Eastern Sun, 24 February 1970

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    22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1274 Tuesday, 24 February 1970. MC (P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon Terrorism Must Stop —Israel
    379 1 Mon. Israel today called on the world to stop Arab terrorists "running amok around the world." THE call came as anger at possible Arab sabotage of a Swissair jet rebounded around the world. Israeli Premier. Mrs. Golda Melr said it was time "governments, private organisations and
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    Lock icon Avalanche Kills Four As It Engulfs Hotel
    71 1 VIENNA. Mon. (UPI) An avalanche triggered by a sudden thaw thundered down on the Alpine village of St. Sigmund today, engulfing a tourist hotel. Police said at least four people were killed. Nine more were dug out. apparently uninjured. Police said the snow
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    Lock icon Singaporean Charged In Jakarta
    62 1 JAKARTA. Mon. (AFP> A Singaporean who claims to be a colonel in the Taiwan Armed Forces Is being tried on charges of smuggling. Chong Hin Owan Is charged with smuggling Into Indonesia »68 cases of textiles and merchandise worth *****.000 last May. Chong claims he was
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    Lock icon No Revaluation
    21 1 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) Finance .Minister Takeo Fukuda said toda v th« government HCXM: nft intend to revalue th« yen.
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    Lock icon Reds Attack Laotian Towns
    208 1 VIENTIANE, Mon. North Vietnamese forces today pushed their offensive out of the Plain of Jars and also attacked a village on the Thai border. Communists attacked a town on Phou Khout mountain, five miles w«t of the Plain. And about 150 Communists attacked the town of
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    Lock icon FIRE RAZES VILLAGE -200 MADE HOMELESS
    380 1 FIRE swept through tinder-dry wooden houses of a 100-year-old boot-building settlement at Kim Seng Road yesterday. There was little firemen could do to un the village. By the time It was over, the village was a heap of smouldering ruins. About 60 attap houses
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    Lock icon Test Cricket -Fourth Day
    46 1 JOHANNESBURG Mon. (Reuter) Australia, needing 488 runs for victory, were 88 for ?U> at the close on the fourth day of the third cricket test against South Africa here today. Scores- South Africa 279 and 408 Australia 20? and 88 for five.
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    Lock icon CZECH GUNS MYSTERY
    172 1 JAKARTA, Mon. (AFP) An Indonesian employee of the Czechoslovak kian Embassy in Jakarta confessed today he helped to open parcels containing 88 pistols in the embassy building. An official source said that If the embassy could not produce import licence* for the weapons, Its commercial attache Mr.
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    Lock icon Vietnam Waits For Offensive
    50 1 SAIGON. Mon. (UPI) U.B. sources predicted today the Communists will launch widespread attacks next week in South Vietnam to break a lull that has seen fighting drop to Its lowest level in four month*. "We are awaltln* the start of the spring campaign." one source said.
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    Lock icon Missing Deputy Out Of Hiding
    200 1 SAIGON, Mon. (UPI) A South Vietnamese Deputy, accused of being a "Communist tool, came out of hiding today to station himself at the National Assembly while his trial opened. However, the trial of Deputy Tran Ngoc Chau, waa postponed until Wednesday. Mr. Chau. elaborating on
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    Lock icon U Thant Called To New York
    47 1 RANGOON Mon. (AFP) United Nations Secretary General U Thant will leave for New York early tomorrow. U Thant. who was due to stay In Rangoon until Friday has been requested to return to New York immediately "on an urgent I matter".
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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    Lock icon Filipinos Worried By De Facto Devaluation
    644 3 MANILA, Mon. (UPI) The mathematics of money hat cauqht 38 million Filipinos in a state of uncertainty and confusion. Many realise their currency ♦he Philippine peso has shrunk in value. But no one really know, by how much. In a sudden move on Saturday,
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    Lock icon Note-worthy 'Famine'
    255 3 KARACHI. Mon. (UPI) Pakistan is undergoing a currency "famine". It i s caused fcv the 85-day-old strike in the Security Printing Corporation. The latter prints the country's rupee banknotes. Reports said the State Bank of Pakistan has stopped the release of new bank notes of denominations from .5
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    Lock icon PAK's Drug Sales Rise
    185 3 RAWALPINDI, Mon. <UPI> The sale of narcotics and hypnotic drugs in West Pakistan registered a 100 per cent increase during the last decade. This Is despite a two-fold increase in prices and legal ban on their use. The statistics were revealed in a survey by the
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    Lock icon New Twist To Cops & Robbers Game
    223 3 New Twist To Cops Robbers Game TOKYO, Mon. (UPI) Call the cops and win a cash prize That's the name of a new Tokyo police lure to encourage public participation In apprehending wanted criminals. Starting April 1, the Metropolitan Police Department will award 1.000 yen (US$2.7B > for every caller
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    Lock icon 'Oh! Calcutta!' Did Not Impress Judge
    109 3 MELBOURNE. Mon (Router) A Victorian Supreme Court Judge today ordered that the principals of the sex-musical. "Oh! Calcutta!" be restrained from presenting the show at Melbourne's Lido TheatreRestaurant. Justice D. M Little ruled "Oh! Calcutta!" could be described In one word "filth". He added
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    Lock icon TIME PREDICTS: The Next Hundred Years Will Be 'The Century Of Japan'
    493 3 NEW YORK. Mon (UPI) The American news magazine. Time, this week told readers that the 21st Century may be The Century of Japan. In a long cover story on the far eastern nation. Time reported. "No country has
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    Lock icon 'N. V-N Life Is That Of The 18th Century'
    327 3 LONDON, Men. (Router) North Vietnam hat not boon bombed back into the Stone Age. However it has boon forcibly smashed back into the Eigtheenth Century, wrote Richard Gott in today's 'Guardian/ Gott is described by the newspaper as bfting the first
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    Lock icon 'Stowaway Would Have Died Anyway'
    148 3 SYDNEY. Mon. (Beater) A schoolboy stowaway, plunging over 150 feet from the wheel housing of an airliner yesterday, would have died anyway from suffocation or extreme cold, airline officials said today. Horrified on-lookers saw the 14-year-old boy hurled from the Japan Airlines DC-8 a* the
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    Lock icon GI Deployment From Japan
    99 3 TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter) Japanese Prime Minister Elsaku Sato today Implied Japan might approve the deployment of U.S. troops from Japan In the event of apparent aggression against South Korea. He was replying to an opposition questioner. The latter asked at a meeting of the Lower House
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    Lock icon Filipinos Protest 'Pornography'
    47 3 MANILA Mon. (APT) About 20 Filipinos came out on strike today in urotest against what they called the showing of ••pornographic" Alms in two cinema s fronting a Roman Catholic church. Th« movie houses, which draw huge crowds everyday, specialise in featuring 'sexy" pictures.
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    Lock icon AFTER NEARLY 2 YEARS LATER: China Condemns Rape Of Czechoslovakia
    474 3 TOKYO, Mon. (UPI) With a fine show of righteous wrath, China has denounced the Soviet Union for invading Czechoslovakia in August, 1968. Although Radio Peking's lengthy commentary yesterday spoke of the "terrible national calamity" that has befallen the Czech people,
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    Lock icon Flu In Java
    86 3 JAKARTA. Mon <AFP> Four children between Ave and seven years old have died from hemorrhagic fever. At least 600 persons were affected by Hons Kong flu which was spreading in Patl regency of Central Java since last month. Antara news agency reported today. Malaria. Hong Kong flu
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    Lock icon Drug Smuggler Is Executed
    68 3 TEHERAN. Mon. (Renter)' —An army firing squad her* yesterday executed a m*a convicted of smuggilaa in opium from Afghanistan Tahmasb Khosrow Wf the 16th dope sroue*l« executed since last Decetrb**-. A recent ant:-drua l* w or cribes death for anyone caught with more than twe kilos
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    Lock icon Jordan, Guerrillas Agree On 'Peace'
    429 4 AMMAN, Mon. (UPI, Reuter). The Jordanian Government and Palestinian guerrillas have officially announced an end to their 12-day crisis. A communique issued after a five-hour meeting said they decided "to co-operate with a view to preparing the people for the coming struggle behind the army
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    Lock icon Eban Shadowed By 1,500 German Police
    268 4 BONN, Mon. (UPI) Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, visited the birthplace of Nasism and the site of the Dachau concentration camp last night surrounded by police protecting him from Arab terrorists. A police spokesman said 1,500 state and city police who accompanied Mr. Eban
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    Lock icon Mirages Against Israel...
    180 4 TRIPOLI, Mon (Reuter) Libyan leader Colonel Maammar Gaddafi says that the 100 Mirage jets Libya is baying from France could one day be ased against Israel. Col. Gaddafi told a press conference here that "Israel has expansionist i>lans in the whole Arab area and Its aggression could
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    Lock icon BRANDT'S STAND ATTACKED
    131 4 BERLIN. Mon (UPI) East Germany warned today it would never accept Bonn's position on a summit meeting between the East and West German chiefs of state. The official newspaper of the East German Communist Party, demanded that West German Chancellor Willy Brandt drop anv conditions for such
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    Lock icon Couple Beaten, Stabbed To Death At Beach
    57 4 LOS ANGELES. Mon. (UPI) —A much decorated Vietnam war veteran and hi« fiancee were found stabbed and beaten to death today. They wer# lying together beneath a blanket on Santa Barbara beach. The bodies of John Hood. 24.' ard Sandra Garcia. 20. were
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    Lock icon Political Tests For Children
    123 4 VIENNA. MOB. (Reuter) Czechoslovak authorities are to reintroduce political testa for children seeking admisaion to high schools. The measure alma to broaden the entry of children from politically reliable families into hlsh schools the gateway to universities and professional life It will also Increase the number
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    Lock icon Prisoners Hold Three Hostages
    52 4 NEW YORK. MOT. (UPI) —Six inmate* of the Minnesota state prison held three hostages and authorities at bay with a guard's revolver for more thin eight hours before surrendering early today No injuries were reported The inmates gav« u© on the condition that their grievance, be
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    Lock icon 'Chicago 7' Seek Help To Get Bail
    213 4 CHICAGO, Mon. (UPI) Five m«n convicted of crossing state lints to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention have appealed to their followers to help them get bail while they appeal. U S District Court Judge Juliug Hoffman denied the defendants bond
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    Lock icon JACKIE IS SECRETLY WRITING HER MEMOIRS
    221 4 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPh —Washington Post columnist Maxine Cheshire says Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis secretly has been working on her memoirs. "This leak from within the family is bound to send tremors through the publishing world. Mrs. Cheshire wrote. Mrs. Cheshire, was the first to report
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    Lock icon THE PILL: WOMEN IGNORE THE 'RISKS'
    602 4 LONDON, Mon. (Router) Medieal warnings about the contraceptive pill have had little effect on its use except in the United States, according to a world survey. An estimated 18 million women still use the pill. Many women have switched to brand* with a lower
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    Lock icon TERRORIST JAILED
    62 4 JERrSALEM< MOD. (RW* ter) An Israeli military court hu sentenced an Arab area commander of El Fatah to life Imprisonment for guerrilla activities. Abdul Latif Muhammed said Arshld, 43. a former officer of the Jordanian Security Police. was charged with belonging to an outlawed organisation. illegal possession of
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    Lock icon 'Help Mummy—I'm Stuck In The Elevator
    79 4 'Help Mummy— I'm Stuck In The Elevator SAN FRANCISCO. Mon (UPI) Lannv Ross 2. clung to the grlllwork th« elevator cage today the ■strength In his am all hands keeping him from plunging 50ft. down the emptv shaft. "HI mummy Get me out. I'm stuck in th* elevator.** Lanny called
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    Lock icon Five Crewmen Are Rescued
    57 4 ANCHORAGE Mon fUPI> —'A Coast Guard cutt«r has picked UP fi\> survivors from an ocean-going tug which went down in a storm The body of a sixth man was recovered It is believed the other tw 0 crewme" went down writh the Intrepid which was town?
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    Lock icon Burton Won't Meet Queen
    171 4 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter> Richard Burton hat called off coming to London to attend one of the big nights of his film career because he has pneumonia. His film. "Anne of the Thousand Days." has been chosen for the 1970 Royal Film Performance the biggest night of
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    Lock icon Political Storm In S. Africa
    154 4 JOHANNESBURG. Mon (Reuter) Prime Minister John Vorster today faced a heightening political storm over his security police's refusal to allow three newspapers to publish a statement by a violently antiVorster M.P English language newspapers joined in denouncing the police action believed the first of its
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    Lock icon 12 'PATRIOTS' ARRESTED
    80 4 HEW YORK. Mon <Reutar) Police last night arrested 12 members of the Patriot Party, said to be an affiliate of the Black Panthers. They also confiscated pistols. a rifle, a shotgun and other weapons In a raid on an apartment here Eleven of the 12 were white,
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      56 4 Invitation "Come unto Me, All Who Labour and are heavyladen and I wiM give you rest". YOU Cr YOUR FAMILY are cordially invited to hear God's Message through Bishop Chandu Ray, the Executive Director for Asian Evangelism, ON Tuesday, Wednesday, 24th, 25th, February, 1970; Nightly beginning at 7 45 p.m.'
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  • Fotorama'70 YOUR WEEKLY PHOTO PAGE
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      Lock icon GUIDE 111—ROUGH WEATHER
      552 5  -  W 5 F When the weather is rough, fishermen fold their arms, sit down and wait for days and weeks; until it is improved, they will not risk their lives on the sea. Instead, they and their village folks would mingle around the beach end check their
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      Lock icon FOTORAMA '7O CONTEST – 'B'
      376 5 FOTORAMA '7O CONTEST 'B' Sponsored by Moutric (Pte.) Ltd. Agent for MINOLTA CAMERAS. OFFICIAL CNTRY FORK Fotorama Contest W EASTERN 6UN 33-B Cantonment Road. Singapore 9 In com3:yinb with tbe rules of this contest I submit herewith my entry and shall ft bid* by the decision otf the JUCgea SHUTTER
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    Lock icon FRENCH-U.S. TIES
    585 6 yHERE are many ways of looking at the rather fluid relations between France and the United States. When Gen. Charles de Gaulle was at the helm of affairs in Paris there was definite antagonism expressly engendered by the General himself. Obviously there was a sign of relief in
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    Lock icon PANIC IN THE AIR
    374 6 'TO the ordinary man air travel in Itself is A hazardous. This has in recent years been rendered even more so by political refugees, ordinary criminals and psychopaths hijacking planes tp various destinations. The latest wave of Arab commando attacks on airliners heightens the danger and
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    Lock icon FIGHT AGAINST THE TYRANNY OF THE DOSSIER
    857 6  -  (•y FRED MPANGA, Gemini Newt Service) LONDON: Privacy i$ a word unique to the English language. It hot boon defined Os "the right to bo let alone." It has alto been called the most valued right of civilised men. Despite that uniquer ness
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    Lock icon NYT Calls For Airline Boycott Of Arab States
    228 6 NEW. YORK. (LPI> The New York Times Monday called lor a world-wide airline boycott against all Arab countries which help perpetrate or encourage terrorist acts against civilian airlines. In a strongly worded lead editorial, entitled "to stop murder in the sky" the
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    Lock icon Politics And Ostriches
    770 6  -  By Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON Preliminary inquiries suggest that high schools in this city which do not have a hard drug problem arc rather rarer than hen's teeth. And a hard drug problem, mind you, means a heroin problem. The more affluent high schools, like Western, unquestionably have
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    Lock icon Hunt Is On For Summit Date
    716 6  -  <B DEREK INGRAM, Gemini News Service) LONDON: The next Commonwealth Heads of Government conference will be in one of four places Ottawa. Singapore, Port of Spain (Trinidad) or London. It could be in July, but it might not take place until the first half
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    Lock icon Way To Ensure Sanity Among World Leaders
    449 6  -  By BRIJKHINDARIA PARIS, (Reuter) World leaders should prove their soundness of mind before making major decisions or standing for elections, a group of French psycho-analysts have suggested. Writing in Le Medlcsl a magazine for doctors tne psychiatrists suggested that the problems of war
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  • COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon Week Opens With A Sluggish Market
      304 7 A STEADY opening in Hi# Stack Kiih«ii|( #f Malaysia and Sinpeaere J»w«rdiy new enthusiastic enerators remained a wanr let. Tracing was sluggish and in th# downward drift, falls remained in left majerity. <i ,n er es t continued cen centra ted in thp handful
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      913 7 Wp#rfW to the trading rooms wifh ?k- L° C xc n 99 of M4l«y«i« and Singaporo 7 000uniflf f' !t aff fnd94 brack t 'ON 1,000 units unless otherwise specified:- INDUSTRIALS Alcan $2 Ot (1) $a in iifi ft 0 <»»: dim 12.10 6» $2 12 <2i 12
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 62 5/8 Cts.
      330 7 March A'rst rubber buyers closen at 5 p.m.. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur veatorday at 62-S/l cents n*r lb down on* and ana quarter of cent from the Previous close The tone of the market wa s quiet aft®r easier Trading w *s mixed during the
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      Lock icon STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSING PRICES
      678 7 BID and of far prices officially listed yesterday at Hie close of business in the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia an<* Singapore were: INDUSTRIALS Aem* 25 J (30 A;can Industries 2 08 1 I 09 Ben 4 Co 1 80 LSI Borneo Rhd.
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      Lock icon Outlook For M'sian Timber Bright—Expert
      334 7 A VISITING timber industry technologist says the outlook for Malaysia's timber industry in very bright. Ha it the Technical Adviser for Wadkin Bursgreen Limited of the U.K., Mr. C: Weakley. Mr Weakley 1* currently on a South-east Asian tour to assist the timber Industrie* In
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      Lock icon SAS Traffic Up 4 Percent
      84 7 SCANDINAVIAN Airlines achieved a 73.8 per cent load factor on Its Intercontinental cargo routes In December, the General Manager of SAS for Brunei. Malaysia and Singapore. Mr. John Hoyer, announced last week. He also announced that SAS traffle climbed four per cent compared to December
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      Lock icon Taipei 'No' To US Textile Request
      56 7 TAIPEI. Mon. (Reuter) NatlonalUt China and the United States may resume talks on cotton textiles in Waahlngton next month, the Central New» Agency reported today. Quoting Informed aourcea, CNA said Mr. Y. J. Wong. Vice-Minister of Economic Affaire, will be the leader of a
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      Lock icon Aussie Apples 'Invade' Singapore
      116 7 THE Au»tralian apple and pear sra»on is now in full swing. The first of the new season's supplies for Singapore a shipment of "Cleopatra" apples from Western Australian is due here this week on the "Australasia". These will be followed by regular shipments of apples and
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      Lock icon New Camera On Market
      87 7 TOKYO, Mon. <UPI> Ricoh Co of Tokyo, makers of popular camera* In Japan, announced over the weekend It was putting on the export market in March what It claimed was the world's first 35-mm through-the-lens camera with both eye and waistlevel view finders. The announcement said
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      13 7 The tin price for vesterday way $669,374 per picul. up 50.75.
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      Lock icon Textile Glut Creates US Job Problem
      172 7 OSAKA. Japan. Mon. (UPI) A flood of Japanese textiles has brought unemployment and a disastrous decline in profits to the American textile industry. U.S. ambassador Arm<n H. Myer said on Friday. He repeated earlier warnings that failure bv Japan to correct the situation "can
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      Lock icon Hong Kong Money
      123 7 HONG KONG. <UH) Monday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): BUYERS SELLERS 195 196 per 100 Straits dollars 143 5 144 5 per 1,000 Taiwan dollars 6 755 6 765 per Australian dollars 330 350 per 1,000 Burmese Wyati 520 540 per
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      Lock icon SHIPS IN PORT
      256 7 The following is a berthing list issued by the Port of Singapore Authority for today Tuesday, Feb. 24: DEPARTURES Godowns Ves»el s 1/2 President Buchanan 3/4 Traviata 5 Shunwa Mara 10/11 Friesenstein 15/16 Pando Point 18 Straat Banka N.W.I Burts N W. 2/3 Lipis 31/32 Bencleuch 42/43
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      Lock icon Weak Sydney Market
      121 7 SYDNEY, Man (UPI) Dull trading helped contribute to a weak market en Sydney stock, exchange Monday. Action was slack when this morning's session commenced and with no encouraging reports to boost the market most stocks dropped as trading progressed. Poseidon fell AS 15 to $240, Proiect Mining
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      Lock icon Steel Mart Doldrums In The US
      115 7 PITTSBURGH, Mon (UPD— Steel markets arc movinf into the doldrums as more and more users begin to tighten up on forward pending and trim stocks In line with declining sales. Ore large Eastern miil reoorted incoming orders this week wer« down from the comparable
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      Lock icon Special Tours To Expo '70
      61 7 KUALA LUMPUR Mon. Mansfields Travel are operating six special tours to Expo '7O which begins in Osaka. Japan, In March. Those on the tours will travel by Cathay Pacific Airlines. One of the six tours has already been fully booked The first tour will leave
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      81 7 Manurr*' Prim for r»r> ?«> CM ulrt KKl) I NIl -IMlkTf p Urvvtli fund i-iu I'MT T8I >-T» lift Mil lnr**t. Punrt l.ti in >IVi U'tiHf. 1 Ml I MI Ut Hnfiporr IU !»< J 11 3rd Mncaporr ID 1 hf (mil Iwrt l-iwi i n Tb* Fund
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      Lock icon Sydney Closing Prices
      189 7 SYDNEY. Men (UFD Monday elosir.g Sydney Stork E*cnar.|e selected share* .minings A** Mm 100 Austral Mia 105 ier 1 55 ?H South 4 80 Golif a TO CHA ,7 00 fmper J. 25 Endur 75 Qtt Kale 140 OT Boull 20 GT Nthn .95 Hammersley 17 40
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      Lock icon EXCHANGE RATES
      62 7 THE Association of Banka In Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes In its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 unlta of foreign currency). BELLINQ T.T. or OD. ready: Deutsche Marks (83.7575; Holland Guilders $B4 9575; Swiss Francs $71.9375; Belgian Francs $8 2275: French
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      Lock icon PRODUCE
      96 7 THE noon prtew tt the sm» C a pore Chinese Product Ex* chanii yesterday were Buyer seller Coeonnt Oil till 111 53 Off Coeonnt oil (FOB-) Oram s; oo Mixed Copra U 00 Muni ok Hnllt Pepper (FOB-) 165 Off Sarawak White Pepper (FOB-) 162 50 Sarawak Special Blark
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS:
      341 7 AKKIVAL* 815 a m. MSA 128 K Lumpur MS am. M>A 119 K Lumpur 12 30 p.m. MSA 451 Kucltlng. 230 pm. M>A 021 K Lumpur. Malaera 8 25pm 458 Kota Klnal>alu. 8-40 p m MSA 521 Biogkok. Penang 710 pm- MSA 027 K Lumpur Malacca 710 pm.
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    Lock icon Call For Compulsory Sex Education In Schools
    615 9  -  Ann Landers D ear ANN: The letter from the mother who tore you to pieces because you printed "dirty" letters and discussed "filthy" things like V D., masturbation and illicit sex really ticked me off. I grew up too soon to profit from
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    Lock icon TV Actors Who Make It Big Are Fools For Complaining
    523 9  -  By PETER GRAVES VEW YORK. Mon. Many times I have been asked my reaction to being locked into a TV series and my reply is always the same, "Who's locked in?" I am an actor and I have a job
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    Lock icon The Midi Skirt? Smart London Heard It All First
    740 9  -  Je By- JEAN SOWARD T ONDON, Mon. The new fashion line* hare poured out of Paris announcing MIDI or longer as "in" length. But Hie call fell a bit flat in London. We had heard it all before at elegant London's
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    Lock icon The Sweet Smell Of Vinyl
    185 9 THE imell of leather it in the air! Lew than a decade ago, it was a status to have leather in the home for furniture. Then it wa» leather for car seats. And now, a piece of leather clothing in a girl's wardrobe means she's
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    Lock icon How Many Skinny Girls?
    253 9  -  A Lovelier You Br Mary Sue Miller A teen Lovely write*: I believe my problem to a common one lam much too skinny for mv 15 years Several girls in my class also are thin It seems that gainmr reeded weight is harder than losing extra
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      139 10 ADELAIDE. Mon. (Reuter) New Zealander Geoff Smale snatched the overall lead in the world Flying Dutchman yacht championship after defending champion Rodney Pattisson of Britain withdrew during today's second race. Smale. sailine Takapuna. finished second today behind Britain's John Truett, in Hucklebuck IV. when Pattisson. the Olympic
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      67 10 JOHANNESBURG. M o n. (Reuter) The South African Cricket Association has confirmed acceptance of the shortened itinerary for this year's tour of Britain. The association also announced after a board meeting yesterday that the experimental leg-before-wicket rule currents used in England wouH apply to the con-
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      Lock icon Hamilton Wins Car Race At Daytona
      287 10 DAYTONA BEACH, fla. Mon. (UPI) —Pete Hamilton outduelled veteran David Pearson in a wild finish yesterday to win the 204.185 U.S. dollars Daytona 500 in a Plymouth Superfoird. Hamilton, one of the youngest drivers in the race at a tender 28 years, passed Pearson
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      149 10 LAUSANNE. Switzerland, Mon. »Reuter> The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed that the controversial international Tempest class will be included in the 1972 Olympic Games, the International Yacht Racine Union (IYRU) said here today. An IYRU decision last November that the Tempest. a two-man keelboat. should be
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      99 10 SAN SALVADOR. El Salvador. Mon. <UPI) The Russian national selection whipped El Salvador 2-0 yesterday In a World Cup warm-up for both teams. Russia scored at the 31st minute on a goal by Pouzatch and in the opening seconds of the second half on a goal
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      242 10 SALISBURY, Md. Mon. (UPI) Ilie Nastase, 23, the champion of Rumania, became the first U.S. indoor open tennis champion Sunday by beating Cliff Richey of San Angelo, Texas, 6-8, 3-6, 6-4, 9-7, 6-0. .Nastase had to save two match points in the four set after
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      391 10 College Basketball NEW YORK, Mon. (UPI) —The University of California Los Angeles Bruins have had their annual lesson in losing. Two years ago, the lesson was administered by Houston. Last year it was' Southern California. This time around, Oregon led from the opening whistle to
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      233 10 MELBOURNE. Mon (UPI) New Zealand driver Graeme Lawrence vesterday won the Tasman Cup international motor racing series when he finished second in the final heat at Sandown Park. Lawrence, driving the Dino Ferrari in which fellow countryman Chris Amon won the series last year, picked
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      183 10 JACKSON HOLA Wyora, Mon. (UPI) French skiers, led by winners Alain Penz and Ingrid LafTorgue. skied through crazy tr.cky and tight" slalom courses yesterday to dominate the final events of the wild west classic. The French, who stood out as a team »n downhill competition
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      436 10  -  By Anthony Goodman NEW YORK, Mon (Reuter) —Thousands of people in the New York area are avid bullfight fans, spending two hours every Sunday afternoon watching the ritual of the corrida—although bullfighting is illegal here But there is no law against televisions and a
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      444 10 PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa, Mon. (Router) Japanese Jockey Sueo Masuzawa, due here tor two international races, hat been refused a visa, Turf Club officials said. Officials of the Pietermaritzburg and Benoni Turf Clubs said they had received no official notification in writing, but an
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      129 10 VANCOUVER. British Columbia. Mon. (UPIi Chi Cheng. 25. of Taiwan, now competing out Of Los Angeles. established a world best time In the women s 50 metres hurdles last night in the seventh annual Achillea Indoor track meet. Her record time was 6 9 seconds. The
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      171 10 LAKE PLACID. N Y Mon. (UPI) The United States stunned a list of foreign entries yesterday by winning the first and second positions at the halfway mark of the Kennedy International bobsled competition. The No. 1 U.S. sled, piloted by Harry Petersen of Lake Placid, turned
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      253 10 SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Mon. (UPI) Ron Cerrudo yesterday won the 100.000 U.S. dollars San Antonio open by five strokes with a 273. Cerrudo birdied three of the first five holes on the back nine of the Pecan Valley Country Club course to pull away
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      107 10 CHRISTCHURCH. New Zealand. Mon. <Reuter> Canterbury batsmen Vic Pollard and Keith Thomson ahared in a stubborn fifth wicket partnership of 72 to depnve the Australians of victory In the opening match of their New Zealand cricket tour here today. Canterbury, set 230 to win in 155 minutes,
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      148 10 WELLINGTON. Mon (Reuter) New Zealand will not send a team to this year's Merdeka soccer tournament in Kuala Lumpur because it cannot afford the expense, the Chairman of the New Zealand Football Association Jack Cowie. said today. "At a rough guess it would cost u
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      33 10 BELGRADE. Mon (ATP) —The 191 0 World Gymnastics Championshios are to be heid a« scheduled in Jub ana Respite Yugoslavia's refusal to admit a South African team. it wa nounced here toda/
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    475 11 MORE than 80 Far East golfing professional* arrived by Philippine Airline yesterday from Manila to compete in the 10th Singapore Open whirfi starts from Thursday to Sunday over the Bukit Course's Par 35-36- —71 layout on Sime Road. Heading the arrivals are last Sunday's
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    236 11 CHEPSTOW. Wales, Sun. (Reuter) London bookmakers made French Excuse a strong favourite for the Aintree Grand National after he scored a hard-won success In the Welsh Grand National here yesterday. One bookmaker quoted him at 8 to 1 and another at 10 to 1 for the Aintree
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    326 11 MANILA. Mon. (UPI) Asian golf circuit co-ordina-tor Kim Hall would like to turn loose four of Asia's best pro golfers on the British and European tournaments this summer. Hall said hf believed Nationalist China's Hsieh Yung-Yo, the Philippines' Ben Arda. Japan's Mitsutaka Kono and Thailand s
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    424 11 SINGAPORE Armed Forces maintained their unbeaten record by sheer luck when they edged Singapore Recreation Club 2-1 in a Division One league hockey match played at the Padang, yesterday. Recs. last year's runnersup. werp awarded two penalty flicks in the second half but wasted their opportunities,
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    899 11 PENANG, Mon. Following ar« th# weights for this weekend's racing Kara: FIRST DAT Claa« 2 Div. 2 —About 6 Furs. Entertsinment VII 9.00 Charman Ro s# 8.13 Kite Special 8.12 Pe'or Mas 8.10 Nicojack 8.09 Royal Bourbon 8.0." Serava Merab 8.08 Ultraman 8.06 Viva Perak 8.05 Bambi
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    315 11 COLOMBO. Mon. (Reuter) MCC slow bowler Don Wilson sent Ceylon spinning to defeat on the fourth and Anal day of the unofficial cricket test here today. Wilson grabbed eight second innings wicket* for 36 as MCC raced to a 173-run victory 45 minutes before lunch. The
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      291 11 Classified Ads. Death MADAM HO LIN SENG paesed away peacefully on 22-2-70, aged 64, leaving behind three sons. 11 daughters. 10 sons-in-law. two daughterg-in-law. 32 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Cortege leaves 46 Westlake Avenue on 25-2-70 at 2 p.m. for Kampong San Teng. no wreaths Donations to Singapore Red
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      1178 11 (CHANNEL 5) P.M 300 Opening Anncts. in *ll Languages and General Hospital. 325 Woman's World Malay); 355 A Diary Of Events In Singapore This Week (Malay); 358 It's Happening In Singapore (Malay) Repeat)- 4.15 Peyton Place 5.00 Close; 6 10 Opening Anncts in all Language? ana Racket Robin Hood. 6
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    Lock icon Top Aircon Salesmen Get World Trip
    123 12 Two Singapore air-con. dttioning dealers have been awarded round-the-world air trips as prizes for achieving the best sales in the republic The two dealers are Mr. Y.A Chiam of Kool Air (S) Pte. Ltd. and Mr. Cheng Theng Ban of Island Air Conditioning Company.
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    Lock icon 'Rotterdam' Bringing In 730 World Tourists
    106 12 More than 730 tourists will call on Singapore in the course of an 84-day round-the-world cruise on board the "Rotterdam", next month. On arrival on March 7, the tourists, from various parts of the world, will make a comprehensive sightseeing of the republic. At
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    474 12 Archery* Pistol ft*. SINGAPORE must encourage and develop proficiency in the "generally neglected and obscure" games if she were to rank in regional and international sporting events. These games should be promoted in schools and elsewhere, the Finance MiBister, Dr. Goh Keng
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    Lock icon Accused Fired Two Shots At Inspector, Court Told
    226 12 THE High Court was told yesterday how a gunman fired two shots at a Police Inspector at a close range after he and three others were chased by a Police party on March 26 last year. Detective Corporal Ng Poh Kiane was
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    51 12 The cost for completing street lighting and road metallic* in Nee Soon exceeded the allocated sum by $2,847. The Member of Parliament for Nee Soon Mr. Ong Soo Chuan disclosed this yesterday at the opening ceremonv on th* completion of metalling Jalan Ulu Seletar bv Gotong
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    67 12 Singapore Pools (Private) Limited announced yesterday a Toto Draw ticket has won SI 15.000 first prize in the last draw Besides, it reported that several people have won the four and three numbers correct and each will he oajd $350 and $l5. respectively. The Thursdays Jackpot now stands
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    49 12 Mr TanT:an Char the Assistant Director of the National Iron and Steel Mills. Juron* has contributed the sum of $1,000.00 towards the Chestnut Drive Secondary School Advisorv Committee Fund. Th* Fund will be used to provid# scholarships tapes and an inter-communication svjtem for the school
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    53 12 The United Nations Association Singapore wil] hold it* first Annual General Meetirg on Fridftv February 27 at 8 Oft x> m At the meeting the new Management committee for 1970 will be elected The meet in e win be held In Room A Cultural Centre. Canning
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    18 12 THERE were a total of 49 accidents, five of which were described at serious on Sunday.
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    222 12 THE Ministry of Education and the Registrar of Vehicles have drawn up a scheme to encourage private individuals to operate school buses for government similar to those applicable in government-aided schools in an effort to improve transport facilities for school children. One of the
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    44 12 POLICE said, yesterday that Chan Lai Lei, 23, who fell to her death from the 12th floor of th« Officers Block of Flats in Nicoll Highway was not a "maid servant" m stated oariier but a member of the Singapore Armed Forces.
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    180 12 AN Economic Development Board employee. Tan Koon Beng, 22, who was stabbed in the back while walking along Lorong 101, was yesterday reported to be improving. Koon Benq and three other friends were walking along Lorong fOI, when suddenly a group of people set upon them.
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