Eastern Sun, 17 January 1971

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  • 18 1 THE SUN Final edition Price 10 eentt Vol. 1 No. 44 Sunday, 17 January 1971. MC (P) 2509
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  • 781 1 As two more sail past Singapore... JpRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday saw no political significance in Soviet naval vessels steaming past Singapore while Commonwealth leaders are meeting here. "Everybody knows the Straits of Malacca is pt>rt of the high seas," he said. When
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  • 495 2 pRESIDENT Milton Obote of Uganda yesterday lash ed out at the racist regimes in South Africa, Rhodesia, Angola and Mozambique. He was speaking at a brief plenary session of the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference which adjourned for the weekend at lunch time.
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  • 21 2 British Prime Minister Edward Heath will attend matins at Bt. Andrews Church today. He will read the second lesson.
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  • 123 2 Prime Minister Forbes Burnham of Guyana said yesterday that the "strength of the Commonwealth will depend on our seriousness of purpose In pursuing principles." These principles. h« said were: Survival on the basis of interdependent In at least some Important area of national existence. Much broader aIU.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 105 2 Hie weather boreaa predicts fair weather till 6 a.m. Snnday. SATURDAY Max Temp: 86.1 Min Temp: 1M Rain: Shower Total rata to date; 3.02 la. Humidity at 115 p.m. 73 per cent. KB SINGAPORE TOWN 2.22 a.m. (8 6 ft.); 8.03 ajn. (3.6 ft.); 159 p.m. (8.9 ft.); 8.18 p.m.
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  • 127 3 This Is a rare sight students "demonstrating" on the steps of City HalL They are members of the University of Singapore Students' Union and Democratic Socialist Club. They presented the petition on Saturday to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labour, Mr. S. Rajaratnam.
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  • 409 3  -  By Eastern Sun Staff Reporters JjRITAIN'S excessive obsession with seo routes is not being understood by several delegations, conference sources said yesterday. Every nation has its one peculiar obsession, one delegate pointed out. India is obsessed by land and agriculture, Singapore by industry, and Egypt
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  • 230 3 MAURITIUS will offer Britain a naval base as an alternative to Hie controversial Simonstown base in South Africa. Mauritian External Affairs Minister Oaetan Duval said Saturday: "If It Is agreeable to all member* of the Commonwealth and to atop the disruption
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  • 103 3 There was a serious error In oar front pace story which appeared Friday, Jan. 15, but It was only discovered today. The sentence we refer to said: "But intensive preconferenoe Pro-British lobbying b v Singapore and India had dampening effect." The story was telephoned by the writer from Hilton
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  • 293 4 manufacturers are still ashamed to include "Made in Singapore", labels on their products. This was alleged by Mr. Tang See Chim, Minister of State for Finance, when he opened the Singapore Manufacturers' Association Trade Exhibition at the Japanese Shopping Complex yesterday. "This will only
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  • Article, Illustration
    154 4  -  By Rosemary Tan Meeting of the minds comes naturally to the charming wives of Commonwealth Prime Minister! when they went on a shopping spree at Raffles Place yesterday. Whilst their husbands thrashed it oat at the Conference table, they seemed to hit off like old friends. They earlier
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  • 119 4 A 16-month-old girl miraculously escaped from being cut to pieces by a train which ran over her yesterday. Teo Book Lin slipped and fell onto the tracks Just as the Kuala Lumpur bound train was passing near her house «t Holland Village. But she
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  • 175 4 The rise of livint standards in Singapore has brought about a great change in the baying habits of Singaporeans. Concurrently Singaporeans buy a great Amount of their food from Australia which has now become a traditional source of food supply. Today's tip Is Australian Gehakt, I or
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  • 24 4 FOUR young cyclists and a pillion rider were yesterday arrested when one of them was found in possession of a bearing scraper.
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  • 90 4 An Illegal Immigrant was yesterday sentenced to three months* jail (or retaining two bales of suiting materials. Bison Nalnggolan bin Krenes, 45 of Indonesia pleaded guilty at the Sixth Magistrate's Court to retaining the stolen material worth (200 from the Metro Department Store Ltd. at Hlgb
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  • 78 4 ObTioiudy the Massachusetts company which wrote to the address below Is still In the chitehee of bygone history. Postmarked October last year, the eontents of the envelope are snppeeed to be sent to the Sunday Standard, Singapore, British Malaya! It goes to prove that
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 184 4 Around town 9.99 a.m. to 5.90 p.m. 10.39 a.m. Opening Art exhibition by 24 ceremony of the intercontemporary Austra- national seminar on lian painters at Seah "Modernization in Gallery, Tudor Court, Southeast Asia" by the Tanglin. Minister of Defence, 909 am. to 5.99 p.m. I)r Goh Kens Swee at Exhibition
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  • 328 5 YAOUNDE, Cameroun Three men hove been executed by gunfire on o public squore in Bofoussom on charges of plotting a rebellion against the government. Official sources said the condemn -1 men who faced the firing squad before a crowd of observers included Ernest
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  • 82 5 MELBOURNE—Drugtaking Is increasing In Australia at m terrifying rate, according to Federal Customs Minister Donald Ch 'P£ (Hipp was commenting on figures released by his department which showed that record quantities of all the main drugs had been detected at Austra lian ports last year.
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  • 167 5 TODHPUR, India, Indian Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi is appealing to voters to return a strong one party government, formed by her ruling Congress Party, in the March general election. Orderly and smooth progress was possible only when there was a •table one-party government, she
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  • 77 5 ST. MORITZ BAD. Switserland Fire has rutted Sslso million gixtorey ski hotel but most of the guests were out skiing and on on e was injured. The guests were already out on the ski slopes when the blaze broke out in the Rtfi Soleil (Sun
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  • 83 5 BRESCIA, Italy Opera singer Maria Callas the first celebrity to appear in a divorce court under Italy's month-old divorc' law. At preliminary proceedings a judge failed in the attempt to effect a court-room reconciliation between the Greek opera singer and her estranged Italian husband Giovanni Battista
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  • 48 5 JOHANNES BURG Mrs. Winnie Mandela, wife of Nelson Mandela, jailed former leader of the outlawed African National Congress, is charged with contravening a banning order imposed upon her in September last year. She denied the charge and the hearing was adjourned to January 22.
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  • 252 5 NITEROI. Braall Lawyer Leopoldo Hcltor Is acquitted for the third successive time of haviai murdered a beautiful Czechoslovak born advrntureas and dissolving her body la acid nearly ten year 8 a*o In the first of his four trial* Heitor was sentenced in
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  • 73 5 MOSCOW A Soviet skater is complaining that Jewish demonstrators threw glass marbles under his skates during a performance in the U.S. The sknter, Alexander Goryelik, was one of a group of Soviet artistes who recently returned from an American tour. He told the official Soviet
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  • 282 6 ASWAN The Presidents of Egypt and the Soviet Union officially opened the 552,250 million Aswan High Dam on Friday. Eighty-foot high portraits of former President Nasser, his arms outstretched over a symbolic picture of Egyptian farmers and workers, dominated the two-mile road across the
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  • 280 6 JJELFAST Fire bombs exploded in six business premises late Friday, damaging property and scattering late shoppers in one Belfast department store. There were no Injuries in any of the incidents, police said. Most of the fires, aimed mainly at furniture shops, caused only small
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  • 239 6 AMMAN Jordanian troops and Palestinian fuerrillas clashed late Friday in the Jerash area, 9 miles northwest of Amman. The reports said that the incident was immediately stopped by an Arab observer team. An unofficial report •aid an army patrol was fired on. It was believed to
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  • 108 6 DOVER, England Beache« along the Southeast coast of England are covered in thick black oil following the sinking of two ships in the English Channel earlier this week. Qangs of workmen have been brought In to clear more than 60 miles of oil-polluted coastline and
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  • 76 6 VATICAN CITY The Vatican has quietly dropped the death penalty from its law books. Vatican sources say. The penalty, never carried out, was dropped 18 months ago when the Vatican abrogated a section of the 1926 Italian law still in use in the Vatican.
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  • 283 6 BANGUI President Jean Bedel Bokassa of the Central African Republic finally has found the long-lost daughter he left behind in Vietnam when a sergeant in the French army. An official communique said the President Is satisfied she is the second of two
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  • THE MORNING AFTER with Weatherbee Wong
    • 839 8/12 THE SHANGRI-LA HOTEL down at Orange Grove Road has this big fantabulou.s disco with a nautical atmosphere It's dubbed the LOST HORIZON... once Inside, the ocean bottom knows no limit French man of war, Gondolas (no kidding, they're for real)
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  • THE SUN SPORTS LIFTOUT
    • 110 9 SYDNEY Former Ntw South Wales Sheffield Shield fast bowler Tom Brooks hot been socked es on umpire for the fifth cricket Test, to be ployed in Melbourne on Jonuory 21 26, the Austrelion Cricket Control Boord announced Saturday. In a shock announcement, Secretary of the Australian Board
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    • 111 9 CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand New Zealanders and Australians took the first four places in the Wifan trophy motor race here Saturday. New Zealand's Graham Mcßac won the trophy and the 559,000 prize money. He led all the way in his McLaren Ml 08. Mcßae is now leading
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    • 75 9 SANT" ELLA., Sardinia An entire soccer team was barred from jplaying lor life Friday after authorities reported most, If not all, members of the team beat up a referee during a match. The decision against Acli of Sant' Elia was believed without precedent in Italian
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    • 978 10/11  -  GO RACING Wit 11 THE SUN By Denni Boy ROYAL MARK hos 0 first rote cl.ance of winning the Committee Cup for class three horses (Race Four) over 1 Of at Bukit Timoh today, lost day of the Singapore Turf Club meeting. The Henry's Choice
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    • 199 10/11 PEBBLE BEACH, California, American Arnold Palmer, seeking an end to the longest victory drought of his professional career, boosted himself into a challenging position in the *****,000 Bing Crosby National Pro-amateur golf championship here Friday. With a string of six
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    • 46 10/11 NEWCASTLE, New South Wales MCC were 270 for three first innings wickets when rain stopped play for the day 50 minutes before the close of the first day of their threeday cricket match against a Northern New South Wales country eleven here.
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    • 24 10/11 Seven records were broken at Chinese Swimming Club during the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association's tenth single age group meet held yesterday.
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    • 41 10/11 Postal Services and Polytech drew one all in the SGBFA Division 2.'. fixture played at Parrer Park last night. In the Division 3A fixture also played at Parrer Park, PUB (Paiir Panjang) beat Lembaga tap 11 goals to nil.
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    • 1379 10/11 Day's Best: Rickshaw Teaser, Bracken, Coup De Main. Going: Good Race 1: CI. 5 Div. 2—6 F.—2.00 p.m. ($6,500) I. ***** Bullet Proof 4y 900 Agasam (Lee) Kingston 7 2. ***** Native Ruler O 3y 8.13 HT Wee (E Breuk) Coleman 5 3. ***** Sean 6y 813
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    • 201 10/11 1 DEN Ml BO* .< DISCO |Z OD1AC EACH 1 <•) 1 (10) 1 (11) I H S NATIVE ELLEK II 11) Spaed Or* 9) Tie Kwoa Dv KACfc 1 IS li t. UA8IR >*rrr§ mta 'Onnt Carl* 1. CONFIDENCE C. Carlo K. Teaaer 8) K- TEASES 10) 8.
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    • 442 10/11  -  »r John M. Williams INGLEWOOD, California Cassius Clay appeared with hit n«w foiry godfather, Jock Ken Cooke, Friday, and was presented with a fancy coke that signalled his 29th birthday and e cheque for 557.5 million. Cooke gave Clay the cheque that
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    • 429 10/11 A last minute goal by inside-right Quah Kim Seng, enabled FAS Under-23, to defeat Japan's Furukawa Football Cllub, by two goals to one. In an excitement packed match played at the Jalan Besar Stadium last night, the Under-23. was the better team. Had It not been
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    • 1835 13  -  By Denni Boy Hikmat proved too «ood for hit rivols m Rocs 6 when Im woo by 11 o lengths in flio Clsss 3 Division 3 evoot ovsc 7 furlongs of Bnkit Timah yesterday. With Nazudi up, Hikmat paid $lB for e win. Whernside scored
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    • 80 13 KINGSTON. Jamaica Australia became the new world netball champions by beating defending champions New Zealand 48-42 here Tuesday. It was the second time the Australian* had taken the championship they beat New Zealand 37-36 in Eastbourne. England in 1963. The New Zealandera recovered the title In
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 46 13 BCSWEEP >lll Ist Prime No: 156*44 ($4,633) 2nd Prise No: *****5 ($1423) 3rd Prise No: *****8 <S 661) Starters ($156 each) Nos: *****6 *****7 *****5 *****7 *****8 *****0 *****6 *****2 *****9 *****3 Consolation ($lOO each) Nos: *****9 *****8 *****4 *****7 *****3 *****1 *****4 *****9 *****3 *****5
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  • Church at home A WEEKLY ROUND-UP OF CHRISTIAN ACTIVITIES
    • 45 14 ,St Andrew's Cathedral (Anglican) Coleman Street. I 7 a.m. Holy Communion. 8 a m Parish Communion. II a.m. Morning Service with Holy Communion. 6 p.m Special Service to mark the Occasion of the Meeting of Common wealth Heads ol Government in Singapore.
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    • 1193 14 Ageless mystery WHAT did Jesus look like? The question has haunted the minds of men for centuries. In the absence of any authentic picture or description the Christ figure always reflects Hie religious and social ideas of the artist's own period. Apart from symbols
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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    • 1731 16 THE SUN: LOOKING AND LIST radio guide TV Qinraarkiira I Radio Singapura I V III vl CI U U I CJ A M. 600 Oood Morning ilea. 8.00 World of v/ r 1 2 ilea. 8.00 World of fan. 8 30 The Wonam In Whit® CHANNEL 5 10.00 Ocenlng Anncts
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  • THE SUN at the MOVIES
    • 331 17 The fiction film they said was truer than fact... for Cordoba", starring George Peppard, is a fictional adventure drama that could hare been based on fact. The film opening soon at the Lido Theatre os their Chinese New Year special attraction, is set
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    • 139 17 rjEOFFREY Keen, who played the Game Warden in the memorable "torn Free," will repeat the role in the Columbia Pictures and Car* Foreman presentation of "Living Free," which Paul Radio is currently producing in Kenya. Nigel Davenport and Susan Hampshire star in the
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 141 17 Itth 810 DAT U Mi. 1-M. 4.00 ASO A t.M -WEDDING NIGHT" Color Denote Waterman. Tmm Wyatt CATHAY ***** NOW MOWING 11 ta, IJO IJt Ml *m. "Tta WorM At Their r«e»" The WorM Cap Mriice 11 A Back Organisation Picture In Color School: 11.00 to aay seat t»uj M
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    • 186 17 SSEK3E7 •RGANISJITI9N V NEXT OHAMOI "Tb« OHALLIPfUIU* Teohnlootor (Ul-8B) TODAY Morning Shew U4m M> «t 141 am CuiUMUi-ktif it I in U. U M No FrM Lid "UiHraUM Jaii liilt" Mandarin to Soopa Color t M l I II I LAST DAT! lIM. l.tt. 4. AM. B M p a>
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  • POPPING AROUND WITH PLATTER PETE
    • Article, Illustration
      19 18 Hal Simon and Art Garfunkrl topped the LP chart-point table lor 1971 with "Bridge Over Troubled Waters."
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    • 178 18 For tnose of you who've asked (or it, we're listing the TOP SO ALBUMS of 1970 zs compiled by the NME Chart-Point System i.e. an album listed at No. 1 gets 30 points. and one at No. So gets 1 point, and so on. If there's a
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    • 246 18 The song is simple, the message is plain. A mellow acoustic guitar introduces a pretty female voice, then a husky male and the song breaks out into an infectious bossa nova beat with a chanting chorus that swells and swells until everyone is clapping and
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    • 698 18 DISC-CUSSION FANTASTIC, FIERY COCKER JOE COCKER: MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN (A b M) What a fantastic double album this is with a more fiery, enthusiastic Joe Cocker than we've ever heard before. The whole recording is live from two fabulous nights at Fillmore East.
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 273 18 TOP FIFTY OF 1970 1. BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER (Simon A Garfunkel) 175 X. LED ZEPPELIN VOLUME 2 «96 EASY RIDER (Soundtrack) k MS 4. PAINT TOUR WAGON (Soundtrack) 526 LET IT BE (Beatles) DEEP PURPLE IN ROCK ANDY WILLIAMS GREATEST HITS MOTOWN CHARTBUSTERS VOLUME S McCARTNEY ABBEY ROAD (Beatles)
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  • ADVENTURES IN A SINGAPORE KITCHEN
    • 283 19 MRS. B.F.L. protests ttat Tfi oot fair to name Chicken Divan, one of ay favourite dishes, without also giving the recipe" Before I become the object of a picket line, I hastea to rectify an obvious injustice: herewith, a recipe for Chiekea Divan. Just as It is
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    • 1370 19  -  By Ruth Bakalar JJMITED supply, high prices; plentiful supply, low prices. That's how the price story goes. If coal were as scarce as diamonds and diamonds as plentiful as coal, diamonds would sell by the inexpensive ton and coal by the high-priced carat. This
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  • 570 20 T OS ANGELES A jury of seven men ond five women were yesterdoy left to write the final chapter in the bizarre Sharon Tate murder trial. The jury, with an elderly undertaker as its foreman has retired to consiaer their verdict.
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  • 127 20 RIO DE JANEIRO Kidnapped Swiss Ambassador Giovanni Bucher was released by hU captors Saturday, a Swiss Embassy spokesman said. Louis Bolteux Swiss Oonsul, phoned Reuter and said: "The ambassador has been found and that he will be taking him to his home in a few minutes. "1
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  • 48 20 RANGOON Eight passengers were killed and 26 Injured when rebels blew up a train near Mogaung, about 650 miles north Rangoon yesterday. The engine and two wagons of the Myltkyl-na-Mandalay train were derailed and the rebels set fire to the other carriages. a
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  • 17 20 WASHINGTON The National Press Club of Washington has ▼oted overwhelmingly to admit women to membership.
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  • 231 20 Singapore it closely studying the Malaysian proposal for Southeast Asian neutralisation and closer links with China, conference sources reported yesterday. Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak put forward the proposal when he spoke Friday. The neutralization of Southeast Asia, according to him, should be guaranteed
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  • 87 20 BELFAST. Northern Ireland Northern Ireland's premier James Chlehester-C lark has postponed a visit to the United States, dne to start today, after a new flareup of violence in his troubled capital. An official spokesman said he would "probably merely delay his depar- ture for a few days.'
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