Eastern Sun, 31 August 1970

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  • 20 1 EASTERN SUN store's own national daily 10 cents Isttf. 1966 Vol. 5 No. 1454 August 31, 1970. MC (F) 1616
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  • 684 1  -  Parliament to be convened o 17 By Yop Koon Hui ITUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rohmon said last night he would retire on Sept. 21. The 67-year-old Tunku in an eve of National Day address, also announced the Federal Parliament would convene
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  • 171 1 KUALA LUMFUR The Deputy Prime Minister and Director of Operations, Tan Abdul Razak, yesterday called on all Malaysians to "think afresh'' and rededicate themselves to certain Ideals if they are to snrviv* as a nation. He said that with the country's educational system aad poller
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  • 68 1 TOKYO At least fourteen people were injured, most slightly, yesterday when a Boeing 727 jet with its full load of 128 passengers hit an air pocket in a domestic flight 6,500 metres (nearly 21,700 feet) high over central Japan. The injured were taken to hospitals for treatment immediately
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  • 89 1 SHILLONG, India An Indian Airlines plane with 39 people on board, missing since Saturday evening, has crashed in thick jungles In northeast India and official* here believe there are no survivors. The officials said In this Assam capital that the wreckage of the plane was located
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  • 321 2  -  By TONY CHANDRAN JUT EMBERS of Special Constabulary hare expressed discontentment with their present uniforms .which they claim bear 'colonial heritage'. This was disclosed to Eastern Sun by a source close to the police circles. The source stated that the combined Special Constabulary and
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  • 152 2 THE Minister for Social Affairs, Enche Othman Wok, last night stressed the need for change for the benefit of the Republic's short term and long-term welfare. The Minister speaking at the National Day dinner and presentation of certificates ceremony of the Zehnder Road Community Centre,
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  • 97 2 THE Singapore Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society Ltd., celebrated its 40th year on Saturday night with a dinner and dance at the Happy Night Club, Lion City Hotel, Katong. Presentations of sliver trays, watches, and mementos were made to four exofflcials for their past services. They were;
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  • 115 2 T>OLICE have issued an appeal to eyewitnesses who saw an accident In which a 31 year old Chinese woman was seriously Injured yesterday afternoou. Ong Jock Lee, of Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim, la in the General Hospital, dangerously 111. The police said a motor-car
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  • 112 2 A MAN was arrested yesterday in connection with the attempted theft of a scooter at the Commonwealth Crescent car park. A party of police officers led by Inspector Lwn Ng e e Kon of Queenstown police station laid ambush near Sultan Road and Kim Road,
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  • 87 2 An Indian man wa a caught early yesterday morning stealing four pieces of carpets from a car parked in Wilmar Court in Leonie Hill Road. The watchman Najar Singh, 47, was in > ht a room when he noticed a man peeping in. He quickly
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  • 348 2 THE Family Planning and Publicity Campaign launched recently received tremendous response from the people. Since it was launched by the Family Planning and Population Board, a total of some 2,000 people attended various sessions he'd at different parts of the island. The response
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  • 53 2 A petrol kiosk attendant. Qan Ong Chiew, 19, was held up by four robbers armer. with scout knives and robbed of $209 at Serangoon Garden Way on Saturday night. Qan was cornered into a storeroom and tied up with thin wires. The robber* escaped
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  • 91 3 A NINE-INCH fas main under the Kim Sen* Road Bridge burst yesterday. The explosion resulted in the footpath being cracked bnt no one was injured. The fire brigade was asked to spray foam at the scene. Gas supply in the Kim
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  • 323 3 NOT everyone can afford expensive things, but then there are certain things in the world that cannot be duplicated watches for example. Aim it's likely that local rich Singaporeans will *oon be owing watches that can cost up to $05,000.
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  • 55 3 Singapore Armed Forces personnel will conduct exercises at the following locations: Manlllng Area from 8.00 a.m. today to 12 noon on Sept. S. Mandal Forest Reserve between 8.00 a.m. and 11.00 pjn. dally from tomorrow to Sept. 4. Blanks will be used, and the public Is
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous

  • 213 4 JAKAKTA A large number of Chinese girls had been lured to Singapore from Bangka Island, off the east coast of South Sumatra, to work as prostitutes, Antara News Agency _l_ 1 .J claimed. Several Singapore businessmen had agents on the island who offered "handsome
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  • 119 4 MELBOURNE. The Mayoc who called Britain** Prince Charles 'a crank* because he described beach water in St. Kilda suburb as 'diluted sewage' announced he would sent the Prince four bottles of the water for Christmas. The outspoken Mayor Of st Kilda, Councillor J.G
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  • 396 4 Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew declared Japan will have to decide soon whether it will play a more positive role in Asian politics. Lee commented during a press conference that the Asian power to watch is Japar, which has
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  • 28 4 bh,k i" u k, «•>•»•* "w M Crww Cripple luiidrtu s Hume during their open house and sports day at Tanah Merah yesterday.
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  • Article, Illustration
    37 4 Swarru Swamnda, a Himalayan Yogi left for Bangkok yesterday after a short stay in Singapore. The Swami, well known in the West, was here in the course of his Southeast Asian tour. SwamJ Svuand*
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  • 57 4 MOSCOW A new national salvage drive has been started In Russia with the aim of doubling the amount of scrap and waste collected within a few years. Last year, the Soviet Industry used 14 million tons of waste paper, 228,000 tons of old tyres, 490.000 tons of
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  • 53 4 LONDON Police yesterday alerted British air and sea ports in search of burglars who stole S*l ,400,000 worth of master paintings and silver from the sister of Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe. Police said burglars had ransacked the London home of Mrs. Camilla Thorp-Ellinger whil« she was
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  • 321 5 J|ERAKLION, Crete Customs men of Heroklion Airport confiscotod the biggest drug consignment ever seized in Greece on Soturdoy. Police soid the hoshish, enough to moke 50 million reefer cigorettes, wos worth about 5510,500,000 to oddicts. Customs officials took the hartiirt, veifhinf about
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  • 217 5 WASHINGTON A new Scute row Is htw if «m fa tare flmciiisn military aid la Israel. At the core b an amendment to the Military Procurement Bill by Senator William Fulbright, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Amendment puts a
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  • 68 5 fci may— M| vakkh* aai lapair Mi sight whrn ikooUaf. Nome by declared hr wore a hairnet M duty ltd argued that he was as HMtfwally attached te his lee* hair ythew were to Swcdhk ■■tary t—iiandttj) have hern ftT'l" 1 recently for imtu rain
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  • 51 6 A NEW YORK CROWD fathers to watch an exhibition tennis match on Lexington Avenue on Saturday. The street was then converted Into a pedestrian mail with all cars banned. Denmark's Tor be n Uirich and Peaches Bartkowicm of the U.S. and others took part. (UPI
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  • 144 6 HOUSTON, Texas "I killed my mother and father. lam the killer." Police reported finding those words scrawled on the dining room wall of an unoccupied house where the dissected bodies of an elderly couple were found in their refrigerator five years ago. The murders
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  • 200 6 ANGELES A news director of o television wos killed during a riot involving 7,000 people. At least 57 people were injured during the anti-Vietnam protest. The dead man, Ruben Zalazar, news director of a Mexican-American television station, was covering the riot for the station.
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  • 409 6 Thailand is relu sending troops to Cambodia BANGKOK—Thai leader have told American Vice-President s p l r o Agnew that they are reluctant to commit Thai fighting troops in Cambodia, Informed sources disclosed. Agnew flew home yesterday following his five-nation Asian tour. The sources said they
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  • 184 6 WASHINGTON The U.S. President** Commission on Obscenity and Pornography announced it would submit its finding* tt President Nixon and Congress in three weeks. The Commission staff worked on a final draft of the report to be reviewed by Commission members today. The Commission approved
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  • 211 7 WASHINGTON Bombs exploded in front of the Portuguese Embassy ana Rhodesian Information Office in Washington, shattering windows in both buildings but causing no injuries. A letter to an American news service claimed the explosions were the work of an African organisation called. "The Revolutionary
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  • 156 7 SAIGON Communist forces yesterday tried to disrnpt Soath Vietnam's off -ye a r senatorial election with a wave of shelling attacks against polling places and population centres. The election is the flrst nation-wide balloting since the Election of President Thieu m 15*67. Military spokesmen reported
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  • 319 7 I ONDON West Germon Romon Cotholic bishops worned the Church in 1966 of their opprehension orer importing Asion girls to Europeon convents, the "Sundoy Times" disclosed. Nonetheless, nothing wcs done obout it. the poper added. The Times' said a West German Conference
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  • 304 7 NEW DELHI The father of one of foar Roman Catholic girls who returned from Rome early this month was reported thai he may sue Father Cyriac Puthenpura for "selling'* his daughter. Father Cyrlac. who runs an Institute in Kerala to recruit girls for
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  • 58 7 COLOMBO Scvca babies died oa Saturday ttd It others contracted awaingitis at a goverament hospital as a resatt of Mceted mbber tabiig In osygea aipuatu. Doctors at Colombo's Premier Gorera■cai Materatty Hospital, who investigated the drstbs aad apparent oatbreak of MSbfitb, recoouneaded regslar cleaning and
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  • 638 8 pOREION Minister fl. Rajaratnam did not rise to his usual heights of theoretical analysis while tackling a subject that lent itself to such treatment, ostensibly because he lecturl ng to pre -university students on Friday. He dismissed hair as "essentially a waste product". Journalists as "not so learned" and
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  • 643 8  -  By Frank Mankiewicz Tom Braden AN economic oid programme for Cambodia, involving up to $2OO million in the first y a t, is in the works, and the man now set to run it is the same man who ran the aid programme in
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  • 516 8  -  •y S. A. Wickrema-singhe AN announcement by China that it would sever trade links with Japanese firms doing business with Taiwan (formerly Formosa) and South Korea has stunned leading Japanese industries. Hungry for markets in China, some big industrial complexes have bowed to the demands.
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  • 858 9  -  In o rare Death Row interview, Tom Tieda talks to a condemned man who has nothing to do but think about execution. PAGE 9 SPECIAL TOM TIEDE convict shakes I noticeably when he talks. And no won- < der. For the past four years
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  • 347 9  -  DOCTOR'S MAILBAG By Wayne G. Brandstadt Q: I have a friend who is taking calcium tablets for his arthritis. Isn't calcium the cause of arthritlsT A: No. Rheumatlod arthritis Is probably caused by a virus and the cause of osteoarthritis Is not known. Since arthritis
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  • MONDAY PICTORIAL
    • 90 10/11 Pre-university students of all language streams last week held lively discussions on a wide variety of topics during the seminar on "Southeast Asia Today." Various forums on defence, war, peace, development, economics and politics were held. Pix shows students at the opening of the seminar by Acting
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    • 113 10/11 MR. David Krantz, a well-known Australian architect, lectured last week on the "Economy of Brick in High-Rise Load bearing Structures" to Singapore architects, structural engineers and I rban Renewal and Housing Development Board authorities, at the Australian Trade Commission Showrooms in Singapore. The lecture was given under
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    • 273 10/11 Picture shows the two first prize winners of the Ail-Singapore Chinese Secondary Schools English Essay Contest organised by the Island Society of Singapore. A Pre U I (Arts) pupil from Hai Sing Girls' High School Miss Margaret Teng. 16, is standing beside her school Principal Sister
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    • 81 10/11 AT Hie opening of Pools '7O, o display of Australian swimming pools, filtration plants and pool accessories are (left to right): Mr. Edmund Wong, District Manager Dunlop Singapore Sdn. Bhd., Mr. Lim Chin Hin, Asian Business Adviser of the Hong Kong ft Shanghai Banking Corporation, Mr. Tan
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1949 12 LOOKING AND LISTENING....^ (CHANNEL t| ML 100 Opining Anncts. in all Language* and General Hospital. MO For The Family (Tamil). 3.50 A Diary of Event* in Singapore Thia Week (Tamil). GENERAL TENDENCIES: Today's solar ecli peethough not a total black-out of the Sun-brings contusing problems to most persons. Particular attention
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  • Students' page
    • 127 14 I watch the sky slowly bloom, As the rising sun creeps up from bed. But here I lie, nailed to my bed, Never to be bloomed ogain. My heort yearns with untold misery, As I watch my health declining. My hands are turning deodly pale, And my
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    • 102 14 Singapore our country, One that we love. Singapore our country, One that we are proud of. Ever clean and green, Never else to be seen. A nation that spells democracy. And racial harmony. Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, You are like our Queen. Singapore our country, Who can compare
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    • 515 14  -  Ele and Walt Dulaney DEAR ELE: My aunt fwst got a divorce from nod*. Since my aunt is my mother's sister I know I'll be seeing her instead off my uncle, who is the one I really cared about. We wsed to sit
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    • 876 14 SYDNEY, Australia Science and courage are combining is Australia to provide a ray of sunshine for Hie dark world ol Hm Wind. Sonar, wartime development which gave underwater "eyesight" to the submarine, has found a new use that is giving blind lawn bowlers
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 191 14 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe The Eastern Sun's essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under (Junior) and boys and gifts ever 14 (Senior) appears in this page from Monday to Friday. Prise money is: SIC for Seniors and $5 for juniors tor every essay published All
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  • 251 15  -  By Marianne Pereira PUSH Hie door just o little to enter Jean's East, and loud, groovy music streams out. And on the other side of the door the decor Is definitely different from any other place in town. There are posters all over hilarious ones,
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  • Article, Illustration
    562 15 DEAR ANN: I've read about the problem time and time a g a i n in your column and always agreed with your answer until now. When the problem is your, own It looks a little different. Mothers have written to ask why is It that when their
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 808 16 TkARWIN, AUSTRALIA Bauxite, Hie red mineral parent off •lammiM, sift at Hie top off a prodigious fomily tree, witfli oNwißf rMgisfl all the way from ha nek wrappers to airliner*. Ahoot ASI.MMM.MI (Ss3,4tS mlWea) worth of fcouite, 59 square Biles of it
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    • 71 16 Drilling for blasting at the alumina plant sf Nabalco's baaxlte-ala-mina project at Gove Peninsula, Northern Territory. Gt?e Peninsula, Northern Territory, site «f Ike Nahaleo Pty. Ltd fcinilli il—im prtjcd JWJJLJNT TTE COM tructlon of mm nlnnrina plant with —oriole* mininf, port mm l township tw General view
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    • 591 17 WEEKLY REVIEW THE puritanical code of behavioar la the Stock Exchange of Malaysia last week was merely subdued jurd quiet ia contrast to the active tread the previoM week. Turnover bounced back to 12 million units against the previous of 16 million In which Industrials
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    • 491 17 4BKIVALS 1-45 a m MM A It* Kaala Lampur 100 m MSA SSO < otamb» a Lunpir t.Si i am Mna Its Kuala Laapar ass a m MNA 45* Kuta Lumper US6t« MSA I'rouc, a Lauipur 1150 am MSA Jakarta IJW pm MMA 451 Kactaifig tlS»m MMA 213
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    • 379 17 TOKYO Kiichi Miyasawa, Minister of International Trade and Industry has said Japan would not oppose the setting ip of R working committee to settle textile issues between Japan and the United States. Mlyazawa made the remark In a speech Prlday at a luncheon
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    • 135 17 TOKYO. Hitachi Ltd. and Osaka University researchers have jointly developed a three million volt electron microscope that makes it now possible to observe bacteria cells and other living organs. Hitachi said the microscope has a maximum magnification of 500.000 and is the world's highest voltage and most
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    • 70 17 TOKYO. Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. of the United States has applied to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry for permission to start a joint enterprise with Bridgestone Tyre Co. and Japan Synthetic Rubber Co. both of Japan. The joint rubber enterprise is to be called
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 282 18 R.I. The Tournament Director of the Newport Casino Tennis Hall of Fame, James Van Alen, yesterday urged the fining of professional Roger Taylor of England, who drove a ball into the spectators watching a benefit tournament. If Taylor it fintd for the incident by the World Championship
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    • 187 18 NEW YORK Major league baseball results and standings after Saturday's games: NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST W L GB Pittsburgh 70 61 New York 67 63 24 Chicago 68 64 2| St. Louis 63 68 7 Philadelphia 61 70 9 Montreal 56 79 14 WEST Cincinnati 86 48
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    • 87 18 NEW YORK, Bobby Riggs and Vic Seixas scored singles victories yesterday over rivals from Great Britain to gve the U.S. a sweep of ie world open tennis championships for senior players Riggs beat Britain's Gerry Oakley, 6 —2, 6 —l, and Seixas defeated Jaroslav Drobny, 6—2,
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    • 223 18 MIAMI BEACH, Fla. A slightly pudgy, but vastly subdued Cassius Clay has begun workouts here to return to professional boxing, a ■port that won nim fame but not enough fortune. The 28-year-old Clay, who no longer gets rankled if not addressed by his Muslim name of
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    • 690 18  -  A COLUMN ON AMERICAN SPORTS BY MILTON RICHMAN NEW YORK, Some people ore beginning to wonder if Hie Mets con do it again. That, In itself, isn't to bad. What's more significant is the fact some of Mets are beginning to wonder themselves. Right
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    • 98 18 TURIN, Italy Algeria became the second nation last night to refuse to compete against Israel at the sixth World University Games. Albania refused to meet Israel in a basketball game Friday and was told to play as scheduled or get out of the games. An Albanian spokesman said
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    • 235 18 CLEVELAND, Ohio Jubilant in the aftermath of the victories that gave the United States a 2-0 lead in the Davis CUP challenge round, both Arthur Ashe and Cliff Richey paid tribute to their German opponents yesterday. Ashe praised Wllhelm Bungert's tennis skills even though
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    • 95 18 ROME, Italian racehorse owners have begun a weeklong boycott ol all the country's courses to protest against a biff increase in betting tax. As part of the government's economic squeeze which came into force Saturday, the betting tax on horse races has risen from three to 27 per
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  • 1157 19  -  By By Oar Racine Correspondent pENANGILLYA KURYAKIN, with George Podmore up, shocked here yesterday when he won the class six division one event over 7f to pay $314 for a win. Quickly out in front, lllya Kuryokin cantered home to beat the fancied Even Say
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  • 338 19 Women's Softball ASAKA A hustling All-Japan team yesterday won the second world women's softball championship by defeating the Orange Lionettes of Orange, California, representing the United States, 1-0, in the finals of the nine-nation tournament before 30,000 spectators at Nagai Stadium. Nineteen year old
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  • 211 19 NEWPORT, R.I. Baron Marcel Bich, who was at the helm of his yacht, France, when It got lost in a fog Friday, said last night he will not come back to Newport again." "They said I a ban doned the race," the Baron angrily said to
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 47 19 TOTAL POOL: ($7,840) Ist Prise No: ***** (12.587) 2nd Prise No: ***** (f €46) 3rd Prise No: ***** 323) Starters ($43 each) Nos: ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** Consolation ($32 each) Nos: ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
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  • 210 20 jpOLICE hoy© arrested on 18-year-old girl in connection with the theft of tome $19,220 from the Roxy Electric Industries Limited of Tanglin Halt Rood. The suspect will be charged in court today. The loss of the money discovered on Baturday morning was reported
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  • 61 20 Four HMI Kof state star* are here far the opeaint night af the Pearl Opera House, to he earned la the paMie seen. The newest entertainment coasalex in Peeple's Park will feature the singers. Sonpix shows from left: Hal Tim Chow, Christina Hang Yuen,
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  • 405 20 CAIGON— Uniformed North Vietnamese troops early yesterday overran a northern village compound and destroyed an orphanage filled with sleeping children in what an American officer called "Just plain murder." At least 12 civilians were killed and 50 wounded in the assault, most of
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  • 170 20 SEOUL Bout h Korean Police have had their sclsaorsnlpplng power over long-haired males cut out from under them. A with halrcutters and orders to crack down on hippie, style lon< hair, the police rounded up almost 700 boys in the capital
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  • 103 20 LONDON A boat passenger from the Canary Islands t) London, William Honneywell, had to swim after the boat for 12 hours on Friday when he fell overboard, it was learnt in London Saturday nicht. Mr. Honneywell. a passenger on the s.A Vaal, fell unnoticed into
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