Singapore Herald, 13 May 1971

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  • 15 1 THE SINGAPORE herald No r>l Singapore Thursday, May 1.1, 1971 MC(P) No 2525 15 CENTS
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  • 195 1 Quake kills 75 in South Turkey BURDUR, Turkey, Wed. A violent earthquake wrecked this southern Turkish town and levelled nearby villages today, killing at least 75 people. Hundreds more were injured. Ksref Ayhan, Governor of the opium growing province of Burdur, said that 71 per cent of the buildings m
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  • IN BRIEF
    • 230 1 CAIRO. Wed. President Anwar Sadat discussed with his top military commanders yesterday the circumstances and eventualities of battle against Israel, Al Ahram said today. Mr. Sadat said the armed forces had increased m size to 800.000 men. He also briefed the military on the
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  • 363 1 Yahya rej ects UN aid GOVT NOT WORRIED OVER MEDICINE, SUPPLIES UNITED NATIONS, Wed. Pakistani President Yahya Khan rejected an offer of UN aid for people m East Pakistan made by Secretary General U Thant, following the civil war which began on March 25. The UN revealed this today as
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  • 251 1 FACTORIES, HOTELS WON'T BE HIT HOSPITALS, factories and major hotels will not be affected if water rationing is introduced, a Public Utilities Board official said yesterday. Mr Khoo Chong Phun, the PUB engineer who would be m charge of water-rationing, said that there would be no rationing for the factories
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  • 298 1 $4.m for unknown paper remains mystery DATIN Aw Kow of the Eastern Sun was not available last night for comment on the Prime Minister's allegation that "a certain Singapore newspaper proprietor" had been given $4 million by Chinese Communist agents m Hongkong. Mr Lee did not name the newspaper. However,
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  • 61 1 CANBERRA, Wed. Australian Senator Reginald Turnbull has asked Peking to allow an all party delegation from the Australian Parliament to visit China. Mr Turnbull's statement follows an announcement by the Institute of Foreign Affairs stating that Peking has invited a delegation from the
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  • 119 1 HONGKONG, Wed. Hsinhua, Peking's official news agency, accused the United States and Russia tonight of having colluded m recent years m "pushing their oceanic colonialism everywhere." It noted that Latin American countries had united more closely m defence of their sovereignty over territorial waters since the
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  • 321 1 U.S. caused dollar crisis say Europe money men LONDON, Wed. Most European money men blamed the United States for the current monetary crisis m Europe today, charging that Europe is now havmg to "pay the price" of the "dollar sickness" and "mounting isolationism" m America. And there were warnings of
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  • 206 1 3 SOVIET SPACEMEN TO LINK UP WITH SALYUT MOSCOW, Wed. Three Soviet cosmonauts will be blasted into space on Saturday aboard Soyuz- 11 to link up with the Saiyut orbital station. Two of the Soyuz crew will cross into the Saiyut launched on April 19 and spend several days on
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  • 1313 2  -  DONALD WYATT SIATIONAL SECURITY: WHAT IT MEANS (PART TWO) By CENTRAL to the theme of Third World non-alignment is the conviction that a nation should not lend itself to advancing the interests of the big powers. All Third World nations, gloriously proud of new•gained
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  • 150 2 When lorries occupy both lanes highway... I TRAVEL up and down Nicoll Highway several times a day. When the traffic is restricted to only two lanes going to town or back to Katong it makes one wonder where the traffic cops are! The lorries use both lanes and sometimes the
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  • 136 2 MAY I compliment your paper on the fine layout of the "Plan for waterrationing'* S.H.May 10.) If newspaper readers were to compare the Herald with the other English papers of Sunday, May 9, they would agree with the above comment. I recommended your "easy to read
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  • 470 2 Viewpoint I FEEL I must reply to the good doctor H.H. Un and point out that far more competent men of independent dispositions are making decisions based on evidence which will show cause as to why certain anti -social and anti-national elements should not be
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  • 266 2 THE SINGAPORE HERALD Thursday. May 13. 1971 THE significance of Umno's 25th anniversary celebrations probably lies m a resolution and an amendment to its constitution passed by the special assembly. The resolution says that democracy practised m Malaysia need not be parliamentary democracy. The constitutional amendment provides
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  • 791 2 THIS letter is about an outrageous display of arrogance and intolerance by a certain Mrs. C, (name given) a Division One officer (or a wife of one Ministry of Finance. Place: Changi Beach, directly m front of holiday bungalow No. 96, Nicoll Drive. Time: Sunday, May 9,
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  • 65 2 FAIR-PLAY (S.H. May 5) suggests that graduates already m the service be given an incremental jump of at least "two steps m accordance with fair-mindedness and justice". This seems fair enough to any reasonable person. After t all seniority should not be washed down the drain. Perhaps
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  • 289 3 Jobs for 1,000 nurses thJ H n»v?° f Vernmenl wi need 1204 »re nurses m £.3£«n3&? accordin to Heallh Minisu r Cn S n P fc«J,?. g u l a nurses Rraduation ceremony at number w«,.Vh ye terda >- Mr Chua said that" this JiTtfJin Co Slst of nine maf«ns,
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  • 216 3 City Hall incident: 11 acquitted ELEVEN women were acquitted by a magistrate yesterday of demonstrating outside City Hall m February. The prosecution withdrew charges against them. Their counsel, Mr. T.T. Rajah, applied for compensation for them when the DPP, Mr P.O. Ram, announced the prosecution's intention to withdraw charges. Mr
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  • 128 3 AIRLINE IS SELLING SINGAPORE PAN-AMERICAN World Airways is helping to "sell" Singapore by arranging tours to the Republic for Americans. Mr. L.T. Bready, director for Singapore/Malaysia and Brunei, said yesterday the airline was doing this through advertising m American newspapers and radio, and mailing of folders to customers and travel
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  • 194 3 GANG GETS $10,000 GEMS— AND GRANNY'S 'SECRET BOX' FOUR armed men robbed the Shanmugam family of $10,000 worth of jewellery m their Haig Road home and they also took Granny Pappamah's "secret box." The box, according to members of the family, contained not only her will, but also cash and
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  • 384 4 RAHIM ISHAK TALKS OF ADVANTAGES OF PEACEFUL COOPERATION THE BIGGER and more powerful nations would find it mutually advantageous to them and to South East Asian countries to refrain from converting the region into an area for. cold war conflicts. They should engage
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  • 202 4 SINGAPORE GOES BACK 40 YEARS FOR TV RAFFLES Hotel, the centre of British social life m Singapore m colonial times, will return 40 years into the past on Sunday for a British television documentary. The British Broadcasting Corporation will organise a traditional English tea party ar dance at the hotel's
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  • 61 4 ABOUT 800 Polytechnic freshmen will help to metal Siak Kuan Road joining Somapah Road with Koh Sek Lim Road m Changi this weekend. The project will benefit 3,000 people living m Padang Terbakar Village and Mata Ikan Village. Mr Ho Cheng Choon, Parliamentary Secretary for
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  • 31 4 HEALTH Minister Mr. Chua Sian Chin will attend the balloting of 148 hawker stalls at MacPherson community centre on Saturday at 3 p.m. Mr. Chua is MP for MacPherson.
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  • 148 4 OFFICE BOY Ong Yew Beng, a part-time news vendor, could not tolerate competition from a 13-year-old boy. As a last resort he robbed him of $2t -and a bundle of newspapers to "scare him off." In court yesterday. On*. 21, pleaded guilty before
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  • 504 4 "I LOVE the danger and the excitement of being right there where the action is," said French photo-journalist Anne de Hennings, who was m East Pakistan during the first days of the civil war. "But I also want to live for a long time,
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  • 63 4 POLICE yesterday recovered the body of a man identified as Tien Tien Chai, 36, of Kirn Pong Road, m the sea off Sentosa Tien, a seaman, was reported missing at the weekend. No foul play is suspected. DDO TALK ON CAREER RADIO Singapore will broadcast
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  • 145 4 PENANG, Wed. A journalist who went to Sungei Kluang's snake temple to write a story made news himself yesterday. Indian writer turn -photographer. Mr T.S. Satyan, was bitten by a one-and-a-half foot viper on the right ankle. The President of the temple's board of trustees,
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  • 289 4 ROBBERS SLASH MAN AND TAKE $3,000 A 41-year-old labourer and father of nine, Kwa Choo Peng, was slashed with a parang when two men robbed his Silat Road home of $3,000 worth of cash and jewellery on Tuesday Although bleeding from cuts on his head, back and leg, he fought
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  • 163 4 SINGAPORE youths should be "directly involved m public opinion" if they want to ensure long-term political stability m the Republic according to an editorial m the latest issue of "Prospect." "Prospect" is an Education Ministry magazine for se condary school students. The editorial said
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  • 34 4 THE Botanic Gardens will now open four hours later on Tuesday and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. On other days, the opening times stay from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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  • 355 4 THE FOLLOWING candidates have passed the Supplementary Examination thereby completing the First Year Examination for the degree of LL.B.: Eapon Carlose, Chan Chee Sim, Stephen Peter De Cruz, Michael Rabindran Doraisamy, Leonard Anslem Gomez. Miss Christina Hon Kwee Fong, Mrs Sarabjit Jholl, Patrick Koh Keng Boon,
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  • 326 5 PRICES: OIL UP 20 PER CENT, FOOD 15 PER CENT FOOD prices are rising. Since January the cost of some has risen by up to 20 per cent, Dr Henry Ong, chairman of the pro-tern committee of the Consumers' Association said yesterday.
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  • 373 5 And are you getting value for all that extra money? THE Consumers' Association is carrying out technical tests on household products to assess their value. Dr. Ong said yesterday: "Five chemists including myself are carrying out tests on boot polish, talcum powder, cooking oil, shampoo, bleaches and deter- gents. "We
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  • 163 5 THE trial of United National Front secretarygeneral R. Vetrivelu, charged with defamation, was adjourned yesterday to await the return of a witness who is now overseas. Mr. Vetrivelu, is charged with having defamed CID Asst. Commissioner Ong Kian Tiong m a Press statement issued on
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  • 95 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. West Malaysia suffered a $40 million loss last year because its rice production was 10 per cent short of the expected output. The Minister of Agriculture and Lands Tan Sri Ghazali Jawi added m a statement that last year's production
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  • 313 5 Doctors advised: Join union for legal aid THE Government doctors' union has urged members to join a medical defence union to protect themselves because the public is becoming "litigationconscious." An article m the latest issue of the Singapore Government Medical and Dental Officers 4 Association Newsletter states that although lawsuits
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    • 156 5 *P m For some people there is only one airline. The man with the fastest 'over Eddie said yes. Now we fly there the shoulder glance' and 100 yard sprint at twice a week. BOACJs Eddie Morgan. So he's a cross between a highly He s our runway inspector.That's just
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  • 295 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Nanyang Press (M) Sdn. Bhd. today agreed m the High Court here to pay an undisclosed amount as damages m a iibel suit brought by a printing works proprietor, Mr. Ng Peng Nam. The claim arose from a
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  • 107 6 Malaysia's police force up by 7,000 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The strength of the Royal Malaysian Police has been increased by 7,000 men since May 1969, the Inspector-Gene-ral of Police, Tan Sri SaJleh Ismael, said today. He added that there were now 36,030 men m the police force compared to 28,998
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  • 106 6 Malaysia to get $1.2 m Unicef aid KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Malaysia will receive more than 51. 2 million aid for health education and applied nutrition programmes from the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef) from July to the end of next year. The Unicef representative for Thailand and Malaysia,
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  • 326 6 'NOT PRACTICABLE AT PRESENT' KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A meeting of representatives from six natural rubber producing countries have shelved a proposal that they buy up the entire rubber stockpile held by the United States. The decision was reached today at the
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  • 176 6 40 Malay students will get science aid at varsity KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The University of Malaya will start a one-year pre-engineer-ing course to prepare 40 Malay students to join the Engineering Faculty, its ViceChancellor, Prof. Ungku Aziz, said today. Announcing this at a press conference here, he said the course
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  • 67 6 MALACCA, Wed. The driver and attendant of a lorry were changing a tyre at the 9^ mile MalaccaMerlimau Road yesterday evening when they were killed m an accident with a van. The driver, Tan Bock Chew, and the attendant, Ong Ah Tian, both 59. died
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  • 58 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed The Government today confirmed the appointment of Inche Mustapha Mahmud as the Commissioner of the Malay sian Commission m Hongkong. Inche Mahmud, 42, who studied law m Cambridge, is at present a principal assistant secretary m Wisma Putra m charge of the division
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  • 14 6 LAFF A DAY "Stop being: so auspicious! You know very well that's MY cigar."
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  • 311 6  - Central Govt urged: Scrap Primary Six exam S.C. CHAN From KUCHING, Wed. Sarawak has suggested to the Central Government that it abolish the Primary Six common entrance examination. First to give support to this suggestion by the Chief Minister Dato Haji Abdul Rahman Ya'akub was the Minister for Sarawak Affairs
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  • 39 6 THE First Lady, Mrs Sheares will attend the "Rainbow m Disguise" fashion show at the Peacock Room, Ming Court Hotel on Saturday at 4 p.m. The show is organised by the young adults group.
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  • 185 6 'Gerakan MP would have been sacked' KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The secretary general of the Gerakan, Or. Tan Chee Khoou said here today that the party's MP for Larut Selataa would have been expelled if he had not resigned. Mr. Ng Hoe Hun announced his resignation from the party yesterday on
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  • 213 6 KL expects S'pore to help set up its airline KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Malaysia expects Singapore to provide expertise to help set up the Malaysia Airlines Limited, Labour Minister Tan Sri V. Manickavasagam said here today. He was speaking at the signing of the first collective agreement between the Malay-sia-Singapore Airlines
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  • 58 6 KLUANG, Wed. The Johore State Government has allocated 5,000 acres of land m Jalan Mersing here to ex-ser-vicemen m the state. The secretary of the Johore branch of the Ex-Servfces Association of Malaysia, Inche Rahman Yusoff, said here today that a committee had been formed to supervise
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  • 22 6 PENANG, Wed. The Penang branch of the Indonesian Women's Association of Malaysia today donated $1,000 to the National Disaster Fund.
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  • CABLES WORLD WIDE
    • 330 7 BRUSSELS, Wed. Common Market agricultural Ministers decided here today to allow West Germany and the Netherlands to impose import taxes on and grant export aid for all important farm products, during the period that the deutschmark and the Dutch guilder remained on a floating
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  • 131 7 BONN. Wed. In a heated extraordinary Bundestag (Parliament) session yesterday. Chancellor Willy Brandt and Economics Minister Karl Schiller justified their decision to halt the monetary crisis by floating the mark and taking a series of stern internal stabilisation measures. Against a barrage of
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  • 142 7 STOCKHOLM, Wed. Police clashed with about 1,000 demonstrators here early today as council workmen prepared to fell a number of 100-year-old elm trees whose roots were holding up work on a new metro line. Ever since the city authorities announced that the trees would
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  • Article, Illustration
    75 7 LONDON. Wed. Smoke billows from the top floor of the Hills Hotel m west London's Bayswater district as firemen clamber up ladders m a bid to rescue hotel workers trapped by the flames. But their efforts were m vain. Seven bodies were recovered and a girl who jumped from a
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  • 336 7 Johnson tells how he defied Russia's warning NEW YORK, Wed. Former U.S. President Lyndon Johnson said yesterday that Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin used the hot line to warn him that Moscow was prepared to put m military force, if necessary, during the Arab-Israeli War of 1967. Mr Johnson said he
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  • 80 7 HONGKONG, Wed. The Head of a Hongkong helicopter company today refused to comitient on a local newspaper report that China had given permission for the company to operate a passenger service between Hongkong and Macao. The English-language South China Morning Post, quoting sources close to China, said Peking
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  • 81 7 MANILA, Wed. A Congressional Committee has ended Ph.i? Ye i stiga lOD of the May D »y snooting deaths outside the Philippine Congress of three anti-Government demon strators. A committee spokesman said today charges will be filed against at least four Government troopers Johnny Cruz secretary
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  • 140 7 MYSTERY OF CRIPPLED SUBMARINE TOKYO, Wed. The Maritime Safety Agency said today that it spotted a Russian submarine cruising slowly and awkwardly northward escorted by two oil supply ships m Tsushima Strait between Japan and South Korea. The agency said the submarine had its bow far above the water level
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  • 214 7 US -Soviet ships crash MOSCOW, Wed A Soviet newspaper charged today that an American destroyer was following and photographing a Soviet rescue vessel just before the two ships collided m the Korea Strait on May 6. The newspaper Trud Labour described the moment before the collision this way: MOVIES "With
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  • 267 8 Sir Alec: Probe Pakistan relief ,jgffg?!l Wed -Britain yesterday called for a Imted Nations probe into East Pakistan's relief needs and hinted that the West may reappraise its policy of aiding President Yahya Khan™ Govern! j In a statement to the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home also
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  • 152 8 Japan drops Taiwan trade deal TOKYO, Wed. A cabinet member said yesterday the Yoshida Letter promising Taiwan that Japan would not use Government financing to sell capital goods to China on credit is no longer considered valid. But Kiichi Miyazawa, Minister of Internal Trade and In dustry, said Japan would
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  • 314 8 Parma wins Reggio Emilia Tourney I CHESS.. .by Herald Knight G X A N D M ASTE R Parma (Yugoslavia) won the 13th Reggio Emilia Tournament 1971 with u% points (8 wins and 7 draws), ahead of Grandmaster Benko (USA) with lou, points, followed by Grandmaster Damjanovic (Yugoslavia) and Soltis
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  • 209 8 10 death sentence men set free— then arrested FREETOWN, Wed. The Sierra Leone Appeals Court today quashed death sentences on ten men found guilty of treason and ordered them to be freed. But as the men left the court, they were immediately re- arrested on direct orders from President Siaka
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  • 394 8 SAIGON, Wed. American Phantom jets destroyed 13 anti-air-craft guns around the Mv Gia Pass m North Vietnam after being fired on while ever Laos. This represents the largest destruction of Communist ground guns m a day claimed by American pilots since the halt
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  • 82 8 theO.S Se7 wh^^h^^J^ 1^ |?l--« k on preparations for arr,val of eight «irls the first of 1 500 who will^ctThl V mtl att f action so f has been the expected for the Games. The girls have^^been recmited from T f r thousan
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  • 214 8 Heath orders check on U.K. security LONDON, Wed. Prime Minister Edward Heath ordered an investigation today into daims that connd c p S nt fl mS f and f reign lassies were buK confidential information from British Government Mr. Heath's announcement to the House of Commons that a security check
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  • 154 8 MANILA, Wed. Police today launched a search for another missing Chinese m connection with the disappearance of Henry Chua, scion of a wealthy Philippine Chinese family. The object of the hunt is Benjamin Ong, identified as one of Chua's companions when the .12-year-old businessman disappeared
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  • 88 8 It's a mad mad, world INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Wed. Joe D. Byers, a school teacher, decided to take a weekend fishing trip and told his class he would pay a penny for each worm brought to school the next day. Byers thought he might get a couple of dozen. When the
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  • 253 8 MANILA, Wed. India would need 4,000,000 new jobs, 12,545,300 quintals (100 kg) of food, and 188,774,000 yards of cloth every year to maintain 13 million people added to its population annually, it was said at an Asian conference here on population problems.
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  • 1518 9  - The giant that moves inexorably ahead RICHARD HARRIS BACKGROUND TO THE FOREIGN NEWS From of the London Times fouT h^ 54 received only four had cancer, and m one case the 2i«srtii. w fV. f oubttui N n cases was fatal and two had already b*«n treated and cured. ■"••dy
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  • 498 9  -  ROSIHAN ANWAR From m Jakarta JAPANESE businessmen m Indonesia are being labelled 'economic samurais, by business leaders here who are incensed by the methods being used by some to circumvent the foreign investment laws. Complaints have been lodged with the Government by politicians, army commanders m
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  • 65 10 TRISHA rider. Llm Beh Keng, 5€ who was Involved la an accident with a Datsun pickup at Guillemard Road yesterday morning was given a helping hand by a passer-by. I.im was injured m the leg and body and his trisha was smashed. An ambulance arrived minutes
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  • 266 10 AN American banker expects the world money markets to stabilise, with currencies returning to around their former parities, when the present monetary crisis blows over. Mr. Edward de Jong, Bank of America's regional vicepresident for South-East Asia, said yesterday there were many advantages,
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  • 170 10 'TALK-IN' ON RACE IS A BIG SUCCESS A THREE DAY "talk-in" aimed at breaking down racial prejudices, was a big success according to the 19 people who took part. They represented the major racial groups m Malaysia and Singapore for the experiment an "Interracial Human Relations Laboratory" organised by the
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  • 73 10 Detained student released KOTA BHARU, Wed. One of the four students from the Ma'ahad Muhammadi Arabic Secondary School detained by the police was released on bail yesterday. A Police spokesman said today the other three students were still under detention. The four had been detained since May 3. Meanwhile, the
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  • 289 10 RAPE INQUIRY KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A housewife, Mrs. Gurmail Kaur, told a preliminary inquiry here today that her brother and three of his friends went to her house m Mantin about 30 miles from here and took away a woman who was staying
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  • 126 10 TWELVE more doctors and two specialists have resigned from Government service m the past five months. The doctors are Chua Sui Kirn, Lena Chen, Johnny Yeo Meng Siang, Freddie Kee Chin Bong, (Miss) Yong Sui Li, A.V.B. Isaacs, Yap Soei Kiat, Tay Hock Hui, Abdul Rasheed
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    220 10  -  Nancy Wong's fiotioi Afotu FASHIONS WITH YOUR FOOD FOR ladies who enjoy good food and a show of the latest fashions at the same time the Top of the Summit restaurant has started a combination of these. According to the general manager, Mr. Oro Escarraga, he has already
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  • 283 10  -  A.K. LEE By MANY people have read about how the East is East, the West is West and never the twain shall meet. Well, m Singapore they have met, but as Kipling's couplet implies, the meeting has brought problems. Western machines and technology are good, we've
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 114 10 BLONDIE By Chic Young ALL I DID WAS MELP A -^~S Z=- NOTHING WRONG M THAT Oh. SHE WAS PROBABLY J I a i :O!SA V-, LITTLE OLD LADY OPF THE I MB DITMEQS-MOW OO WAS IN HER LATE T fT^^^SSS^U ME BUS AND SME KISSED ME 5/ -Xr--^- A
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    • 57 10 7 p.m.* Night bazaars at Boon Tiong Road; Beo Cre scent; Clementi Road; Commonwealth Avenue; Jalan Eunos; Kallang Estate; MacPherson Road; Lorong Chuan; St. Michael's market/courtyard. 7.30 p.m. Magic session at National Theatre Club, Cle menceau Avenue. 8 p.m. Social dance class at Chinese YMCA. 8.30 p.m. Performance by Naval
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  • THE SINGAPORE herald Section II
    • 278 11 Hussein is new Alliance sec-gen KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Minister of Education, Inche Hussein Onn, has been appointed the new secretary-general of the Alliance Party, succeeding Tan Sri T.H. Tan, who has resigned after holding the post for 20 years. In a statement today, Tan Sri Tan said: "I welcome
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    • 156 11 Off to 'war.. on the double! ROYAL Marines race across the landing pad of HMS Albion yesterday to help load equipment ferried from shore by Royal Navy Wessex helicopters. The whirlybirds had a busy day. They also carried more than 700 men of 40 Commando Group to the ship m
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    • 101 11 BRITAIN'S ENVOY GIVES AN INVESTMENT ASSURANCE KOTA KINABALU, Wed. British businessmen would continue to invest m Malaysia because of its political and economic stability, the British High Commissioner to Malaysia, Sir John Johnston, now visiting East Malaysia, said yesterday. It was British Government policy to encourage British industrialists and businessmen
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    • 180 11 A YOUTH died after he was severeh/ burnt m a fire which he had accidentally started, a coroner's inquiry was told yesterday. Yap Choy, 18, said he saw his brother Yap Chong Leng. 16, and a neighbour running down from the first floor of
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    • 256 11 Ship arrested after collision off Sumatra THE Panamanian freighter Cohasey has been arrested m Singapore following a collision with a Liberian tanker off the Sumatra coast. Ttte Cohasey and the 16,300--ton Marimunda collided at the mouth of the Palembang River on April 20. The Cohasey is now anchored m the
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    • 68 11 XL ALA LUMPUR, Wed. Malaysia needs competent journalists who are as important bridge between the Government art the people, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Malaya, Prof. Ungku Aziz, said today. Speaking at the opening of a Journalism training programme organised by the University of Malaya
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    • 216 11 Bringing the woman's touch to home decor HOUSEWIVES with an eye for modern decor are to get a chance to turn their talent into a spare time money-spinner. A Singapore furnituremaking firm, Diethelm's, has hit on a novel sales booster using a team of speciallyselected housewives to give personal advice
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    • 47 11 PORK merchants will meet today to hear a report from the delegation of the Pork Merchants Association which met officials of the Ministry of National Development and the Jurong Abbatoir earlier this month to discuss their proposal to take a common weekly day off.
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    • 189 12 60 films —and never been kissed SOUTH Indian actress R Vljayakumarl has never been kissed In any of her 60 films. And she means to keep it that way. Miss Vljayakumarl, who slipped Into Singapore on Monday on a private visit, was commenting on moves m India to Introduce kissing
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    • 83 12 BUS conductor Jantan bin Majuri, 21, who committed a series of housebreakings and stole cash and valuables altogether worth $2,440, was jailed for three years by a district court yesterday. He pleaded guilty to 10 charges. None of the loot which Jantan stole from houses m
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    • 149 12 THE High Court yesterday set aside a six-month driving ban imposed on a journalist last year Lawrence Stephen Basapa who was found guilty of dangerous driving, was also fined $200. The Chief Justice, Mr. Wee Chong Jin, setting aside the ban, said that the
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    • 80 12 A CARPENTER whose four fingers of his left hand werj fractured m a road accident three years ago was awarded $4,200 damages by Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah m the High Court. Tay Cho Hiang, 24, was riding his motor-cycle along Thomson Road
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    • 135 12 A 34-YEAR-OLD labourer who fell from a 25 feet high pillar on a construction site and fractured his spine was awarded $17,000 damages by the High Court m a consent judgment. AH Hak Shahul Hameed who wears a brace around his neck and has now
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    • 377 12 JOURNALIST TESTIFIES IN HOTEL CASE AN Indonesian journalist and company director said yesterday that his wife was conscious and fuly aware of the intentions of a man who allegedly carried her to a bed beside her sleeping children but she was too exhausted to
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    • 127 12 STUDENT Baldeb Singh, 18, died a month after he was hit by a hockey ball, a coroner's inquiry was told yesterday. His sister, Kordial Kaur, 21, said that he had returned home on April 20 after a hockey game at Bukit Chermin and
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    • 106 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Selangor State Development Corporation is to be asked to set up joint ventures m the commercial and construction fields with the Selangor Malay Chamber of Commerce. The deputy president of the Chamber, Raja Nasron Ishak, said today that this would be among several
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    • 83 12 DEPOSITS m the Post Office Savings Bank reached a record high of $80 million at the end of last month, Deposits exceeded withdrawals by $1 .8 million last month. A total of 7,634 new accounts was opened, bringing the total number of depositors to 528,166. Lucky draw
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    • 402 13 LONDON, Wed. Increasing demand for gold amid general monetary uncertainty today drove the price of the metal to its highest level m 18 months on European free bullion markets. The price of free market gold rose 36 cents an ounce yesterday and
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    • 564 13 The market moved narrowly yesterday to close little changed on balance. Dealers reported considerable caution m the market following Tuesday's late reaction after the market had broken through the 400 barrier on the Financial Times index, and the comments by Britain's chief Common Market negotiator on the
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    • 286 13 GOPENG CONSOLI DATED'S pre-tax profits for the year ended September 1970 amounted to £1.483,937 a rise of 36.4 per cent on those for the previous year. The company's profits were affected by the lower rubber price and sales of rubber brought m £109.892 compared to £127,034
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    • 54 13 SOUTHERN KINTA CONSOLIDATED^ estimated pre-tax profits for the year ended March was slightly lower at £1,210,000, compared to the previous year's £1,252,563. Although the company's output of tin concentrates increased from 2,553 metric tons to 2,631 tons, the average net proceeds from sales dropped from £868 a ton
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    • 27 13 (Closing buyer/seller prices for May 12, m sterling per metric ton). Tone; Dull; Spot 1471, 1473; 3-month 1474, 1475; Settlement 1475; Total turnover 230 tons.
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    • 240 13 China offers to buy Philippine coconut oil MANILA, Wed. China has offered to place an initial order for about 3,000 tons of coconut oil from a Philippine firm, the Manila Times reported today from Canton. Dominador Lim, vicepresident of the Philippine Legazpi Coconut Oil Company, said m Canton that the
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    • 260 13 SINGAPORE'S trade showed a deficit of $809 million m the first quarter of this year. In the corresponding 1970 period, the trade deficit excess of imports over exports was $607 million. Exports amounted to $1,257 million, and imports $2,066 million, compared with $1,149 million and $1,756
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    • 298 13 NEW SERENDAH RUBBER reported a 52 per cent drop m its pre-tax profits to $668,188 for 1976 as a result of lower rubber prices during the year. Although the company's total crop was maintained at 4,435,000 lbs., net proceeds from sales fell sharply from $2.4
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    • 282 13 SINGAPORE— MALAYSIA Merchant rates fixed yesterday by the Association of Banks m Malay si a- Singap ore Local dollars per unit of foreign currency. (Rates m Hongkong dollars, for May 12) On New York TT 6.0225 On New York DD 6.***** Gold (99% fineness, P« r Uel
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    • 168 13 Chrysler-Mitsubishi tie-up costs $300 m TOKYO, Wed. Chrysler Motor will pay about US$lOO million to obtain a 35 per cent interest m Mitsubishi Motor, a whollyowned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, officials of the three companies said today. They also announced that Chrysler had submitted a formal application to the
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    • 197 13 STRAITS RUBBER increased its pre-tax profits for 1970 by 27 per cent to £811,505 from 1969's £638,020. A preliminary announcement on the company's accounts also showed that £13,01 1 was transferred to genera] reserves and £150,000 to development and replacement reserves. The company will pay a final dividend
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    • 44 13 LONDON ASIATIC RUBBER will pay a final dividend of 33 per cent on June 30 to shareholders on the register on May 17. This makes a total distribution of 40 per cent, 12 per cent more than that for the previous year.
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    • 363 13 Advancing issues yesterday extended their lead over declines and had an edge of 583 to 474 after some 90 minutes of trading. The Stanpoors industrial average was up 20 cents, while the New York Stock Exchange composite index was up nine cents. (Paid prices at 1
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    • 244 13 AMSTERDAM Most internationals were very steady m quiet dealings yesterday. Philips was rather neglected. Most interest was focussed on shippings which closed mixed. Plantations were very steady and KLM Airlines was very weak again. Local industrials were quietly traded with Bijenkorf and Oce-Van Der Grinten firm. PARIS The
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    • 304 14 Our Liv ing Guy OH MY, we had an extremely difficult time deciding on the results of the colouring contest. The standard of colouring was quite high, hence the problem of selecting the winners! In the 11 to 13 age group, Theresa Urn of 2H-A Crescent Road, Singapore 15, wins
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    • 122 15  -  Mary Bryson B> Mother "It's so hard to keep Dickie from getting into things when we go visiting, especially if it's m a home where there are no young children or toys to keep him occupied. He takes the house apart when we visit Aunt Sue." Mother
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      289 17  -  CAVALIER BY Lesong sparkles m company of Moonflare BEST TEN TO FOLLOW President's Adviser Eastern Dancer Shantln Park Prince Argent I An Proud So Sorry II Lesong Ace of Diamonds Fraser Hill Voted In PENANG, Wed. Lesong, with George Podmore astride revealed sparkling form when he sprinted smartly
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    • 359 17 LONDON, Wed. The I MCC announced yesterday I that Ray Illingworth of Lei- 1 cestershire has been I invited to captain England I for the three cricket Tests I against Pakistan this summer. The announcement should end, for the moment at least,
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    • 325 17 NORTHAMPTON, Wed. Pakistan suffered their first defeat with their England tour only eleven days old. After drawing with Worcestershire and beating Warwickshire, they went down by six wickets to Northamptonshire here yesterday. The first time that the County have got the better of the
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    • 147 17 Pakistan 2nd inns (overnight 152 for 4). Asif Iqbal c Steele b Hodgson 22 Naushad Ali c Steele b Willey 19 Shafqat Rana c sub b Hodgson 3 Intikhab Alam Ibw b Hodgson 6 Talat Ali c Ackerman b Willey 12 Imran Khan not out 33 Salim Altaf run
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    • 397 17 LONDON, Wed. The cricket news yesterday was ominous for the Pakistani touring team, m view of the forthcoming three- match test series against England. In only their third match against the Counties they suffered their first defeat at Northampton, while away North at Middlesbrough,
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    • 625 17 MANILA, Wed. Flyweight champion Erbito Salavarria of the Philippines was chosen A Boxer of the Month by the World Boxing Council yesterday, j Salavarria made a successful < first defence of his title over Japan's Susumu Hanagata on < April 30. Salavarria wrested
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    • 711 17 SINGAPORE Squash Rackets Association's individual and team competitions begin on May 18. Because of insufficient entries, an alternative proposal has been adopted for the "A" division team tournament. The 1 1 registered players will participate m a individual round robin competition. The players: J. Arthars
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    • 208 18 PRE-l Diversity student Raja Komaran established two new records at the Outram School 18th annual athletic meet at Fairer Park Athletic Centre yesterday. He shared the "A" division championship with middle distance runner Lee Soon Onn. Raja, 18, set a new 100 metres mark
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    • 905 18 Boys "A" division: 100 m. 1 Rajah Komaran 2 Yeong Kok Leong 3 Sitoh Tuck Cheong 1 1.8 (R); 200 m. 1 Yeong Kok Leong 2 Sitoh Tuck Cheong 3 Chew Keng Suan 26; 400 m. 1 Rajah Komaran 2 Chia Wei Jing 3 S. Navaretnam 56.4
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    • 166 18 CARDIFF, Wed. A Welsh hockey team is to tour Rhodesia m August, the first British team taking part m a major sporting event m the former colony since the unilateral declaration of independence. The 17-day tour includes Tests matches on Aug. 14 and' 21.
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    • 334 18 Second defeat for Singapore Armed Forces TWO penalty goals by skipper Malkit Singh gave the Combined Schools their first win m the Singapore Hockey Association division one league. The schoolboys put up an excellent performance registering a shock 2-1 win over formidable Singapore Armed Forces at
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    • 207 18 A 3 2ND minute goal saved Sime Darby from defeat m the Singapore Business Houses Football League senior knockout semi-final at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. They drew one-all with Cold Storage. Sime Darby missed an early goal (9th) when left inner Nasrudin Hussein's lob grazed the crossbar. The
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    • 162 18 SPORTS WORLD tennis champion, announced last night she is expecting a baby next December and is retiring from tennis. The 32 year old left-hander, who has played 11 times for Britain m the Wightman Cup, plans to go ahead with her appointment as captain of the British team m this
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    • 80 18 SINGAPORE Armed Forces registered an easy 3-1 win over Tan Tock Seng Hospital m the Government Services Football League senior knockout tournament at Farrer Park yesterday. Forces led 1-0 with a Sia Poh Leng goal m the first half. They added two more at the changeover
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    • 255 18 KEPPEL Club starting times for the "A" and "B" divisions May monthly medal on Saturday: 8.15 a.m.: C.W. Oakley (IS) M.R. Bradshaw (12) Peter Ho (16); 8.21 R.E.S. Pearce (18) Danny Cheng (16) W.B. Layzell (17); 8.27 David Milne (2) D.G. Anthony (11) J.K. Robinson (15).
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    • 404 16 m MALAYSIAN INTERNATIONAL MM SHIPPING CORPORATION BERHAD M No. JOI Jin. Vmpang. Kuala Lumpur. H The National Shipping Line of Malaysia FAR EAST/EUROPE SERVICE p i n<m Pvnsng Arrives UNOA OMHIO J/» j M t/»4M 10/lUM M«w«*/7 LmMmt %/J Hamburg 14/7 m lfc/ Antwarp 19, 7 Bremen 21/7 ■UN6A MtLCMI
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    • 313 16 SHIPS IN PORT THE PORT OF Witte Zee, kota SINGAPORE AUTHO- Sentosa, Golden City, RITY HAS MADE Tasanee, Gambali, Hoi THESE BERTHING Ying, Tropic Seas, ARRANGEMENTS Toula Xilas, Westfalia, FOR MAY, 13. Wako Maru No. 8, Straat Banka, Dimitris OUT: Jalajaya 1/2; N., Brantas, Macharda, Ling Yung 13/14; Golden HiU,
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