Eastern Sun, 28 March 1971

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  • 15 1 The Sun Price 10 c«nt» Vol. 2 No. 54 Sunday, 28 1971. M< <P) 2500
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  • 48 1 WELL-ARMED West Pakistani troops have shot dead 10,000 Bengali rioters. They ore using tanks and artillery to quell mobs io five East Pakistan cities, according to the Press Trust of India. SEE PAGE 2 FOR THE FULL STORY. West Pakistani troops patrol th« streets.
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  • 92 1 New Delhi, The Indian External Affairs Minister Mr Bwaran Singh said the Indian government had hoped that after last year's general elections In Pakistan "a constitution reflecting the urges of the vast majority of the people" would be evolved. "However, events have takm a different and tragic
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 108 1 Three kinds of Power: AC, batteries, rechargeable power pack Three kinds of Fun: AM, FM, cute(lei 3C The Sanyo MR-4IIF can run on AC current at home. On flashlight batteries for outdoors. Or, best of all. on the rechargeable Cadnica power pack that "refills" itself over 500 times. Three kinds
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  • 347 2 DELHI At least 10,000 civilians have been killed in East Pakistan by troops using tanks and artillery. The civilions, supporters of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, were mowed down soon after the Bengali leader proclaimed independence for East Pakistan. The Press Trust of India said the
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  • 81 2 NEW DELHI The governor of East Pakistan, Lieutenant-General Tikka Khan, was shot dead in Dacca yesterday. the Press Trust of India news agency reported. It said the general, also Martial Law Administrator in East Pakistan. was killed while directing Army operations against the secessionist forces
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  • 171 2 NEW DELHI East Pakistan leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is still at liberty, according to a clandestine radio message heard in New Delhi yesterday. Earlier. Radio Pakistan reported that the Sheikh had been arrested in Dacca. Supporters of Sheikh Mujibur denied the government radio report that he
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  • 322 2 I.A PAZ. Bolivia Twentyfive persons have been killed and 28 Injured when a passenger-laden truck plunged over a precipice In Bolivia s worst vehicular accident. o GENEVA The United Nations Commission on Human Rights ha s condemned apartheid In South Africa as a crime against humanity and
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  • 187 3 rpHE Singapore Medical Association is reviewing "the present position of abortion/' its president, Dr Arthur Lim, said last night. He said since obortion hod been legolised, it had become the topic for debate at three extraordinary general meetings of the SMA. The SMA had formed a
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  • 48 3 Curvaceous Evelyn Neo is today's Sunday SUNBIRD. Evelyn, 24, is a public relations officer with a leading hotel. Her hobbies are reading sewing, dancing and shopping. "My dream is to be successful at whatever I set out to do," beautiful Evelyn told the SUN.
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  • 176 3 Complacency will be tlic undoing of Singapore, the Defence Minister, Dr Goh Keng Swee, warned last night. He said: "Our prosperity is man-made ind what Is made by man can be unmade by man. "For instance, if we let up on the effort that we
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  • 278 3 A teenage girl drank a bottle of Insecticide after she had "an affair" with her boyfriend, a Coroner's Court was told yesterday. Probationary Inspector Phua Chor Kng of Central Police Station was testifying at an inquiry into the death of Mfois Lam Churn
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  • 158 3 Members of the International Chamber of i on*mfroF and Singapore Employers' Federation are acting together to browbeat uniom into dabmission. The Secretary -general of the National Trades Union ('ongre.su. Mr C. V. Devan Nalr, made this allegation yesterday. He claimed employer* refused to increase wages
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 94 3 The weather bureau predicts fair weather today. YESTERDAY Maximum Temp: 86.6 Minimum Temp: 72.0 Rain: Nil Rainda?s: 11 Total Rain March: 366 Sunshine: 10.10 Humidity at 11 pm: 87 mm SINGAPORE TOWN 534 ana. (12 ft); 11.54 am. (10.2 ft.); 6.03 pm (1-8 ft.). TOMORROW 12 03 am. (9.8 ft.);
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  • 382 4 SIHANOUK'S MEN RELY ON CHINA Prince Norodom Sihanouk says the Soviet Union did not want to help him in his struggle to regain control of Cambodia. At the same time the Prince who was interviewed by French television in Peking, reported fhat North Vietnamese
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  • 386 4 CAMARILIO, California A 71-year-old Cantonese man may have spent more tban half his life in state mental institution* because of language difficulties. says a Ventura County public defender. Dock Huey was 35 years old whe" he was put in the state
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  • 126 4 OMAHA. Nebraska. Three aea working with war plana for the United State* nurlrar araei forces have beeo arrested for earryiuc marijuana and LSDAll had top security clearance. The three airmen, serving In the top secret underground post of the Strategic Air Command. were among
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  • 295 5 LONDON A masked gang, operating with precision timing, robbed this armoured car of $53,206,000 in cash yesterday, locked the four-man crew in the back of the vehicle and escaped in suburban traffic. Police said the eightman cans, armed with shotguns, used two trucks in the
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  • 301 5 AMMAN King Hussein's troops stormed into Irbid, Jordan's second largest city, yesterday after the biggest battle with Palestinian guerrillas this year. A government statement said the guerrillas either surrendered or were put to flight. Irbid Is 45 miles north of Amman. The statement
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  • 103 5 LOS ANGELES The fate of life imprisonment or death in the gas chamber for Charles Manson and three young women followers was put in the hands of the jury yesterday. It is the same jury that found Manson and his followers guilty of first degree murder in
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  • 83 5 HONGKONG The gov vernment yesterday announced reduction of sentences for eight prison«ers jailed for taking part in the 1967 disturbance® in an apparent goodwill gesture toward Communist China. A spokesman said three of the eight prisoners were released yesterday and the other Ave will be freed
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  • 267 5 RIVERSIDE, California The Hawaiian-born father of a family that performed in a Polynesian fire dance troupe has burned himself to death to protest his family's leaving on a nationwide tour. Police said Earl Kamakeeaina, 41, returned to his home from his job
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  • SUNDAY SOAPBOX
    • 251 6 THE SUN SAYS 0 EAR General, For bull-headed stupidity your action is unprecedented this century. You have ordered genocide. You have ordered Punjabi military might against defenceless Bengali men, women and children who can only bare their breasts to the bullets from your machine guns
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    • 579 6  -  by Stewart Hensley UPI VIfASHINGTON President Nixon's top advisers admit he faces a difficult task to convince the American public and Congress the invasion of Laos was even a limited military success. But the officials contend the President ultimately will be vindicated.
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    • 231 6 SIR: When it comes to the crunch, I'd still wont the People's Action Party to form the government. They have performed wonders creating employment. pushing ap economic growth, solving our squatter problem and have shown themselves to be, well, as democratic as circumstances can permit. The
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    • 66 6 SIR: We were delighted to hear the great news in your article Sweet Taste of Success in the Eastern Sun on March 25. We are fans of Cilia Black And we are proud to bear she has a little son named Robert JohnTo hear that Cilia has
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    • 75 6 SIS: The British are to blame for what is happening in Pakistan. British colonialism was responsible (or bringing into being a country with 900 miles of another country (India) between its east and west portion* The same kind of British "diplomacy" wal seen in Nigeria recently, during the
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  • 274 7 PAGE 7 MDRV sPEcmi WOULD you moke a career of hairdressing because your girlfriend asked your *T advice on her hair? This is exactly what Michael Low, 28, did. His girlfriends used to ask his advice on their curly problems and he got so
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  • 326 7 SINGAPOREANS think their police are the best in Asia, despite criticism of them in Parliament last week. In a special SUN survey only one person did aot have a good word to say about our police. The survey was made after some parliamentary backbenchers hit out
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  • Article, Illustration
    988 8 The deadliest drug First in a two-part series SAYING that marijuana is no worse than alcohol is like saying air pollution is no worse than nuclear fallout. The comparison tells us little about marijuana and it Implies falsely that alcoholism Isn't really so bad. While the effects of marijuana
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  • THIS SUNDAY with felix da costa
    • 411 9 My old friend Cornelius Sponge wot upset Hie other day, end with good reoson. The outburst over sex, decadence and pop music by several Members of Parliament caused some kind of serious emotional upheaval. "They've rone quite mad," he sighed helplessly, shaking his head in disbelief. "They're
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    • 762 9 HEN Eddie Cormel wos a child in Tel Aviv he says his father used to take him on a leosh to look at the Arabs. Joke, but it wouldn't have been o bod idea. Eddie Cormel is the biggest, most owesome Jew
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  • Page 9 Advertisements

  • SUNSCENE
    • 639 10 J JOLLYWOOD Doris Day, at the urging and arm-twisting of Columbia Broadcasting System, had finally agreed to hold her first press conference. It was strictly an all-female affair. Now the ordeal was finished. The last guest had deSarted
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    • 129 10 The Theatre World Association Is holding auditions for their forthcoming June production of "The Shifting Heart" by Richard Beynon. Auditions are being held today, 28 March, tomorrow 29 March, and Sunday 4 April, at 8.30 pm. Those interested should contact Mrs Gracia Chee, ***** (anytime) Allan Kok, *****3
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    • Article, Illustration
      187 11 Vbc MWBdafckirch the ■■My Bdflu plates a Sanday ■*>!■« hi 1115, as nearly 2N.NI Men prepared far battle. Ten haws later, one in every three lay dead: and the name of the Tillage nearby was to head a flaming page in history. It was Waterloo Waterloo Is one of
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    • THE MORNING AFTER with Weatherbee Wong
      • 802 12/13 got back here this weekend after a highly successful three-month tour of Hongkong. I didn't have a chance to meet her at the airport but I hear she's not too well. Apparently she picked UD a throat Infection a week ago and is stiii
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    • Popping round with Platter Pete
      • 714 15 DISC CUSSION (CHICAGO (CBS) This is the third album from Chicago. Like Its two predecessors It will certainly be as rapidly successful, if only because of the sheer name, value and reputation of the group. This double-album takes the form of a concept. In that
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      • 284 15 Dear Pete, Would you kindly give me the address of Ian Gillan of Deep Purple MARSHA Dear Marsha. c/o EMI Records. EMI House. 20 Manchester Square. London W l. Dear Pete. I recently saw the film "Darker Than Amber" starring Rod Taylor and Suzy Kendall. What I'd like to
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      • 202 15 Peter, Paul and Mary have finally decided to go their separate ways. The split, considered inevitable for several months, was made official this week with the news that the trio had finally broken up. The statement says that Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey and Mary
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 128 10 OR G A I\J IS AT I INJ ORCHARD 37»5M| LAST t DATBI tl I N t.M. I.M Tka Orftl Wkllf Hep* Jama* Carl Jonas PiotTUloo Color Po» Open* Tuesday! Color "Til BOTtL HINT or TBI SUNRobert Shaw ChrUtopher Plumnwr CATHAY -*****1 NOW BHOWINOI Kitty Swan In "GITNG ALA TBS
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    • 244 10 ORGANISATION LL I l» O *****4 Optni Today-No Trr* U<l SHOWS: Note Timet am 11. 1.44. t. CIO. MS Cheng Pet pel. Lo L ett 'THE LAD V HCKMIT" A SHA* PRODUCTM >N Mandarin in Scope A Co.oi C A I TO I *****1 Lml S Days! HltBI! I *m
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 894 14 Hi TV SIIMGAPURA CHANNEL S AM 10.10 OPENINC ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by THE JACK LA LANNE SHOW 10.30 LASS5IE "Sanctuary" 11.00 PESTA POP (Rpt.) A weekly musical piogiimme by local artistes 12.05 STAR SOCCER "Nottingham Forest vs Newcastle United" 1.00 ENGLISH FOR EVERYONE (Chinese) I.IS CHINESE MATINEI "Terminal Bound" (Mandarin feature
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    • 77 14 'GOLDEN BOY' V .jk>. V .,v,: f*. *>•:> i. ■IP «K -ip !<>**♦ :i X F: JW ■i» •■■'■< e 5T ■••;>, —™i fw*' I®! If Ha Sft II y MSa?**?-;■£ £$£9 <^iKa $s x#: >< 8P$ Here 2&S* •:';f ■3 M Hi One very good way of rounding off
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1306 16 PftRROLL RIOHTER'S from the Carroll Righter Institute GENERAL TENDENCIES: Now you have aspect# to net those many ideas of the past two days reduced culture to your surroundings so they will be more attractive AKIES (March 21 to April IB) Financial matter* should be first on the agenda now so
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 47 17 Join the growing family of happy subscribers to the Eastern Sun and The Sun THE ONLY HOME-OWNED. HOME-CONTROLLED NEWSPAPER The Circulation Manager, Eastern Sun and The Sun, 23-B, Cantonment Road Singapore 2. Please deliver to me the Eastern Sun and The Sun regularly. Name: Addre55:.....,,.,, Tel. No:
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 172 17 ...N\*V36 IF we WENT FOfZ A LITTLE IT MlCsrWr OB IT MI&MT CHBBfZ you UPr.... m Ift sky a 5 9 V c a? a as ft m sti n. Sin Ifl£ ?,?NEW PR/VB TrtKOi/G# T&££'P... I PON'T KEMEM3ER A... f p WHAT'S TWB MATTEL BILL'S.. VOL! LOOK PILL-p.. you
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  • Church at home A WEEKLY ROUND-UP OF CHRISTIAN ACTIVITIES
    • 270 18 FLORINA, Greece Women wearing pants the long or not variety are banned from the churches of the diocese of Fiorina. In a circular letter to the parish priests of his diocese. Bishop Au(ustinoi Kantiotis. known for his extremely strict moral views, said: "No woman
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    • 461 18 QF several colls that the Bible-Presbyterian Church of Singapore and Malaysia has recently received, the latest has come from West Kalimantan. This call is made by letter to Rev Timothy Tow from Rev, Philip Chung on behalf of the Building Committee of o proposed West
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    • 271 18 GENEVA (EPS) Roman Catholics in Greece will celebrate Easter on the same date as Orthodox Christians (April 18). The only exception is on the Islands of Syros and Tinos (in the Cyclades). The practice of using a common date began on the Island of Corfu
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    • 106 18 GENEVA. <EPS) The international YMCA centre at Castle Mainau. Germany. which had played an important role in leadership training for a quarter of a century. passes from the scene this month. For the past three year» Castle Mainau had operated as a mobile institute reaching some
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    • 72 18 ZURICH. (EPS) group of intellectuals in German speaking Switzerland has urged 'hat intercommunion be prao» tised in ecumenical groups or at ecumenical gatherings. Some 500 persons, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, signed ta appeal to the Swiss Protestant Federation. The group called "Ecumenical Gatherings
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    • 508 19  -  By Barry James VTATICAN CITY The Roman Catholic Church has not had a nonItalian pontiff since 1523, but the next one could be a Frenchman. Pope Paul VI clearly raised the possibility by naming French Cardinal Jean Villot as his Secretary of State the Vatican's
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    • 559 19 AS THE TELEVISION suddenly blared forth, Mrs Howe cringed. Such a noise! She must speak to the children about it. As she neared the living room, more unpleasant sounds struck her ears. "Turn off that cartoon! I want to see the
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    • 559 19 EX-ADDICT FINDS FREEDOM IN my heart, at the start of every day, during the trials and tribulations of the working hours, and in the quiet of the evening, is this constant prayer, "Thank You, God, for my salvation, sobriety and freedom from slavery to drugs."
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  • ADVENTURES IN A SINGAPORE KITCHEN
    • 932 20  -  By RUTH BAKALAR was a time when o barbecue was a whole lamb, calf, pig, or even sfreer, spifr-roasfred over an enormous pifr fro feed an enormous crowd. And in some parts of the world, it still is. Where spaces are less wide open, and hospitality
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    • 322 20 It's always berbecue time In Singapore a lively excuse (or a party, with or without charcoal! Do your barbecueing in a skillet that can be brought to the table, and provide drinks long and cool or short and sippable through a heap of Ice cubes.
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  • 1032 21 KUALA LUMPUR AM PROUD, with Des Coleman •stride, followed up on his last start win at I poll earlier this month when he beat a Class five Division one race over 7f here yesterday. The King of Babyion gelding paid a good dividend of $25 for
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  • 179 21 Singapore Armed Forces scored an easy 8-1 victory against Alexandra Sports Club in a FAS Division One league soccer fixture, played at Geylang Stadium yesterday. Alexandra played without their six star players Including goalkeeper Ibrahim. SAFBA took the lead through lnslde-left Hussein Aljunied but within minutes
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  • 353 21 NAGOYA, Japan After a six-year absence, China seeks a return to its preminent position of the early 1960's in the 31st World Table Tennis Championships which open in this Western Japanese industrial city today. But the Chinese men and
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  • 201 21 BANGKOK American David Oakley stroked in a one under par 71 for a 214 three-day total to retain the lead after the third round of the Thailand Open Golf Championship here yesterday. The 25-year-old professional of s'.x months from the Westerwood Country Club. Vienna, Virginia.
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  • 46 21 FAS Soccer: Division I Fathul KarLb Club va RAF Changi and Hotel Slngapura XI vs Guthrie Waugh RC at Jalan Besar Stadium, at 5.30 and 7.30 pm. Hockey friendly: Sport* Club 'Frankfurt 1880 West Germany »s Singapore Recreation Club at SRC Ground 5.15 pm.
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 45 21 TOTAL POOL ($9,343) Ist Prize No: *****0 ($2,312) 2nd Prise No: *****3 ($1,156) 3rd Prize No: *****1 578) Starters ($64 each) Nos: *****3 *****0 *****4 *****1 *****0 *****2 *****6 *****0 *****7 Consolation ($5l each) Nos: *****6 *****2 *****6 *****2 *****6 *****0 *****1 *****4 *****3 *****4
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  • 35 22 tACI 1: Nil IACE 2: NU RACE 3: Fiery Flight RACE 4: Luna Stream RACE 5: Famille Verte. Trevtsana. Babylon Star RACE 7: Up To Ton RACE I: Privy Council RACE f: Blnjai Park
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  • 1452 22 Race 1: (3. 5 Dlv. 2—7 P.—2.00 p.m. ($5,500) 1. ***** P*rl *y 900 Perl (Tan) Lee 14 1 ***** Plea Mai Pair 4y 8.12 C A G (R Breuk) M Ismail 12 S ***** La Notre 4y 810 LLP (Tulloh) 4- ***** Martello Tower 5y 8
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  • 217 22 DKNNI HO* jJ SOOIAC CISCO KACk i III (13 PERI Oar LN Beautiful Dreamer i 4J MARTEIXO V. M Perl It) The Pnoock <131 4 a DREAMER Capital Gain shanghai Kid RAO t: 1 AMNESTY Chrrkniiitl HtBli KM* 1 10) SANTA ROSA 16) Yunmar 12) Awiteatjr ilij (14) KAYI)
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  • 857 23  -  GO RACING with *1 THE SUN msL m [By Oenni Boy HONEST DEAL can recoup part of his losses by taking the Class Two Division Two race over 6f (Race eight) at Kuala Lumpur today. At Ipoh last month, the Rego gelding was a good thing
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  • 74 23 DONCASTER, England —Champion Jockey I-es-ter Piggott, bidding this seasor (or his ninth title, opened his 1971 flat racing account witb a treble here Friday. Piggott. champion for the last seven years a row, scored on Winden (11-2), Prince of Daroun (6-1) and Quayside (4-9) to go ahead
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  • 779 23  -  By S. Selvarajoo This year's Singapore Grand Prix will not be televised live. SUN SPORTS learned yesterday. Meanwhile, tickets for the grandstands being so'd at Robinsons, Fitzpatricks, C.K. Tang, Cold Storage, Automobile Association of Singapore and at the Singapore Motor Sports Club. They are
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
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  • 70 24 Police are hunting for a ran whose car yesterday killed an eight-year-old girl and injured three other people—one critically. His car rammed three stalls along Kochore Road. The man then ran away. The dead girl was Tan Choo Hoon, of Arab Street. She was rushed
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  • 238 24 A MOTHER of seven was brutally axed to death as she knelt in morning prayer at Paya Lebar, yesterday. She was Madam Poon Yee, 40. She was battered and slashed in her one-room Mouse at Jalan Hamanan Kedal, off Paya Lebar Road at
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  • 84 24 NEW DELHI Pakistan Air Force planes yesterday bombed the East Pakistan town of Comilla according to reliable reports received by the Press Trust of India news agency (PTI). But Radio Pakistan •aid there was no foundation to reports of heavy fighting in East Pakistan. Radio Pakistan repeated an
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  • 72 24 KHE SANH Saigon has announced plans for a new offensive against the North Vietnamese. A spokesman said the troops would "relax and recuperate" before the new attack. He said the attack would be launched from South Vietnam's northernmost province of Quang Tri, springboard for the incursion
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