Eastern Sun, 25 February 1970

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    23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ft E®td. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1275 Wednesday, 25 February 1970. -fr MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon Death Sentence For Trying To Shoot Officer
    451 1 THE High Court yesterday sentenced Teo Cheng Leong, 36, to death after finding him guilty of using a firearm with intention to shoot a police officer. This is the first death sentence passed in Singapore since trial by jury was abolished •arly this
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    Lock icon NZ Tunnel Becomes A Death Trap
    184 1 HAMILTON. New Zealand. Tues. (Reuter) A aea of mud and loose rock poured Into a new railway tunnel being bored under the Kalmai mountains in New Zealand's North Island today, trapping 12 men about 100 feet from the entrance. Rescuers battled against time to
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    Lock icon Big Welcome For Pompidou
    345 1 WASHINGTON, Tue». (R«uUr|- The Wh.te House laid on a welcome sparing nothing in pomp end ceremony for President Georges Pompidou of Frence today amid increasing official concern at public anger over French Middle East policy. First tangible sign of hostile protests against the French Head of
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    66 1 GLOUCESTER, England, Tues, (Reuter) —A pretty young woman dressed in lemon-coloured trousers told the judge in a Divorce Court here that she would peel them off if he wished her to. Mrs. Edith Merchant, 26, a willowy brunette, was appearing yesterday for an uncontested divorce case. The judge
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    Lock icon About 300.000 South Korean citizens end students are seen at a mass rally in an open air music hall in Seoul protesting the detention in North Korea of 11 South Koreans who were passengers in the South Korean airliner that was hilacked Dec. 11, 1969. The 39 passengers released by North Korea Feb.14 out of the 51 passengers end crew, were present at the rally.
    67 1 About 300.000 South Korean citizens end students are seen at a mass rally in an open air music hall in Seoul protesting the detention in North Korea of 11 South Koreans who were passengers in the South Korean airliner that was hilacked Dec. 11, 1969. The 39 passengers released by
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    Lock icon Arab Guerrillas Shoot Tourists
    379 1 JERUSALEM, Tues. (UPI) Arab guerrillas machineguned a bus carryinq 37 American Christians on a Holy Land tour near Biblical Hebron yesterday, killing the wife of a Baptist minister. Two other American women and an Israeli tour guide were wounded when the guerrillas opened fire from ambush
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    Lock icon Red Camp In S. Thailand Destroyed
    172 1 BANGKOK. Tues. (Reuter) Thai police have destroyed a Communist guerilla camo on a jungled hill in Sorgkhla province after a fierce one hour gun battle, police sources Mid todav The sources s«'d one policeman was wounded in the attack last Sunday on the camp
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    Lock icon Reds Advancing Further In Laos
    228 1 VIENTIANE, Tues. (UPI) U.S. warplanes fl«w strikes against a key road centre which fell to North Vietnamese today when Communist soldiers brought a military airfield south of town under rocket fire. Lao- tian military sources said. American Jet ftghtera and Laotian Air Force T2Bs bombed
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    Lock icon P.I. Students Dispersed
    106 1 MANILA Tues (UPI) Manila riot police dispersed wm* 1 000 placard-bearing Filipino demonstrators *t the Nationalist Chinese Emba?sv this afternoon. No one injured and about 100 of the demonstrator* reprouoed in from of a Chinese restaurant to resume denouncing "Chinese imperialism" or the aleged dominant hold of
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    Lock icon Red 'Spring Campaign' Expected Next Week: ANOTHER BIG ARMS CACHE FIND IN V-N
    445 3 SAIGON, Tues, (Reuter and UPI) —American Infantry have unearthed a guerrilla ammunition cache in northern Binh Dinh Province, a U.S. military spokesman said today. The cache, found yesterday afternoon by troops of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division
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    Lock icon Cambodia Counters Currency Sabotage
    281 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. (Reuter) Cambodia will examine aiS incoming and outgoing diplomatic pouches until March 7. The directive follows reports of communist plans to introduce illegally-held or counterfeit currency into the country, U.S. officials said here. The officials added representations over the move •re being made in
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    Lock icon Japan's Fix In Abs Plan
    308 3 TOKYO. Tues. (UPI) Japan may be wavering in its support for the "Abs Plan". The latter will allow Indonesia to pav off its international debts over a 30-year period without interest. The financial newspaper. Xihon, Keizai. todav said that Japanese officials are showing interest in
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    Lock icon U Thant Returns To UN Abruptly
    192 3 UNITED NATIONS, Tues (Reuter) Secretary General U Thant decided to cut short a visit to his native Burma and urgently return to New York today. His decision prompted speculation here that international action on air security mav be imminent. No official explanation was given
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    Lock icon 1st 'Floating Peso Rates' Fixed
    192 3 MANILA. Tues. (Reuter) The Philippine peso was today quoted at 5.***** buyers 5.***** sellers to the I'.S. dollars by Philippine banks. The rates were the first since the central bank took the peso from its fixed rate of 3.90 peso to the American dollar to
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    Lock icon SUSPECT
    56 3 KEW DELHI. Tues. (Reuter) Police in Calcutta have arrested a suspect in the murder of the wife of 'French Consul-General earlier this month. Home Minister Yeshwantrao Chavan told Parliament that the man had blood stains on his canvas shoes. Police were still combing Calcutta and neighbouring districts of Bengal
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    Lock icon PI: POSTPONE SEATO MEET
    343 3 MANILA, T««. (UPI) —The Philippine Government today said it hat asked for a postponement of the South-east Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) Ministerial Meeting scheduled in Manila early April. However, it denied the conference had been cancelled because of the threat of demonstrations. Foreign Secretary Carlos Romulo
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    Lock icon Mad Mitch 's Private Army
    241 3 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) "Mad Mitch" Mitchell, the British commanding officer who became a legend to hi* men by his bravado during the Aden troubles, plans to recruit a private army to replace British troops east of Suez. Lieut.-Col. Colin Mitchell. 44. retired from the Argyll
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    Lock icon Agnew 'Killer' Discharged
    127 3 AUCKLAND. Tues. (Reuter) A man alleged to have threatened to kill U.S. Vice-President Spiro Agnew while he was here last month has been discharged by a magistrate. This was done despite a finding that the charge was proved The magistrate. H. Rosen, added he was satisfied the
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    Lock icon Boy Can't Enter China After All
    260 3 HONG KONG, Tuei. (UPI) A Japanese student returned to Tokyo yesterday after twice unsuccessfully trying to enter Communist China, a police spokesman said today. Masahito Kudo, 17, came from Tokyo on a tourist visa. I In following his clan. Kudo went to the border
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    Lock icon UK To Test Her Prowess During An Emergency: 5-Nation War Games In M'sia
    485 3 LONDON, Tues. (UPI) —Britain and four Commonwealth countries will hold fiv#-nation land, tea and air war games in West Malaysia early this summer, the government announced yesterday. Defence Secretary Denis Healey told a news conference that one
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    Lock icon Deadly Sale Of Potatoes
    95 3 TOKYO. Tues. (UPI) The Metropolitan Hygiene Bureau warned consumers yesterday not to eat potatoes with pink-coloured sprouts. They arc claimed to be poisonous. The bureau issued th« warning after learning that 116 ba es of potatoes, shipped from Hokkaic, to a Tokyo wholesaler dealer had been
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    Lock icon After The Commando-Sabotaged Swissair Crash: UK Airport Bans 8 Arab Airlines
    505 4 LONDON, Tuts. (UPI and Reuter) —Employ*** of British Overseas Airways Corp. (BOAC) today announead a ban on eight Arab airlines that fly into London's Heathrow Airport as a result of two week-end air crashes, one of which killed 47
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    Lock icon Charles' 2nd Stage Debut
    168 4 CAMBRIDGE, England. Tuea. (UPh Prince Charles sailed through 25 sketches in the Cambridge University's annual revue last night and didn't miss a line. Charle* forgot his monologue during Sunday's pres* preview. He took hi* bows at the end of the performance with the rest of the
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    Lock icon Cat-ch Up
    56 4 ALDERSHOT. En g 1 an d. Tues. (UPI) His friends were sceptical. For eight weeks. Sam Friend. 70. searched mor* than 500 houses near Aldershot looking for his missing cat. On Bunday. he found the animal sitting on the roof of an abandoned house *1 knew I would
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    Lock icon N.Y. Protest Groups Clash
    169 4 NEW YORK Man (UPI) Demon stntors protesting the conspiracy trials of the "Chicago f" and the "Panther 21" dashed with police yesterday after an orderly march and rally by 5.000 mostly young. white persons. At least one demonstrator was taken into custody. There were n© Immediate
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    Lock icon WORLD'S FIRST 'TEST-TUBE' BABY EXPERIMENT
    310 4 ATHERTON, England, Tues. (UPI) A 34-year-old wife mav become the mother of the world's first 1 test-tube baby. Eggs have boon takon from the woman, Sylvia-Alton, of Atherton, Lancashire. They are fertilised in a test-tube by her husband, a gynaecolo- gist reported yesterday. Mrs. Allen
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    Lock icon The 35-Mile Childbirths
    80 4 BELGRADE. Tues. (UPT) A 33-year-old Yugoslav housewife gave birth this week-end to triplets 35 miles apart, doctors disclosed yesterday. They said Mrs Ruxa Radojkovtc boarded a bus for Belgrade after giving birth to a 27-pound girl Saturday In the village of Brezovlk. Another girl and a boy
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    Lock icon Indecent Decency
    120 4 BOLOGNA. Italy. Tues. (Reuter) A public prosecutor yesterday annealed against a magistrate's ruling that a woman who paraded through the streets of Bologna in a see-through lace dress was not guilty of "inviting libertinism The rest of her attire consisted of a Piece of ribbon over her chest
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    Lock icon The Shame Of The Game
    76 4 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) Mrs. Irene Poole, captain of a women* marblea team, has hit back at the men. They hav* barred the ladles from the forthcoming World Championship* The women were told the sight of them crouching In mlnl-rtlrta or trouaeri would upaet the men
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    Lock icon LONELY SOULS
    163 4 MOSCOW. Tues (CPI) The Soviets complained yesterday their diplomats in Peking have been refused permission to decorate Russian graves outside the city. A Tass report from Peking said Soviet diplomat* were refused permission to go to Wuhan. Port Arthur. Harbin and Shenyan to decorate the graves of Soviet
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    Lock icon Warning Of U.S. Recession
    90 4 WASHINGTON Tues (UPI) Two economists warned Congress Monday that th# nation a recession unless high interest rate policies of th* Nixon administration are altered The ©redactions came from Frank P. Murphy, chief economist for th«* Genera] Electric Co.. and Prof. V Lewis Ba?sie of the University
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    Lock icon Beetle War
    87 4 YARMOUTH. I«1 of Wight. England. Tu**. (Reuter) A wHI-known naturaliat la*t nifht claimed that the Nazis tried to da*troy Brltaln'a potato erops during World War II by dropping "bomb*" loaded with Colorado beetle* Richard Ford, a former British museum official and writer, i« now retired He claimed tha
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    Lock icon TITO-NASSER TALKS IN ASWAN
    184 4 ASWAN, Tues. (Reuter) Presidant Nasser and Yugoslav President Tito have opened talks here on the Middle East situation and bilateral relations. President Tito arrived yesterday on a two-day official visit after similar discussions with the Chairman of the Sudanese Revolutionary Council, Major General Jaafar Mohamad El-Nimeiry.
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    Lock icon Tight Security For Eban
    196 4 BONN, Tues. (Keuter) Police today kept up a close security guard e round Israeli Foreign Minister Abbe Eban. This was th§ third day of hi* official visit to West Germany. In one of the most stringent police operations seen here, hundreds of policemen and agents have
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    Lock icon Man Can't Have Step-Child For 19 Years
    226 4 MELBOURNE. Tues. (Reuter) American-born Earl Roberts has appealed against a Supreme Court order denying him access to his wife's artificial insemination baby for the next 19 years Roberts. 46 a building suligts nine grounds of appeal One alleges that the duration ol the
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    Lock icon Biggest Neolithic Cemetery Discovery
    166 4 IANGKOK, Tue«. (Reuter) —An Australian archaeological expedition digging i n Lopburi Province, 100 miles north of Bangkok, has discovered the largest Neolithic (leter Stone Age) burial ground yet found in South-last Asia. Dr. Helmut Loofs of thf Austrian National Univer. sity, Canberra. th» expedition leader, told
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    Lock icon Jordanian Interior Minister Resigns
    324 4 AMMAN, Tues. (Router and UPI) —Jordanian Interior Minister Mohammed Rasteoul Al-Kilani has resigned. However, he said his decision had no connection with the secret agreement between the government and Palestine commandos. "I submitted my resignation for personal reasons," Major-General Kilani, a former Chief of Intelligence, declared.
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    Lock icon Gromyko In E. Germany
    133 4 EAST BERLIN. Tues. fßeuter) Soviet For*!in Minister Andrei Gromyko arrive* here today for a viait expected to ro-ordinat# policy toward* West Germany The official announcement fsve no details However, observer* believe tbe visit will deal with the proposed East-West German summit and exploratory tuks on a
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    Lock icon U.S. Labour Reassured
    185 5 MIAMI BEACH. Tues (UPIi President Nixon, describing himself as an "activist" Chief Executive, promised labour leaders yesterday he would take "strong measures'' to curb any sharp rise in unemployment resulting from his anti-inflation policies Nixon didn't spell out what action he might take, but Labour Secretary George
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    Lock icon Teachers Strike
    75 5 LOUISVILLE. Ky.. Tues (UPI) The majority of Kentucky's 33.000 public school teachers went on strike vesterdav to pressure the state legislature into granting them pay increases. Most of the state's 700.000 pur>ils received an unscheduled holidav Wendell P. Butler. State Superintendent of Public Instruction. sa;d he understood the
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    Lock icon Pill's Effect On Women Variable
    254 5 WASHINGTON, Tuei. (UPI) Birth central pills diminish the sex drive in soma women, but increase it in others, a doctor told Senate investigators j today. R. Francis Kane Jr., Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, said there still
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    Lock icon Expert Sees Increase In U.S. Violence
    197 5 SAN FRANCISCO. Tuea. (UPI) A criminology professor warns there be more violent protests by youna radicals and blames strikingly different attitude between them and their elders on the right to private property Many youngsters simply "don't feel property damage is wrong." said Dr. Bernard
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    Lock icon Two Children Kidnapped
    98 5 BUTLER. Ala Tues. (UPI> Two "Beatnlk-type men tied up a woman and kidnapped her two young nieces from a trailer home yesterday, telling the woman that the girls' father owed a 4.000 US. dollar gambling debt. Choctan County Sheriff Leon Clark said Tina Cain. 3. and Tiffany
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    Lock icon Nixon Not So Popular Now
    83 5 NEW YORK Tues <AFT) President Nixon's popularity fell by four points In January compared with the preceding month, according to the results of a public opinion poll conducted by the Louis Harris Institute released today. Only 58 per cent of those polled favoured the President's
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    Lock icon Voting Age
    59 5 WASHINGTON Tues. <UPI> Sen Edward, M Kennedy urged Congress Monday to lower the voting age to 18 in time for this year's elections. Kennedy suggested that reduction of the voting age could be incorporated into the already-embattled extension of the voting rights act and need not endure the
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    Lock icon APOLLO 13 MEN MAY FIND CRUST
    218 5 HOUSTON, Texas, Tues. (UPI) Apollo 13 astronauts, who will 90 to the moon's highlands for the first time, will probably find evidence of a lunar "crust/' a noted scientist said yesterday. Anthony Turkevich of the University of Chicago, addressing the 159 th annual meeting
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    Lock icon Rogers Ends Africa Tour
    176 5 WASHINGTON. Tues. (UPI) secretary of State William P. Rogers winding up a 15-day swing through Africa yesterday, said the United States would have to play a more important role there in tne future. Rogers, who visited 10 nations in Just over two weeks, said economic development
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    Lock icon Anti-Pompidou Demonstration In Washington
    356 5 WASHINGTON, Tuesday (UPI) Thousands gathered in moss protest in Washington yesterday at French President Georges Pompidou was winging his way to this capital for his first official visit here. Tli« mass of demonstrators from Washington and various major citios in the eastern United States gathered at
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    Lock icon Marx To Lincoln
    99 5 LONDON Mon. (UPI> A letter from Karl Marx to Abraham Lincoln surfaced yesterday at the British Trades Union Congress iTUC». The Man message congratulating Lincoln on his re-election in 18M was one of four rare Lincoln documents presented to the TUC by Frank Cousins, who retired yesterday
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    Lock icon Drug Abuse Kills Three Teenagers Daily In N. Y.
    357 5 NEW YORK, Tues (UPI) —Three more persons, including a teenager died of heroin overdoses at the weekend bringing to 141 the number of deaths due to drug abuse in this City since Jan. 1. The teenager was identified as Antonio Franzany,
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    Lock icon U.S. BAR REJECTS GENOCIDE TREATY
    213 5 ATLANTA, Ga Tues.<rPl) The American Bar Association voted 130-126 yesterday against U.S. ratification of an intrrnational treaty against genocide, and one opponent of the treaty remarked. "We wouldn't be here If we hadn't committed genocide." The lawyers, after considerable Impassioned oratory. turned down a resolution
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    Lock icon Guyana Gets Independence
    129 5 GEORGETOWN. Tuei. (UPr Jubilant Guyanese danced In the street* yesterday to the beat of steel drum? as Guyana became the western hemisphere's second English speaking republic. Crowds cheered and fireworks illuminated the sky over national park promptly at midnight Sunday to mark the break with the British
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    Lock icon Double Murder
    75 5 SANTA BARBARA. California. Tues. <UPI» A nine-Inch pocket knife found burled in the sand next to the bodie* of a couple stabbed to death on a public beach was the only physical clue yesterday in the murders The bodies of John Franklin Hood. 24. a decorated Vietnam war
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    Lock icon Cuba Execution
    51 5 MIAMI. Florida. Tues. (UPI) Havana radio reported yesterday that one of F.del Castro's firing squads executed the military leader of a Miamibased Cuban exile group that infiltrated the island five months ago. The Cuban radio said Joae Antonio Quesada Fernandez was given the "maximum punishment" by a revolutionary
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    Lock icon THE JAPANESE IMAGE
    929 6 CROWN Prince Akihito and Princess Mlchlko are arriving in Singapore tomorrow for a short official visit having completed a tour of Malaysia. Their visit marks a time when the nations of Asia are of two minds about their country. With the astounding growth of Japan some of
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    Lock icon The General's'Fear' Of The Soviet Thrust
    710 6  - The General's—'Fear' Of The Soviet Thrust By LEON DANIEL SAPPORO, Japan (UPI) Th« Commanding General of Japon'i Northern Army operates on the principle that the Russians are coming. He doesn't really think they will, but for the men charged with the defence of Japan's northernmost island, that if the only
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    Lock icon N. Z. Harnesses Its Volcanoes
    452 6  -  •y ROSS ANNABELL, ROTORUA, New Zealand New Zealand's volcanic marvels are no longer just a tourist attraction. The country's engineers have harnessed the molten power under the North Island and have put it to work so much so that the country i achieving international fame
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    Lock icon SOEK IS WEAKENING...
    467 6  -  By Joseph L. Galloway JAKARTA (UPI) —The public may have had its last glimpse of former President Sukarno who guided or misguided Indonesia for 20 years. The 68-year-old founder of the Indonesian Republic is weakening. He may never be seen In public again. Sukarno, who has partial
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    Lock icon THE CONGRESSIONAL REVOLUTION
    797 6  -  it Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON "Nixon it leaving the Democrats where Admiral Halsey said he wanted to leave the Japanese in World War II without a spot to hiss in." This picturesque summary of the President's political achievement is persuasively attributed to Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott of
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    Lock icon THE DAUGHTER OF WEALTH IS HER NAME
    403 6 KATMANDU, Nepal (UPI) The doe-eyed fiancee of Nepal's Crown Prince likes to read her Shakespeare beneath the snowy shadows of the mighty Himalayas. Like her would-be father-in-law, King Mahendra of Nepal, Aishwayra Ra|ya Laxmi Devi Rana, is known fdr her love of poetry.
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      Lock icon EASIER TRADING IN THIN MARKET
      397 7 *«i«r «ondltio«»a ruled in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore festerday. Share prices were eroded marginally on increased selling pressure in fhe thin market. Trading was generally fairly subdued with most of the interest concenfrated in the lower priced industrials including Maw Par Gammon,
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      1028 7 TJUSINESS 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 Acma $2 29 2); Alcan lnd. $2 07 (1) $2.06 (6» $2 05 16)
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      Lock icon HK's Experts Up 21.6 Per Cent
      64 7 HONO KON O. Tues. (Reuter) Hong Kong's exports In January totalled HKSB3I million an Increase of 21.6 per cent over the same period last year, the Commerce and Industry Department sald yesterday. The value of Imports was HK51.199 million a JO per cent rise
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      97 7 TMfc DOOO yrtm at ill* fin gapore I mnw Prtid««e t» rbinit rwtfrdu «m» RtllM Mll« Coconut Oil (FOB.) Hulk MOO Coconai (Ml (F O B-) Dram 30 Miifd Cnora *4 00 M lint ok wlitte Pepper (FOB) 1M «o Mrmak While Pepper <» n n. i 162 .M
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      Lock icon STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSING PRICES
      670 7 SID and offer prices officially listed yesterday at the close of business in the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia an J Singapore were INDL'STBIALS B. P. Acma ii 7 2.30 A Ira n Industrie* 201 2.03 B h n A Co1 75 1
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      Lock icon S'porean Made Associate Director Of Ad Agency
      157 7 ItfISS lon Chow hat been appointed an Associate 1 Director of Cathay Advertising Ltd. She is the first Asian to hold this position within the Cathay group of companies which, apart from Singapore, includes offices in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok end Hongkong. Miss Chow
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      Lock icon Philippines To Get $150m Standby Credit
      210 7 TOKYO, Tuti. (UN) The Japanese government it orfanisinf syndicote of 12 banks to provide tht hard-pressed Philip pints government with a standby credit to Sslso million, the financial newspaper Nihon Keiiai said an Tuesday. Tht money will be Jap« n 't share of a
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      Lock icon Mixed Tone On London Stock Mart
      183 7 LONDON. Tues- (UPI> Little brightness was seen in stock markets Mondav and the overall tone was mixed, with bank* a Uvtir section after Friday'* Profit disclosures Some good feature# arose from bid situations or weekend comment. After a quiet trade, government stocks managed gains
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      15 7 The tin r>-'ce for vesterdav was $466.75 pe r picui. down $2.62 J.
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 63 Cts.
      293 7 March first rubber buyers closed at 5 am in Singapore and Kuala LumPur yesterdav at <53 cents t»er lb up thre* eighths of a cent from the previous close The ton# of the market was auiet The market ruled with a steadier undertone after an unchanged opening.
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      Lock icon Visit By Airline Executive
      155 7 MR K. H. FRANK sales manager of Lufthansa German Airlines In Singapore. Malaysia and Brunei. will visit Kota Kinnabalu from March 25. He will spend three days In Sabah calling on travel agents and tourist authorities to inform them about the airline's expanalon plans on April
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      Lock icon Japan To Buy 55 Tons Of Gold
      99 7 TOKYO. Tues. (UPI> Japan will Import 55 tons of gold for Industrial use during fiscal 1969. government sources disclosed Friday. Fiscal 1969 ends March 31 this year. The sources said the government had or.s -a. v planned to Import 45 tons but studies
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      Lock icon EEC: 1980 Dateline For Common European Money
      260 7 ?ARIS. TU*S. (Reuten finance Ministers of the six-nation European Common Market have reached broad agreement that 1960 should be the deadline for a common European currency. Informed sources said. The Ministers, who began a two-day conference yesterday. will discuss In detail proposals for
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      Lock icon Bears In Sydney
      306 7 -Wi"'i >i>i i f "iii iHi»l l WMfEMWiHHm fwdneysltochiiv i SYDNEY, Tuei. (UPI)—-Bears aoain plyndind the share market on Sydney Stock Exchange today at prices continued to plummet. The avalanche carried on Ti** 1 w bu er tht market. Trading was lopsided this morning and the few
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      75 7 (M*na»w Price* tor Feh. ?S) CHARTERED UNIT TRUSTS 8. Growth Fund I-JO 1.18 A«U UNIT TRl PT8 .M*l Invent. Fund 1.32 1-37 WISUAPOKE LXIT 1 RUST* IX Singapore 2.gg 2nd Singapore ;.I0 3rd Singapore 1.33 The Cora. Ind J 06 1.11 The S«». Fund .118 1 lg (Manager*'
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      260 7 THE following Is a berthing list Issued by the Port of Singapore Authority for today, Wednesday, Feb. 25: DEPARTURES God owns Vessels 8/9 Shunko Maru 20 West Bidor 20 East Llpls Bhun Hlng Kota Kinabalu. 25'26 Misuml Maru 27 28 Hokusei Maru 45 Spildra 47 Nikkei Maru
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      554 8  -  Cash For Starving Artists By ARNOLD DIBBLE MANILA (UPI) The born, ragged rights of artiste to starve to death in attics only to be discovered long afterwards are being challenged by an artist who admits he has it made. Walter Keane. the artist whose
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      325 8  -  Date-line By Ele, Walt Dulaney DEAR ELE and Walt: Please writs what you think about disqualifying a candidate for school office because he takes oot. Also, what do you think of disqualifying a candidate because of whom he sleeps with? Screening Committee Chairman. Dear Chairman: Can
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      274 8 By Joseph L Mvler WASHINGTON. (t T PI) Even dogs and cats know better than to look directly at the sun. But people, who also know better, sometimes risk a peep, often to their life-long regret. This tendency to take a chance is particularly common
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      332 8 HOBART. Tasmania. One of Australia'* oldest and most distinguished boys schools has introduced a coars# in the Malay language at primary school (5-12 years) lerel. The Hutchini School Hobart, i» one of only a handful of schoo&s in Australia to introduce an Asian language
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      130 8 HEIDELBERG (INB). Two professor*. Dr. Paul Ramdohr and Professor Jose# Zahrinrer 'Picture) from the Max-Plaaek-Infltttote for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg (Federal Republic of German?) hare discovered minerals unknown on the earth T* material originated from three thousand. flv® huncfced million year« old lunar rock samples, which the er»w
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      390 8 Entrant's Particulars Name: Mr./ Miss Address: A»e: Closing date: 5.370 Cut Here WHAT YOU Rivt; TO DO: I) Kacb da* thu cctk. Uja taatero t»oa mil pohlut a photograph X) Identify the above pbotrtfrapb u> the iMit space provided 8) Collect a act of Hi photographs »arb vtck (or no*
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      84 8 DATELINE: DANGER! a w»4 ti 3* U r\ Si is Is *> EVERVTIMEI FfLEO A STORY ON VOUR CAMPAIGN FOR CONGRESS, ytX) SCREAMED L'KE A SCALDED CAT/ John Saunders and AUenMcWliams I CAN ALSO CLAW LIKE AN AN<5Ry T»6ER,My FRIEND.. SO DON'T, PUSH VtXJR LUCK/ m r A 0k TBS
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      136 8 0. What is meant by "drawing the long bow"? 10. What is meant by the saying "to plough the sands"? 1. Give three goo<j reajoils of pruning rose bushes. 2 Why do a few flowers remain open at night? 3. Name the three types of bees. 4. Which class of
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    609 9  -  •r- ANN-MAKGKiT Substituting For Sheilah Graham who is on vacation. YORK, Tues. Virtually •▼try actress today, and many actor* as wall, hart to face up to an important decision to be or not to ba made on the screen.
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    622 9  -  Ann Landers T)EAR ANN: The braless fad is getting to be a bore. I've read dozens of comments by so-called authorities. Of course they are all men In my opinion, no one is an authority unless he has had
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    54 9 HOLLYWOOD. Tuea. "Dark Shadows." which is going Into Its sth year as television's most popular daytime serial, will become an orltlnal theatrical film for MOM Dan Curtis, who created the mystery-auspense aenea for ABC-TV. will produce and direct th* fl!m for Productions from an original screenplay by Sam
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    35 9 LONDON, Tuea—"Funny Girl." tha smash musical starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif, completed the first week of Its multiple-theatre engagement here, rolling up a sensational total of 5121J77 at 34 Rank Circuit threatres.
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    40 9 NEW YORK. TUM Mark Jenkins ha* been signed by producer MJ. Frankovich for a key role In "Doctors' Wives, the Columbia Pictures release which went before the eameru or the west coast last week with George njhaejer directing.
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      89 9 CAPITOL Phorit 1 4, 6.15, 4 930 *****9 WOW SHOWING! BIX: U. 1 45, 4. 6.30 A D m m SKY: 11. 1.45, 4, IS 2 w S BO*T *l 43. i.li. 7.0e tm Chen? Pei-pet -LADY or STEt? -A SHAW PRODCOTO«I fh--m«rr)n» Calnr ATE Phong ***** SINGAPURA Photf *****71
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      204 9 TODAY and YOU. Wednesday. February 25, 1970. m TAURUS ■.AMt.X I har n a U And 120-nr 13 imm UGtt 15 R«Hjcl««V 16 Good I7N«M II I»v'M J* Develop"**" 20 In 21 And 22 23 novo 24 Mo 2SSec«( 26 You 41 r noncn< 42 Moy 43 Contol>do«« 44 SucMM
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      171 9 Last Day! I S*. 4.M. 6SO 915 Poa's "JOHN AND M4RY" Duatin Hoffman Mia Farrow Pan*Vl*lon Color Opens Tomorrow' "YOl'R TUBN TO DISCI audio Brobk Color Scope □EON ***** Uat Day! U. IM. 4. »M Peter Grave* la UQM'i "THE PIVE MAN AKMT" James Daly la Color Opeaa Tomorrow! Robert
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      1170 10 CL 2 Div. 2-6 Ft «rr« MtrUlaanl Shaw Stable ..0. Tull«h vn ay 900 «21M fbtrtua ROM Sy 813 Big Five Stable R Breuk 63«79 Elite Speeia] 3y 8 12 STT Stable Teh ***** Pelor Mm 12y 810 Wan Stable Manaor 2 Vtoojack 4y 809 Nsco
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      317 10 Estate Development Retaining Form By Our Racing Correspondent OENANG, Tues. Actor IV did the fastest I workout on a fast track hero this morning. With a riding boy astride he reeled off 3f in 39. Remember Me 111 (apprentice Wadi) covered 3f in 43 1/5 easily.
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      114 10 TOKYO. Tues (Reuter) At least 12 countries are scheduled to take part in the 10th Asian Table Tennis Championships at Nagoya. Central Japan, from April 6 to 12. the Japan Table Tennis Association said today. The association said Australia. Hong Kong, India. Indonesia. Iran.
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      55 10 LEEDS, England Tues. (Reuter) The draw for the English Rugby League Cup quarter-finals, to be played on Saturday March 7, was made here last night as follows: Castleford v. Huddersfleld or Salford. Hull King, ston Rovers v. Leeds. Huyton or Leigh v. Wigan and Doncaster or
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      313 10 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Second Division Watford, who knocked First Division giants Liverpool out of the English Football Association Cup on Saturday, were drawn against second favourites Chelsea in the semi-finals here yesterday. Football League champions Leeds United will face either Middlesbrough or Manchester
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      147 10  -  By EASTERN KNIGHT Thirty-eight player* participated in the 10th World Junior Championship held in Stockholm recently. The title went to Karpov of the Soviet Union, who went through the tournament undefeated It is interesting to note that defending champion. Kaplan, was oushed to 4th plaoe. The
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      266 10 LONDON. Tues (Reuter) Peter Osgood, the young Chelsea forward, and Manchester City mid-field star Alan Oakes have been called up to Join the England party which leaves today for the soccer international against Belgium in Brussels tomorrow. Osgood takes over from
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      171 10 The following is the Stipendiary Stewards report on Sundays Combined Professional/ Amateur meeting at Bukit Timah. Rare 4: Tromp II dislodged Pretty on the way to the starting post and galloped away. He was caught and took his place in the field. Sixth Happiness (Apprentice Allan) had
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      110 10 LIVERPOOL. England. Tues (Reuter) Arctic Actress, second favourite at 14-1 in last week's antepost betting, is to miss the Alntree Grand National, the world's greatest steeplechase. here on April 4. Trainer Miss Auriol Sinclair said yesterday Artie Actress would rest until next season after bursting
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      42 10 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Results of rugby matches played last nignt were; Rugby League Cap Second Round Replay. Leigh 3 Huyton 0 (Leigh are now at nome to Wigan in the quarter-finals on March 7>. Rugby Union Gloucester 8 Newbridge 0.
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      46 10 Paine Banned Fined LONDON, Turn. (Reuter) Southampton captain Tarry Paina, tha formar England intarnational wingar, was suspandad for thrc* waaki and finad £25 by an English Football Association disciplinary Committee meeting here yesterdsy. Paine hat had his name taken on three occasions by referees this season.
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      368 10 KYOTO. Japan, Tues. (Reuter) Indonesia, with some of the world's best badminton players, are favoured to beat Japan when they clash here tomorrow in the Asian finals of the Thomas Cup elimination round. The winner of the twoday match of nine games (five singles and
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      174 10 BANGKOK. Tues. (Reuten Former world flyweight champion Chartchal Chionoi of Tnaiiand said he was now In top physical condition for his bid to take back the title from Eflren Torres of Mexico in the title flght here on March 20. Chartchai, who lost the title to
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    357 11  -  By Little Nen« T<HE usually tough par 35-36=71 Bukit Course is expected to get o terrific battering in the four-day 1970 Singapore Open Championship which starts tomorrow and ends on Sunday. With the course playing sh6rt mainly due to the present dry
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    329 11 A goal two minutes before the final wnistle enabled Ceylon Sports Club to keep their 100 per cent unbeaten record with a 1-0 win over the Police in their fourth encounter of the SHA Division One league played at the Balestler Road ground,
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    47 11 BEVERLY HILLS. California. Tues. (UPI) Filipino lightweight Julio Tulongari. 131 pounds, scored a knockout win ove r Luis Ramirez. 130J Pound®, when referee Dick Young stopped yesterday's scheduled 10-round bout 2:44 i n the seventh because of a deep laceration over Ramirez's left eve.
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    48 11 JOHANNESBURG. Tues. (Reuter) The Australian team to plav Natal in the three-day cricket match starting a t Durban on Thur*day: W Lawry. K. Staekpole. L Redpath I. Chappell. J Irvine P Sheahan, J. Gleeson. A. Connolly. G. McKenzle. R Jordan. A. Mallett. 12th man: E. Freeman.
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    510 11 The pairings and starting times for the first round tomorrow: 8.00 Ariffin Isa (M); Teo Kim Beng ■S >; 8.08 K Ramaaamy <M). Urn Ah Hong <8); V. Nellan (M); 8.1« Abdullah Tallb (M); Savee Baki iM»; Toh Boh Heng (S»; 8.24 Urn Kian Tlong
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    113 11 LONDON. Tues. The British Open Golf championship is to be held in Scotland in thret of the next four yaars. St. Andrews Us the venue this year from July 8-11: Carnoustie will stage the event In 1872. while Troon has been chosen for tht
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    295 11 JOHANNESBURG. Tues (UPI> South Africa beat Australia by 307 run* today to take a winning 3-0 lead In the four-match series on the final day of the third cricket Test at the Wanderers Stadium. Set 486 runs to win. Australia began disastrously yesterday
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    295 11 Top Sports Award For SoldierSportsman ONE of Singapore's top soldier-sportsmen, Captain Kwan Yue Yeong, has been unaimously selected by the Singapore Rugby Union for the title of 1970's 'Sportsman of the Year'. Cap t« i n Kwan, the Singapore National Rugby Union turn's full back since 1968, could therefore add
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      251 11 Classified Ads. Engagement THE engagement is announced between Victor Chia Tong Ngee eldest son of Mr. Mrs. Henry Chla Soo Hlan* and Christine Teng Seok Eng. eldest daughter of Mr. Mrs. Teng Chin Kofc on Wednesday. 25th February. Salts Service Television Radio REDIFFUSION TELEVISION RENTALS hp CM complete range to
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      689 11 Today s Pro-am Draw The draw for the Sin- 11 Damron Aloonchai gapore pro-am golf tour- Si Sponsor 12. nament at the Bukit Afternoon: Course today. Ist Tee: 12 00 Llm Morning: Tiong St C. W. Hutson Ist Tee: 8.00 Chen T. Suzumura Si J A.L.. Chien Chung Si N.
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    470 12 LANDLORDS con now recover possession of premises protected under the Control of Rent Ordinonce for development purposes. The Controlled Promises (Special Provisions) Act, 1969, which provides for this however is restricted to landlords of controlled premises which are situated in an area designated for development,
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    168 12 SYDNEY, Tues. (Reuter) Australia could not leave South Vietnam without creating a bad psychological effect throughout Southeast Asia, according to British counter-insurgency warfare expert Sir Robert Thompson who arrived here today at the invitation of the Commonwealth government. Sir Robert who spent a month
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    83 12 TWO youths yesterday guiitv to robbing a Patrol kiosk proprietor of 60 gallons of petrol valued at *ll7, at 7.25 D.m. on Monday. The youths Hun* Sai Poh, 19 and Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad. 19. syphoned the petrol from a kiosk belonging to Ow Tiong Ong. They
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    62 12 Film actress Ll Li Hua will arrive at Pay a Lebar Airport this evening at 7.00 p.m. She and Miss Judy Jim and Mr. Chen Hwey will participate in the "Li Li Hua Show" on Feb. 27 a nd March 1 Proceeds of the show
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    72 12 A Flag Day to raise funds for charitable actl- vlties will be held by the Singapore Salvation Army on Feb. 28. The Salvation Army runs several Homes for unmarried mothers and their babies, children, boys and girls. All proceeds of the flag day will go towards running the
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    76 12 The Singapore Rotarr Club wili donate the sum of $2,000 to the Chen Su Lan Methodist Children's Home in Changi on Feb. 25. The presentation is to mark a joint celebration of its *oth anniversary and Rotary International's 65th anniversary. The donation is contributions from club
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    38 12 Contract labourer Nq Siow Soon was acquitted and discharged by a district court on a charge of stealing 36 tins of Fish ball SOUD" from the cargo vessel "Benarty" on Nov. 23 last year.
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    207 12 Fire victims of "Convent Gardens" have been given $lO relief per person in addition to a rent subsidy of $7 with a ceiling of $35 per family. The Lee Foundation donated $5 and another $5 came from government funds. They will receive two more rent subsidies
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    243 12 Lufthansa, the German airline, is to expand its services to Singapore. In a statement. Mr. A. von Hofe. the airline's Manager for Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei disclosed that from April 1, this year, Lufthansa will increase its frequency from twice a week to three times a
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    90 12 A labourer. Yeo Chwee Hock, 22. was yesterday sentencerf to on* week's jail and fined $l5O by the Ninth Court Magistrate Mr. E C. Foenander fo r stealing 26 bottles of assorted nerfumes from the Port of Singapore Authority. Yeo was alleged to have stalen the perfumes worth
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    347 12 Singapore's capacity to meet the requirements of international Arms conducting oil exploration in the region was amply demonstrated yesterday by the launching of the first locally built steel "mat" for oil drilling rigs. The steel mat measuring 210 feet in length and 170 feet in
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    196 12 CHICAGO, Tues.—Top Executives of some twenty leading American Midwest industrial corporations will explore business and investment opportunities in Singapore at a seminar here today. Willard Allan, treasurer of AMOCO International Oil Co., will explain the reasons behind AMOCO's recent decision to set up ioint
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    91 12 The SA F will conduct exercise* at th# followin* locations: Mandai Forest Reserve from 8.00 am. to 5-30 o.m. today. Pulau Bi ak an* Matj from 800 a m toda v to 12 00 midnight March 2. Pulau Tekong from 800 am. todav to 1200 noon March
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    45 12 A PEDESTRIAN Moo Soe Eng. 68 died in the Thomson Road General Hospital four hours after she collided with a bug at Sembawang Road on Monday afternoon There were a total of 69 accidents. Ave of which were described as serious on Monday.
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    152 12 CANBERRA, Tues. (Reutcr) Former British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home said today that a British Conservative party government would seek with its allies to review the whole situation in Southeast Asia. Speaking at a National Press Club Luncheon, Sir Alec said such a
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    113 12 The Crown Prince and Crown Prinr**s of Japan will begin a two-day official \isit to Singapore, tomorrow morning After the short ceremony at Paya Lebar International Airport thev will make a courtesy call on the President and First Lady Puan Noor Aishah. They will also visit
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    58 12 MR Anthony Burgess, a well-known British novelist and critic, will visit Singapore from Feb. 26 to March L Author of several books including "Time for a Tiger", Mr. Burgess will give a public lecture on the novelist as an entertainer at th# National Theatre ©n Feb. 21. All
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      77 12 TIME TIDE TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN: 1.04 a.m. (9 ft.), 6 53 a.m. (2.5 ft.), 1.05 p.m. (9.2 ft.), 7.09 p.m. (2.2 ft.). NAVAL DOCKYARD: 1.20 a.m. (10.7 ft.). 6.48 a.m. (3 ft.). 1.25 p.m. (10.9 ft.), 7.05 p.m. (2.7 ft.). TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN: 1.26 a.m. (9.2 ft.), 7.24 a.m. (2.2
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