Singapore Herald, 24 December 1970

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  • 14 1 THE SINGAPORE herald No. 133 Singapore Ttaursdsy, December 24, 1970 I y-j^fj^^pri-Y 15 CENTS
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  • 545 1 Bolivia frees Che's friend Debray LA PAZ, Wed. French intellectual 29--year-old Regis Debray was freed today by Bolivian authorities after serving about four years of a 30-year jail sentence for aiding anti-Govern-ment guerillas. The Frenchman, held mainly in solitary confinement in the heavily-guarded prison at Camiri, south-west Bolivia, was freed
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  • 202 1 Bigg-weep by on border! BANGKOK, Wed. Thai police and military have launched a massive sweep through the Banthad mountains near the Malaysian border following two clashes with guerillas yesterday. One thousand troops have joined the police in the drive aimed at wiping out the Communist terrorists from their jungle refuges
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  • IN BRIEF
    • 99 1 MANILA, Wed. Three home-made bombs exploded in the grounds of the Malacanang Presidential Palace today during a protest picket staged by a small group of radical Filipino students. No casualties were reported and apparently no arrests made. The bombs exploded about 10 yards inside the
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    • 26 1 Defence Counsel for the 16 Basque nationalists tried before a military court at Burgos earlier this month may know the court's sentences on Saturday. DDQ
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    • 29 1 South Africa: At least 50 Africans were feared drowned yesterday when a crowded bus was swept away by river flood waters about 70 miles north of here. ODD
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    • 21 1 Thousands of Christian pilgrims arrived I in Israel by plane and ship yesterday to celebrate Christmas in the Holy Land.
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  • 132 1 TWO me. were stabbed fas a —tart*.— red light district la Geylaag last sight. Taa TUB Sao, 31, was dead oa arrival at tbe On tram Read Geaeral Hospital; the other man, believed to be a plainclothes policeman, was admitted. Residents in
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  • 704 1 THE Barisan Sosialis chairman Dr. Lee Siew Choh, claimed yesterday that about 100 political detainees at Changi and Queenstown prisons were on a hunger strike in protest against alleged ill-treatment and being made to work five hours a day. Eight of them, all
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  • 117 1 TAIPEI, Wed. The father of Miss Chi Cheng, Talwaa's "Iron girl sprinter," has objected to her plans to marry Viace Reel, her American coach, a Taipei newspaper reported today. "I hope my daughter will reconsider the matter," the Chla.se language "United DaUy News"
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  • 64 1 PARIS. Wed. The Saigon delegation to the Paris Vietnam peace talks announced today that the South Vietnamese Government would free on January 27 "a new group of North Vietnamese sick and wounded prisoners of war who have asked to be repatriated." The announcement was made by
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  • 22 1 LONDON, Wed. Prince Philip, leaves on a 24,000-mile tour of Australia and Pacific islands early next February, Buckingham Palace said.
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  • 202 1 $20,000 ring lost after trio leave shop POLICE are looking for two men and a woman, who they believe were responsible for the loss of a $20,500 diamond ring from a jeweller's shop in High Street. The shop of Messrs. K.M. Oil Mohammed had just opened for business on Tuesday
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  • 75 1 WASHINGTON, Wed. The U.S. Navy yesterday announced the first test flight of its new swing wing Fl4 fighter a complete success and said it would join the fleet in April 1973. The Fl4, designed as a successor to both the Fl4 phantom and the ill-fated
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  • 1544 2  - Mass Rapid Transit William S.W. Lim m^ mm^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^*f^ m^^'^ m^*********^ mu u m By THE writer was a member of a committee on the re-organisation of public transport which reported to the Communications Minister prior to the preparation of the Government Transport White Paper. TRAFFIC in the central area has
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  • 452 2 i-in. maintenance by major powers of military bases on foreign soil has usually created problems. Regardless of how favourable the host government may be for reasons of defence or economy, there is no guarantee that the presence of foreign troops will not arouse patriotic rumblings among
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  • 876 2 BUILDING blocks, which have delighted children for years, are being seriously discussed these days by architects, city planners and government officials in the United States. They are not talking about a toy, however, but a relatively new buildine technique which may help solve the problem of
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    • 217 2 ph I THE I YOUTH I CAPSULE I REVITALIZES I I REGENERATES I I THE SYSTEM I H FORMULA 3 Geriatric Capsules are not just fl I any Geriatric Capsules. FORMULA3 I fl Geriatric Capsules are formulated with the OVER fl H 30's in mind. As YOU grow older YOUR
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    • 13 2 SOUTH BRITISH Ma^^**m\ knows insurance Thursday, December 24, 1970 THE SINGAPORE HERALD i
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  • 113 3 Draining pit AFTER a boy's death... POLICE are Investigating the death of a 1 ©-year-old boy who was fouad drowned ln five feet of w%ter In a worksite pit about im yards from the Wonderland Amusement Park at the old Kallang Airport yesterday. Up to late last night, tbe boy
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  • 152 3 SANTA Claus came to Chinatown last night but he did not fill any Christmas stockings. So many children mobbed him when he arrived that he had to retreat in defeat. Santa, Mr. Jerry Magnus, was invited by the management of the People's
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  • 84 3 A TALK on the education and treatment of children and young adults with emotional and educational problems will be given by Dr. Robert G. Ferguson at 5.30 p.m. on Monday. The talk, organised by the Association for Retarded Children, will be held at the Lee Kong
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  • 63 3 SEVERAL Marine Department officials have been suspended from duty following investigations Into their dealings with a local shipyard. After the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau started Inquiries, the men were told to take leave. It Is understood that CPIB officers visited the home of a marine
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  • 84 3 TELEX Service to Rumania will be available trom today. I%* minimum charge will be I3C.H per three-minute eaU and $12.31 fer each additional mlnnte. A report charge of $2.15 will be charged fer calls cancelled. Telephone service to Saipan In the Pacific Ocean will
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  • 205 3 > DEVELOPING countries should use the most up-to-date industrial processes to 2 ensure that there is no B wastage of raw I materials, says ProI fessor John Coales, I Head of Engineering f (Control) at Cambridge 1 University. !He said yesterday that if
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  • 105 3 PENANG, Wed. The Pro-Tern Secretary-General of the Islamic Secretariat, Tunku Abdul Rahman, left for Karachi today to attend the Islamic Foreign Ministers' Conference to oe held from Dec. 26 to 28. Twenty-three countries will be represented at the conference, which was an Idea proposed
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    • 249 3 —i j i I I _______________i^^_s ___________sUII 1 PNew Chinese Character No. Actually it's an IC magnified to 30 times its size. IC stands for Integrated Circuit. An Integrated circuit is a very small circuit block formed by combining or connecting individual groups of vacuum tubes, transistors and diodes (operating
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  • 224 4 $45,000 gems left by robbers PAWNSHOP WORKER SETS OFF ALARM A PAWNSHOP worker behind a counter set off an alarm during a holdup yesterday and saved his shop a $45,000 loss. The alarm caused two gunmen and an unarmed accomplice to dash out from the Yong Ngiam Pawnshop in Geylang
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  • 294 4 Teachers urged to aid Malays' social refrom DR. SHAROM Ahmat, history lecturer at Singapore University last night called on Malay teachers to be innovators in the social reform of Malays. He was addressing thirty Malay teachers, twenty men and ten women, from the Malay Teachers' Union who, for the first
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  • 203 4 THE Singapore Association for the Blind hopes to set up- a small factory to provide temporary employment for the blind, its president, Dr. Arthur Lim, said yesterday. He said the factory could provide employment to those who were at the moment
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  • 201 4 THE Royal Navy and the United States Navy had two objects in mind when they fjave a dinner on Tuesday to 17 nmates of an Old Men's Home at 319-H Aljunied Road. One was to celebrate Christmas and the other to publicise the
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  • 147 4 Made in S'pore light to guide giant tankers A 56-FOOT tall beacon will be installed in the Macassar Strait between Borneo and Celebes to gnide Japanese supertankers which are starting to use this route instead of going through the Straits of Malacca. Construction, Installation and lighting of the beacon is
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  • 264 4 SEMINAR TO FIND HOW TO APPLY SOCIAL SCIENCES SCHOLARS and educationists will meet for a one day seminar on Saturday Jan. 9 to discuss the role of the Social Sciences in contemporary Singapore. The seminar, convened by Mr. Tham Seong Chee, of the Malay Studies Department of the University of
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  • 183 4 DOCTORS and nurses should be the first to give up smoking in order to convince the public of the dangers of smoking. This was stated in the latest issue of the Singapore Cancer Society Newsletter. "Unless each one of us in
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  • 39 4 MALAYSIA-SINGAPORE Airlines denied yesterday that it had sold two of its DC 3 (Dakota) aircraft. An MSA spokesman said the company had received tenders for all three of its remaining DC-3's and negotiations were Coint? on
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    • 54 4 l". v IS BEETLE BAILEY By Mort Walker f ammx'mmmZ f *a. f IF HE UNDERSTANDS i dontonderstAnp\ V M6 f EE r f r\ -Mm /m\ IT, THIS CAMP IS TMIS ORDER FROM TME j VjT f Y\\ UMaa^ (fW /5S IKI TROUBLE SEMERAL AT ALL. 1 f^pT^ \^\)\N
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  • 157 5 MOTOR-CYCLE dealers are fighting a losing war to prevent dropping •ties caused by the new law which requires all riders and piLUon riders to wear craah helmets after Jan. l. __J*? major Importers am SEX** P* o 14 -t a
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  • 130 5 PENANO, Wed. The academic staff of the University of Penang will be doubled next year to maintain a saUsfactory staff-student ratio. The registrar of the University, Mr. N.A. Ogle, said today that the 100 per cent increase would also ensure that Individual attention
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  • 86 5 FRENCH language students can look forward to a new book written ln "Francois Courant" Current French early neat year. The book Is the New Testament of the Bible, complete with a glossary. It has been written with 5.000 words of the
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  • 76 5 FOUR Singaporeans have won the City and Guilds of London awards for outstanding performance ln this year's examinations. They are: LOH NOIANG GUAN, who was awarded £10 and the Silver Medal for Electrical Engineering Practice (Energy). CHONG GUAN CHING, £10 and the Sliver Medal
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  • 508 5 100 per cent increase in price of coarse salt 'FLOODS WASHED AWAY MINING PITS' THE price of coarse salt has doubled from 7V_ cents to IS cents per kati in the past ten days. The main reason, according to some important dealers, is the recent floods in Thailand which are
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  • 89 5 POSTAL workers are working day and night to clear the unusually heavy Christmas mall this year. Regular staff at post offices have been .working overtime In shifts since last week. Extra mall boxes have also been placed In post offices to
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  • 522 6 THE MAIN TARGET: SURTAX ON ALL IMPORTS KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. *m Opposition leaders who boycotted yesterday's Budget address hit out today at the tax measures introduced by Finance Minister Tun Tan Siew Sin. Aa they were not given the opportunity to debate the Budget which
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  • 160 6 THREE men, one armed with a knife, held up art designer Tan Leng Suat, 31, of Lengkok Bahru, and robbed him of $650 yesterday morning. Tan was riding his motorscooter when a man standing at Delta Circus beckoned to him to stop. As soon
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  • 417 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Television sets, refrigerators, airconditioners and a wide range of other electrical goods are to coat more. A survey of the firms manufacturing and distributing electrical goods today revealed that almost all of them Sinned to pass at least part of e new
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  • 161 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Social and Welfare Services Lotteries Board is to offer three special draws next year in addition to the present IS draws, the board's chairman, Tan Sri T.H. Tan said today. The first special draw with »500 prises to be won
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  • 115 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Bnmlpntra Batek Marketing Bhd. will snpply batek worth between $2 and $6 million to West Germany In the next five years. A contract has been signed by the chairman of the company, Inche Othman Ahmad, and the owner of a Went Germany
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  • 207 6 Did Ghani: 'I islricel Islam of my own frit will' KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Minister of Transport, Date Abdul Ghani Gllong, a recent Muslim convert, said here today that he embraced Islam of his own free will. Dato Ghani. a Sabahan, referred to allegations of Christian suppression and forced conversion to
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  • 123 6 BANGKOK. .Wed. Thai and Malaysian delegations will meet a Songkhla la southern Thailand on Jan. 18 to discuss the establishment of the Asian Highway laternational Transport Company which will operate a regular bus service between the two countries. The Malaysian delegation will
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  • 119 6 IPOH, Wed. A special committee to review the by-laws for cooperative societies will be set up soon, Assistant' National and Rural. Development Minister, Dato Samad Idris, said here today. It will be headed by National and Rural Development Minister Inche Ghafar Baba. Dato
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  • 196 6 Would-be robber shot dead by company director KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A company director shot and killed one of two youths who tried to rob him last night. Mr. Goh Tal Yong, 31, told Bilice two youths approached s car which was parked In Jalan Damansara at about 9.15 p.m. One
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  • 63 6 Penang may export radios to Thailand LU lIId I ICMIU PENANG Wed. Penang ls considering exporting transistor radios to Thailand, the Deputy Chief Minister. Inche Mustapha Hussein, said today. At present, such radios, assembled at the electronics factory at Bayan Lepas are exported to the United States. Inche Mustapha was
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  • 327 6 RECORD NUMBER TO SIT FOR UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA EXAMS KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A total of 7,049 students of the University of Malaya will sit for their examinations from Dec. 29. Of this record number, 2,474 are taking their final examinations, with 651 post-graduate students sitting for higher degrees and diplomas.
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  • 80 6 IPOH, Wed. The Perak Government will grant more licences for trawler fishing in the State next year. Agriculture and Lands ivflnister. Tan Sri Haji Ghazali Jawi, said today. He did not say how many would be Issued but only that his Ministry had received 1,000 applications.
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    • 420 7  -  A.K. LEE By I'M writinf a play about a multi-cultural society and the need for tolerance of other peoples' ways of life. The ttrst scene ls set ln an °_S C A y°oo* m»n and an official sit on opposite sides
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    • 369 7  - Twisting tails at Lions dinner Nancy Wong's iSoctai J\|otul THE LIONS Club of Singapore, Jurong, held a Christmas dinner at the Cuscaden House on Tuesday evening. It was an evening of fun, laughter and the traditional Christmas meal of roast turkey and mince pies. In the midst of this the
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    • 33 7 TAN Tan Guat of Jurong Road was fined $5 for riding a bicycle without a bell and another $5 for carrying a pillion-rider in Jalan Gudang on Feb. 26.
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    • 315 7 COLIN Leicester, a Queen's Scholar in 1956, returned to Singapore last week after an absence of 14 years. He is a lecturer in Applied Economics at Christ College, Cambridge University. "I can't recognise Singapore in terms of architecture and It's more affluent and more
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    • 65 7 SAF party for 60 children SOME SO children from the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus orphanage were treated to a Christmas party by members of the Singapore Armed Forces at Holland Road Camp yesterday. The children participated in a carol-singing session and watched a magic show by Lt. Lim
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    • 62 7 THE Junior Chamber of Singapore will hold a '•Malaysian Night" to commemorate the renewal of Its pact signing with Its sisterchapter In Malaysia. The dinner will be held at King's Hotel on Saturday at 7.30 p.m. Among others Invited are the High ComJiissloner of Malaysia, Tan Sri amal,
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    • 26 7 THE Amalgamated Union of Public Employees will hold a New Year's Eve Grand Ball at the Victoria Memorial Hall at 8 p.m.
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    • 102 7 BLQNDIE By Chic Young J__J_y^**\lilJ_ Tn I| I TMS PAMOUS MOVIE STAR, I\t L__^J__jJM"lTF" I MB CSRTAINUY t M JI!TT. __T^ liL r BICMAPD SUftPWE, s~* "S IS MAKIN3 IT TOUQH I r^ OA3WOOD, nOUSMT MIS Wlf=_ ANOTMSfi J f WHAT ON US OTMS*. DID >DU O-SAD V MI_.UON-DOUL_A_-*_ >___-
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    • 405 7 Starscope I AWa mjgA^AJ^^^Maam\mm __^_,_S__L________ L_k__jHs__i ic/na You could be up You r !,J la !> le to e J against a tough task or some original Ideas and run of duties today but t*Wt**m that seem your Uranlan Intuition Dr ll *S. t f ctually and inspiration triumphs. not
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  • 766 8 What we need is men creative imagination THE recent seminar on 11 Strategy for the Development of Managers" seems to have kept within the narrow field of bureaucratic developfc ment We need not quarrel with that. Good bureaucracy ls a vital tool for public administration, i commerce, banking. industry, unionism
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  • 164 8 TIME TO HEED NEEDS OF HANDICAPPED The understanding shown by the 'Architects for People's Park Complex, invokes not only the respect and appreciation of the handicapped, but also those who understand our problems. No doubt the developer will implement the recommendations of his architect* While moot of the public are
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  • 157 8 THE other day I saw a news Baper Item which Indicated let a search ls on to find a new Secretary-General for the United Nations. If we are really serious to get a man best qualified to handle this Important position, I am
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  • 352 8 New uniforms being made for car park attendants "SCRUFFY" (S.H. Dec. 14) has commented that the Car Parks Division's employees, amongst other uniformed Government personnel, are not properly attired and that despite the availability of synthetic materials for uniforms and chromed buttons and insignia there seemed to be apathy towards
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  • 255 8 PATIENTS BULLIED WHILE THE SISTER LOOKS ON ON DEC. 15, I visited my friend in Ward 51, Tan Tock Seng Hospital. I could clearly see how the attendants bullied some of the illiterate patients in the presence of the nurses and Sister, yet nothing was done. A very 111 man
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  • 363 8 If you've got any grouse, go to your union I REFER to the letter from 'Reader' (S.H. Dec. 4) headed 'It's not like the good old days at all'. I have already briefly explained In my reply to his previous letter (S.H. Nov. 10) the background to the development of
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  • 843 8 AEB programme for school leavers should be reviewed I WAS astonished to see the reply of the Adult Education Board to my letter of Dec. 3 on Dec. 18. In spite of the long deliberation, there are certain areas which I would like to bring to notice. I do not
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    • 206 8 Giam Beats Matumoto SINGAPORE'S National I mU Master Glam Choo Kwee |W| had a beautiful win when ,M i jmm^mmf** mbT he beat Japanese Master *<*^_ M n s_ s~ei_^^m^^ Matumoto. 111 |T| Glam, playing with the mmm~jgmr^mm*FwW black pieces, adopted the Sm BlP_J|W_*.mi King's Indian Defence. Matumoto forced the
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  • 184 9 MANILA, Wed. The Volcanology Commission (COMVOL) ordered evacuation of Taal Volcano Island today and warned that the "situation is deteriorating" and a major eruption feared. COMVOL head Arturo Alcaraz flew over the lakebound volcano, one of the country's top tourist attractions, and reported
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  • 102 9 Lunokhod has roamed more than a mile MOSCOW, Wed. The Soviet Union's self-propelled moonrover Lunokhod 1. shut down and parked itself 4,521 feet away from its mother ship yesterday morning to wait out Its second frigid lunar night, Tass reported. The eight-wheeled vehicle has wandered more than one mile across
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  • 96 9 PHNOM PENH, Wed. Cambodian military police yesterdav arrested Norodom Rsnarth, son of ousted Head of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk after captured terrorists implicated him in recent bomb blasts, military police sources said. At the same time, sources said that another of Sihanouk's sons, Norodom Naratipo, and a
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  • 51 9 CALCUTTA. Wed. Three people were killed and seven injured when a kukri- swinging Gurkha ran amok on a train in Central Assam last night. The 50-year-old man was also responsible for injuries suffered by 10 people who Jumped from the train to save their necks.
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  • 28 9 A TEAM of Soviet technical experts originally scheduled to arrive In Indonesia last September is now expected in January, Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Volkov said today.
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  • 95 9 NEW YORK, Wed. Two works by Picasso, an ink drawing and a water colour, have been stolen from the Guggenheim Museum here, it was revealed today. The theft occurred on Monday, when the museum is closed to the general public and open only to
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  • 56 9 PARIS, Wed. At least eight books about the late President De Gaulle are currently being written in France, according to reports from publishers. Among those writing reminiscences are former Prime Minister Couve de Murville, former Information Minister Andre Malraux, former Education Minister Peyrefltte, and a number
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  • 94 9 NEW DELHI, Wed. Prime Mlnlater Indira Gandhi suffered a political setback yesterday when aa opposition coalition was sworn hate office In Eastern Bihar State The 11 -party coalition, headed by the Samynktha (United) Socialist Party replaced the lt-month-old Ministry led by Mrs. Gaßdhi's
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  • 390 9 Emergency ends in Poland BF^*________ x^-- _JWBKMofIEoCBBHBHBBBBBKPBBoBpfIBCo WARSAW, Wed. Polish Radio announced today that the state of national emergency ended on Tuesday night. The emergency decree, imposed last Thursday by Premier Josez Cyrankiewicz at the height of the rioting over rises in food prices, permitted arbitrary arrests and authorised security
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  • 193 9 Oil tanker reaches capital SAIGON, Wed. Escorted by South Vietnamese Navy gunboats, a tanker steamed up the Mekong River into Phnom Penh today with badly needed aviation fuel for the Cambodian Air Force. A spokesman for the Navy said the tanker pulled into Phnom Penh at 4 a.m. Saigon time
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  • 142 9 HOW TO SPIN A YARN... OR: Why Francis is having a kill collecting string... FRANCIS Johnson is a careful sort of Moke. He learned a good motto early in life at the knee of Me dear Md MumShe always told him: Wests not, want not. As you can see, he
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  • 285 9 Radio man tapes bank robber SO UTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Illinois, Wed. Thousands of rsdio listeners in the Chicago area were startled over their morning coffee yesterday by the voice of a gunman inside s suburban bank besieged by police. The drsmstic tspe of s telephone conversation with WGN Rsdio newsman
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  • 331 10 100,000 march in support of Franco BARCELONA, Wed. An estimated 100,000 people demonstrated here tonight in support of the government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. The crowd marched through the streets of the city towards the military governor's palace, headed by Falangists carrying their red and black banners. Placards carried by
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  • 43 10 CAIRO, Wed. Egypt and Poland have signed a protocol for the implementation of a six-year-old agreement covering primarily phosphate mining schemes in the Red Sea area. Under the protocol Poland will furnish Egypt with mining equipment worth US$3O million.
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  • 198 10 Hangman busiest in South Africa PRETORIA, South Africa, Wed. The busiest hangman In the world wields his noose Ib Pretoria Ceatral Prisea. South Africa accounts fer about half the legal executions among countries whose records are made public. Most of these hanged are blacks, or non-whites of one description or
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  • 360 10 WASHINGTON, Wed. A fUSI_6S MlHea supplemental money Mil Including aid fer Cambodia aad credit weapeaa aalea fer Israel passed the U.S. House ef BepreseaUdves last night with almeet ne debate. The catch-all appreprlatioa Mil was quickly agreed to by Boeee Senate conferees after the Senate
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  • 250 10 SANTA CRUZ, Canary Islands, Wed. A former mental patient and member of a sect known as the ''Sons of God" and his stammering, awkward 16-year-old son today confessed to the "sacrificial killing" of the father's wife and two of his daughters. Spanish police said
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  • 76 10 _^l DUSSELDORF, West Germany, Wed.-Franz Stangl, left SS commander of Hitler's Treblmka death camp in Poland during 1942 and 1943. is led from m I court to start a life jail sentence yesterday. Stangl, number three on the list I of Nazi war criminals
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  • 237 10 RIO DE JANEIRO, Wed. Terrorists last night made new threats on the life of the kidnapped Swiss ambassador unless 70 political prisoners are freed. However, a communique received by a Rio newspaper agreed to exchange six of the people on the original list,
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  • 105 10 CAIRO, Wed. All foreign banks operating in Libya were nationalised today by a decision of the revolutionary council. The Middle East News Agency reported from Tripoli that all foreign-owned shares are to be confiscated and their former owners are to receive compensation. The five
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  • 53 10 COLOMBO, Wed. Mr R.G. Senanayake, a former Cabinet Minister under various f.remiers and noted for his m placable anti-Indian views, died here yesterday at the age of 60. A cousin of former Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake, he pioneered Ceylon's rice-for-rubber barter trade pact with China
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  • 313 10 PoW list incomplete says US WASHINGTON, Wed. American officials .today disputed claims that a list of American prisoners provided by North Vietnam was complete. The list, containing the names of 368 Americans, was handed over in Paris by North Vietnamese diplomats to an emissary of Senator Edward Kennedy and is
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  • 196 10 HONOLULU. Wed. The people of Hanoi are cleaning out their air raid shelters and preparing for an Invasion, according to an American student who has just returned from North Vietnam. The student, Michael Eng, spent nine days In North Vietnam with 13 other
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  • 157 10 TEL AVIV, Wed. Two Israeli Army officers have been imprisoned and reduced to the rank of private for negligence that caused the death of 24 men in a explosion last year. Military sburces said this was the biggest court-martial the Israeli Army has known.
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  • 126 10 PALO ALTO, Wed. Folk singer Jean Baez, 2S, said yesterday she plans te pick up her husbaad, David Harris, when he's paroled f_rem prison March 15, "fly first class and get drunk en daiquiries" (cocktails) ea route heme te California. "I'll see him
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  • 1047 11 BACKGROUND TO THE FOREIGN NEWS When logic just isn't an answer sMb_-_-_-__--___--_B________V IT IS NO SECRET to those close to Australian Prime Minister John Gorton that he is not enamoured of some of the ways the British Commonwealth as an organisation has tended to develop in recent years. Like his
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  • 608 11  -  MYRON L. BERKIND By in Colombo SIRIMAVO BANDARANAIKE is a 54--year-old widow from an aristocratic family which owns vast coconut plantations in Ceylon. Like most of Asia's rich elite, she has sent her three children abroad for studies and has no difficulty balancing her family
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  • 613 11  -  LLEWELLYN TRANTER By_ ABUSE of Uganda Government finances, amounting in many instances to corruption, is disclosed in the latest report of Mr. G.H. Kabiswa, Auditor General. Uganda receives just over £3 million annually from Britain by loan and technical assistance. A copy of the report which for political reasons,
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  • 505 12 Answer tor S'pore: A wider market THAT BUDGET: FIRST BUSINESS REACTION v MALAYSIA'S 1971 Budget presented on Tuesday by Finance Minister Tun Tan Siew Sin outside Parliament was milder than expected, according to Singapore businessmen. Mr. S.F.T.B. Lever, president of the International Chamber of Commerce, said: "It is obviously a
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  • 432 12 From Page 2 USAGE should be mainly commercial and a surcharge tax levied at $20 per sq. ft. of the increase in permissible nett rentable floor area. (This is a realistic estimate based on the present urban development trend, value and profit margin. It
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  • 178 12 Five held, jewellery worth $18,000 recovered POLICE have recovered some $18,000--worth of jewellery (above) following the arrest of five men on Tuesday 24 hours after the gems were reported stolen from a house in Tanglin. Acting Superintendent Mohd. Yasin Ahmad, O.C. "Crime", Orchard Road Police Station, Inspector Goh Kian Teck
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  • 167 12 Polish Premier Cyrankiewicz steps down WARSAW, Wed. Jozef Cyrankiewicz stepped down from the Premiership of riot-shaken Communist Poland, it was announced at a full meeting of Parliament. He is succeeded by Piotr Jaroszewicz, who has held a vice premier post for the last 18 years. Mr Gierek named Mr Cyrankiewicz
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  • 103 12 BE THOUGHTFUL (STERILE LIKE CASANOVA LONDON, Wed. Casanova, the tireless 18th century home-wrecker, has made his most unlikely sex comeback. Now he's a family planner. Britain's Health Education Council, backed by the Government, Is all set to promote the canny Italian as the lover British males ought to emulate. ''Casanova
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  • 80 12 TANAH RATA, We'd. The Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, arrived here today for a lOf day holiday. He is staying with his wife, Toh Puan Raha and two of their children at Federation House near the golf course here. During his stay, Tun Razak is expected
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  • 40 12 TEL AVIV, Wed. Israeli troops have captured 19 Egyptian intelligence agents, a military spokesman announced yesterday. They included Egyptian military personnel or Bedouins working for Egyptian intelligence, he said. One lieutenant and one soldier were among them.
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  • 55 12 AMMAN, Wed. Thieves broke into the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and stole 5596,000 from a safe during the night, it was learned today. Police said the thieves had dined and wined well on the premises and been
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  • THE SINGAPORE herald Section II
    • 152 13 VTU to expand Taniong Rhu shipyard A SINGAPORE shipyard, Vosper Thornycroft Unlteers, Is to expand Its facilities In Tanjong Rhu to meet demands for new construction aad repair facilities. The present shipyard will be developed to Include new slipways capable of accommodating supply and support vessels for the offshore oil
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    • 173 13 A CAR washer stole a fellow worker's savings amounting to $2,840 and went on a shopping spree, a magistrate's court was told yesterday. Arumugam Peria Mandor, 35, was jailed for nine months for stealing the money from P. Veloo Velar on
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    • 102 13 A TAXI driver who drove on the wrong side of the road causing a police car to brake to avoid a head-on collision, escaped a heavy fine yesterday in the traffic court when the charge was reduced from dangerous driving to inconsiderate driving. Low Ah
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    • 281 13 He asked for it18 months jail— and got it A LABOURER, who admitted breaking into a godown with four others and stealing over $16,000 worth of cigarettes, was yesterday given the sentence he asked For 18 months' jail. Tay Siew Moh, 21, told the Third District Judge that his four
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    • 283 13 A MAN who admitted two charges of housebreaking was yesterday asked by a judge to show that he was genuinely sorry by either returning the stolen goods or paying compensation for them. Third District Judge K.T. Alexander said: ''There is no sin
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    • 413 13 MUSHROOM SOCIETY AFTER HIS SECRET MUSHROOM-grower, Lee Lian Keong, 38, has developed a method for growing mushrooms more efficiently and cheaply. Under his method, the beds for the mushrooms, can be used for 15 or more crops. At present the dozen other mushroom growers in
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    • 91 13 A MALAYSIAN lorry driver, Abdul Hamid bin Samin, was fined a total of $140 yesterday for driving a lorry without a valid licence. He said he was under the impression that his Malaysian driving licence allowed him to drive all classes of vehicles. But
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    • 64 13 AN unemployed man. charged with having robbed two women of more than $21,000 in cash and property, was remanded in custody by the Ninth Magistrate yesterday. Tan Kum Seng, 25. was alleged to have robbed Miss Quel. Bee Heong and Madam Wee Siew Lan at
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    • 274 13 The three women (and nine children) in the life of a foreman MOTOR assembly foreman Sam Pillai, who has been paying $60 a month maintenance to a former mistress, Madam Lim Geok Mei, was ordered by a court yesterday to pay $180 to his wife and two children. And his
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    • 243 13 BOAC halves S'poreLondon group fares BOAC yesterday announced a new fare scale for group flights which will slash the present rate by more than half on economy class flights between Singapore/Kuala Lumpur and London. The present economy class return fare to London is $3,120. The new fare will be $1,478
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    • 119 13 FARMER WHO NEEDED A SWORD FOR HIS WORK' A FARMER who told a magistrate he needed a sword for his work was sentenced yesterday to three months' jail for carrying an offensive weapon without authority. Goh Cheng Chwee, 24, of Jalan Übi, was chased and caught by a policeman from
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    • 432 14 a sm am -as j SIMULTANEOUS OPENING TODAY! I I (S'PORE) ODEON CATHAY (K.L.) J MGM-S SUPER THRILLERI J I I mm m m w^ m^ I I I I km m I n I _________F ____________L________ S I I -mmw' fl_____r m I I m j r' __r^T___l___T^^_____. J
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    • 207 14 2_Bsa ppy ®1 WFOqapANCE Af _____Tl ___r~ {_____^-__=7vtl *F I 1 iit_____--_/ lil m l!w j__L-________? Christmas Fun at the merries bands of Happy Combo and pleasure and Anita Sarawak, and Ting Siang sing, to pi Christmas fun. Free novelties, at only $14 per person. Hl disappointment Phone 4421 HAPPY
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    • 588 14 a warn ia MpMiMa*aa«aHVHHpa| m 11 I Visit the only exclusive 1, g Korean Restaurant in Singapore I j I *<*•*• I i S{ I i !e I -MRe-le-l I I _I f 11.00 AM. to 12 MIDNIGHT g we serve the most mmmm. ..marvellous range of Korean dishes and
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    • 67 14 am— 6 pm: -'Peasant painters of Ball" art exhibition at the National Museum. t.3S am— pm: Batik painting exhibition at the Gallery of Fine Art, Raffles Place. lt am— pm: Art exhibition at the Tang Chou Art Gallery, Outram Park. 3.3t pm— S pm: Christmas party for children at the
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    • 59 14 7 pm: Buffet dinne followed by a candleligh service at the Chines YMCA. 7 pm: Night bazaars a Boon Tiong Road, Be Crescent, Clement! Road Commonwealth Avenue Jalan Eunos, Kalian, Estate, MacPhersoi Road, Lorong Chuan am St. Michael' Market/Courtyard. 8 pm: Magic session a the National Theatre Clul 8.38 pm:
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    • 1211 15 Ln ii _f H --IS] m HINI E 3.00 General Hospital 3.00 Opening And Programme Summary E TS 5 __T 11 HI 111 I E 3.20 Another Song Another Melody (English 3.02 Ganda Wang Anda (Double Your E m m HI E 3 —Repeat) Money) 511 illilll WwMmmmWWmm* !:2. i_J_5S1
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  • Economic Affairs/Shipping
    • 515 18 TOKYO, Wed. Japan's Finance Ministry haa submitted a draft budget tor the 1871 fiscal year, beginning April 1, which, officials say, la designed neither to stimulate nor to restrain the nation's economy. Tne draft, presented to s special cabinet meeting yesterday by Finance Mini star Takoo
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    • 126 18 Sarawak raises timber royalties KUCHING, Wed.-Sarawak'e Chief Minister, Dato Rahman Yakub, today announced that royalty on certain species of round timber will be Increased from $6 to $18 s ton. Royalty on mangroves species will double to $2 a ton. The Increases, effective Feb. 1 next year, will bring in
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    • 274 18 BINOAPORB-MALA Y6LA Mar ahant rataa fixed y tttarday by tha Association of Bank* In Malayda- Singapore. Looal dollars par unit of foreign currency. BELLINO BUYING T.T./O.D. T.T. O.D. Sterling Pound 7.5586 7.1600 T.SS76 Australian Dollar 3.4600 8.4100 8.8900 Canadian Dollar Naw Zealand Dollar 3.4800 S.4ISS 8.5586 South
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    • 182 18 $25m loan for S'pore water project MANILA, Wed. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today approved a U511.3 million loan for a water supply project in Singapore. The loan ia repayable in 20 yeara at 7-1/2 par cent annual interest. Tha Singapore Government also received another loan of US$3 million for
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    • 197 18 South Korean Minister on US Trade Bill HOUSTON, Texaa, Wed. South Korea's Ambaaaador to the United Statea haa aald hla country will aeek "special treatment" if a Bill to lmpoae Import quotas on textiles, ahoea and oil passes the U.S. Senate and becomes law. Ambaaaador Dong-Jo Kim waa addreaalng a
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    • 55 18 TOKYO, Wed. A Japaa-Malaysla agreement oa prevention of double taxation ea Income want late force today following the exchange of lastrumeata ef ratification between Foreign Minister Kllchl Alchl aald Malaystan Ambassador te Japan H-Ssala Mohamed Osman. The agreement, retroactive te January 1, 1876, waa signed between the
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    • 45 18 (Yesterday's closing prices. In U.B. dollars per ounce). Singapore (1) 86.836, (3) 146.60; Hongkong 86.36; Beirut 87.86; London 87.386; Zurich 87.308 87.608; Parts 87.66. Note: (1) Export price to non-stsrllng area. In U.B. dollars (8) Local dealers' price la Singapor. dollars, per taal.
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    • 242 18 PEOPLE in business Mr GILBERT CHIA, managing director of Don-Ray International, wttl leave on Sunday for the United States to negotiate with W.W. Wilcox Company of Chicago a joint venture to manufacture hotel equipment ln Singapore. Wilcox specialises In the manufacture of office equipment for hotels and hospitals. Mr. Chua,
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    • 83 18 UNITED NATIONS, Wed Mediterranean ialand capitals are the cheapest places for foreigners to live nowadays, according to a table comparing prices international officials have had to pay lately for necessary goods snd services in 80 cities around the world. The table, published ln the latest U.N. monthly Bulletin
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    • 27 18 (Closing buyer/seller prices for Dee. 33, ln sterling par metric ton). Tone: Steady; Spot 1441 1443; 3-month 1446 1448; Settlement 1444; Total turnover 480 tons.
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    • COMPANY NEWS
      • 79 18 LONDON, Wed. Bukit Panjong, on the offers received from Batu Lintang. Rubber and Seafleld Amalgamated Rubber, said It ls of the opinion that the Seafleld offer ls fair and reasonable but the cash offer ls not generous. The Board has no hesitatlon, therefore, ln recommending the offer from
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      • 68 18 LONDON, Wed. Gopeng Consolidated said due to an extenaion of the estimated life of the Moynalpy section and additional reserves proved by recent boring, the life of its property, given the maintenance of a reasonable tin price, ls now ln the 20 to 25-year backet. The company said
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      • 70 18 LONDON, Wed. J. Lindsay Alexander, managing director of Ocean Steamship, aaid total financial commitment for the company's entire shipbuilding rrogramme was between 90 million and £100 million, spread over the yeara 1869 to 1974. A statement released In London said Alexander was speaking at the Gutaverken Arendal shipyard,
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      • 103 18 OccidentalPutnam LONDON, Wed. Occidental Petroleum and Putnam Oil, a subsidiary of Putnam Management, aald they have filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering of limited partnership Interests to be Invested in exploration for oil snd gas. When fully subscribed, the programme could
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      • 64 18 SAIGON, Wed. Sanyo Industries Vietnam is studying the feasibility of setting up a factory in South Vietnam to assemble television snd radio sets and electric appliances under the direction of Japanese specialists, the official Vietnam Press news agency said. A Japanese-Vietnamese delegation, including Messrs H. Voshlda, Huynh Van
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      • 51 18 JAKARTA, Wed.-The P.T. Caltex Oil Company, operating in Sumatra, ia now producing an average of 703,000 barrels s day— a 65 per cent increaae in production in the past two yeara, the official Antara news agency reported today. The company's 1968 production was recorded at 450.000 barrela AP
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      • 45 18 NEW YORK, Wed. Union Carbide said its USB2 million battery plant will soon be completed in Cebu, the principal southern island of the Philippines. Union Carbide board chairman Blrny Mason Jr. apid the plant will be owned and operated by Union Carbide Philippines.
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      • 122 18 TAIPEI. Wed. The Nationalist Chinese Central Bank of China announced a general cut in interest rates on loans and deposits st all banks In Formosa. It ls hoped the cut will hasten industrial and trade development. On bank loans, the monthly discount rate was cut from
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    • 364 18 The market lost ground again during the week (ended Dec. 23) and the 50-cent level for January was broken. For much of the time, trading lacked stimulus and operators were generally preoccupied with the coming holidays snd unwilling to open up new commitment, reported HOLIDAY CUTLER A
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    • 583 18 Dollar sleeks aad weakened la sympathy with internationals wen weak Tfnllsvsi WV. QIC sud J***** yesterday. foUowlng the Bank rssjstnsil most of initial tails, of England's modifications lo prompted by 8-***** peass the regulation* relating to comment, although ICL overseas investment through remained AUI after oommsnt tha
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    • 393 18 The stock market wa narrowly mixed ln earlj trading yesterday with thi popular averages littli changed. Analysts noted som. interest In the Paris report o an offer trom Hanoi and thi Vletcong to discuss ending thi war if the U.S. pledges tt s withdraw Its troops
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    • 158 18 AMSTERDAM Internationals were well maintained yesterday with Akso dosing firmer. Philip, initially eassd but closed unchanged. Hoogovcn. firmed, but KLM eased. Plantations were steady. Most shippings edged upwards. Banks were weU mdntalncd but insurances were easy. PARIS The market yesterday firmed on general optimism at the start of
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    • 1095 19 lr-M Y| \l KEY FOR EASY REFERENCE: The ahipplng achedulaa /N| x. beginnino on this page are given In rour parts for __f" mm W Xmy -^-rt+^n s.ilps westbound, eastbound. southbound and coastal. 7 1 mimmm\mmAJ^m\ W m\ MB at a_B_f_f^ Etch ttntrv B ive the following information: NAME OF
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    • 680 20 TO: HAMBURG. LONOON, ROTTERDAM. AMSTERDAM A ANTWERP S'pore Paaaag Hamburg UNO TUNO 18/IS Jen li/14 j, n u Ftb YEN VUNB 10/12 Mar ii/u Mar u A ORIENTAL OUEEN AO/1J Apr I J/14 Apr w M y Paaeonger accommodation avallakle te London A north continental ports. Accoptin. liquid cargo at
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    • 1072 20 TT flStbOUnCl nc,ud n fl ***P8 sailing out of Singapore for Far #x v 1 Eaat porta to tha north-east ALCOS MASTER Apr 16/83 Osaka, Yokohama. JALAKR.SHNA yj2_.°H UVgf „C S.n Fr.'nciaco. jeoo.n. AOL/ASC Vancouver. Tacoma. SL/TO ALCOS RANGER Mar 18/21 Osaka. Yokohama. JOY TAYLOR in Pt/Dac 25 Nhab Vancouver
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  • 288 21 MITI urges more planned aid TOKYO, Wed. While providing more economic aid ta underdeveloped nt !!?S i nations should give more consideration to economic V •^l iJ <*-d*tiona in the recipient nstlona, says a White Papar an VV economic aid. published Jsr by the International Trade f/T/t and Industry Ministry.
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  • 1302 21 INDUSTRIALS ACMA 1.37/1.30. 1.30, 1.31 (8), 1.38| ♦JP. ALCAN 1.31/1.33. ALLIED 8 JIB. AJINOMOTO 1.88/8.10. BEN 848 BBRJAYA 1.13/1.141 1.18 (7), 1.14 (8), 1.13 (4), 1.16 (4) O, 1.17 O, 1.16 D, 1.14 Oi -.88. BORNRO 1.68/1.86. 1.16 (6)1 ♦.61 b'm TRUST 1 JOB. BOUBTD I J6B.
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  • 316 21 (Managan' prloas for Dm. 84) 1. 8. AHA UNIT TRUITI Mai. Invt. Pund 1.16 1.33 Fu-d I.OS 1.0! CHARTERED UNIT TRUSTS Growth fund 1.00 1.0! SINGAPORE UNIT TRUSTS Singapore 1.66 Tldrd HaaapoN I.M a) The Oommeroe lad. Fund .88 1.04ad TVs Saving fund 1.08 1.07 Progasm Pund .86
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  • 612 21 MALAYSIA/SINGAPORE RUBBER I m BUBBEB bM/I caata a lb. (dawn eae-etfktk eent) Lewar than aipactad London advieaa mada far an opening buyers' guotatfon of 4fr_/l cants for January l Bit. tonnaga offered and i steady rise In prions was mada until tha days high of 10-W4 cents was Thereafter,
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  • 246 21 Thi m -rkat yasterday Ths itook avsraae was 0.36 closed barely stesdy sfter sn ysn highsr st 1,878.87 yen st u »wwln6 failed to gather the closs. momentum. Sony, Mstsushits lleetrle trom^TZr* 9 **<* *"*.X^^ **]7* Ksysku ware lowar. ferns Trading, however, wes medlum-pHosd steaks were <•--*<•
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  • 690 21 Mining shsres staged e recovery yesterday, although there were still signs of weakness In speculative issue. Oil and Industrial stocks were mixed in quiet trading. Poseidon finished st $44.50, s gain of $2.50. Its tsksovsr targst, Ismln, sdvsnced 30 cents to Is. 10. Lake View wm steedly
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  • 206 21 Trading wu quiit Slaktr Walktr wu HutchUom and JardinM ,..t.rd.y in vtaw of tht prominent with rii. of 40 fcord.d good^iumSSS forthcoming Chrlitmit c.nti and Whttlocks also whllt Btnki Ttnd Uni XJ1 »°> w *y«- ftatuwd, pining 20 c«nts. unehangtd. .«JIf iC !L« htld ltfi f y
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  • 114 21 *-vrf ttsq, vrau shippers covered cargoes from the U.S. Oulfto South Japan at U887.18 fd (fraa dlschsrgs) for January and from U.B. Sorth of Ha Maras (UBNH) o (fraa ln and out) tor Jan. A cargo of coal was also a iixvu a-om usitn to tne Natherlanda
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    • 240 21 MIN 111 PORT THE PORT OP BINOAPORR AUTHORITY HA 8 M ADB THBBE BERTHING ARRANOEMENTB POR DECEMBER, 84. OUT: Yamahunl Maru 1/3; Ooldan Summer 8/7; Benoalm 8/8: Xoryu Maru 10/11; Limburs 13/14; Mombasa Maru 88/801 Poena 38/34; Honghong Knight 47; Ever Olamorous (barge) E.W. Jetty. INt Sosnogorsk (after Hongkong Knight)
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    • 2362 22 b tuom gllaM 9ilfiBl ou A r cl f sif ied 1 advebtisemints [U]/^j|^|i f utuu Tele- Ad Services ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ANNIVERSARIES. AN I NOUNCEMENTS. BIRTHS. CLUB ACTIVITIES. CON MALE and SaaiAia .-..«w DOLENCES DEATHS E NGAGE MENTS. FUNERAL. GREET CoiiliaioSED AOENtJ Hcu.re! rll" *"°l 0 C0 Sl? Y R __iT
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    • 211 22 Enrol at Hong Kong Radio Television Institute, 39-B, North Canal Road, S'pore. TUITION AT VOUR HOME. Primary classes Evenings Monday Friday. Send your name and address to Box H1259 Singapore Herald for a personal visit. EXPERT LONDON TUITION by airLaw: LL.B. Bar: Secretaryship: ACIS: Accountancy: ACCA. ICWA. A.I.A. Insurance: CH:
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    • 476 22 HOLIDAY ANNOUNCEMENT Jf -a i SAN-E-BLU All Chinese Gold Silvar 1 Marchanta in Singapore 9 is always here IT" M Ur K member> n 9 To wish everyone close their business pre- mises on Friday. 25th A Merry X'mas December. 1970, it being a Public Holiday. I Singapore Chinese Gold
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  • 547 23  -  SINGAPORE will have to wait a long, long while for the next international hockey tournament with the poor showing at the Sixth Asian Games. The Republic finished fifth at Bangkok and with it the chances of competing in the Lahore international tournament next
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  • 116 23 JAKARTA, Wed. Indonesia might not send its sportsmen and athletes to take part in international sports competitions abroad until the next Asian Games in Teheran in 1974, it was announced today. Brigadier General Jonosewojo, head of the Indonesian contingent to the Asian Games
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  • 72 23 MALAYSIANS SURPRISE THOMAS CUP CHAMPS pictures. AP Malaysia tuned in a surprise packet in the Asian Games badminton championships bagging three gold medals from Thomas Cup champions Indonesia. Picture (top) shows Boon Bee Intercepting a high return from Japan's Junjl Ho ma and S. Tagaao. Ng and Gunalan won 5-15,
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  • 256 23 Britain's PGA adopts stern measures LONDON, Wed. The tournament committee of the British Professional Golfer's Association has been given powers to fine, disqualify or sus- pend players taking part in events held under its jurisdiction. This was unanimously agreed upon at the annual meeting of the Association held here recently.
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  • 134 23 ADELAIDE, Wed. Japanese champion Kazuko Sawamatsu advanced to the semi-finals of the South Australia tennis championships with an upset 7-5, 6-4 victory over Patti Hogan of the United States. Another Japanese girl, Kimiyo Hatnaka, was eliminated by American junior Kristine Kemmer, 6-0, 6-1. Miss Sawamatsu was cool and
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  • 149 23 ucikkijui PENANG, Wed. Trainer Ivan Allan's pair, Honest Deal and Unforgettable provided an interesting workout here this morning. Ridden by Des Coleman, Honest Deal beat his stablemate by a length in a 3f sprint in 38-3/5. The going was good. Nicojack (Mor an) and newcomer
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  • 491 24 LONDON, Wed, Top officials of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) meet with International Federation representatives in London, Paris and Lausanne in January meetings that could change the format for the 1972 Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan, and the summer festival at Munich,
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  • 530 24 SHOWING all round superiority Combined Army defeated Singapore Cricket Club by 13 points (two goals and try) to three (try) in a friendly floodlit rugby match at Dover Road last night. SCC gained territorial advangage with some good punts By their fullback Littledyke.
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  • 136 24 TOKYO, Wed. World Boxing Council junior lightweight boxing champion Yoshiaki Numata of Japan and challenger Rene Barrientos of the Philippines today signed a contract for their 15-round title match scheduled for Jan. 3, next year. The title match is to be held at
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  • 104 24 SEOUL, Wed. All South Korean athletes who won gold and silver medals at the Sixth Asian Games in Bangkok will receive national decorations, a Government official said. South Korea collected 18 gold, 13 silver and 23 bronze medals in the 12-day Asian Olympics that ended last Sunday placing second to
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  • 104 24 LONDON, Wed. Mr. John Hart, former Scottish international, is to succeed Mr. Eddie Klrwan as secretary of the International Rugby Football Board. He will take up the position next April. Aged 42. Mr. Hart played for the Scottish Universities and the East Midlands before taking charge of the LondonScottish Club
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  • 73 24 LIVERPOOL, Wed. A third English football club. Liverpool, last night qualified for 'the quarter-finals of the European Fairs Cup by beating Scottish Club, Hibernian 2-0. The other two English clubs already through are Arsenal, the cup holders, and Leeds United. In the first match at Edinburgh, Liverpool defeated Hibernian 1-0
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  • 66 24 TOKYO, Wed. Lucian Rosa, Ceylon's barefoot runner and the middle distance King of the Asian Games, will come to Japan next spring to study at a Japanese University. Japanese sports officials said yesterday. Rosa, who says he always runs barefoot because he cannot afford track shoes, won the 10,000-metres with
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  • 326 24 Kiwis score 13-5 win over Nomads FIRST Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment "B" Company Lightweights had to put off a determined challenge from Singapore Cricket Club "Nomads" to win their friendly rugger match on the padang yesterday by 13 points to 5. Kiwis earned their points from two goals and
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  • 362 24 PORT of Singapore Authority Recreation Club eliminated Farrer United in the FAS Junior knock-out tournament, when they beat them by five penalty goals to one at Farrer Park, yesterday* Both teams fought themselves to a three-ail draw at the end of the 60 minute
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  • 308 24 TECHNICAL College of Kuala Lumpur scored a surprise 2-1 win over Singapore Recreation Club in a friendly hockey match o Although Recs had the better of the exchanges in the first half, they could not make headway due to good defensive play by Loh Sum Sing
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