Eastern Sun, 25 November 1970

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  • 20 1/24 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents E«fd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1507 Wednesday, November 25, MC (P) 1616
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  • 83 1/24 Spontaneous grief This elderly woman just could not hold back her tears and she wipes them off as she solemnly walks down the City Hall steps after paying her last respects to President Yusof. Thousands lined Orchard Road M the coffin of Inche Yusof was
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  • 808 2 A BEREAVED notion yesterday shored o widow's n grief. At 6.50 p.m. the mournful stroins of the Last Post sounded after he was laid to rest at the Notional Cemetery in Kronji. Puan Noor Alshah, dignified in her sorrow, Mid farewell to Singapore's first President
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  • 93 2 KOTA KINABALU —The Sabah police are repatriating 7 West Malaysian workshop employees la Kota Kiaabalo **la the Interest of the stale." "They are believed to have haowkedge of the reeeat $72.0H bash robbery aad involved la secret society activities." a police spokesmaa disclosed. The
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  • 115 2 IPOH The Perak Religious Affairs Council will fix a system of compensation which should be paid to the next of kin of Muslims whose graves will be moved if the town U mined for tin. The Council's Chairman, Dato Hajl Mlor ArifT bin Alwi, said
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  • 118 4 PERTH, Singapore striptease dancer Rose Chan was convicted in the Perth Police Court yesterday on a charge of assisting in the management of premises (or the purpose of prositution and a charge of resisting arrest. Miss Chan, 44, of the Perth suburb of Maylands.
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  • 215 4 l/'UCHING Malaysian troops will shoot anyone in East Molaysia who takes up arms with the com- munists. Brigadier General Zain Hashim warned yesterday. The General, who commands the Third Malaysian Infantry Brigade, was speaking to civic leaders at Baki, 32 miles from Kuching.
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  • 112 4 The comprehend sive trade survey m Kuala Lumpur got off to a smooth start yesterday. A total jf 66 enumerators been engaged to collect data on the various trades for future planning purposes The officer directing the survey, Koh Eng Lim, disclosed that more th
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  • 164 4 The High Court yesterday increased the |ail term of a police officer who appealed against conviction and imprisonment in a treasury vouchers case. The original sentence was imposed by the sessions court. Chief Inspector Loh Kwang Slang had appealed against his conviction and 2 years' jail
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  • 79 4 Postmaster-Gene-ral. Singapore, announces that there will be no delivery on Tuesday. Dec. 1. The hourg of business on that day will be from 9.00 am. to noon. All other Post Offices wilf ooen from 9 00 a.m. to 1030 a.m. with the exreption of the
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  • 130 4 Swaml Muktananda Paramahansa. 68. who claims to be able to "awaken divine consciousness" in his disciples, will arrive at the Pay* Lebar Airport today at 7 06 p.m. Popularly known as Swaml J i, he has spent 30 years of his youth In severe penance In
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  • 68 4 LOCAL pi* breeders will now be able to buy imported semen and simultaneously maintain a high quality boar »ra relatively new cost A statement issued h? the Primary Production Department said it h y* been successful in it* programme of artificial insemination of local sows with semen from
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 43 4 Mill THIS THURSDAY'S WDKAW N0.94/70(16-11-901 WILL BE HELD AT SINGAPORE WONDERLAND AMUSEMENT PARK AT 7.45 P M. cToVp cash jackpot is $155,000 TO WINNERS WITH 5 NUMBERS CORRECT TME OTHER GROyP PRIZES REMAIN THE SAME PLUS FREE ENTRY FOR 3 CIRCLES CORRECT $5OO/-
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  • 149 5 pOUR Colombo Plon scholars from Singapore have recently obtained first class honours degrees in Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture in the United Kingdom. The four graduates at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne are Mr. Chen Tou Sin, Mr. Cheng Huang Leng, Mr.Choo Chiau Beng and Mr.
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  • 110 5 A 17-year-old labourer was yesterday found guilty of carrying an offensive weapon in his pocket along Admiralty Road West at HM Naval Base at about midnight on August 8. Eighth magistrate Tan Chin Tiong however postponed sentence on Mahmud bin Mohd. till Dec. 3 pending a
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  • 47 5 Lance corporal Saharon Bin Mohd. Tahir. 24, of the Singapore Armed Forces, was yesterday fined $3OO, when he pleaded guilty to possession of the resin of Indian hemp. He admitted having a small quantity of the hemp on Nov 21 at the Bukit Panjang Village.
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  • 116 5 MANILA The Asian Develop ment Bank yesterday approved a $61.5 million loan to the Singapore government for the development and expansion of the Paya Lebar In- ternational Airport. The bank in its announcement said the project would provide a new passenger terminal with
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  • 88 5 PENANG The leader of a visiting group of 38 European travel agents and writers, Mr. Robert G. Sommerhalder, 38. obtained a special licence from the Chief Minister, Dr. Lim Chong Eu. to marry at the registry of civil marriages here. His bride, Hanna Sjoberg-Silvezling, 32, from
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  • 234 5 Schoolboy Fong Kim Kent, 11, never knew he had been fatally injured when he collided Into another schoolmate while running oat of a house compound. The other boy, Yeo Ann Liang, 7. went home with a "slight pain" in the head bat Fong kept
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 193 5 fa- 1 > y 3 f 11 J J '•>'• y^.:> f A *JNt The first party Mary Brown goes to this Christmas will be in a A BOAC VCIO coming home. INX L TUN CrnnnnHu All* Kr»Rtftrrno UJKA lAJIII Kfiftil This Christmas Mary Brown \iK\ k flying all the
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  • 455 8 No HK visas for bishops to see Pope HONG KONG The Hong Kong Government has refused visas to a group of Taiwan bishops who wanted to travel to the Crows Colony for the Pope's visit next month. A government spokesman refused to say why visas were refused
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  • 269 8 PRANKFURT, West Germany A doctor who worked at Auschwitz Concentration Camp admitted for the first time in court that he selected sick and aged prisoners for gas chambers. Horst Schumann, 54 has been on trial for 2 months charged
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  • 94 8 Providing the entertainment on the occasion of the opening of Black Africa's first earth satellite communications station recently were the traditional Masai dancers. President Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya christened it Longonot Satellite Station after a nearby dormant volcano. As Stone Age and Space Age
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  • 114 8 WASHINGTON Secretary of Interior Walter Hickel has placed 8 types of whales on the U.S. Endangered Species List. The import of most whale products into the American market are now banned. Hickel pointed out that suitable substitutes can always be found to replace these products. "We're
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  • 267 8 LAUSANNE, Switzerland Gabriel Lebedinsky, former sales director of Switzerland's biggest arms manufacturer, Oeriikon Buehrle, admitted in court that he had ordered the illegal export of arms to South Africa# Malaysia and o+her countries by means of false documents. Lebedinsky. 56, wa s testifying on
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  • 80 8 VATICAN CITY Pope Paul Vl f himself 73, has ruled that cardinals over the ago of 80 may not vote for his successor. He also ordered that they may not belong to departments oX the Roman Curia, the Roman Catholic Church's Central Government. The ruling affected 25
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  • 363 10 yyE deeply regret that Mr. David Marshall has resigned from the Presidential Council because he Is a man with an agile Intellect, is considered the most reputed lawyer in this part of the world and has political experience as Chief Minister of Singapore, it is even more
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  • 201 10 THE raid was successful but the objective was not fulfilled. That sums up the Israeli-type rescue mission which the United States attempted when its troops, flown in by helicopters, tried to rescue Americans detained in a prisoner of war camp near Hanoi. Somewhere along the line, American
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  • 584 10  -  By Art Buchwald WASHINGTON Al Capp, who has become the sex symbol of the Daughters of the American Revolution, was in Washington last week as master of ceremonies at a $l5O-a-plate dinner given by the Republicans in honour of Vice President Spiro Agnew. Mr.
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  • 321 10 LONDON A deputy editor of the Times newspaper tonight discounted N i k i t a Khrushchev's denials about his reminiscences and recalled that the former Soviet leader also denied making his famous 1956 speech denouncing Stalin. Mr.
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  • 128 10 MOSCOW The Soviet Government Newspaper Izvestia today described the "so-called Memoirs" of Nikita Khrushchev published in the west as a regular propaganda canard. "He himself said 'all this was a laud'," the Soviet News Agency Tass quoted the paper as saying. Izvestia said the publication of "all
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  • 1150 12  -  by CHETAN CHADHA GEMINI rPHE existing low of the land has proved inadequate to curb Mao fans in West Bengal. The Indian Government Is planning new legislations based on special powers used by the British before independence to meet their Maoist challenge in
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 325 13 AllW FROM NEW FLIGHTS MORE FLIGHTS DAILY FLIGHTS DECEMBER Ist1 st SINGAPORE DJAKARTA SINGAPORE/HONGKONG SINGAPORE/BANGKOK 3 extra flights bring total up t Every day from December Ist there's a Cathay Pacific flight from Singapore to Hong Kong at 8.30 am with convenient onward services to Taipei and Japan. And on
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  • 1454 14 Australia studies half the world's weather by computer MELBOURNE, Australia Australian meteorologists are working on the formidable task of developing computer weother forecasting for the southern hemisphere. Their project has implications for African pilots. South American cattlemen, Asian construction workers, Australian wheat farmers the list of potential "customers" is endless,
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  • POPPING AROUND WITH PLATTER PETE
    • 637 15  -  by Richard Green, Roy Carr APART from helping to redirect the contemporary concept of Black music, 26-7 ear-old Sylvester Stewart...or to be more explicit, Sly of the Family Stone, has Family Stone, has emerged as one of the most controversial figures on the current American music
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    • 329 15 HI THERE! To fill you in further on PLATTER PETE'S 1970 POP POLL, (we're two-thirds of our way there now), I think I can assert rather safely, that DIANA RIOG will win the BEST TV Star (F) category. Her competitors are miles away from her so far.
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 220 15 Ittlflik. ORG AIM I SAT Id [\J I sill ORCHARD 3 7IS NOW SHOWING! Daily 3 Show*: 1.15. 4.30 H.M p a. Sundays Holidays Eiira Show to ami Poit 'The boind Of Mnslc' Julie Andrews. 70MM. Color School: SI 00 To Any Beat Dally at 1.19 Si 430 pm Shows
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    • 211 15 SHAW LID O >"hu«e3734M LA SI OAT! 11 A.M.. 1 30. 6.50 A |.ll John Wayne "CHISI M Pauavlalon St Color IWB) Opena Tomorrow! "A TUNE FOB LOVE" (A SHAW PRODUCTION» Mandarin In 8cop«. Color CAPITOL PHon. *****1 NOW SHOWING! 11 am. IM. 4.0*. #.30. •SO 'War Baatarda" Colorscope NEXT
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  • 121 16 NEW YORK The Asia Society has announced three groups of performers from Japan, Korea and Nationalist China will tour U.B. college campuses in late 1972 and early 1972 under sponsorship of the Society's performing arts programme. Society President Phillips Talbot, said the first group, Tad a o
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 748 16 «wa «v vva w* «y CARROLL RIGHTF-R'S from iht Carroll RightCf Inatiiul GENERAL TENDENCIES: You are really stirred up now to get things done and your motto now should be "I Produce Results." However, as no one can live in the world by himself, you would be wise to consult
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    • 9 16 LADIES DAY 1 "You unwound yet, Elmer? Dinner's setttngcoktl"
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 891 17 today's television n CHANNEL 5 Housewives Matinee "Nothing But Money" (Pt. 1 Of A Hokkien Film) For The Family (C) Singapore This Week (C) Days Of Our Lives Close Open The Jerry Lewis Show News in Brief Disneyland "Johnny Shiloh" (Pt T) News and Newsreel (C) Dragnet (C) My Favourite
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  • 453 18 One fine sunny morning, lust a* I woke up, I heard a cheerful, lamiliar voice downstairs. With a start. I remembered It was that of my favourite uncle. Ted I rushed down at full speed and greeted Ted with a charming smile. 1 then sat down. Suddenly
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  • Article, Illustration
    390 18 THAIPUSAM is a festival celebrated by all Hindus. There are many interesting itemtf connected with this religious festival. One of the most prominent is the carrying of kavadi. ui me rmiau faith begin this festival early. Around five a.m. they start to assemble at 8n Perumal Temple to Serangoon
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  • 463 18  -  DATELINE By Ele, Walt Dulaney NEW YORK: Waste clam shells, which have long posed a perplexing disposal problem in many coasta* regions, are being planted in an Atlantic Ocean estuary in the United States to test their usefulness as spawning beds for oysters. The two-year experiment in Delaware
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  • 324 18 Dear Ele and Walt: Each year at my school there are several proms which are formal, special occasions. That raises two questions: One, what do yon think of girls trading off fowns so they don't have to bay a new
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    • 209 18 f f III! I ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe The Eastern SUM'S essay writing contest for boys and girls off 14 and under (Junior) •»d boys and girts over 14 (Senior) appears in HI»I page ffrom Monday to Friday. PriM money Is: JlO tor Santors and $5 lor I union
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 247 20 prices slumped further in the Stock Exchonge off Malaysia and Singapore yesterday, it acquired a fairly large turnover off 922,000 units in the morning's trading. The trading rooms Singapore closed for half the day In respect of the late President while the Koala Lumpur rooms resumed
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    • 109 20 December first grade rubber buyers closed at noon in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 551 cents per lb. The ton« of th« market was quietly steady. R.A.S. and M.R.E. noon prices in cents per lb. were:Int 1 RSS. prompt fob. 54$ 55 Int 1 RSS.
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    • 275 20 The first distribution to Singapore Growth Fund unitholders for the accrual period ended sth November 1970 amounts to $5.20 net per 100 units equivalent to $8.18.255 gross for "Group One" units and to $6.54.425 gross for "Group Two" units. The total gross distribution is $351,947.02, and the
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    • 94 20 1%IR noon prim at the Stigapore Chinese Produce Kirhnnge yeMerrtaj wan a a Coconut Oil (f.o.b.) hulk 61.00 Coconut on (f.o.b drum 63 50 Mixed Copra 34 0 Mil in ok White Pepper i f.o.b.) ASTA 100 N.WL. 182.50 Sarawak Whit* Pepper »f.o.b) 96% N-W.I-1-2.50 Sarawak Special Black Pepper
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    • 114 20 AONG KONG Yesterday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Bayers) (Sellers) 196 197 per 100 Straits dollars 147.50 149.50 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 6.70 6.775 per Australian dollar 940 360 Der 1.000 Burmese kyats 490 510 per 1.000 Indian rupees 148 163 per
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    • 421 20 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday were: INDUSTBIALS Arma 1.80 1.83 AJtnomoto 1.82 195 A lean 1.83 1-84 Allied Choc. 2.50 2.05 Ben. .85 .92 Berjaya .90 .91 Borneo cd
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    • 678 20 BUSINESS done In and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS Alcan $124 (1) $1 22 (2) $123 <4); Berjaya 93 cts. (1) 92 cta.
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    • 95 20 KOTA BHARU The Agricultural Bank and the Co-operative Bank here have issued loans totalling about $768 500 to larmer 8 in Kelantan and Trengganu in the last gix months. A total of $108,489 had been issued by the Agricultural Bank In it s seasonal loan programme for
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    • 121 20 TOKYO A Singapore Finance Ministry official wa s V esterdav beginning talks here on a Japanese yen loan worth Ss2s million a s part 0 f payment of Japanese wartime "blood debt." the semi-official Japan Ex* port-Import Bank said H.M. Shitawalla, Director of the Industry Department.
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    • 53 20 LONDON The opposition Labour Party yesterday charged the government with secrecy and incompetence in its handling of Rolls Royce'g financial problem. Although not denying that the government wa® right iiv granting th« financially embarrassed company 42 million sterling, Labour spokesmen made clear they did not like the way
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    • 52 20 BRUSSELS European Common Market ministers agreed in principle today to the creation of a 556,000 million pool fo* giving medium-term financial aid to a member country in balance of payments difficulties But after a three-hour debate here, the v were still apart on certain important technical aspect* injorwed
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  • 339 21 A new $2 million hotel has commenced business at Seah Street with great success. It b the nine-storey Metropole Hotel which commands a beautiful ▼lew of the harbour from it« location In the commercial centre of the city. The hotel, which has a roof garden
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  • 505 21 AItKIVALS 14.1 a.m MSA 125 Koala Lumpur 1.30 am. MSA 12.1 Koala Lompor B.:to i.m MSA 452 Koala l.outpor 11 05 ain MSA 454 rename. Koala Louipor 11.50 am. MSA 203 Jakarta 1.30 p.m MSA 451 Kuching tO5 p ra. MSA 041 KuU Baliru. Koala Lumpur Malacca •15
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  • 285 21 SYDNEY Mining shores continued to trode buoyontly on the Sydney Stock Exchonge yester- day. The overall market showed its best form in recent weeks with turnovers rising steadily. Most Issues tended to consolidate or rise over Monday's prices. In the nickel section Samln and North Flinders
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  • 263 21 DETROIT General Motors Corp., on the ere of resuming production following a 10-week United Auto Workers strike, announced Monday it will increase average list prices on its 19/1 cars 6.9 per cent. GM made the announcement as 75,000 UAW workers returned to work following the
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  • 117 21 NEW YORK Gold prices declined on markets here and abroad Monday London gold dropped 71 U.S. cents at the morning fixing and another 10 U.S. cents at the second fixing to 37 45 U5. dollars an ounce, down 174 U.s cents from Friday afternoon Pari s gold
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  • 39 21 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages on the New York stock exchange: 30 Industrial* 767 52 20 Rails 148 00 15 Utilities 112 22 65 Stocks 246.18 40 Bonds 66 32 Commodity futures index 144.68 up 0.05.
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 1129 22 CI. 1 Div. 2-1 Mile ***** Nikmr 7y 9 00 Rolling »«t ***** Bnlendaine 9y 8.10 Horse Sense Breuk ***** Aratunga 6y 810 Toto .-v........ Mansor ***** Foresight 4y 8 09 TC D il nlel s ***** Moonbeam 8y 8 07 HT Wee E
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    • 267 22 Spinifex, a course scratching last week, showed that there was nothing amiss in him when he did a sparkling gallop here this morning. With Subian Dafwee up, the Latin Lover gelding sprinted stylishly over 3f in 39 4/5 on a heavy track. Julinda, a
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    • 239 22 LONDON British champion jockey Lester Piggott has issued a writ in France against a French racing journal for defamation, his solicitor said here yesterday. The action follows an article published last August during the Deauvllle race meeting at which Plggott eight times champion In
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