Eastern Sun, 12 August 1970

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  • 20 1 EASTERN SUN ,mpore's own national daily 10 cents tstd. 1966 Vol. 5 No. 1418 Wednesday,-August 12, 1970. MC (P) 1616
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  • 335 1 Cambodia is silent on the overthrow yiENNA The Cambodian Ambassador to Prague asked Czechoslovak Police yesterday to help him recapture his Embassy from a pro-Sihanouk diplomat. "Let them come/' said tfie diplomat, second secretary I soup Ghanthi. "We are not afraid." Ghanthi entered the
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  • 279 1 SINGAPORE'S new Finance Minister, Mr. Hon Sui Sen, last night warned against the folly of people becoming complacent with the country's present progress. The people should redouble their efforts to carve out an even greater and brighter future, he said. Mr. Hon, who was
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  • 68 1 OBERAMMERGAU, West Germany F1 ao d s brought an abrupt halt to a performance of the famous Oberammergau Passion Play yesterday when water poured into the theatre. Thousands of tourists were trapped in their hotels with sft of water in the streets. Police and fire brigade
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  • 212 2 jpOLICE hove smashed o gong which specialised in stealing and selling Singapore identity cards to illegal immigrants. Five members of the gong codenamed "Bersatu" have been arrested and investigations are still going on. The gang's "operational area," had been at Changi Beach,
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  • 145 2 THE Singapore Teacher's Union hoped yesterday that the new Minister for Education, Mr. Lim Kim San. would hasten their longstanding proposals (or better working conditions,, pending since 1968. A spokesman (or the STU claimed that the Oovemment had been promising all along to convene
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  • 238 2 A COMMUNITY Centre treasurer, Low Choon Say, 47, was fined $750, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of corruption yesterday. Low defended by Mr. Leo Fernando, claimed trial In the beginning but he decided to plead guilty later. Corporal Mehar Singh,
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  • 97 2 POLICE are looking for a sampan man who dived Into the muddy Kallang River and rescued a Malaysian girl from drowning. Miss Eng Saw Kim. 18. of Kuala Lumpur fell Into the Kailang River from the Merdeka Bridge on Aug. 9 at about
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  • 72 2 POLICE Constable Mohamed Yunos bin Musse In, 24, attached to Queenstown Police Station died In the General Hospital after he was electrocuted In his flat on Aug. 10. Police said Mohamed was unconscious in his Suarters with halrrjrer near his side. He had apparently taken
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  • 256 2 T'HE Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok will n e 1 p prepare the master development plan for the proposed College of Engineering to be set up at Nanyang University. AIT Director of Administration and Planning. Mr. David L. McCllntock.
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  • 81 2 Tan Tock Seng hospital will extend Its admission of cases to 14hour basis dally, including Bundays and public holidays as from this Saturday. The hospital medical unit which undertakes the treatment and admission of medical cases on a 24-hour basis, will exclude casualty and
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  • 287 3 TWO cashiers from two different Chinese cinemas were robbed a total of $13,332, In cash yesterday. Police said the first robbery took place along busy North Bridge Road when two robbers one armed with a knife —waylaid a cashier and escaped with
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  • 92 3 TEO KHIM SENG, 22, waiter was rushed to the General Hospital yesterday with a slash in his back. He was slashed In the back following an argument with his younger brother. Both of therr. are employed In the Hong Tong Restaurant. Teo who
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  • 97 3 KUCHING The National Union ot the National School Teachers in West Malaysia yesterday urged the Government to take action against Malaysian teachers working in the Republic of Singapore. "These teachers are •cting irresponsibly and the Government should take strong measures and, if necessary, to withdraw
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  • 97 3 The American Field Services International Scholarships are offering a number of bursaries to high school students in Singapore from the four-language streams. The one-year bursaries will enable students to study in high schools in the United States. The successful applicants are expected to stay with
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  • 99 3 Salesman Ahmad bin Bald, 30, was fined $5OO, yesterday for giving false Information. He pleaded guilty to a charge of giving false evidence, at an Inquiry held before a Kathl. Ibrahim bin Hajl Ramll, by declaring on oath that he was a
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  • 80 3 A Report appeared In the Issue of Saturday, Aug. 1, 1970, to the effect that Universal Electronics Corporation Limited were experiencing labour unrest. We have ascertained and now recognise that there is no foundation for these statements and we regret that they were ever made. We are glad
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  • 253 3 Her is to help poor A USTRALIAN beauty Rhonda IHland it dead-set against parading before thousands of eyes wearing a skimpy swimsuit. That's why Rhonda, 19, has vowed never to take part in modern-day beauty contests. Coming from a girl, who wears the crown
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    • 122 3 I HKXAOON WRENCHES as a pilot in the SAI- > Ba among tha plonaars In tfw Air Daftnea Command. TM SAF of fan young man who ara physically fit and Intalligant tha chaiianga of this axclting and aatitfying caraar. Yon must ba batwaan 17* and 23 yaare of aga with
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  • 82 4 The radiant bride gets a kiss from Karen Gillen, Z\, daughter of Cpl. and Mrs. Brian Gillen, of RAF Changi. The groom is Senior Aircraftsman Frank Kershaw, 21, Supply Accounts worker at RAF Changi. He was married recently to Miss Merle Frugtnlet, 18, at the
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  • 130 4 MALACCA A man slipped away into the darkness alter saving two seven year-old girls from a burning house in Jalan Hang Jebat on Monday night. He was among the crowd of onlookers when he heard that the girls were trapped on the too
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  • 56 4 POLICE are investigating the death of schoolboy Durai Singam, 16, who was found unconscious with head injuries in his school last Thursday. He «ras a pupil of Selegie Integrated School. Singam died at 8.45 p.m. yesterday without regaining consciousness. He was found by his sister, Mozli,
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  • 333 4 TWO men were murdered offer o midnight show lost year because some gangsters mistook them fot members of a rival gang, a Coroner's inquiry was told yesterJay. Wan Chee Chai, 18, and Tan Kwee Ho, 20, were found dead outside the People's Park car
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  • 51 4 The Singapore Taxi Drivers' Association yesterday started conducting English lessons for its members. The aim Is to foster better driver-tourist goodwill and under standing. Picture shows thirty-nine taxi drivers attending the first br'efing class. It is a four-month course and certificates of merit will be
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  • 394 5 "O ELF AST Tki hardline Protntont challenge 9t Mo for Jowti Clark's avthority gained force yesterday as new details emerged from a stormy porty meeting attended by Hie North Irish Prima Ministar on Monday. Unionist porty sources yesterday reveoled thot Major
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  • 319 5 MONTEVIDEO The Uruguayan Congress gave dictatorial powers to President Jorge Areeo lor 20 days in a desperate effort to crush the Topamaros guerrillas. The terrorists, after murdering Dan Mitrione. an' ÜB. adviser In Montevideo, had threatened the lives of another kidnapped American
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  • 133 5 LO6 ANGELES John and Michelle Phillips, former members of ""roe Mamas and The Papas" singing group, ended their seven-year marriage on Monday with a kiss in court. Superior Court Judge Joseph Call seemed not to notice when Michelle, 26, rushed into the arms of her
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  • 121 5 LUSAKA Police scathing for the killer of a 72-year-old English grandmother arrested two men after finding a cache of SI machineguns in a nearby house. Police spokesman said the men would appear In court later charged with unlawful possession of the arms found during
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  • 228 6 DHNOM PENH A North Vietnamese captured near the northern outskirts of Phnom Penh was one of a 30-man guerrilla force assigned to attack a Cambodian navol base. He was captured 3 days ago when a number of communist guerrillas aboard
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  • 190 6 WASHINGTON American women yesterday celebrated what some call 'their greatest triumph' since they got the vote in 1920. The House of Representatives approved an amendment to the U.S. constitution stipulating that "Equality of Rights under law shall not be denied or abridged by
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  • 401 6 ARTIFICIAL HEART TESTED SUCCESSFULLY ON A CALF WEST BERLIN A team of West Berlin heart specialists has recently successfully tested a two-chamber plastic heart on a calf which lived for five-and-a-half hours with an artificial blood pump. Professor Emll Buecherl, West Berlin's top heart surgeon who
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  • 72 6 OSAKA Six staff members of the Quebec pavilion at Expo 70 have confessed they held marijuana parties. Narcotic officials had made inquiries on reports that large amounts of marijuana circulated at Expoland. Both Japanese and Canadian staff members and employees of other pavilions, are
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  • 127 6 HOLLYWOOD. California The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has appointed studj committees to probe what it calls 'a crowing occupational ha■ard' within the acting profession nudity. A spokesman disclosed that there has been an increase of complaints from members asking for protection and assistance from SAG, which
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  • 229 7 NEW YORK Rebellious convicts at the Manhattan Prison seised 5 guards a s hostages on Monday. However, they released them unharmed after meeting city officials on their grievances. The prisoners, who also took over the ninth floor of the prison, explained they were protesting
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  • 376 7 IIfOSCOW Soviet authorities ore bottling to prevent cholero spreading from the Volga delto city of Astrakhan. They have sealed off the whole of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaidjan from the swarms of holiday-makers who annually make their way privately to the Caucasus. Only those going
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  • 187 7 WASHINGTON His light flashing, a policeman porsned Senator Strom Thurmond, (Republican-South Carolinas) more than a mile for allegedly running against a red light. Thurmond eventually stopped but was not charged because of his congressional immunity. Thurmond claimed later that he did not know
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  • 255 7 WASHINGTON Defence Department officials yesterday assured Britain that all possible precautions have been taken by the Army in its plans to dump 3,000 tons of lethal nerve gas in the Atlantic. A team of British experts, which arrived on Monday to look into the
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  • 648 8 THERE are various kinds of press censorship but the most Ingenious that has yet been devised was by the late President John f;,.^. er ?P®. dy of Unl *ed States and he called It management of news." In the bit? controversy which followed, spearheaded by veteran American columnist
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  • 547 8  -  By Art Buchwald, fINE of the major goals of our American foreign policy is to have countries all over the world hold free elections. As part of this policy, the State Department has been urging politicians to come to the United States and study our political system.
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  • 568 8  -  By Ngoc Mai Saigon TWENTY years ago, there were few women doctors In Vietnam. In the last few years the picture has begun to change as women are now taking an active role in the expanding health services. The number of doctors in Vietnam is increasing
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • 833 9  -  when the great settled down i it was enough to make you wonderit the world was ending PAGE 9 SPECIAL TOM TIEDE "But in those doys... the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light and the powers in
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  • 342 9  -  DOCTOR'S MAILBAG By Wayne G. Brandstadt Q —What is cervical erosion? What causes it and what treatment do yon advise? A This lesion, an area of reddened roughness or shallow ulceration on the surface of the uterine cervix is present In about 25
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  • 1487 10/11  -  By Aiko Konoshima 'PHE poll hanging over the communist parties of Asia because of the Sino-Soviet split shows no signs of lifting, according to the latest U.S. State Department assessment. The decline of party influence cs a whole in the noncommunist ports of Asio seems
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  • 619 10/11 FOR 50 KIP which is equivalent to 10 U.S. cents, anyone can buy openly in Vientiane's "Morning Market" enough marijuana to keep his mind bent for months. But it takes more than cheap and available pot to explain the air of unreality in this sleepy
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 632 12 TTTTv ■W TV SINGAPURA 'IV'. Ml I 'KM 3E m Uerel Safari) Laey (liecyt ts. Be happy. aray to ahow thooa who ttve with yoa that yw art Js utiA Work mN Arts Ha of any plan weal» ia operative toon. Show you have artistic touch at ••30 News hi
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  • 1091 13  -  By Andy Gray fTOM JONES Isn't J- around these days In Britain. His TV series has ended and his single hit, "Daugter Of Darkness", has come and gone. But holders of MAM shares will know that Tom is still coining in the dollars as the
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  • 124 13 HI THERE! Today, we're dedicating P.A. to the great TOM JONES. He's got a fantastic personality and a Grade A voice, I'll grant you that but for all those gals who think he's the sexiest singer alive, well you ain't seen me yet, folks! Don't get me
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  • Students' page
    • 376 14 LONDON: Denise Williams is small and willowy and Welsh and six years old. Last year she painted a portrait of a rather stern looking Welsh lady In a colourful costume and wearing a sort of stove-pipe hat with the top cut off.
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    • 363 14 TODAY, all of us are conscious of the importance of a good appearance, whether In school, at work, In oar social contacts or anywhere. Self-confidence in our relations with others comes from a good appearance. In any )ob, even behind a desk, a person with
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    • 450 14 A BOAT lay by the bay when we arrived. It was a brightly coloured sampaa with two oars at its sides. It was jnst bit enough to hold four of «s and on load. It was my neighbour's sampan. We borrowed it for the
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    • 193 14 ESSAY CONTEST: I Rules to observe Tfce Eastern Sun't may writing contest tor boy« and girls of 14 and under (Junior) and boys and girls over 14 (Sanior) appears in this page from Monday to Friday. Prix# money is: SIC fo« Seniors end $5 for (union tcx every essay published
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  • WOMEN
    • 203 15 THE uni-sex fad has even hit the world of hair styling. Now don't laugh. This is very, very serious. Togetherness has finally come to that fortress of the female—the beauty salon. Now you and hubby can go and have a hair set together.
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    • 334 15 GET curls for a fabulous way to ring the changes. The type of curls you choose, depends on how long you want them to last CurLs for an hour... with a wig of course I Ready rollered and ready to slip on. The hair is 4 to
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    • Article, Illustration
      414 15 DEAR ANN: I am in a state of shock as I write this letter. I don't know what to think or where to turn. I am sending you a copy of the form I received from my daughter along with her fervent plea that I sign it. She
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  • 409 19 MILWAUKEE, Wacom* plans weft n Nnel mm Monday for Joe Froxier to defend Ms heavyweight title against light heavyweight champion Bob Foster in October. Ray Grody, Milwaukee Sentinel sports writer, said raster's manager, Lou Viscusi, outlined details for the match to the World Boxing
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  • 100 19 A Slrd-minute goal by Rahman Saileh. enabled Asas Sports Club to beat Kranji Wireless Station 1-1 in the quar-ter-finals of the Bukit Panjang National Day. knockout soccer tournament at the Boy's Town ground on Monday. P. Jones put Kranji in the lead with a shattering sixth
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  • 32 19 ATWENES A Russian and a Czechoslovak were sent off after swapping punches in an elimination game of the European junior basketball championships here last night. Russia won the bitter-ly-fought match 77-61.
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  • 80 19 Billiards: 1970 championship (74)0 p.m.) Siong 800 A .A. Bowling: Ist F.LQ. Asian Zone championship (7j§o p.m.—11.00 p.m.) Grarvge Road Bowling Centra. Chesr Oth Open championship (Op m.—11.00 p.m.) Polytechnic. Chess (Chinese) Masters Open championship (8.00 p.m.—11.00 p.m.) Hong Lim Park. Lawn Tennis: Open championship (2.30 pjn.
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  • 685 19 MELBOURNE Australian qMrtnnea have achieved international fame In a wMe variety «f fields, including tennis, cricket, Rnghy football, horse racing, athletics, yachting, svimnlnf and lawn howls hat there is no donht that If one sport were singled out as Australia's most pspalsr game. It wonld he
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  • 589 20 Housewives happy big family 'disincentive' A PAT on the bock, o "kick in the guts/' blonk faces ond angry protests such were the reactions which greeted the Government's announcement of increased hospital charges. Housewives were happy over the "disincentive" for large families, politicians tried
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  • 108 20 SAIGON Two American airmen last night overpowered an Army Private attempting to hijack his second aircraft in less than three weeks, a military spokesman said. The would-be nijacker had escaped 'rom Army custody on Sunda v after trying to comman.ieer a South Vietnamese civilian airliner
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  • 51 20 CUZOO, Pern: Farmers father on hill to view the wreckage of Lansa Electra airliner jet which crashed in the Andes on Sunday, killing 99 persons, 49 of whom were U.S. high school students. It was the worst air disaster in Peruvian history. UPI photo. UPI
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  • 87 20 OONN A dramatic airport bomb scare and a rumpus over the unauthorized publication of the new Soviet-German NonAggression Pact yesterday marred Chancellor Willy Brandt's departure for Moscow where he is to sign the historic treaty today. Mr. Brandt and Foreign Minister Walter Scheel, accompanied by
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