Singapore Herald, 6 February 1971

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  • 15 1 THE SINGAPORE herald No. 169 Singapore Saturday, February 6, 1971 MC(P) No. 2525 15 CENTS
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  • 233 1 ALL advertisements relating to smoking will be banned m Singapore from the beginning of next month. The Ministry of Culture announced last night that the Prohibition on Advertisements relating to Smoking Act, 1970, would come into force on March 1. All cigarette
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  • 38 1 ROCKET ATTACK PHNOM PENH, Fri. A Communist unit last night launched four rockets at a military camp bordering Pochentong airfield, where virtually the whole Cambodian Air Force was destroyed m a big attack just two weeks aco. AFP
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  • 32 1 CAMBODIA BATTLE PHNOM PENH, Fri. Government troops killed and wounded more than 50 Communist soldiers m a pitched battle 25 miles south-west of Phnom Penh, the Cambodian High Command announced today. AFP
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  • 231 1 American bombs hit North Vietnam SAIGON, Fri. U.S. fighter-bombers attacked two anti-aircraft missile sites m North Vietnam, the U.S. Command announced today. Meanwhile, small South Vietnamese reconnaissance units were making forays into southern Laos and other Saigon troops fought a hard battle m Cambodia. The pro-Communist Pathet Lao has appealed
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  • IN BRIEF
    • 73 1 100 POLICE HURT IN NEW DEMO NEW DELHI, Fri. At least 100 policemen were injured today m renewed demonstrations here over Tuesday's blowing up of a hijacked Indian Airlines plane at Lahore. Police fired warning shots m the air at stone-throwing mobs. The leader of the right wing pro-Hindu Jana
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    • 28 1 TRIVANDRUM: Twelve students and five policemen were injured today when police used batons to disperse a stone-throwing student mob protesting for better hostel facilities Tn a local college.
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    • 22 1 SALISBURY: Britain's controversial Conservative MP. Enoch Powell is to be invited to visit Rhodesia m May, it was learned here today. AFP
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    • 30 1 BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Oil has been struck for the first time m the northern part of Brunei. All other wells are around the Seria oilfield area m the south. AFP
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  • 257 1 FROM THIS $30,000 CASH DISPENSER... SINGAPORE'S banks are interested m a $30,000 cash dispenser machine which allows you to draw money with a punched card, according to a British manufacturer yesterday. Lord Hayter, chairman and managing director of the 153-year-old Chubb Lock
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  • LATEST
    • 434 1 Moon walkers 5 and 6 SPACE CENTRE, Houston, Fri. Man is on the moon again. Apollo 14 commander Alan B. Shepard stepped out there today after a bull's-eye landing that came within minutes of being cancelled because of a computer problem. Shepard climbed down a nine-rung ladder to the surface
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  • 122 1 TAKEOVER BID BY BRITAIN'S SMALLEST CAR FIRM ROLLS IB! ROYCE LONDON, Fri. One of Britain's smallest motor manufacturers is seeking to form a consortium to buy up Rolls-Royce's car division. The man behind the rescue move by Jensen Motors is believed to be American millionaire Kjell Qvale. Mr. Qvale, president
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  • 54 1 LONDON, Fri.— Britain granted diplomatic recognition today to the new military regime m Uganda. Foreign Office Under-sec-retary Anthony Kershaw told the House of Commons Bthat Britain's diplomatic, envoy m Kampala had been "instructed to conduct Her Majesty's business" with the 12-day-old regime of Maj-General Idi Amin. which
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  • 59 1 SALISBURY, Fri. Rhodesian premier lan Smith is to pay an official visit to South Africa next month, the Rhodesian Financial Gazette reported today. The paper said no official confirmation could be obtained, but it had been reliably informed that Mr. Smith would open the Bloemfontein
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  • BRIEFLY...
    • 26 1 The first words Houston's Space Centre heard from the moon's surface were: "That was a beautiful one." Loud cheering broke out m the Control Centre. ODD
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    • 31 1 BEFORE Shepard stepped down, he deployed a storage assembly set that turned on a black and white television camera and his first step on the moon was seen on earth. aaa
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    • 63 1 MOSCOW: Lunokhod, the Soviet moon vehicle, today completed Its 86th day m operation. Last links between its control centre and the vehicle on Wednesday confirmed it was functioning as forecast. The next contact is dne for tomorrow. Mrs. Alan Shephard says of the moon: "It takes on a whole new
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  • 253 1 TWO police officers opened fire at four thugs last night after they were attacked with acid bulbs m front of the Apple Flower Bar m Lorong 5, Geylang. The shots went wide, but a man was caught after a short chase.
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  • 108 1 BANGKOK, Fri. Thai troops, backed by T-28 bombers, killed 30guerillas and captured a large terrorist camp yesterday In Surat Thani Province, southern Thailand. This brings the total number of guerillas killed this week m this area to 59, Klice sources said. The oneur
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 9 1 The moon's just like a bell (See Page 12).
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 1167 2  - Salvation Army of the lost generation DONALD GOULD KLJLDFKLDF THE Hippie movement is full of youths who feel lost, bewildered and frightened. Out of the consciences of two young Britons has arisen Release a voluntary organisation devoted to helping these "lame ducks of the alternative society." The counselling service has
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  • Viewpoint
    • 171 2 THE GOVT THAT DELIVERS THE GOODS SOME months ago an assurance was given m Parliament that remedial action would be taken against Mindef drivers for mounting accidents involving them. Today we find the driving habits and attitude of Mindef drivers so improved that no one has made any adverse comments.
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    • 75 2 THERE has been criticism from time to time of the way RTS announcers speak etc., but the clincher came some time m the first week of Jan., 71. when a male voice, reading the evening programme summary (for radio), said there would be a "Talk about the Portuguese invasion of
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    • 256 2 Japanese did not blow up that shrine THE statement attributed to Mr. Chuang HuiTsuan (S.H. Feb. 3) that the Japanese forces destroyed their shrine m Bukit Timah (on Bukit Batok) before they left is wrong. The Japanese could not be capable of such a sacrilegious act. The shrine was actually
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    • 108 2 Clanging and banging I AM one of the pupils of Gan Eng Seng School. Every morning, we go to school to be welcomed by the silence of the vicinity. But as work starts, the silence is broken not by our pupils, but by an entirely outside institution m our school
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    • 158 2 THIS BLOCK NEEDS SIGN PLATES ON Jan. 27 I visited a relative at Block 77, Commonwealth Drive. I was warned by two residents of same Block not to use the lift, as it was out of order. The alarm-bell was ringing and I gathered a number of people had been
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    • 96 2 THE letter by "Frustrated" (S.H. Jan. 13) refers. Our normal practice is to inform our students of their superannuation at the end of the third term each year. In fact, the superannuation is stated clearly m the report books of the students concerned when we distribute them at the end
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    • 602 2 I STAND on my criticism of the Singapore Life Guard Corps and have considerable support for my findings. While it is appreciated that fibre-glass canoes are of some help m the saving of life they are not as adequate as a properly equipped small flat bottomed
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  • 465 2 PRESIDENT Sadat's agreement to extend the Suez Canal ceasefire is a good sign. It argues a belief that that Arab-Israeli war can be settled on terms which the Cairo Government can accept without endangering its internal stability. The only really nonbargainable term is that Israeli
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 29 2 i CREST MWI SUITS )i\XJ In English Terylene/Worsted '•Sate. pr.ce $69.50 E c sE o ROBINSONS —m— —m—— mmmm— ———m__r____ (/£~l Saturday, February 6. 1971 L)^y* THE SINGAPORE HERALD
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  • 373 3 Yamashita and that waxworks museum: Nanyang runs a noil NANYANG Siang Pau is conducting a public opinion poll to find out whether Singaporeans favour a Singapore Tourist Promotion Board plan to build a waxworks museum showing Japanese World War Two General T. Yamashita accepting the surrender of British forces. In
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  • 56 3 PUBLIC Health Dept. driver Musa Ghani bin Abbas, 49, was fined $500 yesterday for causing hurt with a knife to a Singapore Traction Co. watchman. Arjan Singh, 34, told a district court that Musa stabbed him several times m the back when he was walking
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  • 40 3 MR. N.C. TANNER, Ex ternal Examiner and Visiting Professor of Surgery at the University of Singapore will give a lecture on "Flatulence" on Wednesday at 8.15 p.m. m the Pathology Lecture Theatre at Outram Road General Hospital.
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  • 25 3 CRACKERS $40 TAN Kee Sing, 32, was fined $40 m a magistrate's court on Thursday for letting off crackers on the five-foot-way of Kallang Road.
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  • 182 3 AFTER a month-long quest for a new name, the Kelong Restaurant Nightclub In the Cathay Building has decided to stick to Its original name. It Is not because of a poor response to the quest. "In fact, we didn't expect so
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  • 65 3 Liquor the top revenue earner THE Customs and Excise Department collected $26.6 million m revenue last month $1 million more than m January last year. The three biggest dollar earners are liquor ($7.4 million), petroleum ($6.6 million) and tobacco ($5.2 million). Revenue from tobacco showed a drop of $971,000 compared
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  • 437 3 'NPC IS A NEUTRAL BODY' MR. Devan Nair, NTUC SecretaryGeneral, called on both managements and labour unions yesterday to accept the National Productivity Centre's recommendations, even if they appeared to favour one or the other. He urged them to bear m mind that the
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  • 293 3 TWO TO EXPLORE CRATER TODAY From Page 1 number of lunar samples, as varied as possible, ranging from fine dust to pebbles the size of a nut. The second walk should start 25 hours after touch-down, and 17 hours after the end of the first walk.
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  • 97 3 TWO youths pleaded guilty m a magistrates' court yesterday to a charge of stealing a tape recorder from a parked car m Jalan Dua on Dec. 10 last year. Ong Kok Hai, 17, a welder and Razali bin Darus, 19, a labourer, were
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 88 3 BEETLE BAILEY By Mort Walker hec*, 1; r YOU'RE *Vv V NO M NOT AFRA/D J^/M < TO STAND fl fl 48l fIL guard out fIL mfl J* d-; M ilpl heke all MY u *Er m W__W r ALONE, A_\ Wf ______\i ______W\ are M W_p .mim ___wm\ You?j
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  • 271 4 Robber producers to tight stockpile release KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Natural rubber producers will fight the American proposal to amend the rubber stockpile through the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries. This was stated by both the Commerce and Industry Minister Inche Mohd. Khir Johari, and the Thai Economic Affairs Minister,
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  • 89 4 A MAN was seriously injured and three others received minor injuries when their car landed m a drain m Upper Thomson Road at 2.30 a.m. yesterday. Charlie Tan, 26, was admitted to Thomson Road General Hospital with a broken leg. The other
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  • 223 4 Suicide because lover was leaving THE ESTRANGED wife of an engineer killed herself because she could not follow her lover to Australia. Staff nurse Ann Marie Chia Choy Leng, 26, was found dead at the foot of a block of Redhill Road flats last month, a coroner's inquiry heard yesterday.
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  • 107 4 A MAN told the traffic court yesterday he had no idea he was speeding far beyond the limit because he was driving an air-conditioned car. Suryakant Mahawar of Malacca Street pleaded guilty to a charge of driving at 85 m.p.h. along Nicoll
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  • 47 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Saudi Arabian Government has given $300,000 for the relief of flood victims m Malaysia, Tun Abdul Razak said today. Thailand will be sending 100 tons of rice and 10 tons of sugar to Malaysia as aid for the flood victims.
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  • 128 4 THE Singapore Armed Forces and the British Army will hold a series of exercises In different parts of the Island this month. In the Tampines area, exercises will be held from 8 a.m. on Monday until noon on Saturday. In the Taman Jurong area, SAF personnel
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  • 111 4 Car crash starts long pile -up MOTORIST M.C. Hamilton, 25, and his passenger S.J. David, 20, were injured after their car overturned at Holland Circus at 5.30 a.m. yesterday. Both were treated as outpatients at the British Military Hospital Traffic around the circus stalled for more than a mile during
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  • 210 4 A 27-STOREY complex of offices and apart ments is to be built by 1973 on a 40,000 sq. ft. site at Bras Basah Road originally planned for a second Hilton Hotel. It will be developed by Gemini Chit Fund Corp. Ltd. at
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  • 26 4 SMOKY EXHAUST HOH AH KOW of Lim Chiak Road was fined $50 for driving a car emitting excessive smoke m Aljunied Road on June 10, 1965.
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  • 133 4 MORE art galleries should be put m shopping centres said Mr. Jek Yeun Thong, Minister of Culture, yesterday. He said that the setting up of a central art gallery not only took time, money and planning but it was difficult to choose
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  • 71 4 BRITISH AIR CHIEF DUE HERE NEXT WEEK THE British Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir John Grandy (above), will arrive here on Feb. 13 for a three-day visit. Sir John, who Is on a tour of R.A.F. bases ln the Near East, Middle East and Far East, will
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  • 47 4 MR. HAUW Sing King will hold an exhibition of his paintings of horses at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce from Feb. 20 to 22. The {proceeds from the sale of paint ngs will go to the National Theatre Trust Fund.
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  • 190 4 AFTER 100 YEARS, BRITISH GIVE UP PULAU BRANI BRITISH and Singapore representatives met yesterday on Pulau Brani to end a centuryold association. There was no fanfare and the meeting at the Quartermaster's Office was unknown to many of the island's 4,000 residents. The get-together, to formalise the hand-over of 89
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  • 83 4 AN OVERHEAD pedestrian bridge will be erected over East Coast Road near Mart! a Road next Friday at midnight. Part of East Coast Road between Still Road and Telok Kurau Road will be closed to all traffic while it is being put up. The work
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  • 24 4 NG LYE YANG of Redhill Road was fined $35 for overloading his lorry m Geylang Road on Jan. 31 last year.
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 121 4 BLONDIL By Chic Young f^~ YOU RE A NEW I IVES. I JUST GRADUATED T~ If THERE MAS TO BE A FIRST I If THAT'S THE TENTH TIME I i_[ BARBEQ MERE. PROM 3ARSER COLLEGE jf r TIME FOR EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENED t b-V *S ARENT YESTERDAY AND >-_ _'L
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  • 318 5 HDB flats are safe, say engineers H.D.B. flats are capable of withstanding earth tremors even more violent than the one which rocked many parts of Singapore on Thursday night. A H.D.B. statement yesterday said that an examination of flats m areas where the tremor was most severely felt showed that
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  • 79 5 DR Chi Eng Guan, a lecturer m the Physics Department of the University of Singapore, and Dr Cheong Yuen Hee, an assistant lecturer m the Law Faculty, have resigned. The two resignations bring the number of academic staff who have left the university this year
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  • 137 5 DR. AUGUSTINE HH. Tan has been promoted Senior Lecturer ln economics at the University of Singapore. Dr. Tan, a graduate of the University of Singapore, m IK2 with first class honours In economics, Joined the university as a lecturer m
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  • 34 5 INCOME TAX OFFENCES ONG CHOW BENG was fined $450 when he pleaded guilty to charges of not sending his tax returns for the years of 1966, 1967 and 1969. He had nine previous convictions.
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  • 174 5 THE Jurong Shipyard Branch of the Pioneer Industries Employees Union will elect branch committee members at a meeting on Monday. There was trouble m the branch last November. NTUC Secretary-General CV. Devan Nair said then that a few members of the branch had signed
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  • 564 5 MR. JUSTICE F.A. Chua said yesterday that evidence on the manipulation of the Federal Paper Products Berhad counter on the Stock Exchange was irrelevant to a $42,900 damages claim by a firm of shareholders. He was referring to the testimony of Mr. James
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  • 137 5 Valuation expert from NZ for talks NEW Zealand's ValuerGeneral Bruce Brown, 63, flew into Singapore last night for a six-day stay. He will hold talks with the Commissioner for Inland Revenue, Mr. Hsu Tse-kwang, on Tuesday. Mr. Brown said he would discuss the training of Singapore valuers m New Zealand
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  • 303 5 Physician showed me obscene pictures, girl tells court A GIRL employed by a Chinese physician told a magistrate" s court yester day how he made advances, showed her obscene photographs and attempted to pull her blouse as she reached for her last pay packet before resigning. Wong Kee Leong is
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  • 56 5 PENANG, Fri. The national chairman of Partai Sosialis Rakyat Malaya, Inche Kassim Ahmad, has urged that a law be passed to render an election null and void if the winning candidate polled less than half the votes of the total number of registered voters. He also called
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 319 5 TODAY 8 pm: Carnival Trade Fair Japanese films at the 11 am— 7.3B pm: At the 1971 at Great World Cultural Centre, Canning National Theatre Club: 11 8 am 8 pm: Exhibition of Amusement Park, Kirn Rise. am Children's session books by Charles Dickens Seng Road. 8.38—4 pm: Safety First
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  • 39 6 M-CYCLING SHOW A DEMONSTRATION on the proper way to ride motorcycles, including way of avoiding skidding and wobbling, will be held at the Empress Place car park at 9.30 a.m. on Feb. 14 by the National Safety First Council.
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  • 275 6 Geylang fruit and cake samples infected TWO samples of cut fruit and Malay cakes taken from hawkers m the Geylang Serai area scene of the typhoid outbreak were found to be contaminated with faecal bacteria, according to a Health Ministry statement yesterday. The statement said that this indicated that these
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  • 137 6 ABOUT 150 children of the Singapore Spastic Centre m Gilstead Road were treated to a Chinese New Year party by members of the 121 Signals Squadron Royal Australian Signals, on Thursday. In addition to the eats and drinks, the children were also given ang pows,
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  • 57 6 DR. Lim Pin of Singapore University's Medical Faculty, has been awarded the Degree of Doctor of Medicine by Cambridge University. Dr. Lim, lecturer m clinical medicine, did a thesis on observations of magnesium deficiency m man. He was awarded a Commonwealth Medical Fellowship last year to
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  • 52 6 THE Port Master's Department has advised all ships to keep clear of an area near the Marine Department Yard at Pulau Brani and southwards to Sentosa between Feb. 8 and 15. This is to allow operations for the recovery of a water pipeline along the
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  • 22 6 VISIT TO BIRD PARK THE Singapore Handicaps 1 Friendship Club is organising a visit to the Jurong Bird Park on Feb. 14.
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  • 94 6 Army to give a hand in road repair ABOUT 100 National Servicemen from Safti and Pasir Laba Camp will help m a gotong royong campaign to repair Track 46, off 16 m.s. Jurong Road, later this month. Starting on Feb. 14, they will join local villagers, led by the MP
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  • 28 6 ARABS TO CELEBRATE KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Arab Community Association of Malaysia will hold a Hari Raya Haji get-together at the United Arab Republic Embassy here on Sunday.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • 134 7 SINGAPORE will provide training for four social welfare officers from Hongkong as part of its policy of regional co-operation.. These officers will be attached for three weeks to the Social Welfare Department where they will be trained m the organisation and the
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  • 155 7 Talks may help curb MalaysiaThailand smuggling KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Malaysian and Thai officials will meet here on March 17 to compare notes on smuggling along their common border. Commerce and Industry Minister Inche Mohd. Khir Johari said today smuggling was rampant m the area and something should be done to
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  • 110 7 SINGAPORE tourist officials are making moves to "sell" the Republic's tourist potential m conjunction with a trade mission to Tokyo m April said to be the biggest to date. The Tourist Promotion Board has told the sponsors, the Singapore Manufacturers' Association, that
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  • 62 7 SINGAPORE soprano Madam Huang Phay Ching, will give a recital at the Victoria Theatre on Tuesday m aid of the Catholic High School building fund. She will be accompanied by Miss Ann Tan. The recital will include Chinese work and art songs, and works
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  • 26 7 MONEY TALKS TOP executives of Chung Khiaw Bank branches m Singapore Malaysia and Hongkong have concluded a three-day conference at the Hotel Equatorial here. *iXi. I
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  • 220 7 485 SHIPS FLY REPUBLIC'S FLAG SHIPPING activity at the Port of Singapore reached an all-time high last year 38,079 ships totalling 148.4 million tons entered and cleared the port. This represented an increase of 4,030 ships or 12 per cent over
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  • 93 7 AMERICAN President Lines was fined $100 m a district court yesterday for failing to give notice m writing of six cases of shotguns on board the President Pferce on Dec. 9 last year. Mr. Lim Kirn Chong, who pleaded guilty on behalf
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  • 28 7 PARTY TIME THE Advisory Committee of the Broadrick Road Secondary School will hold a Chinese New Year party at the Sea View Hotel at 7.30 p.m. on Sunday.
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  • 192 7 TWENTY-ONE senior lecturers at the University •f Singapore have been promoted to newly-created Kts of associate proMrs. Tke associate professorship Is a step higher than that of a senior lecturer. It la believed that the new posts were created to provide Incentive for senior staff
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  • 334 7 TREMORS IN KUALA LUMPUR KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Government machinery* swung into action here last night minutes after the city was rocked by earth tremors. The Minister of Information and Minister with Special Functions, Tan Sri Ghazali Shafle, was watching a television programme m his
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  • 115 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Government has relaxed the ban oa religions processions which were Imposed after the May 13 racial riots. Prime Minister, Tun Abdul R**ak ordered the relaxation following representations from the Hlndn community for permission to hoM their annual Thai pnsam prot union
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  • 128 7 SERGEANT Adnan bin Abdul Rahman, who joined the British Army m 1952, has been awarded a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, for 19 years of loyal service. A non-commissioned officer In charge of stores and motor transport In the unit since 1968, the
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  • 152 7 SABAH is fast expanding its fleet of Singaporebuilt fast patrol craft for extended sea patrols against smugglers. Vosper Thornycroft Uniteers Pte. Ltd., the Singapore specialist boat builders, has built the sixth vessel for the Sabah Government, which is nearing completion at its Tanjong Rhu
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  • 88 7 $50mil. up in first half of 1970 THE INLAND Revenue Department collected about $227.2 million In the first six months of last year. This Is about $50 million more than the revenue collected m the first six months of lfit. Most of the revenue came from Income tax which rose
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  • 26 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Malaysian Youth Council will meet here on March 6 and 7 to work out plans for this year's activities.
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  • 152 7 Double gift for blind school children A BRAILLE typewriter and a portable transistor radio worth $365 were presented' to primary school pupils at the Singapore Association for the Blind yesterday. The presentation was made by Mr. Tom Chapman, President of the Ugly Man's Club a charity organisation made up of
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  • 114 7 Jailed for not joining the army A YOUTH, who chose to ignore notices and reminders from the Manpower Base to register for national service, was sentenced to a month's jail and ordered by a magistrate to report for registration within three weeks ofhis release. Lum Chee Kiong, 20, of Jalan
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  • 33 7 THE staff and students of St. Francis' Girls' School will hold a dinner, dance and fashion show at the Ambassador Hotel on April 2 m aid of the Whampoa Welfare Fund.
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  • 207 7  - Gheorghiu wins in style Herald Knight DKLJKL;JKLELE GRANDMASTER Gheorghiu (Rumania) won in fine style when he beat Rudzitis in the Karlis Lidums International Tournament, held recently in Adelaide. Gheorghiu played the queen's pawn opening, and castled early in the game. His opponent was on the defensive, and had a cramped
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  • ENTERTAINHMENT
    • 205 8  - Action bold and brash in big gold robbery WALTER SEOW By LUST for gold is the theme of El Condor (National General Pictures), m which escaped prisoner Jim Brown teams up with travelling con-man Lee Van Cleef to stage the Great Gold Robbery. Tbeir target is El Condor, a fortress
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    • 137 8 And when the guns stop booming, our two heroes are captured, ragged, dirtstained but with hardly a scratch to show for their running the cannon gauntlet ordeal. Inside the fort, they come upon an unexpected bonus, a golden-haired wench with a yen for big, strong men. She takes an immediate
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    • 22 8 BAND IN PARK THE Peoples Association Band will perform at the Macßitchie Reservoir Park bandstand on Sunday, Feb. 14 at 5 p.m.
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    • 20 8 GUPPY CLUB DANCE THE Singapore Guppy Club will hold a Chinese New Year dance at the Victoria Memorial Hall tonight.
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    • 667 8 WE have discovered a very good eating place which is quite unknown except to office workers In the vicinity and a few others. The restaurant, Lee Tong Kee, (a branch of the famous Kuala Lumpur hor fun restaurant) Is m Tanjong Pagar Road, less than
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    • 287 8 TABATHA is a brave and fiery young beauty. Packing a 36-22-36 figure, Tabatha breathes and eats fire. The sft. 5 m. 20-year-old said: "It's a very dangerous game because if a gust of wind blew m the wrong direction, it spells calamity." But
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    • 465 8 TWINSET CROSSWORD g BM X I fc=i=ii=a"z"z |13- IB** 16 17 Iti B^IB Ih Hi ■■j hB BH ZBZBUE_*_"_n BB bh hh 1 j 8888 ........888 BB^B _^H ACROSS DOWN 4. Goes up many branches (6) 8. The long and the short of the optician's work? (7) 1. Bring lots
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  • 763 9 Flightseeing in New Zealand FEB. 6 A New Zealand National Day Special NEW ZEALAND'S magnificent alpine scenery, lovely lakes, glaciers and the brilliance of the coloured pools m the thermal region, its exotic forests and necklaces of islands set m a clear blue sea are much admired from the ground.
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    • 143 9 New Zealand is about 5,500 miles from Singapore. Its nearest neighbour is Australia, 1,400 miles to the west. Made up of the North Island, the South Island and smaller islands, New Zealand is over 1,000 miles long. Its area is 104,000 square miles, twice that of West Malaysia and nearly
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    • 142 9 The Dutch explorer, Abel Tasman, discovered New Zealand ln 1642. It was rediscovered and Its coastline accurately charted by Capt. James Cook, RN, who went there m 1700 and twice afterwards. In 1840 the Maori leaders signed the Treaty of Waitangi, ceding sovereignty to Britain. Maoris and Europeans form one
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 297 9 Best Wishes to the PEOPLE GOVERNMENT OF NEW ZEALAND on NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL DAY __^^_L/^\________________t__ i «*s'em|(Sl Jumted trading (ptal limited C 161-2 People's Park Shopping Complex. Tel: ***** 711*3, Singapore 1. SOLE DISTRIBUTOR ASHLEY WALLPAPERS LTD. (PORIRUA NEW ZEALAND) CONGRA TULA TIONS to the Government and People of NEW
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    • 255 9 BEN AND COMPANY LIMITED extend their best wishes to the Government and People of New Zealand on their National Day I __m 25JjS3i2jS _j_W I- w*a*tt_. iy'-mr-rAmm-m..' ~m__r I H _3 Rill II WWk**^___________9__9___*_____9_-%-Pl^ „,...--"^>» < v r^^_r I^^^HB^^hS la_\_- u _W__ 999^r^^^^^^^\^\ ■___\V -7 ■~^.~_+s*M*m A *.<>^^j?_ AJ I
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  • 498 10 What did YOU do last night? FRIDAY night and nothing to do? Don't despair, teens. Singapore may be short of good, cheap entertainment but that shouldn't force you to spend the last day of your busy week at home. Besides, on Fridays you are free from the surging Saturday night
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    • 1258 10 Looking those sex inside books The pa&e that sees things YOUR WAY 4 r^*Js^% GO TO any book stall, and there, clustered around one shelf are several young people, each with his shoulder furtively hunched over to obscure the book he is holding. The book is usually some sort of
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    • 509 10 I AM interested in a boy old age, ill health or my girl-friend broke off spectacles that don't fit. with a few days ago. She So it is best for your keeps on telling me bad father to consult an things about this boy. Do opthalmologist who is yon think
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    • 468 11 ibMlflfli!) You ask... MY SISTER Is If you are interested in interested In going to Interior Design as a Australia for a teachers* career, it will definitely be training course. Can you better if you go abroad for please tell her the training. Correspondence minimum qualifications courses are of little
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    • 2242 11 mm Your complete weekend guide lill If IsboMMBB F~n ivf:^ J jj] l> 7: Vb V!finWVHH9 ■B_m_^H___H___B_R____________B____^______^_______H y^^ m m^M o mii z _fii^i^is kb l _i v9ifnnfaßi ■■..■■■■■^■■■mim 9.00 Kanak Kanak Berhari Raya 3.00 Opening And Programme AT Iffl lnlllUll l!lj E 2 Children celebrating Hari Raya Haii Summary
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  • CABLES WORLD WIDE
    • 244 12 Feb. 15 deadline for oil firms: Iran TEHERAN, Fri. The world's oil companies have until Feb. 15 to accept the Gulf States' tabled conditions or suffer reprisals, including possible interruption of deliveries. Iran disclosed the Feb. IS deadline last night m advance of scheduled simultaneous publication m the ten capitals
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    • 20 12 MOSCOW, Fri. Soviet war ships, including a submarine and an anti-submarine vessel, wjjl visit Cuba this month.
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    • 189 12 JERUSALEM, Fri. A demand by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for a partial Israeli withdrawal from the east bank of the Suez Canal before the end of the new Middle East ceasefire "is being carefully studied" m Jerusalem today, a Foreign Ministry official said. The Israelis
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    • 91 12 Fishermen hook a submarine BREST, Fri. A French Ashing boat caught a 1,200-ton French submarine with a .1,200 dollar dragnet today, winning a battle. But it lost the war. The 50-ton take trawler Iguane snagged its trawl this afternoon, two nautical miles off coast and reported to shore that it
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    • 37 12 PARIS, Fri The Lorraine, East France, coal pit complex came to a virtual standstill today when up to 95 per cent of the 13,000 miners m the region came out on strike over proposed closures.
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    • 141 12 MANILA, Fri. A partial transit drivers strike entered its fifth day today with Government hopes that violence had diminished. All national police were pulled out of the metropolitan area at the request of Mayer Antonio- Vlllegas who said the four cities la Greater
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    • 305 12 HOUSTON, Fri. The moon "rang like a bell" for about two hours yesterday when the jettisoned third stage of the Apollo 14 Saturn rocket hit it on schedule, Houston Space Centre reported. The seismograph which the Apollo 12 astronauts left m the lunar
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    • 55 12 KARACHI, Fri. Two people were killed and 30 injured when police opened fire on two rival groups of workers armed with spears and arrows at Daulatpur, East Pakistan, yesterday. The police were reported to have fired m self defence when the workers turned against them. Twelve
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    • 28 12 PARIS, Fri. Two armed men today raided a leading Paris numismatist and got away with a coin collection valued at two million francs (about £150,000). AFP
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    • 263 12 General Amin is sworn in KAMPALA, Fri. Major General Idi Amin was sworn m as new Ugandan Head of State at a packed Kololo Stadium m the centre of Kampala today. Gen. Amin, dressed m full uniform, arrived m a black limousine and was met with cheers from the crowd,
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    • 507 12 LAO BAO, Fri. In just five days, American cavalry and engineers have reopened the old colonial road from Dong Ha, on the South Vietnamese coast, to the Laotian frontier, which had been closed because of heavy Communist pressure since June, 1968. This massive operation, involving
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    • 95 12 CALCUTTA, Fri. Extremist leftists yesterday raided Calcutta's biggest prison Presidency Jail with bombs and attacked warders to free their comrades. Top officials were avoiding interviews, but jail sources said the bomb attack apparently was to keep the guards busy elsewhere while several leftists inside
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    • 65 12 SAIGON, Fri. Four Saigon daily newspapers were seized by the authorities today for violating the Press Code. For one of them, Tin Sang, owned by Opposition Deputy Ngo Cong Due, it was the 101 st seizure m 560 issues and the second m two days.
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    • 251 12 HONGKONG, Fri. A "»erlca has evacuated 3 million peasants and closed a factory tn the north of South Vietnam m preparation for the use of nuclear weapons. So said Radio Peking ln a broadcast monitored here today. Only yesterday, the Peking People's Daily warned
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    • 569 13 ROLLS 1 ROYCE LONDON, Fri. Prime Minister Edward Heath considers there is still a long-shot chance that President Nixon's Administration will join Britain m a joint attempt to rescue Rolls-Royce, aides reported last night. If that American-British rescue bid does not materialise, other British authorities believe
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    • 31 13 VALPARAISO, Fri. President Salvador AUende said yesterday that Cuban Premier Fidel Castro will come to Chle at an "opportune time," but that he has not been invited yet. AP
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    • 233 13 Kremlin turns screws on rebels MOSCOW, Fri. -.The Kremlin is continuing its repression on dissidents by moving to bar one defence lawyer from practice and preventing another from taking dissident cases. According to legal sources here, the newly-created Ministry of Justice has asked the Collegium to expel Vladimir Y. Shveisky,
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    • 191 13 Mendoza: State rests its case MANILA, Fri. The prosecution rested its case today accusing Benjamin Mendoza V Amor of trying to kill Pope Paul VI. The defence immediately moved to dismiss the charges on grounds that the state "miserably failed" to prove the Bolivian painter guilty. Judge Pedro Bautista gave
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      33 13 LONDON, Fri.: Oueen Elizabeth holds a trio of corgis on leashes as she arrives at London's Liverpool Street Station yesterday. The Oueen was returning to the British capital after a holiday at Sandringham.
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    • 31 13 JAKARTA, Fri. Police intelligence units kiUed two Communists m a recent mopping up operation conducted m Belang district, southern part of Minahasa, Celebes, Antara news agency reported today.
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    • 37 13 LUZERN, (Switzerland), Fri. Big fire broke out m the Luzern railway station today causing the collapse of the glass roof covering the main all. It was not immediately known whether there were any casualties. AFP
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    • 187 13 'Human bomb' hi -jacks jet to Cuba MIAMI, Fri. A U.S. Delta DC9 jetliner with 27 people aboard, including pop singer Bobby Goldsboro, was hi-jacked to Cuba yester day by a young black man who told a stewardess he had converted himself into a human bomb. "He held up a
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    • 65 13 STOCKHOLM, Fri. A strike stopped nearly all trains at midnight last night when pay talks between the Swedish Government and its employees ended m deadlock. About 1,000 members of the National State Employees Union are involved m the rail strike, which may spread to other unions
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    • 219 13 LONDON, Fri. A planned Japanese invasion of the British colour television market could spark off a major legal row, trade sources said. The Japanese electronics firm Sony has already announced plans to sell 13-inch colour sets m Britain from April at a
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    • 43 13 BRAZZAVILLE, Fri. South African troops are m Southern Angola ready to intervene against African guerillas under the terms of "secret" agreements between Portugal, South Africa and Rhodesia, the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) claimed here today.
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    • 73 13 Spaniard confesses to 17 murders PUERTO De Santa Maria, Fri. Seventeen murders have been confessed to by Manuel Delgado Villegas, a handsome 28-year-old Spaniard, according to the police here. Villegas was arrested two weeks ago when a 38-year-old woman was found strangled m this southern Spanish town. The police claim
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    • 93 13 LISBON, Fri. With 37,000 refugees packing Quelimane, capital of the flood-stricken Zambezi region m the Portuguese East African territory of Mozambique, Red Cross workers have put out an urgent appeal for clothing and food. Newspaper reports said more than 7,000 homeless were reported to
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    • 61 13 PANAMA CITY, Fri. The Duke of Edinburgh arrived at the USAF air base at Kobbe, Panama Canal Zone, last night and left almost immediately to board the Royal Yacht. The tour will cover several Commonwealth island territories m the Pacific, some of which have never
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    • 334 13 LONDON, Fri. The British papers believe after reading between the lines of the White Paper on the Simonstown Agreement, that Britain is now committed to sell 11 anti-submarine helicopters, worth about £1,000,000 to South Africa. Commenting on the White Paper's conclusions, the
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    • 76 13 JAKARTA, Fri. Police on the island of Nusakambangan, south of Central Java shot and killed Tarzan a fugitive from the island's prison camp, the official Antara news agency reported today. The report said the man, sentenced to serve a ten-year term m the camp, escaped about
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    • 156 13 TAIPEH, Fri. An explosion ripped through the Bank of America office In Talpeh this morning, gnttlng the first floor and injuring seven persons. A bank officer said the explosion was canned by a bomb, bnt poUce said It was canned by a gas leak. Seme 38
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  • ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
    • 105 14 PETALING TIN incurred s loss of SS 37,7 16 m the year e.ided October 1970 but this was more than offset by an exceptional income of 51, 177,485. W ith this exceptional income, which was an insurance claim on the company's No. 4 dredge, the company managed
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    • 195 14 LONDON, Fri. World natural rubber consumption continued to be affected by substitutes with synthetics making further inroads into the industry during 1970. According to the latest International Rubber Study Group statistics, consumption of natural rubber m the first 10 months of the year fell to 2,405,000
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    • 28 14 (Closing buyer /seller prices for Feb. 5, m sterling per metric ton). Tone: Steady; Spot 1436 1437; 3-month 1437 1438; Settlement 1437; Total turnover 265 tons.
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    • 112 14 TOKYO, Fri. The Japanese textile industry has urged the Government not to give preferential tariff treatment to textile imports from China and Hongkong, Kyodo news service said the appeal was made by the Japan Textile Federation and the Spinners' Association. In their request to the Ministry of
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    • 45 14 (Yesterday's closing prices, m U.S. dollars per ounce). Singapore (1) 40.01. (2) 150.25; Hongkong 40.19; Beirut 38.75; London 38.41; Zurich 38.408. 38.605; Paris 38.80. Note: (1) Export price to non-sterling areas m U.S. dollars. (2) Local dealers' price m Singapore dollars, per tael.
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  • 384 14 MALAYSIA/SINGAPORE After the Chinese New Year holidays, the market continued its downward drift. There were minor shortlived reactions on shortcovering, but most days it was a buyers market, reported GREEN COLLIER. A good deal of shortcovering was done m February RSS 1. February shipment RSS 1 was
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  • 269 14 SINGAPORE-MALAYSIA Merchant rates fixed yesterday by the Association of Banks m Malaysia-Singapore. Local dollars per unit of foreign currency. HONGKONG (Rates in Hongkong dollars. On New York TT 6.***** On New York DD 6.0250 Gold (99% fineness, per tael) 291.625 Note Rates: China (per 100 renminbi) 180.00
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  • 569 14 The market closed firmer m- quiet trading following small 'bargain hunting' m a market short of sellers. The acceptance of the British Ley land wage offer at Cowley aided sentiment but the Rolls Royce situation remained a major cautionary factor. The Financial Times index, which was off
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  • 372 14 The stock market was mixed after about 30 minutes of moderately active trading yesterday. Advancing issues led declines by a narrow margin, but the Stanpoors industrial average was off 21 Informed sources told Reuter that the unemployment level mi n January was six percent, down from
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  • 248 14 AMSTERDAM Internationals eased yesterday with KLM lower. Shippings and plantations also retreated. Ford finished firmer but Van G elder Paper was very weak. Insurances declined led by Nationale Nederlanden and investment funds were narrowly mixed. State loans were barely steady to weak. PARIS Trading was uncertain and narrowly
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 657 14 CMMFm ADVERTISEMENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ANNIVERSARIES. AN NOUNCEMENTS. BIRTHS. CLUB ACTIVITIES. CON DOLENCES. DEATHS. ENGAGEMENTS, FUNERAL. GREET INGS. IN MEMORIAM. MARRIAGES. MISSING. PERSONAL P.PC. REQUIEMS REUNIONS Minimum $4/- for 10 words, each additional word 40cts. All other classified advertisements Minimum $2/ for 10 words, each additional word 20cts. BOX SERVICE CHARGE $1
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    • 410 14 APPOINTMENTS S Applications are invited fro .i suitably qualified candidates who are Singapore Citizens for the following positions: A. FOREMAN OF ENGINE FITTERS (MECHANICAL) AFLOAT Duties: Successful candidates will be required to supervise section of Fitters engaged on Marine Engineering repairs on board ships and to liaise with and co-ordinate
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  • 462 15 MALAYSIA/SINGAPORE RUBBER RUBBER March 47--3/8 cents a lb. (down a half cent). First business traded m the morning yesterday was m March 1 RSS at 47--3/4 cents, with April standing at 1-1/8 cents premium. Prices then eased fractionally on long liquidation m view of disappointing overseas advices and
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  • 103 15 Differentials are m terms of USS 1 for the corresponding month. (For the week ended Feb. 5). SMR CV Feb. (1-ton pallet) 2-1/4 cents premium nominal. SMR 5L Feb. (1-ton pallet) 2-5/8 cents premium traded and seUers. SMR 5 Feb. (1-ton pallet) a quarter cent discount traded. SMR
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  • 60 15 (Yesterday's official buyer/seUer prices, m pence per lb.) Tone: Easier; ClF's March 16-13/16 17, April 17 17-1/4; Spot 17-1/4 17-1/2; Settlements March 17-7/16 17-9/16, AprU 17-3/4 17-7/8, May 18 18-1/8, April 18 18-1/8, July/Sept. 18-3/4 18-7/8, Oct/Dec. 19-1/2 19-9/16, Jan/March 19-13/16 20, April/June 20-1/16 20-1/4, July /Sept. 20-5/16
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  • 69 15 TIN $825 a picul (Unchanged). The Straits tin price remained stagnant yesterday at $625 a picul on an official offering also unchanged at 195 tons. The overnight London quote was £3 a ton lower. Buying support m Penang came mainly from Europe and the United States and the
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  • 90 15 TAIPEI, Fri. Some 200 Taiwan feed dealers today strongly protested against what they described as the arbitrary decision of Thai exporters to scrap the maize agreement signed between the countries last September. Nationalist China and Thailand signed their first maize agreement m September last year under which a
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  • 1641 15 D;K';,.,,. Singapore Malaysia Feb. 4 657.86 427.29 Feb. 5 657.05 425.29 KEY Closing buyers' and seUers* prices are foUowed by the business done. Figurei m brackets denote traded lots m I,ooo's. When the price is not foUowed by a figure m brackets, it means only a single
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  • 78 15 (Managers' prices for Feb. 8) B. S. ASIA UNIT TRUSTS Mai. Invt. Fund 1.29 1.34 Mai. Progress Fund 1.05 1.10 xd CHARTERED UNI T TRUSTS Singapore Growth Fund 1.07 1.12 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUSTS Third Singapore 1.29 The Commerce Ind. Fund 1.06 1.11 B. S. The Saving Fund 1.13
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  • 241 15 THE PORT OF SINGAPORE AUTHORITY HAS MADE THESE BERT 'I ING* ARRANGEMENTS FOR FEBRUARY. 6. OUT: Petko K. Slavejnov 3/4; Koyo Maru 5; Bougainville 10/11: Atreus 14/15: Reiho Maru 19; Tronoh 20 west; Sletter 21 east; Shokai Maru 29/30; Samut Songkhram 2. IN: Neptune Beryl 27/28: Samut
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  • 110 15 (Yesterday's 1.30 p.m. prices, m sterling per long ton, unless otherwise sUted). COPRA (U.S. dollars per long ton): Philippine/ Indonesian Feb. 216. March 217, April 218, all reseUers. COCONUT OIL: Straits Feb/March 150 quoted; Malayan Feb/March 169 quoted; Philippine (U.S. dollars per long ton) Feb/March 324 seUer; Ceylon
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  • 43 15 PEPPER (Yesterday's 2.00 p.m. seUers' prices, m shiUings per cwt) Tone: Quiet; Sarawak white spot 412/6, afloat 400 nominal. Feb/March 397/6, March/April 392/6; Sarawak black spot 410/—, afloat 3 9 2/6, Jan /Feb. and Feb/March both 370/—; Malabar Jan/ Feb. 520/—.
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  • 742 15 Mining shares staged a mild recovery yesterday. Trading. after an active early hurst, was l generally very quiet. Rises were particularly noticeable among the i heavyweights but many of the speculative stocks cut back on Thursday recovered some of their losses. Apart from BHP, < the industrial
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  • 239 15 Trading was slow yesterday but prices held steady on meagre buying interest. The turnover was slightly higher at $8.43 million. Hutchison-Boag and .General Bottling continued to attract demand and gained 15 cents and 10 cents respectively for the day. Cottons regained part of Thursday's loss. Winsor rose
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  • 363 15 Prices eased yesterday on profit-taking following sharp initial gains. Towards the close, selling was more pronounced and falls vere registered over a broad front. Autos, Trading houses and shippings were early- gainers but declined later on lack of follow-through. Among those to give up initial advances were
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  • 159 15 LONDON, Fri. Easy conditions continued with grain cargoes fixed from the U.S. Gulf to Antwerp/Hamburg range at US$4.5O fio (free m and out) for February. A cargo of soyabeans was arranged from the U.S. Gulf to Kaohsiung at US$lO fd (free discharge) for February. Indian Government brokers
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    • 778 16 ORIENTLINES lID. legggaaiga m mm gwgug g 9SSCSSI ICB BUILDING 2 SHENTON WAV SINGAPORE 1 TEL 953e33-7 U.K. EUfIOPE SERVICE LOADING FOR LONDON, H'BURG. R'DAM, HAVRE, mmmm paasai Aaanrcs tit pt une AMBER ,n Port H'burg 8/3. S'dam 11/3 Havre 14/3. L'don 18/3 NCrrUNC TOPAZ In ft/SLS 8 Feb L'don
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1263 16 II I /I \/I KEY FOR EASY REFERENCE. The shipping schedules II I V beginning on this page are given m four parts for X>. I A ships westbound, eastbound. southbound and J** ***** m trf^t j.,, coastal. Each entry gives the following information: mmf-** m J 1 *k__A^*___________\\W W
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 721 17 S** MALAYSIAN INTERNATIONAL H SHIPPING CORPORATION BERHAD H No. 30K Jin. Ampang, Kuala Lumpur H The National Shipping Line of Malaysia FAR EAST/EUROPE SERVICE i Stagepore M'lwm Paaaag Arrive* BUNGA MELOR 27 Fab/2 Mar 3/6 Mar 1/8 Mar Havra 2/4. London 4/4. H'burg 10/4. R'dam J2/4. A'werp 14/4. Bremen 17/4.
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 982 17 1 3.STDOI inn ,nclud n 9 s h 'PS sailing out of Singapore for Far _^Z— Z__Z_SZ KAi mXmA Ea «t ports to the north-east ALASKA MARU Feb 13/14 Mr.r.„i_, •o 13/14 Hongkong, j w ,n. MOSK/LEO M.S.ALTA.R Feb 23/2S Japan, Pusan. KSC/OL ALCOS MASTER Apr 1 9 /22 Jj-J^O
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  • RACING HERALD
    • 954 18 Fair Chance Day's Best Bet GOING: Good BEST BET: Fair Chance, Scan and Graceful View BEST LONGSHOT: Colony Surf la race six. PENANG, Fri. Fair Chance is the day's best bet m the Class Six Division Two 7f event (Race Three) here tomorrow. The Copenha gen gelding was a last
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    • 859 19 Plump on Marusa to outsprint rivals GOING: Good BEST BET: Corruption, Marusa aad Rickshaw Teaser BEST LONGSHOT: Bicycle Kid ia race four. PENANG, Fri. Plump on Marusa m Race Five for Class Three Division One performers over 6f here on Sunday. The Good Brandy mare finished a strong second to
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    • 150 19 CAVALIER MARKSMAN ORACLE LH SUMMER CO o COO BIRD COURTS GIFT el: \ntS* mi Long Hot Sammer Long Hot Summer A lel>mi Coronation Kltt Coo Coo Bird WHITE SERAYA COUP DE MAIN GREEN SWORD Race 2: Prediction Decuman White Seraya Skipalong Prediction Pride and Love DUST FURY DUKEDOM LOCH
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    • 241 20 PENANG, Fri. Trainer George West's pair Pilot (Coleman) and Glamour Prince (Rahman) provide an interesting workout on good going here this morning. They raced stride for stride over 3f m 37-1/5 with Pilot a neck m front at the finish. Both are engaged m race
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      47 20 Patrick Campbell of First Battalion Irish Guards, ducks a left from Sgt. Kelly 95 Commando Light Regiment, Royal Artillery m the lightweight final of the Far East Land Forces inter-unit boxing championships. Sgt. Kelly won on points. The Commando beat Irish Guards by six bouts to five.
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    • 1025 18 gg^ SATURDAY'S CARD -^g BfffPffi^TfffßßTßHffW'CTl^ffW ***** RICKSHAW LASS (TGT) 8.13 Ahmad Nawan (11) mm______________-____________m___-_^^ sugar daddy igd B.u west Rahman (4) 1 ***** DEMORE 4 (Maharani) 9.00 Paul Thangavelu (14) 8 ***** PURPLE GEM 5 (Gems) 8.10 (SF) Samsuri Lim (10) 2 ***** CARAMOOR 8 (De Breukelen) 8.10 RS Breukelen
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    • 1206 19 SUNDAY'S CARD JBffBI SKTtWISWSBMaHIBM BffflßWHJEtfSm 13 000 BART S COURT 6 (Wewin) 8.08 Zain Velu (3) mm___m________W______m___________m_V 14 ***** pahlawan ii 5 (kl chong) 8.06 (F) Teh Khamis (d ***** COO COO BIRD 6 (Polynesia) 9.00 Ahmad Kang (11) mm_'^tW_Wlß^B_lT!\EKWtV__*^^ ***** CONQUEST 4 (Rose) 8.12 Mansor PK Leong (12) 3
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  • 345 20 TAIPEI, Fri. diplomacy will come to ping pong on Sunday, as Taiwan delegates to a conference m Singapore attempt to defeat an expected Japanese motion to expel them and seat China m the Asian Table Tennis Federation. A Taiwan delegate yesterday said
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  • 1079 20 HUA Vi, Tanglin Technical and New Town Secondary all scored convincing wins m the Pasir Panjang District badminton championships yesterday. Hua Vi defeated Gan Eng Seng 4- 1 New Town triumphed overOutram Secondary 4-1 and Tanglin Technical beat Queenstown Technical 5-0. THE RESULTS *A' Division (Boys) Hua
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  • 398 20 SAINT Joseph's Institution, a strong contender m the City District "B" division championships, just scraped through their match against Bukit Ho Swee with a 3-2 win yesterday. Raffles Institution beat Monks Hill Secondary School by five matches to nil m another match. THE RESULTS Raffles beat
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  • 81 20 BALESTIER HiU Integrated Secondary School established themselves firm favourites for the City District soccer championships when they trounced Catholice High School 8-1 at Monk's Hill Secondary School ground yesterday. Scorers for Balestier School were Jumari (4) Kheng Huek, Peng Huat (2) and Mazlin Yusoff. George Goh
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  • 133 20 KHALSA Association proved too good for Police Sports Association whom they beat 4-1 m the first round of the Singapore Hockey Association under-23 knockout tournament at Thomson Road yesterday. Khalsa led 3-0 at the interval. Centreforward Niranjan Singh was the hero of Khalsa 's win and
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  • 368 20 ROYAL NAVY NEW REGATTA CHAMPS ROYAL Navy brushed aside stiff opposition m the Bosun and the YWGP classes to emerge new champions m the Far East inter-services Regatta which concluded at Naval Base yesterday. Navy finished with eight points and Royal Air Force and Army five points each with the
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  • 87 20 HONGKONG* Fri. Indonesia's former world badminton champion Tan Joe Hock has accepted the Hongkong offer to become its national coach. In a cable to the Hongkong Bad ia m ton Association Joe Hock said: "Accept offer. Will depart immediately on receiving your confirmation." The Indonesian will be responsible for grooming
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    • 201 20 SATURDAY RUGBY: SCC vs Army (Padang 5 p.m.) SOCCER: Div. 2A Woodbridge vs Postal Services (Farrer Park 5.15 p.m.); Police *A' vs AUPE (Police Academy 5.15 p.m.); Div. 3B Education vs Public Health (Farrer Park 5.15 p.m.); Survey Dept. vs Prison Officers Club (Farrer Park 5.15 p.m.). YACHTING: Passage race
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