on the 985-ton ship in the mouth of Weser River killed 8 crew members and 2 are still missing. (UPI
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  • 258 7 WASHINGTON, Senator Stuart Symington, in congressional testimony released yesterday, disclosed he did not see why America should maintain military forces in Japan. Hl* comments were contained In censored testimony given last January to a Senate Foreign Relations SubCommittee holding hearings on
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  • 222 7 YORK The long-awaited Arab-Israeli Peace Talks now appear certain fro beg.n in the next few days possibly even by mid-week. Following the naming of Isroel's negotiating teom, Dr. Gunnar Jorring. the U N. peace envoy, would shortly onnource ogreement among the parties on the site,
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  • BRIEFLY AROUND THE WORLD
    • 363 7 PRETORIA An African on trial for alleged terrorism accused South African security police o; torturing him mercilessly'* to make him talk. Benjamin Ramotse. one of 20 Alrlcans facing trial charged with plotting the violent overthrow of the 8outh African Government, claimed he
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  • 461 8 THHE sale and purchase of human beings, x whatever be the purpose, is the most reprehensible of human acts and there are no words strong enough to condemn those who Indulge In the trafficking of girls. That white slavers use every trick to obtain girls and sell them to
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  • 233 8 WHILE problems facing prime ministers of developing nations are manifold, the ones confronting Mrs. Indira Gandhi of India seem endemic. Recently, the Indian Prime Minister while speaking In India's number one trouble spot Calcutta emphasised that the real threat to Indian democracy was mass poverty and not Communist
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  • 641 8  -  By Frank Mankiewicz, Tom Braden IT it a curious time. Senate liberals, men who hove opposed further escalations in Indochina, who have sought to turn our priorities from arms expenditures and who have for the>ir pains been singled out for defeat by men who
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  • 82 8 WASHINGTON; An article of furniture usually qualifies as an antique if it is 100 or more years old. Not so if the item In question is a relic of the electronic cabinetmaker's art. For a bargain U.S. $llO. a company called Computer Discount Corp. in De s Plaines,
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  • 24 8 Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must have It in us or find it not.— Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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  • 510 8  -  By ARUN GANDHI GEMINI Bombay ABOUT 70 mile* south-east of Bombay city on the trunk route to Goa it a little village called Tara. The surroundings are picturesque, tall shady trees lining the highday and patches of lush green vegetation scattered
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  • 832 9  -  Although most people In the world believe slavery was abolished long ago, the faet Is that hi several parts of the world there are still slaves. In London an Anti-Slavery Society worhs away from offices near Victoria Station to help the pHght
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  • 254 9  -  By Wayne G. Brandstadt The treatment «f burns is still a much, disputed matter. Suffice It to say that several relatively new treatments all give excellent results. Authorities agree that the best emergency treatment is immediate Immersion in a tub or bucket
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  • 642 10/11 Jl iif§ 'TWERE was tremendous response to Contest I, the Notionol Day theme. Once agoin a record of beginners as well as experts submitted many excellent pictures on the joyful occasion. Here are the winners: First Tay Klam Sah, 398-F, River Valley Road, Singapore. "Riot
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1582 12 LOOKING AND and radio guide tnm the CVTOI Rights* laitUito and vitality that ia now your*. A new activity can bring a new attitude that enhances your present benefits. ARIES (March Si to April 19) You find work feverish in the morning so do shopping, keep appointments, etc., and get
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  • 1388 13 The next morning, worn out by their exertions at the Osman ">y's party, the mercenaries were taken by Elci and his men to the railway siJ'i«|S just outside the town. Here a train waited, •team up. There were eight coaches. The first was like a
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 202 13 b SHAWL mzm. Hon [L I DO Phone 3734 1 4 NOW SHOWING! U W. l.«ft 63« ft ft.lft am* Lollobrigiaa "Thai Splendid No»fmb»r" Color CAPITOL PLO"' J9/I9L Uit t Days No Free List 11 am. 1.30. 4.9 ft. ft.3o. ».30 "THE CRIMSON CHARM" (A Shaw Production) Mandarin In Scope,
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  • Students' page
    • 314 14  -  JESS Ele and Walt Dulaney Dear Ele asd Walt: 1 went out with my girl friend one day and met this boy. We took a liking to each other right away. Iff friend was babysitting. There was a crowd of kids around so we all got
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    • Article, Illustration
      351 14 I AM KTCBtCCB-year-old teenager. 1 fed as I grew older, more problems will arise. Problems may rise at any moment and at any situation. 8 o m e times people may treat us as fully crown-up and mature people and tend to pay less attention on us. For.
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    • 180 14 Teenagers of Singapore like to follow new styles and Western fashions. In fact, half of Singapore's streets are a multl-hued melange of gay, attractive and sophisticated styles from Paris. London and New York. Some of the fashions are mini-skirts, bellbottom, cuelottes and others. They are commendable and
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    • 640 14 SYDNEY, Awtrala An Amtrmttjui MtatM has (MM) that the N not provide oxygen to support life is awed bases M the He ig Professor Dan Haneman. Associate Professor of Physics at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney. who wa\ appointed by the
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    • 203 14 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe The Eastern Sun's essay writing contest to* boys and girls of 14 and under (Junior) and boys and gists over 14 (Senior) appears in this page from Monday to Friday. Prize money Is: SIC for Seniors and $5 for Junior* for every esse* oubltshed AH
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  • WOMEN
    • 379 15  -  By Marianne Pereira CHE has legs up to her eyebrows and arms that seem to 90 on forever. v She was once described os "being slimmer than any girls has a right to be, and yet bulges adequately in the right places and has
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    • 846 15  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: We had the meanest mother in the world. While the other kids on our block enjoyed candy for breakfast, we had to eat cereal. They were treated to soda pop and pizza for lunch. We were stuck with sandwiches
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 254 16 A HANDFUL firm Issues swell transactions In the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore. Generally the rest of the shares were marginally- subdued with prices sought at around previous levels or lower Sentosa again forged to the fore with a total of 689,000 deals changing
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    • 256 16 AUGUST first trade robber buyers closed at 5 p.m. In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 52-1/8 cents per lb. up 1/8 cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet A very quiet market ruled slightly steadier on isolated shortcovering by outsiders.
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    • 584 16 BID and offer prices officially Us ted at the rlose of business In the Singapore and Kuala Lampnr trading rooms of the 8tock Exchange yesterday were: VNDC8TBIAL8 Aeau B b L48 Allied CkM. Be«. ed Borneo* c. rijwMd C. 84ora*c E"s&l E.A.I. Kmpal Ekor Eiw Fair Ladj xd
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    • 38 16 TOKYO. Japan produced 434,800,000 quarts of beer during 1969 to rank as the Afth largest beer producing country In the world next to the U.S.. West Germany, Britain and the Soviet Union.
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    • 76 16 TUli noon price* at tit* Singapore Chi dm* Produce exchange rcMtrdaj were*I'woonut OU i* O B.) Balk 03-00 Cwconot Oil OUi Dram 8000 M Copra Si 00 Munink White mtper (FOB.) 107.50 Sarn« libit* Pepper 185.00 Sarawak Oprdtj Black Pepper (FOB.) 157.50 Lamtxni* (ipeetaj (FOB.) 212 50 Black Pepper
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    • 114 16 HONG KONG, Monday's currency rates (supplied by Foreixi Exchange and Investnent Ltd.): (Bayers) (Sellers) 195.5 196.5 per 100 Straits dollars 152.5 154.5 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 0.74 5.75 per Australian dollar 330 350 per 1.000 Burmese kyats 450 470 per 1,000 Indian rupees 135 155 per 10,000
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    • 36 16 MANILA mie Philippine peso was quoted Monday at 6.2855 pesos against one UJB. dollar, up from last Thursday's rate of 6.275 pesos. Bales amounted to 375,000 UJ3. dollars In the Interbank Currency Market,
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    • 836 16 BUSINESS done in and reported to the tradlns room* mt ik* s^b tohSCtata S, ?«*P° r «*«•> number of th"£tra£d brackets in lots of 1.000 pnlt» unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS AJinomolo $2 06 (1) 12.05 (3); Alcan $l4O (2) Ben. $1.06 (5); Berjaya Si 41 (6) $l4O (1)
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    • 13 16 The tin price for yesterday was $6592 per picul -down *4l-
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    • 323 17 SYDNEY, Mining heavyweights Meant lan, CKA and Mineral Seenrities stood oat in an otherwise steady session on Sydney Stock Kachange Monday. CKA led the rises with a rain of N cents to dose at $l9-31. Mineral Securities firmed throughout trading Jumping from $12.50 to $13.00 Mount
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    • 213 17 KUALA LUMPUR, The production of Standard Malaysian Kabkr (SMS) totalled nearly 14«.M# tons last year almost 5 9.—% tons more than in 1965. According to the annual report of the Natural Rubber Producers' Research Association, the success and potential of the SMR scheme hsd resulted
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    • 527 17 ARRIVALS I.4ft ma MSA I*3 Kuala l.impir 14N t-a MSA G«2 MMru Kuala Luopur IJI a.ai. MSA I 8» Kuala Luapur. IMa B. MSA (At Kuala l.anpur. 11 uft a m MSA Ift4 rm aai Kuala LaaURaa R"/A SUJ Jakarta IN pa. MSA 4*l Km* IMpa M$A Kl
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    • 119 17 KUALA LUMPUR. The Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Berhad has approved 358 loans worth $144.1 million up to March this year. In a newsletter to mark Its 10th anniversary yesterday. It said that In the development of a capital market, the MIDF had acted as Issuing house
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    • 122 17 MR K H. Frank. Sales Promotion Manager ot Lufthansa German Airlines In Singapore. Malaysia and Brunei, will visit Bast Ma ajsla In the last week oi August* He will call on travel agents and tourist authorities to Inform them about the airline's expansion and progress In the
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    • 84 17 MANILA A three-man Philippine private trade mission is in Singapore today for a five-dav visit to study trading agreements of socialist countries based here. The delegation is beaded by Romeo Echauz, chairman of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce's sub-committee on trade with socialist countries. The
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    • 99 17 The Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthing arrangements for to- day, Aug. 25. DEPARTURES God owns VfJwli 5 Heiyo Mam 6/7 Hide Mam 21 East Olang Lee 29/30 Yamaham Maxu 29/90 Hal Bheong 31/32 Livensa 42/43 Trauguti 44 Pa e 45 Texaco Bristol 21
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  • 224 19 is certainly o reason for their warm smile. Between these three athletes they won eight gold, seven silver and two bronze medals in the 32nd Annual Open Athletic Championships concluded recently. Not only did they win the medals in the meet but they were also responsible
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  • 86 19 LONDON A miniature World Cup soccer contest fought out with models on a table top was won here yesterday by a 16-year-old West German, Peter Czarowski. Table-top soccer champions from 13 countries took part in the two-day contest at London's Savoy Hotel. Peter was presented with
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  • 69 19 COPENHAGEN Janou Lef e b v re, 25-year-old French rider, won the third and final round at Bernstorffs Park here yesterday to clinch the women's world showjumping championshiD on Rocket. Miss Lefebvre, a member of the French silver Uiedal team in the 1968 Mexico Olympics, beat British defending
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  • 45 19 KITZBUHEL, Austria The 19-year-old Australian John Alexander had an impressive 6-3 6-3 6-4 victory over the Spanish Davis Cup player Manuel Orantes in the men's singles semi-flnals of the Austrian tennis championships here yesterday. Alexander meets Zeljko Franulovic of Yugoslavia in the final.
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  • 189 19 LOS ANGELES. Powerful John Kinsella. 17, shattered the world record for the men's 1500-metre freestyle by edging Mike Burton in 15:57.10 at the national AAU swimming championships Sunday night. It was the 11th world record established In the four-day Amateur Ath etlc Union competition at the
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  • 146 19 LEXINGTON, Ohio New Zealander Denis llulme won yet another C a n-A m sports-racing car event here Sunday for McLaren the stable's eighteenth victory in a row. And the 33-year-old former world champion crossed the finishing line in his McLaren MBD after once again leading from start to
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  • 204 19 NEW YORK Major league baseball results and standings after Sunday's games: NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST W. L. GB Pittsburgh 70 57 New York 66 59 3 Chicago 65 62 5 St. Louis 60 66 9) Philadelphia 57 69 12| Montreal 55 70 14 WEST W. L. GB
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  • 309 19 TOKYO, Dr. Elias Cordova, chairman of the Panama Boxin r Commission, said yesterday he would ask the World Boxin e Association to order a new title fight between world junior lightweight chamnion Hiroshi Kobayashi of Japan and his Panamanian challenger Antonio Amaya. This follows last n
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  • 54 19 NEW YORK The final four positions were filled yesterday for the Marlboro Open tennis championships at the Orange Lawn Tennis Club in South Orange, New Jersey. Steve Turner of New York, Brian Gottfried of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Richard Russell of Jamaica, and .Jean-Loup Rouyer of France earned the
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  • 252 20 QEOUL United States Vice-President Spiro Agnew announced here yesterday the U.S. had decided to more a wing of Tactical F-4 Fighters to South Korea to compensate for an Americon military cut- back here. Mr. Agnew also said the United Stotes would give South
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  • 155 20 'pHE poo i S grimmicif but it's easy to get distracted, especially with girls like Anisah Alsagoff (centre) and her two equally shapely friends, Maryrose Turville (left) and Joyce Ho around. Scene was at the Australian Trade Commission Showroom where the Pools '7O exhibition was being
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  • 139 20 A CASHIER and his office boy were yesterday robbed of $36,000 by three gunmen while they were on the way to a bank at Battery Road. The money belonged to the Oemlni Chit Fund Co-operative Ltd. The cashier, Mr. Harjindar Singh, 37
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  • 48 20 SEOUL, During his three-day stay in South Korea, Vice-President Splro Agnew will drink only water that has been treated at U.S military installations. Agnew's arrival in Seoul yesterday coincided with a cholera epidemic. There have been 172 cases and 10 deaths this year.
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  • 242 20 LIGHTERMAN Tan soon Beng, 32, (below) yesterday choked back his tears and said goodbye to the young son he had lost and found. The tragic truth was that he could not look after the boy and had no alternative but to leave him
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