Eastern Sun, 22 February 1971

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  • Title Section
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    20 1 EASTERN SUN own national My 19 cents Est* 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1577 Monday, February 22, 1971 M.C (P) 2510
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon PETROL UP 16 CENTS A GALLON
    359 1 pETROL will increase by of leost 16 cents o gallon within the next few days. A top oil company executive revealed this to the SUN yesterday. He said all petrol companies would increase their prices 20 per cent or 16 cents extra for super
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    Lock icon Honeymoon—on a go-kart
    128 1 Indonesian g k a r t champion Adlya Sutanto Isn't letting his honeymoon Interfere with his namber one Interest go karting. •Sports always come first," he declared after competing at the go-kart meet '■> Kalian* Sports Complex yesterday. He said he and his wife had decided to
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      30 1 V tt*khx-nx JMm HtjSl Mb**. PRIMA LTD »FLOUR MILLS) tkJUT -5V r /i m As a tree with deep roots can grow sturdy and strong! v> (Avis CJorammud Corporation jGtb.
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  • Article
    Lock icon $10,610 in stolen property recovered
    204 2 POLICE SMASH 13-MAN GANG: IB-man gong responsible lor o series of thefts ond armed robberies in the past nine months has been smashed, police announced. As a result, nine men will appear in court today. Police are still questioning another four men. They have aLso
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    Lock icon Just their cup of tea
    45 2 Tern for two? Not exactly. These two toddlers prefer to alt Inside the cup, rather than drink from It. The cup is actually a slant toy at a Singapore funfair... and the youngsters found H Just their cup of tea.
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    Lock icon Two hurt in bus, car collision
    75 2 TWO people were rushed to Hospital after a taleon car was involved in a head-on collision with a Pay a Leber bus yesterday afternoon. The car was badly damaged in the cresh at the dual carriageway of Lorong Choan. The driver and a passenger
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    Lock icon Bout to be seen 'live' ?
    103 2 Bout to be seen 'live' KI'ALA LUMPI'R The Cassius Clay-Joe Frazier world heavyweight title fight may be telecast "live" in Malaysia and Singaporr if a sponsor can be found. The fight at the Madison Square Garden la New York will be on Malaysian TV •creeas on March 9 at sjn.
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    Lock icon A BOMB CAME WITH THE GARDEN SAND
    126 2 Mr. Ong Hee, 69, ordered a load of sand to be delivered yesterday so he could level out his gorden. But Mr. Ong, of Florence Road, got more than he paid for. A« he was digging through the sand his shovel struck something
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    Lock icon Mojuntin expelled
    67 2 KOTA KINABALU Outspoken State A•#en»blyman Peter Mojuntin has boon expelled from the United Sabah National Organisation. The Working Committee USNO made this decision at a meeting on Saturday. ThLs was a day after hn disclosed his plan to set up a new political party, Mojuntin has said the
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    Lock icon Off to attend Manila talks
    125 2 The Minister of State for Education. Dr. LM Cfclaw Meng, will leave for Manila today t* attend the 21st Meeting of the Colombo Plan Consultative Committee. Dr. Lee will attend the conference In place of the Minister for Law and National Development. Mr. K. W.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      74 2 irel SINGAPORE TOWN 200 mm. (5.8 ft 7.2? »jl (7 J ft.); 257 pn. (1.7 ft.); 18.18 (7.7 ft TOMORROW 306 a.m. (5.3 ft); 5.47 a.m. <8.7 ft.); 3.49 p.m. (1 ft.); 10.49 p.m. (8.3 ft). NAVAL DOCKYARD £.15 a m (t» 8 ft.);; 7.08 am. (8 8 ft.); 2.SS
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      21 2 Toto draw Sunday'. Toto draw:— 38. 11. 44, 40 and S. The extra number Is: 39. Circle draw: 7, 48, 1
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      29 2 THE weather bureau predicts scattered showers in early morning. YESTERDAY Max. temp: S7J Mia. temp: 72.1 Rain: 1.18 Total rain to date: t.94 Total rata days this jrear; If
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    Lock icon HOME-COMING GIRLS DREAD TERROR LANE
    619 3 factory girls of Kompong Sungei Pandon coll it J "Terror Lone." It is three quarters of a mile of unlit road between the last bus stop ond their homes. At about midnight, when the buses from their factory drop them off, terror grips them. The
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    Lock icon 2 found dead at foot of flats
    183 3 POLICE ore anxious to contact relatives end friends of two unidentified women found dead yesterday at the foot of Housing Board flats. One woman aged about 25, was found at the foot of Block 34, Lorong Five, Toa Payoh at 9 am She
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    Lock icon CARS STOLEN FROM PARKS
    48 3 Two mini c*«* were stolen from car parks during the wrekend, police said vesterday. An Austin mini worth $4,000 was stolen from a car park at Toa Payoh. A 554.500 Morris mini was meanwhile taken from car park in Tank Road. Police arc investigating
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      69 3 When the weather it sultry, alt forms of fever w ll con*e. Three Legs Brand RHINO HORN FIVER WATER is good for relief of all fevers and also at a cure for baby's measles and poa V. V< fS Yi r WEN KEN DRUG COMPANY LIMITED Head Office 39 41
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  • THE WORLD THIS MORNING
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      Lock icon Nuclear warning error scares millions in U.S.
      332 4 The message that stunned American TV viewers WASHINGTON Millions off Americans heard radio stations interrupt their programmes yesterday to announce a national emergency. ft wos not a hoax but it was a mistake, an accidental triggering-off of the system designed to warn the
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      Lock icon Arafat misses meeting
      139 4 BEIRUT The Central Committer of Me Palestine guerrillas has met la Damascus without tMr chalrmaa. Ta*r Arafat. Observers felt hi* absence from the session of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PIO) meant there w»s little likelihood of a showdown previously forecast by commando sources. The challenge to Arafat's
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      Lock icon Boy, 5, in shock VD case
      178 4 LONDON A flre-jrear-eld Americas boy underwrat treatment for venereal disease. A CI, seed 9. had lated him. This was only one of many shocks esperieaced ia Western cooltries over the past rear because of a rapid spread of gonorrhoea. The U.S. Goveranent this aioath
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      Lock icon WILSON CALLS FOR STRIKE INQUIRY
      189 4 LONDON Opposition leader Harold Wilson lost niakt called for a court of inquiry into the deadlocked postal strike, one of Britain's most intractable labour disputes. He said the strike, now nearlng the end of Its fifth week, was In danger of becoming a laboratory experiment
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      Lock icon Sub's close shave may help solve mystery
      195 4 TOULON A recent near-fatal accident a French submarine may help to clear ap the mystery surrounding the disappearance two sister ships. The Daphne Class submarine, "Flore," was towed hack into Ton lon Harbour on Saturday after a safety valve on the snorkel failed,
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    Lock icon U.K. DENTIST CLAIMS TO HAVE TREATED BIGGS
    229 5 Important clue for manhunt: T ON DON Scotland Yard has received on important new clue in its hunt for fugitive train robber Ronald Biggs. An English country dentist is convinced He has recently treated Biggs in the Suffolk village of Eye. The totter
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    Lock icon Ugandan Army wants Amin rule for 5 years
    162 5 Tb* Uganda Army hat announced tfcot the now military government of Major-Generol Idi Amin "must be m power for ot least five years." It hu alio asked Major-Oeneral Amin to become President of Uganda and promoted him to the rank of a
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    Lock icon PRISONER'S GIRLFRIEND ENDS SIEGE
    143 5 COSENZA, Italy An armsd convict released Hiree warden he was holding as hostages and gave himsolf up bona yesterday after prison authorities agreed fo lot him see his pregnant girlfriend. Giuseppe Cav a 11 a serving six and a half years for extortion, had held two
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    Lock icon REUNION OF BROTHER AND SISTER FOILED
    209 5 TOKYO —Han Ml Hwt, a North Korean woman speed skater, has re tamed to fyoßfyang withcat meeting her noosed brother from Seool apparently because of political complications Ban PU Sung, M, a television repairman in Sooth Korea, flew into Tokyo on Friday night for
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    Lock icon A mini warning
    75 5 BANGKOK Thai female government employees have been advised not to wear short skirts and men ha been asked to avoid wearing multicoloured shirts. Director-general Snlt Vilalchltt of the Local Administration Department said he did not put an absolute ban on mini-skirts and multi-coloured shirts during office hours.
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    Lock icon Threats unnerve consul
    92 5 BARCELONA Th West German Honorary Consul in San Sebastian •aid yesterday threatening letters and phone rails from Basque nationalists who kidnapped him last December were unnerving him and his family. "M v wife can no longer bear it and my nerves are going". Eugene Beihl told the
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    Lock icon Red faces over Red joke
    58 5 Thora are rid faces racwtfy in tf»e staff of Air India,. India's national airline, over a Joke on Hi« communists. Th# Soviet authorities have objected to a cartoon (above) in the airfina's calendar which depicts a tourist in Moscow walking across Red Square as it
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    Lock icon Women refused licence to wed
    116 5 LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY A court judge has rejedfd (he request of two women for a licence to get married. Kentucky's 175-year-old Marriage Statute does not specifically prohibit the unioa of person of the same MX. However, Judge Schnid said he "doubts seriously that anyone today would
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    Lock icon 3 die in fight at home of star
    189 6 ROME Police arrested a 44-year-old Italian yesterday after a gunflght in which three people died at a luxury villa belonging to Aim ■tar Sylva Kosclna near here. Police named the man as Giovanni Galati who they said gave himself up shortly after
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    Lock icon 4 steal plane, die in crash
    84 6 ATHENS. Texas Four young mental patients, who had run away from their homes, died when a private plane they stole crashed into Marshland near here. The four, two girls aged 14 and 19 and two boys aged 17 and 20, were outpatients at a
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    Lock icon UNHAPPY ROMANCE LED ME TO 'POT' SAYS MANSON GIRL
    295 6 LOS ANGELES Pretty Leslie Van Houten told the Sheron Tote murder trial here how on unhappy school romance led her to try smoking "pot" for the first time when she was 15 "out of complete curiosity." Later she tried the hallucinatory
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    Lock icon Leftists hit police with bombs in Ankara
    175 6 TURKISH STUDENTS RENEW VIOLENCE A NKARA Leftist violence hos brought new bomb blasts in Turkey and a spectacular battle between police and Ankara students. The battle ended with 200 arrests and 20 people injured. The bomb blasts were formerly limited to Ankara. Istanbul
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    Lock icon Stephanie's a nature girl...
    39 6 Nature lovers like to gather at the Lane Cove National Park near Bjrdney. And the sunny weather enables lovely Stephanie Maorer, 22, to wear the minlmtOn allowed while the photographers record a maximum of pictures.
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    Lock icon Poll candidate killed
    234 6 CALCUTTA Authorities called off polling In West Bengal constituency after a leading candidate and party leader was stabbed to death yesterday. The victim former West Bengal Minister Hemanta Ba.su, 76—was attacked by four men and stabbed as be was getting Into a taxi. He w«i the fourth
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      124 7 Fmd out how it feels when Honda marry high performance to prestige. In the new Honda 1300 Coupe. Outstanding performance from speeds up to 110 mph, with acceleration to match. Inside and out, it has the style and finish to comfort you in any Company. A front mounted engine and
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    Lock icon INDIAN ELECTIONS
    514 8 PREDICTING the outcome of election* is I!.. ll y PMtlme but It becomes downright Idiotic if one attempts it in the case of the coming elections in indim. With all the expertise and experience Gallup and Harris could bring, and with a chance of being 50 per cent
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    Lock icon THE BATTLE IN LAOS
    151 8 THE battle Is being joined In the Laotian panhandle. The first round seems to have gone badly for the South Vietnamese because both weather and accurate antiaircraft fire appear to have neutralised American air support. The South Vietnamese, though welltrained, battle-hardened and with superior equipment, will
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    Lock icon THE EMBASSY TO BEAT ALL
    573 8 WASHINGTON Word from Cambodia it that U.S. military teams assigned to check on American military aid will be dressed in civilian clothes and attached to the U.S. embassy at Phnom Penh. It has been made perfectly clear that these military teams are not advisers and
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
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      Lock icon Taxis forgotten courtesy policy
      159 8  -  HO YOKE KHANG SIR: the recent Courtesy Campaign Hat already been relegated into |K« remotest recesses of most people's minds. And the front runners ol the current "Tongue Liberation Movement" are none other than our happy band of bus conductors an<i taxi drivers. These people have
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      Lock icon Pollution drive didn't last long
      105 8 8IR: drive trtlnil vehicles polluting the air doesn't seem to have lasted very long. Every second bus and heavy track these days seems to belch oat smoke in excess of permitted levels. And poliaemen don* seem to be very interested in apprehendin* these offenders. I
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      Lock icon TRUCKS GO TOO FAST
      115 8 SIR: IT seems to me that trucks which have a speed limit disc on their tail-gate are not allowed to exceed the limit stated. If this is true, how come truck drivers Can exceed the limit. In the past few days I have seen trucks laden
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      Lock icon No water
      75 8 8EB: frequently travel from the main railway station and use Its amenities. Work began late last on alterations to the station building. But now, weeks later there is atlll no running water in the toilets of the station. Indeed there aren't any tape. We are a nation that
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      Lock icon Thieves still lose a hand in Arabia
      484 10/11 gAUDI Arabia, whose crime rote is possibly the lowest in the world, has no plans to lay aside the executioner's sword or the knife which severs the right hand of a convicted thief. Like the stoning to death for adultery, the sword and
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    Lock icon BRAINS AND BEAUTY
    127 10/11 Talent' should be Diahn's middle name DIAHN Williams Is not only pretty, she's smart too. Besides being a model, actress, film producer and musican she's also a financier. These pictures show a bustling 125-pound Diahn at home during her busy day. ABOVE: Dishn plays with her pet
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    Lock icon She just says: Later
    411 12  -  ANN LANDERS DEAR Ml: I wntl* love wMk be«IW rW. <1 mm 25, she la H») She to* me ft—a the start that weekends are reserved fins a she ha* Iwm tm a He k > yean *er tW «Ha la, a perfect geadtaan, with lets
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
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      144 12 ■a™ Mr PI ,T 22 Li SI X how much to s pend I I 2y »i «r» auccesslof fa every phase te Adds of tnaiacss, manageoilding or sfc«lar occupations mtmrmi here, feat give a chance m fwn area of endeavour in > have a most happy Mr. Start impel,
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    Lock icon UNEMPLOYED STARS BATTLE FOR JOBS
    448 13 WHEN that beautiful, frtih MW fact smilaa out from the TV screen at she plugs anything from floor wax to dan turn mimes, countlata viewers hova wondered to thamaalvaa "gosh, why isn't aha in.picture«? Some such anonymous lovelies actually have made it, most always because
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      819 13 today's tesnsM TV SIIMGAPURA CHANNIL S OPINING ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by GENERAL HOSPITAL A daytime serial about the staff and the patients of a hosiptal. INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE (RpN. A DIARY OF EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (Tamil). IT'S HAPPENINC IN SINCAPORE (Tamil Rpt) A series on the life and people
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    Lock icon Fashion gives the string vest the new look, and it's a wow
    52 14 Meet Ann Looking Deer, an Indian maiden. This attractive newcomer to the film scene la Susan a Miranda, who will captivate the audience In her new film "The Last Warrior". In it she stars with Tony Bill and
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    Lock icon 'Z' LOOKS LIKE A WINNER FOR MANCINI
    428 14 XJOLLYWOOD Honk Moncini hot been nominated for four Grammy Awards Hits yeor. He olreody owns 18. The 1970 Grammy nominations number in the vicinity of 45 categories. All the way from Verdi's II Trovotore to engineeer Wolter Corlos for well-tempered synthesiser. Mancini has
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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      37 14 t > I IfW 1 n <» OntNS TOMORROW I REX SKY .HO W 3; I 37 I 4 >O7C> SI 4 VIM V H 17 •?w? UIT DAY! M, M». 1-N =T fMM Ol Maixurtn to Bcopa. Ootoi
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      91 14 1 IN I ORGANISATION CATHAY 3. trra rorvui DA*I U k-m.. I-M. i Ul Ml Mrtro-Ooidvrn-Mam a -ruil n* Wt| M tola pintfMoa m Prj QOuHAWU ;..ii.d»y Kiira Sbow M i TOMI TOUI TOUr 10ma> OoJof ■9 D«i«i< oi_o !\J COMING i "WANTED" Oolnß—■ 1 OSEUN Kats"? p I MA
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  • WOMEN
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      Lock icon CAPE EFFECT PUTS FEMININITY BACK INTO EVENING WEAR
      565 15  -  By FLORENCE DE SANTIS TWE fashion for evening pants has had an effect on dresses. It has made the long dress seem to be the only thing for late-day. That Fifties fashion for the short dress, the "cocktail dress," doesn't seem to
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  • YOUNG SUN
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      Lock icon Don't be shy on that first date...he's probably scared too
      553 16 By STAFF REPORTER r'S her first dote. She's excited nervous exhilarated and shy. She doesn't know what to talk about, what to wear or how to behave. This Is how girls all over the world feel, so here are some
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      Lock icon PHONE COMPUTER SAVES LIVES
      214 16  -  A new telephone-linked computer system can give doctors anywhere in the United States a speedy, complete diagnosis of a patient s condition based on electrocardiogram readings. By ROBERT SWEET The Boeing Co. had developed the method specially to conduct routine physical examination* in industrial clinics and
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      Lock icon YOUTH VIEW
      156 16 THE Government* decision to go metric it a step in the right direction. Poor JOBBK Simaporeaas told Tenth View this yesterday. They said the metric systesa *u store eoareaieat aad easier to handle tn the lone The Gorrrmmeat an aonneed last week that Siagapore was toi&c netrie. JOIN
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    Lock icon HENGKIE MAY NOT RACE IN SINGAPORE GP UNLESS...
    715 19  -  An Eastern Sun exclusive by S. SELVARAJOO Htngkit hewn Indonesia «ty not compete it Hits year's Grid fm, unless he finds his brand new wedge-shaped Formule Atlantic. When I met Hengki« told me he is negotiating with a motor ftnm and perhaps
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    Lock icon Graebner meets Richey in final
    230 19 SALISSUHY, Maryland Two AnnicMi Cm Rickey and CUtk Grssfcnsr me— in tfce final of (4t Ui. Men's Indoor Open tennis toemament here after viannninf Cast European* in Hia semi-finals Saturday night. Graebner overcame a Wt-ary Ilie Nastaae of Rumania, the defending champion, 2-6, 1-6. 6-4.
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    Lock icon Dramatic last minute triumph for McRae
    77 19 MELBOURNE. Australia Graham Mcßae of New Zealand yesterday staged a dramatic last minute triumph in the sixth round of the Tasman International Racing Championships at Sandown. Melbourne. Driving a McLaren Ml OB Bartr Chevrolet Mcß* took the lead only half a mile from the
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    Lock icon GO-KARTING IS REVIVED
    284 19 Three !■«■■»>«■ Go-Katt Jniw lead by GP driver Hengkie Ira wan got fti« revival off go-karting •W a eaatfef start in SiauMm erThe Indonesians participated In the Kartln K Club of Singapore's first ever friendly «et held at the Kallang Sports Complex. Go-Karting, which vanished from the
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    144 20 Rioters harass surf carnival MELBOURNE A South African flag WAS torn to shreds and three people were arrested yesterday when chanting anti-apar-thrid demonstrators protested at the first of a series of snrf life-saving contests between Australian and South Africans at Lome. M miles west of here. Demonstrator*
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    Lock icon LIM OPPOSES THE CHINESE UNITY BID
    367 20  -  by Charlie Chan IT UAL A LUMPUR Mr. Lim Kit Siang was deeply worried yesterday about the Chinese unity movement now developing in Malaysia. The Democratic Action Party's Secretory-General was talking to reporters in the canteen ot Parliament. He Is expected to spearhead the
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    Lock icon MALAYSIANS WIN FAM CUP
    64 20 MALAYSIAN police pat up a splendid display in the second half to beat Singapore by three goals to one In FAM Cop fixture at Jalan Besar Stadium last night. They were one goal down In flrst half. In the second half, an exhausted Singapore succumbed to
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    Lock icon Panic as Reds take Rangers' base in Laos
    286 20 FIREBASE Pill) LOC, South Vietnam A South Vietnamese Ranter Battalion outpost five miles Into Laos has been overrun by North Vietnamese troops. There had been fierce fighting for almost three days In the region. Colonel Nguyen Van Hiep, Commander of the First
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    100 20 NEW DELHI Billstickers are earning good money for pasting up party wall posters as the campaign for India's general election warms ■p bat they get even more for tearing them down. Campaign workers say a bill-sticker gets about W rupees for e*ery l.Ht posters he puts np.
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      77 20 7" "Bellissimo! BQAC flies direct to Rome'.' mSMnm ye* 7*\ ifk Wi 8S& I'M? t m /II N mm m For some people there is only one airline. BOAC flies to Rome 4 times a week, from Singapore. You can choose the VCIO morning flight on Sunday. Or jet there
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