The Straits Times, 17 March 1971

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  • 26 1 AVERAGE DAILY CERTIFIED SALE EXCEEDS 200,000 The Straits Times 1!» National Newspaper Estd. 1845 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17. 1971 20 CENTS K.D.N. 5005 M.C. (P) No. 2507
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  • 528 1 Easy instalments— and no down- payment SINGAPORE, Tuesday BUS companies wishing to buy new vehicles under the reorganisation programme for the public transport system can now do so with loans from the British aid money to the Government. The Minister of Communications, Mr. Yong Nyuk
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  • 357 1 S. Vietnam troops abandon Laos base KHE SANH. Tuesday SOUTH Vietnamese troops today blrw up their guns and abandoned a strategic artillery base in Laos after it had come under intense bombardment from North Vietnamese forces. Military sources here said anti-air-craft fire in the area of the base Firebase Lolo
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  • 144 1 Rubber price: Govt steps in again KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Government Intervened In the rubber market again today the second day In succession In an all-out attempt to arrest the falling price. Yesterday the Government stepped Into the present weak market for the first time since September 1967, when the
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  • 51 1 DAR ES SALAAM. Tues. Eight Chinese experts have arrived here to survey a project under which China would build Tanzania a new national stadium to seat some 20,000 people —as big as the Mao Tse Tung stadium the Chinese have already built on the spice Isle of Zanzibar.
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  • 40 1 MANILA, Tues. A Panamaregistered merchant ship with 25 crewmen aboard was feared sunk In the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Navy said today. One man on a life raft was spotted. A navy vessel was heading for the raft.
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  • 113 1 DACCA. Tues. Pakistan leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and President Yahya Khan began their talks on the country's constitutional crisis at the presidential residence here today. President Yahya. who arrived in Dacca from Karachi yesterday was earlier briefed on the East Pakistan situation by
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  • 227 1 Hijackers seen in Singapore, say couple TOKYO, Tuesday NATIONAL Police said today they are studying reports that two Japanese tourists recently met in Singapore two of the nine Japanese radical students who hijacked a Japan Airlines (JAL) Jetliner to North Korea last April. Officers said Toshlo Okuno, 66. and his
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  • 489 1  -  GERRY DE SILVA By Singapore, Tues. 350-LB (158.7 kg) deer which gored an elderly factory worker to death early today laces execution. An appeal went out to the police to shoot the killer buck soon after the victim, Soh Keng Tiong, 62, died in
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  • 63 1 JERUSALEM. Tues. Premier Oolda Melr won a parliamentary vote of confidence In her policy on occupied Jordan today, but only after an uproarious debate which prompted a walkout by rlghtwlng deputies. The vote was 62-0 with 13 abstentions. Mrs. Melr In her speech to parliament ruled out
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  • 3 a.m. ROUNDUP
    • 57 1  -  ROGERS BY WASHINGTON, Toe*. Secretary of State William P. Rorrn said today that failure of Middle East peace effort* could produce a very dangerous situation in thr world and possibly lead to World War 111. Bat, he told a newi conference, "the climate has never been better for
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  • WORLD NEWS THE STRAITS TIMES FOREIGN NEWS SERVICE 1
    • 270 2 HONG KONG, Tuesday A YOUNG Australian came to Hong r Kong with the planned and deliberate intention of killing a British-born scientist, the prosecution alleged in the Supreme Court here today. The prosecution said Graham Edwards. 20, of Perth, wanted to do this because
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    • 616 2 LONDON, Tuesday DIPLOMATIC informants d i s closed last night Israel may propose leasing from Egypt rather than annexing the strongpoint of Sharm-El-Sheikh, dominating the Tiran Straits, as part of a peace settlement. The idea came about during an hour-lonu meeting between British
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    • 159 2 BEIRI'T, Tues— With Middle -East peace prospects already at a precarious point, an explosive new crisis now threatens in Palestinian refugee camps. The new crisis is building as the result of a floundering United Nations appeal for additional funds to provide for the 1.4
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    • 54 2 ADELAIDE. Tues. Wo men will be admitted to tin Australian Young Men's Chrus tian Association with the sami rights and privileges as malt members. The organisation's 31st in tional convention resolved U\.\' from now on it would be designated "an organisation foi men and *QSMn,
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  • WORLD NEWS 2
    • 160 3 Easy terms now for Indons to repay Soekarno's debts JAKARTA. Tues. J The United S! today formall) agre< d to reschedule Indonesia's U*****.6 million debt incurred during the regime of the Pre.sidei.t Soekarno. The uk thtu becomes the fourth country to make official the §o-yi v repayment schedule at low
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    • 467 3 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. UNITED STATES intelligence sources say China is trying to lease port facilities in Ceylon, which could give Peking a strategic hold in the Indian Ocean. The Chinese want access to the port of Trincomalee to service naval and merchant ships,
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    • 278 3 BOMBS FLUNG AT MRS. B'S PARTY LEADER COLOMBO. Tues. Boiiids were tnrown at a car belonging to MP, Mr. Alfred Duraiappah, who heads Preuuer Mrs. Sirnna.vo BandaranaiKt's Freedom Party in the Nortn. "Similar acts have keen reported from other areas including South Ceylon's Paiyagala and Anuradhapura in the fcorth Central
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    • 73 3 JAKARTA. Tues. The British Commander-in-Chief for the Par East Admiral Sir Bnjm Burnett, called on Indonesian military leaders today following, meeting with the country's Decuity commander of the Armed Forces. Army sources said today the Admiral was told by Gen. Maraden Panggabean at their meeting yesterday
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    • 43 3 HONG KONO, Tues. Chinese authorities have revived in Shanghai a campaign against mosquitoes. flies, mice and sparrows after many people in the city sullcred disease brought about by these insect pests, the pro-Nationalist newspaper Sing Tao Vat Pao reported today.— Reuter.
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    • 60 3 KEY BISCAYNE (Florida) Tues. Tricia Nixon and Harvard law student Edward Finch Cox will be married in the White House on June 5, it was learned yesterday. The president's 25-year-old daughter originally had planned her wedding for June 12. but moved it up after spending the
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    • 51 3 SAIGON, Tues Three people were killed and 28 wounded last night when a hand grenade was thrown at a police jeep in the Cholon District of Saigon, police sources said today. The grenade, tossed by a motor-cyclist, missed the jeep and exDloded in a busy street.
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    • 60 3 THIS Hanoi radiophoto, monitored in Warsaw on Monday, carried a caption stating it showed "peak 500, Khe Sanh, where the Saigon 39th Ranger Batallion was put out of combat following repeated PLAF assaults on Feb. 19 and 20, 1971." PHOTO: Wounded "enemy" soldiers are bandaged
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    • 291 3 TRIPOLI, Tuesday. THE four Mediterranean oil exporting countries of Libya, Iraq, Algeria and Saudi Arabia warned last night they would cut off supplies if western oil companies fail to meet their demand for higher prices. The Oil Ministers of
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    • 27 3 ANKARA. Tues. Thirteen p!e have seen reported frozen to death in a fre;ik blizzard around Konya. central Anatolia. 145 miles south of here. Reuter.
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    • 332 3 MOVE BY U.S. TO GET TALKS WITH CHINA GOING AGAIN WASHINGTON, Tuesday. fHE UNITED STATES has used private channels to let China know that the Nixon Administration wishes to resume ambassadorial level talks in Warsaw, the State Department reported today. At the same time State Department spokesman Mr. Charles Bray
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    • 174 3 The mouth and oral sex not obscene decision TONDON, Tues A jury took six and a half hours to decide that a book called The Mouth and Oral Sex was not an obscene publication, but ruled that circulars sent through the post to advertise it were indecent. Publisher Christopher Kypreos.
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    • 64 3 ODENSE (Denmark i. Turs.— One man m killed and eight injured yesterday in an explcslon In the engine room of a *****0-ton supertanker being built here police reported. The tanker, under construction for Texaco at the Lmdoe yard of the Odense Steel Shipyard. 15 due
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  • WORLD NEWS 3
    • 97 4 AMERICAN planes using laser beams and computer Hi reeled air strikes have knocked out 1 North Vietnamese tanks in Laos in two days. military sources said in Saigon yesterday. The American aircraft operate in teams of two pl.ines. one of which spots targets and shoots
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    • 182 4 US$25 mil WRIT AGAINST DOW CHEMICAL TORONTO. Tues. Pre- mier William Davis announced yesterday the Province has launched a US$25 million damage suit against Dow Chemical Co. of Canada Limited and its parent company in the United States for mercury pollution of the St. Clair River and Lake St. Clair.
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    • 67 4 NUORO (Sardinia). Tues. Traffic policeman Oiavino Mureddu helped a woman wtttM car was involved in collision here today and she thrn gave birth to a baby girl in hu> car as he was taking her to hospital. The woman, named as Signora Elena
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    • 71 4 2 hostages freed by gang TOULOUSE (France). Tues. Two of th? three hostages driven away by a ganj? of desperate gunmen alter a bank raid here yesterday were released early today, police said. They confirmed that the bank manager and a customer in whose car the bandits fled, were freed
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    • 51 4 UNITED NATIONS Tues. Mauritius, one of the smaller U.N. member countries. is launching a population control programme with the aid of the U.N. Development Programme The island republic in the Indian Ocean has an area of a little over 700 square miles and a population of
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    • 275 4 LONDON. Tuesday HENRY Ford was wooed yesterday by Prime Minister Mr. Edward Heath and his three top economics Ministers at a luncheon at 10, Downing Street. But the automobile executive later reaffirmed his view that industrial chaos was discouraging further
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    • 253 4 FRANCE TO GET HER URANIUM TREATED IN SOVIET UNION PARIS. Tuesday. pRANCE, hitherto dependent on the United States for her enriched uranium, announced yesterday that she had concluded a deal with the Soviet Union at a lower price and with no political strings attached. The announcement meant a breaking by
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    • 211 4 J^O.ME. Tues. A court I in Vare«e has awarded a 14-year-old girl a total of IS million lire (£12,000) damages after convicting a woman of turning her into a teenagr prostitute in a notorious sex case Italia i» dubbed "The Lolita
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    • 54 4 MqsCOW. Tues Thr Soviet Union plans to alr-condi-tk'n all of the deep coal tnine^ In the high Donetsk Basin In the Ukraine, Tass reported la; I night By 1975. the agency said. more than 600 mines In the Donetsk fields will be air -conditioned About 120 mines
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  • 415 5 OPEN VERDICT BY CORONER SINGAPORE, Tuesday THE Chinese New Year collision between a Tay Koh Vat bus and a Toyota Corolla resulting in the deaths of six young men could have been caused by the car having a flat tyre, a coroner
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  • 283 5 Deposit of $100 for entry into casinos KUALA LUMPUR. Tups. Foreign tourists and Malaysians wanting to frequent any casino in the country will have tj deposit $100 before being allowed in, the Minister of Finance, Tun Tan Siew Mb, said today. "This v/ill ensure that only foreign tourist! and the
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  • 242 5 Driver of bus elects not to give evidence could have collided into the bus." The accident happened at 3.15 p.m. and PC Lee Teck Hua. the first police officer to arrive at the scene found the tour deaa man iying un the grass verge by the road side. The ambulance
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  • 223 5 SINGAPORE, Tv««. CINOAPORE was the Jarg- est user of International Executive Service Corps services in 1969 with a total of 100 projects aided by lESC, according to the corps' five-year report. The corps, an American non-profit organisation, which supplies the services of retired
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  • 91 5 Search for a S'pore girl SINGAPORE, Tues. Hollywood's glamour lensman, Charlie See, flew in from Jakarta today in search of a local girl to represent Singapore in the "Miss Young Internatnonal Pageant" contest in Tokyo in JulyAugust. The first prize includes a trip round Japan, gifts and commercial contracts and
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  • SINGAPORE PARLIAMENT
    • 149 6 Transport study: $500,000 loan sought CINGAPORE is seeking a $500,000 loan from the United Nations Development Programme to conduct more detailed studies for an urban mass rapid transit system for the Republic. Communications Minister Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin told Parliament that if the assistance requested was grant ed, the study
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    • 103 6 Question on delayed summonses PARLIAMENT'S attention will be drawn during the current budget sittings to a case in which the traffic police allegedly delayed more than a year before issuing a summons notice for a 13-month old alleged traffic offence. The Mp for River Valley. Mr. Low Guan Onn. has
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    • 388 6 Lim tells why there is a teacher shortage SINGAPORE, Tuesday QXLY two-thirds of those offered jobs by the Education Ministry each year accepted the jobs. That is why the ministry has been unable to fill all the vacancies even though it advertises for teachers at the beginning of each year,
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    • 82 6 STUDY OF CHIT FUND SYSTEMS THE Government is -tiidvins the chit fund systems of Ceylon. India and Taiwan before it decides to introduce legislation to control the activities of rhit t• i r i companies in Singapore. The Minister of State for finance. Mr. Tang See < him. told Parliament
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    • 107 6 Govt to buy Princess House for $1,660,000 '"PHE Government is to buy Princess House and its annexe In Queens town from the Housing and Development Board at a cost of $1,660,000. Renovation will cost another $200,000. The buildlncs will accommodate ihe Environmental Health Headquarters, the Labour. Personnel arid Welfare Units,
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    • 30 6 Parliament today approved a supplementary estimate (or (30 million as capital subscription I to the Monetary Authority of 1 Singapore, which started functioning from January this year.
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    • 138 6 'School won't be moved' pledge rE Government will build a 42-acre industrial c -mplex at Upper Thomson Road near the Sin Mm Public School. Parliament was told. The Minister for Law and National Development. Mr. E- W. Barker, quelled fears in the House that the school would hive to be
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    • 108 6 38,139 road crashes in a year killed 152 A TOTAL of 38.139 traffic accidents was report- i ed for the year ending Jan. 31. 1971. of which 152 1 pedestrians were killed and 1.053 seriously injured. Mr. L.P. Rodrigo. Parliamentary Secretary (Home Affairs*, .said in Parliament that out of the
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    • 29 6 A supplementary vote for $324.70p was approved by Parllament for major construction and renovation to the PWD building in High Street to house the Attorney-General's Chambers.
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    • 342 6 pLAIMS brought by the public against the Government for accidents involving its vehicles cost the Government over $88,000 for the financial year ending this month. Mr. E.W. Barker, Minister for Law and National Development, disclosed this in Parliament today. He was replying to
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    • 128 6 rpHLRK were 21 traffic ■1. accidents involving drunken drivers for the year ending Jan. 31, Parliament was told. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Home Affairs Ministry. Mr. L.P. Rodrigo, said that these accidents were few and far between. They happened at the rate of
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    • 756 6 BARKER: THEY EVEN PLANTED TREES IN A RUBBER PLANTATION THE Minister for Law and National Development, Mr. E. W. Barker, disclosed in Parliament today that some mistakes had been made in planting trees and shrubs during the campaign to make Singapore a garden city. Mr. Barker who was replying criticisms
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  • 418 7  - Meet The Going Thing' the group that has everything going its way NELLIE HAR By Singapore, Tues. PICTURE shows (front row, from left): Diana Elford and Megan Lorimer, and (middle. from left): Gary Lambert, Bill Hanson, John Litchfield, Party Wills, and Geoff Pretty, with David Murray. mHESE are eight I
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  • 188 7 Stranded man leaves by chartered flight By ARTHUR RICHARDS SINGAPORE, Tues. A plain-clothes airport policeman today escorted a Briton to a chartered Caledonian aircraft after he was told to leave Singapore immediately. Neil Ashton. a labourer, bad been stranded here for about 10 days because he was "broke." Ashton boarded
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  • 80 7 A $500,000 antennae dish for Sentosa SINGAPORE, Tues. Jurong Shipyard has completed fabrication of an antennae dish, 97 ft (30 metres) in diameter and worth $500,000, for the earth statelllte station at Sentosa. The dish will be shipped in parts to the island where installation is expected to be completed
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  • 76 7 UNF protest against "use of bases' SINGAPORE, Tues. The United National Front today protested against the Government "for allowing the U.S. Air Force to use former British air bases In Singapore." Such measures would facilitate the escalation of the American aggreslve war against the people of Vietnam, It said In
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  • 430 7 CALL BY UNION TO 58 MPs FOR AID IN REVISING BONUS LAW CINGAPORE, Tues.— Singapore s 58 MPs today received a Joint statement from the Singapore Bank Employees' Union's 29 branches urging for a revision of clauses in the Employment Act 1968. "There has been a concerted attempt by bank
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  • 208 7 K. LUMPUR, Turn. rpHE Selangor State LegisJ. latlve Assembly got down to its first business meeting this afternoon with a "mini row" over the question or committees membership. This occurred after the Mentrl Besar. Da to Hajl Harun bin Hajl Idris, announced the names of
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  • 123 7 BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN. Tues— The Brunei Government Is to seek talks with the oil companies In Brunei In the wake of a world-wide shake-up in oil prices for more revenue. This will be the third time In the last 10 years the Government Is
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  • 285 8  -  LEE SU SAN By Singapore, j fuesday ris Justin Rozario's biggest step yet in trying to lead as normal a life as possible. And his hardest. For, as Justin puts it, falling in love was easy after all.
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  • 118 8 CINGAPORE, Tues.— 13 Police today appealed for eye-wit-nesses to two fatal road accidents yesterday involving two youngsters. In the first case. Baljeet Singh, ;4, of McNair Road was running across the road when he was knocked down by a car along Upper Seran?oon Road
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  • 65 8 250 'M' pills seized in raid on shops PETALING JAY A, Tues Police seized about 250 "stimulation pills" in raids on four medicine shops here yesterday. The raids were carried out Jointly by Kuala Lumpur and Pelallng Jaya police after Information was received that several youngsters were bu\lng these pills
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  • 42 8 PENANO. Tues A new force of 128 security guards, including 12 officers, will take over security duties at the Penang Port Commission next month. The recruits are now being trained at the Police Depot In Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 108 8 CINGAPORE. Tues. A U.S. labour leader today stressed the importance of the democratic approach in planning labour education programmes. Mr. Walter Williamson, director of research and education of the Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks of America (BRAC) was speaking on "Planning
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  • 226 8 Pakistan evacuees leave for home SINGAPORE, Tuesday J|()HK than half of the 102 people evacuated from Hast Pakistan to Singapore by an RAF Britannia yesterday left the Republic today for their home conn tries. Most of the evacuees mostly Britons with some Norwegians. Swedes. Americans and Filipinos— took the earliest
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  • 37 8 SINGAPORE Tues The Beatty Secondary School's Interact Club will hold a charity film show "Julius Ceasar" In aid of the Home for the Aged Sick at the Rex theatre on Saturday at 8 30 a.m.
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  • 111 8 RARE WHITE DOLPHINS OFF HORSBURGH CINGAPORE, Tues. Six rare white dolphins, sighted off Horsburgh lighthouse about 35 miles (56 km) east of Singapore recently, are attracting scores of anglers and aquarists to the place every weekend. The dolphins, about three feet long, swim in a school of greyish-black dolphins the
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  • 127 8 Three held, gun seized by police SINGAPORE. Tues. An assortment of weapons, including an automauc pistol loaded with three bullets, was seized when police I detained three robbery susI pects at Circuit Ruad last night. The three men are believed to be involved In a I hold-up in Tanjong Katong
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  • 440 9 Women in scream session outside courts DETAINEES 9 RELATIVES DEMONSTRATE SINGAPORE, Tue« gLEVEN women, most of them elderly, had a full-throated shouting and screaming session outside the magistrate and district courts at South Bridge Road today. The women, who are relatives "of Barisan Sosialis detainees, appeared on the scene at
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  • 76 9 JEWELLERY FRAUD: TWO WOMEN ARRESTED SINGAPORE, rues. Police have arrested two women who are believed to have swindled residents in Geylang Serai of $14,000 worth of jewellery and property. They are said to have borrowed jewellery, silverware and wedding costumes from various Malay women in the area, and pawned them
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  • 63 9 Photographic show at library SINGAPORE. Tues— The Adult Education Board will hold a three-day photographic exhibition at the National Library's lecture hall from April 30. There will be about 200 photographs from entries by past and present students of the board's photography classes. Entry forms are available from the board's
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  • 263 9 Japanese school offers free courses for students SINGAPORE. Tues. Students from Singapore and South-east Asia are offered free courses at one of Japan's elite schools, the Ashlkaga Gakuen High School. The secondary level courses are for one year, but successful applicants will have to pay their own travel fares and
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  • 176 9 K. LUMPUR. Tues OENANG will get the 1 country's first free trade zone. Minister of Finance Tun Tan Slew Sin told the Dewan Ra'ayat today. He was replying to points raised by MPs during the debate on the Free
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    • 149 9 Ml*' ft Oop Uy V.T. Utiml in THAT BATTERY OF THE EOUIPMENrA I YES THAT WAS A I I AMP BUILOI KiG YtXJRS V\OULD'VE ...S'TOO BAD \rrSELF WAS/^ BUT VtXJ NECESSITY BUT I'VE ANOTHER ONE WILL/ I SHOULDVE N BEEN A BIG HELP/ IT HAD TO BE NO GREAT BURNED
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  • The Straits Times
    • 505 10 The Malaysian Government's reappearance in the rubber market has taken everyone by surprise. Yet the market has always been on notice, and 44 cents a pound with indications of .1 further decline was as good a point as any for intervention. Trade sources in Londoa believe the government's
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    • 325 10 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's meeting with President Yahya Khan does not raise hopes of an immediate solution of the crisis in Pakistan. The Sheikh went alone to the meeting and from this it may be assumed that no substantive issues were discussed. Yet the meeting is significant for
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    • 201 10 Singapore's Finance Minister, sptaking at the swear-ing-in ceremony of the management committee of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, urged Chinese businessmen to drop the habit of nepotism. He suggested that they should adopt a new outlook and approach to business, if commerce and trade are to yield the
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  • LETTERS
    • 175 10 THOSE LIABLE FOR SERVICE 1 REFER to the letter (ST. March 6) from "Anachronism" of Bukit Mertajam. Province Wellesley, contending that the call-up age group at present is unfair as the registrants are now between the ages of 28 and 36. Specifying the dates of births under the Re lal
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    • 81 10 AS someone with exceptional interest in the recent FrazlerMohd. Ali fight in New York. I think all Singaporeans should be very grateful to Malaysia for providing the live telecast of the event. With such a classic and most exciting fight, it would have been terribly disappointing if we
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  • 1073 10  - Am I a 'patrial,' grandma? NORA BELOFF By THE Commonwealth, which comforted Britain for its loss of empire, is taking a long time to die. This is the principal lesson to be learned from the highiy controversial Immigration (or rather, a n t i immigration) Bill, which has just started
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  • 801 10 Artist who said 'no' to a million dollars JIM GIBBINS TALKS TO AFFANDI -ASIA'S LEADING PAINTER THE millionaire in the vast and crumpled slacks remembered yesterday how he used to "trim" Charlie Chaplin's moustache There can be no doubt that he did a very artistic job: for the man Affandi
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  • Business Times
    • 681 11  -  COLIN GIBSON By EADING American importers and users of natural rubber are Joining forces to fight the monthold 10 per cent tariff increase by the Far East Freight Conference (FEFC). Members of the two powerful bodies representing these Interests In
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    • CITY TALK
      • 192 11 Getting hot on pepper pact COME people in Malaysian trade circles are getting hot under the collar over the fact that the proposed Asian Pepper Community will draw its members, as its name implies, from Asian countries only. They feel that it should be an inter-continental organisation like the International
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    • 38 11 Straits Times Indices Mar. 15 Mar. 16 Industrials: 148.02 147.94 f Hotels: 65.89 65.64 Properties: 114.48 114.48 Tliu: s».S3 89.99 1 1 robbers: 114.78 114.76 •Dec. SO. 1966 100 r Dec. 31. 1968 100 tDec. 2». 196* 100
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    • CHIEF PRICE CHANGES
      • 29 11 ietron i. Malayan Vilkinson L Lanjut LAX V. Jacks I. Tile tarlite $1.30 75P $3.50 $2.60 $2.34 $2.00 S0.90J $0.56 .11 8|P .06 .05 .04 .03 02* .02
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      • 26 11 tings Amal $0.49 $1.10 —.3 .1 Roxy $2.35 —.10 Pan El. T'ganu Dev. S. E'dai P. Milk $1.02 $1.70 $1.10 $1.22 —.06 —.05 —.04 —.03
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      • 18 11 Roxy Electric Ind. 129.000 Haw Par Brothers 106.000 Veneer Products 85,000 Far East Ship 83.000
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    • 471 11  - A bigger share of rural market is key to tea industry's progress CHEN MENG KONG By IMITATION may be the best form of flattery but Malaysia's tea industry can certainly do with less if it is to achieve its targets for the seventies. The key to development for this decade
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    • 821 11  -  AUSTIN MORAIS By CINGAPORES consumer price index has shown a comparatively mild increase since the base year 1960. There was, in fact, hardly any change in the last four years. Many people are sceptical that the cost of living changes over the years
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    • 244 11  -  IGNATIUS STEPHEN By WORRIED businessmen and others in Bandar Seri Begawan are hoping for a "mini boom" to dispel Brunei's current gloom. The "mini t>oom" could turn out to be Brunei's next Five- Year Development Plan to stretch from 1972 to 1976. The boom
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 87 11 V N "Of course BOAC fly the Pacific way to the USA!" For some people there is only one airline. BOAC flies you to San Francisco, Honolulu, Los Angeles, New York. There's a flight leaving Hong Kong at 4.00 p.m. every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Marvellous connections from
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    • 108 11 INSIDE All set for third and fourth phases ol Singapore's East coast reclamation scheme; Trade unions help set up new iov for man-days lost in Singapote strikes last year; Shippinc column; People in business. Page 12. ouippm* Company news; Share market report; Commoditle* Overseas markets London. New York. Melbourne Hong
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  • SHIPPING
    • 705 12  -  MOK SIN PIN By QXE of the main topics of discussion in Singapore business circles recently has been the Republic's East coast reclamation scheme. After having completed the first and second stages in over four years, the Government is now
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    • 363 12  -  AUSTIN MORAIS By T*HE trade union movement in Singapore helped to reduce the number of mandays lost due to strikes in the Republic over the last two years in two ways by accepting the Employment Act and the Indust r i a 1 Relations
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    • 844 12 IF LOCAL shippers are concerned over the frequency with which freight increases are being announced, they may have the dubious consolation of learning that the shipowners themselves are no less concerned over the factors which force them to raise rates if they are to continue In business. Over
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    • PEOPLE IN BUSINESS
      • 43 12 nal Abidin bin Mohd. Taib and Norijah binte Sanudin have been appointed account executives of S.H. Benson in Kuala Lumpur and will Initially undergo a sixmonth training programme. Including a period In Benson's Singapore office, to study radio /television production.
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      • 27 12 has been appointed managing director of Paterson Candy (Malaysia) and Paterson Candy (Singapore), Joint venture companies of Harper Ollflllan and Candy International London.
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      • 37 12 mar, new managing director of AB Volvo, recently visited Malaysia where he discussed local developments with the management of Volvo Malaysia and toured the the Swedish Motor Assembly plant at Batu Tlga. Selangor.
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 234 12 Expand your trading opportunities Talk Australia and New Zealand with the A« N* z Bank A N.Z. Bank offers a complete range of ser- to find them, and put you in touch. vices to help the businessman export to or We also have ways of helping cusknportfrom Australia and New
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    • 151 12 S^ Grow I Grow I I Together THERE ARE MANY WAYS OF SAVING MONEY. WE.TOO, HAVE MANY SAVING SCHEMES. ONE MAY POSSIBLY SUIT YOUR NEEDS. M FIXED DEPOSIT M W FIXED SAVINGS M FIXED DEPOSIT WITHDRAWALS M HOUSING LOANS OTHER SCHEMES OF DEPOSIT ON APPLICATION ASIA [5^ BUILDING fn ;^fe^l
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  • TIMES CITY DESK
    • 362 13 MALAYSIA RUBBER is forecasting a final dividend of 32$ per cent to make a total of 40 per cent for 1970. against 50 per cent for 1969. Net Income will be substantially lower due to the lower rubber price. Shareholders' approval la sought for the sale of the
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    • 156 13 THE Association of Banks In Malaysia-Singapore announced the.se best agreed merchant rates as at March 16. Selling Buying TT or OD TT OD Local dollars to one unit jf foreign currency. Sterling Pound Australian Dollar New Zealand Dollar South Arabian Dinar J.S. Dollar Local dollars to 100 units
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    • COMMODITIES
      • 23 13 MARCH 16 RUBBER 104.75 cents per kilo (up 2.00 cents). TIN: $646.25 (up S2.62J). Official offering 285 tons (up one ton).
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      • 102 13 CHINESE PRODUCE EXCHANGE, SINGAPORE NOON CLOSING PRICES PER PICUL YESTERDAY. Coconut OH: bulk SST sellers, drum S.V.I) sellers. Copra: ».xcd (f.ob.) loose Apr.' Com $35 B. p«pp*f: Muntok AST A white f.ob. NLW !172i sellers. Sarawak white f.ob. NLW J1621 sellers. Sarawak ASTA black f.o.b. 100", NLW $17*1
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      • 31 13 id London on Monday the price of Malayan 5 per cent CIF UK N. European ports in bulk, sterling per long ton May WM quoted at £110 (S2S3) sellers.
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      • 207 13 THE Straits tin price in Penang yesterday climbed another 52.62J to $646.25 per plcul on an official offering up one ton to 285 tons. Influenced by the upswing of £8 to £1.475 per ton in the overnight London metal price, the local market was very steady.
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      • 54 13 Spore (2) VNCH 152.50 (1) Export price in non-iterllnft »rea» in U.S. dollars per ounce. (2) Local dealera prices In Singapore dollars per tael. London Beirut Honiskonn Zurich Pari« 3'pore ill $u.s. 39.00 39.35 40. 3« 39.008 39.108 39.24 UNCH su.s. 39.04 39.40 40.44 39 OSB 39.203
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      • 574 13 0 The General Services A d m i n i s tration (GSA) announced in Washington on Monday that it would not offer stockpiled natural rubber for sale during April. Sales were halted last September. T ONDON followed fully on Monday's local gains and opening quotations were some
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    • 224 13 Day of irregular trading TRADING turned irregular 1 on the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. The day's total turnover was maintained at just over one million units of which more than 70 per cent was accounted for by industrials. The 10 per cent first and final tax-exempt dividend
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    • 50 13 THE following Asian Dollar rates were quoted yesterday by Bank of America. The rates are for deposits of U5525,000 and above. One month 4 3/4 p.c. Two months 413 16p.c. Three months 4 7'B p.c. Six months 5 1/2 p.c. Nine months 55 8 p.c. Twelvemonths 6 l/16p.c.
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 371 13 TENDERS Tenders are invited for the building of a Block of Classrooms etc.. for Anglo Chinese Primary School, Seremban. Conditions of tender and plan may be obtained from Mr. Leong Yew Soong. No 14, Jalan Wilkinson. Seremban. on payment lor the Tender Document. All Tenders must be accompanied by a
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    • 446 13 THE MONETARY AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE The Monetary Authority of Singapore Invites applications for the appointment of Assistant Inspectors. Salary $465x20A-505, 560x25A--660 750x3 5 A -890 Entry point In salary scale depends on qualifications experience. Qualifications. experience Applicants should preferably be university graduates in bust- ness administration accountancy or economics, or
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    • 571 13 PUBLIC UTILITIES BOARD Applications are Invited for the following posts In the Public Utilities Board. Singapore: ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT: ELECTRICAL ASSISTANT ENGINEER ($695-1280 basic) Or*. duate Member of the Institute of Engineers. Singapore or Associate Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers or equivalent plus minimum 18 months' suitable practical experience.
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    • 310 13 i ty Hi GUTHRIE WAUGH (MANAGEMENT SERVICES) PTE. LTD. invites applications for the post of SYSTEMS MANAGER (Based in Singapore) QUALIFICATION EXPERIENCE MBA. with Accounting as a mojor or C.A. Preference will be given to those candidates with experience in Management Information Systems. EMOLUMENTS Starting salory will be commensurate with
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  • 1037 14 810 AND OFFER PRICES OFFID CIALLV LISTED AT TNE CLOSE OF BUSINESS IN TNE SINCAPORE ROOMS OF TNE STOCK EXCNANCE WITH PRICE MOVEMENTS IN BRACKETS VEITEROAV WIRE: INDUSTRIALS m. t. UNIT TRUSTS Asia Unit Trust (ManSfsiV priem r»r M.r. 17) Mai. Invest. Fund 1.29 1.34 Mai Prog. Fund
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  • 939 14 dUSSINESS in and reported to the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets In lots of 1,000 unless otherwise specified mDUSTRIALS Acma (1) $138. Ben A Co. C) $1.23, (1) $1.23 D. B. Kawat (17)
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  • OVERSEAS MARKETS
    • 411 14 MELBOURNE. Tues—Mining i ~1 shares were steady In closely mixed trading on the Melbourne Stock Exchange today. Rises and tails were marginal and loughly equal In number. Speculatlves tended to drop more frequently than heavyweights. The Mlnsec affiliates again were quiet but steady. Abertojrle shed 20 cents to close
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    • 69 14 FINANCIAL TIMES TIN Monday 64.00 Friday 64.00 Week ago 62.65 RUBBERS Monday 169.56 Friday 170.90 Week ago ***** OILS Monday 265.03 Friday 267.05 Week ago 261.73 INDUSTRIALS Monday 324.4 Friday 324 8 Week ago 314.6 DOW JONES AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Monday 908 20 Friday 898.34 Week ago 898.62 LONDON DOLLAR
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    • 255 14 T-JONG KONO. Tues. The x± market continued the buoyant tone which developed shortly before the close yester. day However. the afternoon session saw sellers predominating which dampened enthusiasm but the market closed on a steady note with no excessive moves either way. Hone Kotif Land remained unchanged at
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    • 374 14 ]CEW YORK, Mon. The stock market scored one of Its best gains of the year, buoyed by technical factors and some encouraging economic news. The Dow Jones Industrial average finished above 900 for the first time In more than 21 months, tacking on nearly 10 points to read
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    • 460 14 T ONDON. Tues The »tock market clMtd easier, with prices drifting lower on lack of Interent Conditions cootinU'd very quiet ahead of the Budcet. The overnight uptrend on Wall Street wig offset by anxiety about the senera) economic ■Ituatlon. with many 'operators apprehensive over Thursday's nation.il enxlneerlnf strike acalnit
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 524 14 HI BANK OFFICERS Our development programme offers excellent opportunities for ombitious candidates. We ore looking for candidates who possess o minimum of Overseas School Certificate, its equivalent coupled with at least five years' experience in banking, be a member of the Institute of Bankers or any other recognised institute in
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    • 492 14 TONGKAH HARBOUR TIN DREDGING BERHAD Incorporated In Malaysia) INTERIM REPORT FOR HALF-YEAR TO SIST DECEMBER, 1970. 6 Months To Financial Year 31.12.70. To 30.6.70. OUTPUT Plculs tin concentrate .7.081 9.734 AVERAGE NET PROCEEDS per plcul tin concentrate $354 $372 AVERAGE PRICE OP Tin Metal (Penang) Malaysian dollars per picul $649
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    • 198 14 SINGAPORE TELEPHONE BOARD 1. Tender No. A( 126 71 Tenders are Invited from specialist contractors for the supply and Installation of lift and or hoist services for a sstorey Telephone Exchange at Choon Ouan Street. Singapore Full particulars are obtainable from Group 2 Architects. 77 Buklt Tlmah Road, Singapore, on
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  • 356 15 Day man was found in locked flat with a dumb woman CINGAPORE, Tues. Port Authority clerk Tan Koon San, 53, was found alone one day in a locked flat with a dumb woman. He could not explain why he was there when the woman's mother, Mak Geok Ching, came home,
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  • 103 15 $95,000 robbery: Four to stand trial SINGAPORE. Tues. Four young men who allegedly robbed a watch shop in North Bridge Road •.vere today committed to stand trial in the High Court for armed robbery at the end of a two-day preliminary inquiry. Ho Su Kong alias Kaw Chee. 25. Yau
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  • 25 15 SINGAPORE. Tues. The First Utdy. Mrs. B.H. Sheares. will visit the Singapore Association (or Retarded Children at Margaret Drive tomorrow at 2.30
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  • 940 15 Rape case inspector gets seven years JUDGE: YOUR EVIDENCE IS ALL A BUNDLE OF LIES SINGAPORE, Tues. FORMER police Probationary Inspector Amanur Rahman, 25, was sentenced to seven years' jail by the High Court today for raping a 19-year-old girl in a Geylang Road hotel on Jan. 9 last year.
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  • 91 15 CINGAPORE, Tues. Ex- pectant mother, Soh Ching Lang, 37, warded in Thomson Hospital last night after a head-on car collision at 10 m.s. Yio Chu Kang Road, was discharged today. Madam Soh, in an advanced state of pregnancy was admitted unconscious after the car she was
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  • 228 15 Briton to play role of Chinese sword -hero— CINGAPORE. Tues. J British actor James Fox arrived this afternoon and found himself landed with a role in a Chinese swordpiay drama on stage. I And within four hours of his arrival here, the British actor was already happily rehearsing for his
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    • 52 15 lIILLWI LATEST Mil IT *w™rpahtol iMfm COUGH DROPS sJjPf Sole Agents For: Singapore Sola Distributor: SINGAPORE. EAST WEST MALAYSIA. THE CONTINENTAL TRADINS COMPANY TAI TONG HANG. Room 102. KONG HOA BUILDING. G.P.O. Box 3426 (Singapore) 2. George Street, Singapore. Tel: ***** *****8. Tel: *****. Sole Distributors are Solicited for East
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 928 15 On your TV and radio today 3.M P.M. Opening and Housewives' 6.33 Our Music Makers kss p v p.,..,.,.. imm ru t v a Matinee-The Story of Mr. Ong Ml Alfred Hitchcock 6.55 P.M. Programme Summary Trip to Yesterday (Part 1 of a Hokkien Film- Miss Paisleys Cat Ml News
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  • 112 16 Japanese mining firm warned by Govt I^UCHING, Tues. The Sarawak Government is to tell a Japanese coal mining company that if it Is not interested in mining the estimated 110 million tons of coal In Sllantek, 87 miles from here, the Government would look for other Interested parties. This was
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  • 344 16 'RARE' ACCIDENT PICTURES I SINGAPORE, Tue«. QWUiF Justice Mr. Wee ("hong Jin today thum b c d through a set of traffic police pictures of an accident and remarked: "Photographs like these are indeed rare as they all show a motorcycle still in
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  • 139 16 Thugs take $3,000 in raid on flat SINGAPORE. Tues. A maidservant was rudely awakened this morning when three men broke Into her room at Meyer Road and covered her with a blanket. Ng Slew Cheng. 24. had not recovered from the initial shock when one of them pulled out a
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  • 76 16 1,511 smokey vehicles booked SINGAPORE, Tues. Traffic police last month booked 1.511 'smokey' vehicles compared with 1,923 in January, according to monthly statistics issued by the Ministry of Communications. The biggest culprits were goods vehicles. which accounted for 871 of the offenders. Buses accounted for 263, while 176 private cars,
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  • 34 16 SINGAPORE, Tues Ong Kirn Pong. 43. was fined $200 yesterday for operating a pirate taxi on Feb. 10 at the junction of Circular Road and South Bridge Road. The car was confiscated.
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  • 321 16 Singapore as export manufacturing base for ICI paints SINGAPORE, Tues. The Minister of State (Finance), Mr. Tang See Chim. today forecast that Singapore would become an export manufacturing base to serve the market In this region for the ICl's international manufacturing network. Speaking at the official opening of the ICI
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  • 59 16 10 fishermen held by police PENANO, Tues. Ten fishermen were arrested and two boats detained by Marine Police yesterday evening. One trawler with a crew of six was caught off Pulau Kendl for operating In restricted waters. The other boat was detained off Telok Tempoyak. Bayan Lepas. and its crew
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  • 284 16 Study shows Singapore Malays are very sophisticated By NANCY BYRAMJI: Singapore, Tues. THE level of sophistication of the local Malay population is very high, a Cornell University postgraduate researcher said today. Mr. Stanley S. Bedlington, who is conducting postgraduate research here under the Ford Foundation Foreign Area Fellowship, formed this
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  • 207 16 TRADE AND SAFETY THE TWO AIMS OF EXPOSITION CINGAPORE, Tues. The twin objectives of the exposition to be held at Kallang Park in May are trade and safety. This was stated today by the MP for Katong, Mr J.F. Conceicao, who is also chairman of the organising council. Mr. Conceicao
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  • 71 16 Salesman denies $17,773 graft charge SINGAPORE. Tues. A former salesman of the Sterling Drug (Singapore) Pte Ltd. today denied misappropriating $17,773 from his company last year. Richard Hen?. 37. was alleged to have committed the offence at the firm's premises in Lorong Telok. off North Canal Road, between Aug. 17
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 228 16 ■V" ip^ M Handsome. Distinguished. Up -to -the -Minute Styling MARWITZ quality German spectacle frames Sole agent gj Jebsen&Jessen' at lMdin9 opticians werywhere Singapore Kuala Lumpur Ipoh. $20 000 WON! IN THE LAST SUNDAY'S DRAW NO: 20/71 COUPON SOLD BY: AGENT NO: 327-05; 697 SEMBAWANG ROAD SINCAPORE POOLS 0(j /^Pfl
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    • 71 16 E5 5 S ion I ■E zr^ E^E Iff 1 1 1 Shih i^= //////tv, J«;-| H= Si k Lgof How I I to tell I I Fortune I from the Chiiese daisies. ic Dick Wilson again in the Great Divide if The Spoilinf if Bali Probable starters for Bukit
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 290 16 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS (S-S). 8 Recoil from c»t perhaps? 7. No occupant In Wren ftulld- 4_4> ing such Is fame! <6> V Stirred up the river. In a 13 Comfortable place In a frowway (6). Ing < 3 2 5l 10 Dlclcenslan said a lot (4) 16 N.C.O. saw
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  • 152 17 Ex-hotel boy: I had no day off for a year OENANG, Tues. A 1 former hotel room today testified he never had even a day a week while he was mployed at the Waldorf Hotel here from ■t-mber 1968 to ember 1969. I even worked on public lays," R. Raju
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  • 53 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Trengganu will be able to reTV services either In August or September, the Mlnl- Information and Special -ins. Tan Sri Ohazalt 'iafle, told the Dewan Ra'ayat He was replying to a supplementary question by Inche Mo--1 Daud bin Abdul Samad P Kuala Trengganu Selatan)
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  • 422 17 Queen's Counsel for sedition trial COURT GRANTS D.A.P. APPLICATION K. LUMPUR. Tues. §IR Dingle Foot, QC, will appear as leading counsel for a Penang Democratic Action Party leader in a sedition case described as having "great public importance and involving constitutional issues." Justice Dato Abdul Hamid, in granting an application
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  • 86 17 RUMANIA QUERY ON TIES WITH PEKING? KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Has Rumania been acting on behalf of Peking on Malaysia's proposal to neutralise South-east Asia? This question was raised during question time in the Dewan Ra'ayat today by Haji Ahmad Arshad i.MI-Mu.ir I'tara). He had asked the Prime Minister if he
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  • 117 17 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Two of three youths who had been terrorising courting couples along the seafront here, were jailed today. The third was ordered to be sent to the Henry Gurney School until he is 21. Neo Peng Chuan. 24. Lee Sop Peni; 17.
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  • 66 17 SINGAPORE. Tues Two journalists from Nanyang Slang Pau left for Berlin today to unuergo a four-month course at the Institute for Journalism there. They are Mr. Chang Wing Ching. a sub-editor who is currently studying for an external degree in Chinese language from the London University,
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  • 143 17 Gerakan to launch major nationwide political drive IPOH, Tuesday THE Gerakan Raayat Malaysia is to launch a major nationwide political drive to put itself on a firm base. Disclosing this here today a spokesman said that party activities were being extended to the East Coast states. A membership drive Is
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  • 41 17 SINGAPORE. Tues The Young Peoples' Service of the National Library will show two Chinese documentary films at the library's lecture hall on Friday at 3 pm. The films are "A Key to Progress" and "The Rival World."
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  • 318 17  - S 'pores birth control plan 'a story of success CHEW LEE CHING By SINGAPORE, Tues. Singapore's family planning programme is a "success story." This high praise came today from the Director of Information of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Mrs. Frances Dennis. She is here for a two-day visit before
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  • 79 17 $33,303 consent judgment against firm SINGAPORE. Tues. The High Court has granted a consent judgment for 533,303 and costs against Clive Gerard Rodrigues, trading as Marble Corporation aY Malacca Street. The plaintiffs. Bank of Singapore Ltd., had claimed the amount as money due by the firm on a current account
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  • 45 17 ALOR STAR. Tues. Police have detained a 21-year-old youth In connection with the reported rape of a 46-year-old woman at Kampong Blulcar Bertangkap. Mata Ayer. In Perils yesterday. Police said today that the woman alleged the youth also stole her necklace.
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    • 45 17 Bugs Bunny By Ralph Heimdahl %%nc I'M HERE T FIX THAT 4k J LEAKIN' PIPE IN YER I ST"***- T I ELMER! <( A WHERE HAVE J SORRY I'M LATE' THIS) 1 I TWIED TO TELL IS MV BUSY CVW! J L VOL IT WAS AM
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  • Letters to the Editor
    • 394 18 Hiroshima: A perfect answer to the chaplain's prayers? VIVIAN QUEK (S.T., March 9> has expressed "utter horror" at the practice in this country of blessing hotels. He also says that to involve a Christian minister in this affair is preposterous as this practice is totally unchristian, to say nothing of
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    • 128 18 ON January 29 after the burial of my father at the Chua Chu Kang Christian cemetery (Catholic section). I was approached by a gardener who claims to be in charge of graves. He showed me around and later pointed to a grave which had been nicely cared for and claimed
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    • 67 18 NOT a week passes without at least two serious accidents occurring at the busy Still Road and Joo Chiat Place Junction. The roads converge at oblique angles making it impossible for drivers from Still Road to see more than three feet of Joo Chiat Place. Cars parking right up to
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    • 61 18 I )K. TOH CHIN CHYE must have emerged from the tour of his constituency (Rochore) a rather bruised man. Your report of his tour (ST., March 15) said: curious children squeezed their way through the crowd to PECK at him." CONCERNED. Singapore 8. ED: Our printer Is
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    • 256 18 AM a teenager," a little girl announces the fact. She is important, yes. because she belongs to a community roughly half-million strong, with its privileges and customs, its own songs, dances, tastes, fashions and secrets. She feels important because one has only seven years
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    • 79 18 Govt replies: In two kinds of glass I REFER to the letter by "Raschid" (ST., March 8). The Inland Revenue Department has. for the convenience of the public, provided two types of interview rooms, one with clear glass and the other with opaque glass. Normally taxpayers are Interviewed in any
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    • 137 18 REFER to the letter from Jenny Soo (ST., Feb. 23) concerning the removal ot a posting box from the junction of Lower Delta Road and Tiong Bahru Road. I wish to inform the writer that the posting box in question has been relocated In Jalan Membina near its junction with
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    • 85 18 r REFER to the letter "How to study history without a teacher?" by Mr. Alfred Pang (ST.. March 10). The Adult Education board offers several combinations of subjects to cater for students' preferences at secondary three level. The writer of the letter is at present following one of the combinations
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    • 566 18 ANOTHER LOOK AT PROBLEM PARENTS —BY A YOUTH I'VE read the letters from •Disgusted Teenager" 'ST.. March 10 > and "Optimistic Teenager" »S.T., March 13 1. Since lam also a teenager I would like to say a word or two tonly difference is that I am a boy). "Disgusted Teenager"
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    • 351 18 Solzhenitsyn 1970 The 1 970 N °k e Prize for Literature was awarded il__ to the Russian writer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn MrjRF I PR 1 7F for the ethical f° rce for which he has pursued NWl— >L_ L_ I I ilZ_-L_ the indispensable traditions of Russian literature? WINNE'LR His book
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  • 325 21 HE PORT OF BINCAPORE AUTHO 1 RITV ANNOUNCED THE FOL LOWING BERTHING ARRANGE MENTJ FOR MARCH 17. OUT: Alex.y Tolstoy X 0. vishva Vikram IS 16. Perl.-. 2. n W.sl. Froma 27 29. Protesilauii 3V Kyotal Maru tune Zlrron <: IN: I.ica HMnt Kyoto kayu Maru. 10-11.
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    • 674 21 SINGAPORE SOVIET I F^ SHIPPING CO. (PTE) LTD. I TEL- *****1 (3 LINES) FM CUROPEi v y Sinnppre p. S'tam Pintni DESTINATIONS mw t iyJ. i R L l M?r D c „12'" I/U 6* Antwerp. M.V JEINNA ÜBOURCE M>r 7 A«r tl 9 9 /i3 tg, Himbufl RotterHaai FO*
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    • 239 21 POLIS REPABUK SINGAPI RA TENDER NOTICE Tenders are Invited by the Commissioner of Police. Singapore for the supply and delivery of the following items for the Polls Repabllk Slngapura: Accoutrements and Badges 2 A Tender Deposit of $200. is required for the Tender payable to the Shroff, Finance Branch, Ministry
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    • 234 21 JABATAN PERTANIAN NEGERI PERAK KENYATAAN TAWARAN TAWARAN ada-lah dl-pelawa dart p*mboronff2 yang mahlr untok menjaga kawasan kachung penutup buml seluas lebeh kurang 670 ekar dl-Ranchangan Tanah Bella Khas Perlop in Tawaran akan dl-terlma dl. Pejabat Pengarah Pertanlan Negexl. Perak dl-Ipoh sahingga pukul 12.00 tengah hart pada 2hb. April. 1971. Keterangan2
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    • 249 21 SKI AM. OR TCRF CLUB NOTICE OF MEETING j The Annual Oeneral Meeting of the Ordinary Members of the Belangor Turf Club, will be l-Md at the Racecourse. Ampang Road. Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday the 30th of March 1971. at 7.00 pm AGENDA 1 ro confirm the Minutes of the
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  • 110 22 ALL NATIONALITIES/AGES WIL COME. Expert Charm/Mode 111. ik Tralnlng (Physical exercise* Included). Contact Joan Booty Tel: ***** '*****7 or visit 22-A Penan.; Road. 8 pore S. EXHIBITION OF PERSIAN Bokhara Carpets by Oriental Carpet Palace" In association with the "British Army Pun Fair 1871" Dover Road Stadium Saturday. 3rd
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  • 140 22 MR. CHIU SECK JOO, 72. passed away peacefully on 16 3.1971 at 3.40 a.m.. leaving behind his beloved wife. four sons Nang Hong. Nang Yang. Nang Lick, Nang Yeoh: Bye daughters Sye Chin. Whlly. Yeoly. Lily. Dolly: 4 daughtera-ln-law: 4 sons-in-law: 8 grandsons. 10 granddaughters. 2 great granddaughters to
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  • 18 22 IN EVER-LOVING MEMORY of Mrs. Nancy-Loo Soh departed 17-3-70 I.reply missed by bushand. children, sister, brother.
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  • 42 22 REAO BORROW BUY. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy at Christian Science Reading Room. 8 Orange Grove Road, Singapore. Monday! 11 2 Friday* 10 12 Wednesday* 6 7 p m. Paperback S3 Post Free
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    • 531 22 MR. s\ MRS. Krishna Brldher tbank all friends and relative* (or their attendance, gift* and wishes on the occasion of their marriage on 14-3-71. LEONG—KHOO: Seak Keen. only s/o Mr. tt Mr*. Leong Chee Kong to Catherine, youngest d/o Mr./ Mrs. Khoo Swee Llm on 17.3 71. Poraonal S.O.S.—SAMARITANS of
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    • 793 22 APPLICANTS replying to Box Numbers for Vacancies an required not to enclose original copies of testimonial! or references with their applications No responsibility can be accepted for their loss Applicants are also advised to write to box numbers correctly and check them before posting. Develop your Selling Career with a
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    • 900 22 WANTED MACHINE OPERATORS and General Workers (Male A Female). Attractive pay and good prospect Non-citizen will be considered. Call personally at 51. Sim* Avenue. Singapore, 14. REQUIRED MECHANICAL FOREMAN married with children 25 33 year* old, Singapore citizen, familiar with bard work and long hour*. Call for appointment. Tel: 63X355
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    • 971 22 GENTLEMAN (32) with knowledge of accounts, typing etc seeks parttime post. Will accept any kind of work Box A6I6S. ST. Spore. DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE for Locum. Apply Box A 6161 ST B'pors. Accommodation vacant DETACHED BUNGALOWS 17.000 sq. ft. 3 bedrooms and servant*: Chee Hoon Avenue 18.000 sq. ft. 4
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    • 824 22 OIST. IS 1 STOREY SEMI-DETACHED 4 rooms, hall, dining and 2 bathrooms. Fully furnished. Leasehold, vacant possession end of year. $38,500-. Easy Instslment can be arranged. Interested Tel: Spore *****8 SEASIDE PARK, DIST. is. Near Ocean Park Hotel, double-storey terrace corner 4 -bedroomed recently renovated with beautiful garden Price $62,500/-.
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    • 628 22 INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY! For sals a ready-made office In People's Park Complex for immediate occupation. Rental can fetch up to $670 Rinp Asia Management Services i Spore *****/*****1. OFFICE SPACE TO-LET 2nd Floor at Robinson Road. Teak parquet floor-lng/air-condltlon-lift and water/light provided. Tel: 7*364. (Oflce hours) Spore. TELOK AVER STREET/Mferket Street
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    • 451 23 i ont. from Page 22) Pest control assure you of our prompt and services at moderate Contact FUMIGA (PTB) LTD. TEL: (SPORE) *****S J***** on, White Ants. Rau, hes. Destroying Beea. nd Hornets. Spraying of aga.nst Ants, General rl Control. Rugs, carpets «Sc eurlos SDIAN HANOKNOTTED WOOLLEN CARPETS Quality. Plain
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    • 998 23 I! WESTINCHIUSE, SANYO AIR-CON- I DITIONEIS available at maindistributoi Charlton Enterprise at generous lacount. 21. Middle Road. Spore. Tl *****. *****3 Hiring Services fovlded. TYPEWRITRS?? Widest range of Portables, Semi-portables and Standards. Pices from $'*5 cash discounts. Tade-lns accepted. Midland Enterprise. 95 Hill Street. ***** (B'pore) SOCK TO CLEAR Ws
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    • 1077 23 AUSTIN AMI CREAM R. Kis'trrd Octobtr IV6X 1 owner company's car. V.Vll maintained But offer over 53.300 secures. Te) B'pore M 321 ext. 7433 or 4-J. Roayth load Spore 19 1970 F CAPRI RENAULT RIO IMS Morris 'l3oo IMS M 1000. 19«4 O Kadett. F/«00D. 19*3 F/Cortlna 1961 A A4O
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    • 96 23 DYAMA > LINE Announce the appointment of STRAITS TRANSPORTATION PTE. LTD. as their General Agents in Singapore and Malaysia with effect from 20th March 1971 They take this opportunity of expressing their appreciation to M/s Chip Seng Co. Pte. Ltd. for their General Agency Services todate. OYAM A SHIPPING CO.
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    • 489 24  -  EPSOM JEEP RACING with SINGAPORE Derby prospect Speechmaker showed sparkling form in a two-round workout on a good track at Bukit Timah yesterday. Cantered once round, he steadily clapped on the pace to run 3f in 36 4 ssec. A useful front-runner, this Raconteur
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    • 149 24 It's still a record I 'THE turnover on all I forms of Totalisator j betting at Bukit Timah over the weekend ju*t I exceeded 53.800.000. Mr. D. K. Broun, the Singapore Turf Club secretary, state. l yesterday. "Still this is a record for the first weekend of a race meeting
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    • 277 24 Jaisimha saves team from follow-on rjEORGETOWN (Guyana). Tues. Guyana bundled out the remaining Indian first innings batsmen just before lunch yesterday to take a first innings lead of 120 and by the close of play had scored 206 for six wickets in their second Innings. With an overall lead of
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    • 26 24 PARIS, Tues. Billy Backus, welterweight champion of the world, outpointed Frenchman Robert Gallois in a 10--round non-title fight at the Palais Dcs Sport yesterday.
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    • 763 24 COPENHAGEN, Tues rpiTLE- HOLDER Ippei Kojima of Japan and Indonesia's Rudy Hartono, the two top seeds, powered their way to the quarter-finals of the Danish Open badminton championships here last night. Pint-sized Kojlma trailed 0-7 In the opening set of his third round
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    • 177 24 Arsenal K0 Leicester with 44th min. goal LONDON, Tues. Charl't George headed Arsena. Into the semi-finals of the English FA Cup for the lirst time since 1952 with a. 44th minute goal which gave them a 1-0 home victory last night over Leicester. It was a testing quarterfinal replay for
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    • 112 24 CALGARY (Alberta). Tues Eight commies will send tuu players each to a badminton tournament at the Calvary Stampcdr this year. Sweden will send national champion Sture Johnson and his brother. Kurt. Erland Kods and Sven Pri of Deijmark. and Roy Diaz Gonzalev 17 mi old Mexican sineles champion,
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    • 168 24 I AUSANNE. Tues —"I said I would give up the presidency at the Olympic Games in Munich next year, and nothing has happened to make me change my mind." Avery Brundage, 83-year-old president of the International Olympic Committee, said here yesterday. "Even if
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    • 485 24 MUNICH, Tues ~TQ segregate or not to segregate the sexes has become a burning question long before the Olympic Flame is kindled here. Traditionally, a fence has run through Olympic Villages where competitors live during the Games, barring men from the women's section. Now
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    • 812 25  -  ERNEST FRIDA By CINGAPORE Amateur Athletic Association's second Four-Year Plan, aimed at building up a squad of top class athletes for international meets was launched yesterday. In a ceremony at the Farrer Park Sports House. SAAA president Rahim Ishak spelled out
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    • 173 25 II OKI I) eye linn TT rhumpion JfanPirrr*' .Monsere was killed on M<>ii(|.i\ when a car ploughed into the leading pack of 16 ridirs during a race in Retie, Belgium. Monsere. 22. took part in a professional nee that started from R:'tie. a village about 48
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    • 133 25 K. L. ONG with a two-round aggregate of 138 lead by one stroke ir the Mac Donald Cup competition organised by SICC at Island Course yesterday. Results: 138 K.L. Ong; 139 —AM Gllson; 143 N Clayton; 146 K. Cantwell and F. Kearney; 146 P. Ezechles; 147 —N.
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    • 30 25 Indian Association B got off to a good start when they beat Police "C 5-2 in their opening SHA division three hockey match at Thomson Road yesterday.
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    • 359 25 BADMINTON pASffi PANJANO District run- ners-up Paslr Panjang Secondary School, got off to a good start yesterday when they edged Swiss Cottage 3-2 for their first win In the National Schools girls 'A' division badminton championships at Linden Drive. Paslr Panjang's win came from two singles and
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    • 184 25 rVDUR Rotary Clubs from •T Singapore, Singapore West, Singapore East and Johore Bahru will take part in the Rotary Clubs Annual Golf Tournament at the SICC New Course on Sunday. Tee-off times: 1.30 p.m. Dave Whlteman (3). Hamlnda Singh (6), Charles Auchmuty (9). 1.36 Patrick Lee (8).
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    • 242 25  -  G. ROBERT By VT'ITH a big Invasion of forw eign competitors. next mentn's Singapore Grand Prix has all the makings of being the best racing event in the Far East, but local motoring enthusiasts do not have to Day any extras to =cc it. The
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    • 80 25 MELBOURNE. Tues. —Leslie O'Brien Fleetwood-Smlth. former Auftralian Test bowler, died in hospital here today. He was 60, and had been suffering from a chest ailment for some months A left arm googly bowler, he played In 10 Tests during the thirties end took 42 wickets 33
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    • 31 25 HOCKEY— DIv I: Police v Schools, Thomson Road SOCCER— SBHFL Dlv 1 MSA "A" v Spore Pools. Jalan Besar Dlv 2: Hong Kong Bank v MSA T, Qeylang; Slme Darby v
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    • 26 25 Borne Group Fairer Park; Metal Box v Cold Storage. Balestler Road. Schools National Tournament. Farrer Park (8 a.m. and 2 p.m.). BADMINTON— Schools: National Championships. NJC.
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  • 161 26 SINGAPORE, Tues. It 3 was just a minor collision between the Holden (in foreground) and a contractor's water truck at Upper Thomson Road. But it happened just after office hours 5.30 p.m And the result: a monster traffic jam that took two hours to unravel. The
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  • 83 26 Mexico coup attempt foiled MEXICO CITY, Tues. The Mexican Government has foiled an attempt by an armed revolutionary movement to unleash acts of sabotage, terrorism and guerilla warfare as a prelude to setting up a Mexican "Marxist-Leninist regime." The Insurrectionists were all trained at a special guerilla training complex some
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  • 67 26 TOKYO, Tues. Communist China announced today the launching of Its second space satellite almost two weeks aso. Ihe official New China (Hslnhua i news agency said the 487. pound (221 -kilogram) satellite, launched on March 3. has "successfully sent scientific data on \aiiou.s experiments at frequencies of
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  • 27 26 JAKARTA, Tues. Five thousand people have been evacuated from flood-stricken areas In east Jakarta following several days of heavy rain, a Government spokesman said today
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  • 143 26 A CLOSE SHAVE FOR HEATH ON BILL lONDON. Tues. The < Conservative Government came within two votes of defeat in the Commons last night during a debate on the controversial Industrial Relations Bill Shouts of "resign" came from Labour Opposition MPs as the Government scraped home with 244 votes to
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  • 642 26 Indian C-Plan teacher did not offer criticisms or suggestions, says Ministry SINGAPORE, Tu«a. TiHE Ministry of Education X today said that Indian Colombo Plan teacher Mr. Govindaswamy had not offered any criticisms or suggestions for improvements on Tamil education during two of his three-year stay here. It was replying to
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  • 354 26  -  JACK FINGLETON. By Canberra Tuesday rpHE new Australian Prime Minister, Mr. William McMahon pulled up his socks today and gave an impressive display answering questions in the House. Although several newspapers commended Mr. McMahon on his effort yesterday In answering Opposition Gough
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  • 255 26 'Atrocities covered up' charge by a hero WASHINGTON, Tues. America's most decorated infantryman of the Korean war has filed charges against a general and a colonel accusing them of covering up US atrocities in Vietnam. Ueut-Col. Anthony Herbert, 41, accused Major-Gen. John Barnes and Col. J. Ross Franklin of dereliction
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  • 58 26 NEW DELHI, Tues The Governor of West Bengal tonight turned down a request from the Marxist Communist Party (CPM) and Its allies to form a new rtate government. In last week's elections, the United ueU Front, led by the CPM. won 123 of the 280 seats
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  • 49 26 LONDON. Tues. Thirty Opposition Labour Party MPs have demanded that Ford Motor plants in Britain should be nationalised A strongly critical House of Commons motion published today also described as "provocative" Mr Henry Fords threat to curtail his company's future investment In Britain. Reuter.
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