Eastern Sun, 13 April 1971

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents Est* 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1619 Tuesday, April 18, 1971 M.C (P) Z5lO
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  • 312 1 Confusion costs cash gUS takings on Sunday plunged by 40 per cent, a director of the Amalgamated Bus Company, Mr Guoh Sing Leong, said yesterday. And the managing director of Associated Bus Services, Mr Tan Kong Eng, claimed his firm's takings also dropped considerably over
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  • 164 1 The Minister tor Communications, Mr Yoni Nyuk Lin says the reorganised bos system should be running smoothly in a few days. He was eommentinc on the confusion which followed the switchover on Sunday. The minister said that there were many buses on the roads
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  • 45 1 The president of the Asian Development Bank, Mr Takeshi Watanabe, arrived last night for the meeting of the ADB's board of governors, which starts tomorrow. Mr Watanabe. accompanied by his wife, was met by senior ADB and government officials-
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  • 86 1 NEW DELHI General Ne Win, chairman of Burma's Revolutionary Council, is making good progress at a hospital. Ne Win entered the institute on Saturday for treatment of suspected ulcer of the stomach. The Burmese Foreign Minister Col. Hla Haw and Ne Win's personal physician arrived on
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  • 145 3 Police arrested four women Barisan Sosialis demonstrator!! outside Central Police Station yesterday. Thirteen women demonstrators relatives of political detainees gathered at the Chinese Emporium at 1 pm. Tliey displayed two black and two red aati(•overnment banner* and distributed pamphlets. They then marched from the junction of High
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  • 104 3 FOUR men yesterday were jailed for two years each for housebreaking and theft. They are Pek Klan Tong, 21. Yan Kon Poh, 26. Ng Tee Tong. 30 and Ng Soon Wah. 23. Their other accomplice. Phua Kay Chee, 31. was Jailed for nine months. They appeared
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  • 396 3 Four women mothers and wive* of pditicnl detainees yesterday claimed they had no choice but to demonstrate outside the Conference Hal! on January 19. They were giving evidence In their own defence at the Fourth Magistrate's Court. They are Chan Law
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  • 168 4 Victim nearly died 'THE High Court yesterday sentenced a fishmonger to six years* jail for attempting to murder a young hawker liaison officer. He had pleaded not guilty. The maximum sentence is life imprisonment. Koh Um Chiang, 29, chased Housing Board Officer Chew Poh
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  • 185 4 Most boys dream of climbing mountains, but one lad has lain awake many nights thinking about it. It's little wonder, for Eugene Seow. 14. is going to climb Gunong Tab an (7,1*6 feet), the highest mountain In West Malaysia. He Is one of
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  • 57 4 Police hare arrested a 17-year-old youth la eoaaectioa with a stubbing on Sunday Right. The victim was Llo Mine Pans, 25 He wa« stabbed hi the left shoulder during a dii>pnte in a flat ia Loroac One. Toa Payoh. Uaa waa tahea to the Thoawon Itoad
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  • 68 4 TV Pint Haciatntr i Court yesterday remanded la c—tody two arn chircel «tt armed robfcery. Che« Cbeac Beat. 26. and N c lilt Nee. 84 allegedly robbed two victims of ttHI. Jewellery worth IM. a Datm ear worth SC.— and aa identity card. "Hie iihfcti) allegedly
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  • 255 4 More than 60 Postal Department Phriiten 111 empfeyeee law fceen *uspenned fvoM the Acting lift, accord in j to their iMioa newsletter. This action U unprecedented In the department's history and follows promotion eierclse held in February lwt year, according to the report. The
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  • 235 4 FOOD glorious FOOD STAKE jomr Market budget on pork fillet steak it's selling at only S2. SO a kati. It is best stewed with hard-boiled eggs ia black Chinese sauce. Several vegetables have risen (ram five ta fit cents a kati. due ta shortage of
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

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  • 280 6 UPI JERUSALEM Defence Minister Moshe Dayon has confirmed reports that Russia had supplied sophisticated MiG-23 interceptors to Egypt. He said Soviet involvement in the region has forced Israel to pursue every prospect for peace. Day&n said. "The fact
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  • 79 6 Music Hath charms to soothe the most savage North Vietnamese breast, or so this South Vietnamese soldier believes. In one hand he holds a guitar and a rifle, in the other a collapsible rocket launcher, at he prepares fro board a helicopter that will take
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  • 266 6 ADELAIDE Blx Royal Air Force jets-four Lightning fighters and two Victor tankers flew from Singapore to Edinburgh airfield jesterday BRISBANE Thieves escaped with goods worhh 8566.000 from a gold dealer because the batteries in a recently installed burglar alarm were flat. j|g WEST BERLIN A South Korean
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  • 78 6 SYDNEY The Australian Council of Churches might discuss non-violent disruption of sporting matches against racially-select-ed South African teams at its meeting In Sjrd* ney on April 21. The National Secretary of the ACC, Reverend Frank Engel, has said that although disruption and boycott have not yet
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  • 233 6 AMMAN A massive house to house search for guerrilla arms was extended in Amman yesterday amid severe criticism of the government move by Palestinian commandos. The search by King Hussein's elite paratroops was supported by armoured vehicles. It began on Sunday in three districts
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  • 75 6 PHNOM PENH Cambodian paratroop private who was involved in a battle last week along Highway Pour southwest of Phnom Penh says ha saw communist soldiers capture Catherine (Kate) Webb. UPI bureau manager In Phnom Penh. The soldier's account was the first eyewitness testimony on the
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  • 327 10 TTIE People's Action Party's efforts to revitalise itself is becoming more and more apparent. Not so long ago the party recruited new blood at various levels ministerial as well as parliamentary and recently Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew launched the youth section of the PAP. Mr Lee
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  • 152 10 npHE 24th Congress of the Soviet Commu- nlst Party has concluded. It began with a brilliant exposition of the state of the world and the Soviet role as a superpower by General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and concluded by criticising almost every aspect of the quality of Soviet
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  • 731 10  -  By Max Lerner troubling thing about the Calley case is the gap that has opened between the liberals and the large American middle-class, whose reaction to the verdict is largely one of shock. "The war is morally monstrous/' says the liberal intellectual, "and My Lai
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  • 531 10 SUN SOAPBOX wher H E AV R E EA A d I r A? -/'"A. A SIR: 1 REFER to Mr Lui Boon Poh' s reply to my com. 1 ments on his Party's programme. He begins by saying that he is "delighted"
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
    • 551 11  - Breast of Spaniel Take home a doq bnrielee THE British art leaving behind their dogs thousands of them. Most will have to be put to death. Local people don't want them or havent got room for them. It seems a waste to me these dogs should be killed and buried
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    • 54 11 BRITISH designer Hardy Amies has dei creed that eveningwear should be long and lean, and if possible, with a slit to the thigh. This dress it called Montigo and is made from crepe and printed in wide bands of black and red
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  • SUN PEOPLE WATCHERS
    • 110 12/13 Singapore—at work and play The SUN People-Watchers are interested in you...at work and at play. Every day our cameramen are on the lookout for the human side of life funny and serious. Whether sleeping, eating, or just play, YOU and your friends could be featured. The People-Watchers appear every Tuesday
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    • 50 12/13 LOOK WHAT YOU ARE MISSING IF YOUj DON'T SUBSCRIBE TO THE EASTERN SUN I i The latest home and! overseas news Top sports coverage j| Laurie Lee Singapore's; most talked about I columnist SUNSCOPE A background to the news Best comics in town j Ann Landers s 7- V i
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  • 769 14  -  relax A behind-the-scenes trip to one of America's most loved circus groups and a glimpse of the sweat and tears that go into each successful performance. PART II by Tom Tiede gEATTY managers "buy the best weiners possible for our
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  • 607 15  -  By Harold Heffernan JJALF the actresses in Hollywood are walking about' with a book tucked under their arms these days. Have no fear it's not that the glamourites have suddenly become more intellectual than they were a month ago. It's only that they're
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  • 79 15 A c to r-n o v e I i s tp'avwriter Robert Shaw is a man of many talents. In addition to his more celebrated talents, he's also an accomplished chess player. Actress Here he (fives his wife, Mary Ure, equally acclaimed for her talent
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 172 15 CATHAY vrvM mw.i ODE ON 2111 6 New Sbowlnr! No Free Ust 4 Shorn Daily at II aaa t.M M A #OO »o< CASH BOOKINOS ONLY Ada: fl. It M M Columbia'* WATERLOO' Roa Steicer Color Chrlstophf p.ummer. 70MM Srbml: SI M to any teal at II *m A t.M
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    • 224 15 ORGANISATION L I t> o *****4] NOW SHOWING! Dor to Film'* Un|tk SHOWS! Note Timet 11 an> t.:tO 6 :tU 6 on Jack Lemmoa. Shirley MacLaine "ItM La l)nrf PanavtMon, Color IUAI NEXT CHANGE' Tk» Private Life of Sherlock Helmet" Pulsion A Color IOAt CAPITOL iii»7nfr Open* Teday-N« Free Llal
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  • 409 16  -  ANN LANDERS FIEAR ANN: I have a lot of hair on my face. Is there anything that can bo done about it? I don't trust advertisements and there is nobody I can talk to. Hair Dear llair: If you are a man you can shave.
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 684 16 CARROLL. RIOHTBR'S GENERAL TENDENCIES You find you are able to solve some perplexing problems by concentrating intentl v upon what you are attempting to do Conditions from the past require much penetrating thought and you can gain 6y considering solutions that com* to your attention through public media. t. TAURUS
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 861 17 today's THE REVOtyWG 10MGH TV MoM to-mo TVI SIIMC3APURA CHANNEL S OPEN INC ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by DAYS OF OUR LIVES A dramatic serial about dedicated physician FOR THI FAMILY A magazine series presented in the National Language A DIARY OF EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (National Language) IT'S HAPPENINC IN
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  • 66 18 A six-storey nylon dome is unc rated (above left), raised by a crane (above right) sealed in a steel foondation (below left) and then inHated (bdow right) at the Toshimaen Amusement Park in Tokyo. The whole process took one boor. The dome is at the American Fair which
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  • 713 18  -  »y Rev William Wan rHE crowd milled around for awhile. Then Hiey loft slowly ond reluctantly, leaving behind them on empty tomb. *1 am inclined to believe that the tomb waa not robbed", wittered Lukas. "My cousin Jainus... he works for the imperial Guards. "He
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  • 449 18  -  Doctor's Diary ly LAWRENCE L LAMB. MD TIEAR DR. LAMB Would you kindly write about pleurisy, possible cause, and result- ing pain and fever? Could this be contracted because of driving with an airconditioner unit vented directly at the driver? Alter a recent car trip my
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous

  • WOMEN
    • 427 19 much has been heard lately about- "unisex." Not very long ago, it was supposed to be the ware of the future. "His" and "hers" boutiques were opening up, and stores which had always been for just one sex hastily put in
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    • 32 19 Delicately crocheted beach peats suit for the swinging under 25's who ere looking for something that Is both In and tm-bizarre. The outfit is manufactured by Seekers of Perth. Australia.
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  • COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
    • 37 20 NEW YORK Foreign and domestic car manufacturers reported record sales at the end of the New York International Automobile Show. The Japanese firm Datsun reported "skyrocketing sales" at the end of the show'a nineday run.
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    • 382 20 An Australian company which hat been supplying equipment for the printing industries of five continents for many years is now marketing a combination gatherer, stitcher and trimmer. Known as a "Stitch-n-Trim" it gathers the final printed material, and wire stitches and trims the pages,
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    • 54 20 Am IA UNII TK(m M lIIVNI Fund I.M 1.35 M'tla t'rog 1-07 MS iHAKimit I Ml lUI t>Th B.G fund 1.10 1.10 MNUtfUHk IMI TUt'HTf 3rd B'pore l.Uid Con Ind I.M 1.11 Tkr Kftor rund 1.10 1.1 8b« 8 P rund 100 1.06 id (Manager Price for April
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    • 158 20 TOKYO C. Itoh Company. a leading Japanese trade firm, says it had reached basic agreement with French ftrras on a plan to import Iranian liquefied petroleum gas C. Itoh refused to Identify the French firms, except saying 'that they Included an oil company and a
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    • 964 20 INDUSTRIALS A lean 1.40 8 1.39 (2); AU Choc 2.50/2.57; Ben 1.13/1.14 1.13 (7) 1.14 (3); B Kawat 1.13/1.14; Borneo 1.98/2.00 1.99; Boustead 2.14 B 2.20 2.22 <2); B Trust 1.20 B; C Sugars 2.00 B 2.00 (4) 2.02 (3) DIM; CCM Ords 1.42/1.43 1.42
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    • 230 20 The Malaysia/Singapore stock market closed yesterday on a mixed note in very quiet trading. Volume contracted to 913,540 shares as against 1.220.000 last Thursday. Industrials accounted for 764,000 units, hotels 50,000, properties 65,000, oil palms 8,000, tins 11,500, dollar rubbers 12,000 and sterling rubbers 3,000. Business was mainly
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  • 263 21 The Cathay Organisotion's multi-million dollar Jurong Drive-in Cinema, the first of its kind in Singapore and Malaysia, is to open in June this year. It has a capacity for 880 cars and, in addition, a holding area for 300 cars. The Drlve-ln Cinema la adjacent
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  • 273 21 Malaysia-Singapore Airlines Managers' Association was formally registered on March 12 and Inaugurated on April 2 at a General Meeting beld in the Ming Court Hotel. The following were officially elected to the Management Committee for the year 1911-72: President: Mr Lim Cheng lock, Traffic Manager .Vice-President: Capt
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  • 109 21 Mr Derek F. Warmington, marketing assistant with the P O Lines in London arrived in Singapore two weeks ago on a special mission. He was here to assist in the smooth transfer of P O's Passenfier business to Mansfleld and Co Pte. Ltd. On the eve of his
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  • 85 21 SEOUL The United States and South Korea sicned a loan agreement under the US. "Food For Peace'* programme providing Korea with wheat, raw ootton and corn Proceeds from the sale of the goods will be used by the Korean government for Investments in agricultural development
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  • 205 21 HONGKONG China has reported that preparations were complete for the Canton spring trade fair, an important meeting place for Chinese and foreign businessmen, due to open on Thursday. The official press agency Hsinhua said that exhibits at the fair would be rnore varied than
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  • 118 21 Mr Henry Tio Kheh Beng of the Bata Far East Regional Office (Fero) has been appointed to the position of Personnel Manager to Bata Singapore with effect from March 1971. Mr Tio joined the Company in May 1967 as a Sales Supervisor and after gix monthf he
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 414 23 CLUBS should hare "God Fathers" to Mp them financially, the President of the Football Association of Singapore, Mr LP. Rodrigo, Mid yesterday. Mr Rodrigo »ald the clubs should take the Initiative to Improve the standard of soccer here. He suggested that the club» should have "God
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    • 105 23 NAIROBI Edgar Herrmann of Kenya and codriver Hans Schuller. in a Datsun 240Z, yesterday won the East African Safari Motor Rally for the »econd successive year, according to unofficial estimates here. At the final checkpoint outside Nairobi, Herrmann had conceded 218 points compared to the 220
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    • 40 23 The Singapore Cricket Club will play a 'Gala Soccer Match' against the British Arm v Locally Enlisted Personnel All Star XI, on April 16. at the Padang at 5. 15 pm. in aid of the L.EP. donation draw.
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    • 184 23 A 28-year-old Malaysian businessman rolled a Malaysian record three-game series in the 1971 Cathay Pacific Brunswick Far F.ast Bowling Tournament. The businessman. Tan Kok Wah burned up the lanes of Kuala Lumpur's Merlin Bowl with games of 269, 237 and 278 for a
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    • 469 23 AUGUSTA, Georgia Texan Charles Coody erased the memory of his blowup two veers ago by winning the Masters golf tournament by two strokes Sunday end, in the process, ended Jack Nicklaus' march toward on unprecedented 'grand slam/ The 33-year-old pro from Abilene, who had been seesawing
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    • 105 23 NEW YORK The scores of Sunday's games In the National and American League were: National League New York 1, Cincinnati 0. (11 innings) Atlanta S. Pittsburgh L Philadelphia 11, Montreal 4. St. Louis 4, San Francisco t, (Ist game) San Frandsoo 7. St. Louis 2. (2nd game) Houston
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    • 68 23 MONTE CARLO, Monaco, The Romanian pair of Illie Nastase and lon Tiriac clinched the Monte Carlo Open tennis men's doubles title Sunday with a fine fourset win over Holland's Tom Okker and Roger Taylor of Britain 1-6, 6-3, 6-3, 8-6 The women's single title went to
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    • 962 22 Th« following are the race weights for the weekend racing at Ipoh: SATURDAY CL. 3 DIT. 4 «F. Tolstoy 9.00 Gallant Son 8.12 Kind Regards II 8.12 Seregalar 8.11 Kimberley 11 8 11 Try To Equal 8 II Tai Pau 8.10 Fibrcglass World 8.10 Kuchjng Town 8.10 Colony
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    • 1120 22 The following are the Stipendiary Steward's report on the weekend races at I poll: SATURDAY Race l: LOVABLE II (Hassan) who wa« slow to begin vt« unable to stretch out throughout the race. FIZARRO m (Kingston) had to be eased off the heels of DISCIPLINE (Moran)
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  • 74 24 Champion New Zealand racing driver Graeme Lawrence (above) yesterday saw the site and plans for the proposed permanent Grand Prix racing circuit. He told the EASTERN SUN he was "very impressed". Lawrence said he could not say where the site was because it is still confidential.
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  • 91 24 NEW DELHI Ceylon'* High Commission yesterday said that its missions around the world are granting no visas to any travellers to Ceylon because of the Che Guevara uprising. Even diplomats were not being permitted to enter the country. HONOLULU Five of six desperadoes who broke out of
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  • 211 24 No help in housework: A mother off six yesterday set herselff alight after her 15-year-old son reffused to help her with the housework. Madam Tan Geok, 38, Is now dangerously ill in Outrom Road Hospital. Her son, Ang Kal Poh, said his mother
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  • 227 24 COLOMBO The curfew in Ceylon was lifted yesterday for 10 hours as police and troops were mopping up remnants of the "Che Guevara" left-wing insurgents in many parts of the islond republic. A Government spokesman said the situation throughout the country was
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  • 122 24 MANILA Filipino radical youths fired a skyrocket onto the Palace residence of Pre. sldent Ferdinand Marcos during a rally yesterday to protest the disappearance of a leftist militant. It was the first time protesters used a skyrocket in their protest actions at the Palace. The skyrocket
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  • 200 24 New Delhi, —India now fears that Pakistan may "internationalise" her civil war to secure control on her 75 mil- lion people in Hi« Ejst Wing. The Pakistan Army is reported to be within striking distance of Indian Army troops on Indian soil in
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  • 92 24 SAIGON U.S. navy ships and Jets yesterday sank a North Vietnamese trawler trying to sneak into Sooth Vietnam s southern coast under cover of darkness. The sea battle came less than 24 hoars after another aavy warplane struck radar controlled ant! -aircraft positions in
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