Eastern Sun, 10 January 1970

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    46 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY E*td. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1232 Saturday* 10 January 1970. MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cents Eastern Sun Singapore?s Own National Daily SATURDAY, JANUARY 10. 1970 21-i. Ro«» 39. I«U« Sultjn, 5i«««pop« 2. MaUy«i«. TelephcFie: *****/7 Tel«phon«: *****/6 Cable Address: AWNEWS
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    Lock icon Lee And Agnew Have Long Talk
    915 1 UNITED STATES Vice-President Mr. Spiro T. Agnew, who orrived here yesterday morning for a three-day official visit, had "private talks" with the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, on problems facing Singapore and the political situation in South-east Asia. Also present at the talks
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    Lock icon M-16 For Thais
    63 1 BANGKOK. Frl. (UPI> The United States will supply Thailand with 20.000 M-16 rifles for the Thai forces now fighting the Communist Insurgency In the country, a reliable government source said Friday. The US. decision to supply weapons to Thailand followed a discussion here between Virp President Spiro
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    Lock icon Adm. Limon
    52 1 PARIS. Frl. (Reuter) Admiral Mordechai Limon. Israel's chief arms buyer in Europe asked by French authorities to leave the country after the Cherbourg gunboats affair, left here for home today Admiral Limon. withdrawn by Israel at France's request, told reporters at the airport: "I leave with a very
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    Lock icon Reds Fire Rockets Into S. Laos Town
    193 1 VIENTIANE, Fri. (UPI) About 10 North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao commandos early Friday slammed 122-mm Russian-made rockets into Pakse city in southern Laos, killing one woman and wounding two other persons, the Defence Ministry announced. Ministry spokesman Col. Thongphan Knocksy told newsmen three
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    Lock icon Troops Called To Quell Bengal Riot
    154 1 CALCUTTA, Fri. (Reuter) Indian authorities called in troops to quell disturbances which swept through part of North Bengal today for' the second day running. Army units were deployea throughout thp tea-growing hill district of Darjeellng and civil-military control centres were set up In the
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    Lock icon Sarawak Curfew
    47 1 KUCHING. 6arawak. Frl. (Reuter) Police have Imposed a 24-hour curfew In certain areas of Sarawak's first and second divisions to make It easier to carry out securtty operations there. A police spokesman said the curfew, effective from 5 pm today, would continue until further notice.
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    Lock icon K.L. Warns Of Red Propaganda
    456 1 STIFF PENALTIES ENVISAGED KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Stiff actions including the revoking of citizenship certificates would be taken against those found disseminating illegal Communist propaganda broadcast by a clandestine radio station "Suara Revolusi Malaysia" located in Yunan province, South China. The warning was given today by
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    Lock icon Frenchman Hijacks Airliner To Beirut
    276 1 BEIRUT, Fri. (UPI) Twenty passengers and airline crew hijacked to Beirut by a Frenchman with three 911ns and a grudge against Israel flew back to Rome Friday. The hijack victims including Purser Claude Moitry. probably the only man in the world to have been hijacked
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    Lock icon Israel Raps Paris-Libya Arms Deal
    197 1 JERUSALEM. Frl < neuter > Israeli official* said today the reoorted French arms deal with Libya would be sufficient to supply almost every Libyan field soldier with his own plane or tank But they added that jjl this armament would doubtless find its way to
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    Lock icon U.K. Polaris Commdr. Guilty
    70 1 ROSYTH. Scotland. Frl. (Reuter) The commander of one of Britain's four Polaris nuciear submarines tonight was found guilty of a court martial charge of endangering his £55 million vessel The submarine. HMS renown. was involved in a collision with an Irish coastal vessel during a shakedown
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    Lock icon Fertility Rate Seen Continuing To Decline
    436 2 WOMEN in the 15 to 44 age group will increase by about 52,000 or 13.1 per cent by 1971, according to projections from 1968 to 1971 in this age group. This increase is generally reflected in all age groups "except for the age group
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    Lock icon Jailed For Axe Threat
    160 2 A 61-year-old man. Mok Wah Chan was sentenced to six months jail after he pleaded guilty to a charge of •ommittir.g criminal mtimiddation bv attacking a number of people with an axe in one hand and a chopper in the other. Mr. Dalio Singh, the Fourth
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    Lock icon To Mediate In Colombo
    87 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri Mr Donald U'ren. the Asian representative o? the International Transport Workers Federation, left here tooay for Colombo to mediate in the dock worker* strike which ha* criopled r>ort« In Cevlon. He toid retx>fter< at the Kuala Lumpur international airoort that the jtrike was
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    Lock icon THEFT
    60 2 MOHAMED Yasin bin Umar. 16. was yesterday charged in the Ninth Magistrate* Court for stealing S3 from the AirCrew Locker room at the Royal Air Force in Changt on Jan. 6 He admitted the theft in a cautioned statement to the police after he was arrested on Jan 8.
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    Lock icon STA Dinner Gifts
    171 2 TWO bottles of champagne in a cooler and a bottle of whisky will be presented free to each of six lucky tables at the 10th Anniversary dinner of the Singapore Tourist Association at the Tropicana Theatre Restaurant on Friday, Jan. 16. Members of the Association and their
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    Lock icon Malaysian Trade With N.Z. Grows
    135 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. New Zealand's exports to Malaysia rose from $15.2 million in 1964 to $34.95 million In 1968. the New Zealand Trade Commissioner, E. M. Clayton said today. He told a press conference to announce the Introduction of a direct shipping service between his
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    Lock icon Flood Kills Man, Women
    84 2 LUMUT. Frl. A man and two women were killed in floods caused by a freak thunderstorm which hit the Lumut area last night. Two squatter houses in Batu Dua Pendu outside the town were completely washed away by flood waters. Heavy rains lashed the coastal areas
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    60 2 KUCHING. Fn. The State Minister of Agriculture and Forestry. Mr. Tajang Laing said here today the Japanese oartners in the Rejang Woodchip Factory in Sarawak are oomtemplating of investing $l5 million on the expansion of the factorv Mr- Laing who returned yesterday from a 15-dav tour of Japan and
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    Lock icon Indon Visit
    57 2 KUALA LUMPUR Fri. The Minister of Information and Broadcasting. Enche Hamzah bin Dato Ab u Samah will leave for Indonesia on Feb 2 for a week's visit at the invitation of the Indonesian government. He is scheduled to hold talk s with Indonesian officials on co-operation between the
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    Lock icon Regular Freight Link With N.Z.
    343 2 KIaLA LUMPUR, Fri. Royal Interocean Lines as trow this month, commence a direct shipping service between New Zealand, Port Swettenham and Singapore with a vessel arriving and departing every three weeks. Every second month one of the vessels will also call at Jakarta. Disclosing this
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    Lock icon Embassy Smeared
    101 2 UNKNOWN persons smeared the walls of the American Embassy at Hill Street with black oil hours before the arrival of the American Vice-President, Mr. Spiro Agnew, for a three day visit to the Republic. The oil patches, about two to three feet in diameter, were discovered by a
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    Lock icon Psychopath's Death In Hospital Probed
    334 2 HEARING on the death of Ton Ah Lay, 39, a former Woodbridge Hospital, mental patient, opened at the coroner's inquest yesterday. Tan described by a medical report at a person who suffered from paranoid psychosis, died in the General Hospital, of brain narcosis caused by
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    Lock icon 3 Hold Up Watchman
    78 2 KUALA LITNTPUR. Fri. Three men held up watchman and escaped with 2ft locks worth $492 from the storeroom of a construction site at Old Airport Road here Wednesday. The watchman Mohamed A!l bin Haji Abdul Ghanl. 48. tod oollce he wa* at tb* ute of the
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    Lock icon Ipoh Office Burgled
    73 2 TPOH. Frl Thieve broke into the office of a construetion firm at Cock man Street her# on Wednesday and e»caped with Sfl7ft. The Manager of the Aai* Construction Co.. Mr Teh Kian Leng told oolice he kept th#» money Inside the drawer before returning home. On his
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    Lock icon Doctors Quitting K.L. Govt. Jobs
    205 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Minister of Health, Tan Sri Sardon, said today that theie was a constant flow of doctors leaving the government service every month for private practice. He said, "We can quite understand why they prefer to go into private practice but what
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    Lock icon Grade B Students To Be Promoted in Malaysia
    274 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Minister of Education, Dato Abdul Rahman Ya'akub today gave the "green light" to promote 2,339 students who obtained Grade 'B' or limited promotion in the Lower Certificate of Education examination. I He told a press conference that these
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    Lock icon Move To Improve Travel Management
    441 2 SINGAPORE'S first Travel Industry Management Seminar dealing specifically with Hotel Management will be held at the New Lecture Theatre Two, University of Singapore next Mon- dov. Over 50 participants, drawn mainly from the staff of Assistant Managerial level upwards of hotels tn Singapore are taking
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      63 2 S'pore Sweep PAYMENTS for the Singapore Sweep Draw and the 3-D. held on Jan. 6. will be made from Jan. 13 and the 4-D and other prlzea from Jan. 15. Payments will be made at Singapore Pools Limited. 1-4, Percival Road from 10 am. to 12.30 p.m. and 2 p
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      20 2 TODAY and YOU Saturday, January 10, 1970. yf TAURUS AMU 20 *ZKHAY2O 1 53 3? 6" wj nr 2- 7-26-31
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    Lock icon PEKING: MOSCOW CAUSES THE BREAKDOWN OF BORDER TALKS
    467 3 HONG KONG, Fri. (Reuter) China was today reported to have accused the Soviet Union ot breaking an understanding on military disengagement along their 4,500-mile frontier, thus making two-month-old border talks in Peking fruitless. The report was carried in an extra English-Lan- guage
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    Lock icon AGNEWS 'DULLEST' VISIT FOR AUSSIES
    211 3 Fri (UPI) YS. Vice-President Spiro arrives n**t Tuesday (o*i3o GMT) on what promises to be the dullest visit ever to Australia b> a leading foreign dignitary, Agnew will face a truculent and hostile Canberra press corps, angry about the arrangements made for the Vice-President's 45hour
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    Lock icon 2 More Men Charged Over My Lai 'Slaying'
    684 3 WASHINGTON, Fri. (Reuter) The army yesterday charged two more soldiers over the alleged My Lai 'massacre' making a total of four men so far accused in the incident. The two men charged were Sergeant Charles Hutto and Private Gerald Smith. Sergeant Hutto.
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    Lock icon SUKARNO THE INFORMER
    103 3 JAKARTA. Fri. (Reuter) The recent irrfsts of several Indonesian senior military officers were based on information given by deposed President Sukarno, according to the Chief of the National Intelligence Body Bakin Maj. Gen. Sutopo Juuono The General told reporters that Dr Sukarno was still being interrogated on
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    Lock icon S. China Earthquake Was A 'Disaster'
    330 3 KONG, Fri. (UPI) Red China today Mid the earthquake that hit Southern China Monday was a "disaster." Coming from Radio Peking, which almost er reports natural calamities, it must have been a disaster of unusual and tragic violence, observers here commented. The quake, with
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    Lock icon Sino-US Talks In Warsaw On Jan. 20
    557 4 WASHINGTON, Frl. (Rauter and UPI) —•The U"|»ed States is exoeeted to spell out Its hopes for o more relaxed relationship with China when envoys of the two countries meet 0 k! January 20, government sources said today. The 135 th meeting will take
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    Lock icon ATLANTIS AHOY-WHEREVER YOU ARE
    951 4  -  By JOHN SCOTT Gemini News Service ATHENS Whoever thought up the old adage about great minds thinking alike would have had second thoughts if he had joined last year's Aegean cruise by 76 leading scientists from 17 countries organised as a hunt for legendary lost Atlantis.
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    Lock icon A Train-Conductor's Diplomacy
    411 4 PARIS, Fri. (UPI)-—By day, Raymond Chamayou worked on a subway train. By night, police say. he sipped champagne like an aristocrat and dined lavishly as a bon vivant diplomat who always forgot his wallet. Chamayou. p">U:e said, led a secret life as Phlllippe de Fombelle, a phoney
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    Lock icon A Vodka-less Russia ?
    117 4 A Vodka-less Russia MOSCOW. Frl. (UPI) A Russian on Tuesday took the revolutionary step of proposing prohibition of vodka. Viktor Loginov of Krasnodar. In a long article in the communist youth newspaper, 'Komsomolskaya Pravda,' said vodka cost the country nundreds of millions of rubbles in loss production every year, broke
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    Lock icon 8,000 Asians Asked To Quit Kenya
    383 4 NAIROSI. Keny., Fri. (UPI)-The IC.nr. Governmont th k "™d 1 000 not, to the country. jl»ln 9 them between three end o. 9 ht month, to pock up their buiintnel. Tho order atfeete en ottimated 8.000 men, women end children «rryin 9 British passport*.
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    Lock icon 10-hour Dance
    74 4 HONG KONG. frl. (UPI) A marathon dance, a programme of the first festival of Hong Kong held last month but cancelled due to crowd disorder will be restaged on Jan. 18 Couples who compete 10 hours of dancing will receive television sets and radios are requested to donate
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    Lock icon Home-Made Zoo
    57 4 CHEfiTEft England. frl. (UPIt Frank Wodlham bought hia wife birthday present, and the neighbours immediately quit coming around. The present was a Tourfoot python, and "rtobodys near me slric# it arrived.said Meg \V66lham. Woolham's previous birthday presents to his wife have included an alligator, a desert rat. a
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    Lock icon The Ex-Wife Who Still Hangs Out With In-Laws
    624 4  -  Ann Landers riEAR ANN: What can I do about an ex-wife who invites herself to my parents' home and tries to get herself included in ill the family affairs' I would lik# to see my parents once in a while but I'm
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      81 4 i s J u ?r V ATLANTIS-was Plato right? Atlantis, paradise lost beneath sea, is part of mythology. Legendary cradle of mankind, Plato placed H In Atlantic. A new theory fixes island In Mediterranean Athenian army (maMpfitofiffirilowed by earth Island swallowed byeea Bpth events WgWTNEOffy Minoan civilisafToff \S sTrfoled QtiVm
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    Lock icon New Trial Plea By Ray Denied
    269 5 SuJmpf »rl Tenn FH. (UPI) The Tennessee Supreme Court Thursday denied a petition by James Earl >r a rew trial ,n the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In handing down the unanimous eight-page decision, the court noted that Ray had knowingly pleaded
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    Lock icon Pill Hazard
    75 5 OTTAWA. Frl. <UPI> Dr Jeffrey Bishop. Director of the Food and Drug Directorates Drug Advisory Bureau, said yesterday that a much greater degree of hazard faces users of oral contraceptives than was originally believed when the pill was introduced about a decade ago. Bishop said blood clots, mental
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    Lock icon Nixon's Vote
    47 5 SANTA ANNA. Calif.. Fr. (UPI) President Nixon a registered voter In New York for the past seven char.g ed his voting residence back to his native California day before heading back to Washington His wife. Pat and daughter Trlcia. also registered to vote in California
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    Lock icon Launch Of Apollo 13 Postponed
    188 5 HOUSTON. Texas. Fri (Reut£o ArvTl UUTICh the n€Xt £*o Apollo manned space s hot s the elaved to re-study ♦h* v S r lfl < mi ssion plans T? 1 Aeron autics and &pace Administration sa id here jesterday M^' lo i <> 13 v
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    Lock icon Appeal For Human Rights
    99 5 MEXICO cm*. Frl (UPT> Relatives of 35 political prL sobers or. a hunger strike in jai- called on the Human Right s Commission of the United Nations yesterdav to investigate conditions m the prison The 85. mostlv students and professors, were arrestee after the nots that
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    Lock icon Peru Strike
    52 5 LIMA Frl (rPI) One of Peru's two Journalists unions yesterday announced plans for a nationwide work stoppage next Sunday and Monday to protest tho military government's new "Press Freedom Law" The Tress Freedom Law" provides stiff Jail terms and fines for news articles offensive by the government or
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    Lock icon Divinely Carried Away
    118 5 ESHER. England Frl. 'Renter) David Saxby-Willis's mission in i:> praying on his knees in the middle of busy inter-section*—has cost hini 85 sterling in fines. Saxby-Willis. 31. was nned 60 sterling for obstructing traffic at four busj inter'\:s and «:> sterling for failing to obey a previous
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    Lock icon In For A Penny, In For A Pound
    70 5 LONDON*. Fr. (UPI> —'The Council of bsrXire Borough spent 100 000 pounds for 2 n new garbage truck* ar.d mav have to spend a like amount because someone forgot to use a tape measure The trucks are too w:de for the Borough'*
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    Lock icon Mary Jo's Parents To Sue Kennedy?
    550 5 EDGARTOWN, Mass. Fri. (UPI) The secret inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne ended yesterday jfter four days of testimony during which a witness contradicted a crucial time element in Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's account of the car accident. District Judge James A
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    Lock icon NO SONIC BOOMS IN U.S. OVER POPULATED AREAS
    336 5 WASHINGTON, Fri. (UPI) Most Americans will not be subjected to sonic booms from the proposed supersonic transport (SST), the Nixon administration pledg. Ed yesterday. Deputy Presidential A i tant William E. Tlmmons said. "It is the unequivocal position of this admlnistraI tion
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    Lock icon No Guerrilla Anti-Israeli Attacks From Lebanon War
    255 5 BEIRUT. Fri Reuter) —As Israeli jets strafed targets in South Lebanon for the third time In a week. Interior Minister Kama 1 Jumblatt yesterday announced that he had secured commando agreement to restrict activities along the Israeli border. Jumblatt asked for restrictions on
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    64 5 IZMIR, Turkey. Fri. (Reuter) Prostitutes here are demanding a 100 per cent pay increase because of price rises in food, liquor and other commodities. They are asking an official commission to approve the increase, although have only gone up between 10 and 30 per cent. The current
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    Lock icon Sen. McCarthy
    53 5 MOSCOW. Frl. OJPI) Sen Eugene C. McCarthy conducted a round of visits yesterday to middle-grade Soviet officials, but there still wns no Indication he would s»e Premier Alexel N Kosygin. The Minnesota Democrat's schedule included a talk with the Moscow Mayor a parliament official and a Deputy Minister
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    Lock icon Novel May Have Given Manson Murder Idea
    387 5 SAN FRANCISCO, Fri. (UPI) Charles Manson, leader of the Hippie commune whose members are accused of the Sharon Tate killings, may have patterned his life after that of a character in a popular science fiction novel, the San Francisco Examiner said Thursday. "There
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    64 5 NEW ORLEANS. Fn »Reuten— a 52-year old man was reported In a satisfactory condition after undergoing a heart transplant operation by a team of seven surgeons at the Oschner Medical Centre here today. William Isaac, a New Orleans repair technician, who had been suffering from congestive heart failure, received
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    67 5 CAPE KENNEDY. Fla. Ftl. 'Router) The launch of an advanced commercial communication!* satellite was postponed for the second time tonight only 10 minutes before the planned liftoff. The satellite Intelsat 111 was to have been launched yesterday towards an orbit that would have placed it In an apparently stationary
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    Lock icon Sales Drive For Concorde
    121 5 NEW YORK. Tri (Reuter) Representatives at the Franco-British Concorde supersonic transport project began an intensive two-week sales tour here yesterday during which they will have talks with all U-S. airlines. Included in the party ara 'est pilots Jean Franchi of the Sud Aviation Company and Peter
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    Lock icon MAN AND MOON
    497 6 IN lengthy sessions lasting many days. 142 scientists from various parts of the world eave their conclusions on the numerous tests they had performed on the moon rocks brought back to earth by the Apollo 11 astronauts. Incidentally. U.S. Vice-President Spiro Agnew, now in Singapore, has been
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    Lock icon PERSISTENT LIBERALISM
    279 6 RECENT statements made by Gustav Husak, the Communist First Secretary of Czechoslovakia, appear to reveal that all liberalism has not been crushed by the Soviet Invasion of August 1968 and subsequent events. Husak's views were published apparently because the so-called "democratization" programme started last year is now being
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    Lock icon The Giant Of The Air Makes History
    1280 6  -  *y PETER BOSTOCK Gemini News Service LONDON: A new era for the world's 261 million airlino possongers opens on January 12. After an overnight flight from New York a Pan Am Boeing 747 capable of carrying 490 passengers will touch down at London's
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    Lock icon A Time Of Questioning And Change...
    2492 6  -  By Richard C. Longworth VIENNA (UP!) The 1960s laid down new limits on the inI dependence of the communist nations of Eastern Europe. The 1970s are likely to see these nations testing the limits carefully but persistently in a dozen different directions. It will
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    Lock icon Ned Kelly Brings Life To Australia's Film Industry
    705 8  -  By Christopher Reeves SYDNEY: Ned Kelly, Australia's only folk hero, was a murderer, cut-throat, and the "iron" bushranger of the wild colonial days who probably never made an honest penny. He was hanged in 1880, yet today he looks like making o
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    Lock icon The Changing Woman Of Japan
    697 8  -  By LEON DANIEL TOKYO (UPI) Woman power is changing the face of Japan. The women can out-poll the men by about 2.337.000 votes, which gives them a lot of political influence. But what may be more disturbing to husbands is that wives are beginning to
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    Lock icon THE NEW MAN
    241 8 BOSTON. (CPI) The scientific for creating human and other lives in the te«t tube and laboratory are promising. but not for anr time soon, a leading scientist in the field assured a mixed audience of theologians and scientists recently Dr Bernard D. Davis. Professor of Bacteria! Physiology
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    Lock icon WET MANILA'S SOARING WATER BILLS
    437 8  -  By VICENTE MALIWANAG MANILA (UPI) Filipinos have one of the wettest countries in the world and are probably paying among the highest water bills too. The average household In the Manila metropolitan area is already paying much more for water consumption than those in London
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    Lock icon Trinidad Moves To Befriend Cuba Over Its Sugar
    961 8  -  Trinidad is making overtures to Cuba and other Commonwealth Caribbean countries may follow. The reason is not surprising Trinidad wants to safeguard its vital sugar industry in the event of Britain's Joining the Common Market and of the US resuming sugar buying
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    Lock icon Space Study Of Earth
    410 8  -  Py JOSEPH L. MYLER WASHINGTON (UPI) The Inferior Department was, as the phrase goes, cautiously ootimistic. The Geological Survey, an agency of the department, was exploring the ld?a If it worked o'Jt said the ln*enor the world would "be the gainer" The idea was a child
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      23 8 AMY By Jack Tipp'rf rz K Vi "Jf we're having leftovers, my father ond 1 want to eat out„ Care to join us?"
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      93 8 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saundere and Alden McWßiams I FOUND ONE OF > YOUR OLD SCHOOL WARM-UP SUITS, lee rov/maybe I IP WE A THIS LITTLE RASCAL MUST'VC KNOCKED AT THE HOSPITAL TICO'S FATHER INSISTS THAT THE BOY ALWAYS HAS MONEY CONSTABLE BECAUSE THE CHILD HAS A HABIT OF RUNNING
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      Lock icon Hair Styles Important To Holiday Evening Looks
      504 9  -  By Florence de Santis WHILE hair styles should always be choosen first for their flattery, they also fulfil an important accessory function. Holiday evening clothes require coiffures that complete their elegance. The covered-up look is bock for formal Clothes, whether in the velvet
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      Lock icon DYAN CANNON IS THE BIG STAR OF 1970!
      589 9 NEW YORK: Dyan Cannon emerges at the new big «far of 1970. She graduated from her title of "ex-wife of Cary Grant" to being the most sought after young actress of today. Dyan# starring film, "Doctors Wives," gets the go signal February
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      Lock icon A Neck Becomes A Throat
      238 9  -  A Lovelier You Br Mary Sue Miller A LOVtLT writes: My neck Is my undoing It ia long and scrawny And the skin U coarse. H'hit, if anything, would Improve appearance#* The Answer: It hardly seems possible that a neck can be too lone these
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      922 10  -  DJ isyi Jimmy Lad NOVELIST is the day's best bet in the class five, division one 81f (Race Four) at Ipoh today. The Australian gelding is a consistent performer he has finished on the board in his last five outings. At the Penang meeting in
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      225 10 1 JIMMY LAD CISCO ZODIAC SACK 1 (1 LANDAULET 3 Hoafv Dear 6 1 Easy Money 2 l GLOBF STREAM 1 3 I Honev Dear 1 1 fandaulet 8) CHLARAMELLA 119) Prinze's Knife (13) Pasir Kavangan RACE 2: (111 MOONR AKF.R (1 > Tallette 2 1 Cameron Highland* (I
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      139 10 HOBART. Tasmania, Fri < Reuter> Australian Bob Carmichael yesterd y bundled American Negro Arthur Ashe out of the Tasmanlan lawn tennis championships In a shock result. The 29-year-old Australian, who lives in Parts where he is ranked No. 3 and who has affiliations with Belgium beat the
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      1285 10 Race 1: CI. 6, Dlv. 3..514 Furs.—2.1 5 p.m. ($4,500) 1 ***** Landaulet 5v 9 00 Rodgers Ng 2 ***** Globe Stream 9 00 Osman 3 ***** Hone* Dear 5v 8 09 Paul Velu 13 4 ***** Red Fare 6y *y 8 08 E Breuk Lee 4
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      332 10 LONDON. Fri, (Reuter) England's preparations for defending the World Soccer Cup in Mexico in June could be seriously threatened by the backlog of club fixtures caused by the current bad weather and influenxa epidemic. Already more than 100 League and Cup game* have
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      101 10 LOS ANGELES. Fri <Reuten Dave Hill, second top money winner last year, hit a five-under-par 66 "to share the lead after the first round of the four-day Los Angeles Open eolf tournament here. Level with him in the US 5100.000 < £41.700 > event
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      65 10 Ball Banned Fined £100 DERBY. England. Frl. <Reuter> England soccer star Alan Ball was yesterday suspended for five weeks and will miss next Wednesday's international match against Holland. The red-haired Everton forward was also fined £lOO by a Football Association Disciplinary Commission meeting here. Action was taken against Ball because
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      135 10 IPOH, Fri. Pleasant Vista is keeping his win- nine form, with Ricky Kingston astride he went stylishly over 3f in 39 4 5 without being extended, reports our racing correspondent. The going was soft. Seregalar also Impressed when he sprinted over 3f in 39 1/5.
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      122 10 NAIROBI, Fri. (Reuter) Kenya, which have banned a cricketing tour by a British M.C.C. team because the Britons plan to play white South Africans later this year, were yesterday asked to consider boycotting next July's Commonwealth Games at Edinburgh, Scotland. Mr. Isaac Lugonzo, Nairobi's Mayor and
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      117 10 SYDNEY Fri (Reuter* Victoria are well ahead of rival Australian states in this seasons Sheffield Shield inter-state cricket competition. Victoria are also the stats hardest hit by the absence of Australian Test players captain Bill Lawry, batsmen Keith Stackpole, lan Redpath and Paul Sheahan. Reserve
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      153 10 WELLINGTON. Fri. ißeu:«r) Former Test batsmen Terry Jarvis and Keith Thomson hit centuries f or Canterbury in their drawn Plunket Shield cricket match against Centra; Districts at War.ganui yesterday. Their 204-run fourth wicket stand in 249 minutes enabled skipper Vic Pollard to declare Canterbury's second innings
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      66 10 LONDON. FYI. (Reuter) nflmAi y SeVen entrles named yesterday for this ES» Grai i d National steepyear 6 fewer than last The famed 'chase will be ApriM Alntree Liverpool, on The last two winners. Hirh•f" d A eddin <1969) and Red Alhrator C 1968» have
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      24 10 JAKARTA. Fri. (Reuten Indonesia will take part in !vw?t, ian Swimn *ing chamSingapore in e Department of sport announced today.
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    451 12 WHILE her husband was meeting Singapore leaders for discussions on political affairs in South-east Asia, Mrs. Spiro T. Agnew, spent her first dav in Singapore visiting children's centres and having tea with American women. Accompanied by Mrs. Charles T. Cross, wife of the
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    218 12 TWO desperate robbers who ■were not contented with their loot, robbed the victim's next door neighbour at St. Thomas Walk yesterday and eot. away with a total of $5,000 in cash and jewellery. The first victim. Shleh Chu Kwong. 37. reported to the Police that he was
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    116 12 FOUR men, two believed to have been armed with daggers, on the pretext of buying petrol from a kiosk at 4i m.s. Bukit Tlmah Road, robbed the attendant of $l5B in cash early yesterday mornnlng. The attendant, Munlandy Maniam. 47, told Police that the
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    392 12 THE U.S. Vice-President, Mr. S. Agnevr, has reiterated that the U.S. will continue to perform its obligation in defence matters in this region. He was speaking to reporters on board U.S. Air Force Two, which flew from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore yesterday morning. Explaining
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    70 12 A man charged with theft refused to be remanded at Central Police Station because of "bugs, odour and cold."* Ngoo Keen Tay. 34. yesterday claimed trial in the Ninth Magistrates Court on a charge of snatching a purse containing cash $32. from Loh Moh Cheng, or Jan. 8
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    122 12 Cheng Chee Wah 47 ws» yesterday rhargeH in the > :rth Magistrates Court for selling pirated copies of records. Or Jan 8 acting on Information received. Inspector Roger Yup of the Commercial Crime Branch of the C.I D. and a oartv of po'ice officers raided a photo
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    65 12 THE first annual general meeting of Hotel Royal Limited will be held at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce Building In Hill Street i on Jan. 29. The meeting will receive i the directors report and accounts for the period ended Sept 30, last year, to elect directors, to
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    49 12 Three new hotels, with a total of 265 rooms, have been approved and planned for construction in the Republic They have not been named yet. They wMI be ioc?""1 ft Kramat Road (65 rooms), Balmoral Road (60 rooms) and MacPherson Road /Upper Aljunied Road (140 rooms).
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    100 12 "JUDY", wife of the visiting American Vice Pretfdent, Spiro Agnew is shadowed wherever she goes. Not a moment is she left alone. And the "shadow" is Miss Irene Choo. (right a 24-year-old Security Officer specially assigned to Mrs. Agnew. Miss Choo. a holder of a brown belt
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    99 12 AN exhibition of contemporary Australian art and sculpture will be held at the Australian High Commission. Clemenceau Avenue, from Jan. 24 to Feb. 11 The exhibition, the second major one by Australian artists here, will be officially open by the acting Minister for Culture. Mr Wee Toon
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      81 12 Time Tide TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN: 1.14 a.m. (9.3 ft.) 6.17 a.m. (4.5 ft.) 12.04 p.m. (10.7 ft.) 7.02 p.m. (1 in-) NAVAL DOCKYARD: 1.08 a.m. (11.3 ft.) 609 am (5.1 ft.) 12.22 pm. (11.7 ft.) 6.31 p.m. (3 in.) TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN: 1.52 a.m. (9 3 ft.) 7.04 a.m (4.2
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      52 12 TOTO DRAW THIS Sunday's Toto draw will be conducted at TV Slngapura and the draw will be telecast "live" over Channel 5 at 3.10 p.m. There were no flrst and second group prize winners In Thursday 5 Toto draw. The first group prize for this Sunday s draw will remain
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