Singapore Herald, 25 August 1970

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE herald jjgjOSfcagapore Tuesday, August 25, 1970 MC(P) 2207 15 CENTS
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  • 341 1 You must accept birth control, Lee tells kampong THE Prime Minister has told residents of Kampong Kembangan they are not making the same rate of progress as the rest of Singapore. One reason, he said, was that they had yet to accept family planning. Speaking at a National Day celebration
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  • 197 1 MANILA, Mun. President Ferdinand Marcos today signed into law a Bill providing for the holding of a constitutional convention in November 1971 to hammer out a new constitution for this 24-year-old republic. The bill, considered one of the most vital pieces
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  • 752 1 BOAC flies into reprisal storm DELAYS ANGER PASSENGERS ON TWO FLIGHTS The union has not taken any action to boycott servicing the planes we have noted that the workers themselves have been angry enough to act on their own. Mr. Clarence de Silva. the general secretary of the union. TWO
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  • 207 1 MP held by Palestinians for hours after battle BEIRUT, Mon. Factional struggles between the Palestinian commandoes and supporters of a Lebanese MP erupted in a fierce battle in the southern city of Saida, 28 miles from here, in which at least one person died and several others wounded. The fighting
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  • IN BRIEF
    • 114 1 BANGKOK, Mon. The United States will withdraw all its aircraft and almost all of its servicemen from the strategic Thai-American Takhli airbase in Central Thailand by the end of this year, informed sources reported here today. This will be the first near complete withdrawal of any American-occupied
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  • 279 1 Stowaway schoolboy (heading for New York) lands at S'pore A 14-year-old schoolboy stowaway arrived in Singapore last night on board an MSA flight from Bangkok. But he was a long way short of his planned destination New York. Four teen- year-old Sinchai Phompanh was discovered in the first class toilet
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  • 44 1 NEW DELHI, Mon. At least 19 people have died in torrential rain which has been lashing Andra Pradesh for the past few days, four of them today in the provincial capital, Hyderabad. Over 200 homes have collapsed in Hyderabad alone.
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    • 70 1 EH War and peace In South-East Asia a Singapore perspective. Page 2 ODD THE Stock Exchange Committee stepped in yesterday to dampen the speculation spree in two counters Sentosa and Lien Hoe. See page 12. DDD A GROUP off British businessmen have taken over Tholech Berhad, which has an issued
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  • 3400 2  - War and peace in S-E.A: A Singapore perspective TAY SEOW HUAN NORTH AND SOUTH: THE HOPES AND THE DANGERS to EXCERPTS from a speech by the new acting Permanent Secretary (Home Affairs) at the opening yesterday of the Education Ministry's six-day Seminar on "South East Asia today." The Seminar is
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    • 102 2 But we were only following orders... It's easy for an M.P., "speaking fearlessly," to attribute the recent "haircutting incident" to the overzealousness of civil servants. But what if the civil servants had been under-zealous? Had not the Prime Minister said that whoever is responsible for letting the Malaysian "hippies" slip
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    • 493 2 ON Tuesday, Aug. 18, MSA flight ML 204 left Paya Lebar Airport for Djakarta at 8.15 a.m. with a full load of passengers, among whom were many Delegates to the ECAFE Conference in Bandung. At Kemajoran Airport, I could not find my bag and to
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    • 112 2 TOLERANT, FAR-SIGHTED HAIR CUTTERS I WAS shocked to read Y.T. Sim's views on the present "long-hair phobia" (S.H. Aug. 21). I don't agree with his allegation that the present crusade against long hair is "childish and stupid." The case of the three Malaysian youths does not in the least show
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  • 488 2 Tuesday, August 25, 1 970 4y THE SINGAPORE HERALD AMERICA'S Asian allies are restless. The Nixon Doctrine, they are evidently beginning to feel, raises more questions than it answers. Vice-President Agnew's new Asian tour his second this year is to be seen as an attempt to soothe
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  • 704 3 Seminar for a more rounded education begins A WEEK-LONG seminar on "South-East Asia Today" began yesterday at the Singapore Conference Hall. It was part of the Education Ministry's efforts to provide a more rounded education for pre-university students. Mr. Ong Pang Boon, Minister for Home Affairs, in his opening speech,
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  • 102 3 A MAN wke admitted screeaiag obsceae films yesterday asked a magistrate for the retara of his projectors. Magistrate Giam Chin Toon tvaed dawa tke reqaest aad Impaaed a Use af $3M. Llm Ckwee Yeag, 24, of Sultaa Gate, aaemployed, was ckarged witk
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  • 474 3 NOW FOR A SWIM IN THE BACKYARD... ANYONE with $2,250 to spare and a 15ft. circle of flat land in the backyard can have everything in this picture installed in one day. Everything, that is, except the "live^ccessortes." But for your money you
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  • 175 3 THE MINISTRY of Health is now reorganising the School Health Service, with the first phase completed in April, a Ministry statement said yesterday. And this was only four months after it had been promised by a Minister. The statement was commenting on a local press
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  • 115 3 A TH REE-man private trade mission from the Philippines arrived in Singapore yesterday to study Singapore's trade agreements with socialist countries. During the five-day visit, the delegation will hold talks with Mr. Sim Kee Boon, Board Chairman of INTRACO, a group dealing exclusively with
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  • 166 3 MOST pirate taxi operators took a day off yesterday and were off the roads from early morning. The result: Many office workers and school children were late. More licensed taxis moved into the routes of pirate taxis and demanded higher
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  • 81 3 THREE youths charged with attempted extortion pleaded not guilty in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday. Ding Koon Been, 16, of Commonwealth Close, Sua Jong Kit, 16, of Kay Siang Road, and Ho Ah Huat, 20, of Lorong Landas^n, all unemployed, were charged with attempting to
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  • 200 4 Temple donation collectors did not have licence TWO temple devotees were collecting donations for the Sin Leng Choo Temple's Moon Festival celebrations when they were arrested on Feb. 28, a court heard yesterday. In the Third District Court, Tay Ah Peng of Jalan Membina, 76-year-old temple assistant and Aw Poh
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  • 105 4 AN EXHIBITION of American books on business management opened at the National Library yesterday. It goes on until Friday. The exhibition was first held at the United States Information Service between Aug. 3 and 21, and has been extended because of growing interest among business executives
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  • 137 4 British buses made in S'pore SINGAPORE'S growing demand for bases has prompted a large British exporter of bases to use a local assembly plant. The Wearne's Group plant at Leng Kee Road will initially tarn out eight bases a month, built completely from knocked-down chassis and bodies brought in from
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  • 48 4 A 27-YEAR-OLD Malaysiaiv was fined $100 by the Ninth Magistrate yesterday for ''engaging in paid employment" when he was granted only a visit pass. Lee Yoo Keong alias Hong Ew Keong was a broker at Decca Electronics from Aug. 15 to Aug. 29.
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  • 122 4 Seven youths charged with theft of car tyres SEVEN youths appeared in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday on charges of stealing car tyres and rims. Christopher Raj, 16, Sng Lian Seng, 17, Galistan Peter Joseph, 17, and another youth were alleged to have stolen four tyres and rims valued at
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  • 162 4 Chinese music deadline extended THERE is many a young Chinese music lover keen on learning how to play the erh-hu, pipa, ku'ch'ng and flute. The response to these classes organised jointly by the Adult Education Board and the National Theatre Trust has been so good that registration date has been
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  • 498 4 'Ebrgery* court told of cheque row A MAN accused of forging $50 notes claimed in the High Court yesterday that the prosecution's main witness paid him part of the down payment on printing equipment with a cheque that "bounced". Shum Wai Tong, 53, owner of the Sin Kwong Press Co.,
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  • 130 4 $13,000 RAID ON WATCH DEALERS THIEVES grabbed 192 watches worth $10,200 and $3,500 cash when they broke into the Ewan Gent's hair dressing salon and watchdealers on the second floor of the President Shopping Centre at Serangoon Road. They emptied almost all the showcases. Only a wall clock was not
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  • 140 4 TAIPEI, Mon. Twentyeight students and specialists from eight countries, including Singapore, are attending a seminar on urban land policy and taxation which began here today. The five-day seminar, the second of its kind, is sponsored by the Nationalist Government and the John C. Lincoln Institute of
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  • 502 4 How a husband bragged about other women KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A wife told the High Court here today that she was humiliated when her husband recounted his sexual relationships with other women in front of a family friend. He also taunted her about those other women whenever she questioned him
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  • 179 4 A 'pirate' under the bed... A PIRATE taxi driver was hiding under a bed when police raided his Lower Delta Road flat for stolen goods in July, the Third District Court was told yesterday. Prosecuting Officer Snr. lisp. E.G. Marcus told the court that the raiding party recovered stolen goods
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  • 146 4 AN UNEMPLOYED youth pleaded guilty in court yesterday to robbing a canteen assistant of a $20 watch, one dollar in cash and an identity card on July 22. Tan Kheng Kwang, 18, and two accomplices on bicycles, stopped LJm Seok Peow who was cycling along
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  • 30 4 THE Governor of Rhio Islands, Mr. A. Achmad, arrived in Singapore yesterday for a three-day visit. The purpose of his visit has not been made known.
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  • 114 5 Forum to mark Women's Day today Women all over the world will celebrate 'Women's Day" today. In Singapore, the Committee on Women's Organisations of the Singapore Council of Social Services will hold a forum at 8 p.m. tonight at the SCSS premises in Penang Lane. Five speakers have been invited
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  • 91 5 LEE SECK, a painter, fell to his death while working at Balmoral Park on Aug. 4, because he refused to use a safety belt, the coroner was told yesterday. Chong Thun, 64, a colleague, testified that Lee, 69, refused to
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  • 48 5 A MEMORIAL service for the late Bishop J.L. Wilson, formerly Bishop of Singapore from 1940 to 1949 who died in England last week, will be held at St. Andrew's Cathedral at 5.30 p.m. today. Bishop Chiu Ban It and Dr. D.D. CheOiah will conduct the service.
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  • 285 5 'Don't follow education systems of the West blindly-Prof A VISITING professor yesterday warned against indiscriminate imitation of the educational systems of Western countries. Prof. William Taylor, who is Professor of Education at Bristol University, was speaking on "Evaluation of a teacher's role" at the Teachers' Training College. He added: "You
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  • 63 5 MALAYSIA -Singapore Airlines will cease to accept cargo at its town cargo office from Saturday. The airline explained that its new centralised cargo service at the airport cargo terminal would be able to accept shipments more speedily and more efficiently. It said that its agents,
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  • 96 5 EDUCATION Minister Lim Kim San will be asked at the next Parliament sitting whether non-English school teachers undergoing a special English-language course on Mathematics and Science will be able to teach those subjects in English. Mr. Tay Boon Too, MP for Payar Lebar, who will raise
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  • 170 5 SINGAPORE will have the largest refinery in Asia outside the Middle East when Shell opens its third refinery (left) on Pulau Bukom on Sept. 9. The $56 million extension, which will be opened by Mr. Hon Sui Sen, the Finance Minister, is designed to meet
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    • 19 5 THE TIDES Today 5.16 a.m. 6.1 ft; 4.04 p.m. 7.5 ft. Tomorrow 8.20 a.m. 5.9 ft; 5.07 p.m. 7ft.
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  • 174 6 SOLDIER FINED $150 FOR PUSHING A NATIONAL Serviceman who objected to betag booked for a traffic offeace was Used *ltt for asiag crimiaal force oa a coasUble by Eighth Magistrate Taa Cala Tfeag yesterday. PC Fred Baaaes tald the coart that wbea be aad PC Thlagarajai stepped carpenter Slaa Nam
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  • 37 6 A PROBATION report was called for on a 17-year-old unemployed youth who pleaded gulty yesterday to stealing more than $250 worth of cash and property from a student at Changi Beach on Saturday.
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  • 46 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Selangor police today warned the public to be on the look-out for snatch thieves and pickpockets during the Hari Kebangsaan celebrations. The public should lock their houses properly and keep their valuables in a secure place before joining the celebrations.
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  • 298 6 UNSUCCESSFUL EXTORTION BID BY YOUTHS A CAR used in an extortion bid by two youths on June 19 was forfeited by a court order yesterday. ASP Santa Maria, prosecuting, told District Judge Abdul Wahab Ghows that the car, No. SW 9692, owned by
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  • 108 6 FIVE passengers in a taxi were slightly injured after a collision involving four vehicles at the 10th mile, Upper Changi Road, yesterday. Their names were given as Tan Bak Eng, 40, of Havelock Road; Yahaya Haji Talib, 27, of Wing Loong Road; Sergeant Thomas,
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  • 80 6 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. A centre to impart skills to factory workers presently unskilled or semi-skilled will be in operation here by the end of the year. Disclosing this today, National and Rural Development Minister Inche Abdul Ghafar Baba said the government and local factories were co-operating
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  • 267 6 Singapore plans a must for music lovers FOUR TALENTED local vocalists will present arias from popular operas such as "Madam Butterfly" and "The Marriage of Figaro" accompanied by the National Orchestra at the National Theatre on Sept. 12 and 13. The four— Sopranos Madam Yang Tung Chuan, Lee Lyn and
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  • 180 6 OPERA HOUSE AT PEOPLE'S PARK TO OPEN NEXT MONTH A 7M-SEAT opera house on the first floor of the People's Park Complex will be opened by the managing director of the Asia Commercial Banking Corporation, Mr. Chua Pho Hong early next month. The Pearls Opera House Is a $5M,M9 joint
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  • 261 6 THE little wanderer who was found in Philip Street last week had a brief reunion with his father at the Social Welfare Department in Havelock Road yesterday. And soon alter the hugs and kisses were over, it was back again to the Toa Payoh
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  • 105 6 AN INDIAN film distributing company in Thomson Road was robbed of office equipment valued' at $3,000 over the weekend. Among the things stolen were a typewriter, a photostat machine, a poster franking machine and a clock. A clerk said that he found the door ajar
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    • 196 6 THE DIARY t turn. 7 p.m. Exhibition of Road and Khean Hock Road), books on business 7 p.m. midnight National management at the National Day exposition at Gay World Library. Amusement Park, Geylang. It a.m. 7 p.m. Exhibition 7 p.m. it p.m. At the of granite and wood sculpture National
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  • 298 7 New motor complex will mean higher bills PART OF THE URBAN RENEWAL PLAN CAR REPAIR bills will go up when motor repair workshops affected by urban renewal schemes have to move into a new multi-million-dollar complex to be built in Upper Thomson Road. Owners of several of these workshops said:
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  • 328 7 Doctor calls for health units in small factories DR. PHOON Wai-On, President of the Society of Occupational Medicine, yesterday called on unions, employers and medical institutions to help set up Group Industrial Health Units for the smaller factories. He said the smaller industries would find this difficult to achieve or
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  • 58 7 KOTA KINABALU, Mon. The Board of Governors of the South-east Asian Press Centre in Kuala Lumpur is expected to discuss the holding of a seminar here for Asean journalists next year. The consultant of the press centre, Mr. John Glattbach, said he hoped to pyt forward
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  • 211 7 Record $81.5mil. pay-out last year by EPF KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. More than 3,290 members of the Employees Provident Fund left Malaysia permanently last year before reaching retirement age. The manager of the EPF Board, Mr. Lee Siow Mong, said today that the total withdrawal last year amounted to an all-time
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  • 182 7 MALACCA, Mon.: The Governor of Rhio, Brig. Gen. Ariffin Ahmad, today promised to encourage Indonesian traders to do business with Malacca. Gen. Ariffin was speaking to reporters at the airport here before returning home after attending the opening of the Malacca
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  • 204 7 PENANG, Mon. The Penang Government today invited private industries to make use of three free trade zones in the state. The three zones are made up of 57 acres near the old wharves in Prai, 250 acres off the South-East coast, and between
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  • 263 7 Hua Ling travels the world- to be a top singer and designer A 22-YEAR-OLD Taiwanese singer who aims to make a big name for herself as a singer and fashion designer is here on the first leg of a world tour. Miss Hua Ling is travelling abroad to learn all
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  • 206 7 MAN CHARGED WITH RAPE IS ACQUITTED KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The High Court here today freed a man on a rape charge after the 12--year-old complainant refused to say anything about the incident. The Deputy Public Prosecutor, Inche Mohammad Tahir bin Nassir, could not persuade the girl to talk. In the
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  • 96 7 KUCHING, Sarawak's first Malay-medium secondary school, Sekolah Tunku Abdul Rahman, opened today with 45 specially selected students. It is sharing the premises of the Sekolah Menengah Rakyat Tunku Abdul Rahman, an English-medium private school run by the Malay community here. The headmaster of both
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  • 56 7 Kuala trengganu, Mon. An 18- year old Thai girl from Golok was fined SSO or one week's jail in default by the sessions court here today for entering the country illegally last Tuesday. Ampan Molla was arrested at a hotel here yesterday when police, immigration and
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  • 304 7 Tunku happy with new State Cabinet KUCHING, Mon. The people of Sarawak are "very well represented" in their new State Cabinet, Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman told reporters at the airport here today before returning to Kuala Lumpur after a two-day visit. He said the State was in need of
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  • 47 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon Students in Malaysia know very little of their country's society and people, a lecturer at the University of Malaya said. The lecturer, Mr. Khoo Kay Kim said this in a paper submitted to the International Conference of Asian Universities, which began today.
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  • 484 8 Bikini girls brighten 'blockade blues' ROYAL Navy frigates enforcing Rhodesian sanctions in the Mozambique Channel are breaking the boredom by watching bikini parades. Cruise ships on the South Africa to India run regularly present their loveliest passengers in a beauty parade for the benefit of the crews of the two
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  • 519 8 Spiro must k the answers all VICE PRESIDENT SPIRO AGNEW will face hard questions from America's Asian allies in each of the four capitals he is to visit next week on his second tour of the area in 12 months. His task was not made easier by a Senate vote
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  • 211 8 With the approval of Egypt and Israel the Americans are using U2 spy planes to watch for possible military movements along the Suez Canal during the cease-fire. This is the plane that caused an international incident in 1960, when one piloted by Cdr Gary
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    44 8 AN etching of the Santa Maria, the §sft, i»»-ton caravel in which Columbus discovered the New World and the remains of which are believed to have been found is ft down on a coral reef off the north coast of Haiti. d
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  • 346 9 It's South Africa's business Gorton THE Australian Government has been under attack for its attitude to Britain's proposal to sen arms to South Africa. In contrast to criticism voiced by Canada's Pierre Trudeau and other Commonwealth leaders, the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton, has adopted a sympathetic approach. Australia's
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  • 477 9 BACKGROUND TO THE WORLD NEWS VATICAN CITY, Mon. The Vatican announced last night that the practice of sending poor girls from India to become nuns in European Convents had been suspended pending an investigation. Vatican authorities admit that "there are elements of the truth" in
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  • 386 9 SHIGENOBU INOUE TOKYO, Mon. The Honda N360 and the Nissan microbus have become the targets of criminals suits for alleged defects. A Tokyo barber has filed a complain with the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office against Soichiro Honda, president of Honda Motor Co., charging him with murder
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  • 340 9 JAPAN PEPS UP ITS LIQUOR LAWS AFTER only one drink, Japanese drivers will have to think twice about getting behind the wheel. Even just a whiff of fiquor on the breath can produce a gaol sentence or a stiff fine under a new road traffic law that went into effect
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  • 64 9 TEACHERS in New York have come out strongly in favour of the rights of their students to dress as they please and wear long hair if they wish. Delegates representing the 200,000-strong American Federation of Teachers include the freedom of speech and the rights of students
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  • 361 10 LONDON, Mon. Britain should be ready to devalue the pound again if necessary, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research said today. In its first economic report since the June General Election, the institute said the government should take
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  • 364 10 SAN FRANCISCO, Mon. The captain and survivors of the burnedout Philippine freighter Don Jose Figueras headed for San Francisco yesterday aboard a U.S. Navy ship, leaving the ruined hulk to the chilly North Pacific. The rescue ship Perseus/ a navy troopcargo carrier. Is expected
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  • 190 10 Ex-Lebanon President got $1m bribe' claim TEHERAN, Iran, Mon. Retired Iranian Gen. Teimmur Bakhtiar, reported to have been assassinated in Iraq last week, is alleged to have bribed former Lebanese President Charles Helou nearly one million dollars to escape punishment in Iran. The allegation was made by the Teheran evening
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  • 68 10 HANOI, Mon. North Vietnamese delegation head at the Vietnam Peace talks in Paris, Xuan Thuy, left here on Aug. 19 for the French capital, it was announced here today. The press gave no details of the diplomat's route, but it is thought he will travel
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  • 24 10 VIETCONG CLAIM HONGKONG. Mon. The Vietcong has shot down 13 and damaged 11 South Vietnamese helicopters in a single day, Vietcong Press Agency claimed.
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  • 717 11 US softens the blow with offer of F4s to South Korea PARK WANTS TO BUILD UP FORCES TO COUNTER AMERICAN PULL-OUT SEOUL, Mon. Vice President Spiro Agnew told South Korea today that the United States was transferring a wing of F4 tactical fighter aircraft from Japan and would supply additional
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  • 135 11 NABBED! Police get the wrong smugglers CHERBOURG, Mon. Drug smuggling is so high in everyone's mind these days that a couple of innocent French photographic delivery-men found themselves ambushed yesterday by 20 policemen and narcotics agents. The men thought it was a stunt for a hidden camera show on television.
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  • 30 11 SIX DEAD IN CRASH BUENOS AIRES, Mon. Six people were -killed when an express train rammed into a bus as it was going over an unguarded level crossing at Outlines.
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  • 91 11 We'll consider any official protest BBC LONDON, Mon. The BBC will consider any complaint from the Indian Government over a series of films on life in India, a spokesman said last night. He said no complaint had as yet been received but he was aware of criticism of the series
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  • 28 11 ODD PATHET LAO CLAIM VIENTIANE, Mon. ProCommunist Laotian People's forces shot down three American aircraft between Aug. 12 and Aug. 18, the Voice of Pathet Lao radio reported.
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  • 351 11 PARIS, Mon. The new German-Soviet treaty is beginning to show results, economically speaking. The visit that the West German Minister of Science is to make to the USSR will reinforce the co-operation between the two countries while theDaimler-Benz concern is envisaging, with other European firms,
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  • 30 11 German industrialists expect that the normalisation of their relations with Moscow will double their trade with Eastern European countries, which at the moment, constitute a little more than
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  • 86 11 BELGRADE, Mob. Nikica Weisinberger of the Yugoslav seaport of Sibenik, received a postcard from the sleepy little coastal town of Trogir aid got a shock when he saw it was addressed to his father. For Mr. Weisinberger Sr. has been dead for
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  • 45 11 TOKYO, Mon. Cambodian students in Europe who oppose the Lon Nol government in Phnom Penh have sent a message to Cambodia's deposed Chief of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk in Peking expressing their support for his government-in-exile, New China news agency reported.
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  • 164 11 TOKYO, Mon. The Transport Ministry has instructed 33 domestic and foreign airlines to restrict their use of Tokyo international airport for chartered flight arrivals from next month to alleviate the congestion at the airport. The Ministry plans to cut the number of plane take-offs
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  • 252 11 AID FOR LON NOL: 'NO CHANGE IN U.S. POLICY' SAN CLEMENTE, California, Mob.— The westers White House said yesterday that VicePresident Agien was firmly re-stating Administration policy when he said, "We're going to do everything we cam to help the Lon No! Government'' in Cambodia. Mr. Agnew, en route to
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  • 63 11 NEW DELHI, Mon. Nepalese Foreign Minister Gahendra Bahadur Bhandari left today for home after three days of talks on the renewal of a trade and transit treaty with India during which, sources said, little progress was made. Differences between the two sides have been holding up
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    • 68 11 BEETLE BAILEY By Mort Walker V&4M SOMETIMES IT REFLECTS CERTAfM r lOF COURSE YOU MAVE TO I LltfE TMAT ATTiTUPES ABOUT TME VIETNAM V READ A LITTLE INTO IT J LITTLE COMIC WAR, WESTERN MISTORY A& Vs^ y* STtfip rr /*§&v 6nS^ delated to tme racial problem, rmsr^ BCBTA JM#&{
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  • BUSINESS /COMMERCE/COMMODIHES/FINANCE /INDUSTRY/
    • 420 12 THE Stock Exchange committee yesterday required all member firms to furnish by 4 p.m. today outstanding inter-broker and broker-to-client positions in Sentosa and Lien Hoe. This requirement was made after an emergency meeting of the committee yesterday morning in view of the
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    • 84 12 SEOUL, Mon. The South Korean Government said it approved loans totalling US$6.9 million from a U.K. banking syndicate for the construction of a synthetic rubber plant capable of producing 15,000 tons annually. The plant will be built by the Samyang Synthetic Rubber Company, a Korea-American joint venture
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    • 99 12 JAKARTA, Mon. South Sulawesi expects to have a surplus rice crop of 1.6 million tons this year, an increase of 600,000 tons over last year's surplus figures, the official Antara news agency said today. The report said officials in Sulawesi, formerly known as the Celebes, said the surplus
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    • 158 12 Rhodesia n chrome LONDON, Mon. Rhodesian chrome has shown up in China, diplomatic sources here said yesterday. The British Foreign Office, however, declined to comment. The information is now believed to be in the possession of the United Nations sanctions committee in New York, the sources added. "There is concrete
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    • 368 12 The market yesterday ruled mixed initially, but developed an easier tendency in the afternoon. Dealers believed the market was pausing affer a rise for seven straight days. High-priced electric household appliances, including Sony, Alps and Pioneer, lost ground on fears of a slowdown in exports to the
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    • 521 12 Mining shares closed on a relatively firmer note on U)e Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday, highlighted by selective buying of leading issues. Established miners came in for sustained support. CRA jumped 90 cenU to $19.30, while Palgrave scored an impressive gain of 40 cents at $2.90 and Meekatharra
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    • 254 12 Activity was high la postweekead tradiag la the market yesterday. Whcctocks featured with a ge«d rise $15 oa a heavy tuxaever. Wtaaar also was active, m«viag up to $18.10 but clased at $17. 40. The company declared a l-for-20 bonus issue and a final dividend of a»
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    • 300 12 COMPANY REPORTS HUME INDUSTRIES (F.E.) reported considerably improved profits of $2,037,013 for the year ended June. This compares with the previous profits of $1,365,072. The board reported a "very encouraging year despite difficult trading conditions in a highly competitive market." Group sales, excluding agency sales, totalled
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    • 271 12 SINGAPORE— MALA YSIA Merchant rates today, fixed by the Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore. Local dollars per unit of foreign currency HONGKONG (Rates in Hongkong dollars, for Aug. 24). On New York TT 6.***** On New York DD 6.0925 Gold (99% fineness, per tad) 277.126 Note Rates:
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    • 292 12 THE PORT OF SINGAPORE AUTHORITY HAS MADE THESE BE RTHING ARRANGEMENTS FOR AUGUST 26. IN: BnntonLykes6/7 (after Hide Muu and Heiyo Maru), Glenlyon 8/9 (after Kalewa hauls), Petaling 20 eatt (after Kimanit hauls and Sletter hauls), Selamat 21 east (after Giang Lee), State of Madra 2 3/24
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  • INVESTMENT/PROPERTY/TAXATION/TECHNOLOGY
    • 101 13 WILLIAM JACKS (SINGAPORE) and Mitsui Seiki Kogyo of Japan have signed an agreement under which Jacks will sell and service Mitsui 's air compressors in Singapore, Malaysia and Borneo. The agreement was concluded after talks in the Republic last week between Mr. K.J. Smith and Mr. James
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    • 113 13 The Bank of America engaged in equipment leasing in the United States for the past seven years announced 'fa partipation in a Japanese leasing company controlled by the Sumitomo Bank Group of Osaka. Three Bank of America affiliates Bamerical International Financial Corp., Finabai Societe Financiere S.A. and
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    • 1347 13 THE Stock Exchange opened the week in a cheerful mood and prices advanced on a broad front. This spirit was dampened in the afternoon by an announcement from the Exchange Committee. Member firms were told to report their open positions in SENTOSA and LIEN HOE by tomorrow
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    • 369 13  -  (Managers' prices for Aug. 25) B. S. ASIA UNIT TRUSTS Mai. Invt. Fund. 1.15 1.20 Mai. Progress Fund 1.00 1.05 CHARTERED UNIT TRUSTS Singapore Growth Fund 1.02 1.07 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUSTS Second Singapore 1.76 Third Singapore 1.17 B. S. The Commerce Ind. Fund .96 1.01 The Saving Fund
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    • 393 13 A GROUP of British businessmen have taken over Tholech, an oil palm company with an issued capital of $4 million. All three members of the original board of directors Mr Foo Khoon Ming, Mr Lee Eng Chew and Mr Kam Woon Wah (secretary-general of the
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    • 76 13 PEOPLE IN business MR. FOO CHEE BOON, trainee Slipform field supervisor, and ME. CHIA BAK KONG, field technician, both of FABQUIP, have left for Sydney on a two-month course in the latest jacking systems and formwork construction, concrete quality control and site organisation. They will spend another two months on
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    • 707 13 SINGAPORE RUBBER RUBBER 52% ceils a Ik. (up one-eighth cert). Opening quotations yesterday were slightly lower thai last Friday's. First business, however, was dose at 52% cents for RSS 1 September. The market then steadied fractionally to 52% cents traded. There was some sbortcoveriag and speculator long buying of
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    • 388 13 Stocks continued to rally in heavy trading early yesterday. The Dow Jones industrial average was ahead 9.38 after 60 minutes, while the Stanpoors industrials were up 1.16. Gains held nearly a ten-to-one lead over the losers. Volume for the first hour was 5,610.000-just 40,000 shares below
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    • 495 13 The market moved ahead in quiet trading yesterday. The Wall Street uptrend offset warnings on the UK economy contained in reports from Barclays Bank, and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) although gains were generally small. Towards the close, the Financial Times index was
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    • 275 13 AMSTERDAM Internationals yesterday were generally firm on Wan Street Unilever and Royal Dutch were very firm on mainly foreign buying. Akzo, Hoogovens and Philips were also higher. KLM gained 5.20 guilders on Wall Street influences. Local industrials were mainly higher with Heineken Beer and Bob among the firm
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  • 173 14 A1 1 INDIA Hockey Federation team will play a series of matches in Singapore and West Malaysia in November before they leave for the Asian Games at Bangkok. The Federation has requested Singapore Hockey Association to arrange the matches in the two
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  • 416 14  - Taiwan take men's cagers title for Pesta double Albert Johnson JUNG RUNG team representing, Taiwan won the Pesta Sukan invitation men's basketball championship on the concluding day of the eight-nation tourney at Gay World stadium last night. Earlier in the tournament the Taiwanese bagged the women's title from Thailand. The
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  • 25 14 ODD HANOVER, Mon. England beat West Germany 1-0 in a hockey friendly here today. The only goal came from Michael Corby in the 48th minute.
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  • 531 14 13 world marks! Mike Burton unluckiest swimmer in U.S. c'ships LOS ANGELES, Mon. Another day of recordbreaking here yesterday closed the United States swimming championships after a weekend of competition that saw a total of 13 world records wiped off the books. The stars of yesterday's events were Americans John
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  • SPORTS WORLD
    • 313 14 ENNA, Sicily, Clay Regazzoni of Switzerland in a Tecno won the ninth Mediterranean Grand Prix Formula Two motor race, fifth event counting towards the European Drivers' championship. Regazzoni clocked 44 min. 8 sec. for an average of 204.194 mph. His countryman, Joseph
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  • 984 14 Sostenuto's progeny interest local owners WITH the winning of the Gold Vase by Need You Badly, more progeny of Sostenuto will be sought by local owners. This sire produces horses which not only have speed and power, but also come to hand quickly. At the Penang meeting, will
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 47 14 AUPE SWIM CARNIVAL THE Amalgamated Union of Public Employees will hold their annual swimming carnival on Sept. 25 at River Valley pool, from 6 00 p.m. Heats will be held at same venue on Sept. IS at 6.00 pm. CRICKET. Tour match-SCA President XI vs EMLMPadang. 11am)
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  • 470 15 Unanimous points decision win for Kobayashi TOKYO, Sun. Japan's world junior lightweight boxing champion, Hiroshi Kobayashi, retained his title with a unanimous points decision over challenger Antonio Amaya of Panama here yesterday. There were no knockdowns in the hard-fought. relentless encounter. Kobayashi suffered a deep cut by an accidental head-butt
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  • 153 15 'The worst world bout decision I've ever seen'— Cordova TOKYO, Mon. Panamanian boxing officials and handlers of defeated challenger Antonio Amaya today protested to the Japan Boxing Commission (JBC) on the result of a controversial fight in which world junior lightweight champion Hiroshi Kobayashi of Japan retained his crown on
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  • 102 15 TOKYO, Moo. The Japan Boxing Commission today turned down a protest from Panamanian officials over the decision which gave Hiroshi Kobayashi a triumph over Antonio Amaya of Panama last night. The commission rejected the protest by Dr. Eloas Cordoba on the ground that
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  • 132 15 An Asian karting circuit to pick champion MANILA Mon. A fourrace Asian Karting circuit covering Hongkong, Singapore, Brunei and Manila is being planned for 1971, top Philippine karting driver Joey Bundalian said today. Bundalian, who is also secretary of the Philippine Karting Federation, said an Asian champion would be determined
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  • 95 15 LONDON, Mon. Eighteen-year-old apprentice jockey Pat Edery rode five winners at Haydock Park yesterday at accumulated odds over 1011-1, unprecedentedd for a young jockey claiming the apprentice allowance. Dublin-born Pat, son of former jockey Jimmy Edery, scored on Benoma (5-4) in the first race and
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  • 155 15 SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey, Mon. Rod Laver, winner of the 1969 grand slam in tennis, is the top-seeded in the $25,000 Marlboro Open tennis tournament which starts here today. Laver, who also won the grand slam in 1962 when he was still an
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  • 61 15 LONDON Mon. Unbeaten wonder-horse Nijinsky may be thwarted by a bout of ringworm from completing the triple of English classic victories. The Canadian-bred colt has already galloped off with the 2,000 guineas and The Derby but unless the ringworm clears up he will
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  • 60 15 World Boxing Association (WBA) junior lightweight champion, Hiroshi Kobayashi of Japan, connects a right to Panamaniam challenger Antonio Amaya in the nth round of their world title match in Tokyo Sunday night. Kobayashi retained his crowo with a controversial points win. The champion fought from the
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  • 53 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Alex Delilkan will captain the Malaysian cricket side against Singapore in the three-day annual match for the Saudara Cup here from Sept. 4. The team: Gurucharan Singh, Alwi Zahaman. Ranjit Singh, A. Christie, Zainuddin Meah, Hector Durairatnam, C. Navaratnam S. Marimuthu and Zainon Mat. 12th
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  • 150 16 Razak: Up to Lee to set a new date KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The invitation to Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew to visit' Kuala Lumpur is still open, Tun Razak said here today. "It's up to him," the Deputy Prime Minister said when asked if another date had bee/i fixed foe
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  • 93 16 Goodwill expense account KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Members of Malaysia's goodwill councils can now claim for expenses incurred by them while they are carrying out official duties. A directive signed by Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and issued today said this applied to all members in the national, state and district
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  • 179 16 TRIVANDRUM, Kerala Mob. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Trivandmm, Monsigßor Benedict Mar Gregorios, today described as a "noble venture" the recruit Ing aad sending of Malayalaee girls to Europe "for training and to become ■BBS." Objecting to a London Sunday Times article yesterday
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  • 362 16 MalaysianIndonesian common mart is on JAKARTA, Mon. Malaysian and Indonesian trade representatives agreed today to set up a small common market by establishing a common customs area and reducing red tape to increase mutual trade. Malaysian Minister of Commerce and Industry Mohamed Khir Johari and Indonesian Trade Minister Sumitro Djojohadikusumo
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  • 82 16 For $29 breach of trust, a $300 fine LABOURER Koh Thiang Choon, 21, alias William Goh, was fined $300 at the weekend by the Ninth Magistrate Court for misappropriating $29.25 belonging to Mr. Robert Michael Walker, of Jalan Li mau ManisThe court was told that on June 18, Koh was
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  • 195 16 HANOI, Mon. Disgruntled beer lovers, put off by crowding at Hanoi's sidewalk refreshment kiosks, have won a battle to improve service and have the brew dispensed in plants and off ices as well. Public drunkenness is never seen here, but
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  • 132 16 LINDA Kasabiaa, star prosecatioa witaess ia the Sharon Tate murder trial ia Los Angeles, with her flve-month-old baby Angel at Milford, New Hampshire. Linda, who was oa the witness staad for 18 days, said she planed to live ia this quiet New Hampshire town
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  • 87 16 IPOH t Mon. Buddhism has no fixed opinion on birth control but it disapproves of abortion, the President of the Sinhala Buddhist Organisation of Ceylon, The Ven. D.H. Ratanasara, said here today. Once life is conceived it should be considered sacred and its
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