Eastern Sun, 18 December 1969

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1211 Thursday. 18 December 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 554 1 TANAH RATA, Wed. Foreign Ministers of all five member countries of ASEAN, end observers of Laos and South Vietnam, voiced a bright future for the organisation which they said had proved to be a viable concept for regional co-operation. The Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister,
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  • 221 1 PANAMA CITY. Wed. (Reuter) Brigadier Gen. Omar Torrijos returned to power Here yesterday to end a shortlived coup engineered by his top National Guard officers while he was out of the country yesterday. Gen. Torrijos returned to this Central American Republic early today rallied support of
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  • 91 1 HONO KONG. Wed (Renter) China today released three British soldiers and their girl companion reported .Hissing after they went sailing in Hong Kong waters last Saturday. A statement Issued bv the Joint Services Public Relations office nere said the missing yacht "Peta Ann" and her crew
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  • 101 1 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) A 26-year-old bachelor was awarded 10.330 sterling damages here today for an accident at work which made him impotent. The man, Martin Carmody, suffered injuries to the pelvis and legs when he was struck by a crane in July 1964. High Court Judge Mr. Justice
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  • 139 1 BANGKOK. Wed (ReuW>— Meo tribesmen ambushed a truck, kiilirg all s:x occupants or. Monday in northern Petchaboon province, about 300 miles north of Bangkok. reports reaching Bangkok todav said. The reports said thA rebel tribesmen raked the truck with machine gun fire near Lomsak tow
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  • 90 1 A CHRISTMAS TREE claimed to be the tallest in Southeast Asia lit the skies over Orchard Road last night heralding the festive season. It stands atop the yet-to-be-completed 26-storey Singapore Hilton, still criss-crossed with scaffoldings. More than 600 bulbs twinkled at the touch of a switch. The tree, powered by
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  • 189 1 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) —The House of Commons last night voted overwhelmingly to end hanging in Britain after a tense debate in which speeches cut across party lines. MP's, free *o vote as their consciences dictated, carr ed a government motion to make the existing experimental
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  • 66 1 TOKYO Wed i AFP i The Peking correspondent of the economic daily Nihon Keizai. KeiJi Samejimi. will be released shortly, the trade liaison offic e m Tokyo wa? notified by the Chinese authorities today. Th e Chinese authorities said the v had decided to leniently with him because
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  • 416 1 TANAH RATA, Wed. Manila has been selected as the venue for next year's ASEAN Foreign Ministers and Standing Committee meetings. A joint communique issued after the end of the two-day ASEAN Ministerial Conference here today said two agreements were signed by the five ASEAN Ministers.
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  • 198 1 PRAGUE. Wed. (Reuter) The First Secretary of the Communist Party organisation in Prague resigned today, dealing a setback to Communist leader Gustav Husak in his power struggle with ultra conservative forces. i Oldrlch Matejka. elected !n a purge of liberals In the Prague city committee
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  • 216 1 CAIRO. Wed. (Reuter) Egypt said today Israeli air raids along the Suez Canal were doing little damage and claimed Israel was showing increasing nervousness about the military situation. Chief government spokesman Dr. Esmat Abdel MeKuid rejected claims in Tel Aviv of severe damage to Egyptian
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  • 111 1 TAN AH FATA Wed The Philippine, ha s reappointed Mr. Romeo Busuego as its Ambassador to Malaysia following the resumption of d-piomatic tie# between the two countries yesterday HI S appointment -was announced here today by the Ph:l pp re Foreign Secretary, Mr. Carlos
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  • 94 1 PHNOM PENH Wed (Reuter» Prince Sihanouk, the Cambodian Head of State, has said continued border violations by North Vietnamese and Vletcong troops could lead to his country breaking off relations with Hanoi and the National Liberation Front, the official AK P news agency reported today. Speaking
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  • 41 1 SAIGON. Wed (UPI) Communist troop* sheled Saigon for the first time ir almost four months earlv Wednesday, firing a man-sized rocket into a housing comolex military spokesmen said. Four Vietnamese civilians were wounded, a South Vietnamese spokesman s aid
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  • 328 4 BONN, Wed. (Reuter) West Germany today welcomed the Western allies offer of four power talks with the Soviet Union on Berlin and expressed the hope that they could get under way quickly. A government spokesman said Germany was convinced that concrete steps towards improving
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  • 88 4 THE longest heavy-girder bridge to be built by the British Army 350 tons and 550 feet long was put in position across the Great Ouse river by ninety tappers of th« 48th Field Squadron of the Royal Engineers in a week! The bridge will be used
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  • 95 4 LIVERPOOL. England. Wed <UPI» A local magistrate's court sentenced a 64 year old woman to prison yesterday becauae she refused to stop feeding the p.geons outside her home. M :ss Helen Fleming appeared In court for the aecond time thla month after breaking an Injunction to stop
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  • 175 4 HAIFA Israel. Wed <Reuter> An Israeli Arab accused of sending a coded telegram to inform Egvpt that Israel wa* mobilising reserves was said todav to have been pa:d 12 umbrellas for his services Emil Lavlv Nazar. 27. a Haifa housepalnter. was ordered detained by the District
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  • 311 4 ROME, Wed. (UPI Rcuter) Police arraigned a Milan anarchist last night on charges of complicity in slaughter in the Milan Bank bombing which killed 14 persons Friday. Police charged anarchist and professional dancer Pietro Valpteda, 36, after he was identified by a Milan
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  • 188 4 HONG KONG. Wed. (Reuter) The Hong Kong authorities today decided to abandon the search for three British soldiers and a girl missing In their yacht since Saturday A military spokesman said marine police launches would continue to keep a watch for the singlemasted 24-foot
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  • 51 4 AUCKLAND. New Zealand. Wed (Reuter) —New Zealand's first car. the Nova, is expected to b© in production bv July next year A T Gibbs. a director of the manufacturers Anzie 1 Ltd. said the five-seater car will hav e an imported engine and fibre-jlas* body manufactured In
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  • 143 4 NEW DELHI. Wed (Reuter) —Pandemonium broke out in the Indian Upper House of Parliament yesterday as Prime Minister Indira Gandni denied allegation* that she spent ore million rupees (55.000 sterling) on telephone calls during the August presidential election campaigr The 40-rmnute uorosr began when the oooosition faction of
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  • 247 4 LAGOS, Wed. (Rruter) Hope of quick start to renewed peace talks on the two and-a-half year civil war with Blafra dwindled last night on Nigerian reiteration that anv discussion* must come within a "one Nigeria" framework. Blafran leader Odumegwu Ojukwu had earlier today announced his agreement
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  • 336 4 THE EL AL INCIDENT WINTERTHUR. Switxerland, Wed. (Reuter) Defence counsel tor three Palestinians on trial here or shooting up an Israeli airliner said they expected to be acquitted because they regarded the attack as a legiti- mate act ot war. The defence
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  • 380 5 LOS ANGELES, Wed. (Reuter and UPI) Susan Atkins, 21-year-aid member of the "Hippie Family" charged with murdering film actress Sharon Tate and six others, may be tried separately, a Deputy Prosecutor said here. The official, Aaron Stovit*. »aid this course would have to
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  • 101 5 WASHINGTON Wed. fUPT) The United States. Great Britain and France want to engage the Son.-let Union in formal talks on improving conditions in and Berlin which may eventually lead to the crumbling of the Berlin wall However, diplomatic sources cautioned that *his eventuality would take months and
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  • 112 5 HONOLULU Wed (UPI) Rice. Hawaii's staol* food was in short s upply on Tues day because of a west coast shipping dispute Rice was being rstlor.ed a sorne Honolulu markets and others had so'd out 'We rf down to only 10pound bags." a spokesman for
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  • 83 5 WASHINGTON Wed (UP!) President Nixon announced vesterdar th* retirement <>f Vice A dm. Al>n M Shmn. Commander of th® naval for** of the US Pacific Fleet. effective about March 1. In other shifts in the Navy Command, the President &ad Vice Adm William F Bringle now
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  • 112 5 UNITED NATIONS Wed (Reuter > The U.N General Assembly, overriding U.S. and Soviet objections, todav cai'ed on the two super-powers to agree to a moratorium on further testing of new nuclear weapons In a second rebuff of the US the assembly voted to ouMow
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  • 132 5 NEWARK NJ. Wed (Router) Alleged Mafia kingpin Simons (Sam the Plumber' De Cavalcante was free on $75.M0 bail today after being arrested in an F B I crackdown on a reouted $2O million a year gambling racket FJty-four others were seized along with De Cavalcante
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  • 183 5 HOUSTON. Texas. Wed. (UPI) What may be the most brilliant comet since Halley's Comet of 1910 will make a "public appearance In mid-January, a noted Houston astronomer said yesterday. Apmand Yramategul. Curator of the Bruke Baker Planetarium, where US. astronaut® were trained to recognise star
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  • 43 5 VEW YORK Wed (UPT> A mob engulfed star Barbara Streisand when sh» arrived on Broadbay last night for the opening of the move He.lo. Dolly!" which will play the Gay White Way simultaneously with *he stage show on Which it Is based
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  • 260 5 UNITED NATIONS. Wed. (Reuter) The 24fh lI.N. General Assembly adjourns today after three months of wordy debates which achieved less than many members hoped. U.S. Ambassador Charles W Yost, asked to name the major achievement of the session, said last night: "The preparations for the
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  • 88 5 UNITED NATIONS. Wed (Beater) The U-N G n r Assembly expressed deep a.ssa'isfaction todav over it« failure to work out international rules concerning liability lor damage caused bv space-ships or satellites falling from orbit anj causing damage on ea r_ Th* 126-nation body, which has taken a special
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  • 141 5 TORONTO. Wed fUPI) Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono. apparently tired after a flight from London. sought a night's rest at the country home of a friend after their arrival Tuesday The Lennons. here to launch a peace campaign, disembarked from a British jet
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  • 275 5 SAN FRANCISCO, Wed. (UPI) Lightning struck Apollo 12 twice shortly after launching and disconnected the spacecraft's electrical fuel cells, a NASA scientist said yesterday, The two bolts burned out five tiny temperature sensors and momentarily stopped some of the instruments, the NASA spokesman disclosed in
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  • 181 5 WASHINGTON*. Wed (Reuter> President Nixon was heckled by anti-war demonstrators tonight as he lit the national Christmas tree and reaffirmed his goal of peace Shouts of "Stop the war." and "Peace now" punctuated the President's address as he spoke to a crowd of several thousand people on the
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  • 73 5 NEW YORK Wed. (Reutey) —Aristotle Onassis owner of Greek Olympic Airline, has given two US Carmelite nuns a free trio to the Ho'y Land and back. The nuns whose great desire was to see the Holv Land, wrote to Onassis care of Kennedv Airport, to tell
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  • 346 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) Defence Secretary Melvin R. Laird said on Tuesday the withdrawal of 50,000 more Gl's from Vietnam will bring a reduction of about 10 per cent in draft calls for 1970. The reduction would be from 250,000 to 225,000 draftees, with
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  • 100 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. fßeuter) Israel'* Foreign Minister. Abba Eban, conferred with US Secretary of State William P. Rogers yesterday and said later only time would tell if their governments have resolved differences on ways to bring about a Middle East peace. Eban made his comment at a
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  • 105 5 WASHINGTON. Wed (UPI) President Nixor »UH intends to make a ne w head to the U.S. delegation at the Vietnam peace negotiations in Paris, the White House said yesterday Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler. commer.ting on Nixon's elevation Philip Habib to the personal rfcnk of Ambassador, said
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  • 57 5 WASHINGTON. Wed (UPIt —The US. Treasury Department Tuesday said in a formal statement discissions or. absorbing newly mined go d into monetary reserves "suggest thar a basis for satisfactory mutual understanding may be emerging The Treasury statement was vague and did not Indicate the direction the discussions took
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  • 853 6 A LOT of wire-pulling and log-rolling were involved before Mrs. Golda Melr could form a cabinet that would have the needed majority in the Israeli Parliament for strong effective government. The presence of the Arab threat to the very existence of Israel is a powerful unifying factor
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  • 146 6 LONDON A Briton whose object it to update Singapore techniques in the teaching of mathematics and orient teachers to new approaches will leave here for a new post in the Republic on December 22. accompanied by his wife and family. He is
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  • 175 6  -  By JOSEPH FLEMING BERLIN (UPI) Rudolph Hess will eat a Christmas turkey dinner attain this year. The 75-year-old Nazi Deputy Fuehrer is expected to get his Christmas meal in the British military hospital he was taken to from Spandau prison November 24 for treatment of
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  • 980 6 .otters .771 I AM a great admirer of your editorials. as a general rule, and turn to them with keen Interest. Those on India. a country with which I have some acquaintance, are particularly Interesting although India Is obviously a subject on which nobody Is ever going
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  • 745 6  -  By ANTHONY SCHMITZ Gemini News Service SALISBURY Whtn the long, complicated Land Tenure Bill becomes law soon, 240.000 European* will control rather more than half the land in Rhodesia. Their half includes every town, city, industrial plant and mile
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  • 178 6 MANILA (UPI) The peal of church bells in the J ~nd villages on Tuesday ushered in the start of the world's longest Christmas celebration in The Philippines, the only Christian nation in Asia. Filipinos. 85 per cent of whom are Roman Catho ICS. will celebrate the
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  • 772 6  -  By Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON The SALT talks are going "very well." To be sure, this merely means the Soviets are refraining from the interminable procedural squabbles and empty, accusatory rhetoric with which they habitually open every negotiation. The break with all past precedents is mildly encouraging,
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 327 7 STEADY conditions prevailed in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Trading was fairly active on some buying support and increased apeculative influence. Gains of two to six cents were widespread in industrials. Price movements, however, were fractional in the popular speculative
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    • 1151 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 Acm a $2.15 <l> $2.16 (1) $2.14 CI); DIM $217 .3,; Ber. Co $'..66
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    • 485 7 AKKIV At S s'Hiam Ms A o,"J K. Lumpur 6.10 am- ITA LT 1575 Lot Angf |c>. Honolulu. Papeete. Auckland Noumea OCa-m- M.-AI R. Lumpur, am GAKLDA UA»« Jakarta 10 15am. MSA 121 K Lumpur--10 25 am- MsA 005 I'enani, Ipnta, K Lumpur, Malacca. USA p.m. FAN AM
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    • 189 7 SYDNEY. Wed <UPI> Wednesday's c'.o«ing Svdr.ey Stock Excha re «el»rted «hares>. MININGS Acmer 3 °5 As. Mm 7.5 ft Barrier I- 1 Bh South 5 2° C. Nor& &00 c Gold I°lo CRA 2100 Empe r 1 40 Endur 55 Gm Ka'.j J °8 Gt BouldT 4
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    • 300 7 US South Africa Nears Decision On New Gold WASHINGTON, Wed. (Rcuter) The United States and South Africa today gave an encouraging report indicating an agreement is near on the handling of newly mined gold. A US Treasury statement, echoed In Pretoria, said confidential talks in Europe and elsewhere suggest that
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    • 295 7 JANUARY first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 pm. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 65 cents per lb, up five eighths of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was steady quiet. Alter an unchanged opening, the market steadied, influenced bv
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    • 96 7 I HI nntin ortm at the Hnca oorr <hln*«e Produce nchan«« irrlfriti) *»r»> i»ei»»i MfM roc->niH Oil or IIORi Hulk CiMonui Oil M .Mi HORi Drum Mlxrd Copra ST 00 Mii.nok »\hite P*-pp»r 1CS-3* iroRi Sarawak White P»ppci 100 00 <1 OB > Sarawak »pr«ia| Mimk Pepper iFOB-l M.W
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    • 192 7 THE Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthing arrangements for ships in port today Thursday 18. DEPARTURE Godowns Vessels 13 14 Kinryu Mary 15 16 Bosna 18 Benvorllch N.W 1 Petaling N.W 2 Koryu Maru 21,22 Eiko Maru 23 Perlis 31 32 Miharu Mam 33
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    • 72 7 NEW YORK. Wed. <UPI>— Dow Jones closing average* on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 773 83 20 Ralls 189 43 15 Utilities 106 56 65 Stocks 253 82 40 Bonds 68 66 Commodity futures index 141 48 up 017. Volume was 11.880.000 shares. Of a
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    • 68 7 HONG KONG. Wed rUPI> Money quotations: HKS6 ***** per US. dollar HKS6 0775 per US dollar TT HKSI4 48 per pound sterling HKS2B3 5 per tael of gold 94 5 per cent fineness HKSI62 2 per 10 000 Japanese yen. HKSII4 per 100 Philippine peso* buyer* HKSII2 per
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    • 760 7 SINGAPORE—Stork Exrhaii« ••old and oilier prices officially listed at the close of busin« !U. INDUSTRIALS .V ma 2 n 2 15 Ben Co 1-65 Borneo Btid 175 Ronstead Co 1.05 t amel Pl>wood 1.32 entral sugars 4 02 \l l or. 1 67 CCM Dfh .95
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    • 12 7 The tin x>ri<* for -a-as $***** r*r pirul. ckwn 50.62*
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL $5 ESSAY WINNERS
    • 270 8 IT was a starry night with not even a slight breeze. I got up from my bed and walked to the open window near my bed. When I reached the window. I saw something that I hardly believed. From a long distance away I
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    • 463 8 ARE comics rood or bad for pupils? I am not sure of the answer myself. I love to read comics for example 'Bringing ut> Father' 'Nancy' and 'Blondie Comics are very entertaining in a wav that they often make us laugh- By merely
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    • Article, Illustration
      136 8 EVERYONE Has a friend. Without friends, life will be very du'l Among all the friends I only like one of them best He is Francis. He is the most intelligent. kind, hardworking, handsome and well-behav-ed young boy that I have ever seen He is a school boy
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    • 169 8 IT was a c'oody day when I went fishing I went fishing a'one. When I reached the sea the wind was blowing strongly I decided to take a walk instead of fishing on a breezy day I wa'ked to a place where there were few people.
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    • 466 8 Every thing In nature Is wonderful. Even the commonest object is a mystery. The fact that it Is familiar to us. doe® not explain It. For example, take a common plant, a weed in the garden, which we dig up and throw away as worthless If you
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    • 454 8 ONE dark night because I was tick, I was left afone in the house while my parents, brothers and sisters went to the cinema. While I waj< sleepily lookng at a comic book, there came a loud knock at the door I jumped up to my feet
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    • Article, Illustration
      215 8 SINGAPORE is in island Republic of 240 square miles and lies at the southern most tip of the Malay Peninsula. Singapore was called "Instant Asia" for more than two million people of all races live, work and play on this busy little island. When Stamford Raffles founded Singapore it
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    • 191 8 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN'S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears in this pare every Thursday One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves Pr<>I And what better way to
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    • 98 8 Students 9 Essays CTUDENTS an reminded that they can continue to tend in their essays during the final-term school holidays. Winning entries will be published, as usual, in the Eastern Sun every Monday and Thursday during the school holidays. Winners of essays will receive their cheques through their respective principals
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 116 8 AMY By Jeck TippH <$ ft "You know something, Rosemary? Peanut butter and jelly go well with that dress." DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Attn MMffiams JSIY yOUR FATHER HAS DONE A VERY FOOLISH THINS, DUKE/ HE SHOULDN'T BE OUT IN THIS WEATHER' I'M AFWMD POP HAS DEVELOPED A
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  • 66 9 MANILA. Wed. cUPI) A militant Filipino youth organisation today called US V -e President Spiro T Agnew an "imperialist overseer" and t l it will stage protest demonstrations during his vl*lt to Manila. Nilo Tayae. national chairman of the "Kabataang Makabazan" iNationa'irtir youth), said student reform movement and
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  • 64 9 A COLLAR for the lady! These art beaded necklines for that dress with the simple cut. Sewed on Thai silk, the beads are twirled with pearls and done in layers just perfect to show off the slim neck. This is THE hat... the base is stitched
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  • 237 9  -  B by gloria-mae EIGHT days to Christmas and there will still be some of us who are slacking and pushing the buying of presents till that "eleventh hour". Reasons for this could be the time factor office hours finish with the closing of the shops, pocket-wise
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  • 606 9  -  Ann Landers T\IAR ANN: This let- ter is for "Bystanders", the parents who were mad because their son didn't tell them sooner that his fiancee was pregnant. They had sent out the wedding invitations. reserved the ballroom, ordered the flowers. engaged the caterers, etc.
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  • 98 9 THE Lotus flower common in Thailand is teen here m?de from Thai ilk; a biasing orange with a hard centre of matching Thai cotton and a splatter of silk threads to resemble the pistils of the flower. In the centre, it a bunch of lotus buds
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  • 62 9 NEW DELHI Wed. <UPT) Mauritius' Prime Minister Seewoosagar Ramgoolam fl*w home yesterday after a 10day state visit to India A joint communique Issued as he left expressed the Joint concern of Mauritius and India at the "Increasing presence of foreign navies 1 in the Indian Ocein
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  • 78 9 KARACHI. Wed. (UPl)—The two wing s of Pakistan. separated by 1.000 miles of Indian territory, will oe linked by a satellite communication system by the middle of 1971. According to communications Minister G.W. Choudhury. work on the project estimated fOst US$l million will start within the
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  • 44 9 RA^"AJ-PINDI, Wed (UPI) Pakistan ee> v *rnment offi'ia"« said India has been ask*4 to release niiw fish:nr boats and 159 <rewmen arrested by India n customs oatroi boats last month. India ha« not yet reohed to th* request th« official* sa:d
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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    • 48 9 [H'ltiVi'i Last Day Today: 1.30-4.00-7.00 9.30 pm. "THREE IN ONE" •itk lirU'k CkmtM filtlllN Flio*nii HKi Last Day Today: 1.15-3.30-7.15 &9.30pm. firtmo.nt "STUNTMAN" <C«l*r CIUh. S.bUU«) tirrltH CIXA tOIXQ»HICIP% MILL Opens Tomorrow! at PALACE GALAXY DIAMOND "LADY IN SUSPECT" ciuhmhi *»uo r«Nc rox6 *tt rosft <a d*ucu** T*nu»r>
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 171 10 By Our Racing Correspondent PINANG, Wed. U Vite imprest in a 3f trial in 39 4/5 on a yielding track here this morning. It was the fastest workout of the morning. Dendrobium, fourth to Desert Apache over 6f at Bukit Timah last month, showed good
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    • 1078 10 THE GOVERNOR'S CUP. CL t Div. i F. 121 \tm luu if 900 Conflux Stable Fpm*er lie KstOBI Octu 7y 906 Lucky Stable E Breuk 153 Miflf Jtm 7 T 905 Goldrxune Stable J Donneli* 12 l.ooiubtang 4T 810 Auric Stable R Breuk 6*
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    • 511 10 NEW YORK. Wed (UP!) Light heavyweight Frankie Depaula and two underworld figures James "Jimmy Nap" Napoli and Joseph "Joe Carlo" Calabro were indicted yesterday in boxing's first major scandal in a decade. The indictments followed months of testimony before a Grand Jury which
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    • 541 10 MANILA. Wed <UPI> The Orient Boxing Federation (OBF* have awarded their "boxer of the month" title for November to their new Junior middleweight champion. Hideo Kanazawa of Japan Kanazawa was given the OBF salutation for knocking out South Korea s Ansano Lee
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    • 161 10 TULSA. Oklahoma, Wed. i UPI i Veteran* groups expressed the hope yesterday that either the Oklahoma Attorney Oeneral or the state Legislature would block a scheduled Jan 10 fight by former heavyweight champion Casslus Clay. Tulsa County District Attorney 8 M Fallls Jr. told representatives
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    • 77 10 SYDNEY. Wed (Reuter) Crusade, owned a nd skippered by British newspaper owner Sir Max Altken. was first across the line todav ahead of som* of the world's finest yachts l n the opening of the Southern Cross Cup of Sydney. Another British yacht. Prospect Of Whitby,
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    • 91 10 CIRENCESTER. England Wed. (Reuter) —Geoff Hunt, the Australian world amateur champion, took a s—o5 —0 lead in his 15-match series against Jonah Barnngton when he beat the British orofesslonal 9—3. 9—l. 6 —9, here last night. Hunt killed the ball ruthlesslv. conceding only four points in the
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    • 177 10 Calcutta. Wed. <Reuter> India's cricket selectors have made two changes In the team which lost to Australia in the fourth Test here yesterday in the side announced for the fifth Test In Madras over Christmas Surlnder and Mohlnder Amarnath sons of former Test captain Lala .Amarnath
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    • 26 10 LONDON. *fd (Reuter) Results of football matches olayen last night were. English Division Two Middlesbrough 4 Birmingham 2Scottish Division On# Clyde 2 Hearts 1.
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    • 168 10 TAIPEI. Wed (Reuten Nationalist China gained place In next year's world bridge championships in Stockholm after winning the 13th Far East bridge tournament here last night. The Nationalist Chinese team accumulated a total of 118.17 victory points In the nine-day tournament, enjoying a wide margin
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    • 245 10 ALDERS HOT England. Wed <Reuter>—The South African rugby team scoring eight points In Injury time, snatched a lucky 14-6 victory over the British Combined Service* here yesterday. The Springboks, trailing 3-6 at the Interval, drew level In the 75th minute and then piled on the pressure
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    • 124 10 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) Lynn Davies. Britain's 26-year-old former Olympic long jump champion, has received a £4.000 offer to Join an American professional athletics troupe. Davies. who has won Olympic. European and Commonwealth Games gold medals, said he had been invited to sign a contract for
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    • 270 10 CALCUTTA. Wed. (UPI) The Calcutta Press Photographers* Association yesterday expressed 'feelings of regret and resentment" against Australian cricket captain Bill Lawry who hit a cameraman when rioting broke out In the fourth Test between Australia and India The association called an emergency meeting to consider
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    • 92 10 JAKARTA. Wed. (AFP) Twentyfive-year-old N. Minarni. Indonesia's top woman badminton player. is being treated in horpital after a car accident on Dec 10, chairman of the Indonesian Badminton Federation said today. Minarni and members of her fami'.y were travelling from Ngawi to Ngandjuk in East Java
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    • 66 10 MIAMI BEACH. (Florida), Wed. (AFP)—Georges Foreman, the Olympic* heavyweight boxing champion maintained his unbeaten professional record when he outpointed Levi Forte. another American heavyweight over ten rounds before 3.263 spectators at the Convention Hall here last night. The decision was unanimous but this was the first time
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    • 266 10 LONDON. Wed. Despite their drop in the First Division table, Manchester United top the attendance list in home and away matches. Thev are the only club in Britain to have been watched by more than a million fans so far this season. The four First
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    • 186 10 LONDON. Wed (Reuteri The organiser* of the "Golfer of the year championship" today named 12 tournaments in the qualifying series for the £60.000 1970 Alcan c'.a c sic in September The tournaments ar* UNITED KINGDOM ZONE: Agfacolor tournament, Stok 9 Poges. Mav 21 to 23.
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    • 75 10 BUENOS Aires, Wed. (UPIY —World Boxing Association (WBA> champion Jimmy Ellis and challenger Gregorio Peralta stepped up training for their heavyweight title bout scheduled next Saturday at the soccer club Boca Juniors stadium here Elli, nearly flattened his sparring oartr.er. Ufus during sparring sessions vesterdav
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    • 147 11 TOKYO. Wed (Reuter) World featherweight champion Johnny Famechon of Australia arrived here tonight to defend his tltje against Japan's Fighting Harada in Tokyo on January 6. next year It will be the second time the French-born Famechon will etake his title against Harada, former world flyweight and
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    • 626 11 THIS periodic column discusses new stamps commemorating historic persons, places or things, or timely subjects. On September 26 1969, the United States issued a special six-cent stamp saluting the 100 th anniversary of U.S. intercollegiate football. THE United States recently issued a speoal six-cent stamp that
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    • 57 11 JAKARTA. Wed (AFP> A well-known Bardung basketball team '•Tornado*' wil; leave here for Singapore tomorrow at the invitation of the Basket, ball Association of Singapore. Antnra news apercv reported today. The team comprising 30 B layers l«r! by team »r. Tan Tj:n Hon* wi'i pay three
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    • 157 11 MOSCOW. Wed. ißeuter) Nadezhda Chizhova. Russian world shot putt record holder and European champion, has been voted the world's top sportswoman of 1969 by sports writers from 13 news agencies in Europe, America and Asia. Chizhova, 24. who broke the world record with a throw of
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    • 328 11 THE Toto women's basketball team of the Singapore Pools Sports Club will leave here on Saturday morning for a three-week tour of Hong Kong, Cambodia and Thailand. The team will be led by Mr Quek Man* Chiang the manager, and the Bulgarian coach. Mr. V.
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    • 77 11 NEW YORK. Wed (ATP) The United States Davis Cup trio of Arthur Ashe Stan Smith and Bob Lutz will tour the Far East before «tartmg the: r "Australian 1970 tennis campaign" at Tasmania, on January 6. The players lea\> here todav for Anchorage Alaska thrn go
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    • 278 11 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) The London to Sydney air race wet postponed for 24 hours because of bad weather shortly before the start at 0830 GMT today. A spokesman for the 12.000-mile race said "the weather between here and France is terrible, especially for
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    • 135 11 LONDON*. Wed. (Reuter> Cricket officials here were angrv today at the announcement that the 1970-71 English soccer season will b«» the .orgest ever stretching over ten months a"d hitting cricket s hooes of attracting bigger crowd* The 1970 soccer season will star* at the
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    • 109 11 NEW YORK. Wed <UPI> The 6th renewal of the Madison Stuart Garden tennis tournament Jar 21-23 will be highlighted fev a challenge match between Rod I.*v« r n f Australia and Pancho Gonzalez of the US Plant for the meet an««jrced yesterday. irclude a match between
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    • 65 11 The Singapore Polytechnic Students' Union will hold their first annual athletic meet at the Firrer Park Athletic Centre on Saturday at 2.00 pm. The meet Is held under the patronage of Dr. Toh Chin Chye. the Minister for science and Technology and also the Chairman of
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    • 53 11 Police the defending champions. entered the semi-finals of the President's Cup soccer tournament when they beat Darul Amah 4-1 at Jalan Besar Stadium last night. Police led 3-1 at half time. In another quarter-finals match. Hotel Slngapura trounced FAF Changl 6-1 half time score was 3-1 In
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    • 102 11 MELBOURNE. Wed (Router) Australian track star Pam Kilborn tonight broke her own world record for the women's 200 metres hurdles for the fourth time in four months. She clocked 25 8 seconds at an invitation athletics meeting here to slice one-fifth of a second off her
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    • 1077 11 iCHANNEL 5) T M 2.5f» Opening Anncts In all Language? Morning Star; 310 Ano'her Song Another Me"<lv •E*"g!i«h» 'Repeat'; 330 Happening in Singapore <Chinesei 'Repeat*; 3 45 Housew:ves Matinee <My Kingdom for A H ..sbard Ch 1» (Part 2 of a Cantonese Film' 'English Sub 520 Close. 550 Opening Annrts.
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  • 341 12 THIRTY retired employees of Malaysia-Singapore Airlines who had served a total of 600 years, yesterday received certificates of merit at a simple ceremony held at the Silver Kris Room of the MSA Building. Mr. David Craig, Managing Director of MSA, who gave away the certificates,
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  • 661 12 CHOW KIM HOONG the accused in the preliminary inquiry into the murder of his brother's fiancee was arrested by police in an incident in which he threw rotten eggs and stones at the dead girl's house, the court was told yesterday. This
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  • 314 12 Despite difficulties posed by public misconception. Singapore maintain"; one of the most effective and highest standards in development control in Southeast Asia, it w a stated here yesterday. Mr. A GS. Danaraj, acting Senior Planner in charge of the Development Control Division of the Ministry
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  • 85 12 Frtice are looking for eyewitnesses to a hit-and-ru n accident along Beach Road in which a motor-cyclist Mok Jm Meo. 25. sustained serious head injuries Tuesday afte r h e was knocked down by a motor-car He was rushed to the General Hospital in a ser:ou s
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  • 781 12 SINGAPORE must maintain its importance in the global air network system, just as it Has been able to become a sea-port of world significance to merchant navies, the Minister for Communications, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, said yesterday. He was speaking at Hie
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  • 197 12 Pilgrim Ship Cap t. To Be Decorated A master of the pilgrim ship "Kuala Lumpur." will receive a JSM (Jasa Setia Mulia) medal from Tan Sri Jamal Latiff, the Malaysian High Commissioner to Singapore at Rumah Malaysia in Gallop Road here tomorrow. Capt R C.W Gonran. 56. who was away
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  • 98 12 The Girlj Pport* Club u orea. numg a jrOWy "Ne* Year Ev e Ball"* to fund, for its sport artivitie, at the Victoria Memorial Halj on 31Th#» only women's ?port» club in plan# to usher in I&70 with a big surprise fo r thos* attending th®
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  • 62 12 AN old grav# of an unknown deceased is holding up work at the new camp site of the Singapore Armed Forces at 134 tn.sMandai Foad T>ie Ministry of the Interior and Defence intends to empty the gra\> and rebur v the remains elsewhere Anyone with information on th e
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  • 78 12 Mr Teo K*ng Thwan a director of a leading plastic company in Singapore, will be he chairman on the panel of judges for tonight's Toto drawMr. Liew Shih Leong.a Toto isent and Mr. Sebastian Yap. i qualified Federation Intertational Football Association oach and ex-stat# footballer. A-lii make uo
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  • 263 12 Low Chian Ylan. 29. a sshmonger was sentenced to fi years in jail by Mr. Dal:p Singh, the Fourth District Judge, yesterday, for Illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. Low was found jrulltv on two charges having m his possession a 3a Smith a rd
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  • 193 12 The Chairman of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, Mr. Runme Shaw, yesterday presented certificates to six lucky people who passed their five-week course in "Animal Life in Singapore". In a short speech, Mr. Shaw said "Nature has endowed us with various species of life which provide interesting
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  • 244 12 SINGAPORE will be sending a follow •UD mission to Cambodia to explore ways of establishing joint ventures r uch as fisheries, timber, tourism and hotel trade as a fo >ow up the trade and economic co-operation agreement signed between the two countries recently. This
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  • 53 12 Kh/y* E»k Che# who charced with causing hurt to an °f Schools G°on Yf?, with a n lr °n P'Pe at a houj* in Oevling R<*»d. o''. J un e R was acquitted hy the E'ghth Magistrate Court, yesterday. K irx> wa, defended hv Mr SK L*e whil# Inspector
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    • 69 12 Time Tide TODAY Singapore Town: 6.20 am. (7.9 ft.), 12.39 p.m. (3.8 ft.), 6.57 p.m. (7.4 ft.). Naval Dockyard: 6.15 a.m. <9.3 ft.). 12.18 p.m. (4.6 ft.). 655 P-m. (9 ft.). TOMORROtt Sineanore Town: 12.58 am. (i? ft.). 7.11 a.m (8 ft). 1.53 p.m. (3 ft.), 8.33 p.m. (1.5 It.).
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