Singapore Herald, 25 January 1971

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  • 14 1 THE SINGAPORE herald No. 158 Singapore Monday, January 25, 1971 MC(P) N0.2525 15 CENTS
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  • 352 1 Kaunda to his people: Don' t attack Britons' 'FIGHT IS BETWEEN HEATH AND ME' HE SAYS LUSAKA, Sun. President Kenneth Kaunda told Zambians not to harm individual Britons because of British policy on arms sales to South Africa. Addressing several thousand-strong airport crowd on his return here last night from
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  • IN BREIF
    • 177 1 LONDON, Sun. South Africa was preparing to buy 100 Mirage-Milan warplanes from France at a cost of £77 million the Sunday Telegraph reported today. The paper commented that the arms deal was "certain to harden Mr. Heath's resolve" to go ahead with British arms sales
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  • 252 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak today dismissed prospects of having direct talks with China. This is because the Peking Government is still adhering to its hostile attitude towards Malaysia, he said during the winding-up of the three-day Umno general
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  • 89 1 MOSCOW, Sun. Anthony Astrakhan, Moscow correspondent of the Washington Post was molested last night in central Moscow by a group of Russians and his car was damaged. He was not injured. Eye-witnesses said the group of people shouted remarks about anti-Soviet acts by Jews in the United
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  • 242 1 PILOT HURT BY GRENADE DIES IN KOREAN PLANE HIJACK BID SEOUL, Sun. Apprentice pilot Chung Myuug Sai, aged 43, was the only fatal victim abroad the South Korean airliner which narrowly escaped hijacking Into North Korea yesterday. Chung died on the way to hospital late last night after being gravely
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  • 343 1 Proposal by US to cut its roller stockpile releases KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The United States Government has told natural rubber producing countries that it is prepared to reduce its rubber stockpile releases to 72,000 tons from 84,000 tons annually, informed sources said today. In return, the sources said, the U.S.
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  • 93 1 Anti-apartheid demonstrators arrested in Melbourne MELBOURNE, Australia, Sun. Two anti-apartheid protestors were arrested at the Victorian Tennis Championships today as they demonstrated against South African players Laura Rossouw and Brenda Kirk. One was charged with using indecent language while the girls were being hustled away after rain washed out the
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  • 33 1 LONDON, Sun. An abandoned Liberian mystery ship was found drifting in the English Channel before dawn this morning, coast guards reported. The ship, unlisted in Lloyds, was identified as the Barbo.
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  • 306 1 Wave of terror hits Phnom Penh PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Sun. A terrorist bomb ripped through *_Phnom Penh's Power Company headquarters today in a mounting crescendo of violence in the Cambodian capital. In Saigon, it became known that South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu has told American officials in the past
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  • 140 1 JAKARTA, Sun. Caaada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau flew today to the ancient city of Jogjakarta, the cradle of Javanese culture, to take a look at Borohudur, Indonesia's Buddhist temple, a massive stone edifice that is one of the nation's chief national monuments. The
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • Article, Illustration
    1177 2  -  ARNOLD SMITH THE COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE t B y LIM: What, in your opinion has the Conference of Commonwealth Heads of Government achieved? MR. SMITH: A great deal of progress has been made. The conference was a great success and the Commonwealth has emerged significantly stronger. Among the positive
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  • 979 2 Conference scrapbook asdfasdfasdf THE big conference is over. Not all the drama was reported in the day to day news. In the "scrapbook" below, Singapore Herald reporters who covered the conference pool recollections on some of the unrecorded highlights and sidelights. THE conference, on the whole, was an organisational success.
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  • 594 2 CANADA'S Pierre Trudeau is not the only "gay blade" among the 31 Commonwealth Heads of Government although he alone wears the reputation lightly and even cultivates it. His discotheque outing with a group of young people, including former model aad beauty queen Quek Li Lian, made the
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  • 494 2 IT IS too early yet to form a clear picture of the way Umno, the dominant partner in Malaysia's ruling Alliance, is likely to develop in the post Tunku era. The most notable changes in the elections during last week's party general assembly were the replacement of
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 103 2 W TT CONSTANTI N 1 Symbol of Perfection Vacheron Constantin, the oldest watch-makers 1 in Switzerland, presents a select range of their I latest models. The elegance of styling and I the precision of movement have gained for I Vacheron Constantin the world-wide reputa- I tion for being the Symbol
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  • 261 3 THREE armed men with parangs slashed two brothers both hawkers in Chinatown yesterday as hundreds of busy New Year shoppers watched in horror. At least one of the assailants is believed to have been injured. All three fled within minutes of the attack. The brothers, Ng
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  • 698 3 HIGHEST PRAISE (WITH A VERY SMALL FOR BACH RECITAL IF THE Victoria Theatre can continue to attract the almost capacity audience that it held last night, the future for professional music recitals in Singapore will be far less bleak than people were saying only a couple of weeks ago. But
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  • 374 3 Robbers get away with $100,000 THREE HOLD-UPS AT KNIFE-POINT ARMED robbers got away with nearly $100,000 in three weekend hold-ups. On Saturday at about 2.30 p.m. four masked men armed with (Utters held up Hj. Mohd. Khan, the proprietor of the Singapore Rattan Cane Mart Ltd., and three others, and
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  • 359 3 Here's to you Mrs. R— from the newsmen MRS. Patsy Robertson travelled 8,000 miles to Singapore to keep 400 newspaper men happy. As Press Officer with the Commonwealth Secretariat, Mrs. Robertson helped accredit all- the Pressmen covering the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, then spent days afterwards tied to a
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  • 159 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Agriculture and Lands Minister, Tan Sri Ghazali Jawi, today announced the Government's approval of four areas off the west coast of West Malaysia for oil exploration by three companies. The companies are the South-East Asia Gulf Company, the
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  • 64 3 DR. DAVID M. MacFadyen, World Health Adviser in Singapore, wfll give a lecture on "The Computer as a Tool in Health Care" at the Pathology Lecture Theatre at the Alumni Medical Centre at 8.15 pm on Feb. 2. Organised by the Singapore Medical Association, tbe lecture
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  • 38 3 THE Government has converted another piece of vacant land into a public car park. It is bounded by Cross Street, Club Street, Ramah Street and South Bridge Road. The charge is $1 a day.
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  • 60 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The former Federal Commissioner of Lands and Mines, Tuan Haji Abdul Rahman bin Mohamed Salleh, 57, died at the General Hospital here early this morning. Tuan Haji Abdul Rahman retired in August last year after 35 years in Government service. He will
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  • 700 4 Scratching for a living daily in dirt aid filth... A seven-year-old girl helps her mother to sort out rusty iron nails to be sold at five cento a kati. The nails are collected in the container by her foot. .—Story by— i TAN MAY LIN QUITE by accident, Herald reporter
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  • 272 4 Prof. Chin to chair Research Council in Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Prof Chin Fung Kee, Deputy Vice-Chan-cellor and Head of the Department of Engineering of the University of Malaya, has been appointed Chairman of the Council of National Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research. The council will comprise four representatives
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  • 270 5 Yong lays foundation stone for Sentosa satellite station MR. YONG Nyuk Lin, Singapore's Minister for Communications, laid the foundation stone for Singapore's satellite communication earth station on Sentosa yesterday. The $10 million station will be completed ln August this year and will initially enable Singapore to be in television contact
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  • 209 5 KUALA LUMPUR, San. A book aimed at changing the mental attitude of the Malays will be aa for sale here next weak Written by a panel of university professors, politicians aad historians It deals with the basic problems of Malay economic
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  • 87 5 Just what the doctors ordered KUALA LUMPUR, Sun- A four-man French medical mission will arrive here on Feb. 21 for a two-week visit to give expert advice to Malaysian medical personnel. A spokesman of the French Embassy said todsy that the team was msde up of four •professors in clinicology,
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  • 217 5 HE tends to the affairs of 31 nations. He is the servant of 31 heads of government. So naturally, when he had time to relax yesterday after the rigours of the conference, Commonwealth Secretary General Arnold Smith went shopping in a
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  • 202 5 PHONE LINK AIDS COMMONWEALTH INDIA, Pakistan and Ceylon are channelling their telephone calls to Britain through Singapore because of the postal strike in Britain. This is because the Telecommunications Department here has a semi-automatic dialling system which allows the operators to dial direct to British
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  • 92 5 TOP PRIZES TO THAI, MALAYSIAN SINGERS MISS Sim Cheu, 17, of Thailand and Mr. Fum Wah Thiam of Malaysia won the Far East Queen and King Song titles at the National Theatre on Saturday. They were awarded a 20-day tour of Europe, $1,000, a watch and trophy each. Malaysia- Singapore
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  • 178 5 Joint plea for a chance to compete with COMFORT DRIVERS of school buses and school taxis want the Government to allow them to carry public servants to and from work in addition to carrying school children. The spokesmen of the newlyformed Singapore School Bus Owners' Association and the Singapore School
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  • 611 6 HEALTH FORUM Upset mind, upset stomach MR. CHAN had trouble with indigestion for years. Anyway, that was what he told me when he dropped in for a check-up the other afternoon. "Can't understand it this time," he said, "usually clears up after a day or two after I've cut out
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  • 616 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Five Cabinet Ministers, three Mentris Besar and two Assistant Ministers have been elected to the Umno Executive Council. They are among 20 elected to serve on the council from a total of 64 candidates at the 22nd Umno General
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  • 191 6 'DON'T BUILD HOTELS WHICH ARE TOO BIG' ADVICE TO MALAYSIA PENANG, Sua. A British hotelier today advised Malaysians not to build Mg hotels of 400 to 500 rooms as this would result la losing -"personal service.'"' The advice came from a director of Bryanston Court Hotel la London, Mr. H.
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  • 158 6 KEPPEL Shipyard Is now completing repairs worth nearly $500,000 to a Japanese oil rig, the Hakuryu-Go (White Dragon). The lob Includes a general overall for the rig's 10 engines, and the Installation of two 30-ton mnd pumps, a distiller and high pressure pipelines. Mr.
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  • 336 6 VIPs on way home visit Kuala Lumpur KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. President Sir Dawda Jawara of Gambia, President Sir Seretse Khama of Botswana, and Premier Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara of Fiji and their wives flew in here today to .begin a three-day official visit. The leaders, who are on their way
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  • 76 6 SITIAWAN, Sun.— A 15-year-old boy has been detained by police here after reports that two girls aged five and six, were raped in Ayer Tawar, near here, yesterday. A police spokesman said todav that the two girls were neighbours of the boy. ODD SMOO FLOOD
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  • 331 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia said today that representatives of Opposition parties in the National Consultative Council should be allowed to appear on TV and Radio to explain to the people their views on the proposed constitutional amendments contained in a Government white
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  • town talk
    • 477 7  -  A.K. LEE By DESPITE the fears and ferocious speeches which preceeded it, the Conference was a success. But looking back, it almost seems to have been pre-ordained. Old you notice that the rain which had been pouring down daily suddenly stopped when the first leaders
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    • 130 7 8 am— B pm: Exhibition of works by Charles Dickens at the foyer of the National Library Stamford Road. 10 am— 6 pm: Exhibition of works by Commonwealth writers at the National Library, Stamford Road. 10 am 7 pm: Display of some exhibits shown by some countries at
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    • 147 7 New Year dinner for staff of paint firm NIPPON Paint (S) Co. Pte. Ltd, a joint venture between Singapore and Japanese businessmen, treated their staff to a Chinese dinner on Saturday at the residence of its Managing Director, Mr. Goh Cheng Liang. About 30 tables were .aid out on the
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    • 273 7 Envoy's party for Mrs B THE IJigh Commissioner of Ceylon, Mr. H.O. Wijegoonawardena, and his wife held a tea party on Thursday in honour of his country's Prime Minister, Mrs. S. Bandaranaike just before the conference of the Commonwealth Heads of Government ended. _M Mrs. Bandaranaike _^W cutting the cake.
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    • Nancy Wong's Social Notes
      • 54 7 MISS Audrey Virginia Mary Kaur was married to Mr. Vincent Muthu at the Church of our Lady of Lourdes last Saturday. The bride Is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Blshen Singh. Hie bridegroom Is the youngest son of S.V. S. Muthu, owner of Adrian's Caae
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      • 65 7 THE Singapore Chamber Ensemble and the National Library will start a monthly series of recorded music recitals beginning at 8.00 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 31. The first programme will be presented by Prof. McEvoy Bo we of the University of Singapore and will Include works by Handel,
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    • 120 7 BLONDIE By Chic Young !J||lP— lIS THAT WHV HT Ifi I j >~ SUMSTEAD.' I I y\\Y~^** ,>_ **\lX _^~i rODA IS 1-^ VOU >-OOK I ARE VOU OUT IP SHE /J_ eA ViN<3 TOWN S 0 DOWNCAST, J OP VOUR THINKS I'M HAPPV fjSFKS vSEKS DITHERS'** f |W ,M
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    • 387 7 I Starscope f IIvOBB IHIBBMi \wW___\t »r ■_-^MH_^-^_^-^-_^__^_i _h^h _m_^_i _h__h h .fr J The fulfilment of an A day for reunions Following informa- If ambition may call for which give more than tion gleaned in a If particularly decisive usual pleasure and chance encounter you action, but you will
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  • 429 8 WILL DIRTY AIR BE MAJOR PROBLEM IN S'PORE? I READ with interest the statement by the Minister for Health, Mr. Chua Sian Chin, (S.H. Jan. 15) that motor vehicles contribute 60 per cent of the pollution in the air whereas electric and power plants contribute only about 30 per cent
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  • 202 8 Don't allow parking of vehicles on the highways THE expressways and autobahns of most large cities are clear of parked vehicles. But in Singapore, unfortunately, vehicles are permitted to park along double carriage ways at Woodlands Road and the whole length of this major trunk road, Braddell Road, MacPherson Road
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  • 305 8 WE refer to the letter by "Chuchi Lah" (S.H. Jan. 18). We would like to bring to "Chuchi Lah's" attention that our Singapore Life Guard Corps hut in Changi is a place where our volunteer qualified Life Guards meet and go out for duties along the
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  • 237 8 Conference shows Heath's hypocrisy wmmwmm THE Conference of Commonwealth Heads has served as an eye-opener, revealing the sickening hypocrisy of both Edward Heath and John Gorton. Their declaration against apartheid and racial discrimination is mere lip service. They split hairs over the wordings of documents, they brought up imaginary "legal
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  • 226 8 WHERE SENIOR MEN BULLY THEIR JUNIORS REGARDING the report about the customs officers at Woodlands Station being referred to as "high-class cleaners and gardeners," my colleagues and I feel that it's about time the matter be looked into. The report was true in every sense and was appreciated by us.
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  • 183 8 MY SON was among the civil servants assigned to drive the Commonwealth delegates. He underwent a drlving-cnm-familiarlsation course last December. On Jan. 2, he was seconded to the M.I.D. Beach Road Camp far farther training and also standby duty. He was responsible far the Mercedes
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  • 243 8 Can head force teachers to give to funds? HAVE school principals the right to force their teachers to contribute to a staff fund if they feel that such a fund will not serve any purpose? The principal of a certain secondary school in the Red hi 11 area has ordered
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  • 128 8 GPO will take action if details are given I REFER to the letter from "Disgusted" (S.H. Jan. 6) published under the heading "Time the GPO improves service." I would like to thank the writer for his general observations concerning the staff at the General Post Office counter. In this connection,
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  • 148 8 DISPERSE THE HIPPIES A GROUP of hippie-looking boys are hanging around in Commonwealth Drive near Tanglin Halt. Their presence there makes the residents feel uneasy, uncomfortable and very unhappy. It Is learned that a resident there a hawker has lost a crate of oranges outside his flat. Just recently, my
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  • 268 8 CALL FOR MORE VOLUNTARY WORKERS AND FUNDS TWO of the main objects of the Singapore Association for Mental Health are firstly to overcome public apathy and prejudice against mental illhealth, and secondly to assist In the rehabilitation of those who have been mentally ill. These aims cannot be achieved without
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  • 248 8 The role of a college head THE answer to Student's naive query, "who will be responsible if the college girls of Eusoff College were to get into trouble," is surely the girls themselves. Any girl who cannot look after herself and be responsible for her own action should still be
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  • 292 8 ON Jan. 19 at about 10.10 a.m. I waited for a STC bus (service 20) at a "request stop" on East Coast Road, between the STB Katong Exchange and Haig Road. After nearly 20 minutes, a bus arrived and although I raised by hand to
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  • 206 9 58 in Guinea face death penalty MONROVIA, Sun. The Guinean National Assembly today sentenced 58 detainees to death for their alleged part in the November invasion and other plots against the regime. Roman Catholic Archbishop Raymond Tchidimbo of Conakry was among 66 people sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour,
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  • 63 9 Ship finds bodies of missing seamen CARLOFORTE, Sardinia, Sun. An Italian navy ship today recovered the bodies of six of the IS seamen missing from the American-owned oil tanker Universe Patriot, which burned and went aground on Thursday. Italian maritime officials said a search plane had spotted other bodies in
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  • 80 9 MILAN, Sun. Police and left-wing militants fought for almost two hours early today in the Milan suburbs after the eviction of several families of squatters who had occupied empty apartments. The young militants, protesting against the eviction, threw paving stones and bolts at the police,
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  • 73 9 JAKARTA, Sun. The Ethiopian Government supports the candidature of Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik aa chairman of the United Nations General Assembly. An Antara dispatch from Beirut reported here today that many other African countries are also expected to support Mr. Malik's candidature. Mr.
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  • 86 9 HAITIANS IN DEMO AGAINST 'PAPA DOC' NEW YORK, Sun.- A group of sign-carrying Haitian expatriates demonstrate before United Nations headquarters here against what a spokesman called "the political manoeuvres used by President 'Papa Doc' Duvalier's regime to perpetuate its illegal and oppressive rule." Last week. Mr. Duvalier, Haiti's ailing President
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  • 182 9 BELFAST, (Northern Ireland), Sun. Protestant rioters set six cars ablaze and attacked a police station last night as street fighting flared again in Belfast. The skirmishes were the first Protestant fighting for months in the capital, where Reman Catholic riots have raged sporadically for the past
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  • 126 9 DKAWADA CITY, Sun. Cats In thus city have scars abaat their faces marks ef attacks by king-sized rats measuring 12 Inches. Ifceoe mammoth rats are terrorising cats and tearing ap oil drums with their teeth, mm m\ I Ml Agncaatmre^rat eau y Ministry SnaranHne
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  • 33 9 ODD WARSAW, Sun. Kazimierz Swltla, Communist Poland's chief of internal security services which includes the secret police has resigned. He has been replaced by Franclszek Szlachic, 50, a former police chief in Silesia.
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  • 88 9 LONDON, Sun. Crowd barriers gave way at two English soccer matches yesterday, injuring at least 30 fans. Most of the casualties occurred when a small brickwall collapsed at Oxford's Manor Ground Stadium. The second crowd barrier broke up at a match in Carlisle. Five
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  • 428 9 Manila bombs: 'Huks are to blame' MANILA, Sun. President Ferdinand Marcos last night accused the outlawed Philippine Communist Party of bombing the main Manila offices of the American oil firms, Esso and Caltex. The attacks, which occurred within minutes of each other on Friday night, resulted in the death of
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  • 167 9 SAN FRANCISCO, Sun. Twice within eight months Lily Jee, 41, has shot aad killed a robber at the store where her husband was slain la a hold-up 10 years ago. Homicide Inspector David ToscM said a gunman with a loaded revolver tn his
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  • 89 9 JEDDAH, Sun. Sir William Luce, personal envoy of British Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas- Home, arrived here yesterday on a mission to outline British policy on the* Arabian (Persian) Gulf. Sir William is later to go on to Bahrein, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Muscat
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  • 81 9 BERN, Switzerland, Sun. Swiss engineer Alfred Frauenknecht will go on trial on March 15 before tbe Swiss Federal Court in Lausanne, charged with selling thousands of top secret blueprints on the manufacture of the French Mirage fighter plane engine to Israel, an official juridicial source
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  • 325 9 TEHERAN, Iran, Sun. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran warned today that ten oil producing countries will definitely consider a shutdown of supplies to the West if current price talks with the big international oil companies break down. The ten nations members of
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  • 160 9 EMERGENCY AFTER RIOTS ON CAMPUS TUCSON, Arizona, Sun. Mayor James Corbett declared a 48-hour state of emergency and night-time curfew on and around the University of Arizona campus where authorities made 40 arrests and six policemen were injured last night. Two of the injured officers required hospital treatment and an
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  • 68 9 TEHERAN, Sun. French and Iranian archeologists have discovered remains of a 2,500--year-old Palace of Xerxes at Jaffar-Abad, near Susa, southwest Iran. The Franco-Iranian team, headed by Prof. Jean Peru, have unearthed a hall with 64 stone pillars and cellar. The digging also uncovered wall paintings
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  • 57 9 SAIGON, Sun. Fire razed a market and slum area in Central Saigon today, injuring at least 14 people and leaving hundreds homeless. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. Saigon residents reported that particular area had suffered several major fires in past
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  • 51 9 TAIPEH, Sun. Taiwan's off-shore islands Defence Command in Quemoy announced today it will halt shelling of the Mainland for five days starting Tuesday for the Chinese New Year. The Defence Command made it clear, however, that it will return fire if provoked by '.he Chinese.
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  • 155 9 TOKYO, Sun. —Thousands of people including many who admired his literature but not his politics came out today to pay last respects to novelist Yukio Mlshima, who committed harakiri. In November, after protesting against limits on Japan's self-defence forces. Quiet praying apart from discussing wrong or
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  • 192 10 NEW DELHI, Sun. India today ordered the expulsion of the Pakistan High Commission First Secretary, Zafar Iqbal Rathod, for "active involvement" in organising and directing an underground organisation called "Al Fatah" in Kashmir. An official announcement said Mr Rathod had been declared persona non
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  • 274 10 BADEN-BADEN, Sun. A West German salesman said yesterday that 14 cases of Nazi documents resting on the bottom of Lake Toplitz in Austria hold the secret of millions of dollars the Nazi hierarchy transported to Switzerland in the final days of World War 11.
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  • 167 10 LONDON, Sua. For the first time a leading Labour Party member of parliament, Peter Shore, farmer Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, has come out against BriUin joining the Common Market. Speaking today la his constituency, Stepney, la East London, Mr. Shore,
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  • 289 10 SACRAMENTO, Califoraia, San. Senator George McGevern yesterday arr nasi President Nixon af flagrant violation of ceagressleaal g aid < linn against expanding the war hi Smith-Bast Asia. Both he aad Senator Edmund Mnskle, courting sapper! ef Caltfaraia Democrats for 1i72, declared that the Nlxea adn_i__ls.ra.toa
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  • 577 10 sdfasfasfdasfasdf DEMILITARISED ZONE, South Vietnam, Sun. North Vietnamese troops today lobbed eight mortar bombs across the Ben Hai river at a South Vietnamese convoy which had just released 37 North Vietnamese prisoners of war. One South Vietnamese soldier was wounded in the surprise attack which
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  • 201 10 PHNOM PENH, Sua. The Cambodian Government yester day Imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew oa two key boulevards hi the capital following aa attack aa the airport that cost Cambodia mast of Its air farce. A Government spokesman said everyone would he barred from Norodom Boulevard, the city's
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  • 288 10 WASHINGTON, Sun. Senator Clifford P. Case said yesterday that secret Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) subsidies had financed most operating costs of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty which beam broadcasts to Communist 1 eastern Europe. He called for an end to such financing in announcing
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  • 61 10 Peking- Tokyo talks soon? TOKYO, Sun. Officials close to Prime Minister Eisaku Sato would like to arrahge for top officials of his Liberal Democratic Party to go to Peking for talks. Kyodo News Service said these officials want former Foreign Minister A Lie hi ro Fujiyama to sound out Communist
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  • 60 10 JAKARTA, Sun. Fifteen people were killed and about 100,000 people were rendered homeless by recent floods which hit North Sumatra and the Atjeh regions. Antara News Agency reported today that many bridges, roads and railways in the two districts were seriously damaged and relief teams
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  • 96 10 CAPETOWN, Sun. The Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, Gonville Auble French-Beytagh, will probably appear in court next week on a charge of subversive activities, South African Police Minister, Laurence Muller, announced here today. He said that, pending a declsloa by the AttorneyGeneral, he could give
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  • 297 10  -  Herald Knight asfasdfasdf 28-YEAR-OLD American Grandmaster Bobby Fischer won the 1970 Interzonal Tournament held recently at Palma de Mallorca, Spain, and with Larsen (Denmark), Hubner (West Germany), Uhlmann (East Germany), and Geller, Taimanov (Soviet Union), will join Petrosian, and Kortschnoj (both Soviet Union) in the World Championship
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  • 1425 11 asdfasdfasdf THE WINDS of change swept through UMNO during the last few days toppling old leaders and bringing up new ones to replace them. While Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak and Deputy Prime Minister Tun Dr. Ismail were assured of the two top UMNO posts,
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  • 1275 11  -  DAVID LOSHAK By in NEW DELHI AS INDIA prepares for its fifth general election, Mrs. Gandhi may wryly recall that when she last went to the country, in 1967, one Western commentor was tempted into speculating that there could well never be another such election, so great seemed
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  • 215 12 Gee, Honey you're the top dog OVER 160 dogs of 22 different breeds competed in the Singapore Championship Dog Show at the Port of Singapore Authority Recreation Club over the weekend. Top dog was Honey a 22--year-old labrador owned and trained by Mrs. Diane C. Hunt. Mrs. Hunt is an
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  • 129 12 HONGKONG, Sun. American hotel group, Hyatt International Corporation, will take over maaagemeat of the famed Lavinla Hotel In Colombo, Ceylon, by the ead of this month. Mr. Brian Bryce, Vn East Area vice-president ef Hyatt, announced here today that the resort hotel would be operated
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  • 64 12 BANGKOK, Sun. Twentyseven Dutch citizens 24 of them women tomorrow will visit the graves of relatives who died while working as prisoners of Warona 'segment of the infamous Burma railway during Japan's occupation of Thailand in World War 11. The cemetery is located
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  • 273 12 National school system proposal accepted AFFILIATES of the Malay Education Council have accepted a Malay Teachers' Union proposal for a national school system at a special meeting during the weekend. If the system is adopted, ah subjects wfll be taught in English, except the National Language and a second language.
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  • 488 12 'Unpleasant reaction' warning to Britain if... MANY Asian and African countries may take action "which may not be very pleasant" if Britain acts contrary to the spirit of the eightnation study group. Dr. Okoi Arikpo, Nigeria's Commissioner for External Affairs, said this in an eve-of-departure interview on his impressions of
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  • 161 12 LONDON. Sua. Fifty per cent of Britons oppose the Tory Government's plan to resume arms sales to South Africa, according to a Gallup Opinion Poll published today by the Sunday Telegraph. Only 31 per cent were in favour of the controversial sales, discussion of
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  • 371 12 NEW DELHI, Sun. Prime Minister Indira .Gandhi's Congress Party adopted today a moderate, basically centrist campaign manifesto for the March Parliamentary elections that condemns extremism from the Left and the Right. Taking note of an upsurge of terrorist activities by militant Communists and the formation two
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  • Section If
    • 352 13 OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOMS... SINGAPORE'S schoolteachers 64 of them who turned protocol officers during the Commonwealth talks have received high praise from the delegations they served. They ran errands for the senior delegates shopping for some, getting suits tailored for others. Another chore was seeing that
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    • 251 13 Who cares where the party's held— se long as you have fun! IT IS VERY debatable whether parties held in gaily decorated rooms with all the paraphernalia or parties held in a bare field devoid of decoration are the most fun. And also whether the children should come all dressed
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    • 242 13 THE certification marking system for made in- Singapore quality, products is expected to be introduced soon by the Government. The Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research and the Government are working on details of the scheme, according to a
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    • 277 13 WORKMEN are rushing to complete the Japanese Industrial Exposition pavilion in Kallang Park. The exposition starts on Feb. 20 and will last 14 days. The exhibits are now in a warehouse and are expected to be moved to the
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    • 167 13 SCOUTS up to their monkey tricks again. Nothing unusual about that though, as part of a scout's training includes being able to swing from one tree to another on a monkey bridge. What Is unusual about these scouts though is that, firstly they are
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    • 233 13 BUDDHIST EXAM TO CONTINUE UNDER CEYLON'S SUPERVISION A BUDDHIST examination, which started in Singapore some 20 years ago under Ceylon's supervision, will continue after all in spite of fears that it would stop when Mrs. Bandar a n a i k e's government took over. The Venerable Ananda Mangala Thera,
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    • 129 13 President Benjamin Sheares yesterday took the salute at his first parade inspection of officer cadets at the Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute in Pasir Laba. The parade was witnessed by Defence Minister Goh Keng Swee and other Cabinet Ministers. In his
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    • 128 13 THE Fire Brigade had an extremely busy day yesterday. Between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. there were no fewer than IS lallang fires. The fire engines were sent speeding to various parts of the island to fight the fires at Tanjong
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    • 132 13 KOTA BHARU, Sun. The Kelantan Chinese Chamber of Commerce has suggested that the state Sino-Malay Economic Advisory Board should be expanded to be a Malaysian economic advisory board to enable other chambers of commerce in the state to help the Malays in business. The
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 45 13 imnj THE numbers picked la yesterday's Toto draw were: 43, 9, 1, 28, 25. The additional number was 35. Circles draw numbers were 1, 30 and 8. TODAY: 8.57 am (8.9 ft.); 11.14 pm (8.4 ft.) TOMORROW: 9.51 am (9.5 ft.); 11.50 pm (8.8 ft.)
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  • 101 14 PUB revenue going up year by year THE Public Utilities Board's annual revenue has shown an increase over the years from $80 million in 1963 to $186 million last year. The number of consumers' accounts also rose from 154,000 in 1963 to 292,936 by June last year. Totai income for
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  • 448 14 Telecoms a statutory board by end of year THE Telecommunications Department is expected to foe converted into a statutory board by the end of this year earlier than planned, it was learnt yesterday. Communications Minister Yong Nyuk Lin announced the proposed conversion last Oct. 26. He had said it was
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  • 195 14  -  NANCY WONG HAVE you ever wondered why flowers in the tropics don't have such a strong scent as those in the temperate climates? Or how many species of trees and firs there are in Singapore and Malaysia? Or whether the English violet or American
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  • 167 14  - YOU CAN BANK ON IT SAW A NEW YEAR TREE LADEN WITH ORANGES PHILLIP LIM By WE'VE all heard of Christmas trees, hut a New Year tree? Well, I found one the other day. Ia my bank. It was hung with fruit and all around lay ang pows. It was
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  • 199 14 THE Singapore National Pugilistic Federation has called on its affiliates to submit names of their instructors willing to help prepare a modern and simple form of the Chinese art of self defence. The fedexation vice-pre-sident, Mr Tan Han Seng, said yesterday that they,
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1078 15 j Ud I Sta v RADIO view |I'IIIIIIIIIIHHMIIHIIIIIIIIIimiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIII^ 12? _f^_T al 11 1 500 °P« nln a »h* Programme Summary 3.50 A Diary Of Events In Singapore This Week 5.05 Pok Amai2 Children's Programme m\2-%"tl. 5 35 Thm Bu K« loo "Bonita's Double -5 4.00 it's Happening In Singapore (Tamil
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  • Article, Illustration
    399 16 MONDA Y RECIPE BESIDES serviag the asoal tray af sweet goodies this New Yearwhy aat fill a savoury tray aa well? Ike sweet tray should be retailed ta sweetea yaw aew year, but Uvea ap palates with savoury pastries aa well. If yaw have time, yon caa hake year ewa
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  • YEAR of the PIG
    • 502 16 You re so lazy, but we still like you THE NEW Year belongs to the Pigs people born in the years 1959, 1947, 1923 and 1899. It is said that certain characteristics of the pig are theirs, like being lazy, enjoying food and sleep. But be consoled. To the Chinese,
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    • 444 16 FOR OTHER people who bad the misfortune not to be bora la the Year of the Pig; 1888, ItOO, 1812, 1824, 1838, 1848,1888. RATB: Because their aUads and 1 m aginations are ao active. Rata require quite a tot of reat. limy should
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 438 16 [GARNISH... land adorn TO GARNISH to te adore, decorate, embellish. Bat garalshes ■ca B be more than Jast decorative. They may coaslst of the cempeeeats af the dtoh lteetf. However meat garalshes are ■.made frem fresh traits aad vegetables, which are extraaeoas to ■the dtoh. IW tradltteaal art af vegetable
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  • 575 17 How low will they go? f OR CHOUX rv FILLINGS EN FILLING chicken, shredded aaded In a mertar. with aa equal iy af hatter aad sd with salt, freshly Mack pepper. A af lemon juice and bp ef tabasco caa ad. Flaeiy chipped sack as tarragon, i aad parsley, caa
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  • 541 17 I'd always thought that Ingrld Bergman waa too good to be true; she couldn't possibly be so serene and charming all the time. But she is real, she is Interesting. In true stage tradition she wanted to be an actress from the mgt
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  • Economic Affairs/Shipping
    • 811 18 TEHERAN, Sun. The Latest round of price talks involving the world's major oil companies was being trailed here as a victory for the producing nations, but as more details of the discussions leaked out it became clear that some thorny issues remain unsettled. They
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    • 359 18 COLOUR TELEVISION RE TOKYO, Sun. Sony Corp. said it has developed Trinitron-type colour- television receivers that can be used to receive PAL system and Sec am system telecasts. Sony said a 31-centi-metre model (equivalent to a 12-inch set bv United States standards) has already been introduced in France
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    • 1042 18 mu text ot an annex (on economic matters) to the communique issued sfter the Commonwealth Heads of Government C onference which ended on Friday. The annex was not relessed for genersl distribution but has been written into the records of the conference. Heads
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    • 375 18 THE directors of South East Asia Development Corporation (Seacorp) say they have been informed that an international financial institution has acquired overseas a substantial minority interest in the company at a price of 51. 25 per share. In a notice to shareholders on Saturday, the di
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    • 149 18 PEOPLE in business Mr. G.S.B. WILLIAMS, a divisional director of tbe Burmah OU Group, will visit Singapore on February 4. Mr. Williams and three other divisional directors are responsible for policy liaison between the group companies and the parent board. He was group development director of Castrol before his appointment
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    • 154 18 THE PORT OF SINGAPORE AUTHORITY HAS MADE THESE BERTHING ARRANGEMENTS FOR JANUARY, 25. OUT: Trianon 38/39; Giang Ann 20 west; Anna Taylor 23/24; Hsing Lung 40/41; Vishva Tirth 47; Anna Bakke 8/9; Hua Heng 21 east. I N Centaur (after MUlerovo) 45; Bombay Maru (after Cardiganshire) 6/7;
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    • 382 18 Conditions were irregular on Saturday as a fair amount of profittaking alternated with some fresh buying. Prices, however, closed easy with the stock average 4.56 yen lower at 2,109.17 yen. Battery 'firms and auto parts makers were featured following an announcement by the Industrial and Technology Agency
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    • 197 18 Australian stock markets continued their recent downward drift into the past week. The Sydney all ordinaries index reached 487, only marginally above the previous low of 470 reached in the bear market of 1970. Mining stocks continued to be sold down. Declining issues included Queensland Mines at
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    • 402 18 LONDON STOCK EXCHAWEE The market was slightly I interim due shortly. Other firmer during the past leaders moved narrowly, week following the wall Government bonds street upturn although the continued to move ahead, postal strike induced although gains were pared caution and kept volume on profit-taking. Rises still low latterly.
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  • 835 19 KEY FOR EASY REFERENCE. The shipping schedules beginning on this page mtm given in four parts for ships westbound, eastbound. southbound and coastal. Each entry gives the following information: NAME OF SHIP, date of arrival/departure, ports of call, name of line abbreviated/name of agent(s) abbreviated. At the bottom
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 751 19 LINES DD. I <'*CORW»UTtO IW THC WUSUC Of S_WC4PORt) ICB BUILDING 2 SHENTON WAV StNGAPQRC V TEL SS3S33-7. U.K. EUROPE SERVICE LOADING FOR LONDON, H'BURG, R'DAM, HAVRE, ».l'h.m P«MM ARBIVIB NCPTUNC AMSCR 30 j -n /3 Feb 4/5 Feb 6 Feb H'burg S*/3. S'Bam U/3 Havre 14/3. L'don 18/3 NCPTUNC
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    • 340 19 J Mntwerp. OOL/CFS AFT Anglo-French Trading Co. (Pte) Ltd. *****/8 "C Harrisons A -Crosfield ***** NOL Neptune Orient Unes Ltd .*****3/7 ASC Alcos Steamship Corpn. *****6 __^-__.aa_a M APL An-^icanPre^oontuL ***** K l***?*^***" 33 L Ori^ L^ Bh »3071 AUS Austasia Une 71 291 AL Interasia shipping Agency 9841 58/9
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  • 513 20 Including ships sailing out of Singapore for Far East ports to the northeast. ALASKA MARU p tb 5/6 --•o a/e Hongkong, Japan. MOSK/LEO ALCOS MASTER Apr 19/22 QMk Yokoham-i Vancouver B.C. Jeddah. aol/asc ALCOS RANGER M .r 18/21 Osaka, Y'h.ma, V.ncouvr, B.C. Jeddah. AOL/ASC ALCOS VICTORY F#b 20/23 OMktf
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  • 271 20 Including ships calling at Malaysian and Indonesian ports. AUSTRAL MARU Feb 20/22 Sydney/Manokwai/Biak/ Hamarinda. DU/DU "CHERRY BAGUS" J?*^ 5 Kuching. L S /LS CHERRY CHEPAT SLS TDY Sibu. Sarikei. Binatang. LS/LS DARPO LIMA jan 26/30 Pangkal Balam. Sl/S DARPOSATU Jan3o/Feb4 Sorong/Biak/Djajapura. SI/SI FERNLAND Mar 8 P. S'ham (Mar 16).
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  • 178 20 Mainly ships bound for Australia and New Zealand, including ships calling at Manila, etc. MALAYSIA Jan3l/Feb3 P. S'ham (Feb 4/5), S'pore (Feb 6/8), P. Moresby (Feb 17), Sydney (Feb 24). AUS/AUS NEPTUNE JASPEP In Pt/Feb 1 Sydney (Feb 12), Adelaide (Feb 18), Melbourne (Feb 22). NOL/NOL i RENOIR Mar
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    • 611 20 ■^JJ I MALAYSIAN INTERNATIONAL ■I I SHIPPING CORPORATION BERHAD M i No. 30E Jin. Ampang, Kuala Lumpur. M H The National Shipping Line of Malaysia FAR EAST/EUROPE SERVICE ttacoporo P.S'ham r_M*| Arrtvoo: ST. CONSTANTINE* 27/30 Jon In Port L.Hovro 2«/2. MOurj 2/3. London 4/3. R'dam 1/3 Antwerp 10/3. BUNOA MELOR
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  • 313 21 PRICES on the Stock Exchange last week fell on a broad front as profittaking followed a steady start. There was a slight rally on Thursday which was quickly wiped out, and the market closed weaker again on Friday. Friday. Trading volume was smaller at 8,517,000
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  • 96 21 Kaala Stdim Rabber: Today, noon at registered office, 52 Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur. Cycle aad Carriage: Feb. 1, noon at 4th floor, Denmark House, Raffles Quay, Singapore l. Malayan Tobacco: Feb. 1, noon at registered office, 178/3 Jalan Sungei Besl, Kuala Lumpur. Kemna* (Malaya): Feb. 5. U a.m.
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  • 271 21 Current Dato Total for Total for Watß» _-*y«bl« the year previous year Ulußenut(l) 9% Feb. 24 9 6% Bent* Rubber <2) 7*% Peb. 10 I 2*% Feb. 10 10 10 S.Tim«(3) 26% Feb. 16 30 27*% East. Smelt. <4) ao j^ 1 S. P. Textile (3) 5% 12*%
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  • 198 21 TOKYO, San. The Japanese Government has drawn np n Hat af abeat IM na— JM which wUI receive preferential tariff treatment -tram Jaly 1 and these Inclnde China, Bulgaria and Rnmanla, Kyedo News Service reported. The news agency, quoting Government senrces, said Hoagkong
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  • 96 21 Yugoslav dinar devalued BELGRADE, Sun. Yugoslavia yesterday announced devaluation of the national currency, dinar, by 17 per cent In an effort to stabilise an ailing economy marred by raging inflation. The devaluation will not affect Yugoslavia's foreign trade and financial partners, because Yugoslavia deals with foreign countries based on U.S.
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  • 924 21 STOCK EXCHANGE OF MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE 1970 C mpany Clorin, Price, Yield Weekly Turnovers Hith L W on week Buyer. Seller. Divid. Earn. Ready Delayed '000 ♦or »000 +or SINGAPORE INCORPORATED INDUSTRIALS 2.50 1.20 Aetna i q* iAt 4.60 2.60 AW* Choc. IH Wo *~2 "J J'
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  • 389 21 EXCEPT for a steadier pepper section, the Singapore produce markets had a relatively quiet week ended Jan. 23 and price fluctuations were mostly marginal. Copra arrivals Included 100 tons from Sabah and another 100 tons from Indonesia. The commodity f.o.b. price edged up by $i a picul. Sixty
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  • 27 21 FRESHER 'S INDUSTRIAL INDICES Singapore Malaysia Jan. 18 669.28 432.43 19 665.76 430.46 20 663,31 428.09 21 667.36 428.99 22 666.99 429.34 Chances on week -3.38 -4.09
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  • 239 21 SYDNEY, Sun. Australians have been jolted by official figures that show a sharp jump in living costs in the last three months of 1970. There was speculation about the possibility of an early mmi budget that would increase income tax and other direct taxes
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  • 140 21 BANGKOK, Sun. Thailand has rejected a request from Taiwanese buyers to postpone a 38,500-tons maize order from February to March. The Thai Maize Export Control Committee, however, has agreed to another Taiwanese request to put off a 55,000--ton maize order scheduled to be made this month to February, a
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  • 124 21 LONDON, Sun. Producer countries of the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) have requested a special council meeting to discuss the market situation. The ICO Executive Board did not endorse the request but agreed to pass it on to the council chairman Gunnar Kjoelstdt of Norway. Since the meeting was asked
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  • 85 21 HONGKONG, Sun. Traders from Singapore were active in purchasing Chinese raw silk on the Hongkong market during the past week for reexport to India. A total of 10 bales (133 lbs. each) of Canton raw silk steam filature white 20/22 denier 4 G' grade was transacted at HK5103.30 per
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  • 60 21 LONDON, Sun. The executive committee of the International Sugar Organisation will meet world free market situa♦hlL^ decide whether m«~ to a case to more sugar on the market, the organisation said Aggressive buvine continued on Friday •endlna the London dally Price higher to £50.30 a tff___! ta shJIUn «s
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 928 22 mmm I ADVERTISEMENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ANNIVERSARIES. AN NOUNCEMENTS. BIRTHS. CLUB ACTIVITIES. CON DOLENCES. DEATHS. ENGAGEMENTS, FUNERAL. GREET INGS. IN MEMORIAM. MARRIAGES. MISSING. PERSONAL PPC REQUIEMS 4 REUNIONS Minimum $8/ tor 20 words, each additional word 40cts. All other classified advertisements Minimum $4/ for 20 words, each additional word POcts L BOX
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    • 511 22 QUALIFY IN ADVERTISING through Advertising Institute of Australia expert coaching by I.C.S. (O) Ltd., Dept. Al, P.O. Box 1538. Singapore 1. Telephone *****. BOOK-KEEPING. ACCOUNTANCY. Costing Secretaryship. Private Secretaryship, Banking careers guide books. Price: 550.90 cts. (each). M.Arunachalam, P.O. Box 2124, Kuala Lumpur. DIPLOMA IN INTERIOR DESIGN by correspondence course.
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    • 857 22 MKAI ALSATIAN PUPPIES Female only. Rmg ***** or view at 19 Bright Hill Crescent. Singapore ADRIAN'S CANE FURNITURE of distinction and furnishing materials of superior quality Pleese consult Adrian's 425 River Valley Road. S'pore. Tel. *****4. CALL IDEAL FURNITURE CO 19 Upper Cross Street. Ideal Home needs ideal furniture. Tel:
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    • 261 22 __-^^f^n_-b^sj__aj^a__*<Ph^k_ak^k^k_nai ECONOMIC FLIGHTS TO EUROPE WEEKLY DEPARTURE HONGKONG/KOWLOON (MACA'U) 8 Days $765 OAILY DEPARTURE HONGKONG(MACAU BANGKOK 8 DAYS $845 DAILY DEPARTURE TAIWAN/HONGKONG/BANGKOK 12/10 DAYS $1330 $1250 ABOVE TOURS DEPART: 28-1. 10-2. 21-2. 7-3. 21-3. TAIWAN/KOREA/JAPAN/HONGKONG/BANGKOK 21/19/16 DAYS $2050, $1950. $1870 28-1, 10-2. 21-2, 7-3. 21-3. JAPAN/TAIWAN/HONGKONG 16/14 OAYS $1790 $1690
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  • RACING HERALD
    • 2047 23 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Happy Melody 11, ridden by Lyle Harbridge, won the Cup trial over 9f here today and set a new course record of 1 min. 50-2/5 sees. He broke Sungei Wang IFsmark of 1 min. 50-3/5 sees, set yesterday. Happy Melody II
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    • 66 23 KOREA'S BEST ATHLETE SEOUL, Sun.- Miss Paik Ok-Ja, 19, Asian Games gold medallist shotputter, has been named Korea's "Beat Athlete 1970" the Korean Amateur Sports Association said. Miss Paik, a freshman of Konkuk University in Seoul, aet the Asian shotput record of 14.57 metres to win a gold medal in
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 80 23 DAVY JONES By Sam Left WMtfTJ Mmtsmh^^ SCOTTY'S MOTHER ANP f I DIDN'T WANT HIM TO NOW YOU CAN SEE A f YES, SIR„. SCOTTY'S 1 WRY* 'm^mTl^mmmxx K2HSJ 9K SUfiSLi 0 SPEND A UFETIME LOOK- WHY THOSE OOCU VERY LUCKY TO HAVE A '5 T^M'l&m CI^NT. THE PAPERS IN
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    • 340 23 TWINSET CROSSWORD "i ~|Hp~~~HP~ HH____P~~"l 5 I I 6 I I 7 a WWWM mmmi ■H"""^^ 1 1^^ "~~|^l I^l I _-----i WmmM Hi ■HHHH~~^ 1 I fi3~^ I^l I Hi _______P*~"^l^^^^ 19 ■H______HH Hf HI ~^B2o~~^|2^^^ 22 II MB 24 j^ WmmW H— H ACROSS DOWN 4. Seasonable source
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  • 695 24 GOOD DAY FOR THE NORTHERN CLUBS IN FA CUP asdfasdfasdf LONDON, Sun.— Cup holders Chelsea were thrashed 3-0 on their home ground by First Division rivals Manchester City in yesterday's fourth round of the English FA Cup. It was the big shock in a round that had promised little in
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  • 483 24 ENGLISH LEAGUE DIVISION TWO W O L Pt». Hull 14 6 5 34 Luton 12 8 4 32 Cardiff 12 8 5 32 Leicester 13 6 6 32 Sheffield United 11 9 5 31 Middlesbrough 12 6 7 30 Norwich 9 11 5 29 Carlisle 9 10 6
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  • 99 24 This is a sight which probably won't be seen ln Singapore waters again for a long, long time. For what is probably the world's longest race for sailing dinghies wUI probably be only a minor eveat aezt year. Most of the competitors in yesterday's race were
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  • 204 24 SINGAPORE Teachers Union scored a convincing 3-1 win over Singapore Armed Forces S.A. in the Singapore Government Services Division 118 league match at Farrer Park yesterday. Attacking from "the start, the Teachers fought hard for the opening goal which they got in the 15th
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  • 303 24 Allpress first to cross finishing line in Osprey DAVID Allpress, the winner of the Republic of Singapore Yacht Club's annual regatta last week, was the first to cross the finishing line in the round-the-island annual regatta yesterday. Allpress's Osprey with Tom Collins as crew reached the finish at Naval Base
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  • 158 24 LONDON, Sun. British solo yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester is well behind schedule in his bid to cross the Atlantic at a record average speed of 200 miles a day in Gipsy Moth five, it was reported here today. In the first ten days
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  • 139 24 SOUTHAMPTON, England, Sun. John Fairfax, first man to row the Atlantic solo, set off yesterday with his girl friend Sylvia Cook for San Francisco and attempt to row together across the Pacific. Fairfax, 33, and Miss Cook, 32, shipped their 35-foot, (10.6 metre) all-wood rowboat to San Francisco last Monday.
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  • 122 24 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Singapore's request to rejoin the Burnley Cup competition has been turned down by the Football Association of Malaysia. Its secretary, Dato Kwok Kin Keng, said here today that the FAM felt that this competition should be confined to Malaysia only.
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  • 169 24 CUSTOMS Sports Club trounced Singapore Fire Brigade 4-1 in the Singapore Government Services Division 2B football league match at Farrer Park yesterday. Customs started cautiously and they took sometime before they got into their stride. Arshad Hussain opened the scoring for Customs when he turned a Murthy
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    • 48 24 SOCCER: SBHFI^-Div. 3A Vosper Thornycroft v/i Eastern Agencies (Geylang Stadium— 5.15 p.m.); MSA 'C vs STC (Farrer Park— 5.15 p.m.);; Div. 3B Guthrie Waugh 'B* vs F N (Farrer Park— 5.15 p.m.); Boustead vs Chartered Bank (Farrer Park— 5.15 p.m.); OCBC vs S'pore Hilton (Farrer Park— 5.15 p.m.).
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