Eastern Sun, 14 January 1971

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN sfrppdre's own national daily 10 cents Estd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1547 Thursday, January 14, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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  • 928 1  -  Arms sale issue low on agenda By Onr Staff Reporters T*HE "Declaration of Faith in the Commonwealth" will be tabled by the African nations at the eaHiest opportunity in the Commonwealth summit starting today. The introduction of the non-con trovsrsia I declaration could be made
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 50 1 Importers of Carpets Rugs of Quality Distinction AMIR SONS &M »?r»JB i i Mli SHOP FOR THE CHINESE NEW YEAR AT THE "MM Select from our wide range of bright new items for your Chinese New Year Shopping. C.K.TANG (SINGAPORE) PTE ITD. 3KXOrchard Road, Singapore To) *****0(5 L*ws) Cflbte "tangunten"
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  • 720 2  -  ®y DEREK INGRAM, By DEREK INGRAM, of Gemini News Service, who is in Singapore to cover Hie conference of Commonwealth Heads of Government. GEMINI. AT 10 o'clock today the first botch of Commonwealth presidents ond prime ministers ond their delegations will arrive at
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  • 129 2 LONDON The London Evening standard yesterday printed an editorial cartoon parodying the Commonwealth meeting. The eartoon showed Ave Commonwealth heads of state seated at a table British Prime Minister Edward Heath, Tanzanian President, Julius Nyerere, Pakistan's General Yahya Khan, India's Indira Gandhi and Prime Minister
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  • 32 2 Archbishop Makarios, Prof Cypres, met President Shear— ywhfiiy. The Kenyan Vice-President Mr. Daaid a rap Moi. New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Keith Holyoeke. Australian Prime Minister John Gorton*
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  • 349 3  -  Trudeau disembarks By JOHN ROGERS NEW DELHI Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeou says a moss wo Ik out from the Commonwealth in protest against British arms soles to South Africa could take Canada with it. If sufficient numbers did withdraw from the Commonwealth, there
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  • Article, Illustration
    68 4 Mr. Keaneth Kaunda of Zambia Mr. Banda Malavl Jamaican Prime Minister. Mr. Hugh Shearer arrived from Hone Konf with a seven member delegation at 6 p.m., about 20 minutes behind the scheduled time, Mr. Swftrftn Singh India Barbados Prime Minister Err©! Barrow and his wife. They were
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  • 238 4  -  By Frank Chamberlain AFP, Ceylon's Prime Minister Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike will find strong opposition from Australia and New Zealand to her suggestion that the Indian Ocean be a nuclear free zone, excluding the big powers. "It is fanciful idealIsm which would make the Commonwealth of
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  • 269 5 The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labour, Mr. 8. Kajaratnam yesterday received a a petition of 40,309 signatures prow-sling against the propo««-d sale of arms to South Africa by Britain. The petition, delivered b.v the Secretary of the A■ 11 Apartheid Movement in
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  • 62 5 KUALA LUMPUR The Royal Malaysian Police Headquarters yesterday issued a fivepoint plan to the public to foil extortion attempts during the Chinese New Year. In a statement here, police said that previous year showed that there ware more extortions during the festive period. Members of the public
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  • 79 5 The Aral delegation leader to arrive yesterday was the AttorneyGeneral and Minister (or I real Affair? of Trinidad and Tobago, Mr. Karl T. Hudson Phillips. Mr. Phillips arrived in an Aeroflot flight at noon, ten minutes earlier than the scheduled time. Mr. Phillips who Is
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  • 287 6 SINGAPORE ond Joh ore police hove smashed a syndicate of car thieves operating on both sides of the Causeway. The gong is believed to be involved in a spate of car thefts from Johore The stolen cars were sold in Singapore as scrap iron.
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  • 78 6 KUALA LUMPUR, The British Prime Minister. Mr. Edward Heath, yesterday called MI aa aid frlead Taaka Abdal Kahasaa At the Taaka's boase ia Jalaa Swetteabaai, they spake ef aid times The Taaka told reporters after the half-hear meeting: -It wu purely a seatlaientaJ visit. There was
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  • 66 6 Peas and Ice and all things... (yum, yum). It does look odd to cover peas in harvest with ground ice, but the ice stops the growth of the peas while they are on the way to the packing factory. Result? Tender crispier peas for your table. The Scene: A farm
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  • 188 6 TVt Singapore Government will set np a permanent Statistics Commission, responsible for co-ordinating and promoting statistical activities. The Commission will also develop a statistical archive and five expert advice on statistics compilation and utilisation, a government statement said yesterday. The recommendation was made b*
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  • 112 6 SOAKING market prices badly alfrcted by the Mftlayiiu floods were relaxed a bit yesterday. Cklckea lui ilniftJ trow sl.7t a kati to f 1 5i My tip today Is ■hi* keel at oaly $l-5# a Ik too. Market prices (to katis ■■less otkerwlse stated) at a (laace:
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  • 65 6 KUALA LUMPUR Muslim countries are to be asked to make their first payment of $30,000 to the Islamic Secretariat. Its Secretary General. Tunku Abdul Rahman stated. He said so far Malaysia was the only country which had contributed her share, but the bank account number of the secretariat
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  • 52 6 KUALA LUMPUR Sixteen Australian exSerts will arrive on aturday to begin twojrear terms In Malaysia, bringing the number of Australian experts In the country to 60. There are already 28 Colombo Plan experts and 18 experts under the Australian Volunteers Abroad scheme here The 1# arriving are AustrnHan
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  • 54 6 "Buy 81ngapore-lflade" is the theme for the Singapore Manufacturers' Association Trade Exhibition 1971 to be held at the Queensway Shopping Complex at Singapore this Saturday. The four-day exhibition of a variety of locally manufactured products stress the quality of local goods which la gaining
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  • 132 6 POLICE continuing; their crackdown on pro-Communists a d Barisan Sosialis members yesterday arrested Miss Lim May Lan, lancee of political detainee Wee Toon Lip. She was picked up at 11.3# a m at the 3 tuJi. Upper Serangoon Road by officers from the Internal Security
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  • 59 6 A seaman who attacked a police sergeant while under the Influence of liquor was yesterday fined $4OO or two months jail Nah Chat Ann, 25 pleaded guilty to striking Sgt Hashim Yusof with a Iron-framed chair at the Sin Peng Bar at the Junction or Balestler
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  • 46 6 A man died yesterday at the Outram Road Hospital alter being knocked down bJ a bus while walking along Ne w Bridge Road at 9.45 p.m. Police appealed to eyewitnesses to contact Insp. Kedar Nath of Sepo v Lines Police Station.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 111 6 EE3 The weather hurran predicts fair weather today. TESTMWAY Max Temp: 82.3 Mia Temp: 72.4 Rain: trace Total rain to date: 302 in. Total rain days to date; M. Sunshine yesterday: 1.Z5 hoars Humidity at 10.55 P-m. 84 per cent. MM SINGAPORE TOWN LI. am (5.4 ft.); 6.16 a.m. (4.3
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  • 420 7 HAPPY AGAIN pOUR Singapore University girls who were served notice of explosion as disciplinary action on them hod their orders revoked vesterday. The girls from Eusoff College were told to leave the hostel at the end of the current academic term. The notices were
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  • 42 7 Fanners have again been warned that l; their animals are found straying at public places and roads, they will be seised and disposed of. It was reported that three pigs and a cow had been seized recently.
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  • 245 7 Singaporeans most be tent overseas for various types of specialist training to accelerate industrial growth. "Locally, there ts almost a total lack of practical experience in management skills,** explained Mr. B T. Nolte, General Technical Manager of Philips, at a Rotary luncheon
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 42 7 WILL BE HELD AT GREAT WORLD AMUSEMENT PARK AT 7.45 PM. TODAY'S DRAW NO: 4/71 FIRST GROUP CASH JACKPOT IS (MAXIMUM) T0 WINNERS WITH t NUMBERS CORRECT THE OTHER GROUP PRIZES REMAIN THE SAME PLUS FREE ENTRY FOR 3 CIRCLES CORRECT $5OO/-
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 78 7 Around town Art Kxhibitiea b; H coa temporary Auatralian painter* at Keah (iallery Tudor Court, Tatttfia. 19 M am to CM pm Art Exhibition by artist Yan Sook Leon* at tbe Gallery of Fine Art, Raffles Place. I%M a m. to C M p at. KiUUtioa W ('hiacae palatini by
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  • 492 8 Hungry children form groups to raid dustbins WYNDHAM, West Australia Starving aboriginal children have formed commando raiding parties to snatch food from rubbish bins, according to the local council. Its monthly news bulletin reported that a group of 20 children between seven and 12 years old have
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  • 290 8 DELHI The Indion Government has banned Kashmir's opposition Plebiscite Front Party, accusing its leaders of advocating the disputed state's secession from India. In Srinagar, Kashmir, police yesterday occupied the headquarters and other offices of the banned Party. Ita secretary, Sadruddin MuJahld, was arrested, according to
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  • 51 8 LONDON international diplomacy could break down If the private reports of diplomats were exposed to publicity, a prosecuting counsel has pointed out An editor, a Journalist and an army colonel accused of leaking a secret report on the Nigerian War are now facing trial at London's Old
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  • 69 8 WARSAW Three weeks after the Baltic riots. Poland remains tense. There Is open discontent among workers, who demand far reaching changes In the party while strongly maintaining claims for wages to meet the dizzying rise in prices. "We have had enough speeches" the people yelled, "Now we want
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  • 197 8 BANGKOK A former Laotian army colonel and four Thais have been charged for luring Thai servicemen to fight in Laos against the Laotian Government. The Public Prosecutor filed the charges In the military court on Tuesday. The charges alleged that Colonel Boonleut Challtosy tnd four
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  • 194 8 MANILA A series of explosions and gunshots broke op a demonstration yesterday by drivers, students and workers protesting increased prices of gasoline and oil. Three students were killed and at least 35 people were injured. Two students were dead on arrival at the hospital while those
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  • 104 9 RESCUE workers at the dockside at FoUurtoae, England, kelp crewman of German ship Bmdrnbnrg after he was rescoed from the English Channel after the ship sank on hitting a wreck on Tuesday. Salvage expert are now at the site of
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  • 218 9 LONDON Move* will be made in Parliament to discuss the ship traffic problems of the narrow English Channel following the sinking of two vessels on successive days. More than 20 people are believed to have lost their lives In the disasters. The 13,604-ton Panamanian
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  • 304 9 ARTIST ON TRIAL: llf ANILA Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendozo, accused of trying to knife Pope Paul, issued a press statement saying that all he could manage in the Manila airport attack were "two weak strokes on the neck. Mendozo, 35, handed out ihe
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  • 329 9 BEIBCT Tbf Jordan (orenmeat ud Palestine (utrrillai conferred late into the night In Aiman on a coexistence formula after Ave days of cluhn between the two aides. The renewed fighting between guerrillas and Jordanian fortes plunged Jordan back into crisis and although not
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  • 589 10 jpRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew's long, turbulent and successful political career faces Its most crucial test for a week start--Ing today when he comes under the withering heat of the high-wattage Internationa) spotlight He will have to handle outraged prima donnas spluttering with anger, defensive diplomatic speeches
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  • 783 10  -  By Max Lerner YORK When dictator regimes commute death sentences, it suggests that world opinion is not the ineffectual phantom that sceptics hare taken it to bo. I expected the Franco commutation of the Basque death sentences because of the shakiness of his regime, but confess
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  • LETTERS to the editor
    • 194 10  -  ALFRED YAU SIR: IS IT government policy to harness school leavers into a limitless pool of relief teachers? I suppose school leavers are a cheap source for supplementing the perennial shortage In the teaching service. But to be paid only $8 for each working day
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    • 116 10 Sir: LITTLE wonder, we learned recently of the increasing numbers of armed forces trucks being; involved in road accidents. This situation can be quite easily remedied. Squarely, the blame can be pinned on to the quality of Instructors. A few months back, residents In Keppel
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    • 142 10 Bir. I AM a regular visitor to Singapore and what never fails to impress me is politeness of the people here shopkeepers, customs and immigration officials and taxidrivers. The other day. I was lost In a maze of streets In Chinatown and I was trying to
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • LETTERS
    • 289 11 SIR: SINGAPORE, ever /one says, hu made trcmcodoui progress in the last five years Singapore has a very high per capita Income Singapore is free from riots and strikes. And so on. Fine. I could'nt agree mors. Or applaud more ncsu^tily. But it seems to me
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    • 106 11 SIR: FOR many months now the public has been free to cross the stretch of reclaimed land along the east coast in order to make use of the rather good beaches created a> a result of the reclamation. Now that the work Is finished and the
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    • 78 11  -  J. HANAM Press Liaison Officer, Customs Excise Department, Singapore 1 REFER to the letter on ganja by **Dlsllluslo ned"' which appeared in Tuesday's issue of your newspaper. As the writer, quite rightly, is against gan J a abuse. I would therefore appeal to him to contact
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    • 45 11 Sir: ONE body In Singapore should be patted on the back for its concern in our a nt i-pollution campaign. The Singapore Manuturer*s Association emblem shows chimney stacks, but no belching black smoke. Obviously clean air addicts. Let's see more of this. ABDULLAH
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    • 77 11 Sir: SO, in oar frensied drive towards transforming the Island into a garden city, we have even planted in the monsoon drains. Bat shoaldn't the massive "Operation Clean Up" incorporate the modernisation of amenities as well? Every morning central Singapore, particularly the Bochore area, Is assaulted by the
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  • 85 11 "That's my mate up there!" say these firemen In Tokyo, as they watch one of their colleagues perform a stunt on a bamboo ladder. The men were wearing happi coats dating back to the Edo period (160S-1868), a big change from their usual daily outfits. The
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  • 265 11 T>ERLIN The Russians, in the most serious interference with allied A) traffic in five years, held up military vehicles on the highway to Berlin yesterday for os long as 10 hours* Western allied officials said the interference began early in the day and lasted until
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  • 519 12/13 BENNING, Georgio The government has rested its murder cose against Lt. William Calley Jr. with testimony by a fellow soldier that Calley specifically ordered him to fire into two groups of women, children and old men. "The government rests, finally."
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  • 63 12/13 SOLEDAD, California A Negro convict has stabbed and. wounded a white guard in racially troubled Soledad State Prison where two guards and six black prisoners have been killed within a year.... Prison official* said they could give no reason for Madison Flowers. 24. attacking guard Perry
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  • 178 12/13 WASHINGTON Retired army Major-General Carl Turner, once the Army's top law enforcement officer, has been charged by a federal grand jury with income tax evasion and unlawfully obtaining guns from the Chicago Police Department* The General is alleged to have put to his
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  • 129 12/13 WASHINGTON More than 250 people have been arrested by air marshals for various crimes since the anti-hi-jacking surveillance system was started in September last year, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official has said. Carl Maisch, Director of the Agency's Air Transportation Security Section
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  • 262 12/13  -  By Donald O'Higgins BELFAST Roman Catholics say they have turned to the underground Irish Republican Army courts and the far and feathering they order to stamp out crime in their streets. "Someone has to do the Job,'' said a young housewife In Falls Road
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  • 224 12/13 WASHINGTON Contaminated water killed about 41 million fish in the United States in 1969 f bringing to nearly 145 million the known total killed since 1960, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said. William Ruckelshaus, head of the agency, said the 1969
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  • 418 12/13 WASHINGTON Six people, including four present or former priests ond o Roman Catholic nun, hare been charged with plotting to kidnap presidential adviser Henry Kissinger. They also have been charged with plotting to dynamite heating systems of government buildings in Washington bMnnnnlniff mn
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  • 287 12/13 SAN CLEMENT E, California President Nixon has signed legislation formally repealing the 1964 Gulf of the Tonkin Resolution, which authorised unlimited U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia. The repeal was part of a Ss6oo million bill authorising easy credit sales of U.S. arms to foreign
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  • 118 12/13 BERLIN The prosecution exhibited yesterday photographs of what police called a "Nail shrine'* at the trial of Ekkehard Well, 24. the male nurse charged with shooting a Russian sentry. The photographs, were taken In Well's flat. They showed busts of Adolf Hitler, King Frederick the Great
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  • 592 14 Hari Hartojo discusses one of Indonesia's efforts to step out of rural poverty into the space age. INDONESIA turned its dreams of a space centre into a park for New Wave movies and artists from abroad. Before mlaruie led to his
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  • 506 14  -  YOUR DOCTOR TALKS TO YOU By LAWRENCE E. LAMB, M.D. Dear Dr. Lamb —My husband and I have been married for nearly 50 years but I am thinking very seriously of leaving him. He takes no interest In anything except sex. He will not play cards, golf,
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  • 662 15  -  More horrifying than 'On The Beach'... From Harold Heffernan, TN 1959, Stanley Kramer brought to the screen "On the Beoch/' perhaps the most far-out of all his controversial ventures. It was doubtless his least successful movfe as well, sir.*ce everyone in the cast was dead at
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  • 130 15 c. Y. HOWARD has been signed to direct the motion picture version of John Boweji s nit British stare play, 'Trevor;; which Ray Stark's Rastar Productions will bring to the screen for Columbia Pictures. "Trevor" marks Howard's first film since the enormous box office and critical success, "Loverg
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 284 15 Okm Taday! No free List li Harold Rootolna Stiletto" Alei Cord. Brltt Ekland la Color (AVCO-rox i l Al'l 101 VM# 7 r> 11 N«» Hk««lul No Pr«e Ui ll». 14a, 4 IN, > M p.m. Horror Of InBlrmlrli" Ralph B«W, Kalo OMara in Tachnlcolor iBBi SATURDAY MtDNIOHT At C*|lM-LMrlti-4kjl«q
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    • 307 15 UHG Al\ll*3 AT ICJl\l Dnt'DM ***** NOW HUOWINQI II mm I N «.M LN »M "WKODING NIGHT*' Oolor DennU Waterman. Tesaa Wyatt Comtugl Kerwla Mathews "The Killer UkM Candy" Technicolor Technwcope SATURDAY MIDNIGHT I "TUK TOI UHKHT OUT" U Li Uua Mandarin In Co lor/Scope Cngluh A China*# Bub* CATHAY
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  • 125 16 METHUEN, Massachusetts Private detectives are Joining in the search lor a 15-year-old boy multl- millionaire who vanished 10 days ago from a drag rehabilitation centre. He has been Identified by police as Michael Grace, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Grace, who have homes In New
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 774 16 libra -rv aiies lis CARROLL I a y taurns gemm awai cancer ZZAZI r m ra 3 GENERAL TENDENCIES: Until mldafternoon you have a good chance to get a financial arrangement worked out to your satisfaction. Later there are some confusing conditions in effect that make It unwise for you
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 956 17 today's SINGAPURA CHANNEL 5 Opening Announcements, followed by General Hospital—A daytime serial about the staff and the patients of a hospital. Another Song Another Melody (English Repeat) Featuring Zahara Selamat. It's Happening In Singapore (Chinese Version Repeat) A series on the life and people in our Republic. Housewives' Matinee "The
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  • 598 18 rpHE stars were glittering almost frostily in the dark purple sky. Outside, a cold wind was blowing and Hie night was in complete silence except for the constant chirping of the crickets. Putting on another thick jersey to keep myself warm, I stole out of the
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  • 586 18 T>OBBERIES and kidnappings can be described as ruthless. They couse harm to the society. They bring great distress to people, for example when a man's whole life savings is stolen. One night as 1 was returning home after a midnight show with my friends, I had
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  • 510 18  -  By Ele,Walt Dulaney Dear Walt: I'm trying to save to buy a car. My girlfriend feels that I'm neglecting her by working 20 hours a week. She feels I'm stingy by putting so much in the bank with so little left for our dates. When J said it was
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 194 18 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe The Eastern Sun's essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and undet (Junior) and boys and girls over 14 (Senior) appears in this page from Monday to Friday. Prize money SIC to* SenlOfi end Si> to» |umo> tor even, esuv published AM entrants
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  • 320 19  -  Thursday food with Ruth Bakalar WHEN is o coke more than o cake? When it's o pudding 'n coke o dessert that's both and neither, and better than either or both. You put into a baking dish first, a cake
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  • 428 19  -  Ann Landers Dear Ann: You've printed some letters about the male steril isation operation called vasectomy. I have heard so many contradictory opinions that I am terribly confused. Please check with your medical experts and get the correct answers to the following questions: Can a
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  • 49 19 Today's fashion world believes In being prepared for anything. The latest evening accessory is an oxygen mask and tank. The mask and hose are studded with rhinestones, while the tank gels an attraetive covering of a new flexible material made of minute crystal balls.
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  • 275 20 issues had a three-to-one advantage over advances in generally easier trading in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Speculative activity wag slightly withdrawn owing to soma profittaking in Ilia industrial front. While industrials experienced easier tendencies after a constant rise in the oast
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  • 258 20 January first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 48 cents, down 1/2 cent from the previous close. Another very quiet session ruled and movements were small. There was little overall change In levels from last night but final squaring
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  • 102 20 TUB noon prim at the Wiii«p«rf nfliinif rntrrdu Procure H at. a ft Coconut Oil 1 f.o.h.) balk 00.00 I'lfonui Oil (f.o.h. i drum «e so MUed M. Copra :<e oe MuntoV White PcpjM-i {I n b.| AfTA 100% N.U.L. 170 HO Sarawak Whit* PrpiMff if.o b. > Mfl%
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  • 115 20 BONG KONG Yesterday's 5 p.m. eurreney rates, (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd (Rovers) (Kellers) 195.50 196.50 per 100 Straits dollars ***** 147.75 per 1 00(i Taiwar, o*. liars 6735 6.76 per Australian dollai S4i> 360 oer 1.000 Burmese kyats 460 480 oer l.OOo Indian rupees 140
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  • 656 20 BID and offer price* officially listed at the close of business in the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange vesterda* INDUSTRIALS a s. A cm a 140 1.42 Alcan 1 53 Ben 1.02 1.03 Be r Jay a 1.30 1 32 Borneo 175 Boustcad
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  • 1366 20 BUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,0041 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS ACMA fi 42 (4) $l4) (2'. Alcan $154 (2) $155 <l> $l5O (1). Allied
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  • 36 20 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange--30 Industrials 844.19 20 Rails 177.59 15 Utilities 124.62 65 Stock* 277.30 *0 Bonds 69 52 Commoditj 'utures index 145.04 up 0.30
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  • 408 21 SYDNEY Mining shares slumped even further as the heavy wave of selling pressure increased on Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. neavyweignrs were •gain from apart a« a result off this, with heavy falls being registered throughout. Poseidon showed BO Improvement reaching Its lowest point since 1969 at
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  • 426 21 4HKIULK LUi si M-A |«t la»U 1 ninpnr UU«a M«*A rtM Co lorn. M YJOLID MSA 1U RUM Lumpur P.JOA ID MSA lit KUH Lumpur 11 of. m MSA «M Pfr■*U ft l.aMpar ll.au a m MhA Ut Jakarta 1 ttf.m MSA MP Perth IN o m MSA
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  • 60 21 JAKARTA Singapore and Malaysia are interested m importing corn from North Sumatra, Antara news agency reported yesterday. The agency quoted EfTendi Sal am, head of North Sumatra Agricultural Service as saying that the region will supply about 2.000 tons of corn to the two countries each year. North
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  • 174 21 A big Australian Department store has made a preliminary enquiry about possible space at the proposed ftSftft-million Orchard Square project which is yet to be constructed on valuable land in Orchard Road. Detail* of the new project were only recently announced. Mr Jack Walker, a director
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  • 81 21 LONDON A 64-year-old British housewife Tuesday launched a fund to save the financially ailing Rolls Royee company, manufacturers of luxury cars and aeroplane engines. The woman, Mrs. Betty Richards, who said she was starting the fund off with a 100 sterling (Ss7so) personal contribution,
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  • 61 21 Mr. Wee Tin Teck, President of the Klung Chow Association, cuts the ribbon to open the $2 million Metropofe Hotel In Seah Street Some 500 guests attended the opening ceremony. The hotel has first class facilities and efficient workers. It is the latest addition to the numerous
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 352 21 APPOINTMENT Singapore Polytechnic SCHOOL or NAUTICAL KTVDIH >NB are in*lW from suitably qualified pertori tar tha post of Lecturer Asslstant Leotrjer In the School ox Nautical Studios QualltH-Mtions: Board of lYade <Jer*.lfUate of Competency u Kxtra UaiKr or a ueruUcate oT Ooiupetency m Mastsr (Fon-nii Oolng>. Previous vwhliit experience. ah-ilty
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 1099 22 CI. 3 Div. 1 -10 F. SMI Saxowy 4 v 9 00 Lucky sxm Dusky Anna *>Y 8 11 E Break ***** Roman Leader fty 8 06 PC Wee ***** Royal Mark Palm Bcarh 4v H 02 Cbukell ***** 5V 8 02 Conflux
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    • 217 22 HURRY HONEY galloped like a winner in a workout here yesterday morning. With Moses Lee up, the Better Honey mere raced over 3f in 37 4/5. She was full of running at the finish. Hurry Honey, third to Disney Land last week, will take a
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    • 120 22 JOHANNE SBCRG Evonne Goolagong, Australia's aboriginal tennis star, has accepted an invitation to play in the Sooth African open tennis champion, ships here in April, tournament organiser Owen Williams announced yesterday. He said he had contacted Miss Goola gong's manager. Vic Edwards, and preliminary
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    • 199 22 NEW YORK "Sugar" Ray Robinson, the former world welterweight and middleweight boxing champion, was sued lor 553,000,000 in lebel damages yesterday by hh ox-manager George Gaintord and ex-fight manager Harry Wiley. The action, filed In Manhattan Supreme Court, accused Robinson and Dave Anderson,
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    • 637 23 SIDNEY Skipper Bill Lowry and burly Keith Stackpole kept alivv Australia's flickering hopes of saving the fourth cricket Test with a defiant fifth wicket stand after England paceman John Snow had grabbed three quick wickets. Australia, set to score 416 for victory, were 64 for four
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    • 91 23 NEW YORK Bob Lunn tops the first list of 1971 money-winners on the United States Professional Golfers' Association circuit through his victory In the Olen Campbell tournament in Los Angeles at the week-end. Leaders In the list, issued here today, are (all players from the United
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    • 313 23 MANCHESTER Footfall Hero George Bast, apologised to big manager Tuesday and ended four days of anguish for millions of soccer fan*. The twinkle-toed star with the Pop Idol aura came out of self-exile for a heart-to-heart talk with Manchester United boss Sir Matt
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    • 801 23  -  A COLUMN ON AMERICAN SPORTS BY MILTON RICHMAN NEW YORK Somebody far back In the crowd was the first to spot him. "He's here, he's here!" a shout went up. Everybody immediately knew who "he s was. it had to be Muhammad All Or Casslus Clay If
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  • 132 24 MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay Thousands of police and troops are again combing parts of Montevideo from house-to-house for kidnapped British Ambassador Geoffrey Jackson. However, they have so far come up with no clue. Combined police and arm* squads have already arrested more than 200 Tupamaros guerrilla
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  • 236 24 Detectives guarded homes of government ministers yesterdoy after two bombs damaged the residence of Employment Minister Robert Carr. The front door and windows in Carr's three-storey house was smashed on Tuesday night and his car dcrroged outside. Carr. his wife Joan and their
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  • 65 24 MADRID A Spanish prosecutor yesterday demanded four men charged with swindling be sentenced to a total of 18,710 years in prison. The four defendants allegedly sold non-exist-ent apartments to 765 persons while running a real estate agency from 1966 to 1967. The prosecutor arrived
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  • 270 24 TENGAN, Okinawa, America yesterday safely removed a token initial shipment of mustard gas from Okinawa. Defying: left wing threats to stop them by force, two US Army convoys carried 1M tons of (as artillery shells through several central Okinawan villages. Earlier, thousands of residents had
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  • 209 24  -  By DEREK INGRAM Gemini. The auguries for the Commonwealth conference last night remained good rather than bad. Now that all the delegates are safely gathered in Singapore, it looks more likely than ever that there will be no walkout*. The Zambians. for example, are adamant
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  • 116 24 MANILA An abandoned Chinese "ghosts" Cnk wth no one on iard but with stillwarm food set out has been found recently rff Samar Island, 280 miles south-east of Manila. The Philippine News Service said the 50-ton Junk, with a capacity of five crew and
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