Eastern Sun, 30 November 1970

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Microfilm: NL6660
Total Pages: 19
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    Lock icon Boy drowns waiting for birthday meal
    111 2 A three-year-old boy drowned in flshinc pond before he could celebrate his third birthday yesterday. Yco Kok Sens was playing happily with his brothers and sinters while the mother was preparing food for his birthday. In the kitchen. When the food was ready, the
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    Lock icon Girl drowns in Sunday crabhunt
    222 2  -  By ROYSON SIEW A SCHOOLGIRL drowned in o muddy river while hunting crabs with two friends yesterday. Police identified her only as Suzila, 12, a Primary Six pupil of Jalan Kayu Primary School. Her two friends, Chenvil, 10, and Reni, 7, were saved in the
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    Lock icon Citizens share a responsibility in civic schemes
    259 2 Tlie responsibility of solving social problems lies not only with the government but also with individual citizens. This was said last night by Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Social Affairs, Mr. Chan Chee Sent. Mr. Chan was speaking at the 40th anniversary
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    Lock icon New bids for car numbers open Dec. 2
    95 2 Bitfei for motor car registration numbers bearing series SY 1 to SY 10. SQ 1 to SQ 10 will commence on December 2. The bidding will end on December 16. All bids most be made in the prescribed bid forms obtainable mt
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    Lock icon Auction of used vehicles
    65 2 A public auction of 49 lots ot used motor vehicles, plants and Btores will be held on December 3. The auction will be carried out by Cheong Koon Seng at 58 Market Street. The items can be Inspected at the Public Works Department Workshop, Kaliangs between
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    Lock icon Robbers get only $1,057 in four incidents
    243 2 Armed robbers struck at four different places Saturday evening and escaped with $1,057 in cash ami $537 worth of valuables. The first robbery was reported at 5.30 p.m. when two men armed with a knife held up a pump-attendant. Adam bin Busrah, 20
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    Lock icon World War II dance
    58 2 A dinner and dance will be held on December IS at Raffles Hotel to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the ending of World War Two. The gala social night is open to ex-services members, serving members of Singapore Armed Forces, Commonwealth Forces and guests. The tickets
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    Lock icon M.P. tours his constituency
    122 2 The Member of Parliament for Jalan Kayu, Mr. Huang Soo Jin, made a house to house visit to a number of residents in Phase 0 of Seletar Hills Estate yesterday morning. He was accompanied by two officials of the Seletar Hills Estate Residents Association and a
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    Lock icon Nantah to get bigger support
    184 3 Government aid for Nanyang University has been increased substantially. As a result of "fairly recent decisions", Nantah will get substantial contributions from the Government for various development projects. According to the Minister for Education, Mr. Lim Kim San, these include: $700,000 for the building of
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    Lock icon Bangkok trip for Penny Lee
    73 3 The winner of the na-tion-wide "Leaders of Tomorrow" Oratorical contest, Miss Penny Lee Yoke Sim will leave on December 1 for Bangkok. Miss Lee's trip to Bangkok is part of her prize in winning the contest organised by Junior Chamber of Commerce and co-sponsored by
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    Lock icon Bank moves 'Home'—piece by piece
    168 3 One of Singapore's most massive "home removal exercises" has been carried out quietly by the Over-sea-Chinese Banking Corporation over the last five weeks. "Operation Removal" by the OCBC involved the moving; of its head office administrative offices and banking hall from Chulia Street to the
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    Lock icon Frenchman to enact crucifixion at night club
    126 3 A world champion of Fakirisme Yogy. claims 1 to have portrayed Jesus Christ in the crucifixion scene. in piore than 16 films. Mr. Ben-Chou-Bey Is •cheduied to appear in a Singapore nightclub to perform his electrify- ing act, soon. He will be actually
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    Lock icon VAN SQUASHED INTO A DRAIN
    136 3 A bus and a van found themselves in "this awkward position" (above) following a collision in front of the Star Art Factory in Petaling Jaya. The impact threw the bus driver out of his cockpit. He landed on the ground unhurt after being flung out
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    22 3 THE Istana grounds is not opened to the public on Hari Raya Puasa as the presidential family is still mourning.
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    Lock icon BAN ON TOBACCO ADS HITS CHARITIES HARD
    364 3  -  by Tony Chandran Charitable organizations and sports bodies are losing a source of subsidies because of the forthcoming government ban on cigarettes and other tobacco products. A cnnkwman for a children's hc>me that tobacco manufacturers have been leading contributors to sponsor fund raising
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    Lock icon Israel prepares for return to Jarring Talks
    336 4 JERUSALEM —Prime Minister Goldo MeiVs Cabinet has begun framing terms for an Israeli return to Middle East Peace Talks. Israel's Ambassador to Washington, Yitzhak Rabin, on hand for the meeting, will put the Government's terms to U.S. officials when he flies back to
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    Lock icon VICE-PRESIDENT OF BADMINTON ASSOCIATION DIES
    99 4 AI-OR STAB The Vice-President of the Badminton Aavociation of Malaysia. Dr. M. Kundra Kajan, 76, has passed away at the General Hospital on Saturday night. Dr. Sandra Rajan was fc'so the Vice-President of the Badm'nton Umpires' Association of Malaysia and the President of the Kedah
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    Lock icon Stowaway asks for asylum
    83 4 TOKYO— Police disclosed a Russian sailor, arrested on charges of entering Japan illegally. has expressed the wish to seek asylum there. They identified him as Koshiflev Boris Pedro vich, 32, of Sverdlovsk. He arrived in the North Japanese fishing port Of Shio<;ama last Wednesday by smuggling
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    Lock icon $300 MILLION U.S. AID FOR CAMBODIA
    257 4 PHNOM PENH President Nixon's Ss2lo million economic aid request for Cambodia is just the first installment on a Ss3oo million-a-year package to support the country while it fights a war imposed on it by the communists. The programme the Americans are drawing up" fo?
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    Lock icon THE END OF AN EYESORE?
    71 4 Looks like someone is trying to bury this public eyesore. Or perhaps this public lavatory at Newton Circus is sinking into the earth. It is standing on what was once a hawker site. The place was recently demolished to make way for a new hawker
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    Lock icon Sheer poetry in motìon
    87 4 Tan Boon Kwang, 20, and Susanna Chew, 18, convincingly won the dance competition organised last Saturday In conjunction with the Charity Banquet at the Singapore Hilton. Together, they were sheer poetry in motion. The banquet, or- ganised in aid of Children's Charities, was a great success.
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    Lock icon MAOIST WAY TO DETER DEFECTORS
    421 5 [JONG KONG, Communist China is using brutal measures to discourage dissident youths from fleeing to Hong Kong, according to refugees arriving in the Crown Colony. Almost all of more than 300 refugees arriving during the past month or so disclosed widespread dissent among the youths
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    Lock icon Asia fed up with Film Festival
    122 5 TAIPEI The 'China News' disclosed that movie circles in Japan, Korea, Thailand and the Philippines have expressed dissatisfaction with the annual Asian Film Festival. The English-Language paper added Japan has been so frustrated with It that she is trying to eliminate it. Referring to
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    Lock icon Policeman takes two hostages over article
    154 5 SEOUL A provincial policeman took a reporter and another hostage when the newsman's paper refused to retract a story criticising the constable. Patrolman Kim Tong Mook, 33, held off a local police force with a loaded carbine for about 6 hours before giving himself
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    Lock icon 30 die when bus rams bridge
    28 5 JAKARTA Thirty Indonesians died when a bus filled with holidaymakers rammed a bridge and plunged into a river near Mupraungo, South Sumatra.
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      171 5 Canon the chick Ca nonet ,-4 v 40%, smaller yet 50% more The new Canonet compact is only chick high. Slips easily into pocket or purse. Conveniently carried everywhere. But its a precision instrument that's fully automatic, both day 'n' night. Its f/stop is matched to precisely the right shutter
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    Lock icon Skepticism over Marcos' karate chop
    306 6 MANILA A claim that Philippic P,«kW Maneot' karate chop uvd risking Pep* Paul Wt Friday met with skepticism m tfce MAAOA PNM. The Ifanllft Timet,* h an editorial, rare the iredlt of saving the lontlfT to the clergymen iccompanytng the Pop* it the time of
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    Lock icon Reds beheaded to avoid identification
    249 6 JRAFEANG KRALOENG, CMMM North Vietnamese mmd Yietcoag forces holding Pich Nil Pass, 62 will soatfc-wast of PIMMM Peak, hwi befceodod SPH of tfcoar dtud comrades. Cambodian field officers believe this is done to prevent the dead from being identified. Hey have seen several guerrillas carrying
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    Lock icon NEWS IN BRIEF
    252 6 Plane is missing with 79 on board SAIGON An American transport plane with 79 people aboard has been missing in Central South Vietnam since Friday. Search and rescue operations in the mountainous central region have been hampered by bad weather. NEW DELHI A four-year-old boy was slaughtered
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    Lock icon POP GROUP BEHIND $195,000 ROBBERY?
    209 6 lARRISBURG, Pennsylvania Federal lureau of Investigaion (FBI) agents are nvestiqatiag members >f a 9-man Rock V toll group after a 1$ 195.000 bank rob>ery. Two members of the "Zodiac Masters" group. Terry Brown and John Luts, Jr., have already been detained In connection with the
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    Lock icon Mass protests in cities: NO U.S. POLITICAL ASYLUM FOR RUSSIAN
    568 7 DOSTONf The refusal of American authorities to grant political asylum to a Lithuanian seaman has sparked off mass protests in 5 J.S. cities. Demonstrators marched in New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelpnia and Cleveland, accusing America of violating the seaman's fights
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    Lock icon SHIP ON FIRE IN TOKYO BAY
    42 7 Columns of black smoke Is seen rising from the burning Japanese oil tanker, "Teimusu Maru," in Tokyo Ray. One man was reported missing and 22 others injured in the explosion and fire. (I'Pl radiophoto). UPI radiophoto
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    Lock icon Prisoners taken during bold GI raid: paper
    159 7 NEW YORK The IT.S. Commando team that raided the Son Tay Prison Camp north off Hanoi has captured several North Vietnamese and brought them out as prisoners, the New York 'Daily News' claimed. The 'News', In a dispatch from Saigon, added the North
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    Lock icon WEST BERLIN ISSUE MAY CLEAR UP SOON
    199 7 MOSCOW Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Breshnev held out hopes for a normalisation in West Berlin's situation. During a wide-ranging speech in Yerevan, capital of Soviet Armenia, Brezhnev was comments lng on the 4-power diplomatic talks now going on in Berlin between Russia,
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    Lock icon East Bloc's threat to Europe
    93 7 WASHINGTON General Andrew Goodpaster, Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) Military Forces has warned that Russia and its Warsaw Pact allies form a super Concentration of military power. In an interview with "U.S. News and World Report", Goodpastev pointed out these forces exceed anything
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    Lock icon TOURE'S CLAIMS
    357 8 T*HE invasion of Guinea by Portuguese i mercenaries as charged by the country's President Sekou Toure appears too tall a story to swallow. The mercenaries, according to Toure, are transported by ships later he said submarines and landed on the Guinean coast. Even according to Toure there appears
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    Lock icon SAVING WEST BENGAL
    244 8 OOMEWHAT belatedly the central governO ment In India is moving to curb the growing urban terrorism in West Bengal. Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister, will soon secure tl\e power for police authorities in West Bengal to detain those suspected of activities detrimental to security for a
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    Lock icon An unimaginably beautiful book
    775 8  -  by J< Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON Shining with the noblast glory of the human spirit; darker than the very depths of terror; richly witty, wonderfully wise and heartbreakingly sad, telling a tale for our time that none should fail to read; above all, an unimaginably beautiful book
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    Lock icon Mexico may free political detainees
    537 8  -  By Robert Evans, The Mexican Government is under increasing pressure to grant amnesties to close on 100 prisoners detained for their part in student disorders two years ago. A convenient time for such amnesties will offer itself this week. Today, outgoing President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
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      58 8 foreign nrwp mid features appearing In all edition* of the bast era Sun and Tbe Sun are from Reutera. United Press International. A genre France Prease Editors Press Syndicate Newspapet enterprise Association Publishers HaU Syndicate. Los Angeles Times Syndicate tfemlnl News Service North American Newspaper Alliance. First l-'eaturea. Inter-Press Features
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    Lock icon WAS HE ONE STEP AHEAD OF THE WRIGHT BROS.?
    817 9  -  by Keith Aberdein CHRISTOPHER Columbus has already been rocked on his pedestal: now comes a challenge to another of the United States' revered institutions the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Onrille. While it has never been claimed that theirs was the first
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    Lock icon MONDAY PICTORIAL
    623 10/11 CHEQUE TO SAVE NATIONAL THEATRE The Chairman of the National Theatre Trust, Dr. Goh Poh Seng (left) receives a package containing a cheque for $104,794 from Mr. Liao Sung Yang, Manager of Sin Chew Jit Poh. The money was part of the amount raised in a campaign launched
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      1089 12 today's television CHANNEL 5 Opening announcements, followed by General Hospital Daytime serial about the staff and and the patients of a hospital. For The Family (Hari Raya edition) A magazine series in Tamil. A Diary of Events In Singapore This Week (Tamil). Days of Our Lives A dramatic serial about
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    Lock icon Busy holiday schedule will lessen mum's grief
    860 14  -  DATELINE By Ele, Walt Dulaney Dear Fie and Walt: My father died last month and we're all trying to figure how to keep mum from being sad this Christmas. Do you have any ideas? Van. Dear Tan: Accept the fact that mum will
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    Lock icon Growing Jurong
    478 14 After years in a busy and noisy city, I know what life in an industrial centre is like. It was a fine morning. My friends and I took a bus and set off for Jurong. The bus passed the noisy city area and headed for Jurong. Twenty minutes
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    Lock icon Why must we study?
    262 14 Usually, some atadents ask their parents or teachers: "Why must we study?*' Some students dislike to study because they have to go through tests and examinations. Partly it is also due to laziness and study is the weak point in many persons. Education is one of
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    Lock icon Family Carolling
    93 14 THE children section of the Youth Department* Chinese YMCA is forming a Family Carolling Group for children from 7-12 and their parents. The carol group will visit some Children's Homes and members' families on Tuesday. 23 Dec. from 6.30 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. to have fun and fellowship
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    Lock icon Now she's nine feet plus
    149 16 NEW DELHI, A woman of normal height has grown to nine feet one Inch In the one year since she was married, the Tlmea of India reported today. The 22-year-old woman, whose name was not disclosed, cornea from the Palamakl district In Bihar State and
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      848 16 libra _nTil ai les s p. CARROLL RIGHTER'S taurus a r: gemim cancer ti 9 GENERAL TENDENCIES: The many and varied Ideas you have had the past several days can now be put Into effect very easily and on a practical basis. Make sure your financial situation Is on a
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      11 16 "They were picked as an ideal couple by an; electronic brainf'
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      Lock icon COSMETICS FIRM TO SURVEY MART
      125 17 Mr. KaUutaro Tani guciai. Chief of Asia and Africa Trading Section of Shiseido (osmetic* Company of Japan U in Singapore. The purpose of his visit Is to look into the present sales In order to form a criterion and guide for Shiseido's future policy in
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      Lock icon Manageress on a Safari hunt
      109 17 Mrs. C. S. Townrow. manageress of the Travel Department in The East Asiatic Company Limited in Singapore, has left for East Africa where she will go on a Safari hunt. She will also visit Mount Kenya and Nairobi as part of her mission to 'sell'
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
      535 17 ARRIVALS MR am MSA 12fi Knala Luinpar. 700 a.m MSA 580 Colombo. K Lumpur. 7*o am MsA 123 Kuala l.umpur. i.m M«»A 4W knala Lumpur. 11 'I i in MSA 454 Prnang. Kuala Lumpur 11 Roam Ms.\ 203 Jakarta. 1 30 ft.iit IBf KurbIng. eO5 p.m. MSA 041
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      Lock icon P.M.'s recent business lunch
      93 17 The Bank of America recently played host at a business luncheonmeeting at the Pacific Union Club, in San Francisco to honour the Singapore Prime Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew. Mr. Lee. in the meeting sponsored by the Bank, successfully concluded talks with Northern California business and
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      Lock icon EASIER TRADING DURING WEEK
      444 17 WEEKLY REVIEW HAPPIER conditions were evident in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore last week. However bullish activities were mainly centred on two new Issues Trengganu Development Berhad and United Motor Work* which accounted for a bulk of 676.000 and 300.000 deal* respectively. Other lower
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      Lock icon Directors' conference in London
      78 17 Mr. Marcus J. Gent, managing director of Kumpulan Guthrie Sendirian Berhad, which is responsible for the management of the largest single planting group in Malaysia is now in London. Mr. Gent, who is also a member of the board of directors of The Guthrie Corporation, will
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      Lock icon TRAINEE IS BACK
      73 17 Mr. Kenneth K.L. Leong, has recently returned to Kuala Lumpur alter a successful two-year management training programme with BOAC. Mr. Leong first joined BOAC as an Overseas Trainee in September *****. He was then sent to BOAC's head office in London for a comprehensive 2-year management training
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      Lock icon Controller of hotel budgetting
      117 17 A Singaporean. Mr. Chong Kim Chow 32. has been appointed Financial Controller of the 40-storey Mandarin Hotel which la under construction along Orchard Road. This was announced by Mr. Nelson Vermette, General Manager of the hotel. Mr. Chong completed his secondary education In the Catholic High
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    Lock icon Ness Lane wins Stewards Cup for the second successive year
    1988 18 Conflux stable's Ness Lone won the Stewards Cup over the mile here yesterday, is second cup in successive years. The Sovereign Path gelding was ridden a well Judged race by Jockey Johnny Miller. Oleg Casslnl, with apprentice Samry up, created
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    Lock icon U.S. TO REDUCE JAPAN BASES BY MID-1971
    454 20 WASHINGTON The United States is expected to reduce its forces in Jopon in the new year, and possibly close some of its bases there, usually well informed sources here said last night. An announcement o# the cutbacks is likely to be mode in
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    Lock icon FASHION SHOW IN AID OF THE DEAF
    205 20 Tantalising Josephine Lena Wong, 18, yesterday stole the limelight at m fashion show organised in aid •f the deaf. As Miss Malaysia 1970 tnd Queen ®f Expo 70, she can hardly be expected to do ,css Perhaps Singapore will see more of her
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    Lock icon First Sea Lord dies
    84 20 LONDON A former Chief of Naval st fl fl a nd First Sea Lord. Admiral Sir Michael le Fan u has died in a London hospital. Sir Michael, who died Saturday night at the age of 57 was appointed Chief of Defence Staff earlier this year
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    Lock icon Khrushchev memoirs in Germany
    154 20 BONN Former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushche* is quoted in the second instalment of his reminiscences as saving he had a nearfatal show-down with Stalin who wanted a scapegoat for losses hi the war against Germany. The West German weekly Stern, which is carrying the series, said
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