Eastern Sun, 18 January 1971

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    20 1 EASTERN SUN own national daily 10 cents bid. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1550 Monday, January 18, 1971 M.C. if) 2510
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    Lock icon DRAFT DISPUTE ON VITAL RACE ISSUE
    791 1  -  Africans won't agree to changes By Eastern Sun staff reporters 'PHE drafting committee ossigned to rewrite Zambian President Kenneth Koundo's "Declaration of Commonwealth Principles" broke up in disaareement yesterday. "The disagreement was over important paragraphs on racial discrimination end aid to racist countries. "The
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    Lock icon Soviet spy ships sail near Heath
    111 1 British Prime Minister Edward Heath went out sailing yesterday and was within two to three miles off Soviet intelligence gathering ffishing trawlers, British officials said. While he relaxed at the helm of a 40-foot sailing sloop, three of the Russian vessels crulaed in the
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    Lock icon ECONOMIC PLAN WILL EVENTUALLY WIN VICTORY
    478 3 countries will eventually achieve a break-through by adopting a modified form of the general economic strategy now in use, Dr. Goh Kena Swee said But this is not liMy tc happen until the countries have established poliiicol institutions of sufficient strength and durability to
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    Lock icon CEYLON BUYS FIRST MERCHANT SHIP
    197 3 f EYLON'S Prime Minisfer, Mrs. Sirimovo Bandaranaike has asked Singapore for help to establish a merchant navy fleet. Singapore and Ceylon, she soid, ore two smoll countries who need the help and assistance of each other "I hope Singapore would give us all the advice
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    Lock icon RAJA TO OPEN SINGAPORE PROFESSIONAL CENTRE TODAY
    354 3 Minister of Foreign Affairs and Labour S. Rajaratnam will open the Singapore Professional Centre today. All the professions will be represented at the centre, set up with a $146,000 grant from the Commonwealth Foundation In London. The foundation was set up by the
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    Lock icon Unrest worsens in Irish cities
    180 5 BELFAST Petrol bombs flashed yesterday in the streets of North Ireland's two biggest cities, Belfast and Londonderry, when new battles between rioters and British troops erupted in Catholic districts. Buildings were set alight and a burning car pushed through a shop display window In Londonderry
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    Lock icon CALL FOR REFORM
    36 5 WASHINGTON President Nixon has called lor reform ol America's Criminal Code, Including the possible elimination of the death penalty He asked Attorney General John Mitchell to prepare comprehensive changes for submission to Congress.
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    Lock icon MASS COLLISION OF VEHICLES IN FOG
    141 5 KARLSRUHE, Germany —A thick fog euied a mass collision of vehicles on s gaper-high-way at nearby Ettlingen yesterday. It left a number of persons dead or injured. First reports from the scene said three persons were dead and between 15 and 20 others Injured.
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    Lock icon Armed guards for New York
    97 5 NEW YORK Special armed Federal guards were called in from Washington yesterday to protect Russia's United Nations mission and other foreign diplomatic oflcers as the New York police pay strike reaches its third day. Thousands of uniformed polite ace still de- fying gtate law and
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    Lock icon 21 ABANDON BURNING SHIP
    77 5 The Greek freighter, "Sangus," drifts while burning in the Gulf of Mexico about 40 miles south of the Mississippi River. Its crew of 21, Including one woman, abandoned the vessel after a Are at night. They were rescued bj an oceangoing tug "The Gulf Star," and
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    Lock icon ALERT FOR BANNED GOODS SMUGGLING
    215 5 J>ANGKOK Police hoi boon alerted for wholesale smuggling of banned Chinese goods end foreign liquor info Theilend for Chinese New Year celebrations. The Thai Government hoped to cut down the loss of revenue estimated about $7O million annually on those goods. Thailand ha* about three
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    Lock icon Former Interior Secretary held for 'shoplifting'
    221 5 WASHINGTON Former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall hat been arrested in a Virginia drag store and charged with "concealment of merchandise." Udall, 50. now i*> novate law practice in Washington, w as released on Ss7so personal bond A trial w as scheduled next Thursday. He
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    Lock icon CHARGED WITH BOMBING
    28 5 CANBERRA Folic* yesterday charged a 19-year-old youth with the pre-dawn bombing of the Soviet embassy In Canberra, target o. reported threat by Jewish militants. k[]
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      71 5 When the weather is sultry, all forms of fever w ll come. Three Legs Brand RHINO HORN FEVER WATER is good for relief of all fevers and also as a cure for baby's measlea and pox w 3 3P v r> r V\ WEN KEN DRUG COMPANY LIMITED Bead Office
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    Lock icon NEWS in BBIEF
    446 6 Plot to kill Brandt in Kenya foiled BONN The West German Government was warned of a plot to assassinate Chancellor Willy Brandt while he was on holiday In Kenya recently. Brandt Is now safely back In West Oermany after security was tightened during his tour. GLASGOW. Scotland
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    Lock icon UN meeting if Jarring fails
    218 6 Egypr warns: Egypt will ask for a meeting of the U.N. Security Council to discuss the Middle Eost if U.N. Envoy Gunnar Jerring's efforts fail to produce o breakthrough. Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad announced yesterday. The semi-official Cairo newspaper, 'Al Ahram/ quoted Riad as saying
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    Lock icon Drugs found on former minister
    79 6 ROME Authorities have ordered a former Somali Cabinet minister to stand trial on charges of illegally possessing 132 pounds of hashish. Abdulrahman Hamed Assan, 39, a former Public Works Minister In Somalia, said the hashish was planted in his luggage as part of a foreign
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    Lock icon ALARM HITS BRITAIN BEFORE POSTAL STRIKE
    255 6 LONDON Pott offices across Britain have been flooded with letters and packages to beat Wednesday's postal workers' strike deadline. Thla la the latest in a series of walkouts plaguing the Government of Premier Edward Heath. "There could be a complete stoppage today there's Juat
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    Lock icon ACTS AGAINST PRIESTS IN SOUTH AFRICA
    83 6 JOHANNESBURG Withdrawal of South African priest's passport. the refusal of a passport to another and the expulsion from the country of a third priest have appeared to be part of official government action against antl-apartheld churchmen. The withdrawal of the passport of Reverend Dale
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    Lock icon SPLIT IN 2 MAJOR GUERRILLA GROUPS?
    138 6 BEIRUT Two major Palestinian guerrilla organisations appeared to be splitting up yesterday after a public accusation of collusion with the Jordanian Government to liquidate the resistance movement. A senior FATAH official, Kamal Adwan. has declared that the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
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    Lock icon MAOIST DELEGATION IN FINLAND
    32 6 A Chinese communist delegation headed by Sun Chen (centre) la greeted by Finnish Consulting Civil Servant Oamo Lares (right) upon their arrival In HelalnkL (UPI radlophoto). UPI radiophoto.
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    Lock icon Wife of diplomat robbed
    56 7 HONG KONG The wtf® a Canadian diplomat has been robbed after thieves rammed her car and drove her several mile 8 m their own vehicle. Mrs. JX. Swanson. wife of a Canadian Trade Commissioner to Hong Kong, was robbed of cash, a watch and jewellery worth
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    Lock icon NO REDEPLOYMENT OF AIRMEN IN S.E. ASIA
    258 7 For high firepower level: OAIGON The U.S. Command has frozen redeployment of oil U.S. Air Force squadrons in SouHi-East Asia in order to maintain a high firepower level for Allied trooos in the oreo. military source* uid yesterday. In a further effort to
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    Lock icon OPPOSITION THROWS MISSILES AT MRS. GANDHI
    134 7 NEW DELHI Conservative Congress Party elements have hurled stones, shoes and slippers at Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi when •he spoke at a political rally In Gujarat State. None of the missiles hit the Premier but they landed on those sitting near the dsis,
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    Lock icon Nuns mistreat orphans: Boy
    154 7 HOME, The activities of an order of Roman Catholic nun* are being Investigated after a boy from an orphanage they run vas rushed to hospital with heart trouble and malnutrition. The boy. Plero Baldassarre was taken to a Rome hospital three weeks ago after being found
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    Lock icon PRIESTS UNDER GREAT STRESS
    69 7 SOUTH BEND Indiana More tban 4# per cent of young Roman Catholic priests polled in a nationwide survey felt they were under such severe stress they would consider quitting the priesthood, a Notre Dame University sociologist has disclosed. The survev of parish priests showed 'the generation
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    Lock icon Connie Francis marries again
    34 7 CALDWELL. New Jersey Popular singing star, Oonnle Francis has been married to hair stylist Izzy Marlon. The ,couple will honeymoon in Miami Beach. Florida. It was the second carriage) doth,
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    Lock icon INDIRA'S LEOPARD FOR NEW DELHI ZOO
    103 7 Indian Premier Mrs. Indira Gandhi bids goodby to Himani (Daughter of the Snow**), a 5-month-old snow leopard after donating the feline to New Delhi Zoo In the care of Mr. Bhatia, its director (left). Mrs. Gandhi was presented with the cob by an Indian
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    Lock icon U.S. rejects guerrillas' $3m ransom demand
    208 7 America hag refused to pay Ss3 million In ransom for the release of Claude Fly, a U.S. agricultural expert kidnaped on August 7 by Tupamaro guerrillas In Uruguay. The U.S. Government also opposed payment by private group 8 or individuals because it felt this
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    Lock icon THE SOVIET UNION AND THE COMMONWEALTH
    701 8 A 8 the Commonwealth Heads of Govern"™e u n conference's weekend hiatus was storm"** 7 th CUChe Calm before the 2SI delegates the big question was. Why did the Soviet flotilla choose this ume to display itself off Singapore?" rppftl? 6 wer several answers:
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      Lock icon Arrogant air on arms sale issue
      792 8  -  ABDULLAH SARBINI SIR: THERE is no doubt that throughout the sessions in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference now in progress, the British Prime Minister, Edward Heath, will certainly be the centre of fierce criticisms. I am of the view that the majority of
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      Lock icon Commonwealth principles
      485 8  -  HARISH CHANDOLA Sir: I thank you for giving prominence to my country. Indie, in Hie front* pige story of your respected newspaper of today (January 15', But I am greatly hurt when you described India's (and also Singapore's > efforts as "pro-British lobbying.'" in the current Commonwealth Conference
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    Lock icon ECONOMISTS CALL THE SHOTS FOR PULLOUT FROM ASIA
    1101 9  -  TODAY S WORLD From ROBBERT CRABBE, ranks of American fighting men confronting the Soviet Union and Communist China in Northeast Asia are growing thinner. Lost summer, .17.9,000 U.S. service men were on duty in South Korea, Japan, and Okinawa. By Jan e
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    Lock icon THE SUN'S MONDAY PICTORIAL
    326 10/11 British Prime Minister Edward Heath called on President Sheares at the Istana at the weekend. Mr. Johnson Chow, an artist and calligrapher from Hong Kong recently held a threeday joint exhibition of Chinese paintings with his wife at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Seen declaring
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      1142 12 w HHBMI —I t f cat EE 41 >i CHANNEL 5 Opening Announcements, followed by General Hospital A daytime serial about the stall and the patients of a hospitalFor The Family A magazine series presented In Tamil. A Diary Of Events In Singapore This Week (Tamil). Iff Happening In Singapore
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    Lock icon Rock Hudson's ambition: anonymity off the set
    512 13  -  By JOAN CROSBY EVERYBODY who has any kind of a talk show wonts Rock Hudson as a guest. But he makes life hard for his press agent by not wanting to do them. Then when he finally does agree to appear on one
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    Lock icon How low can they go?
    573 13  -  From Harold Heffernan in Washington a movie theatre isn't so easy after all. Some still believe if they ponder the matter at all that all the fellow who runs the emporium has to do is sweep out the candy bar wrappers, slip a few one-sheet
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      Lock icon The importance of road safety
      495 14 SINGAPORE'S roods ore getting more ond more dangerous os doy succeeds day. There are thousands more vehicles on the roods than ever before, ond hundreds of people ore being allowed to drive or ride vehicles that con cause injury or death if the vehicles ore
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      Lock icon Keeping fit can be fun
      361 14 *VTO-ONE can hove very much fun iff he it ill. We ell wont to stoy well. To keep our bodies in good runnino order, we must Have plenty of fresh-air to breathe, and to get this we must not stay in a shut-up room. If
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      Lock icon Bogged down in dust
      107 14 Kangaroos and wild buffaloes, fine dost two feel thick and sadden monsoon al rain storms are three reasons why motoring in Australia's Northern Territory is a challenge to the average driver. Such hazards, however, are no deterrent to thousands of Australians who each rear take a
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      141 14 ESSAY CONTEST; Rules to observe Tito laitin Sun'i essay writing contest tor keys aad girls of 14 aid andei (Junior) and boys and giris over 14 (Senior) appears in •bit page from Monday to Friday. Prkae money Is: $lO to Sanion and 95 lunlon In MOT* MUy nuMkhcct Ail mtimh
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    Lock icon Underweight girl could be an escapist
    347 15  -  ANN LANDERS Dear Ann: Yon have printed letters from parents who are concerned because their daughters are too (at My problem Is just the opposite. Our daughter is 19, nearly 5*5". She weighs 87 pounds. Alice thinks thin is beautiful. She practically starves herself
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    Lock icon SUEDE ENTERS THE LIMELIGHT
    366 15  -  By BARBARA KLING PARIS is ploying the skin gome this season and the name of the gome is suede. It is everywhere, but perhaps the one model which cinches the trend Is the suede coat. Ankle-length (the new maxl), is made entirely of rectangles in brick,
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    Lock icon Bucher's 40-day ordeal
    147 16 ZURICH Kidnapped Swiss Envoy Giovanni Backer, treed in Brazil on Satnrday, has disclosed that Ids gnerriDa captors had kept hisa in a small, sweltering room for the II days he was held. "The claustrophobia was the most distressing for me as well as the impossibility of having
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    Lock icon Prime Rate wins cup in photo-finish
    2284 18  -  By Denni Boy Prime Rate pipped Royal Mark and High Ruler II in an exciting finish to win the Committee Cup over lOf at Bukit Timah yesterday. With Moses Lee astride. the Better Boy gelding beat the favourite Royal Mark (Podmore) by a nose
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    Lock icon MR LEE'S SPEECH: SOMETHING TO THINK OVER
    496 20  -  By Derek Ingram, When Presidents and Prime Ministers resume their talks today they will still hive in mind the Saturday speech of the chairman, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Mr. Lee's quite unexpected address before the adjournment was the highlight of the
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    Lock icon Kaunda signs visitors' book
    62 20 Zambian President, Dr. Kenneth Kaunda, signs the visitors' book at the Vigil a nt e Corps Headquarters in Jalan Kolam Ayer. He and President Milton Obote of Uganda and President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania toured the Shift apo re Armed Forces Training Institute and the VC
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      140 20 this exciting careers pilot o in the Mr Defence Command More and more intelligent-end adventurous young men with initiative and a high degree of physical fitness are responding to this challenge. Those who have joined the SAF n pilot trainees ere confident of gradue#ng as pilots, proud to be among
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