Eastern Sun, 23 November 1970

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daft 10 cents Istd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1505 Monday, November 23, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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  • 667 1 gINGAPORE must strive to get on better terms with Moloysio and Indonesia and distribute national wealth foirly. These will be her two most important problems in the seventies, the Defence Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, soid yesterday. He was speaking at
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  • 77 1 VATICAN ClTY—Several hundred protest er. s staged three separate demonstrations In Saint Peter's Square yesterday while Pope Paul wa.s making hfs weekly address to pilgrims. The divorce supporters, members of the militant Italian Divorce League, claimed in the manifesto that for five years they had
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  • 33 1 TOKYO Communist China yesterday announced the appointment of an ambassador to the Soviet Union for the first time In four years and the signing of a trade agreement with Russia.
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  • 152 1 ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast Hundreds of European mercenaries are fighting government troops in the streets of Conakry after landing by sea yesterday morning, G u i n e a n President Sekou Toure laid over Radio Conakry. The Guinean president said the battle was continuing. and that
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  • 60 1 The decomposed body of a male Chinese was found at 4.15 p.m. at Pulau Bukom yesterday. He was wearing a white shirt and dark Iroubei's, ami c«*riied 1,0 identification papers on him. He was 5 feet 5 inche« and aged about 23. Any information may
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  • 51 2 Singapore products and services will be on display «t the three-day Nanyang University Economic Workshop Exhibition which will be held from Dec. 4 0 at the Nanyang University Auditorium. Interested parties are requested to contact Prof. T. K. Tan at telephone 6M744 or Prof. M. Woff at telephone
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  • 31 2 Pang Chin Tong. 53. of Cassia Crescent collapsed aad died while walking alone Lorong 1} yesterday. A coffee shop assistant said he saw Pang falling into the monsoon drain.
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  • 345 2 Ponggol Hotel, where the flair for novelty abounds, is one hotel which does not forget its local people. A "holiday resort", manned bv 130 staff and costing over $600,000, it caters for tourists and Singaporeans alike. The two-storey residence and the one-storey restaurant cum nightclub are
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  • 375 2 Reverse 'brain drain' —MP rPHE Government has been urged to start a "brain drain" in reverse to boost thi Civil Service with more highly qualified men. Dr. Augustine H.H. Tan, M.P. tor Whampoa and economics lecturer in the University ot Singapore, said this will enable the civil service to meet
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  • 40 2 A sixty-foot tall tres (ell onto an at tap and wooden bungalow at Changi Point yesterday. The tree fell on the kitchen area damaging the roof and the kitchen. A police spokesman said no one was injured.
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  • 17 2 Armed robbers struck at the Golden Neptune Niteclub and robbed the cashier of $5O yesterday.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 54 2 Around town An exhibition of books and presentation of songs, poems, miino and dances by 36 Katoni Convent girls at opening of Penguin Parade. 7.M p m.—Japanese Cul tnral Language Contest at Victoria Theatre. Toto Draw Sub day Toto Draw: \(K *7. 7. 18. 21. Additional number: 1. Three circle
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  • 133 3 At the colourful opening ceremony, (above) Dr. Chiang said that the different places of worship in Singapore all "testify to the
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  • 250 3 A merry band of "Happy Girls" in Sherwood Forest green uniforms have invaded tbe scene. The girls are members of an outfit called "Happy Girls International", a versatile enterprise specialising in promotional work, public relations and the entertainment. The v will also serve as goodwill ambassadresses, their
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  • 430 3 f ABOUR Minister S. Rajorotnom lost night defended the J Government's labour policies against criticisms that they were designed to help employers at the expense of workers. He said the Employment Act and the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act introduced just over two years ago should
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  • 83 3 A salesman on a night out with his girl-friend had his Toyota car stolen by two men along Buona Vista Road last night. Wong Ken* Chong, 22 of Merpati was sitting In hta car with his girl when two men approached the couple and forced them out
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  • 229 4 TAIPING Rising flood waters forced 10 families to evacuate from their homes in Kampong Tengsh Beria, Selama, 25 miles from Taiping. Th« kam pong was under 5 feet of water. Continuously heavy rain had caused several tin mines to cease operation while low-lying agricultural land*
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  • 37 4 BEIRUT Syria'g new rulers have started building a popular base b| forming a temporary coalition Cabinet drawn from leftist parties. The 26-man Cabinetbilled as "a national front/' was th<» largest in Syrian history.
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  • 421 4 East Pakistan Dacca news media reporting "unofficial but confirmed figures" put the death toll at more than one million persons. The reports disclosed 300,000 perished in Noakhali District, 330,000 in Patuakhali, 200,000 on Bhola Island. 110,000 on Hatiya Island and 100,000
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  • 177 4 BELGRADE Hundreds of Yugoslav worker* escaped when water Hooded HI to Hie building site of Hie Iron Gates Hydro-electric Project being joinrty constructed by Yugoslavia and Rumania on Hie River Danube. Tanjugon, the Yugoslav News Agency, reported the mm, working In the foundation pit
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  • 44 4 TOKYO A Japanese shipping company has hired 10 women as crew members of one of the largest tankers in the world, the Nisseki Maru'. The women, picked from 500 applicants, will be assigned next fall as stewardesses and nurses.
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  • 51 4 BANGKOK Air Chief Mar s hal Chullaspya. Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command, will today lead a 10-man delegation to South Vietnam to discuss withdrawal of Thai troops. Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn announced last that the Government planned to withdraw all its 12.000 troops from there by
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  • 180 4 DACCA The people of East Pakistan were highly critical of their Government for not providing storm warnings before the tidal wave and lack of refuge centres after it, a consulting engineer disclosed. Richard Otto. 47, of Indianapolis, was in Dacca when the storm that took
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 337 5 f ON DON Controversy surrounding Hie crowning o# Grenodo's dusky ktmmfj queen os the new Miss World spilled over info the British Press yesterdoy. The mass circulation, 'News of the World/ published a picture of smiling 22-year-old Jennifer Hosten beside the headline, "Well, is
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  • 276 5 PARIS Tkc Vietnam Peace Talks appeared in danger of at least a temporary interruption after U.S. air raids in North Vietnam. Both sides have accused each other in the new crisis of disregarding the basis on which full-scale peace talks were convened in January
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  • 84 5 FRANKFURT, Germany Two Soriet-bnilt MIG jet-fighters forced a chartered West German airliner carrying 78 persons to land in the E**t African Republic of Somalia. However, the plane was allowed to tale off 75 minutes later and continued its flight hack to Frankfort Crew
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  • 482 7 UK Royal Family 'lost $700,000 on investment' LONDON The 'London Sun 1 reported that Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have lost "probably S$?00,000 or more" in an investment gamble in the past year. "However the Royal Family 1* hardly facing disaster," the 'Sun* stressed. Queen is believed
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  • 253 7 WASHINGTON Ameri- con military commanders have warned that a complete U.S. troop pullout in Western Europe would increase the threat of a nuclear war. This was stated during closeddoor testimony at hearings released yesterday by the Senate Foreign Relations Sub-Committee. Congressmen had called for less
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  • 48 7 About l,tM anti-war demonstrators listen to a speaker during a rally against "genocide" at Hammerskhold Palaza in New York. Twenty six protestors were arrested. Speakers at the rally nrged "a unilateral G.I. ceasefire in Vietnam" on May 1 next year. (UPI radiophoto). UPI radiophoto.
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  • 91 7 LONDON Anyone smoking 24 or more cigarettes m da? rtti a big chance of contracting lun r cancer, the Sunday Times' warned. The newspaper was quoting th e "shock flnding'» from a report by the Royal College of Physicians due in January. "The report emphasizes that
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  • 164 7 ABIDJAN Guinea yesterday claimed that foreign mercenaries, based principally in Portuguese Guinea, landed at Conakry to overthrow the government. According to Radio C >nakry, President Sekou Toure was safe. It broadcasts appeals to forces loyal to the government to support the regime. Guinea has alleged In
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  • 182 7 PARIS British diplomat James Cross, kidnapped by the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ), will die if police discover where he is held, an FLQ leader warned in an interview. However, if he to not found. Cross will be released unconditionally and alive when It it
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  • 96 7 AMMAN The Jordanian Government and guerrillas agreed to significant concessions In an effort to restore peace in th* country. Most of the measures dealt with the removal of Government and guerrilla troops from urban areas and a final decision on the late of 330 guer-
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  • 302 8 lyiTH welcome forthrlghtness Dr. Goh Keng Swee, Minister of Defence, said yesterday that Singapore's relations with her neighbours, Malaysia and Singapore, "Is far from good". This state of affairs exists "in spite of many conferences and meetings, In spite of lofty expressions of high principles and noble sentiments, in
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  • 348 8 IifORALLY, China should now be a member of the United Nations. A majority of 51 nations voted to admit her while only 49 nations opposed China's entry. Quite a large number, 25 nations, abstained. This majority vote not only means that 51 nations want China to enter the
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  • 554 8  -  By Art Buchwald WASHINGTON In the past month we hare seen 15 FBI agents drop out of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York because a professor mode critical remarks about J. Edgar Hoover, the FBl's stalwart leader. Following this, 1
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  • 301 8  -  LET TIMOTHY TAN Judging by the press reports on robberies, It looks like the crime rate In robberies is on an upward surge which I view with great concern. I think the contributory factors in the rise in robberies may be main'.y due to:
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  • 406 8  -  By Ernesto Mendoza, Prosperity is no longer just a full bowl of rice in Hong Kong. Now it can be a bowl of Instant noodles or Danish ham or Australian beet. Consumption of rice is steadily declining as the people's eating habits change and west-ern-style
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  • 471 10/11 Aussie-N.Z. The Australia-New Zealand Association on Saturday held its Fair at the residence of the Australian High Commissioner. Hundreds of men, women and children patronised the Fair which featured various kinds of handicraft, food and games stolls. The proceeds of the Fair will go to the Tampines Home
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1205 12 today's television CHANNEL 5 Opening announcements, followed by General Hospital Daytime serial about the staff and the patients of a hospital. For The Family A magazine series in Tamil. A Diary of Events In Singapore This Week (Tamil) It's Happening In Singapore (Tamil) (Repeat). A series on the life and
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  • 681 13  -  By Dick Kleiner, "Five Easy Pieces" is this year's sleeper smash. This is the one with the lines around the block, with the erudite critical applause, with the profound labels like "revolutionary" and "trend-setting" and "trail-blazing." Only thing is that the director and co-producer, Bob Rafelson,
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  • Article, Illustration
    404 13 In lour separate parts of the wor d, the struggle to prepare for the extraordinary event, the 26-mlle marathon, is beginning for four people, unknown to each other, whose lives will meet for some two hours at the international competition to be held in Rome. Harry Hayes (MICHAEL
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 191 13 Ij L NOW SHOWING! 11 a.m., 1.30. <-30 0.15 John Wayne "CHIBUM" Panavision Color iWB) COMING SOON "A TIME FOR LOVE" (A SHAW PRODUCTION) Mandarin in Scope. Color CAPITOL PHON. ?975<>L Now Showing!—No Free List II am, 1.45. *.OO. 0.3 V, 0.30 War Bailard*" Colorscope I REX SKY AROX Y
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    • 231 13 IMIMVI I aRGAPJISATIOM OOEDN 2 inrii NOW SHOWING! II M, 1.30. I t.M For Hail" Color. Scop* John Qmrto, Margaret Let COMINCII MOM*l 'The ChrUlma* T»eo' William Holden In Color CATHAY 3 3400 1 NOW SHOWING! 11 km. 1.3*. 4.0#. 0.30. 0.30 "U»l In Iki Desert" Color Dirltle Hayes. (Columbia)
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  • 1511 14 A STORY Black clouds ossailed Hie sky ond slowly consumed the smiling sun, adding gloom to Hte street. This sullenness of the atmosphere was reflected in the face of a young man walking along the street. He wore a shabby coat which was no
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  • Article, Illustration
    284 14 During the last school holidays, my parents decided to send me to Selangor to visit my uncle and aunt. My uncle Is a padl planter with a large area of land situated near a river. On a fine morning, 1 packed my clothes and food In a bag
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 185 14 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe Tlic Eastern Sun's essay writing contest tor boys and girls of 14 and under (Junior) and boys and girls orer 14 (Senior) appears in this page from Monday to Friday. Priie money is: SlO for Seniors and $5 for I union ♦or every essay published.
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  • 706 15  -  By Jan Webster I am told that in America they have just set up a society called Fat is Beautiful and I regret that here I have missed the bus. Two mcnths ago I could have been a full (I know what I'm saying) honorary
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  • 609 15  -  ANN LANDERS Dear Ann: I cried when t read the letter from the grandma who said her daughter-in-law (former school teacher) rewrote all her grandson's letters so they would be perfect no mistakes. Something similar happened in my life *nd i
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  • 154 16 LONDON. A House of Commons debate ibis week on immigration will give the government an opportunity to clarify its attitude towards the question of British Asians of East Africa, the Sunday Times said editorially today. "Their case becomes more urgent as time goes on" the pa pes said,
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous

  • commercial and industrial
    • 499 17 MARKET REVIEW ACTIVITY dwindled again on tfce Stock Exchangeof Malaysia and Singapore last week. Sporadic selling was the main depressant In eeveral Industrial Issues in a very weak trading floor. Dealers present in the market were mainly to square up business. Buying Interest were
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    • 518 17 ARRIVALS 1.4* am MSA ISA Koala Lnmpor. MHA ft SO Volnmbo. ft. Lumper. 7 3u am MM A I«1 Kuala l.ntopor. 3tfa.ni M<«A 4 &i Koala Lompor. 11.0* am Msa 4S4 Prntni. Koala Lumpar 11 SO am- MHA tOl Jakarta. 1 30 p.ai MSA 431 Kerb IfL M?A
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    • 247 17 NEW YORK Protectionists and free traders prepared for a showdown fight in tbe senate as a bill that would limit the imports of textile goods into the United States passed the first leg of its journey through congress last week. Some textile industry sources said the
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    • 178 17 Former acting assistant superintendent of Police, Mr. Wong Pang Kiong, has joined the Singapore Hyatt Hotel as Personnel Manager after 14 Sears experience in the ingapore Police Force. Mr. Wong will be in charge of screening and employment of Hyatt personnel, appraisal of their work
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    • 160 17 PRETTY THAI international Air Hostess. 21. year old Vimolsri Ko dart, was among the models in a fashion show at the RS Hotel in Bangkok recently. The show was arranged by th« Thai Samakki group to raise money for the military and police in
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  • 2255 18  -  M Denni Boy DEMAND Draft, a Carbon Copy mare, justified his promotion from Class 5 when he beat the Class 4 Division 1 field over six furlongs here yesterday* She was well ridden by J. Miller. The most impressive win of the day was by Parallel
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  • 62 18 ADELAIDE—Top South Australian jockey Mick Goreham left for Singapore yesterday for a year's riding on the Malaysian racing circuit In recent seasons, Goreham has been number one jockey i n South Australia for top trainer, Bart Cummings. His place with th« Cumming s stable had been taken
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 43 18 Ist Prize No: *****7 ($4,588) 2nd Prize No: *****5 ($1,311) 3rd Prize No: *****5 655) Starters ($l5O each) Nos: *****2 *****7 *****1 *****5 *****5 *****7 *****3 *****8 *****4 *****2 Consolation ($lOO each) Nos: *****3 *****0 *****1 *****2 *****7 *****9 *****4 *****0 *****4 *****7
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  • 424 19 LOMDON Australian Rod Lover returned to winning form with a vengeance when he whipped Cliff Richey of the United States to capture the men's singles titles in Embassy Indoor Tennis tournament here Saturday. Laver emerged from the tennis doldrums to win the 90-minute
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  • 149 19 WEMBLEY, England,—The ILTF-Pepsi Grand Prix points table after Hie Embassy Indoor Tennis Championships: 1. Cliff Rlchey, U S.. 56. 2. Rod L&ver, Australia. 51. 3. (tie) Ken Rase wall, Australia. 49 and Arthur Ashe U.S.. 49. S. Stan Smith. U S 39 d. John N
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  • Article, Illustration
    37 19 HIS PLEA WAB ANSWERED. Armi of this driver appear to be pleading for help as his vehicle flips over after crashing into the wall daring National Kart Championships ta London. Mlraculouily. driver emerged un&tul (rem acd*"*
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  • 237 19 SYDNEY Sydney driver Frank Matich scored an all-the-way win in Hie 35th Australian Grand Prix at Warwick Farm yesterday. Driving his locally prepared McLaren-Repco 108. Matich took the lead from the pole position at the start to beat fellow McLaren driver Niel Allen
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  • 53 19 PERTH Close of play scores on the third day of the Sheffield Shield match between Western Australia and South Australia: South Australia first Innings 574 for 9 declared (B Richards 356 A Lock 4-108) Western Australia first Innings 289 and 141-6 (J Irvine 57 G
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  • 59 19 Beatin' on a piton, Gene Mason works his way up a mountain. Mason Is the only man to climb to the top of the highest peak on each of four continents: North America, South America. Europe and Africa. He recently conquered Russia's Mt. Elbrus, bringing him closer to fulfilling his
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  • 138 19 Badminton BIRKENHEAD, England, Top seeded Danes Erland Kops and Henning Borch crashed to shock semi-final defeats against English opponents in the North of England Open Badminton championships here Saturday. Title-favourite Kops, seven times all-England champion, was beaten 15-11, 15-7 by England No. 2 Derek Talbot.
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  • 153 19 COS FORD, England, —Kenya's Kipchoge Keino Hie woHd outdoor record-hoi dor, cruised to an easy victory in Hie 3,000 metres at Hie Indoor Athletics meeting here Saturday. Keino clocked 7 minutes 58.6 seconds three seconds outside the British all-comers record held by Scotland's lan Stewart, who
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  • 112 19 CALGARY. Danish Thomas Cup players Elo Hansen and Klaus Kaagaard both crashed to unexpected defeats as Canada took a shock 3—l lead on the first day of their International Badminton match here Saturday night. Danish champion Elo Hansen was beaten 15 7. 15—17 15—11 by Jamie Paulson and
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  • 554 20 Orange Free Stole A sex-across-the-colotfi J line scandal involving white citizens and their alleged secret African loves had brought shame and trogedy to this sleepy little homlet. It i< the Wind of tragedy that could probably happen nowhere else in the world bul South
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  • 299 20 LAUSANNE, Switzerland The head of Switzerland's biggest arms manufacturing firm and six of his employees go on trial here today (Monday) on charges connected with an Illegal arms export scandal which rocked this neutral .nation's weapons industry. The Swi«s Justice Ministry said in a statement
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  • 41 20 A guard arrested two bojg carrying a paper bag with brass flttings at the junction of Victoria Street and Bras Basah Road on Saturday morning Police said the Item* were removed from two unoccupied private dwellings in Dyson Road.
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  • 89 20 A happy Florence received the keys to the scooter from Mr. J. Reinholdt, Manager of East Asiatic Co. 'Birthday Girl' Florence Tan received the loveliest birthday gift of her life on Saturday. Florence, just turned sweet sixteen and a Secondary Four student of the St. Joseph's Con vent won a
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  • 89 20 JAKARTA —An Indonesian rirl ha s been kidnapped in Kuala Lumpur, the Jakarta newspaper Indonesia Ray a reported. The paper said the kidnapping last Tuesday had not been announced in Malaysia as it might create repercussions or spoil th«> «o°d relations be. tween Malaysia and Indonesia. Tlie girl's
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