Eastern Sun, 17 April 1970

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    22 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1321 Friday, 17 April 1970. MC (P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon ASTRONAUTS SURE THEY WILL MAKE IT
    572 1 UOUSTON, Thurs. (UPI) The Apollo 13 astronauts, cold but confident in their crippled spaceship, today flashed down a corrected course leading to a safe entry into the earth's atmosphere. "Its going a lot better than we ever expected," reported Apollo 13's veteran skipper, James
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    Lock icon 1,000 BODIES IN MEKONG RIVER
    420 1 T3HNOM PENH, Thurs. (UPI) The hundreds of bodies which hove surfaced in the Meko/ig River moy have been Vietnamese killed "in anger" by Cambodians supplied with government arms, a government spokesman said today. An undetermined number of bodies estimates range as high as 1.000 have
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    Lock icon Oxygen Tank Blamed For Apollo Blast
    124 1 HOUSTON. Thurs (Reuter) members of an official team investigating the accident aboard Ap >llo 13 believe It may have been caused bv an exploding oxygen tank. The team, headed by Ma ior-Gcneral Samuel Phillip?;, has already started sifting through the many Items of Information
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    Lock icon 77 Buried By Avalanche
    204 1 PARIS. Thurs. (Reuter) —A wall of snow, rock and torn up frees smashed into a children's tuberculosis sanitonum near St. Gervais today, burying 77 people. Police recovered nine bodies f° ur children and five adults from the mass of debris left bv the avalanche and an
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    Lock icon UK Withdraws Rescue Ships
    56 1 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) Britain has withdrawn Royal Navy ships from Apollo rescue duties In the Indian and Atlantic oceans because U.S. space experts are confident thev will not be needed. A Defence Ministry spokesman said the British are in constant touch with American Space Agencv officials
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    Lock icon Baby Boy Abandoned
    113 1 An infant only a few days old as abandoned in a bush beside a monsoon drain yesterday. The babv N*v Is now In the Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital where its condition is reported to be well. The babv was found by Madam Choe Chee. 33. Madam Choe
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    Lock icon Mattingly Shows Signs Of Measles
    113 1 HOUSTON. Thurs. (UPI) Grounded Apollo 13 astronaut Thomas Mattingly is showing the first signs he may be coming down with German measles. the Space Agency says. A spokesman said Mattingly's count of lymph cells has risen. He said this is common at the onset of
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    Lock icon Arms Talks In Vienna
    122 1 VIENN.%. Thurs. (Reuter) The Soviet I/nton and the Tnited States today solemn!? rowed to work towards agreement to halt the nuclear strategic arms race and an eventual cutback After toasting each other in champagne, the delegates of the two super nuclear powers began their discussions in
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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    Lock icon Private Summons A Threat To Pioneer Industry
    221 2 Lawyer David Marshall yesterday told a court that the private summons brought against a fireworks factory was threatening the good name of an export-orientated pioneer industry. Mr. Marshall said this when applying for a postponement on the hearing against Forwin Fireworks (Pte.) Ltd.
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    Lock icon 'DECADE OF DEVELOPMENT UNDER P.A.P.'
    350 2 SINGAPORE is rated among the best countries in the world which have achieved economic progress during the past ten years, the M.P. for Havelock, Mr. Hon Sui Sen said last night. Speaking at a rally at Holland Road 5 ms. in support of the PAP's
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    Lock icon Three Strokes For A Thief
    48 2 Slnnlah Perumal was yesterday sentenced to six months jail and three strokes of the rotan. by the Ninth Court Magistrate Mr. George Sandosham. when he pleaded guilty to stealing two cast iron water valve box covers, from the Public Utilities Board, water department.
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    Lock icon 'Anticipate Problems'
    161 2 The PAP candidate for Ulu Pandan constituency. Or. Chiang Hai Ding, said last night Singapore must be forward looking and avoid the problems that many other cities of the world face. Speakin? at a rally at Holland Road 5 m.s. Dr. Chlan? said: "We rru 4 always look
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    Lock icon Pumps Exhibition Well Received
    123 2 The four-day Display of Pumps and Pumping Equipment at the Australian Trade Commissioner's Display Rooms has attracted interested par- ties from government and local industry. The Display which ends today has captured visitors' interest in th e design, performance and re- liability of Australianmade pumps and
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    Lock icon Ikebana Teachers Get Certificates
    166 2 THE President of the Sogetsu Association, Mrs. K. Kim, presented certificates to four senior teachers of the Singapore Sogetsu Association at the Hotel Negara, yesterday. The four teachers are;Datln Lee Chee Shan, wife of the chairman of the Chung Khiaw Bank, Mrs K. C. Tan. Mrs.
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    Lock icon RECAPTURED EXTORTIONER GETS 3 YEARS
    270 2 A youth who yesterday pleaded guilty to charges of armed robbery, extortion and escaping from police custody was yesterday sentenced to three years jail by the First District Court. Hoo Guex Lay. 23. who escaped from police custody on Nov. 12 last year was rearrested
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    Lock icon Shipyard's Overseas Promotion
    114 2 Mr. T. C. McLay. Managing Director of Keppel Shipyard (Pfe) Ltd., will be leaving here this Sunday on a two-week sales mission ro the United Kingdom and the United States. He will spend about a week visiting shipowners in London and other centres in the United Kingdom
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    Lock icon Extortion: Third Man Charged
    87 2 A third man was yesterday charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court, with attempting to extort $350 from a pork-seller, Tan Kwei Tiong, at Redhill Market, on April 14. Wong Hon Kwong. and two others, was alleged to have put Tan in fear of injury. The two.
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    Lock icon 'Courting Couples' Robber' Arrested
    136 2 A middle-aged man who had been terrorising courting coup'es at the "lovers' haunt" at the Gap of South Buona Vista Road was arrested by police, but not befor e he had put up a fierce struggle. The police had received several reports from couples that they
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    Lock icon Review On Daily Rated Employees
    98 2 A Review Committee on Daily Rated Employees of the Government. Public Utilities Board and the Housing and Development Board has been set up. This followed the award of the industrial arbitration court on the revision of wages and wace structure of these employees. The Committee
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    Lock icon Role Of English Must Be Redefined
    210 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The role of English language under the present education system had to be redefined, especially after the 1970'5, th e Chief Education Adviser, Tuan Haji Hamdan bin Sheikh Tahir said today. He added that because English was a second language. efforts
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    Lock icon Appeal On Quickie Quit Notices
    119 2 The Singapore Malays National Organisation called on the Government to defer short notices served on residents living in Geylang Serai and Kampong Übi areas and allow them to stay until after the Hari Raya Puasa. It is understood that about 20.000 resident* most!y Malays, living
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    Lock icon Witness: 'Man Used Fine Words And Persuasion'
    453 2 Immoral Earnings Charge AN Indonesian woman yesterday told a Court that she became a prosfitutt because of a man's "fine words and gentle persuasion". The woman, whose identity the Court has ordered to be kept secret said this when she was cross examined
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    Lock icon Japanese Class Graduation
    179 2 About eighty secondary school students from various schools in the Republic will receive their prizes and certificates from the Councillor of th e Japanese Embas*V, Mr. Kiochiro Yamaguchi and Mr. Au Keng Chu, Chief Inspector of Schools from the Ministry of Education respectively tomorrow. The ninth graduation
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    Lock icon BODIES IN SHALLOW GRAVE: Autopsy—Airmen Were Savagely Murdered
    375 3 MANILA, Thurs. (UPI) Two U.S. airmen, whose bodies were found in a •hallow grave on Tuesday, were savagely murdered, the U.S. Air Force announced today. An Air Force spokesman at Clark Air Base, declared it was the worst crime involving American servicemen
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    Lock icon New Pullout Notice By Gorton ?
    144 3 New Pullout Notice By Gorton CANBERRA, Thurs. (Pejter)— Australia will withdraw one of its three battalions from Vietnam within the next four months, informed sources disclosed today. Prime Minister John Gorton is expected to announce the withdrawal tomorrow afte r President Nixon makes hi.® promised statement on further withdrawals of
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    Lock icon Booby Trap By Vietcong Kills 14 Gls
    153 3 SAIGON, Thurj. (Reuter) A scries of blasts set off by a Vietcong booby trap killed 14 American soldiers and wounded another 32, a U.S. military spokesman announced today. The spokesman said troops of the Americal Division touched off the booby trap, a 105-millime-tre
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    Lock icon 6 DOGS KILL AUSSIE BOY
    82 3 ALICE SPRINGS. Australia. Thurs. (Reuter) A pack of hunting dogs have killed an aboriginal boy near a remote homestead «om e 130 miles north-west of here. Sketchy reports received bv police here say a 10-year old boy. identified only as "Timothy died of wounds. They
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    Lock icon The Great Marathon Of Misadventures
    307 3 PHUOC LE, South Vietnam, Thurs. (UPI) The first great Hung Vuong Day cross-country marathon was more of a Donnybrook. Hung Vuong (Founder's) Day is one of South Vietnam's major national holidays. To mark the occasion yesterday, members of the Australian Task Force and officials of
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    Lock icon Indon Ships To Guard Exile Island Of Reds
    119 3 JAKARTA, Thurs. (Reuter) —Th e chief of Indonesia's naval staff, Rear Admiral Sudomo, has ordered several warships to guard Hie Island of Buru in East Indonesia, a navy spokesman said today. The order followed reports that unidentified ships and submarines often appeared
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    Lock icon Police Kill Man Who Had Girl Hostage
    168 3 WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Thurs. (UPI) Police today shot dead an armed man who held a teenage girl hostage for more than 24 hours. The man. Bruce Glensor. 22. had kidnapped 17-year-old Julie Campbell after forcing his way into her parents' home with a
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    Lock icon More Tremors Expected In Manila
    152 3 MANILA. Thurs. (UPI> Chief seismologist Wellington Minosa of the Philippine Weather Bureau warned jittery Manila residents today to expect mor e earthquake aftershocks of "light to mo derate intensity" for the next few weeks. Greater Manila's 35 million people were rocked again yesterday by an
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    Lock icon Indon Officers Arrested
    45 3 JAKARTA. Thurs. (Reuteri Two Indonesian army colonels have been arrested for abuse of power, army sources disclosed today The sources refused to name the officers but gave their Initials as "Colonel MM' and 'Colonel DJ' They were arrested on Monday in Jakarta.
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    Lock icon UNICEF Fund Offer For Hanoi Children
    250 3 NEW YORK, Thuri. (Reuter) —Th e Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) yesterday recommended that 600,000 Singapore dollars be made available to North Vietnam for the purchase °f children's clothing. If approved, this will be the first agreement between North Vietnam
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    Lock icon AMERICA WARNS SOUTH VIETNAM: No Anti-Red Attacks Into Cambodia
    342 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (UPI) The United States has warned the Saigon Government against launching any more anti-red attacks across the border in Cambodia, administration officials disclosed yesterday. US. officials believe any South Vietnamese assaults on the Vietcong and North Vietnamese troops in
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      179 3 i AT GOLDEN LOTUS HOTEL MALAYSIA TOMORROW SATURDAY 18th APRIL 1.15 p.m. See Beautiful Singapore models showing a superb range of today's women's wear designed and manufactured by gloria mae of Ego Boutique, 435 A, River Valley Road, Singapore. Telephone No. *****3. THE FABRICS YOU WILL SEE Unique and lovely
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  • Article
    Lock icon UNAVOIDABLE DELAY
    609 6 PRESIDENT Richard Nixon has postponed his Vietnam war policy statement because the American public is glued to television or radio sets captivated by the space drama. Nonetheless, a statement of American policy on Vietnam, or to be more exact on Southeast Asia, is vital at this moment. Too
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    Lock icon CRY IN THE WILDERNESS
    231 6 TT has become a sort of annual exercise for politicians to air the plight of developing countries and dwell at length on the niggardliness of richer nations. Fortunately, however, rapid technological development do not altogether turn such pleas into the proverbial cry in wilderness. Richer countries
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    Lock icon MEN ON 'DEATH MOUNTAIN'
    799 6  -  By Joseph Alsop CHAU DOC, South Vietnam This delta province boasts two features unique in this reporter's all too long experience. One is bat lofts tall poles densely hung with palm leaves, in which the local fruit bats delight to roost. The Chau Doc people use
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    Lock icon Now Incentives For Soviet Film Artistes
    485 6  -  By Donald Armour (Reuter). MOSCOW The Russians are still experimenting after a five-year effort to make their film industry one of the sharpest weapons of Soviet propaganda pay its own way. The profit-motive system has been tested by the Mosfilm Studio here but there
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    Lock icon The Sacred Person Of The Diplomat
    793 6  -  By Fred Mpanga LONDON: The kidnap and murder of the West German Ambassador in Guatemala contravenes the basic diplomatic principle: that the protection of an envoy is the duty of the "receiving" State. Latin America has been ahead of the rest of the international
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    Lock icon The Uneasiness In Taipei
    530 6 By ERNESTO MENDOZA TAIPEI "Th. party's over, if# tim® to call it a day," th e ginger croons in th« dimly-lit restaurant of the Taipei American Officers' Club. For Nationalist Chinese officials, the words have a disquieting ring. Around the club bar there Is the usual
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    Lock icon Food Prices Soar In Phnom Penh
    338 6 PHNOM PENH The advent of war in Cambodia has brought with it the usual scarcity in certain foods and a steep rise in prices attendant upon most embryonic conflicts. Since general voluntary mobilisation two weeks ago the capital has gradually run out of cheese
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  • commercial and industrial
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      Lock icon Steady Trading As Weekend Approaches
      475 7 CONDITIONS steadied slightly in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Sin--9 P ore yesterday as th c past days' listless business appeared to cover up with the approaching weekend. in^„«frs G en i ra, y t^*ading was slow to form and continued very quiet. Interest
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      918 7 done in and reported to th# trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with thc number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified:- INDUSTRIALS ACMA $2.12 (1) $2 10 (1); Aloan $l7O 1j $1.77 i2>; Allied Chocolate $4.28 l>.
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      Lock icon EXCHANGE RATES
      56 7 The Association of Banks 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 $34.8750; Holland Guilders $85.0075; Swiss Francs $71.8675; French Francs $55 7975; Norwegian Kroner
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      Lock icon Rubber Futures
      54 7 NEW YORK, Thurs. (UPI) Rubber futures closed 25 points higher to unchanged on no sales Wednesday on the New York Commodity Exchange. (Close) (Prevs.) May 22.258 22.00 July 22.258 2200 Sept. 22.258 22.00 Nov. 22.008 22.00 Jan. 21.758 21.75 Mar. 21.758 21.75 \iay 21.758 21.75 Locally. No. 2
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      13 7 The tin price for yesterday was $705.12\ per plcul, up $4.00.
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      Lock icon STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSING PRICES
      862 7 BID and offer prices officially listed yesterday at th e close of business in the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore were: INDUSTRIALS B. 8ACM A 2 08 2 10 Aican 176 A n.fa C'tolate 416 4 30 Ben Co 1.70 1
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      Lock icon Steel Works Wins $20m Contract
      280 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Hume Industries l Malaya) berhad has expanded its manufacturing activities in Malaysia with the opening of a $2 million Steel Works, on a 51 acre site adjoining the company's Asbestos Cement Factories located on 11 acres at p etaling Jaya. The new
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 58 1/4 Cts.
      295 7 May first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m., in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 58i cents per lb„ down one and one quarter of a crnt from the previous close. The tone of the market was easier. The market opened lower in line with
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      Lock icon Gold Mixed
      60 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. <UPI> Gold prices were mixed In moderately active trading Wednesday on markets here and abroad. In London, gold rose 9 cents at the morning nxing. Dealers said new supplies were slow to appear and prtres rose on moderate consumer buying. By the second fixing. however,
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      Lock icon Appointed Marketing Manager
      109 7 MR EDWIN TEO TEE boh has been appointed marketing manager. Singapore and Malaysia, for Warner-Lambert (Mfg> Bdn. Bhd. Mr. Teo was born in Kuala Trengganu He received his early education in Singapore and completed his studle* in Australia. graduating in Economics from the University of Sydney. He
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      Lock icon DOW JONES
      39 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. UPI» Dow Jon* 1 rioting averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. 30 industrial* 782.60 20 transp. 169.27 15 utilities 1162* 65 stocks 259.20 40 bonds <19.12 Commodity futures Index 134.51 off 0.13.
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      Lock icon Stocks Fall On New York Stock Mart
      118 7 NEW YORK, Thurs. tUPD Stocks lell from their best levels late Wednesday and declines rolled up a 7-to-5 advantage over winners in light turnover. At the close, the UPI market indicator, measuring all stocks traded, showed a loss of 0.39 per cent on
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      Lock icon Early Boost On London Stock Mart
      111 7 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) Hooes that tne budget Proposals would inject new zest into the economy hunueu shares an early boost on the stock market yesterday but buying lacked drive and industrial share* soon lost their initial share gains The overall tone stayed Arm. British
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      Lock icon TODAY'S SHIPS IN SINGAPORE
      136 7 The Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthing arrangements for ships in port today April 18: DEPARTURE Godowns Vessels 8 9 Tarpon Swift 15 16 Queensville 18 Everlight 20 West Au by 25 26 Nikkohsan Maru 40 41 Sela Maru 44 Trelusia 46 Pegaso
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      Lock icon MINING, OIL SHARES EASE
      386 7 V< y J i "'I Sydney Stocks, AW\ W' A A*'"--'- Cs. f Closing Prices iu .< j... 4 SYDNEY, Thurs. (UPI) Mining and oil share prices eased on the Sydney Stock Exchange Thursday after a promising start at the opening. Most stocks rose across a
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      Lock icon PRODUCE
      98 7 THF tionn prlw at the Mncapnre Chinese Produce Kxchance yesterday w«t:Buyer seller I'omnDt oil (F OB-) Balk 50 00 Coconut OH (FOB) Drum 01 30 Mixed Copra 2800 Muni ok White repper (FOB) 140 no tiaraw ak White Pepper (F O R in: 50 Sarawak special Black PrPIM-r (>
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      92 7 (Miniffn' Prlce» for April 1?> CH4KTKKKD UNIT TKI BTf 8. Growth Fund 1 0* 113 ASIA UNIT TRUSTS M Invent. Fund xd 1.22 1.2T SINGAPORE, UNIT 1 MUSI > l«t Singapore 2T2 2nd *lneapore 198 3rd Slncaporr l.24*o The Com Ind. 1413 1 08 Thr s ar. Fund
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      Lock icon Hong Kong Money
      128 7 HONG KONG, <rPI> Thursday's 5 p.m currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd (Buyers) (Sellers) 194.7 195.7 per 100 Straits dollars 149.5 150.5 per 1.000 Taiwan dollar® 8.7 6.76 per Australian dollar 340 360 per 1.000 Burmese kvats 490 510 per 1.000 Indian rupees 150
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
      374 7 AKKIVAI.9 815 am Ms.A (23 R Lumpur 045 am MsA 119 k Lumpur 12.30 pm M>% 451 kufhlnc 2.50 p.m- Ms.A 021 k Lumpur. Malacca 325 p.m. MSA 453 R klnabaiu 3 40pm M*A &21 Bangkok. Penang 640 pm- MSA 637 Tok>». Taipei. U. kona 7 10pm MSA
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    Lock icon Sun In The Morning And Sun In The Evening
    613 8  -  By ROSS ANNABELL (GEMINI) ROTORUA, New Zealand A New Zealand inventor is forming a company to promote and export around the world what is believed to be the world's first pre-fabricat-ed revolving house, a push-button "sun-chaser" which will turn on a
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    Lock icon Greater Comforts For Air Travellers
    913 8  -  By Edwin Rosenthal LONDON A giraffe ambles across the modern highway leading to Nairobi airport while frustrated air passengers fume about th e dalay. In other cities there are different nerve wracking delays in getting to or from International airports Passengers, dosed with drink or
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    Lock icon The Tragedy Behind The Scenes
    645 8 FRANKFURT: The tragedy took place behind the scenes. The "Theatre am Zoo". Frankfurt s famous boulevard comedy house, was packed to capacity The word had got around that Peps:" was such a funny play and the actress playing the title role so comical that she
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    Lock icon Nagging Parents Threaten Brother's Self- Confidence
    477 8  -  DATELINE By Ele Walt Dulaney Dear Ele and Walt: My parents are very strong on grades. They expect u s all to be A students and win scholarships to Ivy League schools- I'm not talking "sour grapes" because I've done all right. But my
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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      127 8 AMY By Jack Tipprt "Daddy, if you con guess what I have in my hand, I'll let you have it for a nickel.. .okay?" DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Alden McWißiams T'CO IS SCAPED AND > HURT .AND |P I DON'T LASM UO TMAT ARM HE'LL RtAI.IV HAVE A
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  • SUN SPORT
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      Lock icon Enchanted Island & Generous Bid Shine
      273 10  - Enchanted Island Generous Bid Shine By Our Racing Correspondent It UALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Trainer Samsuri bin Abdul Rahman's pair Enchanted Island and Generous Bid were associated in an interesting workout on the sand track here this morning. The going was yielding. The pair sprinted attractively over 2f in 26 3
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      Lock icon Shiny Tenth By Half A Length
      76 10 NEWMARKET. England. Thurs. (Reuten Jointfavourite. Shiny Tenth owned by AD R. Holland won the Totalisator Free Handicap run over seven furlongs here yesterday. G.P. William's Ruxton was second and Lord St. Germanss Fred Babu finished third of 13 runners. Geoff Lewis rode Shiny Tenth.
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      Lock icon Oldham Beat Batley 9-7
      54 10 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter* Results of last night's rugby matches were: Rugby League Oldham 9. Batley 7. Rugbv Union Bristol 25. Clifton 6. Cross Keys 5. Neath 15 Llanelli 17. Pontypridd 0. New Brighton 6. Birkenhead Park 11. Pontypool 6. Maesteg 0. Swansea 6. Bridgend 12. Torquay
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      Lock icon Taylor In Shock Defeat
      194 10 MONTE CARLO. Thurs (Reuten Manuel Orantes. the young Spanish Davis Cup player, eliminated third-seeded Roger Taylor, the British professional, in the second round of the Monaco Open tennis tournament yesterday. The match was halted by bad light Tuesday evening with the score at one set all.
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      Lock icon Casper In Top 10
      101 10 NEW YORK. Thurs. (Reuter) American Billy Casper's triumph in the U.S. Masters' golf tournament last Monday brought to U5553,966 (£22.485) his total earnings on the 1970 U.S. circuit. Casper who beat fellow American Gene Littler in a play-off for the Masterstitle earned U5525,000 for his victory.
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      Lock icon Troubled Season For English Cricket
      83 10 HEADINGLEY. England. Thurs. (Reuter) Yorkshire County cricketers were advised yesterday not to become involved in any anti-apartheid trouble that might arise during the South African tour of England this summer. The warning was given by Mr. Brian Sellers, chairman of the County's Selection Committee, during
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      Lock icon Kuala Lumpur Week-end Race Cards
      2337 10 1 Race 1: CI. 6 Dlv. 1—6 Furs.— 2.15 P-m. ($4,800) 1 ***** Mannum MIM 7y 900 MM 9 2 ***** Lightning Girl 7y 8.13 Utara 2 3 ***** Spy 11 5y 8 13 KB Ou Teh Nelson 6 4 ***** Cairo 5v 8.11 SK
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      Lock icon World Cup Rally: 96 Take Off On Sunday
      318 10 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter> A Aeld of 96 cars from more than 20 countries leaves here on Sunday at the start of one of the greatest ever motoring events —the 16.000 miles World Cup Rally. Drivers will be flagged away from London's Wembley
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      Lock icon New Lotus Contender For Grand Prix Honours
      184 11 Thr Lotus "2 Grand Prix racing car which will contest thr world constructor's and driver s championship honours during 1970. was unveiled by Colin Chapman. Lotus Managing Director .centre of kneeling group* at the company's factory in Eastern England recently. Joe hen Rindt
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      Lock icon US Baseball Results
      62 11 NEW YORK. Thurs (UPI) Results of last night's major baseball league games: NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 5 Philadelphia 1. Cincinnati 3 Los Angeles 2. Atlanta 7 San Diego 5. St. Louis 10 Montreal 0. Houston 7 San Francisco 6. AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 6 New York 2. Chicago 7
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      Lock icon Celtic – Feijenoord European Cup Final
      678 11 Celtic Feijenoord European Cup Final GLASGOW, Scotland, Thurj. (Reuterj Glasgow Celtic (Scotland) and Feijenoord Rotterdam (Holland) last night qualified to meet in the European Cup final in Milan on May 6. These two clubs emerged victorious from last night's semi-finals and earned their places in the final of Europe's most
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      238 11 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter> Sunderland lost their chance ot survival in the English Football League First Division last night when they were beaten 1-0 at home by Liverpool. But the team to be relegated with Sunderland Is still uncertain following a dramatic recovery bv Sheffield Wednesday
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      156 11 TOKYO. Thurs (Reuter) Bruce Fleisher of the United State.* fired a ftveunder par 67 today to take the first round lead in the Ynmiuri Open golf champion last leg of the Asian circuit. The 21-year-old former US amateur champion shot a three-under par 33 on the
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      90 11 TOKYO. Thurs. ißeuter) The odds are heavily in Australia's favour when the Davis Cup Eastern Zone Section A final starts here tomorrow. Japan have suffered nine straight postwar defeats at this stage of the competition, and the Australian power and speed is expected to ensure
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      112 11 CHESTER, (Cheshire), Thurs (AFP) Ken Roberts, manager of Fourth Division Chester. announced today that every player in the club has been put up for sale. In a statement following the game against (irimsby Town he said: "I have sent a circular to every club in the
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      985 11 (CHANNEL 5) AM.9 00 Opening Anncts. in all Languages 21ft Century Shape of Films to Come 825 Singapore Music and Dance Festival <E> 000 Close PM 3CO Opening Anncts in ali Languages A- General Hospital 320 Woman's World <E> 3 45 A Diary of in Singapore This Week (E> 3
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    410 12 The stunning realisation that three men might just die in space has shaken up a lot of people here. Singaporeans yesterday repeatedly rang the Eastern Sun tor uo-to-date news about the fate of the crew of the ill-fated Apollo 13. mi i i u:
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    105 12 A multi-racial group of 50 members of the Siglap Women's Assoeiaticn led by its President, ch<* Mawan Wajid Khan, will be making a civic and goodwill tour of the islands of Pulau Sekijang. Sudong, Ayer Melimau and Damar Laut, tomorrow. They will meet Singaporeans living in these
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    143 12 The 52-ton landing eraft and the 32-ton rescue launch wer e towed to th e "Prometheus'' at the PSA yesterday from RAF Seletar. The two vessels were loaded onto the deck of th e "Prometheus"» which sailed at noon today for Gan. "Prometheus" with its
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    18 12 There were a total of 47 accidents. eight of which were described as serious, on Wednesday.
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    162 12 A 26-year-old hawker who ••engaged stooges" to rob a feather factory which resulted in a double-murder told the High Court yesterday that he did not expect any share from the robbery. Chan Ah Lay was giving evidence in the fourth day of the trial of
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    117 12 Both men never entertained the thought of leaving their Jobs for another, and they have no regrets whatsoever. The result—a combined service record of 85 years was chalked up by two local bank employees. The two men are Messrs. Ling Yoi Shee, (43£ years service) now
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    397 12 TROOPS of the 2nd Royal Anglians, 2nd Light Infantry and 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery newly arrived at the jung'e warfare school, yesterday afternoon had a memorable taste of tropical storm. "It's ble;er and better than most.' s aid an on the school's as he watched
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    170 12 An honest taxi-driver Yeo Ah Lee, 31, walked into the Eastern Sun office with a suitcase which he found in his taxi yesterday. He said it belongs to two tourists he fetched from Robinson Road to High Street. His passengers had carelessly left the
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      32 12 Toto Draw The following numb°r* were drawn in yesterday's Toto Draw: 39, 24. 17. 32. 8. The additional number was 43. In the three-circle draw, the numbers drawn were: 21, 30. 41.
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