Eastern Sun, 1 February 1971

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    21 1 EASTERN SUN 3ngmotfs\ own national daily 10 cents Est* 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1560 MoonUy, February I, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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    Lock icon APOLLO MOON SHOT DELAYED BY WEATHER
    534 1 APE KENNEDY Bod weather this morning forced the postponment of the Apollo 14 moon londing mission. The "hold" came only eight minutes before the scheduled 3.53 a.m. (Singapore time) blast off. There was no indication when the launchIns might held. Space agency officials said
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    Lock icon 'The Count' blows in
    73 1 Count Basle and his 21piece orchestra hit the town last night with "the most explosive force In Jazi from the U.S.A.", The night club, where he was performing (for one night only) was fully booked. Count Basic's aircraft arrived three hours behind schedule but like the
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  • Article
    Lock icon Tough talks
    56 1 TEHERAN Oil producing countries say they may consider cutting oft oil supplies to the West unless agreement reached on revenue sharing with oil companies. Western oil companies said last weekend the demands of the organization of petroleum exporting countries (OPEC) were higher than expected but they apparently had
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    13 1 Apollo 14 blasted off successful? at 44# a.m. iblt morn inc.
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    Lock icon Only one quin survives
    96 1 GRENOBLE, Prance Bruno sale survivor of the quintuplets bora to a vllUfc school tear her I a t Thursday, fa doluf well though still uadc r observation in am incubator today. The qtain's mother, 29 yrar-old Mrs. Miebelle Riondet who had been expecting twins la recovering
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    Lock icon FIVE-HOUR LONDON FLIGHT DELAY: 87 STRANDED HERE
    335 2 I?IGHTY-SEVEN Australians, New Zealanders and Britons stranded in Singapore since last Friday are frantically waiting to fly out before they go broke. AH arrived hire on Friday night to catch connecting flights to Australia end New Zealand but were told that they either
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    Lock icon BE ABLE TO SACRIFICE
    81 2 TllK Minister for Science and Technology, Dr Toh Chin Chye, last night stressed the importance of building up a modern generation capable ol accepting sacrifices. He said the new generation of Singaporeans must be able to understand the problems of the 70's in order to lead
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    Lock icon Liberal trade policy urged
    87 2 The. President of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Wee Cho Yaw, last nigtit urged Japan to adopt a forward and outward policy of trade and investment. It would be a great achievement if Japan could formulate effective measures for a programme of trade and capitalisation,
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    Lock icon Alliance wins poll
    296 2 MM: Prime Minister Tun Abdal Rauk described the Alliance victory in the Malacca Selatan parliamentary election at a "deer sign of the people's confidence in the rating party." Alliance candidate Enche Ahmad bin Haji Ithnin, won the seat Saturday night with a thumping majority, polling 14.7*6 vote*,
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    Lock icon 2 STABBED AT ODEON KATONG
    400 3 A student was stabbed to death when he and a friend were attacked by a group of people outside the Odeon Kotong cinema early yesterday. We« Choof) Hoe, 19, died of a stab wound in Hie right tide of his abdomen. His friend. Loy Teck
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    Lock icon PM Lee: Surprise at the men who failed Officers' course
    297 3 Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday expressed surprise at the number of failures In A Company Combat Officers' Course. He said nine H.S.C., five B.A. and one B.Sc. officer cadets had failed. "It is difficult to believe he said, "that
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    Lock icon Scout dance with a difference
    122 3 Scoots are always ready to do something for a good came especially their own. That's what the scoots in the picture are doing raising fund* to finance their year's activities by performing Uon dances to drive away evil spirits. The 50-odd scoots are from ISOS
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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      19 3 Toto draw Sunday's Toto Draw: 33 1. 2. 28, 43. Additional Nmber: Hirer circle Oraw: A 9* Sl* TTI
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      119 3 The weather birftn predicts light nbowrrs from 6 a.m. to 12 n oon. YESTERDAY Ma*: Tenp; 89 6 Mln. Temp: 71.6 Total rata ID date: 4.17 Total rain day* to date: 16 day* Sunshine yesterday: 1.95 hour* Humidity at 11 p.m. 91 per rent ■a BINGAPORE TOWN 2.31 am (9.4
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    Lock icon Eight hurt as Saigon men fight Cambodians
    276 4 pHNOM PENH Eight Cambodians, including a Police Colonel, were wounded wfien South Vietnamese sailors and Cambodian military police exchanged five here, an official source said. The shooting yesterday started after a squabble between South Vietnamese sailors and Cambodian troops In the central market*
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    Lock icon War talk
    48 4 o*l. Harry O. Amos (centre), U.B. Army Attache at the Americas Embassy la Phnom Penh talks with Cambodian Gen. Mool Khleng last week. Amos met with both So■ th Vietnamese and Cambodian military officials presumably to discuss progress of the operation along the key southern highway.
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    Lock icon Reds hit ferry
    149 4 BATOON Vletcong terrorist* killed and wounded 44 civilians Saturday In a bomb blast at a Mekong Delta ferry crossing, a government spokesman said yesterday. The blast killed nine and wounded 35 travellers waiting to catch the ferry at Tan Thach. 44 miles south southwest of Saigon, he
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    Lock icon JAKARTA'S TOUCHY ESTATE MOVE NOT NATIONALISING
    283 4 JAKARTA Agriculture Minister To jib Hadiwidjaja Mid a government decision not to band back extensive British estates lands m West Java under an agreement made last year was not nationalisation, Antara news agency reported yesterday. The Agriculture Ministry announced last month the 60,000 acre
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    Lock icon Lion kills, eats keeper
    74 4 CAIRO A lion named Amber grabbed his keeper at Cairo Zoo yesterday, tore him to pieces and ate him while horrified visitors watched and fainted, A 1 Gomhouria newspaper reported today. The killer lion was still, alive and unscathed in his cage, the paper said. The
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    Lock icon Queen hurt
    50 4 KATMANDU Th Queen of Nepal, Ratna Ratya I.akshmi Devi Shah, was wounded in the stomach and left hand by a richocheting bullet during a hunting trip,, the Royal Palace announced yesterday. A spokesman said the Queen was making satisfactory progress in Katmandu hospital. The bullet has been removed.
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    Lock icon Asian share of export shrinks
    208 4 BANGKOK Developing conn tries of Asia tfona| er A« a t Kh f mnrth in interna. I but thelr share of the to tal J hrank at when This is disclosed in a new survey by the U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far
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    Lock icon Effects of Sexpo 70
    142 4 OSAKA Doctors liriil near Seari and other areas near the site of the Osaka World Exposition 197* hare been bewildered by an increasing number of unmarried women coming to them for abortion. Dr. Osana Sato, 51 Vice President of tbe Doctors' Association of the city of
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    Lock icon NEWS in BRIEF
    563 6 8ANTIAGO, Chile A Chinese diplomatic mission has arrived to set up Peking's first embassy in South America. The leftwing government of Marxist President Salvador Allende established relations with China on January 5, two months after taking office. ORENSE, Spain Police held Nlcanor Rodriguez Taboadela, a 47-year-old schoolmaster,
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    Lock icon European unity one step nearer
    225 6 I)ARIS Italian Prime Minister Emilio Colombo said here he was confident an agreement for a European Economic and Monetary Union would be reached soon. Before flying home ofter two days of talks with President Georges Pompidou and other French government leaders, Signor Colombo said: "There
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    Lock icon RECENT CENSUS – according to these signs – shows man polling ahead of the dogs in population explosion at schapville, Ⅲ. Latest count indicates people advanced from 52 to 54 while dogs remained at 49.
    32 6 RECENT CENSUS according to these signs shows man polling ahead of the dogs in population explosion at schapville, Latest count indicates people advanced from 52 to 54 while dogs remained at 49.
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    Lock icon PEACE HINGES ON BERLIN
    205 6 WEST BERUN West German Chancellor Willy Brandt said relations with the Soviet Union could not improv« effectively until the Berlin problem is settled. "There can be no detente in Europe vith out a relaxation ot tension In and around Berlin." said the Chancellor, who came here
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    Lock icon Two bomb threats on minister
    137 6 LONDON Anonymous callers twice in 24 hours yesterday threatened the lite of Dudley Smith, an employment minister, and police put a round-the-clock guard on the official's home. At the same time, Br< tain's giant Ford Motor company faced an all-out unofficial work stoppage Monday as
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    Lock icon Four shot in vendetta
    88 6 PALMI, Italy A gunman yesterday shot and wounded a prisoner In the courtyard of the town JaU here and hours later killed the prisoner's father and two brothers as they worked In the fields few miles away. Police said the prisoner, Giuseppe Italiano, 27, was shot
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    Lock icon 10-day riot
    49 6 REGGIO CALABRIA Militant citizens of this empovershied southern Italian city battled police for the 10th successive da v vesterdi. The first clashes began ■oon after dawn when about 400 police with bulldozers moved into the Santa Caterina and Rarre districts to clear barricades built by demonstrators overni^ut.
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    Lock icon AMERICAN BOMBING
    614 8 warplanes, from 852 Stratofortresses to helicopter gunships, have gone on a bombing spree over Laos, Cambodia and South Vietnam hitting at Communist troop concentrations and "sanctuaries". This followed, almost Immediately, American Secretary of State William Rogers' statement that United States air power will be used wherever necessary to
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    Lock icon ONLY THE FEE IS SHOCKING
    526 8  -  The Art Buchwald column M RS Tanner walked into Dr. Federman's office and took a chair. The learned psychiatrist asked her, ."What seems to be the trouble, Mrs. Tanner?" "I don't know how to tell you this, Doctor. But nothing seems to shock me any
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
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      Lock icon Total cracker ban preferred
      183 8  -  LOW YOKE SIM SIR: rpHE Government has taken action to cut down Hie firing off crackers during Chinese New Year. At fixed periods of the day, we traditlon- > bound and "crackerminded" Chinese were shepherded into 153 designated areas complete with policemen and red flags. The
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      Lock icon Cracker law was flouted
      121 8 SIR: WITH all the restrictions governing the firing of crackers, people were still injured over the holiday period. It is easy to see why. If the police had taken the trouble to visit numerous kam pongs and old residential areas off main streets on Wednesday and
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      Lock icon Drivers could cause injury
      132 8 SIR: XTOWADAYS, a person must be a stunt-man to board a bos. because the driver usually moves bis vehicle before all passengers are safely on board. On 25.1.71, I waited at a bus stop in Aljunied Road opposite the Child and Health Maternal Clinic. It was
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    Lock icon APOLLO 14 WON'T BE A REPEAT OF LAST MOON SHOT
    599 9  -  From Peter Mosley JJOUSTON The Apollo 14 spacecraft is described by its makers. North American Rockwell, as "ultra-sofe." Following the oxygen tank blowout on Apollo 13 last April, a third tank has been added and an emergency battery installed. The
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    Lock icon 13 years since first US bleep
    198 9 CAPS KENNEDY Thirteen years ago yesterday, the United States entered the ■pace age. Bat even the lanaching at Explorer L en Janaar* SI. IMS, pat the U.S. only secondbest after the Soviet Onion, which had put the first artificial satellite. Sputnlh I, Into earth
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  • TODAY'S WORLD
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      Lock icon NEW ZEALAND'S NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM QUEST
      757 10  -  From G. K. Koea pERHAPS you could coll it o form of notionolism, but o growing movement in New Zeolond to do owoy with "God Sove the Queen" is symptomatic of o chonge in feeling towards Britain. No disrespect is intended to the Queen
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      Lock icon Police cars take time off to go shopping
      516 10  -  From Michael Ward A patrol rar for policemen's wives to do the weekly shopping is one of the fringe benefits in Indianapolis Police Department. It Is part of a revolutionary idea thought up by their youngish' chief of police, Winston Churchill. His
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    Lock icon MONDAY PICTORIAL
    236 11 bckaagiif toasts on Australia Day are the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labour, Mr. S. Rajaratnam and the Australian Hifh Commissioner, Mr. Nicholas Parkinson at a reception |h*u by Mr. and Mrs. Parkinson. They included Government leaders, diplomat*, prominent fcihnunrn and their wives. THE Indian High Commissioner and
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
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      1197 12 tderisM CHANNEL 5 P.M. S.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT Jollowed by GENERAL HOSPITAL A daytime serial about the .staff and the patients of a ho»1.20 RSr THE FAMILT A magazine aeries presented in Tamil. 150 A DIARY OF EVENTS IN SINCAPORE THIS WEEK (Tamil). 55 ITS HAPPENING IN SINGAPORE (Tamil Repeat) A
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    Lock icon Reactions vary in polluted plants
    446 14 SCIENCE NOTES A IR pollution is doing mcreosing damage to vegetation in the United States. Annual domoge is estimated of more thon 551,500 million a yeor. Scientists at tbe Plant Air Pollution Laboratory at Belts▼ille, Maryland, are hoping to learn the answers to many problems
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    Lock icon Different ways of observing Sunday
    564 14 r po MOST m, Sunday is Hw first day o# rite weofc, bat to Christians, it is HM SCTCMHI day known as HM Sabbath Day. It »so day of cessation from wcrk. School-children need not go to school and office workers do not go to
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    Lock icon DISCOVERING MALAYSIA
    248 14 AT THE keghwies o* January last yaar my fatfcer pwwwid MM a fur of Hm Federation of Malaysia if I passed my eiaiisafass, Luckily, I did very well and father kept his promiae. 1 persuaded him to take me to Penang where my uncle bad a farm in
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      192 14 ESSAY CONTEST: Rales to observe Tl»« Eastern Sun's essay writing contest foi boys and girls of 14 and undo* (Junior) and boys and girl* over 14 (Senior) appear* in this page from Monday to Friday Prix* nnpnev SIC fto' Sinton anc to> lurO'f tor every HUv published AM entrant* arc
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    Lock icon AUSTRALIAN BIKINIS COME TO SINGAPORE
    277 15 Especially for Asia AUSTRALIA'S "Bikini Queen", Mrs. Paula Stafford, will make an all-out bid to introduce the bikini to Southeast Asia in 1971. She will visit the Philippines, Hong Kcng, Bangkok and Singapore with a new range of the mini swimsuits specially designed for the
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    Lock icon Constant fear abnormal
    505 15  -  ANN LANDERS Dear Ann: I am a 16-year-old girl and about to go nuts. I am afraid of so many things I don't know where to begin. I get uptight sitting through church services. Sometimes 1 actually shake. I'm absent from school a lot because I get
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    Lock icon Cassius Clay sought for movie role
    128 16 JOHANNESBURG A South African filn producer vutl bo x r Muhammad All (Cassias Clay) for the title role of a film on the life ol Zulu ehieftain Shaka. Film maker Howard Connell has phoned the Miami beach gymnasium, where Clay is in training. and
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      803 16 anes ill s taurus ass gerrnm BW9 cancer If c. GENERAL TENDENCIES: You now have a good chance to put your financial affairs on a more satisfactory basis by being practical and by showing you are particularly endowed In analysing your present position. You have a good Idea where you
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      16 16 LADIES DAY "Isn't this better than fighting all that traffic just to set to the beach?"
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    Lock icon • Picture shows an artist's impression of a 6,000 – mile – per – hour hypersonic jetliner from McDonnell Douglas Corporation.
    131 17 Picture shows an artist's impression of a 6,000 mile per hour hypersonic je t liner from McDonnell Douglas Corporation. Hong Kong and Vancouver will only be one hoar and forty-flee minutes apart using a Douglas "hypersonic transport" in shout SO years from now. This was the prediction of Mr. U.
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    108 17 A Singapore tugboat crew has Just completed •n epic 8,088-mile voyage towirv two barges from here to Nigeria Straits Engineers, the owner® of the two barges, s aid that the 20-rran crew has arrived safely at their destination in Port Harrourt. Nigeria. During the voyage which averaged a
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    295 17 UKIfAU U*ia Tam§m° I4»un MM W» i«M» Ml I»ia MSA in KM* una Um»er* UJblB 1 KM 4M MUM U ijet2 U»M sacpm lilMl sa'-s.'^at mSa Ml KM £r«JU£twi til Sm* «I IUII 1 U&OB gjTxsa U6M »«*o« 1 IMM K««a llMltlt MM Ml l«*y*. Tslp<A M«r 57f
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    Lock icon Special tyres for moon car
    179 17 A poll* 14 utiMurti Alan Shepard (left) and Bd Mitchell (first picture) prepare to ■■fold ud set ap the Modular E u ipment Transporter (MET) which will be used on lunar hikes by the two men. NASA, which supplied this photograph, designed and built the
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    Lock icon Malaysia limits interest ceiling
    275 17 KUALA LUMPUR Bank Negara Malaysia Saturday announced details of the maximum deposit rates which can be paid by borrowing companies. The imposition of a limit on deposit rates cornea into effect on Monday (today). It is aimed at eliminating "unhealthy competition" among borrowing companies and bringing
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    Lock icon Anti-mart lobby
    62 17 LONDON More thsn 100 Labourite opposition lawmakers have put pressure on the Conservative Party government to keep Britain out of the European Common Market. A House of Commons motion signed by 106 Labour Party rank-and-file members said "Entry into the European Economic Com m unity (EEC) on the
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      192 17 Classified Ads. UUIPTVMOM *.V. RKNTALO. ILP. OR CAW We have cample"* nine* of moQala tad la CIMIWMU AiMiM m Pwpni put ooßpin. id n I4fc Joo cniM Rati MO Block 101 Corpora tioii DHft Jurong Olaaed Circuit T.V. ftarksmrjDd Mule InrwUlatlao »OM» MOII, *•*>• BO* KX M'fOKR. EDUCATION Ttf ACANMT
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    Lock icon Katong Ocean wins Gold Cup
    1123 18 KUALA LUMPUR Lucky Stable's KATONG OCEAN, with Johnny Nelson •stride, won the $35,000 Tengku's Gold Cup over 1 Of here yesterday. Second in the race was the favourite Sungei Wang I] with outsider Katong View (Cheam) third. The Dara gelding's time was two minutes 9
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    Lock icon Burnley wins rough match
    333 18 An incident in last night's FAS Division 3B soccer final between Burnley United and JoJlilads resulted in scuffle (seen above) between Burnley's right-winger Chan and JoJlilads' left-half Modi. Both the players were sent off the Held by the referee. The game continued to end with a
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      44 18 SWEEP TOTAL POOL: ($9,383) Ist Prise No: *****3 ($2,322) 2nd Prise No: *****4 ($1,161) 3rd Prise No: *****8 580) Starters ($B2 each) Nos: *****6 *****1 *****0 *****? *****0 *****8 *****8 Consolation ($5l each) Nos: *****3 *****9 *****2 *****1 *****3 *****6 *****3 *****8 *****4 *****0
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