Singapore Herald, 19 January 1971

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  • 14 1 THE SINGAPORE herald No. 154 Singapore Tuesday, January 1», 1971 MC(P) N0.2525 15 CENTS
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  • 103 1 INDIA will pull out of the Commonwealth if African countries spark a break-up movement, sources close to the Indian delegation said today. The sources told AFP that India would probably not take the lead m a walk-out if Britain officially announces
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  • 623 1  -  V.K. CHIN From KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Tun Tan Siew Sin said today that it would be easier for the MCA to operate out of the Alliance as, at the moment, the party has to take into account the wishes of Umno
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  • IN BRIEF
    • 54 1 JAKARTA, Mon. The State-owned oil company, Pertamina, is to construct the biggest and most modern Indonesian oil harbour at Belawan, North Sumatra, Antara news agency reported. The harbour will be used mainly to receive oil from tankers. It will not be used as a harbour for exporting
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    • 83 1 aaa NAPLES: The Soviet Heet m the Mediterranean has increased to 37 surface ships, including the helicopter carrier Leningrad, and nine to 11 submarines, the Nato Command announced. aaa ADDIS ABABA: The central committee of the World Council of Churches now meeting here has appealed to Britain not to resume
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  • 105 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Mon. Two 10,500-ton tankers collided In heavy fog under the Golden Gate Bridge early today and the U.S. Coast Guard said one of them was leaking oil Into San Francisco Bay. The Arizona SUndard impaled the Oregon Standard both owned
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  • 785 1 Arms: A special session today COMMONWEALTH leaders are meeting m a special session today on Britain's proposed arms sales to South Africa. Only delegation leaders will be taking part m the meeting, believed to have been initiated by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Hugh Shearer of Jamaica.
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  • 120 1 CANADIAN Prime Minister Pierre Trudean visited Boys' Town m Bukit Timah yesterday and returned the peace sign to 250 youngsters. The Prime Minister spoke of Canada's Interest m "associating ourselves with human beings through human beings and it's on this basis that all the countries of the world
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  • 217 1 Ghana: We have not yet talked of joint action GHANA HAS held no discussions with other African countries over a joint strategy to counter Britain's proposed arms sales to South Africa, its Prime Minister, Dr. K.A. Busia, said' yesterday. The Ghanian Government still believed that the best possible move against
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  • 335 1 FINANCE Minister Hon Sui Sen said yesterday that it was difficult to predict whether Singapore would achieve an average annual economic growth rate of six per cent m the 70s. Singapore's economy was geared to external trade. The trends m
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  • 733 1 'Arms sales may bring in USSR and China' PRESIDENT Milton Obote of Uganda warned yesterday that British arms sales to South Africa would be an "open invitation" to Russia and perhaps China later to replace British and other Western interests m Africa. Speaking at a Press conference, President Obote pointed
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  • 141 1 NAIROBI, Mon. British expatriates here reacted more with amusement than concern to reports that antiBritish riots m East Africa could mean the immediate involvement of 700 British troops now m Kenya. The London Sunday Express had suggested that trouble for Britons and British interests
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  • 908 2  - Talks that have become a way of life RICHARD BREEZE By THE Vietnam peace talks m Paris, started so hopefully two and a half years ago, have become a way of life for the four delegations as the discussions drag on towards their 100 th session this week. Delegates who
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  • 759 2  - Mr. Heath's dubious expedition BRUCE GRANT wm THE multi-racial (British) Commonwealth, for which hopes were held m the 1950s as a model of free association is obviously now wobbling to a stop. The reason is that its centre, Britain, has lost interest m the Commonwealth's survival. As London has moved
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  • 571 2 And then it will be up to Mr. Heath MR. HEATH has said that the British Government has not yet taken a final decision on the sale of arms to South Africa. This statement is crucial to the discussions which the Commonwealth Heads of Government will hold today on the
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  • 86 3 MALAYSIA-Singapore Airlines will inaugurate its thrice- weekly SingaporeLondon service on June 2. Announcing this yesterday, an MSA spokesman said there would be only three stops Bombay, Bahrein and Rome. The flights will leave Singapore on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The homeward bound flights will
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  • 211 3 A CHARGE of murder against Jeffery Khoh Thiam Leng, 25, who is alleged lo have caused the death of MalaysiaSingapore Airlines steward, Peter Bernard Cheah, 24, was reduced yesterday to culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The preliminary inquiry which was scheduled for
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  • 280 3 A MEMBER of a car stealing ring that used to send stolen cars from Johore Bahrn to Singapore was jailed for a total of three years. Lim Choon Eng, 41, a motor mechanic, admitted unlawfully possessing a .32 revolver
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  • 84 3 SOME politicians say Edward Heath is sailing too close to the wind over the South African arms Issue. But when he goes sailing like this, he has few critics. In fact, he even has admirers like shapely Annie Hughes who went with
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  • 44 4 One for the album THE First Lady, Mrs. Sheares (front row, centre), yesterday gave a lunch for wives of Commonwealth leaders who are here to attend the Heads of Government meeting. Also invited were wives of Ministers, Commonwealth High Commissioners and other local dignitaries.
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  • 66 4 LEFT: Chatting with the First Lady at the Istana yesterday are Mrs. Kaunda, wife of the Zambian President, and Mrs. Arnold Smith, the Commonwealth Secretary -General's wife. ODD CENTRE: President Sheares receiving a gift from Dr. K.A. Basin, Prime Minister of Ghana. DDD RIGHT:
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  • 298 4 Quality controlTang's message to industrialists THE Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Tang See Chim, has stressed for the second time m five days the importance of quality control m factories. He urged local manufacturers to concentrate on producing goods of a better quality but at a lower price than
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  • 155 4 A SECURITY guard caught a man rummaging m the pockets of a pair of trousers he had left at the rear of the President shopping centre m Serangoon Road on the night of Nov. 12 last year. In a magistrates 1 court
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    • 57 4 BEETLE BAILEY By Mort Walker —F BETTBK TA<B ALLRIGtfT.' WMEREsY PIN-UP? I|? 7 DON'T ACT SO INNOCENT I POWN TMAT TME PIN-UP TMAT I WHAT PIN- UP? i I KNOW WMAT WAS TM6KE V PIN-UP.' WAS TM6RE KILLER? X. V TME WALL IS STILL WARW /TSi /v^iri* /"IJADI A**! ammmmmmr^
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  • 659 5 Men and skills the key to wealth ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NEW NATIONS... r-Hl-. the less advanced countries immediately need are peaple with the knowledge and skills to kelp tradltioa-bonnd agricnltaral societies to move from a pre-indnstrial to nn lndnstrial sUte.^ Mr. Rajaratnam THE MOST important problem facing new nations today
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  • 264 6 THERE was a very sharp rise In the number of tanker repairs undertaken last year by Sembawang Shipyard, Its managing director, Mr. Mr. R.E. Butler, said yesterday. More than 60 tankers ranging from 10,900 to 100,090 tons underwent repairs at the yard last
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  • 172 6 AUSSIE SCRAP FIRM TAKES CONTROL OF ORIENT LLOYD AN Australian scrap metal firm has taken over the Orient Lloyd/Malay States group of shipping agency companies m Singapore and Malaysia. Sims Consolidated Ltd. are the largest dealers and processors of scrap metal m Australia and have recently extended their interests into
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  • 126 6 MALACCA, Moa. An American woman who loot a purse containing more than $2,008 last Saturday, rewarded the Under today. The vice-president of the Michigan State University, Mr. Milton E. MneMer, aad his wife called this morning at the office of a Religious
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  • 342 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Six Royal Malaysian Navy divers left for Temerloh today to assess the extent of flood damage caused to the bridge there. Plans are also being made to lay a 360 ft. Bailey Bridge over the missing span.
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  • 271 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Government is to undertake a comprehensive study of the reasons why most Malays cannot adjust to life m towns. The Assistant Minister of National and Rural Development, Dato Abdul Samad Idris, told a Press conference today
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  • 47 6 THE Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, was among several Heads of Commonwealth Governments who called at the Istana yesterday. This picture shows his wife, Toh Puan Raha, being greeted by Mrs. Sheares. President Sheares is partly hidden by his wife.
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  • 120 6 FAR EAST-Levingston Shipbuilding Limited of Jurong has launched the first of two supply vessels built for an Amercian firm, Tidewater Marine Services. The 166-ft. long Malay Tide will join the existing vast fleet of more than 400 vessel owned by the American company. The
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  • 68 6 JAKARTA, Mon. A man buried his newly-born baby alive because he was ashamed that his neighbours might discover that his wife had given birth to the child only three months after their marriage, Antara news agency reported today. The baby was buried at a spot about
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  • 410 6 They'll be junior envoys in India DANIEL EE, Subardi bin Ahmad, Chinniah Thamby and P. Jeyaratnam are four schoolboys who will be .Singapore's junior envoys to India for 22 days. They are members of the National Cadet Corps who have been selected to represent Singapore at India's National Day Parade
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  • 79 6 KANGAR, Mon. A library for about M,taO padl farmers la Perils will he opened here at the end of this month. The State Community Development Officer, Inche Ramll Taib said, that the library, set np by the Ministry of National and Rural Development, would
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  • 300 7  -  By- A. K. LEE Mr. Yahya Cohen, the President of the Singapore Surgical Society, made a speech at the Society's annual dinner a week ago, which went unreported. It deserved a better fate, for Mr. Cohen had a pertinent point to
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  • 265 7 TIME really flies for pianist cum organist, Oswald Jerome Dragon, 27, who is so busy playing at different places where people dine, wine and chat, that he even forgot his pay days. And this happens frequently since Oswald, probably one of
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  • 275 7  - Sakura's off to Hongkong today JENNY LEW SINGER PROVES HER AGE By THE scene was lunch-time m a posh restaurant m town. A pretty girl was showing her passport to guests at the tables. But the guests were not immigration authorities; they were members of the press. The pretty girl
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    • 101 7 BLONDIE By Chic Young T*"** OmTmV ~Z-Z I I MAD TO BREAK I 1 1 DON'T KNOW WHY BUT yJI GOODNESS IS (H^ MY PIGGY BANK I GET TME PEELING HE J THAT PI VE- DOLLAR v 1 POR TMIS V DOESN TDO MUCH /X-v VBILLTHE SMALLEST i (aWJ^ "><<&
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  • 203 8 PROMPT action by two caretakers saved the community centres In Tamplnes Rond and Ponggol Rond from being burnt down by arsonists yesterday. Police described damage to both centres as "negligible." The first attempt was made at 4 a.m. when Hnnyang Community Centre caretaker Soong
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  • 389 8 Allow more local men to attend seminar lo- I Ul VmWPmHT AS reported m your newspaper, a Seminar on Modernisation m South-East Asia organised by the Institute of SouthEast Asian Studies will be held m Singapore. Its stated objective is to provide "a forum for dialogue on the subject as
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  • 92 8 KOREAN CHOIR COMING IN MARCH THE Korean Children's Choir will perform at the Singapore Conference Hall on March 3. The choir of 32 children aged from 10 to 17, has completed four world tours. It will tour Australia and New Zealand m March and April. Tickets at $5, $3, $2
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  • 513 8 Government to improve statistics collection THE GOVERNMENT has accepted three major recommendations of a Commission of Inquiry to improve the compilation of statistics m Singapore. They are: DECENTRALISATION of the statistical system; SETTING UP of a permanent Statistics Commission; and AMENDMENT to the secrecy provisions m the Statistics Ordinance. The
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  • 351 8 Tenants can help HDB to keep flats clean I REFER to the letter by Michael Leong (S.H. 11.1.71). The Board has recently conducted a number of campaigns m its estates m line with the Government's islandwide "Keep Singapore Clean" Campaign. Most of the tenants have responded admirably except for a
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  • 511 8 CPF DEPOSITOR IS TILTING AT WINDMILLS THE CPF depositor whose letter you published on Jan. 18 is tilting at windmills. The letter he wrote to me on 31/12/70 was received m my office on 4/1/71 and we wrote to him on 8/1/71 advising him that we would forward him a
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  • 116 8 The dust from the lorries I AM a motor-cyclist who dislikes dark-glasses as I cannot get used to them. There are many motorcyclists who do not use glasses and we suffer from lorries with cargo which are exposed during transport like freshly sawn planks with a lot of sawdust sticking
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  • 226 8  -  Herald Knight SB ERRTET VETERAN chess player, Dr. Yeoh Bok Choon, was playing chess long before many of the top chess players m the Republic were born. His many commitments have prevented him from participating m tourna ments, but once m the game, he is a
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    • 294 9 We don't fear coup Marcos M^l ILA M n Philippine President Ferdinand rov^.?s Said here today he did no believe any revolutionary group m the country today could stage a successful rebellion. Speaking at a Press conference, he assured the nation that the armed forces under his command were capable
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    • 65 9 HONGKONG, Mon. Peking radio today described the nine Latin American countries' conference on ocean rights as "another collective action against the scheme of the two super powers to annex and divide the oceans."' It referred to the conference held m Lima, Peru, from Jan.
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    • 65 9 EILAT, Israel, Mon. Three used tankers are being added to the Israeli fleet of transports which carry oil to this Red Sea port for transshipment to the Mediterranean over the Eilat- Ashkelon pipeline, it was disclosed yesterday. The three vessels, of a total 180.000 tonnage, will
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    • 56 9 DENVER, Mon. Five young children died last night when a fire swept through their home. The children, aged from 3 months to 9 years, were found huddled m two of three beds m an upstairs bedroom, police said. First indications were that they had died
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    • 33 9 SEGOVIA. Mon. Two people were killed and 33 injured, eight of them seriously, when the last Aye passenger cars of the IrunMad rid express train derailed yesterday, railway officials reported. AP
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    • 466 10 ACCORDING to U.S. military spokesmen there are "no U.S. advisors on the ground m Carr bod ia. But th is AP picture shows an American soldier m battle uniform running towards a U.S. helicopter near Tan Ney. SAIGON, Mon. The U.S. Command officially confirmed here
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    • 203 9 GDANSK, Poland, Mon. Thousands of shipbuilders In this Communist Baltic city where last month's bloody Polish riots first began, planned a sit-in strike later today to protest nt new output targets. A yard worker said here early today that a non-union strike committee
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  • 50 10 ST. JOHNS, Antigua, Mon. A BOAC flight to London was delayed for over an hour m Antigua because of a bomb scare. Government authorities and crew members searched Speedbird Flight 697 before allowing It to take off on Saturday night No bomb was found. AP
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  • 44 10 NEW DELHI, Mon. Foreign aid received by India under agreements signed during the last nine months of the financial year begun laat April totalled U55««7.42 million, lt was announced officially here today. This included both project and non-project aid. AFP
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  • 239 10 NEW YORK, Mon. As 20,000 New York City patrolmen refused to man their posts for a fourth day, negotiators intensified efforts last night to settle the walkout spurred by a warning from the commissioner that his skeleton police force can keep going
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  • 64 10 ROME, Mon. Fifteen Rome nightclubs have been ordered to halt strip-tease shows, live music and dancing until they. fix up their premises to conform to the fire prevention code, it was learned today. Club owners were talking m terms of hundreds of thousands of dollars m
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  • 207 10 BOMBAY, Mon. Violence marred Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's election tour for the second consecutive day yesterday when her supporters and opponents clashed on Bombay's main thoroughfare. Steel-he! meted riot police carrying shields and bamboo batons broke np a melee m which seven people were
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  • 210 10 LONGNOR, England, Mon. The village that gave up smoking ended its week-long experiment yesterday with 100 residents smugly refusing cigarettes and only 11 branded as backsliders. Organisers proclaimed a 90 per cent victory over the week. The experiment, or ordeal, was launched at the
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  • 201 10 LONDON, Mon. More than 3,000 students from ll English universities marched through London yesterday to protest over the Government's refusal to let former German student leader "Red" Rudi Dutschke stay In Britain. Cambridge University students, organisers of the march, called for a boycott of academic activities
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  • 170 10 'Hungarian blonde spy seized in S. Africa' JOHANNESBURG, Mon. —South African police today would neither confirm nor deny reports that they had seized a Hungarian- born blonde dancer recently deported from West Germany for spying for Hungary. Mrs. Eika Ossendryver, 32, returned to Johannesburg by plane last Wednesday. Immigration officials
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  • 223 10 Quiet night in Belfast after shoot-up BELFAST, Mon. Police and British troops patrolled the scarred streets of Belfast early today after a bomb exploded In a, tavern and an army truck was hit by a bust of sub-machine gun fire. Despite the explosion and the brief burst af shooting, It
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  • 323 10 LONDON, Mon.- A deluge of last-minute mail hit post offices last night as Britain prepared for a nationwide strike that threatens to tie up mail, telephone and telegraph servicses. The walkout of 230,000 post office employees is set to begin at
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  • 78 10 SAN DIEGO, California, Mon. Another U.S. tuna boat was seized yesterday after being fired upon for the second time off the coast of Ecuador m an escalating dispute with the Latin American nation over fishing waters, spokesmen said here. The boat, the Apollo, was the fourth
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  • 696 11  - Australian olive branch for China FRANK ROBERTSON FD[PLGEO By FOR the Chinese people, 1971 is the Year of the wad Boar. For the Australian Government it is likely to be the Year of China, with Australia abandoning hardline opposition to China's entry to the UN and seeking to establish diplomatic
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  • 263 11 VIETNAM: SECRET RULES OF WAR By RICHARD BEESTON m Washington THE PENTAGON has confirmed that there are secret rules of engagement concerning the conduct of American forces waging the war m Vietnam. These rules have now been shown to the six members of the Army court martial trying Lieut William
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  • 482 11  - Ex-Sultan of Zanzibar backs Heath on arms TONY CONYERS by m LONDON JAMSHID BIN ABDULLA, the deposed Sultan of Zanzibar, has defended Mr. Heath's proposal to supply arms to South Africa. The Sultan, who is now living m exile m Southsea, said he was satisfied that any weapons would be
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  • 1524 11  -  DAVID FLOYD By m LONDON The iirnse behind the trill ef woild be skyjackers' THE recent trial of a group of alleged wouldbe "skyjackers," mostly Jews, m Leningrad, the vicious sentences handed down, and the wave of arrests of Jews m other Soviet cities
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  • 257 12 RIO DE JANEIRO, Mon. Swiss Ambassador Giovanni Enrico Bncher told a news conference yesterday that although he did not believe In astrology, his horoscope told him the wolf was wandering around the fold when he was kidnapped by Brazilian terrorists on
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  • 252 12  - Gorton: My Govt won't staid for colour bar CHEW LOY KHOON By AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Gorton reiterated here last night that his government would not tolerate racial discrimination. He was speaking at a dinner given m his honour by the Australian Alumni. Mr. Ong Teek Joon, president of the
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  • 385 12 Holyoake warns of world trade danger signals NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister, Sir Keith Holyoake urged Commonwealth members yesterday to strengthen the economies of primary producers. He said that New Zeland, as a primary producer, could only increase aid to developing countries to the extent that marketing of its exports could
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  • 203 12 A ROBBER who was shot by a detective m Moulmein Road on New Year's Day was jailed for three years and ordered to receive six strokes of the rotan yesterday. Tay Cher Song, 20, admitted robbing a salesman, Tan Poh Hwa, 29,
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  • 389 12 PC was being blackmailed when he committed suicide, sister tells coroner ELEVEN days before Police Constable Balaram Ramachandran shot himself, he told his sister that he was being blackmailed for $2,000 after two detectives found him m a shed with a girl an illegal Indonesian immigrant. Balaram, 23, who was
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  • 55 12 BEIRUT, Mon. Hashish pedlars m the old Roman town of Baalbeck, centre of Lebanon's cannabis-growing region, are offering special rates for students, drug police reported yesterday. Students can buy it m Baalbeck for about US$2O for 2.2 pounds. The regular price runs around US$lOO for that
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  • THE SINGAPORE herald Section II
    • 698 13 Royal Navy finds danger beneath ithe sea SHALLOW WATER AND WRECKS IN MALACCA STRAITS HMS Hydra has uncovered a 10-square-mile dangerous area for ships off Cape Rochado between Port Dickson and Malacca. east into the Singapore and Durian Straits. It has so far covered about 140 miles and is expected
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    • 333 13 TOURISM promoters m Singa pore are planning to provide hotel facilities designed specifically for Asian tourists especially the Japanese rather than Europeans or Americans. Mr. John C. Chandler, area director for South-East Asia of the International Executive Service Corps, said yesterday that
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    • 280 13  -  RICHARD KOONG By TAXI driver Poh Hock Sun had waited at the stand for an hour without getting a fare. When two men boarded his taxi later on, he decided to charge them extra so as to compensate for the lost hour.
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    • 33 13 NARAYANAN Suppiah of Scharff Road was fined $5 m a traffic court yesterday for carrying a man on the crossbar of his bicyle m Canberra Road on Nov. 21 last year
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    • 121 13 IPOH, Mon. About 300 frogs were killed or Injured this morning when 1,000 of them were locked ln battle for the second successive day along the lpoh -Bntterworth trunk road 18 miles from here. Hundreds of people stopped tt* watch the I spectacle which started
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    • 82 13 LABOURER Koh Wan Soh, of Geylang Road, was fined a total of $450. jailed for a day and banned from driving all classes of vehicles for three years yesterday for riding his motor-cycle while under disqualification. He committed the offence m Geylang Road on Nov.
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  • 498 14  - Attempt to discourage 'easy' Muslim marriages MANSOOR AHMAD WOULD-BE CONVERTS MUST NOW PASS TEST By PROSPECTIVE Muslim converts m Singapore are now required to appear for a test before they can be accepted into the religion. The ruling was adopted when the Muslim Religious Council took over the administration of
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  • 58 14 AT the Singapore Stamp Club's annual meeting held recently, the following were elected to the new management committee: Koh Scow Chuan president, So Kai Ming secretary, Mrs A.M. Copeland treasurer, Kenneth Fish,, Mrs Beryl Smith, Low Siew Seng, Joe X. Carvallho, George Wong, Ronney Leong, G.
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  • 343 14 Secret behind her six As: Hard work "IT pays to work hard," said Rugayah binte Mohd. Amin, 16, a student of Tun Seri Lanang Secondary School. Rugayah certainly knows what she is talking about, because she has proved it by topping the list of successful candidates ln the recent Malaysian
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  • 63 14 THE Singapore Blood Transfusion Service said yesterday that it was short of "O" type blood, although total Mood stocks m the Blood Bank were "above average." Reserve stocks of blood m all groups have risen from 736 units last week to 955
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  • 399 14 Husband killed man who took out his bargirl wife COURT TOLD A MAN saw his bar waitress wife and a customer m Jalan Besar, trailed them to Kallang Park and then stabbed the customer to death with a screwdriver, the High Court was told yesterday. Deputy Public Prosecutor Chia Quee
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  • 12 14 mm Theres a mgam iookin' Why.. .heooMa«=^et WrTCMATOUfcFfIDNTtXJORI* f
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  • 247 14 Factory worker appeals against finding by C.J. A SPECIAL sitting of the Court of Appeal yesterday heard an appeal by a former factory worker whose claim of $50,000 for the loss of his right arm m an accident m a Redhill Industrial Estate factory was dismissed last July by the
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  • 92 14 A LABOURER, who was unable to explain how he came by a tin of Naafi instant coffee when police searched him as he was leaving the Port of Singapore Authority, was fined $40 or four days' jail by Magistrate Tan Chin Tiong. Hassan Abdullah, 31, of Bukit
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 147 14 OPENS CATHAY THURSDAY! "NOT TO BE MISSED! The performances are some of I. the best you'll see this year! I was genuinely touched!" > William Wolf. BM MAGAZINE. AamtmmWammmm. M AW mm. W mm jgm > v|ii i _(_i_________[ t*m\kAt km W s imm mm .•__frßfcj'. n\^t\m a*, fl iff
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    • 82 14 msm 9 am 5 pm: Art exhibition by contemporary Australian painters at Seah Gallery, Tudor Court, Tanglin 10 am 6 pm: Exhibition of works by Commonwealth writers at the National Library, Stamford Road. 2pm —10 pm: Exhibition organised by the Singapore Manufacturers' Association at Queensway Shopping Complex (Japanese Garden), Queenstown.
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    • 80 14 Jalan Rumah Tinggi; Kirn Avenue; Lavender Street Thomson Road (between Jalan Novena Barat and Kampong Chai ieng) and Trevose Crescent (between •>alkeith Road and Kheam Hock .oad). 7 pm 8 pm: At the National Theatre Club (first floor National Theatre, Clemenceau Avenue,: 7 pm Indian dancing and 8 pm Oriental
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    869 17  -  If you want to go on an bridge, the odds are that yo THE ART of etiquette is dying, art because to display good it show sensitivity to other people demands an aesthetic awareness basic knowledge of courtesy and c Unfortunately, most of the written m etiquette books
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  • 471 17 I Miss Irene Lim, 18, wig salesgirl: "I haven't ever seen a ghost, but I believe m them. My friend said that she c.cc saw a ghost with long black hair sitting on a tree." I Miss Lucy Urn, IS, hi-fi equipment demonstrator: "Everyone talks
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  • Economic Affairs / Shipping
    • 2626 18 A Singapore view of world economic trends FINANCE MINISTER HON SUI SEN'S speech on "world economic situation and trends" at the Conference of Commonwealth Heads of Government yesterday. THE relative calm m the international monetary situation during the past year is hugely illusory. Some imbalances m the system have been
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    • 151 18 KUALA LUMPUR, tranche position to 155. 7 Men. Bank Negara million at the end of the Malaysia's international month, reserves totalled 12,034.3 million at the end of last Malaysian currency m year, an increase of $138 circulation at the end of million over 1969. December amounted to
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    • 275 18 SINGAPORE-MALAYSIA Merchant rates fixed yesterday by the Association of Banks m Malaysia-Singapore. Local dollars per unit of foreign currency. HONGKONG (Rates m Hongkong dollars, for Jan. 18). On New York TT 6.***** South Vietnam (per On New York DD 6.0460 1,000 piastres) 16.90 Gold (99% Oneness, Sterling
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    • 558 18 The market closed easy on the offer price of 12/6. yesterday. The impending Army and Navy Stores, Maples postal strike was the main and Common Bros were easier downside factor, but the on profit-taking after recent pre-weekend Wall Street speculative support. Redman uptrend aided sentiment Heenan was
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    • 384 18 Stocks rallied m early point. Utilities and rails also trading yesterday on news of posted strong gains, another prime rate cut. The rally was spurred by a Turnover was heavy and drove prime rate reduction by the NYSE tape two minutes Morgan Guaranty. The bank late
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    • 267 18 AMSTERDAM Internationals were mixed yesterday, with Royal Dutch weaker. Akzo rose. Philips showed a slight decline and Unilever closed unchanged. Most local industrials were higher with Heineken Lucas Bols firmer and Van Der Grinten firm on its move to penetrate further into the U.S. market. Shippings and plantations
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    • 1132 19 111 /\\l KEY FOR EASY REFERENCE. The shipping schedules f^^ V N. beginning on this page ar% given In four parts for X I /N N. A ships westbound, eastbound, southbound and a^™ < m- *a* i m--b coastal. Each entry gives the following information: mea**** m f 1 *-l
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 1061 20 tZCISTDOUnCi nc udin shj P» ai,in o out of Singapore for Far _^—^^w*^^ y^ AkmA I IV^| E ast po^, to the north-east. M.S. TAIPOOSHAN Jan 20/21 Penang (Jan 22/24), Spore (Jan 25/26), H'kong (Jan 30/Feb 2). SC/SC M.S. TAIPOOSHAN Feb 6/7 p.nang (Feb 8/10). Spore (Feb 11/12), H'kong (Feb
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    • 636 20 AmW^^^W W^^mmm%mm\^^mm\^^L\^^^ ALCOS OVERSEAS LINE TO CAPE-TOWN DURBAN MOMBASA JEDDAH Singapore Port S'nam Alcos Venture 10/15 Feb 16/18 Feb. Alcos Pioneer 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 Alcos
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  • 858 21 MALAYSIA/SINGAPORE RUBBER I RUBBER SO cents a lb. (np a half cent). Opening quotations yesterday were marked up by three-eighths cent from Friday's closing level with February and March 1 RSS buyers at 49-7/8 and 51-3/8 cents respectively. The market then fluctuated one-eighth cent either side of these
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  • 257 21 THE PORT OF SINGAPORE AUTHORITY HAS MADE THESE BERTHING ARRANGEMENTS FOR JANUARY, 19. OUT: Samut Songkhram 8/9; Flintshire 13/14. Jeparit 18; Rajah Brooke 21 east; Taboa 23/24; Seiko Maru 27/28; Melbourne Maru 29/30; Texaco Newcastle 36/39: Wladyslaw Broniewsky 42/43; Torben Maersk 44. IN: Kyozan Maru 22; Knud
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  • 1766 21 FRASERS INDUSTRIAL INDICES ln slightly quieter trading conditions, industrial prices m the Stock Exchange yesterday improved widely while a lack of real interest m other sections caused them to maintain previous levels m slow trading. The day's turnover was 1,662,000 units of which the industrial section accounted
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  • 76 21 (Managers' prices for Jan. 19) B. S. ASIA UNIT TRUSTS Mai. Invt. Fund 1.28 1.33 Mai. Progress Fund 1.06 l.lOxd CHARTERED UNIT TRUSTS Singapore Growth Fund 1.08 1.13 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUSTS Third Singapore 1.29 The Commerce Ind. Fund 1.06 1.10 The Saving B s Fund 1.10 1.16 Singapore
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  • 708 21 Mining and oil shares continued i > retreat across a wide front yesterday. Both heavyweights and speculative issues came under selling pressure. Industrials were mixed m quiet trading. Poseidon managed to hold steady on $35, but its takeover targets, Samin and Lake View, were both lower. International
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  • 306 21 Prices were irregularly lower initial firm spots to give way after holding steady earlier m to profit-taking. the day. Other issues which gave Dealings were small as ground included Sony and operators tended to stay on pioneer Electric. the sidelines to await fresh developments. The stock average
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  • 175 21 LONDON, Mon. The market opened the week on a quiet but firm note today although details were available of a number of vessels fixed during the weekend recess. Grain shippers covered cargoes from the U.S. Gulf to the Netherlands at US$5.5O Ho (free m and out) for
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  • 297 21 welk C veTrerdal 2T? J 3So^d San Migue. jumped Paul Y. announced an not* Zm V 3 qU f t 3 Whi,e HK and Shanghai interim dividend of 25 cents :tntaTn d ed Pr,C pre g w c :e e k: X H ""P-ed 45 cent, hu,
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 1014 22 Z/l ADVERTISEMENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ANNIVERSARIES. AN NOUNCEMENTS. BIRTHS. CLUB ACTIVITIES. CON DOLENCES. DEATHS. ENGAGEMENTS, FUNERAL. GREET INGS. IN MEMORIAM. MARRIAGES. MISSING. PERSONAL. PPC REQUIEMS A REUNIONS Minimum $8 lor 20 words, each additional word 40cts. All other classified advertisements: Minimum $4 for JO words, each additional word 20cts BOX SERVICE CHARGE
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    • 145 22 WHAT'S NCXT RCST TO BOATING is reading about it m "Watersports". ths sea-going bimonthly by Forces Publications, ths chsps who care much for your liesure. "CLEAN AIR" EXHAUST DEVICE. Smokeless for dissel/petrol vehicles. Provsd 100% effective by prestigeous companiss m Singapore/Malaysia Also agents tor Motor Insursncs. Spscial low premium. Sole
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  • 4 23  -  CAVALIER BY
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  • 452 23 Prime Rate to race in better company KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Prime Rate will run m better company this season that is my prediction for this five-year-old Better Boy gelding. At Bukit Timah last Sunday, he put up a smashing performance to win the Committee Cup run over lOf. Smartly into
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  • 89 23 MANILA, Mon. Aurelio P. Reyes, president of the Philippine Racing Club who was well known m Asian horse racing circles, is dead at 62. Reyes was the chairman of the Asian Racing Conference held here six years ago. The sportsman, better known by bis initials A.
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  • 852 23 *^M*?amw\%\ WEIGHTS for Tunku's Alisan 8.07 Undefeated 8.02 Cordon Bleu 707 Gold Cup meeting this Lucius Quintus 8.07 Gestapo 8.02 weekend, Jan. 23 and Eastern Dancer 8.06 Cl 2 Div 2— 7 F 24, at Kuala Lumpur. Gain Way 8.05 Joyful Melody 9.00 SUNDAY Ditambah
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  • 260 23 PEBBLE BEACH, California, Mon. Tom Shaw refused to crumble m the face of a blistering Arnold Palmer charge and won the Bing Crosby national pro-am with a final round 70 yesterday. Shaw, a two-time winner m 1969 but an also-ran m 1970, finished two strokes in-front
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  • 246 23 Fittipaldi wins Sao Paulo Formula-3 race SAO PAULO Brazil, Mon. Brazil's Wilson Fittipaldi Jr. drove Ms Lotus to victory yesterday m the second race of the Grande Prize City of Sao Paulo Formula-3 motor racing series. Dave Walker of Australia, also driving a Lotus, finished second, 21 sees behind. Fritz
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  • 241 23 Change of Cup venue depends on IHF KARACHI, Mon. General K. M. Azar Khan, president of the Pakistan Hockey Federation said here that the Pakistan Federation has not asked the International Hockey Federation to change the venue foi' next month's World Hockey Cup from Lahore to Dacca. Asnwering questions of
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 305 23 TWINSET CROSSWORD t l 1 I I I I aamMa— 1 1 10 In j AC BOSS DOWN 1 Half happen to miss out 2 Somewhat simple forces (6) misfortunes (7) 3 Only a small number but 5 Perhaps curbs what one hard to control (7) might do m 7
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  • 122 24 BRITISH RACE DRIVER INJURED SAO PAULO, Mm. British race driver Peter Hmu was injured la a diving accident here aad could aot participate la Sunday's Grand Prise City of Sao Paulo Formula 3 motor race. Doctors said Hanson would have to remain la hospital for several days aad probably would
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  • 249 24 Loh Kong Wing, 19 battled through two-minute rounds to win the black belt division at the first annual Karate-Do championships of Singapore Karate Association on Saturday. Kong Wing defeated Lam Kok Keong, 38, by a half point decision. Third place went to
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  • 455 24 CLAY'S BIG FIGHT NOW ESTIMATED TO GROSS $105 MILLION LOS ANGELES, Mon. Sports entrepreneur Jack Kent Cooke with Muhammad Ali beaming m approval at his side estimated that Ali's March 8 fight m New York with Joe Frazier for the world heavyweight boxing title will gross m the neighbourhood of
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  • 96 24 OWING to insufficient entries, the draw for the Si n gapore Hockey Association's Under-23 knock-but tournament, scheduled to held at the Singapore Recreation Club yesterday, has been postponed to Friday. To date, only seven teams have confirmed participation. They are Schools 'A' and 'B
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  • 276 24 JOHANNESBURG, Mon. —In an interview with the Johannesburg Sunday Times, the Football Association of Rhodesia (RFA) has revealed plans to beat the two-year suspension by FIFA, and pleyed m the 1974 World Cup. RFA's secretary Mr. George Kerr told the Sunday
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  • 187 24  -  SAM NATHAN SINGAPORE Toto Pools Sports Club, with three suspended players, have decided not to allow the rest of their players to play for Singapore m international matches. Pools, the First Division champions, will however not object to members playing for other
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  • 93 24 SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Mon. Former Olympic champion Jesse Owens said that it was a mistake to allow athletes representing the U.S. to go abroad and criticise this country. "Even with our faults, there is no country like the United States," he
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  • 209 24 SINGAPORE Cricket Cub beat Combined Schools 4-0 m a women's friendly hockey match at the Padang yesterday. The experienced SCC side launched a strong attack from the bully off. Pragnell netted the opening goal m the fifth minute. SCC kept up the pressure and
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  • SPORTS WORLD
    • 105 24 MELBOURNE, Mon. The Danish Yacht Maj Britt skippered by Axel Holm won the fifth heat of the Prince Philip Cup series for international dragon class yachts off the Tasmanian coast. With a margin of 65 sees at the windwark mark, Maj Britt looked safe and after a dead run to
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    • 78 24 nn ORLANDO, Florida, Mon. Miguel Olvera, Ecuadors No. l amateur tennis player, upset Mike Belkin, Canadas No. l steed, 6-2, 7-5 m the Florida State tennis championships yesterday. Olvera won the Florida tournament m 1963. He was seeded seventh m this years event, while Belkin was seeded third. The surprising
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    • 108 24 Stirling comeback wins by Mrs. King LONG BEACH, Mon. Billie Jean King used a smashing overhead serve and aggressive net play to defeat American Rosemary Casals 6-1 6-2, for the singles title of the USS 14,000 Billie Jean King invitational tennis tournament. Mrs. King, second ranked among the world's professional
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    • 131 24 SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Mon. Harold Solomon and Bryan Gottfried of the United States defeated Yugoslavias Dragan Stovic and Djordje Sioic 6-2, 6 4, yesterday m doubles competition m the Costa Rica Country Club tennis tournament. In the other doubles, Australians Adie Kourin and Allan Boss had some difficulty defeating
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  • 256 24 A HAT-TRICK by Jane Rinier gave Combined Services a 3-0 win over Singapore Recreation Club m a women's hockey friendly on the Padang yesterday. Jane delighted with her brilliant stickwork and superb ball control. Services would have won by a bigger margin had it not been fer
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    • 69 24 aJmameVry RUGBY: SCC Colts vs Ist RNZIR Lightweights (Padang 5.15 p.m.) HOCKEY: SRC vs CSC (Padang 5.15 p.m.) DAVY JONES a By Sam Leff i t^t-L fi BACI( TO TME X SURE, SCOTTY... Flk^f, f PIP SCOTTY S V NO! HE'LL TELL 1 4fS TMEVVE V YPAH tup 1 C
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