An unflattering picture of Prince Bernhard has been provided by the official report of the Dutch government into allegations that he had accepted bribes from the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. He is viewed as petulant, weak, indecisive and scheming. He wrote pained letters to Lockheed complaining that his efforts for the company were unappreciated. The report said he eagerly followed the advice of, and seemed to play a subordinate role to Fred Meuser, a wartime friend and Swiss-based Lockheed official, who cemented Prince Bernhard’s links to the company. The Prince, the consort of Queen Juliana, is said to have actively sought funds from Lockheed, have given the impression that he was open to bribes, and to have made it clear to the company that he could maneuver deals to its favor and rarely objected to gift offers from the company.
President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing told the new French government he expected his ministers to form a strong, united team and warned them that no failures could be tolerated. Presiding over the first cabinet meeting since Premier Raymond Barre succeeded Gaullist Jacques Chirac, the president stressed that the government’s main task would be to fight inflation and also to continue his reform policies.
The Women’s Peace Movement displayed growing strength throughout Ireland today as more than 50,000 marchers demanded an end to Northern Ireland’s seven years of blood letting. The biggest march was in Belfast, the Northern Ireland capital, where 30,000 Catholic and Protestant women joined forces in a demonstration. Other parades were held in the neighboring Irish Republic for the first time since the Women’s Peace Movement was sparked three weeks ago by the deaths of three children in Belfast. In Dublin, the capitol of the Irish Republic, a march by 20,000 included delegates to the world Methodist Church conference meeting here. Smaller marches were held in Corm, Galway, Carlon and Castlebar.
A Yugoslav political refugee was killed and seven persons were injured by a bomb planted in a car in Nice, France. The explosion came as the car was halted at a traffic light. Yvan Tuksor, 42, was trapped in the blazing vehicle and burned to death, police said. Three occupants of a car halted alongside Tuksor’s, a cyclist and three pedestrians were injured.
The U.S. Navy frigate USS Voge was heavily damaged by a Soviet Navy Echo II-class nuclear submarine K-22 while both were in the Mediterranean Sea near Greece. Repairs to USS Voge cost more than $500,000 and a U.S. Navy sailor sustained minor injuries.
The USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan.
The first rain in southern England in nearly 40 days brought no relief from the country’s worst drought since the Middle Ages. In South Wales, where present water supplies will last only a few weeks, Water Minister Denis Howell dismissed crisis fears as “wild talk.” Mr. Howell clashed with industrialists who contended that Government plans to cut water supplies to plants would lead to widespread layoffs. “The employers are crying wolf,” Mr. Howell said. “People are getting jumpy because it is the worst drought since the Middle Ages.” Scattered showers in London and southeast England yesterday brought the first rainfall in 37 days. But it was short‐lived — about four minutes long — and only at one point did enough fall to be measured, and that was only .039 inches.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has criticized former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan for saying the United States should reduce military aid to Israel. Dayan told the Associated Press last week that “the only solution to Middle East problems is not to give us more arms for our security, but to give us more security so we can have less arms.” He said the United States should get a commitment to peace from Egypt and then cut back military aid to Israel. Rabin, charging that Dayan’s suggestion was “tantamount to advising the United States to use economic sanctions against us,” said the former defense minister’s statement was “not correct, unfortunate and better left unsaid.”
The Palestinian Liberation Organization announced that it would seek to draft virtually all Palestinian men aged 18 to 30, both in Lebanon and elsewhere, to fight in the Lebanese civil war. The PLO has no national sovereignty and thus lacks the legal authority to draft anyone, but it has the power to do so in the parts of Lebanon it controls with its allies. The latest decision goes far beyond the PLO’s recent forced but random conscription of young Palestinians stopped at checkpoints in Beirut, and was considered an indication of the way PLO leaders view their position in the struggle against the Syrian army and Lebanese rightists.
Terrorists in Iran killed three American employees of Rockwell International, a United States concern doing work for the Iranian armed forces. The killers escaped. The United States Embassy said the men were killed in an early-morning ambush in Tehran and identified them as William Cottrell, 43 years old, Robert Krongard, 44, and Donald Smith, 43, all of California. They had been employed by Rockwell, the embassy said, “on a research project for the government of Iran.” Iranian officials said the killers were members of the same self-styled “Islamic Marxist” anti-government terrorist group which was officially said to have been responsible for the assassination of two United States army colonels in Tehran last year.
The veteran Pathan leader Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a legendary figure in the politics of the North‐West Frontier Province, was released from prison today on the orders of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan’s press agency said today. It quoted official sources as saying the Prime Minister ordered Mr. Khan’s release “in consideration of his old age and in view of the start of the holy month of Ramadan [the Muslim month of fasting]. Mr. Khan, 85 years old, was arrested in April 1975 near his home village near here. His arrest was linked to the roundup of national Awami Party leaders following the assassination in February 1975 of Hayat Mohammad Khan Sherpao, a senior minister in the North West Frontier provincial government. Mr. Khan, who lived for more than a decade in self‐exile in Afghanistan, returned to Pakistan in 1972 after his son’s national Awami Party formed a coalition government in North-West Frontier Province. His son, Abdul Wall Khan, was arrested following the assassination.
The United States told North Korea that it would consider the Communist proposal for partitioning of the Panmunjom truce area if the safety of American troops within the joint security area was firmly guaranteed. Rear Admiral Park Frudden indicated that unless this demand was met, the Communist proposal would not receive serious attention. The American position was outlined at a meeting of the Military Armistice Commission at Panmunjom. It was the third such meeting since last week’s slaying of two American officers by North Korean troops near the demilitarized zone.
The government of South Korea issued prison sentences against 18 prominent dissidents, ranging from two to eight years incarceration, for their criticism of the government of President Park Chung-hee. Eight-year sentences were given to 79-year-old former President Yun Po-sun and to former presidential candidate Kim Dae-jung (who would later serve as President from 1998 to 2003). In the most important political trial in South Korea’s history, all 18 defendants were found guilty and were sentenced to prison terms ranging from two to eight years. They have a week in which to appeal.
Japan’s Self‐Defense Agency has proposed a budget of $5.73 billion for the 1977 fiscal year starting April 1. Although it would be a record for Japanese spending in the postwar era, most of the 13.7 percent increase over 1976 would be accounted for by inflation, now running at about 9 percent a year. The budget proposes to add 971 men and women to Japan’s 277,000‐member defense forces, divided among air, ground and sea commands. The army requested 60 new tanks and two antitank helicopters, and funds to strengthen its surface‐to‐air Hawk missile system.
The military government of Peru is stepping up efforts to halt subversive activity, increase production and stimulate the revolution it began eight years ago. A nationwide state of emergency is in effect. Soldiers enforce a 1 AM to 5 AM curfew In Lima, a city of four million people, and to far have killed six persons who violated it. Antistrike decrees and bans on public meetings have been employed for the first time in a year. According to the Interior Ministry, extremists and terrorists are being investigated inside and outside the government. Sources close to the government say that Communist influence is ebbing. When thousands of miners threatened to close copper mines recently, the military arrested 40 strike leaders and the walkout ended.
Bombings and kidnappings attributed to right‐wing extremists in Argentina have increased public demands for effective measures by the military authorities to control this form of political terrorism. The military junta headed by Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla, Commander in Chief of the army, has been unable to control the right‐wing extremists, who are clearly linked to the military and the police, despite the declared goal of the junta to exercise a monopoly of violence. The extent of the abductions and the execution of persons who presumably were in custody of the authorities, has raised concern to new heights among groups that repudiate the left‐wing guerrilla activities but who are concerned over the rise of right‐wing extremism and violations of human rights.
Rhodesian authorities produced documents that they said proved a raid into neighboring Mozambique last month was against a black nationalist guerrilla base, not a refugee camp as Mozambique and some U.N. officials have charged. The documents included a map of the complex, outlining barracks, guard posts and a security section; a breakdown of military structure into three battalions; a parade-ground attendance roll for one battalion with an entry for August 5, just before the attack, setting strength at 1,128 men; a file on histories of those in the camp, each one including the name of a recruiter, and a report on deserters.
South Africa is expected to make some sort of major concession on supervised elections in Namibia (SouthWest Africa) in an effort to get the South-West Africa People’s Organization to join talks on the territory’s future within the next few days, authoritative sources in the territorial city of Windhoek said. The sources said that South Africa had finally accepted that the only peaceful path to the territory’s independence was with the cooperation of SWAPO. The nationalist movement refused to join a multiracial constitutional conference across the past year and rejected the conference’s selection of December 31, 1978, as an independence date.
Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, leader of South Africa’s 4.8 million Zulus, accused the South African police of instigating the riots in which 21 blacks were killed in Soweto last week. He said the entire white population would be answerable for the sins that were committed against the blacks in their name. Chief Buthelezi made the statement at a news conference in Johannesburg after attempting to mediate between Zulus and black anti-government demonstrators who were attacked by Zulus. The clashes broke out again today, but the police said they were broken up without further casualties.
Senator Walter Mondale reacted with delight to the list of campaign issues, outlined by President Ford on Friday. The vice-presidential nominee, in the first response from the Democratic camp to Mr. Ford’s most critical attack on his rivals, said the President’s compilation was “a list of his failures, not his accomplishments.” He said Mr. Ford had mentioned jobs, accelerated homeownership, health care and aid to education as important factors in the campaign, adding that if they were the issues, “the election is over and we have won.”
Presidential candidates of both major parties, supported for the first time by federal campaign subsidies, spent about $70 million on pre-convention campaigns this year, an increase of one-third over estimates for the 1972 election. Of that amount, about $24 million consisted of payments from the federal treasury to match private campaign contributions of $250 or less. The federal share is expected to increase because a number of the candidates are still raising money and claiming subsidies to meet campaign deficits. According to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, President Ford and Ronald Reagan spent $29.3 million between them, $16 million by Mr. Reagan and $13.3 million by President Ford. Jimmy Carter has spent $12 million so far.
Working time lost to strikes during the first seven months of 1978 increased by more than 25 percent over last year but was lower than idleness recorded during the comparable period in 1974, the Labor Department reported yesterday. According to the department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, work stoppages from January through July of this year consumed some 23 million work days, compared with 18.3 million last year and 29.7 million days in the same seven‐month period of 1974. The bureau said that the nation’s strike idleness rate, which takes into account fluctuations in the overall size of the work force, was 0.20 percent for the ‘first seven months of 1976, an increase from 0.16 percent for the same period last year but lower than the 0.25 percent for the first seven months of 1974.
The six-day-old strike by inmates at Attica prison in upstate New York appeared to be ending as inmates began to return to work in normal numbers. The resumption of work assignments, meals and classes followed impassioned pleas by inmate leaders who spoke for 90 minutes over the prison radio urging the men to accept proposed changes worked out between them and correction officials.
Leading genetics researchers hailed reports of the first synthesis of a complete and functioning gene as a significant step toward understanding how these basic units of heredity regulate themselves to influence the health or sickness of organisms. But they stressed that the achievements by Dr. Har Gobind Khorana and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was part of a broad effort in many research centers and that useful applications most likely would come from a combination of approaches. Dr. Khorana’s group, culminating a nine-year effort, constructed the gene by assembling the four basic molecular units of the genetic code into the sequence, deduced by others, of one specific natural bacterial gene.
Two C-141 Starlifter transports of the U.S. Air Force’s 438th Military Airlift Wing crashed in separate accidents on the same day. After crashing on landing in a flight from Thule, 21 members of a group of 27 American and Danish passengers died at Sondrestrom Air Base in Greenland. In the other crash, all 18 people flying from McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey to the RAF Mildenhall in England died when the aircraft was struck by lightning at an altitude of 2,000 feet (610 m) as it approached Mildenhall and crashed near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire.
An explosive chemical compound more dangerous than nitroglycerine may be in the plumbing of more than 15,000 hospital and clinical laboratories in the country, the Center for Disease Control at Atlanta said. The compound, sodium azide, is formed when waste from an automatic blood cell counter distributed by Coulter Electronics, Inc., is discarded into a drain. where azide reacts with copper, lead, brass or solder in the plumbing. One explosion occurred when a constant temperature water bath in which sodium azide had been used as a preservative was being repaired, the center said. Another explosion was reported in the Los Angeles area. Coulter has since introduced an azide-free product, officials said.
Poisonous chemicals have been found in mothers’ milk in 10 states in worrisome amounts, according to Dr. David Rall, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The milk was contaminated by polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, a class of colorless and tasteless compounds with many industrial uses. It is feared that PCBs could cause cancer and birth defects. The contamination was found in 48 or 50 samples of mothers’ milk tested in Maryland. Virginia, Michigan, North Carolina. New Jersey, Alabama, Florida. Georgia, Pennsylvania and South Carolina.
Rubber workers approved a three-year contract with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and are expected to approve similar pacts with Firestone. Uniroyal and B.F. Goodrich Co., ending a 130-day strike by 70.000 union members. The contracts include a wage hike of $1.35 an hour and a cost-of-living clause that could raise wages by an additional 69 cents an hour. Management estimated that the settlement would increase tire prices by at least 12%.
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order to halt a wildcat strike by 1,000 members of Operating Engineers Local 302 at the northernmost section of the Alaska oil pipeline. The order was issued hours after the walkout began Friday. A spokesman for Local 302 said the union had not sanctioned the strike. which apparently occurred as a result of a jurisdictional dispute between Local 302, whose members drive heavy construction equipment used on the project, and the Teamsters union over who would service equipment.
The consortium constructing the 800‐mile trans‐Alaska pipeline announced yesterday that the $7.7 billion project was 76.1 percent complete. The Alyeska Pipeline Service Company also reported that 3,007 of 3,955 discrepancies disclosed in its audit of 1975 pipeline welds had been resolved. The company reported 851 of the 948 discrepancies still to be resolved are underground. The 76.1 percent figures refers to all work completed by August 8 on the pipeline, pump stations and a terminal.
A march by 1,200 persons to protest court-ordered busing for another school year was held in downtown Louisville. Leaders said they were disappointed with the turnout — up to 10,000 persons had been expected to take part. A second year of court-ordered desegregation will start Wednesday when schools reopen. About 19,000 pupils in a total enrollment of 117,000 are to be bused for desegregation purposes.
More than 80 state troopers cruised Detroit’s 62 miles of freeways today as part of Governor William G. Milliken’s agreement to help the city fight Its rising crime problem. Youth gang activity was reportedly at a two-month low. “I would say that if we can maintain our present status, we’re on the way out of the woods,” said Russell Gallaway, the executive police duty officer. Mayor Coleman A. Young had said that the police department lacked the manpower to combat a recent surge of assaults and robberies against disabled motorists. The state police contingent freed more officers for street patrols and other crime prevention duties. The city’s 10 PM curfew for those under 18 years of age continued to restrict the activities of the gangs that became more active after almost 1,000 officers were laid off in a budget‐cutting move in June. Most of the officers have since been returned to duty.
A 23-year-old sex offender, out of jail on a work program to load hay, murdered five members of a Penrose, Colorado, ranch family that had befriended him and then killed himself, authorities said. Richard Turner committed suicide only a few miles from where he had sexually attacked two girls nearly three years ago, the crime for which he was in prison. The murder victims were John Hardin, 37, who had requested that Turner be allowed to work on his ranch, Mrs. Hardin, 35, and Laurie, 15, Carol, 13, and Jim, 3. The county coroner said Mrs. Hardin and the two girls had been raped.
The Chessie System, Inc., said that an agreement reached Thursday with a Vietnam veteran to obtain the release of company employees being held at gunpoint had been made under duress and there was a chance the firm would not keep its promise. involving benefits for veterans. Ashby Leach, 30, who had won the Bronze Star and Purple Heart as a medical corpsman, demanded that the Cleveland railroad firm reinstate GI Bill of Rights benefits and “reimburse” veterans he said had been cheated of benefits. Leach was in jail pending a court appearance Monday.
Archaeologists in the U.S. state of South Carolina raised an 18th Century merchant ship from the Black River near Oakland after starting salvage of its artifacts on July 13. The ship was estimated to have been built between 1720 and 1760. At the time, the oldest known ship to be recovered in the U.S. was the colonial gunboat Philadelphia, believed to have been built no earlier than 1770.
Toronto Metros-Croatia defeated the Minnesota Kicks, 3 to 0, to win Soccer Bowl ’76, the championship of the North American Soccer League, before a crowd of 25,765 people at the Kingdome, in Seattle.
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After falling behind by four runs, the Baltimore Orioles rallied to gain a 6–4 victory over the Texas Rangers, who went down to their sixth straight defeat. Toby Harrah homered in the fifth inning when the Rangers scored three times to take a 4–0 lead. The Orioles chopped their deficit to one run and then overtook the Rangers in the eighth. Ken Singleton homered to tie the score. Doug DeCinces doubled, Mark Belanger walked and Rick Dempsey drove them home with a double for his third hit of the game.
Jim Wohiford collected three hits and four other Royals — Amos Otis, Cookie Rojas, Fred Patek and Buck Martinez — rapped two apiece in an 8–3 victory over the Red Sox. Patek batted in two runs with a single in the fourth inning when the Royals took a 4–2 lead, and Martinez homered in the ninth when the Royals added their final three runs. Fred Lynn hit a two-run homer for the Red Sox and Carl Yastrzemski had a perfect day at bat with a double and three singles. Al Fitzmorris (15–9) gets the win.
While Dock Ellis (13–6) restricted the Angels to six hits, Mickey Rivers, Roy White and Fred Stanley rapped three apiece to lead the Yankees to an 8–1 victory. Rivers drove in two runs with a triple in the second inning and two more with a single in the third.
Sharing in the Cubs’ production, Jerry Morales batted in three runs and Rick Monday drove in two to defeat the Braves, 5–2. Monday homered for the first run in the third inning. After the Braves picked up their pair on a circuit clout by Ken Henderson in the fifth, the Cubs came back with three runs in their half. Singles by Mick Kelleher, Steve Renko and Monday accounted for the first tally. Following a walk to Jose Cardenal, loading the bases, Bill Madlock forced Renko at home, but Morales singled to drive in two runs. Morales then accounted for the last tally with a homer in the eighth.
The largest Saturday afternoon crowd in Cincinnati history, 51,091, saw the Reds score twice in the ninth inning on a bases-loaded single by Dave Concepcion to defeat the Phillies, 8–7. Pete Rose and Joe Morgan each homered with a man on base and Concepcion drove in two runs with a pair of sacrifice flies to stake the Reds to a 6–2 lead before Jay Johnstone hit a two-run homer for the Phillies in the eighth. The Phillies then took a 7–6 lead with three runs in the ninth. Garry Maddox batted in two with a triple and counted the go-ahead run on a sacrifice fly by Mike Schmidt. In the Reds’ half, Johnny Bench led off with a single. Ed Armbrister ran for Bench and took third on a single by Tony Perez, who advanced to second on the throw. The Phillies then passed Cesar Geronimo intentionally to load the bases and set the stage for Concepcion’s game-winning single.
A triple by George Hendrick to lead off the 17th inning and a wild pitch by Jim Hughes with two out brought the Indians a 4–3 victory over the Twins in a four-hour, 55-minute game. The Twins held a 3–1 lead going into the last half of the ninth when the Indians rallied to tie the score. Duane Kuiper and Larvell Blanks singled and after Ron Pruitt walked to load the bases, runs scored on a single by Rico Carty and sacrifice fly by Boog Powell. In the 17th, after Hendrick hit his triple, Hughes retired Tommy Smith and Buddy Bell, holding Hendrick at third, before uncorking his wild pitch to Ray Fosse with a count of no balls and two strikes.
Larry Dierker (13–12) hit his first homer of the season to account for his own winning run while pitching the Astros to a 4–3 victory over the Cardinals. Bob Forsch, who was the loser, failed to last the route for the 26th time in 26 starts this year. Dierker’s homer in the fourth inning enabled him to beat the Cardinals for the fourth straight time.
Sixto Lezcano drove in four runs with a homer and two singles to lead the Brewers’ 17-hit attack in a 10–8 victory over the White Sox. After the White Sox took a 3–0 lead, the Brewers tied the score in the third inning with a single by Von Joshua, double by Mike Hegan and homer by Darrell Porter. Lezcano’s round-tripper snapped the tie and accounted for one of the Brewers’ two runs in the sixth. Lezcano singled in the seventh and again in the eighth to drive in three of the Brewers’ final five runs. The White Sox counted twice in the eighth on a run-scoring triple by Chet Lemon and sacrifice fly by Bucky Dent before falling short in the ninth when Jim Spencer hit a homer with two men on base.
Although Jon Matlack (14–7) pitched a three-hitter, the Mets needed an unearned run in the ninth inning to defeat the Dodgers, 2–1. The Dodgers scored on doubles by Ron Cey and Dusty Baker in the second inning. The Mets, who collected seven hits off Rick Rhoden, tied the score with Bruce Boisclalr’s first major league homer in the fifth. Roy Staiger was safe on an error by Bill Russell in the ninth. Leo Foster, coming in as pinch-runner, advanced on a sacrifice by Mike Phillips. Joe Torre batted for Matlack and singled off Steve Garvey’s glove, with Foster taking third. Felix Millan then hit a dribbler down the third base line to Cey, whose throw home was too late to catch Foster.
Vida Blue (13–11), who pitched a no-hitter in 1970 and shared in one last year, was foiled in his bid for another gem when Mickey Stanley homered in the ninth inning for the Tigers’ only hit in a 5–2 loss to the Athletics. Blue had allowed only one baserunner, walking John Wockenfuss in the third, before Sal Bando committed a two-base error on a smash by Aurelio Rodriguez and a roller by Wockenfuss went through Bert Campaneris’ legs for another error, allowing the Tigers to score an unearned run in the eighth. Stanley hit his homer with one out in the ninth. Joe Rudi drove in three runs for the A’s with a single and double, while Campaneris accounted for two RBIs with a sacrifice fly and single.
The Pirates erupted for all their runs in the first inning and breezed to a 7–1 victory over the Giants behind the three-hit pitching of Jim Rooker (11–7). Dave Parker ignited the Pirates’ outburst, driving in their first two runs with a bases-loaded double. Richie Hebner, Rennie Stennett, Manny Sanguillen and Frank Taveras batted in the other counters, with the Pirates’ final run crossing the plate on a double error by Larry Herndon, Giants’ center fielder. John D’Acquisto, who started for the Giants, retired only one batter and was charged with six runs, five earned, on three hits and three walks.
The Expos ended their 12-game losing streak when Earl Williams walloped a three-run homer in the ninth inning to beat the Padres, 7–4. The Expos scored their first four runs in the seventh on singles by Larry Parrish and Del Unser, doubles by Tim Foli and Gary Carter and a single by Jerry White. After the Padres came back to tie the score, Foli and Carter singled in the ninth and Williams hit his homer off Butch Metzger, who absorbed his first defeat after 10 straight victories in relief.
Texas Rangers 4, Baltimore Orioles 6
Kansas City Royals 8, Boston Red Sox 3
New York Yankees 8, California Angels 1
Atlanta Braves 2, Chicago Cubs 5
Philadelphia Phillies 7, Cincinnati Reds 8
Minnesota Twins 3, Cleveland Indians 4
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Houston Astros 4
Chicago White Sox 8, Milwaukee Brewers 10
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, New York Mets 2
Detroit Tigers 2, Oakland Athletics 5
San Francisco Giants 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 7
Montreal Expos 7, San Diego Padres 4
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Nediyavan (nom de guerre of Perinpanayagam Sivaparan), Sri Lankan rebel and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam militant secessionist group; in Vaddukoddai, Sri Lanka.
Angus Oblong (pen name for David Adam Walker), American children’s book author and illustrator who later created the animated TV series “The Oblongs”; in Sacramento, California.
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Anissa Jones, 18, American child actress known for her role as Buffy Davis in the TV series “Family Affair,” was found dead of an accidental drug overdose in Oceanside, California.
Patricia Lam (stage name for Fung Suk Yin), 37, Hong Kong film actress, committed suicide.
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