Eastern Sun, 10 September 1970

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents Estd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1443 Thursday, September 10, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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  • 439 1 VC-10 with 116 ab takes off to Jordan JJEIRUT A hijacked British airliner carrying 116 people, including four guerillas armed with dynamite, took off from here yesterday for the commandos' desert airstrip in Jordan. The latest hijacking is the fifth in four days. The VC-10
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  • 52 1 Railway workers clad in raincoats brave the rain as they try to clear the derailed goods wagons which ran off the track on Tuesday at 7 milestone Bukit Timah Road. The Malaysian Railway authorities have set up an inquiry into the derailment of 13 goods wagons.
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  • 199 1 An air passenger, whose bomb hoax held up a Qantas aircraft for more than Ave hours, was yesterday fined $l,OOO or In default six months' jail. English seaman Henry William Cloode, 59,' pleaded guilty to making a false statement at 9 p.m. on Tuesday
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 175 1 In Drastic Reductions This Week f C.K.TANG t BARGAIN COUNTER Mg JU (2ND FLOOR) LADIES vf Drfsses from 57.50 upwards .iL T-shirts AT HALF PRICE f|f II" oats from $2 50 upwards VV Co I <n pyjamas at $3.00 Cheongsam half-slips at 25 cts. Hand bags from $3.00 upwards WW
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  • 346 2 f CONSTRUCTION labourer Lee 800 Tiong, 17, making his defence yesterday In the High Court, denied he was at the scene of murder on the day and time alleged. Lee U alleged to have murdered an overseer Ong Ah Her. So with a bearing-scraper
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  • 236 2 Shell's another big refinery opened pINANCE Minister Hon Sui Sen yesterday predicted boom pears ahead for Singapore's petroleum refining industry. Opening the $56-rmllian Shell refinery at Pulou Bukom, the Minister announced it was yet another bigger refinery of the company. Shell, he said, was
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  • 74 2 ear^ b ye,t^ay S PlOU h<!d t> okSta U «PW Road. a «lopJm »e r^Jlt r 'o?ule^-Lh Ut LUn Tu T R a(l sent 3O <Jown Tan was admitted to the General Hospital and his condition was reported to bo
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 68 2 TOTO 5vm.49 NATIONAL DAY SPECIAL DRAW 30th July to 20th September, 1970 VftU 2,228 ATTRACTIVE GUT PRIZES G BIG CASH JACKPOT EVERV THURSDAY AND SUNDAY! FOR TODAY'S DRAW NO: 72/70 (10-9-70) will b« held at Singapore Wonderland Awmement Park at 7.45 p.m. IST GROUP: biM'TWI T» Winners With S Number*
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  • 314 3 tests showed thot the earth inside a murdered woman's stomach was the same as that in the grave in which she was buried alive, a court was told yesterday. This was stated in an analysis report by a chemist, Mr. Phang Sing
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  • 176 3 Oooh, "Madre mia," Spanish blood might be hot, bat it's not quite hot enough for a mouthful of Singapore chilli, and pretty little Pepita (above) found that out in a hurry. With a meat dumpling held delicately on the chop
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  • 151 3 Salesman James Choo Seow Tee, 31, was yesterday sentenced to six months' jail when he pleaded guilty to criminal breach of trust for $6,274.84. Senior Inspector, Joseph Low. prosecuting, told the court that on Aug. 31, Choo's supervisor. Mr. Thong Yuen Fook, became
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  • 43 3 Tan Kok Mui, 23, was jailed for three years when he pleaded guilty to stealing a motorcycle, on Jan. 27. Tan who had two similar previous convictions, admitted stealing the mo-tor-cycle, valued at $3OO, parked in front ox Victoria Street.
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  • 322 5 AMMAN Tension mounts in Amman again after guerrilla leaders denounced the truce tftiey hod shortly reached with the Jordanian Government on Tuesday. Rifle shots were heard in the city but no explonotion for the shooting was available. The Central Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation claimed
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  • 77 5 BYDNEY. Thousands of firefighters are on standby In eastern Australia as the area faces Its worst bushflre danger for two years. Warnings ranging from high to extreme fire danger were issued throughout New Bouth Wales and southern Queensland and a high fire danger warning has
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  • 143 5 SYDNEY A boarding party of fifty customs officers and detectives raided a cargo ship in Sydney's dockyard yesterday and questioned the Chinese crew about the circulation of forged American 20-dollar bills. Two crewmen were taken to Criminal Investigation Branch headquarters for further questioning. Simultaneously
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  • 125 5 SAIGON A passing American helicopter accidentally dropped three large drums of fuel on a Vietnamese village. They caused fi re that killed three civilians and Injured seven more, the U 8. Command announced. The three drums fell on the village near Hoi An in northern South
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  • 117 5 LOUISVILLE, Kentucky Fifteen persons were injured when a plane currying 89 passengers and 5 crew members crush-landed ut Stundiford Field in Louisville. The pilot had earlier reported a possible Ore In an engine. The landing gear collapsed partly In the crash-landing and the plane's
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 206 5 m; Ji Any part worn, cracked or in any way not meeting factory tolerance requirements, is replaced with genuine Cat parts, When you're looking at Used Equipment it's the only way to be sure. Every used machine is classified by The Professionals" at Tractors Malaysia Berhad. You can buy a
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  • 338 6 T>ANGKOK Thailand will receive from America a battery of surface-to-air Hawk missiles one year earlier to compensate for the second phased withdrawal of 9,800 American troops there. Thai Armed Forces Chief-of-Staff Air Chief Marshal Dawee Chullasapya, announced that the high-powered weapons, composed of six launchers
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  • 90 6 BUSBY BERKELEY, the Hollywood director who made patterns out of dancing girls in the 30s in such extravaganzas as "Footlight Parade," "Gold-diggers of 1933," and 4, 42 nd Street," looks over some of the pretty girls who answered the call for the revival of "No, No,
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  • 135 6 LONDON a stowaway broke through the huge anti-hijacking net •I London's Heathrow Airport yesterday. Ho hid away in a wheelhousing of a Middle •*st-bound Pan-Ame-rican jet. 4 routine c heck by a maintenance engineer Mvoaled the man, who had avoided police and airline security
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  • 176 6 PIINOM PENH The Cambodian Government yesterday carried out its first high-treason execution since the March 18 ouster of Prince Sihanouk. Tom Saravan, former military commander of the southern provincial region of Kampot, was executed by a firing squad at dawn yesterday, the Military Command
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  • 264 6 JAKARTA The Indonesian Air Force would not buy any more planes from Russia because of bitter experience, Air Vice-Marshal Slamet, Air Force Operations Commander, announced. The Soviet Union is very cunning, he pointed out. It had sold planes without providing the necessary experts and
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  • BRIEFLY AROUND THE WORLD
    • 375 6 TAIPEI The 3,716ton Panama-registered freighter.'M.V. Reward,' sank 70 miles south of Kaohsiung, Taiwan's southern port, police reported. All 31 Taiwanese crew. Including four seriously Injured, were rescued. The freighter, owned by a Hong Kong shipping firm, had a cargo of timber from the Philippines when it
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  • 340 7 XTEW YORK The State Deportment stepped in ot the lost moment one? re- fused the mother of condemned ossissin Sirhan Sirhon permission to Icove U.S. to confer with Arab guerrillas in Jordan. Mory Sirhon, Sirhan's brother Adel, and two lawyers were
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  • 73 7 Rock concert promoters recently held a series of shows across America lor a movie about Today's Youth. The above photos were taken at Washington's Mall Pop Festival w.iere 8,000 teenagers attended. The top picture shows the undercover story behind young brainwaves: an umbrella-shade hat to rival
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  • 251 7 FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida After nearly two years of political squabbling and complicated financial dealings, the 83,000-ton liner, *Queen Elizabeth,' goes on the auction block today. Two days have been Set aside fcr the sale at the Gait Ocean Mile Hotel. The ship, which once carried
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  • 168 7 NEW YORK Palestinian guerrilla hijackers had the U.S. oil industry worried today over the future of their Ss6o million a-day investments in Middle East fields. The Mid-East's so-call-ed "fertile crescent" supplies about 13.2 million barrels of oil a day, or about one third of
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  • 31 7 MOSCOW, The first astronauts to set foot on Mars will find a surface more like earth's than some scientists previously believed, according to studies by Moscow's radlophyslcs Institute.
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  • 212 7 TOKYO Police distributed a new wanted poster in another attempt to solve the biggest i highway robbery in Japanese history. For nearly 2 years, police have been searching all Japan for the lone male bandit who hijacked a bank delivery car and escaped with
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  • 508 8 QNE of the stated objects of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's current tour of the various countries was that he was going to observe and study the methods adopted by various governments for the improvement of their countries, in India, which he visited Just after Ceylon and Just
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  • 653 8  -  Br Frank Mankiewicz,Tom Braden f|NLY Howard K. U Smith, the ABC newsman, knows whether he or one of his superiors is at ultimate fault for the atrocious example of bad taste by which following the California elections in 1962 Alger Hiss was produced before the nation to
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  • 541 8  -  By Anthony Winning, PRANCE'S Illicit heroin trade with the United States is a multi million dollar affair, according to a top American antinarcotics official Nevertheless, Mr. John T. Cusack, Regional rirector here tor the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics, has never been more confident of smashing the
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  • 151 8 HONG KONG Chinese Communist leaders said today the revival of Japanese militarism has brought "serious threat* to Asian peoples including Chinese and Korean people, Radio Peking reported today. The radio, quoting a joint message signed by Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. Vice-Chairman Lin Piao and Premier
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  • 832 9  -  By Murray Olderman LBERT SPEER realised how much the world had passed him by the morning after he was released from Spandau prison four years °go^ "We were driving through Berlin to the airfield," he recalls. "I asked to be driven a little oround the
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  • 341 9 DOCTOR'S MAILBAG IF year child'i speech distorted or slow to develop, the cause may be physical (deafness, a deformity of the lips or palate) or functional (poor health in the first two years of life, inadequate teaching or imitation of poor speech). Frustration resulting
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  • 658 10/11  -  By Adam Lynford HONG KONG, 11 in just 15 years, has built homes for a third of its four million and trebled its water reserves to 50,000 million gallons. By 1975 every second person will be living in a governmentbuilt homes and water storage
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  • 592 10/11 TOKYO THE concept of travel overseas is very new to the mass of the Japanese and it is producing some strange reactions. Today they are travelling all over the world in large numbers and with plenty of money to spend. But many
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1804 12 LOOKING AND LISTENING.... fr radio guide from Ike Carroll Righter Institute GENERAL TENDENCIES: A moat curious day and evening filled with contradictory planetary influences— but if you avoid going off on tangents and carry on in a conventional and conservative fashion. you can accomplish much of value and please one
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  • 696 13 "CROMWELL" As uoos os the party leaders has left his presence, the King sat down to study Pym's document. Henrietta Maria rose: "It is not too late, My Lord. You have the power still, and, with God's help the strength to use that power." Charles frowned,
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    • 92 13 In these columns, the story begin* from Episode Two. The last scene of Episode One in "Cromwell" shows parliamentarians filing out after presenting their demands to the King. "17 7 m 3 3 J 2 2 v •!!i f c -1» t J f c 3 C 11 s!!! D
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • Students' page
    • 343 14 ...w. .< i WASHINGTON, A specialized telescope lor studying the sun, the first of a new geteration, has gone into operation in the United States. Called a solar vacuum tower telescope, the inItrument perches atop a ).200-foot (2,804-metre peak in the mountains overlooking Alamogordo, New Mexico. It
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    • 209 14 Many of us live from day to day and from year to year without any outstanding event Everyday we go through the same routine and our lives are so ruled by habits that hardly needs thinking. Such people might live to be a hundred, yet there would
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    • Article, Illustration
      686 14 WHENEVER I look at the sea, my mind would recall an incident which happened a few years ago. Everyone knows that the sea Is a large area filled with water but who knows It can bring disasters to ships and human beings occassional^? The sea Is merciless
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    • 187 14 r***E^AY*OONT^T: 1 Rules to observe The Eastern Sun's essay writing contest tor boys and girls off 14 and under (Junior) and boys and giHs over 14 (Senior) appears in this page ffrom Monday to Friday. Prize money It: SIC for Senior* end $5 for union to/ every essev published AH
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  • 282 15  -  THURSDAY FOOD By Ruth Bakalar TTAM makes a glorious entree, no matter what shape it's in whole or half, bone-in or boneless, smoked dry, tenderised, or canned. You'll present It proudly at dinner, arrange it grandly on the buffet, enjoy it hot, cola, and down to
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  • 558 15  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ana: As a reader who has been annoyed by your strong advocacy of an active sex life as part of every marriage (even in the golden years), it affords me great pleasure to quote to you a REAL authority who does
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 399 16 The overnight's spate of brisk activity la the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday was shortlived and transactions were reluctantly reduced in a steady market although operators committed themselves cautiously in hoping to boost more speculation. Industrlal almost had all-round support but dealings wer e still
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    • 79 16 Tllh noon prtffi at the Hlnnpore Chltf»f fciebange MitcriB) (MUlllt Oil Produce »er«: O B.) Bulk 51 00 iiHimoi (Mi (F OB.) Oiu 53.50 M Copra SO 00 Mumok Whlti rsw, 1*5-00 Kit raw nil Wblt« ivppfr UK 50 fcurawak HperlaJ Bfark Prppar (FOB) 157 50 Loniyoni Hprrltl (FOB
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    • 270 16 September first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 49-3/4 rents per lb. down 5/8 cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. Opening quotations were marked down fractlonlly following lower London advices. The market
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    • 122 16 HONG KONG Wednesday's currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): < Bayers) (Sellers) 196 197 per 100 Straits dollars 151 153 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 74 6.75 per Australian dollar 340 360 per 1.000 Burmese kvats 460 480 per 1,000 Indian rupees 135 li>s per
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    • 34 16 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 773.14 20 Transp 138.15 15 Utilities 110.24 65 Stock 242.40 40 Bonds 64.79 Commodity Futures index 147.53
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    • 656 16 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business In the Sing spore and Kuala Lumpor trading rooms at the Stack Exchange yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS B 8 Aeau L3S 1M Atinoraolo 2.10 Alcan LM 1.40 Allied Choc. 2.86 ZSI Ben. LB6 1.07 124 1.25 Borneo 1.65
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    • 802 16 BrSINESS done In and reported to the trading rooms of the Stork Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS Alcan $1.38 (3) $139 (1); DIM $1.40 (1) $1.41 (1); Ben. $1.06 (6); DIM
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    • 35 16 MANILA The Philippine peso floating rate was quoted at 6.34 pesos against one U.S. dollar compared to Tuesday'i rate ol 6.328 ©esos. Sales were 100,000 U S. dollars in the Interbank Currency Market.
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    • 341 17 SYDNEY Price levels In all sections of the market dropped on Sydney Stock Exchange Wednesday. International mining slumped to a low of $1.95 about midday before progressing slightly in the afternoon to close at $2.15, still 20 cents down on Tuesday's close. Many of the speculative
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    • 80 17 SMR. Weekly Review for week ending, September 4. The differential* given below are in terms of RSS 1 for the corresponding month. SMR SCV September Pallets 2 cents premium nominal. SMR SLV September Pallets 2.1/4 cents premium nominal. SMR 5L September Pallets 1.3/4 cents premium nominal. SMR
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    • 474 17 AKKIVALS l-4-'» a m MM 185 Kuala Lumpur 1U t m MsA Its Kuala Lumpur Mm 458 Kuala Luuipur 11 •-*> a m MsA 454 Prnani, Kuala Lompur 11.50 am. Ms* 80S Jakarta 130 p.m KIM 451 Kuchlng S-JOpm. MsA 081 Kuala Lumpur. Malacca •■l5 pm MsA 56*
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    • 157 17 KEF Electronics Ltd, an Inter nationally wellknown firm in the field of hi-fi equipments is introducing a new range of loudspeakers in kit form The Managing Director Mr. Raymond E. Cooke is at present in Singapore to increase the sale of his loudspeakers and explore overseas distribution
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    • 74 17 THE Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthing arrangements for today, Sept. 10. ARRIVALS Godowns Vessels 47 Fern brook 46 Brorlver 5 Houan Maru 45 Jozef Conrad 42/43 Ling Yung 13/14 Edgar Andre 20 West Giang Ann 33/34 Chenab 31/32 Nlenburg DEPARTURES Godowiis Vessels 6/7
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    • 162 17 The Orient Airlines Research Bureau is organising the second Air Transport Course from 10-23 September at the Singapore Hilton. The OARB. set up in September 1966, Is an autonomous organisation of international airlines representing 10 countries in the orient. The airlines are Air Vietnam, Cathay Pacific
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    • 13 17 The tin price for yesterday was $6541 per plcul up $ll.
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    • 123 17 SITUATIONS VACANT Singapore Association (or the Blind Invites application* (or the post of TEMPORARY TEACHERS Applicants should be below 35 Mlnlnufm qualification School Certificate Preferably with soma teaching experience or experience with handicap. In writing to he Acting Seqretary-General Singapore Association for the BUnd. 51. Toa Payoh Ru*e, Singapore 11.
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 943 19 CL 1 Div. I—6 Furs. hlr «y Auric R Breuk. iiifi Need Tee M, 4 y t-ii HT Wee E Breuk 2;i ?!S Auric R Breuk 9UZZ I?*!!" 1 ,#7 J° on Breuk. *9?s* ®y Lucky Victory J Donnelly 1141 »T *Ol Chukell Tulloh 16®W
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    • 133 19 NEW YORK Standings of Major League baseball teams after Tuesdays games: NATIONAL LEAGUE Eastern Division W. L. GB Pittsburgh 75 66 New York 74 66 i Chicago 74 67 I St. Louis 67 75 8| Philadelphia 65 76 10 Montreal 60 80 -4| Western Division W. L. GB
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    • 116 19 WEMBLEY. England Englishman Joe Bugner stopped New Jersey boxer Chuck Wepner In the third round of a 10round non-title heavyweight bout last night when a cut over Wepner*s eye forced th«referee to halt the fight. The 20-year-old Bugner who weighed In at 215 pounds waded Into Wepner, 10
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    • 200 19  -  By Our Racing Correspondent T/'UALA LUMPUR Trainer Colin Tulloh's pair, Better Than and Bright Sky provided an interesting trial here this morning. Clapping on the pace from the 4f post, the pair raced stride for stride to run the last 3f in
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    • 86 19 HONG KONG The Hong Kong Football Association (HKFA) will invite the Brazilian Soccer Club Santos for which Pele and other world cup winners play, for a match here next year. An undisclosed commercial organisation was reported willing to sponsor the match. Santos, with king of
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    • 24 19 LONDON Result* of Irish League Ulster Cup football matches played last night. Cliftonville 1, Glen a von 0; Coleraine 3, Crusaders i.
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    • 112 19 TOKYO Japanese Featherweight Champion Kunakl Shibata last night had too much speed for South Korean champion Kim Hyun and easily punched hla way to an easy un- anlmous decision In a non-title 10 round bout at Korakuen Hall. There were no knockdowns although Shibata. ever the aggressor.
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    • 34 19 LONDON. Results of Rugb v matches played last night RUGBY LEAGUE Dewsbury 14 York 10. Hull Kingston Rovers 26 Burrow 0. RUGBY UNION CLUB MATCHES: Newbridge <5 Neath 11. Penryn Sale 3.
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  • 202 20 More than 2,000 students smashed their way into the Thai National Assembly (Parliament) grounds yesterday. The students swarmed through the grounds and forced entry into the parliamentary clubhouse where they looted the liquor store. The students held the manager of the parliamentary club at
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  • 140 20 Malaysians were extracted from a car which tumbled 200 feet down the slope of Mount Faber late yesterday evening. Tan Ah Tack. 24, th« driver, and the passenger Chal Kam Fong 22, were admitted to the General Hospital. The condition of
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  • 44 20 Po,,ce officers of the Sepoy Lines, Accidents Branch and Field Transport Unit examining the car... which came to rest on its side following the tumble. Policeman (top picture) watches at the scene near the ran on the top stretch.
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  • 218 20 Malaysia- Singapor Airlines has been assessed by the Orient Airlines Research Bureau as Number Four In the 10 -nat on membership line up, the Minister for Communications said last night At a dinner to mark the second conference of OARB conference beginning In
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