Eastern Sun, 12 April 1971

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  • 21 1/20 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents Estd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1618 Monday, April 12, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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  • 693 1/20 QRAEME Lawrence won the Sixth Singapore Grand Prix yesterday his third victory here in a row. The lean, 29-year-old New Zealander drove a cool, well-judged race in his Brabham BT3O to lead almost from start to finish and collect $7,500. Australia's John Walker was
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  • 162 1/20 NEW DELHI Pakistani Army troops "wiped out" two companies of Indian Border Security Forces <BSF), Radio Pakistan said in its evening news broadcast. The radio said the action took place two miles inside East Pakistan territory near the Benapole border check-post. Swaran Singh, Minister of External Affairs,
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  • 213 1/20 Graeme Lawrence plans to return to Singapore next jcar to try and win the Grand Prix for the fourth time in a row. I'll be dad to come back here for your next Grand Prix," he said after his brilliant victory yesterday. Lawrence said
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  • 306 2 UPI DELHI President Yohya Khan has launched a major offensive throughout East Pakistan with tanks, air strikes and artillery backing up foot soldiers. Reports from the border showed that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Liberation Army has suffered major setbacks. In a bid to control
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  • 63 2 HONGKONG China yesterday accused India of interfering in the Pakistani crisis and said preparations had been made 1b Delhi for direct anued intervention. An article is the People's Daily, broadcast by Radio Peking, said India was "progressively Interfering in the internal affairs of Pakistan." The article follows a
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  • 93 2 West Pakistan yesterday released s photograph of the East Pakistani political leader Bhelkh Mujibur Rahman "in custody." The picture shows the Sheikh sitting on a sofa flanked by twi police officials In a room very similar to the VIP lounge at Karachi Airport. The caption, which did
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  • 220 2 ITINDA GHAT, India Hundreds of East Pakistanis, many of them Hindus, have been crossing into India by boat along the Ichmatl River for the past few days from Khulna District. The influx is expected to increase. Many of them have come with their essential
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  • 225 2 r EKING Fifteen U.S. Tkblc Tetania player* Hew la to Peking Saturday night aad ate aa Amrrteaa breakfast of botcakes. eggs »nd bacon yesterday. The first Americaa sports delegation to visit China since communist rale started in )MK, arrived at 9:30 pm Saturday for a
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 92 2 The weather bureau predicts fair weather today. YESTERDAY Maximum Temp: 90.00 Minimum Temp: 75 4 Rain: Nil Raindajrs: 2 Total Rain April: 0.35 Sunshine: 8-05 Humidity at 11 pm 91 BINGAPORE TOWN 833 am. (1.4 ft.); 11.56 am. (8.4 ft.); 5.42 pm. (2.9 ft.); 11.41 pm. (9 ft.). TOMORROW Ml
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  • 372 3  -  By Royson Siew Ll Chua Tab Heat, one of the Singapore Air Force pilots missing since Thursday and now beHeved dead, was planning the biggest party for his 21st birthday at the end of this month. "He has never had a birthday
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  • 199 3 SINGAPORE'S new bus system, which was introduced yesterday, confused hundreds of people. At mony bus stops EASTERN SUN reporters found people in difficulty Even some bus conductors and inspectors seemed confused But most people agreed the confusion was "Inevitable" because people did not know the
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  • 98 3 MINISTER for Culture, Mr Jek Yuen Thong said yesterday he would order an inquiry into safety measures for TV cameramen He was speaking to reporters while visiting in hospital injured RTS cameraman Chan See Yam, 3ft Mr Chan cracked a rib when he fell
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  • 137 3 The Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy yesterday called off the search for two pilots and (heir Hawker Hunter Jets ml*•ring since Thursday. Highly informed sources said the two pilots, os a training mission, were "horsing around" and very likely their planes collided.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 33 3 Toto draw The following numbers were drawn ia yesterday's Toto I>raw:— 33. 19. 37. 21 and 20. The additional number was 15 In the circle draw, the numbers picked were 11. 5. 38
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  • 130 4 (COLOMBO Ceylon hos laid down the death penalty or 20 years jail for helping the island's young insurgents and called for Army volunteers to help stamp out terrorism. The new penalties were also prescribed for murder attempts against government officials, police or army troops. As
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  • 108 4 TOWNSVILLE, Australia Aboriginal Gurindji tribesmen in tfie Northern Territory have threatened to take up arms if they are not granted ownership of tribal lend, a conference was told. There was growing resentment among the Gtarindjis at the Australian government's refusal to grant them title to 50fr acres
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  • 102 4 NEW YORK The Soviet Union has sent Egypt ft small number of advanced Jet fighter planes capable of out-perform-ing any other fighter in the world, the New York Times reported. The newspaper said the Russian aircraft, thought to be either the NATO code-named 'Poxbat" MIO-23
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  • 118 4 BONN A Sooth Koreu diplomat mis nine for five days with his family has crossed Ia to East German* and travelled to another communist country, diplomatic sources said yesterday. The diplomat. Yoo Seung Kein, 18-year-old Labour Affairs Attache at the South Korean Embassy in Bonn, disappeared from
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  • 129 4 LONDON People who do not smoke should be accepted u normal, and those who do should he segregated, the Journal of thr Royal College of General Practitioners says. Smoking. was a killing habitApart from the obvious risks to health, fires had been started by smokers' carelessness. Young
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  • 34 4 BANGKOK Thai police have arrested 200 suspects and seized several firearms in northeastern Thailand on the Laotian border in a massive drive against smuggling of guns from Laos, informed sources said yesterday.
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  • 199 5 Indonesian plea for 'fair poll' Reuter JAKARTA The Deputy Choirmon of Indonesia's highest policymoking body has occused the army of intimidating people to make tfiem Join on ormy-bocked group before the July elections. Mr Soebchan, Deputy Chairman of the People's Consultative Congress, said the army was
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  • 38 5 Hundreds of women march on the Pentagon in Washington during the weekend in support of "our sisters in Vietnam." The anti-war demonstration was arranged by the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice. —UPI UPI
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  • 71 5 MELBOURNE Laboar Party ltsdrr Mr Gougk WMlka said yesterday, a Labour imnatit would allow whird people who M«M "fit in" to aimte to Australia. Mr WhlUaai said: "If people caa flit into oar WMMtitj in the MHt of getting jobs, we should not consider their colour.
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  • 117 5 JAKARTA Antara News Agency said yesterday that a North Vietnamese ship entered Indonesian waters near West Borneo. The ship was suspected of carrying arms for communist guerrillas in the province, the agency said. It quoted a West Borneo newspaper report as saying the Vietnamese
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  • 207 5 Reuter UPI ARMAGH, Northern Ireland More than SM British troops stood by aa the Reverend lan Paisley led 600 Protestants in a big Raster Parade on Satnrday. Tension nwonted as the marchers passed the centre of Armagh's Roman Catholic area. The
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  • 252 5 PLEIKU, Sooth Ttetem —US- krliruften yesterday failed la a desperate bad It dro* bad-ly-needed ammunition supplies to tbe beleaguered Firebase Six la the CMitral llighlaada. Only one helicopter maaageri to kick off a few eases of ammunition in the flrebase before being farced
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  • 399 5 HONGKONG One woman died and four people are missing after a Hongkong Junk was in collision with a British freighter and sank near here. Five other people were injured. All the casualties were aboard the junk. SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic The Dominican Army has been reinforced and
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
    • 507 7  -  ..;Or we will ao mm without laurie lee RITA Chao never seems to get muck time to sing in Singapore. She was oil again last weekend on a tour of Saigon, Hong. gong and Tokyo. One of her sisters. Mlml, was telling me there's not
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    • 46 7 THIS may look like a kidnapping, but it isn't. The bare fact is that this mannequin was being carried from one store to another in Worchester, Mass, U.S.A. when a photographer caught the girl without even a blush. UPI photo. UPI photo
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  • 480 9 'THIS is my prayer to Thee, O Lord, wrote Rablndranath Tagore in Bengali, let me not bend my knees before insolent might. Perhaps these two lines of poetry won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, at a time when Mahatma Gandhi was unheard of,
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  • 517 9 The Art Buchwald column rPHE Japanese have put in a bid for the supersonic airliner now that it has been turned down by the U.S. Government. A delegation from Tokyo 1* In the United States negotiating lor the plans and equipment and
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 226 9 SIR: A MOTHER Writer," protesting Mr da Costa's defence of record pirating, has taken the words out of my mouth. I do, however, have something to add which may Interest you. In the United States there are two organisations which were founded to protect talent
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    • 89 9 SIR: J ATTENDED H»« first day of Hie Grand Prix. I found It very w organised far better than I had expected. However, there was one point that seemed to be forgotten rubbish tins. 1 often had to look hard to find a receptacle for my rubbish.
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    • 71 9 SIR! "/Chinese variety Show" ani "Sharp Nite" arc found to be the most popular television programme* in Singapore. I have Co arret, for although 1 have no TV set at home. 1 know exactly when the programmes are on. DIALOGUE The songs, mnsie and dialogue are blasted
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  • 490 10/11 NEW Zealand's Geoff Perry gave his country a Big Double yesterday when he waltxed home in the Motorcycle Grand Prix. Perry rldins a Suzuki 492 set a new record of lhr 37:10.7. This smisned the old record of lhr 41:04.7 set by Ou Tetk Wing last
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  • 133 10/11 Young New Zealand motorcycle rider Geoff Perry plans to use his $5,000 Grand Prix first prize to help buy a house. The lean, 21 -year-old rider said this yesterday after he scorched over the Thomson Road circuit to make the hi* event a one-man race. "Now
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  • 501 12  -  ANN LANDERS rVEAR ANN: I am writinf about m problem which has caused me a great deal of anxiety. First a bit of background: My husband is a successful business man. We have many friends in professional, political and executive positions. Our two daughters are univei* sit
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 694 12 CARROLL. RIOHTER'S esiiPE GENERAL TENDENCIES: An onamillT good day and evening. Start the week right by letting everyone know In some unobtrusive way that you are fond of them and want to get along better with them In the future Be romantic. Lei those you like enow It by entertaining
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 769 13 ill CHANNEL S Ml 1.00 OPINING ANNOUNCEMENTS, followed by GENERAL HOSPITAL Daytime serial about the staH and patients of a Hospital. (This is the last Episode) 1.20 FOR THK FAMILY A magazine series presented in Tamil 3.50 A DIARY Of EVEHTs IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (Tamil) 3.55 IT'S HAPPENINC IN
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    • 288 13 That Burton diamond dazzles our Lucy' MONDAY APR. 12 Ch. S: Fractured Flickers. Hosted by Hans Conreld, this Is a series of classic silent films which have, with the aid of a soundtrack, a totally different meaning. Grand Prix Report Ch. 8: The Portrait of a Lady: "Decisions" Richard Chamberlain
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  • 646 14  -  By Harold Heffernan r FHE world's most famous stowaway flew into Los Angeles from New York recently, travelling first class. True to form, she didn't pay her fore. The "stowaway," of course, was diminutive Helen Hayes, first lady of the American theatre. In the face
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  • 179 14 The idea would have heen ridiculed •nly a few years ago as fantastically impossible—that of big star making and paying for his own screen test to land a role! But that's exactly what "muttering" Marlon Brando, heretofore one of the most "dlfflcult" of all temperamental
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 108 14 CATHAY 1 N*« Skawtef! S 11. tt. «.M ilt ML Sunday btra Show a® CASH BOOKIMOS ONITI iNO ram usTi Ada: li.M. WW* M*o momi Robwt Mitehua 'Ojkw rrtror Howard PVtoW ODEON2JJI6 CATHAY J3 10 0 N«w Rb«wtn(t Ho Fret U*t Show. Dally al U Mi. IN. A W "OAKLING
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  • YOUNG SUN
    • 355 16 MANY Smgopore bus conductors ore rode. young people told YOUNG SUN Hits week. Bat INK nU passengers «m partly to Mane. MMJ that bw cwnpuun itwU rno WMK| f«r their condactors This li what the pnpte said: CHOO KWOK SOON. IS. stadent: Many baa conductors arc
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    • 50 16 No fair is complete without o sports exhibition, but that*s not a baseball bat this girl swings in the sir. She expertly wields a sword during ritual sword fighting demonstration at tfca annual Bangkok Festival of Music and Dance. UPI photo. UPI photo
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 694 17  -  «y Jonathan Sharp HONGKONG, Hundreds of businessmen are packing their bags in readiness for the Canton spring trade fair this month, spurred by the vision of China's vast market which appeors ready to open its doors a little wider to the world. Several
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    • 195 17 SHIPS belonging to The P O Group over 240 of them can now radio each other for aid anywhere in the world thanks to the fleet's new collective call sign GTZU. Until It came Into use, tha manjr shipping companies within the P and O Oroup kept
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    • 109 17 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados Mr Fred Peart, former Labour Agriculture Minister says there would be "tremendous opposition" to Britain's entry to the European Economic Community (EEC) if she did not obtain adequate safeguards for Commonwealth products. Mr Peart, currently on a fact-finding tour of the Caribbean with Conservative
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    • 360 17 la its constant search for new markets for its prodacts, the New Zealand dairy Industry is keenly interested la Southeast Asia. With advances in all aspects of dairying in animal breeding, milk production, factory processing, product development and marketing new lasting outlets for
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    • 161 17 AUCKLAND A New Zealand company hai bought a substantial block of shares in the Singapore enterprise Starlite Ceramic industries# which produces porcelain and hotel ware lor the Asian market. Th<* manaein* director The managing director of Crown Lynn Potteries Ltd., Mr Trevor Clark, said he
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    • 79 17 Nippon Kokan (NKKI, one of Japan's leading steelmakers. shipbuilders and heavy industrial engineers, has appointed a new manager for its Singapore office. Mr Tadashi Yasukawa. 50. head of NILK'i Overseas Development Division in Tokyo since 1%8, will be taking over from Mr Itsuo NaKada. who returns to
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    • 50 17 Mr David B Sterett has taken up appointment as General Manager of Singapore International Merchant Bankers Limited. Mr Sterett, who graduated from the University of Illinois with a Business Administration degree, spent two years with the United States Army, and joined the Continental Bank of Illinois, Chicago.
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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  • 1313 18 TWE Sultan of Pahang had another long priced winner when his horse Jerantut held off a strong challenge from Mathies' Road to win the class one division one race over 6f to pay $163 for a win yesterday in Ipoh. Ridden by K.
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  • 508 18 LONDON England's double series of tests this summer against first Pakistan and then India hare th« added significance of Australia's visit here in 1972. Although PakLstan and India are certain to provide tough opposition particularly India after their successful tour of the West Indies
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 46 18 as SWEEP Itit Prise No: ***** ($2,427) 2nd Prise No: ***** ($1,213) 3rd Prise No: ***** 606) Starters ($6l each) Nov: ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** Consolation ($47 each) Nos: ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 421 19 A UGUSTA, Gio. When Jock Nicklaus teed up here in the final round of the 35th Masters Golf Championship yesterday he was taking a second step towards an unprecedented single year grand slam. Nicfcbu* bat Hod Charles Coody down HM back nine at MM per 72.
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    • 91 19 TAIPEI Australia'! Graham Marsh led the overall Asian circuit standings with 17-1/9 points after the Taiwan Open yesterday. Two tournament| remain to b e played in the nine-leg circuit the Korean Open and the Yomiari International. Other placings--2 Shi eh Min Nam (Taiwan) 76J 5. Tomoo Ishii (Japan)
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    • 50 19 BANTIAOO Chile Chile moved up In the South American rone trials of the Davis Cup tennis tournament Saturday defeating Argentina In doubles and taking a 3-0 lead In the aeries. Jaime Flllol and Patricio Oornejo won over Julian Ganzabai and Rlcardo Cano of Argentina. 6-2. 6-3. and 6-4.
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    • 154 19 MONTE CARLO Hie Nastase of Rumania beat Britain'* Roger Taylor in the •emi-final* of the Monaco Open tennis tournament here Saturday. Nastase came from behind to win 2-6. 7-5, 6-1, 6-1, and meets Tom Okker. The British player started brilliantly on the clay courts, taking
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    • 262 19 TAIPKI Chang Chung-Fa, playing under great pressure, yesterday fired an even-par 72 (36-3 C) to win the second consecutive championship of the China Open with two-under-par 286 Eleuterio Nival of the Philippines took the second place after returning a two-under 70 (34-38) for
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    • 272 19 KAMPALA German-born Edgar Herrmann of Kenya, Hie main local challenger to overseas drivers in this year's East African Safari, led the field into this city Saturday night in a Datsun, amid reports that he might face disqualification. Herrmann and co-dri-ver Hans Schuller. winners of
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    • 112 19 AUGUSTA, Ga What they said at the third round of the Masters Golf Championship: Jack Nlcklaus. tied for the lead with 68-209 "I'm under more pressure than I would be ordinarily. Because of the slam, of course." Charles Coody, tied for the lead with 70-209 "I don't regard
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    • 337 19 ROSEAU, Dominica The Indians were heM to a draw by the Windward Islands in the last territorial fixture of th«ir tour at the Botanical Gardens here Saturday. The Windward lalands. who were conceded a 10-run lead on the first innings, declared at 171 for nine,
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    • 139 19 ST. PETERSBURG. Fla Top seeds Blllle Jean King and Rosemary Casals were knocked out of competition In the semi-final round of the $15,000 women's tennis tournament Saturday. Mrs King stunned the crowd by defaulting In the third set. walking off the court with a leg cramp and
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    • 75 19 NEW YORK Results of major league baseball games played yesterday: National League New York 3. Cincinnati 2 (11 innings) Atlanta 5. Pittsburgh 4 (12 innings) Houston 2. Chicago 1 Lo s Angeles 9, Sam Diego 2 Philadelphia 4. Montreal 1 San Francisco 6, St Louis 4 Americas League
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