Eastern Sun, 8 February 1971

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Microfilm: NL6689
Total Pages: 19
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    Lock icon 6 banners seized by police
    235 2 pOLICE yesterday seized six Communist 1 banners carrying antiGovernment slogans. Tiro banners were found Hanging between Blocks 73 and 74 at Redhill Close at 7.20 e.m. Twenty minutes later police received a call and raced to Lor°°9 Five, Too Payoh, where they removed two more
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    Lock icon Killed by crane arm
    74 2 A man wa« crashed to ieath at the weekend when the arm of crane hit him at Tarn aa Juronjr. He was Chau Wah Chan, M. Of Jlak Chuaa Road Re wss oo top of a stack of tTO n bars la the Nattoaal Iron and
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    Lock icon Post-grad course opens at Varsity
    264 2 The School of Poet graduate Medical Studies, University of Singapore, has staffed a co«r»« in pkytioloqy beginning from today. The coarse 12 lecture* w!U be held at the Post-graduate Lecture Theatre, second floor, Faculty of Medicine Building. Professor R. W. Hawker of the Department of
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    Lock icon Joan Roosa and son
    124 2 While world attention is still on the returning Apollo 14 mission. The Sun brings readers two human interest portraits of the Apollo 14 families, and not forgetting the Soviet astronauts too. TOP: Joan Roosa, wife of Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa couldn't resist sporting a purse
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    Lock icon Crash victim dies in hospital
    97 2 A nine-rear-old bor died in baapital on Friday after a car hit him He was Tan Pua* Kee, of Circuit Road. The car was travelline alon< Uppea AX- junied Ro«d towards Macpherson Road at 12.30 p.m. on Thursday It collided with a cycliat. Chi a
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    164 3 CANBBKftA The Board of Trustees of Ike Australian War Memorial May decide this week whether to return to Sinrapore the. table oa which the aarreader of Slarapore to the Jaaaaoec was airaed la lUt The Memorial Museum here at preseat hoases the historic tahle. The
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    Lock icon CONSIDER VIEWS OF CYCLISTS IN SAFETY PLANNING
    267 3 views of cyclists ond motorcyclists should not bo overlooked in promoting effective safety measures for them, a government official said yesterday. The suggestion came from Parliamentary Secretary (Education), Mr. Mohamed Ghazali Ismail when he launched the Motorcyclists and Cyclists Safety Campaign. Mr. Ghazali
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    Lock icon TOURIST RAPES A CASHIER
    149 3 POLICE REPORT A tourist roped 27-year-old hotel cashier on Wednesday night, according to police sources. The fourist a hotel guest asked the cashier to go for a drive with him and have supper. He took her to a lonely spot in Chancery Lane and raped her.
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      113 3 f>\\ 1 weather bareao predicts isolated •bowers for today. YESTERDAY Ma*. Tear 84.3 Mln. Temp: 7jj Rain: M Total rata to date: .14 Total rata days to date: 3 days Sunshine yesterday* 0 70 boars Humidity at 11.15 p •7 per cent SINGAPORE TOWN 3.35 am. (5.4 ft.); 9.15 a.m.
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      18 3 Toto draw Sunday's Toto l)raw:24, 23. 38. 8. 42. Additional" Number: 12. Three circle Draw* t». 7, 22.
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    Lock icon Two held in big manhunt
    174 4 PANANG A massive manhunt for a gang of "trigger-hap-py" armed robbers mounted since Saturday's two shooting incidents has resulted in the arrest of several suspects. The 24-hour hunt directed b v the Bukit Mertajam OCPD, Supt. Cyril David, and tne Kulim OCPD. Supt Mat Samat.
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    Lock icon EMERGENCY POWERS ON IN BRUNEI
    65 4 BRUNEI Sultan Hassan al Bolklah has extended Brunei's eight-year-old State of Emergency by a further two years, a government gazette announced yesterday. It said the extension waa necessary because there still exLsted some danger to the security of the state. Brunei has been ruled by
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    Lock icon TO PROMOTE CHINESE UNITY: Tun Tan offers to resign MCA post
    400 4 ITUALA LUMPUR Tun Ton Siew Sin yesterday offered to resign immediately as National President of the Malaysian Chinese Association if it could strengthen Chinese unity. He made his offer at a special closed-door meeting attended by about 1,000 people
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    Lock icon BENEDICT'S BIG DAY
    118 4 Among the B.MO cadet scouts, scouts and vrnture scouts who yesterday to .K part in a ra.iy in honour of Lord Charles Maclean, Chief Scout of the Commonwealth, none was prouder than Benedict Leon;. Benedict, 10, of the Kalian; Primary School, had the honour of presenting a
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    Lock icon FREE TUITION FOR THE POOR: MP
    58 4 TTie Whampoa Branch of the People'* Action Party is reserving 25 places at its kindergarten for children from poor families. The M P for Whampoa, Dr. Augustine Tan, said parents Interested should see him at his weekly meet-the-people sessions on Monday evenings. applicant* will
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    Lock icon Table Tennis Federation President resigns
    215 4 MR. Koji Goto, President of tfie Table Tennis Federation of Asia, resigned his position during the conference yesterday. Conference source* disclosed that It was due to his Intention of ousting Taiwan because of Japan's agreement with Peking. Mr. Koji Goto U also the President of
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    Lock icon A second school for sailors
    152 4 KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian govern* ment la considering the setting up of a second school for sailors at Port Swettenham. The School, will be similar to the one nearing completion in Penang, a spokesman of the Ministry of Transport said yesterday. He said however, the
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    Lock icon Search on for brutal killer
    208 5 DAN lA, Florida Police are searching for "a •warthy man" who may have killed a cosmetics executive and his blonde bride aboard their There were lew substantial clues to the Identity of the murderer of George Beck and his wife of only a month. Their
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    Lock icon Factory under siege
    96 5 FORT TfNNANT, Wale» Two hundred housewives have put a carbon *ac»o«y under s»eoe because they dann that pollution from its chimneys is r' »heir lives. The housewives say their windows have to be washed everv day, the weekly wash costing 5J7.50 Moreover mothers are unable to leave
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    Lock icon Royal Family denies row over Duke's post
    204 5 LONDON Press icparti «t a MW mvoKing the Royal Family the dm ilion to send Hie Mc of Kent to command an armowred car ifudrm io NorHi Ireland wore denied by a Buckingham Palace apekesman yesterday. He alao denied that an inquiry w«s
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    Lock icon 2 STRONG QUAKES DESTROY TUSCANIA
    295 5 TUSCANU, ITALY Tw# Strang enough to moke HM ground tindolite Ifcf HM surface of Hie 000 rel tod tfirough this ancient capital Ist# Saturday. "Our city is destroyed," declared Mayor Sergio Leonardi. M least 19 people wete reported dead but the toll la expected to
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    Lock icon Americans have worst health
    62 5 WASHINGTON The United States spends more on health care than any country In the world and yet Its ettliens' health Is among the worst of the developed countries. Astronomically rMng coats coupled with a failure oT the health «y«tem to provide the services are rtiaplng up
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    Lock icon Vessel missing in heavy seas
    101 5 6AIOON A 5.300-ton motor freighter wau> reported m asm u yesterday In heavy seas 300 miles east of the Philippines. spokesmen for the U.B. Navy have reported. The missing vessel Is *Banta Ana. a log ship from the Philippines Two U.S. Navy ships and an
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    Lock icon 'NO' TO INDIA
    54 5 RAWALPINDI Th Pakistan Government has rejected India's demand that the two Kashmiri hijackers of an Indian airliner to Lahore on January 30 be banded over to India to itand trial. In Calcutta, Prime Minister Mrs. Gandhi has appealed to the Indian nation to stay calm in tbe
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      58 5 When »h« wtitlMi k Mtkry, all forms at tevn «HI ewe. Three Leg* Brand RHINO HORN FEVEt WATER it food it relict el all fever* and alto as a cure for baby's measles and MI a 9 ft m il *r TBI KEN DL'JG COWAMY UNITED UcM Office S9A Cboei
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    Lock icon NEWS in BRIEF
    430 6 FBI smashes $180m gambling ring WASHINGTON The Federal Bureau of Investigation (F. 8.1.) has smashed a SslBo-million-a--year gambling operation when 11 arrested 56 people in eight states. LEON, Nicaragua Emergency committees have evacuated thousands of refugees while erupting "Cerro Negro'* Volcano continued to belch lightning flashes of
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    Lock icon Aid for refugees diverted to arms
    276 6 KENNEDY ACCUSES CIA: WASHINGTON Senator Edward Kennedy, (Massachusetts Democrat), has accused the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of diverting half of the U.S. aid for refugees in Laos to mercenaries fighting the communists. Kennedy estimated that in the past four years, some 5582.2 million in
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    Lock icon THE FATE OF DETAINEES UNKNOWN
    81 6 WASHINGTON Fifty-two American senators and congressmen have charged that some people detained under South Africa's Terrorism Act had "simply vanished" and their fate was unknown. The group denounced the recent arrest by South African authorities of the Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, Reverend Goovllle French -Beytagh.
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    Lock icon MORE GIRLS ON PILLS
    30 6 BONN Many more teenage girls than previously regularly take contraception pills, disclosed a study released on Saturday by the Keli Institute for Forensic and Social Medicine.
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    Lock icon MODEL'S '$1m FORTUNE' A HOAX BY ADMIRER
    254 6 BONN A German model who thought she had inherited almost Ssl*« 500,000 from an unknown admirer was th« victim of a hoax by a lone- some lover. The newspaper, 'Blld,' reported yesterday that the latter had wanted her to come home. Karollne Hackmann,
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    Lock icon Tension mounts in Okinawa
    167 6 TOKYO The elected Chief Executive of Okinawa's Civil Government has warned that tension is mounting between the U.S. Armed Forces and Okinawa's civil population. Chobyo Yara said he Is fearful of renewed violence on the Island after a strike against Amer can bases by the All-Okinawa
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    Lock icon CAUGHT IN THE COLD
    51 6 .if hi i li! 1 skyline looks like It Is floating on a fractured Iceberg aa the city shivers In the grip of sub-freezing temperatures. Electrical companiea In the north-east have announced power cutbacks to prevent major failures of their taxed facilities.—tUfi radiophoto). ia«iu w UPI
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    Lock icon EXPOSED- BID TO DISRUPT MANSON TRIAL
    335 7 T ANGELES Th# Sheriff's Office hat received information that explosives may be used to disrupt the final days of the penalty phase of the Tote Murder Trial. Sheriff s Captain William Alley said in an affidavit that security measure for the entire place have
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    Lock icon Blaze destroys Emperor's villa
    205 7 CULPRIT CONFESSES Police yesterday accepted the confession of Hamkii' m '.f' rilat J 1 MU »^I the tire which destroyed Emperor Hiro"'to s seaside villa on January 27. Sumlta had been under questioning since he voluntarily contacted police in Yokohama on Friday night Sumlta came to
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    Lock icon $120,000 drug haul at airport
    113 7 HONG KONG Preventive Service officers have seised 6sl2«,tM worth of morphine from a Thai couple when they arrived at Kai Tak International Airport. A police spokesman said nine pounds of drugg were found concealed hi the false bottom of two travelling bags. The two Thai
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    Lock icon 100-year gamble
    83 7 CHIBA. Japan Zennojo Ogura, 52, holds a certificate of deposit purchased by hie grandfather In 1901 for 1 yen (now equivalent to 27/ lMths of 3 Singapore cents). The certificate matures In the year 2001 at value of 8583.31. The Prime Minister's Office of Btatlstlca says that despite
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    Lock icon On rampage
    39 7 BRISBANE Rampaging prisoners caused thousands of dollars' worth of damage in a five-hour riot at the Boggo Road jail yesterday. More than 50 prisoners ranged through four dormitories smashing windows, wrecking fixtures and setting fire to beddings.
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      187 7 *s® w ftST <* r II \m-u m i-*d% m& J i s£"> #2*2 VM > tjiffi >£*/> **S2 w iw/ I MBp> V, 0@ T 4 W:3UmmK&v ii i Vtikm THE CHARTERED BANK THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY in their long end heppy association of over 30 year* teke
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    Lock icon INTERESTING BUT ILLOGICAL
    389 8 WHAT Senator Edward Kennedy has said Tf about American policy towards China Is Interesting but totally illogical. He has urged that the United States establish diplomatic relations with Peking and at the same time he wants his country to continue to guarantee the security of Taiwan. This
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    Lock icon HIJACKING
    237 8 "DOTH India and Pakistan have blown their cool over the hijacking incident. India has no reason for preventing Pakistani flights over the 1,100 miles of Indian territory which separates the two halves. India knows how vital it is for Pakistan to maintain connections between East Pakistan and West Pakistan
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    Lock icon FEMALES HAVE THE LAST WORD
    540 8  -  The Art Buchwald column WASHINGTON It could be the wor or oil the talk about revolution, but the latest fashion craze in the country is a cartridge belt for women. I discovered this the other day when 1 went into a store to buy a
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
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      Lock icon INDIAN HIJACKING
      414 8 SIR: VOUR editorial entitled "Purely Political" it totally unfair and does not give the correct picture of the situation arising out of the hiiackina of an Indian plane by Kashmiris. While you have conceded Pakistan's right to grant political asylum, you seem to have completely ignored important facts.
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      Lock icon Canned goods fraud
      93 8 SIR: I AM writing this letter to warn other housewives of a fly-by-night hawker who cheats unsuspecting housewives. My wife went to tho Commonwealth Crescent Market on 25.1.71". Outside, she saw hawker selling tinned goods. On display was an opened tin of mushrooms. Thinking that the pries
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      Lock icon Pornographic books shock
      71 8 SIR: ITS all very well to say, 'come let's be cultivated. read books and appreciate the arts. aim at widening knowledge". But the number of cheap. pornograohic books ava lab e o* ftl- most every street corner Is shocking. Youngsters nat u r a lly pour over
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  • TODAY'S WORLD
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      Lock icon Coups are way of life in Africa
      67 9 THE recent coup in Uganda was the latest in o long series of African political upheavals. Since 1953 when the late President Gamal Nasser took over Egypt ond formed the United Arab Republic there has been no fewer than 17 coups. In Uganda,
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      Lock icon Obote and Uganda go their separate ways
      475 9 He saw the writing on the walL but it was too late MILTON Obote, former President off Uganda only to id wliot he wonted to believe when he declored o few months 090: "I om the African leoder least susceptible to a military
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      Lock icon DEAD, BUT STILL A THREAT
      213 9 THE Lata "King Freddia" of Bugondo who diad more than o year ago may ytt POM problems lor Uganda's now strong mon, MajorGenarol Idi Amin. "King Freddie" was the popular name for Cambridge-educated Sir Edward Mutesa. the Kabaka (King) of Buganda. Buganda is the biggest
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      1155 12 today's WEIRM WM. 100 OPENIMC ANNCTS. ♦oRowed by General Hospital A daytime aerial about the staff and the patients of a hospital. 1.25 MAOHKSWARAM RECITAL byKO.M. Samy and Group 1.50 A MART Of EVENTS IN SINCAfORI THIS WEEK fTamif). 1.55 ITS HAPPENINC IN SINGAPORE Cenil Rpt.) TS Of OUR LIVES
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    Lock icon Big moment for young ballet fan
    49 13 A famous daughter who keeps very much in the background finds herself in the limelight as she talks to ballet star Rudolph Nureyev. Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late President, went backstage recently to meet Nureyev after his performance with the Australian ballet.
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    Lock icon 'Love Story' is success story of Arthur Hiller
    553 13 H OLL ™f 00D Love Stor y." the biggest thing that has happened in Hollywood since Humphrey Bogart learned to sneer, is playing at a theatre in Wesfrwood. Lines snake around the block every night. Once In awhile a short, d&rk-h aired
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      88 13 PONGGOL (Air-conditioned) SWAM MITE-CLUB, RESTAURANT COFFEE HOUSE TRACK 84. PONGGOL ROAD, 11* nj. Singapore, 19. TEL: *****4 (3 LINES) Chinese A European Cuisine Sea-Food Open Daily From 10.00 aon. to 1.00 ajn. Weekends Holidays, Ext. To 2.00 ajn. REST HOUSE FOR HIRE BOA TEL: SPEED-BOA TS FOR HIRE Solo Dance
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      230 13 »n N» Free List 11 C a rift |> LI Chlng M Yueh Rui Vrnrt-anre Of A hmilri* (A SHAW PRODUCTION* Mandarm In Sow ft Color OPENS WEDNESDAY New Super cinerama "Krakatoa bit Of Jin" Technicolor t A l» I 1 I) I 2075U New Shewlnr Ne free List Due
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      92 13 [THfTT OPGArMISATiniM OHEDN CATHAY MOO ORCHARD i if, sh ;rI V.W'A if* OOtON Katonqi RUBY MAJfSTIC MIVIR CITY CATHAY J.8.-J'" SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT' s M waim em t.t A JAPAN'S NAVY PLANES ATTACK HAWAII, SINGAPORE, DAVAO, WAKE, CUi ber 7,1941. For those who wore not yet born, for those too young
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    Lock icon Fire a good servant but bad master
    515 14 FIRE it perhaps Hie oldest and in many ways, the most important light in the history of mankind. Only man's discovery of agriculture or writing had so deep and lasting an effect upon his progress. It is probable that he knew Are long
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    Lock icon THE LEGACY OF THE RED CLOTH
    590 14 murmured the dying old mon. "Yes, father?" asked Brenda, eyes swollen from crying. *7...take care 0...0f that r...e...d cloth In that iron bo..jr," his breath came In gasps and then his voice trailed off and he fell back, never to see earth again. ♦•Father!
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    Lock icon Hovertrains gain ground
    295 14 SCIENCE NOTE Recent developments In fast, comfortable passenger trains have shown that really efficient railways can still beat every other kind of long distance transport over inter-city distances. In Britain, they're won back millions of passengers from tbe airlines and tbe motorways with their new last, smooth
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  • WOMEN
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      Lock icon LEG EMPHASIS IS FAR FROM FINISHED
      643 15  -  By Florence de Santis IT'S very odd that women will cover their legs entirely with pants, yet scream if skirts descend, because they'll cover the legs! The fact is that leg emphasis is far from finished. It's changing however, to co-ordinate with the change
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      Lock icon Marriage is not destiny of all human beings
      324 15  -  ANN LANDERS Dear Ann Recently I had an argument with a friend w bo Insists that marriage Is the natural condition (or all humans. She claims that the ■taffies In our society are freak* w ho flout the laws of nature that
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    Lock icon Dying for a drink
    128 16 NARRABRI New South Wales A man in this water, logged town north-west of Sydney wanted to qurmh his thirst and became the latest victim of the floods that have claimed 21 lives in new South Wales. The man, a 38-year-old labourer whose name has not been
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      755 16 II aiies m .'/.ill sri s taurus a gemini ffKfli cancer £7 r, iSSSI GENERAL TENDENCIES: Om of the test of DAYS tor quick action tn putting into operation decisions that arc vltml to yonr progress that have considerable scope. Be rare you set In touch with friend* and find
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      14 16 "What really makes me mad, her shirt ami shorts are so whiter than oursT
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    Lock icon Champagne II upsets to pay big dividend
    1231 18 II created o spectacular upset when he come from behind to win the class three division two race over 7f to pay a dividend of $230 for a win yesterday in Penang. It was a welcome change of lock for Jockey Winson Llew
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    Lock icon Spinners dominate cricket in Jamaica
    170 18 KINGSTON, Jamaica Another day of shifting fortunes at Sabina Park e wi#h Janwi '9O runs for six wickets in reply to India's total of 272. The tourists, playing the first match of their West Indies tour, collapsed this morning their five remaining wickets falling for
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    Lock icon Correction
    29 18 The second prize number In the Big Sweep on Saturday's races at Penang should be ***** Instead of ***** a* reported in The Sun The error Is regretted.
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    Lock icon Customs win
    80 18 Custom* Sports Club beat Singapore Teachers Union by five goals to one, in the SGSFL Division 2B fixture played at Farrer Park last night. Playing splendid ;ootball with well concentrated passings and attacks, Customs opened scoring In the 12th minute of the first ha throußh lnside-r 1g h
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    Lock icon Eight to train for Davis Cup
    171 18 KUALA LUMPUR The Lawn Tennis Association of Malaysia yesterday named eight players for centralised training in Penang in preparation for the first round Davis Cup tio against Pakistan. I Among the eight are two Juniors Kuldip Singh of Kedah and Chow Weng Wah of
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      47 18 SWEEP TOTAL POOL: ($9,351) Ist Prtae No: ***** ($3,§85) 2nd Prise No: ***** 771) 3rd Prize No: ***** 385) Starters ($5l each) Nos: ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** Consolation ($3B each) Nos; ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
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    Lock icon LAVER EASILY BEATS OKKER
    376 19 YORK Rod Lover, ploying nearly flawless tennis, continued his inexorable conquest of the world s top professionals Saturday by defeating Halland's Tom Okker in straight sets. 6-4. 6-4. 6-4. It was the AustraI i a n left-hander's ninth straight victory in the 5520,000, win-ner-tafce-aM series of
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    Lock icon SHEPARD'S IRON SHOT 'OUT OF THIS WORLD'
    259 19 NEW YOBS Offers who play for cash, like Araie Pal Jhl pall for faa aaaaied astronaut Abm ttepard Saturday for playing the flnl gaU game trwly "owt of this world." Jfes Shepard. the year old Aaclest Mariaor of Apollo 14. he walked*'"oa" the
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    Lock icon Palmer, two others lead Hawaiian golf
    191 19 HOWIUUI-AnMhlw.T.iSh.^MNWm.MM^ 2 £rJ!zJZL'*~ The eolovM Shaw. the halfway leader. Palmer and Weaver stayed neck and neck for four hoars In sweltering heat to keep a shadL ahead of several other golfers In the raco far the 5612Q.006 first Wearer included two spectacular eagles, both
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    Lock icon Player wins
    89 19 CAP* TOWN South African Gary Player turned on the power that has made him one of the world's top golfers to carry off the Western Province Open tournament by teven strokes here Saturday. The 34-year-old Johnnesb u r g professional powered round the Rondebosch course in fleeunder par
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    60 19 KYOTO, Japan Japan's Hayami Tanimura jreslerday won the third international marathon In this western Japanese city with a time of two hour* .13 minutes 45.2 seconda. Britain'* Donald Faircloth. SI, a pre-race favourite, finished second in two hour* 14 minutes and 56.8 seconds. He wa* followed br West Lutz
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    Lock icon THE BABE HERMAN STORIES
    761 19  -  A COLUMN ON AMERICAN SPORTS BY MILTON RICHMAN MEW YORK Babe Herman and Bwekljm were arut far ome asother. They went laaether the raa»r way as hacoa and «fP, how a- and bride and nam. "f n played for the Brooklyn Dodgers at- -en seasons and
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    Lock icon Aunt-niece ties still unsettled
    236 19 SEOUL A Sow* Korean Housewife of Seoul yaelerdsy uU Hut ahe beJievet for sura Mita Han PH-Hwa, a Hwtfc Korea* speed skater, it liar younger sister dotpito Hit tktter't Hat Gonial. Mrs. Kim Sung-Hwe. 38. formerly Miss Han Kye-Rwa said that she Is anxious to go
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    Lock icon BIG RUSH TO GET TYPHOID PROTECTION
    270 20 r pHOUSANDS of people yesterday rushed to be inoculated against typhoid as fears of an epidemic swept Singapore. Up to lote yesterday 39 typhoid coses had. been reported by Middleton Hospital. The cases are generally confined to Jalan Tebu, Jalan Sawi and Jalan Kangkong
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    Lock icon Pres. Sheares is the Chief Scout
    91 20 President Sheares has become the Chief Scout in Singapore. He accepted the invitation to become the Chief. Yesterday he attended hla first function ns Chief Scout at a dinner even by 450 adult scout aders. The dinner was given In honour of the Chief
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    Lock icon Girl in fishing party drowned
    158 20 A 23-year-old clerk, Miss Wee Lian See, who was among a party of five fishing off St. John's Island was drowned yesterday when their boat capsized. One of her companion, 25-year-old Henry Yeo of Taman Jurong is still missing and the Marine Police have mounted
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    Lock icon Laos incursion plan now waiting for Nixon
    387 20 WASHINGTON President Nixon is now deciding whether to give the go-aheatf to o major South Vietnamese incursion into Laos, according to administration sources. D e s p i te growing congressional and public opposition, officials said a largescale strike backed by American, air
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