Eastern Sun, 23 April 1970

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  • 22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY «k Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1326 Thursday, 23 April 1970. <& MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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  • 429 1 firemen yesterday battled grimly for three hours to put out a fire which broke out in a textile piece goods shop at lunchtime in busy North Bridge Road. By the time it was over, the shop, agent for a well-known brand of men's wear
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  • 450 1 PHNOM PENH, Wed. (Reuter) —Scores of families of Vietnamese origin flocked to check points in Phnom Penh today to enlist for immediate repatriation to South Vietnam. At on* check-in post at the Can Dai temple op the city's Mao Tse-Tun e .Senile, 76 heads of
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  • 19 1 MANILA Wed. (UPI) —A rolling earthquake Cf moderate Intensity nit Manila at 9:50 pm. rocking tall buildings.
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  • 78 1 TFI AVIV. Wed <Re U ter> Singapore's Minister of Finance. Or. Goh Keng Swee arrived here this morning for a flve-day visit as guest of the Israeli government Dr Goh was accompanied by his wife and by the chairman of the Singapore Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Mhang Tar
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  • 100 1 PHNOM PENH. Wed (Feuteri— The Pochentong Airport at Phnom Penh wa> closed tonight to all commercial flight* for military reasons. airport source* here said. The sources said all incoming flights from Singapore had been cancelled and the a;rport would be shut until 6am tomorrow Military sources here said
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  • 163 1 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPl)—Cambodia's r«quest tor U.S. military assistance is still under consideration, the State Department said Tuesday. Department spokesman Carl Bartch said he could not confirm Indonesian reports that the United States would not give arm s to the Cambodian government Bartch told newsmen
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  • 273 1 BANGKOK, Wed. (UPI) —Th« Economic Commission for Asia and the Pa* East (ECAFE) has accepted the offer of Singapore to provide land and buildings and hotel facilities for the permanent headquarters of the Asian Institute for Economic Development and Planning. The Singapore Ministry
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  • 164 1 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) —Washington today threw a curtain of secrecy over reports that two U.S. warships had sailed for Trinidad to assist the government there to put down Black Power rioting. The Defence Department declined comment on reports that the warships, including the
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 208 2 The Minister for Science and Technology, Dr. Toh Chin Lhye, will open a two-week International Labour Organisation inter-regional seminar on maritime training today at the Singapore Conference Hall here. The countries attending the seminar until May 6 are Republic of China. Hong Kong. India, Indonesia,
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  • 173 2 The Chittabhavan Buddhist College, an institute of learning in Thailand is offering six scholarships to young Buddhists in Singapore to study, after ordination or re-ordinat-ion, at the College for ten years leading to a bachelor's degree. Applicants must be between the ages 0 f 15 and
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  • 76 2 Kamls Bin Alwi. 22, yestrrdav claimed trial in the Ninth Magistrate's Court to a charge of theft of a gold chain and locket belonging to a one-year-old baby. Azizah. He was alleged to have taken the chain and locket valued at $l2O. from the baby on Feb. 28.
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  • 39 2 home want to win the war. He firmly believed that the Americans cannot afford to let Asia into the hands of Communism. The Far Eastern Council of Christian Churches consist of more than 1.000 churches a nd 500.0011 members.
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  • 71 2 WELLINGTON. Wed (AFP) Ne w Zealand would give two airtourer aircraft to the Singapore Government a* a gift. Defence Minister David Thomson announced here today. He said the aircraft would be use>j for primary training programme and also bv the reserve airforce unit which is being established.
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  • 220 2 TWO ON MURDER RAP THE High Court was asked yesterday why two other persons detained by police were not charged in Court in connection with a double-murder case last year. This question was raised by .Mr. Freddy Yin Ee Kheng
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  • 131 2 SAN FRANCISCO. Wed (Reuter) A mad killer who calls himself "Zodiac" claims he has now killed 10 people. California police fear he may be telling the truth. "Zodiac", an apparent psychotic, wrote his sinister claim to a local paper. The death toll 'would have been a
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  • 100 2 The Department of Extramural Studies. University of Singapore, will be presenting a public lecture on 'Potentials and Prospects of Conserving Resource Urbanism'. The public lecture commences at 8.00 p.m. on April 28th., In the New Lecture Theatre No. 2 University of Singapore. The speech will be given by
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  • 37 2 JAKARTA. Wed (Reuter) Seventeen Malaysian teachers hav e arrived in Pontianak. West Borneo for a week's visit. Antara News Agency reported today The teachers will observe the education. svstem In We s t Borneo. Antara said.
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  • 239 2 IPOH, Wed. More troop* have been rushed to the Malaysian border area of Perak district to hunt down a gang of 60 terrorists responsible for killing Malaysian soldiers and wounding two in an ambush on Monday. Speaking to newsmen here, the GOC West Malaysia, Maj. Gen.
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  • 213 2 Controversial Dr. Cart Mclntire, President of the International Council Of Christian Churches, who led the 'silent majority in the Victory in Vietnam' march recently, is here with his counterparts from the Far East to revive and preserve the life blood of Christianity. Over 50
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  • 147 2 Rt ALA LUMPUR. Wed. Thr Malaysian government has hern in contact with thr Indonesian government on thr proposal to convrnr a meeting of Asian nations rrgarding thr Cambodian situations and whrthrr Malaysia can host such a mrrting. This was disclosed by a spokesman of the Ministry
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  • 115 2 KUALA LI'MPIR. Wed The Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of the l-e--deral Republic of Germany. Mr Walter Scheel. will pay a three-day visit to Malaysia on the invitation of the Malaysian government. A spokesman of tne Foreign Ministry said Mr. Scheel who is leading a 10man official
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  • 423 2  -  FOUR-DEATH TRAGEDY By K. S. SIDHU Quarry worker Goh Seng Wah, 24, yesterday tearfully admitted that he beat his wife the night be fere she was found drowned in a disused well with their three children. Goh, who claimed the bodies of his
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  • 248 3 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) Four Malaysian girls working in the Camelot Bar of Merlin Hotel here went on strike recently in protest over alleged 'harassment' by management. The girls are Siti Sharif. Maznah Lsa, A7mi Aziz, and Sharifah
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  • 60 3 NEW DELHI, Wed. <UPI) Thirteen mourners travelling in a truck were killed on Monday when their vehicle overturned In Uttar Pradesh State, it was reported yesterday. The truck driver was said to have lost control of the vehicle as he tried to save a cyclist. The
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  • 362 3 SAIGON, Wed. (Reuter) President Thieu declared South Vietnam cannot ask for large numbers of troops from its allies to remain in his country indefinitely. However, greater aid in all forms was hoped for so that his nation could carry
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  • 27 3 LAM PENG SOON (right), our Commissioner-Gene-ral, led British Foreign Secretary, Michael Steward (centre), and his wife on a tour of our Expo '7O pavilion yesterday. (UPI radiophoto).
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  • 140 3 HYDERABAD. India. Wed. (UPI) Thirty cars of a runaway freight train sped six miles without an eneine on Monday. Tnev ran over a railway employee and barely missed collidine with a passenger train. Delayed reDorts added the fatality was crossing the tracks at
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  • 500 3 WASHINGTON. Wed.(UPI) China's 750 million people may have arrived at a "take-off point" economically after more than 20 years of communist rule. U.S. officials speculated. Data gathered here on developments on the Chinese Mainland indicate that agricultural production could increase substantially this year, barring unfavourable
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  • 168 3 TOKYO. Wed. (Rrutrr) Underground shelters are bring burrowed beneath Peking stieets and children start their day with military training. a top Japanese newspaper executive claimed today. The shelters and military Instruction for both youngsters and workers are part of the tension and sense of emergency in
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  • 22 3 TEHERAN. Wed. (Reuter) Malaysia's first ambassador to Iran. Ahmad Yousef. presented his credentials to the Shah of Iran.
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  • 260 3 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) Investigators hav e found fragments of an explosive device which may have ripped off the tail of a Philippine aircraft, an airlines spokesman disclosed today. The Hawker-Siddelev "48 turbo-prop aircraft crashed In the mountain 65 miles north-east of Manila vesterdav All 34 persons
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  • 138 3 SAIGON. Wed <UPI> Some 200 antl-Thieu students marched on South Vietnam's Supreme Court today They were demanding an end to torture of students arrested by the regime. However, the demonstration ended when Associate Court Justice Nguyen Van Sy came to the steps of the court building.
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  • 88 3 PORT MORESBY. New Guinea. Wed. (UPI) The administrator of PapuaNew Guinea. David Hay. today ordered an inquiry into the use of leg-irons on two native prisoners in a jail near Rabaul. New Britain. Hay ordered the probe following a report from a visiting justice a,
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  • 442 4 HONG KONG, Wed. (Reuter) Anti-Soviet insults appeared alongside portraits of Lenin, founder of the Soviet state, in China's press today as the Communist world celebrated the centenary of his birth. A point editorial published by Peking's three major Journals accused the Soviet Union of
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  • 242 4 MOSCOW, Wed. (UPI Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu Wednesday called tor freedom within communism during speeches commemorating the 100 th birth of Vladimir I. Lenin. Ceausescu. the maverick Of the Soviet bloc who has consistently resisted tight political control from Moscow. went before leaders of some "9
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  • 209 4 LUXEMBOURG. Wed. (UPI) Common Market foreign ministers on Wednesday siened an agreement to finance the European Economic Community (EEC), clearing the way for the start of British membership talks in June. The ministers signed the agreement, which was part of France's price for
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  • 160 4 KARACHI. Wed. (UPD The catio/i-wi/ie journalist strike vesterdav deteriorated sharply when two East Pakistani newspaper proprietor* were manhandled by West Pakistanis during a meeting here According to the spokesman of the journalist union, a orotest meeting _t the manhandling of the East Pakistanis by proprietors
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  • 313 4 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) —Paul McCartney said yesterday he believed the Beatles had 'finished recording and prforming together, but denied that he had broken up the famous foursome. In a splash story In the London Evening Standard yesterday he told reporter Ray Connolly: "I didn't leave
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  • 177 4 ALSDORF, West Germany, Wed. (Reuter) —The West German makers of the drug Thalidomide and lawyers representing children said to be deformed because of the drug have agreed on a settlement of 100 million marks (about 12 million sterling). A spokesman for the company, Chemie
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  • 65 4 TOKYO. Wed (UPI) Japan will extend 10.000 million yen (US$3O million) in yen credit to Pakistan. It wa« announced Tuesday. A contract providing for the credit was signed In Tokyo Tuesday by th#» Ex-port-Import Bank of Japan (E.1.8J.) and 16 foreign exchange banks In Japan In
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  • 428 4 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) The United State, could knock out t*e growing Soviet surface fleet in the Mediterranean in the event of war, ihe U.S. Navy'i top admiral declared in congressional testimony released today. But Admiral Thomas H. Moorer. Chief of Naval Operations, admitted that
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  • 405 4 JOHANNESBURG, Wed. (Reuter) South Africa's white minority voted today after the most bitterlyfought genera? election campaign in the country's his- tory. The result Is certain to be a "yes" for the National Party which after 22 years in power will continue its apartheid policies.
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  • 135 4 LONDON Wed 'Reuter> Two airliners carrying a total of 224 people narrowly averted a collision over the London area earlier this month. It was disclosed here yesterday. Aviation sources said the two Jets a Trans World Boeing 707 from New Yore and a British Overseas Airways VC-10
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  • 250 4 WASHINGTON. Toes. (UPI) A lasting ptatf in Asia is possible only if relations between the United Stales and Nationalist China are strengthened. Vice-Premier Gen Chiang Chlng-Kuo said on Tuesday. Chiang told newsmen he was "most pleased" with the three-hour talks he held with Secretary of State
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  • 191 4 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) The ruling Labour Party is more popular than the opposition Conservatives for the first time since October, 1967, according to an important public opinion poll announced today. The right-wing Dally Express, which published the poll, said a general election could be expected in
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  • 134 4 MELBOURNE. Wed (Reuter> Great train robber Ronald Biggs- nine-year-old son is recovering from a fractured skull and police said today they were keeping a close watch in case the fugitive tried to contact his family. Biggs has been on the run again in Australia for about six
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  • 770 5 nc HOUS J ON e< —Astronaut James Lovell declared that if the U b. *pace officials asked the Apollo 13 crew on another lunar trip./'we'd be glad to go. He was speaking at the first
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  • 280 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI and Reuter) A fwo-man congressional study team today warned after a tour of South East Asia that 'new militarism' in Japan is a cause for concern. Representatives Lester Wolff. (Democrat Sew York), and Herbert Burke, (Republican-Florida), toured Japan. Okinawa. Hong Kong. Taiwan. The
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  • 109 5 HOUSTON, Wed. (Reuter) —When the Apollo 13 astronauts asked ground control if the 'flowers' were blooming in Houston, they were not interested in botany. Astronaut Jim LoveJl disclosed last night that the crew had devised a code with ground control to see if astronaut Ken Mattingly
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  • 50 5 SAN FRANCISCO. Ned. (Rrutft) A man identifying himself a* Michael Brody." the Olro margarine heir ha* been found apparently drucged at the airport here, police said today. Las* Friday, police in Scarsdale New York, issued a 13-state alarm for Mrs. Br<vly. She ha? fteen "missing" for three weeks.
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  • 346 5 BOGOTA. Colombia, Wed. (Reuter) —Colombia today was under a state of siege with a curfew blanketing main cities after Sunday's presidential election. Emergency measures were announced by President Carlo* Retrepo m a nationwide radio and television broadcast l&st night. He claimed ther? was a movement
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  • 287 5 NEW YORK, Wed. (UPI) Best-selling author Irving Shulman blamed poorly-educated fan magazine readers for giving Mrs. Aristotle Onassif 'a bad image'. He made his comments In his latest book. "Jackie. The Exploitation of a First Lady." He declared her photograph was sometimes on
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  • 389 5 PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Wed. (Reuter) Black power demonstrations brought rioting, looting, arson and death to this predominantly Negro town yesterday. The country is under strict Curfew today with heavily armed troops patrolling the streets ready to shoot law-breakers. Two people
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  • 71 5 HAR-ES-SALAAM. Wed. (UPI) Tanzania Testerday released 17 Asians detained at the beginning of this year for running a passport racket The freed Asians were ordered to leave the country within 72 hours. An official statement added their Tanzanian citizenship had been revoked and all their
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 477 6 A PRIL has been a traumatic experience, a time of the "Happenings". And all of them bad. and with worse to follow if we really faithfully stick "with it". This capsule of time might even be termed "incredible" were it not for the elusive and expanding horizon which
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  • 269 6 'po err Is human. People outside the communist countries, being quite aware of this human weakness, admit it without much fuss. On the other hand, communists make mountains of these molehills and utilise the sharp weapon of 'self-criticism' to great personal advantage. Usually, admissions of failures
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  • 980 6 By Gaminl Senevtratne JOHN Foster Wilson is blind and bland about It Talk to him for a while and the handicap acquires a new dimension When he says people think of blindness in "strange emotional terms, he does not intend
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  • 704 6  -  By FRED MPANGA LONDON: Mrs. Peggy Apparicio, a 21-year-old Jamaican, is a telephonist at the Wolverhampton General Post Office. At Christmas time 1968 her fellow-em-ployees decided to have a supper-cum-dance party Thev chose one of their number. Mrs. Patricia
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  • 441 6  -  LE S T. CHEAH. Singapore. My fnend had taken over the tenancy of my house and so he and I went to one of the counters at the Consolidated Accounts Division. Public Utilities Board to have my water and lights account transferred to him. To save the Board's
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  • 828 6  -  Bv Winter Lemba LUSAKA: I was given a 10-man escort to take me to Zone D. In the Cuango Cubango district of Angola near the Namibian border. There the people told me they had seen South African helicopter* regularly cross th« border and return. The
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 345 7 J! downward drift continued unabated in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Conditions remained dull and featureless. Industrial, received mor e price cut-back as the market nonchalantly pulled along in th e doldrums. Activities were largely concentrated in th e usual selected stocks with some
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    • 915 7 JJUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS ACMA $l9B <l> $197 (1); Alian $1.67 t8) $1 6b (.8; $1 68 (2>;
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    • 96 7 Tile noon PHCM at i a 0 Hngaporf (hmm Produce ft chMIt »M(«rd*9 wrtf:HUIM •nui lUCOOUt Oil >¥ II B limb fttowi IH'llllUI oil <• <1 tl i lirum HJii Muni i i>prn ItlK MMIIH** MltlH Prppri II O ft.. MA etui.** it. lthn> ri'itpri 1K OB) Mi AO
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    • 784 7 6(0 and offer prices cialiy i»$tcd yesterday ai the ctoic of business in the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore »ere: L\DLS1ft!AL> B. Al MA cbl MIS t IK) Aii«n 1M 1 Ml \i ltd i iolm« 4 IN 4-1 h' ll
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    • 261 7 M»y first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m.. In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 57} cents per lb., unchanged from the previous close. The tone of the market was very quiet. The market ruled quiet but slightly steadier and moved within narrow limits
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    • 15 7 The tin price for yesterday was $"l4 62$ per plcul. up $6 625.
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    • 174 7 SINGAPORE has been chosen at the site for the next regional conference of managers of Scandinavian Airlines in the Far East. It will be held from November 30 to December 1. 1970. according to Mr. John Hoyer. General Manager for SAS in Singapore. Malaysia and
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    • 93 7 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) The stock market steadied Tuesday when gelling dried up but there was no rush to buy at the lower levels. Scattered Rains went to British government bonds and the pound held steady on foreign exchanges. Some of thf» popular leaders like Rank Organisation.
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    • 146 7 MEET Pamela Kim Mai, aged two, and her brother Oliver Enrique, five year* old. two of the youngest jet set travellers who flew to Germany this week. Born In Vietnam. Kim Mai (in Vietnamese means 'Golden Apricot Flower") and her brother Oliver whose
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    • 95 7 LONDON. Wed (UPI) Rubber market closed Idle yesterday with spot 19-7' B. 20-18. SETTLEMENT HOUSE May 20. 20-3/16 June 20-5/16. 20-9'16 July 20-5/8. 20-13 16 July Sept. 20-7/8. 21 Oct Dec. 21-3/16 21-5 16 Jan March 21-5 16. 21-7/16 April/June 21-7/16. 21-9/16 July Sept. 21-1
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    • 64 7 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Another £l3 a ton was added to the price Of tin on the London market yesterday. bringing It up to £1.623 a ton. Dealer* said one reason for the new rise was increased buying following a report that the United States Is not
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    • 39 7 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 Industrials 772.51 20 Transp 167.40 15 Utilities 112.95 65 Btocks 255.27 40 Bonds 63 93 Commodity futures index 134.48 up 0.06.
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    • 138 7 NEW YORK. Wed. fUPI) Stocks in pood demand during the first hour, turned Into the minus column around mid-session on Tuesday and declines finished ahead of advances for the 14th consecutive session, turnover was light. At the closln* bell, the UPI lndicator showed a
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    • 70 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Gold prlcea continued to edge higher on markets here and abroad Tuesday. London gold picked up 4 centa at the morning fixing and another 3i cents at the second fixing to $35.87* for a total gain of 7J cents. Zurich gold. untraded Monday
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    • 100 7 (Manager*' Prior* for April 28) t It Ut IKHI 1 Ml INI 8 Grow lb Fund 1 06 1 11 t>IA 1 Ml 1 HI 1*1 to M lnvr»t Hind ad 1 it 1 *1 "IM.M'llllf I'M'I 1 KIM fc 1«». Singapore *41 2nd slncaport 1 M mm.
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    • 186 7 THE Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthing arrangements for today, April 23. DEPARTURES Gndowns Vessels 3 4 Pekin 5 Eastern Maid 6/ 7 Dolly Turman 10 11 Neptune Aquanrlne 13' 14 Pando Cove 15/16 Myrmidon 20 West Giang Seng 22 Tronoh 23/24 Star
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    • 327 7 Sydney Stocks, Closing Prices SYDNEY, Wed. (UPI) After two days of steady prices, the mining market took an upward turn on the Sydney Stock Exchange Wednesday. Few stocks recorded very big increases but many made fractional gains. Poseidon resumed Its customary role of dictating the trend It rose
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    • 127 7 HONG KONG. (UP1) Wednesday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd (Buyers) (Sellers) 194.7 195.7 per 100 Strait* dollars 14?).5 150.5 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 6 7375 *****5 per Australian dollar 340 360 per 1,000 Burmese kyatt 480 500 per 1.000 Indian rupees
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    • 483 7 AUKBALC 815 am M>A 123 K Lnmpur 945am- MSA 119 K Lumpur 12-80 p m Mv\451 Kuchlng 8-80 p m MSA 021 K Lumpur. Malacca USpa M««A 458 K Kinabaln 8 40 pm- MSA 821 Bangkok Penang 8-4«rpm M-A 665 Manila 7.10 p-m- MSA 027 K Lumpur. Malacca
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE $5 ESSAY WINNERS
    • 177 8 A LITTLE girl, Mary was studying in a primary school. She was very friendly, beautiful and cute and had many friends whose mothers fetched them to and from school. Her mother fetched her too. But Mary looked very sad and ashamed. One day, Mary's
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    • 514 8 THE blind, I believe, are the most unhappy people in this world. Al' our five senses are precious but the most precious of them all is the eye Blindness is worse than deafness or dumbness. One who cannot speak or hear can console himself to
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    • Article, Illustration
      703 8 "Clang!" was the sound which spoilt my beautiful dream I opened my eyes and found myself in a small dark room Except for a beam of light which was coming from a hole in the wall, the place was In pitch darkness There were lots of lizards everywhere.
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    • 227 8 EVERYDAY, many sick people are cured through the good work of nurses A nurse is a woman who works in a hospita or a dispensary. The uniform she wear s is usually white n colour. Her work is to look after the sick people and
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      407 8 HISTORY is the "Story of the Past When we wish to determine the character or capability of a person, we look ln»o his past achievements and thus determine his future potentialities. Similarly. by studying the history of a nation, we can determine what it may achieve in the future.
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    • 66 8 My aunt she died a month ago, And left me all her riches. A feather-bed and a wooden leg, And a pair of calico breeches, A coffee pot without a spout, A mug without a handle, A baccy box without a lid. And half a farthing
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    • 238 8 'The firecracker you hold m your hand thatlittle red bundle of luck, prosperity and age-old tradition is a potential killer A stick of minidynamite". No doubt it is so In the Webster dictionary the word "cracker" was described as "a small kind of fireworks filled
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    • 185 8 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN'S new essav 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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    • 388 8 EASTEBN SUN'TT TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OFFICIAL evrn FORM ••••••••••••••••••MO*** MP. for:..-...... Constituency: Entrant's Particulars m A Closing date 30.4.70 Cut Here «H4I tOli HA VI- Hi LN»: 1I Uiu <ia> iho »rrk in* Ktut#rn 4nn wilt ooMiU pM«tri|k -I lil-iiur» ih» •huir pboiogrupn in tn*- «rwi»e «p»<* or** rldFd <no
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • 714 9  -  gp^ir-; Speaking IB 'M Sheilah Graham Mia Farrow and Walter Vatthau: Now there's a generation gap for you. Nonetheless, this is the combination perking in the mind of producer Ross Hunter for the wife and the detective who shadows her in "The Public Eye/'
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  • 136 9 NEW YORK: Men's coats are going back to the length they were In the Thirties and Forties. What's called "midi" in women's wear will appear In male fashions next fall as outerwear, according to British firms now showing in this country. Some avant-garde American makers have already done
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  • 259 9  -  A Lovelier You By Mary Sue Miller A lonely writes My teen daughter has been advised by a dermatologist to wash her face at least three times daily. Her skin Is rery oily and washing is part of the remedial treatment This ha* set me to wondering
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  • 667 9  -  By Florence de Santis Battani has never been exactly timid about their shoe ideas, but even they have gone farther this spring in freeing shoes from the uptight concept of a retiring little accessory. The difference can be seen readily by comparing their current
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  • 546 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: If don't get some answers soon I'll eo craty. Please, Ann do your best for me. I am a married woman with children. I had an affair with a man of another race. It lasted four months. I am now about ten
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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    • 26 9 TODAY and YOU. Thursday, April 23* 1970. AUG. 73 A ur. 77 1- 5- 8-21 c CAMCIB +\JU*l 71 Jkmr 7i V-37J91», J i-59-11-3*? < 3J-32 90
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    • 235 9 •iwm ORGANISATION B rH AY ***** CATHAYLest Day: U. 1.30. 4. 6.3*. 8.30 p.m Charles Dicker*' -DAVID COPPERFIELD" (PO*» 1 Laurence Oileier Technicolor School. |1 M) M «ny Kit »l U m 1M. «.3<t Show* OPEN6 TOMORROW Mon-ca Vlttl "The Otrl With Thf Piotot" Stan ev Baker Color Paramount i
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 237 10  -  Kerakah Looks Fighting Fit By Our Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Ringgit did a stylish gallop over 3f in 39 on good going here this morning. He was ridden by Don Rugdee. If he runs to his track form he is worth following this week-end. Foresight
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    • 963 10 CI. 3 Dlv 1 -6 F. ***** Xaslb n 4y 9.00 Tunku ic TCS Heddl# 11 Bintang Timor II 3y 8.08 Sultan of Pahang Lee ***** Highland Inn 4y 8.08 Olympic Teh 08 Panglima Larut n 4y 8.06 KL Chong Teh Royal Bras* 5y 8.05
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    • 200 10 EPSOM, England. Wed. (Reuter» Drcies, bought by American Mr. Norman Bunker Hunt last December for £115.500. paid a compliment to 2.000 Guineas favourite Nijinsky when he smoothly won the Blue Riband Trial Stakes here yesterday Nijinsky. hot favourite to win the 2.000 Guineas at Newmarket on
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    • 362 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The top world's doubles combination of Tan Yee Khan and Ng Boon Bee came to an abrupt end when Yee Khan was today drop ped from the nine-man squad now in training for the defence of the Thomas Cup here
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    • 95 10 LONDON. Wed The Derbyshire County Cricket Club ;n England are to celebrate their centenary vear with several events including the auction of a Crown Derby bone China casket. Money is also to be raised from the sale of limited editions of piece s of Webb Corbett Crystal
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    • 79 10 LIMA. Wed (Reuter) Peru romped to a convincing 3-0 triumph over El Salvador in a friendlv soccer international here last nleht in preparation for the World Cup finals in Mexico next June There was n o score at half time Only the agilltv of El Salvador
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    • 300 10 FE Bowling Raymond Kang of Singapore is certain to enter the seml-flnals of the Cathay PacificBrunswick Far East bowling championship on May 17. He is at present leading the other qualifiers from Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Guam, the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia with his
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    • 449 10 HAM B'U R G. Wed. (Reuter) —West Germany, beaten finalists in 1966, will rely on a trusted formula of experience and strong defence when they bid for the World Soccer Cup in Mexico. The German party is expected to Include at least
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    • 344 10 TAY CHIN JOO, 14 failed to qualify in the 100 metres butterfly stroke event for the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in July at the SASA trials held at the Chinese Swimming Club, Amber Road, yesterday. Chin Joo. who had beaten "Golden Girl" Patricia
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    • 116 10 SOFIA. Bulgaria. Wed. (Reuter) Three of the 96 s'arters in the EnglandMexico World Cup car rally had been forced out when the field reached here yesterday. They included Britons Colin Malkin and Richard Hudson-Evans whose Ford Escort collided with a truck 20 miles south
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    • 31 10 TOKYO. Wed. (UPI) Japanese middleweight champion Cassius Naito tonight held veteran American mlddlev/eieht Charlie Austin of San Diego. California to draw in a non-title 10ro;ind bout at Korakuen Hall.
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    • 241 10 BRUSSELS. Wed. <Reuter> Arsenal, seeking thelf first European triumph, have omitted £lOO.OOO winger Peter Marinello for their first leg European Fairs Cup final against Anderlecht here tonight. Marinello has again been overlooked In favour of the experienced George Graham, who replaced the young Scot
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    • 269 10 NEW YORK. Wed. (Reuten The Chicago Cubs whipped the St. Louis Cardinals 7-4. yesterday as Billy Williams hammered a three-run homer and Johnny Callison a two-run blast off Bob Gibson in the seventh inning It was the sixth straight win for the Cubs
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    • 128 11 MANILA, Wed. (Reuter) Th© Asian youth soccer tournament committee y ester- day dismissed a Ceylonese protest that three Iranian players in a preliminary match here were not within the maximum age limit of 20 years. Ceylon had protested before the start of the game in
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    • 147 11 tONDON, Wed.(Reuter) Leeds United, fielding nine reserves to rest players preparing for their Football Association Cup final replay against Chelsea next week, "were beaten 3-2 in their final League match last night by Ipswich. Jimmy Robertson. Ipswich s £50.000 striker, shattered Leeds with two goals
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    • 245 11 LONDON. We d. (Reuter) Bobby Charlton, captaining England in his 100 th international, celebrated the occasion with a goal as England beat Northern Ireland 3-1 in the British soccer championship a t Wembley here last night. The 100,000 crowd erupted into tumultuous applause as
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    • 592 11 MANILA Wed. (Reuter) Flyweight Chartchai Chlonoi of Thailand was named boxer of the month bv the World Boxing Council (WBC> for regaining the WBC version of the world flyweight title from Efren Torres of Mexico. Chlonoi had lost the same title to Torres but
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    • 107 11 HONO KONG. Wed »UPI> Thousands of angry soccer fans yesterday hurled atones and debris at the Hnne Kong Stadium when the referee ended the game between two local teams with still two minute* to go Fans of the South China team, which lost 1-0 to Fire
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    • 200 11 LONDON. Wed The former British heavyweight champion. Br.an London, has been signed to meet Joe Bugner his first ten-round professional fight at Wembley in London on May 12. London, who runs a night club in the northern coastal resort, won his title in 1958 when he
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    • 80 11 Rjy Rigby, the 20st. 71b. Australian shot putt champion and national super-heavyweight weightlifting champion and record-holder, hat an unusual job trainee male nurse. His parents own a 46-bed private hospital in Melbourne, Victoria and Ray is taking three-year course at Footscray District Hospital in Melbourne. Moving patients
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    • 424 11 Roche Margy Get Top Seedings In Hard Court Tourney BOURNEMOUTH, England, Wed. (UPI) Australians Tony Roche and Margaret Court yesterday won top seedings for the British hard court tennis championships starting next week. Qualifying play will start Sunday in a field rated one of th e strongest in the competition.
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    • 51 11 NEW DELHI Wed. (Reuter> India have tentatively decided to take part In athletics welghtllftlng, wrestling, boxing and badminton in the Commonwealth Games, beginning In Edinburgh on July 16. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the executive committee of the Indian Olympic Association here
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    • 41 11 LONDON Wed. (Reuter) Alan Rudkln retained his British bantamweight boxing title and won the vacant Commonwealth championship when he stopped Johnny Clark in the 12th round of their scheduled 15-round bout here last night The referee halted the fight.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 949 11 (CHANNEL 5) S.ftfl Opening Annct* General Hospital. Another Song Another Melody (E» It i Happening In Singapore <C>. Housewives Matinee "Wen Yon B Fu" (Part 2>. Close. 600 Opening Anncti. Dr. Who. News In B'ief Banana Splits. New* *C>. What Others Say <C). Dons Day Snow "Todays World Catches The
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  • 199 12 Three robbers, one armed with a revolver and the other two with razor sharp knives held up an Indonesian businessman at CHulia Street and robbed him of $34,000 in cash, yesterday. The businessman, Enche Zainal Abiddin Jaesoen, 28, a regular visitor to the Republic had earlier
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  • 359 12 THE scale of special taxes leviable on motor vehicles using heavy or diesel oil as fuel will be changed when the Heavy Oil Enginted Motor Vehicles (Special Tax) Bill is passed by Parliament. The Order presented to Parliament, will affect all motor vehicles
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  • 68 12 A pork-seller, was yesterday fined $5OO or three months' jail, tor stealing three pigs valued at $3OO from a farmer, Ong Teong Chiew. Tan Tian Choo, 42, pleaded guilty to stealing the pigs, together with another person, Ang Ah Chye, who is still at large,
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  • 93 12 Dr Goh Poh Sena was reelected as President of the National Theatre Club for another term, at the third Annual General Meeting Other members elected to *erve the Management Committee for the year 1970/71 are; Vive-President s Mr. Low Hiok Boon, a nd Mr. Kuay Guan Kai,
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  • 148 12 A sudden gust of wind caused the death of a wireman in the East Wharf, Port of Singapore Authority, the Coroner's Court wa 5 told yesterday. Tan Bok Swee 28. fell 40 feet to his death on March 28. when wind toppled tlv ladder
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  • 81 12 Two persons yvere killed in separate road accidents In Singapore, on Tuesday A pedestrian. Lai Kok Chor, 71. died on the spot after he was knocked down by a taxi along Balestier Road In another accident, a passenger in a lorry. Chiam Huat Seng. 23, fell
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  • 109 12 Dr. Gwee Ah Leng has been elected President of the Chinese Young Men's Christian Association, Singapore. Other office bearers: First Vice-President Mr. Ang Kheng Leng, Second Vice-President Mr. Guoh Koh Boey, Hon. Treasurer Mr. Michael Kwok, Hon. Recording Secretary Dr. George L. N. Chew. Other Board
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  • 233 12 Dr. P. H. Cook, Secretary of the Department of Labour and National Service and leader of a six-man fact-finding mission are in Singapore for three days. They paid a courtesy call on the Foreign Minister yesterday. The tripartite mission comprising of members from the
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  • 131 12 Three well-dressed robbers yesterday held up a watch shop and escaped with 50 watches worth $2,043. They employed the usual trick of pretending to buy watches in the execution of their robbery. They walked into Moses Hai Sion Watch Company in Buklt Timah Road at 1125
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  • 43 12 Thieves broke into the house of a shipping representative In Road and escaped with property worth $855 and cash 5135. yesterdav Mr. J. Gibson owner of the house told the police that thieves entered his house after breaking a glass door.
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  • 76 12 Two men. Teh Boon Tong. and Palaniasamy Kaliappan. wei> vesterday charge-" in the Ninth Magistrate'* Court with attempting to bribe a police officer with $l- were alleged to have offered the money to Hazran Bin Abdul, as a gratification and reward to waive a traffic summons committed by
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  • 186 12 Lost Life Over Watch 2 Rings ODD JOB labourer, Ng Poh Hu.it, 26. refused to surrender his watch and two gold rings to two robbers and was stabbed to death, a Coroner's Court was told yesterday. Ng. who died of adrenal bleeding, was attacked by two men at the Junction
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 73 12 TIME TIDE rOIMY SINGAPORE TOWN: 532 a.m. (0 8 ft): 12.07 p.m. (85 ft.); 544 p.m (3J ft 1141 p.m. (9 2 ft.). NAVAL DOCKYARD: 523 am. (12 ft.); 12 17 p.m. (10 8 ft.); 5.45 p.m. (3.8 ft.). TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN: 8.07 a.m. (04 ft.); 12.52 pm. (83 ft.);
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