Eastern Sun, 11 March 1971

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  • 22 1 EASTERN SUN smgaproown national daily Final edition 10 cents t»t*. 1966. Vo4. 5 No. 1592 Thursday, March 11, 1971 M.C (P) 2510
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  • 506 1 JjMLM cameramen at Radio-Television Singapore have threatened to stage a mass walkout unless conditions there improve. They have sent a seven-poge petition to Permanent Secretory (Broadcasting), Mr Lim Phoi Som, complaining of inefficient management and bad condition. But the cameramen said, that since they
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  • 44 1 Lis Freeman is only 17 but she's already made a name for herself as •he nature girl of Sydney. Lis likes to get in Sydney's sunshine and relax on the grass in a park. We're glad sh e like s to.
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  • 67 1 IAMPUR An Opposition MP yesterday called on the Government to allow the EASTERN SUN and another Singapore paper to be sold in Malaysia. Mr V. David (for Gerakan-Dato K eramat) was speaking on the debate on the King's speech in Parliament. He said the freedom
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 134 1 Persian, Bokhara, Indian, Pakistan, Belgian. English. German, b French. AMIR SONS 776. Orchard Hoaa (ttngapor*. Tel: *****6 Importers of Carpets Rugs of Quality I Distinction {HOUSE OF TANG BARGAIN COUNTER (2ND FLOOR) SPECIAL OFFER M OENTB V CaiaHna Swlramlni trunks Mufflers from Pyjamas i cot ton) from LADIES Nighties (Assorted
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  • 474 2 Domestic flights a bone of contention VUALA LUMPUR A conflict of interest between the two governments has led to the breaking up of the Moloysia-Singopore airlines. Tun Ismail told Parliament yesterday. "Malaysia has a big hinterland and wants to enlarge MSA s domestic
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  • 167 2 FOOD glorious FOOD Cheap, cheap, cheap—that's what chicken is today. You'd have to be a dumb cluck not to pick up a few kattlrs—at only $1.55 a kali Cook it aajr w a y you want—roasted, fried or grilled. Even an old bird Is good—boiled, casseroled or
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  • 317 2 Dutch industrialists are expected to invest about $lOO million in Singapore by the end of this year. This was announced yesterday after a five day study tour by a Netherlands economic mission. President of the mission. Mr Sidney J. van der Bergh told a press conference
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  • 219 2 KUALA U'MPUR T«b Abdul Razak said yrsterd.i v thai h i s main objective was to help the have-nots get a rightful place in society. In an interview with radio Malaysia, the Premier said his greatest wish was to see Malaysia progress and
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 100 2 r"i I THE weather bureau predicts fair weather today. YESTERDAY Max. temp: 89.3 Mln. temp; 73.0 Rain: 0 Total rain March: 0.23 Total rain days March: 3 Humidity at 11 pm: 84 19 BINGAFORE TOWN 4.33 am. (3.6 ft): 10 32 am. <gj ft); 5.11 pm. (1.6 ft); 1129 Din.
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  • 118 3 It's MII clear at Kee Seng Street. Last Monday the SUN carried a picture (left) of the street heavily strewn with all kinds of garbage ranging from dead chickens to broken dolls. Nearby residents claimed some of the rubbish had not been cleared
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  • 320 3 rpHE High Court yesterday sentenced ex-police officer Zainal Abidin bin Ali to five years' jail for raping a young housewife. Former Staff Sergeant Zainal, 40, raped the woman, Mrs N, at the Yong Nam Hotel In Geylang Road in January last year. He committed
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  • 114 3 I.aucnrngeo Cyril, 45. yesterday admitted possessing three prohibited sex books. He fined $250 in the First Magistrate's Court. Cyril was arrested in a lane behind Washington Bar off Bras Basah Road last Tuesday and the books seised, the Court was told. The offence was his
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  • 112 3 KUALA LUMPUR Whether Malaysia's proposal for the neutralisation of Southeast Asia •ucceeds depends on whether China is admitted to the United Nations. Parliament was told vesterday. Th« plan had to b« guaranteed by three big powers—the United states, the Soviet Union and China,
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  • 58 3 A youth snatched a woman's bag and "got $2 for his trouble'* the First Magistrate's Court was told yesterday. Rashid bin Ramll, 18. unemployed, admitted snatching Goo Mail's bag when Goo was walking along Sims Avenue on February 20. Magistrate George Sandosham remanded Rashid at the
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  • 95 3 Kt'AI.A LUMPIR Prime Minister Tan Abdul Rauk yesterday said the (iovernment had no intention of amending the constitution to allow for the direct election of Senators In the general election. He told Parliament the Tundion of the Dew an Negara was to represent the minority
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  • 68 4 Tkese supersonic Lightning jet fighter, of No. 74 Squadron RAF (the Tigers) will leave Singapore on April 11 on a 2,000-mile non-stop flight to Australia. They will join the Golden Jubilee anniversary cele- brations of the Royal Australian Air Force, from March 12 to April 25. Hercules
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  • 312 4 rpHE Indian Government still has not arranged to send home nine Singapore fishermen released from jail. The fishermen were arrested for violating Indian territorial waters last year. They are Law Yew Liong, Ang Chwee Seng, Ng Chwee Khoon. NK Yan Nioh.
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  • 48 4 The number of accidents in February this year soared b v 803 compared to last February. But fatal accidents dropped from 27 to 21. A total of 55 oeopl* were killed on the roads in the first two months this year and 414 seriously injured.
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  • 112 4 Nanyang University hu received a gift of about 290 books for use in the Institute of Asian Studies. The books, which in. eluded reference books and fiction, were donated br the Japan Trade Centre. They formed a library which was featured at the recent '7l
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  • 211 4 Singapore's highway accidents last year cost a staggering $130,884,120, an American safety engineer said yesterday. Mr Donald Vaughan estimated that an average death lost $41,700. a non-fatal Injury $2,500 and property damage $3BO He was outlining the changes and problems In road safety during 1967
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  • 232 5 A former bus conductor wos yesterday given o second chance ofter he admitted knowingly and dishonestly using forged bus tickets as genuine ones. Tan Kim Hal, 34, a former Paya Lebar buz* conductor was fined *2OO for the ofTence at the Bus Service Station In
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  • 110 5 A hawker yesterday was jailed for a month when Mr F.G. Remedios found him guilty of possessing an offensive weapon. He is Mah Weng Yew, 22, who appeared in the Sixth Magistrate's Court. Mah was arrested by a detective who saw him chasing two
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  • 61 5 Singapore Colombo Plan student Mrs Helen Chang Kok Bu is taking a course in computer studies in Australia. And she's really set* ting around. She recently visited the Orroral Valley satellite tracking station near the capital city of Canberra. Our picture shows an
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  • THE WORLD THIS MORNING
    • 196 6 BANGKOK Thai Army troops and police have surrounded a major communist camp on top of a mountain range in southern Phatthalung Province. L About 200 communist guerrillas are trapped, police said. Police said additional helicopters and troops were sent ap the Jangled mountains' about 740 miles
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    • 88 6 CLEVELAND. Ohio Fifty-six people have beea charged with Irst degree murder la connection with a gaag flght at a motor-cycle show last Saturday. Five people died in the melee. Twenty-four were injured. Of those charged. 4€ belong to the Breeda. a motor-cycle club in nearby Akron.
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    • 248 6 WASHINGTON—The Pentagon's top brass will ask Congress for higher defence spending to protect against growing Soviet and Chinese nuclear missile threats. Admiral Thomas Moorer. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will ask for more detail* of the Administration's defence plan and what Ls
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    • 47 6 B A N G K O K-Soutb Vietnamese Prime Minister Tran Thien Khiem arrived in Bangkok yesterday from Saigon for A three-day official visit. Khiem and his wife were greeted on arrival at Don Muang airport bv Thai Prime Minister Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn.
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    • 54 6 CAIRO Egyptian troops keep on the alert along the Western Bank of the Suez Canal. U.A.R. President Sadat has rejected a renewal of the ceasefire which hat been in effect since August last year. Nonetheless, he said that Egypt would not fire the first
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    • 219 6 Secretary of State William Rogers, has suggested the withdrawal of some Russian forces from Egypt as part of a permanent settlement between Israel and the Arabs. Rogers made his proposal in a televised interview last night. He said Israel's security
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    • 40 6 ADELAIDE A family of four stranded on a farmhouse roof by floodwaters for two days have been rescued by helicopter. More than 10 inches of rain have fallen in three days in the area ,ami were
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    • 87 6 LONDON The world's biggest football pools win, 552,487,303, has been handed over to factory mechanic Frank Reed bjr actress Britt Ekland. Reed, 37, lives with his wife and five children 'n Manchester. North-West England. He will share his win with eight friends wno joined
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    • 50 6 MANILA A man ha* thrown a molotov bomb at a bu& injuring fifteen people. Four of the injured were admitted to hospital for treatment to burns. A striking employee of the company which owned the bos 1* believed to have been responsible lot the attack.
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  • 250 7 Toll now past 300 1/ARACHI, West Pakistan President Yahya Khan has named a tough army general as chief martial law administrator ol East Pakistan.* Gen. Tlkka Khon olreody was made governor of the east wing lost week. Political observers say Yahya's move was
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  • 80 7 WASHINGTON —Members of the Washington area "Gay Liberation Movementare invading the Pentagon to protest. They alleged the armed services and the Department of Defence discriminate against homosexuals. The group first held a press conference in the Pentagon's newsroom and then marched upstairs to the office of Army
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  • 56 7 Armed British troops stand guard as detectives of Hie Royal Ulster Police examine milk van in the Roman Catholic area of Belfast, North Ireland. Milkman Thomas Cahill, a married man with seven children, wai shot in the face at point blank range by three gunmen as
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  • 201 7 NEW DELHI Four people were killed yesterday in violent incidents in and around Calcutta yesterday. The West Bengal capital goes to the polls today to complete the 10day process of the Indian general ejections. One of the victims was shot by troops searching for
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  • 383 7 LONDON Railwayman have threatened a go-slow which could disrupt Britain's rail network unless their pay claim is looked into. TOKYO Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko hopes to visit Japan sometime this year. s WASHINGTON President Nixon's daughter, Tricia, Is expected to announce her engagement to Harvard law
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  • 106 7 HOUSTON -MnDelore* Pullard Johnson, reputedly the tallest woman in the world, I* awaiting surgery to remove a brain tumour that caused her to grow to eifht feet two inches. Mrs Johnson, 24, from I>c«uincy, Louisiana. suffers from acromegaly, a gigantism caused by s tumour on the
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  • 274 8 J3ARIS Eighty policemen and a number of youths were injured in vicious clashes on Paris streets yesterday. Tear gas, water cannon, iron bars; paving stones and molotov cocktails were used in the street battle. The trouble lasted nearly four hours during a rally
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  • 138 8 TRIPOLI Representatives of Western oil companies yesterday awaited word from the Libyan Government on their latest price Increase olTer as a deadline neared for a threatened oil embargo. Libya. Iraq. Saudi Arabia and Algeria threatened to ban oil supplies and other measures If the talks did
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  • 114 8 SHEFFIELD, The frightened look on a woman's face made a burglar decide to end his criminal career and earned him an 18-month prison sentence. Lionel Walters, who appeared in court on burglary charges, had started to raid a flat when he startled a woman who lived there
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  • 228 8 STOCKHOLM Government legislators worked into the early hours yesterday on an emergency Bill temporarily banning strikes and lockouts in the public sector. It is an attempt to end Sweden's worst labour conflict since the Second World War. The law, coming after 37 days of
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  • 190 8 ANKARA Turkish Security Forces are reportedly closing in on the kidnappers of four U.S. airmen. The Turkish Government has promised stern measures against political extremists. The Americans have been held for more than four days under a 551,169,000 ransom or death threat. The
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
    • 571 9  -  To feed or not to feed? laurie lee TO feed the monkeys of the Botanic Gordens or not to feed them? That is the question. Bigns at the gardens tell you that you're not allowed to feed the monkeys. But a brochure railed Singapore This Week urges tourists
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    • 97 9 It certainly it a sign of the times. In grandmother's uy a birth bath meant well, a bird bath. However, the 1970s have changed all that. It takes on a totally new and more interesting meaning. The Bird Bath in London's West End
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  • 340 10 A USTRALIAN Prime Minister John Gorton's downfall came swiftly but surely. The immediate cause of course was the open quarrel with Defence Minister Malcolm Fraser who resigned charging that Gorton was unfit to hold his exalted position. If Gorton had the solid backing of his party, he could
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  • 234 10 /CHINESE Prime Minister Chou En Lai's recently concluded visit to Hanoi has received more publicity than it is customary. Normally brief communiques are issued and almost nothing said about the talks. But this time broadcasts from both Hanoi and Peking went into quite a few details. The most
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  • 817 10  -  by WILLIAM FORREST JANOS KADAR, Communist leader of Hungary since 1956, went into party headquarters in a Budapest district recently, saw a portrait of Lenin on the wall and advised the comrades to hang a clock beside it. What was his idea? He
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  • Article, Illustration
    492 11 Will he be a future British prime minister? T ALK of John Enoch Powell ot the nation's future prime minister is mounting ogoin in Britain. Yet Powell enjoys the daunting distinction ol being probably the most widely reviled political figure In the country. "Racist," "demague," "unchristian," "Fascist," "dangerous"
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 459 11 SIR: yOUR Editorial entitled, "Historical Blunder" on March 8, shows colossal ignorance of facts. Pakistan was not a blunder created by the British but came Into being on the unanimous demand of 100 million Muslims living In the subcontinent of British India. This Is amply borne out by
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    • 132 11 SIS: AGREE with "LiberalV views on censorship up to a point. He says he's old enough to decide for himself what he Should or should not see, and he's right. But that's no real justification for the total abolition of censorship. What about those people who
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    • 66 11 SIR: READ with interest your article of 7 March on the pricewar in our hotel industry. We are as yet only halfway m rough our building programme. What will happen when ALL the hotels are open? Unless the Government steps in again in
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  • 648 12/13  -  MINING BOOM By Barry Wilson THE collapse of Australia's most spectacular domestic mining finance company. Mineral Securities, and the Australian Government's decision to lift the ban on uranium exports illustrate of what is known and often reviled as the Australian mining boom. For most people the
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  • 506 12/13  -  INDOCHINA Barney Seibert Chou mission to soothe Hanoi PREMIER Chou En Lai's surprise visit to Hanoi was to re-assure North Vietnam and underscore China's preparedness to intervene in the Indochina war if necessary, according to preliminary assessments here. The general assessment of diplomats and other
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  • 619 12/13 THE CHURCH VISIT the crypt of St Martin-in-the-Fields church in Trafalgcr Square in the middle of London any Sunday afternoon, and you will find it full of Chinese.. Chinese children run up and down the stone passages playing catch, while their parents have tea in the
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  • 480 12/13  -  RACIALISM By K. C. Thaler THE Kremlin, by allowing demonstrating Jews to leave the country, has proved itself vulnerable to public pressure. The precedent Is not only historymaking It also reflects a sensitivity in Muscovy that could trigger unforseeable development* in the future. Faced with open
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  • 794 14  -  relax Bv SARA LAMBERT IGNORE oil the nice things people soy to you watch their mouths insteod. The real truth will be in the way they smile ot you... Perhops you've always thought that a smile wos o sign of warmth
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  • 101 15 This beautiful miss has just made her debut as both screen actress and dramatic actress, and her chances of success look pretty favourable. Lola plays Emma Jones, the unfaithful wife, in the William Wyler film, "The Liberation of L.B. Jones". As a singer and dancer, Lola electrified
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  • 438 15  -  By Vernon Scott 'JWE immortal Huntz Hall, a legend in his own is back before the cameras. After a brief and disastrous fling at the world of commerce he says: "You can't put greasepaint on accounting books." Just when or how Huntz salved the
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 200 15 AM ORGANISATION i~CAPITOI. 2»78t1| HE^SHV|HOXII 11 I "I I 1 IJ I I N*w Showing tl 4 Tkrilrn CASH BOUKINOS ONLY! No r re* but CAP: 11. 1.3*. 6 f only REX: II 1.45 4.lft 1.4.V SKY: 10 «•>. I 4. «.M. 13 BOX*: II I.4ft. 4.lft. ».30 D*via Chiang
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    • 205 15 a R G A r\J I s AT i o r\j CATHAY -3 ***** opens rouATi II IB, 1M *M «.M A »SU 'I Walk lb* line Gregory fee* PauaVuion A Columbia Picture in ooior 0DE0N I ORCHARD j 1 1 i 1 3 > G *J 8 H NOW
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  • 539 16  -  ANN LANDERS DEAR ANN: There come* a time when each of us has reached the limit of his endurance when we can take BO more. My time has come. 1 am a pianist-organist. For years I've played tor weddings. funerals, anniversary celebrations testimonial dinners confirmations Just
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    • 738 16 TAURUS GEMN CANCER VFGO CARROLL RIGHTER'S GENERAL I>:M)tNtIES Today's Full Moon brings a big opportunity for accomplishing a great deal especially where solid and secure methods are u*>ed. You can then make great headway In advancing toward a goal that means the most to you. Get everything precisely right If
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  • 412 17 MARRIAGE, divorce, unwed togetherness they come in generously assorted bundles along the show business front t^day. No matter what the scandalous circumstances, the public merely shrugs and continues to patronise their offerings. The "new" Hollywood social situation reminds
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    • 902 17 today's TV SINGAPURA CHANNEL 5 OPENINC ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by GENERAL HOSPJTAL A daytime serial about the staff and the patients of a hospital ANOTHER SONC ANOTHER MELODY (Tamil) (Rpt.) IT'S HAPPENINC IN SINCAPORE (Chinese) (Rpt A series on the life and people in our Republic HOUSEWIVES' MATINEE "Unexpected Fortune" (Part
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  • 64 18 IT PAYS to be charitable, as Mr Tan Chew Heok found out on Monday. He won the first prize of a car from a ticket he bought in a donation draw organised in aid of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association. He is seen here receiving the
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  • 241 18 India's population-control problem is fir from being solved and there ore likely to be about 724 million Indians in 1985 occording to the most optimistic estimates. These are among findings in a recentlypublished pamphlet. It say* India would have to brin* its birth rate
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  • 317 18  -  Doctor's Diary By LAWRENCE E IAMB, MD DR LAMB Is it possible for a I rheumatic heart patient to have a lifespan of a normal person? My husband Is In his early 20s and Lake* penicillin dally. He is frequently overworking himself, which causes him to ache
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  • 39 18 SAMPANS crowd the Old Floating Maifcet in Bangkok, wher a vendors daily float their produce tot for tale. Jammed buildings and stalls line the shallow klong. It's a wonder anything can move •here.
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  • 471 19 dining, first popularised in a country where servants are all but extinct, is all the rage in Singapore, silly as it seems. 1 Whenever you're invited out, you'ie likely to be faced with o fondue, one of several kinds. Or with steamboat, Singapore, Japanese, or
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  • 400 19  -  Thursday food by Ruth Bakalar "Don't let the peasants know how good U Is to eat pear with cheese." The gourmets of Italy, where this proverb originated, were probably justified in fearing that if everyone enjoyed pears and cheese as much as they
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  • 258 20 No fresh commitments seem to appear in the share markets of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Most shares, especially in the industrial sector were subject to selling pressure. A total of 1.2 million units were reported done during the day. Far East Ship was brought lower
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  • 71 20 KOTA KINABALU Work on the second phase of the $73 million Kota Klnabalu and Bandakan ports project will be completed by November. The third phase of the ports project would be the construction and supervision work starting next year and is expected to
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  • 277 20 March first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 pm in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 97 cents per kilo (Tuesday's closing) The tone of the market was quiet. There was no feature in trading during the morning. Opening quotations wore 50 points lower and thereafter
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  • 126 20 DONG KONG Yesterday's 5 pm currency rates (supplied by Foreign Kxcbanre and Investment Ltd.): (Burera) (Keller*) 195 20 19(920 per 100 strait* dollars 146 50 148 50 per l.ooo Jaiwut) adlart 6.70 6.78 per Atmranan doiiaf MO 300 per ].0(K> Burmese icy at* 480 480 per l.CKMi Indian
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  • 722 20 BID and offer price* officially listed at thr close of buslneas Id the Singapore a no Kuala Lnmpur trading rooms Of the Btock Exchange vesterda* INDUSTRIALS B. 8. ACMA 1.31 Ajloomolo 1.90 Alcan 1 13 1.44 Allied Choc 2.H8 2.90 BrO 1.24 1.28 Berjaya 1.22 1.23 Borneo 1-94
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  • 877 20 BrSINFSS done In and reported to the tradinc 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 ACM A $l3B (4); AJinomoto $1 85 (1); Alcan $143 (1); Ben DIM $1.25
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  • 63 20 (life noon prim at tb» Mninporr tblornr Pniducr Kirhinitr fnurdu •u wonot Oil a a. if.a.b.) bulk Bi.no I'orunat Oil ifab.) drum mm MM lorpra Manioh Unut Amu l(W% NLtV. IT? JM) Hnrnutik While ftppor HTJ.A0 >«nn»nk Hprclti Hfatrk Ml NUI. mm in.m Mrawnk MbM* 100% N.LW l HA
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  • 368 21 Grave menace in protectionist sentiment Ford WORLD TRADE IN CRISIS NEW YORK Henry Ford 11, just back from an extensive Hip through the Far East, has warned that one of the most damaging things for international trade was the reawakening of protectionist sentiment in America. Ford, chairman of the board
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  • 65 21 PENANG Justice Tan Sri Abdul Aziz bin MohimWl Zain has been appointed the ne w chairman of the National Electricity Board. He succeeds Da to Haji Osman bin Talib. Justice Tan Sri Abdul Aziz, bom in Province Wellesley in 1922. was a High Court Judge for six
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  • 106 21 PENANG A special advisory council is being set up to co-ordinate the planning and preparation for the 1972 Pacific Area Travel Association Conference and Workshop. the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Enche Mohamed Khir Johari, said yesterday. Enche Khir said the council would have its first
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  • 33 21 KEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages on the New York stock Exchange SO Industrials 809.10 CO Rails 201 48 15 Utilitiea 122 32 65 Stocks 296 28 40 Bonds 70.80
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  • 238 21 Specially designed for Use on the Europe-Slngapore-Far East Service by Overseas Containers Ltd. are Ave OCL. Far East Ships under construction In Germany. This model Is the first to show what they look like The 950 feet long, 16.000-ton ships will be capable
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  • 396 21 SYDNEY Strong buying pressure on mining stocks resulted in a widespread rally on Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Rises in the heavyweights, copper, nickels and uranium stocks were recorded on the brightest days trading for several weeks. In the heavyweights Mlm, New BH and Consolidated Gold were
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  • 78 21 LAGOS The 19th session of the International Tin Council opened yesterday. Industry sources said it would discuss a new international tin agreement aimed at stabilizing prices for tin on world markets. The agreement would take effect July 1, 1971. Among tin producing countries taking part are
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  • 176 21 WASHINGTON The Nixon administration is ready to change its basic economic policies "on very short order" if they prove ineffective in producing Jobs and controlling inflation, U.S. Treasury Secretary John B. Connaily Jr. says. He said administration strategists are now satisfied that the
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  • 551 22 MACONDO and MAHSEER worked well at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. Clapping on the pace from the half mile, the West trained pair raced stride for stride over 3f in 37 3/5 with Mahseer, Subian Dalwee up, doing better at the finish. WEST LAKE (Colemani showed
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 131 23 Ik Singapore Hockey Association has selected twenty-three players to represent the State's Uader-23. Those selected are: Simon. Saurajan, Lim Ah Suan, F\ Clarke, Jaswant Singh and Devinder Singh, from the Singapore Armed Forces. Cho w Hgee rook, CSingh and Gopal Singh from Khalsa Association. Heera Singh from the
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    • 81 23 Takastti Murakami of Japan shot a slsxllng six. under-par 66 for the best professional card In the pro-am tournament prelude to the four day Malaysia Open Golf Championships which begins today Nationalist China's Lu Liang Huan. Japan'j Kainal. American Rick Talt and the recent Singapore Open
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    • 21 23 Singapore Armed Forces beat Port Authority Recreation Club 2-1 in a SOSFL fixture played at Bukit Chermln yesterday
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    • 307 23 NEW YORK Former world Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Alii« firmly convinced he was robbed of the decision in his title fight with Joe Frasier and is keen for a return to prove he's still The Greatest.' Nursing a swollen J»w, the former champion told
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    • 59 23 A score of 681 enabled Ronnie Chua. to win the CPA Brunswick Far East Bowling Tournament concluded at the Ocean Bowling Alley Other results: Brian Mathleu (662). Leon Llm (644) Robert Tan (632) Ronnie Koh (630) Charlie Koh (629) S.Y Loh (623). K M.Lee (598). Bteven
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    • 856 23  -  Adequate training facilities needed »L S. Selvarajoo SINGAPORE should have a reserve pool of players to replace retiring or unfit players in the nationol squad a prominent coach said yesterday. He is Mr Harith Omar, one of the four soccer
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    • 99 23 PORT OF SPAIN. Trinldad Spinner Jack Norelga became the first West Indian bowler to take nine wickets in a Test Innings as he sent India sliding to 352 all out In the second Test here Tuesday The 35 •'year-tola Norelga. playlns in only his
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  • 134 24 Comfortable win for Mrs Gandhi NEW DELHI Prime Minister Indirs Gandhi, whose ruling Congress Party seemed to be heading for a comfortable majority in Parliament, has retained her own Rae Bareli seat with a massive majority of over 11 •,••0 votes. 000 VlENTlANE—Communist troops have overwhelmed three
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  • 256 24 Labour opposition leader Gough Whitlam has called for a general election to decide who should be the new Prime Minister of Australia. He made his demand when Federal Parliament met briefly yesterday. Whitlam referred to the permutations of personalities in the government forced by
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  • 96 24 Mystery surrounds the death of a beautiful nightclub waitress found dead yesterday She was Miss Thia Yoke Kheng, 25 of Redhill Close. Police found her body In a pool of blood at the foot of the Whitehouse Hotel along Jalan Besar. She Is believed to have jumped
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  • 120 24 SAIGON Communist truck traffic on thr Ho Chi Minh Trail is increasing again. President Nixon has previously said that the communist supplies down the trail have been affected by the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese campaign in Laos. The level of movement. some to the south, south-west
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