Eastern Sun, 16 April 1970

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    21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY <& Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1320 Thursday. 16 April 1970. MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon AIR, WATER CRISIS ON DYING MOON SHIP
    495 1 J-JOUSTON, Wed. (Reuter) America's three moon men hurtled towards earth today racing against time and fresh dangers in their crippled Apollo 13 spaceship. The astronauts, cold, breathing foul air and urgently conserving vital water and oxygen for the long flight to splashdown, reported
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    Lock icon 'Odds Are Against Astronauts'
    87 1 Odds Are Against Astronauts' CANBERRA. Wed. (t'PI) The Apollo 13 mission is in "a life or death struggle with the odds against the astronauts,'' an Australian Space Official said today. The official of the government Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation at the Parkes deep space tracking station, said: •The
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    Lock icon Russian Help For Apollo 13
    290 1 MOSCOW, Wed. (Reuter) —~Two Russian freighters are heading for the stricken Apollo-13's expected splashdown site in the Pacific. Tass reported that the Academician Rykachev and Novopolotsk, already in the Pacific, have changed course for the area of the splashdown. The vessel's crews have orders to
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    Lock icon Germans Grab Suspected Spy
    47 1 BONN. Wed. (Reuter) A man who worked as an opinion poll researcher has been arrested on suspicion of spying for East Germany Dr Gottfried Sommer. from Dresden. In East Germany. was detained by police at Aachen with forged Identity papers in his possession.
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    Lock icon Cyanide Stolen
    67 1 GLASGOW. Wed. IRfutfr) Police throughout Scotland are searching for a stolen bottle of cyanide, enough to poison a town of 60.000 people Police. fearing the deadly liquid may be poured down a drain, or into a river or a lake, have appealed to hospitals and doctors to report
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    Lock icon British Liner On Fire In Atlantic
    188 1 NEW YORK, Wed. (UPI) The British passenger 'P with 413 passengers on board, was on fire today in the Atlantic 1,200 miles east of Bermuda. First reports Issued by the U.S. Coast Guard said the fire Is being "contained" with no reports of injuries.
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    Lock icon 30 Mutilated Bodies In The Mekong
    225 1 pHNOM PENH, Wed. (UPI, Reuter) Dozens of bodies some headless and others with hands tied behind their backs, floated down the Mekong River today. Thev were seen at Kompong Phnom a Vietnamese village in Cambodia which was abandoned and burned at the weekend. A
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    Lock icon CAMBODIA ASKS FOR ARMS AID
    301 1 "OHNOM PENH, Wed. (Reuter) Prime Minister Lon Nol soys Cembodio is prepared to accept "all outside help in its bid to oust Vietcong and North Vietnamese troops. Observers said Lon Nol's speech amounted to an invitation to the United States to provide arms and ammunition.
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    Lock icon Anti-US Riot In Amman
    58 1 AMMAN. Wed. <UPI> Thousands of demonstrators tore down the U S flag at the American Embassy and set Are to cars in front of the building today. Fire engines raced through the street* with their sirens walling Mobs also surged round the building housing the United
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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    Lock icon TRAFFIC TUNNELS 'FEASIBLE' FOR SINGAPORE LINKUP
    193 2 Tunnels for speedier communications in Singapore are "feasible", a British civil engineer said yesterday. He is Mr. W.P. Lee, who has been closely associated with the construction of the Mersey Tunnels in England. Mr. Lee, who was addressing the Rotary Club of Singapore at
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    Lock icon Medical Talk Today 4.30
    50 2 Professor Albert Neubereer. Professor of Chemical Pathology. University of London and Principal of the Wrigfct-Fleming Institute of Microbiology. St. Mary's Hospital will deliver a public lecture on the control of Porphyrin Biosynthesis at the Allen Lecture Theatre. Faculty of Medicine. Sepoy Lines, today at 4.30 p.m.
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    Lock icon Sindhi Merchants Association
    39 2 Mr. T. Gulabral has been elected Hon. Secretary of The Sindhi Merchants Association. at its Annual General Meeting The other office bearers elected for the year 1970' 1971; President; Mr. D. T. Assomull. Vlce-Presldent;-Mr. R. Harumal.
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    Lock icon Extortion: Two Claim Trial
    135 2 Two youths, Chia Moon Hon and Chan Yew Lam, yesterday claimed trial in the Ninth Magistrate's Court to a charge of attempting to extort $350, from a pork seller, Tan Kwei Tiong, at his stall on April 14, at 10.00 a.m. They were alleged to have
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    Lock icon Gang Victim Lingered 27 Days: Court Told
    226 2 A Chinese story-teller who was stabbed three times in the stomach by a group of men for no known reason clung on to life for 27 days before he died, a Coroner's Court was told yesterday. Kwek Mia Chye. 27. and two friends
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    Lock icon Inner Wheel Club Nets $4,000 For The Aged
    195 2 THE President of the Inner Wheel Club of Singapore, Mrs. Dorothy Hon, yesterday presented a cheque of $4,000 to the Society for the Aged and Sick. The money was raised from a fashion show which was held on Feb 23 at the
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    Lock icon Indonesian Woman Tells How She Was Enticed By A 'Good Job'
    462 2 An Indonesian woman yesterday told court how she was duped into coming to Singapore for "a good job" which turned out to be that ot a prostitute. Soyatln blnte Ahmad. 23. who arrived July 11 last year, also said
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    Lock icon Education Takeover
    106 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The sub-committee of the National Goodwill Council on Adult Education will meet on Saturday to discuss the NGC's takeover of Rahasa Malaysia Adult Education classes Formerly these classes were run by the Ministry of National and Rural Development. The sub-committee headed by Prof. Chin Fung
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    Lock icon Sailor Accused Of Murder
    73 2 BANGKOK Wed 'Reuter)— A Royal Navv seaman la being held In a Bangkok Jail, charged with allegedly causing the death of a Thai bar hostess a British embassy spokesman said today. The spokesman said he Is leading Radio Mechanic Andrew Roberts Tombs. 23. of HM.S Lynx
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    Lock icon Japanese School Here Has Roots In Pre-war Days
    115 2 Few remember or know it, but the Present Stamford Girls' School premises in Waterloo Street was once a Japanese school before the last world war. Today, the expansion of a Japanese School In Singapore will further enhance the existing Industrial harmony between
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    Lock icon Kosygin Sends Message To President Nixon
    108 2 MOSCOW. Wed. fßeuter) Soviet Premier Alexel Kosygln today pledged all possible Russian help to rescue the American Apollo 13 astronauts. In a message to President Nixon, Kosygln said Russians are following with "concern" the flight home of the spacecraft. "I would like to Inform
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    Lock icon 'BRAIN GAIN'
    98 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Vice-Chan-cellor of the University of Malaya here. Prof. Unxku Azii at a press conference here said that the university was experiencing a Brain Gain and not a hr.un drain as many people believed. He said that the university had offered 41 academic appointment* since
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    Lock icon 'MASTERMIND' DENIES HAND IN STABBING
    277 2 A man who master-minded a robbery at a feather factory last year denied that h« had a hand in the fatal stabbing of two factory workers. Chan Ah Lay made this denial when he was crossexamined by Mr. Freddy Yin in the third day of
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    Lock icon Policeman Gets 12 Months
    92 2 A police constable, Abdul Ghani bin Buang, was yesterday convicted on a charge of corruption and sentenced to a year's jail. The Seoond District Court Judge, Mr. Donald Yeo Hock Chwee found him guilty of accepting a bribe of $2O from a traffic offender Chua Leong
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    Lock icon MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT
    127 2 Boys' Town needs 51.000.000 to complete the second phase of its extended project. Brother Leo 0/ the Boys' Town Boarc of Management Committee, has appealed to the public for donation. Phase two the construction of another block, haa already begun, but. "we would not be able to
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    Lock icon Dateline Extended
    78 2 The closing date of appllcations for 40 scholarships offered early this month by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce has been extended to April 30 This is in view ol new students seeking admission to the four local institutions of higher learning who have not been confirmed for
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    Lock icon Poly Co-op AGM
    69 2 Benjamin Maslllamoney has been elected Hon. Secretary of The Singapore Polytechnic Staff Co-opera-tive Thrift Loan Society, at its ninth Annual General Meeting. The other office beareri are:- Chairman;- Mr. P. J. Alfred. Hon. Treasurer* K. P. K. Krishnan. Committee Members:- L. H. Da Silva. Major Singh. Paat
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    Lock icon PROTEIN FROM NATURAL GAS
    459 2 VANCOUVER. British Columbia Canadian scientists here have developed a new protein from natural gas which could help solve food problems in hungry, poorer countries. The fine white powder produced from the gas could be used as an additive to flour, rice and other cereals low In
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    Lock icon Military Power: Soviet Warning
    424 4 MOSCOW, Wed. (Reuter) Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brexhnev was thunderously applauded when he warned the United States that his country would respond in kind to anv attempts to build up military superiority over the Soviet Union. Speaking in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov only two
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    Lock icon Tories To Blast Unexciting Budget
    430 4 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) The unexciting budget which Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins presented to the country yesterday is expected to be sarcastically attacked by the Conservative opposition in the continuing Commons debate today. But today's newspaper headlines and comment show that the budget, described
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    Lock icon 'Romeo And Juliet' Nude Version
    75 4 WORTHING, England, Wed. (UPI) Audiences attending the production of "Romeo and Juliet" at a local theatre will have a choice of seeing a nude or clothed version. Robert English, producer of the controversial production at the Connaught Theatre, said Monday performances for school children wiM
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    Lock icon Israel Proves Raid On Camp
    202 4 UNITED NATIONS. Wed. (Renter) Israel yesterday submitted to the United Nations aerial photographs which, she claimed, prove that her raid on Egyptian territory last week hit a military camp and not a school Egypt has said that 46 children were killed in the bombardment at
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    Lock icon Efforts By Composer
    81 4 PAKIS. Wed. (UPI) The release of composer Mikls Theodorakls from a Greek jail will encourage efforts to secure the release of other jailed opponents of the Athens military regime, Greek movie actress Mellna Mercourl said Tuesday. Miss Mercourl. star of "Never On Sunday" and one of the
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    Lock icon S'PORE ARCHITECT GRADUATES IN AUSTRALIA
    197 4 Architecture students from Singapore. Malaysia and Hons: Kong as well as Australia received their Bachelor of Architecture degrees at a graduation ceremony held recently at the University of Melbourne. Among them was Mr. Daniel Teo Tong How of Singapore wno graduated with firstclass honours in
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    Lock icon Kremlin Sickness Wave Receding
    266 4 MOSCOW, Wed (Re Uter) The Kremlin sickness wave, cause of much speculation about Imminent changes in the Soviet leadership, appears to be receding President Nikolai Podgorny. apparently recovered from a cold which caused him to cancel an official visit to Japan last *eek. made his first
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    Lock icon New Way To Rid Oil Slick Found
    225 4 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) The Anglo-Dutch Shell group today cloimed success for a new experiment to rid the seas or oil slicks following accidental spillage. Mr. David Barran, the group's senior British managing director. told the American Chamber of Commerce here that in a
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    Lock icon Tight Security On SALT Talks
    360 4 VIENNA, Wed. (Reuter) —Last-minute preparations for crucial Soviet-U.S. talks on the nuclear arms race opening here on Thursday included a thorough security check on the city's extensile network of sewers. Special squads of police slogged through the labyrinth of sewage tunnels and p.pes made famous
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    Lock icon Freedom For 332 Greeks
    54 4 ATHENS Wed (ReuterV Greece's army-backed ?o\ eminent has released 332 political prisoners held as dangerous to public security since the army takeover in April 1967. authoritative sources said last night The decision followed the announcement last Friday of the restoration of Article the constitution which protects
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    Lock icon Queen's Best Man Dies
    58 4 LONDON. Wed <ReuterT The Marque of Milford sw Ven> man at Queen Elizabeth's wedding to Prince Philip in 1947, collapsed and died last night at London's Liverpool Street station He was 50 years old. Born David Michael Mountbatten. he became ♦he third Marqui* of Milford Haven
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    Lock icon Judge Blackmun For Supreme Court
    308 5 Success At Last WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter)— President Nixon's third choice for the vacant Supreme Court scat i s Judge Harry Blackmun. The latter appeared assured of a relatively smooth passage when the Senate debates his nomination. Indications were that the liberal Democrats and moderate Republicans
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    Lock icon Kopechne Transcript Rights At Issue
    194 5 BOSTON, Massachusetts, Wed. (Reuter) Th e latest development in the Kcpechne tragedy is the mercenary angle. The long sequence of events since her death is still caught in a legal wrangle. At issue were the ownership and distribution rights of the 764-page transcript of the
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    Lock icon COURT MARTIAL HEARING FOR CAPTAIN MEDINA
    286 5 ATLANTA, Wed. (Reuter) The U.S. army yesterday opened a hearing to decide whether to court martial Captain Ernest Medina on a charge of overall responsibility for the 'massacre' of 175 South Vietnamese. Captain Medina appeared for two hours before Colonel James Mobley at Fort
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    Lock icon USSR Skipper Arrested In US Waters
    161 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) —Th e United States has arrested a Russian skipper for violating American territorial limit. S'.ate Department officials disclosed last night that the Soviet tanker was found :n the Gulf of Alaska The offi"ials said tnat the Soviet embassy :n Washington had
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    Lock icon Gen. Wheeler's Successor
    58 5 WASHINGTON' Wed (UPI) President Nixon yesterdav nominated Admiral Thomas Moorer. Ch;ef of Naval Operations, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs-of-Staflf to succeed Gen. Earle Wheeler The latter is retiring Admiral Moorer Is or.ly the second naval officer to fill the chairmanshp of the joint rnihtarv command He
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    Lock icon What Went Wrong With Apollo 13?
    441 5 SPACE CENTRE, Houston, Wed. (USIS) The malfunction, which scrapped the Apollo 13 mission mid-way, occurred in their spacecraft's electric generating system. Ironically, that system has been viewed as 'a prototype of possible future electric in- stallations'. It was meant in the near future to
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    Lock icon Consolation For Unlucky Trip: 'Moonquake' Job A Big Success
    255 5 HOUSTON, Wed. (Reuter and JPI) One planned scientific experiment of the unlucky Apollo IB mission was a shattering success. The spent third stage of the ships Saturn V Rocket hurtled down and hit the Moon right on schedule last night. Scientists
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    Lock icon Mattingly Is Still Healthy
    149 5 SPACE CENTRE, Hou«ton Wed. (UPI) Astronaut THomas Mattingly still has not shown any sign of a German measles outbreak. Hp was bumper off the present moon fl'ght beca sse doctors could not guarantee h.s Immunity to the airkness He lost his job just on the eve
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    Lock icon A BIG FINANCIAL BLOW FOR U.S. SPACE PLANS
    684 5 HOUSTON. Wed. (Reufer) The failure of Apollo 13 means a serious financial setback for the American space programme. Despite its recently slashed budget, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration iNASA» had poured some 1.200 million Singapore dollars into the mission. President Nixon
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    Lock icon The World Awaits In Suspense
    174 5 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) —The human race except tor th e uniformed quarter of mankind livinq in Communist China —was united Tuesday in concern for the fate of three American astronauts in their crippled space ship. While many praved others around the globe voiced their
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    Lock icon CAUTIOUS BUDGET
    492 6 TTTTH Britain riding the wave of prosperity, interest in the budget centred only in what could be read from it about the date of the elections or the Labour Party's tactics. But Chancellor of the Exchequer, Roy Jenkins, has done it again. He has come up with a
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    Lock icon CHINESE SHADOW OVER VIENNA
    489 6 T<HE warning issued by Soviet Communist Party 1 Chief Leonid Brezhnev that Russia would respond in kind to any American attempt to wrest military superiority is timed to coincide with the opening of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Vienna today. Possibly the warning was issued
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    Lock icon A Battle Against Prejudice
    464 6  -  Angelik Kauck. BONN: One of the last acts of th e former Minister of Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany, the current President of the country, Dr. Gustav Heinemann, before he left office, was to draw up a draft law which is intended to "improve
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    Lock icon VIEW FROM QUANG TIN
    715 6  -  By Joseph Alsop TAM KY South Vietnam If you come back again and again, you end by making a few local friends in this country, even though people's assignments change so often. Two such friends are Col. Hoang Dinh Tho, province chief of Quang Tin, and
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    Lock icon Those 'Strenuous' Years—Sen. Fulbright
    1393 6  -  By Elizabeth Wharton UPI WASHINGTON Whatever el*« he is, Senator William J. Fulbright, rhe toft-spoken Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is nothing if not controversial. When he speaks. half of his listeners purr. The other half feel their hackles rise. "I am abrasive. I
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    Lock icon They Dictate The Pace And Price...
    503 6  -  By Anton Wills-Eve Reuter. PHNOM PENH There are no taxis in Cambodia and th e only form of individual transport available to the itinerant Phnom Penhois or foreigner is the pedicab, or cyclo-pousse as it is known locally. This Is a three-wheel cycle, with
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    Lock icon Sea Dance
    105 6 Reuter. MANILA: A local shipping line is studying the possibility of introducing Filipino cult u r a I performances aboard ocean-going vessels "to put the Filipino people in proper perspective and help boost the tourist industry". Mr. Emilio Yap President of the Philippine President Lines. said these dances
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  • commercial and industrial
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      Lock icon ANOTHER LISTLESS SESSION IN MART
      419 7 Levels drifted slightly downwards in mother dull session in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Apart from some selective interest in industrials, trading was a continuation of the present listless mood. Movements were rather narrow as the market remained quite uncertain about its
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      846 7 done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore w.rh tho number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified:- INDUSTRIALS ACMA $2.12 11) $2.10 ID; Alcan 51.77 (1) SI 7b (9); DIM SI-78 (1); Allied
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      Lock icon NY Prices Decline
      166 7 NEW YORK Wed (UPI) Concern over the effect of American Telephones rights offering on the overall stock market and disappointment with some first quarter corporate earnings drove prices sharply lower on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday. Trading was moderately active. On Monday AT and T
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      13 7 The tin price for yesterday was $701.12$ per picul, up $6.125.
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      Lock icon STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSING PRICES
      789 7 8!D and offer prices oH cia!ly listed yesterday at thg close of business in the trsding rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Sinqanore were: INDUSTRIALS R. 8AC>IA cbi 2.OH 2 12 Alcan 1.76 177 A Chocolate 418 4 30 B*n A. Co 1 68
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 59 1/2 Cts.
      227 7 May first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m.. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 59$ cents per lb., down one eighth of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet and slightly easier. Rubber AwHiilion nf Singapore and Malaysian
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      Lock icon More Trade Forecast
      122 7 Singapore's industrial boom will generate greater British export* to the Republic. This forecast was made today by Mr W E. Stafford, newly appointed Manager of the Outward Freight Department of the Blue Funnel Line. He said: "I think for the next two or three years. British export*
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      95 7 (Manager*' Price* for April K) CHAKILKtl) L Ml IKI Mr 8. Growth fond 1 08 MS AHIA t'NIT IKI sis M Inre*t. Fund \d 1 22 127 NIMMrOKr 1 Ml IHIMr 1M Mmapore *.71 2nd !>lmaporr 197 3rd Singapore 1.24 id Tbr Cum Ind. 1.03 10D 1 he
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      Lock icon DOW JONES
      44 7 NEW YORK. Wed. <UPI> Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 Industrials 7R0 f»« 20 Tr. I -p 169 18 15 Utilities 116.34 65 Stocks 258 80 *0 Bonds 69.09 Commodity futures Index 134.64 up 0 07
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      Lock icon The Singapore Hilton hosted a cocktail party in its Thai suite for the area managers of General Motors Overseas Distributors Corporation. Picture shows (left to right) Mr. Daniel J. Lee, manager, Singapore Zone of General Motors Overseas Distributors Corporation, Mr. Toddie L. Wynn, Jr., director of Wynncor Ltd., (owning company of the Hong Kong Hilton), Mr. Leo F. Corrigan, Jr., director of Wynncor Ltd., Hong Kong, who were pictured with the general manager of the Singapore Hilton, Mr. H. Lim Ewe Hin.
      82 7 The Singapore Hilton hosted a cocktail party in its Thai suite for the area managers of General Motors Overseas Distributors Corporation. Picture shows (left to right) Mr. Daniel J. Lee, manager, Singapore Zone of General Motors Overseas Distributors Corporation, Mr. Toddie L. Wynn, Jr., director of Wynncor Ltd., (owning company
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      Lock icon New Concept In Pile Driving
      290 7 WITH the recent arrival of four P fir H 320H Universal Pile Driving Machines, worth over 5600,000, a new concept of pile driving equipment joins the already highly competitive field of pile driving operations in Singapore. These new machines are the mast modern In Southeast
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      Lock icon UK Marts Push Higher
      161 7 LONDON. Wed <UPI) Stock Market* pushed higher Tuesday in advance of annual the budget statement but the pace was slower than Monday's quick upsurge. The £5 million foreign trade surplu* In March pleased the industrial sections of the market but British government bond* took little comfort
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      Lock icon Rubber Futures
      46 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI> Rubber futures closed unchanged and untraded on Tuesday on the New York Commodity Exchange. Close Prrv May 22 008 22.00 July 22 008 22.00 Sept 22.008 22.00 Nov 22.008 22.00 Jan 21.758 21.75 Mar ***** 21.75 May 21 758 21.75
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      Lock icon Strong Support For Minings
      352 7 Sydney Stocks, S M "<* -Iv- vi' > Closing Prices SYDNEY, Wed. (UPI) Strong support for heavyweight miners saw speculative issues rise on a broad front on Sydney Stock Exchange Wednesday. Rises outnumbered falls almost three to one In the combined mining and oil market when
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      Lock icon EXCHANGE RATES
      116 7 The Association of Bank* in Malaysia-Singapore 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 O.D. ready: Deutsche Marks $84.8750; Holland Guilders $B5 0075; Swiss Francs $7l 8675; French Francs $55 7975;
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      Lock icon Hong Kong Money
      122 7 IIOSC. KONG, U~P1> Wednesday'* 5 p m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign hxchante and Investment Ltd (Barer*) (Seller*) per 100 Btralt* dollars 104.7 195.7 140 150 per 1,000 Taiwan dollars 6 7.S5 6 765 per Australian dollar 340 360 per 1.000 Burmese kyats 405 515 per 10.000
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
      474 7 ARRIVALS 8.15 a m MsA 13.? R Lumpur 945 am MSA 119 R Lumpur 12.30 p m MS A 451 Ruchlng 230 pm MSA 021 R Lumpur. Malacca 8 25pm MsA 453 R Kmahalo 140 pm MSA 521 Bangkok Pens ng ft-4irp.m MSA 665 Manila 710 pm- MSA
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE $5 ESSAY WINNERS
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE IN 2000 A.D.
      367 8 IT IS hard to depict what will happen in the 2000 AD. It is something that none can say or proclaim. In fact, even a world war could take place. Now. I will try my best to imagine what the scenery of Singapore will be By
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      Lock icon DRUGS
      332 8 NOWADAYS, youths seem to be influenced by the use of drugs The number of youths addicted to drugs in this part of the world is rather insignificant when compared to those i n the United States and Europe. The dangerous drugs are opium, cocaine and marijuana or Indian hemp.
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      Lock icon How I Caught A Burglar
      397 8 THE night was silent and g'oomy when I returned from a show I felt as if there was no life in me. My eyes were tired and my legs refused to carry me home. It was 'n that condition I stretched on my cushy bed
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      Lock icon My Experience As A Baby-Sitter
      467 8 BABY-sittmg is common nowadays, especially in the United States, United Kingdom and Japan In these countries, servants are Hard to get, and so parents who Have to go out to work, employ baby-sitter s to look after their bab'es. As I looked into the newspaper
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      Lock icon See Only Good Films
      190 8 ONE Sunday afternoon, my mother and I went for a cinema show Good shows give us knowledge, teach us to to be polite, tell us the way of life and th e customs of the people in other countries. Some films show us countries which we
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      Lock icon HAWKERS
      318 8 HAWKERS are petty traders who ply their things from street to street In a big city like Singapore where people are scattered in every nook and corner, the hawkers are sometimes found to be a blessing. Hawkers can be classified under two heads, the food-hawkers and hardware hawkers. Singaporeans
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      185 8 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN' SUN'S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears in this page every Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And what better way to
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      392 8 EASTERN SUN CONTEST J-4 TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM Constituency: Entrant's Particulars Name: Mr./ Miss Address: im.IBHHmHUaiIMIIIII.II.IHHMIIaIIUII A(C a... Closing date 23.4.70 Cut Here WHAT TOD HAVE TO DO: t) Mrh dav ihi* week. tbe Kaatern Sun crili publisn a piHtlotriph lilentlf* ih» above photograph in tllf above «pa<»
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      62 8 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Atien McWißiams WHAT'S TICO CPyiNQ ABOUT, PAVEN IF VDU STRUCK THAT CHILD,I\LTAKE A CANE TO J VOU/ Et THE WIZARD OF ID SINCE WE'RE PRE3H OUT OP 81/CLETSTO BITE ON YOU'LL WAVE i TO KEEP HIM OUIET L WHILE I RKa A M SPLINT/
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      25 8 AMY By Jack Tippit H m VA IS 1 s» a "Archie, I hope you enjoy this first aid practice as much as I do."
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    576 9  -  Speaking Myself By Sheilah Graham AVA GARDNER stayed for 20 minutes at the private showing of her last film "Tarn-Lin/' then took off to Paris where she was seen tucking into the glorious food at L'Hotel the wrong restaurant for a girl
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    601 9  -  Ann Landers Dear Ann Lander*: Recently a newspaper account described the collapse of a wall which killed three men. Several fellow workers had a narrow escape. One of luckier men made the statement, "God was with us." His remark made me uncomfortable. It implied
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    657 9  -  By Florence de Santis NEW YORK: Some people in the blouse field of fashion are ascribing the current change in blouses to Mia Farrow. In "John and Mary" she wears a beach shirt coverup in striped sheer nylon, with floating sleeves and a
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    96 9 DAD. STUTTGART Who would not like to join in? Do-it-yourself clocks are a novelty of the leisuretime industry in the Federal Republic of Germany. Each construction kit is made up of some 40 individual parts which can be put together in a relatively easy fashion according to
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    232 9  -  A Lovelier You By Mary Sue Miller A Lively may bemoan grey hair. But there is no use in pulling nut strands as they appear. A far better course is to tint or to dramatise or to bewig fading colour. If you decide to tint, aim
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    161 9 LONDON*. Mary Quant, the British fashion designer who put the mini-skirt on the map. showed no signs of abandoning her invention when she unveiled her new collection. Mini-skirts were there In abundance, but so were midis. maxis and some in-between numbers that dipped from thich
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      986 10 CI. 3 Div. 1—6 Furs. ***** 0 213 1*116 ***** 8133 08 Fantastic Panrilma Larui II Roman Leader Kirlun' Puifh Kochinj Town Rrmhnndt 4y 4y 900 8.12 8.06 Magnum KL Chong PC Wee Speneer Ten Spencer 4v 4y 4y 4v 8.0H 1! On 8.06 8.04
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      179 10  -  Silberblitz Looks Fighting Fit By r Our Racing Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Wed.— Kuching Town impressed in a 3t workout in 42 2 5 on a good track here this morning. He was ridden by jockey Johnny Wilson. Affidavit (apprentice Annuar) and Cannon Fire (Lyle Harbridge) matched strides
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      247 10 Vomiuri Open TOKYO. Wed <Keuter) Rf endjn B champion Gay Wolstenholme of Ausraila and 111 other golfers irom eight countries nit off here tomorrow in the US$2O,OOO Yomlurl Open, last leg o» the Asian golf circuit. Head;n e tn e American challenge ls Tommy Aaron who
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      22 10 LONDON Wed. <Reuter> Results of last night's Rugby Union club matches were Cardiff 24 Bristol 11 Coventry 31 Nuneaton 0
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      208 10  -  By Eastern Knight Two hundred and fifty-seven schoo boys and schoolgirls are at present pitting their chess skills against each other for top honours in the lunior championships. Th e distribution is as follows entries Junior Open 62 Schoolgirls' Open 37 Boys under 16
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      211 10 UNITED NATION'S. Wed (Reuter) Tennis star Arthur Ashe told United Nations delegates that major ten-nis-playing countries should boycott all tournaments in South Africa Ashe, an American Negro who was recently barred trom the South African Open championship. appeared yesterday as a petitioner before the
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      545 10 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) The 1970 English cricket season, which opens next week, is certain to arouse world-wide interest with the potentially thrilling series between England and South Africa threatened by the hostile intentions of anti-apartheid demonstrators. The demonstrators, who hounded the Springbok rugby
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      129 10 LONDON. Wed. (AFP) Young Joe Bugner. British heavyweight boxing prospect, is to meet 35-year-old former Empire champion Brian London on May 12. it was announced here yesterday Hungarian-born Bugner. 20. Is unbeaten as a professional. Victory over London, unsuccessful in two world title bids, would
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      151 10 SEOUL. Wed (Reuter) Chunkyo Shin. South Korean Oriental welterweight champion, last night outpointed Japan's Yuklnorl Aso over 12 rounds to retain his title. The bout, held i n Seoul's Changchung gymnasium, was Shin's first defence of the crown he wrested from Shigeru Oglhara of Japan last
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      84 10 STOKE England We<L (AFP) The English First Division Football Club Stoke City have turned down an invitation to play two matches aeainst Mexico. It was announced her« yesterday. The games were to nav# been part of Mexico's preparations for the Worll Cup final Stoke refused
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      108 11 LOS ANGELES Wed '(T7PI) Mac Foster the unbeaten heavyweight from Fresno, California, will face Los Angeles' Jerry Quarry In a 10-round fight at the Coliseum on June 12. Promoter Aileen Eaton announced the signing of the pair and said the winner may get a crack
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      30 11 JAKARTA. Wed (Reuter> A Singapore women's football team were beaten 2-1 bv a women's team from Parahljangan. West Java. In a match played at Bandung yesterday, Antara reported.
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      1343 11  -  By Christian Bonington leader of the Annapurna South Face Expedition We hav* reached a stage in mountaineering when all the highest mountains of th e world hav e been ciimbed—certainly all those above fhe magic height of 26,246 feet. But this does not mark
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      393 11 LONDON, Wed.(Reuter) —The eight-month battle to win Europe's three major club soccer titles reaches a crucial stage today with the deciding second legs in the semifinals of the European Cup. Cvp Winners' Cup and Fairs Cup. B ssest attendance will be at 'lampnen Park.
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      130 11 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Results of last night's football matches were ENGLISH DIVISION ONF Newcastle 4 Coventry 0. DIVISION TWO Carlisle 2 Leicester 2. Charlton 2 Bristol City 1. Huddersfield 3 Watford 1. Queens PR. 2 Blackburn 3. Swindon 0 Middlesbrough 3. Sheffield United v Oxford United playing
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      26 11 DERRY. Northern Ireland. Wed. rßeuter) Derry City beat Bangor by two goals to one In an Irish Football League match played here last night.
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      205 11 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) —Aston Villa, one of the most famous clubs in the English Football League, are condemned to relegation to the Third Division for the first time in their history. And Preston North End. like Villa founder members of the
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      1006 11 nd radio I TV SINGAPURA < CH ANNEL 51 P.M. 300 Opening Anncts >n all Languages A General Hospital 3.20 Ar.oihe- Song Another Melody <E' 345 It'* Happening In Singapore <C> 400 Housewives Matinee The Princes* and the Thief 5.C5 Close 600 Opening Anncts :n all Lang ifiges A Dr
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    411 12 Bersatu BRITAIN'S biggest-ever airlift to the Far East is running like clockwork, the Command Movements Officer, Group Captain Michael Dyer, said yesterday. He told a group of pressmen at HQ Far East Air Force that 34 of the first 36 transport sorties had reached RAF Changi
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    194 12 The American Biological Science Curriculum Study (BSCS) programme adapted for use in local secondary schools by the Science Teachers' Association of Singapore is now a recommended book, approved by the Ministry of Education. At the recent Annual General Meeting of the Science
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    120 12 TWO men, one armed with a knife and the other with a gun held up a man and two girls at a house at Geylang Road and got away with cash and a watch totalling $2,300 Tuesday morning. The man. Sng Ah Hee, 34.
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    232 12 Ja> -walking will soon be made an offence. This announcement was made yesterday by Mr. Milton Tan. Chairman of the National Safety First Council of Singapore during the closing of the Pedestrian Safety Campaign at the Automobile Association. He said only by booking the offenders
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    149 12 Police are looking for Tan Tonq Meng and Kay Check Wee whom they believe can help them in their investigations into the murder of a man on Oct. 29 last year. The killing occurred in North Bridge Road near the junction of Bras Basah
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    66 12 A SOCIA' and Dance. Easter F.esta, will be held by the Amalgamated Union of Public Employees at the Sky Room. Sea View Hotel on Saturday. The Easter Fiesta is the second of a sen** of Social functions planned by the AUPE Soc.al Committee this y p ar
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    114 12 A new and larger weather radar costing $500,000 will be installed by the Meteorological department at Singapore Airport to replace the existing one. A government statement said this new hleh performance radar will enable the location and tracking of storms and thunderclouds within
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    50 12 THE Telok Kurau Citizens' Consultative sub-com-mittee and the Slglap Citizens' Consultative Committee will hold a get-together dinner for residents of the Telok Kurau area at the Telok Kurau West School Hall on April 18 The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. Enc he Rahlm Ishak will be present.
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    18 12 There were a total of 59 accidents, six of which were described as serious on Tuesday.
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    131 12 Valuab'e antique porcelain vases and statues were stolen from the house of a lawyer, Mr. T. W. Ong. at Bukit Timah Road Tuesday. The antiques were estimated at 530,000. The theft was discovered oy one of household servant.* when he woke up Tuesday morning to And
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    110 12 The PAP candidate for the Ulu Pandan Constituency Dr. Chiang Hal Ding has promised that certain neelected areas will receive light, water and better roads. If elected in the forthcoming byel^ctions. Speaking at a rally In Jalan Lim Tal See. he pointed out that he would look into
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    38 12 Traffic alone Tank Road and Clemenceau Avenue will be diverted on April 17 from <> pm to 830 p.m. This diversion u berause the "Vienna Boys Choir" will be performing at the National Theatre on Friday evening.
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    47 12 THE Association <>f Teachers of Domestic Science will hold a fashion show at a tea partv at the Hotel Negara on April 22 at 4.00 p.m. Ticket for the tea party are available at 52.50 each from the committee members. or contact telephone number *****
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    32 12 THE government is offering 83 lots of confiscated and condemned motor vehicles. equipment and stores for oublic auction on \pril 21 at Messrs Nasslm and Sons' premises in Collyer Quay
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    201 12 Th* remains of an Indian woman, run over by a passenger train was found on a railway track half a mile from the Bukit Timah Railway Station Tuesday night The discovery was made bv the assistant station master. Mr D. Mariapan, who was informed by the
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    125 12 Foreign Affairs Minister S. Rajaratnam will officiate at thg opening of a seminar on "Quality Control" on June 16. The seminar 1* oeine jointly conducted by the National Productivity Centre anj the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research, both units of the Economic Development
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      81 12 TIME a TIDE TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN: 12.43 am <5.1 ft.); 6.01 a.m. <6.5 ft.): 1.51 pm (2.7 ft.»; 9.02 p.m. (6.6 ft.» NAVAL DOCKYARD: 100 a.m. «6.0 ft.); 5.47 a.m. (7 6 ft.); 1.25 p.m. (3.6 ft.); 9.09 pm (8.2 ft.) TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN: 210 am. (4.5 ft.); 7.50 am.
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