Eastern Sun, 31 October 1969

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    22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY VV Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1165 Friday, 31 October 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon '24-HOUR TRUCE' IN INTRA-ARAB WAR IN LEBANON
    343 1 BEIRUT, Thurs. (UPI) Lebanon and Arab guerrillas have agreed to a 24 hour-truce which officially began at noon yesterday Al Fatah radios said. The agreement, making formal a state of affairs which has existed with occasional exceptional for 48 hours, was made by
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    Lock icon YOUTH SOUGHT IN $192,000 BANK IRREGULARITIES
    135 1 POLICE are looking for 25-year-old Lee Chan May, who can help them in their investigations into a cheating involving $192,000. Lee whose last known address was Track 31, 73-D Upper Jurong Road has since disappeared and police are appealing to anyone who knows his
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    Lock icon Charles Lindbergh In Plane Crash
    189 1 MANILA, Thurs. (UPI) A light aircraft with world famous American flyer Charles Lindbergh aboard crashlanded late today in Isabela in Northern Philippines, according to a flash report received by the Civil Aeronautics Adminis- tration. The sketchy report said Lindbergh who was with an unidentified companion,
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    Lock icon ELECTION INDICATOR
    67 1 LONDON Thurs. (Reuter)— Voters turned out in five scattered districts of Bntain today for a poll that should give an important pointer to the Labour governments chances of omlng back to power. With a general election likely next year, the fiv e byelections will show whether or not
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    Lock icon LUNAR TAXI
    84 1 HUNTS VILLE, Alabama THvrs. (LPI> Boeing Co. Aerospace Group has been awarded 4 contract to provide man with taxi service on the moon. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Boeing will build four lunar rover vehicles which wilj be used by astronauts which fly Apollo flighU 17
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    55 1 BANGKOK. Thurs. (Reuter) The last thine a 70-year-old Bangkok woman imagined seeing in her kitchen 8s she went i n to prepare a meal was a bear. But there he was, large as life, in front of her. The bear attacked seriously injured her before police managed to
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    Lock icon Fierce Fighting Going On
    120 1 AIHA, Lebanon, Thurs. (Reuter) Inhabitants of Aika and Rachiya villages in East Lebanon abandoned their homes and fled to safety today as Palestine Commandos and Lebanese Troops fought an artillery, rocket, and mortar duel for possession of a vital supply road. At midday today Lebanese artillery
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    Lock icon New 'Liberty' In Spain
    152 1 BARCELONA. Thurs (Reuter) Spain's evangelical Protestant churches today opened their first National Congress since General Franco came to power. The Congress, being held in a Barcelona theatre with full co-operation from the authorities, is the first since 1934 and has been hailed as a major step
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    Lock icon Pakistan And The Balance Of Friendship
    271 1 TEHERAN. Thurs. (Reuter) President Yahya Khan of Pakistan said here today that China had been a very good friend to Pakistan, but stressed that his country aimed to hold a balance in its relations with major powers. The President, addressing a joint session of
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    Lock icon Freed Germans Shop In HK
    86 1 HONG KONG. Thurs (Router) —The seven West Germans who arrived here yesterday from China on the first lee of their journey home spent today sightseeing, shopping and avoidinc reporters. The Germans fou r technicians. a wife of one of the technicians and her two small
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    Lock icon Madness To Pursue Science For Science's Sake
    748 1 Lee And Heights 9 PRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew warned against narrow specialization in science because whether a country is big or small "it is madness to aspire to the esoteric heights of original research in pure science." Flexibility and versatility must be
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    Lock icon Hibiscus Queen Wins Trip To Singapore
    151 2 Another "beauty queen who has won a free air trip and five days holiday in Singapore is Miss Hibiscus Queen 1969 Fiji, Miss Laurie Crowe. Her stay in Singapore is being organised by the Singapore Tourist Association and through the Singapore Hotels and Restaurants
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    Lock icon Pregnant Mother To Stand Trial For Murder Of Husband
    223 2 A mother of two who is presently expecting her third child was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court for the alleged murder of her husband. Lim Sou Hong, 24, is being charged with the murder of her husband,
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    Lock icon Saigon Releases Militant Monk
    264 2 SAIGON, Thurs. (UPI) The Saigon government today freed o prominent Buddhist Monk it had jailed on charges he harboured draft dodgres and Vietcong agents at his youths head- quarters. Thich Thlen Mlnh was released from a Saigon military compound where he had been held In a
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    Lock icon Taal Activity Under Close Study
    72 2 MANILA. Thurs (Reuter) The Commission on Volcanology said today lava was surging to the crater o* Taal Volcano following Its 45minute eruption last night. The commission said the eruption was developing into "non-vtolent volcanic activity". but warned that lava surging to the crater might break
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    Lock icon Ex-Gov. Wallace To Visit S'pore On Asian Tour
    233 2 One of the most controversial figures on the American political stage, former Governor and 1968 Presidential candidate, Mr. George C. Wallace is scheduled to make a stopover in Singapore in early November during his threeweek "fact-finding trip to South-east Asia." A news
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    Lock icon Peking Says Japan Turning Militarist
    268 2 HONGKONG, Thurs. (AFP) Peking today accused Japan of stepping up arms expansions and war preparations in an attempt to realize its ambition of dominating Asia. The attack, made by the New China News Agency, was the latest in a series following recent leports that nucleararmed
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    Lock icon Peking Talks
    41 2 TOKYO. Thurs. (UPI) Radio Moscow said Thursday the future Sino-Sovlet relations will have great Influence on the whole situation In Asia and the world. Commenting on the 81noSoviet border talks which began in Peking Oct. 20. the radio said.
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    Lock icon Air Vietnam Cocktail
    60 2 AIR Vietnam held a cocktail reception yesterday at its office in the ground floor of International Building to mark their fourth flight from Saigon-Singapore-Saigon. Air Vietnam started its operation to Singapore in 1965 with only two flights weekly by their Caravelle aircraft. At present it offers four
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    Lock icon Two Years Before Soviets Approve Britons' Weddings
    239 2 MOSCOW, Thurs. (Reuter) Two Britons married their Russian sweethearts here today, bringing a happy ending to years of campaigning against a Soviet ban on the marriages. University Lecturer Mervyn Matthews married Ludmila Bibikova, and Derek Deason, a motor mechanic, wed Elenora Ginsburg, in
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    Lock icon Gold Medal For Scientist
    143 2 The Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, presenting Dr. Tien Gi Ling, with the first Science Council's Gold Medal for Applied Research at the Science Council Ball. Ir the citation read by Dr. Richard Hu, Science Council member. Dr. Ling was said to have at the
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    Lock icon Saigon Prices
    62 2 SAIGON. Thurs. (UPI) American economic sources said Thursday that announcement of tax increase, by the South Vietnamese go»"-t!Cent which hav e driven the coot of living in Saigon up by m pe r cent took U S officials by gurprue. knew there »«s something m the wind.'* said
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    Lock icon Discharged N-Serviceman Cheated Tourist Of $66
    266 2 A youth who recently completed his Notional Service was yesterday granted a six-month conditional discharge after he pleaded guilty to a charge of cheating a tourist. Lee Eng Lye alias Bernard Lee Eng l-ai, 20, admitted in the Ninth Magistrate's Court that on Sept.
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    Lock icon MORE U.S. DEATHS IN V-N WAR
    194 2 SAIGON. Thurs (UPI) American battle deaths topped 100 last week for the first time in five weeks, but the total wounded was the lowest In almost two years. US. military spokesmen said Thursday. In the seven days ended Saturday. 102 American were killed and
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    Lock icon MING COURT HOTEL OPENS IN NOVEMBER
    153 2 THE Ming Court Hotel it now nearing completion and will soon open its doors to the first group of tourists in late November when 100 roomi will be ready for occupancy. The last few pieces of scaffolding are now being removed. The first of
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon AMONG SINGAPORE'S BEST-DRESSED WOMEN
    633 5 pictorial feature by the Eastern Sun based on the photographs taken by our cameramen at official functions, parties, exhibitions, shopping centres etc. SEEN from left to right are Mrs. William Chen whose husband is an architect with Palmer fir Turner and daughter of Mr. S. K.
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    Lock icon Defendant Shackled And Gagged At Chicago Trial
    210 5 CHICAGO. Thin*. (CFI) —Black Panther leader Bobby Seale wig farted, handcuffed and shackled a chair In a Federal Courtroom Wednesday after he screamed epithets at the Judfe and prosecutors and fought with U.S. Marshals «ho sought to restrain him US. District Court Judge
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    Lock icon 2 Face Lewdness Charge In 'Frisco
    227 5 SAN FRANCISCO. Thurs. (UPI) —A shapely actress charged with lewd conduct for performing nude love scenes in "Oh! Calcutta!" surrendered Wednesday to police. Ron da Copland* 22. was accompanied by an attorney from Melvln Belll'a law office when she turned herself In on the
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    Lock icon Integration
    55 5 WASHINGTON. (UPI> The Supreme Court Wednesday rejected the Nixon administration's plea for a delay In desegregating 30 Mississippi school districts and ordered immediate integration. The court ruled in the controversial case in a two-page unsigned order. The opinion was the first handed down since Chief Justice Warren Burger took
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    Lock icon Apollo 12
    55 5 WASHINGTON. Thuri. ftJPI) Weather condition* "should be generally favourable*" for the Apollo 12 moon flight next month, the Environmental Science Service Administration (ESSA) said on Wednesday. The Agency, which includes the Weather Bureau, based Its statement on "climatological proballllties" derived from past November records. The first actual forecast
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    Lock icon Artificial Heart To Be Tried
    187 5 HOUSTON. Texas. Thurs. (UPI) Heart transplant surgeon Dr. Denton A. Cooler said yesterday he la developing a new artificial heart he hopes to teat In animals soon He said the heart would be only a stopgap method of keeping a patient alive until a human
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    Lock icon Slashed Aid Bill Goes To House
    165 5 WASHINGTON. Thu r a. (Reuter) The House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday approved a 2.190.900.000 dollar foreign aid bill a reduction of 542.500.000 dollars from President Nixon's request. The bill passed its first major hurdle in Its traditionally rough passage through Congress after
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    Lock icon B58's Scrapped
    73 5 WASHINGTON. Thuri. rUPD The nation's entire 86-plane fleet of 858 supersonic bombers will be scrapped as part of the Pentagon'* three billion US. dollar economy program. Defence Secretary Melvin R Laird reported Wednesday. The phaseout Is to be completed by Jan. 31. and will leave U.S. strategic bnmbine
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    Lock icon Nuclear Test
    60 5 WASHINGTON, Thun. (Reuter) A small amount of radioactivity leaked Into the Nevada desert today after the U S. Atomic Energy Commission carried out three underground nuclear tests. A commission spokesman said the radioactivity, released by the second blast, was not expected to spread beyond the test site, about
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    Lock icon Next Moon Men Try Out Launch
    187 5 CAFE KENNEDY, Fla. (UPI) America'! next three moon explorers completed their final countdown rehearsal Wednesday despite rainy, windy weather that would have forced postponement of an actual launch. The way lg now clear for starting the real countdown Nov. 8 and the launch of
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    Lock icon U.S. Slashes Air Bases
    117 5 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Renter) The Defence Department yesterday announced sharp cutbacks In CS. air defences as part of 39* economy measures affecting bases at home and overseas. Announcing details of cuts to be made to the U.S. and Puerto Rico, the Pentagon disclosed that the North American
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    Lock icon 'The Pill' Hazard
    117 5 WASHINGTON, Thurg. (Router) The U.S Food and Drug Administration is considering ordering s tough new health hazard warning on birth control pills, used by over eight million American women, officials said yesterday. They said an order covering the warning, which would be cm the labels of oral
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    Lock icon Nixon Faces Mute Protest
    82 5 MORRISTOWN, NJ.. Thurs. (UPI) Candle-carrying antiwar demonstrators lined President Nixon's two-mile motorcade route here last nitfht in a mute demonstration for peace. Men. women and children. In a dramatic stood in an open car from Morn#* town airport to »n inn for a campaign rally on
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      196 5 m A m There's a famous story about a broker who sold counterfeit bonds for ten million Sterling. It will maka a good movie. There's a little-known story about a retailer who sold counterfeit cold capsules for thirty cents Singapore. No one seems to be interested. But a counterfeit is
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    Lock icon CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL
    848 6 PRIME Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman is back In Kuala Lumpur after an extended trip abroad which took him to the ill-fated Rabat summit, the United Nations, White House, and Anally for R R in England. He described himself as having made full use of a necessary rest period
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    Lock icon WHERE IGNORANCE WAS ONCE BLISS
    1069 6  -  By FRASER DUNBAR, LEO MORGAN Gemini News Service THE story of simple B oug ai nville natives being forced to live with the 'civilised world* upon the intrusion of their land is by no means new. Things, however, took a different turn when a girl
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      Lock icon THE FINAL SAY?
      124 6 MANILA. (AFP) A Manlla news commentator held up a recent Singapore I ASTERN SUN editorial as "perhaps the best answer" to foreign criticisms about the violence and corruption in Philippines elections. Columnist Ernesto O. Granada of the Nationalist Manila. Chronicle said. "The SUN emphasized that in spite
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      Lock icon WHY THERE IS NO MORE DRAIN OILING IN THE CITY
      410 6  -  TAN TECK KHIM Pwraaaent Secretary/Special Duties (Ministry ot Health) Singapore I refer to the letter which appeared in your issue of October ':4 th and signed PRO BONOFUBLICO in which he expressed his fears that the A n ti Mosquito
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    Lock icon THE WOMAN THEY CAN'T FORGET
    671 6 MANDY RICE DAVIES, a key figure Trt the Keeler Affair (now a loving Israeli wife and mother), lashes out at a decadent society that wrecks people's lives by exhuming past scandals even though they happened 7 years ago. TIL AVIV, (UPI) Seven years after the
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    Lock icon KITCHEN PHARMACY
    156 6 SAIGON. Thurs. (UPI) In a busy downtown market, the Chinese herbalist measures out two dried beetles to each of his 10 prescriptions lying in little heaw on brown paper squares. His shos i.« a dark place with a thousand jars and tins lining the walls. They contain strange
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    Lock icon Once Upon A Nightmare
    433 6 THE LIGHTER SIDE OF DICK WEST WASHINGTON, (UPI) As Head of the General Services Administration, Robert L. Kunzig has primary responsibility for keeping track of federal records, and you can tell that he broods a lot about it. "Sometimes I envision the day when the typewriters,
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon MARKET EASES ON SELECTIVE INTEREST
      394 7  -  By Our Market Reporter TRADING in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday was mainly contined to a handful of industrials including South Pacific Textiles Industries Berhad which was officially quoted for the first time. On the first dealings, it turned over more than
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      888 7 BUSINESS 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 ACMA $2.03 <6»; DIM $2.06 (10> $2.07 (6) $2.08 (5); Borneo Bhd. $1.78 (1
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      Lock icon Philippines Negotiating $50m. Loan
      136 7 MANILA. Thurs. (UPI) The Philippines is negotiating a U.S.$5O million loan from a group of Scandinavian banks to beef up the country's sagging international (dollar) reserves. Alfonso Calalang. governor of the Central Bank, announced in a press conference on Tuesday the loan would come from the
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      Lock icon SHIPS IN PORT
      278 7 THE Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthing arrangements for <hips in port today. Friday. Oct. 31:— DEPARTURES Gc downs Vessels 3/4 Pando Sound 7 Acapulco Maru 15/18 Quirinale 18 Karotua N W 1 S'etter 21 22 Aiko Maru 23/24 Ferngate 27/28 Mitaka Maru 31/32
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
      446 7 AKKIV.ALS: oOOa tn MsA U2» K Lumpur 9 »H> a.m. MM llw K Lumpur 10 15 am. Mja 121 K •ii in pur. 10.25 a.m. MsA 005 Penan*. Ipoh. K. Lumpur, Malacca. 110 pm. MSA 4.">1 kuching. 2.25 p.m. MSA 04? kota Bharu, Trengganu. K. Lumpur. 325 p.m.
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      Lock icon BACK FROM MELBOURNE TRAINING
      116 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Mr. Yeow Eu Ming has returned here after attending a high-level management training course in Melbourne. The course was organised by BP Australia. Mr Yeow lg the Commercial Sales Co-Ordinator with BP Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. in Kuala Lumpur and was the only Malaysian
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      Lock icon SYDNEY CLOSING PRICES
      160 7 SYDNEY Thurs. (UPI) Thursday's closing Sydney Stock Exchange Selected Shares:— Amoex 2 50 As? Min 7.50 Austral Min -45 Aust Dev 1.60 Barrier 2.15 Bh South 4.40 C Norse 6.10 C Gold 8.70 CRA 17.95 Emper 1.55 Enduv .69 Gm Kalcr 1.15 Gt Boulder 3.60 Gt Nthn
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      Lock icon N.Y. Market Backtracks
      108 7 NEW YORK. Thurs (UPI) The market backtracked for the second day in a row yesterday in moderate trading. Harry Laubscher of Walston and Co. brokerage said profit taking was carried over from the previous session after recent sharp gains, while Newton Zinder of E.F. Hutton said there
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 63 3/4 Cts.
      296 7 November first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m.. In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 63} cents per lbdown three quarters of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was Quiet but steady. Shortly after the opening a fresh wave of
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      Lock icon GOLD PRICES SLIP AGAIN
      104 7 NEW YORK, Thurm. (UPI) Gold prices slipped again in routine trading yesterday on markets here and abroad. In London gold remained unchanged at the morning fixing but fell 7-1/2 cents lor a second fixing of 39 975 dollars a troy ounce. The closing ran*e was 39.95
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      Lock icon U.K. STOCKS MART EASES
      97 7 LONDON. Thur«. (Reuter) The market eased yesterday after the recent rally. An absence of buyer* and proflttakin* after the recent gains saw widespread falls, although losses were generally limited to a few pence. Towards the close the FT index was off 3-6 at 371.2. Government bonds
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      5 7 (•Hon® Kong Currency)
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      Lock icon Stock Exchange Closing Prices
      596 7 change M»M a* omctiUJy Uato« a INDCIT SUP Q«Dun lop E- Smelting Esso Ordi Eupoc Far East Federal Paper Fjtzpatrlrks F. <fr X. Ordc. Fusan (.amnion cr Georgetown G Lumber G. Eastern \d Gulnnem rail H. Gilflllan call Hon* Leone Hume (F-E.) Hume Pref* Int'l Wood
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      92 7 i HE noun price* at mt« Cblaaaa Prednc* reaterday tmi> B1 the Slnca> i exchange nyav Bauer Coconut Oil TFOB.) Bulk SIM COCOHUt Oil (r.O*) Drum 55 00 Mixed Copra 11 71 —m Muntok White Pepper 235 00 (F.O R Sarawak Whit* Peeper 232 00 (FOB.) Sarawak Special Rlarv
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      13 7 Th« tin prte« for yetfetrtfiy w*g $644.00 0«r picul. up $0.71.
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      180 7 dupliduplicate Xerox have made a fortune out of copying things. As have Gestetner, and Ricoh, and Kodak. And also a few lesa scrupulous firms. They duplicate medicines. Their medicines look the same, but they seldom work the same. That's why we go to a great deal of trouble to make
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
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      Lock icon Experimental Colleges Proliferate
      316 8 WASHINGTON, Thurs. —On scores of campuses across the United States, students have started experimental colleges of their own. For the past five years they have been multiplying rapidly and appear to be more than a fad. Sometimes called free universities, these student-organised and student -run colleges offer
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      Lock icon Plan For Asian And African Judges To Study In Australia
      431 8 4 DELaIDE, Thurs, A South Australian Supreme Court judge has high hopes that judges from developing countries in Africa and Asia will visit Australia to watch Australian judges at work in court. He also believes it could be to the
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      Lock icon MALAYSIAN EXPERIMENTS WITH AUSTRALIAN SHEEP
      392 8 -4 RMIDALX Th u r s. A A young Malaysian scientist who is experimenting with Australian sheep to gain his Master's Degree, hopes his findings will be able to help humans. He is Samuel Goh Kim Eng of Petaling Jaya, on the outskirts of Kuala
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      Lock icon VIETNAM STAMPS
      85 8 of stamps is a hobby which is very popular among students. One of the reasons is that through stamps, students learn a wide variety of interesting subjects people, country, historical events, etc. The following sets of stamps were issued by the General Post Office of the Republic of
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      Lock icon WORLD'S LARGEST ROOF
      152 8 MUNICH, Thurs. 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
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      Lock icon His Father Is Too Demanding
      699 8  -  Date-line By Ele and Walt Du T)EAR ELE AND WALT: My father thinks I am hit personal servant. He weighs over 300 pound* and whenever he wants something I'm supposed to immediately stop what I'm doing and run and fetch like Fido. You know how
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      Lock icon Station Now A Museum
      142 8 HAMBURG. Thurs. Tha oldest and still intact railroad station buildine in the Federal Republic of Germany has been chosen to be the new home of the first German in-ter-urban train museum. No tracks have been set for quite some time in the wooden building which dates
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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      136 8 1. What Is a binnacle? 2. How many were at table for the Last Supper? 3. Name the patron saint of Paris. 4. What is the capital of Yugoslavia? 5. On which channel of the Ganges does the Calcutta stand? 6. What is the formal document by which a High
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      101 8 AMY By Jack Tipp'rt r V, "No, thanks, Denny. .1 REALLY wouldn't care for a bite of your cookie." DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunderc and AHen McWiiams AND THIS IS OUR COMPUTER CENTER, THE MOST MOOERN IN TOWN I DONT DIG THE CONNECTION BETWEEN PIGMEAT AND PUNCH CARDS,MISS LASALLE.' rIs
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    Lock icon MIA'S SISTER SIGN'S FOR FILM DEBUT
    92 9 NEW YORK, Thurs. (Reuter) Tisa Farrow, 18- year-old younger sister of actress Mia Farrow, has been signed for her film debut in a picture called "Homer" Cinema Centre films announced here on Tuesday. Tisa. already at work on location in Canada, plays the role
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    Lock icon 'ITALIAN JOB'
    78 9 N~FW YORK Thurs Paramount Pictures' "The Italian Job.'' a comedy-adventure film stars Michael Caine and Noel Coward. "The Italian Job" i s a hilarious tale about a motley group of thrive* who pul] off a daring robbery of tn»» F:at Motor Companv in Turin. Italy, by creating a
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    Lock icon Package Tours Are 'In' For The Youngsters
    411 9 "IX'HAT do you know, the youngsters eon even trovel now and pay later. Then, someone conies up with the idea of Package Tours, meaning budget tours/' said a shaky voice belonging to a grandpa of eighty-ish. Do I detect jealousy or just plain
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    Lock icon Actor Cummings Accused Of Using Drugs
    185 9 LOS ANGELES, Thurs. (UPI) Actor Robert Cummings was accused by his estranged wife on Tuesday of using the drug "speed" and carrying on an international affair with his former secretary. Mary Elliott Cummings, 51. a former actress, named Macaoborn Regina Fong, 31. as the
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    Lock icon A More Unlikely Trio Is Very Hard To Find
    502 9  -  .%'/##•<« Ac lor .9# it,, Sheilah Graham LONDON. Thurs. (NANA) Charlie Bronson'g entourage In Turkey is the talk of the "in" set in London. He is starring there in "The Dubious Patriot.' with Tony Curtis co-starring, Peter Collinson directing a more
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    Lock icon Beatle George Recruits Negress Singer
    71 9 LONDON Thurs. <Reut*r) Beatle George Harrison has recruited the American coloured singer Doris Troy to promote West Indian music for the Beatles' firm. Apple. Miss Troy. 32. born In New York of Jamaican parentage. has been installed at Apple's London headquarters in an office marked
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    Lock icon She Fears Her Kids Will Be Taken Away By First Hubby
    552 9  -  Ann Landers FIEAR ANN: This is my second marriage and I thank God every night for this wonderful man who rescued me from a living hell and made me whole again. Not only has George been like an angel
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    Lock icon WESTERN FILM FEATURES EIGHT TUNES
    116 9 CULVER CITY. Thurs. MGM's Ralph Nelsoc Film tick tick...tick...," starring Jim Brown, George Kennedy and Fredric March, will feature eight country-western tunes in the musical score to Intensify the mood of the motion picture set in the deep south. Incorporated into the contemporary drama, courtesy
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      283 9 rsEizaia ORGANISATION !LI E) O Phone *****] Sth GU»riou« Da* Nt rrf« Ll»t D'i* film* leneth 4 *how* Not? Time: 11. 2 3*. 6.15. 9.15 p JB. ••BATTLE" Starts Promptly at 11.33. 3 03. fi to A 9 40 nCD SO INCREASE IN PRICES M:chael C»:ne. Lourenee Olivier Ch-i.-topher P!ummer
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      352 9 Now Skewing! 11. 1.30 4. CM B.Jtf* Rank Organisation PrtaeoU "FOLLOW THAT CAMEL" la Color Phil Silver* Kenneth Wllliama 1 1 6 ODEON 21 Op*Bt Tod»»" 11, LN. 4. «.M. 9.15 Paramount Pictures Preaenta "BANDITS IN lOMI" Io Color John Cai?aveto» Ombrielo Perzottl On Staye Tonight 9.15 p m GUVftSS
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      316 10  -  Parrasari After Workout By Our Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Shawl Stable's Film Star 'did ar»»imgressive workout on here this morning*? Clapping on the pace half mile post she ran the last 3f in 39 4/5 on the bit. If she runs up to her track form
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      1237 10 Race 1: CI. s Dlv 3-7 P. —2.15 pan. ($5*000) 1. 2 a 800 424 044 Pbaroah's Ambition Native Boy Rjnb TV 7v 4y 900 900 900 900 813 811 Khoo h Leong Stable 5.K Qu*k Sultan of Pahang J Donnelly J DonnellT Lee Teh Velu 13
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      216 10 LISBON, Thurs. (Reuter) Arsenal left themselves a strong chance of moving into the next round of the European Fairs Soccer Cup when they held Sporting Lisbon to a goalless draw in their second-round first-leg clash here last night. Arsenal, without a win in
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      200 10 LONDON. Thurs (Reuter) Derek Dougan, the Northern Ireland striker, was suspended for eight week* beginning next Monday by ihe English Football Association Disciplinary Committee here yesterday. The Wolverhampton Wanderers forward was sent off twice within two mon'hs. He received a 41-day suspended sentenc* a fter
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      53 10 BUCHAREST. Thurs. (Reuter)—Baca i E>ynamo of Rumania qualified for the third round of the European Fairs Soccer Cup yesterday when they beat Oslo Skeid (Norway) 2 —o in Bacau. The first leg In Norway ended in a goalless draw g 0 the Rumanian won the tie on A
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      180 10 ADELAIDE, Thurs. (AFP) Vic Richardson, former Australian Test cricket captain and vice-captain during the controversial MCC bodyline tour, died here in his sleep last night aged 75. Richard son, who played in 19 Tests, had a highest first class score of 231, for South Australia
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      100 10 CLEVELAND. Ohio, Thurs. (AFP) Doyle Balrd, clashed only tenth among world middlewelghts. made a significant advance to challenging world boxing champion Nino Benvenutl when he outpointed Don Fullmer, world number three, over ten rounds here yesterday. Fullmer's corner lodged an immediate protest against the decision, however. The
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      1472 10 Ran It CI. S Dlv 2 6 P.—2.00 pan. ($5.ooo) t 9S0 Weal Kalimantan 7y 900 Witue Stable Paul Rao 4 2. noo Algerian Lady 47 8.12 Algerian Stable Daniele Kingston 8 3. 968 Clara 4y 8.10 Otara Stable E. Breuk Velu 9 333 fty 8.09 Suanika
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      223 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs Malaysia, the defending champions, scored a convincing one-nil victory over Thailand before a capacity crowd of 22,000 in the 12th Merdeka anniversary soccer tournament at the Merdeka Stadium last night. After some anxious moments. Malaysia scored their first goal in the 16th
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      175 11 LONDON Thurs. (ATP) The South African rugby touring team had a comparatively quiet arrival in London this morning About 20 students from Reading (Berks) University had an set back to their anti-apartheirf demonstration. As they lined up outside a terminal building here at Heathrow Airport. London,
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      84 11 TOKYO Thurs. (Reuter) The World Boxing Council's Junior welterweight champion. Pedro Adigue of the Philippine*. knocked out Koicni Wajlma of Japan with a hard right hook to the jaw in the first round in a nontitle boxing match here tonight. The 24-year-old Filipino champion stopped Wajlma. Japan's
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      98 11 MELBOURNE, (Victoria), Thurs Old rivals Ron Clarke and Mohammed Gammoudi of Tunisia will clash four times in Australia next month. Clarke and the current 5.000 metres Olympic champion will meet in Melbourne on Nov. 6 (5.000 metres), Brisbane on Nov. 9 (three miles), Adelaide
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      593 11 THE reigning All-England champion, Rudy Hartono, 20, had an easy passage into the quarter-finals of the men's singles in the Singapore Open badminton championships held at the Singapore Badminton Hall last night. The Indonesian ace, who is top-seeded, trounced the Singapore Thomas Cup
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      117 11 Republic's 70 For InterPort Games Mr Yong Nyuk Lin. Minister for Communications yesterday handed over the State flag to Mr R B Milne. VicePresident of the Port Authority Recreation Club, at a sending off ceremonv of tbe Singapore contingent for the third interport meet at Port Swettenham. beginning on Saturday
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      73 11 ADELAIDE (South Australia). Thurs Jockey John Miller associated with many of Ctalilee's big race wins, has accepted a retainer to ride In Ireland m 1970 Mille r will ride for trainer Paddy Prepoergast who had successes with Australian jockeys, including Ron Hutchinson and Des Lake. Miller
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      39 11 LAHORE. Pakistan. Thurs (Reuter) New Zealand were 52 for one at the close of play on the opening Hay of the second cricket Test acainst Pakistan here today, in reply to the Pakistan first innings of 114
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    264 12 ROTARIANS GIVE $l,OOO ABDUL Razak Abu Salleh, 33, who had only known darkness for the past 18 years, now has a zeal for life thanks to three major eye transplant operations which restored his sight. He is now able to read newspapers from top to bottom
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    147 12 Beveral office workers at the Malaysia-Singapore Airlines Building were trapped when a lift they were in suddenly stopped yesterday. As the lights went off. many screamed for help when the full realisation of what was happening hit them. Fortunately, the mishap was localised to one
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    148 12 The Primary Production Department will open another six registration centres in the rural area* this Saturday to register the cultivation and sale of local tobacco. The six new centres are: Lim Chu Kan* Agricultural Extension Centre. Demonstration Farm. Jalan Bahtera off Lim Chu Kan* Road
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    87 12 Two senior executives from the Swiss Watch Industry will arrive here today for talks on the development of the watch trade in the region. They are Mr. Nicolas von der Weld, director of the Foreign Division of the Federation of Watch Manufacturers in Switzerland, and Mr
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    203 12 THE 20-member "Expo '7O Goodwill Mission" led V e P?/y Japan Association for the 1970 World Exposition, Mr. N. Imaeda, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Japan Air Lines, Mr. T. Godo, will fly in on Sunday, Nov. 2, The delegation includes
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    690 12 Seletar airfield is to be converted into a small airport for the smaller type of aircrafts which are likely to use Singapore, the Defence Minister, Mr. Lim Kim San, said yesterday. "This would have the added advantage of providing a facility which could
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    639 12 CAREFUL thought, planning and a logical approach are the three most important factors needed for the creation of an air force in a developing country like Singapore. These factors were responsible for the birth of a "lusty child" to the island Republic in
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    119 12 PENANG. Thurs. The Chief Minister of Penang. Dr. Lim Chong Eu today called on pupils to prepare themselves and direct their energy and efforts In building up a vigorous and dynamic state of Penang Dr. Llm speaking at the Parents' Day of the Pykett Methodist School sc.ld
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    161 12 A LABOURER, Aiar bin Syed, 20. was yesterday fined $5OO and ordered to pay $3OO as compensation by the Second District Court Judge. Mr. Donald Yeo Hock Chwee after he pleaded guilty to a charge of voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Tan Tion Guam. The
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    113 12 Lee Beng Huit. 29. wit yesterday fined $5,000 or one year's Jail by the Ninth Court Magistrate Mr. E C. Foenander for possession of liquor who?© duty amounting ta Sl.OBO was not paid The Court was told that acting on Information a party of Custom
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    185 12 AN American, Stanley J. Applebaum, has spent sleepless nights at the Singapore International Airport his "home" for the last 11 days. Mr. Applebaum, who claimed to be a former director of a New Zealand firm, way on his way to Australia but could
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      35 12 TOTO DRAWS Th* follow-in* numbers were drawn In last night's Toto Draw:— 48; 16. 11; 30; 18 The additional number draw n wan —35 In the "three-circle" draw, the numbers drawn were:— 3; 23; 4.
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