Eastern Sun, 23 January 1971

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  • 22 1 EASTERN SUN i 17/1 sjngftpoffi&flin Rational daily 10 cents Uf4. 1966. V#l. 5 No. 1555 Saturday, January 23, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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  • 531 1 A coffee-break timed with precision yesterday saved the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference from another all-night marathon session. The expected discord arose over the wording of the Zambion declaration, after Australian Prime Minister John Gorton made a fighting speech for the preservation of the original
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  • 250 1 PRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew told his Commonweolth colleagues yesterday the only way to demolish white racist-supremist theories was by clearly demonstrating whites were not superior. Dialogue would not help much to make South Africa change its apartheid policy, he said. "I fear
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  • 65 1 The Commonwealth sanctions committee told the Heads of Government that sanctions against Rhodesia had proved ineffective. The confidential document summarises the effects of the sanctions •vex the past two years. It had been adopted by the leaders, according to conference sources. The document drawn up by
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  • 85 1 PakiitM yesterday recorded Its objections to the lial communique issued by the Commonwealth Hesds of Government conference. The Pahlstaa delegation said thst the communique did as* In any wsy reflect the deliberations. Drafting committee sources said that II had been screed at the beginning that the
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  • 673 2 Commonwealth of Nations 1A a voluntary association of Independent sovereign states each re£n£T ble for ita own policies, consulting and co-operating in the common Interests of their peooles anrf fa «Jr mot MemL™ t 'ftf I *«h under ton <l?n* and world peace" i Members of the Commonwealth
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  • 716 2  -  By Derek Ingram, stop Ottawa? The Commonwealth come through the lost stoges of its conference with remarkable speed and smoothness yesterday and almost every one went away wiHt a smile on his face. Mr. Trudeau made it known that Ottawa (in summer) would be
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  • 349 2 FOREIGN Minister S. Rojaratnam yesterd iy colled on members to accept an imperfect Commonwealth if perfection was too difficult on ideal to attain. In a powerful plea for the continuation of the Commonwealth, Mr. Rajaratnam pointed out that many Of the problems facing
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  • 149 2 AUSTRALIAN Prima Minister John Gorton jfstcrdfty made a strong plea for the return of the Commonwealth to Its original concepts. "It w vttterly essential that there should be no attempt, conscions or unconscious, to turn the Commonwealth Into a mini-United Nations." he said. The Commonwealth
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  • 188 3 LONDON A petition for special leave to appeal from a judgment of the Conrt of Criminal Appeal of Singapore in February last year has been dismissed by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The latter did not call on counsel for the Public Prosecutor.
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  • 495 3 flight steward, Peter Bernard Cheah, smashed a bottle on a table during a quarrel in a hotel bar shortly before he was stabbed, a court was told yesterday. The First Magistrate's Court was homing an inquiry into the fotal slabbing of Cheoh at
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  • 53 3 The National Library and the British council will hold a book exhibition on Charles Dickens at the National Library foyer from next Monday to February 0. On display will be this great novelist's critical and biographical works and letters depicting the social and intellectual background of
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  • 287 3 Hearing adjourned: The Chief Justice, Mr. Wee Chong Jin, yesterday adjourned hearing into an application from a lawyer seeking a court order to see his six clients now in political detention. The application was made by Mr. T.T. Rajah acting for Barlsan 80slalls members
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  • 34 3 Mr. Runme Shaw, Chairman of the Tourist Promotion Board, will today lead a 40strong local delegation to the 20th Annual PATA Conference in Manila held from Thursday to next Saturday,
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  • 94 3 Private One Chm Hal. 20. of the siniaCre Armed Forces, died the Thomson Road Hospital two days alter hi* admivsion. Two other soldiers who were in the MID lorry which overturned inside the Pasir Laba SAFTI Camp died the same day. The three-ton truck
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  • 153 3 An exhibition to discourage drug-taking was officially opened at the Teachers Training College by its principal, Reverend Doralsamy, yesterday. Called, "A Look at Drugs", it is aimed to show the danger of drug addiction and the effects it lias. On display are photographs, diagrams, and
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  • 173 5 LONDON, Britain is withholding tone (rants to Commonwealth countries which have not accounted for how they spend British aid, according to a report issued this week. The report, the Civil Appropriation Accounts for 1969-76, does not name the countries involved
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 111 5 The weather bureau predicts isolated showers today. Yesterday Ma* Temp: 26.6 Min Temp: 74.5 Rain: 0.06 Total rain to date- 3.09 Total rain day* to date: 12 days Sunshine yesterday* 4.35 hoars Humidity at 11.05 p-m. 88 per cent ■n SINGAPORE TOWN 12.53 a.m. (5.6 ft.); 6.38 a.m. (8 ft);
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  • 325 6 Utah A full-scale inquiry was under way yesterday to find out what killed more than 1,000 sheep. The deaths occurred about 180 miles north east of the Nevada nuclear test site. The Atomic Energy Commission A EC has detonated a series
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  • 88 6 Here's how the people of Bangkok be»t the notorious traffic jams travel by heat. A new shuttle service has started between the north era ail SOB thern parts of the city akm r the Chae Paya Ktrer. The price of the 10-mile trip is
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  • 221 6 PARIS Vietnam peace negotiators hare heM their lMth semion ■sarkiag two rears of deadlock with each aide heaptag charges on the other. The anniversary session heard the communlsts protest against recent American air strikes en North Vietnam. rtie charge came after chief U.B.
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  • 190 6 MANILA Four moderate youth organisatlons have withdrawn from a planned anti-govern-ment protest rally on Monday as they fear it may turn violent. A spokesman for the group. Joselito Alcuaz. said there were reports that extremist student organisations and the military were readying themselves for
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  • 154 6 FREETOWN, Sierra Leone The Sierra Leone Gorernaient has its High Commissioner in London alter a group of dissident students oeeapted the diplomatic mission. An official statement on Thursday did not giro reasons for the dismissal of Commissioner Victor Blgismond Kanu, who had been in
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  • 360 7 Sardinia Search and rescue craft have spotted the wreckage of an American tanker ablaze in the gale-whipped Mediterranean Sea. Three ships reported they rescued 38 crewmen. Rescue craft say the 83,SS?-ton Liberian-registered Universe Patriot had broken in two and is half submerged. There
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  • 143 7 NEW DELHI —lk Indiaa Government yesterday decided to dbsolvf the OH State Aswan My aadi hold elections far a sew assembly with March's national ejections. The cabinet met in an emergency session and deeided to accept the recommendations of the state's Governor, Dr. S.S. Ansari.
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  • 145 7 JOHANNESBURG Johannesburg's outspoken Anglican Deu •till held by security police amid a storm of protest—could face indefinite detention under South Africa's Terrorism Ad. Hie 58-year-old Dean, the Conville FrenchBeytagh. was arrested in his office on Wednesday night. He is being held in Pretoria for questioning ever
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  • 31 7 LONDON Dr. Kamuzu Banda President of Malawi, arrived In London yesterday by air for a three-week private visit. He flew direct from the Commonwealth Summit Conference In Singapore*
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  • 90 7 KOBE, Japan The maritime Self Defence Force has takes delivery of the first of three submarines to be bailt under the present flve-year plan. The submarine Usushlo (whirlpool), welehs 1.850 tons. It to the largest to be baitt since the end of World War H It
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  • 98 7 TEL AVIV Israeli detectives have arrested two young women believed to belong to an international drug smugling ring. The ring involved the United States, Canada and Israel. They added that a search of the flat in which the two suspects had been living
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  • 465 8 5,000 WATCH EXECUTION BY SWORD CAIRO Two men have been executed by sword in front of 5,000 people In the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, the Middle East News Agency reported. It said the men were condemned to death for mining a bus, killing more than 20 passengers,
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  • 320 8 T ON DON Police yesterday dashed with pickets trying to stop women operators reporting for work at the London International Telephone Exchange. Five arrests were made after the Incidents. A number of women workers have continued to defy union orders. Meanwhile, Management Chief Bill Ryland
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  • 128 8 MOSCOW The first volume of memoirs by former Soviet Head of State Anastas Mikoyan, who probably survived longer than any other man at the centre of Soviet power, will be ont soon. In an article introducing them, Mikoyan, 75, said they would bs a
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  • 80 8 LONDON The number of Commonwealth immigrants to Britain in the first eleven months of last year fell by 20 per cent compared with 1969*8 figure, the Home Office (Interior Ministry) has announced. Between January and November last year, 27,192 Commonwealth citizens settled in Britain. Hie figure
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  • 158 8 AMIENS, France Top Australian Jockey Bill Pyers has been sentenced to three months' JalL He was also banned from driving for a year and lined 552,100 on charges of drunken driving, assault and attempting to bribe a police officer. It was the second time Ser« had
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  • 182 8 PARIS President Pompidou has widened hit new of the Europe of the future. He also firmly staked his claim to be leader of France in his own right, and not as General de Gaulle's heir. At a press conference on Thursday, Pompidou announced that he
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  • 36 8 WARSAW, Dr. R«t* ner Barzel, Parliamentary leader of We si Germany's opposition Christian Democrats has had frank and important talks with Polish Prime Minister Piot® Jaroszewicz on future relations between the if countries.
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  • 335 9 Senator Edward Kennedy's political prestige appeared badly damaged yesterday by his defeat for re-election os assistant Senate Democratic leader. In an upset 3!-24 vote at a Democratic caucus, the post was given to Senator Robert Byrd, a former organiser for the Ku
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  • 244 9 lAC ANGELES Hippie cult leader Charles Manson, on trial *or the murder o* actress Sharon Tate, has released a statement to "Mr. and ii_ America" The statement says you hare shown me no mercy, compassion or pity and in my mind's
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  • 33 9 BEI .FAST, Northern Ireland A bomb has destroyed an electricity transformer at Armagh City south west of Belfast. Lights and television pictures went out briefly when the explosion occurred.
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  • 125 9 LONDON When customs open a brightly co loared toy elephaat seat from they found cannabtoi hidden in the stufSBS, n London court has been told. Other elephants revealed similar hidden eartoes, each worth about SKSO prosecutor David Miller said. Altogether 41 unreels
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  • 97 9 W ASHING TON, A group of Soviet-af-fairs experts has confirmed the authenticity of the receatfy published Memoirs ot Nikita Khrushchev, the State Department has said. The Khraahefcev memoirs, which mysteriously found their way to the I S last year, have raised public controversy over their origin. An
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  • 135 9 BUENOS AIRES, French race driver Jean Jierre Beltoise has been charged with negligent '-homicide following the death of Italian aee Ignazlo Glnnti. Oluntl died from injuries and barn* suffered in a crash during the Buenos Aires Grand Prix on January 10. The charge* were announced
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  • 66 9 TUCSON, Arizona— One hundred policemen armed with tear gas and shotguns battled with rock and bottle throwing students on the University of Arltona campus here and made about 30 arrests. The trouble was apparently sparked by an incident on campus yesterday afternoon, when university police cleared an
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  • 213 9 KANSAS CITY. Missouri, Former President Harry Trqrran has been rushed to hospital with severe abdominal pains. His personal physieian, Dr. Wallace Graham has said his condition is "not alarming" Truman. M. was earlier sa d to be reiUng quietly in good condition
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  • 607 10 we look back at the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference which concluded yesterday, It is not to measure it in terms of success or failure. Nor to laud the statesmanship of the Heads of Government who have once again "saved" it so that it could live to
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  • 634 10 The ART BUCHWALD column THE big question on everyone's mind in 1971 is "What happened to the economy and where did we go wrong?" It's easy to blame the Nixon Administration tor the economic slowdown but, it Hie truth be known, Nixon had nothing to do
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 136 10 SIR: OUR Republic is gradually becoming a Garden City, where one can see trees, plants and flowers almost everywhere. What a pleasant and Joyful sight! There is greenery even in certain HDB flats in Commonwealth Drive, Queenstown. This is in keeping with the spirit of
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    • 182 10  -  KHOR ENG LEE Public Relations Officer. Public Utilities Board. SIR: LETTER from The Fox (S) Ltd. in your paper of January 13 must be commended for its interest in the anti-pollution campaign. The Public Utilities Board has been and still Is actively engaged in this pollutionfree
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    • 69 10  -  TINA LEE SIR: FASHION, ESPECIALLY women's fashion seems to be backward looking. The midl which Is gaining po- pularity can be actually termed "old fashion." The same goes for the laced Oxford and the pump with straps across the instep which were typical of shoes
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 38 10 Letters to SUN SOAPBOX are welcomed, but correspondents are reminded that all letters must be signed even If a non-de-plume is to be used. Everj effort Is made to publish all letters, but short letters are given preference.
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 550 11  -  RACE DAY SPORTS LIFTOUT By S. RAJOO GILSTEADERS FC, played great soccer to beat Port Authority Recreation Club by four goals to two in the FAS Junior Cup Final played at the Jalsn Besar Stadium list night. In a match that was filled with excitements and
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    • 957 12/13  -  fTy Denni Boy SUNGEI WANG II is a confident bet fro win (Race Five) frHe class one division frwo race over 9f afr Kuala Lumpur here fr oda y, opening day of frhe Selangor Turf Club meeting. At the Singapore Gold Cup meeting last
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    • 213 12/13 KUALA LUMPUR MOVIE HOUSE V, an emergency acceptor today, outlined his chances in a woncout here yesterday morning. With stablemate* BEAUTY BEAUTY and JOYFUL MELODY for company, the trio raced over 3f in 37 1/5 on a good track with MOVIE HOUSE V in
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    • 58 12/13 SGSFL Soccer: Division 2A Postal Services vs. A.UP.E., at Farrer Park. Police 'A' vs. Polytechnic, at Police Academy. Division 3B Survey Dept vs. Public Health Services, and V.C. 'A' vs. Prison Officers Club at Farrer Park. All matches will be played at 5.00 p.m. Schools National Seven-A-Side Soccer
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    • 86 12/13 MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Top-seeded Mrs. Billie Jean King and No. 2 seed Rosemary Casals scored easy victories Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals in the Virginia Slims Women's professional tennis tournament here. Mrs. King scored a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Kerry Melville of Australia and
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    • 1445 12/13 Day's Best: Dax, Fastest Swordsman, Central District Going: Good Race l: CI. 4 WY. 7—6 F.—Z.00 p.m. ($6300) 1. ***** X. 00 3. 4 4. 9i 6. 7. 6. 9. 10. 0 1L 12. 9 IS. 0 14. 0 15. ***** 16. 0 Simba 67 Worthwhile 3y
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    • 237 12/13 JDENNI BOt CISCO ZODIAC 1 9 AX (15) UNDEFEATED "(3) ACE OF D. 11 RAt t 1 (12) Janran Lupa Ml) A. Of Diamonds 11 (10) Da* (3) A. Of Diamonds 11,(1) Slmba 11 IS) (Jii defeated (10) ZAROOK (14) SlfOHMAN IV (10) ZAROOK RACt t 1 9> Papatol
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    • 177 12/13 NEW YORK Australian star Rod Laver swept to his fifth successive 5530,000 victory in the Tennis Champions Classic Series when he detested American Arthur Ashe at Madison Square Garden here Thursday night. Ashe forced Laver to fight for every point, particularly in
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    • 122 12/13 Victoria School "B" beat Serangoon Garden Secondary by one |Oal to nil, to capture the Seranfoon District boys "B" Division Six-A-Side Hockey Championship. Centre-forward Leon# Chee Chow, scored the winning goal in the flrsthalf. Upper Aljunied Technical School beat Serangoon Garden Technical School by 2
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    • 43 12/13 The following have been elected officials of the Joyful Indians Football Club. President: P.S. Retnasamy; Vice-President; A. Narayanan; Hon. Secretary: G. Ramakrishnan; Treasurer; R. Balakrishnan; Sports Secretary PT. Murthi; superintendent: Salahudin and committee members Messrs P. Turasamy, N. Chandra and Sithambram.
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    • 141 12/13 MELBOURNE Wicketkeeper Rodney Marsh thumped a belligerent 92 not out at Australia recovered to reach 495 for nine declared against England on the second day of th« fifth Test here yesterday. The heavyweight Marsh came to the wicket after Australia had slumped from 260 for
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    • 179 12/13 BUENOS AIRES A Federal Judge ruled that French race driver Jean Pierre Beltoise was subject to 'protective custody' but authorised him to leave Argentina for 60 days under bond. Judge Ernesto Vergara investigating the crashdeath of Italian driver Ignazio Giunti during the 'City Of Buenos
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    • 167 12/13 LONDON A potential British audience of 80,000 wiU watch the world heavyweight championship fight in New Yorfc between Cassius Clay and Joe Fraxier, as a result of the biggest closed circuit television operation ever mounted in this country. The company
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    • 959 14  -  by FRANK TAYLOR —Daily Mirror, London There is new Interest in British soccer through new competitions 'iich spread out money prizes. Here on ejqperienced soccer journalist outlines the new found wove of prosperity. Sponsorship hot now com* into British soccer in o big way. And what
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  • 703 15  -  From Keith Eunson Many New Zealanders see a threat to their national heritage in Government agreement to despoil one of the nation's finest scenic lakes to generate power. The power is required for a 220,000- ton aluminium smelter now being built
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  • 468 15  -  A friendly with your doctor By LAWRENCE LAMB Dear Dr. Lamb I am scared and don't know where to turn. I'm 28 and have three children. Other than an operation for appendicitis I have never been ill. Four years ago my hair started
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  • 700 16  -  Barbara Cook from Vietnam -pHE U.S. frontiersman may have called it "Dr. Miracle's Magic Elixir" but to the Vietcong it's "Ho Chi Minh Tonic." The Vietnamese claim this Oriental brew originated in Peking when Mao Tse-tung discovered it was a good health
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  • 670 16  -  FRED MPANGA Gerald Silcock, 39, is the tiniest army hi the world. He has no sword and no musket His only weapon (II you can call It that) Is a bugle. He took It to the Mansion House the other day and Invited
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  • 575 17  -  The chemistry with Aii clinched the 'Love Story' Breakthrough for Peyton Place's Rodney Harrington By Dick Kleiner IT'S all coming Ryan O' Neal's way now. This actor has become a top feature film star, suddenly and magically, with "Love Story" after a career in
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  • 241 17 INURING six weeks in the backwoods of Oregon, where he played a tough logger for "Sometimes a Great Notion/' Paul Newman got a taste of the fortitude of tha men who live that rugged life. "I couldn't help but reflect on how soft all
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
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  • 716 18  -  John Meehan WHO will be the Beetles' heirs? The multi-million dollar question hos been asked numerous times. It has been voiced in sleek suites of recording company executives, in offices where managers and promoters vie and by millions of rock music admirers from Europe
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1116 19 Id Ulofj--9.00 9.15 10.10 11.00 11.30 11.35 CHANNEL 5 Opening Announcements, followed by Astroboy "The Island Of Mystery" Animated cartoon series. Fanner's Daughter "Bless Our Happy Home" Shari Lewis Show 'The Rebel" A full length feature film starring:- George Sanders, Dennis Price. Amuthum Thenum (Repeat) A programme of musical entertainment
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  • 126 20 NEW YORK Broadway producer David Merrick has filed a court action seeking a million U.S. dollars damages over an adver. tLsement that used hla name to publicise rice products. "I don't like rice," Merrick said. The poster advertisement, which appeared on New York City
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 777 20 aiies rz 9 .'c taurus si gerrum SI SWA cancer ft ti C, r m J CARROLL RIOHTER'S GENERAL TENDENCIES: You can make thl« a very good day and evening by showing your true charm and making those about you realise you are fond of them and would go out
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    • 18 20 LADIES DAY "Don't get upset, dear maybe tome ninety-eight pound weaklings w*U he on the beach tomon .fowl"
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  • 650 21  -  By Florence de Santis A SKED about the costumes in "Lore Story," her justreleased Paramount hit, Ali McGraw said blithely, "Oh, it isn't a fashion picture at aN." For a girl who spent some time on fashion magazires, worked as a photographer's stylist and
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  • 210 21  -  ANN LANDERS DEAR ANT*: I am in ft quandary about our 10y ear-old son. Twice this week his 15-year-old sister has caught him hiding under her bed. Last week she caught him in her clothes* cloaet. When I asked him why he was doing this he said
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 259 22 TWE overnight's resurgence of shore prices locked follow-through in troding in the rooms of Moloysio and Singapore yesterday. However a handful of shores moved marginally higher on sustained buying. On the official close a volume of 1,780,500 deals were reported done. Btarllte Ceramic snatched first place
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    • 108 22 TOKYO. The transport ministry said today Japan and the Soviet Union had reached a basic agreement on the Initiation of regular flights between Nllgata, northwestern Japan, and Khabarovsk. A spokesman for the ministry said the two countries wound up civil aviation talks here yesterday, which
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    • 34 22 NEW YORK-—Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 854.74 SO Rails 184.46 15 Utilities 127.48 65 Stocks 283.16 40 Bonds 70.65 Commodity futures tor |45.04 UP MSL
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    • 242 22 February first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 48-3/8 cents per lb. down 7 8 cent from the previous close. The tone of the marfcet was slightly easier. The market wo* in the doldrums for the morning, the
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    • 707 22 BID and offer price? officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange vesterda? iNDi'frntiAL* 8 Aau L4I Ajlnumolo Alru IM 1.44 1.44 Allied Choc. 2M 1V« Herjaya Lift 1.17 1.25 i jn Borneo n.m tru*U 174 1
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    • 1042 22 BI'SINFSS 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 on its unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS Alran $1.15 (2)* Ben $llB <2) Sin <B>; i:i.M $llB <1); Ber.iay* sl2fi
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    • 121 22 HONG KONG Vesterday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Buyers) (Sellers) 195 196 per 100 Straits dollar* 145 50 147 50 per I.OOU Taiwan collar* 6.725 6.75 per Australian doilai i 4» :<6( oer 1.000 Burmese kyats 455 475 per 1,000 Indian rupees
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    • 378 23 gYDNEY The weeks trading come to o dreary close and sellers slowod to the pace of buyers on Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. The only Issues to show any encouragement were mining leaders which managed to register minor gains by the close. IH»ekfton made a flight recovery
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    • 299 23 UtM mXA t— iMk M6U SUTm MHm Mlu M-SA tZ3 |Hli Mtui It-Ma. a lUtui llAia ■>i «n iuii LU«MT STin 441 AM rm« 5K".A*3C.. H5SS LMM MtU SM Perth MSA «B1 KBctolni MM Ml KMC tuhn. Iw MMB K B M 1 to iliML us M na
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    • 354 23 Following last week's decline the market encountered a reaction early this week which added about one cent to previews values but the rise was not sustained and prices fell again to touch a low of 48-5/8 cents, but finished about un- changed on balance. Two factors
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    • 50 23 (Maaaaw Piliw for Inn. 23) ASIA ONIT THIS T* M. Hi vfat rmui iso i.ss M'»la Pro*. 1 Oft I.lOtd riUMTFRKD I'NTI TRWTO SO. Pimrf 1.88 MS SINGAPORE FMT TBTITH isss? Is ftriifc, M nm l.i* in H.P PanS l.oi IS* (MaMffi Prlree fur Jan. 22) (M«rtli«« 4/S
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    • 16 23 The tin price (or yesterday was $627,114 centg per plcul down U. 124 centa.
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    • Article, Illustration
      257 23 The First National City Bank yeatcrday announced the appointment of Mr. Wong Nang Jang (above) at Resident Vice-President, Singapore. "My promotion really reflects the growing importance of Singapore as a financial centre In FNCB's world-wide operations," he said at nls office In Denmark House. The promotion also makes
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  • 429 24 JpHNOM PENH Cambodian forces around Phnom Penh ore braced for fresh attacks after the Vietcong onslaught yesterday which devastated the capital's international airport. Fighting went on until noon as Vietceng, in a ruse, withdrew from the airport northwest towards the capital five miles
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  • 188 24 TEL AVIV, Israeli rrLme Minister, Mrs. Golds Melr said yesterday she to disappointed with Egypt's reply to the Israeli peace proposals submitted to U.N. Envoy Or. Gunnar Jarring. The Premier said "what the Egyptians submitted were merely declarations not a reaction to substantive mattera." "They simply
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  • 121 24 BANGKOK Thai officials have denied a report that there are troops operating la Laos with American logistical support. U.B. Sen Walter Mondale. DemocratMinnesota, was quoted Wednesday as saying the "Hial troops have been sent into combat In southern Laos. Deputy Defence Minister Kris Slvara
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  • 54 24 CAGLIARI, Sardinia Only six people were found yesterday aboard a rubber boat thought to contain 22 of the 39 crew who escaped from the biasing 83,882-ton Liberian tanker Universe Patriot. Another 17 crew memberg have already been saved. Another 16 crew are still missing. See
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  • 292 24 Commonwealth leaders yesterday began leaving Singapore in the same way they arrived with little protocol and ceremony. They were all seen off by senior government officials as they took off in their respective aircraft. Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak left in an RMAF aircraft on Thursday
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