Eastern Sun, 4 April 1970

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  • 22 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ft Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1310 Saturday, 4 April 1970. MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cent#
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  • 458 1 Passengers Released; Minister Made Hostage Fri. (Reuter and UPI) The armed hijackers of a Japanese airliner tonight set free 103 occupants held captive for four days before flying off to North Korea with a Japanese Minister as a hostage. For the first time in
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  • 175 1 LONDON. Fri (UPI> The Soviet Union has pulled back its forces 31 miles from the Slno-Sovlet border In a compromise move Intended to avert armed clashes with Red Chinese troops. Communist diplomats said today. Moscow decided to withdraw its forces 31 miles in a
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  • 98 1 BEIRUT. Frl (UPI) Police broke into a lecture at the American University of Beirut last night and defused a time-bomb under the stage, police sources said The incident came In the wake of seven attacks on American establishments in Lebanon during the past six days rangln* from the
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  • 140 1 PHNOM PENH, Fri. (Reuter) —The Cambodian government today issued a communique assuring tourists the situation throughout the country was calm and stable and all tourist facilities had been re-established. Th* com m unique If sued bv th® Tourism Department apologised to tourists lor the recent closure
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  • 246 1 r IENTIANE, Fri. (UPI) Looting and vandalism by troops on the side of the government has helped to reduce the U.S. supply base at Sam Thong to a "shambles/' well-informed allied sources said today. The sources said looting had been going on since government forces retook
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  • 53 1 BRUNEI TOWN. Fr i (AFP) Lord Shepherd. British Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs, flew in here todav for talks with the Sultan of Brunei on the Sultanate's future The talks will he a continuation of earlier meetings held in London Lord Shepherd is expected to remain here
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  • 46 1 SAIGON. Fri. (Reuter)— An American Air Force C-7 Caribou transport ©lane was shot down in the Central Highlands province and its three-man crew killed The twin-engine plane, which ran carry 32 troops, was shot down late vesterdav morning. No further details were available-
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  • 177 1 GUATEMALA CITY, Fri. (Reuter) The government of Guatemala today cracked down on rebel move, ments here with martial law, imposed under a national state of emergency. But at the same time, they cleared the way lor a possible deal with the guerrillas who kidnapped the West
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  • 182 1 BO6TON. Fri (UPI) Court stenographers' notes containing t«he testimony of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and other witnesses at the secret Inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne may be missing or improperly impounded. UPI learned Thursday. The notes, the only original record of the four-day secret
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  • 51 1 TEL AVIV. Frl. (Feuter) Israeli jets penetrated deep into Egyptian air space today to a attack two SAM-2 missile bases In the El Mansura region of the northern Nile delta, a military spokesman announced here. It was the second strike within two days against missile bases In this
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  • 85 1 BANGKOK Frl. fßeuter) A Thai Border Police Chief has said the government'* rural development projects have failed to win over peasants In Commu-nist-Infested areas. Col. Vaslt Dejkunchorn. said government officials were more interested in the objects of the projects rather than the objectives. "They consider
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 75 2 "What a mob, what a mob!" an American food columnist exclaimed at the Golden Lotus, Hotel Malaysia, Thursday night. The "mob" comprised of guests of Lufthansa who, in conjunction with Hotel Malaysia, has organised a German Food Festival. More than 400 people sampled a wide selection of food and wines
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  • 191 2 A factory worker, Chew Kim Choon, was yesterday sentenced to two years jail for stabbing a man whom he had accused as a peep- ing torn. Chew pleaded guilty to a charge of voluntarily causing grievlous hurt to Lim Hee 800, an airconditlon mechanic,
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  • 213 2 BANGKOK. Fri. (AFP) Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman today called for a meeting between ahe Communist countries and the "free nations'* of the Asian-Pacific area to ♦'devise a basis for peaceful coexistence". In an exclusive Interview with the "Bangkok Post", the Minister said: "We
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  • 156 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Hurried preparations are being made to set up a liaison headquarters here on Sunday lor the five-nation defence exercise Bersatu Padu to be held in Malaysia over the next three months. The headquarters, set up by the defence exercise Joint planning team,
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  • 101 2 IPOH Fn. —Forty youths, including several girls, of various races from different Darts of Perak will participate m a one-week work camp to promote goodwill and unity among the race The camp to be he'.ri at Taiping Garden from April 11 to 18. is being organised
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  • 37 2 Jack D. Weir, of Texas. U.S.. 38 was yesterday fined 575 in the Ninth Magistrate's Court, for possession of a small amount of Indian Hemp. He was arrested Thursday at 3.55 p.m. at Verdum Road.
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  • 220 2 PENANG, Fri. Five Royal Malaysian Air Force pilots have completed a special course to fly Sabre jets at the Royal Australian Air Force Base in Butterworth. An RAAF spokesman said today the pilot*, who form the nucleus of the RMAF No. 11 Squadron, were the flrst
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  • 127 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri Malaysia Is well ahead of many countries In the treatment of mental patients. a visiting Scottish professor said her* today. Prof. gM Carstairs. President of the World Federation of Mental Health said that from what he had seen Malaysia'* menta; institutions
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  • 85 2 BUTTER WORTH. Fn. Two youths h*ld u n a businessman Lee Kooi at gunpoint and robbed him of S5OO at Sungei Bakap. about 10 mile* from here yesterday. One of the vouth« a warning shot before escaping on a motor-cycle Lee 53. of Penang told police he
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  • 192 2 Private local and foreign investments in Singapore must continue to expand in order to counteract the adverse economic effects of th e 70s. "A concerted effort by all Industrialists to increase investments and expand exports would help to soften the problems created by those economic
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  • 146 2 LONDON. Frl (Reuter) Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak was the Ruest of honour today at a government lunch given by the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Michael Stewart. Officials said thev had Informal general discussions and there was no emphasis on any specific issue. Tun
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  • 282 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Malaysians will be treated to a "TV within a TV" on Monday when Malaysia's first satellite Communications centre in Kuantan is opened by Prime Minster Tunku Abdul Rahman. Television viewers will be able to see a live telecast of the Tunku carrying on
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  • 160 2 THE Jalan Kayu Post Office has won the "Best Appearance 1 trophy for the third successive year. The other winners were: Nee Soon Post Office (Group A), Jalan Kayu Post Office (Group B) and Taman Warna Post Office (Group C). The Postmaster-General, Mr. M. Bala Subramanion, who
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  • 165 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Frtme Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman said today the Korean government's choice of Kuala Lumpur as the venue for its conference of heads of missions is an indication of the close ties existing between the two countries. Th# two-day conference, which began here
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  • 118 2 PENA N G Fri. A mysterious bright glow believed to be a comet has been reported seen gliding over the early morning sky here during the past few days Many residents here said they saw the bright spot of light moving east across the sky at
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  • 43 2 IPOH. Fri. A labourer was k.llei nn the s pot yesterday when he was involv-e-i :n an accident with a car along the Ipoh-Butlerworth road Police identified him as R Ramachandran who was r.ding a bicycle when he met with the accident
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  • 294 2 A habitual burglar, who had been caught redhanded, was yesterday given the maximum sentence of seven years in prison by the First District Court Judge, Mr. A. W. Ghouse. Wee Kiat Seng, 34, a labourer was described by the prosecution officer as an incorrigible bouse
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  • 68 2 Two persons one armed with a knit* and the other with an object which looked ft revolver, held no 8 provision shop proprietor. Seng Seow Peng. 39 and his wife and children at their shoo at Jalan Temun and e°t awa v with cash and a watch worth $l2O
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  • 79 2 KUCHING, Sarawak, Fri (Reuter) Five guerrillas were killed in a military operation agair.st members of the banner Communist Party, a government spokesman said today. He said arms, ammunition and documents were also captured, but did not Sive further details The spokesman s»id military pressure had broken
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  • 54 2 Mustara Bond a. 28 was yesterday sentenced to four months' jail in the Ninth court, when he pleaded guity to being aa illegal immigrant. He was deported from Singapore to Indonesia oa Nov 5 1&63. but returned la«t vear. Mustara wa s arrested oa March 31 at 850 am
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 27 2 Toto No. In yesterday's issu* th« additional number in Thursday's Toto draw was erroneously reported to b# 23 The correct number is 21 The error u regretted
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  • 214 3 JAKARTA, Fri. (AFP) A leading Jakarta newspaper editor today accused General Sudjono Humardhani, a close advisor of President Suharto, of belonging to a corrupt Indonesain lobby operating i n Tokyo. In a series of articles published in the newspaper, 'lndonesia Raya,' the editor.
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  • 103 3 MANILA. Fri. (Reuter) President Marcos has s:g ne( i into law a bill designed to check the rising prices of essential commodities in The Philippines. Marcos after signing the measure yesterday, appealed to the people to co-operate In its implementation The law calls for the
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  • 269 3 UNITED, NATIONS, Fri. {Reuter) SecretaryGeneral U Thant was yesterday studying a s«*-page cable from th e deposed Cambodian Head of State. Prince Sihanouk, appealing to him not to recognise the new Cambodian Government. A U.N. spokesman disclosed U Thant this
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  • 323 3 MOSCOW, Fri. (UPI) The Kremlin will hare an ambassador in Peking for the first time in three years although there is no sign of any improvement in Sino-Soviet relations, informed sources disclosed yesterday. The leading candidate for the vacant post, the sources added, was Vladimir
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  • 163 3 SYDNEY, Fri. (Reuter) Skippy, the hopalong hero of a children's television adventure series, was the only kangaroo to escape unhurt in a game park massacre here today, Thirteen tame kangaroo* were slaughtered In their enclosure at Sydney's waratah Animal Reserve. One appeared to have been shot
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  • 182 3 BRUSSELS, Fri. (Reuter) Belgium today expelled a Russian lorry salesman, Boris Savitch, arrested her e two weeks ago for trying to set up a Soviet spy network inside NATO's European military headquarters. Savitch was alleged to heavily guarded van to Brussels Airport and placed
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  • 45 3 HYDERABAD. India, Frl. (Reuter) Villagers forcibly burned a man to death on the funeral pyre of a woman. He was alleged *o have assaulted and murdered her in a village in the South Indian Andhra State, according to an official report received here
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  • 235 3 MANILA, Fri. (UPI) A small ferryboat, carrying mainly teenage students and housewives, capsized today after colliding with a tugboat in the middle of Manila's Pasig River. There were between 18 to 22 passengers aboard the ferry It ferried passengers between the
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  • 95 3 OLORON-SAINTE MARIE, France, Fri (Reuter) Rescuers last night reached a young climber who had been dangling helpless 7.545 feet up a mountain in the Pyrenees for more than 70 hours. First reports from rescue workers said 22-year-old student. Bernard Baudean. was alive but weak after
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  • 188 3 SEOUL, Fri. (Reuter)— The "unfasten seat-belts" sign had hardly been switched off on the Japan Airlines Boeing 727 wnen young men throughout the plane leaot up brandishing swords. It looked like a television drama was being enacted. So began the hijack saga that dragged on for
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  • 256 3 HONG KONG, Fri. (Reuter) North Korea declared it had no idea why the 15 hijackers wanted to fly to the Pyongyang. It insisted that they have not been 'invited.' Then the Korean Central News agency repeated an earlier Pyongyang statement guaranteeing th e
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  • 34 3 SAIGON. Fri. (Re u ter> Students from four South Vietnamese Universities will boycott lectures indefinitely in orotest aeainst the continuen detention without trial of 41 of their number, j spokesman announced today.
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  • 157 3 LONDON. Frl. (Reuter)— A Russian geophysicist suggested yesterday that the weather gets colder and colder as the moon goes higher and higher. Sergei Timofeyev. of Leningrad, was reported in a Soviet weekly to have found that temperature goes up and down as the moon's angle above the
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  • 34 3 KARLSRUHE. West, airman v. Fri (Reuter) A trainee lawyer held as a sP7 suspect had aecese to classified material as a West German Armv Reserve Captain, the federal prosecutor's office said vesterday.
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  • 287 4 TEL AVIV, Fri. (UPI and Reuter) Israel and Syria fought their most fiercest battle today since the 1967 war. Lieutenant-Gene r a I Hayim Bar-Lev, Israeli Chief-of-Staff, warned Damascus to expect heavier blows unless the ceasefire is kept. Israel claimed to have shot down three
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  • 31 4 CAMBODIA'S 486 POLITICAL PRISONERS of the Sihanouk regime were reunited with their relatives on Thursday. They were freed by th e new state Government and declared as "national heroes". (UPI radiophoto).
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  • 412 4 PARIS, Fri. (Reuter) A diary purporting to chronicle the beatings and forced feeding of Soviet war-time General Pvotr Grigorenko, by the Rusian authorities was published in extract form here yesterday. General Grigorenko, 62. is a prominent critic of the Soviet invasion
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  • 94 4 BRASILA, Frl. (Reuter)— The Brazilian military government today stripped eight leading research scientist* of their political rights without giving any reason A Presidential sp->k*sman declined to disclose the ground for the punishment or give any other details beyond the men's names. He Identified th°m as Hplty
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  • 160 4 NICE. Fri. (Reuter) Police in a biq manhunt across South-East France were puxxied today by the 'disappearance' of their quarry four qunmen who withstood a 19-hour siege at a luxury Riviera hotel and then drove off with a hostage. The four iater dumped the hostage. French
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  • 42 4 ROME. Fn (Reuter) The newly-formed Italian centre-left cabinet met here last night for the first time and named 56 undersecretaries to como'.ete Italy's 31st post-fascist government. The government :s a coalition of Christian Democrats. Socialists. Social Democrats ar.d Reoublicars
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  • 41 4 LOS ANGELES Fn. (Reuter)—Blind POD s:nger Jose Feiiciano. strong opponent of Britain's animal quarantine law* because they bar h s guide dcg. mav visit the country again late this vear for a concert tour without th# dog
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  • 293 4 BELFAST. North trland. Fri. (Reuter) British troops, in a "get tough" poiiey with rioters, used CS tear gas to break up another fierce street battle with Catholic extremists here last night. It was the third consecutive night of violence in the troubled
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  • 248 4 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) Female Impersonation, or "drag" in show business jargon, arrived in London in a big way last night. The "Birds of A Feather" will be the first spectacular all-male revue ever seen on a West End Stage. Featuring star impersonators from Britain. Canada.
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  • 208 4 NAPLES, Italy, Fri. (Reuter)— Soviet warships in th e Mediterranean are now a stronger strategic presence than e*er before, Captain Howard Boydstun, U.S. Sixth Fleet Chief of Staff, announced yesterday. There are Between 61 and 63 Soviet vessels in the Mediterranean. However. Captain Bovdstun
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  • 122 4 UNITED NATIONS, Fri. (Reuter)— The Soviet Union has refused to give the United Nations information on its seismic stations, saying it is 'unnecessary to identify underground nuclear explosions. In a not* to Secretsr General U Thant yesterday, Russia reiterated that verification of any ban on
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  • 241 5 WASHINGTON, Fri. (AFP) United States Defence Secretary Melvin Laird said tonight that construction of the ''Safeguard" anti-ballistic missile system should go ahead even if the U.S. and Soviet Union reached agreement on Strategic Arms Limitation. Speaking in a radio interview. Laird said that U.S. defenct policy
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  • 102 5 WASHINGTON, Frt (Reuter» The White House Press Corps has roved into new quarters with thick carpets, soft suede-oovered sofas and piped-in music. M**mbers of the 1.300strone Pres« corps generally welcomed the shift But a few noted that one effect was to move them further away
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  • 69 5 SANTO DOMINGO Fri. <Reuter> The Dominican Republic's seven opposition parties have decided to boycott th# May 16 general elections. Tne decision, taken at a meeting of opposition representatives yesterday, ieft only Joquin Balaguer President of this strife-torn Caribbean nation, in the running The parties, which range from left-wing to
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  • 127 5 WASHINGTON. Fri CF»uter) Twelve young left-wing radicals were ordered today to stand trial In Chicago on riot conspiracy charges and controversial Judge Julius Hoffman was named to hear the case. The charges announced by the US. Justice Department, stem from several days of noting
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  • 169 5 WASHINGTON. Fri <Reuter) Tne Teamsters Union las* provisionally a~certed a new pay offer or. oehalf of nearly 5^0.0f10 lorrv drivers and urged thousands of its striking members to return to work. The agreement came at the e n d of a dav in which the
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  • 273 5 WASHINGTON, Fri. (UPI) Government and Union negotiators yesterday announced agreement on a plan for a six per cent pay raise for all Federal employees and an additional eight per cent boost tor mailmen dependent on a reorganisation of the Post Office Department. The proposal
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  • 104 5 NEW YORK Fri. (Reuter> Gale force winds r.pped through New York overnight, smashing winclows, tearing down lamp posts and blowing a hail of litter through the streets Shards of glass from windows broken by the 35-ir.:le-an-Sour winds covered street? blocking traffic. Further chaos on roads was
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  • 230 5 WASHINGTON, Fri. (Reuter) The U.S. government today dropped court action against leaders of the Air Traffic Confrollers in return for a pledge that they would try to end the walkout which has disrupted air traffic tor more than a week. Three officials named in a
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  • 112 5 BUENOS AIRES Fri (Reuter) A rigth-wing extremist grouD has threatened to dynamite the Soviet Embassy and 'he Moscow Circus scheduled to perform here if Soviet diplomat Yuri Pivovarov is not pelled from Argentina within 48 hours The Argentine nationally organised movement issued the threat m a letter
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  • 58 5 W ASHING TON. Fri (Keuter) Up to 100 000 ex-servicemen, housewives. Indians. refugees from Communist countries and other supporters of winning the war in Vietnam are expected to take part her? tomorrow In a march for victory." The march will follow the same route used by about *****0
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  • 365 5 WASHINGTON, Fri. (UPI) —U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers assured the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Nixon administration wants to maintain neutrality in Cambodia and not get involved in what could become another Indochina war. Rogers testified in closed session before the
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  • 156 5 CLARKSBURG. W. Vir. Fri ißeuter)—Eirht coal miners escaped safely late tnrliT after an explosion and Are ripped through a mine in the town Dola. just west of Clarksburg Seven of the miners fled from the miru» moments afte T the blast but it took the eigh'b
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  • 171 5 BERKELEY Calif. Frt (Reuter) Mayor John L i n d s a v of New York has en?-i*ed that some of the nlghest U.S. Government ieaders support a turn toward suppression of individual liberties In a speech at the University of California her* yesterday. he assa
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  • 714 6 P VENTS in Southeast Asia are progressing at such a fast pace that even the most avid readers of newspapers find it difficult to keep track of them, let alone arrange them in some meaningful pattern. Nobody knows what the immediate future of Cambodia will be except
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  • 247 6 'THERE is no real substitute for a lawyer. This is the unique characteristic of the legal profession the world over. The move by the National Operations Council in Malaysia to ban foreign lawyers from practising in the country from the last quarter of this year
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  • 1245 6 Not The American Way "President Nixon properly ignored the so-called Vietnam Moratorium demonstrations last Wednesday except for his public statement that "to allow governmental policy to be made in the street would destroy the democratic process." He is correct in that statement, of course. And
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  • 548 6  -  by ART BUCHWALD WASHINGTON There seems to be no end to the Judge Carswell debate. The main charge against the Jurist is that he wasn't a very outstanding Judge on the federal bench. To support this charge, Carswell opponents maintain that he was reversed 59% on
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  • 486 6  -  Rv Vincent Buist VIENNA Communist party bosses In Eastern Europe face a dilemma in the summer what ideological line should their countries take over the western tourist invasion? The dilemma Is between the urgent need for foreign exchange and the risk of Ideological confusion
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  • 221 6 LONDON: Trials with nuclear-powered heart pacemakers, which will probably lead to a major breakthrough in helping people suffering from heart block, are taking place in two British hospitals, in London and Glasgow. The new pacemakers, which have been Implanted in dogs, with no ill effects, have
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  • 99 6  -  Letters... DR. KOH ENG KHENG President. Singapore Associatioi for Menial Health. In your report of my speech at the dinner at the wiiuV? 10 f Mental Health Workshop 1 was quoted as having suggested that a master olan be drawn up and the people regimented to confirm to
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  • COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
    • 338 7 THE stock market yesterday dosed the week on the same bearish and quiet note. Interest in industrials saw certain speculative pay-off as the few recent favourites bounced back while the better class stocks slided further. In the former class, Federal Cables advanced from $2.17 to
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    • 900 7 I>USINESS 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 $2.30 (5); DIM $2.32 (1); Alcan Industries $1.69 (12) $1.70 (6>; DIM $1.71
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    • 91 7 (Manager#* Pr e»» for April 8) < IMKUI<II< l Ml 1 K( sip S Growth fund 1.08 113 ASIA IMT TRl STS Mai- ln»f»t 1 und 128 III SINOAPOKt I MI 1 KIM» l*t Singapore 2nd "»inra[M>r»» 3rd Singapore The 1 oni Ind. The >av Fund xd Progre-*
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    • 765 7 BID and offer prices officially listed yesterday £t th c close of business in the trading rooms of the Stock txchcnge of Malaysia and Sinqapore were: INDUSTRIALS B s. A CM A 2 30 2 31 Ai.an 1 69 ben Co 1 08 1 69 Bo
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    • 282 7 April fl"t grade rubber buyers closed at, 5 in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 60-3/8 cents per lb., down half a cent from the previous close. The to«V of the market very auiet. The market fluctuated narrowlv at slightly lower levels and Pressure continued on
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    • 494 7 THE currant year should see Malaysia building on th« substantial economic gains of the previous 12 months, while Singapore should progress towards still greater prosperity in th« same period. Th's is s*Bted In an overseas survey Included in the annual report for 1969
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    • 81 7 TOKYO Frl. Hitachi Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. announced on Monday It has been awarded a contract by Esso Transport. Inc. for construction of what will be the largest liquefied petroleum carrier In the world. Th» order Is for a vessel of 62,330 deadweight tons with a tank
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    • 70 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Frl. The Minister with Special Functions. Tun Tan Siew Bin. will officially open the Ansul (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd agricultural chemical plant at Batu T.ga on April 13. Three executives of the associated company in the US. The Ansul Chemical Company, will fly to Malaysia
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    • 427 7 During th« short week the market continued to exist somewhat in no-man's land, lacking in any positive direction, according to Holiday, Cutler, Bath fir Co., in their weekly review of the rubber market. Once more, it wv deprived of the guide which was expected to
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    • 96 7 THE Association of Bank* In Malaysia-Singa-pore yesterday made the following changes In It* rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 unit* of foreign currency): SELLING T.T. or OD. readv: Deutsche Marks $84.4500; Holland Guilders $85.0900; Swiss Francs $71.7800; French Francs $55.6925; Danish Kroner $4l
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    • 13 7 The tin price for yesterday was $686.12$ per picul. down $0.875.
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    • 290 7 Sydney Stocks, •>. >' Closing Prices SYDNEY, Fri. (UPI)-—The heavy downward trent in mining and oil stocks of Thursday eased Friday on Sydney Stock Exchange. At the close of trading, mining and oil falls outnumbered rises three to one. Poseidon fell closing at $134.00 down $4.00. Carr
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    • 79 7 OSAKA. Fri (UFI) Kanegafuchl Spinning Co. <.Kanebo) said Monday it will start construction in May of a large synthetic fibre plant to be located in Sabae town. Fukul Prefecture. 72 miles northwest of 06aka It will be the company s second synthetic fibre plant and operations
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    • 40 7 NEW YORK. Frl. (UPI) Rubber futures closed unchanged and untraded Thursday on th e New York commodity exchange. (Close) (Prevs) May 21.508 21.50 July ***** 21.50 Sept. 21.508 21.50 Nov, ***** 2150 Jan. ***** 2125 Mar ***** 21.25
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    • 26 7 JAKARTA. FrL (Reuter) Indonesia and Holland have reached an agreement on offshor® tin exploration of the Rhio Islands off the east coast of Sumatra.
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    • 65 7 LONDON. Frl. <UPI) Stock Markets had a more confident look Thursday though the ICI 'lmperial Chemicals) chairman. Eter Aliens annual meeting statement caused some hesitancy. But satisfaction with the March gold reserves enabled gain* to finish in a comfortable majority. Government stocks ended one-sixteenth or oneeighth off
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    • 43 7 NEW YORK. Frl. (UPD Gold prices closed mixed in routine trading Thursday on markets here and abroad In London, gold rose 21/1 cents at the morning fixing but lost the same amount for a second fixing of $35,375 a troy ounce.
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    • 41 7 NEW YORK. Fri. (UPIJ Dow Jones closing average on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday; 30 Industrials 792.37 20 raiLs 173.43 15 utilities 118 00 65 stocks 263.36 40 bonds 69 58 Commodity futures index 134 25 off 0.03.
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    • 126 7 HONG KONG. (UPI) Friday's 5 p m. enrreney ratei (supplied by Foreign Exchaofe and Investment Ltd.). (Buyers) (Sellers) 194 70 195.70 per 100 Straits dollars 147.50 148 50 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 6 755 6 765 per Australian dollar 340 00 360.00 per 1.000 Burmese kyats 150.00
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    • 404 7 ARRIVALS 8 15am MSA 123 K Lumpur ft 45 a.m. .MSA 119 K. Lompur It SO pm. MSA 451 Rnchlng tWp m. MSA Otl R Lumpor. Malacca 325 p.m. MSA 453 R Rlnabaln 3-40 p.m. MSA 821 Banikok. Penang 5.40 pm MSA B*s Manila 7.10 p.m. MSA 02?
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  • 863 8  -  By Gemini Seneviratn e LONDON: "There is nothing wrong/' allows Mr. S.M. Chibaleh of M a n s a, "w i t h the name 'Hansard'." What he cannot see, however, is why it should appear on the title page of the
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  • 672 8 WASHINGTON: A careful reading of recruiting advertisements placed in college newspapers by business and Industry provides some interesting insights into the way businessmen are thinking today, and the way THEY believe students are thinking. Businessmen are reassessing their potential employees ambitions. Ideals, job preferences in the light
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  • 715 8  -  Bv Betty Pilkington I NITED NATIONS, New York: When colonialism rolled hark In Africa in the early Sixties the number of independent Francophone countries almost trebled. The changes brought with them strong desires to revive indigenous cultures not least their
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  • 534 8  -  Bv Nicholas Turner of the (GEMINI) WELLINGTON: Eighteen years ago Bryan Toriti decided to sink millions of dollars in a search for oil in New Zealand .Most people thought his business acumen had deserted him Internat.onal oil companies had written New
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 399 8 EASTERN SUN .CONTEST H-6 TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM 'f I K Entrant's Particulars Name: Mr., Miss Address: Age: Closing date 9.4.70 Cut Here WHAT fOIJ HAVE TO DO: 1) tach da> this week, the Eastern Son will oabiisn photograph Z) Identlf* fh» alviir photograph in (hi- above «D#l»
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    • 61 8 DATELINE I DANGER ohn Saunders and AJden McWrHiams AS DANNY AND ADA STRUGGLE TOWARD THE SHORE, A HUGE WAVE LIFTS THEM Vl OFF THEIR FEET.....' S.N .AND HURLS THEM, LIKE MATCHSTICKS, ONTO THE BEACH m BUT, WHEN THE WAVE RECEDES, A SMALL OBJECT IS SWEPT AWA/ BV THE UNDERTOW r/t
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    • 28 8 AMY By Jacl Tippit we "Whot do you want for breakfast? Omelet? Sorry, I can't make that. French toast? Nope, I can't do that one either., .can you?"
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  • 578 9  -  >/##»##/.##«<7 lor SHEILAH GRAHAM YORK. Fri. I •A* am on a youth kick, finding the young actors who will be the big stars of th* future Leonard Whitinj is 19 years old and has already plaved Romeo and Casanowa on
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  • 542 9  -  Ann Landers T\EAR Ann: Now that you have put the in-laws in their place by printing Eight Ways To Break Up A Son Or Daughter's Marriage, will you please give eaual time to the other side? I have p r ep» r ed a
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  • 69 9 HY SMITH has been appointed Director of Foreign Advertising and Publicity of I'nited Artists, effective immediately, it was announced by Fred Goldberg, Vice President Smith has been Foreirn Advertising and Publicity Manager since he Joined CA in September of 1968. Previously Tie was International Coordinator of Advertising and
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  • 143 9 ORADFORD Dillman has been signed t<> co-star m 'Kane." the Columbia Pictures presentation starring Sidney Poitier and coat arnn* Win Ge+ r and Beverlv Todd which ig before the cameras on location in a northern California town Dillman will portrav the district attorney of a
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 57 9 T S®W'EEP X JJ?THOUT RUBBER m >2 B® 9 /TP V*# s J m* »•**< > i t M£9 3fc The Singapore Sweep tickets are now sold without a rubber stamp chop as adequate security features are incorporated in the new tickets as from Draw No. 4/70 (7th April, 1970)
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    • 152 9 •3»\ KELONG RESTAURANT (off Ponggo! Point 11 m.s.) ill PROUDLY PRESENTS •f Taiwan Mt rar\B Mlu UU TCEN II Mi*» ZAINAB HUBS Plus MISS SAKURA TENC Popular T.V. tr Recording Artiite. accompanied by SEA PALACE QUINTET. SPECIAL LUNCHEON MUSIC ON SUNDAY Also Featuring.. AL IBARRA MAGIC SHOW From Auatralla PERFORMING
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    • 281 9 l i SHAW I ORGANISATION LIDO PHonr ***** LAST OAT: 11 a m 1 «5. *V> »15 p m fau. Birke at Carol Lratof Ooe« Ist Kit* A Stranger" la Color (Warner Bros .Vu< OPENS TOMORROW: Alain Delon A- Mireille Dare 'JEFF" In Color 'WB-1 Artal I CAPITOL Phone *****
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    • 20 9 TODAY and YOU... Saturday, April 4, 1970. gi JULY 21 ■fe AM. 22 M»f. 22 11.15-76-37 43-59-37.*? Vi m 12-23-34-*
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    • 320 9 ORGANISATION ■-"-g- CATHAY ***** 10th Big Dmy!_N« Free Lat: DAILY 4 SBUHS! U a.m.. 2.38, 000 A »00 p BJ Paramount Pictures Presents •rtINT YOl'R WAGON" Ijee Marvin Clint Eastwood Panavision Technico.or ORCHARD-***** I°TH POPILAR DAT! Cash Broking* Only No 7r«o List DAILY 3 SHOWS Show Start*. 1.45. 5.1S 8
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  • SUN SPORT
    • RACING SUN
      • 1126 10  -  Jimmy Lad "VfOWROOZ, an impressive winner on the first day, can make it a three-timer in the class five division one 6f event (Race Seven) at Ipoh today. In the rear at the start rhe Raconteur mare made up ground and was fourth at the half
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      • 254 10 JIMMY LAD CISCO ZODIAC RACE 1: < 4 QUEEN'S GAMBIT 6 Novelist (14) Tahiti II (5 > NOVELIST 4 > Queen's (iambit l t Roan Prinee RACE 6 Bl KIT SEROR (13) Algerian Lady 9 I Superago 6 1 BCKIT SEROK I 9 Superago <l?i Algerian Lady 3 >
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      • 1377 10 Race 1: CI. 5 Div. 4—6 Furs.—2.00 p.m. ($5,000) 1 ***** Four Wish.. 6y 8 12 Mdm E Sammy Rao 13 2. ~»,8052 Roan Prince 6V 8 12 K &i T Wilson 4 3. T y?009 Mannum Mis* 7 v 8 11 MM 1? 4 ***** Queen's
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      • 224 10 IPOH, Fri. Senaran Bintang with apprentice Nawari in the saddle went like a winner in a 3f workout in 36 4/5 on a good track here this morning, reports our racing correspondent. Double Seven also impressed over 3f in 38 2/5. Remember Me II (apprentice
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      • 180 10 LIVERPOOL, England. Frt. ((Reuter) —Jockey Tony Murray was nearly decapitated when he ran into wires hanging across the track in a flat race at Aintree course here. British champion Jookev Lester Piggott and several others in the nine-horse race yesterday had narrow escapes. The wire*
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      • 600 10  -  Grand National By Claude Richardson LIVERPOOL. Fri. (Reuter) The famed Grand National steeplechase at Aintree here tomorrow will be contested by one of the most mediocre fields since the war. Nearly two-thirds of the expected 30 runners are on the minimum handicap
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      • 21 10 The Singapore Cricket Association will hold their "Presentation Nite" at the Singapore Recreation Club tonight from 8 30 p.m.
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    • 320 11  -  By BEN VARIYAN BATU TIGA, Fri. Max Stewart of Australia blew up his two-litre Mildren Lidren Waggott engine while practising for the Selangor Grand Prix at the Kuala Lumpur's Batu Tiga racing circuit here today. The Grand Prix over 60 laps (126 miles) will be
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    • 227 11 IOHASNESBFRG. Frt (Reuten Top seeded Margaret Court of Australia and America'! Blllle Jean King, both former Wimbledon champions, will clash in the South African Open tennis championships women» singles final here tomorrow Mrs Court clinched her final place when she beat flfth-sredrd Briton Virginia
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    • 276 11 CHINA OPEN TAIPEI, Fri. (Reutcr)— Nationalist China's Chang Chung Fa edged out Japan's Haruo Yasuda by one stroke for th e first round lead in the US$l2,OOO China Open today. The 40-year-old Chang, familiar with the windswept course, dropped only one stroke and collected five
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    • 106 11 MANILA. Fri. ißeuter) Australia won the first two s:ngle s matches of their Davis Cup Eastern Zone tie with the Philippines to take two-rero lead today. Australia have to win only the doubles match tomorrow to win the tie which is played on a three-out-of-flvf
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    • 131 11 Results of the Singapore Amateur Sepaktakraw Championshio for Einche Othman Wok's Challenge CUD HELD at THE Geylar.ff (Cast) Community Centre on Thursday nifht. Kg Kuehai C* *'<> Kg Übi ..A."* P.S.B Muhibah "B" bt Kg Ayer Genuroh "C* 17—16. —l5. 15—4. Kg Kuchai ''B -1 beat P S.B
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    • 35 11 AARHUB Denmark. FT! rßeuter> Tom Bngs of Denmark retained his European middleweight boxing tltlp when he stopped Les McAteer of Britain In the eleventh round of their scheduled 15-round bout here last night.
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    • 224 11 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) LeeCs United, who ltav e seen the English League championship and, possibly, the European Cup slip from their grasp in six exhausting games, suffered another devastating blow her e last night when England full back Paul Reaney was taken to hospital with a
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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    • 510 11 RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS OALILLE Bl HLfc- PHbsHkIEKIA> tHLUIU 176, Hmu Panjang Ra 3 yore-A 846 p m. Sunday Bcßool 600 Dm. Engiish Service CHINESE PKI-SHYItRIA* IRI E WA% I HI K( U Stirling Koao OS Commonwealth Ave. Singapore 10.30 *.m. Worship derttoa <* Sundav School LtIUbKA.N (UlKLtt Of OLH KtDbEMbK 30.
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    • 648 11 RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS IHUMSUN road MAP I I>l CHIRIH (Teoccew English) 45 Thomson Road. Binizapar* 11 relepoone: ***** Sunday w 15 am. Sunday school 10 30 am. Sunday Worahlp 345 pm English SB 600 pm. Engliah Worship H IM I H \FH Jt> Everitt Roan 6 DOT* lb Monday y3O am.
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    • 578 11 KtLIGIUHt) ANNOUNCEMENTS BE.MHA W ANU MAPI IST HI R( H iTeochew Cantonese Mandarin i HO-A Caauarina Road. 8 pora 30 Sunday 800 am Sundiy School 10 30 am Sunnav Worship 330 pm. Training Union BAMPONO BAPUK MKTHOUIM HI HI H Singapore (Of Cuff Road) I SO am..* 930 am Service
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1179 11 (CHANNEL 31 P M 105 Opening Anncts in all Languages Phantarran The Invisible Monster: 130 National Velvet The Bridegroom; l 55 Whicker World Ceylon «Isle of Astrologers*; 2-50 Star Soccer Middlesborough vs Manchester United: 340 Amuthum Thenum 4.35 whit My Lire: 4JS Science in Action Science Centre. 5 20 Daphne
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  • 274 12 The forthcoming by-elections to be held in five constituencies will be a waste of public funds, the Chairman of the Singapore Malays National Organisation, fuan Hj. Ahmad Hj. Taff, said yesterday. He said he could not understand why the PAP wanted to hold the by-election# to
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  • 125 12 A WOMAN who was knocked down by a car died shortly after admission to the General Hospital Thursday night. The accident took place at the junction of Whitley Road and Dunearn Road. Police now appealing for help from anybody who could help identify the woman. She had
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  • 77 12 The Coroner yesterday retimed a verdict of death by misadventure on a carpenter. Koh Ah Huat. 24. who was electrocuted while operating an electric drill a* a flat in Toa Payoh. A witness. Tan Hui Kim. whose sister was engaged to Koh. told the court that Koh had
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  • 73 12 The annual "Youth Week In Commerce and Industry". Jointly organised by the Junior Chamber of Singapore and the Vocational Guidance Steering Committee of the Government of Singapore will he held from Aug. 17 to 22. The target to provide Job exploratory experiences Is 3,000 as compared to 2,497
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  • 81 12 Mr. Goh Leng Seek has been electee President of the Singapore Computer Society at its recent annual general meeting. Other office-bearers: VicePresident Mr Jonathan Ou Hin Eng: Secretary Mr. Donald ling. Treasurer —Mr. Giie s Roche Committee members: Mr. E Pereira Mr. B Lickman. Mr. Michael Ng. Capt.
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  • 28 12 The Singapore English School Teachers' Cooperative Thrift and Loan Society will hold Its 34th annual general meetlnz at the Culture Centre this Sunday at 10 a.m.
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  • 392 12 Singapore's anti pollution campaign has been helped off the launching pad—by the people hurt most initially. Instead of angry protests, taxi, bus and truck operators are settling down to the task of reducing pollution from vehicles. The cost of overhauling every diesel vehicle, changlne parts in
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  • 53 12 BLUE FUNNEL LINE'S ship, Demodocus, yesterday helped solve the housing problems for workmen of Shell Indonesia working offshore in Indonesian Borneo. It shipped a 20-ton houseboat which is fitted with three double-bed rooms; refrigerator, air-conditioner and a generator. The special houseboat will house the Shell Indonesia team carrying out exploration
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  • 303 12 THE Chap Goh Meh "firecracker deaths" have caused a standstill to the Republic's only fireworks factory and unemployment to 500 workers. This was disclosed In the Ninth Magistrate's Court by Mr. Lul Boon Poh, counsel for Mr. Ng Eng Chong. manager of Forwln Fireworks (Pte.) Ltd.
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  • 71 12 The Coroner's Court yesterday recorded an open verdict on the death of a 45-year-old trishaw rider. On? Chew Huat whose skull was fractured on Jan. 2 at Ophlr Road at 10.40 pm. The court v. as told that he was still breathing when he was found In his
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  • 67 12 KV. Achuthan Govinda Warrler, 44. was yesterday charged with criminal breach of trust Involving $lB 359 47 belonging to the Maritime Surveyor* Company (Pte.) Ltd. between Jan. 1 and D<*c. 31. 1969 He claimed trial and the case has been fixed for transfer on April 11 Ball was
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    • 78 12 TIME a TIDE TODAY 6INQARORE TOWN: 2.30 am. C4?7 ft.); 8.20 a.m. (8 2 ft); 3.14 p.m. (1.2 ft.); 9.57 p.m. (81 ft.) NAVAL DOCKYARD 2.21 a.m. (5.6 ft.); 8.32 a.m. (9.1 ft.>; 2.47 p.m. (2 ft.); 10.02 p.m. (9.8 ft.) TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN: 4 am. (2.7 ft.), 10.10 a.m.
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