Eastern Sun, 8 January 1970

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    22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL PAIL Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1230 Thursday, 8 January 1970. •fr MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cent*
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    Lock icon Agnew Arrives In Kuala Lumpur
    393 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The U.S. Vice-President, Mr. Spiro Agnew and his wife flew into a well policed Subang International Airport at 8.45 p.m. as scheduled for a three-day visit to the Federal capital. Kuala Lumpur is the seventh leg of their 26th day tour of
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    Lock icon B. O. T. President Making Personal Tour Of S.E.A.
    149 1 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Mr. Roy Mason, President of the Board of Trade, left London today for a 12-day visit to Southeast Asia, his first major overseas tour since his appointment as trade minister. He arrives at Bangkok tomorrow and later Is
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    Lock icon Ghana Chasing Out 2,000,000 'Aliens'
    52 1 TRUCKLOADS of Africans ousted by Ghana arrive at the Dahomey/Togo Border on their way to Nigeria. Ghana has clamped down with threat of arrest of about 2,000,000 Africans with loose alien status. Those fleeing arrest are mainly small traders, miners, and farm workers. (UPI radiophoto).
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    Lock icon $22,000 'Sprucing Up'
    103 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed More than $22,000 have been recentlv spent to brighten up Hotel Merlin where the United States Vice-President. Mr. Spiro T. Agnew. will stay during his 36-hour visit to the Malaysian capital. According to a hotel spokesman. much of the money was spent on the
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    Lock icon Our Beloved Enemies
    140 1 BANGKOK. Wed (Reuter) Thai Police and Communist guerrillas have exchanged New Year's greetings in verse, declaring their mutual desire to destroy e«ch other, according to Police Department spokesman Colonel Phandh Suramanee. Colonel Phandh told reporters yesterday that the police received the following poem Ln greeting from the
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    Lock icon Heath Expresses A Hope For More Investments
    226 1 MR. Edward Heath, the leader of the British Opposition Conservative Party, said yesterday that Britain should increase its overseas investment in the region. He added that it is in the interest of both countries and countries concerned in the region to do so.
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    Lock icon Arrest Of Officers Just A Probe, Says Malik
    299 1 JAKARTA Wed. (Reuter) Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik said today recent arrests of highranking Army Officers were aimed at finding out how strongly entrenched supporters of deposed President Sukarno were in the Army. Malik to»d correspondents that the arrested men including two
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    Lock icon FLOOD ALERT IN W. MALAYSIA AGAIN
    262 1 IPOH, Wed. People living along the Perak River especially those in the Parit District were today alerted for impending floods. All district officers and flood relief committees had also been alerted to take the necessary precautions. According to the state Information department, the water
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    Lock icon Come Back Call To Missing Lena
    62 1 LENA LIM HOONG ENG, 16, has been misting from home for the past week. She left with SIS and some luggage from her home in 7, River Valley Road. Her parents, brothers and sisters are appealing for her early return. Anyone who knows her
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    Lock icon Cooled Off
    48 1 "I had fiery temper before it got cooled off in the swimming pool." That's what Singapore's Golden Girl, Patricia Chan told Eastern Sun's Glo-ria-Mae during an Intimate interview. What makes Pat tick? Read all about it in a lengthy feature on Page 10 in this issue.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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    Lock icon Publishers Send ing Editorial Team To W.I.
    244 2 A LEADING local publishing firm is sending a nine-member delegation to the West Indies to study the educational textbook requirements there. This was announced yesterday by McGraw>Hill Far Eastern Publishers (Sin- gapora) Private Ltd. The members of the delegation are from the editorial
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    Lock icon Malays Must Positively Get Rid Of Bad Image
    322 2 OWING to definite courses there is now a prevailing misunderstanding that the Malays are fanatical, laxy, fond of riots, and unwilling to change the old attitudes, Professor Dr. Syed Hussein Alatas, Head of the Department of Malay Studies, University of Singapore, said
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    Lock icon About People In Singapore
    228 2 The Right Honourable Edward Heath, the British Opposition Leader, is leaving Singapore this morning. Mr. Chan Chee Seng. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Social Affairs will present the Republic's Flag to the Manager of the Singapore Rugby XV to the 2nd ARFU Tournament in Bangkok
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    Lock icon Electronic Shop Raided
    93 2 FIVE youths a!] armed with daggers, robbed and tied up the manager and four employee* of the Modern Electronic Enterprise at Margaret Drive and escaped with tape recorders and radios valued at a total of $5,000 on Tuesday night. The manager. Tan Chor Joo. 33 told Police
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    Lock icon The Elements Catch Up On The 'Hill-top' Dwellers
    446 2  -  By K. S. Sidhu A Family of nine have been living in a "death trap" for the past year and the half knowing all about it but not being able to do anything about it. Once upon a time, the house of
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    Lock icon Man Gets Life For 4 a.m. Rape
    704 2  -  by PETER ONG A 34-year-old man who raped an "indisposed" European housewife, was sentenced to life imprisonment by the High Court yesterday. Alwi bin Masod was jailed for another 10 years on a second charge of stealing $39, an English 10-shilling note and
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    Lock icon Used Pop's Cheque To Form Own Rock Band
    340 2 THE JAILHOUSE ROCK AN amateur musician who cheated a company of musical equipment worth $2,373 to start his own band was yesterday sentenced to a year's jail by the First District Court judge, Mr. D. C. D'Cotta. Lai Fook Chong, 27, a
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    Lock icon Changi Point C.C. Lucky Draw
    107 2 COUPON cover number ***** has won the first prize of a refrigerator in the Changi Point Community Centre lucky draw held in November last year. The second prize of a television «et goes to coupon cover number ***** Below are the full result*: Ist prize
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      126 2 TODAY a Thursday, January 8, 1970. r, STAR GAZER'*, By CLAY 1. POLLAN JK Your Dolly Activity Guide H jfrr."'** According to tho Storg. To develop message for Thursday, v?: reod words corresponding to number* f? of your Zodiac birth sign. 1 Moke 2 Friend* 4 You'll 5 Hove 6
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    Lock icon AFTER V-C'S TET '68 'TRUCE': ARY Placed On Full Alert For 2 Weeks
    482 3 SAIGON, Wed. (UPI and Reuter) South Vietnamese troops will be placed on full alert in advance by the Tet lunar new year holiday, during which the government plans only a 24-hour ceasefire, informed allied military sources said
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    Lock icon Meeting On Next US Withdrawal From V-N
    124 3 WASHINGTON. Wed. (I PI) Staff military officers from Washington and Saigon will meet in Honolulu next week to work out plans lor a lurther withdrawal of 50 000 US. troops from Vietnam, the Pentagon said yesterday. The withdrawal, announced last month and «et
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    Lock icon Rightfully Wrong
    47 3 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) T-shirts are used to advertise many things in the Philippines paint, construction materials and political candidates. Today, a messenger to UPl's Asian news headquarters building wore a Blue T-shirt with white lettering which said: "Adultery: Two Wrong People Doing The Right Thing."
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    Lock icon 2 More Policemen Murdered In PI
    382 3 MANILA, Wed. (UPI) Two policemen were shot and killed last night in Angelei City by a group of heavily armed and uniformed men riding in jeeps, police reported today. Police said they were looking into the possibility Ihe shooting was linked to the slaying
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    Lock icon 'A Lesson To Parents'
    86 3 MANILA Wed <IPI > A 26-year-old Filipino student shot his 14-year-old sweetheart to death and then committed suicide in a Romeo-and-Juliet type tragedy last night Police In Batangas City, 70 miles south of Manila where the tragedy took place, said Marclano Perez left behind a note
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    Lock icon UK Can Send Troops Here In A Jiffy
    224 3 HONG KONG, Wed. (Reuter) The British Minister of Defence for Administration, Roy Hattersley, today reiterated that Britain would be able to send troops to South-east Asia from Europe quickly after its military pull-out from the area in 1971. "We maintain our capability
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    Lock icon Increased Budget For Japan's Armed Forces
    465 3 TOKYO, Wed. (UPI) The budget for Japan's armed forces will be increased by 17.9 per cent in 1970, with part of the money going tor purchase of American weapons. Sources in the Japanese Ministry of Finance yesterday said that defence expenditures of about 1.58
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    Lock icon Seeing Red
    58 3 HONG KONG. Wed <Reuten The (North) Vietnam News Agency and Pathet Lao News Agency have concluded a professional co-operation agreement the first of its kind between the two communist news organs V.N A. today reported the signing of the accord in Hanoi yesterday between Its Director-General Dao Tung,
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    Lock icon 22 Rescued Before Ship Broke Up In The Storm
    157 3 TOKYO Wed (Reuter) An American freighter today rescued 22 survivors from the Liberian tanker. "Sotia Papas", but reported the captain and six other crew members died when the tanker broke ut> in the stormy Pacific 600 miles south-east of Tokyo. The
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      426 3 WORLD lEAI /■r II Z czc LU rr «r r*< 4 x Year after year, world sales of Rothmans King Size record their undisputed leadership. 1969 again sees Rothmans the world's largest selling —most wanted—King Size Virginia by far. Rothmans extra length, finer filter, and the best tobacco money can
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    Lock icon AFTER ISRAELI GUNBOATS AFFAIR: French Arms Deal With Libya Now?
    390 4 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) The United States is playing its approach to a possible French arms deal with Libya in low key, despite suggestions it would be greatly concerned by such a move. Reliable sources here now discount press reports that
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    Lock icon PI's Status Symbol
    110 4 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) The low number of an automobile's license plate as a symbol of the higher status of its owner, will be an "odious practice of the past" In the Philippines if House of Representatives Speaker Jose Laurel has his way. Laurel yesterday filed a Bill
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    Lock icon 999 Arab Sabotage Acts Since June, '67
    421 4 999 Arab Sabotage Acts Since June, 67 JERUSALEM, Wed. (Reuter) Israel has shot down 76 Arab planes since the June 1967 war, Defence Minister Moshe Dayan told the Knesset (Parliament) hero yesterday. General Dayan said that 62 planes had been brought down on the Egyptian front and 14 on the
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    Lock icon EXPO '70 PANORAMA
    316 4 With less than three months before the opening of Expo '7O on March 15th, the huge grounds In the Senrl Hills near Osaka have been transformed into a panorama of many differing shapes and colours. Pavilions of more than 70 foreign nations and Japanese Industries reach into
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    Lock icon Why 'Censorship' Is On In A Host Country: Director
    477 4 SAIGON. Wed, (UPI) A US. Air Fore# newscaster, fired last month "for editorial", remarks about Vice-President Spiro Agnew. yesterday appeared before military investigators probing alleged censorship of news heard by American ser- vicemen in Vietnam. The witness was Sgt Hugh Morgan.
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    Lock icon USSR's Shipping Ban Near Komandorski Isles
    409 4 MOSCOW, Wed. (UPI) The Soviet Union has established a 30mile shipping ban around islands only 130 miles from American's strategic Aleutian Chain, Tass said yesterday. The report by the official news agency said the ban was put into effect to protect seals in the
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    Lock icon Japanese-Soviet Teamwork On Developing Siberia
    234 4 MOSCOW. Wed. <RMiVri A delegation of Soviet foreign trade official* left here by air yesterday for Tokyo for expected talks on increased SovietJapanese co-operation in developing Siberia The delegation t s also due to discuss trade exchanges in the coming year, which informed Japanese sources
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    Lock icon USSR-Peking Word War Is On Again
    329 4 MOSCOW, Wed. (Reuter) The Soviet Union yesterday appeared prepared to resume its full-scale war-of. words with China despite key Sino-Soriet talks in Peking. The main Communist Party newspaper Trarda'. apparently stun* Into replying to scathing anti-Soviet diatribe* from official Peking news media in recent
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    Lock icon The Queen Is Worst Dressed
    109 4 LOS ANGELES. Wed(tPl) Queen Elizabeth II of Britain beaded the list of the world's 10 "worst dressed" women Issued y ester da* br fashion designer Mr Blackwell In his tenth annual list Bla c k w e{] commented »bout Queen Elisabeth. Everything that is out
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    Lock icon Helluva Cold
    32 4 HELL. Norway. Wed (UPI) 7" wtt r froie in Hell totemperature fell to 21 Centigrade* below *ero fflfia *> Hell is a small Industrial community east oi the city of Trondheam.
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    Lock icon France-US Co-operation On Drug Crackdown
    267 4 WASHINGTON. We 6 tw> France has agreed to crack down on opium smug*linr and narcotics refineries in South France moves that could choke nflF most of the heroin now reaching the VJ illegally. White Hnuie officials said today They said whole-hearted co-operation from the French
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    Lock icon Psychiatrist Will Study Hippie Girl
    265 5 LOS ANGELES, Wed. (UFI) A psychiatrist was appointed yesterday to examine the youngest of the defendants in the Sharon Tate-Labianca murders and give a report on her sanity to the lawyer preparing her defence. r Leslie Vtm Houten, 19. a demure-looking girl and the prettiest
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    Lock icon Out To Teach UK Govt. A Lesson
    222 5 LONDON. Wed (UPIt Almost 300.000 children looked forward to an unexpected two-week vacation starting Monday as school-teachers announced a strike beginning a 'nothing excluded" cam paign for more money. The National Union of Teachers announced 4 873 teachers in 355 schools most of
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    Lock icon Launchings Of Apollo Delayed
    138 5 HOUSTON. Texas. Wed. (UPI) The U.S. Space Agency has postponed Its fourth Apollo moon landing by three or four months and may delay Apollo 13 from March to April to give scientists extra time for lunar rock study between flights. Space Agency chief Dr. Thomas O.
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    Lock icon Successful Brain Vein Transplant
    282 5 TORONTO, Wed. (Reuter) A Canadian brain surgeon said here that he had carried out the first successful vein transplant into the brain of a stroke victim. Dr William M. Lougheed of Toronto General Hospital said the operation was performed for the first time anvwhere in the
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    Lock icon Transplants
    62 5 WASHINGTON. Wed (Reuter)—A government-appointed panel said vesterday the number of heart transplants should be severely limited until doctors had overcome the human body's rejection of foreign organs The report, issued by the National Heart and Lung Institute. s aid heart transplant surgery and research were still :n the investigation
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    Lock icon Sen. McCarthy
    26 5 MOSCOW. Wed <UPI>—'U.S Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy arrived in Moscow yesterday for five davs of talks with Soviet officials, possibly including Premier Alexei Kosygin.
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    Lock icon Bean Grounded For Flight Risk
    232 5 HOUSTON, Texas, Wed. (UPI) The Space Agency said yesterday it had grounded Alan L. Bean, the fourth man to walk the moon, and two other astronauts for 30 days because they violated rules for safe flying. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (IT ASA) took
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    Lock icon 'Supercop Is On The Way'
    83 5 DETROIT. Wed (UPT) Batiran and Superman are out. But don't worry "Sup*reop is on the way." said Johanres F Spreen on the last day of his 18-month term as Detrot's Police Commissioner. "Sipercop." Spreen told 100 Po.ice Academy students o" Monday, would wear a Buck
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    Lock icon Scientist Reverses His Stand On Moon N-Blast
    510 5 HOUSTON, Texas. Wed. (UPI) A leading lunar scientist said yesterday he has withdrawn his controversial suggestion to the Space Agency that the United States explode an atomic bomb on the back side of the moon. Dr. Gary Latham, an expert on lunar seismology.
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    Lock icon Unruly Scenes As Daley Testifies
    308 5 CHICAGO. Wed (UPI) An outburst of hissing by spectators interrupted the testimony of Mayor Richard J. Daley yesterday at the riot conspiracy trial. Marshals ousted three defence staff members and friends of the "Chicago seven" in a tumultuous scene. U.S. District Court Judge Julius J.
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    Lock icon Drug Victims
    74 5 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Nearly 900 persons, on* only 12 veart old. died from drur related causes in New York dty la*| year, the medical examiners office reported TP« t«rday. The Arure was six times as h>fh a s a deeade a*« Dr. Michael M. Baden. Associate Medical
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    Lock icon Ship Stricken
    69 5 SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico. Wed (UPI) The Cypriot tanker Evi Antonatos 3 627 tons, is taking on water and in danger of sinking 350 mi es northeast of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Coast Guard reported yesterday. A Coast Guard p'ane was on patrol over the stricken ship and
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    Lock icon Everybody Turns Thief
    92 5 RIO DE JANEIRO. Wed. <UPI» None of his neighbours thought of telling the corner grocery store owner that he forgot to lock the establishment when he went home for the night Monday. Police said someone noted the unlocked door early Tuesday, started an offhour shopping spree and
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    Lock icon Two Close Friends Back Up Kennedy's Testimony
    729 5 EDGARTOWN, Mass., Wed. (UPI) —Sen, Edward M. Kennedy's testimony before a secret inquest on the death of Mary Jo Kopechne was backed to the hilt by his two closest friends, it was learned Wednesday. Joseph F. Gargan. Kennedy's cousin, and Paul F. Markham.
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    Lock icon Mike Collins
    71 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. (UPI) Former moon-circling astronaut Michael Collins was sworn in yesterday as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and said that in some ways his new job was "more challenging" than his trln around the moon Collins told Secretary of State William P Rogers at a
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    Lock icon Moratorium
    67 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) The Vietnam moratorium committti announced yesterday it will organise a threeday fast in April, to culminate in nation-wide rallies on April 15. the Anal day for Americans to file their income tax returns The committee, which sponsored nationwide war protests In the U.S. la.t year, said
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    Lock icon CHINA-U.S. TALKS
    60 5 WASHINGTON. Wed (UPD* The U.S State Department said yesterday U.S and Communist Chinese officials have not worked out definite arrangements for further ambas. sadorial talks. Department spokesman Robert J McC'oskev made the comment to --wsmen in response to published stories that the United State s and Mainland China
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    Lock icon THE DARK BLOTCH IS OFF
    868 6 MRS. Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, will be congratulated not only by her fellow-countrymen but also by every lover of India for allowing the Preventive Detention Act to die a natural death. Now Indians can proudly say that the darkest blotch on the
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    Lock icon No Road To Peace In Sight For V-N
    1919 6  -  By DANIEL SOUTHERLAND SAIGON, (UPI) It was tight yuri at 0 4 Tannassaan named Tom Davit fall daad on a road naar Saigon, th# first American toidiar to ba killed by Viatcong flro. Sinca than, naarly 40,000 mora Amaricans have diad in
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    Lock icon INTO THE HORRIBLE 70s
    753 6  -  Br Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON Plastic napkins, plastic nourishment, plastic livina rooms, even plastic sex, all delightful, all disposable all these will be glowingly predicted, one may be sura, in the forecasts of the gains Mankind will make in the decade we are about to enter. But
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    Lock icon When Men Are Corrupted By War's Double Standards
    838 6  -  MY LAI 'MASSACRE': By HELEN GIBSON LONG BINH, Vietnam (UPI) The alleged My Lji 'massacre' was an exaggerated example of th# way men b«hav« in the stress of war, the chief psychiatrist of the U.S. Army in Vietnam believes. "People were shocked
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon Low Key Prevails With Little Interest
      592 7 ..jc' th# downward drift continued in tKa Stock Exchange of Malayiu ana Singapore yesterday although the popular speculative industrials wara slight, ly i eaoier. At ot lata, there was no new incentive to generate investment interests. a Thus, on the usual speculative feed-back, Fair
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      1102 7 "OwS NiSS dona in and reported to the trading rooms of 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 21 <2> $2 20 (2) $2 19 <4>; Alcan $1.90 (1> $lBB
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      Lock icon Feather Firm Appoints Manager
      121 7 Mr. J.B schoenfeldt has been appointed Manager of Singapore Feathe r Works Pte. Ltd., a feather purifying factory in Jurong which will be readv to begin production soon The factory is a DanishHong Kong joint venture. The Danish partners are Northern Feather Works Ltd. which was
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      Lock icon SHIPS IN PORT
      274 7 THE following 1* a berthing lift issued by the Port of Singapore Authority for today. Jan. 8: DEPARTURES: Oodowns Vessel* 3/4 Primorje 6/7 Ajax 8 9 Eastern Anna 10 11 Neleus 13/14 Antilochus 15/16 Peisander 19 Talsel Mam N.W.I/ 2 Klnsei Maru NW.2/3 Katong 23 24 Straat
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      Lock icon Pictured with the container above it BOAC receptionist Christina Foskett.
      95 7 THIRTY containers for baggage, air mail and cargo like the one pictured above will fit side by tide into each of BOAC's 747. Each will hold about 50 piecet of baggage or their equivalent and, when fully loaded, will weigh
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      Lock icon Sellers Active As London Gold Price Slips Further
      284 7 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) The price of gold slipped to within five cent* of its official monetary level of 35.00 dollars an ounce on the free market here today. Some dealers tonight were speculating that it could go even lower. I Since last
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      Lock icon LONDON RUBBER
      75 7 LONDON Wed. (UPI) Rubber market closed steady with spot 24-1/4 25-1/4 nominal. SETTLEMENT HOUSE Feb. 24-5/8 25 March 25 25-1/4 April 25-1/4 25-1/2 April3June 25-1/4 25-5/8 July/Sep: 25-3/8 25-9 'l6 Oct Dec 25-3/8 25-1/2 Jan /March 25-1/4 25-7/16 April/June 25-1/8 25-3/8 July/Sept 25-1/16 25-5/16 Oct/Dec 25 25-1/4 Jan/March
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 69 7/8 Cts.
      306 7 January first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m.. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 69-7/8 cents per lb., down one and Ave eighths of a cent from the previous c ose The tone of the market was quiet and slightly easier. Disappointing London advices
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      Lock icon Coconut Community Meets In Bangkok
      142 7 BANGKOK. Wed. (Reuter) The six-member Asian coconut community Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand will hold its second session here today to decide on the work programmes of the organisation for 1970. One of the major projects to be discussed at the three-day
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      Lock icon Sydney Closing Prices
      163 7 SYDNEY. Wed. <UPI) Wednesday's closin* Sydney Stock Exchanfe selected shares. MININGS: Acme* 1.13 Austral Min .48 Barrier 1.30 Bh South 5.80 C Norse 7.80 C. Gold 10 90 Cra 24.50 Bodur .65 Gm Kale 1.10 Gt Boulder 5 00 Gt. Nthn -«2 Gt. West .16 Hammersley 16
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      Lock icon H.K. Money
      73 7 HONG KONG. Wed (UPI)— Money quotations Wednesday: HK $6,050 per US. dollar HK $6,067 per U.S. dollar TT HK $14.49 oer pound sterling HK $277,625 per tael of gold 94 5 oer rent fineness HK $161.0 per 10.000 Japanese ven HK $lOB.O per 100 Philippine pesos buvers HK
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      Lock icon Tin Price
      12 7 THE tin price for yesterday was per picui. up J2.7S
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      Lock icon Stock Exchange Closing Prices
      567 7 SINGAPORE—Stock Eiehaut •old and other listed at the clot prices officially si of basilicas. INDUSTRIALS SACMA MB 194 176 204 2.20 195 1-70 1-#0 2-05 Rc'W"*...::::::1 38 4 06 1 58 IS 2 48 2 50 C- A Carriage n. 8 8 1 68 180 1-69
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      Lock icon Appointments At Guthrie
      143 7 The chairman of Kumpulan Guthrie Sendlrian Berhad (KG6B>. Mr. Marcus J Gent, ha* been appointed a* managing director of Guthrie Estates Ltd.. the U.K. Holding Company, and has Joined the Board of the Guthrie Corporation with effect from Dec. 31. 1969. Mr. Gent arrived in Malaysia last
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      71 7 NEW YORK. Wed fUPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange; 30 Indus 803.66 20 Trans 181.19 15 Utils 112.00 65 Stocks 268-27 40 Bonds 68 85 Commoditv Futures Index 137 97 off 0 59 Tuesday's volume was 11.460.000 shares of a total 1.808
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      88 7 lite noun DrtoM at the Slnr*pm r CUofW Prodoc* eirtini* y«t«r4kf «r»>Barer Beiwv Cocoa at Oil (FOB.) Bulk 00 Coconut Oil (FOB.) Drum 61 00 Mixed Cnpra 8700 Munii* w bite Pepper (FOB) t00 0« Whlti Fepper (FOB.) 197 50 Sa> «pei-ia| Biar» Pepper (FOB.) M% N L W:
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      77 7 (Managers' Price* for Jan. CHARTERED UNIT TEC8T 1. Growth Fund 1-06 111 ASIA UNIT TRUSTS Mai- Invest- Fund 180 140 SINGAPORE (JMT TBI Mf 1st Malayan id 2 SO 2nd Malayan xd 2 04 3rd Malayan 129 The Com Ind xd 1 0? The 8a*. Fund 1M lit
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      330 8 PERTH. Australia, Mrs. Mary Hayre of Perth. Western Australia, is making a name for herself as an artist in the Chinese style, a technique she learnt at Seremban, Malaysia. She recently showed and sold some of her Chinesetype paintings at an exhibition in Darlington,
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    660 9  -  Ann Landers jEAANN: My wife works in a fine candy shop whose confections are nationally known. When Lena went to work there last year, she was told the store had a policy employees can eat all the candy they want in the shop, but they
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    682 9  -  By Florence de Santis NEW YORK Few things are more annoying to a woman golfer than the usual kinds of resort clothes. Golfing friends have described it to me this way: "I golf at the club in slacks and a shirt, but when I go
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    1045 9  -  By SARA LAMBERT LONDON Money has often been shown to be the biggest cause of disention, discussion and outright war in a marriage. A couple who may agree on every subject under the sun, have the same tastes, the same interests, the
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      858 10  -  BY GLORTA-MAE temper, temper! I had a fiery A one before it was cooled off by all the swimming I have been doing/' This then, is the other Pat Chan, the Golden Girl' who turns out also to hove a heart of
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      149 10 SA Tour Of England BRISBANE. Wed. (Reuter) English Test cricketer Tom Graveney today predicted —"a fair amount of racial trouble" during South Africa's tour of England this year. "I can't see us getting by without a fair amount of it, he said at Brisbane Airport on his
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      193 10 BOWLING SIXTEEN reams will take part in Singapore's first In-ter-Business Houses Bowling League, which starts off today at 6 30 pm at Jackie's Bowl, Orchard Road. Mr. Ee Fook Choy. manager of Jackie's Bowl, Orchard Road, said yesterday the 16 teams taking part comprised a
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      282 10 The Amateur Fencing Association of Singapore will be conducting two courses for fencers one for beginners and the other for advanced fencers commencing Jan. 19. This is to keep with their policy in introducing fencing to more people and to improve the standard of
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      329 10 The Royal Australian Regiment playing their first game here, defeated HQ Farelf by ten points (two goals) to three (a penalty) in the quarterfinals of the Singapore Army rugby knock-out championship at the Tanglin ground, yesterday. The Australians who had a bye in
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      139 10 LONDON. Wed. (Reuten Former world motor racing champion Graham Hil] said yesterday he wa s leaving the Lotus team to drive for a private sponsor Hill, whose were badly broken when his car crashed in the Uniter 1 States Grand Prix last October was
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      74 10 Jurong Shipyard trounced Spicers ov six goals to nil in the opening match of the Singapore Business Houses soccer match league tournament played at the Jalan Besar Stadium, yesterday. At the Farrer Park ground. Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation held Wearnes to a one-all draw, while Bime
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      123 10  -  By Our facing Correspondent IPOH. Wed. Deposit, a run-away winner first time out at Penang, looked fighting fit when sent out for cantering exercise on the sand track this morning The going was yielding. Major's Girl, with George Podmore astrides, and Sunspot matched strides
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      310 11 FA CUP LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) —Carlisle United, of the Second Division, knocked First Division Nottingham Forest out of the English Football Association Cup last night, beating them 2-1 in a third round replay. Non-League clubs Hillingdon Borough and Sutton United, battling for a
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      168 11 COVENTRY. England Wed (Reuter>—The South African Rugby Union team gave a dazzling display of rugby to pin a 21-6 victory over West Midland Counties here yesterday. But the Springboks suffered a severe blow to their hope* of winning Saturday'* international agalnat Ireland when their hooker Don
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      101 11 COVENTRY. Wed (Reuter) Don Walton. South African rugby hooker whose skull was fractured in a match here yesterday. Is to have an operation today. Walton met with the injury while playing for the Springboks against Midland Counties West here. He was detained at the Coventry and
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      31 11 SYDNEY. Wed. (Reuter) Victoria have a 10-polnt lead in the Sheffield Shield cricket competition after only four matches and Is favourite to win the Shield this season.
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      395 11 SYDNEY, Wed. (UPI) World featherweight champion Johnny Famechon faces a hero's welcome when he returns home tomorrow following hii sensational knockout of Japan's Fighting Harada. An estimated two million people watched the fight which was televised direct by satellite. Famechon's 14th round win over Harada yesterday
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      416 11 NEW YORK. Wed <Reuter> Cassius Clay, former world heavyweight boxing champion, said yesterday his onetime sparring partner, Jimmy Ellis, should beat Joe Frazier in next month's heavyweight title fight "if he can go 15 rounds and doesn't tire". Clay rated Frazier and Ellis the best of
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      125 11 TOKYO. Wed (Reuter) World featherweight boxing champion Johnny Famechon of Australia said today he carried a St. Christopher medal for good luck throughout his title match with Fighting Harada of Japan here last night. Famechon knocked out Harada in the 14th round in his
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      179 11 LEEDS Yorkshire, Wed (AFP) Jimmy Blnka. the 34-year-old Yorkshire wicketkeeper who has miased only one game for the County since he made his debut in 1955. is retiring from first class cricket. Binks is taking up a post with a Hull Arm of power transmission
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      47 11 MILAN. Wed. (AFP> Rene Barrientos of the Philippines would defend his world junior lightweight boxing title against the voung Italian. Antonio Puddo in Itaiy this spring if a promoter could guarantee the champion a US$5O,OOO purse, said Puddo's manager. Umberto Bxanchizu here yesterday.
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