Singapore Herald, 22 August 1970

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE herald No. 28 SingapoTTSTtllrtirAllSllJrS^STO™ ™"7^\V I Mr* pYemt il pbutq
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  • 399 1 The stormy 'untold story' of Mrs. Marcos MANILA Fri. The Philippine first lady, Mrs. Imelda Romualdez Marcos, has denied in a published interview here having tried to suppress the circulation of a controversial book about her which has taken Manila by storm. '"The Untold Story of Imelda Marcos" is a
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  • 28 1 HONGKONG, Fri.—Pathet Lao news agency said that police had prevented North Vietnamese and Chinese diplomats from entering the office of the Lao Patriotic Front in Vientiane.
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  • 148 1 TOULON (France), Fri. Two submarines one French, the other South African collided while cruising on the surface near here last night Four French sailors were killed and two others are missing, believed drowned. Four other French sailors were injured. There were no
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  • 113 1 TWO cars on fire: None hurt TWO cars caught fire late last night one in Upper Aljunied Road and the other in Raffles Quay. The first fire broke out at about 11 p.m. as car SN 9033 was moving along Upper Aljunied Road. The driver and two passengers scrambled out
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  • 85 1 BERNE, Fri. Police were today looking for three women, one of whom allegedly raped a 22-year-old Italian bread delivery man at Chur. Angelo Indiveri of Brindisi was taken to hospital on Tuesday after police found him unconscious near the town. He told them
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  • 47 1 PRAGUE, Fri. Czechoslovaks marked the second anniversary of the. Soviet occupation today showing only traces of their 1968 and 1969 spirit of resistance. Various appeals for passive demonstrations to mark Aug. 21 as a national 'Day of Shame' seemed to be drawing little support.
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  • 561 1 10-nation tour by Lee ROUND OF TALKS IN CAPITALS BEFORE PMs MEET PRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew is expected to leave next week. on a 10-nation tour that will last seven or eight weeks. He will visit Ceylon, India and Tanzania before going to Lusaka, Zambia, to attend the conference
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  • 198 1 80ft up-fiery end to huge hornets' nest EIGHTY feet up on a turntable ladder, Inche Sarmln Mohamed Sam, 43, a PWD worker, applied a flaming torch alst night to a hnge hornets' nest in a tree. The scene: Along Old Airport Road, in the compound of Hong San Public School.
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  • 67 1 ALGIERS, Frl. Oae Ike Midi world's bms* latpartaat gatherlags t rellgtoas tmd caltaral taiakers has recanmeaded that MasUms be farttddea fr*m atarryias aM-Maslims. The recMMMßdatfcM was made at the fMvth aeadaar aa I»maUc thaagkt la which penaaaUties tnm a aasea Arab caaatrles participated. The l»-day meetlag teak
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  • IN BRIEF
    • 44 1 PARIS, Fri. Two French television reporters who were wounded and taken prisoner in Cambodia early last month have died as a result of their wounds, it has been learned here through diplomatic channels. The journalists are Rene Puissesseau and Raymond 'Meyer. AFP
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    • 16 1 WASHINGTON: The United States Government has reached a decision on an arms aid programme for Cambodia.
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  • 261 1 Cairo 'no' to US spy flights over Suez CAIRO, Fit The United Arab Republic will not allow the United States to conduct air espionage on the Suez Canal front, the semiofficial Al Ahram reported today. The United States has been told officially that this was because any such action would
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  • 32 1 LUSAKA, Fri—Zambia cancelled a trip which a fiveman delegation was to have made to Britain next month in protest at the possibility of resumed British arms sales to South Africa.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 1028 2 Yarasha and I: Adele Sisters under the skin KOH "ISN'T she wonderful" undergraduates were reported to have breathed when they heard the story of Yarasha the stowaway girl. I confess to the same feeling of admiration for the third-former who made it all the way to London with $3 and
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  • Viewpoint
    • 245 2 In defence of the C.I.D. of our Republic's Police Force I would state that recently I had occasion to be arrested and charged with a serious offence (for which I was granted a conditional discharge). I was detained and questioned by officers of
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    • 107 2 ODD I HOPE your article on the grouses of teachers (SH Aug. 19) has been an eye-opener. Our Government has 'nvested so much in education. How can the teachers allow this investment to be lost in dissent? The good protestors should realise that the 'good old days' have gone forever,
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    • 41 2 DDD MY memory of Kipling's verses isn't too good. Did he not compose something like: "If you can keep your hair when all about you are losing theirs..." Or was it head instead of hair? Lee Mail Seng Alexandra Road, 3
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    • 312 2 I WOULD like to congratulate the Herald for the interesting article on teachers. It had depth and insight. As an ex-teacher, may I contribute my reasons for leaving the teaching profession? I was teaching English and English Literature to School Certificate Students in a rural
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  • THE SINGAPORE HERALD
    • 801 2 Workers who need protection THE President of the Society of Occupational Medicine, Dr. Phoon Wai On, has made a compelling case for Government attention to the industrial diseases of silicosis and asbestosis. While research has not been as extensive as might be desired, the data that does exist leaves no
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  • 304 3 Top civil servants for Outward Bound School A TASTE OF THE RUGGED LIFE TOP civil servants not affected by National Service so far are to be sent to the Outward Bound School for a taste of the rugged life to give them added confidence in civvy street. The school at
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  • 71 3 BANGKOK, Fri. Thailand will send a strong six-man bridge team to participate in the 14th Asian men's bridge championships at Jakarta in October, the Thai Bridge Association (TBA) announced today. Bridge players from 12 countries are expected to participate in the championships from Oct.
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  • 51 3 BONN, Fri. PoUce and magistrates were the first to enter when West Germany's first sex fair, Intim 70, opened at Offenbach yesterday. The authorities examined the books, magazines and pictures on display, then declared the fair within the law. The doors were thrown open to
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  • 201 3 JURONG SWIM POOL OPENED BY OTHMAN JURONG Town's $75MM swimming pool was opeacd yesterday eveaiag by lache Othmaa Wok, the Minister for Social Affairs. Be said that provisioa far sports aad other recreational facilities mast he made as Jaroag was fast shaping iato a major ladastrlal towa. Natioasl reereatioa was
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  • 33 3 TOKYO, Fri. China filed a protest with Czechoslovakia tor obstructing Chinese diplomats who have tried to visit supporters of Prince Norodom Sihanouk who have taken over the Cambodian Embassy in Prague.
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  • 196 3 WELDERS GET JAIL, ROTAN FOR CAUSING HURT MAGISTRATE E.C. Foenander yesterday sentenced two welders to six months' jail and three strokes of the rotan for voluntarily causing hurt to a contractor, Yap Kow alias Yap Fock Yee, last Feb. 3. Khoo Kong Yung, 24, of Lorong 1, Toa Payoh, and
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  • 270 3 S'pore fishermen jailed in India: Union plea to Raja FOREIGN Minister S. Rajaratnam has been asked to help get the early release of nine Singapore fishermen jailed by the Indian Government for allegedly entering a security area near the Andaman Islands. The Singapore Marine Products Workers' Union, which represents the
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  • 132 3 Why S'pore is able to progress— Minister EDUCATION Minister Lim Kim San said last night that Singapore was able to progress because, among other things, its young people have responded so well to National Service. As a result, foreign investors and businessmen have placed their confidence in the Republic. Mr.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 563 3 THE DIARY Dance Co. of Moscow and the Agamemnon by Aeschylus by TODAY. Russian National Orchestra at the Experimental Theatre Club It a.m. 7 p.m. Exhibition tne National Theatre. at Cultural Centre, Canning of granite and wood sculpture J;* P* m At Rise# by visiting Hyderabad artist, National Theatre Club:
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  • 95 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The University of Malaya will have its first Russian students tomorrow. The four students have signed up for a one-year nongraduating course in Malay language. Vice-Chancellor Ungku Aziz said today the two boys and two girls would arrive tomorrow on a Soviet Government grant.
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  • 357 4 Snake alive-in the big city! Lee Chtok Lam, 22, ta the patten shirt sirraiaded by hit family aad aelghhMrs, with the pythM la a chtekeacage. PYTHONS, it seems, have acquired a taste for the big city life. Gone are the days when any self-respecting snake would settle for the bite
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  • 142 4 SMOKING in cinemas, theatres, and auditoriums will become illegal from Oct. 1. But the law will be enforced strictly only from mid-November after a health education campaign. i During the campaign, the managements of cinemas and theatres will advise their patrons to stop
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  • 33 4 MOTORCYCLIST Urn Yeow Choon of Amoy Street was fined $25 in a traffic court yesterday for failing to stop at a pedestrian crossing in Outram Road in March last year.
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  • 44 4 GOH Cheok Seng of Joo Chiat Place was fined a total of $80 by a traffic magistrate yesterday for failing to pay bis parking fees on four occasions in May last year, even after notices had been sent to him.
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  • 145 4 THE SIXTH Conference of Asian and Pacific Accountants ended here yesterday. A second session will continue in Kuala Lumpur on Monday and Tuesday next week. During the five days, 350 delegates, representing 26 accounting bodies in 19 countries discussed: The scope and practice
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  • 366 4 HOUSEWIFE Pang Pin Hor, 47, was jailed for a day and fined $400 yesterday for wrongfully confining a 13-year-old schoolgirl. Pang, of Jalan Kemuning, dragged Foo Meow Mong into her home on May 14 and kept her as "hostage" from 9 am to noon
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  • 82 4 BRUNEI TOWN, Fri Brunei's Malay Chamber of Commerce today called on the Government to stop foreign businessmen from entering the country. Its president, Inche A. Hapidz Laksamana, explained that local businessmen were facing unfair competition. The chamber called for a convention of local businessmen
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  • 74 4 Teenage thief's 5th conviction: Six months TWO unemployed youths pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing 32 cakes of soap, 28 boxes of toothpaste and four tooth-brushes from a stall in Ka m pong Bahru on Wednesday. Naraganasamy Jaya Progasom, i«, who had four previous convictions, was jailed for six months by
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  • 164 4 Students seminar will study S-E Asia A WEEK long seminar mi "South-East Asia Today", organised by the Education Ministry, will begin on Monday, August 24, at the Conference Hall. The seminar is aimed at stimulating la students an interest and awareness of the political aid economic developments, as well as
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  • 69 4 LABOURER Koh Ah Kow, 25, of Jalan Ulu Sembawang, died on the way to the Thomson Road General H^Pf 1 1 «fter his motorcycle collided with a Royal Navy Land Rover at the 13H mile Sembawang Road on Tuesday. Eye-witnesses are asked tb contact Inspector Mohammad
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  • 274 4 DETAILS of German investment said to be worth more than $30 million, will be announced this morning after "very successful" official talks. This is the outcome of the two-day visit by a West German delegation led by Dr. Rolf Thieme, Deputy Undersecretary of State in
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  • 87 5 THE finals of the Talentime for Schools 1970, organised by Boys' Town Old Boys' Association, will be held at the National Theatre on Sept. 5 at 7.30 p.m. Twenty contestants from 17 schools and some guest artistes will be taking part in the show. The
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  • 205 5 THE Vocational Guidance Unit of the Education Ministry has come up with a new idea to make school-leavers more aware of career opportunities. In addition to "Youth Week in Commerce and Industry," now hi progress, a one-week "Careers Photographic Contest-Exhibition" has been organised.
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  • 56 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Pro-Communist posters and slogans opposing the current census exercise have been found in Sibu, in the Third Division of Sarawak, the National Operations Council was told today. The leaflets alleged that the census exercise was a Government trick to gather intelligence on the revolutionary movement
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  • 97 5 Kindergarten deadline for unqualified teachers KINDERGARTENS can employ from January 1172 only teachers who have successfully completed Adult Education Board courses or who possess other recognised professional qualifications. This ruling was made by the Education Ministry yesterday. With more and more parents sending their children for preschool education there has
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  • 148 5 FIVE documentary films on the Republic will be shown in Britain, the U.S. and Australia in the next few months. The first will be shown in Newcastle, Australia, next month. The films are sponsored by the British Broadcasting Corporation, National Geographic of
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  • 168 5 Chess team to take part in 19th Olympiad Singapore team which won the Group D championship at the 18th Chess Olympiad in Switzerland two years ago. ODD SINGAPORE'S top chess players will leave for West Germany on Sept. 2 to take part in the 19th Chess Olympiad, Prof. Lim Kok
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  • 35 5 NATIONAL Serviceman Wong Cheng Chua, 20, was committed yesterday to stand trial in the High Court on a charge of murdering Tan Kah Soon, 17, in North Bridge Road on April 14.
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  • 192 6 Pirates play 'hide and seek' with police HUNDREDS of pirate taxi drivers have keea crowding around the Maxwell Road police statioa every evealig for the last moath, taking part in a game of hlde-aad-seek with the traffic police. The drivers aormally crmise past the police station to check that the
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  • 73 6 THERE will be a public lecture on "The Role of the Teacher in a Technological Society", organised by the Department of Extra-mural Studies, at 8 p.m. on Aug. 25 in the University of Singapore's New Lecture Theatre No. 2. The speaker will be Prof. William
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  • 105 6 A COURT was told yesterday that after a police officer stopped a fishmonger's assistant in Jalan Besar on the night of May 14, a kris was found in a paper bag that he had earlier thrown away. Tan Hwa Gek, 23, of Kempas
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  • 248 6 CHUTE SYSTEM WON'T WORK PLANNERS SKY FLAT tenants are posing planners with a down-to-earth problem how to get rid of their rubbish. The present system of refuse chutes is impractical for the 30 to 40-storey housing blocks planned for the future, according to
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  • 228 6 necessary. Some proposals include: Disposal writs, for kitchen sinks to separate wet and dry refuse. Dry rubbish, like wrappers, goes down the chute. Left-overs are ground up in the unit and sent down to the sewerage pipes. Filters can be installed to take out
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  • 309 6 Dud $50 film could have been planted, says counsel DEFENCE counsel, Mr. N. Ganesan, suggested in the High Court yesterday that film strips of artwork similar to designs on both sides of a Malaysian $50 note and a sheet of paper printed with four impressions of one side of the
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  • 48 6 KHOO Phee Tow, 46, unemployed, was sentenced to one day's jail and fined $100 yesterday for attempting to steal five dollars worth of water-pipes from a contractor. He was arrested while trying to remove the pipes from Market Street, on Aug. 20.
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  • 94 6 Minister helps plan to improve theatre DEFENCE Minister Dr. Goh Keng Swee will be patron at a Cantonese opera at the People's Theatre at Bandar Street in his constituency on Aug. 30. The opera is being presented by the Kang Chow Huay Kuan, which is raising funds to convert the
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  • 44 6 MR. Koh Mui Yew (above), partner and general Manager of China Co., Singapore, died in hospital in Chiengmai, Thailand, early this week. He was 55. He was honorary president of the Singapore Clock and Watch Trade Association.
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  • 103 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Two mysterious anti-Singapore placards were pinned to a tree as 200 University of Malaya students met today to demonstrate support for Palestine Day. The posters read "Cut off water supply in retaliation" and "Singapore must apologise unconditionally." The meeting held at the
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  • 106 6 GOING up along the seafront, the Golden Mile Shopping centre's first phase of three shopping floors will be ready by the middle of next year. More than 75 per cent of the 3«0 shops have already been taken up, and all the «4 flats
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  • 70 6 The Ford Foundation has approved a grant of over $1.3 million for the Regional Institute of Higher Education and Development (RIHED) to finance its activities. The grant, to be paid over a six-year period, is made at the request of Dr. Toh Chin Chye, chairman of
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  • 273 7 UNION PUTS PRESSURE ON BOAC ABOUT 1,000 workers of the Singapore Air Transport Workers' Union have threatened to refuse to service BOAC aircraft unless MalaysiaSingapore Airlines is allowed landing rights in London. BOAC has landing rights in Singapore and its aircraft touch down
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  • 80 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The University of Malaya is not opposed to students keeping their hair long, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ungku Aziz, said today. "We are more concerned about student behaviour," he said. "Some people see hair as a personal symbol and if
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  • 170 7 KUCHING, Frl. Communist terrorists, on the forage for guns, have been tnering the homes of civilians la the Third Division of Sarawak to get their guas by force or by wile. They used force yesterday when four terrorists, Stenguns «t the
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  • 164 7 MALACCA, Fri. More than 150 officers and men from the State's three police district headquarters tonight took part in a search for secret society members and undesirable elements. Th£ operation began at 8.15 p.m. and within the first hour more than 10 people had
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  • 44 7 IPOH, Fri. Mara has allocated 12 stalls at its newlyopened $170,000 shopping centre in Ulu Kinta to Chinese traders. Mara's chairman Inche Ghafar Baba, who declared- the centre open, said it was Government policy to be fair to all races.
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  • 142 7 SEREMBAN, Fri. A Seremban prison warder, Samad Line hah, 3t, who killed his officer after hearing rumours that he was having an affair with his wife, was sentenced to death today. Samad was found guilty of murdering the officer, Ismail Ibrahim,
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  • 72 7 KUANTAN, Fri.— Education authorities are investigating the cause of stomach pains suffered by 20 girls after dinner at a hostel here on Wednesday night. Four of the girls, ranging from 12 to 16, were admitted to hospital. The Chief Education Officer, Mr. Tan Boon
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    • 521 7 WEEKEND ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE GOODWOOD HOTEL Edie Wong Fei, accompanied dance every night to the music Cafe Allegro For those by the Shin Fook Nien of the Graduates and the still hungry for romantic Orchestra, continues to Trailers, music, George Racz and his provide soothing music for The Jade Lounge Organ
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  • 387 8 Right on the button! Serendipity EDITED BY ADELE KOH STRAIGHT INTO TOP GEAR WITH A DRIVE DOWN ORCHARD ROAD PLEATED palazzo pants for formal at-homes. These are in bright pink ($115), flaming orange ($135). Team it either with a jangling belt of turquoise stones ($19.75) or with a pendant. ONCE
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  • 268 8 Flipper's watching the clock "FLIPPER" Is here. Not the lovable dolphin we see oa television, bat somethlag Me could jut at easily fall la love with the latest Swiss-made flbreglass watch. Light as a feather. It Is saper-shock prelected, 1M per ceat waterproof (for depths up to Mtft) aad withstaads
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  • 125 8 Chain letters are a load of rubbish THE chain letter menace is in town again. A reader in District 14 days that she is afraid and confused will bad luck really befall her if she doesn't send the letter on to 20 other people? Have you heard of the vicious
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  • 486 9 Big brother may be spying on your spouse SPOTLIGHT AMERICANS have perfected the art of wifewatching and it's all in the name of business. Almost every organisation there checks on the wives of their executives: their manners and habits and social activities. To make the grade, a man has got
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  • 69 9 Having a wonderful time HAVING a wonderful time and helping in a good cause as well these ladies are gathered in the home of the Indonesian consul learning to make cushions, lampshades, and so on which will be sold to help children's charities of Singapore. That's Mrs. the centre te,
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    • 485 10 KENT (Ohio), Fri. National Guard Brig. Gen. Robert Canterbury said yesterday that guardsmen were given no order to shoot during a confrontation at Kent State University on May 4 in which four students were slain. Gen. Canterbury testified before the Presidential
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    • 125 10 THE ODD BOX BANGKOK, Fri.— Two Russian officials last night spent more than 90 minutes in front of their embassy embarrassingly explaining to their "guests" that there was no party at the embassy and that the Invitations they had received were a fake. The "guests" had earlier received an invitation
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    • 546 10 HONGKONG, Fri. Chairman Mao has ordered China's young people to join the strictly-disciplined Communist Youth League. The order sounded the deathknell of the Red Guard organisations whose freewheeling activities during the Cultural Revolution inspired Maoist student revolts throughout the Western world
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    • 123 10 Warsaw Pact summit endorses detente treaty MOSCOW, Fri. The sevennation Warsaw Pact summit considered the Soviet-West German Treaty as a sign of detente and as increasing the security of Europe, a communique quoted by Radio Moscow said today. The communique said yesterday's five-hour meeting was held in a "sincere and
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    • 151 10 CHICAGO, Fri.— The number of barbers in Chicago has been trimmed by the long-hair fad, m their union Is urging them to cat their patroaage of the shaggy maaed. "We've last about 4»« barbers la the last couple of years," said Mr. Thomas
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    • 811 10 TODAY RADIO SINGAPORE R*"« U P The Curtain; t.M Recital By Duo CM ML Good Morning; 4.41 p cn J >•-•• Mu lc Bo™* Let's Go With Music; 7.M About; II.M Close. News; 7. 1t Breakfast Opening Bulletin; 7.M Let's Go With announcements and Music; CM News; B.lt Let's Programme
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  • 478 11 'Israel trying to get out of peace talks' NASSER'S AIDE HEYKAL HITS OUT AT THE OTHER SIDE KING Hasseia of Jordaa (left) breaks late a broad smile as he watches President Nasser grim at Kabbeh Palace, Cairo. Hasseia flew to Cairo Thursday far the first time stace Arab accepUace of
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  • 29 11 HONG KONG, Fri.— Farmers in Kwangtung province joined some 200 border villagers in attacking police who were escorting a demolition squad to pull down several illegal structures.
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  • 248 11 LOS ANGELES, Fri. Vice- President fcpiro Agnew said last night that Democratic Party spending programmes would destroy the free enterprise system and bring on socialism in America. He said in a speech prepared for a dinner for Republican Sen. George Murphy that
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  • 28 11 TOKYO, Fri. Anita, the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan so far this year, left seven dead, one missing and 21 injured in western Japan today.
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  • 69 11 GLASGOW, Fri. A courtmartial sentenced five Royal Navy seamen to minor periods of detention and dishonourable discharge from the Service in Britain's first case of mutinj in 16 years. Seaman Edward Griffiths, 25, who was also found guilty of striking the coxswain of the 300-ton minesweeper
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  • 250 11 HONGKONG, Fri. A special envoy from the Palestinian guerilla leader Yasser Arafat has arrived in Peking where he had a meeting today with Prime Minister Choa En-lai. He is Hmiil Youues, former chief of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (Al Fatah) mission
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  • BUSINESS/COMMERCE/COMMODITIES/FINANCE /INDUSTRY/
    • 194 12 i amham DCWICIA/ LONDON RtVlfcW The bearish tendency continued early in the week (ended Aug. 20). owing to lack of consumer enquiryHowever, the news that the Malaysian Government was closely watching the falling rubber prices, interpreted by London operators to mean possible government intervention if the price
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    • 302 12 Sustained demand boosted communication equipments, high priced electric home appliances and public hazard related stocks. Later P™""?*^™ housing-related issues The market closed steady with the stock average up 2.85 at 2,164.28 yen. (Closing paid prices in yen, wi Akai Elec 501 (515) Asahi Chem 110 (110) Asahi
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    • 553 12 Mining shares closed on an irregular note in Sydney yesterday after fluctuating widely under a number of influences. The Poseidon bid for Samin and Lake View hardly set the market alight and activity was concentrated in more speculative issues. Poseidon was relatively active after a slow start,
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    • 209 12 Business remained on a large scale yesterday but major price changes were few. Activity quickened just before the close but there (Closinc were no significant changes. Activity was heavy in Wharves, Lands and Winsor. Cottons were steady after buyer/seller prices in Hongkong Thursday's sharp rise. Rubbers were
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    • 209 12 JAKARTA, Fri. Malaysian and Indonesian trade negotiators today neared the end of their talks which could result in a single customs and duty area for the two Asian nations, informed sources said. Malaysian Embassy sources said the talks had been marked by "lots of spirit and give
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    • 148 12 LOS ANGELES, California, Fri. Union Oil announced that its subsidiary, Union Oil of Indonesia, made a major discovery with a test well in the BaHpapan Basin, off East Kalimantan. The new well is located in an area held jointly with Japex Indonesia under production sharing contracts with
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    • 225 12 WASHINGTON, Fri. The U.S. economy appears ready for expansion as the Government's restraints take effect against five years of inflation, the Commerce Department said yesterday. In its first edition of a new publication, "The Economy At Mid- Year", the department judged that consumer spending will
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    • 204 12 JAPANESE FIBRE EXPORTS DROP TOKYO, Fri. Japan's chemical and synthetic fibre industries have suffered a sharp drop in sales due largely to the slow down in exports to the United States, according to textile industry circles. Stocks of nylon and polyester fibre products, which built up this Spring, now exceeded
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    • 197 12 Pepper Community formed Three principal pepper producing countries India, Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to set up a "pepper community" to coordinate efforts at overcoming problems affecting consumption and marketing. The decision was taken at informal talks by representatives of the three countries in Jakarta, according to a Financial Times
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    • 265 12 SINGAPORE— MALAYSIA The Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore fixed these merchant rates yesterday. HONGKONG (Rates in Hongkong dollars, for Aug. 21). On New York IT* 6.0975 On New York DD 6.***** Gold (99% finene-, Per tod> 276.375 Note lUtet: China (per 100 renminbi) 180.00 India (per 100
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 187 12 sups iii m THE PORT OF SINGA- Sing, KoU Timor, Jaguar, Tai PORE AUTHORITY HAS Wah 101, Cambridge Trader, MADE THESE BERTHING Barents*- Zee, Eastern Prosper, ARRANGEMENTS FOR Shokalskiy, Tong Joo, Setia AUG. 22. Budhi, Tien Hong. Manila, IN: President Harrison 3/4. British Merchant, Glory, Marit Maersk 6/7, Straat Mansira.
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  • 418 13  -  ARUN SENKUTTUVAN INVESTMENT/PROPERTY/TAXATION/TECHNOLOGY EDITED BY MALAYAN FLOUR MILLS' profits for the first six months of this year dropped by 11 per cent to $1,943,014 compared with the first half of last year. This was because the company suffered a drop of 14 per cent in sales.
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  • 1603 13 STOCK EXCHANGE OF MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE KEY Closing buyers' and sellers' prices are follow ed by the business don*. Figures, in brackets denote traded lots in I.ooo'sl When the price is not followed by a figure in brackets, it means only a single lot of 1,000 shares
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  • 281 13  -  V.K. Chin By KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Four Singaporeregistered banks are among a banking consortium which has agreed in principle to give a $40 million housing loan to the Malaysian Government. The loan will be used by the Government to finance civil servants who want to build their
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  • 91 13 PEOPLE in business MB. NG BOON KWANG and MB. UM KHING FONG of NESTLE'S PBODUCTS (MALAYA) leave for Switzerland this weekend to attend two courses, lasting six weeks. They will attend a business orientation and planning course and an executive course at Nestle's International Training Centre, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland. Mr
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  • 824 13 SINGAPORE RUBBER RUBBER 52 cents a Ib. (dow« three-quarters cert). The market traded within a three-eighths cent range of 51 cents for RSS 1 September on Monday and Tuesday. The downward drift was arrested on Wednesday afternoon, said GEEEN it COLLIER. Confirmation from upcountry official sources that several measures
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  • 368 13 Stocks posted a broad advance up to mid as— ton in what analysts called their most encouraging performance in weeks. The Dow Jonas industrial average gained nearly ten points and the SUnpoon index wu ahead 1 1.01. Upside issues bald a four-U>-one lead over loses. Volume
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  • 541 13 Government bonds rallied after initial dullness yesterday. Press comment and trade union reaction to the August unemployment figures caused caution, while the announcement of a £10 million 9-1/4 per cent loan for Kent County Council did not aid sentiment. Renewed small buying on yield considerations turned the
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  • 188 13 AMSTERDAM International! were quietly mixed yesterday. Philip* was eaaier. Broken assnimrt thfe wii due to over optimistic anticipation of the second quarter figures. Unilever was slightly higher. Royal Dutch unchanged and AKZO and Hoogovens barely steady. Local industrials were again much lower due to profittakmg. ••PARIS The market
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  • SPORTS WORLD
    • 301 14 Taiwan capture women's title from Thailand PESTA SUKAN BASKETBALL TAIWAN'S women cagers scored a runaway victory to win the Pesta Sukan invitation basketball championship at the Gay World stadium last night. The Taiwanese, represented by Ya Tung team, beat fancied Bangkok Bank Sports Club 67--38. Ya Tung finished unbeaten in
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    • 147 14 Ken hits century against MCA's X1 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Emu Club of New South Wales played entertaining cricket on the opening day of the three-day match against the Malaysian Cricket Association President's XI on the Padang here today. The visitors declared at 374 runs for nine wickets. The Malaysians
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    • 67 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Boxers from Singapore, Brunei, South Vietnam and Commonwealth Armed Forces in Singapore have been invited to take part in the seventh Malaysian open boxing championships at Stadium Negara on Oct. 17 and 18. About SO boxers are expected to take part. Entries
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    • 277 14 SAN SALVADOR, Fri. El Salvador national selection team will go to South Korea next month to participate in a four-nation soccer tourney. Competing in the competition from Sept. 24 through Oct. 8 will be South Korea, El Salvador, Japan and Taiwan. The Salvadorean squad,
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    • 223 14  -  CAVALIER S'MIDC TRACK rUnt WORK By Plakson was the most impressive worker at Bukit Timah yesterday. Ridden by D.M. Brown he sprinted attractively over 2f in 24 3/5 after going one round on the sand track. The going is good. If the track remains
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    • 412 14 4 World records in U.S. swim c'ships LOS ANGELES, Fri. Four world records in eight events —that was the staggering impact of the first day of the United States swimming championships in the Los Angeles Swim Club here yesterday. The tone for the evening was set by girl student Alice
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    • 49 14 SINGAPORE Cricket Association will hold a dinner and dance in honour of the touring EMU Cricket team on Aug. 29 at the Mandarin Room. Orchard Road. Tickets are available from Mr. M.J. Chandy, P.O. Box 1046, or the Singapore Cricket Club before Aug. 24
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    • 42 14 THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STAFF OF FELCA TITONI WATCH LIMITED SWITZERLAND EXPRESS THEIR DEEPEST REGRET AT THE LOSS OF m 1 -HHgjHgjMgjM^_ J^^K MR. KOH MUI YEW GENERAL MANAGER OF CHINA COMPANY WDO PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY ON MONDAY AUGUST 1711 1070
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    • 140 14 SPORTS DIARY TODAY GROUP 'B': Indian Association BASKETBALL: Pesta Sukan ATHLETICS: Achflle, annu* "J^*' FC V MoUnt vita t i o n tournament t^OSS^SST^ t £L -OUP .C: Singapore Pool, v ?To TZT. .nvft.Uon fourT.i^ Oce n SC: M cPhenoa Eo Women-Indonesia v Thailand B^dok Youth. (AD at Farrer Park,
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  • RACING HERALD
    • 1983 15 B^BBiS«glwi^HM^B MARA CLASS S 2f SCURRY ■■■■■■■HlflMHI Catchweights: 12st. 1 KYLIE 14 lbs. Singapore Polo Club Brown (5) 0012 ZORBA 12 lbs. Singapore Polo Club Clarke (4) 3423 SARIMA +8 lbs. Singapore Polo Club Paul North (10) 145 ATTILA 7 lbs. Selangor Polo Riding Club Or. Lukshu
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    • 108 15 The international Jockeys' Invitation race for Class 2, Division 1 over 8f at the Sept./Oct. Gold Cup meeting at Bukit Timah wiU be confined to nominated national jockeys aUsetected MRA iockeyi who "JJ f "^T* 1" been pubushe^. Should any nominated international jockey's horse be scratched on scratching
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  • 751 15  -  CAVALIER BY Selectiii: Race 1: KYUE Meaty Sarlama Race 2: OLYMPIC GAME Jolly Scoat Bebagaae RaceS: BUBBLES Aaaa Olya Race 4: TRAKEDA Bab Owaa Street Race S: MOVIE LAD AlgertaaLady Pacific Race*: JE MTIENDRAI Sir Eaeflll See Fm Race 7: WINGATE Grenadier
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    • 111 15 i'" iv narmiaj Itay Pan lomet are not just 'tinted' glass or plastic They'll made from pure ophthalmic glass, scientifically formulated to block out harsh, piercing Mhite light and urn—if! uttr»violet and mfrared rays. And they can be worn comfortably att day long, tenses are precision ground and polished. No
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  • 302 16 VANCOUVER, Fri. Alex Chapelski, who was so ugly- that he hated to look in the mirror, is dead. Some called him the ugliest man in Canada, others said he was a misunderstood man with a beautiful soul.
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  • 49 16 A NURSE, Miss Doris Goh, 21, of Hindhede Road, was held up by a man armed with a sharp object and robbed of $2,600 at Anerson Bridge on Thursday minutes after she had cashed a cheque at a bank. The man escaped in a car.
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  • 63 16 CALCUTTA. Fri. Maoist extremists rioted for the second day running in protest at the arrest of Kami Sanyal, a leader of the pro-Peking Naxalite group. The demonstrators threw grenades at crowded trams and buses and tried to destroy police cars. Police replied with
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  • 61 16 BANGKOK, Fri—Twentysix villages on the ThaiLaotian border have been declared off limits in an attempt to impose more drastic suppression measures against Communist guerillas. A special premit will have to be obtained for anyone to enter the area. Residents of the 26 villages, in Nang Khai
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  • 363 16 NATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY CENTRE TO CONDUCT WORKS STUDY A DISPUTE between the Pioneer Industries Employees 1 Union and Associated Motor Industries Ltd. was settled by consent in the Industrial Arbitration Court yesterday. Under an agreement, submitted to the court president, Mr. Tan Boon Chiang, the company
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  • 232 16 THE Berioska Dance Company from Moscow brought the "Prazdnik" or festival mood to the National Theatre last night in an exuberance of colour and movement. The dancers, between the ages of 18 and 35 and graduates of the Bolshoi School were accompanied by a 13--member orchestra
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  • 83 16 MOSCOW, Fri— Olga Yoffe, a 20-year-Oid economics student, was committed to a mental hospital for an indefinite period by a court when she appeared on a charge of "anti-Soviet activities" today. Mrs. Yoffe was arrested last December after being found in possession of underground literature and
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  • BACK PAGE SPORT
    • 139 16 NEW PORT, Rhode Island, Fri. Intrepid took a 2-1 lead over Heritage yesterday in one of the two sets of races off here to find a United States yacht to defend the America Cup next month. Skippered by Bill Ficker, Intrepid crossed the
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    • 272 16 Yuen is junior table tennis singles champ SINGAPORE Armed Forces Yuen Chin Fatt won the Singapore Table Tennis Association men's junior singles title after a thrilling five-set duel with teammate Benjamin Fernandez at Monk's Hll last night. Chin Fatt, a former Singapore youth player, won 21-16, 17-21, 15-21, 21-13, 21-17.
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  • 511 16 Of hippies, hair and fashion THIS business concerning long hair is getting more and more ridiculous every day. The government claims that long hair is a symptom of hippyism. What utter rubbish! We, the younger generation would certainly know better. Long hair came along in 1962 with the Beatles, long
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  • 112 16 FROM PAGE ONE wanted to sue the author hut she advised them against it. Adding fire to the controversy was a piracy suit filed by the author against a Manila printing press accused of printing copies without the author's permission. The Polotan book, on the other hand, focusses
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