Eastern Sun, 8 April 1970

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  • 22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1313 Wednesday, 8 April 19.70. MC (P) 1610 Price 15 cent#
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  • 468 1 MANILA, Tues. (UPI) A major earthquake struck Manila today, but a major disaster appeared to have been prevented because school classes had been cancelled. The quake which violently shook holf of the Philippines' 38 million residents, began at 1.34 p.m. It split walls, shattered
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  • 76 1 SAIGON. Tues. (IPI) Two US. Air Force planes have been shot down over Laos and one of the pilots killed, the (J.S. military command said today. The losses broueht to 15 the number of American aircraft shot down over Laos since the US. command began
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  • 270 1 CAPE KENNEDY, Tges. (UPI) —The threat of measles and a labour dispute in Australia could delay the blast off of the ApoMo IB moon mission by a month. The three astronauts James Lovell, Thomas Mattingly and Fred Haise today discovered they had been exposed to German
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  • 129 1 RANGOON. Tue* (TPT) Communis*- believed to be Burntfv guerrilla* have overrun a military outpost on the frontier with China The official news agency said a company-sired unit of government troops "abandoned" the post at Kvukok Town, fion miles northeast of Rangoon after an attack by the force*
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  • 321 1 CANBERRA, Tues. (UPI) A Labour Parliamentarian said today that Malaysia and Singapore couldn't care less whether Australia kept troops in the region or not. William Morrison, former deputy High Commissioner in Malaysia, was referring to sta'ements by External Affairs Minister William McMahon last
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  • 72 1 IPOH. Tues The Perak Turf Club is to Introduce closed-circuit telecasts of races early next year soon after work on its S6 million racing complex is completed. The club's chairman. Mr. Yeoh Cheang Le«». said the complex will have sauna baths for Jorkevs *o that they
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  • 116 1 PHNOM PENH. Tuee (Renter) Th»* Cambodian Government will tomorrow relea<*> the iiijnrk«cl American munitions ship, 'Columbia Eagle 1 Foreign Minister Yem Sambaur will hand ba<-k the ship to Its captain and all the crew who will be free to leave Sihanoukville The ship was
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  • 154 1 PHNOM PENH. Tues. (Reutert Six journalists •re believed to have been raptured by the Yietcong in the past two days. Two Japanese correspondents. Ylglro Tagaki and Aklra Kusaka of Fuji Television were captured near the village of Chi Phu yesterday. French correspondent Claude Arpin. 30. of
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  • 36 1 BOSTON. Tues (Heater) The Grand Jury wound up its prnb* into Af death of Mary Jo Kopechne in Senator Edward Kennedy's car last year br announcing it would not recommend any action. (See Page 5).
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  • 24 1 ALGIERS Tues 'Reuter) Adda Ould Benhalima. a farmer who claimed to be 154 died todav in his village in Western Algeria.
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  • 205 1 LONDON, Tues. (UPI) Paul McCartney. today announced a number of independent projects which, friends say means the end of the Beatles as a group. ft is now highly unlikely they will ever even record together again." one friend said. McCartney said through his lawyer John
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  • 52 1 LONDON. Tues (Router) Bernadette Devlin, 22. Northern Ireland Member of Parliament and civil rights campaigner, todav left hospital here after an appenc:x operation. Britain's youngest MP. was expected to go straight to the House of Commons to speak In an emergency debate about the degenerating Northern
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 231 2 RULES setting out "do's and don'ts" for political meetings from tomorrow until the day before polling day for the by-elections were gazetted yesterday. A political meeting may be held in any public place or place of public resort subject to the following conditions: That It Is held
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  • 116 2 A pre-university student. Miss Chew Kheng Leng. 17, has won the first prize in the "Youth of the lear" competition. Miss Chew, of the National Junior College, will visit Bangkok as guest of the Lions Club there. The return trip was donated by Thai International Airways.
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  • 72 2 Mr. Howe Yoon Chong was elected President of the Economic Societv of Smgaoore at the annual general meeting hefld recently. Other office were: Dr You Poh Seng. Mr. Lim Chong Yah Mr Augustine H.H Tan. (Vice Presidents) Mr. Koh Foong Yin (Secretary). Mis* Grace Ting (Asst. Sec.).
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  • 221 2 Two fruitsellers were waylaid at Mersiling Road, and one was stabbed to death when he tried to run away, a Coroner's Court was told yesterday. The dead man, Chong Hin Nan, 28, was killed after work on January 10. His friend. Chong Chee Sew. told the
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  • 468 2 A record number of 107 tenders were received for 14 pieces of land offered in the Third Sale of Urban Renewal Sites for Private Development, the Housing and Development Board announced yesterday. It was the first time that all sites were
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  • 112 2 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Rasak left here today for Switzerland where he will holiday for three weekj befor e returning home. He flew to Milan in Italy and from ther«» was motoring across the Swis« border to Lugano. Tun Ra/ak
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  • 70 2 A HAWKER Low Choon Hu«t and a labourer. Tan Ch» Huat. were yesterdav sentenced to three years jail after they were convicted of offering a $25 bribe to two police constables Thev were convicted on a charge of conspiring to bribe Corporal Boon Sian
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  • 62 2 An Indonesian. Muhammad Koslm. 28. was sentenced to six months jail In the Ninth Court, when he pleaded guilty to stealing cash $22. three cheques to the value of $395. belonging to Mohan Liliram Nagranl. He was alleged to have committed the offence on April 6
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  • 207 2 BRUNEI TOWN, Tues. (Reuter) —Th e wife of a detained Brunei rebel leader today sought an interview with visiting British Minister of State, Lord Shepherd, in a bid to secure th e release of her husband. Rogayah Abdul Rahman, wife of Zaini Hajl Ahmad,
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  • 69 2 Muthusamy Narayansamy, 18. was found gulltv and fined SlOO. In the Eighth Magistrates Court yesterday, for attempting to resell four SI 50 cinema tickets, for the 5.00 p.m. show at the Rex theatre. The senior Superintendent of Customs. Mr Chew Bah Tee prosecuting pressed for
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  • 299 2 Housing board flats will be improved in line with the "rising expectations" of the masses, Mr. Ho Cheng Choon, Parliamentary Secretary (National Development) said yesterday. It was the Government's policy to Improve the standard of living of the people, he added. Mr. Ho wis speaking
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  • 38 2 Another four batches of National Servicemen will be called up for full-time military service on April 20. 21. 22 and 23. They will be given a ceremonial send-off by their MPs at the various community centres.
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  • 197 2 Two scientists are now in Singapore to speak to the many different groups here during their tour of Asia. They are Dr. Robert G. Packard, the Physics Professor at Baylor University in America and Dr. Joyce Wang Fan. the professor in Chemistry and Head of
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  • 12 2 There were 70 accidents, of which 11 were serious, yesterday
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 291 2 S'pore Sweep Results TICKET No. *****08 won the first prize of $400,000 in the Singapore Sweep drown at the Wonderland Amusement Park last night. The i-econd priZf Of I ucain ifi-ooa; I nioieno nlno j Af* 5150.000 was won by ticket No. *****17. The third prize of $75,000 was won
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  • 227 3 Tues <Reutfr) iTT Chinese seaman with w i n pipe cut in a knife attack aboard a freighter had written his attacker s name, the Newcastle coroner s court was told here. The court was Inquiring yesterday into the death of Ng
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  • 251 3 TOKYO. Tues. (UPI) Stalled trade talks between Japan and Communist China entered their second month today. The mission is headed by Yoshimi Furui. a member cl Parliament for Japan's conservative ruling party. Japan d<-es not recognise Fed China. In legal fiction, the trade pact is
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  • 47 3 CHOU EN LAI (left), Communist Chinese Vernier, continues talks with North Korea Premier Kim II Sung yesterday. However, Radio Pyongyang reported that he left for home last night. This photo was released by the official North Korean news agency yesterday and monitored in Tokyo. (UPI radiophoto service.)
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  • 106 3 MAINPURI, India. Tues. 'Reuter* Angry students, stopped from cheating during an examination, killed the college iQfturer In this north Indian town, college authorities announced yesterday. About a dozen students at Ikrasanand College stabbed economics lecturer Suraj Upadhyaya immediately after the matriculation last Saturday. He had confiscated
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  • 136 3 TOKYO. Tues. UPI) Tiie Japanese Cabinet today decided not to seek the extradition from Communist North Korea of nine hijackers of a Japan Airlines' jet. The decision, described as 'provisional' by a cabinet spokesman, followed a recommendation by Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi. Meanwhile. North Korea avoided
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  • 191 3 JAKARTA. TUPS. (Reuter) The Muslim weekly, Wngkatan Baru* (New Generation) claimed today that deposed President Sukarno would face trial by a special military tribunal early next year. The paper, quoting sources close to the presidential circle, disclosed the former President would give an account on
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  • 280 3 SAIGON, Tues. (UPI) —Violence erupted between about 200 disabled veterans and government police in Saigon today during a protest demonstration. The former were trying to obtain government-provided housing and better pension for the Vietnam war wounded. Police fired warning rifle shots into
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  • 182 3 MANILA. Tues. (UPI) Novelist Han Suyin has been barred from re-enter-ing The Philippines She has previously spent more than a week last December addressing large groups in Manila. Immigration Commissioner Edmundo Reyes Issued orders yesterday banning the Eurasian author of "A Many Splendoured Thing" and
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  • 97 3 BOMBAY. Tues. <UPI> Roman Catholic Church authorities yesterday refused to comment on the Hindu-style marriage on Saturday of a Spanish Jesuit priest to a British girl. Father Vincent Ferrer married Anne Perry. 23, at the Village of Annantpur In Andhra Pradesh State. He had requested but
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  • 275 3 TOKYO, Tues. (Reuter) Right-wing Japanese rammed a van into the Soviet Vice-Premier's residence here today. The occasion was just a few hours after the Russian minister's arrival in Japan amidst strict security precautions, police announced. Then about 80 Japanese security
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  • 80 3 MELBOURNE. Tu?s (Reute?) State and Commonwealth police swarmed over a sheep farm 100 miles north-east of Melbourne today. There were reports that two men on horseback were firing rifles where Prince Charles and Princess Anne were riding. Police reported that one man had been apprehended and
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  • 86 3 UNITED NATIONS. Tues. (Reuter) U N. SecretaryGeneral U Thant leaves here todav for a 12-day trip to The Philippines and Japan. In The Philippines, he will hold talks with President Marcos and members of his cabinet, as well as with representatives from the Upper and Lower
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  • 46 3 INDORE. India. Tues. (Reuter) Seven people, three of them women, were injured in fighting between two groups belonging to different communities apparently Hindus and Muslims in this central Indian city yesterday. Police later fired one gas shell to disperse a 150strong crowd throwing stones
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 276 3 200 years of Beethoven welcome! This year music lovers around the world will celebnte the 200 th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven. If you come to Germany you will find a lot of music lovers Who won't You'll find them In any German city the moment its night lights
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  • 212 5 FORT BRAGG, North Carouna. Tues. (Reuter)The Army named Green Beret Captain Jeffrey MacDonald as 'a suspect 'in the brutal slaying of his wife and two young daughters last February. The 26-year-old captain is the first suspect to be named during the six-week
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  • 75 5 WASHINGTON T u e 5 OJPI) The US. Department of Health. Education and Welfare «HEW. yesterday approved the Army's plan for transporting lethal gases from Okinawa to storage In the State of Oregon. The review toot more than three months. It paved the wa v for
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  • 139 5 LOS ANGELES. Tues. (UPI) Potato and corn chipfe which drugged 2? persons during a weekend singles' party were individually spiked with LSD. the Sheriff's office announced yesterday. Tests were conducted by the Sheriff's crime laboratory on the remaining chips, about 7 ounces. No arrests have
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  • 462 5 EDGARTOWN, Marrtia's Vineyard, Tues. (Reuter) Th« grand jury probe into the death of Kopechne was resumed behind locked doors here today. There is no clear indication that Senator Kennedy would finally be cleared of responsibility or have to face criminal prosecution The 38-year-old senator s poutical
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  • 190 5 PORTO ALEGRE, Tues. (UPl)—Military Police manned roadblocks on all highwayi out of Brazil's southern-most state yesterday. They were searching for terrorists who wounded an American Consul in a kidnap attempt on Sunday. Police denied a report that thev had captured two of the
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  • 35 5 WASHINGTON. T u e s. fPeuteri Mrs Madalyn O'Hair America's best known atheist who helped make prf£?rB in schools illegal, faiipri vesterdav to persuade the Court to ban astronauts praying in outer space.
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  • 214 5 WASHINGTON, Tues. (Reuter) President Nixon's controversial nomination of Judge Harrold Carswell to th e Supreme Court today appeared in danger of a narrow defeat because of possible last-minute switches before tomorrow's showdown *ote. Indications were that the vote could he a tie with
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  • 399 5 Terrorist Tactics On Agenda? EL PASO, Texas, Tues. (Reuter) —West German Chancellor Willy Brandt heads (or Washington today ♦or talks with President Nixon. They are bound to centre on the problem of terrorist kidnappings. The emergence of this as one of the main Items of discussions
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  • 165 5 PITTSBURGH. Pennsylvania. lufs <UPI) A confused. young man entrrrd the cockpit of a planp with a run but surrendered moments later. The aircraft landed here without any incident. The man had thought the plane was heading for Boston and he did not want to go
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  • 391 5 GUATEMALA CITY, Tues. (Reuter) The nation was thrown into confusion overnight os rumours spread of a coup d'etat and further diplomatic kidnappings. This follows the murder by left-wing rebels of West German Ambassador Karl von Spreti. The temporary
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  • 94 5 LONDON*. Tues. <UPI) Seven British subjects are at present detained or believed to be detained in Communist China. the British Government announced yesterday. George Thomson, a minister at the Foreign Office. told House of Commons questioners "we have made it clear to the Chinese on
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  • 183 5 BERLIN, Tues. (AFP) Guatemala's Consul in West Berlin, Arno Tuerklitx. resigned last night to protest against the way hit Government had dealt with the kidnapping and murder of West German Ambassador. Tuerkllt* especially deplored that the Guatemalan authiritlea did not accep* the offer of the
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  • 683 6 fTHE murder of the West German Ambassador in Guatemala by kidnappers who wanted some political prisoners freed and a substantial ransom could be counted as one of the most brutal of political crimes as the victim was totally innocent of any association with the kidnappers' grievances. We hold
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  • 248 6 IT anyone thinks that politics is a hard and calA culating business, New Delhi can falsify such notions. Fertile Indian MPs have the Inordinary knack of combining state affairs with frolics and dish it out in dosage Hollywood can seldom get at. Nor the concoction is possible for
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  • 1168 6  -  By CLYDE SANGER OTTAWA: Two Foreign Ministers sitting down to lunch together there's hardly anything unusual about that. Yet when Canada's External Affairs Minister, Mitchell Sharp, had lunch with France's Foreign Minister, Maurice Schumann, at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris that made
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  • 665 6  -  By DON DALLAS LONDON, Governments around the world ar« becoming increasingly worried about a new phase of 20th century violence which makes hostages of their diplomats end nationals. On the one hand they face the threat of the hijacking or bombing of plane* a hazard
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  • 101 6 CANBERRA. Australia will commit several million, dollars to the Tied Loan. Fund of the Asian Development Bank, government officials announced today. The tied loans will allow Australian economic and engineering consultants to carry out more development projects for overseas countries The use of the
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  • LETTERS...
    • 362 6  -  L. S. KHIN I would be truly grateful If you could kindly allow m* the courtesy of your valuame column on a matter that affects more than 201 families. As a citizen, it gladens my heart to note that more efforts are currently being made
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    • 224 6  -  Dr. KOH ENG HENG, President, Singapore Association for Mental Health. Singapore IN your editorial on the 3rd April you were "not quite sure' what our educationists and politicians could do about the mental health of our people. The Minister for Health has in fact already answered in part
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    • 277 6 I AM a regular traveller between Singapore and Johore Bahru as I live in Johore Bahru and work In Singapore. Yesterday for the first time, since the new Immigration law requiring Singapore Citizens to have a valid passport to enter West Malaysia was introduced, I forgot
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 336 7 TH e sharp decline in Hie stock market was temporarily arrested yesterday •men, tor a change, buying support re-appeared to bull up the dented industrial snare prices. Gains ranging from two cents to 14 cents were spread over a broad With the exception of isolated counters,
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    • 974 7 B L l in and the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore 7Sn umber scares traded in brackets in lots of l uuO units unless otherwise specified:- INDtSTRLVLS Alca« Industries $1.67 (2) $1.66 U> $l6B »2> $1.69 <s> $1«0 CI) DIM $1.71 (1) $l-72
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    • 128 7 THE Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singa-pore yesterday made the following changes in its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency): SELLING TT. or OD ready: Deutsche Marks $84.6325; Holland Guilders $85.1200; Swiss Francs $71.7450; Belgian Francs $6 2175; French Francs
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    • 60 7 HERTZ Rent-a-Car has been granted the franchise to provide a self-drive car service at Paya Lebar Airport. The manager of Hertz Singapore. Mr. Mlchae! Tan. said the service would commence this week. Hertz will operate from a booth In the main lobbv of the terminal
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    • 38 7 O'CONNORS (8) Pte Ltd. have been appointed sole distributors for television and radio broadcasting transmission and studio equipment manufactured by Philips and Pye TVT. The agency will cover Singapore. East and West Malaysia and Brunei.
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    • 39 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday 30 Industrials 79.18 20 Transp. 173.71 15 Uttlitle, 117 97 65 Stocks 263.23 40 Bonds 69-27 Commodity futures index ***** up 0.19.
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    • 682 7 BID and offer prices officially listed yesterday at the close of business in the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore were: INDUSTRIALS B. 8. Aem* m 230 AUan Industrie* 1 70 171 Ben Co 163 Borneo Bhd 167 170 BouMrari Co 2
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    • 291 7 April first *rade rubber buyer* closed at 5 Pm. in Singapore a nd Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 59-I'B cents oer lb un three eighths of a cent from the orevioii* clo«e Th* ton* of the market was inactive. The market spent N very quiet morning an<i
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    • 51 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Rubber futures closed unchanged and untraded Monday on the New York Commodity Exchange (Clnae) (Prey) Ma* 21 508 21.50 July 21 508 2150 Sept. 21.508 2150 Nov. ***** 2150 Jan. 21.258 21.25 March 21.258 2125 Locally. No. 2 RSS was 22-7/8 US. cents per
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    • 13 7 Th* tin priee for veat*rday was $*****$ per plcul. up $7.00.
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    • 214 7 KUALA LUMPUR Tues. Two technicians from Borneo Motor* (M) Sdn. Bhd. hav e been selected to attend a sis-month training course in Japan. Mr. Johnny Pang Kee Juai and Mr. Wonq Yim See left Kuala Lumpur by air recently for Tokyo where they will
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    • 50 7 NEW YORK Tues (UPI> Glamour stocks carried the stock market lower In light turnover Monday. The UPI marketwlde Indicator was off 0.75 per cent on 1.567 Issues across the tape. Of these. WO declined. 410 advanced. A turnover of around 84-mllllon shares compared with 9.920.000 shares Friday
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    • 50 7 A LOCAL travel agency, G.C. Nanda k Bons Pte. L'd has published a colourful 32-page brochure featuring holiday* In the Ear East and Australasia for 1970. The company Is offering well-planned package holidays to Bali. Cambodia. Bangkok. Hong Kong, Taiwan. Kashmir. India. Ceylon. Australia and New Zealand.
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    • 73 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPD Gold prices slipped Monday in routine trading on markets here and abroad. In London, gold fell li cents at the morning fixing and dropped an additional 44 cents for a second fixing of $35.28 a troy ounce. The closing price was $35 25
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    • 154 7 A JAPANESE printing expert. Mr. S. Yamane, who la at present on a factfinding tour of Australasia and the Far Ea-«t predicted a bright future for the industry in Singapore and Malaysia Mr, Yamane. export manager of Dalnlppon Bcreen Manufacturing Co. Lt{!., said that
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    • 91 7 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) Industrial shares and oils backtraced on the stock market Monday and dealers blamed budget uncertainties and fears aljout the future effects of growing wage claims. The Index slipped 3.3 lower to 391.9 shortly before the end of trading and most sections took falls. British government
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    • 50 7 LONDON. Tues (UPI) The rubber market closed nominal veaterday with sellers reserved spot 21, 21-1/2 (Settlement Houee) Ma r 21-1/8. 21-1/2. Jun« 21-1/4, 21-5/8 April/June 21-3/8. 21-3'4. July/Sept. 21-1/2. 21-7/8. Oct., Dec. 21-5 8. 22. April/June, July/Sept and Oct./ Dec. 22. 22-1/4. Jsn'/March, April/June July/Sept. 22-1/8. 22-3/8.
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    • 151 7 The following U berthIn* list iaaued by the Port of Singapore Authority for today, Wednesday. April 8: DEPARTURES God owns Teasels 1/2 Clifford Maersk 5 State of Orissa 35/36 Glenflnlaa 19 Ryuho Maru 20 West Trang 24'23 Nagova Maru 29/30 Kadina 31/32 Berezniki 15/16 Calchas 35/38
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    • 371 7 Sydney Stocks, Closing Prices f H3 |j 4 SYDNEY, Tues. (UPI) Nickel stock Poseidon, and Westralian Nickel led th e field in a heavy day of selling on Sydney Stock Exchange Tuesday. Poseidon finished the day on $119.00. a fall of four dollars. and Westralian Nickel finished down
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    • 91 7 THE noon price* ai t h Singapore Chine** Produce E*ckange yesterday were:Bujer Mile* Coeoniit oil (FOB.) HnIk 58 00 Coconut Oil (FOB) Drum 60 50 Mixed Copra 55-50 Mnntok Ubite Pepper (FOB) no oo Sarawak White Pepper (F O B is: so Sarawak special Black Pepper (T O B
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    • 5 7 (•Hong Kong Currency!
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    • 127 7 HONG HONG. (UPI) Tuesday's 5pm currenrr rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Inrestment Ltd.). (Buyer* > < Seller* > 194 7 195.7 per 100 Strait* dollars 148 149 per 1.000 Taiwan dollara 6 677 per Australian dollar 340 360 per 1.000 Burmese kyats 4P0 510 per l.ooo
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    • 428 7 ARRIVALS 815 am MSA 123 k. Lumpur 945 a m. MSA 11» k Lumpur. 14-30 pm. Ms A 451 kocfcing 2.30 p m MSA 021 k Lumpur. Malacca 125 pm. MsA 453 k klnahalu 340 p.m. MSA 521 Bangkok. 340p m. MSA 821 Bangkok. Pens n g 500p
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  • Femme
    • 516 9  -  Ann Landers I~IEAR ANN: Now that L men's hairpieces are becoming more popular, I'm sure you'll be getting this problem from a good many male readers. I'm a bachelor with a fairly active social life. I wear a toupee. Problem One: When a woman starts
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    • 666 9  -  iat if For 111/ M'//. Sheilah Graham V T EW YORK, TUM. Michael Caine't "No" is getting weaker. He really does not want to marry again but Minda Feliciano, his constant companion of the past year (ever since he met her in the Philippines)
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    • 590 9  -  By JUDY OWEN JpLORENCE, Tues. (Reuter) Thanks to women who could not make up their minds, the anarchic state of fashion is about to come to an end. In a sneak preview of Italian autumn-winter 1970-71 fashions, at the historic Plttl Palace in
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    • 237 9  -  A Lowlier You By Mary Sue Miller JJURING the reign of England's George 111, the male contingent be. lieved that perfume had th« power to bewitch. Ai a result, the following law wet pasted in 1774: "AH women ...that shall from and after this act impose
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    • 112 9 f LOOK FOR... d THE softened look of mini dresses, which must now have pleated or gathered skirts, soft cardigan Jackets and lengths of scarf. THE need for tights with all mini dresses, in colours to match or co-ordinate, and shoes often wide strap sandals, heels still low.
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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    • 52 9 TODAY and YOU... Wednesday. April 8. 1970. T! 25 Hord 53 W.U 85 C* 26 Sentsn# 56 To 86 Own V Though B7 *»o«etd 28 You sfl Srnet!y 88 Romanes 39 Thi* 59 Com* 89 M-w 30 Kwp 60H0v«9 90 W<» (§)A4rene {^Keuat! MS-17-32 iZ. US. 28-34 V *QUAftIUS 1-
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 1099 10  -  Emphasis On Physical Preparation By DENIS FOLLOWS "[ENGLAND'S preparations for this year's World Cup competition hove so far, in the main, followed the normal pattern, but with additional refinements to meet the special conditions which will obtain in Mexico. An England international match programme is
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    • 148 10 CAPETOWN South Africa. Tues. (I'PI) I a.ichn Cioma!es earned an easy ISS2.HOO yesterday when he beat grand slam champion Rod Laver 6-4, 6-4 in an exhibition tennis match. The veteran (ioniales excelled in the sea level conditions after the high altitude of Johannesburg during the
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    • 48 10 Zurich. Tues (Reuter) The International Football Federation (FIFAi said here yesterday that nine national associations had been suspended for nonpayment of the 1970 annual subscription fee. The associations were those of the Bahamas, Cambodia. Congo Brazzaville. North Korea. Laos. Lesotho. Mauritania. Pakistan and Somalia.
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    • 46 10 BOMBAY. Tues. (Reuter) India's team for the Eastern Zone Group *B' final of the Davis Tennis Cup against Ceylon here will be Premjlt Lall (captain). Jaideep Mukherjea. Shashl Menon and Vljay AmritraJ The tie takes place on April 18. 19 and 20.
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    • 236 10 LONDON, Tues <UPIi Tireless Crystal Palace beat bv a weakened Manchester City 1-0 before a crowd of 27.700 last night. The two priceless points In a nail biting game were won in the 21st minute when Roger Hoy scored from close range following a Steve
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    • 203 10 By LITTLE NENE VARIOUS golfing competitions are held in the country Four-ball best ball matches; Three-best, scores of a tour-men team; Two-ball-aggregate; and Inter-Club competitions just to mention a few. Now I suggest: How about a father and son team match' For a fact,
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    • 129 10 LONDON. Tues. Following in the wakp of another recent Scottish soccer export to reach an English club. Peter Cormack has joined Nottingham Forest for a transfer fee of €82.000 paid to his Scottish club, Hibernian. Cormack joins the English club exactly three months after
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    • 624 10 TOKYO, Tues. (Reuter) South Korean boxers won two Orient boxing titles recently to tie Japan with tour champions each in the 10 boxing divisions for March. The new monthly ratings ending April 3 were announced b« the Orient Boxing Federation. The
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    • 142 10 By Eastern Knight This year's Junior Chess championship has been divided into seven sections Singapore Junior Open. Schoolgirls' Open. Schoolboys Under-16. Schoolboys Under-14. Schoolgirls Un-der-14, Primary Schoolboys. Primary Schoolgirls. The Singapore Chess Federation Juniors Club Committee finds It necessary to have the above divisions owing to the
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    • 127 10 LONDON. Tues (AFP) nie British racing-car firm. L<otus. have announced a new look formula one model to make Its debut «t the Spanish Grand Prix on April 19 The new Lotus 72 will still be powered by the widelvysed Ford Cosworth V
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    • 89 10 TEHERAN. Tues. rßeuitV r a P° Pl Tel Aviv, of Israel, beat Medan. or Indonesia. 3-1 and 'West Bengal, of India, won 2-1 against the Thailand Police •n the third Asian soccer club tournament here yesterday. Yechezkel Chazum put Israel ahead two minutes th e start against
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    • 247 11  - Bartlett Stewart For Japan GP By Ben Variyan TZ" UALA LUMPUR, Tues. Kevin Bartlett, the Australian racing car champion tor 1568 and 1969 and team-mate Max Stewart, the Australian Formula Two champion have both entered for the Japan Grand Prix to be held at the Mount Fuji international speed- way
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    • 136 11 WELLINGTON. New Zealand. Tues. (Reuter) Top apprentice Bruce Marsh has been chosen to represent New Zealand at an international race meeting In Seoul next month. The New Zealand Racing Conference announced Marsh as its nomination today in response to an Invitation from the Korean
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    • 137 11 JAKARTA. Tues. (AFP) Plans to hold an Asean students' soccer festival have fallen through. Two Malaysian students Mansur bin Abdul Rahman and Arlf bin Umar were the only overseas delegates at a conference sponsored this week by the Indonesian Students Sports Association to organise the
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    • 131 11 LONDON. Tues (Reuter) Paul Madeley. the Leeds United utility plaver. was named today as replacement for his Injured clubmate Paul Reaney in England's party of 28 players to go to Mexico to defend the World Cup. Madeley was a surprise omission from team manager Sir Alf Ramsey's
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    • 471 11 IPOH. Tues.— Following is the Stipendiary Steward's report on the week-end races here: SATURDAY RACE 1: NovelUt <Bhaart» was slow to begin. Near the 3 furlongs Qur-en's Gambit (Rao) had to be checked when bumped onto the rail by Showman IV (Podmorei. Pod more then
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    • 103 11 KUALA LUMPUR Tues. (UPI)— Indonesia will have a permanent motor-racing track costing 400 million ruplahs ($3 million) at Antjol. Jakarta, next year. Indonesia s ace driver. Hengky Iriawan. who won the sports and GT cars events here on Sunday said yesterday the government would give
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    • 83 11 NEW YORK. Tues. (Reuter) The Detroit Tigers shut out the Washington Senators 5-0 and the Cincinnati Reds whipped the Montreal Expos 5-1 yesterday to open the 1970 baseball season. Mickey Lollch hurled a spven hitter to blank Washington for their eighth opening-day defeat In a row. Jim
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    • 98 11 KUALA LUMPUR, TueS. Malaysia will host the ninth Asian horseracing conference here from Sept. 17-28. Mo re than 800 delegates and observers from Asian and European countries will be attending the conference. Countries taking part in the conference include Singapore. Thailand, Korea Japan, th e
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    • 92 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues (UPI) The Malaysian Football Association yesterday announced the national team for the Asian Youth Football tournament to be held in Manila beginning April 15 The team: Wong Hee Hock. V. Rajesparam Wong Chee Keong. Khidlr Buvong Hirahal Bahwandl. Nik Wahid. Abbas Akhbar. Khoo
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    • 91 11 PARIS. Tues. (Reuter>— Newmarket 2 noo Ouineas entries RoJ Sole H and Without Fear finished first and second In the £2 000 Prix DJebel over seven furlongs at Saint Cleud yesterday. Lester Plggot*. Britain's champion Jockey, rode Rol Solell to a half-length victory over Without Fear. mount of
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    • 154 11 NAGOYA Japan, Tues. (UPI) —Defending champion Japan routed Singapore 5-0 this moning for their third straight victory in the men's team event on th e second day of the week-long 10th Asian table tennis championships. It was Singapore's third straight defeat in as many matches. Nobuhiko
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    • 36 11 MANILA. Tues. i AFP) Manolo Vicera of the Philippines entered the light flyweight finals of the fourth Asian amateur boxing championships here last night by outpointing Thailand's Surapongse Srlphirom In an exciting three-round contest.
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  • 172 12 Fifth In Five The fifth murder in five days was recorded yesterday. Police found a middle-aged woman brutally slashed to death, in Jurong. No weapons were found at the scene. The woman, about 35 to 40. had gaping wounds on the back of her head,
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  • 73 12 Seventy-nine persons were killed in traffic accidents for the first three months this year. This represented an Increase of 10 as compared with the number killed in the corresponding month last year. The total number of road accidents for the first threp months of
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  • 72 12 Ten finalists have tven named for the Eighth Annual Safety First Oratorical Contest organised by th* Singapore junior Safety First Council. They were: David Chia Sal Hoe. Linda Chia. Betsy Chng, Low Boon Liane. Ragine Rajalingam. Tan Ju Seng. Tan Slang Yang. Amost Thomas. Derrick Tay and
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  • 126 12 A DELEGATION of 12 students from the Singapore Polytechnic Chines*? Language Society leaves today for a two-week Goodwill and Study Tour to Thailand Th£ object and purpose of the tour U to foster closer relations between the people of Thailand and Singapore; to study educational problems
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  • 102 12 Students from six schools in Singapore will take part in a debate on "Teenagers need more freedom today" which will be held at the National Library Lecture Hall on April 10 at 3 p.m. The debate, organised by the Young People's Service of the National Library, will
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  • 83 12 Construction of larger stalls, better toilet facilities and shelters in the eating areas in Elizabeth Walk will be underway soon. A pond will also be made In addition to more flower boxes and footpaths. It is estimated that $120.000 will be needed for
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  • 51 12 Polls Nomination The Workers' Party ha# decided not to participate in the by-elections for five Parliamentary seats vacated by Government backbenchers. The chairman, Mr. Liang Siok Kiong, said the decision was reached after a meeting by the Central Executive Committee. Nominations for the five constituencies begin
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  • 387 12 Pop sound, pot and booze were last night condemned by Mr. L.P. Rodrigo, Parliamentary Secretary (Foreign Affairs) as dangerous pollutants to the "grit and vitality" of Singa- pore's youths. Speaking at the opening of the 11th Nationwide "Leaders of Tomorrow" Oratorical Contest at the
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  • 320 12 POLISHING silver is a demanding job but it is great fun and an honour if the silver you polish happen to belong to t-Se President of the Republic. That was exactlv how five &cout s felt yesterday when they weie ?t the Istana
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  • 106 12 THE First Lady. Puan Noor A; shah entertained delegates in d observers to the 7th Biennial Conference of the YA'CA of Malaya and Singapore to a Tea-Partv at the Istana yesterdav. In welcoming the delegates, Puan Noor A.shah said. "This conference is a happv and important occasion
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  • 102 12 A storekeeper with a record company who sold 6S defective records by British pop star Tom Jones was yesterdav convicted on a charge of criminal breach of trust. Low Suan Pok. 63. pleaded gulltv to selling the records which he was entrusted with In
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  • 382 12 'FLYOVER' DEATH INQUEST HAJI MODIN, a 49-year-o!d coffee stall owner, who was crushed to death on March 10 by four beams falling from the nearly-completed flyover at Thomson Road, had no business to be there. A witness. Bobby Ho. Civil Engineering
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    • 71 12 TIME TIDE TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN 601 a.m. <6 in >: 12.28 pm. <9 4 ft); 6.21 p.m. (2 8 ft.). NAVAL DOCKYARD. 542 а.m. (1 ft.); 12.34 pm. (114 ft.); 6.07 p.m. <3.2 ft.). TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN 1211 am. (96 ft.), 643 p.m. (4 in 1.14 p.m. (88 ft б.54
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