Eastern Sun, 15 December 1970

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    21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents istd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1523 Tuesday, December 15, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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    Lock icon Sylvester takes the plunge...
    76 1 Sylvester Nunnally decided to jump from the Williamsburg Bridge in New York yesterday and no one could talk him out of it. Nunnally, 21, of East Orange, New Jersey, clung to a pipe (above) for 30 minutes while police pleaded with him to rive up the
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    Lock icon TROUBLE IF CHINESE DON'T CHANGE
    289 1 Tun Tan Siew Sin warns HTHE Chinese would be asking for trouble if they were to resist changes in Malaysia, Finance Minister Tun Tan Siew Sin, said yesterday. The survival of Malaysia depended on whether the Chinese can adapt to changing conditions, he warned. Tun
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    Lock icon UK electricity men call off go-slow strike
    165 1 LONDON Electricity workers agreed y es f er day to call oH the go-slow that has crippled Britain for a week. The decision came after a meeting of the four union.* who have been seeking more pay for the nation's 125,000 power station
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    Lock icon Lord Slim dies in London
    57 1 LONDON, Field Marshal Lord Slim, former governor general of Australia, died yesterday. He was 79. Lord Slim was also former chief of the Imperial Oeneral BtafT. He achieved military fame In Burma during World War 11, where his unorthodox campaigns won him victories against the
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      112 1 JL l-£\ V» Mr. Sooa Hup Seng Manager, Kuala Treogfanu Branch. Mr. Soon Hup Seng, born under the Zodiac sign ot Scorpio, Is the Manager ot Kuala Trengganu Branch. Educated In English and Chinese, Mr. Soon graduated with a Bachelor ot Arts (Economics) Degree from Nanyang University and Is also
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    Lock icon Ishak on Role of the Opposition
    454 2 T EADERSHIP in developing countries should mean leading young people and guiding their thoughts and actions towards achieving a better life, Mr. Rahim Ishak said yesterday. However in mast developing countries the young people find corruption, poverty and economic disparities that hav3 nat vanished
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    Lock icon New variety of pineapples
    128 2 DEVELOPMENT Of a new variety of pineapple has been announced by the Primary In dnstriea Department in Queensland. Australia. Pineapples of an Important Australian type ii expected in time to take an important finer In this market. rilliiil the Queensland Cayenne, the new fruit descends from
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    Lock icon Every cloud has a silver lining
    307 2 TO tell it like it is, Madam Koh May Kea, 35, and her five children are amongst the 300 people who lost their homes when fire swept through Kampong Bajerai on Sunday. What makes the tragedy of Madam Koh so poignant was that she
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    Lock icon Family special
    57 2 THE National Library will organise a Christmas programme specially for the family in its lecture hall on December 21 at 4 p.m. There will be musical items from the American, British and Japanese embassies, a colour film entitled "Christmas in Hong Kong" and a half-hour musical presentation by
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    Lock icon Razak: Friend in need
    58 2 BANGKOK Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak last night assured Thailand that the present Malaysian government would continue to maintain and strengthen traditional friendship between the two countries. He said: "In the past 13 years since we achieved independence, Thailand has always been ready to come
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    Lock icon Murder of soldier: 3 charged
    213 2 THREE youths were charged with the murder of a soldier in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday. They were also charged with being in an unlawful assembly with the common intention of causing hurt. The three are Cheong Chiong Seng alias Ah Chai, 19, Liew Boon
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    Lock icon Policeman still in a coma
    63 2 A Guard and Escort constable who shot himself on Sunday was reported still in a coma last night. Jantan bin Abdullah, 22, shot himself in the chin outside a barber shop in the Central Police Station. He was rushed to the hospital in a serious
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      73 2 Around town 0.00 a.m. to 10.30 p.m. Red Cross Youth Leadership Training Coarse by Singapore Red Cross Society at Singapore Red Cross Bociety Training Centre at Nicoii Drive, Tanah Merah Besar, Changi. 10.00 ajn. Art exhibition by "Six Young Contemporaries'* at Tang Chou Art Gallery and Framera, Outram Park. 10.00
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    Lock icon FRATERNISED WITH GANG, DIED IN CLASH
    302 3 'Used to play marbles 1 A young newspaper vendor who was killed in a gang clash used to play marbles with secret society members, the Coroner's Court was told yesterday. The boy, Ong Tiong Lye, 15, was fatally stabbed on September 26. A friend,
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    Lock icon MAN SHOT BY DETECTIVE IN 1 a.m. CHASE
    292 3 A detective Leong Keng Choong had to fire six shots from his service revolver at a car which tried to run him down yesterday. The car, a Mini Minor alleged to have been stolen was stopped by Leong at the Junction of
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    Lock icon Dr. Toh at HK Seminar
    70 3 DR. Toh Chin Chye, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Singapore who left Singapore on Sunday will be the key speaker at a two-day educational seminar in Hong Kong today. The Minister for Science and Technology who is also the VicePresident of the Association of Southeast
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    Lock icon No end to land demand in sight
    211 3 The Jurong Town Corporation has speeded up the development of industrial sites to meet soaring demands caused by Singapore's favourable industrial climate. The Corporation, in its annual report for 1968/ 1969. said it is continuously reviewing the land supply situation to meet changing
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    Lock icon Hotel cess over million dollar mark
    208 3 Hotel resK collected during 1969 Mho wed a significant Increase $1,198,222 compared to $618,341 In 1968. Statistically, a total of 57 tourist hotels In the Republic last year registered a 73 per cent occupancy rate, a two per cent increase over the second half
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    Lock icon Imposter gets jail
    96 3 A man who cheated woman of a $45 wristwatch while posing as a detective was sentenced to a year's Jail yesterday. Unemployed Anand Parklsh, 28. pleaded guilty to the offence committed on last Thursday when Madam Charan Kaur was visiting her detained son at the Beach Road
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      147 3 SPECIAL OFFER This ballpoint pen with built-in torch (worth $5) is FREE with every purchase of DYIVIO M-300 Tapewriter IN 4 ATTRACTIVE COLOURS RED,GREEN,BEIGE,BLUE i > SINGAPORE With thit new hand the T)ymo M3OO ynu can male ry*catching Itbell on the ipot In seconds. You actually work With pleasure In
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    Lock icon DISEASE DRIVES MAN TO DEATH
    172 5 A sick merchant who came from West Malaysia to seek medical treatment here blamed no one for his death when he found his disease was incurable. Ng Guon Hong, 58, wrote this in seven suicide notes which were produced n the Coroner's Court yesterday. Ng,
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    Lock icon 300 picnic guests take the plunge
    172 5 It was indeed a picnic with a difference bathing suits never got wet. For the attire worn ranged from T-shirts to evening dress as one after another of the 300 guests present plunged eagerly into the pool for a dip. The picnic was organised
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    Lock icon Sarawak United People's Party refused permit
    63 5 HITCHING The Sarawak State Operations Committee yesterday rejected an application by the Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP) for a permit to hold its seventh National Delegates Conference on Dec. 19 and 20, on security grounds. This was announced by the Chairman of the State
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    Lock icon Malaysian takes command of Navy soon
    123 5 KUALA LUMPUR The senior appointment of the Principal Staff Officer in the Naval Staff Division of the Ministry of Defence will be 'Ma* laysianised' on February 1 next year. Commander Mohd. Zaln bin Mohd. Balleh. who Is now undergoing a year's staff course at
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      142 5 Count on r i Quickly. Silently. Precisely. This is how every Canola calculator works. Thanks to tiny ICs (integrated circuits) and optically perfect display panels. Canon's precision in optics and electronics makes the difference. And Canon design ensures aesthetic perfection. Canola 163 and 1200 especially. They're winners of "Good Design
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    Lock icon BASIS FOR NEW TALKS
    272 6 WIESBADEN, Germany Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi said yesterday India's national interest and honour must be the basis for any talks with Communist China. la reply to a reporter's question whether she was considering negotiations with Peking on border problems or whether she could imagine an
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    Lock icon Pig went to market
    60 6 ANDREW SCHARFF, 6, holds in his arms his pig pet Queenle while the family went shopping to the market in Agana, Guam. Queenle hates to be left alone in the car and bringing him into the market would probably cause some misunderstanding. The family pet was
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    Lock icon Judge orders observation
    422 6 MAN WHO ATTACKED POPE A criminal court yesterday ordered Benjamin Mendoza Amor, a Bolivian painter accused of trying to kill Pope Paul VI, to be placed under observation by a three-doctor psychiotric team. Judge Pedro Bautista of the Pasay City Court of First Instance which is trying
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    Lock icon Tories adopt Wilson's plan
    63 6 LONDON The British Conservative Government has decided to stick to the former Labour Government's plan to withdraw forces from the Persian Gulf by 1971, the Daily Telegraph newspaper said today. The Tory Government had made this decision on the recommendations of special envoy Sir William Luce,
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    Lock icon HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING IN PREY TOTUNG VILLAGE
    334 6 PHNOM PENH Fierce Hand-to-hand fighting raged yesterday for the third successive day in Prey Totung village, 38 miles northeast of Phnom Penh, a military spokesman reported. He said more Vletcong End North Vietnamese troops had concentrated in the area and were apparently trying to
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    Lock icon Siamese twins for operation
    36 6 HOUSTON Siamese twins from Pirua, in Peru, have been flown to hospital for possible surgery to separate them. Nine-month-old Jose Luciana and Jose Casimiro Mendoza ar« joit*. Ed at the lower back.
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    Lock icon GOLDEN GIRL ATHLETE CRITICAL AFTER COMA
    284 7 Rottach-Egern. West Germany British Athlete Lillian Board's father and fiance kept »n all-night vigil at her bedside in Ringhere Cancer Clinic as her condition stayed critical. Members of the f a m 11 f and close friends who visited th« Olympic runner "Golden Girl"
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    Lock icon Peace plan— Sadat warns Israel
    239 7 CAIRO —Egypt reaffirm ed yesterday it would not accept a third extension of the Suez Canal ceasefire unless a definite and practical timetable for Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories has been set. President Anwar Sadat told Islamic leaders meeting in Tripoli that otherwise "We
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    433 8 MAN KILLED DURING SHOW PROTEST VANCOUVER A man have been shot dead by police after he forced his way into a television station complaining of the choice of ice hockey games. The man, whose name has been withheld, forced television personnel at gun-point Into a studio, causing
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    Lock icon Anti-Basque trial sit-in at abbey
    263 8 -IMTADRID Spanish police hove sealed all roads leading to the mountain top Montserrat Abbey near Bar. celona. About 300 Catalan artists and intellectuals are staging a sit-in protest there against the trial of 16 Basque Nationalists in Burgos. The demonstrators, including internationally famous artist Joan
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    Lock icon CALL FOR A PROBE INTO TV PUNCH
    208 8 LONDON A Member of Parliament wants a full investigation into an incident on Saturday night's David Frost television programme. A farmer, John Medllcott. angered at an electrical workers' strike, had punched one of their union ofllclais during a live telcast. James Slllars a
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    Lock icon Nikita's exposure of Stalin shocks Reds
    197 8 LONDON Former Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev in a further instalment of his memoirs recalled yesterday, the shock waves throughout the communist world after his "secret" speech to the Soviet Party Congress in 1956 exposing Stalin. Khrushchev described his growing conviction In the years
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    Lock icon Paisley on records
    39 8 BELFAST, Northern Ireland Militant Protestant leader the Reverend lan Paisley has made two long-play records which look like becoming local chart-busters. They are recordings of Paisley preaching at his Belfast Church and sell at $l5 each.
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    Lock icon Schoolgirls 'turning to prostitution'
    85 8 LONDON Birmingham schoolgirls aged 14 and 15 and some as young as 11 years have been earning large sums of money from prostitution, claimed a London newspaper, 'Daily Mail* yesterday. It quoted a town councillor that the schoolgirls were often un r >r the control of
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    Lock icon U.S. WANTS MISSILE TALKS TO RESUME EARLY NEXT YEAR
    377 9 ||ELSINKI United States negotiators of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) wont the conference to resume next year before the Morch 30 Communist Party Congress, western officials hove soid. The U.S. wonts an eorfy resumption for time-table purposes. If the talks
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    Lock icon Search for avalanche victims
    150 9 BOGOTA, Rescue workers jesterday dug through rock and mud in the isolated Cauca Bivei Valley north of Bogota for victims of an avalanche that swept a restaurant, buses and cars into the river two days ago. Latest reports trickling Into the capital by twoway radio indicated
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    Lock icon Interest in blue films will fade —experts
    119 9 SAN FRANCISCO As a spectator sport, sra la a bare which Is why pornographic bins will soon die the »ame way topless and bottomless dancing have. Those were the general eonc.u&ions reached during the weekend by psychiatrists, criminologists and other experts attending a
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    Lock icon Women ask Santa for sex advice
    149 9 BOURNEMOUTH When Sid Dowling took on the job of Santa Claus in a bit store in the southern England seaside town of Bournemouth he expected to hear what little children wanted for Christmas. Bvt 70-year-old Ski found after a few days that most of
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    Lock icon Manson may be charged again
    198 9 LOS ANGELES—A Los Angeles county Grand Jury was expected to meet in closed session yesterday to probe possible new murder charges against members of the Manson "family" Grand Jury sources said about 45 witnesses would be called to testify on the disappearance of film stunt
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    Lock icon 'I can produce witness to Hughes abduction' claim
    216 9 LAS VEGAS, Nevada Howard Hughes' No. 1 man in Nevada for the last four years said he would prodaee a witness to back his contention that the hermit-like billionaire w as "spirited away" (abducted) from his penthouse sanctuary. Robert Maheu who is
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    Lock icon PRESS AND POLICY
    654 10 a distinguished ex-Journalist, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, who is now the Foreign and Labour Minister, speaks on the highly complicated subject of what role the local press should play In the shaping of foreign policy it is worth listening with both ears cocked. Mr. Rajaratnam started off in
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    Lock icon NOBODY PAYS
    676 10  -  By Art Buchwald WASHINGTON Everyone ho# his own theory os to why the economy is in such trouble. In spite of all the gobbledygook the Administration is putting out, Iho real reason the economy has gone to pot is that nobody is paying his bills. My father, who
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    Lock icon Pull up careless bus drivers
    130 10  -  KELVIN KHO On 7th Dec. I had a nerve-wrecking experience while travelling on a bus. I boarded a bus No. 5 (Toa Payoh'Gay World) at 7.15 p.m. at a bus stop in Braddell Road. I was still on the steps of the bus when It
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    Lock icon In Mexico, rebels are heroes now
    474 10  -  By Robert Evan Mexico City Sixty years after the uprising that sparked the Mexican revolution, factions are forgotten and the leaders who fought and killed each other in the 14year struggle for a new Mexico are almost all heroes. Today, the powerful Institutional Revolutionary
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      58 10 Foreign new* and (rsmrm appearing In all editions of the Ha*tern Sun and The Sun are from: Reutera, United Press International, Agence France Presse Fell tor* Pre** Syndicate Newaoa pet Fnterprlse Association. Publisher* Hall Syndicate. l,o* Aneelet Times Syndicate Gemini New* Service. North American Newspaper Alliance. Mrs! Features, Inter-Press Features
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    Lock icon Japan's whale of a pool
    186 12/13 TWO killer whales have just arrived In Japan, after coming all the way from Seattle. But they didn't come "under their own steam" they were bought bv the Japanese for $lBO,OOO, and for that amount, they had better be worth it. Their new home is
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    Lock icon RACIAL CONFLICT IN AFRICA SIMMERS THROUGHOUT 1970
    919 12/13 TON DON Prospects of wholesale J racial war in Africa appear to have receded in 1970, and there are signs such a conflagration will become more remote in the year ahead. The war drums were still beating, however, and Rhodesia took a defiant
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    Lock icon Sweden's convicts hunger for new rights
    586 12/13 STOCKHOLM Swedish convicts have achieved a unique goal, employing the hunger strikes as a tactical weapon to bring about negotiations with prison authorities. Officials of the Prisons Board will sit down wilb the convicts' representatives next month to discuss a wide range of demands
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    Lock icon Eyes red, itchy? Suspect Mites
    449 14  -  By LAWRENCE E. LAMB Do your eyes itch and •re they red when you ret up in the morning? If so, you may have eye mites. That is right mites, a tiny bug closely related to the tick. One doctor claims that it occurs in
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    Lock icon Columbus was shipwrecked
    526 14  -  Cii w 'By Fred Mpanya I and C*»amini Seneviratno. London The Pilgrim Fathers of the Mayflower were Puritans. They landed in Massachusetts, US, on Dec. 16. 1620. An Puritans, they did not observe the Christmas Day of that year. It was work as usual when "we went
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    Lock icon Fortune awaits right boy
    127 14 HONG KONG Somewhere in the world may be a Hakka Chinese boy, under five years old, surnamed Cheng, who could be made a multimillionaire Hongkongstyle. The Hong Kong Supreme Court ruled that such a boy must be found to fulfil the conditions of a will left
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    Lock icon A damp hell for men
    152 14 Extract from The Albert N'yansa, by Sir Samuel Baker. In 1862 Sir Samuel Baker «u sailing up the White Nile from Khartoum. He was trying to di cover the river's source a mystery which obsessed Victorian explorers. "It »s u feverstricken wilderness the current not
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    Lock icon The anatomy of ex-belly dancer
    579 15  -  She couldn't stomach grind: By Dick Kleiner Mostly, if you think belly doncers ot all, you sort off pigeonhole them in your mind as rather shallow ladies there's a lot going on there, but it's all on the surface. Sound and furor, signifying not much.
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    Lock icon Moses Gunn joins 'The Wild Rovers'
    282 15 NOGALES, Arizona Moses Gunn has been signed to star in "The Wild Rovers", the Blake Edwards Production for MGM with a cast that already includes William Holden, Ryan O'Neal, Karl Maiden, Rachel Roberts, Tom Skerritt, Joe Don Baker. Leora Dana, James Olson and Lynn
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    Lock icon Once despised soap opera magnet for hungry actors
    633 15  -  By Harold Hetternan Paul Lukather firmly believes that the day Is fast upon us when some of the biggest stars In motion pictures and television will be battling for roles In the once despised soap operas. "It certainly beats standing in line
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      167 15 □R O A f\l IS AT I f\J □EON -2111 LAST DAT! I) ta I.M I.M I.M »4W wi.'iam Hotden Vlrna Lul 'TUB CHRISTMAS TREE" An MOM Picture in Color OPENB TOMORROW I iNO FREE LIST > Chen Man Ling In "Cold Blade" Kao Yuan. Mand., Cathay Scope, Color A
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      265 15 I. I l> .17.1 II I NOW SHOWING! IM. 4.lft, (41 A M Burt Lancaster. Dean Martin A Jean seberg "AIRPORT" ColorScop# NKXT CHANOEI Sammy Divu Jr., "Owe More Tina" Color (UA) (API I I U» H 7,111 I Now Showing—No Pree LIU II 1.3* 4 (.45 I.M Ll China
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    Lock icon Jane Fonda: An award for that kick
    93 16 HOLLYWOOD The Hollywood Women s Press Club Saturday f»ve it* "Soar App>** •ward to Jan* Fonda the Hollywood figure who projected tn* worst Image of the The eitation on the award to Miss Fond* simply said "the headlines are self-explana-tory The announcement of
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      767 16 aiies Tl 9 CARROLL m f :i yj fibra taurus a Ki IS gemirw B'Ka cancer sail r; r J 51 GENERAL TBNDKNCIBB: Some confusing condition are now In effect. But if you make a special point to get away by yourself for a little while and Jet your Instincts
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      26 16 LACKS DAY M L, \'7v*Z Vi i i'jk u The first and most important thing im golf is driving! Now bere we have a Kaddv-Kar. I*,
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      1044 17 CHANNEL 5 Opening Announcements, followed by General Hospital—A daytime serial about the staff and the patients of a hospital For The Family A magazine series in the National Language, i A Diary Of Events In Singapore This Week National Language) It's Happening In Singapore A series on the life and
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      Lock icon It's fun to have such a brother
      466 18 My younger brother Is a very witty and mischievous boy. He likes to play pranks and practical jokes on people. He always appears to be very innocent and quiet under my father's ■tern eyes, but when my parents are Mt, he will be
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      Lock icon Janet realised her mistake...
      354 18 Janet was the youngest in a family of five. Her favourite hobby was cooking. Even when she was a little girl of three she loved to toddle about in the kitchen and watch her mother making cakes. But not content with watching, she would beg her
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      Lock icon Proud father is too demanding
      798 18  -  DATELINE By Ele and Walt Dulaney Dear Ele and Walt: After having four daughters In a row, my uncle finally had a son. Russell is now years old and I think he's going to grow up very disturbed. You see, my uncle expects Russell to
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      Lock icon Student Congress
      72 18 JAKARTA, Leaders of all Indonesian student organisations are holding their first national grand congress in Bogor, West Java. A spokesman for the organising committee said over 500 student leaders are to take part in the congress which would discuss ways to unite all Indonesian student organisations in the
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      189 18 le»tem Son's essay writing contest fo» boys end girls of 14 end under (Junior) and boy* end girlt over 14 (Senior) eppeen in this pege from Monde y to Fridey. Prlae money It: HO tor Stolon end $5 tot I union tot «v«f> MUV oublisheo All entrants ara requested to
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    Lock icon FEMININE THEME FOR LOUNGE-WEAR LOUNGE-WEAR
    378 19 How long is it since you've heard the word "negligee?" When did you last wear clothes with an accented waistline? If either idea gives you a wave of nostalgia, that's the very word for most holiday at-home styles. Whether they're for very private wearing or
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    Lock icon Escape from this weird marriage
    752 19  -  ANN LANDERS Dear Ann: I am 23, have been married two years and was a virgin until six months ago. Someone other than my husband consummated the marriage. When Caj and I were going together he spoke with great reverence about my virginity. He kept
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  • commercial and industrial
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      Lock icon Calm, easier stock market
      335 20 f ALMond easier conditions were the order of the day in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Widespread selling caused share prices to take a dip. Total volume of shares traded accounted to 1,019,500 units. Starlite Ceramic was the busiest counter leading far ahead
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      Lock icon Australia to amend tax laws
      176 20 CANBERRA Th e government Intend* to Amend Its tax laws to make It easier for Aus-tralian-controlled companies to borrow money overseas, It was announced here yesterday. Under the proposed changes companies will be exempted from the present 10 per cent withholding tax If the money
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      57 20 (Manager Prices for Dec. 15) ASI UNI1 TKlb'lb M Invest Mind l.ii i n M'xla Pro*. 1.03 1.08 1I1AKTKKMI l M l TRII8TH B.O Fund MM 103 SINUAPOKR I'M! TRl'STH tnd s'port 1.88 3rd S'pore 1.18 Com Ind l.Olxtf Thr MVIBI land 1.01 106 P.P. Mind .98 1.00
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      Lock icon Rubber 52 3/4 cts.
      272 20 January first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 52-3/4 cents per lb. up 3/4 cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. Shortly after the opening the market eased on some precautionary selling against
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      112 20 HONG KONG Yesterday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Bayers) (Sellers) 190 197 per 100 straits dollars 145.5 147.5 per 1,000 Taiwan dollars 6.76 6.775 per Australian dollar 340 360 Der l.OOo Burmese kyats 450 470 per 1.000 Indian rupees 149 164 per
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      Lock icon CLOSING PRICES
      676 20 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday INDUSTRIALS Acma 1.22 1.30 Alcan 1.25 1-27 Allied Choc. 2.60 2.65 AT J8 90 Berjaya l.oi 104 B.M. Trusts xd 1.20 Borneo xd 159
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      786 20 BUSINESS done In and reported to the trading rooms of the Stork Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS Alcan $126 (2) $127 (4) Ben. 89 ctg. (1); Berjaya $1.04 (1) $1.03 (2):
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      Lock icon PRODUCE
      93 20 THE noon prirea at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange wterriay wa®> u Coconni Oil (f.o.b.) bulk 60.00 Coconut Olt (f.o.b.) drum 62.50 Mixed Copra 88.00 Muntok Whlta Pepper tfo.b.) ASTA 100% N.WL. mm 182.50 Sarawak Whit* Pepper if.o b.) 96% N W.I.. mm 172.60 Sarawak Special Black Pepper (f.O.h
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    306 21 OYDNEY Heory wares of selling in mining and industrial stocks caused a widespread slump on Hie Sydney Slock Exchange yesterday. Speculative and established issues were Subjected to coaststeat selling pressure. and of the year selling and heavy fall* in iron-zinc were attributed to the main
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    486 21 UKIViLS Utt« 7.00 K ID 7.30 am u«>« UHun t.05 pm Uipa Ml Its ftMte Lam par MM 582 Madras, Kuala Lumpur MM |<J3 Koala M>A 4M aula LII mptix MM 444 reBU| Kill* Lunym MM CW Jakarta MM 451 Klt RN»t M.s% Ml kou Bahr*. Ircnecui (ail*
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    86 21 Mr. Albeit TOO Hofe, Lufthansa German Airline'# manager far Singapore. Malaysia and Brunei 1* back in the Republic after a trip to Bangkok. While In Bangkok Mr. ▼on Hofe attended the annual Bales Meeting of Lufthansa Managers In the Far East which was held in the new
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    166 21 A cook with M "flavour" is KirciUvr Chef Paul WirthUa of Hotel Singapnra. Flavour, because Mr. WirthUa was Australia's "Chef of the Tear. 1967" and has cooked for the late Sir WinsUa Churchill. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. Mr. Harold MaeMlllan and Canadian Prime Minister L. St. Laurent. And.
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    117 21 TOKYO The Japanese government plans to send a 27-man survey mission to Southeast Asia next month to check on how Japan's overseas Investments were being used for development projects in the region, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. The mission will visit Manila. Bangkok.
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    134 21 Singapore's shipbuilding and repairing Industry is on the move towards a brighter future. "And the Industry knows how It Is going to get there." said Commander Christopher Dreyer. Chairman of Vos p e r Thornycroft Uniteers Pte Ltd. at the recent launching of S. 8. Daring, the
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      848 22 THE following are the nee weights for the first ud second day's racing st Penaag. SATURDAY PESTA rULAD P1NANG CUP a 1 DIV. 1 54 P. Need You Badly 9.03 Commander-in-Chief 8 10 Nichol Hill 8.08 Deposit 806 Fleet Arm 8.05 Oona 805 Jaldast 8.00 Perantut 7.10 Bpinifex
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      Lock icon Smith leads in ILTF Masters
      70 22 TOKYO American 6tan Bmlth, playing In his last tournament before Induction Into the UJB. armed forces, beat Ken Rosewall of Australia to take a clear lead In the 150,000 Singapore dollar IL T F Masters tennis tournament yesterday, his 24th birthday. Smith beat Rosewall 6-4,
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      250 22  -  By Charles S. Aldinger BUENOS AIRES Roberto De Vicenzo defeated Billy Casper and Gary Player with a 21-foot birdie putt on the third hole of a playoff Sunday to win the 5530,000 Argentine Mosters golf tournament. The three international stars went into the
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      105 22 PALMA, MaMorca, Spain Pending games of the chess interzone tournament left over from Saturday's final round were played off Sunday. The first six places in the tourney go on to dispute the world championship next year. Top six ranked were Bobby Fischer (USA), Bent Larsen (Denmark),
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        Lock icon Leg muscle ruins Kunalan's chances
        162 23 BANGKOK A pulled muscle in the right leg deprived Singapore champion printer Canagasabai Kunalan the chances of winning the 200-metre race yesterday. Kunalan, Singapore's gold medal hope, had a good start and get a hot pace to lead the fteld of eight runners round the
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        Lock icon Indonesia wins badminton gold
        131 23 BANGKOK Indonesai, playing sparkling badminton, crushed Thailand in three straight games to claim the Asian Games men's team crown yesterday. The Indonesians, who hold the Thomas Cup. symbol of world badminton supremacy won two singles and a doubles in a row to dethrone the former champions.
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        Lock icon India defeats Indonesia 9-6
        99 23 BANGKOK India ye»terday defeated Indonesia 9-6 in "group A H match to enter the semifinals of the Asian Games waterpolo. The Indians, displaying better teamwork and speed, led 4-2 at halftime. India's victory put Singapore out of running for the medals and strengthened her chances to
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        Lock icon Smiles of victory, tears of defeat
        48 23 SINGAPORE'S Patricia Chan (left) sheds tears for mbutiof the gold me- dal in the women's 100metre freestyle swimming Sunday. Japan's Toshlml Nishigawa (centre) who was first and Shigeko Kawanalahi mho was second are *«eea immensely delighted with their cold and silver medals
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        253 23 Waterpolo BANGKOK Singapore slaughtered Thailand 11-0 at waterpolo yesterday in a bid to qualify for the Asian Garnet semi-finals on goal average. The helpless Thais allowed Singapore to take the ball out of their hands time and Time again. A run or appallingly Inaccurate Thai passe*
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        Lock icon Malaysia beats Singapore 1-0
        70 23 BANGKOK Malaysia defeated Singapore 1-0 yesterday la Asian Games field hockey competition. Centre forward Mahen slammed in the winning goal from three yards out of 29 minutes into the first half. The teams Dlayed i° a sea of mud which slowed their attacks before a sparse
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        103 23 Medal standings after yesterday'* events in th« sixth Asian Games: COUNTRY GOLD SII.VKR BRON/Jt Japan 47 30 11 Iran 9 6 3 Korea 5 6 12 India 5 s 8 Thailand 2 8 5 Israel 2 4 4 Ceylon 2 1 0 China 1 4 8 Indonesia 1
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    Lock icon JAPAN CONTINUES TO DOMINATE GAMES
    246 24  -  Leslie Nokashima BANGKOK Japanese athletes yesterday won five of Hie six gold medals of stake in swimming events, picked up two others in cycling and three in badminton, weightlifting and athletics to continue complete domination of the sixth Asian Games. But it was Thailand's pride,
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    48 24 BANGKOK Prince Gholan Reza Pahlevl. President of the Iran Olympic Committee, was yesterday elected President of the Asian Games Federation (AGF). The delegates to the Asian Games Council meeting also ratified the decision to hold the 1974 w-venth Asian Games In Tehran.
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    Lock icon Cambodia beats Malaysia 2-0
    49 24 BANGKOK Cambodia blanked Malaysia 2-0 last night in Asian Games soccer competition. The Cambodians, one di the smaller athletic delegations in the sixth Asi a d, were great favourites of the Thai crowd of 4.000 who cheered them to a 1-0 lead at the breather.
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    589 24 WATER POLO PRELIMINARIES Singapore li Thailand o <3-0 4-0. 2-0, 2-0> India 9 Indonesia 6 Japan 8 Malaysia 3 FIELD HOCKEY PRELIMINARIES Japan 3 (2) Thailand 0 <0) Malaysia 1 <1) Singapore 0 <o> BASKETBALL CONSOLATION ROUND Thailand 83 (37) Malaysia 79 <4l) Singapore 86 <4B) Hong Kong 72
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