Eastern Sun, 15 March 1971

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  • 219 2 A large gathering turned up at the padang yesterday to watch the trooping the colour ceremony performed by the Ist Battalion. Singapore Infantry Begtment. It was the first time such a ceremony was held In public and ft was to mark a rery special occasion the
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  • 140 2 Johore Bahru The Democratic Action Party and the Labour Party of Malaya have jointly called on the Government for 'an Immediate enquiry into th« death of a political detainee at the Muar General Hots pita I last Wed. nesday night. The dead man. Pant Slow
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  • 217 2 QNE man was killed and nine were hurt in two collisions yesterday. The nine were hurt when a car and a taxi collided headon at the Tiong Bahru Road-Kim Tian Road junction on Saturday night. A motorcyclist was killed Instantly when his machine
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  • 215 2 It wu only meant to be a folk-dance session all in the name of goodwill and better understanding but pretty science teacher. Miss Chang Po En. yesterday make au unexpected conquest. She met Japanese photographer Tadashi Takahashi, 23. at the "Get together and Dance
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 32 2 THE weather bureau predicts fair weather today. TESTF.RDAY Mas. temp: t7J Min. temp ti.s Rain: trace Total rain March: |.4i Total rain day* March: 4 Sunshine: jj»s Humidity at 11 pm gt
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    • 85 2 I SINGAPORE TOWN 12.25 am. (9 ft 6.29 am (1.9 ft-); 1244 pm. (8.9 ft.). 640 pm (26 fti 1247 am. (9.2 ft 6.5? am. (1.7 ft); 1.11 pm. (85 ft.); 7.62 pm. (2.9 ft.) NAVAL DOCKYARD 12.41 am (10.5 ft.)- ft 11 am. (2.4 ft); pm (106 ft): 653
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  • 406 3 Fob Ab Huay, the suspected child rapist, died a s be lived in a secret world of his own wbicb not even his family could penetrate. Be died last week swinging from tbe end of a rope tied to a rambotan tree. Tbe
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  • 334 3 J>OLICE yesterday began probing whether the bizarre deaths of two young girls could be connected with suspected child rapist, Poh Ah Huay. Top Criminal Investigations Deportment sleuths hove exomined the bones of Lily Koe. Her remains were found on Saturday in the
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  • 113 3 Three highway robbers stopped a couple in a van on Satnrday and robbed them of $l9O (ash and jewellery. Mr Foo Ree See. 31, of Yio Oiu Hans Road told police that he wax driving his van along Lor on* Berhadap with his wife that
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  • 39 3 The body of a boy, Ng Hock Hm, 6, was yesterday recovered from the Rochore Canal. Police do not know how Ng. of Kam pong Arang. ended up in the canal. No foul play is suspected.
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  • 90 3 Thieves broke into the house of on accountont on Saturday night and escaped with $2,000 worth of jewellery. Mr Phisis Manpra- sartgul, 35, discovered the theft at 9.30 pm when he returned to his Jal a n Kelawar house at Kim Lin Park after a family outingHe
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  • 177 4 DELHI An attack on Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi by the Chief Justice of India's Supreme Court yesterday may signal a battle for supremacy between parliament and the judiciary. There was a dead but ominous silence from Mrs Gandhi's party, which had |ust
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  • 200 4 TRIPOLI Libya stayed silent yesterday on whether or not its crucial, negotiations with Western oil companies had collapsed. A last-mmute meeting was l"t night apparently aimed at breaking the deadlock over higher oil revenues But oil company executives emerging from 90-minute session with Libya's Oil Minister,
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  • 37 4 SYDNEY Pickpocket Mildred Murray. 31. was jailed (or six months on Saturday for stealing another prisoner's wallet in the back of a police van after she had been arrested on a different charge.
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  • Article, Illustration
    48 4 Air traffic was heavy at Landing Zone Ham Nghi near Khe Sanh last week. In fact there was nearly a helicopter jam giving the impression that these four helicopters are stacked one atop the other. The helicopters are carrying supplies to South Vietnamese troops in Laos.
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  • 171 4 UNITED NATIONS C-N. peace envoy Dr Gunner Jarring was awaiting Egypt's response to Israel's proposals for negotiations «>n all aspect* of M'lHlf East settlement without prior eond Uons But UN diplomats had little hope thnt Cairo would agree to the suggestion. f-.gypt had
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  • 272 4 CANBERRA Prime MinUter William McMahon has denied rumours that he will hold a snap •'honeymoon" election later this year. Reports said he would hold the election to cash In on the wave of popularity which flow* to a Prime Minister. In an interview with
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  • 102 4 DAMASCUS. Li. Gen. Ilafn Al-As-nad waa officially declared President of Syria after winning a national referendum with 99.2 per cent of the vote Sunday. He wai Informed of his victory at a noon ceremony then to the National Palace amid shouts of "Hafea Hafe*" and
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  • 229 5 Helicopters join the search North Ireland British troops have corried out the biggest road check in a bid to find the killers of three soldiers. More than 2,000 vehicles have been stopped at road blocks Army helicopters meanwhile hovered overhead with special night flying
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  • 190 5 RIO DE JANEIRO Three bullet-ridden bodies found in lonely spots on the outskirts of Rio in the past 24 hours point to speculation that Brazil's so-called Death Squad is ot work again. The Death Squad Is believed to be composed of police taking
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  • 68 5 ROME Italian film actress Gina Lotlobrigida (pictured above) has filed a divorce suit against her Yugoslav husband Milko Sltofic. Hie conplf married in 1949 and separated in 1966. Two years later Mr Bkofir obtained a divorce in Austria and svbse quently remarried. But antil the introduction of
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  • 114 5 ROME Charges are to be brought against the entire executive council of ONMI the state organisation controlling orphanages amid a mounting scandal over the death o. a two-year-old child. Magistrate Dr Luciano Infellsl has been investigating orphanages and children's homes following an Inquest into the
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  • 32 5 VIENNA Mr Vladimir Semyonov, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, arrived here early yesterday for th e fourth round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talk? (SALT) with th* unitec States opening today.
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  • 161 5 SEATTLE A 1958 semi- finalist in the Miss Universe Contest was arrested yesterday on a charge involving an "extensive'' prostitution ring. Mrs Rose Marie Courtion, 31. was arrested in the city's university district on a warrant charging her with accepting the earnings of
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  • 199 6 CAPE KENNEDY. Florida—The U.S. 43rd Explorer has sped into a distant orbit on a 5537.3 million mission. Its Job is to And out more about Earth's space environment solar gases and magnetic forces out there. The 635-pound craft was speeding away from Earth
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  • 106 6 PARIS Two new-born babies were burned to death and ri(h( hurt when fire swept through the incubator room of a private clinic yesterday. A spokesman at the Alexis Carrel Clinic In Sarcelles said the eight burned babies were rushed to a Paris
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  • 87 6 LONDON Health authorities have been providing girls under 16 with birth control pills and other contraceptive devices, government officials said this yesterday. They described as outdated a report in the London Sun which said the government might let family planning clinics give contraceptives to girls under
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  • 199 6 MONTREAL Paul Rose, a 27-year-old former teacher, was jailed for life for the murder of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte. Mr Laporte was strangled last October with a religious medal chain he wore round his neck. Rose was sentenced by Judge Paul Nicholas after
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  • 232 6 ATHENS Authorities arc investigating a shody market which is cashing in on a national shortage of blood by selling sub-standard supplies. Doctors claim that private blood banks will accept sub-standard blood from people who earn a living by supplying the trade. A 90 per
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  • 61 6 LONDON Thousands of Ford Motor workers voted yesterday to carry on with the strike that has halted the company's operations In Britain for nearly seven weeks. The new s was relayed to company chief Henry Ford who arrived here from the United States yesterday. Mr Ford
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  • 274 6 BANGKOK Communist guerillas killed a police sergeant and a soldier in an ambush on a combined police and military patrol in the northern Thai province of Fitsanuloke on Saturday. HONG KONG A Taiwan diplomat who defected to China while on a visit in Switzerland arrived in Peking
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  • 228 7 Army tanks hove token up positions on Ankara's outskirts. Military and civilian leoders sought a new government for Turkey to reploce the one which resigned Friday under military pressure. Witnesses sold about 50 tonks moved into place olong major highways leading into the copitol.
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  • 174 7 SYDNEY Police found an old toupif dead in thrir tamble down homr ID a basy Sydney suburb on Saturday. And they fear the pair may have starved to death after sprnd'n* most of their money to feed stray cat«. Their daughter a deaf mute was
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  • 129 7 WASHINGTON Tkt State Department is expected to remove restrictions today on the Mr of American passports for travel to China. The move is a further gesture to improve relations between the two countries, ©ffic.als said. The officials said policymakers were moving toward a
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  • 146 7 NEW YORK Sixteen Cuban students have been hauled out of the United Nations' Sec urity Council chamber. TTiey chained themselves to furniture and railings in an an ti Castro demonstration on Saturday. The Council was not in session at the time. The demonstrators, two of them
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  • 99 7 ATHENS Pre* reports on Saturday said Mrs Jacqurlinr Onassis bad cancer. However, a spokesman for her flatly drnied the reports. "I have spent the whole of Saturday with her," he said. She went out shopPins in Athens and shr is »rry well.' Popular newspapers abroad have
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  • 76 7 OSLO Norwayi Labour Party trader Trygve BratUll has announced a new minority tovernment. HP submitted the list of his 14-man cabinet to the royal palace on Saturday. The government was formed following a political crisis that led to the resignation last Tuesday of the fourparty non-Socialist government
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 299 8 PAKISTAN'S President Yahya Khan Is due to arrive in Dacca, capital of East Pakistan. anytime now but it has not been clear why he delayed so long consultations with Bheikh Mujibur Rehman, the leader of that half of the country. It is possible that Yahya consi ders
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  • 221 8 SPHERE are contradictory reports about A what South Vietnamese troops are doing In Laos. One report says that they are getting ready to pull out while another says that three new helicopter landing zones have been cleared by American bombing further north, near the North Vietnamese border, so
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  • 579 8  -  by Robert Crabbe TOKYO Japan's businessmen have just won another extension of the World's queerest contract the unofficial trade pact by which they do business with Communist China. For Peking, it means another year of Japanese stimulants for China s big but tlabDy economy Japan last
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 166 8 SIR: YESTERDAY, in the Botanic Gardens, I saw a group of small boys attacking monkeys with sticks, shouting and chasing them, and consequently arousing the animals to counterattacks. This kind of cruelty l* not unique to Singapore's small boys, but other civilised countries provide custodians to
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    • 114 8 SIR: IN spite of the recent ban on smoky exhausts, manv vehicles are still profusely polluting our air. The ofTendiriß vehicles are very asily detected. and can be seen ;n large numbers on all our busy roads. Why then has no action been taken against these
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    • 143 8 SIR: It's about time somebody started an honesty campaign. aimed particularly at our taxi drivers. They are about the most dishonest section of the community in Singapore. From my observation, taxi drivers are getting so bold that they even try to make suckers of Singaporeans
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
    • 540 9  -  And not even a cup of tea Wv -v- Msaav Mine HENRY FOO SOO Yin, the Singer, looked disgusted... and Radio-Television Singapura was responsible. ;> Thirty-five miserable bucks,'* be said. 5 "That's all they re offering far J a TV appearance i\ '"Alter 27 years experience I
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    • 70 9 Brazilian model Pia Noscimento's adaptation of on Amazon Indion costume clearly shows that when it comes to the fashionable "nude look/' Brazilians ore way out in front. But Pio says she's glad she doesn't live in tho Amozon ond have to wear it all the
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    • 131 9 Dear Laurie, That sinister character with a menacing and shifty look is not supposed to be you, I hope? I am referring to the cartoon which appears daily in your column. Why don't we see a photograph of you instead? Or if you are one
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    • 67 9 Dear Laurie. Tea hare an eye for everyone, including parking attendants. The publicity yen gave us Is prieeieas at least the public knew that we exist. But to compare ear uniforms with that of the Tletcong is most humiliating. Maybe you are comparing the way ear
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  • relax
    • 782 10/11  - Teach your child to tell the truth at your own risk By Liz Sherry statistics proving that more children and young people are turning to petty crime, a number of child psychologists have said that parents must be firmer. The home, they say, is the place where a child must
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    • 559 10/11 Y COMMUNIST victory in the shadowy espionage war against Kuomingtang agents was revealed this week in the Hong Kong Supreme Court trial of Taiwan spy Wong Tak Siu. Wong said he was assigned in "Operation Flying Dragon" to supply
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    • 345 10/11  -  By LAWRENCE E. LAMB, MD DEAR Dr Lamb I read about family which had lead poisoning from drinking from an old pitcher. They eat fruit juice in it all the time. If a person got lead poisoning from drinking from this pitcher, would this cause them
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  • 519 12  -  ANN LANDERS DEAR ANN: I Just read Ihc letter asking what has happen* ed to the old fashioned grandmother who used to be so important in the lives of young children. It started me thinking. 1 agree with the person who wrote: Grandparents of young
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 752 12 m CARROLL HT U iV< I food chance to put In effect those decisions yon have made. You can do «o In such a manner to make It known you axe producing results without the necenitT of personal gain. This can be accomplished without eonwhen i Terences car <Hscuasln e
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  • 326 13 Not every young performer dreams o stardom. Or, if the dream is there, not every youn e performer tries to do something about it. Goldie Hawn, for example. "just drifted along." She "left everything to chance, and chance wan good to me." Goldie
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 920 13 today's tecHM SINGAPURA CHANNEL 5 OPENINC ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by GENERAL HOSPITAL A daytime serial about the staff and the patients of a hospital FOR THE FAMILY A magazine series presented in Tamil A DIARY OF EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (Tamil) IT'S HAPPENINC IN SINGAPORE (Tamil) (Rpt.) A series on
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  • 604 14 YORK If you're young, gifted and block, the place for you is the music business. "The black man has made it in music," says Isooc Hayes, who has won two gold records for recent LPs, "Hot Buttered Soul" and "Isaac
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  • 227 14 CLIFF ROBERTSON Is the first actor in recent memory to be approached by a major studio to develop a motion picture in which he would star. A Universal vice president asked him almost 18 months ago to choose a screenplay, help rewrite it
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 136 14 G AMI SAT CATHAY NOW MOWING: U MB. in, i t-N I N 1 Walk nm Um Urate rj r-aca PauaVMK.i A Column** Pvclurt u> oo<c WOW SBOWINUt •Na Pm u»t> CAM BOOK IN OH ONLI Rath r»MIPM Xboai Olt EON: U a.m. IJM IJ| ORCHARD: U a.*. I :to,
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    • 233 14 0 ORGANISATION I- I L' O .*****4 I LAM DA*! l«# «S6 J De.on Marianne raitWull "Tke «.lrl On A Mot*r<«<le" Color < WBi OPENS TOMOIBON Jerry Lewis Wklrk Way T« rI N M mI < > I'l I HI y r»7 «I LAST DAT N« rrr Urn It >■,
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  • WOMEN
    • 379 15  -  Florence de Santis who pass the Lady Madonna boutique on New York's Madison Avenue, often stop and come in, attracted by the clothes displayed in the shallow windows of the sculptured wood and glass shop. They're always surprised to find that all the stock
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    • 392 15 Q: lam 5 feet 4 inches tall and short-waisted. Can you advise me on pants looks which would be best for my figure? A: Full-length pants, cut loose but straight are probably best, as their line will make you look taller. Jacket or coat Is
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  • YOUNG SUN
    • 94 16 AT file Queensland, Australia, holiday resort of Tallebudgera, they say very few people drown but a tot of young men come close to it. Instead of male lifesavera there'* a bevy of beautiful bronzed young women. Bronwyn Lea die, 23, doesn't think it's very funny
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    • 421 16 YOUTH VIEW THE Government is spending toe much on defence, s i x young Singaporeans told Young Sun, yesterday. They said, the government should spend the money improving living conditions, education and social welfare. Here is what they said: NG CHONG LI AN, an
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 150 17 LAGOS, Nigeria Short supplies of tin might stop prices falling in the world market, the International Tin Council meeting in Lagos wax told. A working paper prepared by the council's London secretariat and circulated to conference delegates here said: "The only glimmer
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    • 408 17 LONDON Vague hopes that the government may soon relent and permit more expansion in the economy in the end-March annual budget and that the new cut in U.S. prime rates may bring lower rates in Britain handed the stock market a firm finish
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    • 83 17 Precision Golf Forging Pty Ltd leading Australian manufacturer ol PGF tailored golf clubs, has opened an office in Singapore under management of Mr W.J. Bosley, of Melbourne This move b v PGF. winner of two Australian Government awards for outstanding export achievement. is designed to
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    • 274 17 NEW YORK. Madison Square Garden housed the "light of the century" last week But another bit battle also rased several blocks south on Wall Street. The struggle In the financial centre came to a head along the 900 line on the Dow
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    • 398 17 Business on the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore last week was a little slow with no real drive being indicated by any section. Interest was trimmed down across a broad front and In several counters price movements were irrational. Trading did not run on smoothly
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    • 227 17 A quiet week's trading saw prices decline once more to touch 96-1/2 three times, a new low. Fresh factors were i*on existent and perhaps the market mood is best illustrated by the flficially quoted tones of the week under review. "Quiet" five times. •Idle" twice.
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    • 116 17 f>r Heinrich Feesel. Chairman and chief executive of Rollei Werke Franke and Heidecke of Braunschwi in the Federal Republic of Germany, is now in Singapore for the opening of the company's temporary plant in Alexandra Road on Saturday. Mr Hon Sui Sen, Minister for Finance, will
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  • 2755 18 Movie House V broke the course record for the mile t Bukit Timoh when he won the Closs one Division one race ot Bukit Timeh yesterdoy. The Fair's Fair gelding ridden by Jockey Lyle Harbridge, beat the favourite Dollar Standard to return a time of
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 332 19 Port Authority Recreation Club yesterday played host to the visiting Japanese youths from the Sakura Maru, at its Bukit Chermln Club House. The visiting 347-mem-ber Japanese Youth Goodwill Cruise pitted their strength against the members of the PARC. They competed against the recreation club
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    • 353 19 KUALA LUMPUR Tokaaki Kono of Japan, yesterday swept aside challenges to recapture the Malaysian Open golf championship here with an even par 72. Kono, 31, who took the Malaysian title In 1969 continued his winning streak to chalk up an aggregate 19 under par 269 over
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    • 159 19 ORLANDO, Florida Arnold Palmer found his old form Saturday and sank four birdie putts to tie with Julius Boros for the third round lead in the *****,000 Florida Invitational golf tournament. Palmer, who played par golf on the front nine
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    • 229 19 Bv S. Selvarajoo The Port Authority Recreation Club is an pry because a civilian played for an Armed Forces team against them on March 10. In the crucial SGSFL Division One match, PARC were beaten 2-1 by the Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association.
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 67 19 Sports fixtures Soccer SBHJT: Division 3A (L li C* Fraser ft Neave vs Ming Court and MSA U C v» Chartered Bank at Farrer Park. Division 3B (L k O Hume Industries vs S'pore Hilton and S'pore Tobacco vs Guthrie Waugh B' at F It N ground and Geylang. Hockey
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  • 130 20 No confidence motion in Israel TEL AVIV The right-wins nationalist opposition Cabal Party yesterday tabled a noconfldenee motion In the Israeli government following Premier Golda Meir's indications of peace borders Israel might accept. The central committee of the party, reacted with "surprise and concern" to the border
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  • 229 20 A MAN was killed and three others were seriously injured in a gang clash in Tanjong Pagar Road yesterday. Teo Chee Tiong, 27, of Tanjong Pagar Road died with three stab wounds inflicted by a bearing scraper. Lam Fook Chin, 18, of Duxton Plain, is
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  • 179 20 Tan Hone Chiang. 63, is still wondering how be made the jump that saved his life. He was quietly sell* In* fruit from his tricycle In Anson Road on Saturday night when he sensed danger. In a split second, the sprightly Mr Tan leaped through the
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  • 130 20 SAIGON More than 1.500 North Vietnamese troop?, have moved back into the Ho Chi Minh trail town of Tchepone. A full regiment of communists moved Into the town as soon as the Bouth Vietnamese vacated high points surrounding It on Friday, officers said The North
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  • 285 20 LAHORE, West Pakistan Mr Zulfikir A» Bhutto, leader of the leftwins People's Party, will offer new compromise formula to tide over Pakistan's constitutional deadlock. Authorised personally by Mr Bhutto to make the statement, his secretary said: "We believe the Awami League will ultimately accept our
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