Eastern Sun, 10 October 1969

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    22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1144 Friday, 10 October 1969. llr MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon GET LABOUR FROM YOUTH CENTRE ONLY
    255 1 NEW RAZAK PLAN: KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Government departments in Malaysia will soon have to recruit its skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled labour force from the various government youth training centres only. The Director of Operations and Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, said the government
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    Lock icon Borders Closed To Czech Travellers
    198 1 VIENNA. Thurs. (Reuter) Czechoslovakia has virtually dosed Her border with Austria for Czechoslovak tourists travelling the West, Interior Ministry sources here said today. They said only holders of Czechoslovak service Passports. and in some cases groups travelling with the official Czechoslovak Travel Organisation Cedok. were
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    Lock icon FREAK RESCUE
    81 1 LAKE POWELL. Utah. Thurs. (Reuter* A freak radio signal that travelled 1.500 miles led to the rescue of a Californisn coup:e adrift on giant Lake Powell. Utah, for two days. Ronald. 38. and Be\*erly Holmes. 36. sent out repeated distress signas on their radio set which has a
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    Lock icon $250,000 Burglary
    93 1 The Police yesterday disclosed one of the biggest thefts in Singapore, involving the loss of more than a quartermillion dollars in Jewellery, from the hou.se of a wealthy family in Pasig Panjang Road. A spokesman from the Police said the victim is the djughter-in-law of the late Mr.
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    Lock icon Haynsworth Approved
    52 1 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (Reuter) The senate judiciary '•ommittee today approved President Nixon's nomination of controversial Judge Clement Haynsworth to the US: Supreme Court by a vote of 10 to six. The committee chairman. Senator Eastland <Democrat. Mississippi), announcing the said dm not know when the nomination would reach the
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    Lock icon EGYPTIAN AIR RAID ON SINAI
    214 1 CAIRO, Thurs. (UPI) A "large number" of Egyptian reconnaissance patrols swept across the Suez Canal and rammed deep into Israeliheld Sinai last night, an Egyptian military spokesman said today. The spokesman said the troops "successfully carried out tasks assigned them' (or (our hours be(ore returning.
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    Lock icon 'Peyton Place' Lawyer Here In New Role
    199 1 IRISH actor, Patrick Whyte, known to millions of television viewers as Ted Dowell, the lawyer, in the Peyton Place television series, is now in Singapore in his new role, not as a film star but a tour leader. Asked of the sudden change
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    Lock icon Anne Beats Champion
    65 1 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) Princess Anne beat European horse trials champion Mary Gordon-Watson in the Dressage Competition at the Horse of the Year Show in London today. Queen Elizabeth's 19-year-old daughter was placed eighth in a field of 11 of Europe's top horse trial riders Miss Gor-don-Watson was
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    Lock icon New-type Passports
    85 1 THE Immigration Department is now issuing Singapore Passports which have been slightly amended. The ammendments are:- Front Cover: There is no "window" to show the printed number of the passport above the word Passport". The number of the passport corresponds with the number of the holder's Singapore Identity
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    Lock icon Britain To Protest Modern 'Spanish Armada At The Rock'
    251 1 LONDON, Thurs. (AFP Reuter) Britain will protest today to Spain over the presence of two Spanish destroyers in waters close to Gibraltor which are regarded here as British, informed sources said. The two ships are part of the six unit Spanish
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    Lock icon B52 Crashes On Take Off
    80 1 MERCED. California. Thurs. (UPI» A giant Air Force 852 Jet bomber crashed and burned on takeoff at Castie Air Force Base tonight, apparently killing all six crew members aboard. The Air Force listed all sir as missing. The eight-engine jet was on routine training flight
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    Lock icon USAF To Reduce Strength In V-nam
    186 1 SAIGON, Thurs. (Reuter) The United States Air Force in South Vietnam is to reduce its strength by 2.541 men and nearly 100 aircraft by December 15, the American Command announced today. The reduction, part of the second phase of President Nixon's troop cut-back. Is
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    Lock icon Reds Work On US Wives
    161 1 PARIS. Thurs. (UPI) A Communist women's organisation today addressed an open letter to wives of American prisoners of war in Vietnam, calline on them to demand the U.S. government withdraw all its troops unconditionally from Vietnam. "Real peace is the only means of saving not
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    Lock icon Seaman May Live
    131 1 INVERCARGILL. New Zealand. Thur*. (Reuter) A crewman from the Danish cargo shio Magdala (1 594 tons) Is seriously ill in Kew hospital here after twice being when he was thought to be clinically dead. He was overcome, apparently by bad air. :n a tank in the ship's
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    Lock icon Hunt For Huk Killers
    117 1 MANILA. Thurs. <UPI) Heavily-armed combat tiwps moved Into Communist Huk Guerrilla territory today to hunt down the killers of nine off-duty Filipino security guards of a US. Navy transmitter site. Philippine Constabulary chief Vicente Raval said he has ordered into the hunt 200 combat troops and
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    Lock icon Moonmen Receive France's Highest Awards
    281 4 PARIS. Thurs. (Reuter) France yesterday gave a raptumus welcome to America s three Apollo 11 astronauts, cheering them through the streets and making them Knights of the coveted Legion of Honour Award. Tens of thousands of Parisians cheered and applauded as Nell Armstrong. Colonel Edwin
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    Lock icon 'Asia Will Need Outside Aid For A Long Time'
    172 4 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Asia will need outside aid for along time to enable it to achieve political and economic progress, Australia's ambassador to the United States. Patrick Shaw, told the Far East-America Council of Commerce and Industry this week. The
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    Lock icon More Witnesses To Testify Against Rohan
    289 4 JERUSALEM. Thurs. (Reuter) The prosecution will call more witnesses today to give evidence against Australian Denis Michael Fohan who has admitted setting fire to Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque but says he was mentally disturbed at the time. At yesterday's session of the trial, now
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    Lock icon Dubcek May Be Allowed To Resign
    247 4 PRAGUE. Thurs (Reuter)— Former Liberal leader Alexander Dubrek may be allowed to resign as chairman of the Czechoslovak National Assembly—h:s last prominent post in public life—instead of the indlgnitv of dismissal. Informed sources said yesterday Mr Dubcek had written a letter to the Communist
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    Lock icon Callaghan In Belfast "To Get Rid Troublemakers"
    283 4 BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Thurs. (Reuter) British Home Secretary James Callaghan arrived here yesterday on his second inspection tour of Northern Ireland's centres of sectarian tension and pledged to "get rid of the troublemakers." "They have to be arrested and brought to Justice and
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    Lock icon London's Garbage Strike Continues
    84 4 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) At least 150.00n fon s of uncollected garbage littered London yesterday in the 16th day of an unofficial strike by garbage collectors for better pav. The government said on Tuesday night health experts reported there was still no endemic menace although rotting refuse
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    Lock icon Egyptians Die In Midnight Clash
    65 4 TEL AVIV. Thurs (Reuter) —Two Egyptian soldiers were killed shortly before midnight in an encounter between Egyptian and Israeli troop* south of Lake Timsah. a military spokesman said here today. There were no Israeli casualties in the clash, he added. The Egyptians' arms, includ. lnr
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    Lock icon Spanish Warships Off The Rock
    227 4 GIBRALTAR Thurs fHeuten A big fl*et of Spainsh warships arnved off Gibraltar .ast night In what observers railed a new show of strength against the British rock colony The fleet comprised the cruiser Cananas. the biggest In the Spanish Navy, the he-licopter-carrier Dedalo and four
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    Lock icon Schumann Off To Moscow On An Official Visit
    304 4 PARIS. Thurs (Reuter) French Fore.gn Minister Maurice Schumann leaves here today for a five-day official visit to Moscow the first by a member of the new French Government. Mr. Schumann yesterday held a final meeting with President Georges Pompidou and though there
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    Lock icon Big Swap Of Arabs Across The Suez
    210 4 EL QANTARA. Israeli occupied Sinai Peninsula. Thurs. (UPI)_ Israel traded six dead Egyptian soldiers and 110 Arabs yesterday for 123 Air s who wished to return to the Gaza Btrlp Egypt lost in the June 1967 war In a rare act of peace
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    Lock icon Moore Fails To Show Up In Court Because Of A Leopard
    103 4 LONDON Thurs fUPI) Marathon walker Dr Barbara Moore was supposed to show up in court yesterday But fhe had to postpone It because of a Jeopard. Dr. Moore, scheduled to answer bankruptcy proceedings against her. sent a telegram to
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    Lock icon BOMB SCARE IN BELFAST
    127 4 BELFAST. Northern Ireland, Thurs. (Reuter) A bomb scare forced families to flee their homes In a predominantly Catholic area of Belfast today. People were evacuated from houses while British troops and police cordoned off the district around Donegall Road In the Northern Ireland capital. Army explosives
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    Lock icon U.N. Mideast Peace Efforts Suspended
    307 4 UNITED NATIONS, New York, Thurs. (Reuter)—United Notions efforts to promote a Middle East settlement ore ogain being suspended and the U.N. representative, Dr. Gunnor V. Jarring, will return to his post as Swedish ambassador in Moscow, it was learned yesterday. Dr. Jarring had a number
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    Lock icon Sharp Drop In Tories' Lead— Opinion Poll
    232 4 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) A bombshell opinion poll yesterday showed a steep drop m the lead held by Britain's opposition Conservatives o v *r the Labour Government The latest sounding put the Conservative margin at a meagre four per cent compared with 18 per
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    Lock icon Army Join In Search For Envoy's Son
    124 4 BOGOTA Colombia. Thurs (Reuter^—Some 7.000 security forces, including flv« army batallions. yesterday combed western Colombia in a desperate search for the 17-year-old kidnapped son of the Swiss Consul in Call a member of the Swiss Embassy here. A massive hunt Is underway for
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    Lock icon Ex-Soldier Gets Hard Labour Term
    56 4 CAIRO. Thurs (Reuter) The Supreme State Security Court last night sentenced a former Egyptian soldier to hard labour for life on charges of sabotage But the accused. Mohamed Mahmoud EI-Haddad. was acquitted after a week-long trial of charges of spying for Israel, for which the
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    Lock icon Barnard Silent About The Marriage Reports
    272 4 NEW YORK. Thura (UPI Pioneer heart surgeor Christiaan Barnard refused t< comment again yesterday or reports he will marry a 19-year-old South African girl Barnard, enroute to London from a meeting of the American College of Surgeons m San Francisco, stopped In New- York
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    Lock icon AMONG SINGAPORE'S BEST-DRESSED WOMEN
    479 5 A WEEKLY pictorial feature by the Eastern Sun based on the photographs taken by our cameramen at official functions, parties, exhibitions, shopping centres etc. WELL, WELL, here we have the little lady In pants and looking very attractive and delightful too. She is Mrs. Nancy Lim
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    Lock icon Hijacks, Violence To Remember Che
    279 5 BUENO AIRES. Thurs. (Reuter) Two gangs of hijackers have forced two South American jetliners carrying 109 people to fly to Cuba threatening passengers and crew with instant death if the pilots refused. I One of the planes, a Brazilian Caravelle. was last seen heading for
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    Lock icon SAC Gets Super-Plane
    219 5 FORT WORTH Texas, Thurs. (UPI) The Strategic Air Command took delivery yesterday of its first FBI 11 A, a revolutionary aircraft constructed in controversy but now praised as the "Ultimate of the art." The nine million US dollar FBIIIA Is a modified version of the variable wing
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    Lock icon GI Clubs Corruption
    116 5 WASHINGTON. Thuri. (UPI) A pretty agent who booked entertainers Into Army Service Clubs in Vietnam lost her business because sergeants running the clubs demanded kickbacks from the performers. Senate Investigators said on Thursday. June Collins, a boxom blonde booking agent from Australia, was called before the Senate
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    Lock icon Vaccine For Cancer Seen Possible
    159 5 SAN FRANCISCO. Thurs (UPI) Research work on a universal cancer vaccine is "off the launching pad" but gucce«« is "more years awav than we'd lkc to admit. an Atlanta medical researcher said yesterday. Dr. Loren J. Humphrey of Emory University, who has been studying the
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    Lock icon Sirhan Appeal
    60 5 PASADENA Calif Thurs (Reuter) The mother of convicted assassin Sirhan B Sirhan said today *he would drive across America in rented car to appeal to the United Nations for her son's life, and for Middle East peace Sirhan Sirhan is m San Quentin jail awaiting execution for assassinating
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    Lock icon Chicago Rioting
    53 5 CHICAGO. Th of i (Renter) Hundred, of antiwar demonstrators sorted through Chicago's north side late last night smashing windows, stonin* cart and battling police. The violence erupted after a rally in > Park where hitter and bloody battles were fought between police and antiVietnam was protesters during last
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    Lock icon Nixon Stands By Nominee Haynsworth
    113 5 WASHINGTON. Thurs <Reuter) President Nixon today stood firm behind Judge Clement F. Haytworth despite serious new Congressional opposition to the Supreme Court nomination The White House said Nixon is still standing by the embattled judge and experts him to win confirmation to the high court.
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    Lock icon Nevada N-Test
    63 5 LAS VEGAS Nev Thurs rßeuter) Tall buildings in this gambling citv rocked when the Atomic Energy Commission set off a one megaton nuclear device. The blast. equivalent to 1.000.000 tons of TNT. registered 5.5 <>n the Richter scale at the University of California at Berkeey Yesterday's test had
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    Lock icon Kennedy Inquest Decision Delayed
    274 5 BOSTON, Thurs. (Reuter) The Massachusetts Supreme Court has reached e decision on Sen. Kennedy's appeal for e ban on reporters attending the inquest on Mary Jo Kopechine. The court made up Its mind yesterday several hours after hearing lawyers for the Senator and his aides press
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    70 5 NEW YORK. Thurs (Reuter) Heart transplant pioneer Dr. Christian Barnard announced the formation here today <>f a foundation bearing his name which will study rejection of transplanted organs by the body. The non-profit -making Christian Barnard Research Foundation will be financed by voluntary contributions from governments and private citizens.
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    Lock icon Montreal Riots End
    115 5 MONTREAL, Thurs. (UPI) —City t>olice and firemen returned to their posts Wednesdav after a 164 hour strike during which vandals firebombed and looted th« city, leaving two dead and acorej injured Troops from a Canadian army commando unit, ordered in when rioting broke out Tuesday night. stood
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    Lock icon Finger Tip
    69 5 NEW YORK. Thurs. (Renter) Police used the tip of a man's little finger that'a all they had to check with fingerprints of known thieves here and came up with a suepe<t's identity They got the fingertip frora. Mrs. Harriet Neham. who claim* she bit it off an attacker
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    Lock icon UNITED NATIONS
    577 6 OUR Foreign Minister's speech at the U.N. General Assembly fell in line with the mood of self-criticism that is currently sweeping the world organization. Although Mr. Rajaratnam made several other points of importance in his speech, he should be first commended on the clear logical analysis and the
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    287 6 THE Republic of China today celebrates her national day, barely 10 days after Communist China celebrated hers. The founding of the Republic antedates both the Communists and Nationalists and was done by a man revered on both sides of the Bamboo Curtain Dr. Sun Yat Sen. It was
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    Lock icon TRANSISTORS REPLACE TALKING DRUMS
    522 6  -  (By DAVID MUSOKE, Gemini Newt Service) KAMPALA: In Uganda these days people of the rural areas do not send invitation cards for marriages or weddings. They assume you must have listened to the Personal Announcement programme. The programme comes after supper. The scene is common in
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    Lock icon TUNKU'S BOOK
    202 6  -  Letters.,. RICHARD WANG I read with interest your leading articles of 4th October. The alleged campus disease is unfortunately not confined to the campus a!one. Even outside. the mania to burn runs riot. Those susceptible are usually the excitab e and the anti-authoritarian. There is nothing though to
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    Lock icon Looking For A Live Coelacanth
    447 6  -  By ELDON BARRETT SEATTLE, Washington (UPI) The Society for the Protection of Old Fishes (SPOOF) isn't joking when it says it is looking for a live coelacanth. A coelacanth 1s Just about as old species of fish as there Is either in or out of
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    Lock icon No 'Ugly American' Image In Phnom Penh Now
    701 6  -  By JACK WALSH PHNOM PENH (UPI) 1 The United States for the time being stands little I chance of creating an "Ugly American" image in Cambodia where diplomatic relations were restored in August. The U.S. m;aslon to Camt bodia has no pretentious
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    14 6 TO And new thins*, take the path y<ra took yesterday —John Burroughs
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    Lock icon Bahrain Plans To Rescue Pearl Fishing
    438 6  -  •y DEREK BLACKMAN BAHRAIN, Reuter Pearl fishing in the Persian (Arabian) Gulf, which one# enriched great empires in the Middle East and made Bahrain a prise for conquest, may soon be rescued after a long decline. Despite limited markets, loin-clothed divers. using simple equipment
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    Lock icon Supermarkets And Car Damages
    433 6 The Lighter Side WASHINGTON (UPI) —A hearings this week on the "high cost of outo repairs," a Senate Subcommittee will seek the answers to three questions. They are: 1. "When a wife comas home from Hie supermarket parking lot with 300 U.S. dollars damage to tho
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    Lock icon NUDITY GOES TO THE DOGS
    889 6  -  By FRED MPANGA, LONDON: Nudity is going to Hie dogs, in manner of speaking. In a recent report by West German doctors, dog owners are counselled to appear naked to their dogs, preferably on ail fours. This is an anti-burglary device. The lesson comes from
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon INDUSTRIALS CLOSED MIXED IN STOCK MART
      414 7  -  By Our Market Reporter INDUSTRIALS closed with a mixed outlook in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday after improved share prices attracted profit-taking which pared the gains. On the balance, about 21 Industrials improved. 20 declined and 22 remained unchanged. Trading was
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      13 7 The tin price for yesterday was $632.37} per picul down $0.25
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      1110 7 T>USINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified:- INDUSTRIALS Acrra $lB3 (3>: Ben tc Co. r. 85 *2>; Borneo Bhd $1 90 (11);
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      142 7 SYDNEY, Thurs. (UPI) Thursday's closing Sydney stock exchange (selected shares): MINING Acmex 2 20 Aust Dev 1.50 Barrier 2.90 BH South 4.00 C. Gold 9.00 CRA 17.60 Emper .11 Endur .65 GM Kalg 1 30 GT Boulder 11.30 GT Nthn .40 GT West—Hammersley 12 90 Kath Inv
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      Lock icon Aussie Nickel Shares Soar On UK Market
      184 7 LONDON, Thurs. (UPI) Australian nickel mines soared yesterday while domestic industrial stocks turned irregularly lower on the stock market and recently buoyant British government bonds lost ground. Official U.S. assurances that British Petroleum (BP) is getting fair treatment on the antitrust front produced
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      Lock icon Cabinet Fixes Target For Cotton Output
      65 7 RAWALPINDI. Thurs. (UPI) The Presidential Cabinet yesterday fixed the target for cotton production during the current financial year *****0 at 3 to 3.2 million bales In a meeting presided over by President Yahya Khan, the Cabinet approved the lifting of export duty on raw
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      54 7 HONG KONG, Thurs. (UPI) Money Quotations yesterday. HKJ6.085 per U.B dollar. HKS6.IOO per U.S. dollar TT. HKJ14.51 per pound sterling. HKJ306.875 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness. HK516.27 per 10.000 Japanese ven. HKSII9.O per 100 Philippine pesos buyers. HK$l2l.O per 100 Philippine pesos sellers. Philippine pesos
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      64 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI)— Rubber futures closed 35 points lower to 25 points higher on 2 sales yesterday on the New York Commodity Exchange. (Close) (Prev.) Nov. 2825 28.50 Jar.. 27 25 27.00 March 27 00 27.00 May 8% =5O 26 85 July 26.25 26.60 Sept 26.00 21
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      Lock icon Sheikh Opens Super Gulf Hotel In Bahrain
      446 7 BAHRAIN, Thurs. Even before the first guest walked into the new Gulf Hotel in Bahrain which opened last week it had already been decided to increase its size next year from 130 rooms to 235. Work on two new wings will begin next
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      Lock icon PRIORITY FOR TIN FOUNDRY
      96 7 LA PAZ. Bolivia. Thurs. (Reuter) Bolivia's new stateowned tin foundry at Vinto will have top priority in processing a!l the nation's tin ore production as from next month under a government decree published here yesterday. The decree provides that only tin or e not required by
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      Lock icon Uncertainty Keeps NY Stocks In Retreat
      128 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Economic uncertainty kept stocks in retreat yesterday for the second consecutive day in moderate turnover. At the final bell, the UPI marketwide indicator was off 0.58 per cent on 1 588 issues crossing the tape There were 880 declines and
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 71 Cts.
      288 7 October first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p m.. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 71-4 cents per lb., up three eighths of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. The ma.ket improved some three quarters of a cent
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      Lock icon SHIPS IN PORT
      231 7 THE Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthing arrangements for ships in port today Friday, Oct. 10:DEPARTURES Godowns Vessels 1/2 Pacific Abeto 3/4 Fernlanrf 8/9 Jalagirija 10/11 Protesilaus 13/14 Straat Clarence N.W. 1 Sletter 23/24 Crna Gora 29/30 V'egrt 38/39 Centaur 40/41 Kyusei Maru 42/43
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      Lock icon RECORD PROFIT FOR QANTAS
      198 7 CANBERRA Thurs. Qantas Airways Ltd., Australia's overseas airline, earned a net profit of $7,119,344 last financial year, almost three times the previous year's profit Of $2,867,000. The previous highest profit was $4,101,013 In 1964-65. Details of the company's operations were contained In Its annual report for
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      Lock icon H.K. To Have Yet Another Luxury Hotel
      205 7 HOMO KONO. Thurs (UPI) A 1.100-room hotel may be erected on the "golden site" in Kowloon after Its auction next month, the director of public works said this week. The land opposite the famed Peninsula Hotel, which has an area of 48.850 square
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      Lock icon Synthetic Fibre
      47 7 TOKYO. Thurs. (UPI) Japanese manufacturers of synthetic fibre turned out 111-648 tons last month, 1.4 per cent down from August, the Japan Chemical Fibre Association said yesterday. Nylon fibres accounted for 21.490 tons while production of rayon staple reached 31.051 tons, according to the association.
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      106 7 rpHE Hnnpore hubher Broken Asa ■j* touna b*s •applied the 1 following Lnfon nation in respect ot txuiacM tnattdtd to i >1.R»> 5AJR 6 CV (BC> Oct. PAT.ett 3 l cent* premium Miters. RW. Fuie» AT cent* premium seVierv BMR 5L (HO Oct. P*itet» 3 ceo** premium
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      Lock icon Stock Exchange Closing Prices
      589 7 SINGAPORE stoca EXchange told and other prtott officially luteo at tiia eta at INDUSTRIALS Acma Ben Co Borneo Btod. C. Pl> wood C. Sugar L79 18 1.8* 187 l.tfl 1.75 4.40 Chemical Co Cold Storage Cjrl, 4 c.-rt... 1.75 2.39 1.84 1.75 176 185 Dunlop XD
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      Lock icon London Rubber Mart Closes Uncertain
      87 7 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) Rubber Market closed uncertain yesterday with spot 26-1/4 26-3/4 SETTLEMENT HOUSE Nov. 26-3/8. 26-5/8 seller nominal Dec. 25-7/8. 26-1/8 Jan 25-1/4. 25-1/2 Jan March 25-1/8. 25-3/8 April/June 25, 25-3/16 July' Sept. 24-7/8, 24-15/16 Oct./ Dec. 24-3/4. 24-15/16 Jan 'March 24-11/16. 24-7/8 April
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      Lock icon FLAMMABLE SCARVES
      80 7 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (UPI) The Federal Trade Commission has reported that three different types of rayoo scarves bearing "Made In Japan*' labels were "dangerously flammable". The scarves were Identified, as "certain rayon habutae scarves" imported by Boruch Petranker Import Co.. Inc., of San Francisco, with souvenir scenes of the
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      90 7 THE noon prlc*« at the Hncapore rhlow Prodace Exchange yesterday were— Barer Reller locanot Oil (FO B.) Balk 50 00 Coconut Oil (F.O.B) Dram 62.50 Mixed Copra SI .50 Mnntok White (FOB) 242.50 Sarawak White Pepper (FO.B) 240 on Sarawak Special Black •Vpper (FOB) Hfi% N.LW 170 00 Lamponr
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      40 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI)— Dow Jones closing averages in the New York Stock Exchange yesterday; 30 Industrials 802.20 20 Rails 194.85 15 Utilities 110.37 65 Stocks 271.67 40 Bonds 70 52 Commodity futures index 141.18 off 0.23.
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      433 7 ARKIVALS: 5-00 a.m. MSA 029 K. Lumpur. 9.00 a.m. MSA 119 K. Lumpur. 1015 am. MSA 121 K. I urn pur. 10.25 a.m. MSA 005 Penang, Ipoh. K. Lumpur, Malacca. 1.10 p.m. MSA 451 Kurbln„ 2.25 p.m. M*A 047 Kota Bnaru, Trengganu, K. Lumpur. 3.25 p.m. MSASO9 Banekok
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      109 8 1. Who wrote these lines "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times 2. What does not make a summer? 3. What is the greeneyed monster? 4. What is jurisprudence? 5 Who wrote the Swan Lake? 6 What is the meaning of the id'om: To throw
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      88 8 AMY By Jack Tippfr /k 3 "Everybody outta the pool. .ARCHIE!" DATELINE: DANGER! IT'S BAD LUCK TO PLAN A VICTORY CELEBRATION BEFORE THE PINAL GUN. DUKE/ m I m m. H v: sr. s 'A THEY ODW APPLAUD i by John Saunders and Alden McWiiiams THE SHINDIG WAS NOTHIN' TO
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      604 9  -  Ann Landers riIARANN: while wait- ing for a bus on a morning in November, 1967 an attractive man asked me if I wanted a ride I said yes, because it was raining very hard and I was late for
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      614 9  -  S§n>4t kin 7 I i*r Sheilah Graham HOLLYWOOD, wed. John Wayne asked for Forrest Tucker in his current 'Chi sum" film Big Dike likes bi* actors to work with. That's how big Jim Am ess got his start in films In Wayne
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      91 9 NEW YORK, Wed. A press conference at which Barbr a Streisand. Yves Montand and Alan Jay Lerner discussed Paramount Pictures' forthcoming musical film. "On A Clear Day You Can see Forever," was recorded in Hollywood and is being sent to English-speaking territories
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      Lock icon Country-Folk-Pop Singing Sensation Makes Film Debut In 'True Grit'
      507 9 GLEN" CAMPBELL, the country's newest country-folk-pop singine sensation makes his screen debut starring with John Wayne and Kim Darby In Paramount Pictures" "True Grit", based on best-selling novel by Charles Portis. Campbell plays La Boeuf. a Texas Ranger who helps in
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      128 9 FORT WORTH. Text*. Thurs rupi> six finalist* were named yesterday in the Van CUburn International Piano Competition. Thev were Mljou Nojlma, 24, Japan; Mark Westcott, 21. US.: Mlchako Sujinuma. 25. Japan: Diane Walsh 19 U S Gerald Robbins. 23. U8 and Christina Ortiz. 19.
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      925 9  -  By Elizabeth Sherry CHILD expert* have shown that it is good for a child to be taken out to a restaurant with his parents, But how can you overcome all the problarm? Going out for a meal la fun particularly for
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      37 9 SYDNEY Thurs. (UPIV Love and the income tax man have split up the Australian pop groups the Easybeats. Thp group announced their breakup over a champagne and bacon and eggs breakfast at the Sheraton Hotel yesterday.
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      321 9 mm ORGANISATION L I P O Phone ***** NOW SHOWING! 11 t m 1 4.V 4 no. A 015 p m Bern an DeVrie.s. Rosemarie Dexter THF. SEX OF tVGEU" Terfmico or. 'OA) CAPITOL Phone ***** Vo» Showmr! No Fru List I C te Film s Length Show* V«M» Ttmrs:
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      168 9 TODAY an Aim *A*. 21 t» 8-12-73-34 37-67-79 WA yf TAURUS 4-\ K I UAY 20 Friday* October 10, 1969. STAR GAZER*^ By CLAY R. FOLIAN K Your Doily AcfMtyGuA X un.u <» According to lh» Start. OCT. 22* To develop, message for Friday# 5.15.26-37 reod Words corresponding to numbers
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      270 9 ORG&NISATIO N CAT HAY 334Q0 NOW SHOWTXG! 11 IS* «W> BW>pm MOMS THE GTFSY MOTHS" Burt Lancaster In Color Tomorrow Midnight' (Colors C'umbla s "THE MAD ROOM" Stella Steven#. Sheiley Winters 321 to 1 PTH DAT! DAILT 4 SHOWS I.S». 40* «3» S.IS P m NO INCREASE IN PRICES! Anouk
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      270 10  -  By BIG BEN PENANG, Thurs. Forever Yours hos shown vast improvement since his first up second to Froser Hill II ot Ipoh lost month. This morning with o riding boy ostride Forever Yours qolloped impressively over 3f in 37 4 5 in the company of Temerloh 11.
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      197 10 NEW DELHI. Thurs. (Reuter) Malaysian national champion P. Gunalan, top seed in the Nehru Memorial International badminton tournament, has withdrawn from the men's singles event because h e has a cold. The 26-year-old mechanical engineer is not in a position to play the gruelling singles,
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      89 10 KINGSTON. Jamaica. ThuTS. (Reuter) El Salvador beat Haiti one-nil in extra time at the National Stadium here in their North and Central American Zone play-off last night to go into the final 16 for next year's World Cup series in Mexico City. Juan Martinez scored
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      226 10 LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Thurs. (Reuter) Australians Tony Roche and John Newcombe were upset victims In the second round of the US$5O,OOO Howard Hughes Open tennis tournament here yesterday. However, top-ranked Rod Laver won a three-set victory to advance to the quarter-finals. Roche was beaten 6-1,
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      90 10 TOUR OF THE CEYLON NATIONAL RUGBY UNION TEAM The Ceylon National Rugby Union XV will play their final match here against the Singapore Rugby Union National team at the Padang on Saturday at 5 pjn. The t®ams Singapore Keogh. Lyaul. Nicholson, Koh Yeow Tung. Vuniwaqa. Mellis
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      42 10 MILAN. Thurs. (Reuter) A. C. Milan beat defending champions Estudiantes. of Argentina, 3-0. after leading 2-0 at half-time, in the first leg of their World Soccer Club championship match here last eight Scorers were: Angelo Sornuni .(2), Nestor Combin.
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      2466 10 Saturday 1 Laee is CL 6 Dlv. J-7 Fur*.—2.50 p.m. ($4,500) (FOR LOCAL RIDERS ONLY) 1 Ronlgo Checkout* B 00 J C Stable J Donnelly Chiam 10 2. 077 4y 8 11 Doutelle Stable Spencer a 0*4 Ha 11 and 9y 8.0* Kwee Stable
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      349 10 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) Gary Player, the South African who today begins the defence of his Piccadilly World match play golf championship at Wentworth, Surrey. Is worried by his game. During his final practice yesterday, playing with petite Catherine Lacoste of France, world's No 1
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      137 10 MELBOURNE, Australia. Thurs. (UPI) Jack Rennle, trainer-manager of Australian boxer Lionel Rose, plans to visit Tokyo in January to push for a world featherweight title match for Lionel Australian Johnny Famechon will defend his title 5! ain Fighting Harada. The World Boxing Association's titleholder Japan's
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      405 11 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) First Division newcomers Derby County crashed to a shock 1-3 home defeat last night as Everton widened their lead at the top of the table to three points. Derby's seven-match unbeaten home run was ended abruptly by Coventry City, displaying revived
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      105 11 SYDNEY. Thurs (UPI) Hs:eh M'.n Nan. of Nationalist China and Takashi Murakami of Japan, were the best scorers among foreign golfers who competed in the A*Bno pro-am event yesterday at Fox Hills in Sydney. Mos* competitors wer#» using the pro-am as a warm up event
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      209 11 A TEAM of Karate instructors of the Karate Association of Malaysia will give free demonstration of karate at 7.00 p.m. at Pontian Diamond Jubilee Hall tonight, at 8.00 p.m. at Kulai Community Hall on Saturday and at 8.00 p.m. at Johore Bahru Diamond Jubilee Hall
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      Lock icon THE 1972 Olympic Summer Games will be held under the largest and most expensive roof in the world. The cost of this bold construction, which will cover an 85,000-sq. metre large area, has been a matter of discussion for months in Munich (Federal Republic of Germany) where the games will be held. The design was finally accepted with estimated costs of roughly 80 million DM (US$2O million). The organisation committee is working hard on raising money and has now decided to release the official emblem for commercial use.
      88 11 THE 1972 Olympic Summer Games will be held under the largest and most expensive roof in the world. The cost of this bold construction, which will cover an 85,000-sq. metre large area, has been a matter of discussion for months in Munich (Federal Republic of Germany) where the games will
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      778 11  -  Br Alexander V. Chukayeff MOSCOW. Thurs. When Soviet admission to the Olympic Games was being considered by the International Olympic Committee in 1951. Chairman Andreanov of the Soviet Olympic Committee conceded that his country in the past had given cash prixes to its athletes but said
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      75 11 BANGKOK, Thurs. (AFP) Fourteen countries have accepted to take part in the Fifth Asian basketball championships which will be held in Bangkok from Nov. 17 to Dec. 2 The countries are the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore Malaysia, Laos, South Vietnam India,
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      31 11 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter)— Results of Irish Football League Gold Cup matehea played last nifht were: First Round Replay Ballymena U. 2 Glenavoc. I Second Round Carusaders 1 Lmfleld 0
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      599 11 I Classified Ads. Houses Land For Sale 4 L'NIT BLOCS TEBBACB BOtSE WSTTEN PAKE A TTW j-Stcrey Oarden Terraced Bourn at «4 m 5 Bukit Timah Read <opp Chinese H-»" School) spacious compound, f fiince and Luxury The area of the h?ose a bigger than a semi-detached bungalow with 4-rooma
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      309 11 PW x TENDERS are invited from P W.D. registered contractors for the following work:Tbe Construction Of Concrete Jet Apron Extension (Phase I) At Para Lebar International Airport. Buildings And Civil Engineering Above 51W.000/. Closing Date. 28th October. 1963 Ter,de r form with full particulars and specification can re obtained at
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      832 11 (CHANNEL 51 PM 3.0fl Opening Anncts. in ail Languages and Morning Star; 3.25 Woman s World (English*; 3.55 A Diary of Events in Singapore this Week (English); 358 It? Hsppenirj in Singapore (English) (Repeat); 4.10 Scarlett Hill (Hannah Eps 4 k 5»; 5.00 Close; 5.55 Prog Summary in Ail Languages
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    272 12 THE Minister for Culture, Mr. Wee Toon Boon, last night spoke of the value Singaporeans place on recreational activities despite this trying period of economic survival. In his messaee to the Grand Charity Premiere of the million-dollar production of Cathay. "Escorts Over Tiger Hills.** Mr Wee
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    223 12 Y's Men's Club of Singapore which raised funds on a large scale through film premieres was widely praised internationally. the immediate past President of the Club, Mr. Leslie Struys, said recently. Mr. Struys was speaking shortly after he returned from Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, where he
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    107 12 A peon was yesterday fined Sl5O for possessing 11 copies of "Playboy'' and three books entitled "Raped" by the Ninth Court Magistrate. Mr. E. C. Foenander. Mohamed Sa'at bin Samsuri. 21. a peon at the Ministry of Culture, was arrested on September 13 at about 300 pm. when
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    98 12 The Customs and Excise Department has disclosed that revenue collected on auties fo- both tobacco and petroleum for the first nine months of this year have increased by nearly SlO million as compared with revenue collected over the same period last year. The totai revenue
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    605 12 SINGAPORE'S rapid and intensive development operations in the urban renewal, building construction, and industrialisation arenas were giving rise to fresh challenges and unexpected problems in the Republic. The president of the Singapore Institute of Architects. Mr. Rex Koh Kim-Chuan, in a speech at
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    193 12 Million Steel Barge Launched A leading ship-building company in South-East Asia. Far East Ship Building Industries Ltd. received a onemillion dollar boost when a 5.000-ton steel barge was launched at its shipyard at Jurong Town yesterday morning. The steel baree measuring 240 feet by 72 feet high will be delivered
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    203 12 JALAN Eunos School and Jurong Integrated Secondary School have won the Inter-Schools Tree Planting and Gardening Competition, 1969, organised by the Ministry of Education, in their respective primary and secon- dary schools' sections. The competition is organised in association with th« Singapore Gardening Society. All
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    165 12 The Victoria School Advisory Committee is organising a concert-cum-dlnner night to be held on December 6 to raise funds to finance expanded activities In the school's extra-curricular programme The special function will be under th«» distinguished patronage of the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Social Affairs,
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    32 12 KUCHING. Thurs. (Reuter) Police announced today that a curlew has been imposed on certain part® of Binatang diatrict in Sarawak's third division until 6 am. Saturday to assist security operation.
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    597 12 ONE of the world's finest dancers of this generation, Russian-born Galina Samtsova, will be here late this month to delight Singapore ballet fans with a twoday season. She will be the leading lady dancer in a group of eighty men and women of the
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    74 12 Mr Alex KH. Chew. Hume't planning engineer, left for Australia this week to modern methods and techniques of precast concrete production for two months Mr Chew, 31. will be visiting the Hum e Dlant s in Brisbane Sydney. Adelaide and Perth and also the company's
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    102 12 A man Seah Lam Poh was robbed of $1,600. his watch and some documents by three men one of whom placed a sharp object against his back, at his doorsteps of his house at Bernam Street on Wednesday night. Seah. 42 was about to open the door
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      101 12 Time 6t Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 10.23 am. (85 ft,), 10.23 p.m. (8.9 ft Naval Dockyard: 321 a.m. (2.1 ft.), 3.47 pm. (3.2 ft) Low Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 407 a.m. (2.0 ft.). 4 14 p.m. (2.5 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 3.53 a.m. (2.6 ft.), 4.05 pm. (3.2 ft.)
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