Eastern Sun, 8 May 1971

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    23 1 EASTERN SUN rppore's own national daily Final edition 10 cents Estd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1640 Saturday, May 8, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon COURT UPROAR
    228 1 Screaming women scuffle with police A dozen screaming women scuffled with police in the Supreme Court building yesterdoy after o hearing of a writ of habeas corpus by political detainees had been adjourned. Police scrambled to eject them as they raised their fists and shouted: "Bad government" and
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  • Article
    Lock icon How to save water
    257 1 Singapore moved closer to water rationing yesterday. If heavy, continuous rain does not (all at the weekend, water may be rationed from Monday. Here's how you can do your bit to save water: Bathe and wash with a little water in a basin: use the shower
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  • Article
    Lock icon Tiger scare in 2 villages
    94 2 TANAH MERAH A tiger on the prowl has kept 600 villagers In Kara pong Ayer Mekong and Kampong Sedang living in fear during the past three days. The villagers are now afraid to go out to tap rubber aad stay at home when night falls.
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    Lock icon Rain is what the 'doctor' ordered
    261 2 Well-known bom oh P. S. Thantal thinks he's found the right medicine for Singapore. The medicine Is rain —lots of it. Mr Thangal, 58. went Into a special J > minute trance for the EASTERN SUN yrrterda* and came np with this heartening verdict:
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    Lock icon 'Fascist' outburst: lawyer is warned
    480 2 T.T. Rajah was yesterday warned he could be charged with contempt of court and sent to prison after he shouted: 'This is fascism at its height" in the High Court. Mr Rajah, representing 18 political detainees, all seeking writs of habeas carpus shouted the word
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    Lock icon Families robbed of $8,000
    151 2 TWO families were yesterday robbed of $2,040 and property worth $6,425 in different armed robberies. The first took place at 3.45 am on May 6, at Paya Lebar Crescent, off Paya Lebar Road. A robber with a dagger surprised a con- tractor as he came oat
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      75 2 KH9 SINGAPORE TOWN 338 am. (2.2 ft.); 9.52 am (7.5 ft.); 3.45 pm. (2.9 ft.); 9.45 pm. (8.1 ft). TOMORROW 4.09 am. (1.6 ft.); 10.31 am. (7.7 ft.); 4.14 pm. (3.1 ft); 10 09 pm (8 4 ft). NAVAL DOCKYARD 3.21 am. (2.9 ft.); 10 03 am. (9.1 ft.); 3.42
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    Lock icon POISON GAS LEAK: 27 ON TANKER STRICKEN
    291 3 TWENTY-SEVEN shipyord workers were yesterdoy admitted to hospital after they were overcome by deadly carbon dioxide fumes. The fumes hod leaked from firefighting instol lotions on board the 30,000-ton BP tanker, British Troder. Thcj tanker is undergoing repairs in a dry-dock' at Keppel
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    Lock icon $12,000 for man with a limp
    97 3 A former driver who cannot squat properly after an aecidemt three years ago has been awarded $12,000 damages and costs la a consent judgment. Sankaran Sukumaram. 46. now walk* with a limp and uses a walking stick to aid him. His lorry crashed Into
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    Lock icon Leading news lawyer dies suddenly
    90 3 Lawyer Wa Chet Meng died suddenly of heart failure yesterday morning. He was the legal adviser to the Sin Chew Jit Poh, Singapore's largest circulation Chinese daily. Fisheries A graduate of the Middle Temple in 1968. Mr Wo. 40. was admitted to the Singapore bar
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    Lock icon Aid small industries appeal
    199 3 The Government should help smoll industries set up import and export cooperatives to cut down production costs. The Head of the Poly- technic* Production Engineering Department, Mr J. W. K. Murch. said this yesterday at the King's Hotel. He attributed the reason lor the Importance of
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    Lock icon $1.47 m 'carrot' for British industry
    170 3 The Government has set aside $l-47 million of the British aid given to Singapore for the encouragement of private British investment here. This wa« the decision reached by the Ministry of Finance represented by Mr Bogaars and a British delegation led by Mr J.
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    Lock icon CHARITIES BACK POOL IF THE 'CAKE'S CUT FAIRLY'
    294 4 Charity organlsa tions have welcomed the proposal for a central fund-raising; committee bat there are some doubts. Most organisations think the committee is a good idea If At can ensure the cake is evenly distributed. The President of the 81ngapor e Council
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    Lock icon A $1 trot to escape the market mire
    201 4 FOOD glorious FOOD Trot to the market (or a bargain today—pig are only $t a kati. Pig trotters are best stewed with finger and black sauce oyer a mellow charcoal Are for a long time. Today's prices (in katis antes* otherwise mentioned):
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      436 4 CARNATION CONTEST STATEMENTS: 1. It weighs 14 ox. 2. It weighs 14$ oz. 3. It is mode in Germany 4. It is ready to drink. 5. It is unsweetened. 6. It has increased Vitamins A fir D. 1 ioe entry form will be published daily to tbe eastern hun trom
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    Lock icon 30,000 in march
    50 5 More than 30.000 Muslims took part In a mammoth procession yesterday in Kuala Lumpur to celebrate the birth- day of Prophet Mohamed. The Sultan of Selangor led the procession through the city. Earlier, he told the crowd to actively promote harmony and goodwill amongst the various races.
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    Lock icon Boy rides to his death on bike with bad brake
    175 5 A 17-year-old schoolboy rode his bicycle into o drain shortly after telling his younger brother the machine had a faulty brake* a Coroner's Court heard yesterday. Kee Ben K Eng. a Middle Four student of Hua Y1 Secondary School, died
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    Lock icon Nanyang hearing set for May 26
    130 5 The habeas corpus hearlug of three "Nanyanr Sianjt Pan executives who were detained by the Government last Sunday will come up In the lligh Court on May 26. It is not confirmed which Judge will hear the case. The three applicants are Lee Man
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    Lock icon Israeli on tour
    84 5 Israel's Director-Onera] of Foreifn Affairs, Mr Gideon Rafael (pictured) arrived yesterday for a day's visit H« toured the city, visited Jurong and praised what he saw, particularly the industrial development. He is on an Asian tour after attending a meeting of ambassadors in Canberra, Australia. Mr Rafael
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      73 5 a; ,u,. li a* 1 5 i r--\ mil U> ft u fCOLAT E W}( t Q "rink WM> mm ||M| I M v\UT£ h ink K 0 M N NS> > _s*r Drink It straight from the fridge. Or on the rocks. Whichever way you have It, the new
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    Lock icon Shaws lose duel over one-armed swordsman
    258 6 UONGKONG A jury yesterday quashed a claim for damage* by Shaw Brothers against a rival studio in a legal dispute over a onearmed swordman. Shaw Brothers sued Golden Harveat Limited for unspecified damages for allegedly lifting their top money-making screen hero, the onearmed swordsman.
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    Lock icon Jagger will wed longtime girlfriend
    54 6 PARIS Mick Jagger Of the Rolling Stones plans to marry his longtime girlfriend Blanca Perez Moreno de Maclas Jagger, who recently announced plans to move to the south of France, has asked officials to be allowed to marry without the customary public notices. Permission was
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    Lock icon Airport battle man chooses China
    151 6 PARIS —TV Chine* diplomat **re«e«ed" by French police t» a oneday struggle *1 Orly Airport ha* chosen to return to CW«* (Thane Chi l«C haa been duchtrfe froai hospital and w>U retara to China within the next few day*. o®ciala said Chang. an attache at
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    Lock icon NEWS IN BRIEF
    280 6 SAN MARINO Officials in the world's smallest republic say San Marino is on the point of establishing full diplomatic relations with China. PARIS The former wife of Aristotle Onassis told a court yesterday she wanted to continue divorce proceedings against her current husband, the Marquess of Blandford.
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    Lock icon GIs TO QUIT SAIGON NEXT YEAR UNDER NEW PULLOUT PLAN
    463 7 (UPI). CAIGON All American troops except about 6,000 advisers will be pulled out of Vietnam by the November, 1972 presidential elections. The new withdrawal programme has been drown up in Washington, highranking military sources said. The withdrawal schedule calls for
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    Lock icon Record $612,000m spent on the world's armies
    181 7 WASHINGTON Military spending throughout the world reached a record $612,000 million last year, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency said. Roughly 60 per cent of the increase was due to inflation, the agency •aid in it 9 fifth annual report. In 1969,
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    Lock icon Lava flow races down Mt Etna
    70 7 CATANIA, Sicily Lavs flowed down the slopes •f Mount Mas st •6 feet sn hoar jesterday but villages en the lower slopes were not endangered. Mt Etna. Europe's tallest and most active vol- cano began rumbling in April, with new fissures and craters pouring
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      77 7 Monday's HOLIDAY SUN is bigger, brighter and better Should girls leave home? 'Yes/ says Judy Chee. Singapore misses take sides as battle for freedom starts The (Sh. Four liftout pages of kitchen adventure with Ruth Bakalar ALL THIS AND MUCH MORE order your HOLIDAY SUN now! ffOTO TOMORROWS DRAW NO:
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    Lock icon Soviets to put 120-man bases into 10-year orbit
    276 8 MOSCOW Russia plans to develop Its orbiting laboratory programme from three-man flights of one month to 120man "space bases" in orbit for a decade or more. Professor Boris Petrov, one of the Soviet Union's most authoritative commentator* on space, haa written this
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    Lock icon New York firemen avoid riot-torn area:
    157 8 (Reuter). NEW YORK—The elty*» 14.000 firemen will not fight fires la riot-torn arras unless thrv are riven police protection there. The warning followed an orgy of violence and arson in a Brooklyn alum b» hundreds black and Prerto Rican youths on Wednesday. Teenagers attacked
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    Lock icon Fonda's pills vitamins not narcotics
    67 8 CLEVELAND. Ohio An estimated 4,000 pill* seized from actress Jane Fonda on November 3 were vitamin pllU and not drugs, the Cleveland Press has reported. Thev were confiscated during her arrest at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Miss Fonda, 32. was stopped by Customs agent* when
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      349 8 M m maw m f/i/rftr/vAno/i/Ai "WIN A HOLIDAY" CONTEST ENTRY FORM "A" "WIN A HOLIDAY 99 CONTEST I v&> "•V *1 Aaafe n> rswsr.^ »'-jft *v .<■; 2'. V |BmM| m I Name of CountryJ Name (Mr Miss Mrs)I Age Address Tel. No.. i I i I I I .-J
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    Lock icon Rescued: The girl the dentist forgot
    72 9 Pretty Sandra tenf c red her dentist's surgery by the door and had to leave by the window. Dentist Bruce Smith forgot Sandra was in hit waiting room and went out, locking the door. Sandra's cries for help were heard by a girl next
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      65 9 LOOK UIHRT'S in THE ERSTERII SUIT IIEHT UIEEK Looking for The revealing stories of women who find it's fun to work and that work is fun It starts on Wednesday to love Hie search for love in 1971... the truth about lonely hearts clubs -Thursday special Weatherbee Wong Laurie Lee
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  • Article
    Lock icon PRODUCTIVE FLOP
    357 10 THE anti-war demonstration in Washlng- ton appears to have fizzled out although everyone seems to have had a rollicking time IS^ U IKI POT SMOKIN G and rock music, possibly this recommencement of the demonstrations along with the slowing down of the war in Vietnam has made the
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    158 10 THE worst part of the Insurgency In Ceylon is now over and what remains to be done by the government is only mopping up operations in remote jungles. However, the more difficult part of the work of the government headed by Mrs Sirlmavo Bandaranaike is yet to
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    Lock icon Granny's got big troubles
    546 10 The Art Buchwald column Everyone talks about the problems parents have with their children, but no one is aware that grandparents also have trouble identifying with their grandchildren. A friend of mine, whom I shall coll Zachary Danbury, decided to take his 16-year-old son to see
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
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      Lock icon Police force image is at stake here
      113 10 SIR: tl I WOULD like to exoress my indignation at the way two EASTERN SUN staff were treated by police (reported in Laurie Lee's column on May 4). This sort of thing can destroy the carefully built up image of the police force.
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      Lock icon Lost in a desert
      52 10 SIR: IAM a newcomer to Singapore, and have never experienced water rationing. As a mother of four young children, I am most worried and upset as to what this tailsWould the Public Utilities Board be so kind as to explain to an ignorant foreigner what goes
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      Lock icon MEDAL, BUT NO NAME
      103 10 SIR: I was one of the many recipients presented with a gold medal for having donated my blood more than twenty times. Like many others I was most disappointed to be honoured with a gold medal without my name engraved on It If gold medals are
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      Lock icon Public's water goes to waste
      109 10 SIR SO there's a water crisis. Water is likely to be rationed in three or four days unles s there Is heavy and prolonged rain. The urgency of the matter does not seem to reach most people's attention. Surely the first taps to turn off
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  • SUNSCOPE
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      Lock icon Gad, Sir, now that's hardly cricket!
      103 11 Holidaymaker* are treated to a bit of the good old days in Britain recently as knights and horses, in full regalia, are gathered for a jousting tournament sponsored by the British Jousting Association. Practising for the event are Mike Horseburg and Max Diamond. It
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      Lock icon BATTLE AGAINST POLLUTION
      265 11 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm is more than a year away. Yet Its priorities arc already being re-ordered. Two years ago one of its major aims was to alert the public to the sise of the danger. Now large areas of that public in
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      Lock icon Old Mrs Brohier is staying at home
      357 11  -  By JOSEPH GALLOWAY UPI M RS Anastasia Brohier carefully hid the hotel silver, removed the picture of Queen Elizabeth from the dining room wall and sat back to await the arrival of the terrorists. The indomitable proprietress of the 200-year-old New Oriental Hotel
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  • SUNSCENE
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      Lock icon Gold 'gnome' goes home
      167 14 International actress Glenda Jackson has seen her film Oscar for the first time. And she immediately scrapped her plan to pot gold-plated statuette at the bottom of her garden "with the plaster gnomes.'* She said: "Actually, it Is rather handsome. I will give it to my
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      Lock icon Hollywood is reborn
      300 14  -  By JOHN STIRN fINCE upon o time in a place called Hollywood, USA lived the whole world. Then one day the masters of all this had an exotic idea. Wouldn't it be exciting to make a movie abroad? They did It and were proud. The moviemakers found
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      199 14 ORGANISATION ORCHARD *****1 OtHNITELT LAST I DATS! S IHOWII 1t.45 Ul A 1U pa i Tomorrow M Monday Extra 6how am) CASH BOOKINUtt UM.T Aim; SIM UM HK 40U "ljti'l DltlkUi HoOCTt HIHINB Goto l're»or Howard PVuirr 2nd MIOHIOHT TONIGHT' Carn OB lip The l«I|k with M Carry On* Tea
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      304 14 foaaa OPENS TODAT! 4 Ikni Not* Tlan 11 am. X.30. 6 A LN pm *»ie»t McQueen TIM Great Scope-Color 1U A C A l» I T O I Nww Shewing!— No frM Lbl 11 M. I.4ft. 4. :to t.ao ttU»* Reetea "A Long >Mf Prom Hifl" Color Capitol-Lido Kri Mk?
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      877 15 "ty- singapura followed Menuhin CHANNEL 5 OPENINC ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by ASTROBOY "3rd Tee Wee Animated cartoon series CAPTAIN SAILORBIRD "The Adventures of Toy Clowns: Stranded tn the forest" A cartoon series FARMER'S DAUCHTER "The Simpie Life" NBA BASKETBALL BOMBA FEATURE "Elephant Stampede'* A jungle adventure series starring Bomba, the jungle
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    845 16/17 After a bad fit of the miseries there's nothing like going on a shopping spree to brighten up a girl. So come on now, i let's go! Two big pages for the trendsetters "WOMEN! I con never, understand them!" I have heard that line more than once. And
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    351 18  -  ANN LANDERS |j I \R Ann: 1 am a widow, SO years of age. Three months ago I married a widower who thought 1 was "wonderful." Now he is comparing me with his late wife who had a master's degree. (I didn't get to university). He
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      912 18 TAURUS CEMN CANCER S R CARROLL RIGHTER'S GENERAL TENDENCIES: Changing cl rcumstanceB requires you to use this day to clear your thoughts so your wishes are not In conflict with the wishes of associates. Then you can operate in a more effective and understanding fashion in the future Failure to
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  • COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon GAINS SEEN IN MARKET
      387 19 1 GRADING conditions ruled steady in the Singapore trading room of the Stock Exchonge yesterday. The Kuo I o Lumpur trading room wos closed for the Prophet Mohammed's birthday. Interest was spread over a broad front, and widespread gains were noted. Business was done In 73
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      Lock icon Steel price increased
      84 19 PITTSBURGH Republic Steel Corp., Thursday Joined US Steel Corp. In announcing a 81 per cent lnrrea.se in the prtce of steel product* u.ved In the manufacture of autos, appliances and other durable consumer goods. Republic, the nation's third largest producer, said prices for large volume steel sheet
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      105 19 Rubber Association ot Singapore and Malaysian Rubber Exchange closing prices tn cent« per kilo were:— B 8 Int 1 RS.S prompt f.o.b. 115.50 U6 50N Int. 1 RS.S May 116.50 ***** Int 1 RSS June ***** 117.50 Int 3 R SS. buyers 107 75 sellers 108.25N UK buyers
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      Lock icon AUTO ENGINES
      58 19 LOS ANGEI.ES Japan's third largest automaker predicted Wednesday that car manufacturers around the world Will scrap the internal combustion engine for the rotary engine as smog standards stiffen. Kohel Matsuda. President of Toyo Kogyo Co., said the expected harshness of U.S. emission control laws by 1075 may be
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      374 19 NEW YORK Thursday's closing prices oa the New York Stock Exchance: Air Keduc 85-1/4 Alean Alum 23-18 Allied (li 52 Allia Chal 16-1/2 Alcoa 65 1/2 An T and T 48 1 8 Am pes 19-1/4 Anaconda 22-1/2 Atl Rick 15-1/4 Rendu 36-3/8 Bencuet S-3'4 Beth St
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      Lock icon Closing prices and business done
      1233 19 INDUSTRIALS ACMA 1.51' 1.53 1.50 1 SI <2> 1.53 (3) 1.52 (4); A lean 1.54/1*56; All Choc 2 41/2 42 241 (8> 242 3); Ben 1.27/1 28 120 (3) 1.21 (6) 1 22 1.23 (11) 1.24 (5) 1.25 (3) 1.26 (6) 127 (6) 123 (10)
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      Lock icon Silent pneumatic drill seen likely
      653 20 BRISBANE Australian engineers have begun work on what may become the first silent pneumatic drill. The project, aimed at reducing the high Incidence of deafness In Industry, could have wide application In underground mining, tunnelling, quarrying, shipbuilding and building construction. Almost without exception, pneumatic drill
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      Lock icon Economy car
      45 20 LIMA An economytype car assembled in Peru by Toyota of Japan went on sale in Lima Thursday priced at 55,000 soles, about 1,500 UJS. dollars. Toyota is on« of the few foreign firms authorised to assemble cars in Peru by the military government.
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      Lock icon SYDNEY PRICES
      146 20 SYDNEY Yesterday*! closing prices of selected shares on Sydney Stock Exchange: MINING A Cap .084 BH South 3.25 Carr Boyd 0.70 C Norse 100 C Gold 800 CRA 10.85 Em per 0 47 Endur 0.11 Gim Kalg 0.52 Gt Bould 2 62 Hammersley 4.80 Kath Inv 850 Loloma
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      Lock icon JAKARTA MOVE
      80 20 TAIPEI The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce will set up an office In Taipei aimed at promoting trade between Indonesia and Taiwan, the Central News Agency said yesterday. The agency said this was disclosed to a local newspaper by Roslhan Anwar, head of a sevenmember Indonesian press mission. The
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      112 20 HONGKONG Yesterday's 6 pm currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.) e (Bayers) (Sellers) 195 196 per 100 Straits dollars 144 148 per l.uot laiwan dinars 6.73 6.75 per Australian doiis. 340 360 per 1.001 Burmese gyats 460 480 per 1.OO0 Indian rupees 150 160 per
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      430 20 DON'T MISS THE SUN TODAY AT 7 P.M. Classified Ads. Sales A Service T eleviftion Radio KCUUKIIHION IV HKNIAU H.P Oil CABH W« !i*ti complete r*n«« ctl model* u« prtcM at our BHOWROOMB IB'J Clemencsau A»«ou« ass P souls'! Part Oompiei lat Pi 149 Joo Cbiat ROM) SM Block 101
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  • Article
    Lock icon STOP PRESS
    149 24 PARIS French President Georges Pompidou became the first head of state to fly at twice the speed of sound in a spectacular flight aboard the Concorde supersonic airliner. WASHINGTON The United States removed all restrictions on dollar transactions with China yesterday as a first step to opening up
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    Lock icon 24 HOURS PASS WITH NO WORD ON WATER CRISIS
    254 24 I SUN REPORTERS A NOTHER day has gone.... Another 24 hours and Public Utilities Board officials have given no details about our water crisis. As Singapore's already critical water level dropped further by the hour yesterday, PUB officials, incredibly, still refused
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    Lock icon Women's club male stripper to be probed
    119 24 RAINHAM. England The manager of a social club says he is going to Investigate an incident In which a male performer stripped nude In front of 250 women. The centre of attention at the women only social night was CharHe Miller, 35. who
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    Lock icon $ crisis blamed on the speculators
    182 24 crisis blamed on the speculators WASHING! N—U.S. Treasury Sec retary John Connally has called the current dollar crisis a short run development caused by "speculators in the market." He said the United States wanted to maintain the parity of the dollar. Tt Is willing to cooperate with other Governments in
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