Singapore Herald, 31 December 1970

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  • 14 1 THE SINGAPORE herald No. 138 Singapore Thursday, December 31, 1970 MC(P) 2207 15 CENTS
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  • 539 1 900 in first HSC intake, 600 in April HIGHER School Certificate students who sat for their examinations last month will be called up m two groups 900 next month and the rest, about 600, m April. Defence Minister Dr. Goh Keng Swee announced this m Parliament yesterday when he explained
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  • 1718 1 S AF pay boost from Jan. 1 MEMBERS of the Singapore Armed Forces will get substantiallyimproved pay scales m the new year. In addition, those with technical skills will receive special allowances. Regulars on short-term service will get much bigger gratuities while those on permanent service will get larger annual
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  • 134 1 A TEAM from the Bomb Disposal Unit af the Singapore Armed Forces searched la vain for two aad a half hoars yesterday far two hand greaades said to have heea damped la a canal off Upper Baktt Tlmah Raad. The SAF
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  • 47 1 NEW YORK, Wed.— An experimental Fl4 jet fighter, the Navy's hoped-for next generation of carrier-based attack aircraft, crashed on landing today at the Grumman Corporation test field here. Both crewmen ejected safely from the UStll million plane which was destroyed. t >,
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  • 191 1 Basque Six will not die after all MADRID, Wed. Generalissimo Francisco Franco tonight reprieved the six young Basque nationalists who were sentenced to death by a court martial m Burgos early this month. The Spanish Head of State made known his decision at a prolonged extraordinary session of the Cabinet
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  • 79 1 JAKARTA, Wed. Indonesian troops killed three Communist terrorists near the Malaysian border m West Kalimantan last week m a 15--minute firefight, an army spokesman said today. The spokesman said 40 commandos of the Tandjung Pura Division intercepted a group of terrorists who tried to cross
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  • 619 1 All ayes for new President Sheares PARLIAMENT yesterday unanimously elected Dr. Benjamin Henry Sheares, 63, as the new President of Singapore for a four-year term. He will be installed on Jan. 2, 1971. His first official function will be receiving Heads of Governments attending the 31-nation Commonwealth Conference, starting on
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    • 6 1 FOR HIGH MORALE AND OTHER FACTORS
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    • 76 1 rlMlli HISTORY'S lessons and Singapore's defence needs by Dr. Goh m Page 2. DDD MORE REPORTS from Parliament m pages 3, 4, 5, 6 A 17. DDD $2,000 a month pension for Puan Noor Aishah and $500 for her children Page 5. ODD PARLIAMENT passes the Securities Industry Bill and
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    • 67 1 MARATHON SITTING PARLIAMENT sat for a total of seven hoars 2* minutes yesterday from 2.3* p.m. to 9.5* p.m. In the longest session since the last general election. Fifteen Bills were passed aad seven introduced before the Hease adjearaed till Jan. 11. mmwmmmmmmmmmmwmmmm —^r«»i i i^^—^— —^i^— naaaanl QUALITY IS
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  • 787 2 COMPLACENqY-AND HISTORY'S LESSONS Excerpt from Dr. Goh Keng S wee's second reading speech on the Enlistment Act IT IS necessary from time to time to remind our citizens of the hard facts of life. Lately, I notice a tendency among some of our citizens to
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  • 253 2 ARCHBISHOP Makarios' escape from an assassination attempt on March 8 this year was just the latest episode m a life full of excitement and danger. Bara la Cyprus oa Aug.. 13, It 13 and ordained Deacea of the Greek Orthodex Charch ia 1638, Makarios taught at Kykkos Abbey
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  • 533 2 6. Cyprus A CAUTION ON THE HIGH COST OF COMMUNALISM FOR SMALL STATES GUIDE TO THE CONFERENCE OF COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT THE modern history of Cyprus is a caution against the evils of communalism, especially m small countries. With a tiny population and modest resources, tourism is Cyprus' most
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  • 338 2 7. Fiji 'WHO IS A FIJIAN?' ROW HIGHLIGHTS NATIONS COMMUNAL PROBLEMS TENSION between the native Melenesians and the immigrant Indians (who now outnumber the former) is Fiji's main problem. It is underscored by the unresolved dispute over what the citizens of the newlyindependent island nation should call themselves. The ethnic
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  • 457 2 More answers on National Service i/^T Thursday, December 31, 1970 THE SINGAPORE HERALD THOUGH the need for National Service is seldom denied, many youths of call-up age (and their parents) are rather ingenious m thinking up reasons why they themselves should be spared. Dr. Goh Keng Swee's brief lesson on
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  • 238 2 RATU (Chief) Sir Ramlsese Mara Is the tallest Commonwealth Head of Government. The 56--year-old hereditary chief stands r 4". Educated at mission schools la F||i aad New Zealand, he weat aa to join Oxford University where he Became the first Fijian to be awarded a Master of
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  • 1152 3 'Cigarette ads ban won't be beaten by loopholes'— Jek PARLIAMENT 1 nuu^^^nufl»flnnflnflnuflnnunnßi •We cannot control the editorial policy of m p international magazines... and we do not I IM wish iso,ate ourselves from external I 111 thoughts and literature.*) I I I II I I —by Mr. Jek. explaining why
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  • 725 3 Passports for over -11s only if parents sign guarantee bond PASSPORTS will be issued to children above the age of 11 who intend to go overseas for secondary and higher education only if their parents sign a bond guaranteeing their return on reaching the age of 18 for national service.
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  • 279 3 The toll of silicosis ii Quarries in the list tee years... EIGHT workers have died from silicosis and ten from silico-tubercuk> sis m the past ten years, Health Minister Chua Sian Chin told Parliament yesterday. He added that almost onethird of the 1,188 granite quarry workers x-rayed m 1965 were
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  • 112 4 THERE will be no fanfare or fuss when the Caraival Trade Fair '71 opens at the Great World Amusement Park at 5.3e p.m. today. Shaw Organisation, the organisers, have decided to da away with the tradl- ttoaal ribbon-cutting aad speech-making ceremony. The $1 million fair
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  • 209 4 SINGAPORE Slipway and Engineering, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Shipyard, has launched its first two vessels both 500--ton barges from Tanjong Rhu. Specifically designed for transporting rock and lumber for a Singapore company, the ships will ply between Singapore and Malaysia where
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  • 35 4 A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy died m Outram Road General Hospital at about 1.45 p.m. a few hours after he collided with a taxi near the junction of Oxley Rise and Clemenceau Avenue on Tuesday.
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  • 187 4 BAN ON STORE LAWYERS TAKES EFFECT TODAY KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The regulation preventing Singapore lawyers and all alien and non-permanent resident lawyers from appearing m cases m West Malaysia comes into effect tomorrow. However, arrangements have been made m all high courts to enable such lawyers to apply to appear
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  • 58 4 THE annual registration and licensing of farms will begin on Saturday and last until the end of January. All commercial farmers are required to register, and licences may be obtained at any of the Primary Production Department's eight Agricultural and Veterinary Extension Centres, the Sembawang Field Experimental
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  • 280 4 Spare that tree— or else... GHFGCDFGVHGH THE NEXT time you swing that axe at a tree with a girth of more than five feet, beware. If you do it on undeveloped land without Government permission you may be breaking the law. Parliament yesterday passed a Bill which will prevent firivate
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  • 83 4 CPF CASH FOR MALAYSIANS WHO GO FOR GOOD MALAYSIANS who are members of the Central Provident Fund la Singspore can withdraw their contributions if they leave the Republic permanently from Jan. 1, mi. A Bill amending the Central Provident Fund Ordinance to provide for this was passed by Parliament yesterday.
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  • 88 4 THE GOVERNMENT will consider regulations to control the importation, sale, possession and use of fastening tools which use cartridges because they are potentially dangerous. Mr. Sia Kah Hui, Minister of State for Labour, said this m Parliament yesterday m reply
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  • 118 4 THE Government denied yesterday that some postmen were forced to work over eight hours a day without mealbreaks aad that some post offices were making only one delivery a day. Mr. Phua Bah Lee, Parliamentary Secretary for Communications, said m Parliament that so far,
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  • 282 5 Non-payment of parking fees: Tod the if $250 MOTORISTS who do not pay their parking fees within seven days caa be fined up ta $25f Provision far sach a penalty Is coatalaed la the Parking Places (Amendment) Bill passed by Parliament yesterday. Moving the second reading of the BUI, the
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  • 22 5 PARLIAMENT last Bight eadorsed the Govera meat's declsloa to "ge metric" after passing two Bills i>avtag the way for metricatioa.
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  • 445 5 For Puan Noor $2,000 a month. PARLIAMENT 3 PUAN Noor Aishah, widow of late President Yusof Ishak, will receive a monthly pension of $2,000 for life under new legislation specially designed to look after her family. An amendment to the Civil List and Pension Act, passed unanimously by Parliament yesterday
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  • 165 5 THE GOVERNMENT will NOT reduce the period of fulltime National Service for boys who have served three years m school cadet corps as this would undermine the whole spirit of the Corps. Mr. Wee Toon Boon, Acting Minister of State for Defence, said
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  • 120 5 PEOPLE paying rental fees for water meters In tall buildings may not have to do so much longer. Mr. E.W. Barker. Minister for Law and National Development, said m Parliament yesterday that at present, HDB and private flats on the lower floors got
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  • 272 5 ALL blocks of flats and offices are to get letter boxes. Mr. Phua Bah Lee, Parliamentary Secretary for Communications, said m Parliament yesterday that ground-floor mailing facilities would be compulsory. Implementation of the scheme would be done m stages.
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  • 163 6 Mere of our islands being develnned for oil refineries MORE of Singapore's southern islands are being developed for oil refineries, Parliament was told yesterday. Finance Minister Hon Sui Sen disclosed this when he sought approval for a Bill to amend the Customs Ordinance. With the amendment, it will be possible
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  • 155 6 IT WILL soon be more difficult for officials of mutual benefit organisations to misuse official funds. A new section has been added to the Mutual Benefit Organisations Ordinance which empowers the Government to freeze the bank accounts of these organisations If it is satisfied there is
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  • 215 6 Ground floor flats the HDB policy PARLIAMENT 4 APPLICANTS who suffer from cardiac disease or other physical disabilities will be given first preference when the Housing and Development Board allots ground and first floor flats. Mr. Ho Cheng Choon, Crliamentary secretary r National Development, said this m Parliament yesterday, In
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  • 341 6 Law passed for college to own land— and get loan THE NGEE Ann Technical College was empowered yesterday to receive 40 acres of land m Clementi Road so that it could obtain a $9 million loan from the Asian Development Bank for its ambitious expansion programme. The powers were approved
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  • 221 6 TYPIST'S DEFIANCE CAUSES ROBBERS TO MISS $2,000 FOUR MEN, three of them armed with revolvers, held np the staff of See Huat Credit (Pte.) Ltd. In their Geylang road offices yesterday, escaping with $3,SBS In cash and valuable hut overlooking |2,M0 In the pockets of four directors of the company.
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  • 226 6 Special facilities commuters across Causeway KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Singaporeans commuting across the Johore Causeway will not be inconvenienced by the tighter immigration measure to be enforced by the Malaysian Government. This assurance was given here today by the SecretaryGeneral of the Home Affairs Ministry, Tan Sri Sheikh Abdullah. j He
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  • 124 6 Tun Ismail gets new Political Secretary KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A journalist has been appointed Political Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman. He is Inche Ikhwan bin Nasir, 32, a sub-editor of the Utusan Melayu as well as the editor of Utusan Qiblat, a
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    • 88 6 BEETLE BAILEY By Mort Walker I'VE NEVE r\ (-S>X BAggAC^g EVERYONE O^^fTT^Nlf THAT J il SEEN THE H^fp WERE \NOK<\HG J %§T^ 1 (r~ V A<sA,N J '111 f ARCHIE By Bob Montana i 1 \r l V 7 N l r GOSH! I DIDN'T ARCHIE'S THE FIRST *>. |**--J
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    • 635 7  - The day a PRO got caught doing his job A.K. LEE By THIS story comes from the Air Vietnam people, who won't say which airline it involves, but that doesn't really matter. The flight was cancelled at the last minute, so the passengers were asked to call at the information
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    • 411 7 IF YOU'RE keen on having dinner m a cosy atmosphere, soft lights and good music played by a live band, the Phoenix Trio, give the Bird and Bottle night club a try. And you may go again. The Bird and Bottle at Bukit Tlmah Road
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    • 312 7 $5 million Bird Park opens tomorrow ling, and suffocation suffered during their journey here. "We have a quarantine area with 20 huts where we keep all the new arrivals for two weeks to stabilise them. They are treated with a full-course of antibiotics, de-worked and then vaccinated against diseases like
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    • 96 7 THE Theravada Buddhist missionaries and lay Buddhists of Singapore will be holding a special prayer service on Sunday to invoke peace on Vietnam. The prayer service will be held at the Thai Buddhist Temple, Silat Road, at 2 pjn. The service is m line with the resolution
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  • 304 8 Not all the TTSH attendants are bold and rude I refer to Lim Kirn Siong's letter (S.H. Dec. 24) entitled "Patients Bullied While The Sister Looks On." Aa an employee of Tan Jock Seng Hospital, I presume that the statement "one can see, as the other visitors saw, that the
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  • 158 8 Remove these shrubs NOW that Singapore is being given a face lift and spring clean for the impending Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, owners of private property who fail to maintain their properties In the city area m a reasonable state of repair and cleanliness can be compelled to refurbish then*
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  • 337 8 University staff: Quantity and quality VIEWPOINT S.T. PETER LIM'S reply to my letter concerning the state of the University of Singapore is inadequate. The quotation of statistics concerning the number of staff, the number of contact hours and the number of publications indicates a woeful misunderstanding both of my letter
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  • 544 8 LONG WAIT OF THE BUS USERS LET'S stop paying lip service to transport reorganisation. Inspite of the numerous complaints m the press, inspite of the repeated assurances from the authorities (including the R.0.V.), our buses still do not run on schedule. On the night of Dec. 27, I went to
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  • 126 8 WHEN I reported 8.15 a.m. (Dec. 22) at the airport I had to wait five minutes at the counter before anyone bothered to attend. On top of that I was bluntly told that the flight was delayed until 10.30 a.m. One of the girls
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  • 75 8 ,o I R 5T ER to our "ticie (S.H. Dec. 28) endued "Great Fun but also dangerous.'' I would like to ask If it is the parents' or the Government's duty to see that the younger cUMren are kept safe when playing In the playground. After all. these
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  • 272 8 Pay small Lucky Draw prizes through Toto booths IN THE Toto Lucky Draw for Christmas, I won a 4th Srize of $20. I phoned up the ingapore Pools office to ask where I should claim my prize. I was told that I had to go to their office during office
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  • 243 8 SINGAPORE'S first girl to be trained m India m hotel catering and cooking is back with recipes of spicy dishes seldom heard of before. And she is all set to introduce them to local restaurants and hotels "if I'm given
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  • 144 8 THE Singapore freighter Joy Taylor has sunk m the South China Sea about 280 miles south of Saigon. All 23 crewmen were rescued from the vessel by an American Coast Guard cutter and are being taken to a
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  • 218 8 MINDEF'S ANSWER TO NOISE ON SHOOTING RANGE IS EAR-PLUGS EAR-PLUGS are supplied to all soldiers whenever they are out on artillery exercises, the Ministry of Defence said yesterday. The Ministry was commenting on fears expressed by Prof. Phoon Wai Onn president of the Society of Occupational Medicine, that constant exposure
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    • 311 8 Lim outplays Mexican Master SINGAPORE'S National Im &m lE —^A^nnl Master Lim Kok Ann gave **1 JBw^ a fine display of positional 7W* HYh WM chess when he beat mmm m 9ml m L Mexico's de Winter. Jt H P Urn adopted the King's 5M m*m _f 1 Indian opening,
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  • 262 9 Woman who pleaded for Jews arrested MOSCOW, Wed. Madame Esflra Mostkova, who has signed a number of petitions m favour of the emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel, was arrested by security* police today outside the Supreme Court where lawyers were appealing against the death sentence handed down against two
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  • 57 9 LONDON, Wed.-Lord Snowdon left a London clinic today-with Princess Margaret by his side-after aides had denied a Washington newspaper report that the couple were to separate after 10 years of marriage. Lord Snowdon, 40-year old brother-in-law of the Queen, underwent minor surgery over Christmas and missed the
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  • 125 9 KAMPALA, Wed. Uganda's Defence Minister Felix Onama urged the United States to exert pressure on Britain to prevent resumption of arms sales to South Africa. Speaking as SecretaryGeneral of the ruling Uganda People's Congress, Mr. Onama said that earlier this month America had
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  • 49 9 284 million people in Latin America SANTIAGO, Chile, Wed. The population of Latin America grew to an estimated 284,251,000 inhabitants m 1970, the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America reported yesterday. The rate of population growth m the region was calculated at 2.9 per cent for the year. AP
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  • 167 9 PARIS, Wed. The French Weather Bureau today gloomily forecast that the catastrophic snowstorms that turned southern France into a disaster area were moving northwards. Paris was almost a ghost city today under the gently falling snow, with few cars and pedestrians on the streets. Most
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  • 444 9 Get ready for battle Sadat CAIRO, Wed. President Anwar Sadat has virtually ruled out an extension of the current ceasefire m the middle East, which expires Feb. 5, and has ordered an all-out alert throughout the nation tc "get ready for the battle." Sadat set a deadline of Jan. 15
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  • 60 9 MEMPHIS (Tennessee), Wed. Singing star Elvis Presley donned a furry bellbottomed suit that matched his black flowing hair on Monday night to serve as best man m a friend's wedding. Elvis was nest man to Delbert B. "Sonny" West Jr., chief security officer for the
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  • 105 9 ATLANTA, Georgia, Wed. A young soldier charged m the alleged My Lai massacre was among 10 persons released on personal recognisance last night m the shotgun slaying of a motorcycle gang member earlier m the day m Atlanta's hippie district. The rest of
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  • 201 9 ITALY HAS ITS FIRST DIVORCE MODENA, Italy, Wed. Judge Aurelio Galasso issued the first decree of divorce m modern Italy barely 10 days after the divorce law went into effect. Italy's first divorced couple Alfredo Cappi, 28, and Giorgia Luisa Benassi, 25 won the ruling on the ground that they
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  • 64 9 HONGKONG, Wed. A Canadian diplomat will arrive here on Jan. 4 en route to Peking to set up the first Canadian Embassy m China, the Canadian Government Trade Commission said today. A Commission spokesman said Mr. John Fraser, Charge d' Affaires to Peking, will
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  • 87 9 SAIGON, Wed. For the first time since the beginning of the war, the U.S. command today reported no fighting between Vletcong troops and American units In South Vietnam. The command listed only one shelling by the National Liberation front that caused "neither damage nor
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  • 216 9 Censors move in on Phnom Penh PHNOM PMEH, Wed. Cambodia today re-established Press censorship. From now on a committee will review all local newspapers and magazines before they are published. Preliminary censorship was enforced m March this year, after Prince Norodom Sihanouk was ousted but this was replaced five months
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  • 249 9 NEW DELHI, Wed. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi dealt a blow to India's moderate proMoscow Communist Party yesterday by announcing 'her left-of-centre Congress Party would contest the coming parliamentary elections alone. The Prime Minister, addressing her first news conference since Parliament was dissolved on Sunday
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  • 295 10 CHICAGO, Wed. Thn United States hns engaged In activities m Vietnam for which Germany end Japan were prosecuted after World War 11, n legal authority said yesterday. Responding to a report by a group of scientists on the ecological aspects of herbicides.
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  • 339 10 More arrests forecast in 'spy ring scandal' TAIPEH, Wed. An official of the Nationalist Chinese Embassy m South Vietnam has been arrested and secretly deported to Taipeh as part of an alleged spy ring scandal that has rocked the Nationalist Government, it was learned yesterday. Only journalists had been previously
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  • 212 10 HONGKONG. Wed. Tie Government Is today studying the contents of a letter from a group of left wingers requesting the release of 74 left-wing prisoners In jail since the IM7 riots. Four women and a man delivered the letter yesterday to the Colonial
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  • 240 10 NEW YORK, Wed. A missing lifeboat, carrying the slim hope of rescue for 21 crewmen lost m the sinking of a Panamanian tanker, apparently went down with the ship during a fierce Atlantic storm on Monday, the Coast Guard said yesterday. The Coast
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  • 212 10 THAIS WILL HAVE BETTER TIES WITH CHINA PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Wed. Thailand plans to build "good relations with all Asian countries," Including China and North Vietnam. Thai Foreign Minister Thanat KnomajisßJd. After signing a commercial treaty wfth Cambodia, Mr. Khoman described China aa a great country and said It was
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  • 346 10 HTavVP rTMfyPW "a. 1 W i i*i i*. i y WASHINGTON, Wed. The most comprehensive restrictions made so far on U.S. policy m South-East Asia were passed today by the House of Representatives and the Senate. They approved a new version of the $66,600
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  • 101 10 SHOTGUN WEDDING POSTER SHOCKS IT TO 'EM THIS Is the girl who "did" and finished np at the altar. She's the subject of the British Health Education Council's lntest poster aimed at preventing Illegitimate children. The bride, obviously pregnant. Is telling the vicar "I did" instead of the traditional "I
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  • 32 10 WASHINGTON, Wed. President Nixon will answer questions about major foreign and domestic issues m a special hour-long televisionradio broadcast next Monday night, the White House announced last night.
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  • 181 10 UNITED NATIONS, Wed. United Nations SecretaryGeneral U Thant Issued an appeal yesterday for food supplies for East Pakistan because of what he termed the "critical situation" still existing there following last month's cyclone. In a Appeal to Governments" and private organisations,
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  • 300 10 BEIRUT, Lebanon, Wed. The Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) urged Libya, Syria and Iraq yesterday to call an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council to "halt mass annihilation of Eritreans" by the Ethiopian Army of Emperor Halle Selassie. ELF claimed m a statement cabled
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  • 80 10 SAIGON, Wed. The Government confiscated a Vietnamese language daily newspaper the Tin Sang, yesterday because it published photographs of the My Lai massacre. The Government charged that the pictures were "harmful to national security and public order." They were copies of photographs taken
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  • 87 10 PRETORIA, Wed. A report that South Africa is negotiating for the purchase of 30 to 100 French-built Dassault Milan fighter jets was denied here by a South African Air Force spokesman. He said there is "no substance" to the report m the aviation magazine "Flight
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  • 35 10 NEW YORK, Wed. A 140--pound safe containing more than $l million m securities was stolen yesterday from the Rabinowitz Son bottle distributing firm m the old Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, Police reported.
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  • 117 10 BEIRUT, Wed. The Arab countries yesterday ordered the boycott of four Belgian, Irish, Brazilian and Pakistani companies for their ties with Israel and lifted 22 other companies from the blacklist. These resolutions were adopted by 17 Arab states after a 1 0-day conference In
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  • 459 11  -  DENNIS NEELD By m Beirut THE DECLARATION of a state of emergency m Eritrea has drawn international attention to a guerilla rebellion against the rule of Ethiopia's ageing Emperor Haile Selassie that has slowly been gathering momentum for five years. The leaders of the Eritrean
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  • 25 11 This picture by Ahmad Abu Sada shows one of the trains captured by rebels as it toppled into a ravine.
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  • 376 11  -  KENNETH L. DAVIS By m Madrid IN THE 16TH CENTURY an angry people m the north of Spain .stoned Emperor Charles V of Germany when he came to claim his family inheritance, the Spanish throne. Today, their descendants are still angry and still
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  • 537 11  -  ARNOLD ZEITLIN By m Karachi MUSLIM DIPLOMATS Satched together an lusion of unity while demonstrating the difficulties of forging a bloc under the umbrella of religion at the second Islamic Foreign Ministers conference which ended early Tuesday. "There was a step towards progress," said Khali d
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  • 330 12 PISTOL SEIZED IN HUNT FOR LAST FUGITIVE POLICE hunting the last of a four-man gang which robbed the Chartered Bank of $946,000 on Oct. 30, seized a loaded pistol at a gang hide-out m Lorong Pelita, off Old Upper Thomson Road last night A suspect
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  • 84 12 NEW YORK, Wed. A Federal judge refused yesterday to dismiss the $500,000 libel suit filed by conservative columnist William Buckley against liberal writer Gore VTdal. The lawsuit, filed m May 1969, is based on what Buckley called Vidal's campaign of "persistent, false and defa- matory vilification."
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  • 310 12 THE PRESIDENT of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce, Mr. S.P.T.B. Lever, called on the Government yesterday to reconsider the introduction of an export credit insurance scheme. Speaking rt a Rotary lunch, Mr. Lever said that such schemes had been successfully practised
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  • 98 12 Ho Thian Hock, 44. of Jalan Bukit Ho Swee collided with a bicycle m Havelock Road, on his way home after a party. c was fined $100 m the First Traffic Court yesterday and banned from driving Class Three vehicles for a year for
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  • 121 12 DINSLAKEN, West Germany, Wed. A German mother has been told ene ef her twins Is illegitimate. A Cenrt hearing a paternity salt here gave the rnling yesterday after a gynaecologist said the woman's children were "false" twins bar. 2 different ova and
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  • 113 12 MISS ESTRELLA Carreras, a representative of Amnesty International, was at first refused permission to enter Singapore when she flew m from Brunei last night. However, lawyer David Marshall spoke to Immigration officials and eventually persuaded them to allow her to be driven to Johore
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 42 12 mjmim£%^^ MIRANDA'S I MODERN SCHOOL OF COMMERCE 1 8 P/R, Battery Road, ***** J Principal: M.Abdul Hamid, M.A. (Eton.), 1 8.C0m., LL 8., F.S.A.A. Starting January: 1 Book Keeping; Shorthand; Typewriting 1 and Commercial Correspondence. j Limited Vacancies 4 ENROL NOW!!! I
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    • 109 12 9 am 5 pm: "Peasant painters from Bali" art exhibition at the National Museum. pm: Carnival Trade Fair '71 at the Great World Amusement Park. 7 pm: Night bazaars at Boon Tiong Road, Beo Crescent, Clementi Road, Commonwealth Avenue, Jalan Eunos, Kallang Estate, MacPherson Road, Lorong Chuan and St. Michael's
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  • THE SINGAPORE herald Section II
    • 9 13 THE SINGAPORE herald Section II Thursday, Dec. 31, 1970
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    • 447 13 Halting brain drain of engineers from Asia AIT GRADUATES STAY BACK TO WORK THE ASIAN Institute of Technology m Bangkok has successfully helped to reverse the serious brain drain which Asia is facing m engineering, according to its Director of Public Relations Mr. Robert S Smith. At a press conference
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    • 156 13 Policeman jailed one year far taking $50 bribe A POLICEMAN was found guilty yesterday m a district court of accepting a $50 bribe from a van driver and jailed for one year. P.C. Wong Wee Teck, 23, took the money from Lim Ken Hee, 20. at Sepoy Lines Police Station
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    • 56 13 A 17-YEAR-OLD student. Han Hid Juan, was drowned while swimming m the sea at Changi Point on Dec. 19, a coroner was told yesterday. Han Heng Juan said he saw his cousin sink at 1.30 p.m. and he was already dead when a lifeguard carried him
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    • 241 13 AN AMBULANCE superintendent and his wife from Cobar, New South Wales, Australia, saved every penny to see Changi Prison and the Kranji War Memorial Cemetery on a sentimental journey to Singapore. Tom Davis and his wife Marge finally made the trip they were
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    • 85 13 BAILIFFS from the Official Assignee's Office seized yesterday all the furniture from Chlew Sun Benevolent Association m Syed Alwl Read. The association had been struck off the register on orders from the Home Minister because the premises were used for gambling. It wns registered m
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    • 168 13 HER father warned her sbe would gain weight, but Madeline Jem went abend and gave Meed anyway. That was three months ago. Her weight remained constant and Xf 8 fe rday M «leH»e, a secretary at the Singapore Hilton, donated
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    • 76 13 China Airlines to fly to Jakarta in July CHINA Airlines will start flying to Jakarta m July Mr. Norman Yu, the area manager, said yesterday there would be two or three weekly flights to Jakarta -via Singapore. "Indonesia is a vast market and we hope tourism and trade will flourish
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    • 92 13 BUS conductor, A. Chidambaram, of Serangoon Road, was fined $15 yesterday for throwing a leaf from a bus at the junction of Aljunied Road and Sims Avenue on Dec. 4. He claimed that the leaf had contained some sacred flowers and he had dropped it acciden-
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    • Page 13 Advertisements
      • 56 13 AT YOun CINihIAS/Pago 14 T¥/Pago IS c LIVIW/Pngos U /21 c ECOWOaiIC AFFAIRS/SMIPPINO PULL-OUT/Pages 17 -20 SPOHT/Pages 21/14 Ij r m ~M Tfyi^f rrt MiftHtf-'li iH fl fl^ *\/4 Fi»h«rmen. mm W #J\ mmmmmmmmmmmmmmr A\ fl W /—I W bAhS^ m^^^rj'' mmWAf*~~~~ Nfe .mAm\ UW^ mA^Aw f- I l, 1
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    • Page 13 Miscellaneous
      • 80 13 THE TIDES TODAY: 1.25 a.m. (9.0 ft.); 12.13 p.m. (10.4 ft.) TOMORROW: 2.03 a.m. (9.0 ft.); 1.00 p.m. (10.3 ft.) BLONPIE a By Chic Young •-> IA I I.' J^'^'^nl!' T«_a 'F* \\j^ ANO JUST TODAY r^^SAOf^' r~ OM.OM JLI_M.DE ;=^l -g_ j m A FELLOW ASKED ME t A
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    • 199 14 Medik Awas gets its warning sign DANGER AT THE SYMBOL OF THE SNAKE THIS is the symbol for Medik Awas the Singapore Medical Association's warning system to identify patients with drag allergies aad other medical conditions la case of emergency. Dr. Ooa Chong Un, head of the SMA committee setting
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    • 100 14 PENANG, Wed. Over 1,000 people have enrolled for the 60 solidarity classes here starting on Jan. 2, the executive secretary of the State Goodwill Council, Mr. Cheah Boh Eye, said today. No fees are charged but there must be at least 20 people before a class can
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    • 305 14 Navy crash ship commander loses 6 months' seniority ACTING Lt.-Cdr. K. Arasaratnam, commander of K.D. Kinabalu, a minesweeper, was ordered by a Royal Malaysian Navy court-martial at K.D. Malaya, Woodlands, yesterday to forfeit six monthsseniority. He was found guilty on two of five charges one for causing the Kinabalu to
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    • 17 14 I'LL TELL you On* 1H1N6 f?UFF DOUT LIKE CATS IN IME LI VIMS BOOM
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    • 284 14 Singapore to indon islands cruises for tourists from 1973 A LEADING Dutch shipping line will start cruises from Singapore to the Indonesian islands m the middle of 1973. Holland-America Line has placed an order for two cruise ships to be used for 14-day cruises to Medan, Si bo log a
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    • 109 14 IPOH, Wed. The Perak Mara office here has given out 122 loans totalling $909,000 to Malays m the State this year, the State Mara officer, Inche MaJid Abdullah, said today. He added that Mara has also given minor loans to petty traders totalling $3,800. All
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    • Page 14 Advertisements
      • 426 14 J OPENS TUNY! CATHAY saßwrl (Our BIG New Year Attraction) THIS IS ONE WAY-OUT COMEDY THAT'S I I WORTH GOING OUT OF THE WAY FOR! Br wm Am fll BL fl BB L_ 111 bßbb__ W\\a flay aaaßsl Bn_ ■IB IbJ *flflß_^ I L_l^*aß flfla BB_ :^^l^ f^^fllt I fl[
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      • 98 14 Ilappy ifewllear r^.FOqODAINICE AND SONG TO 2 AM. C\jAt I BrnS P" Lr *UJ UkV Ir>TTT«» tWr New year's Eve revels at the happiest spot m town. Two big-beat bands for your dancing pleasure and Anita Sarawak, Theresa Wong, Hui Ching and Ting Siang sing, to put you m the
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      • 602 14 HAPPY jflF ANIMATION mmmJmtm WWWW^MMI 2nd W EEKI No F ree UaL 11 a.nk. 1.30. 4.00. 6.30 A 9.30 p.m. ""Houee ol Dark Shadows" (MOM) Jonathan Frld: In Metrocolor i l*]:[HZrAlzl»UaßHEls-LIJ 2nd WCEKI No Proa Uat, DaMy 3 Shews: 2.30. 9.49 4 9.00 "Tore" Starts 2.90. 6.05 A 9.20 p.m.
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    • 363 15  -  FLORENCE CHONG WHAT "perfect" timing! Time to decide which way to turn the knob! Having to choose between "The Young Lawyers" and "Breaking Point" on at almost the same time was bad enough. And now with the Bracken's World to lengthen the list
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    • Page 15 Advertisements
      • 100 15 iUllllllllllllllllllllllllllllieillllllllllllllllllllUlllllllllllliS I mWrM* JmrnW^AWr #ÜBv Ua i A\u \u\. HB "UU/ n njaU H ■aa SBBSUk SB '^SBI ■UB i BBBsZa^al mmV¥ **4si bUblNhI InaLai a Awm* HHUUb. aavUn aaar^E bmt «Jasr^a* W Tsß anaaiuaaay WW^mZrAW-mmM. *^ar aUTaTafcßßsl 55 Avoid that morning-after feeling. 2 Take Guronsan before that one-drink -too-many.
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    • Page 15 Miscellaneous
      • 1109 15 ""•■■■■■■■■■■■iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii |iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii H iiiii^ li r nRaUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUBUauuI r 1 bUbUbUbUbUbUbUbUbUbUbI l^ JRssrSiVWHnaTS L J Laf9IiWHHHI S "*> *<^ La----BJ J 5 I'2S 9 ene^ al M°*Pital 3.00 p.m. Opening and Programme i.*iO Another Song Another Melody (Repeat, Summary 5 srin y i« v 302 Ganda Wan B Anda j.«w it
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      • 80 15 TELEVISION 6.30 p.m. Channel 5 7 p.m. Channel 10 9 p.m. Channel 5 11.30 p.m. Channel 5 RADIO 7.30 BFBS (From BBC) 8.00 Radio Singapore. Radio Malaysia. 1.30 p.m. Radio Singapore. Radio Malaysia. BFBS (From Radio Australia). 4.30 p.m. BFBS (From BBC). 5.00 Radio Malaysia. Radio Singapore (m brief) 6.00
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    • 105 16 LIVING DOLL HSU-YI came to our attention when her mother sent her photograph to Junior Living. Attached to the photograph was a little note hoping that we would find Hsu-Yi "cute" enough to feature as a Living Doll. Well, Mrs. Foo, if we ever wanted a walking, talking, running, mischievous
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    • 1927 16 f/C 4uA4 Did you enjoy Christmas? I'm sure you've had more than your share of presents, cakes and parties. Here m the office, we're still recuperating from all that cheer. We had an office lunch on Christmas Eve everyone was happy. We had "Tim Sum", drank lots of
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    • Page 16 Miscellaneous
      • 105 16 Junior Crossword BBBBBBBsf ■bWMs*T~~"^^^ aaaaaal B ACROSS: I Man living m religious community (4) 3 Rapid movement (5) 7 Correct (7) 8 Twirl (4) 9 Pays cloae attention to (5) II Small, miserable dwelling (5) 14 Tie together (4) 18 Special costume or insignia (7) 17 Proficient (5) 18 Gusto
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    • 464 17 Eat more vegetables that's a good resolution THE NEW Year is upon vs time to make an appraisal of the past year and to promise ourselves a better year ahead To set you on your way, here are some of our younger readers* resolutions. The sons of Dr. and Mrs.
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    • Page 17 Miscellaneous
      • 105 17 (tkrgisiteyS- True Life Adventures m^^\T™Z^^^^^r^ m^^^^^^^^mm m mm^mmw^m%*f tu£ I™l "~V -"V-^i j K^n ssKicr RtaaaaaßaaaaaaVaWsßl Ki^ -----SJS^ a-S^^^<t ,B -^gJ a ]BW2* r TT^>gg^|lW^^ v > HACKS OFF FROM /^8 'fiiUu^fwWt^^ H s m^^^^tat>om wvth He's fearful, ctf m^ m mmmm m^ m f'- THOSE TERRIBLE TUSKS *L» N^**bT/*
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    • Economic Affairs / Shipping
      • 379 18 S'pore trade deficit likely to continue says Lever SING APORE may continue to have an adverse balance of visible foreign trade m the next one or two years, the president of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce, Mr S.F.T.B. Lever, predicted. Mr Lever said the deficit this year was running
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      • 1951 18 WW'JAJ \^Amm\ FINANCE MINISTER Hon Sui Sen made it clear yesterday that the Securities Industry Bill does not attempt to prevent speculation m the stock market. Moving the Second Reading of the Bill m Parliament, Mr Hon said: "Some speculation attends every
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      • 1171 18 THE Government will set up adequate -machinery to enforce the Provisions of the ->mpanies (Amendment) Bill, Finance Minister Hon Siri Sen assured Parliament yesterday. The House passed the Bill which amends the Companies Act, 1967, without any debate. The only Member to speak on
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      • 538 18 The market was narrowly mixed m quiet trading yesterday. Prices came off on lack of follow-through after initial firmness m line with New York. Business remained slack although an improvement m dealings was seen after the depressed levels of the past two sessions. Towards the close, the
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      • 21 18 LONDON, Tues. (Changes m brackets): Industrials 342.0 (+3.4); Tins 61.72 (-0.08); Rubbers 162.23 (Unch), Oils 287.05 (-2.19).
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      • 353 18 Stocks yesterday rallied picked up just about a point, sharply m very active early trading that pushed the T he advance-decline index, NYSE high speed ticker however, accurately described tape two minutes late. The the gains upside issues led rally was not particularly the losers by
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      • 26 18 NEW YORK. Tues. (Changes m brackets): Industrials 842.00 11.09); Transportation 169.92 (+5.17); Utilities 121.04 (+0.77); Composite stocks 272.36 (+4.46) Bonds 68.70 (+0.10).
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      • 200 18 AMSTERDAM The market yesterday was well maintained and most internationals were steady including Akzo, Unilever and Royal Dutch. Hoogovens firmed on domestic demand but Philips was neglected. Estates and most, shippings were easier, but KLM Airlines was firm on Wall Street advices. The local industrial sector was mainly
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    • 85 19 THE SINGAPORE HERALD Thursday, December 31, 1970 KEY FOR EASY REFERENCE: The shipping schedules beginning on this page are given m four parts for siiips westbound, eastbound, southbound and coastal. Each entry gives the following information: NAME OF SHIP, date of arrival/departure, ports of call, name of line
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    • 602 19 f?g' »i"!f!B *»>**»*•*■ Coast ports of North, Centra, or South America ships sailing east out of Singapore to Pacific and through the Panama Canal to the Gulf ports, etc Malaysia SUCCESS Jan 7/10 P. Sham (Jan 11/13), Penang (Jan 14/16), N. York (Feb 16), Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, Houston
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    • Page 19 Advertisements
      • 745 19 NEPTUNE ORIENT UNES UD. m <r»aCOajPOBATED BU ?Ht BBaajBBJC OF aBtaJGA^POBJE) ICB SUICDrNG 2 SHENTONWAy SINGAPORC 1. TEL §*****-7 U.K. EUROPE SERVICE LOADING FOR LONDON, H'BURG, R'DAM, HAVRE, Bo««ap««a pjjVMm Pmmm ABWVES NEPTUNE AQUAMABINE S/9 Jan 10 Jan 11 Jan L'don 8/2. Hamburg 12/2 Havra 14/2. B'dam 19/2 NEPTUNE AMBER
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      • 572 19 ■aaaa BM J_JJ Ua-??-?-Ba-aajaaaBaaaBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaBBaBaaaaaaaaaajaaoaaaaaa.o.o.o.o.o AFT Anglo-French Trading Co. (Pte) Ltd. *****/9 ASC Alcos Steamship Corpn. *****6 GB Guthrie Sousteed ***** APL American President Lines ***** MC Herriaon. AOroefield ***** PC P»n Continent Corporation ***** AUS Auataaia Une HEM H#ap Eng Moh steemahip Co. Pte. PL P N P»l«Jeran Naaional Indonesia
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    • 539 20 Including ships sailing out of Singapore for Far East ports to the north-east ACH,LLES36(S, j. n 15/15 Hongkong, Kobe. Y'h.ma. .f/mc ALCOS MASTER Apr 19/22 Osaka, Yokohama. Vancouver B.C. Jedd h AOL/ASC ALCOS RANGER Mar 18/21 Osaka. Yokohama. Vancouver B.C JWjdah AOL/ASC ALCOS VICTORY F .b 20/23 Osaka. Yokohama.
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    • 198 20 Mainly ships bound for Australia and New Zealand, including ships calling at Manila, etc. AUSTRALASIA Jan 7/9 P. Sham (Jan 10), Singapore (Jan 11), Fremantle (Jan 18). AUS/AUS AUSTRALASIA Jan 28/30 P. Sham (Jan 31), Spore (Feb 1), Fremantle (Feb 8). AUS/AUS BENVENUE Jan 6/7 Manila. BEN/BEN BROWIND Jan
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    • 328 20 Including ships calling at Malaysian and Indonesian ports. M.S.ORIENTAL DOLLY Jan 6 P. Sham (Jan 9), Penang (Jan 11).' lAL/lAL M.S. SEIA MARU Jan 12 P. sham (Jan 15), Penang (Jan 18). lAL/lAL M.S.SHINSEI MARU Jan 14 P. Sham (Jail 17). lAL/lAL M.V. DARMAPUTRA Jan 2/2 T g. Pinang.
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    • Page 20 Advertisements
      • 613 20 B*B* *T^H iß^^SßßßßßiZa^^^sllß^^B^^^ ALCOS OVERSEAS LINE TO CAPETOWN DURBAN MOMBASA JEDDAH Singapore Port Sham Alcos Venture 10/15 Peb 16/18 Feb Alcos Pionaar 16/21 Mar 14/15 Mar Alcos Trader 10/15 Apr 16/18 Apr Alcos Partner 12/17 May 18/19 May TO: OSAKA YOKOHAMA VANCOUVER B.C. -^JEDDAH Alcos Victory 20/23 Feb 18/19 Feb
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    • 113 21 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Malaysian Government's second caah loan issue for this year of $150 million has been oversubscribed by 75 million. However, all applications frill be allotted m full, a Treasury statement said today. Total subscriptions for the loan, which opened on Nov. 16
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    • 113 21 Hongkong. Wed. The secretary of the Hongkong Stock Exchange announced today that Wheelock Marden had decided to stop trading its shares m Malaysia and Singapore. No reason was given and Wheelock executives were not available for comment. The announcement caused uncertainty and suited a selling wave m the
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    • 203 21 Craigielea CRAIGIELEA RUBBER PLANTATIONS made lower profits amounting to £86,000 m the six months ended September, compared to £128,000 m the same period last year. The rubber crop was slightly more at 3.8 million lbs. but sale prices were less favourable. Unless prices change markedly, the profit from
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    • 1708 21 STOCK EXCHANGE OF MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE KEY Closing buyers' and seUers' prices are followed by the business done. Figures, m brackets denote traded lota m I.ooo's, When the price ia not foUowsd by a figure m brackets, it means only a single lot of 1.000 shares was
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    • 80 21 (Managers' prices for Dec. 31) B. S. ASIA UNIT TRUSTS MaL Invt. Fund 1.19 1.24 Mai. Progress Fund 1.04 1.09 CHARTERED UNIT TRUSTS Singapore Growth Fund 1.01 1.06 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUSTS Second Singapore 1.90 Third Singapore 1.22 i B. S. The Commerce Ind. Fund .99 1.04xd The Saving
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    • RUBBER/TIN/COCONUT/PEPPER
      • 48 21 MALAYSIAN GAZETTED PRICES KUALA LUMPUR, Commodity followed by value with rate of duty m brackets for Dec. 31 to Jan. 6. RUBBER: 51-1/4 cents a lb (2 cent, total 7Va cents). COPRA: 8*560 a ton (856). PALM OIL: $595 a ton (144.625). PALM KERNELS: 8*360 a ton ($36).
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      • 69 21 TIN $623.12^ a picul (down 62»4 cents). The Straits tin price fell again yesterday by 62 l A cents to $623. 12 l A a picul on a turnover of 265 tons, down 15 tons on Tuesday's. The London overnight price dropped by £1 a ton. Main buyers
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      • 156 21 (Yesterday's 1.30 p.m. prices, m sterling per long ton, unless otherwise stated). COPRA (U.S. dollars per long ton): Philippine/Indonesian Dec. 234**, Jan. 235 V*. Feb. 236 "A, March 238. resellers. COCONUT OIL: Straits Dec/Jan. 153 quoted; Malayan Jan/ Feb. 169 quoted; Philippine (U.S. dollars per long ton) Dec.
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      • 324 21 RUBBER 48*4 cents alb. (down seven-eighths cent). First business yesterday m January 1 RSS was at 49-1/2 cents, down one-eighth cent from Tuesday's closing level. Prices then eased throughout the morning session on long liquidation as buyers became increasingly more difficult to find. The morning session closed with
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      • 68 21 (Yesterday's official buyer/seller prices, m pence per lb). Tone: Quiet steady; ClF's Jan. 17-1/8 17-3/8, Feb. 17-7/16 17-11/16, March 17-3/4 buyer 18 nominal seller; Spot 18-1/4 18-1/2; Settlements Feb. 18-9/16 18-3/4, March 18-13/16 18-15/16, April 19-1/16 19-1/4, April /June 19-3/8 19-1/2, July/Sept. 20-1/8 20-1/4, Oct/Dec. 20-9/16 20-3/4, Jan/March
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    • 637 21 Mining and oil shares were relatively firm m quiet trading yesterday. Industrials were mixed. Poseidon closed $1 lower at $45, but Queensland Mines at $30, Kathleen Investments at $12 and International Mining at 95 cents were steady. Sedimentary Uranium was steady. Tasminex continued its upward trend gaining
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    • 276 21 Trading pace quickened yesterday as sellers predominated m the market. However, small support near the close helped prices to recover from the day's lows v The close was described as steady with total turnover valued at $12.76 million. Wheelocks featured m heavy trading to lose 20 cents
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    • 179 21 LONDON, Wed. The market was again extremely quiet today but grain shippers fixed cargoes from the U.S. Gulf to Antwerp at US$5.5O fio (free m and out) for Jan. and from the U.S. Gulf to San Domingo at U555.25 fd ifree discharge), also for an. A cargo
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    • Page 21 Miscellaneous
      • 312 21 SHIPS IN POKT THE PORT OF SINGAPORE AUTHORITY HAS MADE THESE BERTHING ARRANGEMENTS FOR DECEMBER 31. OUT: Star Antares 15/16; Asahi Maru No. 35 18: Soko Maru 19; Asahi Maru No. 31 20 west; Selamat 22; Esso Orion 26/27; Louise Lykes 38/39; Himalaya 44/45; Nissho Maru 47 N; Pando Point
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    • Page 22 Advertisements
      • 870 22 &aUaWB' ZI ADVERTISEMENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ANNIVERSARIES. AN NOUNCEMENTS. BIRTHS. CLUB ACTIVITIES. CON DOLENCES. DEATHS. ENGAGEMENTS, FUNERAL. GREET INGS. IN MEMORIAM. MARRIAGES. MISSING. PERSONAL. PPC REQUIEMS ft REUNIONS Minimum $8/ lor 20 words, each additional word 40cts. All other classified advertisements: Minimum $4/ for 20 words, each additional word 20cts. I Box
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      • 319 22 r /AlSiUniaV QHCQI For our Classjf »ed Ull n UTrf WPP Tele- Ad Services 8008-BEEPING SERVICE Willing to do part-time to/ any firms or offices from 6.00 p.m. onwards. Reasonable salary required. Apply Bee H1252 Singapore Herald. REPRODUCTION. REDUCTION. Enlargement, all plans, drawings, maps of any size to required acale
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      • 311 22 VISIT MING ART GALLERY. Ming Court Hotel Shopping Arcade. Tanglin Road. Singapore's largest collection of local batik paintings open daily. SALE ORIGINAL OIL PAINTINGS Very reasonable pricing of private collection exquisite oils by Monte. J. D. Castro. Navarro. Gotta. Harlim. Yamboa. Menesis. Zablan. Gonsales. exculsive task. mahogany frames. Telephone *****8
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      • 323 22 QUALIFY IN ADVERTISING through Advertising Institste of Australia expert coaching by I.C.S. (O) Ltd.. Dept. Al. P.O. Box 1538. Singapore 1, Telephone *****. PREPARE NOW LCC-PITMAN Examinations special rapid courses English Chinese Typewriting Book-keeping Shorthand Beginners. Enrol immediately NSC 433A Geylang Road *****3. ENGLISH. ELEMENTARY A Additional Mathematics and Science
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      • 310 22 FOORMAN'S MUSIC STUDIOS Daily enrolments for Piano/Theory Beginners to Diploma Accordion, Organ. Violins. Guitar. P Jazz. Blowing Instruments. Singing Drums. Tel: *****. ENROL NOW Class tuition Soul. A-go-go. latest dances. Enquires Sunny Low. Pohsan Dance Studio. ***** Spore. MALAY for' primary and lower secondary pupils by experienced teacher at your
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      • 499 22 WONDERS OF THE SEA Nature's beautiful undersea rockeries of all shapes, sizes for your garden landscape etc. Phone *****0. BHARIKAT KIAN TONS 218 Changi Road (5 m.s.) After sales service Air-conditioners and Refrigerators (all-brands) Room and Package unit Tel. *****7. HAUSLEITER OFFSET PROCESS CHEMICALS. Felix Boucher Printing Rollers. Rodenstock Photographic
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    • 375 23 SE? L? R s. Wed The lon awaited heavyweight title fight between Joe Frazier and Muhammed Ali now appears set for Madison Square Garden and closed circuit television on March 8 Garden boxing officials announced this at a news luncheon at noon today
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    • 274 23 Cassius may visit South Africa JOHANNESBURG, Wed. Cassius Clay Muhammad Ali the former world heavyweight boxing champion, would love to visit South Africa and is m favour of the apartheid policy of the Pretoria Government, the Rand Daily Mail says here. In a telephone interview given to the English-language newspaper
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    • 125 23 ALL players are requested to report to the starter, seven minutes before starting time for this Saturday's Cold Medal golf at Bukit Cher mm. starting at 1 .30 p.m. 1.30 J.K. Robinson (18) A. G. George (18); 1.36 C.W. Oakley (14) Stephen Chang (21); 1.42 Loong Pan
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    • Article, Illustration
      1456 23 A TOTAL of 308 horses 109 from Class 3; 121 from Class 3 and 78 from Class 6 has been entered for the Singapore Turf Club's four-day meeting to be run on Jan. 9. 10. 16 and 17. CLASS 3 (6f or 8f and 7f or lOf) Affidavit
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    • 140 23 Japanese qualify to meet S. Africans MIAMI BEACH, Wed. Japan qualified to meet the third-seeded South Africans m the second round of the Sunshine Cup junior tennis tournament here yesterday. The Japanese had a tough battle with the Swiss m the first round, finally going rough by taking the deciding
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    • 244 23 Numata all set for title bout TOKYO, Wed. World Boxing Council junior lightweight champion Yoshiaki Numata of Japan looked set for his second successful defence of the title against Rene Barrientos of the Philippines on Jan. 3. Season Hirasawa, Dean of Japanese, boxing commentators, said after seeing Numata go through
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    • Page 23 Miscellaneous
      • 37 23 DAVY JONES By Sam Leff CAN T AL LY BLAME W I GU6SS SO, MARCO.I f'HEY. PAL. KELLY MUSI'Vfc "Wl Fok m* vmi SEnCRI ___^*»Z r f «SaTWS» N^_l^^___^ l^^eFffl YOU WANTED TQMWTJWgftW^WITH W6HT HoWj_ _B^|__J^V frX/AfgT;
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      • 534 23 TWINSET CROSSWORD wmt hht ■"^■h ■l 8 19 20 21] 26 BB^ 28~ aUflJilkllh-iJJIUJIJI ACROSS DOWN I. Harpies m disguise with a 1. Sunset Strip, London? (4) thousand angels (8) 2. A legend spread with riches 4. Aa imitation, so it's said, is not half! beyond control (4) 3. Ia
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    • 353 24 A SPIRITED rally late m the second half enabled Singapore Cricket Club to defeat Headquarters Royal Engineers by 13 points (2 goals and a try) to six (two tries) m a friendly rugby match on the padang yesterday. The fit and fast
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    • 260 24 ASIAN Games representative Roy Chan set up a new record m the Chinese Swimming Club's annual gala at Amber Road yesterday. It was the second record m the meet. The first was by Khong Kok Sun m the 200 metres breast stroke on the opening
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    • 369 24 Fast boat missing in SydneyHobart yacht race MELBOURNE, Wed. The French Trimaran Pen Duick IV, regarded as the fastest sailing boat m the world, was missing today m the storm-lashed Tasmanian seas. It was last spotted by a light aircraft on Monday, when it took the lead m the Sydney-Hobart
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    • 166 24 Americans take doubles in Orange Bowl junior tennis MIAMI BEACH, Wed. Americans Harold Solomon and Brian Gottfried beat the South African pair Byron Bertram and Ruan 'vruger 3-6, 6-4 6-3 to take the doubles title m the last match of the Orange Bowl junior tennis tournament here yesterday. All four
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    • 153 24 REGULAR Asian Lawn Tennis championships for both junior and senior players is the only answer m raising the standard of this sport. This was the advice given by Mr. S. Basil fleay, honorary secretary of the International Lawn Tennis Federation to Singapore Lawn Tennis
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    • 531 24 by A BRILLIANT hat-trick by left winger Aris Sitam paved the way for Port Authority Recreation Club to enter the final of the Football association of Singapore junior knockout tournament. PARC scored a convincing 4-1 victory over favourites Darul Afiah at Jalan Besar
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