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Datuk Peter Joinod
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The smell of blood was terrible and my chaps were at the point of fainting, but we managed to get the bodies out of the plane and lined up near to it so that we could make a quick identification. There were no survivors. I was horrifed to see that almost every BERJAYA senior leader was there. Only
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candidate who received 2089 votes. In 1976, Mojuntin as the candidate from BERJAYA obtained 4,020 votes whilst the USNO candidate, Joseph
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