Eastern Sun, 9 February 1970

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    21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1260 Monday, 9 February 1970. <& MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon U.S. Holds Russian For Trying To Spy
    317 1 SEATTLE, Sun. (Reutar) A Russian translator from United Nations headquarters in New York is being held after an alleged attempt to obtain information on U.S. missile defences. The Russian, Aleksandr Tikhomirov, 37, employed by the U.N. Secretariat, was arrested in Seattle yesterday. He
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    Lock icon DROWNED
    81 1 SYDNEY. Sun (UFh A Norwegian delegate to the Drug and Alcoholic International Congress currently being held here drowned Sunday in the surf at North Wollongor.g. nea r Sydney Police are withholding release of the victim's name pending notification 0 f his kin in Oslo. The Norwegian was swimming with
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    Lock icon Aussie Boom
    49 1 SYDNEY. Sun (Reuter) Sunday newspapers here today predicted the government would soon step Into Australia* mining boom. The Sunday Telegraph said the decision taken at a current meeting last week "mark* a fundamental break with Liberal Party traditions in that it will Put the government into business.''
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    Lock icon ISRAEL CLAIMS 2 SOVIET MIGS
    258 1 TEL AVIV, Sun. (UPI) Israeli jets raided military targets near Cairo Monday and shot down two Soviet-built Egyptian MIG 21s which tried to stop them, an army spokesman said. All Israeli planes returned safely from the raid he said. Israeli pilots used cannon Are to
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    Lock icon 4 Newsmen Arrested In Chad
    178 1 rORT LAMY. Sun. (AFP) Chad today confirmed it. was holding for interrogation four French journalists captured during an action against anti-government rebels. A source close to the Presidency sain the four men were not in prison but were under house arrest Thev ar* Michel Honirin
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    Lock icon ANXIOUS Thais gather round the edge of a 15ft cratar left by a bomb accidently dropped by a United States' B52 bomber. The jet dropped 30 tons of bombs near the village of Nong Kuhn 250 miles north of Bangkok. Two civilians were injured in the explosions, but most bombs exploded harmlessly in paddy fields and jungle.
    57 1 ANXIOUS Thais gather round the edge of a 15ft cratar left by a bomb accidently dropped by a United States' B52 bomber. The jet dropped 30 tons of bombs near the village of Nong Kuhn 250 miles north of Bangkok. Two civilians were injured in the explosions, but most bombs
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    Lock icon Arab Leaders Condemn U.S. 'Backing' For Israel
    380 1 CAIRO, Sun. (Reuter) Arab leaders today discussed the mounting Middle East conflict and criticised the United States for supplying weapons to Israel. President Nasser, of Egypt. King Hussein of Jordan. President Nureddin El-Atassl of Syria. Iraq's Interior Minister. General Saleh Mahdl Ammash, and
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    Lock icon Reciprocal Diplomatic Expulsion
    166 1 OTTAWA. Bun. (Reuter) A Hungarian diplomat expelled from Canada last month had been reported to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police after trying to recruit people to gather military data The expulsion of Jan as Hegedus. 42. came to light only after a Canadian diplomat in Budapest was
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    Lock icon Celebrating New Year
    85 1 HONG KONG, Sun. (Reuter) The people In Peking. Shanghai and Tientsin. China's major cities, have celebrated the spring festival (New Year) by breaking with the old customs and habits, the New China News Agency said today. On the days of the traditional Chinese festival which started last
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    Lock icon Climbers Fall
    56 1 BNOWDON. Wale*. Sun. (UPD Two climber* were killed and three others Injured In accident* on Mount Snowdon. Britain's highest peak, yesterday The two dead climbers fell 300 feet during an assault on the summit. In Scotland, a man was killed and four others burled by an avalanche 2.000
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    Lock icon Missing Sailors
    47 1 TOKYO. Sun. (Reuter) Rescuers today continued to search for eight missing m«n from the 15.977-ton Liberian freighter Artonios Demandes which sank in the Pacific south of Tokyo. Coast Guard officials said 20 of the 30 crew on board the shio were rescued. Two otbara died.
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    Lock icon Heath Says Wilson Is Frightened
    200 1 LLANDUDNO. Wales. Sun. (UPI> Conservative Party leader Edward Heath accused the Labour Party Sunday of trying to divide Britain with slogans of class warfare and said Prime Minister Harold Wilson was frightened of going to the polls. "Their leader (Wilson) is hell bent on electioneering
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    Lock icon FRENCH RED EXPELLED
    79 1 PARIS. Sun. (AFP) Mr. Roger Garaudy. the outspoken veteran Communist who has clashed with orthodox policies, was today excluded from the central committee of the French Communist Party. The party winding up its 19th Congress has not nominated Mr. Garaudy for a seat on the committee The
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    Lock icon Tito, Rogers In Ethiopia This Week
    279 1 ADDIS ABABA. Sun. (ATP) The Ethiopian capital will become the centre for Intense diplomatic activity tomorrow with the almost simultaneous visits of Yugoslav President Joseph Broz Tito and American Secretary of state William Rogers. Both visitors will touch on a whole range of international
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    Lock icon Tunku Observes Quiet Birthday
    182 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Tunku Abdul Rahman, saying "I am just as young as I was years back", today celebrated his 67th birthday in a rather quiet fashion unlike previous years. The Prime Minister held an open house at the Banquet Hall of his department where more
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    Lock icon Pointers To End Indon Corruption
    338 2 JAKARTA, Sun. (AFP) Former Indonesian Finance Minister Jusuf Wibisono urged in an interview published by Antara news agency today that cabinet ministers be compelled to reveal all their property, the debts of their families and their dealings with companies. They should also sever ties with
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    Lock icon Japan To Try Rocket Shot Again
    122 2 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) A Japanese space scientist will make their fifth attempt to launch a bargain basement satellite into earth orbit Monday. the Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science of Tokyo University announced today. Japan originally planned to shoot its small satellite into space
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    Lock icon Japan Ups U.N. Pledge
    158 2 UNITED NATTONB. Sun. (UPI> Japan has pledged a contribution equivalent of 4.8 million dollars to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for 1970. lt was announced yesterday. The contribution represents a 20 per cent increase over the previous year. Paul O. Hoffman. UNDP administrator, nas expressed
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    Lock icon K.L. Burglary
    51 2 KUALA LUMPUR Sun. Thieves broke into the house of Enche Zakaria bin Long at Kampong Batu here and got awav with jewellery worth $BOl between 1 a m- and 5 o-m. yesterday. A police spokesman said Enche Zakaria was at his place of work when the theft took
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    Lock icon FIVE HOLD UP MAN, TAKE CASH
    138 2 FIVE youths held up an assistant manager at dagger point, robbed him of a lot of cash and then drove away in his car. Lau Song Ngeong, 44. was about to park his car In front of his house at Jalan Daltah Saturday night
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    Lock icon Korean Envoys
    69 2 SEOUL. Sun. (UPI) South Korean envoy* and trade promotion officials based in Latin America will meet in Seoul Monday to dlscusg ways to promote Korean exports. Foreign Minister Choi KyuHah will head the meeting with Ambassadors to Argentina. Brazil, Mexico. Chile and Uruguay. Representatives of the Korean Trade
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    Lock icon Laotian Refugees Evacuated
    304 2 VIENTIANE, Sun. (Router) American aircraft and fleet of 80 Laotian trucks are ferrying about 2,500 refugees a day from the southern port of the Plain of Jars, which is threatened by a North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao attack. The evacuation of about 18/000 refugees, mostly Laos and
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    Lock icon Indians End Visit To Indonesia
    118 2 JAKARTA, Sun. (AFP) India's ten-man Parliamentary Delegation fitted In a visit to the summer palaoe at Bogor. 60 kilometers south of Jakarta today before leaving for New Delhi after a three day visit. Bcores of Indonesian Memhers of Parliament, high ranking officials and many foreign
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    Lock icon Reward For Clue To Cigarettes
    130 2 POLICE have offered a $3,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction pf the poraon or persons responsible for theft of more than $32,000 worth of cigarettes at Telok Ayer Street, and the re- covery of the cigarettes. Information may be given verbally
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    Lock icon Pictures (above and below) show crowds at Haw Par Villa, the famous Tiger Balm Garden, and MacRitchie Reservoir.
    52 2 THE SUNDAY MOOD in Singapore was yesterday reinforced by the festive mood of The Year of the Dog at Singaporeans in great numbers thronged public panes, scenic spots, beaches, cinemas and various
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    Lock icon Marcos To Shuffle Cabinet
    348 2 MANILA. Sun. (AFP) An I Impending reshuffle of Presii dent Ferdinand Marcos' cabinet expected to reduce drastically the number of cabinet positions from the present 26 to about 15 or 16. the Manila press reported today. No official announcement has been released by the government but
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    Lock icon Mekong Projects To Be Discussed
    267 2 BANGKOK. Sun, (Reuter)—'The four-nation Mekong River Development Committee will meet at Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, tomorrow to discuss feasibility studies on two major projects. The committee, comprising Laos, Thailand, South Vietnam and Cambodia. wiU discuss re. ports on the Pa Mon« Dam project in
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    Lock icon Ghaffar Khan Ends Visit To India
    262 2 NEW DELHI. Sun. (Reuterj Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. 80-year-old Pathan leader, left India today after a four-month visit during which he bluntly told the nation's leaders and people that they had forgotten Mahatma Gandhi's message of peace, love and non-violence. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
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    Lock icon Dutch Prince To Indonesia In March
    155 2 JAKARTA, Sun. <AFP> Dutch Prince Consort Prince Bernhard will arrive in Jakarta on March 12. for a two-week official visit, reliable sources here said today. A joint communique is expected to be issued by the Dutch and Indonesian governments within a few days, the
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    Lock icon Ex- Colleagues Addressed By Defector
    206 2 CHAU DOC. South Vietnam. Sun. (Reuten A North Vietnamese Army defector yesterday circled a mountain stronghold at low altitude in an American helicopter. He was broadcasting a message for his colleagues to surrender. Tran Van Vlen. wa« a 28-year-old corporal In the North Vietnamese Fifth
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      232 2 TODAY and YOU. Monday, February 9, 1970. m K STAR GAZI By CLAY X. POLLAN K Your Doily Admty Guid* H According t* th» Start. To develop message for Monday, reod words corresponding to numbers of your Zodiac birth sign. 31KmI 32 Evtn 3JCW 34 To 35 Original «IKm» 62
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    Lock icon 100 Per Cent Damage
    78 4 GODTHAAB. Greenland, Sun- (Renter) Every building In the town of Angmagsaalik (population 1.000) has been seriously damaged and 10 destroyed by the strongest cyclone ever registered in Greenland. About 75 per cent of all windows in the east coast town were blown out last nifht by
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    Lock icon Scarred Nose Winner At Cruft's
    139 4 XXWDOJJ. Sun. (Reuter) A white Pyrenean mountain dof with fight scar on his nose has won Craft's Dog Show supreme award for 1970, to the amazement of hi« ownw .AS a Packed and excited crowd at London'g Olympic Exhibition Hall last night applauded the victory
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    Lock icon Cadets Defected In Russia On Graduation
    144 4 JA&AKTA. Sun (Reuter) Three Indonesian Air Force cadets defected to the Soviet Union after attending their graduation ceremony in Odessa late last month, an Air Force spokesman said here today. The spokesman said the Indonesian Air Attache In Moscow has asked the Soviet authorities
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    Lock icon MESCHEDE, West Germany, Sun. (Reuter) – Doctors at the Meschede hospital today confirmed another case of smallpox, bringing to 15 the total number of people stricken with the disease in the last two weeks. Two other people have died in the outbreak. The new case, a 61- year-old man had been a patient in the hospital, where the original carrier of the disease, a 20-yearold electrician was first isolated when he returned from Pakistan last month. LOCAL and World Health Organisation doctors visit small town with confirmed cases of smallpox reported in the last few days.
    96 4 MESCHEDE, West Germany, Sun. (Reuter) Doctors at the Meschede hospital today confirmed another case of smallpox, bringing to 15 the total number of people stricken with the disease in the last two weeks. Two other people have died in the outbreak. The new case, a 61-year-old man had been a
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    Lock icon 'Soviet Sub May Have Hit Italian Liner'
    291 4 ROME, Sun. (Reuter) Th# Italian government has ordered an inquiry to discover whether damage to the 24,377-ton Italian liner, Angelino Lauro could have been caused by a collision with a Soviet submarine, it was announced today. Merchant Navy Minuter Vlttorino Colombo who ordered
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    Lock icon Ship's Crew Rescued
    81 4 LONDON. Sun. (ATP) The 26-ma n crew of the 5.0n0-ton Dutch dredger Geopotes Eight abandoned ship today 43 miles south of Penzance. in heavy They were taken on board the Dutch coaster Cornelia B Two. after the dredger had wster entering its engine room A lifebost from
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    Lock icon Russians Ignore Big Three
    245 4 MOSCOW, gun. (UPI i tod a, publicly ignored the western Big TTiree notes on the Middle E"t and belaboured the United states for persistently bulldln* tension In the area. Pravda. the authoritative Cominuniat. Party newspaper, said in Its weekly International commentary: "One can note a definite
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    Lock icon Mrs. McKay Mystery: Latest Move
    96 4 LONDON, Sun (Renter) Scotland Yard said last night that two men were helping Slice in their Inquiries into six-weeks-old disappearance of Mrs. Muriel McKay wife of an Australian newspaper executive. A Scotland Yard spokesman said the men were at a London polled station but he
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    Lock icon Belfast: Religious Clashes Imminent At Ten Centres
    304 4 BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Sun. (UPI) Demonstrators took to streets under the eyes of armed British troops in ten centres in Northern Ireland in a make or break clash with the government on civil rights for minority Roman Catholics, yesterday. British paratroops in red
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    Lock icon Transparent Answer
    107 4 BOLOGNA, Italy. Sun. (UPI) When "Mrs. V.". 33. appeared in court on a charge of offending public decency by appearing In a transparent blouse, she had a ready defence. "I'm only trying to look fashionable." she said "The node look Is what they call it. Women wear see-through
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    61 4 WASHINGTON. Sun <R*uter) The Stat# Department said yesterday the United States had not y#t made a decision on whether to supply Israel with mora military aircraft The Department issued a statement denying a report in yesterday's New York 'Times' that President Nixon had already approved Israel's request, made
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    Lock icon 31st Government Since World War II
    194 4 ROME. Sun. (Reuter) Prime Minister Mariano Ramor yesterday handed his government's resignation to President Giuseppe Saragat. opening the way for Italy's 31st government since World Wa r Two. The new government 1# «i--peeted to be a four-party coalition of Christian Democrats. Social Democrats, Socialists
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    Lock icon 'LET IRISH BE FOREIGNERS' -POWELL
    201 4 ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland, Sun. (Reuter) Mr. Enoch Powell, the outspoken British Conservative Member of Parliament last night sparked off another controversy with a suggestion that Britain should treat the people of the Irish Republic as foreigners. Mr Powell. vhoM views on racial questions have aroused
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    Lock icon POLISH TALKS: 'NO MISHAPS'
    122 4 WARSAW Sun. (Reuten West German government negotiator! left here by air for home txlay after two day§ of "open and direct" preliminary talks on lmprov- :ng relations with Poland which appeared to pass off without mishap The Bon delegation leader, State Secretary Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz. deelmed
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    Lock icon Veteran Red Dropped
    45 4 PARIS. Sua. (ATP)—Roeer Oaraudy. veteran Communist, who hs# dashed with orthodox party members, wi, excluded from the list of candidates for th# French Party'* Central Committee to be ®leet«rf today Th» partr ws« holding its 19th congress ®t the suburb of Nsnterre
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    Lock icon Satellite To Check Pollution
    45 4 TAYPORT. Scotland. Sun. fßeuter)—Organisations fighting oil pollution along the Scottish coastline decided today to ask the British government to consider a svstem of satellite ohotograohv to warn of approaching oil «l»cka. Th« mov» followed recent oil oollution which killed 7.000 birds.
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    Lock icon TUNKU AGAIN ON RETIREMENT
    871 6 OEVERAL statements made by Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman 'last week appear to contradict each other but essentially they are allied to the unpredictable nature of Malaysian politics at the present time and the Tunku's desire to do something about it At the "open house"
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    Lock icon SUPER MAMMOTH TANKERS
    1349 6  -  »r Leon Daniel YOKOHAMA, Japan, (UPI) Japanese shipbuilders these days are talking about producing super mammoth tankers, a grammatical excess that should be pardonable in men who already build more and larger ships than anyone else in the world. Japan has led the world in shipbuilding for
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    Lock icon STORY OF TWO CITIES
    477 6  -  ■r R. C. PANDE NEW DELHI (UPI) One tide of Indie's capital city looks like peg" from the Arebien Nights. The other tide presents a modern face with 20th century architecture! lines. i Delhi la two cities New Delhi and Old Delhi. About three fourths of
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    Lock icon Do Women Have A Sixth Sense?
    751 6  -  By David Ellis. i LONDON, Do womtn Have some kind of sixth I sense, the 'knack' of feeling atmosphere and receiv- ing mental messages which most men seem to lack? Many scientists and psychic i experts are fast coming to the conclusion that women
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    Lock icon The Verbal Behaviour Of 'Overeaters'
    342 6  -  By Delos Smith NEW YORK, (UPI) There is scientific argument that you can distinguish the fat from the thin among women (and presumably among men, too) by their speech fd°? e Fmt women sprinkle their speech with more negators and retractors. They u*e more expressions
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    Lock icon Economy & Tax Rates
    214 6  - Economy Tax Rates Kellers... JOHN E. SPENCE Your prominent article about mv talk before the Lion's Club could give your readers the Impression that the tax rates win be Increased because of the Increased economy of Singapore. This was not the intent of my remarks before the Lion's Club My
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon WORKING ON THE MOVE
      89 7 Canadian Pacific Air clerk Judy Blackmore finished up tom« last minute typing much to the amusement of Johnston Terminal employees Harvie Malcolm (left) and Addie Wright. The more of the airline's administrative and overhaul facility from the old location at Vancouver International Airport to the new
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      Lock icon US To Get Tough On Textile Situation
      563 7 HONG KONG, Sun. (UPI) In what sounded lik« an ultimatum, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Maurice H. Stans said last week that congressional action to limit textile imports would be a matter of "two or three months" unless exporting countries "voluntarily" cut their shipments
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
      352 7 ARRIVALS Sl3 am MSA 123 K. Lumpur 9 45am MSA 119 R. Lumpur 1230 pm. MSA 431 Ruching 230 pm- MSA 021 K- Lumpur Malacca 3-25 pm- MSA 453 R Rlnabalu 340p m. MsA 521 Bangkok. Penang 5 40pm MSA 637 Tokjo. Talpai. Hongkong ?10 p.m. MSA 027
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      Lock icon Avis To Use 'Space Bank' For Car Rentals
      265 7 Avii Rent-A-Car, the subsidiary of International Telephone and Teleeraph, which operates car rental offices in the United States and 70 otlier countries, is moving in to take full advantage of the boom in tourism and travel in the Far East and Southeast
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      Lock icon Woman Heads Bank Branch
      116 7 THE Chartered Bank has appointed a woman to take full control of a branch in Singapora for tha first tima. She Ls Mrs. Rosle Wee, Assistant Officer, who has taken over control of the bank's Tlong Bahru branch. Mrs. Wee. who Joined the bank 18 years
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      Lock icon 123-Year Tie Ends
      149 7 BOMBAY, Sun. (Reuter) The luxury P and O liner Chusan will sail from Bombay today after a last visit to the harbour ending the 123-year-old direct passenger service between India and Britain. Peninsular and Oriental Lines were the first to begin a scheduled passenger service between Britain
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      Lock icon US Agrees To Take More Indian Exports
      224 7 NEW DELHI, Sun. (Router) The United States has agreed in principle to Help India sell more goods on U.S. markets, Foreign Trade Minister Bali Ram Bha- gat said here. Ha was addressing a press conference after returning yesterday from India's first ever detailed
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      Lock icon 'Expo '70 For You' Package Tour
      133 7 THE Malaysian C b E Tours (Pte.) Ltd.- is undertaking a series of 14day tours of Japan and Hong Kong in connection with the Expo TO in Osaka. The tours with the theme "EXPO '7O for YOU" will be within the reach of all.
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      Lock icon H.K. BANK ANNUAL REPORT
      88 7 HONG KONG. Sun. Directors of The Bank of East Asia have reported record earnings of HK112.835.7U for the year ended December 31, 1989. This was an Increase of HK51,780,821 in 1968, which was also a record year Directors propose to P«y dividend of HKS3.SO on the
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      Lock icon Four Banks To Serve ANZ And Pacific
      216 7 LONDON, SMR. (UPI) Th« formation of an infomaHonal financial enterprise to serva Australia, Now Zaaland and tha wholo Pacific aroa by four international banka was announced Tuoeday by the Australia and Now Zealand Banking Group Ltd. of London. Th# U.S. Irving Trust Co.,
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      Lock icon Ferranti Gets £2m Contract
      147 7 The Electronic Display Equipment Division of Ferranti Ltd. has received a £2M contract for work on the SinE spore Government's Bloodound ground-to-air defence system. The order, which has come from the British Aircraft Corporation, main contractors for the system, will be mainly carried out at the
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      116 7 Chartered (Merchant Bankers) Ltd. The Chartered Bank are pleased to announce that a merchant bank is being formed in Singapore under the auspices of The Chartered Bank, Arbuthnot Latham Co. Ltd., who are old established merchant bankers in London and C. Czarnikow Ltd., international commodity merchants and investment advisers. The
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    Lock icon PICTORICAL SOCIAL ROUND-UP
    448 8 Eden Hall Charity Concert ABOUT 100 persons attended a Sukiyaki party on board the M.S. "Kenko Maru" at the Port of Singapore Authority on the occasion of her maiden voyage on Wednesday following an agreement signed between Oyama Shipping Co, Ltd., Tokyo and a local company, Chip
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL TEN DOLLARS ESSAY WINNERS
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      Lock icon Vesak Day
      593 9 SINGAPORE is a multiracial country and all sorts of festivals are celebrated here There are different kinds of festivals which are celebrated every year, for example Christmas, Moon Cake Festival, Vesak Day, Deepavali, Good Friday and others. The Chinese celebrate the most festivals. Now about Vesak Day. Last
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      Lock icon The Story Of Man
      684 9 WHEN a moment is lost, it cannot be gained back but changed into history. What happened In the past will not repeat unless a miracle oceura Long, long ago it was the Btone Age. It was so called because It was the period when all tools,
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      Lock icon A Day In The Life Of A Shop-Assistant
      525 9 WORKING in a department store seems exciting. In Singapore, there are many well known departmental stores employing hundreds of shop-assistants. I am one of them, working in a store and I am in charge of the dresses counter. My work starts at
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      Lock icon FRIENDS
      345 9 LIVING in till* modern world, it IB essential for all of us to have friend*. A* we know. friendship plays an important part in our dally life. It i* through friend* that we can gain more experience. With friend*, wt will find life more interesting and enjoysble. When we
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      133 9 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Aldan McVWamt WHILE WAITING TO LEAVE FOR THE' CARIBBEAN TO REPORT ON THE STORM, DANNy AND TRO/ ENCOUNTEP r i CONGRESS WOMAN ADA JACKSON f I SET THE FEELING VOU TWO V HAVE MET BEFORE VjN A BOXINC AIM* i I COVERED ADA JACKSON
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      Lock icon Aussies Have 'No Hope' To Save Test —Newsmen
      285 10 DURBAN, Sun. (Reuter) South African sportswrlters today gave Australia no hope of saving the second cricket Test against South Africa here. Headlines such as "Aussies have had it" and "Springboks surge towards victory" underlined the almost impossible task facing the Australians. Following
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      Lock icon Graveney Offered Coach Job
      141 10 BRISBANE, Sun. (Reuter) —A North Queensland Mining Company has offered the State Cricket Association ASIB.OOO (£8,500) to sponsor former English Test star Tom Graveney's appointment as coach, the "Sunday Mail" reported today. The contract would be for three years and would include Graveney's travelling expenses back
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      Lock icon Lap Record Shattered
      60 10 BRISBANE. Australia. Sun. (Reuter) Frank. Matich, Australia's leading racing driver thig season, bettered the lap record in final practice yesterday for the Tasman Cup international race today. Matich. in a Formula 5.000 McLaren 10A. lapped th« Surfer's Paradise circuit south of Brisbane in one minute. T. 7
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      Lock icon DAZZLING RETURN BY BEST
      602 10 QPR T Derby Fifth Round f ON DON, Sun. (Reuter) —George Best, ♦he Northern Ireland international, made a dazzling return to soccer to produce a tremendous highlight to the fifth round of the English Football Association Cup yesterday. Returning to he Manchester United side after a
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      Lock icon Wales Rally To Beat Scotland
      368 10 CARDIFF Wales, Sun. (Reuter) Wales, trailing 5-9 at halftime, took command in the second half to boat Scotland by 18 points (three goals and a try) to 9 (a penalty goal, a dropped goal and a try) in th« Rugby Union international championship match here
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      Lock icon Laver vs Roche Final
      211 10 PHILADELPHIA. Sun. (Reuter) Top-seeded Rod Laver meets fellow Australia Tony Roche today In the final of the International Tennis players' Association indoor championship here. Laver. the defending titleholder, reached the final round and a chance of the US$lO,OOO (£4.160) winner's Kize last night by beating S.
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      Lock icon Stylish Century By Pinnock
      161 10 KINGSTON Jamaica Sun. (Reuter) Wicket keeperbatsman Renford Pinnock scored a stylish, undefeated 100 for Jamaica on the opening day of the four-day match with the touring International Cavaliers here. Plnnock's century including 18 fours In 275 minutes battln® was the backbone of Jamaica's score of 242
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      1441 10 English fJL Cup Fifth Brand Carlisle 1, Middlesbrough 2. Crystal Palace 1. Chelsea 4. Leeds 2. Mansfield 0. Liverpool 0. Leicester 0. Northampton 2, Manchester United 8. Queen P.R. 1, Derby 0. Bwlndon Town 3. Scunthorpe Watford 2. Gllllngham 1. English Division One Arsenal 0, Stoke 0.
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      Lock icon Gloucs, Staff's Enter Final
      214 10 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Gloucestershire and Stafford, shire won through to the final of the English Rugby Union championship yesterday. Gloucestershire defeated the current champions, Lancashire. by 9 points to 8. and Staffordshire beat Eastern Counties 15-9. Lancashire led 3-0 at halftime against Gloucestershire with a penalty
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      Lock icon Just A Charity Fight By Sugar Ray
      310 10 SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sun. (UPI) Sugar Ray Robinson, looking chic and youthful at 43, it making an abbroviated ring comobock. The former middleweight champion of the world received a "onefight" boxing licence from th« State Athletic Commission of California Friday to box a
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      Lock icon Villacampo Outpoints Mojica
      232 10 MANILA. Sun (UPI) World Boxing Association < WBA) flyweight champion Bernabe Villacampo of the Philippines scored a decisive I points victory over Nicaragua's Raton Mojica in a 10round non-title fight at the Araneta Coliseum last night. There were no knockdowns, although both fighter* fought a very close
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      Lock icon Agnew's Shot Hits Golfer
      266 10 PALM SPRINGS. California. Sun. (Reuter) Vica President Spiro Agnew stole the show in the Bob Hope: desert golf classic yesterday, hitting a fellow player on the head with his second shot Mr Agnew, watched oy 13.000 spectators on the La Quint a course, ran into trouble
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      Lock icon Grahams Title By 4 Strokes
      121 10 MELBOURNE. Sun. (Reu» ter) Youn f Australian professional David Graham shot a final-round three under par to win the A$ 12.500 (£5.860) Victorian Open gtdl championship Graham finished the four round* 19-under p ar and four strokes ahead of Englishman Guy Wolstenholme. veteran Australian Kel
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    Lock icon Victoria Set For Victory
    181 11 ADELAIDE. Sun. (R*uter) Victoria todav took a stranglehold on the 1969-70 Sheffield Shield competition when South Australia collapsed in their second innings for onlv 185 rups. This leaveg Victoria with only 169 runs t6 make an<j nine wicket* In hand on the last day tomorrow to
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    Lock icon Kaka Wins Big Walk
    69 11 KUALA LUMPUR. SuA. Singapore's Kaka Singh and Kasman bin Aaimin won flrst and second places respectively in the veteran's section of the Tunku Abdul Rahman goodwill big walk held here today. Alleh bin Haji AH from Johore won the men's aenior section, while S. Arulmarv took
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    Lock icon THUNDER COURT SETS NEW RECORD
    1140 11  -  8y By Our Racing Correspondent Kt'ALA LUMPUR. Sun. Thunder Court, confidently ridden by apprentice A. K. Cheam. set a new course record with a time of 1 min. 51 sees, in the Cup trial run over 9f here today. He shattered last year's record by
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    Lock icon Saijo Retains Title In Dull Fight
    331 11 TOK v O. Sun. (Reuter) World Boxing Association featherweight champion Shozo Saijo retained his title here tonight but his opponent won full credit for hi« toughness. Saijo won a unanimous points decision over Godfrey Stevens of Chile for his third successful defence of the
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    Lock icon Thais' Decision 'Regrettable' Say Indons
    173 11 Thomas Cup JAKARTA, Sun. (Reuter) Badminton official* here today expressed regret over a reported Thai decision not to resume their Thomas Cup match against Indonesia In Japan later this month. "If the report is true. It is to be regretted. We are y to go
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    Lock icon Indian Tycoon Here To Explore
    169 12 THE "architect of industry in Kanpur," India, Sir Padampat Singhania, will arrive in Singapore tomorrow to explore possibilities of setting up industries. He will be accompanied by his wife. During his visit here, he will meet local Industrialists and community leaders. Sir Padampat. knighted in
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    Lock icon Environment Control Conference
    157 12 An international conference on environmental control sponsored by the Singapore University and the Singapore Polytechnic will be held from May 2 to 4. The aims of the conference are: The promotion of professional and industrial co-operation In environmental control, with special reference to lighting, acoustics and air-condi-tioning
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    Lock icon Exercises
    52 12 THE Singapore Armed Forces will be conducting Demolition Exercises at their Southern Island Ranges at Pulau Senang and Pulau Pawai from Feb. 10 to F®b. 15. The exercises will be conducted dailv from 8.00 a.m. to 12 midnight. The public is warned to keep clear of Pulau Senang and
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    31 12 The 'Kumbhabishegam' (purification and installation) ceremony of Sri Shanbaga Vlnayagar Tenvole. Ceylon Road, will take place today from 7 a mThe main part of the ceremony is fixed around noon.
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    Lock icon Cheese... With Local Dishes?
    241 12 SAY 'Cheese'! And soon it will come your way with the visit of a cheese expert from Australia Miss Janet Lillia. Armed with a recipe book of more than 50 different d- hes, Miss Lillie, 29-year-old home economist, will visit Singapore to introduce chees* and other
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    Lock icon SOME monkey business is going on here. These people, celebrating the third day of the Year of the Dog, are hoping to catch a glimpse of the cheeky monkeys that roam the Botanic Gardens. Somehow, the usually greedy animals preferred to stay in their trees away from the company of dull, slow-footed homo-sapiens, despite the tempting offer of bananas and groundnuts.
    61 12 SOME monkey business is going on here. These people, celebrating the third day of the Year of the Dog, are hoping to catch a glimpse of the cheeky monkeys that roam the Botanic Gardens. Somehow, the usually greedy animals preferred to stay in their trees away from the company of
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    Lock icon Special Children's Party For Underprivileged
    221 12 MORE than 700 under privileged children from 12 children's home will be entertained to a mammoth Chinese New Year party tomorrow at the Golden Lotus Restaurant. Hosting the party are Hotel Malaysia. Goodwood Park Hotel, Ladyhill Hotel, and Ming Court Hotel. For two hours, beginning
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    Lock icon Ship Theft
    78 12 PENANG. Sun. A businessman from Ranjit Singh 50. reported to police that his valuable* and cash totalling $720 were stolen on board the ship "Rajula" while on his way from Madras to Penang. Ranjit told police that he discovered the loss of the article* from his *u!t case
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    Lock icon Bag Lost
    55 12 A voun* woman has reported th* her handbag containing her identity card. $6 and a pair of ear-rings valued at $2O. Wong Be« Loo. 21. of Durham Estate. w as sitting at the Kallang Park Saturday night with her friend when she placed th* bag besid# her. Later,
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    Lock icon Esso Man Promoted
    106 12 MR. Eric Gwee. w ho Joined the Esso Group of Companies here six months ago as a Senior Engineer, has been promoted as head of the Process Onslte Section In the Esso Refinery novr being built at Pulau Ayer Chawan Mr Gwee. a mechanical engineering graduate from
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    9 12 There were 58 traffic accidents. five serious, yesterday.
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    Lock icon Both Sides Observe Tet Truce
    272 12 SAIGON, Sun. (AFP) Vletcong an<i North Vietnamese appeared to be largely observing their four-day Tet truce, which ends today. The US. command reported only six secondary attacks last night and this morning. Major activity was on the Cambodian border where elements of the U.S. First
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    Lock icon Port Chiefs Meet Here Tomorrow
    116 12 Singapore will hold a mating of the International Association of Ports and Harbours for th« first time from Feb. 10 to 12 The meeting will be attended bv some 15 top executives from various world ©oris who are member? of the I A.P.H. Executive Committee
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    Lock icon Defence Fund
    28 12 The National D*f*nce Fund is approaching $9 million mark following 23 new contributions made last Friday. With these contributions the Fund has now risen to $8,809,032.51.
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    Lock icon British Construction Industry Group Due
    189 12 A trade mission from the British Construction Equipment Industry will bt visiting Singapore for five days from Merck 19. The aim of the mission, which consists of nine Arms, is to expand the already existing close trading relations. Thp members, headed by Mr. F. Wildmore.
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    Lock icon 3 Held In Crackers Charge
    67 12 TWO youths have been arrested for illegally letting off "rocket" fire crackers. They are Hee See Tan, 16. and Lim Swee Yang, 13. Both were found to have let off the "rockets" in the Kallang Road area Another youth, Chuang Wa Lun, 14, was arrested
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    Lock icon Pickpocket Re-Taken
    93 12 KUALA LUMPUR Sun Police shot and captured pickpocket when he tried to escape from detention at a police post at the Selangor Turf Club here yesterday. A oolice spokes man said today that the man was detained for picking the pocket of Mr. Jintender Singh, a senior chemist
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    Lock icon Gang Robs Workers
    113 12 A GANG of six armed m«3 one <>f whom had a revolver, held up seven Japanese workers at Golden Eagle Biscuit factory in Harvey Road at 12.55 p.m. yesterday a nd robbed them D f their wrist watches worth $l,lBO and $4OO in cash A Police spokesman
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    Lock icon Fire Guts 2 Buildings
    91 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Fire destroyed a storehouse and a wooden shack at Sungei Besl new village near her® tnis afternoon causing an estimated damage of $55,000 The cause of the fire waa not known. The owner of the storehouse. Mr Ong Thong Chew, disclosed that there
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    Lock icon Far Eastern's New Branch
    58 12 THE Far Eastern Bank at Singapore will open n«w branch at the President* Shopping Complex, Seranffoon Road, on Feb. 11. Its mana*in s director. Mr. Ng Eng Kiat, said it was to cater for the ever increasing number of customers in the Serangoon area and also
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    Lock icon Pickpocket
    44 12 A businessman. Teo Tjin Hoa. 59. had his wallet containing $5OO stolen outside tho Wonderland Amusement Park in Kallang Park on Saturday evening. Teo. of Ramsgate Road wil buying an entrance ticket when he found that his wallet, containing the monev was missing.
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    235 12 AUSTRALIAN and Singapore organisations have joined forces to provide palaeontological and patrograph services to oil exploration companies engaged in offshore drilling in Southeast Asian waters. The companies are the Analytical Laboratories (Pte.) Ltd.. of Singapore and Alan R Lloyed Property Ltd. of Sydney. j Mr.
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      78 12 Time Tide TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN 115 a.m. <0.5 ft.). 646 a.m. (3 ft.), 12.46 p.m. (10.7 ft.). 7.26 p.m. (8 In.). NAVAL DOCKYARD: 1.15 а.m. (11.5 ft.), 6.30 am. (3.4 ft.), 1.03 p.m. (12.2 ft.). б.55 p.m. (1.2 ft.). TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN: 144 a m (9.5 ft.) 7.30 a.m. (2.6
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