Eastern Sun, 2 August 1969

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    22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1076 Saturday* 2 August 1969. MC (P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon Tunku Says Defence Arrangement Useless
    478 1 Plea For Closer S'pore Cooperation KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Five-Power Defence Arrangement to fill the vacuum created by the British pullout from this region has hit a snag making it useless, Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman said today. The prime mover of this arrangement,
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    Lock icon Crash Helmets Compulsory Soon
    445 1 THE Singapore Government will make It compulsory for all motor-cyclists, scooterists and pillion riders to wear crash helmets, the Minister for Communications, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, disclosed last night. The scheme will be Introduced in three stages over the next 17 months and covers even those
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    Lock icon ROGERS
    56 1 TAIPEI,, Fri, (AFP) The U.S. Secretary of State, William Rogers, todav pledged that the United States will continue to meet its treatv obligations to its Asian allies, including Taiwan. In a brief written statement distributed to reporters on his arrival here tonight from South Korea Rogers expressed his government's
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    Lock icon Thais Want Troops Back From V-N
    166 1 BANGKOK. Frl. (Reuter) Thailand wants to withdraw the 12,000 combat troops it has in South Vietnam, according to Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman. Thanat. speaking on television last night after President Nixon had left Bangkok for New Delhi, said Thailand wanted the troops back because
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    Lock icon Guerrillas
    69 1 BANGKOK. Fri. (Reuter) Communist guerriias have ambushed and killed a border patrol police sergeant and a villager In Übon province, where they raided an American Air Base only a few hours before President Nixon's recent visit to Thailand. Assistant Provincial Governor Somphorn Kingphongsa reported today that the border police
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    Lock icon Rubber Hits New High
    123 1 Following Thursdays "record sentiment" the price of rubber touched 80 cents a lb., for current month briefly after the opening > esterday, the highest price for six and a half years. Thi s advance which one source regarded as one "even the most enthusiastic bulls could
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    Lock icon SYRIA CLAIMS 2 ISRAELI PLANES
    271 1 Tel Aviv Denies Loss DAMASCUS. Fri. (Reuter) —Syrian ground fire shot down two Israeli planes yesterday when a formation of Israeli aircraft raided Syrian positions near the ceasefire line, a military spokesman announced here. There were no Svrian losses. "A formation of enemv aircraft violated
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    90 1 NEW DELHI, Fri. (Reuter) "Let's eo to Mars together," President Nixon suggested to Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi today. Nixon was joking with Mrs. Gandhi as they sat with their top advisers after talks lasting more than one hour the second round of discussions in his 23hour visit
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    Lock icon SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY is seen back on Capitol Hill on Thursday for the first time since the automobile tragedy 11 days before which cast a shadow over his political career. Asked if he could possibly consider running for President in 1972. Kennedy told newsmen: "No, I thought I made that just as clear as I can make it." (UPI Radiophoto)
    60 1 SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY is seen back on Capitol Hill on Thursday for the first time since the automobile tragedy 11 days before which cast a shadow over his political career. Asked if he could possibly consider running for President in 1972. Kennedy told newsmen: "No, I thought I made that
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    Lock icon Nixon: Pak-U.S. Strains Can't Be Solved In A Day
    469 1 LAHORE, Fri. (Reuter) President Nixon conferred here today In private for one hour and 40 minutes with Pakistan's President Yahya Khan. The two heads of state held private consultations together without their aides from 09.10 GMT to 1110 GMT, Their aides
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    43 1 BUCHAREST. Fri <UPI) Rumania Friday called for expanded relations with the United States The call came in a published statement by President Nicolae Ceausescu on the eve of President Nixon's arrival for a visit many Rumanians regard as historic and possibly dangerous.
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    Lock icon Craters On Mars Surprise Experts
    312 1 PASADENA, Calif. Fri. (Reuter) Scientists on earth getting the closest look at Mars man has ever had, today saw its equatorial region as a grim, crater-pitted planet with no evidence of water or cloud to support life. Centuries of mysterv and speculation about the red
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    29 1 PHNOM PENH. Fri. (UPI)—. Chief of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk has invited President Nixon to visit Cambodia on his next visit to Asia, it was announced Friday.
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    Lock icon NIXON, INDIRA HOLD WIDE-RANGE TALKS
    887 3 NEW DELHI. Fri. (UPI and Reuter) U.S. President Nixon pledged the Tnfted States to th e goal of "a generation of uninterrupted peace" and then flew off this morning for Pakistan and visits with a not-so-friendly ally. Nixon won the support of Indian Prime Minister
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    Lock icon RIOTING POLICE
    153 3 CALCUTTA. Fri. (Reuter) Three thousand liotin? uniformed police carrying a dead colleague attacked the West Bengal Parliament yesterday sendin? Ministers fleeing. Enraged by the death on Wednesday of the policeman, killed during trouble with Communist peasants in a village near Calcutta, the Police also smashed telephones and furniture,
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    Lock icon Flight Off: GI Prisoners May Not Be Released
    872 3 VIETNAM TABLEAU SAIGON, Frl. (TPI) International Control Commission (ICC) spokesmen to-day said an ICC plane flight from Hanoi to Vientiane to-night had been cancelled, ruling out the possibility three American prisoners would be released. Earliet to-day, diplomatic sources in Saigon said three
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    Lock icon Tight Security For US Top Men After Incident
    470 3 TOKYO, Fri. (UPI) Members of a U.S. Cabinet Committee moved to a guarded U.S. Air Force Base to-day for their departure for Washington after a young anarchist attempted to stab U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers at the public Tokvo International Airport.
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    Lock icon Americans Injured In Filipino Blast
    447 3 MANILA, Fri. (L'PI) Four American airmen enjoying a night out in town were injured, two seriously, in an explosion in Angeles City adjoining the U S. Clark Air Base last night. An Air Force spokesman said the incident was unaer investigation by the Philippine Constabulary
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    Lock icon V-C: Nixon Visit Boosts War Efforts
    676 3 PARIS PEACE PARIS, Fri. (Reuter) Hanoi and the Vietconf said yesterday that President Nixon's talk about postwar policy on his Asian tour was intended to cover up American pursuit of the Vietnam War and take the pressure off his administration. The real purpose of
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      155 3 Don't look now but Thai Imernahonal has just sneaked up and streaked past aH the others. Suddenly we fly to more countries m the Onent than any other atrlme Wecan take you as far north as Japan as far south as Bak as tar east as the Philippine a* W
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    Lock icon Build Up New Churches, Pope Urges Bishops
    636 4 Pontiff Consecrates African Bishops- KAMPALA, Fri. (Reuter) Pope Paul today consecrated 12 new African bishops at a ceremony on Kololo Hill outside Kampala and told them they must contribute towards creating a new African and Christian civilisation In an address after the consecration
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    Lock icon AROUND THE WORLD IN 45 HOURS
    116 4 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter)—A British Royal Air Force VCIO jet has flown around the world in Just over 45 hours to test the effects of long-distance flights on aircrews. The big iet landed at its base near London yesterday after the journey of almost 21.000
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    Lock icon Cigarettes Reduce Bronchitis
    59 4 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) Filter tips on cigarette# could cut down bronchitis, a group of medical research workers report in the British Medical Journal today. Their tests on a group of heavy smokers showed that the better the filter the less effect the smoke had in Increasing what
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    Lock icon 29 Die In Train Crash
    42 4 BELGRADE. Fri. (Reuter) Three 40-ton runaway tanker wagons crashed into an oncoming local train in southern Yugoslavia last night, killing 29 people, according t© an unofficial death toll. Reports reachin? here said 17 other were seriously injured
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    Lock icon Japan Urges Ban On Underground Nuclear Test
    201 4 GENEVA. Frl. (UPI) Japan yesterday called for an immediate ban on the underground testing of all nuclear weapons. Japan made the call before the Geneva Disarmament Conference which Tokyo Joined Just last month. Some members of the 19natlon conference later criticised the United
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    Lock icon FANCY THIS
    102 4 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) A woman representative of a meat pie company parked her car in a factory driveway and returned to find it being smashed up by a company director wielding a shovel. 57-year-old Frederick Turner first hit the car's reversing lamps. a court was told yesterday at
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    Lock icon Fou Ts'ong Sued For Divorce
    225 4 T ONDON, Fri. (Reuter £r UP I) Chinese pianist Fou Ts'ong, 35, is beina sued for divorce by his 28-year-old wife Zamira, daughter of violinist Yehudi Menuhin. In her petition, among undefended cases set for hearing later in the London Divorce Court, she named a
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    Lock icon 'Perfect Woman' Still A Man, Court Is Told
    200 4 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) April Ashley. the sex-change model married in a blaze of publicity six years ago. is being sued for divorce on the grounds that she is still a man. Miss Ashley. 34. and Arthur Cameron Corbett. 49-year-old son of former
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    Lock icon Arabs Blast Israeli Town With Rockets
    239 4 TEL AVIV. Fri. (Rfutcr) Rockets fired from across the Lebanese frontier crashed durinc the nifbt in the IsraeU township of Kirvat Shmoneh. wounding a v oune woman and causing slight damage A military announcement here said the Soviet-desienea rockets were fired from Katyusha" pads
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    Lock icon Wenny Sinks
    33 4 ANDENES. Norway, Fri. (Reuter) The 8.945-ton Norwegian cargo ship Wenny sank in a storm In the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean yesterday and at least eight people are reported dead
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    Lock icon WITH garlands draped around his neck and with his wife Pat at his side. President Nixon is erected by Indian Premier, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (left, front) upon his arrival in New Delhi on Thursday. President Nixon, in an airport speech, called for a generation of uninterrupted peace for the world and for India.—UPI Radio pix.
    55 4 WITH garlands draped around his neck and with his wife Pat at his side. President Nixon is erected by Indian Premier, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (left, front) upon his arrival in New Delhi on Thursday. President Nixon, in an airport speech, called for a generation of uninterrupted peace for the world
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    Lock icon 'Some Ra Crewmen Wanted To Continue The Voyage'
    243 4 NEW YORK. Fri. (UPI) Thor Heyerdahl said yesterday some crew members wanted to continue the Trans-Atlantic voyage of the papvrug boat Ra despite sharks and hurricane Anna. He told a press conference "there were those of us who wanted to continue to
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    Lock icon A Try At Clean-up
    48 4 VIENTIANE. Fri. (UPI) The Security Committee of the Vientiane Municipality yesterday decided to abolish prostitution in the capital where there are some 200 prostitutes. The Committee also decided to close down three massage parlours. However, it agreed to maintain the five existing night clubs.
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    Lock icon Jackie Stirs Up A Mob Scene
    133 4 ATHENS. Fri. (UPI) It began as a shopping trip for Mrs. Aristotle Onassls. It ended in a mob scene. The former U.S First Lady flew into Athens unannounced yesterday from the Isle of Skorpios. where she observed her 40th birthday two day* ago, to
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    Lock icon Nixon-Kosygin Summit Talks In October?
    221 4 LONDON. Fn. (Reuter) The Daily Express said todav a summit meeting between President Nixcn and Soviet leaders Kosygin and Brezhnev "is confidently expected to be held in October." The meeting would be in Vienna, where the late President Kennedy had an encounter with Mr Khrushchev
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    Lock icon Czechs Pelt Russians
    108 4 PRAGUE. Frl. (Reuter) The Czechoslovak Communist Party newspaper Rude Pravo said today that a Soviet Party delegation was pelted with debrl* by workmen during a recent visit to a Prague factory. The newspaper described the incident as embarrassing and "a nasty provocation." It said the incident occurred
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    Lock icon 'IMPOSSIBLE PRIEST' DEPRIVED OF HIS LIVING
    172 4 LONDON. Frl. 'Reuter)—An Anglican priest who refused to baptise a child and give a man holy communion has been deprived of his living bv a church court on charges ol neglect and unbecoming beha. viour. He loses his 13th century rectory at Buckland, West
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    Lock icon Strike Looms In Steelworks
    106 4 PORT TALBOT. Wales. Fri. (Reuter) A shutdown of Britain's bicgest steelworks seemed likely today after the breakdown of marathon talks to settle an unofficial strike of 1.000 blast furnace workers. Up to 13.000 workers were expected to be laid oft during the weekend, as the flve-week-old
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      216 4 TODAY and YOU... Saturday, August 2, 1969. ft! flu STAR GA2I By CLAY H POLLAN Your Dai/y Activity Go id* According to tho Start. To develop message for Saturday, read words corresponding to numbers of your Zodiac birth sign. 1 Normal 2 Exultant 3 You're 4 Don't 5 Legal 6
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    Lock icon AMONG SINGAPORE'S BEST-DRESSED WOMEN
    196 5 WEEKLY pictorial feature by the Eastern Sun based on the photographs taken by our cameramen at official functions, parties, exhibitions, shopping centres etc. GLORIA Galanti, (left), is seen here in a cool two-some. The navy blue skirt is topped with a simple blouse stripped at the
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    Lock icon Inquiry Into Death Of Mary Jo Asked
    174 5 V'EW BEDFORD, Massachusetts, Frl. (Renter) District Attorney Edmund Dinis Is asking for a Superior Court Judge to hold an inquest on Mary Jo Kopechne, the pretty 28-year-old blonde who died when Senator Edward Kennedy's car plunged off a Chappaquiddick Island bridge 13 days
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    Lock icon More Paper Pouring Out Of U.N.
    189 5 UNITED NATIONS. Frl. (Reuter) The volume of documentation Issued at the UN. headquarters In New York has gone up by almost fifty per cent In the last five years according to a report published here today. The 57-page report, which deals with budget estimates
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    Lock icon HAW MAUS RETIRES
    91 5 HUNTS VILLE. Ala, Fri. (Reuter) U S Space Agency official Hann Maus. a long time lieutenant of Dr. Wemher von Braun. retired today after a missile and space career spanning almost 30 years on two continents. Maus. 63. recently headed the executive staff of NASA's Marshall Space
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    Lock icon Ten-year-old Mother
    90 5 WASHINGTON. Frl. (Reuter) A 10-year-old girl, one of the youngest mothers in the world, has given birth in hospital to a boy weighing live pounds ten ounces (about two and a half kilos), the suburban Alexandria hospital said yesterday. The unnamed mother and child are doing well since
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    Lock icon Noguchi Returns To Coroner's Job
    285 5 LOS ANGELES. Frl. (VPI) Dr. Thomas T.N. Noguchi Thursday was reinstated to the post of Countv Coroner, the Job from which he was dismissed five months ago amid charges that he needed psychiatric care. The Civil Service Commission overruled County Supervisors who dropped the Japa-nese-born
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    Lock icon Guam's Role
    85 5 WASHINGTON. Fri (UPI) Rep. Richard T. Hanna. printed In the Congressional Democrat-Calif., in remarks Thursday said Guam "will have a key role in the evolving, ever changing, very Important position of the United States in the Pacific community." In calling Congress' attention to Guam. Hanna said it Is
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    Lock icon A Step Up For Reston
    146 5 NEW YORK Fri. (Reuter) Scottish-born James Reston. Executive Editor of the New York Times. ha s been elected a Vice-President of the New York Times Company with primary responsibility in all areas of news coverage Publisher Arthur Sulzberger announced yesterday. Reston. who has been based
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    Lock icon Fine Pictures Of Man On Moon Seen
    571 5 3 Held In Bolivia For Harbouring Guerrillas Moondust Injected Into Mice SPACE CENTRE, Houston, Fri, (UPL) The world took a walk across the stark gray, rocky surface of tranquillity base with Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin in fantastic colour pictures and
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    49 5 WASHINGTON. Fri (Router) The Senate agreed today to take a decision on Wednesday on the Nixon administration's controversial plan for a U.S. anti-ballistic mi&si'e shield. Months of heated national debate has swirled around the multi-million dollar scheme to build anti-missile defences around America's own missile launch sites
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    82 5 WASHINGTON. Fri. (UPI) Sen. Hiram L. Fong. expressing regret about th« rate of progress in the Trust Territories. Thursday praised the new leadership to ba brought to the region by Edward E. Johnston, the new high commissioner. The Hawaii Republican said Johnston will be able to draw upon his
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    Lock icon Razor Blade Used To Hijack Plane
    267 5 MIAMI. Fla. Frl. (UPI) An accused bank robber Ashed a razor blade out of a washroom receptacle, held It to a stewardess' throat Thursday and forced a transcontinental Jetliner with 131 persons aboard to take him to Havana. The Philadelphia-to-Los Angeles Trans World Airlines
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    Lock icon Storm 'Anna' Weakening
    171 5 MIAMI, Fla.. Fn. (UPI) Tropical storm Anna, her power spent in a sweep across the central Atlantic, headed toward the Northern Leeward Island on Thursday as little more than bad summer rainA forward speed of 22 miles an hour had apparently sapped most of the fury from
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      128 5 How Safe Are NoCalorie Sweeteners? Sugar-free soft drinks, sweeteners. and countless other foods all contain the controversial new ingredient: cvclamate. Could it cause birth defects, change your blood pressure, affect your kidneys? Read what research shows and how to figure out s safe maximum intake based on your body weight.
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    Lock icon NIXON'S PSYCHOLOGY
    994 6 PRESIDENT Richard Nixon has completed the important and thorny part of his seven-nation world tour. Southeast Asia with the spotlight on the Vietnam war is not only the fulcrum on which American domestic politics has been balanced but it is also a key issue in international geopolitics. When
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    Lock icon The New Sound In Britain
    628 6  -  By HERMINE DE VIVENOT LONDON: Indian music is well on the way to becoming firmly established among Britain's younger generation of music lovers. Recitals by leading Indian musicians. Indian films, and talks on the British Broadcasting Corporation's radio and television programmes have contributed towards the
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    Lock icon Persuasion Prior To Counting
    604 6  -  By RICHARD BEKETT NAIROBI, (Reuter) Kenya hat launched a campaign designed to prepare suspicious folk in rural areas tor the type of questions they will be asked in the country's first official census since 1962. Some may need considerable persuasion before thev agree to give details
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    642 6  -  By Frank Mankiewicz, Tom Braden WASHINGTON "At long last," Edward might have said, "I am able to say a few words of my own." What he said was deeply touching, like the speech of that other young Edward, which was its inevitable though unconscious model. Unlike that speech, however,
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    Lock icon Death Of 3 N.P.C. Members
    246 6 HONG KONG. (Reuter) Three prominent Chinese government figures have died during the past week, according to reports broadcast by official Chinese news media. The three men. two of them n-.embers of the powerful Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (N.P.C.), were named as Fan
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    16 6 Aii effort made tor the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. Lydia M. Child.
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      Lock icon IMPORT OF TUBIFEX
      293 6  -  Dr. D. S. JOHNSON. Reader in Zoology. Freshwater Biology Section Department of Zoology. Singapore IN your Issue of 30th July you Included a short article on the import of Tubifex to Singapore. I feel that a IMT points need comment and clarification and would he pleased if
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      Lock icon Medical Centre—A Clarification
      143 6  -  DR. K.M. K.O Hon. Secretary. Singapore I REFER to the article which appeared in the Eastern Sun on July 30 entitled. "Mul-ti-million dollar business Govt. ,x>ut to smash Ad Racketeers". In this article there is mention of a medical centre. The Alumni Association of the King Edward
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    649 6  -  From Sin Chew Jit Poh THE Singapore Television recently has held a series of three, "Youth Forums" for the girls of secondary schools of the Chinese stream. The subject for the last forum was: "Would the Singapore Television be better under the management of a private
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      Lock icon TRADING BETTER WITH WIDESPREAD GAINS
      308 7  -  By OUR MARKET REPORTER TRADING in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore continued to improve as very steady conditions prevailed 'throughout yesterday. 'Gains were marked up well across the board. The market opened firm and share prices advanced steadily on new speculative buying and
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      1095 7 BUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS Borneo $1.68 (4) $1.69 (1); Camel Plywood $1.87 (2) $1.89 (1) $l.BB (4); C.
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      Lock icon SHIPS IN PORT
      290 7 THE following Is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for August 2:DEPARTURE: Gcdowns Vessels 5 Koyo Maru 8 9 Kerguelen IC/11 Barpeta 35 36 Pleiades N.W. 4/5 Bruas 25/26 Congo Maru 27 28 Kimanis 33/34 Rajah 35/36 Memnon 4f 41 Musi 45 New
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 79 3/8 Cts.
      329 7 AUGUST first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m.. In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 79-3/8 cents per lb., up three eighths of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was uncertain. Opening prices were again marked up on continued support
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      Lock icon EXCHANGE RATES
      98 7 THE Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes in Its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency): SELLING T.T. or O.D. ready: Deutsche Marks $77-0850; Holland Guilders $84.9876; Swiss Francs $71.6150; Belgian Francs $6.1450; French Francs $62.0025;
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      Lock icon BUSINESS CROUP OFF TO JAKARTA
      169 7 A group of Indian industrialists left Singapore for Jakarta recently by AirIndia. after making a business familiarisation tour. One of the main objectives of the team was to develop contacts with leading business houses in Singapore and find out ways and means for developing trade
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      Lock icon N.Y. PRICES CLIMB ON ACTIVE MART
      152 7 NEW YORK. Fri. (UPI) Bargain hunters appeared in force on the stock market yesterday sending prices higher for the second consecutive day m active trading. The rally which began late Wednesday, pointed up the vast potential of buying power which has been dormant during
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      37 7 NEW YORK. Fri. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. 30 Industrials 815.47 20 Rails 195.88 15 Utilities 117.04 65 Stocks 276.92 40 Bonds 72.20 Commodity futures Index 138.72.
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      Lock icon Rubber Futures
      55 7 NEW YORK. Fri. (UPI) Rubber futures closed 15 to 40 points higher on the New York Commodity Exchange yesterday. There were 2 sales. (Bid) (Ask) Sept. 29.65 Nov. 28.65 Jan (70) 28.25 March 27.50 27.90 May 27.25 27.75 July 27.00 27.50 Sept. 26.75 27.25 Lccally. No. 2 RSS
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      Lock icon More Economic Aid To Asia Pledge By Japan, America
      250 7 TOKYO, Fri. (UPI) Japan pJedsed in a joint communique with the United States yesterday to increase its economic assistance to Asia "The Japanese delegation declared the intention of the Japanese Government to expand substantially its economic assistance particulary for Asia, despite
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      Lock icon LONDON MARKET MIXED
      130 7 LONDON, Fri. (UPI) An early rally prompted by Wall Street's improvement soon petered out on the stock market yesterday and after the initial flurry of gains the list ended no better than mixed. British government bonds also found no buying drive and were clipped for fractions in
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      53 7 HONG KONG. Fri. (UPI) Money Quotations: HK56.***** per US dollar HK56.***** per U.S. dollar TT HK514.53 per pound sterling HK5306.5 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness HK5161.2 per 10,000 Japanese yen HK5132.5 per 100 Philippines pesos buyers HK5133.5 per 100 Philippines pesos sellers Philippine pesos 4.55
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      Lock icon RUBBER BREAKS 80-Cts. BARRIER
      435 7 RUBBER prices surged this week to a level which even the most enthusiastic bulls could hardly have reckoned to see so soon, with 80 cents touched for current month, the highest price for 64 years. The advance covered a range of four cents for the week,
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      Lock icon Stock Exchange Closing Prices
      648 7 SINGAPORE change sold and officially listed at bus in est. Stork Exother prices the close of INDUSTRIALS ACMA Ben St Co. XD Borneo Bhd Camel Plywood XB1 C. surar Cold storage Chemical Co C>cle Carriage DBS Dunlop E. Smelting EAI E«so Ord* Eupoc Pulp Fusan F
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      Lock icon London Rubber Closes Easier
      76 7 LONDON. Frl. (UPI) Rubber yesterday closed easier with spot 27-5/8. 28. Settlement House Sept. 27-5/8 28. Oct. 27-3/4 28. Nov 27-3/4 27-7/8 Oct./Dec 27-3/4 27-7/8 Jan./March 27-1/4 27-3/8. April/June 27 27-3/16 July/Sept. 26-11/18 25-18/16. Oct./Dec 26-1/2 26-11/16. Jan./March 26-3/8 26-5/8. April/June 26-1/4 26-1/2. July/Sept. 26-3/16 26-7/16.
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      13 7 The tin price for yesterday was $***** per picul. up $0.375.
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      94 7 THE noon prices at pore Chinese Produce the *tn raExchange >e*terday were>— Bl im ge iter Coconut Oil (FOB.) Bnlk Coconut Oil 48.25 80.75 (F.O.B) l>rom Mixed Copra 30-SO Mnntok white Pepper (F.OB) 140.00 Sara wax White Pepper (F.O.B-) IS?.50 Sarawak Special Black Pepper (FO B.) 96* S.L.W mtm
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    875 8  -  By K. F. Yap THIS is as good a time as any to end the series on Orchid Growing. We have by no means come to the end of orchid study and you have not learned everything there is to know about the orchid family. We have merely
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    101 8 r LOOK F08... VESTS of all kinds, making up suits instead of jackets, as tops for twopieoe jumpers to be worn wi'h peasant shirts. NEW shoe styles are harking back to the Forties, with higher but sturdy heels, rounded toes and even cutout toes. THE newly dashing coats,
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    367 8 PARIS. Thurs. (Reuter) Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent this week dropped the hemline to the midcalf and ankle length that Christian Dior made famous in his controversial 1947 "new look." Ninety per cent of his autumn and winter collection, presented to buyers and the
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    228 8  -  By Mary Sue Miller A Lovely writes: The colour of my mousy locks improves in summer from sun lightening. But it takes a lot of hot sunning to obtain results. Meanwhile, my hair gets brittle as straw. There must be a better way. The Answer:
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    497 8  -  By H.C. Tan JJOW come nobody ever thought of having a make-up wardrobe before? Well, Mary Sanchez, Max Factor's International make-up artists did. and it took quite a lot of foresight out of her too coming up with one of today s great ideas
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    139 8  -  Story And Pix By H. C. Tan H. C. Tan THE see-throughs are still very much in vogue, especially out here in the all-the-ye a r-round tropical sunshine. And what better way of providing that luscious see-through look for any beach belle than with lace. Yes.
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    58 8 Bhorts. are going to be real part of the fashion picture. at least for the young. Most junior designers are doing costumes and suits with shorts for the early months before cold weather sets in. In separates. walking shorts are being done, with cuffs and details like
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    818 10  -  GOING: GOOD By Big Ben QCORPIO II looks all set to score a double in the class five division one main sprint (Race Five) at Ipoh today, third day of the Perak Turf Club July/August meeting. Last week the five-year-old whipped the opposition by
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    31 10 Big Ben Motivation Scorpio II Four Wishes Jimmy Lad Perkasa II The Train B. Singapura Cisco Bukit Bendera Scorpio II T. Brightness Zodiac Film Studio V Checkmate The Train
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    174 10 BIG BEN JIMMY LAD CISCO ZODIAC RACE 1 MOTIVATION Autre D'or Lion City W. COMMANDO Motivation Lion City MOTIVATION Lion City Foreign Port B. PRINCESS Motivation Judith Anton II BACK 3 G. GUMILANG Just William Perkasa II PERKASA 11 Gilang Gumilang Kingford PERKASA II Utara G. Gumilang G. GUMILANG
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    228 10 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) Manchester United. England's former European soccer champions, were fined a record £7.000 by a joint English Football Association and League Commission yesterday. They were found guilty of irregularities over payments and bonuses paid to their playersThe commission also prohibited United from
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    97 10 BUENOS AIRES. Fri. (UPI) Argentine junior welterweight boxer Mario Paladino. 27. died Thursday after being knocked out just before the final bell of a 10-round fight. Paladino. defeated bv fellow Argentine Omar Gottifredi. died in Guemes hosoital. Doctors said the kncckout led to a heart failure. A
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    63 10 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) Scottish international forward Jim McCalliog yesterday signed a transfer deal from Sheffield Wednesday to First Division rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers for £70,000. McCalliog. who made his professional debut with Chelsea in 1964 on his 17th birthday moved to Sheffield for £37,500 in 1965 and was
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    225 10 IPOH. Fri Letter of Credit (Rod Dawkins' shaped like a winner when he sprinted smartly over 3f. in 37-1 5 on a cood track here this morning reports Big Ben. Letter of Credit can make it three in a row in the class two
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    110 10 HARRISON. New York. Fri. (AFP) American Tommy Bolt shot a six-under-par round of 66 to take a onestroke lead over compatriot Bert Green and Bruce Devlin (Australia) at the first round of the U*****,000 Westchester golf classic here yesterday. Bolt. 51. one of the oldest
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    300 10 DERBY. England. Fri. (Reuter) Harold Rhodes, the Derbyshire fast bowler denied a promising Test career because of his suspect action, will retire from English County cricket at the end of this season. Rhodes, now 33. was caught up in the war on throwing at a
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    102 10 NEW YORK. Fri. (Reuter) Results of yesterday's major league baseball games; National League Houston Astros 2. New York Mets 0. Chicago Cubs 12. San Francisco Giants 2, Atlanta Braves 4. Philadelphia Phillies 2 (Ist Game), Philadelphia 9, Atlanta 0 (2nd), Cincinnati Reds 6. Montreal Expos 1. Pittsburgh Pirates
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    101 10 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) An English racehorse owner and two other people have been disqualified for ten years following an inquiry by the British Jockey Club, it was announced yesterday. Thev are owner .Mr. S. Willis, Mr. J. Norbury and Mrs. Andrea Dent. The inquiry
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    252 10 TOKYO. Fri (Reuter) Fightine Harada of Japan said .ast night that he was willing to take a crack at the title held by world featherweight boxing champion Johnny Famechon of Australia again at any place. "I will go anywhere, even Sydney," said Harada, who lost
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    195 10 GOODWOOD, England. Fri (Reuter) Richmond Fair, ridden by young South African John Gorton led all the way to win the £4.940 Goodwood Cup here yesterday. The five-year-old. owned by Tom Blackwell took the £3.513 first prize by two lengths from N. B. Mendes Da Costa's
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      580 11 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) The English soccer programme, which gets underway on Aug. 9, takes on added significance this season as players try to win World Cup places as well as domestic honours for their clubs. League fixtures end in midApril. a month
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      146 11 RAFFLES Institution scored a 6-3 victorv over St Andrew's School, last year'* champion in first the encounter of their annual Kiwi Cup' rugby match at the St. Andrew's School ground, yesterday. Raffles' points came through a try and a drop goal, while the Saints scored from a
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      129 11 LONDON". Fn <Reuter) West Indian Gary Sobers. South African Graeme Pollock and England's Ted Dexter, three of the greatest batsmen of the past decade, were all beaten on the opening dav of the Bass-Charrington single wicket championship at Lord's yestreday. Pollock scored 116 superb runs during
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      174 11 BRIDGETOWN. Barbados. Fri. (Reuter) The Barbados cricket team, led by former West Indian Test cricketer Seymour Nurse, left here yesterday for a five-week tour of England as guests of the International Cavaliers Cricket Club of London. We want to play attractive cricket during our matches
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      744 11 ALEX Chan broke 6 records out of the seven events he won at the 32nd annual swimming championships of the AngloChinese School at the Chinese Swimming Club yesterday. He smashed the 100 m" butterfly stroke and back stroke, the 20nm back stroke, butterfly
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      115 11 JOHANNESBURG. Fri. (Reuter) South Africa will start firm favourites to win the First Rugby Union Test against Australia here tomorrow. However, the odds against the touring Wallabies have shortened considerably since they arrived in this country Thev were greeting six week* ago with a measure
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      270 11 Dear Sir. I refer to the editorial with the caption "Rhodeslans here' which appeared in the Eastern Sun of Ist August 1969. The Football Association of Singapore has never invited the Rhodesian soccer team to play in the Republic. The only information available was that a
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    703 12 SINGAPORE'S public is not adequately interested in both the general and specific problems of urban renewal, lamented the Republic's Minister for Finance, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, yesterday. The State was "engaged in an exciting historic enterprise of rebuilding our city and every Singaporean
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    108 12 The International Chamber ©f Commerce is gearing itself to the needs of new men and new times in the light of the spectacular development of modern Singapore as a regional trading and industrial centre. The acting Chairman of tbe Chamber. Mr. John Lowe stated this at
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    80 12 THIRTY-nine-year-ald Hong Kong sailor. Yau Tin Kwong. was yesterday fined a total of $15,000 in addition to six months jail by the Second District Judge, Mr- Donald Yeo Hock Chwee. after he was found guilty of importing prohibited gold bars and coins a"d concealing them in his cabin on
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    44 12 Abu Bakar bin Abdullah, 50, was yesterday rcbbed of $25. a watch and four durians which he had bought. Abdullah of J°o Chiat Terrace. was walking along Lorong 101 on his way home when he was waylaid by two men armed with daggers.
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    108 12 A 15-year-old boy was found hanged in the toilet of the Kampong Bugis Community Centre at about 12.30 a.m. yesterday morning. Following a, 999 call, police rushed to tne scene where they found the boy with a six-foot-long piece of cloth tied rund his neck. He was
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    93 12 A three-man Senatorial Delegation from South Vietnam will fly in tomorrow for a short visit to the Republic. The delegation, headed by the Chairman of the Foreign Relations and Information Committee of the Senate. Senator Do Quany Giai, will call on the Speaker of Parliament, Mr.
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    40 12 The Keppel School will be holding a Food and Fun Fair in the School grounds today from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Fun Fair will be opened by Mr. Robert Tock. Chairman of the school's Advisory Committee
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    418 12 THE various arms of the Singapore Defence Force have an equally important role to play in securing "the sea around and the sky above" the Republic against intruders, the Minister of Interior and Defence. Mr. Lim Kim San. said yesterday. "This is another reason why ours is
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    1284 12 EDUCATION for women should not only be regarded as an Instrument to provide them an equal place with men in society but also to mould them into loyal citizens in a multi-racial and multi-religious society. This was
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    331 12 A WOMAN political detainee who played a leading part in opposing proposals for Singapore's merger with Malaysia and in agitation against the Referendum in 1962. was released yesterday. She is Miss Lee Mei Ling who was the vice-chairman of the Singapore Bookshop, Publication
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    127 12 NEW ZEALAND'S Prime Minister, Mr. Keith Holyoake, regretted not being able to attend Singapore's 150 th Anniversary Celebrations. said a statement issued by his country's High Commission here yesterday. The statement quoted the Premier as saying that he was honoured "to receive a special Invitation from
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    97 12 ONE hundred and twen-ty-five spastic children yesterday had a whale of a time during: a sports meet organised bv Spastic Children's Association of Singapore at its "Field House" in Gilstead Road. The spectators were all delighted by the exciting and interesting sports items performed by the children
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    293 12 THE common concept that the male was always superior suffered a shocking setback when two women won both the first place* in the Englirh and Chinese sections of an amateur compere cootest held here recently. The contest for "The Best Amateur Compere for
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    48 12 POLICE are trying to locate a bill collector from the See Hai Lee Trading Company in Cecil Street alleged to have absconded with $ll,OOO. The firms proprietor, Mr. Ang Hai Chew. 41. said that the money was collected from bills from December 1968 to June this year.
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      94 12 Time Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 1.06 a.m. (9.7 ft.) 2.13 p.m. (82 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 1.23 a.m. (11.2 ft.) 2.13 pm. (10.2 ft.) Low Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 7.55 am. (0.3 ft.) 7.52 t>.m. (2.3 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 7.19 am. (0.7 ft.) 7.33 p.m. (2.8 ft.) High Tide
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