Eastern Sun, 28 February 1970

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  • 22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY <& Estd. 1968. Vol. 4 No. 1278 Saturday, 28 February 1970. ft MC(P) 1618 Price 15 cents
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  • 462 1 ]y|ANILA, Fri. (All Agencies) An arsenol of firearms and home-made bombs were today seized from a Manila University. At least 40 people including three professors were taken to police headquarters for questioning. Police seized a shotgun, .38 calibre revolvers, a .22 calibre revolver and
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  • 108 1 NEW YORK. Fri. (UPI) Police have filed charges against roar Arkansas people who beat two relatives because they believed they were witches. Victims of the beatings Mrs. Sheila Gannon. 28, and her sister Cindy Pere*. 16 said their attackers thought they had cast a spell on
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  • 181 1 HONG KONG, Fri. (AFP) —The China-Russia border talks have still made no progress, according to diplomatic sources in Peking. Reports from Peking say that neither the Russians nor the Chinese are now making any secret of the fact that they have made no progress. The negotiations started
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  • 33 1 NEW DELHI, m. (Router) The Indian Government today Introduced a bill in Parliament to renationalis« 14 major Indian banks after earlier legislation on their take-over was declared void by the Supreme Court
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  • 80 1 SAIGON. Fri. <UPI) Terrorists tonight detonated a 20 lb. plastic bomb outside CS. quarters in the heart of Saigon. At least five people, including two Americans, were wounded. The blast happened about 8.15 p m <n a petrol station next door to the Metropole bachelor enlisted
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  • 313 1 LAOS DIGS IN-55-MILE FRONT VIENTIANE, Fri. (UPI) Major General Vang Pao Has positioned his guerrilla army in hills south of the Plain of Jars to stop an advance by 20,000 North Vietnamese. Sources said Maj. Gen. Vang Pao had entrenched his troops along a 55-mile front in the hills north
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  • 83 1 Middle East Flights: Crew Can Say No LONDON. Fri. (UPI) British European Airways has told Its stewards and stewardesses they do not have to fly to the Middle East If they do not want to. Two cabin staff immediately took up the offer and withdrew from flights. But other members
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  • 129 1 WASHINGTON. Fri. (Reuter)— The Defence Department today listed 193 U.S. airmen missing or captured in Laos. It was one of the few acknowledgements of the extent of American Involvement there. The figures cover operations back to 1961. Defence Secretary Melvln Laird, said however, there had been
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  • 320 1 SAIGON, Fri. (Rcuter) South Vietnamese Deputy Tran Ngoe Chau will get a new trial on Monday. The same five-man military court which sentenced him to 20 years hard labour on Wednesday, will Judge the new trial. Chau will be retried because the sentence waa handed
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  • 18 1 SAIGON. Tri. (Reuter) Twp American Air Force majors ha\> charged with smuggling narcotic* into South Vietnam.
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  • 130 1 BANGKOK, Fri. (AFP) Malaysian troops have tat up a base in Thailand and ar« harassing the local population naar Hatyai, Bangkok newspaper* said today. The papers said two Thai officers, were told bv villagers that 50 Malaysian troopa had established a base in a remote
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  • 40 1 AUCKLAND. Frl. (UFI> Seven men trapped underground since a tunnel cavein on Tuesday were brought to the surface today. Five were unhurt. whila the other two had to be carried to waiting helicopters to be taken to hospital.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 187 2 SINGER Angela Hyun believes in "telling if like if is" when it come* to show-time. With a deep, powerful voice that ranges almost two octaves, Angela hat developed her own style of singing which includes physical movements that give vent to her emotions
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  • 177 2 Foi the first time since its inception 20 years ago, the Teachers' Training College will celebrate Foundation Day on March 3. It will commemorate 20 years of progress, growth and adaptation to the expanding educational system and changing needs of education in Singapore. A weelc-long programme
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  • 50 2 KUCHING. Fri. Another round-the-clock curfew has been clamped down in Sarawak, this tim« in certain areas of the Sarikei district in the third division. A similar curfew imposed in certain ©arts of Kuching and the Serian district in the first division on Tuesday morning, is still in lorce.
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  • 27 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri The resumption of elections in the East Malaysia would depend on the security situation, the Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman said today.
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  • 78 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The Director of the AntiCorruption Agency. Enche Harun bin Hashim. replying to a question by the Democratic Action Party last Tuesdav said the new law on corruption spelt out clearly that it also applied to Cabinet Ministers political secretaries ana members of
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  • 737 2 LEE OFFERS NTUC AS SITE FOR REGIONAL OFFICE T ONDON, Fri. (Reuter)—The World Socialitt movement it about to launch a twopronged drive aimed at gaining millions of converts in the Asia-Pacific and Latin Ame- rican areas. The first action takes piece next Wednesday In Wellington,
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  • 161 2 A fifth victim of the Chap Goh Meh fire, Chong Yea Kiat, 41, died in th« General Hospital, yesterday. Chong, a father of five children had been in coma for the past on© week, suffering from firecracker burns. On Chap Goh Meh
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  • 31 2 Lim Leon* Seng, tliaf Lim Leong Chihg. 36. was yesterday sentenced to 18 months jail bv the Fourth District Court Judge. Mr. Dalip Singh, for participating in Chap Ji Kee.
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  • 115 2 KUCHING, Fri. (AFP) Over 100 detainees at the Centre of Protective Custody here may soon call-off their 17-day-old hunger strike, it was learned here today Their legal adviser, Mr. Stephen Yong, who is also the secretary general of the Sarawak United Peoples Party (SUPP)
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  • 59 2 KUCHING Fri (AFP) Several Communist suspects have been arrested following a mopplne uo operation mounted by Security Forces in several area* in the third administrative division of Sarawak, it wag learned here todav The actual number arrested i* not known. The 24-hour curfew imposed in certain Darts
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  • 37 2 A motorcyclist Tan Soon Liat 40 died In the General Hospital, following a road accident with a bus along Middle Road, yesterday. There were a total of 40 other accidents of which Av> were serious.
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  • 46 2 A lorry driver from West Malaysia. Abdul Ghani bin Mohanied Amin. 30, was yesterday fined $2OO or two months' jail by a District Judge when he admitted offering ore dollar to a Customs officer to expedite the clearance of his Customs Fishery permit.
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  • 312 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Tk* Deputy Prime Minister and Director of Operations, Tun Abdul Resale, disclosed today that lie would lead the Malaysian delegation to the conference of foreign ministers of Muslim countries in Jed- dah. The three-day conference will begin on March
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  • 116 2 RADIO Singapore u starting a nf>w fortnightly s»n»» called "Enquiry" in the English Service. Each half-hour feature will spotlight a Particular facet of life in tha Republic «nd will discuss tha matter in depth. Every fortnight, the series will he broadcast a t 7.15 p m
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  • 66 2 LOVE at first sight ten years ago culminated in this couple's wedding in Singapore on Thursday. The bride, the former Chandra Nanikran, is a graduate of the Indian College of House Nursing while the groom Moti Hassaram Vaswani, is the son of Mr. W. Hassaram.
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  • 53 2 KUALA LUMPER, Fri. Four Royal Malaysian Air Force officers will leave for the United State* tomorrow f°r a six-month squadron officers' course at the Maxwell Air Force base in Alabama. Thev are Flight Liuetenants N Rajaretnam. Salleh Hodarl and Aw Yong Tian Tek and Flying Officer
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  • 128 2 KUANTAN. Frt. The Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak disclosed here today that the Canadian government would aoon be sending a consultant to make a feasibility study of the $2 5 million Pahang Tenggara land scheme. He said the consultant would also help the government
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  • 121 2 IPOTT. Fri. Two men and a 14-year-old schoolgirl were killed in three separate road accidents in Ferak yesterday. The schoolgirl, Umml Kalsom binte Lebai Mat, died on the spot when her bicycle was involved In an accident with a motor van at the Mrd
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  • 51 2 REGISTRATION new open to those who wtsh to enrol for the Adulf Education Board s 12-week course on "Introduction to Fashion Designing" The course commences on March 19 and will be held at the Cultural Centre from 5.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. e v ®ry Thursday. The fee is
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  • 83 2 A SMILING group of leaders of Singapore's Boys Brigade present their tribute to Major General O.N.H. Tyacke, who relinquished the post of General Officer Commanding, Singapore District yesterday. Major General Tyacke has been en enthusiastic supporter of activities by Singapore Youth Groups and Hat placed the
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  • 133 2 KUALA LUMP UK, Frt. "Hie former Chief Minister of Sarawak and chairman of the 6arawak National Party. Date Stephen Kalong Ningkan today saV he has "great respect" for the Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman. "The Tunku li a very sincere man and deserved respect
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  • 160 3 WASHINGTON, Fr i. (UPI) Federal investigators are hunting a criminal ring said to be responsible for charging 290,000 U.S. dollars worth of merchandise on stolen credit cards in the past two months. A special report made to the U.S. attorney's office and revealed yesterday
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  • 146 3 JAMMU, Kashmir, Fri. (Reuter —More than 20 police were injured in battles with stone-throw-ing demonstrators here yestetiay. The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly meanwhile discussed the "deteriorating law and order situation" in Jammu Province. About 100 demonstrators were arrested after armed police fired 150 teargas shells to break
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  • 140 3 MANILA, Fri. (UPI)— Typhoon Nancy moved away from the Philippines early today with much of its punch lost. Three persons were killed and seven others were missing when the off-season howler knived through Sama* Island about 240 miles southeast of Manila, according to reports reaching here. The
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  • 136 3 JAKARTA, Fri. {Reuter) One thousand people, many of them naked tribesmen still living in the Stone Age, are reported to have died from Hong Kong Flu in West Irian, the Indonesian half of New Guinea. Dr Sudjarwo. the Deputy Minister for West Irian Affairs, told reporters
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  • 73 3 MANILA. Fri. 'UPI) Four Filipino suspects were charged yesterday for an attempted robbery of the commissary at dark U.S. Air Force Base. A fifth member of the alleged zang was killed by a security guard. The four were charged In the neighbouring Angeles City flscal's (prosecutor's office)
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  • 116 3 FARMINGDALE, New York, Fri. (UPI) Deposed world heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay said yesterday total separation of blacks from whites is the only solution' to curing America's racial problems. Clay addressed more than 1 000 students at the State University Agricultural and Technical College. ALso known
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  • 105 3 WASHINGTON, Frl. UPI) The Justice Department yesterday announced the arrest of 22 persons in a round-up of 40 alleged heroin wholesalers and dealers in Oklahoma. California and Texas. Attorney General John Mitchell said nine persons were still being sought. Nine others named in the two sealed Indictments
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  • 213 3 TOKYO, Fri. (Reuter) —Japan is continuing negotiations with Malaysia for approval to carry out a full-scale survey of the Malacca Straits' capacity to handle large vessels, the Foreign Ministry said here. Japan hopes that agreement will be reached in the near future. Japan
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  • 118 3 CHICAGO, Fri. (UPI> The leader of a black street gang was sentenced to death in the electric chair yesterday. He murdered a police radio dispatcher in a weapons raid on a surban police station. Criminal rourt Judge Robert downing Imposed the penalty on Monty Powell. 20.
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  • 109 3 JAKARTA. Fri. <UPI> A fire ~aused by an elertrlcal short circuit Wednesday gritted the interior of the 250.000 U S dollars new ltval Parliament building built bv Jakarta Governor Maj Gen. Ali Sadikin. Fifteen fire-truck s were rushed to the three-storey ronrrete and «las< structure.
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  • 20 3 BERLIN. Frt. (UPI) Boviet Foreign Minister Andrei Oronyrko appealed today for quick convening of a European Becunty Conference.
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  • 250 3 PARIS, Fri. (UPI) Mrs. Diana O'Grady of Las Vegas, and her seven children yesterday were fold by Hanoi diplomats that their Air Force husband and father is not a prisoner in North Vietnam. They were the first American family to receive
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  • 88 3 NASSAU, Bahamas, Fri. (UPI) House Speaker Alvin Braymen yesterday ruled, that it was all right for legislators to call each other "ostriches" but not "monkeys The odd point arose when Braynen ordered a government member to sit down after referring to the opposition as "a bunch of monkeys." The
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  • 561 3 SAIGON, Fri. (Reuter) There has been a marked lull on the battlefield* of South Vietnam as North Vietnamese troops moved into the Plain of Jars in North Laos. The latter threaten to continue their drive westwards. Nonetheless, some
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  • 238 4 BONN. FtL < Renter) West German police have detained two Arabs believed connected with two men wanted for last week's explosion aboard an Australian airliner in Frankfort. Federal Criminal Police Headquarters said that the men were in a car with the two Arabs wanted
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  • 358 4 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) Israel's Prima Minister Mrs. Golda Mtir warned today sha will ordar a crackdown onArab aircraft saboteurs if international authorities don't establish safeguards. In a television interview, Mrs. Meir said that if the rest of the world did nothing then
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  • 225 4 HEW YORK, Fri. (Reuter) The Big Four folks on o Middle East Peace solution are at a crucial stago with United Nations Secretary General U Thant prodding for agreement on peace guidelines. The U.N. representatives of the four the U.S., Russia, Britain and France are
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  • 118 4 LONDON, Frl (UPl)—The Roman Catholic hierarchies of England and Scotland have reaffirmed their support for Pope Paul's insistence on priestly celibacy. Cardinal John Heenan. Archbishop of Westminster and Primate of Britain, told clergymen the abolition of the celibacy rule would not Sroduce the priests needed
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  • 41 4 PARIS, rri OTP!) The River Seine flooded several Paris suburbs today and local residents took to boats along streets near the river. The expressways along the banks of the Seine were closed to traffic as floodwater formed in Pools
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  • 82 4 LONDON. Fri. (UPI) A new s**rch for the bodv of Mrs. Alice McKay ended in failure todav when 20 bloodhounds lost their "scent corv•ciousness." police said. The hunt, which covered a loneftv gravel pit near the Hertfordshire village of Furneaux Pelham.
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  • 118 4 MUNICH. Fri. (UPI) Thre# former Nasi S8 officers have received prison terms ranging from llf® to seven years for the wartime mass murder of Jews in Russia A Munich Court found former 88 Lt. Col. Paul Johann Zapp guilty of shooting eight Jews and
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  • 94 4 GAZA. m. fßeuten A 12-year-old Arab boy was killed and thirty-six Arabs and three Israeli soldiers wounded when Arab guerrillas threw two grenades in the centre of Gaza. Many of the Arab® wounded were women and children. Including a six-year old girl and a
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  • 109 4 LONDON. Fn. (UPI) Airport firemen will stage "lighting strikes'* at Heathrow airport and boycott Pan Americana jumbo Jet*. A spokesman for the firemen would not say when the strikes would begin. But he said they will hold several work stoppages over the next week "whenever
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  • 427 4 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) The former British Colony of Rhodesia will make its final break with the British Crown and Commonwealth next Tuesday when its white-dominated government declares it an independent republic. Rhodesia then Southern Rhodesia formally asked for Independence In 1963. Britain's demand for guarantees of
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  • 134 4 LONDON, rri. (UPD Britain retards Rhodesia'* proclamation of a republic on Tuesday as an "illegal act.*" a spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said. "This. like everything else done by the re*ime of Premier lac Smith win be an illegal aet" the s»okee. man taid.
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  • 39 4 PARIS. Fri. (UPI) Police dispersed gatherings of rival ri»ht-wing an* i«ftist students in the Latin Quarter of Pans last night. Police said 676 students were detained for questioning but «-ert beln* released ait«r identity checks
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  • 123 4 LONDON, Fri. (UPI) Mor« than 20,000 employees at Heathrow Airport ar# being issued personal identification cards with colour photographi. The cards will be lasued by the British Airports Authority us part of lta programme to strengthen security. Th® cards will be distributed to all
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  • 59 4 BONN Fn. (AST) A West German policeman has been arrested on charges of spvin* for East Germany The Public Prosecutor's office In Karlsruhe said that the man had been w>rk;n* for East German intelligence since I°€". Rerruited on a private visit to the east he had
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  • 248 4 LONDON, Fri. (Rautar) Veluntaar mother* may toon be able to give birth to other woman's children by using test-tuba baby techniques according to a leading British embryologist. The idea came amid »P* dilation surrounding the experiment in which a woman who is unable to
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  • 53 4 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter)— Princess Margaret and her husband. Lord Snow don will visit Yugoslavia for a week in June aa guests of President Tito, it was announced here today It will be the first time that a member of the British Rovtl famiW ha* visited
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  • 277 4 ROME, Fri. (UPI> New earth movements in Posruoli cracked walls in a five-storey school building last night and sparked new fears of a major upheaval. Scientists are cheeking the entire coast of the Gulf of Naples to see If a rare natural phenomenon known as
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  • 262 5 SAN FRANCISCO, Fri. {Reuter) President Pompidou meets local Jewish leaders here today. Observers hope the discussion may take some heat out of public criticism of France's policy in the Middle East. A Jewish delegation ?>lans to tell Pompidou of ts concern at what
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  • 205 5 NEW YORK, Fri. (Reuter A soft-voiced, slightly-built 12-year-old boy took drugs because he saw his friends doing it. He is the latest child heroin addict to attract attention here. The boy, Ralph de Jesus, told a public hearing that he started "mainlining" injecting
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  • 95 5 TORONTO, Fri (Reuter) Cheques more than 6,700.000 dollars all nonnegotiable were found yesterdav in a stolen car. It wa? abandoned two blocks from the scene of Canada's bi?aest bank robbery on Wednesday Three armen bandit* who carried out the orecisejv- timed robberv dumped the cheques. However thev
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  • 266 5 WASHINGTON, Fri. (UPI) President Nixon explained to Congress yesterday how he wants to save 2.5 billion U.S. dollars a year by eliminating or reducing some lowpriority federal programmes, starting with the tea-tasters. In a special message to the House and Senate Nixon outlined 5?
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  • 297 5 WASHINGTON, Fri. (Reuter) The Defence Department yesterday invited eight aircraft companies to submit design and cost proposals for a new fighter plane that will be sold to allied governments. Known as the 'lnternational Fighter,' it will be the successor to the present F-5A
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  • 109 5 LONDON, Fri. (UPI)— Actress Mia Farrow, 26, gave birth to twins in London clinic last night, doctors disclosed. Miss Farrow is the divorced wife of Frank Sinatra. Composer-conductor Andre Previn publicly acknowledged he was the father before the birth. The twins are boys, the doctors said.
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  • 333 5 SANTA BARBARA, California, Fri. (UPI) Police used helicopters, clubs and tear-gas to disperse a crowd of 350 students last nig Jit. This was the third night of property-wreckinq demonstrations near the University of California, Santa Barbara campus. More than 350 clubwielding policemen dispersed
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  • 248 5 BERKELEY, California, Fri. (UPI) A University of California researcher yesterday reported detection of a chemical substance which leaks from cancerous cells. It causes normal living cells to "grow wild" as though they were malignant. Dr. Harry Rubin, professor of molecular biology, said the discovery may
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  • 167 5 MONTREAL, Fri. (Reuter) Police her# are seeking a 23-year-old American student on charges of attempted murder of tour other students. They became infected with an animal tsrasite rarely seen in uman beings. The American was involved in post-graduate work in Paras: to. ogv at MacDonald Agricultural College,
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  • 111 5 NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Fri. (Reuter) A convict it currently serving a three to four jail sentence here for burglary and larceny. He was today given another three-year sentence for writing to attorney general John Mitchell and threatening to kill him. Federal authorities «a d William Naorier. 22. wrote
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  • 592 6 ASIA'S second most affluent nation, in doffing its hat to the first, pointed out that one of the essential factors of its success had been "social strength and cultural coherence." Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. speaking at the banquet given in honour of the Crown
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  • 302 6 SUCH strange things happen in international affairs that one is often caught between laughter and tears as in a Charlie Chaplin classic. Arab commandos have been credited, for lack of any other proof, with the killing of 47 innocent passengers in an airliner and also with several other
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  • 447 6  -  It's As Important To Ceylon As Aswan To Egypt: By Clarence Fernando COLOMBO, (Router) Ceylon's longest river, the 206mile (331 km) Mahaweli, is to be diverted to irrigate the arid north central province and increase the country's hydroelectric resources The 1,200 milliondollar (500 million
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  • 125 6 MONTGOMERY. Alabama. ißeuter) Former Governor George Wallace today announced his candidacy for Governor of Alabama and hinted that he would run again for president In 1972. Before 500 cheering supporters he declared hla support for a return to segregated schooling. As Governor he would work for the
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  • 567 6  -  ly Uli Schmetzer VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico, (Reuter) "Viva Echeverria," shouts a youth at a startled peasant family at the green, white and red pickup truck tkids to a stop beside the palm-leaf hut. Two more youths climb quickly down from the truck whose sides
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  • 550 6  -  by ART BUCHWALD WASHINGTON It was only after Jackie Kennedy Onasiu' letters to former Deputy Secretary of Defence Roswell Gilpatric ware lifted from his safe that anyone realized the market value of Jackie's stolen letters. A few days after the publicity of Onassis' letters a man walked
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  • 1586 6 bv Gamini Scneviratne Gemini News Service LONDON: "This must be the most serious environmental problem facing the world today/' says Dr. Christopher Roads. "If unchecked the result would be a disaster unparalleled in the hlstorv of mankind." says Dr. Richard Chesher "It
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 454 7 GIN (RALLY, conditions were steady in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia arKl Singapore yesterday. On the bala nee, however, gains and leasts were about equal as interest continued in selected industrials. Fitzpatricks again highlighted the day's business Opening at 53.82. it advanced to $3.98 and
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    • 1149 7 done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange ot Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots ot 1,000 units unless otherwise specified:- INDUSTRIALS ACM A $2 32 <1) $2.30 12); Alcan $2 08 «2» $2.07 (4) $2 C
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    • 49 7 NEW YORK. Frl. <UPI> Gold prices %ere mostly unchanged In routine trading Thursday on markets here and abroad. In London, gold remained unchanged at $35.00 a troy ounce for both the morning and second fixings, closing In a range oi 35 00 to 35.10 an ounce.
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    • 81 7 (ManagerV Prlcea for March t) CH %K1 I.KLI* 1 M l IMIlly t Orowtb »unu I I0 l l» IMI 1 Kl Is Mai linrxt. Fund 131 1*7 f»|NUXHOHK I NI1 IHUTl> l«t Mngapor* in 2nd Mii|ip<irr •4.1* Jrd Miigaporr 1.34 The Com Ind IM I.II Tli« Smv
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    • 681 7 BID and offer prices officially listed yesterday at the close of business in the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia an* 1 Singapore were INDUSTRIALS Bs. ACM4 t 29 A icaa *04 Ben A Co mmm 1 81 IWneo Bhd176 177 P<>u«tead 2 10
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    • 111 7 NEW YORK. Frl. (UPI) Stocks finished lower on Thursday despite a good comeback late in the session. Trading was moderately active. Analysts *aid much of the list attracted profit talcing after Wednesday's bie rise In the closine minutes when a small Philadelphia bank cut Its prime
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    • 130 7 BRUSSELS. Fri. <Reuter> Th»» Common Market Executive Commission assailed restrictive trendy in American trade policy in a document Issued yesterday and said world trade would suffer If a liberal policy were abandoned. The document, issued on the eve of the departure for Washington for
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    • 97 7 S. H. Benton (Malaya) Sdn Bhd, Malaysia's largest advertising agency, has recently made two new senior appointments in Kuala Lumpur. Patrick Browne has bean appointed account supervisor. He comes to Malaysia from USP-Ben-son in Melbourne where he was account manager on several national accounts Susan
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    • 130 7 LONDON. Frl. <UPI) The stock market gave drab showing on Thursday with the Australian and South African mining sectors among the only bright spots. Investors apparently Ignored Wall Street's sharp Improvement and Industrial shares moved Irregularly lower so that the Index was 2.8 down at 392.2
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    • 423 7 THE wook opened with a mildly reassuring state* ment from the G.S.A. to the effect that they were "not planning on announcement on rubber." Unfortunately, another report issued a little prior to this statement on Friday last was held up somewhere In the wiros and
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    • 318 7 Marrh fir«t grade rubber buvers dosed at 5 o-m.. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 61-5 8 centg per lb., down three quarters of a cent from the previous close The tone of the market w», uncertain The market ruled easier and uncertain, surrounded by
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    • 96 7 THB noon prim at th* *Hti tapore Cbinr»e Proffnr* K* chant* joitrdu mere.. B«>tr toller Coconut (Ml (POB) Balk MM Coconut Oil troll.) Drum MOO Mixed luprn j4 0# Munink \S tiite Pepper (roll.) 7Z.. 105 00 Mrmk White repper IT OM-) 1*2.50 Sarawak Opertal Black Pepper HOB I
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    • 60 7 NEW YORK. Fri. <UPI> Rubber futurea closed 25 to 75 points lower on no sales yesterday on the New York commodity exchange: (Close) <Prev.) March 23.25 24.00 May 2325 24 00 July 2325 24.00 Sept. 23-25 2400 Nov. 23.25 23.50 Jan 23 25 24.00 March 23 25 24
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    • 40 7 NEW YORK, m (UPD—- Dow Jones plowing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 Industrial* 764 45 20 Transp 176.11 15 Utilities 113 68 65 Stocks 257.63 40 Bonds 69 22 Commodity index 134.59 off 0.30
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    • 126 7 HONG KONG. Frl. lUPI) Friday'* 5 p.m enirenej rate* (supplied br foreign Eichanfe uv) Investment Ltd.): (Buyer*) (Sellers) per 100 Straits dollars 195.00 196-00 143-23 144.23 per l.oOO Taiwan dollar* 6.73$ 6765 per Australian dollar 340.00 330.00 par 1,000 Bumret# kvats 31.300 315.00 per 1.000 Indian rupees
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    • 503 7 jf ii i i i i ywiiwwi i iii|ii|jyii^pi»^w^ Sydney Stocks, Closing Prices *B*w«wSL A SYDNEY, Frl. (UFI) A last minute burst tf •tiling Friday threw Mining and oil shares into complete disarray at the end of the week's trading on th Sydney Stock Exchange. Itoe plunge
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    • 14 7 Th« tin prtc« lor day was 1660.78 ©*r picul. dow n $1874.
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    • 229 7 THE Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthing arrangements for ships in port today. Saturday Feb. 28: DEPARTURES Godowns Ve&sels 1 2 Thurlngla 20 East Petaling 23 34 Bhoyo Mara 35/36 Bnanski Rabotchl 44 Sagafjord 46 Yih Chlen 46 Yih Chlen 'alongside Ayuthla) 47 Hoegh
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    • 340 7 ARRIVALS SIS am MSA Its Lumpur 9Ua.m MSA lli K Lumpur lt.|o pm. MSA 451 Euchlng 2-SO pm- MSA 031 E Lumpur. Malacca S2sp m. MSA 45S R Elnabalu 340 pm MSA 521 Bangkok. Penana 540 p m MSA 665 Manila MOpm MsA 0»7 ft Lumpur. Malacca 710
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  • 721 8  -  yjc* By Derek Ingram Gemini News Service LONDON: Today there are 147 independent countries of the world. In 1945 there were 78. There is no regular census of diplomats, but it is a fair guess that nearly three times as many are at work today
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  • 660 8  -  By TONY COZIER, GeminiNNetw t Service BRIDGETOWN, Barbados People of th« tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda have just despatched a third petition to Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office. It is addressed to the Queen and it demands that Barbuda be allowed to
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  • 467 8  -  By Leon Daniel TOKYO, (UPI) Japan is expected to carve out o larger military role for itself in the 1970s despite the outroga of Communist China and the apprehension of more friendly neighbours. Red China describes Japan's scheduled defence buildup as "insane military expansion and
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  • 573 8  -  •r Joseph Ndung'u, Gemini Newt Service NAIROBI: Kenya's National Union of Teachers has called on the Government to ban a pop record in Kikuyu. They complain that the song by Joseph Kamaru, one of Kenya's leading pop singers, is defamatory about their profession. Their
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  • 385 8  -  By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI) Few events have stirred up as muck controversy in this country as the recent conviction of an Indianapolis man on charges of shooting a vending machine. At a dinner party that I attended the other evening, the guests talked of little else.
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    • 42 8 DIPLOMATS UNLIMITED?^ After decolonisation number of diplomats In the world has risen sharply. Now countries are beginning to look at ways of cutting back. NUMBER OF MISSIONS CD 87 ZAMBIA BOTSWANA FOREIGN MISSIONS In London 115 In Washington 115 In Moscow 87
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    • 404 8 Results of contest 'B* will appear tomorrow. EASTEBNSUNI! TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM Name: f Designation Entrant's Particulars Name: Mr./ Miss Addf €9O. Are: Closinf date: 5.3.70 Cut Here WHAT TOIJ RAVE TO DO: 1) Each da> this tMk. tba Eastern «no win publish a photograph Z> Identity the
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    • 95 8 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and AUenMcWiams VTXJ'RE GOING TO HAVE A WET FACT-FINDING TOUR, ADA LOOK AT THOSE CLOUDS/ YOUR REPORTING HAS ALWAYS BEEN FILLED WITH SENSATIONAL OVERSTATEMENT, RAVEN/ 3 *M V iZvri 2 I CAN ASSURE V*XJ THAT A FEW D«OPS OF RAIN WONT DELAY MY MISSION BUT
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    • 18 8 AMY By Jack Tipprt Ik M 1 give up* .Who IS the best dribbler on your basketball teen?"
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  • 709 9  -  Italian Men s Designers Create ShirtJacket For Summer Je By Giorgio Mutarelli ROME, Pri. While the lengthening of women's hemlines is causing a major furore her* in Italy, e more quiet, yet consistent revolution is going forward In menswear. The traditional suit, for example, has been evolving
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  • 531 9  -  Ann Landers FJIAR ANN: My problem no great earth shaker but It bothers me My boyfriend, Alvin, keeps his eyes open when we kiss. don't know why, but I happened to op«n my eyes during a kiss last Saturday night and
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  • 167 9  -  By Mary Sue Miller AS women become informed on the problems Inherent in various food additives, pesticide* and even drugs, it is natural that cosmetic ingredients should arouse interest and curiosity. How pure Is pure makeup? The answer depends on your definition of "pure." If
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    • 151 9 TODA\ an you... Saturday. February 28, 1970. m By CLAY POLIAN H Yowr Dmffy Adhrity Guide X i A ecordhtf to tki Start. To develop rrtMsoge for Saturday, rcod words corresponding to numbers of your Zodioc birth sign. %m.n ccr.ti 6-siung 74-76-77 SCOftMO OCT. V wor.ii 31 MoW 32 NagotK*
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    • 288 9 Opaiu Tnit! 1-M. 4.M. Ml. m (Tomorrow E*tra Show 11 aaU "■ELL IN NOSMANDY" Co.er-Scope Peter l«« lAwtnct Our MadUon DDEOIM ***** Naw Showing' It. IM. 4. <M. ft M MOM "CAPTAIN NEMO and tha r»4»rw«t»r City" la Color Robert Rub Chuck Connor®, PanaVuion TONIGHT MHIT*' (No Fr©« u»t) "BOW
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  • RACING SUN
    • 1137 10  -  pf Jimmy Lad OILVER SPRAY gets a confident vote in Race Eight at Penang today The three-year-old Pall Mall grey put up an impressive first-up performance at Bukit Timah last month when fifth to Encore over 6f. Giving |the leaders a 20-length start at the half
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    • 268 10 JIMMY LAD CISCO ZODIAC ■ACt 1 (13) T. HUNTEE (2 i Actor IV 1 9 i Stormy Law 1 2 > ACTOR IV (131 Treasure Hunter 5 Mannum Mis« 9 STORMY LAW (13) Treasure Hunter 2 Actor IV RACE ti (14) S. BINTANG I 2 Blue Chip* 4 I
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    • 1524 10 1. X 3. HI ***** ***** e78oe IN 1: CL S Div. AruuiU 4e 9 00 Actor H 6y 813 Jilted (L. Su 2—5% Furs.Manhattan Stable Shaw Stable Ho Goh -2.15 p<n> ($5*000) Spencer F»e«»jf E Donnelly Harbr<dge *11 a n Mian U WhHe Sffiri MIBBIUI Nw
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    • 196 10 PENANG, Fri. Interest (Johnny Wilson) did an Impressive 3f workout in 41-1/5 on a good track here this morning. He is in peak form, reports our racing correspondent. viala Bern (Moses Lee) ran 3f in 39-2/5 on the bit. Patsohn (Hamid) and Demovel Harbridge were associated
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    • 165 10 ARCADIA, California. Frl. <UPI> Majestic Prince. winner of two legs of the 1969 triple crown has been retired to stud because of leg problems, it was announced yesterday at Santa Anita Park. John Longden. trainer of the chestnut colt that won nine of 10 lifetime
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    • 136 10 MIAMI. Florida. Fri (Reuter) Dave Marr and Jack McGowan shot five-under-par 67's here to share the first round iead in the US SI 50.000 (£62,000) Doral Open. Thev finished the day yesterdav two strokes ahead of the six players tied for second. including British
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    • 161 10 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) Wimbledon champion Ann Jones of Britain announced last night that she will not defend her women's singles title in June. Mrs. Jones. Interviewed on British television, said that preparing for Wimbledon was a big strain "and I am not sure if
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    • 146 10 Dunlop Tourney SYDNEY. Fri. <Reuter» Top Australians Rod Laver and Margaret Court head the seedings for the men's and women's singles at the A 525.000 <£11,670> Dunlot) international tennis tournament which beg;n» here on March 16. New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association officials yesterday announced
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    • 171 10 MOSCOW, Fri. (Reutert Valery Brumel. the Russian world high jump record holder, was yesterday votad the world's best athlete of the 60 s in a poll among Soviet sport journalists and commentators. The poll, conducted by the Russian sports magazine "Legkaya Atletika" ("Track and Field"), unanimously
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  • 151 11 The Singapore Armed Forces Sport* Association (SAFSA) have decided to organise the first unofficial squash championships of Asia. The actual date for the championship has not been fixed but it will be held tentatively in November. Bquash is becoming an Increasingly popular game in
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  • 615 11 CHANG CHUN PA, 40 and professional of Limkou Golf and Country Club in Taipeh who shot a 68 on Thursday, forged into the lead after a second round of 33-34 —67 for 36 holes at the Bukit Course yesterday. With Dav?d 3'*ham and
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  • 118 11 Mr. Runme Shaw tw re-elected Chairman of the S.ngapore Turf Club for the seventh successes year at the annual general meeting held yesterday. Mr. R O Bennett was elected Vice Chairman. Other members elected to the Committee of Management were Tan Sri Tan Chin Tuan. Mr. R.
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  • 68 11 HAZARIBAGH India. Fri (Reuter) Sj r Leonard Hutton former England cricket captain, yesterday offered to coach Indian J layers next December and anuarv. Sir Leonard, who i« ©n a business trip in India, said here that India needed r*>d coaches t« build disciplined teams.
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  • 80 11 Th« MCC tounag cn<"ket team arrived in Singapore last night. Thev will meet the SCC todav and tomorrow starting at 11 a.m. Admission Is free. The Right Wing of the Cricket Club will be opened to spectators at $lO per head for both days Members of
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  • 60 11 RANGOON. Fri (UPI) East Germany's Magdeburg team «nd Burma't Aung San Selection drew 1-1 In the second and final friendly soccer match yeiterday. A capacity crowd of 30.000 watched the local team wore an early lean in the first half of play at the Aung San stadium. The
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  • 20 11 Port of Singapore Authority received a walk-over from Singapore Combined School® in a SCA Division One cricket match yeiterday.
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  • 24 11 The Singapore Badminton Association will hold their annual general meeting at the Singapore Conference Hall. Bhenton Way, on Saturday at 2.30 p.m.
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  • 421 11 135: Chan* Chun Fa (C> 68-67 (33-34). 137: Chen Chien Chung (C) 69*8 (35-33). M Imai (J) 69-68 (35-33). Murray (A) 66-71 (35-36) 138: Haieh Yung Yo (C) 67-71 (36-35'. S Onchum (T) 64-74 (39-35). 139: T. Kendall (NZ) 70-09 (34-35); Kuo Chi Slong (C) 70-69 (34-35);
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  • 177 11 SEREMBAN Fri The teunng MCC XI opened their three matrheg m Malaysia with drawn game against the Malaysian Cricket Association Patron's XI on the Negri Sfmbllan Padane here today The score were MCC 305 dee a red. Patron's XI 110 and 163 for seven The
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  • 294 11 TODAY S THIRD ROUND DRAW 0 00 S. Krutkeo (T). J Stewart Jr. (S) (Am); 9 10 T Small (USA). V. Bennetts (A). 9.20 R Draddy (M). N. Takasu (J). I Legaspi (P); 9 30 K Ono (J). V. Singh (I) (Am). J. Vaughn (USA); 9.40 H.
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    • 1239 11 nd radio (CHANNEL I) PM 1.00 Opening Anncts in all Languages Spare Kdettes; 15c* National Ve!vet The Circuit; 1.45 Star Soccer 3rd Round <F A. CuP Leiceiter City vs Sunderland 240 Indian Classical Music; 310 Whicker's World It's An Unpleasant Business If You re You're Not Friendly With The Chap
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  • 639 12 CROWN Princess Miehiko yesterday endeared herself to the people of Singapore with her regal charm and winning smile. The blistering heat of the day did not in any way defer the delicate-looking Princess as she went through the second day of the state visit she is
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  • 404 12 AN 18-year-old youth who unintentionally shot at a police officer durinq a struggle, was sentenced to eight years' impri»onment by the High Court yes- terday. Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah. assisted by Mr. Justice Kulasekaram, sentenced Lim Swee Guan of Beo Crescent to
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  • 113 12 A Singapore Polytechnic student who punched a policeman who booked his "very close friend" for a traffic offence was yesterday fined $5OO or in default three months Jail. He is Yuen Ching Fatt, 18. who pleaded guilty to the offence committed on Dec. 11 at Guillemard
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  • 101 12 Tne United Nations Day Celebration Committee is organising a BufTet-cum-Dance at the St. John's Ambulance Hall. Beach Ro3i at 8.00 p.m. today. The aim of the function is to help build a truly united and harmonious nation in Singapore by fostering a better acquaintance and friendlier relations
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  • 65 12 Mr Tan Tian Chan, whose donation of SI. OOO to the Chestnut Driv e Secondary School Advisory Committee Fund was reported in the Eastern Sun issue of Feb. 24 w as erroneously referred to as the Assistant Director of the National Iron and Steei Mills. Jurong. He Is the
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  • 20 12 Five armed robbers furprsed a family in their flat in Redhiil and robbed them of jewellery worth $370 yesterday.
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  • 68 12 ONE little boy told Che Dah, wife of the Minister for Social Affairs, Enche Othman Wok; "I want another plate of goodies." And Che Dah, Chairman of the Boarding Out Committee of the Social Welfare Department, obliged him in the party given for 150 children from the Boarding Out Scheme
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  • 103 12 Yeo Ser Thlan 24. an oddJob labourer, was yesterday sentenced to three years Jail and six strokes of rotan by the Third District Court Judge. Mr. K T. Alexander for robbing Ting Sin Kwong at the point of an ice-pick. On Feb. 19 at about 8.05
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  • 93 12 Over 1.700 tourists will visit Singapore on two P O luxury liners next month. The 28.000-ton Oronsay arrives here on March 8 from Australia with over 800 passengers on a round-the-world cruise and leaves the next day for Hong Kong Three Indian beauties, two former
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  • 282 12 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) The Commonwealth Secretary General, Mr. Arnold Smith, will visit Singapore to confer with government leaders and attend a week-long seminar to discuss changing patterns in the organisation and con- duct of foreign policy. Mr. Smith is due in New Delhi on
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  • 79 12 Two men. Mohsin bin Shaik Omar and Mohamed Yasin bin Mohamed Ghouse were yesvefday acquitted of a of causing hurt to Phua Lai. They were alleged to have assaulted Phua when he refused to pav them $5 on Oct. 11. last year at a Caltex
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  • 112 12 The Department of Extramural Studies. University of Singapore is organ.slng a course on the "Introduction to Business Budgeting" for business enterprises. The course an introduction to the significance, nature and objectives of budgeting in business enterpr ses consists of eight lectures. It will provide some of
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    • 133 12 ENTER NOW FOR THE 1970 B/wmwick (F.E.) IMC. ►M f a A i II 111 11 Winners in each division will receive lIIImI an all expenses paid round air trip to Will' BANGKOK IV II 1l to compete in the grand finals on July 16 &17,1970 ■■■All Winner of the
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    • 79 12 TIME TIDE TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN: 2.21 am. <9.1 ft) 8.45 a.m. (19 ft.) 3.13 o.m (7.3 ft.) 835 p.m. (4 2 ft.). NAVAL DOCKYARD: 237 a.m (10.3 ft.) 8.29 a.m. (25 ft.) 3.21 pm. (9 ft.) 8 34 pm. (5 2 ft TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN: 256 a.m. <B.B ft.). 944
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