Eastern Sun, 24 September 1970

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  • 19 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily Eitd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1455 Thursday, September 24, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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  • 298 1 AN ultimatum has been given by the Food, Drinks and Allied Workers Union to the management of Hotel Malaysia to meet their terms or face industrial action, including strike, by noon today. This was decided last night at a meeting of
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  • 950 1 jgEIRUT King Hussein of Jordan gave Palestinian guerrillas a four-point pragrr.rnme yesterday which, he said, they should follow if they wanted a return to peace. His speech was broadcast over Amman Radio as the civil war became exactly a week old. The radio
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  • 277 2 Public-spirited taxi driver Lim Cheng Hear who trailed a hit-and-run motorist until the man "surrendered*' himself at a police station received his certificate of commendation from the Ag. Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police yesterday. Lim. a father of It, received his certificate frotn Mr. Yeoh
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  • 344 2 TOHORE BAHRU The prosecution J in the Esther Chan murder trial could have amplified and enlarged "out of proportion" the feeling of dislike as the motive that led to her slaying, a Singapore psychiatrist told the High Court yesterday. Dr Wong Yip Chong,
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  • 220 2 The Rotary Club of Singapore Is racing against time in a desperate attempt to save a young mechanic from becoming blind. It has almost finalised arrangements to send Khoo Ah Soon, 24, of Toa Payoh, to Auckland. New Zealand, for an operation to remove
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  • 92 2 An accused who complained of the cold of the air conditioned court was allowed postponement of the case till December 21. The fourth District Judge, Mr. D a 11 p Singh left his chambers to personally examine the atmosphere during the hearing yesterday. The accused, Keja Ram Naldu,
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  • 457 4 Tf UALA LUMPUR Tun Abdul Roxok yesterday announced the composition of his 18-man cabinet which include four new faces two new ministers and two assistant ministers and some reshuffle in certain ministeries. His new 20-man cabinet two vocont ministerial posts to be filled later is assisted by seven
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  • 173 4 A young woman who now has permanent "ugly deep-seated scars" on her right heel and thigh after an accident was yesterday awarded $4,548 in damages and costg by th« High Court. Lance-Corporal Miss Tan Pol Beng, 25 a Ministry of Interior and Defence clerk was knocked down
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    • 225 4 s's§"■* t&S f k J V f <*•»«* r v I U Under the most testing j conditions even the toughest l.i. i engine will feel the strain. The result-downtime and money lost No one can afford to have heavy equipment standing idle. But if youve invested in Caterpillar quality,
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  • 315 5 This imposing $7O million building win dominate Singapore! new waterfront skyline. It is the Ocean Building on Prince Street which will replace the building now being demolished. Details of the new building were announced by Mr. R.E.L. Wingate, Chairman of Mansfield and Company yesterday..
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  • 438 5 SINGAPORE and the Soviet Union will study the possibility of further commercial, economic, scientific and cultural ties, according to a joint communique released here yesterday. The communique followed Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's visit to the Soviet Union which ended yesterday. A Singapore spokesman
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  • 412 5 Land prices will continue to escalate as Singapore becomes more affluent, a real estate valuer said yesterday. Greater affluence said Mr. A.I.G. Harding, will bring bigger demand for more and more property of all kinds but on the other hand, there la a real
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  • 80 5 A former police offlrer was yesterday charged in th e Third District Court with negligently firing two rounds from his service revolver. Amanur Rahman, 23. a former probationary ins* Eector, w ag alleged to ave committed the offence on November 10 last year. The shots hit
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  • 241 7 IHNOM PENH Government troops ore meeting stiff resistance os they push slowly towards a Vietcong stronghold blocking roads to the provincial capital ft Kompong Thorn. "The Vietcong know we intend to secure the area and they fire at our men from every illage"
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  • 64 7 More thai 122.000 combat missions have been flows from this air base at Tmy Boa in South Vietnam. Now, the aircraft are being prepared for the flight back to the U.S.A. and the base will be handed over to the South Vietnamese Air Force. Here, a serviceman
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  • 242 7 TOKYO Scientists will fry to rfcttmmc whether water distributed to 200,000 Tokyo homes is linked to a bone disease that hampers the growth of children. Under official scrutiny is s purification plant that lis the main source of drinking water for the
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  • 171 7 MANILA Captured dissident link leader Commander Kumulong is Likely to be charted with multiple murder and rebellion. Informed sources said militar? authorities are already preparing the charges, which carr v the death penalty. Sumulong. 55, who carried a 5J70.000 price on his head,
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  • 80 7 KUCHING A curfew is imposed on certain parts of Sarikei district in Sarawak's highly sensitive Third Division, a polio* spokesman announced yesterday. The spokesman said the curfew went into effect at 0500 local yesterday to facilitate security forces operations. Observers believed this was part
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  • 211 7 WASHINGTON The Nixon Administration m doing everything possible to keep South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky from coming to the United States to participate in the "March for Freedom" on October 3, Congressional sources say. Senator Gordan Allott. •aid after a three-hour
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  • 58 7 PARIS Pep fans trying U get into a Koiliuj ctosked twice Tuesday tight with 1 police, 'at one stage using refrigerators ud wasking Machines to Mock parsuit About 100 youths tried to force their way into the spurts palace to see the British group's
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  • 118 7 WASHINGTON, Ted Kennedy's wife Joan figured she made a mistake last *ear we armg a mini dress to the White House. Yesterday she went there, at a luncheon (or Mrs. Ferdinand Marios, wife of the Philippine president, in a midi. with a
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  • 658 8 81 cuppas in only six hours AUCKLAND An Auckland coffee bar proprietor drank 81 cups of tea yesterday in six hours nine minutes and claimed the world teadrinking record. He said he had beaten the previous record of 80 cups of tea In six and a-half
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  • 239 8 WASHINGTON Russia is still making regular repayment* to the United State for "Lend-lease" material supplied after World Wor 11, the Treasury says. However, Moscow has made arbitrary deductions from the original sum of ***** million because of alleged failure by the U.S. to complete
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  • 54 8 Michael Beer, 7, didn't blow down any houses when he huffed and puffed and blew and blew. He huffed and puffed and filled this giant balloon at a contest in Wilmington, Delftware, U.S.A. He walked avaf with the prize before a puff of wind could blow him
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  • 202 8 MEXICO CITY, Two Russian folk dancers, who defected from the Moiseyev Company for love early this month, claim they are being persecuted by the Soviet Embassy. Alexandre Filippov and Gennadi Vostrikov asked Mexican Interior Ministry authorities to stop their former countrymen from following them
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  • 138 8 BANGKOK About 100 Thai border police have clashed with a guerrilla group believed responsible for the ambush killing of three top Thai officials. Police sources said they had no details of the battle in northern Chiang Rai Province close to the border with
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  • 296 9 YORK A sweeping sea-oir search of the stormy North Atlantic hos failed to turn up any clue to the fote of three balloonists who were trying to Hy to Europe. Three U.S. Coast Guard cutters and a Canadian aircraft are concentrating
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  • 167 9 TRENTON, New Jersey Former Newark Mayor Hugh Addonizio has been sentenced to 10 years in jail and a 5575,000 fine. He had been convicted of one count of conspiracy and S3 of extortion. "The commission of these crimes has the gravest implications for our
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  • 79 9 WASHINGTON President Nixon has decided to resume shipment of heavy military equipment to Greece the State Department announced yesterday. State Department spokesman Robert J. M McCloske v told a news conference: "The resumption of such shipments will enhance the ability of the Greek forces to
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  • 378 9 LOS ANGELES Polk* arrested Charies Man ton and 26 membera of hi* "family" a week after the Tate murders on car theft charges but released them after 72 hoars. Deputy Sheriff William Gleasoa testified at the trial that a pome swooped
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  • 63 9 AH artists are not eccentric but Pauline Guest certainly is. Pauline, 21, It an art student in Sydney* And she eccentricities run to clothes. After a hard day at classes, she likes nothing better to relax in a see-through blouse and a bikini bottom. Some fashion purists say
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  • 680 10 INHERE are many ways of looking at changes of Prime Ministers but two diametrically opposed views have commonly been bandied about. One is that the heads of government may come and go but the destiny of the country depends on its ethos. The other
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  • 764 10  -  By Joseph Alsop, TN October, 1956, the news of the Anglo-Franco-Israeli invasion of Egypt hit the State Department like a bomb. The under secretary of those days, the late Herbert Hoover Jr., responded to the news with outrage, crying out that this Suez war was an
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  • 529 10  -  By David Lawday, THE anti-hero may toon get hit turn in space, superseding the pr«ci|io n-drilled, athletically-built astronaut who hat monopolised space missions so far. Occupants of America's first big space station, which hopefully will be In orbit before 1978, are seen as
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  • 1084 11  -  Drugs in -Part 2 By Jacquie Lee rpHERE is a drug scene in Singapore. It's not the flying, freaked out world of the establishment drop outs of the West. Not yet, anyway. Here's it's more pathetic than fashionab e. A scrawny, sickly opium or
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  • Article, Illustration
    2062 12/13 Answers To The Questions Raised, by the IRAQI NEWS July/, QUESTION: What are Your Excellency's Impressions concerning the earnest struggle waged by the people of South Korea against the U.S. imperialist occupation for the liberation of the South and what are the bases Your Excellency propose for
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  • 646 14  -  BY LEE MUELLER, QF mankind's more ridiculous conventions, the necktie hangs alone, perforated with pins and clips and tacks, loitering against its owner's tummy the way a fake potted palm sits in a hotel lobby. Like the fake plant, the necktie is of
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  • 166 14 HN. HANNOVER "Getting a kick out of fun" is how a proverb runs which stems from the Rhineland and which in Germany is regarded as displaying great joie de vivre. There was great fun for the kids not in the Rhineland but in the
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  • 430 14  -  DOCTOR'S MAILBAG By WAYNE G. BRANDSTADT. Q —l have been taking Mandelamine for chronic cystitis. Whenever I sto B taking the pills 1 have burning on urination. Various tests and a cystoscopy examination have failed to show anything abnormal How is this possible and
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  • 590 15  -  By Harold Hetternan, When you talk to one of the reigning screen beauties, Jacqueline Bisset, you get some confusing ideas of how an actress should approach the cur- rent epidemic undressing for audiences. In spite of a track record highly speckled
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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  • 293 16 Use fingers r on savoury lamb riblets THERE'B more to lamb than leg, shoulder and chops ask any New Zealander. And there's more to cooking tender New Zealand iamb than roast, grilled chops or stew. Next time you think of lamb for dinner, remember
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  • 807 16  -  Ann Landers MAK ANN: Tkii might be the most unusual letter yea have received hi a long while. Ton frequently call on physicians for help. This time a physician Is calling on yon. Please tell me what to do about a 24-year-old daughter who Is
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  • Article, Illustration
    96 17 IT wasn't a fashion show, but It could well have been. The women the cocktail party were beautifully dressed And today the cocktail parties show more of the latest fashion than fashion parades. And our photographer caught Miss Anne Hughes, an accounts executive at Orant« Public Rela- tions anj
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  • 155 17 JUST mention palmistry, crystal balls, tea leaves, cards or numbers when Balb i n a Wo n g is around and she's sure to prick up her ears. Fortune tellinr almost rules the life of this pretty young
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  • 277 17 Looking down from the tenth floor of o building mokes Mrs. Renee Herbert dizzy jumping from 7,000 feet with only one sixteenth of on inch of nylon between her and death is fun. Mrs. Herbert is a sky-diver. And hurtling through the sky
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  • 89 17 THIS IS A SHION a s the fashion world outs i d e S 1 ngapore sees it it s all frills, folds and f 1 o u noes, with a hidden tuck here and there just to give this black orCan i a creation a bit
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1831 18 LOOKING AND LISTENING.... fv and radio guidei I CARROLL VtlGHTER'S from the Carroll Rigktsr Institute GENERAL TENDENCIES: You are able to make longrange plans now that have a good chance of success. So put on your thinking cap and arrange for that c< urse of action that means the most
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  • Students' page
    • 219 19 SAVING our little pocket money is a good habit to cultivate. That is why our government is encouraging people to save as much money as possible in banks, post-offices and finance companies. In olden days, people used to keep their savings in their homes. They
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    • 629 19 rr.RHAFS the greatest privilege of a citisen is his right to share in the government of the country. He can do so by his vote. In the eyes of the law all citizens are broadly speaking, equal. Whatever our station in life, whether rich
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    • 714 19  -  DATELINE By Ele, Walt Dulaney DEAR ELE: I start high school this year and I'm eager to be popular. In junior high everyone thought of me as a brain, and no one asked me for dates. This summer I got
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    • 193 19 ESSAY CONTEST: j Rules to observe i The Eastern Sun's essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under (Junior) and boys and girls over 14 (Senior) appears in this page from Monday to Friday. Ptlr« money it: (IC for Seniors and $5 for I union for every
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  • 365 20 Business in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday was of a routine nature generally with very little inspiration among operators. The industrial section recorded a day of widespread drops and turnover Inclined lower to 1.5 million units. Sentosa was again popularised although with a
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  • 104 20 Mr. Dieter Klemme, Managing Director of Di<*el Electric (M) Pte. Ltd. left Singapore this week on a business visit to Germany, Mr. Klemme will visit the Bosch Engineering factory in Frankfurt. During his visit, he will also hold discussions with the principals. Mr. Klemme who has
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  • 13 20 THE tin price lor yesterday was s66| per picul up 2|
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  • 246 20 October first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 50-1/2 cents per lb. unchanged from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. Better than expected London advices made for an Improved opening but values faltered some i cent
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  • 119 20 HONG KONG Wednesday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Bayers) (Sellers) 196.5 107.& per 100 Straits dollars 149.5 151.5 per 1,000 Taiwan dollars 6.7425 6.7525 per Australian dollar 340 360 per 1.000 Burmese kyats 475 495 per 1.000 Indian rupees 135 155 per
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  • 685 20 BID and offer prices officially listed at the elose of business In the Singapore and Koala Lumpur tradlnt rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS B 8 Acma 1.33 1.34 AJinomoto Mean 1 97 L40 205 1.42 Allied Cho«. 2.74 2 80 Ben. 104 Berjaya 1.19 1.20
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  • 831 20 BUSINESS done In and reported to the trading rooms of the Slock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1 000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS ACM A $134 (2) $1.33 (1); Ajinomoio $2 00 (1); A Iran $l4O
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  • 81 20 THfc noon price* •t the Nincapore (hlnwf Proffnce Kieoinir mterdaj were: 1 <M Oil III oil <1- OB.) Balk 54.00 Coconut Oil O B.I Dram 54 00 M Copra 30 80 MM Muniok Wblt* Pepper (fOB> ***** Harauak Wblt* Pepper 182.00 Sarawak spvcta) Blarb Pepper (FOB.) 107.00 Camp'inti Mpectai
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  • 444 21 SYDNEY Speculative nickels Wednesday fell on Sydney Stock Exchange as a result of increased profit taking. Trading started quietly indicating that buyers were holding off in anticipation of heavy selling. Westrallan Nickel was one exception, moving ahead 40 cents to $6 60 after falling a* low
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  • 196 21 TORONTO Joint mining ventures were discussed last week in talks between a touring 11-man delegation of Japanese mining executives and members of the British Columbia Government Described as a "goodwill visit," the Japanese delegation's tour of Canada lasted 23 days. It Included visits to several
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  • 72 21 8 JUL weekly review for week ending September 18 The differentials fiven below are in terms of RSS I for the corresponding month. SMR SCV October Pallets 1. 1/4 cents premium sellers. SMR 5L October Pallets 3/4 cent premium nominal. SMR SH October Pallets Even money nominal. SMR
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  • 119 21 THK Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthing arrangements for today, Sept. 24. DEPARTURES Godowns Vessels 1/2 Vishva Shobha 3/4 Rajula 10/11 Flintshire 13/14 Atreus 15/16 Asmara 18 Ramoneverett 19 Yamayasu Maru 20 West Ping An 20 East Compass Satu 21 Sea Luck 23/24 Tjimegara
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  • 37 21 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing average on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 747.47 20 T r a n s p 140 36 15 Utilities 107.91 65 Stock! 237 6 40 Bonds 65.31
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  • 81 21 Mr. Robert Aw, 88, (above) sales engineer in charge of the Technical Department (Hydraulics) at William Jacks and Co. (S) Sdn. Berhad, leaves for factor/ training at Wallace and Tirrnan in Sydney and a familiarisation tour of other parts of Australia tomorrow (Friday). William Jacks
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  • 112 21 LONDON Imperial Chemical Industrie* Ltd. (ICI) the largest Industrial complex In the British Commonwealth, announced forming a new offshoot In New York to supervise *nd coordinate ICl's Interests In tHe United States and Canada. The group had a £2l million (Ssls7 million) turnover In the United States last
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  • 72 21 Mr. F. Terwogt, the senior Managing Director of the Royal Inter ocean Lines (Hongkong held discussions with top executives of K.P.M. (Far East) Pte. Ltd. this week a wholly owned subsidiary of the Netherlands Shipping
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  • 217 22 JOHORE BAHRU Several Johore schoolboys hove been singled out to represent the stote side in the confrontation with Singapore for the opening MaLya Cup rugby match on Sent. 26. The students are currently undergoing a rigorous centralised training, the newly appointed President of the Johore
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  • 84 22 SALI&BURG American Negro tennis star Arthur Ashe has been Invited to play here, the Rhodeslan Lawn Tennis Association (RLTA) said yesterday. RLTA chairman Mike Coleye said he wrote Ashe last week asking him to include Rhodesia in his forthcoming African tour which begins in October. But
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  • 103 22 MADRID The world'* top amateur golfers limbered up with a final practice round Tuesday before teeing off In quest of the coveted Elsenhower Trophy. The world championship competition for the cup named In honour of late UJ3. President Dwlght D. Eisenhower, opens at the Puerta de Hlerro
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  • 750 24 A gunman who shot himself in o Too Poyoh flat two months ago rather than surrender to police closing in on him blamed his parents for his life of crime. Tan Chiang Lai, 29, wrote in a suicide note addressed to newspaper readers that
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  • 184 24 SYDNEY Normal gynaecological woife in Britain's hospitals is suffering from the number of abortions being carried out, leading British gynaecologist. Dr. Rusam Feroxe, said yesterday. Dr. Fero7.e will spend five weeks lecturing ami working at a Sydney hospital. "Since abortion laws were liberalised in
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  • 31 24 SAIGON An explosive blast ripped a hole in an American freighter unloading ammunition at a South Vietnamese port yesterday morning, the U.S. Military Command •aid.
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  • 232 24 SEOUL Warning shots were fired last night to turn back Japan Airlines jet from the restricted navigational area over Hie presidential mansion. A government spokesman said the incident was reported to a Cabinet meeting yesterday by Home Minister Pak Kyung Won, but theJAL
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