Eastern Sun, 19 January 1971

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  • 369 2 Reuter. INDIAN Foreign Minister Sordor Swotoa Singh Mid ywtwJay U baped Britain would not take a "stubborn riew" and «eH to So«ith Africa against the wishes of most Commonwealth members. However, he refused ot a Press conference to answer directly wl»en asxad
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  • 531 2  -  •y Derek Ingram, Gemini News Service When Hie curtain goes up oe Hi* crucial Sou Hi African arm* debate today, ComwonweaWi Presidents and Prime Ministers will have behind them three and a-half days of sound and solid debate, during which no one has been
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  • 495 2 DAILY TELEGRAPH. Sydney: "Prime Minister Lee Knan Tew to be praised for his spirited attempt to knock some common sense Into the more wooly minded Premiers at the Commonwealth Conferenoa. In an editorial the newspaper said: "In a 50-mlnute speech. Mr. Lee urged
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • 151 3 The ratio of debt serving to export earnings has risen dangerously in 1 some developing countries and may get out of hand, according to Pakistan's Minister of Commerce. Mr. Ahsuiral Haque. Mr- Haque, speaking in the Commonwealth Conference'j debate on the world economic situation. quoted
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  • 651 3 Prime Minister Edward Heath is close to handing an open invitation to the Russians and maybe the Chinese to more into Africa, President Milton Obote of Uaotcfa said yesterday. That will he the result of a British decision to sell arms to South
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  • 228 3 (iHANA Mays llnltrd Nations' proposals on Preferential tariffs are "highly selective and unrealistic." Commonwealth countries should appeal to the United Nations for a review. Ghana an Prime Minister Dr. Kofl Busla said yesterday. In a wide-ranging speech at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference, Dr. Busla referred
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  • 211 3 Inflation in rich countries was damaging the economies of primary producing nations, New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Keith Holyoake said. In a speech on economic affairs at the Commonwealth Conference he welcomed the expansion of world trade over the last two years, but he
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  • 336 4 DEVELOPING countries must moke maximum use of their limited resources to create a selected corps of professional men and technicians to suit the needs of their economic development. And these men must place national welfare before personal cain, the Minister for Foreign Affairs
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  • 214 4 About 25,000 people have go far visited Hie Horticulture and Aquarium Fish Show 1971, at tfc« National Development Building, Maxwell Road, the exhibition baa been extened for another two days. It will end on Jan. 20, and will be opened from 10.00 a.m. to 11.00
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  • 203 4 TUB Transport and Hydmcraphic anthorltics of Great Britain have notified the Japanese Naval Department of a wrecked Japanese vessel fonnd six miles ssnth of Malacca, last This was snnounced by the Hjdroirapher of the Navy, Rear Admiral G. 8. Ritchie at a press conference aboard the
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  • 162 4 POOD ©rices are now on the Increase although Chinese New Tear is nine day's away. This increase is attributed to the great demand for food and the recent Malaysian floods. Housewives who are wise will begin their Chinese New Tear shopping right after they have read the
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  • 228 4 Pork acOer Yeo Ctaye Lai •'unintentionally* stabbed his uncle to death, minutes after be had abased and slapped his mother, the High Court heard yesterday. Mr. Justice O. C. D C o 11 a postponed sentence to Feb. 1. pending a probation report an
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  • 142 4 KUALA LUMPUR Bank Negara Malaysia's international reserves totalled $2,034.3 million at the end of last year. This was an Increase of $l3B million compared with the reserves held at the end of 1969. These reserves consisted of gold and foreign exchange. International Monetary Fund gold
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  • 62 4 KUALA LUMPUR Three-year-old Tengku Noraina will be the youngest member of a royal family In Malaysia to go on pilgrimage when she leaves for Mecca on Sunday. She will be travelling with her parents, Tengka Bcsar Putra of Selangor, Tengka Ismail Shah Ibni Alma* Ho m
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  • 145 4 THE charge against assistant hotel manager Jeffrey Khoh Thlam Seng alleging that he murdered a flight steward of the MalaysiaSingapore Airlines was yesterday reduced to one of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Khoh. 25. of the Seaview Hotel, was originally charged with the murder of Peter
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  • 771 5 LUMPUR The Malaysian Chinese Association is prepared to leave the ruling Alliance Party if UMNO feels it can do without it. "We would then hove for greater room for manoeuvre than we have at the moment/' MCA President, Tun Tan Siew Sin, said yesterdcy.
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  • 139 5 THERE is Bo such thing as absoluteness la quality. "Technical excellence is not the same as economic profitability". Mr. Tang See Chim. MinisiJ* for Finance, •aid yesterday. He was the presentation of Certificates of Attendance for the Quality Control Course organised Jointly by BIBIR and the Extramural Studies
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  • 70 5 A motorist accidentally swerved his car into his wife and daughter when he tried to lree a branch trapped at the edge ot the car door. The driver, Mr. J. J. Cronim, 54, could not •top his car which rammed into the door of his house
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  • 57 5 Two arson attempts were made yesterday on community centresAlert caretakers spotted them and managed to put out the Are before any serious damage could be done. Only the front portions and main doors of two community centres In Upper Serangoon District were slightly charred. Police recovered
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  • 311 5 A highly nervous policeman was alleged to have indicated to his sister that two other policemen wer e blackmailing him> the Coroner's Court heard yesterday. He also had spells of "mumblings'' according to his brother, shortly before he was found shot with
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 77 5 Around town 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 pm. Art Exhibition by 24 contemporary Australian painters at Scab Gallery, Tudor Court, Tanglin. 9 00 a.m. to 5.H p.m. Exhibition of books ti conjunction with the Conference of Commonwealth Heads of Government at the British Council, Amber Mansion, Orchard Boad. 2.00 g.m. to
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  • 315 6 MANILA The trial of 3S- year-old Bolivian painter Benjamin Mendoza. charged with attempting to hill Pope Paul during his Far East tour last year, was yesterday adjourned until February 5. Mendona ippfirrd to take little Interest in the
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  • 344 6 pHNOM PENH Cambodian troops hove recaptured the strategic Pich Nil pass as their joint thrust with South Vietnamese forces to open Highway Four to the sea continued, the Cambodian High Command said. North Vietnamese forces have held the pass, about 95 miles southwest of here, for
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  • 99 6 CALCUTTA. The death toll in bomb attacks and political clashes in the past two days in India s problem state of West Bengal has risen to at least 10 in the oast two days One member of a rang which attacked two traffic
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  • 102 6 FRANKFURT, An angry Frankfurt motorist, purposely blocked by another car being driven slowly, shot the other driver in the back, police reported yesterday. Police said the Frankfurt driver had himself prevented another vehicle from passing in the left lane by driving slowly. The shooting
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  • 77 6 ROME A former Italian Amy Untenant has finally von a 12-year-old legal battle to be officially recognised as a woman. The ease of Ginliano (no* Giuttana) Casciotti. »ow aged M, wan Anally resolved when the Bnma appeal court declared hint female and ordered authorities at
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  • 236 6 COLOMBO—CeyIon i s drafting a new Republican constitution that will tun» the country into a socialist democracy. Thla was revealed Sunday in a basic resolution submitted by Trotskyist constltu. tlonal Affalr s Minister Dr. Oolvin R. de SUva to the constituent assembly's steering committee calling
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  • 102 6 SAIGON DA Air Force Jete blasted Bwface to Air m\mOm rites North Vietnam ■ltli at the ■wkni, briuiac to dx the total of strikes across the demilitarised some in three days. A U.S. command spokesman here said that the latest raids were staged
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  • 61 7 liag Hut is tke way tK« paaplo vfw follow ifce martial arts in Japan staff HM mm year... Homing SN porfoctfy good cask of saki. A man woeiing HM armour of a Samurai warrior cleaves HM top of tfco cask witk a heavy wooden hammer
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  • 239 7 LONDON British adventurer Johl Rtdprar told yesterday how he and three fellow explorers came close to death In a 4,W«-mtle expedition down the River Am ax on. The (Mr nrviici a 15hour ordeal when their halsa raft was dashed against rocks la farloos rapids.
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  • 226 7 /CANBERRA Two Bulgarians appeared in court today charged wftti o bomb attack on Hie Soviet embassy in Canberra early yesterday. The two were charged with having thrown a quantity of gelignite at the Soviet Chancery and with possessing gelignite. They were remand ?d for
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  • 124 7 HONOLULU, Johnston Island, is almost ready to receive 150 tons of nerve ras to be shipped b„ the U.B- Army from Okinawa. Hie deadly containers left Okinawa last week The 4.000-mile voyage to the secluded co- ral atoll from Hawaii was expected to take about
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  • 60 7 TOKYO 'Hie death toll in an Ice skating accident rose to seven yesterday after searchers found three more bodies In a half frosen lake. Two people are still missing. The skaters drowned on Sunday when the Ice gave way on Lake Shojl, at the
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  • 56 7 KAMPALA British AMI Ugaarian officials have eodfd talks about the dtimulilp of some Ariua Uvia c in l)|anda TV talks followed proposals made by President Milton Obote last aonth to five Uganda ritiiruahip to British Asians who had renounced British dtftipnshlp and applied for Ugandan dtlienmhlp, bat whose
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 438 8 New Yorkers now hit by food shortage NEW YORK New Yorkers, already hit by a police strike and a firemen's slowdown, now face the prospect of running out of food. A strike by 1,500 teamsters yesterday closed down the four biggest produce markets, cutting supplies of fresh
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  • 271 8 010 DE JANEIRO Swiss Ambassador Govonni Bucher has admitted that his horoscope had warned him "not to even venture out of bed" for the week that he was kidnapped. Bucher disclosed to a press conference on his 40 days in guerrilla hands that the horoscope warned,
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  • 79 8 LONGNOR, England A voluntary smoking ban on an entire English village was lifted on Sunday but only eleven people reached for a cigarette. One hundred others who had agreed to a television company's suggestion that this remote Central England community should become a testing ground for
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  • 93 8 BONN A "friendly" government warned West Germany that an attempt on the life of Chancellor Willy Brandt would be made during his recent trip to Kenya. Nonetheless the newspaper. Blld An Sonntag. quoted Brandt's closest political adviser. State Secretary Egon Bahr. as saying. "The assassination was
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  • 190 8 BELFAST, North Ireland—Premier James Chichester-Clark discussed tougher security measures to combat the violence in Belfast with British Home Secretary Reginald Maulding. The Ulster Premier went to London after a week of unrest stemming from ProtestantRoman Catholic friction again. British troops In Belfast have faced
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  • 142 8 LONDON—A London hospital is now carrying out a now typo of abortion which sometimes takos only 10 minutos to comploto, a doctor has roportod. Some girls smoking a cigarette to calm their nerves have found the operation over before they finished the cigarette, claimed Dr. Malcolm Potts. Medical
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  • 82 8 MANCHESTER, England George Best, the controversial soccer star whose reluctance to attend training sessions cost him 552.800 in wages last week, is to sell his name for 8*175,Mf. Manchester United's Outside Right is selling George Best Enterprises, the company which holds the rights to
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  • 528 9 WASHINGTON Tin new U.S. Congress convenes this week to elect its leaders, reform some of its ancient procedures and heor President Nixon outline what he wants it to do in 1971. The 92nd Congress formally ossembles of noon Thursdoy and will listen to
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  • 168 9 WASHINGTON With u pledge to sickly paH every U.S. soldier eat of Tirtian while leading the nation in a "second American Revoln'uoo", U S. Senator George Me Govern yesterday declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President la 1972. Nig announcement came
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  • 123 9 MONTEVIDEO Dutch Ambassador Hcimon Vaa Blankrnsteia haa left Uruju ay secretly under ti|kt security measurea after terrortata tkreateaed la kidnap him, dlfloulic sources have said. The Ambassador's departure came while police and military malt« searched UruC«ay for klduppH Britiak Ambassador Geoffre T Jackson and
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  • 220 9 The U.S. government stations special federal guards outside the Soviet Mission to the U.N. in preparation for a mass rally proposed by the Jewish Defence League. The protest will be another in a lon* series of demonstrations against the al- leged ID treatment of Jews
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  • 30 9 JAKARTA, The Indonesian state-owned oil company, Fertamina, is to build an oil harbour at Belawan, North Sumatra. The project will tost hundreds of millions ol rupiabflk
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  • 680 10 'THE Sword of Damocles, hanging over the Commonwealth Heads of GovernCo feren ce since It started in the middle of last week, will be unsheathed today for the first time. Its naked edge could sunder the Commonwealth. a .IfH? a comparatively quiet three and a-haJf days
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  • 780 10  -  By Max Lerner never before in the history of religions, the quest for God today has become a quest for self-hood. In spite of the warnings about materialism and secularism from many clerics the threat to organised religion doesn't come from either of them. It
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 341 10  -  L.L. LEE 'THE Jurong Bird Park is indeetf an extremely good idea. Unfortunately, the project itself is far from perfect. My friend had to wait one morning for 2 hours before the gates finally opened. Why, then did the park announce that
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    • 124 10 SIR: AS regular buscommuter 1 am saddened by the services provided by some bus companies plying the Queensway-Alex-andra-Ttong Bahra route. The management constantly strives to provide more buses along new routes, but the havoc their drivers and conductors cause on the roads is what the big bosses should
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    • 203 11 Ul th» Heads a* stt mmi 11 MfMiu wfco In cmc «M yowt May I, as a Singapore citizen. express my thanks to you all. You have helped mate Singapore such a beautiful Waad eJtr: flowers and tree*, shrube and graas have suddenly sprouted
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    • 184 11  -  TAN TOCK HONG Sir: CEMINARS. synoviums, workshops. ozfcibt*ion« Mt m «Mk 90*9 pMt without om or oHbor. The purpose of each la to create a greater awareneae of what is happening at home and abroad provide waya for future improvement. Pine. All these dfccstrate the
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    • 63 11 SIR: THE stretch of Tfcmg Baton Road tram Jalan Meabint to Lenc Ke* Road te similar to a railway track. Every ten yards Utere la a bump and it feels lust like a train Journey. The road fa and eo«*ested, and all feows of the
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    • 146 11 SIR: IBOfI Singapore wil enter a team In the competition soon to be organised in Israel, In co-operation with ■gypi tar fhe WarM's Worst Baa Driver. They expect to win it themselves, bat J think Singapore might easily brat them. Revving the
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  • 66 11 Taxis and motor rickshaws may be on strike, but work at the offices still goes on, and the boss won't tolerate any excuses. W.KH taxis and rickshaws went m strife* is Karachi, forcing the people to nse victorias and wheeled carts to get to
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  • 353 11 WASHINGTON Inttrnitionol co-operation in combatting pollution it as import* font os control of the atom, former U.S. Treasury Secretory Henry Fowler has said. Fowler urged that an International ecological Institute be formed through which govern menu could share inforaatiai on bow to
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  • 668 12/13  -  Learning to live with instant death From Ian Wilson Jhe 10 men were wary, but willing. It was booby trap country; but the U.S. Marines knew it was 'h*? snfest booby trap country they would encounter during their tour in Vietnam They took carefully
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  • 952 12/13  -  From Kim Willenson By Kim Willenson Things have been humming right along in the Kingdom of a Million E I e p h ants since the last time I paid a visit 18 months ago. Laos has acquired Its first
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  • 496 12/13 From Kingsley Symons, in Colombo ROMANCE will come to both Prince Charles and Princess Anne this year, according to Ceylon's "astrologer royal", Professor C.E.C. Bulathsinghala. "In the case of Prince Charles, the woman Involved will be of slightly lower birth. In the
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  • 904 14  -  By K.K. Duggal, GEMINI. \yILL the lady glide bock bm pmi? Or will she fo the wey of HeroM WOrnm? This has become India's most popular topic of converatior* since Mr% Indira Gondhi coiled the m\d~ term parliamenta*y election, o year ohead
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  • 456 14 DEAR Dr. Kamfe E am wrltln* about my husband woo Is TO. anrt for aulte a few year* now he 9 very hateful and very mean. It has become unbearable. Most of his meanness Is taken out on me* politics and ante personalities. I try
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  • 620 15  -  BY ROGER DOUGHTY YORK The annual convention of the society for the Prevention of Bad Mouthing Belly Dancers took place in a aeserted East Side cafe the other day. Before it concluded word was leaked to the press that the group's chairlady, Little Lorraine Egypt,
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  • 494 15  -  By JOAN CROSBY BARBARA Eden was having lunch in the Hollywood Brown Derby when the spotted Sidney Sheldon, the men who produced her eminently successful series, I Dream of Jeennie. He didn't see her. She called "Hi, Sidney." He turned. She said,
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 215 15 SB I II O .W.I II I NOW SHOWING U 1.46 4 »M »ll Darren McOavln. Beau Qarrtaon Juliet Mill* Sg Su.san Clark THE CHAIIINOtKH" Color NEXT CHAMUBi Peter Seller*. Rmgo Starr. Raquei Welch. Christopher Lee The Mafic Christian" Color tAI'l 1 «> I 2»7 Ift Uit t Days Ne
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  • 139 16 LONDON The congregation at the Sunday evening service was shocked when the vicar suddenly announced that his attractive blonde wile had left him. For Mrs. Tom Ellel. 42. was a member or the parish Mother'* Union and &ang with the church choir and her
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 851 16 aiies im CARROLL RIOHTRR'B art taurus a IB gemm m 19 cancer r. mSBi P GENERAL TENDENCIES: The daytime Is certainly not good for forcing Issues where others are concerned and you would be wise to take as much care of your health as possible and to avoid offending anyone
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    • 14 16 "They're pretty bad! Why, I know at least three ways to breaks THAT boldlT
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1198 17 E2ZEE 10.20 10.40 11.10 CHANNEL 5 Opening Announcements, followed by General Hospital A daytime serial about the staff and the patients of a hospital. For The Family A magazine series presented In the National Language. A Diary Of Events In Singapore This Week (National Language) It's Happening In Singapore (National
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  • 494 18 hoy. not o wry good memory, I know CM person wKom I tholl never forget. He as my moteroel uncle, Seng Hock. He was well-known for his mischief and craftness. All our relatives had given him advice but nothing could change him. Suddenly he disappeared. No news
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  • 544 18 T COULD not remember tfiie day, twelve years ego, when I first come into this world, if it hod not been for my mother who related the details to me when ft was older. I was then a squirming little weakling, weighing not more than seven pounds A
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  • 113 18 VOUNGER Japanese teens So not watch television as much as before. More high school students however listen to post-midnight radio broadcasts, says recent survey. The National Broadcasting Corporation made a survey late last year on about 38,000 people aged 10 or more to see how
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  • 418 18  -  [DATELINE By Ele,Walt Dulaney Dear Be: Last mnet 1 made plans to visit my sent this year. At the tine I realty mite«l to go. She's been writing abont It ever since September and I've played along as if 1 was going. What I thought
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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  • 494 19  -  by Florence de Santis HOLIDAY fashions always fill two functions. Besides being clothes for immediate wear, they are trial balloons of fashion. Designers use their holiday collections tj test ideas for next summer. One of them is the return of the bare
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  • 394 19  -  Ann Landers Dear Ana: Oar 12-year-old sea Is selling his h—wt mad my husband thiaka It i just terrific. He keeps saying, •that kid will make it bis one of tkese days." Albert has fixed prices (from what I rather when he talks oa the
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 332 21 SYDNEY Sellers again made their presence felt to kelp t decline in mining issues on Sydney Stock Exchange Monday. Nickel heavyweight Queensland Mines led the falls in this section with a loss of $3.00 to $23.00. Associate Company Kathleen Investments was also hit but closed on
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    • 103 21 Sembawang Shipyard achieved a record tarnover of MA million last year (or repairing 600 vessels. This was 25% more than the previous year. Over half of the total figure represents commercial ship repair contracts for 200 ships amounting to over 2.5 million tons, the managing director.
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    • 543 21 ikBIV4LH L41 ia MHA ICS aula 1UM»m VJk us LBBVU Mii MS Mitfni Koala LWHI MM IU Kuala ftjto a.JD U«M :S U»»A •-16 OM %-It o n 4.«."' 1MB. LUBMI M>A 44* •BATE l.umpu M»A «M r» BBB« Rllll LBBtpof MM tM Mvta MM t&l Machine MNA
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    • 88 21 An Industry based on the harvesting of flant brown ae I p (macrocystis pyrtfera) •ff the east coast of Tasmania, In Australia, Is now seeking new types of seaweed as raw material. Picture: Harvesting superintendent David Bond with some of the bull kelp beta* used in
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    • 184 21 TOKYO Sale* of automobiles by Japan's 11 manufacturers last year totalled 5,160,000 units, representing 87 per cent of Hie targets set by these firms at th« Outset of the year. This is the first time since the depression year of 1965 that
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    • 13 21 The tin price for yesterday was $630-1/® per picul down 1/8.
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    • 218 20 Better qrade share* were outstanding gainers on investment buying in Hi* Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Elsewhere in the market, prices generally rose from the previous close. Except for a handful of counters, speculative Interest waa thin. Tropical Veneer. Camel Plywood and Veneer Products coincided
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    • 120 20 JAKARTA. President Suharto's Government has submitted a bill to Parliament aimed at tlghtenluf control of the state-owned oil and gas monopoly, Pertamina. Mining Minister Subranti Brodjonegoro, w ho Cesented the bill durj the weekend, said the Government hopes h will be passed by April The
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    • 87 20 Till" noon price* Mneapore Chlne«e Kftt'liancr »f»lfrrta< at the frodure WUN Coconut Oil iro.lt.) bnlk Coconut Oil (f.o.o.) drum Mlxrd M topra 36.0V Hunt ok White Kwf.iir" N U .L. Sarawak White Pepper if.ob.) W% N.W.L. Sarawak Mperla. Blnrh Pepper USi* k,i% Sarawak ASTA Mark Pepper (I o h.»
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    • 298 20 February first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yester* day at 50 cents per lb. up J cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. The market w as steadier at the opening reflecting the announcement
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    • 668 20 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business in the Singapore and Kuala Lompor trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterda* INDUSTRIALS Acma Alcan Allied Choc 5* 1 Be r jay a Borneo Boustead C- Plywood C.C.M. C. Storage id C. C. id DBS. Dnnlop
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    • 1042 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 J J 4? (3); Alcae $l4B (2) $149 (3); Borneo $1 73 <3>
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    • 118 20 HONG KONG Yesterday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Buvrrs) (Seller*) 195.50 196.50 per 100 straits dollars 145 50 ***** per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 673 6.76 per Australian doilai 340 360 oer 1.000 Burmese kyats 460 480 per 1,000 Indian rupees 146 164
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 933 22 Brlow are the rare weights (or the first and seeond days' racing at Kuala Lumpur beginning on Saturday. SATURDAY CL 1 I)IV. 2 9 FURS. Eurodollar 9.00 Bungei Wang n 8.08 Forget-Me-Not HI 8 08 Bpeechmaker 8.07 Movie House V 8.07 Moonbeam 8 07 Joint Command 8
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    • 327 22 BUKIT TIM AH trainer Garnet Bougoure never had it to good when he saddled seven winners at the recently concluded first racing meeting of the season at Bukit Timah. Two of his winners Included Skipalong and Altar Boy who were considered "no hopers"
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    • 289 22 SYDNEY Phil Dent, 20, took a step closer to a possible professional tennis contract when he upset his friend and partner, John Alexander, in the New South WaJes singles final at White City Sunday. Dent, very much In Alexander's shadow In recent years,
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    • 110 22 POCATELI.O, Idaho Jamaica's top sprinter Don Quarrie broke the indoor world record tor the 100-vard dash in 9:3 seconds Saturday night University invitational night at the Idaho State track meet. Running in his first indoor meet of the season. Quarrie came from behind Idaho State'! Carl I awson
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    • 134 22 A ha ft rick by Jane R inter, enabled Combined Services Women'* Hockey XI, to score a convincing 3-0 win against the Singapore Recreation Club Women's Hockey XI. This friendly fixture played at the pad an g last night produced classic hockey which also
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    • 39 22 Ruffer: Inter-Servi-ces: Army vs RAF Changi at RAF Chanfl at 515 p m S.C.C. Colts vs RNZIR lirhtweiffhts, at the Padang at 5 p.m. Hockey: Ceylon Sports Club vs- Singapore Recreation Club at the Padan* at 5.15 DJML
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    • 358 23 PEBBLE AEACM. California Tom Shaw tossoi back an Arnold Ml mar dullanfa tm Am aweoei consecutive day ham Smmdmg ami coastai to victory fta tK e SStDSJM Bios Crosby lutfoM pro-anMteur Aan* pionship. With a bunft of thine quick birth* tba 28-year-SM
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    • 390 23 NEWCASTLE. HBW South Wdev MCC dr«w tkmu thr—6» y crick* ■wtd. i B BMI HoHWm NOT SovHi Wale* comtry «bf« Iwi |i>ini»|. Despite being overshadowed by Hampshire Cowdrey looks set to regain his England place in the fifth Test starting in Melbourne an Thursday. He
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    • 215 23 KARACHI General K. M. Aur Khan, President of the Pakistan Hockey Federation said liere diat fh« Pakistan Federation fces not adßed the Iwlernili—al Hockey federation to change the nonne for nest month's World Hockey Cwp from Lahore to Dacca. Answering Questions of
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    • 41 23 LONG BEACH, California Bflhe JeanKtag of Lona letChdefcTOji (to9f!Kil37 OMBI Sunday night to take the WMW brat vrix* im fhe Hffie Sean King TirvitatiwnaL ]n a conaalatien mate*. Fancy Ittchey Guntar defeated Ana Haydon Jono* of lagland 8-«.
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    • 88 23 mi tMer-n Hookey Mub tUsna the tJuhmHy and the Schools, will be played at fee Padang on Feb. S. sft 5 p.m. fikftangor Club's Women's Hockey XI, will play two friendly natures one against a Women's Side from the Singapore Cricket Onto and the other against
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    • 46 23 Jakarta Nine ■countries have been invited to take part in the Jakarta Anniversary Cup tournament to be hcAd here in June. The countries are fadia, Japan, Burma, South Korea. Thailand, Malaysia, South Vietnam and Singapore. The Anniversary Cup was won toy Malaysia last year.
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    • 150 23 NEWCASTLE, How Sow* Watoa—Cajbntf Tort Jil raund DXMivoira wot confined to tod 1m /wNivtay wMi choet congestion. ln?C manager Oivld Clark tald D'OMrelra woifld certainly be 9 for the fifth Teat atarttng la Melbourne an bat added 'Tax Juat a nttte bit perturbed. "Basil
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    • 148 23 SAO PAULO. Brad Brazilian driver Wilton FHtipaldi wmm both the Jbrst and second aeries of the Formula 1 Auto Race at the Interlagos Autodromes Sunday, giving him a YkHorj in the second ItiM of the competition. Fittipaldi new lea da with 18 points in the
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  • 442 24 ]£EIRUT A serious split appeared to be deepening among Palestinian Arab guerrillas over their approach to King Hussein's regime in Jordan. The two tnain guerrilla movements the moderate Fatah and the extremist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) have made no attempt
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  • 84 24 P O H T s M OUTH. Once upon a time, says Peter Marshall, British students lived good life. No demonstrations, free love or pot—Just afternoon tea. buttered crumpets, and the odd casual same Of croquet. So Peter launched his plan to revive the
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  • 41 24 Two Russian naval vessels were yesterday reported anchored two miles off the Singapore waterfront. It Is believed that one of the ls equipped with extra radio equipment capable of monitoring diplomatic transmissions to the Heads of Government Conference.
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  • 33 24 SAN FRANCISCO Two tankers, stuck together after colliding, are adrift in San Francisco Bay near the Golden Gate bridge. The ship, the 'Arigona Standard' and the 'Oregon Standard,' collided early yesterday.
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  • 32 24 THE HAGUE The Dutch Ambassador to Montevideo Heimon Van Blankenstein did not leave Uruguay after being threatened by Tupamaros guerrillas, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday. Earlier story Page 9.
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  • 162 24 CAPE KENNEDY, Florida The launch crew yesterday pumped 763,000 gallon* of frigid propellents into the Apollo 14 rocket to wind up a critical trial countdown for the fourth named moon landing mission. The week-long launch pad test was scheduled to stop Just short of engine
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  • 236 24 China has not officially responded to Malaysia'# call fro her fro join the United States and Russia to guarantee the neutrality of Southeast Asia. "There has been no ne w development," Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak said last night He was
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