Eastern Sun, 6 April 1971

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Vloje's own national daily 10 cents Estd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1614 Tuesday, April 6, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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  • 521 1 Singapore fisherman shot dead mystery boot crew machine-gunned o Singapore fishing boot pilot to death at the weekend in the South China Sea. The boot's captain crawled across the deck on his stomach through a hail of bullets to take over the helm. Other crew members
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  • 180 2 A former hospital attendant jailed for seven years for fatally stabbin i his bargfrl-wife's customer with a screwdriver had his Jail term reduced to four years yesterday. Chua Kim Kow, 90. made hi* own appeal before the Court of Criminal Appeal, comprising Mr Justice Tan
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  • 484 3  -  By Loke Poh Fun |JSED cor prices ore plunging several dealers told the EASTERN SUN yesterday. They claim prices of older models have dropped from 10 to 60 per cent in recent months. They predict prices
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  • 180 3 A paper bag maker yesterday was committed to stand triaJ for allegedly raping kit adopted 13-year-old daughter, last October 10. The First Magistrate's Court committed Poh Ah 4O, to stand trial at the High Court at the end of the one-da
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  • 125 3 A man with two previous convictions yesterday was jailed for three years for armed robbery of $1,195 cash and Jewellery. Sim Sai Hong, 26, admitted robbing a housewife, Tan Hwee Joo, with three accomplices at her house at Lorong 13, Ge.vlang Road on March
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  • Article, Illustration
    86 3 The little chap was sleeping so serenely he didn't notice the face towering over his cot. And it was the Minister for Health, Mr Chua Bian Chin (right). Beside him Is Dr Earl M. T. Lu, a visiting specialist Mr Chua was on a familiarisation tour of St
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  • 85 3 Have yon seen thlg girl? She la Beluneumal d o Augustine, iftd 11, who was last seen b T her parents at 10 aa on Sunday She left her home at George Lee Chambers, 200 Clemenceau Avenue. She took a bos to a stop bv
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  • 58 4 The Philippine Bayanihan dance troupe unexpectedly cancelled their scheduled appearance at the Hilton Hotel and the Victoria Theatre last night. Instead, they performed at the Pong|ol Hotel. The dancers will now appear at the Hilton and the Victoria Memorial Hall tonight. PICTURE: Some of the girls
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  • 261 4 SINGAPORE people ore apothetic about law enforcement, Police PRO, DSP Leslie Wong Sxe Ying said yesterday. He was talking on "The Relationship between Police and Public" at Dunman Government Chinese Middle School. He said that while the people in Singapore were generally law-abiding, few
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  • 196 4 FOOD glorious FOOD Here's a hot market bargain bell-shaped peppers at SI a kati. Cram finely minced fish, pork and prawns into slit peppers and steam them in a kwali of vinegar over a mellow fire. Prices (in katis unless otherwse mentioned): VEGETABLES Vegetable
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 243 5 Ten weeks pregnant lO-week pregnant woman died after she hod a septic abortion, a Coroner's Court was told yesterday. The court held on inquiry into the death of a Chinese-Muslim woman, Jamiloh binte Abdullah, 32, on March 19 o day after she was admitted to
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  • 43 5 An elderly man found groaning in pain at Boat Quay, District 1. last month, died on Sunday. He was An* Chow 1100, 64. Aug w as found on March 8. He was rushed to the Outram Road (ieneral Hospital.
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  • 507 5 A senior special investigator yesterday denied using threats, promises or inducements to get a statement from a company director. The director Is charged with corruption, in "a trial within a trial" at the Third District Court. The Investigator of th e Corruption Practlcea
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  • 235 5 A passenger who lost tois right eye after a conductor hit him with a ticket-puncher was awarded $2O 290 damages by the liigh Court yesterday in a negligence nolt. Sa'ad bin Ahmad, a 30-year-old store-opera-tor at a Jurong factory, was travelling in
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  • 136 5 Two youths were burned when fire broke out In a one-storey house at Kampong Kuchal yesterday. They are Yap Chong Lin, 16 and Teo 800 Choy, 13. Both work for a domestic home-owned slipper Brft. They were burned on their lets
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  • 333 7 Merely lever to oust Israel Reuter JERUSALEM Prime Minister Goldo Meir lies announced Israel's outright rejection of recent proposals by Egyptian President Anwor Sodot to reopen the Sues Canal. She soid Israel would "willingly see the Conal open to shipping of all nations, including
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  • 180 7 SAN FRANCISCO Optional celibacy for Roman Catholic priests has been approved nearly unanimously at symposium of 500 clrrgy and lay leaders from the San Francisco Archdiocese. Four of the discussion group* at the symposium criticised Archbishop Joseph McOucken for leaving the meeting early. The Archbishop had
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  • 24 7 NEW YORK Jazzman Louis Armstrong, described as "awake and alert," remains on the critical list at Beth Israel Hospital.
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  • 147 7  -  BY NAT GIBSON AMMAN Palest niaa guerrilla leaden have promised today to move armed commandos and heavy weapons oat of Amman, raising hopes for a return te peace in Jordan after II days at fighting. The Central Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation promised to
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  • 336 7 UPI Reuter NEW YORK Lieutenant William Calley has said in an Interview that the My Lai massacre was one of a thousand mistakes he made in Vietnam. He was aenteneed to life imprisonment last Moaday after bei n
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  • 215 8 MUNICH, Germany Demonstrations have rocked Munich with right wing publisher Gerhard Frey demanding a "German Germany" and leftists calling for the ouster of Nazis from the city. Another protest action occurred at the "Werkraumtbeatye.'' a Munich playhouse at which two plays with sexual
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  • 58 8 Mia Farrow and her husband Andr* Previn fake a moment oft their work to play with their twins Mathew and Sasha. The actress and the conductor both well known in their respective spheres were married last year seven months after the birth of the
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  • 383 8  -  by HENRY SHAPIRO UPI, Reuter. IiIOSCOW The Kremlin will propose multi-lateral and world conferences on peace and disarmament after the Communist Party Congress ends this week. The offers resulted from a peace offensive launched by Party General-Secre-tary Leonid Brezhnev in his
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  • 187 8 DOVER, England A fleet of tugs battling for five days hare freed the stranded Liberian tanker Panther from the treacherous goodwin •ands. The tanker still belched beach-polluting oil from a damaged tank. The successful attempt at high tide followed failure by 10 tugs to budge
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  • 114 8 PARIS Four school boy* have confessed that three of them kidnapped the other with his approval to test whether his parents loved him enough to pay a ransom. The victim's father, a well-to-do businewman. paid 5560,000 ransom for the return of his 14-year-old son. Two
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
    • 535 9  -  Con man dupes tourists laurie lee FHE dreams of quite o few people ended at o rainswept wharf here on Sunday. The people had booked on a holiday cruise to Hongkong and Taiwan and they were due to sail at 2 pm But 2 pm
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    • 50 9 EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Adaya Zirofii drearn* of joining the Israeli Army and fighting for her country. She would certainly brighten any uniform. But at the moment Adaya has to settle for a part-time career as a model. The Mediterranean beauty is in Singapore doing a secretarial course.
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  • 347 10 COUPLE of decades ago, when India became Independent, an Indian writer said that the best heritage of British colonialism was the language, jurisprudence and cricket. He appeared to be quite serious about it though he did not explain why he Included cricket. Possibly he Included cricket because, more
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  • 139 10 PRESIDENT Nixon reportedly believes that no massive American support will be given hereafter for a South Vietnamese offensive. This has been interpreted to mean that the Communist forces have been crippled by the "successful" offensives in Cambodia and Laos. It could also be Interpreted to mean that
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  • 680 10 NEW kind of demonstration gets under way this year on an international footing. In the "Walk Secretariat" at the Rome headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organisation a small team headed by Glasgow-born John Crossan is putting the finishing touches to preparations for
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 353 10 SIR: MY neighbours and I are in receipt of a circular from the Estate Officer informing us to call at the office for our lease which is now ready. We have also received another circular detailing the various fees incurred together with the balance payable by us after
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    • 108 10 SIR* Your new TV column by Jay, in The Sun, is a welcome addition and one we hope to see more of in the future. However I must disagree with Jay's views (April 4) on the Mod Squad series. Clarence Williams III and Michael Cole
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  • SUn SCOPE
    • 777 11  -  Japan's Air Force By FREDERICK MARKS UPI rpWICE a month, o Russion bomber nicknamed 'The Toyko Express" by Japanese Air Force pilots Hies down Japan's Pacific coast from Siberia, apparently on a training run. Two Japanese FlO4 fighter planes scramble when the Russian plane
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    • 283 11 SOVIET writer Vladimir Bukovsky, under arrest in Moscow, lies appealed to western psychiatrist groups to intervene on behalf of Soviet dissidents confined to mental institutions. The Washington Post Mid yesterday a letter from Bukovsky dated January 28 reached the West only recently. Bukovsky, 28,
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  • SUN PEOPLE WATCHERS
    • 289 12/13 UPI A U.S. scientist yesterday said vaccines against some kinds of cancer may be available by 1980. Or Lewis Sarett, who pioneered cortisone said that successful vaccines had already been produced for tumours in chickens and work had be run to And them for humans. "With
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    • 40 12/13 LOOK WHAT YOU ARE MISSING IF YOU DON'T SUBSCRIBE TO THE EASTERN SUN The latest home and overseas news «Top sports coverage «Laurie Lee Singapore's most talked-about columnist SUNSCOPE A background to the news Best comics in town Ann Landers
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  • 616 14 relax gAIGON Marital infidelity, the plague of oil wars, can be a problem even for good Communist Party members in North Vietnam, according to a recent issue of a Communist Party newspaper in Hanoi. It has just been translated by the American mission
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  • 648 14  -  By TOM TIEDE BARTOW. Florida Charlie Smith nina the most unusual variety •tor* in thi« community. There are a variety of things not for sale In it. Soda pop isn't for sale, candj isnt for sale, and there are endless brands of
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  • 314 15 ACTOR George Gaynes played dead for three days and is firmly convinced that it takes 100 percent more effort to be a corpse than a live performer. One of the major sequences in "Doctors' Wives,'' the M.J. Frankovich production for Columbia Pictures
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 239 15 L I U O *****41 OPENS roDATi Ilia 14ft M »lf IMI PRIC E of POWER' 8cop» > Color I8B( NEXT CHANOB' Jack Lemmon. Shirley UicUlne "Ira* La Doace PaiukTl»lon. Color (OA) LCAIMTOI. lif»7Al> U«1 DAY Na free U> .1 *m IM 4 4.4 ft t» tiena Pei pel 6
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    • 352 15 pMWIVi I ORGAINiISATIOrj I QDEOIM ***** I Tods; A Tomorrow Only) Shown: 11. t.M |>m. Komro 6 Jallct" Color Starring: Olivia Huaaey A Paramount Picture School: SI.OO to an/ Mat at 11 am t.M. pm ■howi dally. OPENB 111 l KSUATt Adro: 11, |t. U M INo Free Ltotl Columbia'*
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  • 539 16  -  ANN LANDERS f\KAR ANN: 1 have been dat- ing a great young man (age if). He wants to marry me and 1 have said yes. Three weeks ago I met bis lather. The moment our eves met 1 lelt a strong attraction. Senior has every thin* my
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 729 16 V A CARROLL RIOHTER'S B T ?G ARES TAURUS GEKtvl CANCER LEO VRGO GENERAL TENDENCIES: During the daytime you are able to get much of value accomplished that has to do with routines and activities of everyday life. It Is an ideal time to communicate your practical ambitions to others.
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  • 363 17 since Shirley Temple became an American institution nearly 40 years ago eager youngsters, and their parents, hare tried to emulate little Miss Lollipop's charm and success. One little girl who's chalking up a formidable procession of TV and movie credits is 11-year-old Pamelyn
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 734 17 today's r CHANNEL 5 OPENINC ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by CENERAL HOSPITAL A daytime serial about the staff and the patients of a hospital. FOR THE FAMILY A magazine series presented in the National Language) A DIARY OF EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (National Language IT'S HAPPENINC IN SINCAPORE (National Language) (Rpt.|
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  • 217 18 Britain's Army Commander in the Far East, Major General Walter Thomas, proposes a toast to eight British Army civilian employees who between them have 192 years service with the British Crown. Major General Thomas presented each with a printed testimonial at a formal presentation ceremony at
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  • 421 18  -  Doctor's Diary By LAWRENCE E IAMB, MD HEAR Dr Limb Our Home it aw-condi tioned wiHi an excellent central system My husband and I disagree over what temperature to set the thermostat. This Is very important to us. Isn't It easy *to catch colds KOing
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  • WOMEN
    • 425 19  -  By Florence de Santis Wondering whether you should invest in those shorts you've been hearing so much about and maybe seeing in the young fashion magazines? After all, they could well be one of those fads you'd be stuck with after
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    • 174 19 Q: What is your opinion about skirt lengths for a woman of 45? I have worn mine only a trifle above the knee, as t never thought shorter lengths looked well on anyone but young girls. I've read that the mldl makes one look older.
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 340 20 The Joponese government hos decided to bolster the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as part of its post-Vietnam policy, undertaking to provide funds indirectly to the association as a starter. The programme in outline, will be of the following nature, they specified: A
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    • 114 20 OSAKA, Japan Finance Minister Takeo Fukuda Uyi he believed the present recession in Japan was levelling off. He pointed out commercial banks' loan Issues during the current quarter would be 70 per cent more than the corresponding quarter of 1970. Mr Fukuda also stressed
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    • 54 20 LONDON Indonesia's government-owned Bank Necara is to open a representative oftice in London April 5, its first venture into Europe, the bank said Saturday. Bank Negara has 300 branches in Indonesia and said it is the largest commercial bank in the country. It already has branch offices in
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    • 88 20 Vosper Thornycroft Pte Ltd has been awarded a Jurther contract to build one supply vessel and two stand-bv vessels for Brunei Shell Petroleum. Announcing the contract yesterday the general manager of Vosper Thornycroft Pte Ltd Mr D. W. Sltwell. said the order was valued at
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    • 1030 20 INDUSTRIALS ACM A 1.40/145; Alcan 1.39s 140 (2) 1.39; All Cboc $2 60/2.69; Ben 113/1.15 1.16 <2) 115 1.16 D; B Kawat 1.13/1.15; 1.15 ,(7) 1.15 (3) D: Borneo 2.01/2 02 2.00 (4) 201 <7>Itojstead 2 12/2.13; 212 (6); B M Trust 1.20b; C- Sugars
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    • 112 20 BANOKOK High taxea have depressed car sales In Thailand by fifty per cent since July 1970. A spokesman lor the Ministry of Industry said sales of both locally assembled and imported cars during the past nine months have dropped by approximately 50 percent compared with the
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    • 94 20 Rubber Association of Singapore and Malaysian Rubber Exchange closing prices in cents per lb. were B. 8Int. 1 RS.S prompt f.o.b. ***** 106.25N Int. 1 RS.S. 106.75 107.00 Int. 1 RSS. 107.75 108.25 Int. 2 RS.S. buyers 100.25 seller a *****N UK/Continent buyers 99 50 sellers 100 00N.
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    • 185 20 THE Malaysian/Singapore Stock Exchange closed easier In quiet trading yesterday. Buying support was mainly on selective Issues while blue chlpa were barely steady in thin trading. The total turnover of 1,059,000 unit* was shared by 911,000 industrials, 42,000 hotels, 77,000 properties, 8,000 oil palms, 2,000 tins and 19,000
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  • 541 21 WEEKLY R UONGKONG The Malaysian Rubber Fund Board (MRFB) announced last week the setting up of a bureau in Hongkong to boost her sales of natural rubber to Communist China. MRFB deputy controller of Rubber Research, Lew Sip Hon, said they have
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  • 156 21 MANILA The Asian Development Bank (ADB) h considering increasing its capital stock because of the expansion of its lending operations within the region, according to the ADB annual report. The report said negotiations are also underway for the admission of the territory of Papua and
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  • 132 21 Supervising engineer, Mr Peter Stone (right) and project engineer Mr K. C. Yon g check equipment they are using in research on positioning new port facilities for Darwin. Research on construction of a $68 million port for Darwin, in the far north of Australia, is nearing completion in Sydney. The
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  • 313 21 SYDNEY Poseidon jumped $3.50 to $44.50 in an otherwise quiet mining market on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Trading In other nlckeLs wa* quiet after the Stock Exchange announced the suspension of trading in Northland Minerals for the second time recently. Ocean Resources closed one cent up
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  • 118 21 WASHINGTON Steel Imports Into the United States entered at a record rate during the first two months of 1971. the American Iron and Steel Institute said. According to government statistics, the Institute said, 1.230,000 tons of foreign steel arrived In the United State 8 during February
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 985 22 Tlie following are the race weights (or the weekend raring at lpoh. SATURDAY CI. 3 Dlv. 4 6F Try To Equal 000 Tai Pau 813 Entertainment Vll 813 Colony Surf 8 13 Phalawan 11 8 13 Debar 811 Glamour Prince 8 11 Pretty Dolly 811 Pepego 8.10
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    • 331 22 KENSINGTON OVAL, Barbados, India continued their first innings yesterday at 247 for six with saving the foHow on as their main objective. To accomplish this they had to take their score to 302. The West Indies looked like finishing off
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    • 40 22 School Annual Meet. Hua Yi Government Chines Middle school, 141 h Annual Athletic Meet at School field at 2 30 j>m. SHA Hockey: Division I—P.W.D. Club vs Combined S< hools and Division 3 —Police vs Ceylon Sports Club.
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    • 385 22  -  FAS IS $60,000 IN THE RED By S. Selvarajoo The Football Association of Singapore owes about $60,000. Th e plight of the FAS came into light recently when Mr Lenny Rodrigo appealed to the Ministry of Social Affairs for help. He will be sending a
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    • 191 22 SEOUL A total of 162 golfers, including 98 foreigners from 11 countries, have sent their entries for the 14th Korea Open golf championship, the organising committee said yesterday. The tournament, the eighth and next to last leg of the 1971 Asia Golf Circuit, will
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    • 378 23 Raffles Institution beat Singapore Vocational Institute 1 in the 'A' division finals of the National Secondary Schools Football Championships yesterday at Jalan Besar Stadium. Raffles scored in the 10th minute of the firsthalf through Omar All and followed with a second goal through in-eide-left Mohd.
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    • 101 23 NAGOYA. Japan—China's number one Chuang T* Tung—three times work) singles champion in the IMO's lost his chance of a fourth title In the World Table Tennis Championshi© here yesterday when he was drawn in the second round against a Cambodian player He was
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    • 20 23 Singapore Recreation Club beat Singapore Armed Forces 2-0 in yesterday's SHA Division 2 fixture played at the Padang.
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    • 168 23 MONTREAL Badminton stars from the Far East dominated the 12th Canadian Open Championships. which ended here at the weekend walkinf ft way with all five titlesRudy Hartono of Indonesia Sunday, recaptured the Canadian title he won in Toronto in 1969 with 15-7, 15-2 wins over Ippei
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    • 783 23 The following are the Stipendiary Steward's report on the weekend racing in Kuala Lumpur. SATURDAY RACE I:—At the start NOVELIST (S h a a r i) threw his head back and lost some ground. After passing the half mile PHALZ (Kingston) blunded and was pulled up
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    • 369 23 Mixed doubles NAGOYA, Japan Japan's monopoly of the mixed doubles since 1957 ended yesterday when Tokuyasu Nishll and Mieko Fukuno were eliminated by China's Chang Shin-Lin and Lin Hui Chlng in four sets in the semi-finals •t th« 31st World Table Tennis Championships. The Chinese pair's
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    • 37 23 NAGOYA, Japan Chang Shin Lin and Lin Hal Chlng of China won the World Table Tennis Championship mixed doubles title here last night 3-1 over Anton Stipancic (Yugoslavia) and Maria Alexandru (Rumania).
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  • 144 24 ATHENS A Greek piano teacher claimed in court yesterday 4>at the is the illegitimate daughter of the late Ring Carol of Rumania and Princess Irene of Greece. The Judge said he would study the documents produced by the teacher, Mrs Maria Kmmanuel, and the lawyers of Princess
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  • 322 24 *MEW DELHI All Indio Radio reported "industriol unrest" in several towns of West Pakistan. The radio said there hod been processions in Lyallpur, Lahore, and other towns demanding restoration of democratic rights remov ed by the martial law authorities. The radio also said
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  • 142 24 SAIGON South Vietnamese troops n an* nine a central highlands base overrun by Communist forces last week, have repulsed fresh North Viet* namese thrust, military spokesmen said yesterday. The South Vietnamese High Command said 287 Communists were killed in a five-hour drive to push
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  • 95 24 Two lop New Zealand motorcyclists flew into Singapore jesterday evening for the Grand Prix. They are Geoff Ferry, 20, who was here last year, and Trevor Discombe, 28, a newcomer to the Singapore GP. Perry works for Air New Zealand as a mechanical apprentice.
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  • 268 24 UPI. PIINOM PENH There is a bizarre quality to the current trial of two of deposed Prince Sihanouk's children, Princess Botum Bopha and Prince Norodom Noradhipo. The 20 ye a r old Princess, is reputedly not very intelligent, but nevertheless charming and certainly
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