Eastern Sun, 3 December 1969

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    22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY TV Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1197 Wednesday* 3 December 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon 'Original Handicrafts Bring In The Tourists'
    383 1 NOT GARMENTS AN TRANSISTORS A leading American tour operator has encouraged the government to set up a handicraft industry so that tourists could take home native hand-made handicrafts, rather than buying foreign made goods sold in the Repuolic. He Is Mr. Don Kimel. General
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    Lock icon Committee Presents Abortion Bill To House
    731 1 THE Select Committee has presented its Report on the Abortion Bill and the Voluntary Sterilization Bill to Parliament on Monday accepting almost in total the drafted versions with only some amendments to provide for more safeguards against possible abuse and to en- hance its
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    Lock icon Singapore Has Situation Well In Hand Says UK Trade Chief
    354 1 PREPARING FOR 1971 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Difficulties during the transition period before completion of the British military withdrawal from Singapore in two years' time are being overcome through the leadership of the local government, Britain's Trade Chief in Singapore said
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    Lock icon How Doctor Defused A Human Bomb In Vietnam
    315 1 TUY HOA, South Vietnam, Tues. (UPI) A routine X-Ray taken recently at a U.S. Air Force dispensary here revealed that a Vietcong prisoner being treoted for head wounds was a human bomb. The guerrilla soldier wis i blading from the head and
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    Lock icon Five Rescued In Sea Off Kuching
    130 1 KUCHING. Tuet. (Reuter) A Royal Malaysian Air Force helicopter yesterday picked up an Indonesian Army Lieutenant and four schoolboys who had been swept out to sea at Sematan. 80 miles from Kuching. But another boy. Tan Chong Sen*, carried out with the others in
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    Lock icon HAIRRAISING DRIVER
    111 1 PARIS. TUM. (AFP) Philippe Alexandre, a 20-year-old suimminc instructor. took t»fnty months to obtain his driving licence because the examiner objected to his shoulder-length hair. Philippe, who is also a jazz drummer, dresser and looks like a hippy and attracts hard stares in his hometown of Mantes-la-Jolie. 40
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    Lock icon Blaze Horror
    46 1 N O T R E-D A M E-DU-LAC. Canada. Tues. (Reuter) Fire roared hrough an old folks home In this Eastern Quebec village early today and some 55 o»d people, some of them paralysed, crippled or unable to >ave their beds, were unaccounted lor.
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    Lock icon Marcos Now Wants Ties With M'sia
    187 1 MANILA, Tues. (UPI) President Ferdinand E. Marcos today ordered early negotiations with Malaysia to resume normal diplomatic relations. Marcos ordered the Philippine Foreign Office to seek "direct" contact with the Malaysian government in order to normalise diplomatic relations "soonest," a Presidential Press Office statement
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    92 1 MEXICO CITY, Tues. (Reuter) Police were today hunting a local Tarzan who carried off a young trapeze artiste when hit mating call* went unanswered. Tarzan real name Juventino Sanchez Gasca was stated to have lost interest in his lion taming act at a circus near here when he
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    Lock icon Take Firm Decision On Britain's Entry, C-Mart Summit Told
    602 4 THE HAGUE Tues. (Reuter) West German Chancellor Willy Brandt yesterday called on the common market summit to take a firm decision on opening entry negotiations with Britain in the spring, informed sources said. He told President George Pompidou of France and
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    Lock icon Red Summit In Moscow Confirmed
    190 4 MOSCOW. Tues. <UPI) The Soviets confirmed yesterdav the European communist countries will hold a summit session here within the next few days. A Tass announcement, also front-paged in Pravda. said the state and communist party leaders of the Soviet Union and its six Warsaw Pact
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    Lock icon Arabs Jailed For Smuggling
    75 4 JERUSALEM Tues (UPI)— A militarv court in Fama'.lah yesterday imposed stiff jail sentences on three Arabs accused of smuggling arms and explosives from Jordan into Israeli-occupied West Bank The Court sentenced Sub hi Sulleiman Abu Meila, 17, Abed Al Kader Albahash 21. and Mashud Send Sa'ada
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    Lock icon Oil Contract
    39 4 CAIRO Tues (Reuter) The Egyptian Petroleum Corporation has signed a contract to export one and a half million tons of crude oil to the Soviet Union next year. Mr. Aly Waly chairman of the corporation announced yesterday.
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    Lock icon Coffee Minus The Cream
    48 4 HELENA. Montana. Tucs. (UPI) The Montana Milk Control Board agreed to furnish coffee last week for all participants and news men at hearings here, but forgot one thing the cream. The only thing available the first day of the hearings was a powder substitute.
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    Lock icon LEBANON CALLS FOR A REFERENDUM ON REFUGEE PROBLEM
    194 4 UNITED NATIONS. New York. Tues (Reuter) Lebanon yesterday called lor a free referendum under U.N. supervision to determine whether Palestinian refugee* all over the Middle East wish to return to their homelandSpeaking in the special political committee. Lebanese ambassador Edouard Ghorra challenged
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    Lock icon Big 4 Talks: 'We Can't Tolerate Delays' U.K. Warns
    281 4 UNITED NATIONS. Tues fUPH Britain warned yesterday. on the eve of a new series of Big Four meeting seeking a Middle East peace formula, that "we cannot tolerate delay "Delay Is the enemy of peace," Lord Caradon. British Minister of State
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    Lock icon Concorde In Service By 1973
    226 4 LONDON. Tut* (Reuters 1 The Anglo-French Concord*; supersonic airliner should be in service by 1973, according to the British partners In the venture A spokesman for the British Aircraft Corporation, who with Trance's Sud-Aviation are bulldin? the plane, made h;s comment last night after the
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    Lock icon JFK STATUE DEFACED
    46 4 LONDON. Tues (UPI) Britain's memorial statu* to President John F. Kennedy was defaced with a swastika and the word "Pinkville'' during the weekend. Suburban Runnymeade police said yesterday An officer said investigations were underway, but a s yet there had been no arrest
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    Lock icon THESE young demonstrators chained themselves to the gates of the Soviet Embassy in Washington on Dec 1 to protest what they called the Repression of Jews in Russia. The group totalled 18. Police cut them away after 45 minutes and arrested them on charges of demonstrating within 500 feet of an Embassy.
    54 4 THESE young demonstrators chained themselves to the gates of the Soviet Embassy in Washington on Dec 1 to protest what they called the Repression of Jews in Russia. The group totalled 18. Police cut them away after 45 minutes and arrested them on charges of demonstrating within 500 feet of
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    Lock icon Vatican Blasts US Sterile Proposal
    199 4 VA TI CA N CITY. Tues <UPIt The Vatican Qty newspaper Losservatore mann said yesterday U S. suggestions for temporary sterilisation of persons in developlng countries are comparable to Nazi plans to sterilise races considered inferior. The newspaper commented on press reports that Prof. Paul
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    Lock icon Switzerland Gives Up War Mediation
    82 4 BERNE. Tues. (Reuter) Switzerland has given up any attemnt for the time being to mediate in the Nigerian civil war. well informed sources said here yesterday Last week. Switzerland said it was consulting Austria. Sweden and Yugoslavia or. a Biafran request for joint neutral mediation
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    Lock icon U.N. Condemns South Africa
    73 4 UNITED NATIONS. Ties (UPI) The General Assembly voted yesterday to condemn South Africa for its persistent refusal'' to null out of the territory of South West Africa despite repeated U.N. calls to that effect. The vote w as 92 to twoPortugal and South Africa with 18
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    Lock icon Why Israel Conducts Frequent Airstrikes
    412 4 TEL AVIV. Tues (UPI) A senior Israeli military officer said yesterday frequent Israeli airstrikes against Egyptian positions along the Sues Canal had two purposes: (1) Punishment of Egyptian violations of the ceasefire to convince them that attacks on Israeli invites worse retaliation. (2) To remind
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    Lock icon EL AL INCIDENT: ARAB WAS NOT ARMED, SAY WITNESSES
    289 4 WINTERTHUR. fiw.tjerlind. Tues iUPI> Prosecution witnesses at the trial of an Ei Al airline# security guard testified yesterday that the Arab guerilla he shot and killed wai not armed Lawyers for the defendant. Mordechal Rachannm based their defence on the Israeli's
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    Lock icon MINE BLAST KILLS 3
    61 4 VIENNA. Tues. (UPI) An explosion ripped through a coal mine at Komlo in southern Hungary yesterday. MTI news agency reported. Three miners were killed and 11 were hospitalised with senoug injuries MTI said four other miners were trapped by the blast, believed to have been caused
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    Lock icon Taal Ejects Rocks 1,200 Feet High
    198 4 MANILA. Tue». (UPI) Taal Volcano ejected red. hot rocks 1.200 feet into the air accompanied by ash clouds and loud rumblings today on the 35th day of its current eruption. The Philip pine Volcanology Commission said there were no indications the activity would intensify
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    Lock icon Strike Closes Nicosia Airport
    54 4 BEIRUT. Tues (UFI) Nicosia Airport in Cyprus was closed yesterday by a strike of airport staff The shutdown w»s scheduled to la c t 24 hours. Beirut Airport officials said no olares were leaving for the island and passenger- were either rerouting Or returning home to
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    Lock icon Corrupt Yard Man Charged: Policeman Quits Force
    351 4 LONDON. Tuee (rPI) A London poll rem in hu resigned following reports of alleged bribery and corruption in ScotLand Yard, a Yard spokesman said yesterday The unidentified policeman had been accused by a motorist of offering to "forget" a hreathalyxer test for a
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    Lock icon BONN AGAIN REJECTS TIES WITH E. GERMAN
    155 4 BONN. Tues (UPl)—West Germany again rejected East German demands for diplomatic recognition yesterday and renewed its proposal for "contractually agreed relations" between the two halves of this divided nation. Deputy government spokesman Ruediger Von Wechmar said that Bonn was rejecting an East German
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    Lock icon Belgium Aid
    23 4 BRUSSELS. Tues. (Renter) —Belgium will provide 5.0A0 ton* of wheat as food aid to Pakistan under an aereement sicneH here today.
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    Lock icon A BRUNETTE CHANGED HER MIND ABOUT MARRIAGE...
    165 4 LONDON. Tuea. (UPI) One thousand bachelors greeted Beryl Gritton when she arrived on Ascension Island six months ago as its fifth female resident. One thousand bachelors got the word Beryl, a leggy Engli.sh brunette, was not interested In matrimony. "Not for me. Marriage
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    Lock icon 11 'Exposed' To Moonrock In Accident
    323 5 SPACE CENTRE, Houston, Tue§. (UPI) Eleven scientists and technicians were exposed to lunar material in an accident at the §pace Centre Moon Laboratory yesterday, forcing them to join the Apollo 12 crew in quarantine'. A space spokesman said they would be held In isolation
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    Lock icon Only 856 Die On Thanksgiving
    113 5 CHICAGO. Tues. (CPI) The 102-hour Thanksgiving holiday period *nded with 696 persons dead in traffic accidents far below the record toll of last year. The final United Press International tabulation showed the count trailing well the 76* total of last year and the estimate of
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    Lock icon Greece Bans Refugee Flow
    71 5 ATHENS. Tues. (UPI) —The Greek government announced yesterday it wii; ban the entrance to Greece of Palestinian refugees Foreign Minister Panayotis P:B:nells summoned Arab ambassadors to his office to announced the ban It follows a frenade attack against an sraeli airline? office in Athens last week
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    Lock icon Rangers Break Up Red Wedding Party
    97 5 SAIGON, Toe* <rPl> US. Army Rangers crashed a Vletcong wedding celebration 21 miles southwest of Saigon and killed five guests, military spokesmen said today. The Ranger team was Inserted into the flatland area br helicopter Monday receiving information from a defec- tor that a
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    Lock icon Freed After 13 Years At Liberty
    193 5 NEW YORK. Tues (UPI) A prison escapee at large for 13 years, was paroled Saturday because of his exemp.ary record" during the tirne he was at large in which he marred fathered si* children and was a cub scout master at his church. Mark
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    Lock icon 'Desert Hippies' Sought For Horrifying 'Tate Murders'
    817 5 LOS ANGELES, Tues. (UPh A mon and two women described as members of a nomadic desert commune were identified yesterday as suspects in the bizarre murders of actress Sharon Tate and four other persons Aug. 9. Police Chief Edward Davis told a news
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    Lock icon Romulo: No US N-Arms Can Be Stored In Philippines
    217 5 MANILA, Tues. (UPI) Foreign Secretary Carlos P. Romulo said Tuesday the Philippines will not allow the United States to store nuclear weapons in its bases in this country. Romulo made the statement when asked at a news conference whether the Philippines
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    Lock icon Pullout Plateau
    83 5 SAIGON. Tues. <UPI> The US. military command in Saigon says that President Nixon's planned withdrawal of fionon American troops from Vietnam has been completed. It has dropped the number of G.l.'s In the war zone to the lowest level In two years. Monday's report or the number of
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    Lock icon Agnew To Visit Bali
    75 5 JAKARTA. Tues. fUPI) U S Vice President Spiro T. A?n*w Is expected to make a sldetr.p to Indonesia's famous tourist Island of Ball for a -couple of day's rest" during his Asian tour late December. U S Ambassador Francis J. Galbralth said Galbraith told newsmen after
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    Lock icon PI Senators Abroad Asked To Return
    132 5 MANILA. Tues (UPI) President Marcos yesterday appealed to Fi :pino senators and House Representatives travelling abroad to return home and help canvass results of the presidential election la*t Nov 11. Under Ph: r»pine Law. the Senate and House of Representatives are empowered to canvas*
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    Lock icon Japan Sees Recession For The US
    120 5 TOKYO. Tues. <UPI> United State? ma v suffer a mini recession" In the early *****, the Japanese government'# economic planning agency forecast today. In a report submitted to the Japanese cabinet, the agency said that US President Nixon's administration Is "placing emphasis on the
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    Lock icon Julie Fears For Life
    123 5 HOLLYWOOD. Tue# (Reuter) Actress Julie Andrews has askod for police protection following visit* by a mysterious stranger to her home. West Los Angeles police said yesterday. The police said she had been visited on Thursday and Saturday by a big man who had driven up to
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    Lock icon NO PULLOUT OF EUROPE IN FORESEEABLE FUTURE
    315 5 WASHINGTON, Tues. (UPI) The United States has no intention of reducing its military forces in Europe within the foreseeable future, the State Department said yesterday. That was the response given by a department spokesman. Carl Bartch. when asked about a renewed proposal by
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    Lock icon 10,000 Tons Of Fish Caught Daily
    137 5 MANZ ANILLO, Mexico. Tues. <UPI) Some 500 Japanese fishing boats daily catch 10.000 tons of fish off the Mexican Pacific coast, according to Mario Camargo. Manzanillo Harbour chief. The vessels, from Yokohama and Tokyo, are equipped with sophisticated refrigerator equipment capable of holding 400
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    Lock icon Coastguards Stranded On Roof
    110 5 HONOLULU. Tues. (ATP 1 A US. Naval vessel was today on Its way to save the 19UP Coastguard team rrarooned on the roof of their station on Tern Island in midPaciflc by high seas Tern, little more than sar4. bank (984 yds. by 98 4 yds).
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    Lock icon 'PROTECTION' FOR A BANK
    573 6 THE "protection" order issued by Tun Abdul Razak. Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and Director of Operations, against the Malayan Banking Berhad smacks too much of the vengeful haste of Indian Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi in recently nationalizing 14 Indian banks. While Mrs. Gandhi had an
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    Lock icon DIVORCE IN ITALY
    215 6 THERE'S many a slip between the cup and the Up, as the old adage goes, and this applies to whether Italy, the inheritor of Roman Baccanalia and Saturnalia, would make a tentative step toward entering the permissive society of the late 20th century. The Chamber of Deputies
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    Lock icon Japan: The Haven For North Korean Spies
    701 6  -  JAPAN has no law aaainst spying Hence, as this author reveals, o humming network of espionage operates in utter complacency. By MASAKO SUZUKI Gemini New® Service TOKYO. A recent case of an Indonesian "industrial spy" recruited and trained in Moscow is a reminder
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    Lock icon Thai Foreign Policy
    172 6  -  Lcllors... SOMSUKDI LICKANAJULE In its editorial da'ed October 30 last vour esteemed newspaper under the title of "Thai Foreien Policy" displayed a regrettable ignoran-e about Thailand's foreign policy since th» end of the Se;onrt World War. Particularly, when it suggested that Thailand should learr. to "build more
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    Lock icon THE PRICE OF PROGRESS?
    88 6  -  DAVID MARSHALL FOR more than a year now. our beaches have been repeatedly soiled and made unfit for swimming by dirty I oil. This pollution is rapidly becoming an almost permanent feature. Where doe« this oil come from? Who is responsible is it the tankers o*
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    Lock icon 'Dirtiest Election' In PI History
    563 6  -  Actually, how 'democratic' is the po'ling system of Asia's most liberal country? Closer analysis will unearth pricking doubts raised by the question. By PATRICK KILLEN MANILA, Tues. (DPI) The winning candidate ordered the only airport in the remote province closed for two day* before and
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    Lock icon Alcatraz—Symbol Of Red Indian Suffering
    622 6  -  By ROBERT STRAND SAN FRANCISCO. Tues. (UPI) "The old men are all killed The little children are freezing to death. Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired. My heart it tick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."
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    Lock icon Brandt: East Europe's Hope For Reconciliation
    759 6  -  Bv RICHARD LONGWORTH VIENNA, Tu«». <UPI> The election of Willy Brandt as West German Chancellor has sent a wave of hope and expectation through the sluggish political world o* Eastern Europe. The hope that a quarter century after the end of World War 11,
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon LITTLE CHANGE IN TRADING PATTERN
      296 7 THERE was little change in the pattern of trading in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Continued profit-taking and lack of buying incentive again made for easier conditions. Turnover was moderate. Values in the speculative industrials were summarily eroded including Federal Paper, Fair
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      1175 7 BUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore number h a'es traded in brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified:- INDUSTRIALS ACMA 52.1 l (1) $2.10 (1) 52 08 <4>; $2 09 43>; Ben A- Co. $167
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      Lock icon Petroleum And Bananas Swop
      86 7 KARACHI. Tues. (UPI> Pakistan will export bananas worth US$3OO,OOO to Iran as part of a commodity exchange agreement signed in Teheran last week. Pvarali Allana, who headed th« three-member Pakistani trade delegation »aid on his return from Iran it will be th# first export of bananas
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      Lock icon Sydney Closing Prices
      157 7 SYDNEY. Tues. <UPI) Tuesday s closing Sydney Btock Exchange selected sharesMINING Acme* 2 85 Asg Mm 7.50 A astral M q .50 C Gold 9.40 CRA 2^50 Em per 1.40 Er.dur -64 Om Kalg 1.08 Ot Bo ild 4.40 Gt Nth n .50 Gt We g t
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      Lock icon London Rubber Mart Closes Very Quiet
      85 7 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) Rubber market closed **ry quiet yesterday with *PO« 231/2 24-1/2 seller rem. SETTLEMENT HOUSE Jan Feb 22 22-3/ l« March 22-1/16 22-5/16 Jan March 22 22-3 16 April/June 22-1/2. 22-1/8 July Sept 22-3 16 22-7/16 CV-t/Dec. Jan/March and April Jun* 22-5
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      41 7 NEW YORK Tues (LTI) Dow Jones closing average* o,i the New York Stock Exchange yesterday 30 Industrials 805 04 20 Rails ***** 15 Utilities ***** 63 Stocks ***** 40 Bonds *967 Commoditv futures index 141.63 up 0 03.
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      Lock icon MIDF Makes $6.64 m. Loan To 3-Nation Wire Rope Project
      240 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Berhad has granted a $6 64 million long-term loan to Berjaya Kawat Sdn. Bhd., a Malaysia-Singapore-Australia joint venture which will set up a factory at Batu Tiga, Selangor, to produce wire ropes. The
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      Lock icon Gold Prices Decline On World Marts
      145 7 NEW YORK Tues. (UPI) Gold ©rices declined >n Qui** tradina vesterdsy on markets here and abroad. In London, cold dropped 7J rents *t th# morning fixing but regained ?4 cents for a fixing of 35.53 dollari oer troy ounce. The eloemg range 35.45 to
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      Lock icon Thai Rice
      69 7 BANGKOK. Tues. (AFP) Thafand total of 8'»7.807 tor.s of rice durir.e the January-November period this year according to official flg .re* released n November alone *he fiantity exported was 69,470 tons. The total exports fo»- the period were about 200,000 t°ns e s s than the cam# oeriod
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 61 3/8 Cts
      273 7 December first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 pm, in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 81-3/8 cents per lb., up one cent from the previous close The tone of the market was quietly steady. After a \ery slow opening the market firmed towards midday on
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      Lock icon Ford Workers Bark To Work
      57 7 MELBOURNE. Tue* ti»r) Maintenance men who started a two-month strike that eventually involved 300 workers and closed the Ford Motor Compiny'i two Victorian plants. went back to work on Sunday niaht. Thev accepted small increases in bonus payments, but «aid they would have continuen the
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      Lock icon Rubber Futures
      58 7 NEW YORK Tues (UPI) Rubber futures c'oied unchan*ed and untraded vesterdav on the N*w York Commodity Exchan*e (Close) (Pre* Jan. 22 <SB 72.§5 March 23.75 A 23.75 May ***** 23 00 Julv *2258 22.25 Sept J3.75A 23.75 Nov. 23.75 A 23 75 Jan 23 75A 23.75 Locally. No.
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      Lock icon SHIPS IN PORT
      236 7 THE Port of Singapore Authority has mad® ii> following berthing arrangements for ships in oort today. Wed. Dec. 3. DEPARTURES God owns Vessels 15/16 Demodocug 18 Sumbawa N.W. 2 Brua* 25 Perils 26 Kunak 27/28 Hal Hin* 38/39 Pando Strait 42/43 Orient Strait 44 Makeverett 45 Benalligin
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      Lock icon Investors Selective In UK Mart
      194 7 LONDON, Tues. (UPI) Predictions of ax cuts and an easing of the credit squeeze brought out investors in the stock market yesterday. But buying remained selective and best levels were not always held. By later-afternoon the index had risen 1.3 to 387.2 after being 2-1
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      Lock icon EXCHANGE RATES
      138 7 THE Asaociatlon of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes in Its rates to merchants irates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency): SELLING T T or O D ready: Deutsche Marks $83.7373; Holland Gu: ders J85C323 Swiss Francs $71.5673 Be eian Francs
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      Lock icon New Appearance For Airline
      258 7 HONG KONG. Tues. Canadian Pacific Airlines, one of the six independent organisations within the Riant no ding company. Canadian Pacific, has adopted a new loo* The famous blue Canadian go ose, the symbol for Canadian Pacific Airlines, is now being replaced by the rfw look a
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      Lock icon Stock Exchange Closing Prices
      594 7 MNOtPOttK Meet fckrhauie Mid and mbrr prtMC ortJrUllj luted at thf i iiim> of taurine** AOU a. H. io 1 to Borneo Htm 1.3 'I (kiUkicad C. Pi) wood I va i.5T C. >ugar JS txt i«a 1 6* a >6 CfcMUlr«| CO. Ct'M Deb. C-
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      Lock icon N.Y. Stocks Ease On A Wide Front
      160 7 NIW YORK. Tues. (UPI) The stock market eased along a wide front yesterday m active trading. Turnover of around 10.000.000 shares exceeded Friday's t>ac« by »ome 2.000.000 shares. At the fir a] bell, the UPI marketwide indicator was off 0.90 per cent. Of
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      Lock icon Tin Price
      13 7 The tin price for yesterday w« $688.00 per pieul up $5.50.
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      90 7 run noon pricee at U>« Sln«epor« Chlneee Produce text :haoga yesterday were* Bayer Coconnt Oil <r.o B.) Balk Coconut Oil (FOB-) Drill Ml if d Copra 86-50 Muntoh White Pepper (FOB) B«ra«ak White Pepper (FOB) Sarawak Special Black Pepper (F-O-B.) 99% s L V. lampong special Black Pepper (MB.)
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      41 7 SEOUL. Tuei. (UP I) South Korea'* exports s e fa* since Jan 1 amounted tc US 5613.630.000 as of Nov. 30 th« Commerce-Industry Ministry announced yesterday. This wig 87.7 t*r cert of th« 1969 export roal of USs7o® million.
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      Lock icon FATHER LACKS BACKBONE: FEARS HE'LL BE THE SAME
      747 8  -  Date-line By Ble and Walt Dulaney DEAR E!e and Walt: Every time there's trouble in my family, my father phones his brother to ask him for advice. Then my uncle comes over, scolds us or talk? to my mother, and takes my
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      657 8  -  By John Hanafin CYDNEY, Tues. Australian Boy Scouts art setting up o fund to help scouts from developing countries in SouthEast Asia attend the Ninth Australian Jamboree at the end of next year. At least 10,000 Boy Scouts, about 1,000 of
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      Lock icon Bank Group Hold Art Exhibition By Youth
      208 8 THE Hongkong Bank Group will hold a three-day exhibition of paintings by Singapore youth from 4th to 6th December from 10.00 am to 600 pm. dally at the Singapore Conference Hall. Shenton Way. The paintings were submitted by the young people of Singapore,
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      49 8 BANGKOK. Tues. Teenage Princesses sirinthorn and Chulabhorn sang and danred last 6aturday night to the saxaphone muslr of their father King Bhumlbol Adulv3d a < at Ka-etsart University In praise of students who join-d the Red Cross In aid of flood victims In Thailand s southern provinces.
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      131 8 HONG KONG. Tues. (Reuter) A local urban councillor has urged the ruling authorities to use corpora' punishment on young offenders convicted in courts Mr Peter P. F. Chen told a council meeting that by corpcal punishment he meant caning or shipping with a birch. "But it doesn't
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      84 8 SEOUL. Tues. < Reuter) South Korean high school students find English the toughest subject to mister ahead of economics, mathematics and sciences, according to a survey conducted by a private research Institute here. Th* Korean Action Science Research Society said that of the six
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      295 8 BONN. Tues Igmar Ze.sberg the film actress is writing for television her step son Nicki is the favourite child of the German television audience. You can make a career according to the motto "A full b'.ouse an empty head'' but nevertheless Wllhelm Busch (a German satirist
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      88 8 JAKARTA TUPS. (Reuter) Some 150 high school student* who failed their examinations broke into their school at Purwokerto Central Java and scribbled slogans on the walls In protest against the set papers, police reported. They said the students claimed the examinations wpre unfair as only
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      72 8 By «Uck Tipprt "YES, I'll come out, Morlon...but, NO, I don'f wont to fight." DATELINE: DANGER! 22 WE HAVE TO FIND m NOBLE.' HE BLASTED OUTA i HIS TAIL/ tvO 36 i w TBS WIZAXD OF ID iY=s C.O!V 5 M WjM ciiiiumiii li'ijrM > '"•Mil by John Saunders and
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      170 8 QUIZ Corner Name the branch of biology which is concerned with the growth and Structure of plants. 2 In which countries did these boats originate (a) sampan; (b) dhow' 3 From which plant is the linseed derived 3 4 What is the unit of length (equal to 4 inches) which
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      389 9 "The April Fools" is a situation comedy which settles on the 'goofy' in high society New York and blazes swingingly to their "In" happenings or wild, freaky things. Director Stuart Rosenberg has it so coloured for the abstract in the people, scenes and
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      101 9 NEW YORK Tues A television featurett* tit)»d Hnv Fast?" hai be«i prepared by Paramount Pictures to nelr pronot* the "Downhill Racer,"* the Wiid vf»<>d Imernational Ltd. Production starring Robert Redford Gene Hackman and Camilla Sparv The 12 1/2-minute colour film was photographed on location at some of the
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      Lock icon She Worries Her Date Boozes Far Too Much
      629 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ann: I am dating a very attractive young man. Ed is 21 and has already Had three years of college One thing about him worries me He can drink everybody in the party under the table and not show
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      512 9  -  I I a... it., Sheilah Graham London Tues Jean Paul BMmondo was racing up Sloan* Stree\ towards the apartment rented by Ursula Andrew. Still no talk of marrlag* When I lunched with Ursula recently, she s«w no reason to rush to tie the knot
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      Lock icon Margotta Gets Role In 'The Strawberry Statement'
      111 9 CULVER CITY. Tues. Michael Margotta has been signed lor a major role in MGM's ChartofT-Winkler Production The Strawberry Statement." starring Bruce Davison and Kim Darby, currently Aiming In Northern California. A graduate of th* Pasadena Playhouse. Margotta was Introduced to motion picture audience*
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      36 9 MELBOURNE, Tues <R*uter> Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nnreytv will direct his own full-length production of "Don Quixote" In next season's Australian ballet programme, It was announced here. No date for th§ production was given.
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      344 9 LIDO Phone ***** NOW SHOWING! Due to Sim's length 4 Shows Not* Time*: 11. 2.3 ft. 6 p.m. School Children Concession Si 00 To Any Seat at 11 a.m.. 230 6 pm Shows Daily Shir.ey MacLaiae "Sweet Charity" 70MM Panavlsion 4: Color lUI-8B) Win 53.000 worth o t Prizes in
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      18 9 TODAY and YOU... Wednesday, December 3, 1969. jf TAUBUS M4T Jfl a 3- 4-19 33 <y t ai'.
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      1147 10 a. i Div. 2-6 F. Dragon Sl«d *y 900 Data LP Sun* R Breuk 230 Spring MtosiJe 4y S 13 I.-y-ome K»ngit J. Donnelly 403 Muter Pride 6y 0 11 De.to A- Datin H T Wet Daniels 115 Tudor Pint* 4y 610 Stable
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      159 10  -  By JIMMY LAD King's Hope ond Count Nero (Glynn Pretty) were associated in a testing Half mile workout on a heavy track at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. Clapping on the pace past the half mile the pair raced stride for stride to clock
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      Lock icon Three Bukit Timah winners on Sunday being led into the winner's gate. They are from left Sound Speed (Laurie Johnson) being led in by Dr. C.C. Chang. In the centre Mdm. Fionna Oh leads in Glen Larmonic (George Podmore) while Kudadin (Glynn Pretty) is being led in by Mr. Chan Chew Ming.
      54 10 Three Bukit Timah winners on Sunday being led into the winner's gate. They are from left Sound Speed (Laurie Johnson) being led in by Dr. C.C. Chang. In the centre Mdm. Fionna Oh leads in Glen Larmonic (George Podmore) while Kudadin (Glynn Pretty) is being led in by Mr. Chan
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      128 10 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) David Mould, the Queen Mother's jockey, was suspended for 28 days by the Jockey Club yesterday following an incident at Folkestone races on Nov. 24. The suspension begins tomorrow and lasts until Jan 1. The 29-year-old National Hunt jockey was riding the Queen Mother's
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      54 10 SAN FRANCISCO, Tues (UPl)—Filipino featherweight Rudv Villagonza won a 10round decision over Shigeyoshi Okl of Japa n here last .light. Villagonza now fighting out of Stockton California weighed 117-1/2 pounds to I*o for Oki In another 10-round bout. Mexican middleweight Rocky Hernandez and Jimmy Lester of San Francisco
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      247 10 NEW YORK. Turn <UPI> The rxpectrd heavyweight showdown bftwn c»tlt)f holder* Jimmy Ellis and Erazier appears to be off axaio Ellis, the World Boxing Association (WBA) champion, had agreed U> meet Frazler. who holds the crown In seven states. In a title bout at Madison Square
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      74 10 Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association A' team wi 1 clash against the Burrlev United Sports Club in the FAS Youth tournament final for the Toto trophy at the Jalan Besar Stadium today kick-off at 7.00 p.m. In a Darul Afiah and Farrer United will fight out
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      Lock icon Threat To Stop SA's 1970 Tour Of Britain
      553 10 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Anti-apartheid demonstrators who have been disrupting the current South African Springboks rugby tour here, said yesterday they would also try to stop next year's South African cricket tour in Britain. In Dublin trade unions have been told they should
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      Lock icon £60,000 Plan For British Tennis
      113 10 LONDON. Tu«i. (Reuter) A £60.000 sponsorship plan for British tennis was announced here yesterday by the Lawn Tennis Association. The money, to be spent over the next three years, is being donated by a British trading stamp firm. Mr. Stanley Hawkins, the LTA chairman, said
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      Lock icon Player Defies Black Power Threats
      143 10 JOHANNESBURG. Tues. (Reuten South African zoif star Gary Player said here last night he would continue competing In the United Stato* despite black power threats that he would be physically attacked. Yesterday Professor Harry Edwards. Negro leader of the American Black Power Sports Movement, warned
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      73 10 PALMA. Majorca. Tues. (Reuter) Forme r world champion Tlgran Petrosian and Czechoslovak Vlastimil Hort last night shared the lead after the *igth round of the Grand Masters chess tournament being olayed here. Petrosian and Hort—*rho has made *reat recovery :n the tournament here after losing
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      204 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The first batch of 85 competitors and 17 team managers and officials to the sth Southeast Asia Peninsula Games left here for Rangoon today on a chartered flight. Led by the chef de mission, Dato Ling Beng Siew. the first batch
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      123 10 Conway Top GoalScorer LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Leading scorers after yesterday's English League soccer programme:— DIVISION ONE; 15 Joe Royle (Everton), 14 George Best (Manchester United) 13 Colin Bell (Manchester City). Jeff Castle (West Bromwich Albion). 12 Hugh Curran (Wolves), 11 Geoff Hurst (West Ham). 10 Kevin Hector (Derby). Peter Osgood
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      93 10 THE Johore Rugby Union XV wi'l play against Singapore Civilians XV in the "Malaya" Cup South Zone competition at the SCC Padang here, on Saturday, at 5.00 D.m The following win represent the JRU: J. Hurkett Dennis Young. War Rahman. J Davey. A. Dalton, Sgt. Greg
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      200 10 MELBOURNE, Tues. (Reciter) Australia's Bobby Dunlop got up off the floor to outpoint Canadian Al Sparks over 15rounds here last night and retain his British Commonwealth lightheavyweight boxing title. Dunlop was dropped by a left to the |aw immediately after the start of the 12th round.
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      325 10  -  GELA BOLA. Dear Sir,—As an ex-foot-baller. I find myself very upset Indeed regarding the very poor standard of football in the Republic, and. in order to see some Improvement. I would like to put forward one or two suggestions. About two years ago. a professional coach
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      29 10 LONDON Tues <Reuter) Results of football matche? played last night were:— ENGLISH DIVISION THRE* Barrow 0 Bradford Citv 1 SCOTTISH DIVISION ON* Celtic 2 St Mirren 0.
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      137 11 LONDON. Tues. Britain's 800 m. runners will have two new additions tb their ranks competing for the titles next season. They are Martin Bilham and COlln Campbell. After his world record 600 m. run at Cbsford Wolverhampton. in the English Midlands on Nbv. 22
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      Lock icon Leeds Top Soccer Team In Britain
      774 11  -  By Dave Caldwell T EEDS UNITED, English Football League champions of 1968-9, are the best organised side in British soccer. Their recent off-season signing of Alan Clarke from Leicester City for a fee of £166,700 now gives them a first team squad of 17
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      Lock icon Karate-Do Grading On Sunday
      170 11 MTt. Minora Tanaki. alxth Dan Black Belt. board member nf the OuJia Karate P* Federation and director of the Osaka TMCA Karate-Do Club, will be the chief exter. Mil examiner at the Chinese YMCA Karate-Do grading to be held at the Homer Client Auditorium. Palmer Road,
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      Lock icon Fireworks As India Beat Australia To Level Series
      350 11 NEW DELHI, Tues. (Reuter) Cheering crowds exploded fireworks as India strode to a comfortable seven-wickct victory over Australia in the third cricket Test here today to level the five-match series. Ajlt Wadekar '9l not not out and Vlshwanath U4 not out) shared
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      Lock icon SA Seek Captain For Test Series
      173 11 JOHANNESBURG. Tues (Reuten South African selectors are still searching for a captain to lead the Springbok cricketers against Australia In their first Test serie§ for two years next year. Sine® Peter Van Der Merwe retired. after leading the Springboks to victory here against Bobby
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      99 11 LONDON*. Tufs For th* 1973 world table tenni* championships in Britain, the English Tab> Tenni* Association hive concluded an agreement for equipment with Bakelite Xylonite Ltd., of Britain will pay them £lO.OOO. The chairman. Mr. Conrad Jaschke said that the association wer» also negotiating an overall sponsorship
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      302 11 A total of 43 teams will compete in the Football Association of Singapore's first age group soccer tournament commencing on Sunday. The tournament will be divided into four croups 20 in the under-18 group, 10 in the under-16 group, six in the under-
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      1038 11 YOU TV a (CHANNEL 5) PM. 300 Opening Anncts. in •11 Language* and Housewives Matinee < Sword Of Twin Wan— Chapter I Part I of a Cantonese Film); 335 Woman* World 'Chinesei; 405 A Diary Of Events In Singapore This Week 'Chinese 410 Christmas Shopping Guide: 440 Scarlett Hill 'Proof
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