Eastern Sun, 19 August 1970

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents Istd. 1966 Vol. 5 No. 1424 Wednesday, August 19, 1970. MC (P) 1616
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  • 377 1 Treasurer presents 1970-71 Budget CANBERRA Australia will inv crease its foreign aid by 11 per cent in 1970-71, but reduce its military aid to Malaysia and Singapore, Treasurer Leslie Bury announced in Parliament last night. Bury, 57, was presenting his first Budget since his
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  • 351 1  -  By CHARLIE CHAN UOMELESS Pales- tinians travelling under Jordanian passports with false names have arrived in Singapore to drum up support for their cause. The men three Al Fatah commandos reaffirmed their determination to win back their homelands in a Maoist-style "war of national liberation"
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  • 88 1 LONDON, London's second bomb explosion in just over 24 hours yesterday wrecked the office of Iberia Airways, the Spanish Airline. Unlike the earlier blast, it caused no injuries, police said. Police declined to speculate whether the ex- plosion just after midnight (2300 GMT
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  • 169 2 yERY few people can afford a real plane for a caravan. But Air Bcouts of 1201 Changl District Group wish they could fly away in their caravan. Their caravan is a retired Twin Pioneer which formerly flew with No. 209 Squadron, RAF Seletar.
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  • 481 2 Counterfeit $5O notes trial goes on THE prosecution's "star witness" in the counterfeit currency trial yesterday denied that he feared deportation to China. Sarawak businessman Sim Kheng Chiang made this denial in the High Court in reply to an allegation by lawyer. Mr.
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  • 352 2 JOHORE BAHRU The Minister for Special Duties, Tun Tan Slew Sin yesterday assured that the Johore Bahru Port Scheme was not aimed against Singapore. Speaking at a news conference here yesterday, he added- "I hope the Singapore Government will not be
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  • 64 2 The Fairfield Methodist Girls' School raised $35,000 from the Food ana Fun Pair held recently. it was announced yesterday. The money will be used to repair and renovate the old school premises. The announcement said that the organising committee extended Its thank* to al' donors
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  • 333 3 J3RIME MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew said lost night that the Singapore Armed Forces in the next five years will place emphasis on quality and maturity among its staff and command. r w The Prime Minister was speaking ot the Commissioning Ceremony •at
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  • 42 3 A little girl sits all alone with her mother's handbag clutched in her arms as she watches the parade. She Is probably pondering that when she grows up, she too will join the army and defend the nation.
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  • 104 3 body of a Chinese woman, aged about 35, was found floating yesterday at 4.15 p.m. in the sea. off the Esplanade. The woman was dressed in a blue samfoowith white polka dots, but had no identification papers on her. Police described her
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  • 36 3 Labourer On* Yin Guan, 30, was remanded yesterday for a charge of raping a 13-year-old girl at a Tiwary Road house on Monday at 3.50 p.m. The case was fixed on Aug. 25.
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  • 66 3 Members of a Sikh family stand around newly-commissioned Z/Li. Devlnder Singh, as he shows them his sword and scroll which he received minutes ago from Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Koan Yew. On the extreme left is his father, Mr. Diwan Singh, Almeer Singh, Mrs. Diwan Singh,
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  • 158 4 KUALA LUMPUR Trade between Malaysia and Vietnam is retting less and less because Malaysian businessmen have not been acireisive enough. The Minister of Commerce and Industry En che Mohamed KhLr Jotiarl, commented yesterday after meeting a three-member trade mission from the Saigon
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  • 203 4 KIT ALA LUMPUR Tan Bank declared Singapore's Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Tew could brine up "any matter he likes" for discussion during his visit to the federal capital today. He said that the talks among Mr. Lee. the Malaysl&n
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  • 142 4 more men have been arrested in connection with the recent spate of theft of motor car accessories. Acting upon a tip-off. two detectives from the Queenstown Police Station on Monday laid ■a ambush outside a house in Kamponf Stilt. They later arrested
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  • 325 4 THE Second District Judge Mr. Tan Hoey Djin yesterday testified in court in his capacity as the VicePresident of the Singapore Badminton Association (SBA). Mr. Tan was a witness at the trial of K. Paskaran s/o Krishoan Ptllai, 26, charged with fraudulently
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  • 220 4 JOHORK BMfRU A trap wilt soon JJ© into operation In Johore against visitors orer-staying in the country. The trap in a row of seven booths was put up by the Immigration Department at the exit of the Johore end of the causeway.
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  • 478 5 CHARLESTON, West Virginia A retired U.S. army sergeant claimed lie had once deliberately tricked U.S. farces into violating terms of a 1967 ceasefire in Vietnam. Robert Cadle hoped his disclosure would enlighten Americons obout the war situation there Cadle. retired u a Master
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  • 85 5 SEATTLE Strip-lease dancer Mary Bell was awarded 5531,500 damages ai a Seattle court on Monday for loss of income. An automobile accident in 19€8 had resulted in one of her breasts sagging badly. "The right is where it should be, bat the left one
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  • 136 5 JERUSALEM Egyptian forces have been reinforced within the Sues Canal standstill ■one in yet another violation of the Mid-East ceasefire, sources disclosed. They said both troops and equipment have been moved into the 32-mile frosen sone in yet another breach of the truce. Israel ha«
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  • 163 5 LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana A aaioral gas well blew oat north of Lake Charles, sending jets of **s M feet into the air and causing an emergency situation in the area. The State Patrol said residents of the area several miles around the wild well were
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  • 91 5 HONG KONG A British soldier was charged with the murder of a 53-year-old Chinese prostitute. She was battered to death and then mutilated with a bamboo broom. A police spokesman said the victim received bead injuries and the broomstick was stuck into her body.
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  • 225 5 LOS ANGELES Mrs. Linda Kasabian testified that she believes she is an "emissary from God" sent to expose Charles Manson as the "devil." Mrs. Kasabian was explaining why she was testifying against Manson and the three wo.snen on trial with him on charges
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  • 165 7 WASHINGTON Sen. William Proxmire, (Republican-Wisconsin), demanded an Investigation of "Operation Razor Blade." Fifteen U.S. Airmen at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, were allegedly forced to spend a full day cutting their commanding General's picture out of 11,009 copies of the base newspaper.
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  • 271 7 ITONG KONG China, increasing its stokes in the Indochina War, hos agreed to gire military oid to the Combodian Government-in-Exile. Three months ogo, Peking hod concluded o similar ogreement with North Vietnam. The agreement was signed In Peking on Monday by Chinese Army Chief at
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  • BRIEFLY AROUND THE WORLD
    • 426 7 ROENNE. Denmark Police announced the defection of a 26-year-old East German fisherman to Denmark by way of a peach stone in a colleague's throat. The man seised his chance to delect when hi* cutter, the "Bpra of Sasnitz, docked At Nexoe.
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    • 66 7 PHNOM PENH Cambodian Prime Minister General Lon Nol announced t* l ment hopes to be able to declare Cambodia a Republic In early October. Cambodia is still at present a constitutional monarchy. General Lon Nol gave the current strength of the Cambodian Armed Forces as
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    • 31 7 ABOARD THE "USS HARTLEY," —The Navy yesterday committed a 67-ton cargo of concreteshrouded nerve gas to burial at the bottom of the Atlantic. mor« than three nuleg deep*
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  • 40 7 AL-FATAH GUERRILLA CHIEF YASSER ARAFAT <left) is welcomed hy Iraqi Defence Minister Lt-Gen. Hamad Chehab in Baghdad upon the former's arrival. Arafai is piesumafely in Iraq to discuss the Mid-East situation. (UPI radiopholo). (UPI radiphoto).
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  • 206 7 LONDON Two bomb blasts in two days and a secret armoury discovery roused official fears today that London might become a battleground for the troubles of Ireland. Detectives seised rifles, revolvers, submachine guns and ammunition in a raid on a house In the
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  • 635 8 £jHINA*S new military aid pact with Prince Norodom Sihanouk's government-in-exile does not come as a surprise because the Red Khmers who are being groomed to wage their "war of national liberation" have already been getting military assistance through the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong. At present the North
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  • 566 8  -  »y Art Buchwald 'TWERE hot been o lot of folk about newt management in the government these days, but if you go through history you can find that every presidential administration tried to manage the press in one way or another. I found
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  • 24 8 SrmP»thj is a thin* to be encouraged, apart from humane considerations, because It supplies us with the materials for wisdom. Robert L Stcvcn&on.
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    • 442 8 IT IS with surprise that I read your comments on the situation of the press in Vietnam ("Credibility Gap", Eastern Sun. August 12, 1970). May I point out that no newspapers in Vietnam "are required to submit page proofs to the authorities before they
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    • 142 8 I have two children In a technical-orientated school in Thomson Road. Every day for the past ten months until the current school vacation, they have been suffocated In school during their lessons by pungent fumes from a nearby factory. Has anything been done by the school authorities
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  • 562 9  -  THE MOVIE DROP -OUTS PAGE 9 SPECIAL Dick Kleiner 1J OLLYWOOD The low of supply and demand works pretty well in the morie-TV vineyards, too. At the moment, demand for bigname actors in feature films is pretty slim. So the supply the stars of
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  • 257 9  -  By Wayne G. Brandstadt Q —My grandson, 7. has many colds. Am I right in thinking that this is because he never blows hi s nose? A—Although blowing the nose helps one to be more comfortable when one has a
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  • 643 10/11 has never been easy for the fishermen of Pulou K i to m (crob island) 45 minutes by fast boat from Klang. And now it's getting harder. Armed Indonesian pirates plunder at will alrjng the unprotected waters and coast, hi-jacking the fishing
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    • 189 10/11 dupliduplicate Xerox have made a fortune out of copying things. As have Gestetner, and* Ricoh, and Kodak. And also a few less scrupulous firms. They duplicate medicines. Their medicines look the same, but they seldom work the same. That's why we go to a great deal of trouble to make
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1641 12 LOOKING AND and radio guide I CARROLL RIOHTBR'S from the Carroll (lighter Institute GENERAL TENDENCIES: Your intuitive perceptions aie very accurate now. To get the fullest benefit it ia necessary that you listen quietly to your hunches instead of being go preoccupied that you lose this powerful effect on your
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  • 642 13 Paul McCartney PAUL McCartney is alive and well and bask- in* in the sunshine of the love of his wife and children. Some days he composes; others, he records. But more often the chances are now that another day will go by and that he
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  • 169 13 HI THERE! Loads of yon have asked me whether that fabulous film "WOODSTOCK" would be released in Singa* I>ore at all and f not, on what possible grounds or reasons. Well, I'm still as much in the dark about it as you are, but I am making
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  • Students' page
    • 645 14 EVELYN sat on the bed, reading the letter excitedly and umiling wistfully as she dkl aa Unable to believe her eves, she read it aloud again, over and over the same paragraph. 'Dear Itdjt, II Jim *-1 -tod. ptrtap y* to s»cml a tew
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    • 342 14 mj friends aad 1 decided to go for a boftUa* trip. We >ftt down to crack our beads to think of a place which would be most suitable for boating and where we could hire the boats easily. Besides, we had also to plan bringing numerous
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    • 40 14 The following seek pen-pals: OR Jayakumar <2l) Male, 165, Big Bazaar, Tlruchlrapalll IS. India) Hobbles: Stamps, view cards and pep music. Satyendra Kumar (30) Male. P.O. Anuppur. Dtst Ghahdol. IM P), India. Hobbles: Stamps, view cards, cinemas.
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    • 61 14 MANILA Student leaders have launched s drive to help police catch vehicles belching black smoke In the Manila area to check environmental pollution. "Smoke Belchers" or public transportation vehicles emitting poisonous fumes from their exhausts will be their target, an announcement said. These fumes have been said
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    • 39 14 Life Is made up, not of great sacrifices oy duties but of little things, In which smiles and kindnrs es and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort. Blr Humphry Davy,
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    • 842 14  -  V nor Ele and Walt Dulaney DEAR WALT: Last sight was the tow point to my life. I was sitting home as usual on a Saturday night. Then this boy whom I really like called me. We tatted a while and he started
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  • 150 18 F ON DON Lotus will race the firstever Formula One gas turbine car at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza next month, reliable motor racing sources said on Monday. The sources said Lotus designer Colin Chapman has been working on the still secret
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  • Article, Illustration
    80 18 A total of 34 karters from six countries competed in the 6th National Kart-Prix, at the Police Academy last Sunday. Foreign karters came from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines to take part in the event which Is now recognised internationally. Picture shows the action
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  • 182 18 HAMBURG, WEST GERMANY Tom Okker of Holland won the men's singles title in the West German Open Tennis championships here on Monday with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 win over foo rt h seeded Illie Nastase of Rumania. Okker, the number two seed, produced the more
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  • 494 18  -  A column on American sports by Milton Richman TULSA, Okla Ben Hogan h a sentimentalist. His wife knows it and some of his closest friends like Jimmy Demaret know it, but Ben Hogan wouldn't admit sucn a thing if it killed him. He doesn't
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  • 74 18 DUEBSELDORF Christian Kuhnke needed only 75 seconds on Monday to score the decisive point against Spain and put West Germany into the Davis Cup challenge round lor the first time. Kuhnke beat Manuel Orantes 6-3, 6-3. 7-5 to give West Germany an unbeatable 3-1 lead In the best
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  • 182 18 NEW YORK Results and standings of the two major league* after Monday's games: AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST W L OB Baltimore 76 44 New York 66 52 9 Detroit 64 56 12 Boston 61 57 14 Washington 58 62 18 Cleveland 57 63 19 WEST W L OB
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  • 57 19 REFEREE George Latka moves between Jose Arreni of Spain hanging on the ropes after being knocked down and Ruben Olivares of Mexico in the third round of their scheduled 10-rounder in Los Angeles recently. Arreni go tup in time but the referee halted the
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  • 601 20 Singapore raps paper for false report TWREE Malaysians were given a haircut by the CID barber, but a Ministry of Culture statement said yesterday that it was done with the consent of the three who also agreed to pay one dollar each for the
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  • 50 20 MANILA: Twelve Asian beauties, all candidates to the third "Miss Asia" pageant, were presented to the public here recently. The finals and the crowning of the winner will take place at the Araneta Coliseum in suburban Quezon City on Saturday. I'Pl photo. UPI photo.
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  • 297 20 KUALA LUMPUR Tunku Abdul Rahman will announce his resignation as the Prime Minister of Malaysia on Aug. 30, highly reliable sources said yesterday. The sources were commenting on a speech he made here saying that important events "in my career" will be announced on the
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  • 32 20 Australia trounced a Singapore Police/Military side 8-1 in a friendly soccer match at the Jalan Besar Stadium last night. In another match, India beat Singapore Civilians 2-0.
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