Eastern Sun, 14 September 1970

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents Estd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1446 Monday, September 14, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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  • 548 1 5 Govts meefing in Berne B E E Delicate diplomatic activity was stepped up in at least five world capitals yesterday as involved government sought to free about 40 hijack hostages still held by Arab commandos at a secret desert hideout in Jordan.
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  • 175 1 I USAKA —President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia has warned that Britain would destroy the Commonwealth If it resumed arms sales to South Africa. Speaking at an official reception here Saturday night, he described the Commonwealth as a multi-racial organisation which had a
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  • 240 2 A PROMINENT local lawyer has urged the Government to explore the feasibility of building waterways across the reclaimed lands In Singapore. This scheme la no more a theory but an actual fact accomplished successfully and profitably. Mr. T. W. Onf was commenting
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  • 125 2 A team of five senior officials from the Port of Singapore Authority left here for Kotterdam last night. They will be ruests of the Dutch Government for a month la an Interview at the Airport, the leader of the po«p. Mr. Loh En e
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  • 265 2 TWO excited and "butter-fingered" robbers, after robbing a factory manager of $3,000, dropped $l,OOO in their haste to escape. The robbery took place on Saturday afternoon when Mr. Chon Cheong Yew, 59, manager of United Chinese Engineering Works Co. (Pte.) Ltd., was returning
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  • 209 2 TWO men died and two others were seriously Injured In separate road accidents on Saturday. Police are appealing for witnesses in both cases. The first accident occurred at 7 p.m. when a motorcyclist, Kisud bin Siram, 59. of Kheara
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  • 135 2 BANGKOK Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman arrived here yesterday looking relaxed after an overnight holiday at northern Thailand's hill resort of Chiang Mai. The Tunku la making his last foreign visit as Malaysia's head of government before he step# down from office
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous

  • 210 3 QIGNS of discontentment are showing up among waitresses and waiters trained by the Government's Hotel and Catering Centre. Many waitresses ond waiters who hold certificates from the Centre claim that these have not done them any good besides getting them jobs in
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  • 243 3 I>OLICE had a hard time yesterday trying to free a 10-year-old girl whose foot was trapped in the flush basin of a toilet Firemen were finally called and Miss Tan Siew Eng was freed. She was treated
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  • 241 3 SINGAPORE women generally prefer to look trim to please their men at the ex- pense of their child's development during Infancy. Housewives generally shrugged off when inviewed about unnecessary fears over the disappearance of breastfeed ing. Prof, Wong Hock Boon, Head of Paediatrics at
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  • 267 3 SPIRITUAL organ 1sations In Singapore can do much to help bridge the "generation gap". They can do this with understanding and love, said the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education, Mr. Mohamed Ghazali Ismail. He was speaking at the opening
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  • 204 4 LOS ANGF3.ES Thirtyfive persons were injured yesterday when fire swept through a four-storey bote!-apart-ment building in Los Angeles. Fire officials said there were no known fatalities in the pre-dawn bla/e but bodies may be found when the debris cools. Fleeing from the flames, residents
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  • 494 4 TOHORE BAHRU The disappearance of "a vital and highly relevant" letter, allegedly favourable to the accused, Lee Wong Tiang, yesterday highlighted the Esther Chan murder trial. The dead girl's mother, Singapore-registered dentist Madam Ng Miau Kee, came under heavy
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  • 190 4 MANILA A youth leader was sentenced to death for the murder of two student activists. on e of whom was suspected by youth groups of being a "double agent" for the America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Convicted of murder was Alfonso Btbllano, 18.
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  • 54 4 NAIROBI. The Lusaka Non-Aligned Conference «i| "well peepared** w ith a "minimum of friction and conflicting opinions" during its discussions, Singapore Premier Lee Kuan Yew commented. Soeaking during a stopover on his way from Lusaka to Caicw, lide claimed that any differences which arose at the
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  • 74 4 The anti-lilter laws imposing heavy fines apparently do not deter hawker* from dumping garbage in back lanes. However, back lane hawker* are to be phased out soon and resetllea in special Government-constructed hawker centre* with proper sanitation and nisposM system. Until this programme is completed,
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 196 5 JJONG KONG A Japanese banker and a Korean businessman allegedly involved in a 5515.3 million fraud case are being sought by Japanese police in Hong Kong, a newspaper reported. The 'Hong Kong Standard' claimed four top Japanese detectives arrived
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  • 95 5 HONG KONG A squad of Communist Chinese soldiers has crossed the Sino-Bri-tish border of Shum Chun in search of a Chinese refugee who swam over the river on Saturday. An English newspaper. •South China Sunday Post-Herald' said, "The Chinese People Liberation Army (PLA)
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  • 58 5 MANILA A ferry with 38 persons aboard sank In heavy seas whipped up by Typhoon Georgia In its path across the Philippines. The National Disaster Control Centre reported all persons were still missing after the ferry sank off the central east coast of Luzon Lsland
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  • 395 5 World's Fair closes SENRI HILLS, Japan Expo *7O, Japan's greatest shew on Earth, closed yesterday, leaving the problems of what t€ do with the 815-acre site and how to spend the profits. Asia'* first World Fair ended Its record-break-ing *l* months in an
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  • 182 5 MANILA Lawyers of defeated presidential candidate Senator Sergio Osmena declared recounting of several ballots in the November elections hare shown massive cheating. The lawyers disclosed th* Presldenta) Electoral Tribunal which is handling the petition of Osmena. hare found that many ballots in the southern Philippine
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  • Article, Illustration
    75 6 The scene resembles a gigantic chicken run but it is actually the site of construction work at Frankfurt's new Rhine-Main Airport in West Germany. The rows and rows of corrugated iron pipes covered by dozens of small steel wires are to be embedded in concrete later. A
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  • 65 6 CONNIE STEVENS would like to break up her professional image as a sweet young thing and remove forever her 'Little Miss Goody Two-shoes' portrait. Helping her toward that goal is this climatic scene where, with a gun in hand, she is reacting to being shot in "The Grissom
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  • 110 6 CAIRO The playboy lives of two hijackers who helped to blow up a jumbo jet were disclosed yesterday. The men. posing AH free-spending Senegalese, lived up in Amsterdam's best hotels to "cover" their pro-Palestine activities. The operation co*t them 557,200, the Egyptian Press reported. Their priie: The
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  • 294 6 JERUSALEM Israeli security forces have arrested scores of Arabs in Israeli-held territory during the weekend. This was apparently in connection with the airline hostages the Arab guerrillas hold in Jordan. Police sources described the roundup, carried out on Friday and Saturday
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  • 472 6 THREE ARAB COMMANDOS KIDNAPPED' IN LONDON LONDON A group claiming to act on behalf of th e Jewish Defence League declared It had 'kidnapped* three members of '.he Palestinian guetrilla AlFatah movement However, the Jewish Defence League officially denied responsibility. An anonymous telephone call to a
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  • 246 6 SEOUL On December 11 last year, a South Korean Airlines' (KAL) plane was hijacked to North Korea. i Nine months and two days after the incident, the North Korean communists still hold the plane's four crew members and seven passengers. With government backing, airlines,
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  • 203 7 •pOKYO Joponese police disclosed left-wing students orrested in onti-goYernvnent demonstrotions hoye odmitted discussing the possibility of kidnapping foreign diplomots in Tokyo. However, the National Police Agency stressed it did not believe the discussions ever got as far os a serious plot. Police were commenting
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  • 59 7 SAIGON A five-ton US- army truck smashed mto a buhHnm cm a highway north »f Saigon. killing 11 Vietnamese civilian* and injuring five. The accident happened on Saturday on Highway 2A near the village of Tan Dink, IS miles north of the capital. U.S. officials
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  • 35 7 MIAMI Florida Veteran snake-handler William Haast was In critical condition after hi 112 th snake bite. Haast, owner of the Miami Berpentarlum, was bitten by a Malayan pit viper at his laboratory.
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  • 63 7 VENICE declared a day af alarming far the 35 victims of the freak taraada which ■wept thraagh the aity's waterfront and •■Uying regie** More than 151 people were injured when it struck Lida de ieaala Peainrala an the aorth-east cdft af Venice. Twa children with their nthrr
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  • 178 7 NEW YORK Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents from New York to Florida searched for a 6win* housekeeper who Is believed to have kidnapped the daughter of two college professors. Anna Frolich. 54. was last seen on Thursday morning when she drove away
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  • 35 7 Concentrated octane fuel explodes into m fireball as Australian troops clear rice paddies near Nui Dat, Vietnam. Authorities believe the paddies were used to crow rice for the Vietcong. (TPI radiophoto). UPI radiophoto.
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  • 200 7 SAIGON American helicopter gunshlpa opened fire on two sampans sishted In a restricted area killing three Vietnamese civiliana and wounding four more, the U.S. Military Command announced. Permission to open fire was granted by South Vietnamese authorities after crewmen of the hel corters
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  • 65 7 SYDNEY Clgarettesmoking appears to age a person's lungs prematurely by about 10 years, a world authority on the ageing process warned. President ol the Inter, national Association of Oeronotology, Dor. Nathan Shock, disclosed research showed, however, that six to 18 months after a person Eve
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  • 602 8 |T is still not clear whether the closing down of the British Broadcasting Corporation's offices in New Delhi and the expulsion of its correspondent from India was done in a huff or whether it was the end result of a series of circumstances. The Indian government's antagonism
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  • 727 8  -  HEALTH food it •till one of Hie big topics in the United States. By Art Buchwald, Hollywood it cn a new kick", said Larry Gelbart, a TV writer who was filling me in on the latest American fads. "First it was psychiatry, then it was dieting and
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  • 552 8  -  Letter C. K. Leong. IN June this year, the Minister for Health, Mr. Chua Sian Chin, spoke on protective duty at the opening of a factory CPM/ Pacific Private Ltd;# manufacturers of animal feed machinery equipment and spares. The gist of the speech bv the
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    • 58 8 Foreign new® and features appearing in all edition* of the Eastern Sun and The Sun are from: Renter*. United Press International, A|te nee Prance Presse Kdltora Press Syndicate. Newspaper Knterprlse Association. PuitlKhrn Hall Syndicate Lot Angeles Time* Syndicate Gemini News Service, North American Newspaper Alliance First Features Inter Press Features
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  • 639 9  -  BEHIND THE MIDDLE EAST CEASEFIRE LINES By Mounir B. Abboud WHIUS world attention Is focused on the uneasy progress 01 the Middle East ceasefire, life goes on almost as usual for the man-ia-the-street behind the former lighting lines. Gemini News Service correspondents, alive to the
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  • 339 9 DOCTOR'S MAILBAG Q—Can a man who Is a confirmed alcoholic stop drinking suddenly without any ill effects? Would excessive drinking cause him to lose his appetite and lose weight? A—Because sadden withdrawal at alcohol from a heavy drinker often causes the shakes and may
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  • 550 10/11 Launching of Donation Draw The Chairman of the Singapore AntiTuberculosis Association Council, Mr. Richard L i m Kee Ming, (standing) launched the SATA 1970 Donation Draw at a buffet lunch at the Singapore Hilton on Saturday. On his left is Mrs. Miranda Eu, Chairman of the SATA Draw
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1809 12 LOOKING AND radio guide [CARROLL RIOHTER'S (root the CarroM Rigkter lastilnt* GENERAL TENDENCIES: Tomorrow** Ml lfbon fires special significance to today's aspects. You are able to make long-range plans in business and at the same time reduce interest in unimportant matter* to make your goal a workable success. Th« daytime
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  • 1156 13 HMHHI Film version of "CROMWELL" FOR twelve years of his reign, King Charles I ruled without aid of Parliament, and heavily under the influence of his Catholic wife, Henrietta Maria. With Parliament recalled to vote money for an army to fight the Scots rebels, the puritans,
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 133 13 ORGANISATION □EON ***** Now Showing No Free List 11 am. 1.30, 4. 8.30, 9.30 pm Voi Can't Win Tm All" rony Curtis, Charles Bronson P Vision, Color, Columbia RCHARD-***** HI'RRY! HI'RRY! BEE IT NOWI BEFORE IT'B TOO LATE! 3 Shows: 1.45 B.lft H.!M» Cash Booking* Only: 4dm: SI.AU IX Ml
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    • 214 13 SHAW I SB ISATION LID O Phone ***** 4 Now showing:—No Frae Uil 11 M, 1.30 IJI A Ml l>m Van Clecf "Sabata" Technicolor ft Scope IDA) CAPITOL PHonr Last Day! No Free List 11. IJO. 400 0.30 pa David Chiang "Vengeance** (A SHAW PRODUCTION* Mandarin id Scopo. Color OPENS
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  • 397 14 Recsßeetlng the derfal memories *f my last year's holiday*, I re—ember ksv lucky 1 was to TU( my ancle la Penang. I was living with my ancle is his restaarant and we had a neighbour, a sea-captain named MacMUlaa. He used to come to my ancle's house.
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  • 318 14 Ik s gang SCIENCE NOTES -ui-amm,.* WASHINGTON: Using a mysterious electronics effect a group of American researchers has "J tra-hlgh frequency (UHF) ram waves yet achieved by a solid-state device. The effect occurs In certain silicon devices, technically known as avalanche diodes, when they are placed in
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  • Article, Illustration
    758 14 Two essays from xtodrnte of Cedar Girls School. KILLING, robbing, kidnapping and hijacking arc all forma of crime. In a poor thcac are very m—io» hecanoe people are forced to commit crime die to poverty. B nt, crLgg which are eftew described no aflamt (In fact crime ta more
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  • 216 14 THE AduK Education Board and Radio Television Singapore are jointly presenting a series of eight lectures on "Singapore in the commencing today at 8.00 p m at the Cultural Centre Theatre. The schedule for the course to m follows:1. Changing International Scene of the
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  • 183 14  -  DATE by Ele, Walt Dulaney Dear Be and Walt: 1 received a letter that •aid I'd get rood luck if I made ten copies of it and sent it to friends. If I didn't, however, I'd get bad luck. The letter was signed so I
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    • 193 14 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe Tk# Eastern Sun's essay writing contest for boys and girts of 14 and under (Junior) and boys and girls ever 14 (Senior) appears in tfcie pat* Hon Monday to Friday. Pttae money it: SIC tor Seniors and $5 for luniora tor ev«ry mav published A|
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  • 234 15  -  By Marianne Pereira rpiIERE'S a certain little gift shop in town bursting at the seams, and yet the owner makes regular trips to India and Nepal just to All it up. "Indian and Nepalese jewellery and home decorative articles sell like hot cakes these
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  • Article, Illustration
    437 15 DEAR ANN: Since J ou favour sharp amendment of all abortion laws which are "archaic, inhuman and discriminatory against the Poor," rd like to offer a brief rebuttal, based on testimony heard in Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Mass. Dr. William A. Lynch of Boston had this to
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  • 46 15 BLACK and white is back in fashion. In fact it was never out! The shiny jersey black pants are widely flared, and the long sleeved, tunic style top is in zingy black and white floral. Eastern Eastern Sun picture.
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  • 461 16 XJONG KONG Increosed insurance premiums being brewed for international air carriers ond extra money to be spent on anti-hijacking measures cast a dark shadow on the air travel industry last week in the wake of air piracy in the Middle East. The President of the
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  • 120 16 SYDNEY An Aus-tralian-developed microtomy knife sharpener, used in medical and biological research, has found good sales in Asian and other world markets. The Australian equipment sharpens microtome knives by lapping them on fixed abrasive. This yields a high-quality edge in a fraction of the time taken
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  • 301 16 A BRITISH research metallurgist, Mrs. Marion McQuillan, sees aluminium as a potential replacement for mild steel in -the automotive She told a Metals Congress in Melbourne, that the big moment In the development of aluminium base alloys did not come and go with the
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  • 139 16 TOKYO Toyo Kogyo Co., makers of rotary engine automobiles In Japan, and t-he Ford Motor Co. of the United St ates have reached agreement for a capital tie up according to Mainlchl shimbun. The newspaper said the disclosure was made by Kohal Matsuda, president of Toyo Kogyo. on
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  • 575 16 AS a mountainous nation of Islands. Japan has from the distant post relied upon the sea as a principal channel of transportation, both among its own Islands and with the outside world. In recent years, this channel has taken on increasing importance with the start
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 56 17 SEOUL Prime Minister Chun* 11-Kwon told the National Assembly here that his government was considering easing the present total ban on trade with Communist countries and allowing trading with East Europe. But he added the South Korean government was not considering the possibility of establishing
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    • 460 17 LQNDON The stock market failed to break out from the narrow range that has been taming prices for weeks and trading ebbed while investors waited for signs of government action to trim roe economy. The index ended the five sessions at 339 8 just 1.0
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    • 477 17 AKKIVALB 144 am MSA ISA Kuala Lumpur 10« am MSA SMO Colombo K Lumpur THi am MSA IU Kuala Lumpur S-lo a m MM 45* Kuala Lumpur 1106 a m MsA 454 I'mang. K Lumpur 11 60 am MSA 808 Jakarta ISO pm MM 451 lochia! 8.16 pan
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    • 491 17 Weekly review PRICES wilted again in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore last week in rather flimsy trading. If not for the lower priced shares which came in for bullish interest, the market would almost face a bleak period. Turnover slid with daily transactions slightly above the
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    • 39 17 LONDON, The value of Britain's wool textile export* In the first seven months of this year rose to £4I.J million (Ss3oo million > an improvement of more than £1 m'l .on Ss37o on 1969 at t/iu> taue.
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 301 18 IRON CONTEST f OLUMBUS, Ohio Sandor Holes reiter of Hungary set o world record Saturday night on his way to becoming the 1970 flyweight champion in the world weightlifting championships here. The first day of competition at Mershon Auditorium on the Ohio State University campus opened
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    • 151 18 BIEGEN, West Germany Results of the eighth round of the World Chess Olympics (unfinished games bracketed): GROUP ONE: Spain Poland 1.5: 1.5 (1) Greece Faroe lalands 2:1 (1) Peru Monaco 4:0 Dominican Republic Soviet Union 0:4 Tunisia Australia 0:3 (1) GROUP TWO; Canada Hongkong 3:0 (l)
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    • 99 18 COLUMBUS, Ohio Results of the flyweight division of the world weightlifting championships Saturday night. Overall Winner: S. Holczreiter, Hungary, 342.5 points. Second: W. Szoltysek, Poland. 330third V. Smetanin US.S.R., 330- fourth: S. Del Rosario, Philippines. 322.5- fifth; Z. Smalcerz, Poland, 317.5- sixth: C. D e p th i os,
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    • 358 18 LONDON. Results of English and Scottish football matches played Saturday were: Scottish Division One Aberdeen 0 St. Johnstone 0; Ayr United 1 Kilmarnock 1; Celtic 2 Rangers 0; Cowdenbeath 1 Hibernian 4; Dundee United 3 Dundee 2; Falkirk 0 Airdrieoninas 2; Hearts 3 Dunfermline Athletic 0; Motherwell
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    • 155 18 Nicklaus takes 3shot lead AKRON. Ohio, British open champion Jack Nicklaus had a masterly four-under par 66 (34-32) at the Firestone Country Club here Sunday to take a three-shot lead in the first round of the ninth annual world golf series. PGA winner Dave Stockton, with a one. under par
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    • 1121 18 LONDON English and Scottish football learue tables after Saturday's matches were: English Division One P W D L F A pi Leeds United 8 6 1 1 13 8 11 Manchester City 5 2 0 10 2 12 Crystal Palace 8 4 3 1 7 2 11
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  • 1022 19  -  By Our Racing Correspondent K Duneorn confidently ridden by Llye Horbndge, provided the biggest shock when he won the doss five division one event over 7f. to poy $436, the highest dividend in o doy of good priced winners here yesterday. The day began with
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  • 642 19  -  By LESLIE NAKASHIMA TOKYO Hawaiian sumo wrestler Jesse Kohaulua was in high spirits yesterday, determined to make a strong comeback in the 15day tournament which opened at the Kokugl- kan Stadium. He made a miserable •hawing of five wiivs and 10 losses In the lam
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  • 205 19 LYTHAM ST. ANNE'S British Ryder Cup Golfer Brian Huggett equalled the course record as he swept to victory in the £lO.OOO (5572,000) Dunlop Masters tournament yesterday. Huggett fired a shattering last round of 65 to equal the one-year-old record, set by Ireland's Christy O'Connor and carried
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 44 19 TT TOTAL POOL: ($9,371) Ist Prime No: *****5 ($2,119) 2nd Prise No: *****0 ($1459) 3rd Prime No: *****3 579) Starters ($B2 each) Nos: *****3 *****1 *****6 *****9 *****0 *****8 *****4 Consolation ($5l each) Noa: *****8 *****0 *****7 *****8 *****9 *****0 *****3 *****1 *****9 *****7
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  • 105 20 The aircraft parked on the sand at a World War Ii airstrip in the Jordanian desert minutes before the dynamite charges were tired. The passengers had already been evacuated. The BOAC VC-10 is on the left. The hostage passengers were driven away
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  • 237 20 117 ASHING TON— The United States is considering providing Israel with substantial amounts of eeonomic aid and expects to make a decision on Israeli requests in the very near future, according to the Secretary of State William P. Rogers. "We are quite aware
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