Eastern Sun, 5 April 1971

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  • 20 1 EASTERN SUN singes/own national daily 10 cents E«fd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1613 Monday, April 5, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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  • 1266 1 Britons lined up in Dacca UPl DELHI Three British subjects were saved from o West Pakistan Army firing squad at the height of a military-instigated massacre last Monday. A former British resident of Dacca said this yesterday. The British resident, a businessman, gave eyewitness accounts of massacres
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  • 158 1 TOULON, France A mutiny has broken out aboard a Pakistani submarine. French naval sources said fighting broke out between Bengalis aad West Pakistanis aboard the submarine Mangro and lasted seven hours. The mnUny was put down, but nine Bengali seamen deserted at Toulon and four more were
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  • 56 1 What's H»is then? It's Singapore sculptor Wee Beng Chong's latest creation —a Chinese god he is making for a Malaysian client. The sculpture will take three months to finish. But this enormous work is nothing to what Mr Wee wants to make for Singapore. See
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  • 161 2 MOSCOW President Nikolai Podgorny of Russia sent a message to President Yahya Khan of Pakistan last night appealling for urgent measures to stop the bloodshed in East Pakistan, Tass news agency reported. President Podgorny said that the use of extreme measures and "armed
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 83 2 1 The weather bureau predicts isolated showers today. YESTERDAY Maximum Temp: 89 Minimum Temp: 73 8 Bain: N il Rainday*: Nil Total Rain April: Nil Sunshine: 4.25 Humidity at 11 pm: 95 mm BINGAPORE TOWN IM6 am. <5.5 ft.); 535 <un (6-9 ft); 1.57 pm (2 4 ft); 9 15
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  • 97 3 I3ARIT BUNTAR, Moloysio Lightning struck and killed two people in o freak storm in the Krian district on Saturday night. The storm destroyed 27 houses. Police identified the dead as San bin Bakti. 24 and Ahmad bin Hajl Kudin, 45. both from Kam pong
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  • 111 3 A father and a son were slightly injured yesterday when tbrir ear skidded and hit a mound on the roadside. They were on their way to the Thomson Road cemetery to visit the rraves of their ancestors yesterday mornin*. At Mount Pleasant Road, the
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  • 166 3 Burned—by a long shot A bolt of lightning set off a freak chain of events yesterday which ended in a taxi being gutted by Are. The lightning struck at 3.50 pm. It hit the branch of a tree at the car park outside the Singapore Turf Club building, 6 milestone,
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  • 98 3 The Reverend Brother John Mary Pung, (above) of the Marist Brothers of Singapore was killed in a car accident at Upper Serangoon Road on Saturday. Brother Pung, 78, a veteran of the Marist Brothers in Singapore was born at Pao-Ting, in 18M. For forty years he
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  • 155 3 Work on freer trade— Minister The Minister of State (Finance), Mr Tang See Chim, yesterday called for a "concerted effort" by ASEAN member* to work out agreements on economic co-operatloa and the removal of trade barriers. Mr Tang was speaking at the opening of the Trade and Tourism Exhibitions of
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  • 230 5 Bonn, Rome will back entry Reuter ROME Italy and West Germany hove agreed to work together within the Common Market to overcome difficulties hindering British entry. Italian Prime Minister Emilio Colombo said this last night. He made the announcement after his return from two
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  • 165 5 JAKARTA Security authorities in central Java hare discovered an underground communist movement which is plotting to disrupt the general election in July. The Army newspaper Yudha Minggu said this yesterday. The newspaper said the movement called Gemar was organised by communist fugitives from East
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  • 160 5 JERUSALEM Halm Hereof. Israel's former Chief of Army Intelligence, said yesterday Soviet Involvement In Efypt was now so massive that an Arab failure In the Middle East could topple the Kremlin leadership. Hereof, a retired Army general and military commentator for the Voice of
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  • 48 5 UAR President Anwar Sadat (left) holds a sample of oil discovered in the Alamein area of Western Desert. The Egyptian Deputy Premier for Industry, Dr Axis Sidfcy, is explaining to him how this important oil discovery will affect UAR'g economy.—(UPl radio- UPI radiophoto
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  • 200 5 AMMAN Kin* Hussein declared In a tough speech to parliament yesterday that he would sot bargain about the security of Jordan. He denounced Arab efforts to make a scapegoat out of his nation. He also sent a sharp cable to Sudanese Premier Maj
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  • 161 5 BAR-LE-DUC, France, A 33-year-old man whose wife was aho4 dead after a family quarrel remained barricaded in his house through thf night. He threatened to kill 11 of his 12 children il police came near. He would «»ve himself uo "after spending one more
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  • 260 7 100 HELD IN MADAGASCAR Reuter TANANARIVE Thirty people hove been killed ond six injured in clashes in Madagascar between police ond an extreme left-wing movement armed with hunting guns and slings. An officiol communique announced that the Monimo (Modagoscar for the Modogoscons) movement which
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  • 90 7 KAMPALA. Uganda Sir Edward Frederick Mutesa 11, the last king of Buganda. who died in exile and almost forgotten in a London do<kside apartment in 1969. will be buried today in the tradition of his ancestors. His body was flown to a football field and
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  • 204 7 NEW DELHI TKj Congress Party yesterday pledged that it would carry out legislative, constitutional and administrative measures to implement reform programmes promised in its •lection manifesto. The pledge was contamed in a resolution passed t>v the All-India Congress Committee, the policy-making body of the
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  • 68 7 Whatever these macaws are discussing, they seem to be seeing each other eye-to-eye or, more aptly, beak-to-beak. Macaws are natives of South America and can fly long distances in search of fruits, their staple diet. This probably explains why these two foreign birds in Florida's St Petersburg Zoo
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  • 195 7 UPI MANILA A pretty 18-year-old co-ed did not Join the six Filipino student hijackers Inst Tuesday because of **a misunderstanding." The sis yoaths later hijacked a Plane _to Canton without her. T?rc?ita Enrique*, 9 fellow sindent of the six hijackers at Mindanao
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  • 153 7 TEHERAN Thirteen nirmbrrh of a Comnunist inspired sabotage ring have been executed by Army firings squad. They were Charged with sabotage, murder, armed robbery and fore* in* government documents. Iran's security organisation said they were executed o n March 17 after being sentenced by
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  • 543 8 fFHE Soviet Union has once again established itself as a responsible world power by appealing to President Yahya Khan to stop the bloodbath in East Pakistani. The first condemnation of the events in East Pakistan of course came from India but her voice in this particular instance is
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  • 483 8  -  by Robert Crabbe r pOKYO Every night Voice of America's one million waft radio transmitter on Okinawa goes on the air, beaming American-edited news and American music toward the 750 million people of China. Whether that voice will be silenced or forced to
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 255 8 SIR: The public outcry at the conviction of William Calley for his part in the massacre at My Lai seems to be a little out of proportion. To protest the fact that he alone has to pay for a crime in which many others
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    • 105 8 SIR: Driving up to Kuala Lumpur Is inviting trouble. I made the Journey the other day and It's a wonder I didn't kill at least one cyclist. Even on the darkest roads few tnrn on their head lamps and most have no rear reflector lamps. The?
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    • 73 8 SIR: SINGAPORE has had too many fires lately. On Wednesday a watchman was almost roasted alive. Many people have been burned and countless have lost their life savings and property. It's all a result of carelessness or callousness. People need enlightenment on the dangers of fire
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
    • 455 9  -  Mr Wees offer to Singapore Melee SCULPTOR Wee Beng Chong wants fro help the Government turn Singapore into o more cultivated society. And yesterday he offered his services at a "special price." I was talking to the wellknown sculptor and painter in his spacious St Barnabas Road house.
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    • 58 9 Dutch-born Liane Engeman, 25, a former photographic model and cover girl, this motor-racing season, will bo driving in the Alfa Romeo racing team in Italy and abroad. Liane has previously driven on many of tho world's circuits. Sh e has also appeared i* many Dutch and
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  • Article, Illustration
    203 10/11 ABOVE: She's no dragon, but when it comes to puffing, Elaine Ee can certainly snuff out those candles. Elaine, who is a secretary with Swissair in Singapore, blew out 40 candles on a cake with the message "Happy 40th Birthday Swissair". The occasion was a cocktail party for
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  • 806 10/11 iPOWER FOR PEACE UPI JAPAN'S Self Defence Forces have recently come under fire for "re-establishing old militaristic traditions." However the Japanese deny they are embarking on new adventures. United Press International writer Frederick Marks recently toured major defence establishments in Japan Here Is his first report, on the
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  • 491 12  -  ANN LANDERS Ft EAR ANN: My sister and I are rood bridge player*. We married men who are tournament championship quality. Every flttday we get together for dinner and cards. I dread these evenings. The tension is terrible. My husband loses his temper and curses me
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 702 12 r&f] CARROLL RIOHTER'S GENERAL TENDENCIES: Delays and confusion are apt to be a part of today's picture for you unless you make an effort to have everything exact. Clarify In your contact with others Just what they expect of you. Also, make clear what you feel they should do to
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  • 426 13 TO ANN PFLUG, who ployed the army nurse aptly colled Lieutenant Dish in the movie, \-A-S-H" may be as crazy as a fox. Agents, producers and publicity people reason witfi her in va<n. "Pflug," they snort, turning livid, "that's a sex symbol? She
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  • 80 13 IF 10 Downing Street, home of the Prime Minister, is the mo«t famous "10" in London, then 10 RHlington Place, it surely the most infamous. Here, Richard Atten borough as John Christie poses in front of the seedy Notting Hill district address. Scene This was
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 216 13 ORGANISATION I L 1 O O *****4 LAST OAT No fm U*l llaa Itt a.M »i MISSION IMPOSSIBLE" A SHAW PRODUCTION) Mandarin to Scope UOjOi OPBNB TOMORROW "THK PRICK POWEE* Scope Color (SB) c a i to i. a ft 7 an Now Showing! No Pree Lift 11 MB. i
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    • 299 13 o R c A r\j i s AT i r\j CATHAY I ORCHARD 114 0 0 1)6 Sll NOV* •■OWING CATHAY: Hhowt 41 11. I.M. t pn (>R< II \KD: 4 Hho*l *1 ISC. 4.M. IN US pm Ju«wc H«rnwl Hrfrtob "The Invlnrlble RUM" Mandarin) Wl»o Ker-Halu: Hmeh Ralei Oy.tliScope
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 753 14 TV SINGAPURA CHANNEL 5 OPINING ANNOUNCEMENTS, followed by GENERAL HOSPITAL A daytime serial about the staff and patients of a hospital INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE (Rpt.) A DIARY OF EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (Tamil) IT'S HAPPENINC IN SINCAPORE (Tamily (Rpt.) A senes on the life and people in our Republic
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    • 219 14 Remember Joe Brown? MONDAY: APRIL 5. Ch 5: at 6.03 pm Fractured Flickers, (premiere) Classic silent films a>e doctored with a soundtrack to provide a zany twist to the ongnal pk>t. Ch 3: World Premiere Theatre TUESDAY: APRIL 6 Ch 5: at 10.20 pm Vendetta (premiere) A switch in styles
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  • 321 15 Jackie Bai r d and Gillian Mitchell are twin sisters who were in an international song and dance act. Between shows they used to sit by the pool and make themselves bikinis, the kind of swimsuit they liked best. A friend thought they
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  • 606 16 The agony of adolescence News paper Enterprise Association TN this final installment "The Agony Of Adolescence", Joyce Gabriel looks at the problems facing a young teenager in today's permissive society. Question; Some people have said that thU generation is more sexually free than past feneration*. True?
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  • 53 16 "Sexuality is in many ways frightening to children. "There are an awful lot of children propelled, sometimes prematurely, into sexual activity, even by their parents. "The child who must violently oppose his parents is the one who has in a sense accepted their ideas and is in
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  • 374 16 Two students yesterday supported the sale of pirate records despite the fact it is illegal. One student said the big record companies could afford to take a loss of business caused by the "pirates." Another said "pirates" would force legitimate record companies to lower their prices.
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  • 150 17 Fortuna Court Hotel, a luxury onnex to the Hotel Fortuna, officially opened in Kowloon, Hongkong, recently. It provides first class service to tourists and the local public. The new eight-storey building: has 85 handsomely furnished rooms, each equipped with refrigerator and a telephone with extension to the
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  • 135 17 International Computer* Limited. ICL, has announced the formation of a new company tn the Pacific area. International Computers Pacific Pty Limited will provide service* to other ICL companies and branches in this area including those in Australia, New Zealand, Hongkong and Southeast Asia. The company'® office
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  • 203 17 SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. President Nixon has deckled against any move to expand U.S. trade with Eastern Europe, for the time being, it was disclosed at the western White House here Saturday. Presidential Press Secretary Ronald L. Zlegler, said the administration had discussed whether Nixon
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  • 115 17 HAWKERS who now occupy an unsightly group of wooden shacks just outside the BP refinery 1B Pastr Panjang will soon move to nearby modern premises BP had donated $15,000 toward* the building, which will accommodate 10 hawker sites. This will take In all the present seven
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  • 150 17 Twelve of Australia's leading men's fashion houses which have combined to create the "Complete Look'' In men's garments for 1972 will stage a preview showing this week at the Australian Trade Commissioner's Showrooms. According to Mr. 'ohn Camesi. Export Manager of Ultramare Trading Company and organiser
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  • 229 17 LONDON Workers at one of British Ford's key plants dealt a setback yesterday to hopes for speedy settlement of Ford's nine-wodk 014 strike, Britain's costliest on record. A vote at the Ann's giant factory at Halewood. near Liverpool, rejected a management
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  • 149 17 The minimum manual handling of passengers' baggage is the object of a baggage handling system designed and manufactured by an Australian company. The system produced by Conveyor Company of Australia Ltd. of New South Wales. Australia, is now in use at both 0/ Australia's major international
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    • 107 17 Classified Ads. 'SITUATIONS VACANT PHOTOGRAPHERS Ot> P' a witb the paper th«t« going places The Eastern Sun needs two «ood news photographers who vent scared of hard work An rone Interested should call personally to ■utern Hun as-B Cantonment Road. 8lnir&oor« i JOURN ALJBTB Tha Eastern Bun la looking for
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  • 1197 18 PRECIOUS Momentos, in his second outing in this country, brought off o greot win when he beat o strong doss two division one field over 7f here yesterdoy. The Fabtrgi II four-year-old paid a handsome dividend of $157 lor a win. H« was ridden by
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  • 333 18 Graeme Lawrence has twice won the Singapore Grand Prix. Can he make it for the third time? This ls the question Singapore motor racing fans are asking. And this has Increased Interest and enthusiasm among racing fans. Graeme Lawrence Is sponsored by Air New
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  • 161 18 Mr L. P. Rodrigo won th€ singles and men's doubles championships, in the 2nd Intercons (lames 1971 Badminton Tournament for Members of Parliament yesterday. In the singles final Mr Hodrigo beat the MP for Aljunied Mr Mohd Ghazali Ismail in two straight sets at 15-11, 17-15.
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  • 33 18 Singapore scored a 98 runs victory against Hongkong in the 3 day inter-port cricket match played at the Padang yesterday. Hongkong scored 117 and 140 rung against Singapore's 209 and JL4A
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 47 18 SWEEP TOTAL POOL: ($9,347) Ist Prise No: *****3 ($2,313) 2nd Prize No: *****6 ($1,156) 3rd Prize No: *****4 578) Starters ($57 each) Nos: *****7 *****5 *****6 ***** *****3 *****1 *****3 1425! *****0 *****3 Consolation ($5l each) Nos: *****8 *****4 *****8 1483: *****6 *****1 *****9 143& *****3 *****3
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 334 19 £JAPE TOWN South Africa's leading white cricketers, in a move unprecedented in the country's sporting history, walked off the field here Saturday in protest against the government's ban on non-whites in'the Springbok team to tour Australia later this year. The demonstration occurred after the first ball had
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    • 343 19 In one of the most interesting SGA matches held here during the season, SICC held the defending SGA champions Keppel Club to a draw yesterday. SICC golfers had a strong start after winning both the A-division matches, but lost the next. Although SICC came back
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    • 26 19 P A N A M A—Former world lightweight champion Ismael Laguna scored a unanimous 10round decision over Mexican titlist Erubey ••Chango" Cannon* Saturday night
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    • 15 19 SHA Hockey: Division 1 Singapore Recreation Club vs S.A.F.S.A at 9.l ft pin.
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    • 67 19 BUENOS AIRES World Junior welterweight champion Nlcollno Locche suffered two broken tendons In his left arm Saturday night In the second round, but retained his crown In a split decision 15-round battle against Spain's Domingo Ban-era Corpos Doctors said Locche suffered hi s lnjurv In the second round
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    • 92 19 MANILA Japan yesterday swept the last two singles matches to win its Davis Cup tennis series against the Philippines in the Asian Zone Section A semifinals. Twenty-five-year-old Jun Kukl. Japan's top player, subdued Eddie Cruz 6-0. 3-6, 6-2 and 6-1 to clinch the series for an unbeatable
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    • 235 19 NAOOYA. Japan —Unseeded Chou Lan-Sun and Yu Chang-Chun of Communist China yesterday scored a major upset by eliminating defending world champions Hans Alser and K J e 11 Johansson of Sweden In the second round of the men's doubles in the 31st World Table Tennis Championships.
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    • 309 19 HONGKONG Leading American pro Orville Moody won Hie 1971 Hongkong open golf tournament yesterday at His first try. Moody. 37, fired a two-under-par 68 final round for 72-hole aggregate of 14-under 266. two strokes ahead of second place Haruo Yasuda of Japan. Yasuda.
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    • 99 19 MONTREAL Japan made certain of two titles when their players entered three finals of the Canadian Open badminton champlonahlps at Montreal Uni_ rerslty's Swlnter Stadium. The finals to be played today will see Hiroe Yukl against Norlko Tagakl in the all-Japan women's singles and the same
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    • 132 19 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados Dtiip Sardesal and Eknath Solkar resumed their unbroken seventh-wicket stand of 177 on the fourth day of the fourth test against the West Indies here yesterday w.th India still needing 55 runs to avoid the fol-low-on. Sardesal and Solkar rescued India from the brink
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  • 138 20 Louis Armstrong a little better NEW YORK Doctors watching the condition of Jazz musician Louis "Satchmo'' Armstrong at Beth Israel Hospital here see a "significant improvement" since his latest setback in a battle against heart trouble. His condition remained tht v nunc. Although he remains critically ill,
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  • 237 20 jpOLICE yesterday foiled a plan to re-export thousands of dollars worth of canned food stolen from an Ord Road warehouse on March 19. Some of the $25,000 worth of conned food had already been smuggled to Kuala Lumpur. But police stopped the biggest consignment
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  • 44 20 Ever wondered what a Russian bride looks like? Wonder no longer. Yesterday at People's Park, Siseido held a fashion show called Orides of the World. One of them was Janie, a lovely Russian girl seen above, modelling the traditional Russian bridal costume.
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  • 238 20 SYDNEY Thousands of weekend swimmers and surfers risked contracting hepatitis when they swam In some of the filthiest water seen at Sydney's beaches in many years on Saturday. More than 120 million gallons of untreated sewage were dumped into the ocean on Friday after more
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  • 176 20 SAN CLEMENTE, California President Nixon hat announced He will personally make the final decision on the case of Army Lieutenant William Calley, sentenced to life imprisonment. He was charged with murdering at least 22 civilians in the My Lai massacre. The White House
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  • 94 20 WASHINGTON President Nixon awakened in the middle of the night in anguish over the case of Lt William Calley. At that point he decided to free him from the stockade. White House sources said yesterday. The sources said Nixon felt compassion for Calley because of the
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  • 165 20 NEW YORK The New York Times' yesterday reported that a member of the Green Berets (Special Forces) has admitted killing a South Vietnamese don Lie agent on orders from Central Intelligence Agency (C.1.A.). Former Beret Captain Robert Marasco was one of the eight
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