Eastern Sun, 18 January 1970

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  • 25 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ft Estd. 1968. Vol. 4 No. 1240 Sunday Edition, IB January 1970. ft MC (P) 1616 Price 15 cent*
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  • 323 1 JMeir: Psychological Impact TEL AVIV, Sat. (Reuter) Israeli Air Force planes continued their daily attacks on Egyptian military installations with two raids across the Gulf of Suez, it was announced here today. One Israeli plane was shot down in the first raid yesterday made on
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  • 242 1 PARIS. Sat. (AFP) United Nations Secretary General U. Thant's scheduled meeting here with President Georges Pompidou has been postponed from Monday to Tuesday because of U. Thant's decision to visit Lagos, it was announced here today. Originally C Thant was to have arrived
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  • 178 1 ROME. Sat. (UPI) Actress Anita Ekberg. once a favoured member of the "La Dolce Vita" crowd that titillated the world, said today she was fed up with Italy. "I don't like Italians any more." said the 38-year-old star who once danced one of the hottest cha-cha-chas
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  • 106 1 TOKYO. Sat. (Reuter) An 18-year-old Japanese youth who attempted to emigrate to China said todav he sp?nt part of his six weeks there studying Mao Tse Tung's thought* in the hope cf being allowed to stay. But Osamu Tokumaru, who swam the Chun border river between Hong
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  • 57 1 BAGHDAD, Sat. (Reuter)— The Iraqi government has rat:?l<»d a law aimed at endIn? illiteracy in the country and ha* declared the day it ♦v. e& .nto force a national holiday. A preamble to the law. published here today, said it would help "create enlightened citizens capable of participating in
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  • 270 1 The Deputy General Manager of the Jurong Shipyard Limited, Mr. Low Guan Onn. announced the bonus for 1969 and the fringe benefits for about 2.000 employees including managerial staff of the company at its fourth annual dinner held last night at the People's Association,
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  • 261 1 SAIGON. Sat. (AFP) President Nguyen Van Thieu has ordered a series of changes in the Army's top leadership and the replacement of about a dosen provincial heads, official sources said here today. No reason was given for the changes but it was believed that
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  • 46 1 SALISBURY. Sat (Reuter) Security forces today hunted an African nationalist guerrilla unit after an attack last night on a south African police patrol near Rhodesia's border with Zambia Shots were also fired at buildings at the small airport at Victoria Falls. Security Force Headquarters announced.
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  • 29 1 PARIS. Sat. (Reuter) Police arrested a 30-year-old Yugoslav who thev said, climbed the Eiffel Tower barefoot and stole some souvenir from a shop on the first floor.
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  • 95 1 MEXICO CITY, Sat. (AFP) Two doctor* working at the anti-tubercular centre at Huipulco, northern Mexico, have devised a method of using ping pong balls in the treatment of advanced cases of pulmonary tuberculosis, it was reported here. They have discovered that If ping pong balls covered with an
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  • 317 1 AGNEW ENDS TOUR AUCKLAND. New Zetland, Sat. (UPI and AFP) U.S. Vic* President Spiro Agnew left Here today for Honolulu after a two day visit to New Zealand at the end of his 11-nation Asian and Pacific tour. Moscow radio today branded I Vice President Agnew's
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  • 105 1 MANILA, Set. (Reuter) Five member* of a gang who held up and robbed seven Filipino congressmen have been identified as members of a local police force. Manila police reported today that the congressmen were In a gambling house at Makatl town near Manila on
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  • 55 1 ATHENS Sat. (Reuter) President Makarlos of Cyprus and Greek Premier George Papadopoulos today began a second round of talks on the situation In Cyprus The two leaders concluded a first round of talks on January 2. when the Cypriot president stopped over In Athens on his way
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  • 39 1 MANILA, Sat (Reuter) Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos told members of the Philippines Chambe r of Commerce today that many government orogrammes were bogged down because several lower-lev#] government officials were too lazy, discourteous or lacked interest- 1
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  • 231 1 'NOT SATISFIED' JAKARTA, Sat. (AFP) Hundreds of Jakarta students took to the streets today for the third day running to protest against the recent increases in the price of kerosene and petrol. Today's confront atlon against Minister of Finance All Wardhana ended as Indecisively as
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  • 39 1 BANGKOK Sat. (Reuten—! Thailand will not ban the use of birth control pill* despite claims In the United States and Britain that they could cause cancer. Dr. somboon Phong-Aksara. Deputy Minister of Health, said today.
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  • 177 1 BRISTOL. England Sat. (Reuter>—Mr. Edward Heath, leader of Britain's Opposition Conservative Party, said here last night Britain could well afTord to contribute to a fivepower Commonwealth force to guard mutual Interests in Malaysia and Singapore The Joint force would be composed of troops from the
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  • 25 1 TAIPEI Sat. ißeuter) —ThCentral News Agency reported todav that the South African government has presented four rhinoceros as a gift to Nationalist China
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  • 417 3 SAIGON, Sat. (UPI) American 852 bomber crews trying to disrupt a new Communist buildup in South Vietnam's northern provinces hammered jungle base camps and supply areas late yesterday in two new raids near the Laotian frontier, e '9ht-eng»ned Stratofortresses dumped at least 180 tons of bombs
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  • 183 3 TSLAMBAD Sat (Reuter)— Pakistan today accused India of stalling vital talks over the sharing of the waters of the Ganges A Foreijm Office spokesman gain ttif» two countries had agreed last Julr to hold serre-larv-levei talks later in the year but India had "unilater•llv oostooned"
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  • 168 3 TOKYO. Sat. (UPI) The longest drought in Tokyo's recorded history was reached Saturday and deaths from fires nearly tripled. The sun continued to shine on the world's most populous city (11.4 million residents) on its 41st day without rain, longest since the Tokyo Meteorological Agency
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  • 71 3 LONG BEACH. Calif.. Sat. (UPi) The Royal New Zealand Air Force received its first two Skyhawk military Jets yesterday from the U.S. Navy in a ceremony at the McDonnell Douglas Corp. Frank Corner. New Zealand Ambassador to the United States, accepted the camou-flage-painted jets for his government. New Zealand
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  • 69 3 TOKYO. Sat. (UPI) The Chief Executive of the government of the Ryukyu Islands todav sought Japan's cooperation in solving a dispute between US military authorities and Okmawan* who work on American bases in Okinawa. Chobvo Yara came to Tokyo in a last-ditch effort to avert 4 .he five-dav strike
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  • 39 3 HONG KONG. Sat (UPI) An American serviceman on rest and recreation leave from Vietnam wa s found dean in a hotel her*» last night. Authorities said the fatality is 19 vears old and comes from Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania
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  • 289 3 WASHINGTON, Sat. (Reuter) The White House emphasised today that the timing of American troop withdrawals from South Vietnam still depends partly on the level of Communist military activity and the rate of infiltration from the North to the South. Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler. in
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  • 133 3 HUNTSVILLE. Ala.. Sat. <UPI> Gen. William C. Westmoreland, former Commander of U.S. Forces In Vietnam. said yesterday the army "is not trying to hide anything" in the Investigation of the alleged My Lal massacre. Westmoreland, now the Army Chief of Staff, said he received a report on
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  • 406 3 HONG KONG. Sat (UPI) Tension along the Sino-Soviet border has been increasing recently despite the resumption of border talks in Peking between Vice Foreign Ministers of the two countries, according to Communist sources here. The sources indicated that several "incidents" involving Russian and Red Chinese border troops had
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  • 202 3 NEW DELHI, Sat. (UPI) Burmese President Gen. Ne Win and Indian Prime Minister Mrs, Indira Gandhi discussed the world situation in a meeting yesterday, a government spokesman said. The spokesman sala the talks which .asted for 90 minutes revealed that the two countries have
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  • 211 3 SAIGON. Sat (UPI) US. Akr Force Secretary Robert C. Seamans Jr. said today the South Vietnamese Air Force had made good progress and should be able to take over the air war in Vietnam "in time." Seamans. completing a twoday visit to the war zone,
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  • 57 3 MANILA. Sat. (Reuter) Health officials today said that an Influenza outbreak has striken about six percent of the population of greater Manila—roughly 180.000 ©eople But thev did not classify the outbreak a s an epidemicOfficials yesterday reported that 11 people died of the disease and »ts complications in
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  • 58 3 TOKYO Sat. (UPD— Japanese Foreign Minister Knchi Aichi will meet with Nationalist Chinese Ambassador to Japan Peng Meng-Chi Monday at the Foreign Ministry on Japan's recent moves to improve .relations with Peking, the government sources said terdayThe sources said Aichi hopes to make a Anal decision on Japan's
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  • 55 3 RAWALPINDI. Sat. <UPH Pakistan has set up a directorate to co-ordinate technical assistance "within modest means" to countries in Middle East. Africa and the Far East, official sources said yesterday. The sources said the directorate was set up In the Foreign Office In view of Increasing demands from
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  • 424 3 VIENTIANE, Sat. (UPI) Communist forces of at least six battalions have la nched a three-pronged attack at government positions defending the strategic Plain of Jars 130 miles northeast of here, well-informed sources said yesterday. The attacks were described as the first major Communist effort to
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  • 110 3 SYDNEY, sat. (Reuter> A buxom blonde drew admiring crowds and caused traffic chaos when she walked naked through the heart of Sydney at lunch-time todav to back her plea to be sent home to Greece. The woman, aged 32 and wearing only a pair of high heeled shoes
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  • 114 3 CHANDIGARH. India, Sat. fßeuter) Business closures and a general strike took place today in the North Indian state of Haryana to press its claim to the disputed city of Chandigarh the capital It shares with neighbouring Punjab Officials here said the general strike, called by an AllParty
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  • 86 3 NEW DELHI. Sat. (UPI) Police Fridav fired on a group of students demanding reduced prices of food in restaurant* In Chinatami in Mysore state. Reports reaching New Delhi from the town 46 miles northeast of Bangalore said one student was killed and 10 others were
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  • 213 4 VANCOUVER. Sat (UPI) The water supply of a 3ntlsh luxury liner, quarantined by an outbreak of typhoid fever. is "contaminated" with human waste." reported a senior Federal Health Official yesterday. The revelations came as the number of confirmed and suspected cases of typhoid from 28.000-ton Oronsay
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  • 381 4 LAGOS, Nigeria, Sat. (UPI) Foreign observers invited to the battlefields of Africa's bloodiest civil war said yesterday they saw no evidence of Nigerian genocide against defeated Biafra. They denied charges that millions of Biafrans faced star- I vation. But the eight-man team of Canadians.
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  • 116 4 PRAGUE. Sat (UPI) Czechoslovak security forces have arrested several a«ents who spied for a western intelligence service, Prague Radio said yesterday. "These persons collected information of military, political and economic character." the announcement said. It said the spy ring, otherwise unidentified, had Its headquarters m Austria.
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  • 256 4 LONDON, Sat. (Reuter) The search for a location and a date for the next Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference is under way. Soundings are being taken among the 28 Commonwealth governments whose Presidents and Prime Ministers last met a year ago in London. Singapore. Canada
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  • 76 4 BEIRUT. Lebanon Sat. fUPI) Hijacker Christian Belon met with government leaders and supporters yesterday. lunched with Interior Minister Kamai Jumblat and then went sljjht-seeing as he waited for news of his future. Belcm, who pirated a TransWorld Airlines (TWA) Boeing 707 from Paris to Beirut as a protest
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  • 110 4 NICOSIA Sat (Reute>r> Police last ni*ht drained three Greek Cyprlots m connection with a bomb blast outside a Cypriot Judge'* home at Limassol. in southwest Cvprus. last night The Judge this week i*ued a warrant allowing police to search another Lunas«ol house for
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  • 212 4 LONDON, Sat. (Reuter) A young man was last night assisting police investigating the disappearance of Australian-born Mrs. Muriel McKay, 55 who vanished 18 days ago. The man was detained following the receipt of a letter at the M<*Kay home this morning. It said
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  • 589 4 LONDON. Sat. (Reuter) The arrest of Labour MP. William Owen, on a secrets charge, has shocked British politicians and the public alike. Britons spend a lot of time criticising and even ridiculing the political establishment, but despite this Parliamentarians are generally respected and trusted. Owen, the
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  • 113 4 PRETORIA. Sat, (UPI> Two Rhodesian sanctions spies were deported, from Rhodesia to London last night. In Pretoria Informed diplomatic source* told Uftited Press International the men had spied for the United States and were released as part of a deal between the United States and Rhodesia. Roger
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  • 74 4 ANN .ARBOR. Mich Sat. UPI> Gerald Kenneth Rector 44. Friday became th* third person in history to leave a hospital operating room with a second transplanted heart. Rector, a former construction worker, received the heart In an eight-hour operation at the University, o! Michigan hospital here. Hospital officials
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  • 60 4 BEIRUT. Sat. (Renter) Lebanese Interior Minister Kama! Jumbiatt said todav Palestinian commando organisations had responded to hrs r m U not se u t> any offices without official approval His announcement came after he met commando r*L rP n i? t:^ es t* l presence of Rafik Shahln Minister
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  • 117 4 TRIPOLI. Libya. Sat. (Reuter) Libya's revolutionary leader. Col. Muammar Gaddafi today formed a new government in which he took the Bjsts of Prime Minister and efence Minister. It includes five army officers of the Revolutionary Command Council which has ruled Libya since the Sept. l coup overthrew
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  • 91 4 JOHANNESBURG. Sat. (Reuten A white man-attacked and stuns by a swarm of bees until he turned almost black was put into a non-white ambulance and rushed to a nonwhite hospital by mistake today, hospital officials said. Ambulance men thought he Has an African. He was later
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  • 54 4 RABAT. Sat (Re uteri Fifteen people are feared dead and some 100.000 homeless in Morocco in flooi ravages following two weeks of torrential rain Damage to croos is estimated at o v er 100 million dirhams (over £l2 million) with heavy loss of livestock and untold damage to
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  • 327 4 BONN, Sat. (Reuter) Weft German Chancellor Willy Brandt told Parliament yesterday non-aggression agreements with the Soviet Union and other Communist states would be worthless if not applied to European frontiers. He made the statement in response to a two-day parliamentary debate on his State
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  • 75 4 UNITED NATIONS. Sat (UPI) Secretary General U Thant will visit Nigeria on Sunday at the invitation of Gen. Yakubu Gowon. chief of the Federal government, the United Nat;wis announced yesterday. It was not known how long U Thant. who was on the last le? of an official visit to
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  • 54 4 LONDON Sat (UPI) Princess Ann* sent "love and best wishes" yesterdav to Vietnar-eye children adopted by a British relief organisation. The 19-year-old Princess, newly elected President of the Save-The-Chlldren Fund, sent the greeting for the opening of an extension of the fund's convalesce.-.* centre for war wounded children
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 126 4 TODAY and YOU... Sunday, January 18, 1970. STSt <5 SSS&S CANCU June 21 ~&JULY 22 12 S'cr--13 Con MA J6 Be 17 Exp'oncitans 47 Moke 42A!on» 72 Tor 43 Profit* 73 Without 44 Can 74 Opportunity 45 A 75 You 46 D*ve?apmants76 Obi rede* m r* 18 Lights 19 Lmvi
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  • 263 5 (UPI) A Hippie millionaire, jllkl c^ procurer Minot (Mickey) £1 eadway Frida y ln 9''«"9 «way his 25 million dollar inheritance in an attempt to bring happiness to a ~~j troubled world. i When everybody is is rich as I am. then I'll leave the
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  • 98 5 RALEIGH. N.C. Sat. <"UPI> The North Carolina Court of AppeaLs agreed yesterday that topless dancing may not be ladylike but It* quite legal "The exposure by a female of her breasts to the public view In a public place Is not an offence." the court said In
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  • 208 5 T* YORK. Sat. (UPI) SS!., Publisher of eeati© John Lennon's erotic lithographs depicting his love with his wife. Yoko Ono. Raid police closure of a gallery in London exhibiting the Prints will have no effect on their sale in America. °J th# lithographs f
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  • 44 5 ST AN? TED England Sat. fßeuter) Britain's first relief aircraft carrying medical supplies ordered by the Lagos government left here ear'y to 4av for Nigeria. The olane. a Tradetvmds four-er.gined heavy transport, carrying seven LandRo- ers and about 11 tons of med'jeai supplies.
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  • 679 5 NEW YORK, Sat. (Reuter) The United States Space Agency, which had to stretch out Its manned exploration schedule because of budeet cuts, now face s the threat of a •'brain drain". Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) fear key technical employees,
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  • 244 5 WASHINGTON. Sat. (UPI) Use of LSD, the hallucinogenic drug known more commonly as "acid." is declining on college campuses but increasing among high school students, a Federal Health official reported Friday. Dr. James H. Cava- naogh. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health. Education and Welfare (HEW),
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  • 108 5 (UPI) Services will be held Jan. 23 for Louis Fischer, noted expert on Soviet affairs and foreign correspondent who died of a heart attack yesterday at Hackensack. New Jersey, hospital. He was 73. Fischer had oeen a Research Associate and visiting lecturer at the Woodrow
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  • 76 5 CAMBRIDGE. Mass Sat. (UPI) Between 55 and "5 students and non-students ended a 34-hour occupation of th* offices of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) President Howard W. Johnson last night after the school refused to negotiate their demands School officials said the demonstrators. who seized the offices of
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  • 61 5 CAPE KENNEDY T.a Sat fUPI) The first sate'.ite insured against rocket failure successfully shifted into its final stationary orbit yesterday for :ts «trr into the trans-Atlantic communications business The Comsat Corp majority owner of the USS6 5 million Inte'sat 3 spacecraft. plans to begin radio with the satellite
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  • 228 5 CHICAGO. Sal (Rnrttr) A lawyer representing two Black Panthers was Jailetf f©r days here yeeterdav for refusing to produce erMrncr relating to a police raid in which two leaders of the militant Nerro party were shot dead. Francis Andrew was also jailed for defying an order to
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  • 454 5 WASHINGTON, Sat. (UPI> —Thi Air Force grounded ita fleet of 10 giant CSA |et transport planet Friday when a "wing crack" was discovered on one of tk« craft at the Lockheed Corp. plant at Marietta, Gia. The Air Force said the crack
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  • 82 5 GEORGETOWN. Guyana. Sat. (Reuter) Two Guyanese cabinet ministers tonight exchanged marriage vow* ;n a spectacular open-air wedding in the grounds of Prime Min:ster Forbes Burnham's official residence. The coupe. Works and Hydraulics Minister Hami'ton Green. 35. a nd Education Minister Miss Shirley FieldRidley. 32. were married
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  • 102 5 LOG ANGELES. Sat. (UPI) Charles M. Manson. charged with the murders of actress Sharon Tate and six other persons, was denied 750 U.S. dollars in public funds yesterday to hire a private Investigator. Superior Court Judge George M. Dell, In denying the request from Manson who
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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  • Church At Home
    • 172 6 Let the sun rise, Morning shed lta light; The stlUMt of prayers Will not bring us back. He whose candle is extinguished And in earth Is laid. Bitter tears will not awaken Nor recall. None will us bring back From darkest pit; Neither paeans of victory Nor
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    • 835 6 Some Significant Statements At The US Congress On Evangelism EVANGELIST Tom Skinner: "Tht church must take stand against racism on tha grounds of the Kingdom of God and the clear teaching of Scripture For the church to continue to deny Biblical truths
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    • 765 6  -  By POON MENG SENG MAN landed on the moon. This is the first of the ten top news stories of 1969, according to a UPI report of a survey among newspaper editors. Many people have interpreted the landing on the moon as the shattering of
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    • 298 6  -  FES SNG EWE KONG, crucial year for Not <mi7 was Kjhe 10th Anniversary of the Fellowship, bat a number of important rti&nges were also mad#* which a re likely to affect the whole future of our work. To begin with, this was the year when staff
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    • 274 6 VI AN ILA Five hundred church leaders from all over the Philippines will participate in the All Philippines Congresson Evangelism to be held in May 12-20, 1970 at Faith Academy in Cainta, Rizal. Ninety percent of them are ranking leaders from
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    • 161 6 CHOOSE FREEDOM, by Michael Green (InterVarsity Press!, paperback, pp 93 Price: $1 50. "What a ridiculous tltl® for a book! Surely nobody needs encouragement to choose freedom? I am not so sure." s ays this author. "Certainly. everyone WANTS freedom, but whether thev i actual!y CHOOSE
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    • 315 6 A MESSAGE oo "Peace and War" issued recently by The Christian Science Board of Directors terms peace "a stark imperative for humanity's survival." and looks toward practical efforts to use **the full resources of man's God-given Intelligence" for solutions to global problems. The
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 189 6 Radio Manila (FEBC) Gu 7.00 am 7 15 <n MO 3 zi> 9 30 1000 11 3 0 12 00 to 100 pm 4 30 pm 4 35 5 30 0 30 6 45 to 7 00 pm Tl5 7 30 7 45 to 8 15 pm National Lanpai* 8
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 72 7 A STRUCTURAL change in the steel industry it being introduced by this new electro-steelworks of the Badische Stahlwerke AG Kenl-om-Rhine. This ministeelworks with an annual capacity of some 400.000 tons of billets is regarded as the most modern of its kind in Europe. Its core is formed by two ultra-high-power
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    • 638 7 UNITED NATIONS, Sat. (UPI) The United Nations planning group for global economic development hat formulated its recommendations for narrowing the gap between rich and poor nations in the next 10 years, its chairman, Dutch Nobel Prise winner Jan Tinbergen, announced yesterday. "Our aim
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    • 142 7 LONDON. Sat. (Reuter> Another cents an ounce clipped of the price of gold here today, bringing it down to its lowest for 16 years. Its new low level of 34.75 do lar« and little Drospect that it is likely in the near future to go back
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    • 64 7 LONDON. Sat. (Reuter) Britain's exports to China exceeded 50 million sterling last year for the flrst ever, the Sino-British Trade Council announced here today. Their total value was 51.822.000 sterling, according to preliminary estimates. In 1968 the comparative figure was 28.500.000 sterling, Chinese exports to Britain also achieved
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    • 52 7 THE Association of Banks In Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the fofiowlng changes In Its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency): Deutche Marks $84.0175: Holland Guilders $85.2275: Swiss Francs $71.7700; French Francs $55.7225; Danish Kroner $41.2500; Norwegian Kroner $43.2425 and Swedish
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    • 409 7 The market wag for the most part quiet and thin during the past week, but it was influenced by an improvement in consumer interest and later by the Malaysian budget for 1970, according to Holiday. Cutler. Bath Co., in its weekly report. The outset was confined to
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    • 279 7 THE following is a berthing list issued by the Port of Singapore Authority for today, Jan. 18: DEPARTURES Godo\m s VeMela 13/14 Hoegh Dene 19 Rosetta Maud N W. 2 Bruas N.W.3 Selamat 21/22 Yamashige Maru 23 Kunak 29/30 Gunung Kerintjl 31 32 Birgitte Skou 33 34
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    • 403 7 WASHINGTON, Sat. (UPI) A Presidential task force will recommend that oil import tariffs replace the present quota system, but adoption of such a plan would have little effect on the American consumer or the foreign oil producer, sources said yesterday. But it
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    • 256 7 WASHINGTON, Sat. (Reuter) A congressional critic of the recent monetary agreement with South Africa warned today that the United States might be called upon to make excessive gold purchases. Representative Henry Reus* (Democrat. Wisconsin) who is chairman of the Joint HouseSenate Committee on
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    • 286 7 LONDON, Sat. (UPI) Tin International magazine said yesterday there are solid grounds for believing tin is now in as strong a position as at any time in the post- war years. It said the broad-based growth of tin consumption, i the changing pattern of East-West
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    • 13 7 THE tin price for yesterday was $703,124 per picul. up $0,121.
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    • 166 7 BOMBAY, Sat (Reuter) India's rational income at (constant prices went up by three per cent in the fiscal year 1968-69 as the country maintained a hitfh level of foodgrain production, the Reserve Bank of India said yesterday. The bank's report on currency and
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    • 311 7 NEW YORK, Sat. (UPI) Chinese Airlines (CAI) will inaugurate direct jet service between the United States and Taiwan on Feb, 2, its President Benjamin YiChen Chow, announced yesterday. Speaking at a press conference at the Biltmore Hotel, Chow promised that the airline would provide
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    • 88 7 i Mis noon prima at the Kings pore <hlne*e Prodoce Birban c* )Mtcrdkj weresWW Mrllei Commit Oil MM (FOB) Bulk Coconut Oil 59 50 <F O B) Prom Mixed Copra 8800 White Pepper 180 00 (FOB) >*r mMt> While Peppei 177 50 rroB) -p«-« |H| HlMt Hep per (FOB)
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    • 115 7 (Man a|f T»" Prte< for Jan 19) 1 HA KT FCR KD 1 UNIT 1RL>1 Groi i Mai 1 rth kSI n\» Fi 1 *t ind LMT mi 1 07 112 TRtSTS ID ISM 1-40 SING >AP -OR E r NIT TRUST* lot Ma 2nd Mi 3rd Ma
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    • 181 7 LONDON. Sat (Reuter)— The market was slightly firmer after early steadiness. Selective buyin* pushed once* forward. and towards the close the FT index was one point up at 421.5. Plessey advanced strongly ahead of next week's interim, while Scottish Newcastle led firm brewerje* on Its figures. Rank
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    • 103 7 FRANKFURT W Germany, Sat (Reuter) Malaysian officials veSterdav signed an an agreement with the West German Development Loan Corporation tor a long-term loan of 11.5 million maTks (about £1.3 million) for a project to expand Port Swettenham A spokesman for the Malaysian Embassy here Mid Malaysian Ambassador.
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    • 38 7 NEW YORK, Sat (UPI) Rubber futures closed unchanged and untraded on the New York Commodity Exchange. Close Prev.^ March 26.108 26.10 May 26.008 26.00 July 26.008 26.00 September 25.15 A 25.15 November 26.00 A 26.00
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    • 466 7 ARRIVALS 5 00 a.m. MSA 029 R. Lompnr 9 oo a m MSA 119 R. Lumpur 9 45 a.m. MSA 831 8 1 d n e y, Jakarta 1015 a m MSA 112 R. Lumpur 1JC.40 p M CAL t 15 laipei HODS Rons 10-25 a-m. MSA 055
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  • POPPING AROUND With Platter Pete
    • 531 8 The musical world of The Archies, the vocal-Instru-mental group formed by Don Kirshner. is likewise known to millions of record buyers and listeners via tunes like "Sugar. Sugar," which won Gold Record recognition as a million seller late in August and shortly thereafter climbed to the number-one
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    • 1311 8  -  It Just Depends We All Want To -JOHN LENNON By ALAN SMITH I MAY be wTonf, and I hope I am, but theae are dark days for the Beatles I begin to wonder how much longer their association can stand the strain of their own individual
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    • 283 8 CLODACH RODCIRS: Ml DNICHT CLODACH (RCA) AFTER three Top Thirty hits Clodagh comet up with her second album consisting mainly of Kenny Young compositions Her slightly throaty voice ranges from tha soft and wistful to the full-bloodad and is aided and abetted by
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    • 263 8 Greetings Comrades! As my being so pledges, so shall It come to pass! By the limbs of the centaur, was it not with an indisputable conviction of truth when I hinted the magnificence of the Beatle story in its splendorous manner to you last week? out soft...there
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    • 131 8  -  By Derek Johnson KINKS: tVictoria (Fye) FOR your Information, the title refers to the monarch and not to the station! Though I couldn't help thinking that the driving thump heat was more suited to the latter This is an extract from the Kinks* pop opera "Arthur,"
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    • 336 8 WORLD CHARTS Proving that the sentimental ballad still ha* a plate among the rofk, soul, reggae and other current pop fads, Rolf Harris keeps his "Two Little Bo*i" at the top of the British charts for the fifth week Established stars like Bobbie Gentry. Elvis Presley Dave Clark and Engelbert
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  • 410 9  -  Ann Landers fJEAR ANN: When a younq couple expects a baby six or seven months after a large church wedding, how should the bride's parents break the news to relatives and friends? We are aware of that old cliche. "It happens m the best of families." but
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  • 240 9  -  A Lovelier You By Mary Sue Miller A Lovely asks: What is the value of an eag shampoo? Is it true that one can be whipped up in the kitchen? How? The Answer Eggs are loaded with protein and vitamin A. Both of
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  • 157 9 ROME. Sat. (Reuters Men's suits without collars or lapels and brightly coloured i shirts today made a flamboyant opening for the Rome spring and summer fashion collections here. Jackets were mostly closeflttlng with deep vents at the back, and a lot of them were fastened
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  • 298 9 SINGAPORE: Sat. Music players and listeners in Singapore and Malaysia will soon be clamouring tor th« popular music which has come from the smash Broadway hit musical comedy "COCO". Songs such as "Fiasco'. Always Mademoiselle" and "When Your Lover 6a TS Goodbye", have taken America by storm
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  • 774 9  -  Sheilah Graham LONDON: This is the third time that Michael Crawford and I have talked about his experiences with "Hello, Dolly!" ond Barbra Streisand. The first time was two-ond-a-half years ego when he came to Hollywood to start rehearsing
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    • 258 9 ORG AINJIS ATIOM ODEOM ***** DEFLMTKLY LAST 4 DAYtI U I.M. 4.M. IJI 9 SO B •THE ITALIAN JOB Michael Cmne Color P'Vuion A Paramount Picture Distributed br Cathay TODAY AT 9 M am VITADEER Presents THE EARLY BIRD SHOW featuring RITA SAKURA Adm 11.00 A 92 00 BOOK EARLY
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      • 881 10  -  By Jimmy Lad TILUE SKY is my choice in the class three division one main sprint (Race Five) at Ipoh today, concluding day of the Perak Turf Club meeting. The Irish gelding put up a creditable performance in his first run at Bukit Timah when
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      • 120 10 SYDNEY, Sat. (UPI) Empire light-heavyweight boxing champion Bob Dunlop announced his retirement last night. Dunlop, 24, also the Australian heavyweight champion, said he felt he could no longer give a "100 per cent effort," "So I thought the best thing to do was to get out,"
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      • 107 10 MEXICO CITY. Sat. (Reu- Vicente Saldivar has signed a contract to fight Australia's Johnnv Famechon either In London or Paris between April 18 and May 30 for the world featherweight title recognised by the World Boxing Council. Saldivar. who signed In the presence of promoter Mickey
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      • 221 10 JIMMY LAD CISCO ZODIAC EACE Is 1) PINK ROSE 8 Little Angel 2 Ei Alto (8) LITTLE ANGEL 4 Malarhijau (1 Pink Roue (2) EL ALTO S I Shareholder I 4 Malarhijau RACE 6 MULTIPLICATION (2 1 Fandr Andy 1 Par Excellence (3) PAN ANDY 1 Bima 8 Multiplication
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      • 300 10 PHOENIX, Arizona, Sat. (Reuter) Paul Harnay scored a two under par 69 yesterday to take a one shot lead after two rounds of the US$lOO,OOO (£40,000) Phoenix golf tournament. It was the second straight week that Harney held the lead in a tournament
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      • 173 10 BRISBANE. Sat. fßeuter> Queensland were struggling at five wickets down for 187 In reply to South Australia's 388 at stumps on the second day of the Sheffield Bhleld match here today. Bouth Australia, who started the day at four for 318, collapsed during
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      • 180 10 SYDNEY, Sat. (Reuter) The touring New Zealand cricket side battled to make 212 runs on the first day of a match against the New south Wales state side here u>day. At stumps New South Wales had lost two wickets for 44 runs and were
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      • 140 10 Asian Youth Soccer Tourney MANILA Sat. (Reuter) Israel are fielding a powerhouse team headed by four International players In the 12th Asian youth soccer competition to be held here from April 15 to May 2 The Philippine Football Association today announced that Israel will be
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      • 83 10 CHRISTCHURCH. New Zealand. Sat. (Reuter) Australian racing driver Frank Matich, in a McLaren MIOA, won the Lad v Wigram trophy event here todav over the lap 2.3-mile circuit. American Ron Grable was second in a similar car, and Australian Max Stewart in a Mildren Wagott.
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      • 86 10 CHRISTCHURCH. New Zealand. Sat. (Reuter* Otago. the new Plunket Shield cricket champions, completed their season's programme with a resounding 163-run victory over Canterbury at Lancaster Park today. Otago. who have won the Shield for the first time since 1958. routed Canterbury for 109 in their second Innings
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      • 186 10 JOHANNESBURG Sat. (Reuter) South African golf star Gary Player yesterday hit out at the government's refusal to let Indian golfer Papwa Sewgolum compete against whites In South Africa's open tournament next month. "We are slowly putting our head Into a noose.'' he said In
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      • 31 10 LONDON Sat. (Reuter) Results of last night's rugby matches were: Rugby League Halifax 6 Rochdale Hornets 12. Salford 6. Castleford 12. Rugby Union Bristol 21. Rovai Air Force 3.
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      • 16 10 BOMBAY. Sat (Reuter) Holland defeated Belgium 2-1 in the seven-nation hockey tournament her* yesterday.
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    • 297 11 BANGKOK, Sat. (Reuter and AFP) Thailand last night entered the final of the Asian Zone Thomas Cup badminton competition following a walkout by Indonesia. Thailand and Indonesia had each won two matches after the firit day's play here on Friday. Indonesian singles expert Darmadi
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    • 156 11 BANGKOK, Sat. (Reuter) Indonesian badminton team manager, Mr. Abdoul Kadir, said here today that Indonesia would appeal to the International Badminton Federation against Thailand entering the final of the Asian Zone Thomas Cup badminton competition. The Indonesian team staged a walkout laat night
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    • 310 11 Springboks Racially Mixed TeamSociologist LONDON. Sat. (Reuter) A British sociologist claimed today that the South African Springbok rugbv team, although selected on nominally racialist lines, is In fact of mlx«d race. He suggested that antl- apartheid demonstrators' placards should read: "We welcome your racially mixed team and look forward to
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    • 868 11  -  *y Our Racing Corespondent IPOH, Sat.—Patrick Ngiow, apprenticed to Bukit Timah trainer Keith Daniels, scored his first win when he landed home Mau'ana in race two to pay $73. the highest dividend of the day .He had to survive an objection lodged by Soaidi, rider
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    • 190 11 Burnley United the defend. I In* champions, qualified lor the FAS Under-18 age-group youth tournament knockout final, when they scored a convincing 2-0 win over Hamilton Sports Club at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday Tor Burnley's win the honours should go to their centre-forward Llm Kok
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    • 162 11 BANGKOK. Sat. (AFP) The influential English daily "Bangkok Post'* today described as a "blatant exhibition of misconduct" the decision last night by Indonesian Thomas Cup badminton captain. Muljadi. to leave the court during the Asian zone final against Thailand after accusing the Thai umpire of
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    • 161 11 PORT ELIZABETH. Sat fßeuter) Keith Stackpole and Laurie Mayne tamed the Eastern Province attack with an unbroken 92-run third wicket stand for the Australian cricketers here today. rtie burly Stackpole and Mayne. who came together wnen the Australians were struggling at 39 for two
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    • 263 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Malaysia today regretted that Indonesia walked out of the Thomas Cup Asian Zone semi-finals against Thailand at Bangkok last night. The President of the Badminton Association of Malaysia, Enche Mohamed Khir Johari, said: "I don't know what actually happened in Bangkok, but
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    • 195 11 LONDON. Sat. <Reuter) Britain i professional soccer players may soon have their future guaranteed by a life-lona pension scheme. A Joint Negotiating Committee of the Footba'.l Lea- -e and the Professional Footballers' Association draftee i iic new deal pension .The re a.ter months of hard
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    • 163 11 MELBOURNE. Sat (Reuter) Top United States Davi* Cup player Arthur Ashe bowed out of the Victorian Open tennl* champlonahlp* here today when he was beaten by Australian professional Tony Roche In an exciting men's singles semi-final clash. Roche won the match 11-9,. 12-14. 12-10. 6-3.
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    • 115 11 SYDNEY Sit (Reuter) Former Er.gbsh professional Guy Wolstenholme. who now lives in Australia, was a clear leader tod»y after the third round of a US$lO,OOO (£4.670) Endeavour Masters fold tournament here. Despite a one over par round of 70 today. Wolgtenholrrve goes into tomorrow's Anal
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    • 1238 11 (CHANNEL 5) AJt. 10.00 Opening Anncts: 10 03 Skippy the Bush Kangaroo; 10.30 The Doctors And The Nur l e "Next Stop To Vathalla"; 11.20 Pesta Pop P M. 12.10 Mr. Ed The Talking Horse "Ole Rocking Chair'; 12 35 The Monroes; 1.25 Chinese Cinema "Seven Lucky Or.es"; 315 Toto
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  • 481 12 ORGAN-GRAFT MORALITY THE Minister for Science and Technology, Dr. Toh Chin Chye said last night that a major effort in organ transplantation would not be feasible except cornea grafting because of local religious problems, beliefs, prejudices and superstitions. Speaking at a dinner organised by the
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  • 278 12 TOURISM in the Pacific Area, if it is to realise its full potential, must continue to promote the "all-embrac-ing" concept of the package tour. This was stated by Mr. Robert B. Austin, President of the Pacific Area Travel Association (PATA), at the tenth annual dinner
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  • 119 12 A passenger. Kamaruddin bin Abdullah Din. 20 died three hours after admission to the General Hospital following an accident between a car and a van at the junction of Dunearn Road and Whitlev Road on Fridav morning. Kamaruddin. of Race Course Quarters, was one of the nine
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  • 100 12 Sharipah Zauyah Binte Said, 39, yesterday pleaded guilty in the Ninth Magistrate's Court to two charges of misappropriating jewel- I lery 510,140. The Court was told that she was entrusted with a $l4O pair of gold ear rings on Dec. 12 by
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  • 479 12 A Local shipyard will rank among the giants in t he industry "within the next few years" when one of the two large graving docks is extended to three times its present sise. Jurong Shipyard Limited presently has two such docks to contain 100,000 deadweight
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  • 297 12 THE proposed museum for the Singapore Armed Forces at the Pasir Laba Camp in Jurong, received its first "specimen", yesterday. The SAF museum received two British-made BESA machine guns once used by the former Singapore Armoured Corps (Volunteers) in the early 'so's. At a simple
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  • 194 12 Hundreds of fashion-con-scious women flocked to the Robinson's Restaurant yesterday to feast their eyes on the gorgeous creations graced by lovely models from the Michelle Modelling Academy The models padded down the catwalk in their exquisite clothes which were designed by Robinson's designer. Miss Ivy
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  • 191 12 The Muslim Religious Counril Singapore ha« taken over the responsibility in converting non-Muslims to Islam in 'the Republic as from Jan. 15. Hitherto the All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society her* was mainly responsible for the conversion of nonMuslim to Islam. With the taking over of the<> functions, the
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    • 82 12 Time A Tide TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN: 1.06 am. (5.6 ft.) 642 a.m <7.9 ft.) 2.28 pm. (23 ft.) 9.59 p.m. (7.2 ft.) NAVAL DOCKYARD: 136 a.m. <6 6 ft) 6.35 a.m (9 ft.) 2 11 p.m. (3.2 ft 10.04 p.m. (8.9 ft.). TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN. 2 22 am. (5.7 ft.)
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