Eastern Sun, 22 March 1971

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  • 22 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own natiwraf m, 10 cents Estd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1601 Monday, March 22, 1971 M C (P) 2510
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  • 328 1 Panic-stricken South Vietnamese troops mobbed American helicopters at the weekend in their hurry to abandon bases inside Laos. The American-pilots flew through deadly walls of Communist fire to rescue the South Vietnamese. At least eight helicopters were blasted out of the sky
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  • 124 1 SAIGON (J-S J«ts yesterday bombed missile and other antiaircraft sites inside North Vietnam. It was "protective reaction" following Communist fl ring s against American aircraft hitting the Ho Chi Minh trail In Laos, the U.S. command said. "1 have nothing further to
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  • 33 1 SAIGON Six American hrliroptrrs were shot down and destroyed over Laos yesterday raising to 81 the number lost since the South Vietnamese hit the Ho Chi Minh trail
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 216 2 BUS CRASHES INTO A TRISHAW old woman was killed and four people were hurt when a bus collided with a trishaw yesterday. The collision occurred at the junction of Rochore Road and North Bridge Road. The dead woman was Madam Lee Wood, 62, of
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  • 70 2 Six-year-old T a n Siang Kent, (above) was left horrified when a thief snatched a cold necklace from her. Still trembling in fear, little Tan was speechless when a SUN reporter approached her. Her mother said the incident happened when she went out to play In the
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  • 80 2 A Malaysian youth was found stabbed to death outside a bar early yesterday morning. Police gave his name as Lew Fong Llan, 20, of Jalan Yunos Cha'ah, Segamat, Johore. This blood-soaked body was found outside the Philippines Bar and Restaurant at Lorong 12, Oeylang. Knife
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  • 58 2 A motorcyclist was killed at the weekend when his engine collided with a Royal Marine LandRover. One It Chong, 42, of liOrong Andong, died on the spot at 8.50 pm. The accident occurred at 9 milestone Yio Chu Kang Road. Police said the LandRover was from the 3rd
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  • 240 2 At the agr of t% most girls are looking for a husband. Rut not Rona Dennis. She's preparing to set out on a 15.000-mile sea voyage aboard a sailing chip. Rona la the daughter of Squadron Leader R. V. Dennis RAF officer commanding
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  • 87 2 A lighterman. Llm ('hyp Iluat, 60, died in hospital jrnlfrda; from a brad injury .sustained four days ago. He was felled by a sinci punch by a seaman during a quarrel on board a ship. As he crashed to the deck, his head
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 50 2 mm SINGAPORE TOWN 5.09 am. (7.5 ft.); 107 pm. (2JB ft.); 9.97 pm. (6.9 ft.). TOMORROW 155 am. (5.5 ft.); 7.12 am. (7.7 ft.); 2.31 pm. (1.7 ft.); 9.4* pm. (7.6 ft.). Toto draw Sunday Toto draw: 37. 42. 45. 31. 44. Additional number. 32. Three-circle draw: 9. 39. 31.
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  • 60 3 A mother sits and weeps near her four-year-odd daughter who wa« killed in a road accident, yesterday. Noraxaa binte Osman was crossing a road at Somerset Road when she was knocked down by a motor van at about 5.20 pm. Sh e died on the
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  • 312 3 MP for Telok Blongah, Mr N. Govindasamy yesterday denied thot people in Bukit Purmei and Rodin Mos would loose their homes "within o few days". He made o speciol tour of the oreo to convince people it wos not true. Residents told
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  • 205 4 Thieves ransacked a ahoppin* arcade in a hotel on Satnrday and escaped with goods worth more than SB,OM. The theft was reported early yesterday by the hotel manager. Four shop* in the arcade at the Lion City Hotel were bargled. The thieves stole goods from
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  • 170 4 A GIRL yesterday fell to her death while hanging clothes over the balcony of her 11th floor flat at Kampong Arang Road. It is believed Miss Koh Boh Lian, 17, a biscuit factory worker, tumbled over the balcony when a wave of
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  • 117 4 A Malaysian construction labourer was yesterday killed when a large mouhd of earth fell on him while he was working in a trench at a site in Jalan Boon Lay, Jurong. Fellow workers clawed and dug to reach him but by the time he
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  • 56 4 Police arrested a man last Saturday after he was unable to say where he had obtained a radiotape player. The man carrying a travelling bag was behaving suspiciously at the market off Sixth Avenue, Buklt Tim ah Road when detective* from Orchard Road Police Station spotted
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  • 103 4 I don't know about mad dogs but when Englishmen go out in the midday sun nowadays it's usually for charity Like 20 members of the RAF Changi's Theatre Club... On Saturday tbey went on an 11 -mile hike round the roeds circling Changi's airfield. The hike
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  • THE WORLD THIS MORNING
    • 207 5 Britain is to refuse French demands for a go-ohead on production of the Anglo-French Concorde. Britain is disturbed by reports that the Concorde can only be flown ot o loss. The Observer's air correspondent Andrew Wilson said this in a front page story yesterday.
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    • 203 5 FORT BENNING, Georgia A military court mrt in special session yesterday to let the jury hear again the testimony of a key prosecution witness in the My Lai massacre trial. The Judge, Colonel Reid Kennedy, decided to allow the Jury's request to rehear the evidence of
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    • 60 5 The ceasefire across the Suez Canal has run out, and both Egyptian and Israeli forces are on a high state of alert. Here, an Egyptian soldier checks on Israeli activity on the other side of the canal. He relays any movement to artillery crews which are
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    • 139 5 COLOMBO Prime Minister Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike warned saboteurs could plunge Ceylon into untold misery. Mrs. Bandaranaike said saboteurs planned to burn down some of Ceylon's universities •nd factories. Sh« said state build- ing like universities were built with public funds and loans from
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    • 140 5 LONDON Two in five people in Britain would be quite happy to pack their bap and go somewhere eke. The Sunday Telegraph said a Gallup poll showed this figure wa s higher than in six other countries polled last month. United States citl
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 63 5 When the weather is sultry, all forms of fever will come. Three Legs Brand RHINO HORN FEVER WATER is good for relief of all fevers and also as a cure for baby's measles and pox i *r WEN KEN DRUG COMPANY LIMITED 39 A 41 Choon Goan 8t J?*® F
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  • 802 6 KHE SANH The dead 'lie outoide the paratroopers' field hospital in bright green plastic body bags, an American refinement in this war, while South Vietnamese soldiers cluster anxiously round. They read the dog. tags in case a friend is shrouded there,
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  • 574 6 BANGKOK A newspaper here yesterday published the story of a Thai who spent five years as a slave on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The story in the Bangkok Post was based on an Interview with Khamfone Srlcharoen. Khamfone, 30, an Itinerant
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  • 122 6 PREK DAM. Cambodia Vietcong runners yesterday sank a vital river ferry 19 miles north of Phnom Penh. The action cut a major cross-country road through central Cambodia and broke supply lines to important military installations in central and eastern Cambodia. The officials responsible for the ferry at
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  • 111 7 The blacksmith is a woman and she works for the mounted division of the Detroit, USA, police. One of only two smithies with the monnties, in fact. And Nancy Saastamoinen had to fight her own women's liberation battle to get the job. Always wild about
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  • 298 7 ONDON A special squod of airport police is working undercover at Heathrow Airport to trap touts who move in on foreign girls coming to Britain for abortions. Abortions ore legal under Britain's National Health Services. But the Airport Authority move is part
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  • 89 7 ElO DC JANEIRO Millions of tomlm worshippers arc mourning the death •f Jomoxinho da Garcia, 'king of can domble' BrStll'i spirits colt. Joaoxinho. 57, died •f a brain tumour ia a Sao Paul* hospital Friday night and his follower, claimed the moment of his death
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  • 177 7 MEMPHIS, Tennessee A couple ran afoul of the law when they fried fo treat an iHness with an ancient Chinese remedy. Mrs Franklin Njr became ill recently and wrote to her husband's ■ister in Hong Kong for a herb known as yick moo
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  • 114 7 ROME Police bant lug the ringleaders of an abortive fascist eoup d'etat have detained a fourth leader of the extreme right-wing national front movement. The detention came as President Giuseppe Saragat hit out against th P plotters. Police are still hunting Prince Junid Bor ghese, 64. a
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  • 57 7 NEW YORK Hundreds of customers were evacuated from a 13storej department store when two explosive devices went off and set fire to merchandise yesterday afternoon. No one was injured. Remnants of two cigarette packets, wire* and batteries wer c discovered by authorities under piles of rug*
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 529 8 *pHE Razak Plan has now received the endorsement of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, making Singapore the third neighbour to do so. The other two are Thailand and Indonesia. The plan calls for the neutralisation of southeast Asia with the territorial Integrity of the nations In the
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  • 761 8  -  by Mark Blackburn IRISH civil rights campaigner Bernadette Devlin is back in Britain after an American speaking tour that took her to more than 40 universities in a month. But she wants to shed her image os a star figure in the media in the interests
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 142 8 SIR: land fellow workers of the British Military bases wish to express oar rratitude to Dr Augustine Tan, MP for Whampoa. He devoted part of his speech In Parliament during the budget debate to our plight after the closing down of the bases at the end
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    • 64 8 SIR: Why do many hotels here have to drew their doormen up like shop dummies? It might look impressive to have a man In top hat and talis open the taxi door for voa. But why don't these hotels consider the men who have to do the
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    • 66 8 SIR: rKUX da Costa says boxing is vicious and dangerous. So is wrestling. Such pastimes reduce both participants and spectators to a level lower than wild beasts. In the march towards civilisation, man has shed numerous traditions and customs. So why can't he di»» card his evil
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
    • 498 9  -  $4.50 for a 15-cent meal Melee SUDDENLY everybody it complaining obout the rising cost of living. Backbenchers in Parliament have even demanded steps be taken to halt it. But there is one section of the community which is not concerned about the spiralling food pricesIn fact
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    • Article, Illustration
      34 9 Three lovely Sydney teenagers display the latest styles in underwear during a fashion show recently. The three beau* ties are (l-r) Naidina Guildford, 17, Ton I Raywood, 19, and Pat Wells, 19.
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    • 36 9 Three hippie pranksters who lent bogus telephone bills to 20,000 Califortiian«, are out on bail today after being arretted on charges of sending a "filthy and vile substance" through the mails.
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  • relax
    • 748 10/11 older generations mutter viciously that it's getting impossible to tell the boys from the girls, what with uni-sex and long hair, medical men are researching into the real differences between the sexes. The latest statistics on the old battle are that women doing
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    • 60 10/11 It was as if Jackie Coogan as 'The kid" had stepped out of a picture when this German boy walked across the stage of a children'* fashion show in Cologne. Germany recently. The outfit is mod from head to toe, and it
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    • Article, Illustration
      181 10/11 LEFT: The chairman of Delhi Express Travels (Pte) Ltd, Mr M. M. Maltajan (right) hosted a cocktail party for travel agents at the Imperial Hotel, last week. Mr Mahajan was in Singapore on a goodwill trip and to study the Singapore-India tourist potential. AIM> present at the reception
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    • 700 10/11  -  By LAWRENCE E. IAMB, MD Dear Dr Lamb I have a problem. I am 22 years old and I'm only five feet tall* This is in* problem—my heightI don't want to be five feet the rest of my life. There must be something medicine
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  • 414 12  -  ANN LANDERS DEAR ANN: One hour beforo my 21-year-old sister was to be married, her fiance sent word that be had changed hl» mind and didn't feel he was ready for marriage. This was a terrific shock to all of us. We could scarcely believe
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 796 12 i CARROLL RIGHTER'9 GENERAL TENDENCIES: A whole new set of circumstances now commences to be In effect which will enable you to participate In more social life. Too will also find outlets through whlcb you can make your life easier. Advanced and progressive Ideas will up-date your current activities. ARIEB
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  • 438 13  -  By Cameron Blaike ,/r THE Pursuit of Happiness" could also be called "The Pursuit of Justice". It s the story of two young college kids, William Popper (Michael Sarrazin) and Jane Kauffman (Barbara Hershey), very much in love, who try desp itely to
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 211 13 ORGANISATION LIDO .*****4 NOW HBOWINUI U lA. I.U 4 «M Ml Brian Eettn. Helmut Oriem The McKE.N7.IK UCU ID Coioi (United Aru»Ui NUT CHANGE I James Coburn A Lynn R«d|rm "BLOOD KIN" In Technicolor IWBI C A I* I TO I U«7.HI NOW SHOW INI, II mm I.U. tM pw
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    • 181 13 1 OFIGArNJISATiatM 1 rni I ORCHARD 37 65 NOW SHOWING) I M I M H..-M *l5 Barbra Streisand It) OB A Clear Day Toe Car Pore»er" V»ea Mooui < PaoaVmloo TechmroJoi A Paramount Plcturr NEXT CHANOEI Pol's "The Great While HtH" James Earl Jones PanaVlslon Color CATHAY 3 3400 NOW
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  • 147 14 r highlight of Hie 1971 ovnateur theatre seoson in Singapore as the Festival of Dremo ot the Culturol Centre. Ford Canning Rood. The week-leaf festival starts to- night A scene from the Mad w•m a n of ChalUot. Ei(ht theatre elahs will participate. Tickets are
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 881 14 CHANNEL 5 Of ININC ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by GENERAL HOSPITAL A daytime serial about the staff and patients of a hospital INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE (Rpt A DIARY OF EVENTS «N SINCAPORI THIS WEEK (Tamil) IT'S HAPPENING IN SINCAPORE (Tamil) (Rpt.) A series o n the life and people in our Republic
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  • 597 15  -  By Florence de Santis J)ON'T let the sensationalism of using shorts put you off from using pants as an important part of your wardrobe. Designers have learned how to make them comfortable, and how to give them all the varied functions
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  • YOUNG SUN
    • 284 16 YOUTH VIEW where young Singaporeans have their say PROSTITUTION cannot be wiped out in any advanced society, so the next best thing to do is to legalise it, four young Singaporeans said yesterday. latt week, the Minntet for Science cud Technology, Dr Toll
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    • 349 16  -  By V.R. RAJINI A MAJOR problem in the world today is the lack of communication between the younqer and the older generations. It has been called The Generation Gap. Most people have heard about it, but lew know what it is and what can
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 86 17 Mr Charles A. Bell Hilton Interaatioaal's Senior Vice President will be arriving in Singapore tomorrow after too ring the comPan y a raulti million dollar project la Syd■er He will be accompanied br his wife and two children. Mr Keaaeth 8. Moss the company's Area Vice
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    • 332 17 Trading in Hie Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore last week was more relaxed owing to a general disinclination to deal. During the week bid and offer prices were quoted at wide differen- tials and the market was comprised mainly of time-bargain dealings. Covering
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    • 246 17 One of Australia's oldest wineries. operated by (jlrnloth Wilirs Pty Ltd. of Soutb Australia, has been rebuilt to keep pace with modern winemaking developments. At tbe same time the company has released two new wines, a dry claret and a reisling. Huge stainless steel tanks have replaced
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    • 290 17 LONDON Strikes and labour unrest kept the stock market on a tight rein last week and industrial share prices moved irregularly when gloom gave way to signs of optimism at the end of the week. Dealers said some investors were hoping the government may
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    • 89 17 Mr Albert Luz, Director of Export and Marketing Division of DEMAG AG. of West Germany is now visiting Singapore on his tour to several Asian countries. Mr Luz is in Singapore for discussions with DEM AG's sole agents in Singapore and Malaysia, Messrs. BEHN. MEYER Be CO. (PTE
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    • 103 17 NEW YORK News pouring out of Washington last week indicated President Nixon's prediction for economic recovery will be a slow process. But this (ailed to dampen enthusiasm on Wall Street as the IV>w Jones industrial average smashed through 900 for the first time since June of
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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  • 2369 18 Income Stoble's Forest Jim with Johnny Miller ostride, won the $30,000 Singapore Derby oyer 12f ot Bukit Timah yesterday. Kept in a handy position all the way, the Rise 'N' Shine gelding held off a strong challenge from Man of Honour (Velu) to win with rank
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 42 18 lftt Prize No: *****0 ($4,769) 2nd Prize No: *****9 ($1,362) 3rd Prize No: *****6 681) Starters ($l5O eacb) Nos: *****4 *****3 *****3 *****9 *****4 *****3 *****6 *****4 *****1 Consolation ($lOO each) Nos: *****3 *****2 *****8 *****1 *****5 *****0 *****4 *****8 *****7 *****5
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 181 19 MANILA Albert Poon of Hongkong broke a six year "Jinx- yesterday when he won the sixth Asian Kartlng Prix with a spetacular display of driving power. The 33- year-old divorcee led from start to finish, routing his challengers with a daz*llng speed
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    • 48 19 Com mon wealth Table Tennis Championships at 9 am *t SBA Hall. SHA Hockey Div. 2 Singapore Recreation Club vs Combined School* B' at SRC at 5.15 pm. SOSFL Soccer Dlv. 2 A Special Constabulary vs Postal Services at Jalan Besar Stadium at 5 30 pm.
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    • 201 19 GEORGETOWN, Guyana India replied firmly with 114 for one to the West Indies first Innings total of 363 at the close of the second day's play of their third cricket Test here on Saturday. After an opening stand of 72 by Mankad and Gavaskar
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    • 629 19 Singapore's controversial victory against Nigeria in yesterday's Men's Team League in the 14-nation First Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships was shortlived when England 1 sealed Singapore's hope for the Commonwealth Table Tennis supremacy. England routed Singapore 5-0 in yesterday's match. This was Singapore's first defeat in the
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    • 174 19 NEW DELHI Graham Marsh won the Indian Open Golf Championship yesterday by a single stroke from fellow Australian David Graham after a tingling struggle over the last six holes. Graham led by one shot after 17 holes but bogeyed the last after Marsh had sunk a
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    • 212 19 Elford Larrousse win Sebring race SEBRING, Florida A West German Porsche 917, driven by Britain's Vic Elford and Gerard Larrousse of France, roared home through the darkness to win the Sebring 12 hour sports car nrt here at record-breaking speed Saturday night. The final result with three Porsche's in the
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    • 70 19 TAMPA, Florida. Light heavyweight champion Bob Foster will defend his title for th e second time this year in a bout with Ray Anderson here on April 24. Foster's manager Mid Saturday night. Lou Viscusi, the manager, said Foster will fight Anderson, of Silver Spring,
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    • 188 19 JACKSONVTIXE. Flo-rida,-John MKUer flred a .Vunder-par 69 In a howling wind Saturday to tie Hal Underwood for the third-round lead in the *****,00§ Greater Jacksonville Open. Underwood, a former University of Houston standout, toured the 6.943-yard Hidden Hills Country Club course at 71
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