Singapore Herald, 3 February 1971

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  • 15 1 THE SINGAPORE herald No. 166 Singapore Wednesday, February 3, 1971 MC(P) No. 2525 15 CENTS
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  • 9 1 'U.S. air support in Laos invasion' PARATROOPS LAUNCH OFFENSIVE
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  • 269 1 GEN AMIN SUSPENDS PARLIAMENT AND FORMS BUREAUCRAT CABINET KAMPALA, Tues. Ugandan coup leader Maj.-Gen. Idi Amin today proclaimed himself Head of State and immediately dissolved Parliament and suspended the country' s legal system. He also announced the formation of a new Cabinet composed mainly of senior civil servants. Only one
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  • 52 1 LONDON, Tues. The estimated value of possible British arms sales to South Africa was not discussed at the Singapore Commonwealth Summit, Premier Edward Heath told Parliament here today. Mr Heath said the figures had not been discussed in Singapore, not even during the day-long debate on economic
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  • 125 1 CLEVELAND, Ohio, Tues. A St. Louis diabetes researcher says that hy iraasplaitlßg lusulinproductag cells la rate a trie care may he foaad for diabetes. Dr Paul E. Lacy said that L^"" uke ■■•■llbprodaclag cells from healthy laboratory rats aid implaated them uder the
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  • 60 1 Dr. Lacy decided to describe the resalts of the experimental Implants to date, saying that more work Is seeded. He said the Implantation technique is still In Its preliminary stages. Dr. Lacy said that even If the experiments are gaccestftd, many questions reman to be answered. Bat
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  • 61 1 FOUR More saspected £iI£L.* f were reported yesterday briajriajt 15* *•*•> ■■■il^rii cmßrmtd aad suspected cases to i? aMg were r «P«ted la J«Ja» Marxakl, off Chaagl Road, ud the Paya Lebar Road area, apart from the maia affected area la Jalaa Teh* aad Geylaag
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  • 280 1 Apollo breaks the ice and moonwalk is 'go' SPACE CENTRE, Houston, Tues. Apollo 14 was last night hurtling through space at 2,280 m.p.h. on its way to a moon landing. The docking fault which had earlier threatened to abort the voyage to a rock hunt on Fra Mauro seems to
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  • 118 1 LONDON, Tues. Prince Philip left by air for a 24,000--mfle tour of Commonwealth island territories in the Pacific Ocean. He will also attend 50th birthday celebrations of the Royal Australian Air Force before returning home next April. The Prince was piloting the jet which
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  • 36 1 HONGKONG, Tues. Three babies suffocated under blankets or cotton quilts over the week-end during a cold spell here bringing the number of babies who died from suffocation in the last four days to four.
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  • 282 1 Kosygin blames Americans MOSCOW, Tues. The Americans were blamed by Premier Alexei Kosygin today for the invasion of Laos by Sooth Vietnamese troops. He was speaking at the Kremlin in a meetiag with the Syrian delegation led by Its strongman, Gen. Haiti al Assad. He quoted "news reports showing that
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  • 47 1 DOCKING COLLAR CLOSE-UP THIS is a model of the docking mechanism which threatened the Apollo 14 mission. The problem lay in the capture latches at the tip of the probe assembly (left), which failed five times to operate when it was inserted in the docking collar (right).
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  • IN BRIEF
    • 104 1 KARACHI, Tues.— An Indian Airlines Fokker hijacked to Pakistan last Saturday by two Kashmir Liberation Front commandos was blown up at Lahore airport today. The two front members, Mohammad Hashim and Ashraf Qureshi, who had been aboard the aircraft since it arrived at
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    • 28 1 PRETORIA: Hundreds of angry Africans stoned buses near here today in protest against poor public transport. A driver and a child were hurt. Several buses were damaged. AFP
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    • 19 1 UNITED NATIONS: U Thant today appealed to Israel and Egypt to extend their ceasefire after it expires on Friday.
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  • 570 1 TOKYO, Tues. An estimated 4,000 to 5,000 South Vietnamese paratroopers, supported by U.S. Air Force helicopters and warplanes have launched an offensive in Southern Laos, hoping to cut North Vietnamese and Vietcong supply routes, Kyodo News Service reported today. In a dispatch from Saigon, Kyodo said the South Vietnamese troopers
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  • 504 2 NIXON TAKES THE NIGH ROAD PRESIDENT Nixon's recent State of the Union message was plainly intended to mark an important watershed in his presidency. The man who came to office two years ago dedicated to small purposes has suddenly begun to set himself mighty goals. About those goals there need
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  • 617 2 WASHINGTON: President Nixon has taken quite a risk with his big deficit budget, which could trigger off new inflation. But he had no real choice. The relatively poor showing of the Republican Party at the November Congressional elections indicated that stagnation and unemployment figures
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  • 1476 2  - Arms: 3 choices for Heath ALUN CHAL FONT AFTER SINGAPORE... By IF TAKING on 30 Commonwealth leaders singlehanded and dismissing their preoccupations as part of a gigantic farce can be regarded as a notable diplomatic triumph, then Mr Heath must be well pleased with his recent performance in Singapore. But
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  • 464 2 Wednesday. February 3, 1971 THE SINGAPORE HERALD NEWS agency reports from South Vietnam last night confirmed earlier charges by Moscow and Hanoi that a major military offensive against southern Laos is under way. The objective, apparently, is the same as that which led to the push
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  • 247 3 Shipping line extends its container route A SEATTLE shipping company, American Mail Line (AML), will have three full container vessels calling at Singapore in the middle of next year. The company's president, Mr. Robert E. Benedict, will pay his first inspection tour of the Far East later this month. His
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  • 187 3 A MAGISTRATE, eierclsiag special powers, acqsrftted two acctsed «f havtag iflea copper wire from aa uoccapied htue because the owvers were "■ol complaialag" aboat Its Ism Seamaa Abdal Rashid bin Abdtdlak, 24, aad Ataa bta Said, 2s, uemployed, were charged with
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  • 64 3 GOH Ah Ter of Chua Chu Kang Road was fined a total of $180 for committing two traffic offences when he drove a motor-tipper four years ago. He was fined $150 for driving at SO mph where the speed limit was 20 mph and $30
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  • 50 3 KUCHING, Tues. —The round-the-clock curfew imposed on Sunday in certain parts of the Bau Kuching area has been relaxed with effect from today. The new curfew hours are from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily until further notice, a police spokesman said here tonight. Bernama
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  • 308 3 WHAT A PRIVATE EYE SAW UNDER A TREE ON A HILL... A PRIVATE investigator told the High Court yesterday that he trailed a bank executive and a woman to a hill overlooking Clementi Park and saw them having sexual intercourse. He was hired by Madam Linda Sim to keep watch
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    18 3 "He's MY boss,, and don't tell me you aren't encouraging him to hang around YOUR desk."
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  • 194 3 Computers as a tool for Health COMPUTERS should be used to improve the quality of medical services in Singapore, Dr David Macfadyen, the World Health Organisation's senior adviser on tuberculosis said last night. Dr. Macfadyen was speaking on "The Computer as a Tool for Health Cure" at Outram Road General
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  • 172 3 ruiSLiu utilities Board Labourer K. S. Thangaras, 55, was shot when he and a crowd advanced towards four retreating gunmen after a $124,000 payroll robbery at the PUB Depot in Kitchener Road on Nov. 7, 1969, an eye witness told a preliminary inquiry yesterday. Kandasalam s/o Kandasamy
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  • 127 4 A JUDGE'S ADVICE TO WOMAN ARRESTED IN RAID ON BROTHEL A JUDGE yesterday told a a brothel that the wmM have more dlgalty era If she were to work at a washerwoman lastead. Yvowf Miwtl, 23, admitted ike lived la 23-B, Orchard Civt described as a brothel from Oct. 27,
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  • 55 4 A FORMER Keppel Bus Company driver. Lee Boon Hin, was fined $500 by a traffic court yesterday for driving a bus dangerously in Pasir Panjang Road on Oct. 28 last year. Lee, of Commonwealth Crescent, admitted knocking down a pedestrian and colliding with a car
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  • 44 4 THE Chairman of the Department of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, Dr. John C. Beck, will give a talk on "Undergraduate and graduate medical education trends in North America" at the Pathology Lecture Theatre at 8.15 p.m. today.
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  • 165 4 A SYMPOSIUM is being organised to find out the extent of drug addiction among young people here. This was disclosed by Mr Anthony R.G. D'Rose (above) who chaired a symposium on "T h e Dangers of Drugs" at Mtrymount Convent School last
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  • 139 4 THE boycott of aboat 3M caddies at the Island locatkm of the Singapore Island Coaatry Clab yesterday Marred the first day's play of the FEAF golf championships. The- caddies were protesting against a new system adopted by the dab for better control aad discipline
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  • 186 4 Police uncover new drug threat 'SPEED' MX TABLETS COULD BE DANGEROUS POLICE have uncovered a new drug threat to young people, the Health Ministry said last night. In a statement, the Ministry said two youths had been arrested in December for possessing Methaqualone tablets and two bottles of the same
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  • 253 4 Nantah out to strengthen bonds with varsities abroad NANYANG University is making greater efforts to foster regional and international relations with universities in SouthEast Asia, Britain and America. Since 1969, Nantah has taken part in programmes sponsored by the Inter-University Council in Britain. Two lecturers have been sent over to
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  • 57 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Islamic Secretariat will move to Jeddah when all the member countries have settled their annual subscriptions, its Secretary General, Tunku Abdul Rahman, said here today. The former Prime Minister, was speaking to reporters at Kuala Lumpur airport before flying to Penang after
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  • 53 4 JIRI Kafka, a flight engineer with Czechoslavakia Air Lines was fined $40 yesterday for careless driving. His car was involved in an accident with another car in East Coast Road on Aug. 29 last year. A local representative of the airline paid the fine for Kafka, who
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  • 23 4 LAFF A DAY MAOAfAE ZA-ZA CRVSTAL REAPIMGS "Hello, I'm calling about that want ad you're going to place in the paper next month."
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  • 340 5 That 'Tiger' in wax idea 'is disgraceful' THE APPEAL COMMITTEE for Singapore Chinese massacred by Japanese opposes the plan to build a waxworks museum in which the figure of World War Japanese General T. Yamashita will be among the first to be displayed. The honorary secretary of the committee, Mr.
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  • 176 5 FUGITIVE SHOT BY POLICE AFTER CAR CHASE KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A man who broke a restricted residence order was shot by police this morning when he tried to evade arrest. A police spokesman said that Deputy Supt. M. Govindasamy led a police party to Jalan Pasar Market and saw the
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  • 55 5 A COCKTAIL party in honour of Mr. James H. Whitman, president of Tucor Services Inc. will be held at the Hilton Hotel at 8.30 p.m. on Monday. ODD PEANUTS! HAWKER S. Appavoo of Ben coolen Street was fined $10 for selling peanuts without a licence at
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  • 44 5 Training of valuers MR J. BRUCE Brown, the New Zealand Government's Valuer-General, will arrive at Singapore on Friday to discuss training of valuers in New Zealand under the Colombo Plan. He will also visit Kuala Lumpur to meet Malaysian State valuation authorities. Mr. Brown
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    575 6  -  NELLY KOE A CLOSE LOOK AT POVERTY By AND A WAY OF LIFE THEY ARE SO USED T0... The row of zinc and plank shacks which lean against each other in Joo Chiat Lane. In the daytime, the inside is like a hothouse. THESE families live in cubicles in
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  • 187 6 TWO scholars a Malaysian and an Indonesian have been awarded fellowships for research in Singapore for 12 months. The fellowships were awarded by the Institute of South-East Asian Studies to: Mr. Lao Telk Sooa, a Malaysian who obtained his Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours
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  • 328 6  - Reds pay border folk for information oi troop moves S.C. CHAN From KUCHING, Sarawak, Tues. Communists are paying people along the Sarawak-Kalimantan border for tips. The Indonesian authorities learned of this while interrogating Communist supporters and sympathisers. The Communists paid "quite well" for information on Security Forces movements and activities.
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  • 54 6 FOO Say Fun, of Jalan Leban, told a traffic court yesterday that he had parked his car I at a taxi stand "because the yellow lines looked like white lines during the night" He was fined $25 for the j offence committed in Meyer Road
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  • 44 6 COFFEE-SHOP assistant, Urn Bok Swee, was slashed on the back with a parang as he was walking along North' bridge Road last night. He was brought to the Outram Road General Hospital where his condition was said to be "not serious."
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  • 315 6 'I stabbed my sister because of her affair' KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A former labourer told the High Court bere today that he stabbed his sister because he was angry after being told of her affair with a man. R. Rasakano, 39, who was continuing his defence since yesterday on a
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  • 194 6 Passed: Bill to look after dependants of the dead KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Cabinet today approved a bill to ensure that dependants of a dead person will get a "reasonable provision" for their maintenance. The inheritance (Family Provision) Bill, however does not apply to Muslims and natives of the Borneo
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  • 536 6 A promise not to give names of doctors PART OF DAMAGE CLAIM (MEDICAL FEES) DROPPED A FORMER High Court clerical officer withdrew part of his claim for damages against the Singapore Traction Company Limited yesterday. Mr. Joseph Navaratnam's counsel, Mr. H.E. Cashin, decided to withdraw a claim of $2,200 for
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    • 139 6 Air-India announces immediate change in the day of operation into and out of Singapore of their flights on Saturdays which will now operate on Fridays to following schedules: AIIO6/IQ6A AIIUA/Ul «-T LT How York D 2030 wad. Singapore o 1730 Fri London A 0920 Thu. Kuala Lumpur A 1820 D
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    • 45 6 BEETLE BAILEY By Mort Walker WMAT'S TME v7 y />v g If@ 7~~ (9£NEJ?AL X/^T J (>?/• f FRANKLY, I 'P TO SAY WV4EN ME V—^ H^ B SEE6 TMAT PENT -KL L^ I V^) FOR E IN >OUfc HELMET J^' Mffl}/ \*~*^3> 7 /^»S P^^T
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  • 261 7 Information portfolio also to Ghazali Tan Sri Ghazali KUALA LUMPUR,— Tues. Tan Sri Ghazali Shafie has been appointed Minister of Information in addition to his duties as Minister with Special Functions. Tan Sri Ghazali who resigned as SecretaryGeneral of the Foreign Ministry to take up his ministerial post in the
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  • 51 7 THE Singapore Handicaps' Friendship Club is organising a visit to Jurong Bird Park on Feb. 14. Members of the club and their friends who are interested to join the excursion should contact Mr Stephen Yeo of 839-C, Lorong 1, Block 129, Toa Payoh, by Feb.
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  • 15 7 Yd LIKE TO OP6K THIS tXX)R JUST ONCE WITHOUT DRAWING A CfcWtT
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  • 234 7 THE PUBLIC Works Department started a "tow-away" operation yesterday to remove abandoned vehicles which have been causing obstruction along several roads in the Republic. By evening, more than 20 cars and lorries, some of them unregistered, had been towed to its workshop in Kallang. The
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  • 302 7 ELEVEN women who claimed to be the relatives of political detainees staged a demonstration outside City Hall yesterday the eighth anniversary of the Operation Cold Store arrests. They stopped some cars and motor-cycles in St Andrew's Road to distribute pamphlets calling for
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  • 78 7 A WINDOW of Ike Ceatral Police Statlea was partly bant wbea a parcel, left by someeae oa the wtadowsill, exploded oa Meaday algal. Police spokesaua, actiag Depaty Sapt. Leslie Woag. daMMed It as tae work of arsealsts. He said police #||Mm|l «A«|a Auk |J&||A. rffcf
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  • 57 7 POLICE recovered a dagger, three bearing scrapers, two parangs and four bags of acid bulbs from a car in an unnamed lane off Paya Lebar Road last night. Four men who were near the car ran away when two policemen on beat duty approached them. Three
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  • 42 7 "> A THREE-DAY seminar on Population control and parenthood will be held by the Beatty Secondary School from Feb. 19 at Beatty Road. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education, Inche Mohd. GhazaM bin Ismail will inaugurate it.
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  • 41 7 Mr. H. Clandola, South-East Asia correspondent of the National Herald, New Delhi, will speak about his impressions of the recent Commonwealth conference at the Lions Club of Singapore lunch at Goodwood Park Hotel's Viking Room at 12.45 p.m. today.
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  • 221 8 Flying pastor service grounded for a month KUCHING, Malaysia, Tues. The Seventh Day Adventist here will not be able to answer any mercy mission calls for at least a month, a pastor said today. This follows the crash of one of its two flve-seater Cessna last week at Aver Manis,
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  • 96 8 POLICE SEEK OWNER OF RECOVERED ARTICLES POLICE are trying to find the owner of a Minolta mini-ca-mera. (Serial No: *****2) and a long-playing record, believed to have been stolen from a car at Marine Parade on the night of Dec. 19, 1970. A police spokesman said yesterday that a man
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  • 92 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Rubber Industries Replanting Board will complete its survey on the extent of flood damage to rubber trees by the end of this month. It will be submitted to the Commerce and Industry Minister, Inche Mohd. Khir Johari,
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  • 49 8 BUTTERWORTH, Tues. The Preventive Section of the Customs here seized about 250 Ib. of Indian hemp valued at $15,000 in a house at Tainan Senangan in Telok Ayer Tawar, near here, yesterday. A customs spokesman said today that a woman was detained in the raid.
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  • 39 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The deputy Director of Teacher Training, Che Asian binte Abu Samah, will give a talk on education in Malaysia, with emphasis on teacher training and rural education to the Muslim Women's Action Association tomorrow.
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  • 241 8 In the queue for jobs... THERE were 4,735 semi-skilled and skilled workers listed on the Labour Ministry* s Employment Exchange register on Dec. 31 last year. They made up 10.84 per cent of a total of 43,655 job seekers registered with the exchange, according to the Ministry's monthly report for
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  • 187 8 ALLIANCE POLLS VICTORY AND GOVT POLICIES... MALACCA, Ties. The Alliance victory la the Melaka Selataa Parliamentary election last Saturday will have aa importaat bearing oa the Government's articles, the Mlalster et Natieaal aad Raral Development, lache AbdaJ Ghafar Baba, Mid today. "It is aot so much the Alliaace winning the
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  • 104 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. American pianist Jeannette Haien who will give two performances in Malaysia, will help to raise funds for Kuala Lumpur's first "city piano." The campaign to raise the money was announced here today by the secretary of the Malaysian-American Society, Mrs.
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  • 124 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Small farmers in the Muda River Irrigation Scheme area are charged exorbitant rates of interest sometimes as high as 200 per cent by money lenders and middlemen. This was discovered in a survey by the Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority on rural
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  • 104 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Taes. The Speaker ef the Dewaa Ra'ayat, Date CM. Yaaaf, today assared MP's that tbere will be ae carb ea the ttme-liamlt far debates as a resalt of the aew ParUaaieat ksws treat 2.M p. at. to f.3* Mb. "There will
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  • 280 8  - These guides want a cut GOLDEN FLEECE WHEN Singapore put on its best behaviour over the duration of the Commonwealth Conference let us not rest on our laurels and revert to former practices. Today there is a firmly established practice of tourist guides demanding commissions up to 20 per cent
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  • 383 8  - Office with courteous and prompt service P.R.L. WILSON VICTIM I WOULD like to place on record my appreciation for an extremely well run Government Department which has constant dealings with the public the Department of Immigration. Within a week (of which three and a half days were holidays) of submitting
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  • 339 8  - CRITICISMS OF LIFEGUARDS ARE UNFOUNDED ONE WHO KNOWS BETTER LEE HON MING I REFER to the letters from some "distressed" parents on the Eusoff College Affair which appeared in your newspaper recently. I would like to point out one fact which seems to have been missed by a number of
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  • 231 8 CHESS. ..by Herald Knight" SINGAPORE'S Choong Liong On outplayed his opponent, Australia's Grade B player, W.F. Jarvis, in the 1971 Karlis Lidums International Tournament in Adelaide, Australia. Choong, with the black pieces, adopted the Sicilian. Both players castled early in the game. Jarvis forced the issue on
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  • 98 8  - GET PESTS OFF OUR BACKS ANTI-COCKROACH ABOUT four weeks ago a few cockroaches were seen crawling in the lift of Block 75, Commonwealth Drive. Now the lift is swarming with cockroaches and the residents have the uncomfortable experience of having some of them crawling down their backs. Besides being unhygienic
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  • 320 8  - HOW MANY OF US HAVE SUCH NOBLE FEELINGS? HARRY ONG CAPT. A.G. HUTCHINSON M. CHONG THE story of National Serviceman Robin Edward Jorce who died recently in a military truck accident is a study in extremes. And what wonderful extreme patriotism! How many of us can lay claim to the
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  • 248 9 TOKYO, Tues. Mr Yasuhiro Nakasone, directorgeneral of the Defence Agency said in the Diet (parliament) last night that the manpower of Japan's Self-Defence forces ten years hence will remain at the present level of 180,000. According to the observers here, Mr Nakasone'
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  • 64 9 TOKYO, Tues. Police today raided 25 student hangouts and arrested five leftist students following reports of a plot to kidnap Japanese Government and business officials. Police said they were informed the students planned to hold the officials as hostages to bargain for the release
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  • 59 9 HONGKONG, Tues. Customs officers discovered 50 pounds of hashish hidden in false bottoms of three suitcases during a routine search at Hongkong's Kai Tak airport, a Customs spokesman said last night. He said the suitcases belonged to a European man and woman who arrived earlier
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  • 60 9 WASHINGTON, Tues. United States Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker is returning next Monday night for about a week of consultations with President Nixon and Secretary of State William P. Rogers. A State Department spokesman said he would return to his Saigon post by way of Paris where he
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  • 105 9 LAGOS, Tues. Two students were killed and 20 others seriously injured in riots over poor food at a canteen in Nigeria's biggest university, Ibadan. The deaths came when shots were fired to disperse about 3,000 rioting students, demanding the sacking of a canteen
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  • 56 9 JAKARTA, Tues. Foreign Minister Adam Malik leaves for Manila on March 10 to attend the Foreign Ministers conference of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) official sources said today. The conference also will be attended by representatives of Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines
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  • 420 9 a a. r. T. T. 1 1* 1" 1 •••5222 5 2. l». MANILA, Tues. Three youths were killed and more than 20 injured today as police clashed with students and vandals in widely-scattered sections of Manila. Hospitals said the dead included two teenaged
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    49 9 LOS ANGELES, Tues. The body of a M e x i c a n A m e r ican youth lies on the pavement in east Los Angeles where he was shot during an outbreak of violence on Sunday f o Mowing a rally protesting at alleged police brutality.
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  • 190 9 MANILA, Tues. A Philippine-American panel to "identify areas of difficulty" in agreements which allow U.S. military bases here will begin meeting next week. The United States has about 18,000 servicemen here at Clark Air Base and Subic Naval Base. They are now under a 25--year
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  • 183 9 Vietcong shell three U.S. bases SAIGON, Tues. Vietcong forces shelled three American bases including the big airnaval complex at Danang today. The U.S. Command said Chinese and Soviet-made rockets were used, but damages were light with only a few losses. In addition to Danang, the U.S. bases at Phu Cat
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  • 334 10 HONGKONG, Tues. The Peking People's Daily today said that the British Conservative Government had instigated "a reactionary coup d'etat" in an attempt to seize back its lost colonial position in certain parts of Africa. Apparently referring to the ousting of President Milton Obote
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  • 429 10 aaaa •••••••a i" a" 1* 1" 1" 11" •***** 2 aaa a* a 2 2» CAIRO, Tues. The Egyptians are trying to convince the world that new fighting may break out along the Suez Canal after six months of peace. Air raid sirens screamed
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  • 206 10 WASHINGTON, Tues. Ecuador demanded last night the withdrawal from its territory of the United States military mission. In a note signed by Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Jose Maria Ponce Yepez, Ecuador said the action was taken in retaliation for what it termed coercive measures adopted
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  • 57 10 KOBE, Tues. Japan's biggest submarine, Uzusho (Swirling Torrents), has been formally delivered to the Defence agency. The Uzushio, 1,850 is Japan's first "tear drop" shaped submarine, a shape that gives its superior underwater movement and propulsion performances. Noteworthy feature of the submarine is that its hull is
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  • 47 10 WASHINGTON, Tues. President and Mrs. Nixon were to join a gathering of top United States officials and foreign dignitaries at the 19th Annual National Prayer Breakfast today. An evangelist friend of the President, Blly Graham was to he at the head table.
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  • 126 10 WASHINGTON, Tues. The divorce rate in the United States climbed sharply in the 1980s, the Census Bureau said in a survey yesterday. Divorced men remarry faster than women, the study said. According to the survey, based on interviews with 50,000 households, the increase was 33
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  • 87 10 Solzhenitsyn wants his Nobel money STOCKHOLM, Tues. Soviet writer Alexander Solz henitsyn has asked the Nobel foundation to transfer his US$BO,OOO literature prise to a bank account. Academy secretary Dr. Karl Ragnar Gterow says he has received an indirect message from Solzhenltsyn. This means there is no longer any hope
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  • 153 10 BEIRUT, Taes. A Ml mM to be a Palestftalaa gaerilla shot aad killed a yoath yesterday la Betrat's crowded ceatral market place. Place des Martyres, aad wiwdid 11 others while trylag to escape. Police sources said the maa. ldeatined as Saad TwkL appeared
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  • 203 10 BURBANK(California) Tucs. Lockheed Aircraft Corporation said yesterday it has decided to accept a $200 million loss, instead of going into litigation, as settlement of its contract disputes with the U.S. Government. The firm last month described the Governments offer of the fixed loss as excessive and
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  • 241 10 LONDON, Toes. A wildcat walkout halted assembly lines at 21 Ford Motor Co. plaits today as Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Anthony Barber, pledged to stand firm against the Inflationary strike settlements. Mr. Barber, who Is In charge of keeping the shaky British
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  • 250 10 Connally: 'I broke no laws when I took $225,000' WASHINGTON, Tues. Mr. John B. ConnaJly Jr. denied yesterday he violated the Texas Constitution by accepting at least $225,000 from a foundation while he was Governor. He asked a new Senate hearing on his nomination as U.S. Treasury Secretary so he
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  • 123 10 HOF, Bavaria, Tues. A huge cigarette and alcohol smuggling racket between East and West Germany has been uncovered by Customs officers here. On two trips last December, two lorries crossed from East into West Germany at the Rudolphstein frontier point carrying 6.5 million cigarettes and
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  • 72 10 ALBANY, New York, Tues. Pregnant women have been warned by New York State's Health Commissioner, Mr. Hollis S. Ingraham, that eating mercury-contaminated tuna and swordflsb may be hazardous to their unborn babies. His warning did not mention any specific level of mercury considered harmful. Recently the U.S.
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  • 783 11  - White Australia warts and all PETER COLE-ADAMS BACKGROUND TO THE FOREIGN NEWS By in LONDON WHAT with Mr. Lynch (Australia's Minister for Immigration) telling Britain's Race Relations Board to mind its own business, and Victoria's Mr. Dickie calling a spade a spade, Austral a' s immigration policy is enduring a
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  • 559 11  -  LLE WELLYN CHANTER By THE decision by the Falkland Islands Company to withdraw the R.MJS. Darwin from the Port Stanley-Monte-video run at the end of this year might conceivably put the British Government on its mettle so far as the future of the Falklands is concerned.
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  • 762 11 WHILE Government troops and Communist guerillas struggle for the hearts and minds of the people in Tuyen Due province, 150 miles north-east from here, a small group of workers concentrate on their lungs and livers. These workers are part of Project Concern, an international
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  • 342 11  -  BILLY BRAY From in BANGKOK THAI police and other authorities are looking more nervously at student protests which bubbled up again last week. Two decades of student peace were broken three months ago when hulalongkorn University students organised massive demonstra tions against administration and
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  • 330 12 Mr K's 'Be realistic' call to Syrians MOSCOW, Tues. The Soviet Prime Minister, Mr. Alexei Kosygin, called on Syria today to be realistic in its appraisal of the Middle East situation. He also pleaded for efforts to rally the Arab peoples and advised the Syrians to rely on support from
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  • 212 12 Manila won't desert Taiwan for Peking MANILA, Tues. Foreign Secretary Carlos P. Romulo claims the Philippines "cannot easily set aside'* its friendship with Taiwan in any consideration of future overtures with Peking. Romulo made the statement yesterday during a briefing he gave the Lower House Foreign Affairs Committee on the
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  • 25 12 LAGOS, Tues. Seventy four cholera cases with 11 deaths were reported in Nigeria between Jan. 24 to 30, health authorities announced here.
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  • 194 12 BANGKOK, Tues. A leading politician in Malaysia is suspected of helping to plan and finance the subversive activities of dissident Muslims, in Southern Thailand, the English daily Bangkok Post reported today. The newspaper quoted a well-placed member of Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak's political party,
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  • 74 12 HOUSTON, Former astronaut James McDivitt, manager of the Apollo space programme, explaining how "some foreign object" got into the Apollo 14 docking system. He and Mission Director Chester Lee, right, say they believe it has now gone and the astronauts can make a lunar landing. Their
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  • 30 12 BREST, France, Tues. A French fishing boat sank after colliding with France's nuclear submarine Le Redoutable while the submarine was on exercises near this Atlantic port yesterday.
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  • 131 12 THE SINGAPORE CANBERRA, Tues. Australia's new Deputy Prime Minister and Country Party leader is Mr. Douglas Anthony, 41, a pineapple and banana grower from New South Wales. He succeeds Sir John McEwen who has retired after 36 years in politics. The election
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  • 332 12 Seeing for the first time his son, aged 44 SAN FRANCISCO, Tues. Mr. Pon Lung Chung, 75, embraced the lady he married 45 years ago in China and beamed happily at his 44-year-old son for the first time. The scene was San Francisco International Airport and the occasion was Mr.
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  • 124 12 OTTAWA, Ties. Queen Elizabeth's portrait on Canadian 2t-dollar bills does not show a brassiere strap and will not be changed, an indignant Depaty Secretary of the Bank of Canada said today. Mr Herbert Richardson said In an Interview that he had heard several people
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  • 718 12 MYSTERY LEAK OF CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT TEHERAN, Tues. The publication of a confidential document lost or stolen from the briefcase of an oil company spokesman today threatened to inject new bitterness into a final round of price negotiations with the oil states of the Persian Gulf. The
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  • THE SINGAPORE herald Section II
    • 302 13 Land marked for airport extension OWNERS TO BE COMPENSATED FOR THEIR LOSS THE Government has announced that it is acquiring 539 acres of private land in the northern part of Perseverance Estate for the extension of the Paya Lebar Airport runway and for drainage and sewerage works. A Gazette notification
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    • 178 13 Man hit and killed by cycle in passage A 16-YEAR-OLD labourer went motorcycling on the verandah of a block of houses in Rochore Canal Road on Dec. 9 and landed himself in court yesterday for causing the death of a 70-year-old man. Murthiram Fathumall was convicted and fined $250 and
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    • 192 13 Company ordered to pay $1,996 to family A TEXTILE firm, A. Woosensah Co. of High Street, was ordered by the Industrial Arbitration Court yesterday to pay without delay $1,986.65 service benefit to the family of an employee who had died. Court president Tan Boon Chiang said he was satisfied that
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    • 45 13 THIRTY-EIGHT gamblers, 18 of them women, were fined a total of $1,435 in a magistrate's court yesterday. A 15-year-old boy. Ton Kwee Heng, who was among them was discharged after being given a stern warning by magistrate Tan Lian Ker. I
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    • 213 13 A touch of old Singapore in new hotel An artist's Impression of the Hotel Royal A TOUCH of old Singapore will be seen In the Hotel Royal In Newton Road to depict the times when Singapore was not as progressive and wealthy as It Is now. The $13 million hotel's
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    • 89 13 A CHAUFFEUR'S claim for $5,646 overtime pay from his former employer was dismissed by Mr Justice D'Cotta in the High Court yesterday. Long Abas had claimed that he was not paid overtime for •work done on weekdays, Sundays, public holidays and annual leave from October 1962
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    • 112 13 TWO women and a girl, aged 19, were found dead at the foot H^ in 8 and Development Board flats yesterday. At 7.25 a.m., police found the f Jen* Yoke Chueng, 54, hi r* 1 11 seven miJ es 'rom Je^home
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    • 222 13 m«. AWYER successfully EeStioS yesterd ,«y that I m!n?« annulment on the ST^ f !JH age nuU and V °W, the cal^H^ 111 camera unless the judge is Ma <Jam Khoo Poh Kheng, 31, I of Lorong 6, Tom Payoh, had told
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    • 224 13 UP— NEW ZEALAND IMPORT QUOTA FOR PINES NEW measures are being taken to allow more canned pineapples from producing countries, including Malaysia, to be imported into New Zealand. Mr. L.R. Adams-Schneider, New Zealand's Associate Minister of Industries and Commerce, disclosed this yesterday after a meeting with members of the Malayan
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    • 115 13 Rusty nail kills barefoot gardener A GARDENER died of tetanus a week after he stepped on a rusty nail,* a coroner heard yesterday. Lim Kim Kiat, of Lorong Norbat, told the inquiry that his employee, Tan Ah Bah, 62, was working with him at his farm in Lorong Tanggam on
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    • 75 13 PRESIDENT Sheares has assented to three Bills passed at the Jan. 25 session of Parliament. These are the Central Provident Fund (Amendment) Bill, the Loans (International Bank) (Amendment) Bill, and the Jurong Town Corporation (Amendment) Bill. ODD WOMAN STABBED A HOUSEWIFE, Ng Poh, 40, was stabbed
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    • 283 13 ACCIDENTS: A $1.6m. PAY-OUT BY BOSSES LAST YEAR ACCIDENTS involving workers cost Singapore employers more than $1.6 million in compensation last year. This was $400,000 more than the amount paid out in 1 969 There were 9,682 accidents 159 of them fatal last year as against 8,714, with 132 fatalities,
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    • 137 13 CRACKERS BAN TO BE LIFTED FOR FOUR HOURS TODAY POLICE yesterday reminded the pabUc that the present baa on firecrackers will again be lifted for few hows today from It p.m. to 2 a.m. Police spokesman, acting Depvty Sapt. Leslie Wong reiterated yesterday that the firing of crackers was permitted
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    • 64 13 MOHD. Sani bin Tahir of Universal Cars Ltd., was fined $30 for parking a car in an unauthorised place in Penang Lane car park on March 1, 1967. ODD GANJA: $l,2tt FINE LABOURER Yusof bin Abu Bakar, 37, was fined $1,200 in a magistrate's
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 61 13 AT YOUR CINEMAS/P.,. 14 ECONOMIC AfrAI»S/P.,.« 15/16 TOWN TALK/P.»« 17 UV.NG/TV/P.g.s 18/19 SHIPP.NO/P.g., 20/^1 Precision watch that tells the time in style VBkVv^^W Automatic Calendar Superwaterproof ft jr^JX Dl C" All Stainless Steel Timeless Styling At a price you can afford *JQJCu?* c/f&OJL?@'6 S e A9ents <or Singapore Malaysia:- I
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    • 18 13 TODAY: 3.37 a.m. (8.8 ft.); 4.47 p.m. (7.2 ft.) TOMORROW: 4.18 a.m. (8.4 ft); 7.M p.m. (€.5 ft.)
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  • 182 14 Youth killed by gang after he teased girl A DISTRICT Court was told yesterday that a youth was killed after teasing a girl in a theatre on May 16. Ng Soon Kim, 17. was beaten to death by eight people in Lorong Bakar Batu and in a district court, labourer
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  • 95 14 THE Government and local manufacturers have been invited to take part in the Third Asian International Trade Fair in New Delhi from Nov. 3 to Dec. 17, 1972. The organisers are the Indian Government and the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia
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  • 235 14 WORK ON NIGHTSPOTS TO START SOON WORK on seven sites offered by the HDB's Urban Renewal Department for private development is expected to begin in June. According to an HDB spokesman, the board anticipated no difficulty in leasing out all seven sites
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  • 179 14 11 DAYS SET FOR $300,000 TAX DODGE CASE ELEVEN days have bees set aside hi May for the hearing «f tax e vasiea charges against Modem Hi— lag D<vtUpaie«t Ltd. aad three of its directors. The firm, whose registered office Is In Rochore Road, was charged la District Cow* No.
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  • 29 14 THE Welfare Association of Sennett Estate residents will hold its annual meeting at 53 Pheng Geek Avenue on Sunday at 3.30 p.m. to elect management committee officials.
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  • 70 14 A FASHION designer from Hongkong was granted yesterday a divorce from her rubber merchant husband on the grounds that they had lived separately for seven years. Lelly Valiram, 33, who married Yap Peng Chee in 1958 in Singapore, said he left her a few months after
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  • 131 14 The Postmaster- General has announced that there will be no delivery of mail or parcels during Hari Rays Haji on Saturday. The hours of business at the General Post Office will be from 9 a.m. to noon. All other post offices will open
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  • 84 14 A model of the proposed restaurant, aightclnb and cabanas in Nlcotl Drive, Changi. A HOUSEWIFE, Hasnah binte Mawab, 41, who suffered from insomnia, jumped to her death from the sixth floor of her Lengkok Bahru flat, a coroner's court was told yesterday. Her son,
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  • 46 14 A 76-YEAR-OLD woman, Choo Wan Swee, was fined $850 yesterday when she admitted possession of four gallons of samsu on which $85.89 cents duty had not been paid. Choo, of Jalan Anggerek, was arrested when police raided her house on Monday. FGGFGGFGG
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 327 15 Three London quotations suspended LONDON, Tws. The London Stock Exchange said quotations of the following issues have been temporarily suspended from yesterday at the companies' reqaest: Hupfield Brothers Ltd. ordinary and unsecured loan stock pending clarification of the position of the company. Tissus Michels Holding Ltd. ordinary pending publication of
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  • 269 15 SINGAPORE-MALAYSIA Merchant rates fixed yesterday by the Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore. Local dollars per unit of foreign currency. SELLING BUYING T.T./O.D. T.T. O.D. Sterling Pound 7.4000 7.3675 7.3550 Australian Dollar 3.4600 3.4175 3.3975 Canadian Dollar New Zealand Dollar 3.4700 3.4225 3.3925 South Arabian Dinar 7.4175 7.3450
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  • 201 15  - South Korea's plan to promote electronics exports UNKNOWN SEOUL, Tues. In a campaign to help develop South Korea's electronic industry, the Government has said it will give priority treatment to domestic enterprises which have links with foreign investors. Mr Lee Nak-Sun, Minister of Commerce and Industry, said today the decision
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  • 49 15 LONDON, Tues. Britain's monetary reserves increased by £73 million during January, the largest monthly increase since the pound was devalued in November 1967, the Treasury said today. At the end of January, the reserves were £1,251 million, the highest since April 1966. AFP
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  • 45 15 (Yesterday's closing prices, in U.S. dollars per ounce). Singapore (1) 39.725, (2) 150.25; Hongkong 40.13; Beirut 38.85; London 38.50; Zurich 38.408, 38.605; Paris 38.80. Note: (1) Export price to non-sterling areas in U.S. dollars. (2) Local dealers' price in Singapore dollars, per tael.
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  • 29 15 (Closing buyer/seller prices for Feb. 2, in sterling per metric ton). Tone: Quiet; Spot 1441 1443; 3-month 1442 1444; Settlement 1444; Total turnover 575 tons, including carries.
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  • 362 15 Shipping Notes TOKYO, Tues. Ministers from 12 major shipping countries convened in Tokyo today a two-day conference to try and solve international shipping problems. The main purpose of the meeting is to unify member countries against flag discrimination practices spreading among Latin American and South East
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  • 138 15 PEOPLE in business Mr. YANCEY HUANG, managing director of Yancey Huang (Pte) Ltd., will visit Australia later this month to study nameplate techniques, applications and marketing. Mr. Huang's company is agent in Singapore and Malaysia for Adept Nameplates of Sydney, manufacturers of photo anodised, etched, silk screened and photo offset
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  • 219 15 New liquid bulk carriers In parallel with the ministerial conference, representatives of the Committee of European National Shipowners Association (CENSA) began two-day discussions on similar problems on a private level. AFP/AP MALAYSIA'S and Singapore's palm oil industry can be expected to benefit from the growing expansion of a British bulk
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  • 631 15 The market closed narrowly mixed yesterday, but with a firmer bias. Labour unrest and uncertainty ahead of the result of the Wilberforce inquiry were cautionary factors. Reports of an extension of the war in Southeast Asia also had an unsettling effect but the substantial overnight advance on
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  • 362 15 DOW JONES CLOSING AVERAGES NEW YORK, Mon.— (Changes in brackets): Industrials 877.81 (+9.31); Transportation 192.40 (+0.34); Utilities 124.33 (+0.03); Composite stocks 289.44 (+1.87); Bonds 71.31 (+0.22). Stocks were irregular in early active trading yesterday. Stanpoors industrial average eased two cents, but advancing issues led those on
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  • 206 15 AMSTERDAM The market was generally mixed yesterday. Internationals were dull and narrowly mixed. However, KLM firmed. In plantations. Deli was firmer. Shippings were mostly steady. In insurances. Nationale Nederlanden was very firm on foreign demand. Local industrials were quietly mixed. PARIS The market yesterday generally was more resistant,
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 457 15 uf ADVERTItEMENTt ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ANNIVERSARIES. AN "OUNCEMENTS. BIRTHS. CLUB ACTIVITIES. CON OOIENCES. DEATHS. ENGAGEMENTS. FUNERAL. GREET •NGS. IN MEMORIAM. MARRIAGES. MISSING. PERSONAL. pp C REQUIEMS REUNIONS Minimum $8/ for 20 word*, each additional word 40cts. All oth«r classified advertisement* Minimum (4/ for .'u words, each additional word 20c ts BOX SERVICE
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    • 277 15 PRIMARY TUITION REQUIRED at 2 sisters' Queenstown home. 8 00, -10.00 a.m.. thrice weekly. Total $30 p.m. Detail Cambridge results, experience, etc. Box H1274 Singapore Herald PIANO FORTE theory lessons by teacher with B.Mus. Dip. Ed. (Music) and L.R.S.M. Ring *****6. LONELY? SEEKING FRIENDS? Friends will write to you. Enclose
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  • RUBBER/TIN/COCONUT/PEPPER/PALM OIL
    • 488 16 RUBBER 47K ceaU a lb. (ap eigktfc ceat). After yet another hesitant start yesterday, opening business in February and March 1 RSS was at 47* and 48% cents respectively. Long liquidation and upcountry selling caused a steady decline in prices until the morning lows of 47y 4 and
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    • 1686 16 STOCK EXCHANGE OF MALAYSIA ANO SINGAPORE FRASER'S INDUSTRIAL INDICES KEY Closing buyers' and sellers' prices are followed by the business done. Figurei in brackets denote traded lots in I.ooo's. When the price it not followed by a figure in brackets, it means only a single lot of
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    • 78 16 (Managers' prices for Feb. 3) B. S. ASIA UNIT TRUSTS Mai. Invt. Fund 1.30 1.35 Mai. Progress Fund 1.06 1.10 xd CHARTERED UNIT TRUSTS Singapore Growth Fund 1.06 1.13 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUSTS Third Singapore 1.30 The Commerce Ind. Fund 1.06 1.11 B S. The Saving Fund 1.13 1.18
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    • 59 16 (Yesterday's official buyer/Mller prices, in pence per lb). Tone: Idle; ClF's Feb. 17 17-3/16. March 17-3/16 17-3/8; Spot 17^7/8 18-1/8. Settlements March 18-1/8 18-1/4, April 18-3/8 18-9/16, May 18-5/8 18-3/4, April/June 18-5/8 18-3/4. July/Sept. 19-1/4 19-3/8, Oct/Dec. 19-7/8 20, Jan/March 20-3/16 20-5/16, April/June 20-7/16 20-9/16. July/Sept. 20-11/16 20-7/8,
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    • 193 16 UN $C2f.75 a pical (■p 75 cemts). An improved tin market yesterday saw the commodity price appreciate, by 75 cents to $826.75 a picul on an official offering 15 tons higher at 151 tons. The bulk of the demand in Penang was reported from the United States and
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    • 255 16 THE PORT OF SINGAPORE AUTHORITY HAS MADE THESE BERTHING ARRANGEMENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 3. OUT: Krishna Jayanti 5; Dolly Turman 6/7; Ta Chuan 27/28; Hooko Maru 29/30; Sula 33/34; Mishima Maru 35/36; Holospira 37/39; Mitaka Maru 45; Dainanoh Maru 44; Yuyo Maru 16. IN: Malaysia (after T amurae
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    • 106 16 (Yesterday's 1.30 p.m. prices, in sterling per long ton, unless otherwise stated). COPRA (U.S. dollars per long ton): Philippine/Indonesian Feb. 225, March 226, April 228, all resellers. COCONUT OIL: Straits Unq; Malayan Feb/March 171Vi quoted; Philippine (U.S. dollars per long ton) Feb/March 331 sellers; Ceylon Jan/Feb. 172 quoted;
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    • 40 16 PEPPER (Yesterday's 2.00 p.m. sellers' prices, in shillings per cwt) Tone: Steady; Sarawak white spot 417/6. afloat 400 nominal, Jan/Feb. 397/6, Feb /March 395/—; Sarawak black spot 410/—, afloat 392/6, Jan/Feb. 370/—, Feb /March 365/—; Malabar Jan/Feb. 520/—.
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    • 671 16 Selected mining and industrial shares advanced strongly in more active trading yesterday. BHP jumped 80 cents to set a 1971 record of $13.75, while some of the heavyweight miners showed appreciable gains. More speculative issues were less fortunate ir many cases and last week's new leader, North
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    • 267 16 ■»2F7.n<I^«£!2r rd IT small selling orders after a however wm'JSS however, was small. t ..Htn. 4.- M Leading issues suffered heavy fall* Banks local was $4 lower on the day at SlBsand the London registers eased $3 to the close. Lands registered a net lost of $1.
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    • 375 16 Small selective interest in low priced issues and electric home appliances helped the market to extend Monday's gains. Trading was moderate. Sentiment was helped by the overnight gain on Wall Street, dealers said. Among stocks to move forward were Sony, Mitsui Electric, Matsushita Electric and Toyo Kogyo.
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    • 182 16 LONDON, Tues.-Quiet conditions were evident in the grain section but a part cargo was fixed from the U.S. Gulf to South Japan at US$B.O5 fd (free discharge) for February/March, and a meals/pellets cargo from the U.S. gulf to the Netherlands at U556.25 fio (free in and out)
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  • town talk
    • 366 17  - A bonus from the tax office A.K. LEE By IT'S donation time again -7 the year's biggest charity draw. Like all good citizens I've been spending every cent I could lay my hands on for the last 12 months, doing my best to keep the economy buoyant. Now it's time
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    • 220 17 S a.m.— B p.m.: Exhibition of Charles Dickens' books at the foyer of the. National Library, Stamford Road, t UL- C p.m.: Exhibition of Japanese Art and crafts at the lecture hall of National Library. 5.3»— «.3t p.a.: Folksinging session at the YWCA Hostel, Fort Canning Road. C
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    • 52 17 THE Goodwood Group of hotels will host 700 underprivileged children at a Chinese New Year party tomorrow afternoon at the Golden Lotus, Hotel Malaysia. The children, from 18 organisations, will be treated to refreshments and two hours of songs, dances, magic shows, acrobatics, lion and
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    • 60 17 THE Chinese Women's Association will hold a Chinese New Year dinner at the Golden Phoenix Restaurant, Hotel Equatorial on Tuesday next week at 8 p.m. Mrs. Jek Yuen Thong, wife of the Minister for Culture, will present cheques from the proceeds of the association's 1970 donation
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    • 479 17 Local sculptor gets a unique commission $5,000 ESSO MOMENTO ONE of Singapore's young sculptors has found himself closely caught up in the Republic's industrial boom. He is Ng Eng Teng who has many sculptures to his credit. A number of them were shown at a recent one-man exhibition. But he
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    • 251 17 THOSE GIANT MURALS AT THE S'PORE HILTON THE Singapore Hilton Facade Mural, consisting of 19 panels, and measuring 20 feet high and 269 feet long, was designed and executed by Gerard d'Henderson, who spent a year in research. The artist drew inspiration from the highly abstract manner of the Tao
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 112 17 BLONDIE rTT" By Chic Young Pv^^ >~ fZ^t OAGw °OC> R h IM SORRV. DCA«- /i S 11 I F WELL. WHEN YOURE AL_l_ /^WT/ >■• NA^% .NMVNOSE y GESUNOME.T TO COVER \^=> il. '-l-c T&v> iws* '-^iCQr.-- *r~* to »-^v ARCHIE D p By Bob Montana f fßPAm^S'.^?™ VDOR^
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    • 294 17 Starscope ft r BSBCTiifl^aaam fTrFfMt I l^^uTlFTVlmmmmffsnl ft |Wj2jgjg^J llllmfnßlmW l£^mSHlßil J I i^=^ £?f*z& £sssTi w£^S gssSS SKT.=£S sure or your ground. doing Mmre ¥fhai yo|| prof|t on a perBonjr I w wanted to do! venture. Be alert. a^^^^^^^^mamap^k*Bap^mu >. w I B«^^i IJ k\H^^ai BfNßßWßßumuaaßßaßaßaaammmmuuuuuHHHHßM fhmmnumaßmaumauuauuunaaM IT I
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  • 437 18 Hotpants reveal the big cover— up blunder IN A desperate attempt to make op for a disastrous autumn season, the Paris couture opened the spring collections with a string of "hotpants" little one-piece shortsults that hare the leg and dare the Imagination. Designed In sheer voile and muslin for day,
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  • 27 18 "It's the moat beautiful sight I ever saw— except for the half-price tag on that pink suit I saw yesterday at Sally's Dress Shop
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  • 519 18 ALL WRAPPED IN A KN SORT OF F D-UP NOTTY FASHJON CHEERS and JEERS NOW! YOUR WEEKLY THERAPEUTIC COLUMN JEERS to drivers of Cortina G.T. cars. They might be speed buffs themselves or perhaps the can turn them on. Whatever it is give them a wide berth when you meet
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1536 19 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJ& WtWK RADIO I ******************************************************************************************111l A«tJJfun' programme' madJ I hbb I on location on Hayman 2 f IoL« i I■—_■_■1 r Island, and the Great Barrier 2 1 J°__lfYMH_E_ 1 n__________i Re«( begins oa Channel X, 2 l_-___iom9|Liy|laXa L nfiUMH'lawcl cm p.m. ■BVu_Hn_n_Hn~^u_—i |M Sun, sky, water. romantic 3.00 p.m.
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  • 85 20 THE SINGAPORE HERALD Wednesday, February 3, 1971 KEY FOR EASY REFERENCE. The shipping schedules beginning on this page are given in four parts for ships westbound, eastbound, southbound and coastai. Each entry gives the following information: NAME OF SHIP, date of arrival/departure, ports of call, name of line
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  • 725 20 |nc|udlnflALL snips bound for the Americas, e.g. Coast ports of North, Central or South America shIDS sailing east out of Singapore to Pacific and through the Panama Canal to the Gulf ports, etc. ALCOS PARTNER May 12/17 P. S'ham (May 16/19), Capetown, Durban, Mombasa, Jeddah. AOL/ASC ALCOS PIONEER Mar
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  • 152 20 AFT Anglo-French Trading Co. (Pt«) Ltd. *****/8 ASC Alco.SU. m,hlpCo,pn. *****6 APL American Pr«*id«nt Line* ***** AUS Aurtaata Line ***** BEN BtnLiMSturMrs.. ***** BSC Bulsing Shipping C0... t»o-« BA British Asian 1..7.7.7.7.' *****3 CFS CF Sharp A^. CM) Pte. Ltd. *****/7 DU Daido Unvu Co *****/*****
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  • 508 21 Including ships sailing out of Singapore for Far East ports to the north-east ALASKA MA RU Feb 13/14 Hongkong, Japan. MOSK/LEO ALCOS MASTER Apr 19/22 Osaka. Yokohama, Vancouver B.C. Jeddah. AOL/ASC ALCOS RANGER Mar 18/21 Osaka, Y'hama, Vancouver, B.C. Jeddah. AOL/ASC ALCOS VICTORY F«b 20/23 Osaka, Yokohama, Vancouver B.C.
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    • 591 21 9& MALAYSIAN INTERNATIONAL J SHIPPING CORPORATION BERHAD No. 30E Jin. Ampang, Kuala Lumpur. m H The National Shipping Line of Malaysia FAR EAST/EUROPE SERVICE ■iMapera *.rh«m Nmm AtrlMe: BUNGA MELOR 27 Feb/2 Mar 3/6 Mar 7/S Mar Havre 2/4. London 4/4 H'kurg 10/4. roam 12/4. A'werp 14/4. Br«m.n 17/4. •UNGA
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  • 237 22  -  CAVAUEE RACING HERAIO By PENANG, Tues. Fair Chance, a last start winner is retaining his form. With a riding boy astride, he sprinted stylishly over 3f in 39-1/5 on a good track here this mornim? There was little activity here as most outstation
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  • 356 22 Brick masons to meet in middle weight bout WEST JORDAN, Utah, Tues. Two brick masons will meet in a 10-round middleweight boxing match on Feb. 1 1 and the one from the United States says that he hopes for a clearcut victory this time. Veteran Don Fullmer of West Jordan
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  • 741 22 STIPENDIARY Steward's report for last weekend races at Kuala Lumpur. SATURDAY Race One: Prtscilla's Lave (Subian) missed the jump. Roving Eyes (Samry) could not get into stride after jumping with the field. The saddle on Slmba (M. Lee) slipped over the withers before turning into the straight.
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 410 22 TWO DAY'S CROSSWORDS In yesterday's issue, the wrong crossword grid was published. We are therefore repeating yesterday's crossword at left. Solutions for both day's crosswords will be published tomorrow. i —^J— —^J— 13""^ fc^H L^H k^ l 1 I I 1 1 a^p^pi <u c 1 I p^p^pj p^p^pi H^Hi
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  • Article, Illustration
    77 23 Muhammad Ah is on the outside and Joe Frazier on the inside as former heavyweight champ Ah dropped in at the present World Boxing Association Heavyweight Champion s Gym in Philadelphia recently. Whether Ali will regain on the outside is a question that will be determined on March 8 when
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  • 659 23 MAJOR ROW LOOMS IN ATTF MEETING AT S'PORE EXPEL TAIWAN BID BY JAPAN HONGKONG, Tues. A major row loomed at the forthcoming meeting of the Asian Table Tennis Federation in Singapore following a Japanese promise to secure the exclusion of Taiwan in return for Peking's participation in the 31st World
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    11 23 He was putting for a birdie when I sneezed
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  • 550 23 SAPPORO, Tues. With less than a week to go, a dress rehearsal for the opening of the Sapporo International Winter Sports week, or Pre-Olympic Games, was held at the Makomanai Indoor Skating Arena here yesterday. The pre-Olympic Games will get under way on Feb. 7
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  • 225 23 TOKYO, Tues. Three of the 10 World's top Alpine skiers asked by Avery Brundage, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to be barred from the Sapporo Winter Olympics next year because of professionalism, have entered the PreOlympic competition opening in Saproro, Hokkaido, on
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  • 303 23 TOKYO, Tues. The World Boxing Association featherweight champion, Shozo Saijo of Japan, has started his training for his fifth title defence against Franky Crowford of the United States on Feb. 28. The title match, scheduled for Feb. 14, has been postponed to Feb. 28
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  • 82 23 A POLICE Academy Invitation team will meet Port Authority Recreation Club in an eight-bout boxing tournament at Bukit Chermin on Thursday at 7.30 p.m. THE PROGRAMME (Police first): Bantamweight: Leo Bosco de Laure vs Robert Yeo. Featherweight: Mohammed AH vs Jerome Tan. Lightweight:
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  • 386 23 MELBOURNE, Tues. Up and coming juniors who are already clocking sensational times are expected to dominate the Australian women's senior swimming championship at Hobart, Tasmania, later this week. Already one fourteen year old girl, Shane Gould, of Sydney proved herself second fastest 100 metres
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  • 172 23 VALDAORA, Italy, Tues. Karl Brunner of Italy and Elisabeth Demleftner of West Germany won the 14th World Toboggan championships here after two days of racing. Brunner took the men's competition with an aggregate time for four heats of 190.27 sec. Leonard Nagenrauft of West Germany
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  • 446 24 r>\^\§ ja I§T^ >! frj ENGLAND Ist inns 470 AUSTRALIA Ist inns. 235 ENGLAND 2nd inns G. Boycott not out 119 J. Edrich b Thomson 40 K. Fletcher b Gleeson 5 B. D'Oliveira c Walters b Thomson 5 J. Hampshire Ibw Thomson 3 R.
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  • 266 24  -  S.SIVA SINGAPORE Women's netball association will stage an age-group tournament in order to encourage more students to take up the game. This is in line with the association's aim to sustain interest in the schools now that netball is not included in the schools
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  • 180 24 CAPE TOWN, Tues. The South Africa entries Albatros U and Mercury were today still respectively first and second in actual and handicap positions in the 3,600 mile Cape to Rio race. The French yacht Striana skippered by C. Auclair which had led for three days last
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  • 430 24 BUKIT Ho Swee Secondary School scored an upset win when they edged Singapore Chinese Girls School 3-2 in the pre liminary rounds of the City District 'C division girls badminton championships at Bukit Ho Swee Secondary School yesterday. Favourites Singapore Chinese Girls
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  • 55 24 LONDON, Tues. Results of British soccer matches played yesterday (Home teams first): English Cup fourth round replays: Arsenal 3 Portsmouth 2 Orient 0 Nottingham Forest Southampton 3 York 2 English League Division Plymouth 2 Parnsley 1 Torquay 4 Tranmere 2 Scottish Cup second round replay: St. Mirren
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    257 24 RUGBY: SCC "A" vs RAF Seletar (Padang 5.15 p.m.) SOCCER: SBHFL: Div. 2 Metal Box vs Sime Darby (F N 5.15 p.m.); Hongkong Baiut vs Borneo Group (Farcer Park 5.15 p.m.); Div. 3B Chartered Bank vs Guthrie Waugh "B" (Geylang Stadium 5.15 p.m.); F N vs OCBC (Farrer
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  • 181 24 N. CLAYTON (nett 64) won the "A" monthly medal from E. Harper (nett 70) at the Singapore Island Country Club (Bukit Course) yesterday. In the 'B' medal, P. Tinsley beat E. Eastwood and N. Wilkin on countback with a nett 69. M. Ruthford took the
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  • 461 24  -  JASBIR SINGH WITH THE postponement of the world hockey tournament to August or September, there is a possibility that this year's regional tournament, to be staged in Singapore, may lose much of its glamour. The Asian riockey Federation has invited the Singapore Hockey
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  • 238 24 Treble for Joseph's in six a-side hockey SAINT JOSEPH'S Insti tution scored a treble in the City District six-a--<side hockey tournament winning the "A", "B" and "C" division titles at the Girls Sports Club ground yesterday. The Saints had earlier won the "C" division title. St. Joseph's had to give
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