Eastern Sun, 15 January 1971

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  • Title Section
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    21 1 EASTERN SUN .sjogapore's own national daily 10 cents Etrd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1548 Friday, January 15, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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    Lock icon RUSSIANS IN ON THE ACT
    410 1  -  Hard-line lobby on arms issue By Eastern Sun staff reporters T OCAL Soviet diplomats ore preventing Singapore and India from defusing the (arms sale) time bomb on which British Prime Minister Edward Heoth is sitting. The Russians lobbying on Wednesday night and yesterday, are swinging
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      72 1 Buy Jpwellery of Distinction BSHIE! tH H7. S**ith Brt4«« *Mi. Singapore MM* Mini 11 ti l :««m i lingo A SQUARE DEAL BANKING CORFU, LTD. the STRONGEST and LARGEST BANK in MALAYSIA and SINGAPORE AUTHORISED CAPITAL $100,000,000/PAID UP CAPITAL 40,000,000/. GENERAL RESERVE AND PROFIT A LOSS BALANCE OVER 39.000.000/. TOTAL
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    Lock icon BICKERING WILL ONLY THREATEN COMMONWEALTH
    657 2 LEE: HEAR ALL POINTS OF VIEW pRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday the Commonwealth would not endure long if its members could not contain their differences over the proposed arms sales to South Africa. Addressing delegates to the Commonwealth Heods of Government Conference in
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  • Article
    Lock icon Newsmen are happy but have grouse...
    204 2 Foreign correspondents are pleased though somewhat amused about the intensive effort Singapore is making to give them a good impression during the Commonwealth Heads o# (iovernment Conference. Mast of the 200-odd foreign correspondents nave nothing but praise for the city's cleanliness. Industrla' progress and
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    Lock icon Trudeau in Chinatown
    76 2 Away from the pressures and paper work of the Conference table, Canada's dashing Premier Pierre Trudeau if ga v and Informal. Last nightj, he and members of bis delegation to the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference were feted to a sumptuous 10-course Chinese dinner In Meng Kee
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    Lock icon ALL LOOK TO HEATH TO SAVE THE SUMMIT
    952 3  -  By Derek Ingram, Gemini News Service With the Commonwealth debate on Southern Africa delayed until early neat week, much of the interest centres on the "declaration of faith" tabled yesterday by President Kaunda of Zambia. It was referred to the sub-committee that
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    Lock icon Broken leg can't stop a secretary
    109 4 Even a broken leg couldn't stop Miss J. Wicken from flying oat to Singapore to help her boss President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania. Miss Wicken. who Is the President's personal secretary, broke her left leg when she fell from some steps last month. It
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    Lock icon Unanimous: smooth start encouraging
    661 4 CMOOTH and successful that was bow numerous delegates fro the Commonwealth Heads of Government conferences described the opening day. There was unanimous praise for Chairman Lee Kuan Yew's opening address. One Asian delegate Bummed t*p the feeling* of most when he *;ud. "Your Prime MinUter clearly
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    Lock icon Robbed of $4,500 in car
    115 5 Armed robber* seem to be preying on victims travelling In on at night recently. Yesterday at about 9.00 EMr. Oh lons t, 31, who was driving his Mr along Leonie Road, wa* suddenly stopped by two men from another ear. They robbed nim ol $4,500
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    Lock icon WATCHES WORTH $8,000 STOLEN
    119 5 TWIEVES broke into o departmental store in Nee Soon Village and $8 OQO worth of watches. The theft was diso vered by tiie proprietor Mr. Doyol Doss s/o Rnmchond. at 9 00 a m yesterday ie was then stepping Into his Bombay 811k Store along Transit
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    Lock icon POLICE REMOVE 3 ANTI-ARMS SALES BANNERS
    76 5 THE police yesterday removed three banners condemn, ng the arms sales from the second floor of a build n« in Bencoolen Street. They have found them nanglng from the office of the Singapore Restaurant Bars. Eating and Coffee Shops Employees Union at 1145 am.
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    Lock icon New land opened
    85 5 KUCHING An 800,000acre triangle of potentially rich land in the Fourth Division of Sarawak is to be developed for agriculture. The Federal Minister without Portfolio, Dato Ong Kee Hui, said yesterday that the Sarawak coalition government was concentrating its planning on this triangular area bounded by Niah.
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    Lock icon IT'S THE SMELTING POT FOR 173 'PIRATE' TAXIS
    188 5 THE Government will melt down 173 unclaimed "pirate" taxis as scrap metal at the National Iron and Steel Mill in Juronf. This move is in accordance with the Par-liament-approved Government's White Paper on Re-organisation of Motor Transport Services in Sinrapore. A Ministry
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      133 5 The tranquillity of a European winter... From afar, the peaceful sounds of the natives at play... Dancing, dining, SX&. fiesta ing, fasching, ski-ing, singing, tobogganing, hunting, revelling... There is no such thing as an off-season in Europe (though holidays in the winter season can be much cheaper). Europe swings the
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    Lock icon Housewife, 19 on fraud charge
    320 6 A young housewife yesterday claimed trial to a charge of attempting to cheat the proprietor of on engineering works company. Betty Lee Tah Hoon, 19 is alleged to hare attempted to cheat Wong Yoon Kee by trying to collect $3OO for advertisements for the guide
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    Lock icon OVERSTAYED 14 YEARS -INDONESIAN JAILED
    193 6 KUALA LUMP UK An Indonesian youth who catered Malaysia at the a«e of Ave without aay document! aad had stayed here for II rears was Jailed yesterday lor two weeks by the Magistrate's Court. However. Edealis Ma Maiek. 19. walked oat of the oourt a
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    Lock icon FOOD glorious FOOD
    134 6 The Chinese New Year h going to bring about a fantastic increase in E rices, a* heese wires »ad your refrigerators while there's ttae. Tip for Uda; Is Scotcfc Steak for omlj $2.88 a pound. For a review «f the market prices wmm. All prices mless stherwise
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    Lock icon Book index published
    55 6 The National Library haii published the third issue of the Singapore National Bibliography, listing all worts in the four main langguages published in 1969, Including official and publications of quasi-offi-cial bodies. The bibliography, priced at $3, is available from the Governin en t Publications Bureau at Fullerton
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    Lock icon Stalls to boost Singapore products
    108 6 Working overtime, these workers straggled feverishly to put oa the ftnishing touches to thy 21 some $1 million worth of loyally-manufactured industrial and consumer goods. "Buy Singapore-Made" is the theme for the Singapore Manufacturers' Association's 4-day trade exhibition to be held at the Queensway Shopping
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    Lock icon PORTS AND FLYOVER PLANS FOR JOHORE
    163 6 KIT ALA LUMPUR Many measures, including the building of a fly-over, were being planned to ease the traffic congestion at the cavseway, Tun (Dr.) Ismail diselo>ed yesterday. There were also "some difficulties" in the amalgamation of the customs sad immigration post at the causeway,
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    Lock icon PRIZE-GIVING CEREMONY
    66 6 Winner* of the first and second prizes in the Donation Draw organised by the Chinese Women's Association will be presented with their prizes today at 4.30 p.m. Mr. Ee Peng Liang, Chairman of the Singapore Council of Social Services, Mrs. Jek Yuen Thong. Chairman of the Donation Draw,
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    Lock icon $20,000 fire at Gay World
    101 6 A 30-mlnutp ilre completely destroyed 14 adjoining stalls m the Gay World Amusement Park early yesterday More than $20,000 worth of properties front seven occupied stalls were estimated to have gone In the smoke when the fire broke oat at l 00 a.m. The premises
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    Lock icon Perak dam project
    91 6 IPOH—Two major projects the building of a giant dam in upper Perak and the regrouping of villagers living in riverine kamporigs—are to be carried out by the Perak government to reduce flood s in the state. The Mentri Besar, Dato Haji Kamaruddin Bin Mobamed Isa, said yesterday
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    Lock icon Two taking fellowship
    39 6 Mr. Leong Chan Man and Mr Leong Siew Hoo two employees of Telecoms will be leaving Singapore for Amsterdam on a Dutch government fellowship Th*Y will both be doing technical courses which will last nine month*.
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      39 6 Hie weather bureau fredicb fair weather today. YESTERDAY Ma* Temp; 82.1 Min Temp: 71.T Rata: all Total rate to date: 3.02 la. Total raia *ya to date: 10. Sunshine jeaterday: 5.55 hears. Ummi4'U aft lft.l« p.m. SB per teat
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    Lock icon ALGERIA MAY SEND VOLUNTEERS TO JORDAN
    409 7 Algerio was reported to bo considering sending volunteers to figkt olongside Potest tn ion commondos in Jordan. The official Afgerle Presse Service news agency soki Algerio would of low vokn teers "to take part in the ctefence of the Polestiman revolution/' if the present
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    Lock icon BIGGER FORCE NEEDED
    119 7 SAIGON South VieW nam is budgeting for a force oi 2Q.0Q0 men In Cambodia, Economics Minister Pham Kim tigoc said yesterday. He told a Foreign Correspondents Association luncheon that **l think we have a very strong case" in asking Cor American aid to support suck a force.
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    Lock icon Moscow aid for Egypt to continue
    68 7 CAIRO Soviet Pnudent Nikolai IW|wny pledged Russia's support tor Egypt against Israels "adventurist policies" which he described ao a direct threat to peace In a dinner speech. President Podgoraj, in Egypt to attend opening ceremonies at the Hu»-sian-backed Aswan High Dam, said at a
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    Lock icon INDIRA JABS THE ELITE IN POLLS SPEECH
    218 7 HEW DELHI Mian Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi launched Iter rating Congrats Party's election campaign with blistering attacks on the moneyed erase and her right wing opponents. She charged thai rijfhtw i n r reactionaries" backed by b*C business■am, who controlled industries and
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    Lock icon Former Rugby star on $2.20 theft charge
    174 7 AUCKLAND F«MCork has been charged with stealing a SS3.il packet of stick lac piasters fraai a super market Clarke waa identified In court as a SV broker. He pleaded aot pillty aad waa wlnwd an S3M haiL The cI*MSi fttdaV^whm the magistrate will
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    Lock icon Court opinion not valid-South Africa
    189 7 Court opinion not validSouth Africa CAPE TOWN South Africa hat told the International Caff of Justice that if has no authority to |iva an advisory opinion on Southwest Africa, higMy-placed official sources taii In a written submission to the World Court in The Hague, which will resume hearing* on the
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    416 8 Families to join 7,500 prisoners on island soon JAKARTA Attorney General Maj.-Gen. Sugiharto has announced that families of 7,500 communist political prisoners now resettled In Buru Island, East Indonesia, may "soon" join the prisoners there. There are plans to split the prisoners' resettlement camps into vil-lage-like communities
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    Lock icon Reds suspected of house bombing
    256 8 T ON DON Police believe a communist cell, inspired end financed from abroad, is behind two bomb explosions that wrecked the home of Employment Secretory Robert Carr, a gazette has claimed. The 'Daily Express' yesterday disclosed that an examination of the bombs had shown that
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    Lock icon QUEEN IN MIDI
    48 8 Britain's Queen Elizabeth appears in public for the first time wearing a midi coat complete with a leather belt and knee-high boots on arrival at the London Railway Station. She and other members of the Royal Family were returning from holidays at Sandringham. UPI radiophoto.
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    Lock icon IT'S A CASE OF DOG SENSE
    92 8 WASHINGTON The best hope of detecting passengers carrying exC'oslve aboard planes lies in traing Labrador Retrievers, a British official has told an air security conference. Oliver St. John, of the British Board of Trade, disclosed that one dog had already been put into service
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    Lock icon HOW A PLANE WAS HIJACKED
    132 8 ISTANBUL Two Russian students who hijacked a plane to Turkey after covering the pilot's head with a bag has described how they landed with the fuel gauge on zero and with one of the two engines already silent. The students had never flown a plane
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    Lock icon Accused of killing mother and child
    295 8 CARDIFF Two Pakistanis have been accused in court of murdering a woman in front of her five-year-old daughter. They are then said to have cut up the body and placed It In a chimney. The prosecutor, Emlyn Hooson, alleged that the child was next
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    Lock icon Battle of words at Tate trial
    190 9 LOS ANGELES Tkc tttni Tate murder Mai has erupted Into bitter battle of words between lawyers as prosecutor Vlatest Bugttaai tasked oat at hippie leader Charles Maaaoon's attorney as a "clown" who woald ro to any lengths to win an acquittal for his client
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    Lock icon Bid to arrest ex-governor
    221 9 AFP BUENOS AIRES An Argentinian police bid to arrest a former governor of the Britfsh-iwled Falkland Islands, over which Argentina claims sovereignty, has been jailed. The former Governor, Leslie Gladell, avoided seizure by staying aboard his plane when it landed at Buenos Aires on its way
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    Lock icon 5 gunmen die in battle with police
    36 9 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic Five gunmen have been killed and a policeman wounded in a running gunbattle through (he streets of Santo Domingo after two city stores were robbed
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    Lock icon U.S. govt. heads for courtroom showdown with peace workers
    368 9 WASHINGTON The alleged priests' plot to kidnap Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger yesterday seemed certain to provoke o major courtroom confrontation between the government and the radical peace movement. The conspiracy triol probably will not begin for several months but the opening
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    Lock icon 4 jailed for Italian blood bank swindle
    153 9 PAVIA, Italy Alt Its Han court has fenced four official* o# H»« provincial Stood DOMH' Association to [ail for supplying Paria's Main hospital with watered-down Wood, bwt the sentences on throe west imnsdistsl| slashed and the fourth remitted. 81 c »or Tnnistoclc Otluidrt,
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    Lock icon Papa Doc wants his son to succeed him
    155 9 PORT AC PRINCB, Haiti, Haiti's rubberstamp parliament haa approved ma amendment to the national constitution which wlO alow President-for-life Francois Duvalier to name his 24-year-old son as naccessor. "An estimated 30.000 supporter* of the President demonstrated out*ldr In favour of joung Jean
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    Lock icon THE POWER OF THE GAVEL
    647 10 I>RIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew's speech from the chair at yesterday's opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference is extremely important for two Indications how he will use the gavel and how at any time he is prepared to take the buH by the
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    Lock icon INDIRA'S CHOICE
    918 10  -  By Max Lerner WASHINGTON The best argument I know for Women's Lib and also against it is Indira Gandhi. For it, because, a woman and alone, she rose to be Prime Minister of a nation of 560 million people/ mm Against it, because she aid it not in
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
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      Lock icon Sophistication but no toilets
      314 10 SIR: I>Y Asian standards, Singapore is an advanced and progressive nation. Speaking of nightclubs, luxuries and sophistication of modern life. Singaporeans can claim to have enough of these. They have m fact become the order of the day In the life of a Singaporean. Now. Singapore
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      Lock icon Candid camera
      131 10 TRUTH is stranger than fiction. I witnessed an incredible bat true incident the other night. Well, as I was walking towards a bus stop I noticed a man reading a letter, squatting on a (of all roaddivider near the traffic lights. He seemed to enjoy reading the letter,
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    Lock icon CASHING IN ON VIP TREATMENT
    817 12/13 lyt AGIC that's the only word for it. I'm talking about the improved service in this town's bars and restaurants. It's supposed to be in aid of the foreign correspondents and delegates to the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting but it's working for everyone. Foreign
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      313 12/13 T \i(|hlCluli Special New Year 'll attraction "LU DOtBLEHIXB*Bmcltingl Captlvatlnil Colourful dances' Variety of acU ranging from dramatic adagios to rollicking spoofs. Join the merry crowd this evening at 10 pm. 1141 p m Manic by Pred Ramoa and Loa Manllenoa pluj the PUhirmen Oal Mei-Llng NMM far rearrvailona IH
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      86 12/13 NEVER BEFORE Delicious Tokyo Barbeque from KM per dink (Dally from it.3o pm. 1000 p m > TWICE NIGHTLY I 9.30 10.45 JEANNE LEACH perform* fantastic feat» •f balance al the Nlfhl (lab (Nightly from 7.00 p.m. 12 00 pm V BIRD BOTTLE Re»taarant A Nl*ht Cm 371, Baklt Tlmah
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    Lock icon JAPAN'S REPORTERS TELL NEWS ALMOST BEFORE IT HAPPENS
    657 14  -  ■r FREDERICK H. MARKS JAPAN'S news organisations don't report the news, they envelop it, with o relish that astonishes even those making the news. Like the group of radical, leftwing students last spring who hijacked a Japan Air Lines plane from Japan
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    Lock icon Medical explanation of varicose veins
    440 14  -  B* LAWRENCE E. LAMB, M.D. Dear Dr. Lamb I have varicose veins on my leg. It looks awful. What do you think about having the veins stripped? Are there certain foods and drinks to stay away from? As I get older will 1 have hardening
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    Lock icon Aborigine children starving
    113 16 PERTH, West Australia, A West Australian state minister baa called for an Immediate Investigation Into a report that starving aboriginal children bave formed commando raiding parties to snatch food from rubbish bins at a small town. The report made bf the Wydhara Tow* Council In Its monthly
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      971 17 today's WHIM A. CHANNEL 5 K) Opening Announcements, followed by General Hospital A daytime serial about the staff and the patients of a hospital. 10 For The Family A magazine series presented in English. 10 A Diary Of Events In Singapore This Week (English). 5 It's Happening In Singapore (English
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    Lock icon The danger of overcrowding
    497 18 r J I ODAY overpopulation is one of our most pressing problems. The population of the world is increasing ot on oterming rate. Within the next fifty years, the population of the world will be double that of today. Man has made treat prog rts« in
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    Lock icon Terrifying experience
    423 18 T*NAT night I remember well, the nrgfct I Had a iM«t ctulliiig adventure. It was past midnight and I was sitting reading an interesting be eh. Mother had gone to bed with my younger brother and 1 was the only person still up. My father, who is a
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    Lock icon Jakarta's nightclubs
    103 18 THERE are now 20 nightclubs in Jakarta with several of them hav.ng opened only In the past few weeks. The new entertainment centres have come under ftre from some Moslem groups who claim that they will have a bad Influence on the morals of young people. Another Jakarta
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    Lock icon Lessons in love are not my line
    435 18  -  DATELINE By Ele,Walt Dulaney DEAR ELE AND WALT: 1 Med help to eifUin my feelings to Gay, my boyfriend. We have been going together for five months and I want to keep going with him. But now he's mad at me because 1
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      25 18 JGTUDF NTS: Do you have thoughts, ideas, suggestions worth sharing? Fed free to write to us. S«Mtable letters will B« published as space allows. Editor
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      193 18 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe the (astern Sun'$ essay writinq contest tor boys and girts of 14 and under (Junior) and boys and girts over 14 (Senior) appears m Hits page from Monday to Friday Prize money it: 10 tor Senior* and to» luniO" k> every esu» ouMIs^ entrant? are
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  • WOMEN
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      Lock icon CAVALIER LOOK IN PANTS IS NOW THE RAGE
      428 19  -  Florence de Santis Time was tfcat certain dresses performed a standard season function. Amidst all the excitement over the rise of pants, it's been almost unnoticed that they have taken over the span-season function for many women. Right now, tailored pants costumes,
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      Lock icon Parents lead cat and dog existence
      262 19  -  Ann Landers Dear Ana: I an 16 and •a the brink of Insanity. My parents fight night and day. If it was Just normal fighting and like that— I could gland it. but it isn't My mother usually ends up in the hospital. My
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  • commercial and industrial
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      Lock icon Listless trading at the market
      236 20 Values were virtually mixed in listless trading on the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Carried over profittaking caused several counters to slump further while the rest pprked marginally on half-hearted buying support. Speculative activity weakened across a fair y wide front particularly among
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      Lock icon PRODUCE
      105 20 Till 1 noon pricr* ai Ihc Miirk|N>rr I hlnrr I'nHllMT Kxli.mrr ifktrrd»i M:I» luronni Oil H b ifob.i milk «ooo (i-cnntit <111 I f.o.b. i dram 50 MUrd M opra ;th OO ftluntok While Pi piii-i if ob.> A!»TA i0o% N ML IB7 BO Njruwu* While PfPim iC.ob.» JNHL
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      Lock icon Steel mills' 'No' to Nixon
      89 20 BETiILEHEM, Pennsylvannm Bethlehem Steel Corp. said it has (JO plans to rescind steel price increases that prompted President Richard Nixon's threat to lift restraints on foreign ■teel imports. Bethlehem chairman Stewart S. Cort met with Paul W. McCracken, chairman of the President's council of economic
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      Lock icon Bank rate unchanged
      67 20 LONDON An unchanged bank rate of seven per cent was announced b v the Bank of England yesterday. Following a lowering of interest rates in the United States. France ■nd Italy, there had been considerable speculation that Britain would follow the same trend. But confirmation that the
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      Lock icon Dearer oil moves
      75 20 PARIS Premier Amir Abbas Hoveyda of Iran hat. called for a general world rise in the price of crude oil as a fair move because of inflation in buying countries. Speaking to newsmen at a reception at the Iranian embassy, Hoveyda said, "The oil producing countries are
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      Lock icon H.K. currency
      116 20 IIONG KONCJ Yesterday's 5 p.m. eurreney rutes I (supplied by Foreien Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Buyers) (Sellers) 195.50 196.50 per lOU straits- dollars 145.50 147 50 per 1.00(! Taiwan dollar* 6.735 6.76 per Australian dollar 340 360 w 1,000 Burmese kyats 460 480 Der 1,000 Indian ru(X>es 149
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      965 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 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS ACMA $1.41 (1) Alcan $1.50 (2); DIM $1.52 (1); Ben $1.03 (1) $1.04 (5);
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      Lock icon WORLD BANK TO RECEIVE YEN LOAN
      189 20 TOKYO The Bank of Japan announced yesterday it had made a yen loan worth Ss3oo million to the world Bank. The third Japanese loan to the World Bank since early last year had been supplied in view of the recent trends In Japan's balance
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      Lock icon CLOSING PRICES
      687 20 BID and offer price* official!? listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Kuala lumpor trading rooms of the Stock Exchange vesterda* IMIISTHALS 8. Arma Ajinomoto M. in All ed hoc Ben Berjaya Borneo Boustcad BM. Trusts C- Su(ars COM C- Storage C. A C l).BS
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      Lock icon MINING STOCKS RECOVER
      328 21 SYDNEY Mining btuti skewed tome signs ef recovery en Hie Sydney Stock lacking* ss selling prsssere eased yesterday. Sleeks attracted e little esere keying support in en active trading session. Poseidon. Kathleen In- r vestments and Queensland Mines, all cut to ribbons early this week, shoved mediocre
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      Lock icon Rubber report for week ended January 14
      306 21 A alow M consistent dailv decline was recorded during the week which reduced current month valaes front 49-7/8 to 48-3/S before January ran off on Wednesday. By this time February levels were below those rul.ng for January at the start of the period.
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      14 21 Hie tin price for yesterday was $633.00 per picul ctowu 50 cent*.
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