Eastern Sun, 25 October 1970

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  • 18 1 The Sun Final edition Price 10 cents Vol. 1 No. 32 Sunday, 25 October 1970. MC (P) 1953
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  • 364 1 CAN JUAN, Texas The strange life of unemployed school teacher Frank Alexander ended when he crashed a light plane into a church roof in what is believed to be a protest against organised religion. Alexander, a 52-year-old part-time flying instructor, crashed a rented Piper Cherokee on
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 122 1 >}*>';/!\+*)-,;"!'""_\:-,=';?\{ m r Ah Seng knows what's watt... His savings are modest, but very, very Important to him. And, naturally enough, he wants to know that his money >s safe, secure and readily available. That's why he saves with The Hongkong Bank Group. You see. we invest our money Ah
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  • 243 2 JAKARTA Doctors will conduct further medical test* to end a controversy over a woman who claims her unborn bab v can talk and recite the Koran. Mrs. Tjut Zahara fonna. 23, claims she ha« carried the child for the past 19 months Doctors
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  • 127 2 MONTREAL, Quebec police staged midnight raids in butem Montreal and named three more men wanted in connection with the kidnapping of a British diplomat and the murder of a Quebec government minister. A police spokesman identified the three men as Barnard Lortie, 19, Francis Simard, 23, and
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  • 239 2 A cyclone devastated the delta zone of East Pakistan Friday night, causing a heavy loss of life and property. Latest reports said more than 1,000 people were feared killed and 5,000 injured in the cyclone. The cyclone, which had a speed of
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  • 246 2 AN atmosphere ok realism prevailed at the first "mock" U.N. General Assembly held in Singapore yesterday to commemorate the world body's 25th anniversary. Bored delegates slept, doodled on their pens or yawned a* a heated debate raged between reeresentatlves of the nlted States and the
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  • 56 2 SIENA, Italy Police were yesterday searching for a gang of thieves who broke into the villa of Italian Countess Mary Ruscoli near here the previous night and got away with paintings, silver and carpets worth 100 million lire (about *****,500). The stolen paintings included two works by the
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  • 45 2 SANTIAGO, Chile, The United States Air Force began dismantling three secretive ionospheric research stations In Chilean national territory yesterday to initiate a pull-out prior to the advent of C o m m unlst-b acked, Marixlst President Salvador Allende on Nov. 4 informed sources said.
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  • 186 2 NEW DELHI An Indian parliamentarian vesterday presented a broken American alarm clock to lI.S. Ambassador Kenneth Keating who failed to see off Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi because he allegedly overslept. Parliamentarian M. L. Sondhl, a leader of the opposition rightwins Jan Sangh (People's Party),
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  • 159 2 A NEW breed of soldiers took their place besides Hieir comrades in the Armed Forces. The backbone of the 15th People's Defence Force the Engineer Battalion comprising of three companies of engineer soldiers held their passing out parade yesterday. Inspecting the passing out parade were the
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  • 135 2 ZURICH'—'Most international air fares will increase from April 1 next year, but fares within Europe will rise between three and 10 per cent on November 1, Swissair said today. In an official communique. Swissair said the final details of the price Increases are
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  • 260 4 /CANBERRA Australian External Affairs Minister William McMahon has joined in the row over spying allegations among South Vietnamese students with a carefully-worded criticism of the Saigon Embassy here. McMahon's c o mments followed a request for p o I i t ical asylum made by
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  • 179 4 WASHINGTON —Manufactures of two leading brands of oral birth control pill is being discontinued following tests which showed a possible link between them and benign breast tumours in beagles, it was announced Friday. The announcement was made Jointly by the Ufi. Food and
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  • 138 4 LONDON —The government last night called troops into the "dirty jobs" strike as rubbish piled up and threatened a health hazard in the capital. The Ministry of Defence announced that a small number of troops would be sent in early today to remove rotting garbage
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  • 70 4 WASHINGTON The United States is planning to give warships to Greece and Turkey to help buttress the southern flank of NATO in the light of increased Soviet naval activity in East Mediterranean, the Washington Star reported here today. The decision to help modernise the two navies was made
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  • 94 4 WASHINGTON A California laboratory which produced one million Illegal hallucinogenic drug tablets a week has been discovered by agents of the UJ3. Bureau of Narcotics. LSD and phencyclidine tablets from the laboratory were distributed in several states and as far away a« London.
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  • 65 4 MOSCOW The fossilised eggs of dinosaurs that disappeared 60 million years ago have been found by an expedition of Soviet and Mongolian scientists in the Gobi desert, the official Soviet news agency Tass reported yesterday. The agency said that although the dinosaurs, the so-called Ornithischia Sauropods, were up
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  • 48 4 Tel Aviv policewoman, Devora Tamir, 22, an attractive Israeli brunette, directs traffic on a street in Manila, Philippines, recently during a demonstration of her professional skill. She flew into Manila as "Ambassador of Tourism" for a two-week Israeli Festival at the Manila Hilton Hotel.
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  • 419 7 jUEW YORK Surrounded by Hie tightest security in United Nations history, President Nixon osked the Soviet Union to join him in a "new rood" to peoce by ending the arms race. "Let the guns fall silent and stay silent/' Nixon told the
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  • 367 7 NEW YORK Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad found President Niion'i speech to the General Assembly "very constructive" and expressed hope that Nixon's words would be "turned to action." Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said part of the speech which dealt with U S.-Soviet relations "contained
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  • 70 7 MOSCOW Russia has called fo r "co-ordinated" international action to end air hijackings. The government newspaper Izvestia said 'there Is no doubt that co-ordi-nated action of states can put an end to a i r piracy." It also called for "severe punishments" against hijackers
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  • 114 7 Rome: The mayor the small town of Monterfedane (population 3.000) ha« resorted to mafic in a desperate attempt to get the town council to approve his budget proposals. F< **l by a hostile council. Mavor Antonio Battista, closeted himself in a hut, rubbed a perfumed ointment into
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  • Article, Illustration
    23 7 BACKING IT singer Engelbert Humperdinck is his new *****,000 Rolls Royce. The popular vocalist currently is on a world tour.
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  • 118 7 NEW YORK President Nixon accidentally pressed the button today at the United Nations. He was midway through his speech to the General Assembly session marking the or g a nisation's 25th anniversary celebrations when he activated an electronic device and raised the desk holding his manuscript. The desk
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  • 259 7 ARAMBURU KIDNAP: BUENOS AIRES— Lawyers for two men charged with kidnapping and slaying off former Argentine President Pedro Eugenio Aramburu claim there is no legal proof that he actually is dead. Lawyers defending Ignaclo Velez and Carlos Maguid. both 27, told a court that a limecaked
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  • 353 8 THE powerful throb of diesel motors is driving the bat wing junk off the seas. Shortly these majestic craft-square bow and stern —will furl their sails for the last time—in a noisy Hong Kong shipyard. A diesel motor will be installed
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  • 484 9 gINCE Hie establishment of the Soviet regime in 1917, the Communist Party hos ruled, both in theory and law, in the name of the proletariat the workers ond peasants who comprise 87 percent of the USSR's population. Official statistics show, however,
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  • 55 9 THE collective farm worker the man who is supposed to have a say in the "proletariat" government of the USSR is rarely a card carrying party member. Here collective farm workers take a break during grair harvest for their mid-day meaJ. The table, in th« middle of a
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  • 697 9 THE youth of Communist China, especially the one-time militant Keif Guards, today form the most muffled and regimented segment of the general population. The unbridled life they led, and the power they wielded, as Mao Tse Tung's vanguard in the recent Cultural
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  • THE MORNING AFTER
    • 1201 10/15  -  with Weatherbee Wong T>LAYED snooker the other night.. the first time for five years and would you believe I shot the highest score I've ever made 103. Okay, okay. I can hear the snooker fans snorting with disgust already... 103
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    • 487 10/15  -  by Cameron Blaike -The Little Priest", lacks the professional touches of acting, filming and scripting that makes a movie good. But even so. this movie, probably shot on a shoe string budget by Posa Films International, has a quaint and rustic charm that Hollywood could
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  • Page 10/15 Advertisements
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    • 19 10/15 Famous Javanese h by Malays in National Costume to the accompaniment of the hotel Light String Orchestra. H i|Bp
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • SUN SPORT
    • THE SUN SPORTS LIFTOUT
    • 1547 12 Race 1: CI. 3 Div. 6 F.—2.00 p.m. ($7,500) I. ***** Kerakah 7y 900 HC Tan (RS Breuk) Subian 3 2. 5 Silhoutte 4y 9 00 Silhoutte (West* Kang 13 3. 0 llillcourt 5y 900 JKK (Allan) 4. ***** Charman Rose 6y 8 12 Big Five (R.
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    • 227 12 DENNI HOY CISCO ZODIAC HAL* 1 7 (13) 3 GLACIAL LAD Palilawau 11 lllllcourt (13) 1 7 PAIILAWAN II Kerakah Glacial Lad (13) Ui PAIILAWAN II Handsome 11 kind Regard* 11 It At t t (ID m Tilt; JOKER Excel Valiant Lord (14) 111! EXCEL The Joker Pantas 1!|
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    • 1165 13  -  By Denni Boy On his present form NEED YOU BADLY looks hard to beat in the Class One Division One race over 6f here today, second day of the Perak Turf Club meeting. Winner of four races in his last six starts and placed
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    • 253 13 ATLANTA, Georgia.— Cassius Clay said yesterday his heavyweight fight with Jerry Quarry next Monday represented the first phase of his plan to avenge a 3J year boxing ban. The second phase of the plan would be vie. Tory
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    • 510 14 A new World Cup sporting event is to take place early next year the World Cup Hockey Tournament. The idea for it came from Pakistan, which Is to be host for the first series. ARSHAD SHAMI reports from Karachi on the preparations for
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    • 260 14 BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, Utoh Daredevil driver Gary Gabelich of Long Beach, California, set a world land speed record here Friday when he drove his "Blua Flame" rocket cor at a speed of 622.407 miles per hour (1,016.53 k.p.h.) The old mark of 600.601 mph (966.57.
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    • 215 14 MEXICO CITY Jackie Ickx of Belgium set a new Magdalen Mixhuca track record Friday during the first day of time trials for today's Mexican Grand Prix. Ickx driving a Ferrari, took only one minute, 42.41 seconds to speed around the fivekilometre
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    • 52 14 LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. Six months old Jayme Dean demonstrates for the benefit of two other students, held by instructor Greta Anderson, the approved manner of floating. Every few moments the child comes up for air. The first thing the children are taught is to have no fear of
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    • 135 14 BARCELONA —Australian Ken Rosewall slumped to a shock quarter-final defeat against Yugoslav ZeJko Franulovic in th# Spain Open Tennis championships here Friday. Rosewall. seeded second behind his compatriot Rod Layer. was beaten 10-6, 7-5, ®-3 in a fluctuating match which featured thrilling rallies
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    • 62 14 HAMILTON, Ontario George Chuvalo pounded his way to a one-round victory here Friday night when he defended his Canadian heavyweight boxing title for the first time in 11 years. He scored a technical knockout in two minutes 40 seconds against Tommy Burns of Prince
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    • 106 14 THORNABY-ON TEES. England Japan completed a 4-0 whitewash of England l n their Table Tenni* Interna, tlonal series as expected, with a 5-2 Tlctory Friday night l n the final match. The only English winners were singles players Chester Barnes and Denis Neale. Barnes beat Yujlro
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    • 77 14 LJUBLJANA, Yugoslavia Six slender East German girls Friday night took a surprising lead over Olympic champion Russia after the compulsories at the j 7th World Gymnastics Championships. Led by European champion Karin Janz and veteran Erika Zuchold the East Germans totalled 188.65 points to beat the Russians by
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  • Church at home A WEEKLY ROUND-UP OF CHRISTIAN ACTIVITIES
    • 1140 16  -  Wesley Methodist Church, Singapore, is in the process of organising house churches in the homes of members. By KENNETH J. CHELLAPPAH THE cell or group movement hos been important in the history of the Church. From H»e days wken Jesus called hrs discipies that they might be
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    • 239 16 TEN FINGERS FOR GOD, by Dorothy Clorfce Wilson, (Hodder tr Stoughton), paperback, pp. 252 Price: $3.40. Until Dr. Paul Brand, a distinguished orthopaedic surgeon, started to give leprosy patients back the use of tfieir hands and feet, many had no hope of a normal life. In ttiis fascinating
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    • 258 16 READ NEHEMIAH 2:1-8 A still small voice (1 Kings 19:12). In Hi« British navy, "The Still" is blown when there is a sudden disaster. It means "Prepare to do the wise thing." Observing this moment of calm has averted many catastrophes. Long ago the Psalmist wrote,
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    • 514 17 |||ELBOURNE A clergyman whose diocese ineludes a large port of Southeast Asia has advocated, during a r.sit to Australia, increased international co-operation in the region. The Anglican Bishop of Singapore, the Right Reverend Chiu Ban It, in 1966 became the first Asian to
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    • 61 17 THERE is a story of the man who went to a Quaker meeting. He sat in silence with the others for some time and then, not understanding their way of worship, he asked an old Quaker quietly: "Sir, when does the service begin?" The reply
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    • 605 17  -  By ROLAND EGGLESTON MUNICH, West Germany Record attendances at this year's Oberommergau passion play have convinced the organisers that the public has rejected charges that this drama of Christ's suffering and death is antiSemitic. Despite a wellpublicised campaign by the American Jewish Congress, which
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous


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    • 1718 18 THE SUN: LOOKING AND LIS radio guide TV Singapura OKSffiKS] CHANNEL 0 A M 10 00 Opening Anncts. and The Jack La Lanne Show 10 20 lAsele TlmiDy vs The Martina' 10 60 Pests Pop (Repeat) UOO Mr. Ed. The Talking Horse Don't tikin That Bear' P M 12 25
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 215 19 V r i r Ml OMT PO >OU SOWS GOOP IF youf «T*JFT A. > WVINOJ PKOGK*M.'y f nrr,\ V < xm a s SEA*.! WILL* rwev uer MB IN/ S3* THA-r5 RIGHT, VOGlf IMPROVES TMPAMNP YOU KNOW/ ■y* i I 1 n m ISI m vrtm m i m
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  • 800 20 THEATRE AND ART... THE Berlin duo, a pianist and a violinist, famed throughout Europe and North America will a recital of Beethoven works at the Victoria Theatre next Thursday. The duo, Hans-Georg Zambona, pianist and Karl Heinz Schwarz, violists, were invited to Singapore for the Young
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  • 640 21  -  by Cameron Blaike all there Ward, The Virgin, The Warlock, The Whore 8.A., The Erector Set, The Highwayman and a few other good guys. And on the other side are Kusnov, Bresnavitch, Kitai and other assorted conspiratorial heavies. Bchn in
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
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    • 257 21 SHAW ISATION L I D o Phone *****4 NOW SHOWING! II MB. 2.M. 111 A ».lft pm Dae To OTlaa'a L»|lk SHOWS NoU Ttari! Dirk Bogarde. Ingrid Thulln "THE DAMNED" In Color (Warner Broa) CAPITOL ?<>/59] Now Showing—No Err* Uil 11 Mi I.SC. ft.is, I.3ft "Swordawoaea Thrrf" (A BHAW PRODUCTION!
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  • POPPING AROUND WITH PLATTER PETE
    • 107 22 JIMI HENDRIX was burled In a simple ceremony In his hometown of Seattle, Washington. Although there had been talk of a massive public funeral in a baseball stadium, the plan was vetoed b v Jimi's father, 51-year-old James Hendrix. Mr. Hendrix bad
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    • 112 22 LIFE-LINE OF THUNDERBIRD ALAN Real Name; Alan Lim Yeow Bin. Birth Date: Sept. 11, 1947. Height: 5' 6". Weight: 143 lbs. Birth Place: Singapore. Instruments played: Drums And Percussion. Musical Education: Self-taught. Age entered show business: 16. First public appearance: 1963. Biggest break
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    • 80 22 DAVE MASON 18 still in the process of assembling his new band, which will feature himself and Mama Cass Elliott on vocals. Dave Is currently lining up the outfit in Los Angeles and is looking for a bassist, drummer and pianist. He plans to launch
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    • 382 22 Delaney Bonnie influence hits the latest Clapton disc p*RIC CLAPTON it would appear, had more out of J Delaney and Bonnie than a good time on the road and the Dominos to back Derel. Because it is their influence the influence of the expanding Delaney and Bonnie/Leon Russell/Joe Cocker school
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    • 245 22 Hi THERE! Dig those two special album reviews we have for you today on ERIC CLAPTON and ERIC BURDON. Believe, me they're real worthwhile albums. Today we've published something on J I M I HENDRIX'S funeral, and on Wednesday, we're paying a tribute to JANIS JOPLIN. This
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  • 1297 23 ADVENTURES IN A SINGAPORE KITCHEN If you can remember when that lyric masterpiece, "Yes we have no bananas," was first heard In the land, dearie, you're much older than I! At any rate, the song doesn't apply In Singapore. Here we
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