Eastern Sun, 26 February 1970

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1276 Thursday, 26 February 1970. MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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  • 333 1 VIENTIANE, Wed. (All Agencies)-The Laotian Government today tried to arrange a ceasefire with North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao troops. A Parliamentary group sought a meeting with the "Red Prince" Communist Pathet Lao leader Prince Souvanouvong. The Speaker of the National Assembly. Prince Sobsaisana
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  • 78 1 SAIGON. Wed. (Renter) American bullets saved two Vietcong from being fleeced at cards by a third Vietcong. The Vietcong were gambling noisily when American troops appeared and opened fire. The Vietcong fled and the Americans searched the area near Tan Tru village a few miles north
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  • 202 1 GENEVA, Wed. (UP!) Alpine roads were closed and villages evacuated today as a general avalanche danger alarm was sounded in Switzerland. The avalanche outside the village of Fecklngen claimed Its 13th confirmed victim today. Seventeen people still are missing and feared dead. In the popular ski
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  • 23 1 NEW DELHI. Wed CUPI) Lightning killed a man and woman In southern Tamil Nadu on Tuesday. Another woman was seriously injured.
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  • 108 1 NOUMEA. Wed. tsrutrr) Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett will fly to Melbourne via Brisbane on Friday or Saturday by chartered plane to end 15 years in exile. The aircraft, a eight-seat Navajo hired by a Melbourne newspaper, flew into Noumea late this morning after a four-hour
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  • 141 1 NCW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Quintuplets three girts end two boys have been born to e 27-year-old woman who had been using fertility drugs. A spokesman for Columbia medical centre where they were bom said they are doing 'as well a* can be expected The five, delivered
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  • 74 1 GEORGETOWN, Wed. rßeuter) The Guyana Government has delivered a strong note of protest against Venezuelan military attack* in the border area and demanded compensation for damage. The protest note was delivered by Minister of State Shrldath Ramphal to Veneruelan Ambassador Ramon Rojas Cabot The escalation
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  • 120 1 HUNDREDS of excited fans last night jammed Singapore Airport for the arrival of Hong Kong actress LI U Hua LI LI Hua is here to star In her stage show which starts on Friday. She arrived with her daughter Madeline. 23. Hong Kong
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  • 155 1 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) The government today handed Britain's 370,000 troops, sailors and airmen pay increases of up to 60 per cent. The Increases, expected to to into effect on April 1. are designed to put servicemen's pay on a level with that of civilian workers.
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  • 345 1 LONDON, Wed. (All Agencies) Pilots throughout the world may go on strike unless governments stop Israeli- Arab airline sabot- age. The President of the International Airline Pilots Association, Capt. Ola Forsberg. said "No one has done enough about airline sabotage.** And. in Montreal today, the head
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  • 28 1 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) The next Commonwealth Prime Ministers' and Presidents' conference will be held in Singapore in January. 1971. diplomatic sources reported. (See Page 4).
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  • 191 1 SAIGON, Wed. (Reuter) A South Vietnamese military court today sentenced one Lower House Deputy to death and another to 20 years' hard labour. Hoang Ho. 54. received the the death sentence for rebellion. Tran Ngoc Chau. 46. was given 20 years for liaising with his Communist
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  • 175 3 LAI KHE, South Vietnam, Wed. (Reuter) —The United States Army today presented a large base camp to South Vietnamese forces guarding the ncrthern approaches to Saigon. Ihe big base was handed over by the American I rst Infantry division the Big Red One to
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  • 47 3 SAIGON. Wed. (Reuter)— Ameri-an trooPs operating in the South Vietnamese roastai province of Binh Dinh tocav unearthed arother big V:etcong arms dumo. The four-ton munitions ca-he. was found near the spot where a large r dump weighine seven tors was discovered on Tuesday.
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  • 66 3 A LAOTIAN REFUGEE FATHER has his hands full as he looks after his children in Ban Veunkham. The latter is a resettlement village 20 miles east of Vientiane The 427 families living there are among 16,000 refugees from the Plain of Jars. North Vietnamese troops had recently seized control of
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  • 81 3 JABALPUF. India. Wed. (Reuter) Two American schoolboys, sitting on the roof of a passenger train, were killed when their heads hit a steel girder of a river bridge near here last night, police said yesterday. They added the boy s Fred Bornag. 16. and
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  • 81 3 WASHINGTON. Wed. The U.S. Senate is worried about the effect of Washingtons soaring crime rate on foreign relations. It yesterday passed a bill to provide round-the-clock police protection for the 117 embassies here. The bill, requested by the Nixon Administration, would add up to 600 men
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  • 217 3 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) A British television documentary last night recounted the problems of South-East Asia's Chinese community. It concluded that in many instances, it was victimised. The programme, entitled, "The Quiet Invasion", was shown by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The camera crew visited Singapore,
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  • 334 3 NEW YORK, Wed. (UPI) —Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman yesterday declared his support for the Nixon doctrine in Asia "for the time being." He warned that Asian nations would have to establish security arrangements with each other in the future. There are presently 50,000 American
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  • 73 3 TOYAMA. Japan. Wed. (UPI) The body of a 6-year-old girl kidnapped on Monday afternoon was found yesterday afternoon, she was in a cardboard box in a vacant lot in this city in north-western Japan. The victim wa s Yuk Ko Yamada. daughter of Kinichl Yamada. 38. a factory
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  • 288 3 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Homeless Kenya Asians, detained here after arriving with British passports but no entry permits are likely to win their fight to stay in Britain, informed sources said yesterday. The Home Office (Interior Ministry is giving urgent study to each individual
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  • 226 3 Student Held In TortureSlaying MANILA, Wed. (UPI) A Filipino law student has been accused of murder in the torture-slaying last July. An 18-year-old Judge's son was tied to the rear of a vehicle and dr.'igcfed on the ground. His kneecaps and toes were drilled with holes. The victim. Teodoro Manzana.
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  • 179 3 CA L C UTTA, Wed. (Reuter) Communist revolutionary students, hurled home-made bombs and brandished words and revolvers. They stormed Calcutta University yesterday and set fire to the students' union office. The invasion came as other students staged a one-day strike In protest against an attack
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  • 29 3 JAKARTA. Wed. (Reuter) —An oil tanker of the Indonesian state owned P«rtamina Oil Company has blown in the Komering River. South Sumatra, killing five people.
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  • 96 3 JAKARTA, Wed (AFP) —A 40-year-old French national, G. Fraboulet, assistant manager of the French manufacturing agent Optorg, was accused in a Jakarta court yesterday of "committing torture" by hitting an Indonesian employee. The prosecutor charged that on July 17 last year, Fraboulet hit the Indonesian
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  • 336 3 WITH OR WITHOUT PERMIT- MANILA. Wed. (Reuter) —One of the largest Philippines student and youth movements is to go ahead with a rally In central Manila tomorrow—even though Mayor Antonio Villegas has banned it. The move was the latest in a series of student
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  • 190 3 MOSCOW, Wed. (Reuter) Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik left here by air for Katmandu today. He completed a five-day official visit to the Soviet Union and talks on resumed Soviet economic aid to his country. He was seen off at Moscow's Sheremyetovo Airport by Deputy
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  • 287 4 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart says if Britain cannot get reasonable terms for joining the European "Common Market" it will stay out. "We could and would stand the consequences," he said. "But it would be to the injury of us
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  • 78 4 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Beatle Paul McCartney has joined neiehbours in complaining about the girls who gather outside hit house at night. "Things reach a head every weekend. with dotens of teenagers, mainly girls, there in droves," police said: McCartney lodged a complaint against the girls. "We
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  • 115 4 NEW YORK. Wed. (Reuter) President Nixon has agreed to sell Israel 25 more Phantom J eta provided there Is no halt In the Middle East arms race, CBS says CBS said a decision will be announced early next month. The report said: "CBS has learned
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  • 215 4 LONDON, Wod. (Rautor) Tha Egyptian Embassy in London holpod a former British Army captain in a SSi million plot to blow up an II Al airliner Oxford Court was told today. Trefor Owen Williams. 40. pleaded not guilty to two charges of
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  • 73 4 DOVER. Wed (Reuter> An Italian girl. Louisa Palomba. 20. was saved from drowning by her maxicoat after she fell ofT a cross-channel ferry Miss Palomba. from Milan. was picked up by the Dutch coaster JenJo after spending 15 minutes in near-freezing water. She said "It
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  • 252 4 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) The "ommonwealth will make another try today to fix a data and place for the next summit conference of its 28 presidents and Prim« Ministers. Commonwealth High Commissioners and British officials meet at the Commonwealth Secretariat to report their government's views on the
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  • 111 4 PRAGUE. Wed. <UPI) Czechoslovak Communist Party First Secretary Gustav Husak says "all legal means" apparently Including trials—will be used Salnit liberal opponents the regime. Husak said. however, there would be no political trials Involving "fabrications and trumped-up charges "We shall use all legal means for
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  • 91 4 ROME. Wed. (Reuter) About 1.300 Italian riot police poured onto the campus of Rome University today to break up a battle between thousands of left-wing and neofascist students. The flchtlng. which left several students and at least two policemen injured. began when crowd
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  • 60 4 PARIS. Wed. (UPI) Police at Orly Airport today reported the theft of more than Ssl 2 million worth of gold bars from the safe of an airport shipping company. The 350-kllogram <2.2 lb.) bars, which were to have been shipped to Saudi Arabia, were
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  • 65 4 LONDON. Wed. 'Reuter* Fifteen conservative MP's today tabled a motion In the House of Commons expressing concern that the Queen and Prince Charles will be flying In the same aircraft during the royal visit to New Zealand. The MP's, headed by Mrs. Jill Knight, asked
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  • 102 4 ADEN Wed. <Reuter> The Aden news agencv claims Saudi Arabia Is massing troops along Its borders with the Southern Yemen Republic. The agency quote<j what It called a reliable source as saying three brigades of Saudi troops are being concentrated Just across the border. The
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  • 170 4 EAST BERLIN. Wed.(Banter) Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko is in East Berlin (or talks probably connected with and a proposed summit between East and West Germany. The East German news agency ADZ gave no reason for Mr. Gromyko's visit. But the main East German Communist Party
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  • 480 5 v RASHES GTON, Wed. (Reuter) President 8 for a modest increase in IS. anti-ballistic missile defences today appeared to have run into trouble in Congress. Some key senators were in out- right opposition. Congressional sources Mid the administration was in for another
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  • 57 5 CORO. Venezuela, Wed. CUPI) Venezuela s o.'dest woman died here Monday *t the age of 126. national news agency, Innac. reported yesterday. Edith de Chlrmo< lived in the small town of Quiragua in tne mountains of Falcon state. She outlived her hust>and. Emeterlo Chlrlnos. who died at
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  • 525 5  -  Ann Landers HEAR Ann: Do I owe our host and hostess an George and I were invited to dinner by a couple we knew only casually through George's work The dinner was in their home just the four of us After dinner our host
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  • 509 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) French President Pompidou delighted with his welcome from President Nixon faces a cooler reception today from Congress when he appears to explain his foreign policy. Some congressmen say they will boycott the joint session of the Senate and
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  • 300 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Rfutfr) —Negro congressman Charles Diggs and Georgia Governor Lester Maddox had an angry exchange In the House of representatives dining room here today. It happened after the segregationist southern executive handed out autographed axe —handles to the staff. The axe-handles wer® souvenirs
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  • 83 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) French President Pompidou yesterday came out in favour of longer skirts. He was asked at a National Press Club lunch whether he was confused by the divergencies among French fashion houses between mini and maxi skirts. "You know, I am beyond the age
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  • 93 5 CHICAGO. Wed (UPI) Public health officials at OHare International Airport will try to place under surveillance any passengers that have Just from Nigeria. It was learned Monday. The Us. Public Health Service programme was begun to prevent introduction into the United States of a deadly viral disease called,
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  • 153 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. <Reu|f f| The C.S. Supreme Court refused yesterday to near a law su it by a widow She claimed heavy smoking killed her husband through lung cancer The courts refusal to consider the appeal of Mrs. Edwin Green ended her 13-year attempt
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  • 88 5 W ASHINGTON Wed. 'Reuter) Defence Secretary Melvln Laird said yesterday that base reductions at more than 100 U S military installations will be announced within the next 10 days Laird also told a press conference that some reductions in US. armed forces would be announced at the
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  • 171 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) many doctors who prescribe birth control pills are more concerned about the population explosion than the welfare of their patients, an American senator claimed yesterday. Senator Gay lord Nelson'* Senate Business SubCommittee today began a second series of hearings on
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  • 161 5 MANILA, Wed. (UPI) Typhoon Nancy swirled towards the central Philippines today with 115-mile-an-hour peak winds. Weathermen raised the storm alert over heavily populated areas, including Manila. Nancy, the first typhoon to threaten the Philippines this year, was estimated bv weather-trackers to be about 59 miles north-east
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  • 108 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Heater) The Supreme Court has cleared the way for pay television throughout the United States. The court announced yesterday it would not grant a hearing to opponents of coin-in-the-slot television. They are trying to prevent it expanding from the present experimental system in
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  • 834 6 r[E relations between Indonesia and the Soviet Union, to put it mildly, have been tenuous for the last five years. Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik has Just concluded his flve-day visit to Moscow undertaken with the specific purpose of doing some patchwork job. From the reports coming
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  • 886 6  -  By William Forrest, Gemini News Service LONDON: Most of us who know thi couple could hove sworn that this time the wedding was going to come off. I mean the wedding of Mr. John Bull and Miss Europa. True, the terms of the marriage settlement have
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  • 744 6  -  •r Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON Despite the disastrous precedents of 1919 and 1938, President Nixon is planning to intervene in a big way in the coming off-year congressional election. To those close to him, he explained this extraordinary gamble on the ground that "deep currents" are now
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  • 436 6  -  •y William MacPharson OTTAWA, (Rauttr) Canada's new foreign aid programme riprestnh a r «at from itt ultimate spending target. .w For el,n aid Pending for he lscal *ear beginning April l, 1970 was estimated In parliament at figures which represent less than half of one percent of
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  • 557 6  -  ly Merriman Smith UPI White House Reporter WASHINGTON, (UPI) President Nixon, assuredly without wanting to, is beginning to suffer from an ailment which plagued his predecessor, Lyndon B. Johnson credibility gap. There are. however, some now angles. For one thing. Nixon's credibility or lack thereof
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  • 115 6 .Let lei's... Mv eon V>»* Informed me that hi* school has urged the children to keep the school clean, yvash their hards when dirty, brush thei r teeth and so on. All this is Vfrv commendable. However he also ruefully told me that he cannot wash
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 447 7 ixchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday was steadier on improved sentiment. Price movements war# reversed and a larga majority returned to around Monday's levels. Interest was again mainly can trad on Hit lowar priced industrials after a rather dull opening Newly-listed Fadaral Cablas held
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    • 1018 7 DUSI NESS done in and reported to the trading rooms ot the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore umber «hares in brackats in lots o* 1,000 units unlass otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS Acma $2 29 (2) $2.2* (3); Alcan Industries $2.04 (4) $2.03 16) $2.05 13) $2.06 (n $207
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    • 35 7 KYOTO, Japan, Wed. < UPI) More than 60 representative* of various airline companies of the world met In this ancient Japanese capital yeaterday for the 10th International Air Transport Awociatlon lATA) nubile relations conference.
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    • 706 7 BID 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 INDUSTRIALS B. SArma 2.-'8 Akan Industrie* -08 2 09 Ben Co 178 1-80 Borneo Bhd 1.76 177 Camel Phuood 145
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    • 313 7 MARCH first grade rubber buyers cle»ed at o p.m., in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 63-i cents per lb-, up seven eighths of cent from the pevious ciose The tone of the maiket was quiet and slightly steadier. The market ruled steadier during the morning
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    • 65 7 TOKYO. Wrd (UPI) Nissan Motor Co., maker of Datgun cars, has taken the first step toward absorbing ore of its una Her competitors the Asahi newspaper said Tuesday. The oaper *ajH agreemert ha=; been reached m principle for Ni**an Isuzu Motor Co. to co-operate" in production
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    • 100 7 THfc ntion trtrw at the Mfitapore I hinfw Pr«Klo«» > ea rhantr te»trrda» were Btorr MM iucnnut Oil A3 00 OOB.) rill Ik (Joeunul till (FOB-) llrum s: so Mi*e«1 nan M W Muni ok WJille Pepp#r <F-0.fr I lftt AO Mrawnk While Pepprr 1W 00 (f n B
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    • 80 7 *•> <H\I<IKKH> 1 Ml 1 Ml 1*1 > 8 Growth 1 and 1 IU 1-14 %!*l% 1 Ml 1IC4 >1» Mtl ln»»*st Fund 1 Jt 1 S7 *.|N». U'OKK 1 Ml 1 HL'Bl f l*t glnjaporr 190 Sntf Mngapore II 3rd 143 Tht Com Ind. Ira 1-11 The
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    • 129 7 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) Wednesday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Uchange an« lnvestment Ltd.): BUYERS SELLEHS per 100 Straits dollars 195 196 143 5 144 5 per 1,000 Taiwan do'lar§ 6 755 6 765 per Australian dollar 330 350 per 1,000 Burmese kyats 150 170
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    • 456 7 PRICE DROP PREDICTED LONDON, Wed. (AFP) Tin production will tend to overtake consumption during the next decade, and price* will drop from their present levels of around £1,530 a metric ton to within the range of £l,lBO- according to W. Robertson,
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    • 100 7 NEW YORK Wed. <UPT) Gold prices were mostly unchanged in routine trading Tuesday on markets here and abroad. In London, gold remained unchanged at the morning fixing but rose 1/2 cent for second fixing of 34 98 a troy ounce. It closed in a range of 35.00
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    • 141 7 LONDON, WM. UPII Industrial shares drifted lower on the stock market. Tuesday when buyers held off and lower profits from Unilever Ltd., dampened enthusiasm. British government bonds, however, tacked on fractional gains on hopes of lower interest rates. A forecast from the Charterhouse Financial group
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    • 78 7 NEW YORK. Wed. 'UPI> Major stock market indicators finished in opposite directions Tuesday, although the number of Issues advancing held almost a 7-to-5 advantage over declines. Trading was moderate. At the final bell, the UPI market wide indicator showed a gain of 0.18 per cent on 1.605
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    • 76 7 MANILA. Wed. ißeuter) South Vietnam and the Philippines have started negotiations fo r a bilateral air services agreement. Foreign Under-Secretary Jose Ingles said during the opening ceremonies on Monday the development of international air transport was part of the Philippines drive to expand trade and promote tourism.
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    • 61 7 LONDON. Wed. <UPI) Rubber market closed quietly steady yesterday with spot 21]. 221. (Settlement Hourse) April 22-1/4, 224 May 22-3/8 22-9/18 June 22-7/10. 22-5/8. April/June 22-3 8. 22-9/16. July/£ept 22-1/2. 22-5 8 Oct Dec. Jan March and April' June 22-9/18. 22-5/8. July/Sept 22-1 2. 22-5 8. Oct
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    • 61 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Rubber futures closed unchanged to 35 points higher on the New York Commodity Exchange Tuesday on no sales. Close Prev Mar 24 60 24 25 May 24.60 24 25 July 24 60 24.25 Sep 24.008 24.00 Nov 23.90 2390 Jan 24.60 24.25 Mar 2460
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    • 40 7 NEW YORK. Wed. <UPI> Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 Industrials 754.42 20 Transp 170.94 15 Utilities 110.97 65 Btocks 252 55 40 Bonds 69 01 Commodity futures Index 135.07 off 0.85.
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    • 340 7 Closing Prices AS .v.. .<• SYDNEY, Wed. (UPI) —Share prices continued to slump on the Sydney stock exchange Wednesday although there were signs that buyers were slowly re- entering the market. Trading w as quiet but speculative share prices were stlli drastically reduced Poseidon fell A 57.00 to
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    • 13 7 The tin price for yesterday was $668.00 per picul, up $1.25.
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    • 272 7 The Port of Singapore Authority ha* mad* the following berthing arrangements for today. Thursday. February 20. DEPARTURES God owns Vessel* 1 2 President Taylor 3 4 Helenu, 5 Nikkohsan Maru 13/14 Trier 15/16 Borussia 18 Leda Maerak IP Rypkai Maru 20 EAST Salinda 23/24 T a Per,
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    • 458 7 ARBIVAIJI 815 am. M-A 123 K Lumpur 9 4.lam MSA 110 ft. Lumpur 12.30 pm. M0A451 Kuchlng 230 pm MSA Otl K Lumpur. Malacca f.2spm. MSA 453 k klnabalu 340 d m MSA 521 Bangkok. Panans 5 40'pm MSA 865 Manila 710 pm. MSA 02? K Lumpur. Malacca
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  • 881 8 Special feature on the Official Visit of His Imperial Highness, Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko of Japan. SINGAPORE today rolls out tha red carpat for Japan's Crown Prince Akihito and his lovely consort, Crown Princess Michiko. Their t w o-d
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 120 8 Programme Thursday. 26th Feb 11.00 a m. Arrival Ceremony at Singapore International Airport. 11.50 am Courtesy call on President and Puan Noor Alshah. 1.00 pm. Private lunch at the Istana. 3.00 pm. Visit Jurong Town Corporation 4 30 p m. Tour of Singapore Waterfront. 800 pm. Banquet bv the Prime
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    • 521 9 Excltement was in the air. The corporal was shouting from one to five, while we guys rushed about to our places. The parade square on a Saturday Is always a picturesque sight. Before the corporal had finished counting, we were already In position. After
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    • 277 9 AS an old proverb says: "Fire, when under control, is a friend of man, but when it is not under control or when man loses his power in controlling it, it becomes his enemy This proverb is true, for fire is of great use to
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    • Article, Illustration
      243 9 ONE night a lone traveller was walking along a winding lane when he was caught in a storm He found a shelter and it happened to be an inn. The traveller knocked for admission but no one came to open the door After knocking for a few
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    • 182 9 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN'S new essay uniting contest for boys and firls of 14 and under appears la this page every Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And what better way to
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  • 227 10  -  By Our Racing Correspondent pENANG, Wed. Bukit Timah trainer Colin Tulloh't Star Writ (Nawari), Glen Larmonic (Podmore) and Bright Sky (apprentice Foo) were associated in an interesting half mile workout on good going here today. Starting from the half mile post, the trio clapped
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  • 138 10 NEW DELHI. Wed (Reuter> Jaideep Mukherjea. India's number two-seed, has been dropped from the Davta Cup tennl* team to play Pakistan at Patna next month. Mr. R. K. Khanna. honorary secretary of the AllIndia Lawn Tennis Association, yesterday announced the names of Ave players from
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  • 107 10 SANTIAGO, Chile. Wed. (Reuter) Godfrey Stevens. Argentinian featherweight who failed earlier this month In an attempt to win the World Boxing Association s version of the world title, now hopes to win the World Boxing Council's championship. Argentine promoter Manuel Sojit said here that
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  • 805 10 PRETORIA, Wed. (UPI) South Africa's Opposition, the United Party roundly lashed Dr. Vorste^s Government for its refusal to grant Japanese jockey ueo Mazusawa a visa to enter South Africa to ride in an invitational race Tuesday. The move was seen as giving In
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  • 419 10  -  Thomas-Cup y Leslie Nakashima KYOTO. Japan, We<L (UPI> Indonesia took a commanding 3-1 lead over Japan today by splitting the two singles and winning the two doubles matches on the first day of the twoday Thomas Cup badminton Asian sone finals. The Indonesians now need to
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  • 519 10 JAKARTA, Wed. (Hauler) The managing director of an Australian syndicate which is promoting the first race track for 30 years in Indonesia says it will fill the entertainment gap in this South-East Asian capital. Already bulldozers have carved out a 10-furlong
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  • 179 10 JOHANNES BURG, Wed (Reuter) Captain Ali Bacher warned cricket fans here against undue criticism of the Australian team after leading South Afriaa to an overwhelming victory in the third Test yesterday "We must remember that South Africa has been in the same position as the
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  • 160 10 JOHANNESBURG. Wed. (Router.) Trevor Goddard, who helped crush Australia in the third Cricket "est yesterday, will not play for South Africa in the fourth and final Test at Port Elizabeth starting on March 5. Goddard. who took three wickets lor 27 runs yesterday. was not
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 654 11  - Woolbank Seah Win Pro-am Title By Little None 'TIM WOOLBANK, on unattached professional from Sydney and Seah Keng Siew, a 17 handicapper of SICC, carded a bast-ball 29-31 60 eleven under-par to win tha pro-am championship at tha Bukit Course yestardav, a decimal in front of Canada Cup player Suchin
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    • 167 11 LONDON, Wed—Jackie Stewart, Britain's world champion motor racing driver, will head the field in the 21st Daily Express—G.K.N, international trophy meeting at Silverstone on April 26 This will be the first big competition between Formula One, Grand Prix cars and Formula 5.000 single-seaters.
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    • 83 11 SANTIAGO. Chile. Wed. (Reuter) Godfrey Stevens. Argentinian featherweight who failed earlier this month in an attempt to win the World Boxing Association's version of the world title, now hopes to win the W'orld Boxing Council's championship. Argentine promoter Manuel Sojit said here that Stevens
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    • 471 11 60; T. Woolbank and Seah Keng Biew (29-31). 61: 8. Suvanapong and N.N. Handa (30-31). 62 T. Wono and K.C. Gllson (31-31>. F. Ishll and Jurong Shipyard (30-32), A. Murray and H Knaggs <32-30i. Teo Kim Seng and A. Liboff <3l-31). 63: M. Matsuda and D. Neill (30-33>.
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    • 380 11 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) The United State* Oolf Association. concerned over the resurgence of "Calcutta Pool*" at country clubs has called for a crackdown on (ambling within the golfing establishment. Philip Strublng. Preaident of the UBOA. said at a news conference yesterday
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    • 84 11 RANGOON. Wed. «Reuter) —The visiting East German soccer club. Magdeburg, last night drew one-all against a national vouth selection team In a friendly match neve before a crowd of 20 000. Magdeburg scored the first goal ten minutes into the second half. But five minutes
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    • 55 11 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Results of English Football League matches played last night were: Division Two Birmingham 2, Bolton 0. Huddersfleld 1. Oxford 0. postponed from Feb. 14). Sheffield United 2. Queens PR 0. (postponed from Feb. 21). Watford 1. Mlllwall 1. (postponed from Feb 11 >. Division
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    • 244 11 HONG KONG, Wed. (Reut.r) Fir# leading golfers on the Asian circuit have withdrawn from the Hong Kong Open championship from March 26 to 29 to play in the mora prestigious and valuable United States Masters' tournament in Georgia. The Asian circuit coordinator,
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    • 124 11 Defending champion* Jansenltes collected two more points Then they edged the Singapore Recreation Club 1-0 in a division one league hockey match played at the Padang yeaterday. They are now in second Poaitlon In the table with nine pomta from alx outings. The deciding goal came
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    • 126 11 Sixteen teams will take part in the Singapore Government Services Football knock-out competition which commences on Monday. The teams are: PWD, Police 'A' and *B\ Armed Forces. AUPE, Port Authority R.C., Singapore Fire Brigade, Govt. Printing. Vigilante Corps. Woodbridge Hospital. Postals. Singapore University, Singapore Teachers Union.
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    • 62 11 NEW YORK. Wed. (Reuter> Pete Brown, with winnings of U5531,921 (about £13.300) continues to lead the earnings list on the 1970 U.B. golf circuit, the Professional Golfers Association reported today. No golfer has won more than once in the seven tournament* played so far. Brown
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    • 96 11 CARACAS, Wed. (UPIf Mexican lightweight Cerardo Ferrat will meet Venezuela's Jose Acosta in the 10-round main event of next Friday's boxing programme at the Nuevo Clrco boxing ring. Acosta. Venezuelan Junior lightweight champion, later will meet eighth-ranked Japanese fighter Oshlro Shlbata in Tokyo April 1, It
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    • 16 11 LONDON. Wed. UPI) fefUfid beat W» s M—7 1® a Ru*by international last night.
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  • 61 12 LEO BANG QUEE was yesterday sentenced to a week's jail and find $75 by the Ninth Court Magistrate Mr. Ec. Foenander for stealing four bottles of 'Lanvln' perfume worth $72 from the Port of Singapore Authority wharf. He was alleged to have stolen the perfume
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  • 200 12 Singapore's reputation for high standards of workmanship in shipbuilding might be lost If shipyards continue to increase at the present "alarming rate". This warning came from Mr. D. W. Sltwell, General Manager of Vosper Thornycroft Uniteers Private Ltd. during his talk on the "export aspects of shipbuilding
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  • 541 12 United Nations city planning experts assisted by local planners are currently holding "closed door" meetings for two weeks to study plans to make Singapore a city for the 21st Century. The closed-door session which started yesterday at the Eusoff College, University of Singapore, was
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  • 450 12  -  By Peter Ong LOSING his suitcase during a business trip to Trinidad two years ago was th« best thing that ever happened to notel executive Mr. Jurg E. Tuscher. Unknown to him, it was to result in his meeting the woman he is to marry
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  • 104 12 WELLINGTON. Wed. <Reuter) Socialists from ten countries are meeting here next week to discuss the formation of a regional liaison headquarters In Singapore, the New Zealand Labour Partv said today. They are members of Socialist International, a Lon-don-based international association of 54 democratic Labour and Socialist
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  • 196 12 KUALA LUMPUR Wed. Malaysia-Singapore Airlines will Introduce a new dally mid-day flight Unking Singapore. Bangkok and Hong Kong as from April 1. The Boeing 737 flight, known as the Executive Luncheon Jet, leaves Singapore at 12.35 pm. and arrives In Hong
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  • 443 12 Captain Goh Choo Keng 31, becomes the first Singaporean, since the past 150 years, to heed the Merino Department. He officially assumes duty today as tho Acting Director of Marine after taking over the post from Captain D. T. Brown, who
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    • 80 12 TIME TIDE TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN: 126 a.m. < 9.2 ft). 7.24 am (2.2 ft.). 141 p.m. (8.8 ft.). 7.35 pm. (2.7 ft.). NAVAL DOCKYARD: 144 a.m. (10.7 ft.). 7.18 am. <26 ft.). 200 p.m. <10.5 ft.). 7.34 p.m. (3.4 ft.) TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN: 151 a m (9.2 fet) 8.01 a.m.
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