Eastern Sun, 19 March 1971

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1 24 Eastern Sun
  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN r own national daily Final edition 10 cents litd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1599 Friday, March 19, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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  • 339 1 does not wont people who will be o burden and has no intention of relaxing its tough citizenship laws. The Minister for Labour, Mr S. Rajorotnam, mode this clear in Parliament yesterday. He was answering complaints from backbenchers that the government was
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  • 94 1 Lovely Christine Gabriel is all smiles and with good reason. She has been chosen to represent Singapore in rhe Miss Young International Contest in Tokyo July 26-August 2. Said Christine, who lives at Jalan Pemimpin, off Thomson Road: "I'm very pleased and happy. I'm overjoyed
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  • 104 2 Even the little girls came along r p\VO little girls were among 30 women demonstrators outside Changi Prison yesterday. The peaceful demonstration lasted about 45 minutes. Police last night refused to comment or give further information. The girls were Miss Llm Lee Lin, 2
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  • 48 2 JAKARTA The In donesian Navy had detained three Malaysian trawlers at Tandjung Balai, north Sumatra. The T allegedly were Ashing illegally In Indonesian waters, the daily newspaper Merdeka reported. The trawlers were operating under an Indonesian company They were caught out of their authorised area.
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  • 58 2 The Metrication Board would be dissolved once its tasks were completed, the Minister for Science and Technology, Dr Toh Chin Chye, said yesterday Stafl recruited would only be temporarily, he saia. He was replying to a ?uery in Parliament rom Mr S- Ramaswamy (Potong Pasir) who
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  • 129 2 A backbencher yesterday complained about dirty toilets in the Supreme Court building. Mr 8. Ramaswamy (Potong Pasir) reminded Parliament that people were prosecuted for not keeping their toilets clean. He asked who would prosecute the officers responsible in the Supreme Court for the dirty
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  • 56 2 Look} painful doesn't it. But thes« devoted Taoists don't seem to mind. About 75 of them held an exorcism ceremony yesterday to get rid of evil spirits. They paraded through Tiong Bahru Road with pins and lances stuck through their bodies 'nd facet. The procession
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  • 22 2 POLICE are trying to Identify the body of a young woman found ftt the mouth of Kalltng River yesterday morning
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 124 2 THE weather bureau predicts isolated showers this morning YESTERDAY Max. temp: 87.1 Min. temp: 73.0 Rain 0.43 Total rain March 1.07 Total rain days March 6 Sunshine 3.35 Relative Humidity at 11 pm 92 SINGAPORE TOWN 209 am. (8.8 ft.); 8.48 am. (1.7 ft.l; 3.27 pm. (6.7 ft 8.26 pm.
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  • 292 3 Sloppy, arrogant, impolite... Q2OLDIERS and officers of the Singapore Armed Forces came under fire from backbenchers in Parliament yesterday for sloppiness, misbehaviour and arrogance. During the debate on expenditure estimates for the Ministry of Defence, the MP for Kotong Mr J. F. Conceicoo, criticised SAF
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  • 124 3 More than 2,500 men yesterday took part in a joint parade at the Fleet Amphibious Forces Base at Sembawang. It was one of the bigeest British military parades here in reeent years. The men were from HMS Simbang and the Third Commando Brigade. There were elements of
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  • 161 3 Dr Toh Chin Chye yesterday assured Parlioment that his Ministry of Science and Technology wos not "a baby uncared for" nor had it been discriminated against. He made this point in reply to a backbencher's concern that he had no permanent secretary "after four
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  • 104 3 The Anti-pollution I'nit has been set up and is functioning in the n WD under three scientists. Parliament was told jeaterday. Defence Minister, Dr Goh Keng Swee. said this in reply to a query by Mr Ng Yeow Chong during the debate on estimates
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  • 93 3 Two lovei* bound their hands together and tried to leap from the Ibth storey of Sflf|[if House at dawn yesterday. But a flat dweller stopped their sulfide bid in the nick of time. Pulled The man who would only give his name as Mr Tan.
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  • 257 4 THEY CAN CHOOSE UNION lndustrial Labour Organisation yesterday accepted the Industrial Workers' Union's challenge to conduct a secret ballot among the Associated Bus Services Company's workers. This would enable the bus workersto decide which union they wanted to support. The left wing Industrial Workers Union
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  • 50 4 The crew of a Port of Singapore Au th orlty boat rescued a middleaged man who fell Into the Kallang rtiver yesterday afternoon. He Is Mr Soh Yee Beng, 51. He was walking along Kallang Bridge when he slipped and fell. He was sent home.
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  • 80 4 The deer which gored to death a factory hand on Tuesday died at 7 am yesterday. The deer died at the Singapore Zoological Gardens at Mandai Road after three tranquilliser injections. The deer killed Siew Kim Tiong, 62, at an animal feed farm in
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  • 136 4 FOOD glorious FOOD Here's a market bargain to go to your head cabbage at only M M a kali. It is down from $0.75 a kati yesterday. All other prices «re the same as yesterday. Prices (in pounds unless otherwise mentioned!: VEGETABLES a kati
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  • 228 4 No deserving student would be deprived of the chance of higher education because of poverty, Parliament wos told yesterday. The Defence Minister. Dr Goh Keng Bwee. said this In reply tq a query from the MP for Whampoa Dr Augustine Tan. during the
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  • 146 4 Singapore «o■ I d set up its diplomatic miasioo ia Russia in June, the Miaister for Foreign Affairs, Mr S. Rajaratnam, told ParHumwt yesterday. He was replying to a question from Mr Teong (tag Seong (Sembawang) during the debate on estimates for his Ministry Mr Rajarataam
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  • 229 5 5O-year-old widow and eight of her 16 children were awarded $31,610 damages and costs in a negligence suit at the Hiah Court yesterday. Madam Toh Chiew, a farmer, of Lorong Mangchak in Yio Chu Kang was suing as administratrix of her late
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  • 125 5 The Ministry of Defence will use its ablest engineers to provide the skills and technical expertise to handle modern weapons. This would be the function of the Science and Management Group. Defence Minister, Dr Gob Keng Swee, said yesterday. He told Parliament setting up
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  • 120 5 American Investment in Singapore has risen from $152 million to $615 million In three years. By 1972 it is expected to rise to $l,OOO million. International Executive Service Corps Representative Mr John Chandler (pictured) said this at the Rotary luncheon yesterday. He said the investment
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 146 5 The day tour to Europe Now you can have Europe like it was a sightseeing day tour out of Singapore. We give you our daylight express way to Europe. Breakfast in Singapore. Dinner in Frankfurt. Short breaks for the gas stations at Bangkok, Bombay and Karachi. Then sunset over the
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  • 249 6 JAILED FOR LACING CRISPS ANGELES A shaggy-haired uninvited guest turned a "swinging singles" party into a drug nightmare by feeding guests LSD-spiked potato crisps. He has been sentenced to between six years and life in jail. A Playboy magazine "Playmate of the Month", pin-up
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  • 44 6 A wounded North Vietnamese prisoner is escorted from a helicopter after capture in Laos by South Vietnamese Marines. The captive, Colonel Ngo Van Sam, was later interrogated at the South Vietnamese marine headquarters at Khe Sanh. —(UPI radiophoto) UPI radiophoto
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  • 57 6 FORT RENNINC.. r.eorgia A sick juror in the court martial of Lieutenant William Calley delayed yesterday's scheduled deliberations. The jurors could nut discuss the verdict of the case without all the six officers. Major Harvey Itrown. 33. was taken to a hospital mt
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  • 189 6 WASHINGTON President Nixon is to submit to the Senate a treaty approving the return of Okinawa to Japan. A State Department official said yesterday. He added that despite this key decision by the administration the two governments have yet to agree on
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  • 57 6 TAIPEI Peasants and fishermen in anti-Com-munist uprisings have injured more than 40 officials in the South China province of Kwangtung. This was reported by the Central News Agency. Forty members of the Port Peh Huo Fishery Koductlon brigade were aten up and Injured In a
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  • 251 6 PHNOM PENH Rumours of attacks were rife last night on the first anniversary of Norodom Sihanouk's overthrow but the military reported total calm on the battlefields. Planes flew in formation over the city and troops carrying ma chlneiruns pa'rolled the streets, enf o rcing a curfew.
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  • 241 6 NEW DELHI Premier Indira Gandhi yesterday named a new 13-member Cabinet, bringing in five new fares hut leaving major portfolios unchanged. Swaran Singh remains External Affair* Minister. Jaguivan Ram also President of the ruling Congress Party stays as Defence Minister The Premier
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  • 106 7 Robbery is most certainly good business for some people as these photos show. The same man is seen robbing TWO different banks within the same week. He is first seen in the left picture during a holdup at Liberty Bank and Trust Company
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  • 209 7 AVASHINGTON The United States has strongly protested to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin over a scuffle between Soviet police and American Embassy personnel in Moscow. The protest against unauthorised forcible entry by the police in the American Embassy grounds was contained in a note. Police
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  • 125 7 MELBOURNE A stolen light aircraft swooped low over Melbourne street-, and closed the city's two main airports yesterday. It was later found abandoned in a paddock. The plane, a Cessna 150 was stolen from a flying school. It was found undanaced near the small
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  • 83 7 LOS ANGELES Angela Davis* codefendant. a San Quentin convict with a low IQ and a distaste for lawCrs. has forced a judge to disqualify mself from the case. The motion by Russell Magee, wounded in a kidnap attempt that killed four people, suspended the trial. Magee
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  • 101 7 SYDNEY The wife of great train robber Ronald Biggs hag appealed against taxes on payment for her life story. The story of Mrs Charmaln Biggs, 31, was bought by a Mrlbourne television firm In 1969 and later published overseas. Mrs Biggs is being charged
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  • 32 7 VAN NUYS, CaliforniaTwo more quintuplets bom to a woman who took an experimental fertility drug have diedThe surviving two babies are in guarded condition with a 50-50 chance to live.
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  • 222 8 Political kidnap scare in Mexico ]y|EXICO CITY Foreign embassies in Mexico City are under heavy police guard. The move followed o warning of reprisal political kidnappings. Officials say embassies not usually given police protection are also being guarded. Other measures are being taken to protect
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  • 74 8 WASHINGTON Navy Secretary John Chafee says the navy and marines discharged 6.700 men last year for drug abuse. Chafee said the use of drum by Navy personnel had Increased to the point that "I would be le« than candid where I am to
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  • 100 8 Helsinki Finnish Prime Minister Ahti Karjalainen (right) hands the resignation of his coalition government to President (Jrho Kckkonen. The Prime Minister resigned on Wednesday night after the communist members of his five-party coalition, voted against a bill to free 15 items from price control. The
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  • 52 8 Washington Lockheed Aircraft Corporation and British officials meet In Burbank. California, today. They will discus* an y revised British proposals for the Tristar Airbus No final decisions have been made on whether an American engine or the RollsRoyce RB 211 should be used for tbe
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  • 177 8 ATHENS Greece will soon close down its last prison camp but offenders will be exiled to isolated villages in the future. Deputy Minister George Georgalas said 300 alleged communists held In the prison camp at Leros Island will be freed. About 60 or 70
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  • 60 8 OSLO Norway intends to seek diplomatic relations with North Vietnam, but a government statement does not say when the move will be made. A one-sentence announcement contained in the working programme of Norway's new Labour minority government said; "Steps will be taken aimed at
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  • 82 8 LA PAZ, Bolivia Bolivia's leftwing President. General Juan Jose Torres, last night appointed more leftist cabinet after all his Ministers resigned. Oeneral Torres seized ?ower last October from resident Alfredo Ovando Candia after defeating a rlghtwlng army rebellion. The mass resignation bv his old cabinet
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  • 316 8 BRISBANE, Australia Two children have been killed and 23 injured when their school bus rolled down a mountainside 60 miles north, west of Brisbane. SEOUL President Park Chung Hee yesterday appointed Kim Chong Pil as Vice-President of the ruling Democratic Republican Party. It spurred speculation that he
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  • 78 8 WASHINGTON The White House yesterday accused Democratic Senator William Proxmire of a "shocking attempt" to create a skin cancer fear among Americans Senator Proxmire was accused of starting fears that fullscale supersonic transport flights might lead to an Increase In the disease. Presidential Press Secretary Ronald
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  • 104 8 STOCKHOLM Sweden officially announces today It does not want membership of the European Common Market This would imperil her traditional neutrality, Government sources said yesterday Prime Minister Olof Palme and Trade Mi nister Kjell-Olof Feldt explained the Government's standpoint to leaders of
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
    • 420 9  -  laiirielea BILL Bailey died five years ago this month but nobody seems to have remembered even to play the song which made him famous. And business is as usual at Bill Bailey's Coconut Cirove Bar in Cuppage Street, near Cold Storage. That is
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    • 77 9 A 61-yeor-old Communist hawker doused his clothes with petrol ond set himself oblaze in o pork in Hong Kong lost night. Strollers called police but be was dead wben they arrived. A poster found near bis body said: "protest tbe increased water
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  • 519 10 JNFLATION and the spiralling cost of living are usual concomitants of affluence and we must be thankful that, though Singapore is the second mqpt affluent nation In Asia, we have been spared that. At present no economist will agree that Singapore is suffering from Inflation nor will any
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  • 645 10 Art Buchwald become quite a fad for young folks to drop out of society and "return to the land." Everyone is very sympathetic to the people who reject the society they live in, but the big question is: how many people con a country afford to
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 162 10 SIR: I refer to the article of 13 March "Dust invades homes". It is gratifying indeed to hear from your paper that the Ministry of Health is at last probing the subject of air pollution from a factory next to Bamboo Grove Park Estate, after
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    • 140 10 SIR* CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Toh on his Hberal attitude towards prostitution. It's good that someone has intelligent views and is prepared to state them publicly. Of course it's no use driving prostitutes underground by closing down brothels. This won't help anyone or improve the situation. Things should
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    • 57 10 SIR* has been much said lately about the Government's clamping down on longhaire.d males. Thev have succeeded in driving this point home to most and pre- sumably It has been done in the interests of the country. However, perhaps the Government could define for me
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  • SUN SCOPE
    • 557 11 Reds move into the Indian Ocean, but... Western maritime and geo-political experts have began an intensive study in Washington of the commercial and strategic value of the Indian Ocean. There are certain to be disagreement* on the strategic importance of a growing Russian presence
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  • THE MORNING AFTER with Weatherbee Wong
    • 641 12/13 KOH of the PEST INFESTED has just returned from Bangkok.... It seems like he's been mode an offer and is back to do some thinking. From Bangkok STEVE BALA is playing bass guitar for the CUPID EXPERIENCE with GERALD REINZ, ex FRIED ICE. I hear it
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  • relax
    • 721 14  -  By JEFF PIKE J)0 you usually turn up late for appointments or sometimes forget to turn up at all? If you answered yes to either question, you're probably schizothymic! And that doesn't mean forgetful. Your apparent forgetfulness is really a symptom of
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    • 312 14 TOKYO Employers in labour-short Japan are being forced to find some ingenious ways of keeping staff including holidays in Hawaii. Japanese companies long known tor their cradle-to-grave paternalism have found this isn't enough in a shrinking labour market. Hardest hit are companies
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  • 676 15 Watch right hand, and that left ho fantastic! J-JOLLYWOOD The technical knockout 1 of John Wayne, has stirred up a mess of long-simmering indignation among proud defenders of the ring sport against "fight-fixing" in the movies. Listen to Ralph ("You Look Good,
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 179 15 ORCHARD i'"H NOW SHOWINGI I*o 100 I M 111 p.a BarDra atreuano in Ob A Clear Oa? Voo Can Ftrfvrr' Yvoa Moolai.c PanaVmioo Technicolor A Paramount Picture CATHAY ***** NOW SHOWING' II aa IJO «.J0 IM U«U» mAN AMHFI Rod Taylor. Duty Kendal' A Cloema Coo tor Pi.in to Color
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    • 240 15 S£EEE7 ORGANISATION I. I O O 373-114 LAST I SHOWS! II km, 1.43. A 4 M pas only! Jerry U»u "Hhirh Way lo The Front?" Color IWB) Tonight (30 A 9 16 am No Free List Brian Keitn. Helmut Orlem The McKENZIE BREAK' in Color (United ArtiaUi C AI'IIOI 2n7;i1l
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  • 459 16  -  ANN LANDERS riEAR ANN: Why didn't voo tell "Worried"—the woman mho said her husfcand is fcill- ing himself with food that he wants to die. know what I'm talking about because 1 am that man and there are many others like me. My religion lot bid;
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 728 16 TAURUS GfMN VROO m CARROLL RIOHTER'3 GENERAL TENDENCIES: It could turn out to be a very adverse day and evening If you make those sarcastic and unpleasant comments that come to mind. You must realise that others, less fortunate, are being pressured by planetary positions to say what they really
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 894 17 today's television CHANNEL 5 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by GENERAL HOSPITAL A day time Serial about the staff and the patients of a hospital FOR THE FAMILY A magazine series presented in English A DIARY OF EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (English) IT'S HAPPENINC IN SINCAPORE (ENGLISH) (Rpt.) A series on
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  • YOUNG SUN
    • 345 18 T AM a big ant. One dav, after figMing with another group of onts, my companions and I were on our woy bock to our hole. To get there, we had to climb up a wall In a house. Carry.ng our wounded companions, we
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    • Article, Illustration
      201 18 CINGAFORE is a big town And always incomplete. With tons of brick and mortar And miles and miles of street And hosts of cheerful human hearts And ever-hurrying feet. Singapore is a busy town. Its traffic never stops; Its men they crowd the offices. Its women crowd the shops.
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    • 192 18 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe ll»* (astern Sun', essay writing contest fot boys and girls o# 14 and under (Junior) and boys and qirls over 14 (Senior) appears in tfiis page on Friday. Prfau money is: SIC to Senior? «no to lunton TO EVERY HUV oublisheo AU entrant* ar« -eouestec
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  • WOMEN
    • 272 19 Q: I read an article about allergic reactions to pantyhose, mostly to the dyes in tinted ones. But as many fashions require pantyhose, what can be substituted? Can fabrics also cause trouble? A: Pantyhose don't have to be worn In colours If they cause trouble. Many
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    • 281 19  -  By Florence de Santis rpHE modern desire to create something oneself has revived home sewing to on incredible level. Nearly 50 million women make one or more of their garments every year. "Heavy" sewers make more than 15 items a year,
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 170 20 In continued routine dealings several shares were pegged around the overnight's closing levels at the Stock Exchange ot Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Lower grade counters received more attention In Arm conditions. Most operators were still Ughthearted towards trading. Newcomer Roxy Electrical lost considerable ground to $2.20 down IS
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    • 93 20 JAKARTA Indonesia will set up rubber exchange aimed at ftrenfthening its position as a rubber producing country, a trade ministry spokesman aays. Trade Minister Dr Sumltro had set up a preparatory committee for establishing the exchange for co-operation between Indonesia and other rubber producing
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    • 30 20 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrial* 614.02 20 Ralls 202 99 15 Utilities ***** 65 Stocks 300.24 40 Bond* 71.30
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    • 269 20 April first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 pm in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 106 cents per kilo. The tone of the market was quiet but steady. The market ruled very quiet until noon with level* ranging between 104.50 and 105 for April. Later
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    • 119 20 HONG KONG Yesterday's 5 nm currency rates (supplied b> Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Bayers) (Sellers) 195.20 196 JO per 100 Straits doUsrs 147.50 148.50 per 1.000 laiwat auiiars 6.755 0.775 per Australian doilai 340 360 ner 1.00C Burmese kyats 455 475 per 1.000 Indian rupees 160 166
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    • 697 20 BID and offer price* officially listed at the close of business to the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms ol the Stock kicbanre vesterda> INDUSTRIALS B. 8. ACMA 1.42 AjinomoCo 1.90 Alcan 143 1.44 Allied Choc. 2.87 Ben 1.22 1.23 Berjaya 1.21 1.22 Borneo 1.94 1.95 Boustead 2.02
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    • 837 20 BUSINESS done In and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange o! Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded In brackets In lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS A lean $1 43 (1) $144 (3); Ken $1.23 (5) $122 <1): DIM $1.23
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    • 82 20 (life, noon prifM at Cbe Slngnporr hi new Product KkRhang* vfMrrdaj wai a ft. t'OCODOt Oil it.o.b. i Duik mm A? .AO Coconut on (fob.) dram mm 60.00 i'orpra S6.U0 Munlok Vthlte Asia 100% NLB 177.60 Sarawak tthitt Prpper ttfl% mm 167X0 laruwak Hpfcitl BUtrk «6% NLH 162.60 Harawak
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    • 55 20 (Manager Price* tot March 19th) ASIA IMI 1 Kt 8TB M Inveat Fund I.ZK 1.84 Msta Prog 1.06 1.11 C'HABTKRKD IIMl TBl'tJTf S.O. hind l 1.14 SlNOAPOKfc I Nil TBl)8Tt> 3rd 8"port l.SO Con Ind. 1M 1.11 The 8a*lnc> Pond 1.08 I.18id 8.P. Fond .99 V04ld 'Manager Price*
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  • 325 21 TAIPEI The government and Hie textile industry here are worried that Nationalist China may be *he next country to face pressure for curbs on exports to the United States. Textile here believe that once the United States and Japan have reached agreement on limiting
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  • 351 21 SYDNEY Renewed buying demand for Queensland Mines and Kathleen Investments helped brighten the mining market on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Queensland mines lumped $2.00 to $25.00 and Kathleen Investments rose 60 cents to $10.60. This followed a statement by the Min Sec liquidator, John Jamison
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  • 138 21 WASHINGTON—A U 3. trade official says the U.S. share of the world aerospace market was destined to decline as Europe. Japan and the Soviet Union offer increasingly stlfTer competition. Harold B. Scott, director of the U.B. Commerce D e p a r tment's Bureau
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  • 264 21 The monotony of recent trading was broken on Monday by the Malaysian Government making a well timed entry into the market for an unknown tonnage after a considerable absence. The element of surprise was captured, the entry coming as it did upon an already rising market whfch
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  • 162 21 Ten travel agents fr-»m Singapore/Malaysia left this week for a Jet-paced safari to Switzerland, where they will spend five days trying to sell the tourist attractions of the Singapore/Malaysia area. The agents, six from Singapore, two from Kuala Lumpur and one each from Penang and
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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    • 434 21 TENDERS C.S.O. TENDER NOTICE TENDERS are Invited by the Chief Supplies Officer for the supply and delivery of the following Items:— L Haw. CroM, Cut, for the Ministry of Defence. t. Plan Varlograph and AcfMiortM for the Mapping Unit. 3. Hinders, 2-poet for the Ministry of Defence. 4. Metal Furniture
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 3107 22 SATURDAY Race 1 s CI. 4 Div. 5—6 P.—1.45 p.m. ($8,000) 08 4y 9 00 Hawaii (Teh) Harbridge 3 AliMD 9 00 Regal (Allan) Sng 13 8 13 Hamid 11 0002 36 Eastern Dancer Taksenonob 4y 5y 8 12 8 12 8 11 Newmarket (Spencer) ASA (Ahmad)
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    • 59 22 SATURDAY Hare 1: Yankee Clipper, Gala Bern Race 2 Nil Rare 3: Arnhrm, Forever Yours Race 4: Another Bob, Forest King. Who Known II Rat> 5: Ptsang Mas. (Jltraman. Race 6: Signal, Revolution. Copper Quest Race 7: More Tin IL Fightta* Spirit Royal Brass Race 8: Beau Chines, Slipper
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    • 49 23 SUNDAY Race 1: Secret Agent, Lucky Lucky 111, Kings Crown Race 2: Peak of Per- fection 111, Jovial Rare 3: Nil Race 4: Memo 11. Maran Race 5: Voted Id Race 6: Royal Monkey. Shelford Height* Race 7; Nil Race 8: Triple Nine Race 9: Sir Knight, Bandit
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    • 213 23 NESS LANE, third to Movie House V in his record breaking last week, did a splendid gallop at BuVit Timah yesterday. With apprentice Sairi up, he raced over 3f in 37 on a yielding track. BENTONG (Kingston) showed good form when
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    • 244 23 Malaysia-Singapore Airlines and Air New Zealand have played a major role in this year's Grand Prix. All Australiar entries are entered by Malay-sia-Singapore Airlines, who will fly the competitors here. Air New Zealand has entered a OP team of three of New Zealand's
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    • 162 23 COPENHAGEN —Asian players demonstrated their complete supremacy in the badminton world when they won all the semi finals in the four main events in the Danish Open International championships here Wednesday. The Danish tournament is a "dress rehearsal" lor the All-England championships In London next week.
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    • 146 23 LONDON Chester Barnes and Denis Neale, England's top two table tennis players, Wednesday walked out on the team just two hours before the scheduled departure for the Far East and the Commonwealth and world championships. The Commonwealth championship* start Sunday in
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  • 145 24 Unemployment record in UK LONDON Britain's unemployment figures shot up above the three quarters of a million mark, giving one of the worst totals since World War Two. Government statistics showed the number of jobless on March 8 was 754,810. This la 32.980 more than in February.
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  • 66 24 LONDON Hundreds of thousands of people across Britain didn't turn up for work yesterday in protest against the plans to reform industrial relations.Key sectors of British industry, in eluding the already strike-nit car planus were crippled for the second time in three weeks bf the one
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  • 134 24 PHILADELPHIA—WorId heavy wright boiin* champion Jor Fraiiw denies he plans lo quit the ring. He was admitted to hospital (or treatment of high blood-pressure and a cold. Referring to rumours that he was desperately sick, or even dead, he said: "You tell 'em I'm gonna
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