Eastern Sun, 16 March 1971

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  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily Final edition 10 cents fcsrd. 1966 Vol. 5 No. 1596 Tuesday, March 16, 1971 M.C (P) 2510
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  • 392 1 \ACCA President Yahya Khan arrived in the East Pakistan capital yesterday just after the eastern wing of the nation declared virtual independence. He may be able to dampen tensions and political ambitions, although the call for Bengalis to defy the Central Authority had
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  • 105 1 CAMBRIDGE, England It you Mint to make money in Britain, don't be a lawyer. Dock 'ahourers earn better salaries and soon garhagemen may top the earnings of mem tiers of the bench. The British Legal Association at its annual conference hu warned lawyers to play
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  • 122 2 A Ave-daf exhibition on the use of the metric system was opened yesterday at the Teachers Training College. Hundreds of students were shown the advantages! of the metric system. Girls were particularly interested in their vital statistics, heights and weights in metrie measures. Singapore Is
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  • 128 2 LUMPUR Allegations of "sabotage" in the Malaysian education system were made in Parliament yesterday. An Alliance backbencher, Tuan Haji Ahmad Arshad, claimed that non-Malay teachers were "sabotaging" the science and mathematics education of Malay students. Tuan Ahmad (Muar Utaro) said he
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  • 71 2 KUALA LUMPUR An estimated sloo million worth of property was damaged by the recent great floods which ravaged several states in Malaysia. 16 lives were lost. These figures were disclosed by the Min- ister of Information and Special Functions, Tan Sri Ghazall Shade, In Parliament
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  • 385 2 A Nanyang University graduate told the High Court yesterday be took two dap to think It over before telling police that a police Inspector bad raped bis girlfriend. "I was afraid publicity would enlarge the matter and affect our reputation," Mr K. said.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 72 2 ■EMI SINGAPORE TOWN 12.47 am. (9.2 ft 6.57 am. (1.7 ft.); 1.17 pm. (8.5 ft.); 702 pm. (2.9 ft.) TOMORROW 1.11 am. (9.2 ft 7.27 am. (1.5 ft.); 1.53 pm. (8 ft); 7.26 pm. (3.4 ft.). NAVAL DOCKYARD 1.05 am. (10.6 ft I; 6.45 am. (2.1 ft.); 1.30 pm. (10.3
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    • 37 2 WEATHER THE weather bureau predicts scattered showers in U>r late morniug today YKSTKKDAY Max temp: 90.5 Min. temp: 74.5 lUlji nil Total rain March: .44 Total rain days March: 4 Sunshine- 6-55 Humidity at 11 oni HS
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  • 273 3 urgently needs a core of efficient administrators to surpass the present economic and social growth, the Minister for Finance said yesterday. Mr Hon Sui Sen said: "In the lost 11 years the government's scope of activities and responsibilities has been greatly expanded." He was
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  • 171 3 THE 70-year-old retired Government employer went to the Singapore Armed Force's pay office at Central Police Station to collect $110.83 his dead grandson's lut pay. His grandson, Robin Edward Jorge. 20. and two other National Servicemen were killed when a three-ton truck overturned on
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  • 70 3 KUALA LUMPUR About 48,000 non-citizens In Malaysia will have their work permits renewed automatically this Gar, the Assistant Miner of Labour, Mr I>ee San Choon told Parliament yesterday. Mr Lee was giving details of categories of work permits that will be renewed in reply to a question. He
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  • 103 3 A labourer yesterday told the Third District Court he stabbed an unknown man because hu friends asked Him to do it. Mohamed Taha bin Pakeer Mastan. 18. admi 11 e d voluntarily causing grevious hurt to Choo Kam ('hone near block 2 Mattar Road on
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  • 156 3 The Adult Education Board will hold a threeday Photographic exhibition at the National Library Lecture Hall from Friday April 30 to Sunday, May 2. Judges will be Mr Lee Mun Chung. Mr Loke Loh Hong, and Mr Yip Cheong Fun. All entries should reach the Board's
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  • 88 3 Koala I.umpur Parliament yesterday passed the Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj Pension Bill providing pension and benefits to the former Prime Minister. Cnder the Ordinance, the Tunka will receive a monthly pension of $4,000 and a gratuity of $2OO 000 for his services to the
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    • 51 3 When In Hong Kong Stay In Comfort at HR HOTEL ROYAL 380 Nathan Road. Koiwloon. Hongkong. Telephone K-*****1. Cable: 'Hotelroyal Hongkong's First Class Hotel. All Rooms Fully Air-Conditioned, With Privote Telephone. For Those Who Seek Superb food, Good Wine And Courteous Service. At Reasonable Rotes. For Reservations Contort Your Travel
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  • 273 4 119 flee East Pakistan FOLLOWERS of Awami League leader Sheikh Mujibur Rehman are preparing for a show- down with the Pakistan Army. They are massing with bamboo spears, arrivals from Dacca said yesterday. But thej said factories, shipping lines and banks —paralysed for the past few
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  • 110 4 Police are still hunting the people responsible for two bomb blasts outside tbe gate of Changi Prison at Moon Crescent last Sunday. They strongly believe it was the work of pro-Communist elements following the recovery of five anti-Government banners at the scene. The 6.30 am blasts
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  • 154 4 FOOD glorious FOOD Scale dotru you food costs today—bay fish Iksn Merak la a real bargain at SIJS a kati —a drop of 60 rents It's delicious carried. For dessert have watermelons. At cents a kati they're cheaper than usual. Today's prices (iu pounds unless
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  • 50 4 Truck driver Ong I«e Tee. 25, died in the Outram Road General Hospital on Sunday night of severe head injuries. He was rushed to the hospital on March 11 after his truck skidded and overturned at the junction of Gejrlang Road and Joo Chi at Road
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  • THE COST OF LIVING... THREE POINTS OF VIEW
    • 203 4 A school teacher and hit wife are feeling the pinch of rising prices. They say they may have to move to a smaller house to cut expenses. Mrs Tan Chen* Hor, 37. explained: "We are extremely careful with our budget planning as we have only $3OO
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    • 124 4 Tlie rising cost of living has forced a fruit and iced drinks hawker and his wife to "tighten their belts." The wife. Mr s Lin Taing Cheong. 30, said: "When the weather is good our monthly in- come is about $3OO. •"Two or three
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    • 160 4 Salaries of whitecollar workers should be upgraded because of rising living cost, the wife of a taxation consultant told the Eastern SIIN. Mr s Surinder Soin. 40, explained: "Every month we spend $2,000 on household expenses. "*l.OOO is on the kitchen and errtertainment and the
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  • 250 6 SAIGON American aircraft have knocked out 10 North Vietnamese tanks in Laos but fighting was limited as the South Vietnamese thrust against Communist supply lines enters its sixth week. Seven tanks were destroyed by Thailandbased Air Force ACI3O "Specter" gun--8 hips. Electronic gear picked
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  • 248 6 DELHI The victorious Congress Party will meet today to elect Mrs Indira Gandhi as its leader. It will be a mere formality to enable President V V Giri to invite her to form the Government after the mid-term national poll. The Prime Minister
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  • 183 6 FAYFTTEVILLE, North Carolina Actress Jane Fonda's anti-war revue. attended by U.S. military intelligence agents poorly disguised as hippies, played to packed audiences at its premiere near Fort Bragg. Nearly 500 soldiers greeted the troupe's Jibes at the military and the Indochina war with cries of "right
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  • 93 6 CANBERRA Parliament last night tamed back an opposition motion of no confidence in the new government of Prime Minister William McMahon. by a 62-58 vote. The Labour Party concentrated its attacks on the split in the Liberal Party which led to Mr Gorton's downfall, though he was
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  • 339 6 PKRTH. West Australia A Jewish underground has been formed in Russia but It is not trying to overthrow the Soviet political system. Its main aim is reportedly to retain the Jewish identity and secure freedom for Jews to leave Russia. BHOPAL. India Police have shot dead 13
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  • 345 8 Separate charge for infant killing jpORT BENNING, Georgia Three judicial rulings have badly weakened the defence of Lieutenant William Calley, charged with murdering more than 100 South Vietnamese civilians. One ruling made an order to kill unresisting persons Illegal. The defence says Calley, accused of
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  • 226 8 TRIPOLI Oil Ministers of the four Mediterranean oil producers Libya, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Algeria yesterday discussed Libya's threat to nationalise its petroleum industry. The nationalisation threat was an apparent attempt to break the deadlock with Western oil companies over Mediterranean crude oil
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  • 172 8 SAN QUENTIN, California Twelve stabbings at San Qjentin Prison last week have resulted in a general lockup there. The unrest, caused by racial hatred, has already claimed a white victim. Six of the convicts khifed are white and six black. The lockup was imposed at
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  • 196 8 MARIETTA, Georgia A breakdown in talks between the Rolls Royce and Lockheed over the RB-211 contract will greatly affect thousands of people. Roll Royce had intended to provide the Rll-211 jet engines for the aircraft until the company ran into financial difficulties last month. More
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
    • 655 9  -  ...that doesn't exist laurte lee I WENT to investigate on unusual problem at the plush American Club the other day ond left even more mystified. It had to do with fulfilment, which i« the main American pastime. 1 first came to know of the trouble through the
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    • 58 9 MINI-BIKINIS are mr practical. They enable the sun to reach the most hidden parts of the bodr. Bat some of these brief bikinis rrarh such a low level that it reveals more flesh than the Sydney beach law* permit. But who wouldn't enjoy seelax; all
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  • 553 10 FEW observers of the Indian political scene would have hazarded the prediction that Mrs Indira Gandhi would win a landslide victory Including the two-thirds majority so essential to amend the constitution. The task ahead of her is near Impossible and the temptation to monkey with the constitution vast.
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  • 668 10  -  By Kim Willenson T UANG PRABANG, Loos The Governor of Phong Soly province woi so busy a few months ago that he hod to quit one of his two jobs. But he came down with o debilitating case of high blood pressure anyway. As far as
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 167 10 SIR: I REFER to the photographs and caption appearing in your paper on 8.3.71 and 11.3.71 concerning the Bin Centre at Kee Seng Street. This bin point was constructed in 1967. It caters for the refuse from the nearby street market and food stalls. There are four
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    • 102 10 SIR: A traffic policeman riding scooter SAL 848 at 8.50 am on 12th March parked the scooter against a white line in Victoria Street. I asked the traffic police whether it is in order for a policeman to park his vehicle against the traffic rules.
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    • 170 10 SIR: rPHERE is so much unrest in the world Pakistan, Vietnam. Cambodia, Northern Ireland that we all desire and hope for world peace. We daily pray for world peace and harmony. If all of us join hands in praying for peace, we can be sure our
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  • 548 11 SUNSCOPE CHINA has become military dictatorship capable of making 1,000 longrange nuclear missiles by 1980, according to a British author. "Peking Is obsessed with nuclear status and Is determined at whatever cost to Its economy to go ahead with the production of
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  • SUN PEOPLE WATCHERS
    • 457 12/13 Paris is plotting to recapture its place in the sun as one of the world's capitals of culture. A government centre of the contemporary arts and designer Pierre Cardin'g new theatre-art gallery complex are among the movements to restore to the Freiich capital
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    • 30 12/13 Blackie, a vulture recaptured after a week's freedom from a Yorkshire zoo, is being treated with vitamin pills and infra-red heat for shock and exposure.
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    • 113 12/13 THE SUN People-Watchers are interested In YOU at work and at play. Every day our cameramen arc on the lookout for the human side of life, funny and serious. Whether sleeping, eating, working or just playing YOU and your friends couJd be featured. People-Watchers appear
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  • 1284 14  -  HYPNO relax By Laurence Bookman WHAT exactly ore the dangers of playing around with a 'game' like hypnotism... A British coroner hos ordered an inquiry into the mysterious deaths of three people a young girl who died by drowning, and a young couple who
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  • 561 15 JJOLLYWOOD Sal Mineo, the Italian from New York's Bronx is a very versatile person. He played an Indion in 'The Long Flight," Jews in both "Exodus" and "The Greatest Story/' and a Siamese lad in the Broadway production of "The King and I" Now, while
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  • 227 15 NEW YORK Actor George C. Scott, who refused an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of General Patton, says actors are "crazy living." Actors, he says, are the world's oldest underprivileged minority. Most (actors) are crazy to start with, or go nuts once we
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 238 15 ORGANISATION LIDO *****4 Opens lodarl II a.M.. I.«S «.!M ».|l Jerry Lewis Wblrh Way to rhe Front?" Color < WBNEXT CHANOEt Brian Keith, Helmut Orlem The MrKENZIE BREAK" 10 Color i United Artisui C A I TO I ***** Opens Todt; No Free List II W. 1.30. 4. 6.45. ».J<l
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    • 157 15 ODKOM: Nest Change! MOW* Ne Male Of Graaa Starring: Nltal Darenport PanaVlalon iletrocolor Orchard: Next Change I Barbra BtreUand la Oa A Clear Day Tea Caa See rere»er" Tree Mootaoo PanaVlalon Technicolor A Paramount Picture CATHAY 33-400 I NOW SHOWING! II mm. I N, 4. g.M lm -I Walk The
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  • 533 16  -  ANN LANDERS DKAR AN s: This friend of mine. I'll rail her Celia. has an odd sense of humour. By that I mean she 1* always making jolies at someone elses eapen*e i For some reason she doe* no! like my boyfriend I Rollie is a
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 729 16 M RIGHTERS L. GENUAL TENDENCIES: A problem from the put can hold you bark Iran gaining new ambition*. Try to settle It at. quickly as possible. Tonight you have a good chance to expand a new frame oi mind that can aid yoa to get what you want the most
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  • 301 17 I ONDON The Sadler's Wells Opera Compuny is presenting a delightful new production of Mozart's The Seraglio" at the London Coliseum. Musically deeply and enchantlngly human, this opera about Spanish lover s trapped in the palace of a Turkish pasha is dramatically a fairy-tale with a
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 881 17 today's tMion TV SIIMGAPURA CHANNEL 5 OPENINC ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by CENERAL HOSPITAL A daytime serial about the staff and the patients of a hospital FOR THE FAMILT A magazine series pretentod in the Nationd Language A DIARY OF EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (National Language) IT'S HAPPENINC IN SINCAPORE (National
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  • Article, Illustration
    128 18 ABOVE: Executive Chef Peter Ciehrmann, of Mandarin Hotel shows some distinguished guests how Canadian beef is prepared. Looking on (from left to. right) are the Ac-tin? High Commissioner of Canada, Mr M. Blackwood, the Assistant Trade Commissioner of Canada. Mr Bill Clarke the general manager of Singapore Mandarin
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  • 284 18 A 91-ytar-«ld multi-millionaire South Africa witchdoctor has only one complaint women are so expensive. Khotso Sethuntsa should know. He is married to 23 of them. The squat, white-haired eccentric has other assets too. He claims to have the key to life and death and offers
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  • 560 18  -  Doctor's Diary B* LAWRENCE E. lAMB, MD DEAR Dr Lamb I have angina of the heart and wondered if any one ever (jets over this or is it something I will have to learn to live with? I am nervous and In my 40s and
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  • WOMEN
    • 232 19 1 ATE last year, bicycle publicity broke out everywhere. Not only were millions of people pedalling, they were being noticed. Ecology was the reason, of course. A small but definite Dnti-auto trend had set some people to bike riding as an alter- native. Fashion
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    • 283 19 earthy inspiration for youth fashion is turning designer attention to the farm, nineteenth century, that is. Few modern farmers would be seen in the "farm" clothes which are turning up everywhere in spring youth sportswear. Leading the trend is that creator of the original
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 245 20 TAIPEI An International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.) official has said that o common market will be more difficult to set up in Asia than in Europe. Mr Hsu Peh-Yuan, Nationalist China's permanent representative of the IM F. board o< executives, was speaking to
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    • 56 20 Mr Chew Kong Hong (above) has been appointed Front Office Manager at the Imperial Hotel. His last post was that of Manager at Hotel Puspa, Brunei. Prior to that he was at Cockpit Hotel for 15 years. He spent another two years at Jajasan Wisma Indonesia. first as its Manager
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    • 298 20 April first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 pm in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 102.75 cents per kilo. Tl»e tone of the market was steady. Opening quotations were marked up on higher London advices, but some upcountry hedge selling eased the market at the
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    • 832 20 BrsiNESS done In and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the ncmber of shares traded In bracket* In lots of 1.000 on 11 s unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS A CM A $1.38 (2): Alcan $144 (1) $1.43 (lj Ben $122
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    • 122 20 HONG KONG ¥e«terday' s 6 pm currency rates (■applied b> Foreign Kxcbance and Investment Ltd.): iRuverg) (Seller*) 105 20 198 30 per 100 strait* dollar* 147 140 per 1.000 Taiwan dollar* 6.76 6 78 per Australian doila/ 340 ?I80 oer 1.00C Burmese kyats 455 475 per 1,000 Indian
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    • 662 20 BID and offer price* Officially listed si the clow of business ID the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange vesterda* INDUSTRIALS A cm* 1.31 1.40 AJlnomoto 1 90 Alean 1.35 1.44 Allied 0)«v J.75 2.85 Ben 1 20 Brrjaya lit i:o Borneo L92 103
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    • 288 21 CARLISLE, England American car chief Henry Ford's warning that he might stop investing in strike-plaqued Britain could hit British car exports, a government Minister said. Mr Robert Carr, Secretary of State for Employment. told a Conservative Part y meeting here he did not think
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    • 72 21 Til» noon niff» Uitiport Clilnn* bratnitf rr»irrd*j ■1 Ibr Prodof a Commit (Ml lto.6.1 but* •7.10 Coconut (Mi ft-ft i» drwm HUM CMffa U MMIIII Wblif AM* 199% H I. W JtC IT) JK) IUr>»ab H'kHr PrpiKt M% tr. j» •cnikat Hprdai Marl N% ML H in AA l«i*«k
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    • 187 21 Response to the Thai flights to Sydney from Bangkok and Singapore starting next month has been good all along the line, especially from the Australian side. "The new flight from Australia will mean additional tourists ar. J supplements rather than compete with existing routes now
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    • 343 21 SYDNEY Fresh bursts of profit taking Monday sent share paces back down the board on Sydney Stock Exchange. The market was not stirred by the re-listing of Mineral Securities satellites. Most buying centered around cheaper speculative Issues. Antimony Nickel Jumped 21 cents to 65 cents
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    • 439 21 NANYANG FINANCE LIMITED (INCORPORATED IN SINGAPORE) BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1970. Authorised < spital Ordinary Shares of g:00 each l«urd Capital 10.000 shares at *lOO each fully paid >. ;APITAL REMKVK Statutory reserve tEVENUE RESERVE 14,159 Toasjilj Profit (inappropriate Total Capital and Reserves CURRENT I.MBlimiiit AND PROVISIONS Fixed
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  • 1211 22 SATURDAY CI. 1 Di». 2 < Fan. Elite Special 9 00 Jaldast 8.11 Fleet Arm 8 11 Highland Inn 8.10 East Coast Ocean 8 10 Rendezvous 8 (>8 Setia 11 8 08 King's Knight 8.07 Vagabond 8.00 Pi&ang Mas 8 06 Tudor IJght 8.05 Eeilaishang 8.04 Mount
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  • 875 22 SATURDAY Race 1: TANGAROA (L. Kang) was slow way. SWORD OF FLAME (C. Leong) could not get into stride after Jumping with the field. C. was told that be should give more rein to his mount when jumping out from the starting stall. Jockey R Low r£
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  • 80 22 TOKYO Seventeen nation* will take part in the 13th Asian Youth Soccer championship tx> be held here irom April 24 to May 5, the Japan Soccer Association said yesterday. They are Burma, Hongkong. India, Indonesia. Iran, Israel, Kuwait. Laos. Malaysia, Nepal, The Philippines, Singapore.
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  • 58 22 MOSCOW Karl Utsar, 26, from Tartu In Soviet Estonia, set a world heavyweight weightliftlng record lor the snatch of 168.5 kilograms Sunday in the International Friendship Prize competition at Rostov-On-Don. the Soviet news agency Tass said. Utsar topped by half a kilogram the record set
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 222 23 ORLANDO Florida Arnold Calmer Sunday won his second tournament this season, outpacing Julius Boros to capture the *****,600 Florida Citrus golf invitational Palmer, who won the Bob Hope Desert Classic last month, ended the duel with with Boros when he ran in a birdie
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    • 178 23  -  By S. Selvarajoo Singapore will send the largest number of contestants to the seven-nation 2nd Asian Tae Kwan-Do Cham, pionships in Kuala Lumpur from March 19 to 21. The team comprises ten black belts and five brown beTts. The contestants are drawn from
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    • 361 23 KUALA LUMPUR The Asian Golf Circuit moves to New Delhi for the first time this week with Japan's red hot Takaaki Kono the new circuit leader. The tiny Kono shot a blazing 19-under par 269 to win the Malaysian Open Sunday by two
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    • 182 23 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados The West Indies cricket selectors Sunday night named two newcomers among the seven players invited to Georgetown for selection in the third Test with India. They are Essex professional Keith Boyce of Barbados and Jamaica's wlcketkeeper batsman Desmond Lewis. Boyce. one of
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    • 149 23 The Volleyball Association and the People's Association will organise an InterCommunity Centre Volleyball Competition. The Competition to be held towards the middle oif this year will be hosted by the Pek Kio Community Centre. The President of the Volleyball Association of Singapore, Dr Lee Chiaw Meng disclosed this
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    • 89 23 Sorangoon Garden Technical School and StAndrew'* School drew one all In yesterday's Serangoon District Hockey Tournament 'A' Division fixture olayed at Serangoon Garden. In the 10th minute of the first half, centreforward Kee Cho w scored off a short-corner for St. Andrew's. In
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  • 156 24 Heath gives Ford his assurance LONDON Prime Minister Kdward Heath told Henry Ford II yesterday bis government is determined to win Britain's battle against inflation and strikes and that this country will continue to be worth in. vesting in. Workers at Ford's plant at Dagenham, east of
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  • 266 24 JERUSALEM Israel has began a diplomatic campaign aimed ot getting concrete Middle East peace negotiations, without any preconditions, underway at a neutral venue outside the United States. Foreign Minister Abbo Ebon left for London yesterday on the first stop of a
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  • 73 24 TOULOI'SE. France. Four gunman barricaded themselves in a bank in this southern French town after being surprised by police while staging a hold-up. First reports said the gang opened fire on a police van which arrived as they were trying to leave the bank One policeman
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  • 120 24 Soviet delegation chief to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Vladmir Semenov (L) Is welcomed by Aus- trian Chief of Protocol. Walter Wodak on his arrival in Vienna from Moscow. VIENNA. Russia and the United States entered the fourth round of their Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
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  • 93 24 PARIS The President of Central African Republic yesterday accused the French Government of plotting to overthrow him. "It planted a rirl who claimed to be my long-lost daughter in my household.*' President Jean Bedel Bokassa said. The plot was discovered when his true daughter
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  • 37 24 BEIRUT Guards have been strengthened at the Egyptian, Sudanese, and Libyan embassies. There were reports of a plot by a Baa th Party faction to kidnap envoys of the three countries.
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  • 241 24 LONDON Cardinal lire nan, Archbishop of Westminster. has said that brine a vir Bin flthfr man or woman was not in itself a virtue. The cardinal, who beads the Roman Catholic Church In Bri tain, was brint questioned by people on a
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