Eastern Sun, 21 January 1970

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  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ft Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1243 Wednesday, 21 January 1970. ft MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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  • 377 1 Goh To Indecisive BRITAIN, in the process of disengagement from this region, should not disregard the stakes and the influence she had succeeded in establishing through her labours of a century and a half, Dr. Goh Keng Swee said yesterday. The
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  • 62 1 LILLE. France. Tues (Reuter) An 18-year-old youth <Led here todav after pouring petrol over himself and settin* it alight in protest at wars and the foilv of men", po!:ce reported. High school student Robert Gerevens died In hospital after being admitted with third degree burns He
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  • 169 1 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tues. (Reuter) The centra of Bridgetown was like a battlefield today after the second big fire in six weeks gutted a whole city block last night. Some buildings were still smouldering amid a sea of wreckage and smoke hung over this picturesque Caribbean
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  • 109 1 I BRUNEI Tues (Reuterl All restaurants and food stalls in Brunei town were closed indefinitely tonight following an outbreak of cholera Seven people were admitted to hospital with the disease today and the Director of Medical Services. Dato PI. Franks said all possible measures were being taken
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  • 42 1 PETERBOROUGH. England. Tues. (UPI) When Peterborough's local television station suddenly seemed to go off the air. authorities called, in a rat catcher. Officials said a rat had chewed through a master cable connecting television sets to a master aerial.
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  • 116 1 MANILA. Tues. (Reuter) Philippines Civil Service Commissioner Abelardo Subido, who has been ordered to resign by President Marcos for corrupt practices, was today tolcf that he had to submit a formal petition if he wanted his case to be reconsidered. Last night Mr Subido. who has been
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  • 74 1 PELSALL. England, Tues (UPI) Some people have telephones, but cannot get their number listed in the directory. Leonard Wilcox's problem is he has a telephone number but no telephone. The General Post Office and Wilcox's local council got into an argument eight months ago about the
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  • 49 1 LIVERPOOL. England. Tues. (UPI) Wanted: Five pretty girls who smoke pipes. Ogden's of Liverpool. Britain's largest producer of pipe tobacco, wants the beauties as part of a campaign to win young smokers. The reward £l.OOO a year each plug all the free tights and hair-does they desire.
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  • 97 1 WARSAW. Tues (Reuter) United Btates and Chinese envoys talked for one hour here today In the first fullscale diplomatic discussion between the countries for two years and US ambassador Walter J. Stoessel described the meeting as useful. Mr. Stoessel and Mr. Lei Yang. Chinese Charge d Affaires
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  • 106 1 WASHINGTON. Tues (UPI) Five Jewish student* interrupted a concert by the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra yesterday by blowing rams horrts as a protest to the treatment of Jews and intellectuals in the Soviet Un!on. The students. calling themselves the New Washington Committee for the Prevention of Genocide, blew the
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  • 190 1 A 33-year-old housewife, Mrs. Joan Bursnoll was found dead in her bathroom at Namly Drive, off Bukit Timah Road, yesterday. Police who rushed there, following a 999call, recovered one bottle containing pills, which was found next to her. At about 12.45 p.m. her
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  • 394 1 BRISBANE, Australia, Tuts. (UPI) One hundred and fifty survivors of Cyclone Ada which battered the central Queensland coast today arrived here bringing with them stories of a frightening and unbeliev- able experience. The survivors from Hayman Island. 450 miles north of Brisbane, came aboard
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  • 61 1 LONDON. Tues (UPT> Birth control pills are joining mlUc. chocolate bars and canned peas as advertising fooder for British television. A spokesman for Independent Television Authority said the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications had lifted a two-year ban on family home-planning commercials. including the
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  • 45 1 BOURNEMOUTH. England. Tues (UPI) Bournemouth's Divorce Club has decided to cut down its number of meetings because of declining attendance. The club started three years ago with more than 70 members but has dwindled to about 15 regulars. The others got married.
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  • 73 1 LIVERPOOL, England. Tues. (UPI) Every year for 41 years, Harry Kendrick has tried to win the Royal Nelson Angling Club's trophy for the biggest fish. Every year, he has lost. The 30-inch silver cup now rests in his home. But not with Harry's name on it.
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  • 27 1 LONDON. Tues (UPP Toni Antonio wa* washing the windows of hi* barber shop Sunday and slipped and caught hi* foot in his barber's chair.
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  • 1530 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. T. Mahesan, 51, former secretary of the Malaysian Government Officers' Co-Operative Housing Society and also the Assistant Secretary (Sports) in the P.M/s Department, was today released on bail of $200,000 in two sureties pending judgement on his appeal against conviction
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  • 348 2 NATIONAL Servicemen were yesterday told to forget the '6o's and face the '7o's with confidence, so that they could provide security for Singapore to attract more foreign investors to pour their money in the Republic. This advice was yesterday ?iven by Professor Wong in Ken, M. P.
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  • 145 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Women are known the world over to adore ornament, especially jewellery but Ma.aysian women certainly top then all. For they have piled up enough orders to Ail a Chechoslovakian gem dealer's quota for hia tour to this part of the world
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  • 112 2 CANBERRA, Tues. (AFP) Immigration Minister Phillip Lynch announced today that visas would now be granted to four Malaysians who wish to train with a private flying school in Australia. Earlier, the Australian government had rejected a request for visas for the Malaysians to
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  • 88 2 All motorists using Tank Road tomorrow are advised to refrain from entering Tank Road, because of the Thaipusam rush. A police spokesman said that only buses will be allowed to use Tank Road on Thursday. Any other motor-traffic is not permitted to enter Tank Road from 7 a.m.
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  • 85 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Malaysia and Poland will initial a draft trade agreement tomorrow, the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Raja Tan Sri Mohar Bin Raja Badiozaman. said today. He toid news men after a two-and-a-half-hour meeting with a three-man Polish trade delegation
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  • 62 2 PENANG. Tues Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines and Taiwan will send observers to the two-dav convention of Lionj International District 308 beginning here on April 25. The Governor of Penang. Tun Syed Sheh Bin Syed Hassan Barakhbah. will open the convention. the theme of which 1« "Unite mankind
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  • 114 2 THIEVES made off with $42,000 in cash and property from two firms on Monday. Giving details a police spokesman said that the first theft took place in Orchard Road, when the proprietor of Peter Robinson's Studios was shocked to see his studio ransacked. He
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  • 341 2 Day Two Of First NoJury Trial THE High Court yesterday heard how differences between two subcontractors over a contract work had led to a fight which resulted in the death of an 18-year-old labourer. Tan Bok Piau also known as Bok Piau on June 22. 1967. Yesterday was the se-cond-day
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  • 106 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Common excise laws are to be introduced this year for both East and West Malaysia to harmonise the system, the Comptroller General of Customs, Wan Hamzah bin Ha|i Wan Mohamed, said here today. Once we have a common act, our work will
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  • 479 2 Thaipusam, Thursday TWENTY-seven-year-old A. Arunasalam, has a life time debt to pay the Hindu deity Lord Subramaniam who answered his prayers to cure his mother's 10-year illness. His mother, Papaamme, 56, was cured completely after he had made several prayers and pleas to
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  • 154 3 CANBERRA. Tues. (Reuter) TT Australia is to convert to the metric system of weights measures as soon as possible Prime Minister John Gorton announced yesterday. He said the government •imed to complete the ohangeover during a ten-year period, although conversion would be completed
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  • 209 3 LONDON, Tufs. (Renter)— Singapore's Chun e Khiaw Bank yesterday lost its appeal here over claims to prior entitlement of property payments with another bank The Privy Council's Judicial Committee dismissed the appeal with costs in a dispute with United Overseas Bank Ltd. over payments out of
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  • 81 3 I SYDNEY, Tues (UPI) A well-known Sydney com- pany director was today charged with stealing 1.8 million Australian dollars (2.2 million U.S. dollars) including 500.000 Australian dollars (562,000 US dollars) from the "Freedom from Hunger" campaign. Peter Huxley. 43. a former banker, appeared in
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  • 370 3  -  By HONORATO CABIE MANILA, Tues. (Reuter) —A survey by a Filipino woman doctor on the rate of abortion among Philippine women has disclosed startling figures for a country that has one of the world's highest birthrates. The survey, conducted by Dr. Amanda Valenzuela, of
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  • 215 3 FORT BENNING, Georgia, Tues. (Reuter) Lieutenant William Calley begins a legal fight for his life today when he asks the army to dismiss charges that he "murdered" 109 South Vietnamese civilians in My Lai hamlet. Calley and his defence attorneys are to ask military
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  • 204 3 ADM. AIDE Turs. (Re uteri A 42-year-old man said today Hp kept himself alive by eating toothpaste and drinking water from his vehicle's radiator while stranded for two days in searing heat in desolate far northern South Australia. Jack Skinner, a bulldozer operator working at
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  • 367 3 HONG KONG, Tuts. (UPI) Police today uid they have smashed the biggest counterfeit ring in Hong Kong's history and seised so many counterfeit notes they haven't finished counting them. An unconfirmed press report said the face value of the seised notes
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  • 334 3 MACKAY, Queensland, Tues. (Reuter) Five people were confirmed dead and two others were missing believed drowned as floods and heavy rain continued along Queensland's central coast in the wake of Cyclone Ada. Mackay ©ohce chief and director of rescue operations. Inspector A G. Bianchi.
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  • 52 3 PANAJI. India. Tues (Reuter) A delegation o* Indian women yesterdav protested to the Chief Minister of Goa Dayananda Bandodkar. against hippies appearing on local beaches. Goa's tropical beaches have attracted large nu mber o' hippies and voune people many of whom sleep in the oPen and do not
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  • 311 3 WASHINGTON. Tues. (LTI) Michael Brody, the fledgling philanthropist who admitted he "might be the biggest con-man that ever hit this world," shivered for more than an hour yesterday evening outside the White House in an unsuccessful bid to talk with President Nixoo. When it
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  • 64 3 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) The government yesterday denied a suggestion that Britain had arrangements with Malaysia to defend the ThalMalayslan border from attack by communist guerrillas. Evan Luard. Foreign and Commonwealth Under-Secre-tary told Parliament the situation arising from current guerrilla activities in the area was an internal matter affecting
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  • 54 3 INVERNESS. Scotland. Tues. tUPI) Rescue workers found the bodies of three climbers last night on Ben Nevis. Britain's highest peak. The three dead. Including one woman, were believed to have been trapped by an avalanche near the peak of the 4.406-foot mountain A fourth climber
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  • 502 4 WARSAW, Tues. (UPI) A State Department expert believed to be carrying special instructions from President Nixon briefed U.S. ambassador Walter J, Stoessel yesterday on the delicate resumption of the Sino-American dialogue today. Stoessel goes to the Chinese embassy today (T3OO
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  • 282 4 PARIS, Tues. (Reuter and UPI) United Nations Secretary-General U Thant, arriving here from Lagos for talks with President Georges Pompidou, said yesterday there was peace and quiet in the areas which had been affected by the Nigerian conflict. U Tbant flew to Paris
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  • 86 4 ABU DHABI. Tues. (Reuter) Arab countries plan to step up publicity to attract foreign tourists to the Sphinx, Pyramids and minarets of the Middle East, they announced here yesterday Modern methods, expected to include television and ftlm publicity, will be part of the campaign, which
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  • 336 4 HONG KONG. Tues (UPI) Communist China's Defence Minuter. In a message released on the eve of the resumption of Slno-Amerl-can ambassadorial talks in Warsaw, accused the United States of neating up the secret war in Laos. Lin Plao. the number two
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  • 72 4 BERLIN Tues (UPI) A western allied sP°k e STi a n has denied an English newspaper story that a four-power statement on Rudolf Hess former deputy Fuehrer would be Issued yesterday. The storr said the report was expected to reveal that Hes s must stay In
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  • 70 4 LAGOS Tues. (Reuter) Federal Nigenan troop* who captured the former secessionist capital of Owerrl at the end of the civil war discovered a shell-proof bunker under the State House used by General Odumegwu Ojukwu. reliable sources said here The bunker was equipped with Its own electric generator and ventilator
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  • 44 4 CANBERRA. Tua.v (ATP) The Australian government has deeded that Australia will convert to the metric system of weighty and measures as soon as possible. Prime Minister John Gorton in announcing this said the aim was to complete the ehangeerver in ten years
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  • 506 4 KARLSRUHE, Germany. Tues. (UPI) A Hamburg court made "almost inhuman I demands'* on Anna Anderson In demanding proof of her claim that she was Anastasia. surviving daughter of the last Russian Czar, a lawyer told the West German Supreme Court yesterday. Baron Curt Von Stackelberg made
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  • 235 4 BONN. Tues (UPI) Chancellor Willy Brandt considers East German President Walter Ulbricht has confirmed his readings* to open npgotiaI tions with West Germany, a government spokesman aaid yesterday Brandt will send a letter to East German Prime Minister Willi Staph probably this week, with a formal
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  • 486 4 UTRECHT, Tues. (Reuter) Dutch Roman Catholic bishops headed for a direct confrontation with the Vatican today over their moves to abolish compulsory celibacy and allow married priests into the church. Cardinal Bernard Alfrink. primate of Holland. is to 8 to the Vatican
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  • 120 4 LONDON. Tue s (UPI) British and Indian officials yesterday began policy talk® on a wide range off mutual and international problems, the foreign office said. The talks stem from arrange-, ments made during a meetlnf' with Indian leaders and visiting British Foreign Secretary Michael
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  • 342 4 HAMBURG West Germsny. Tues (Reuter) A Hamburg journalist hopes to enter the West German Parliament In 197S on the "free sex* ticket of his newly founded "German Sex Party. The 36-year-old editor of the St. Paull Zeitong. a 550.000 circulation fortnightly
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  • 269 4 BRUSSELS, Tues. (Reuter) Common Market Ministers face a political battle here today which could affect the time-table for Britain's entry negotiations. Bitter differences are likely to emerge when foreign. finance and farm ministers of the six deal with French proposals which would reduce newly—
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  • 128 4 BEIRUT. Tues (UPI) Christian Belon. 26. has decided to face trial m Lebanon rather than return to Franc*, his lawyer said yesterday Adei Khala\ said Belon chose not to go bark to his native land, "at the moment" for fear he would be arrested and tried
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  • 424 5 WASHINGTON, TIMS. (UPI) The United States yesterdey protested to the Soviet Union over the broadcast by Radio Moscow messages from American prisoners to their families taped in Hanoi, the State Department announced. The department charged that the Soviet Union was
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  • 269 5 WASHINGTON, Tues. (UN and Reuter) Two members of the Warren Commission, Sens. Richard Russell and John Cooper yesterday split over whether Lee Harvey Oswald alone planned the assassination of President Kennedy. Th ®y agreed, however, that Oswald fired the fatal 196*3 n Nov 2, I
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  • 73 5 JAKARTA Tue» (Renter) Three Indonesian air force cadets studying in the Soviet Union have refused to return to Indonesia, the army-run weekly Chas (special) reported today. The magazine said that Russian officials had Influenced the three cadets which It named as Bjah All Tandjung. A. R Sastroatmodjo and Herryman
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  • 29 5 WASHINGTON. Tues. (Reuter) President Nixon yesterday nominated Florida Judge Harold Carswell to fill the Supreme Court seat which the senate refused to his previous nominee. Clement Hayxuworth.
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  • 321 5 NEW YORK, Tues. (Reuter) Producer David Merrick today deplored the off-Broadway play, "Che", as uncouth and vulgar during the trial on obscenity charges of eight individuals connected with the production. Merrick, one of America's top producers, said the play was bad for the theatre and
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  • 75 5 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI)_ Newsman Curt Clemons of radio station WWRL found out Sunday that covering the activities of Michael Brody was an expensive proposition. Clemons cornered Brody In the street shortlv before the oleo heir made his singing debut on a national television show. "I bent over
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  • 381 5 WASHINGTON, TUII.I (Reuter) Administration officials are likely to check carefully on any songs in the programme for next week's White House banquet in honour of Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson. A new book published today entitled, "Ruffles and Flourishes/' contains a vivid reminder that songs
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  • 72 5 GANDER. Newfoundland, Tues (Reuter) Three Spaniards will appear in court on charges of drunkeness today after causing a Trans-World airlines jetliner to make an unscheduled landing here The plane, on its way from Madrid to New York, was diverted when stewardesses complained to the captain that the
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  • 68 5 MEXICO City Tues <UPT» Jose Luis Leon. 27 was shot In the chest because hp Is a non-smoker, police said yesterday. Police said a driver stopped his truck near Leon last nieht and asked for a cigarette. When Leon replied he didn't smoke, the driver
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  • 81 5 THIS GIGANTIC TREE with branches of iron, steel and concrete will, in a few years, house 3,000-4,000 people in Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany. It is not a town-planning gimmick. The idea is to bring back fresh air to town centres. With the first apartments 330 feet high the ground
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  • 128 5 KANSAS CITY. Missouri. Tues. .UPI> —lf Michael Brody follows his w ord and gives away his millions "to bring happiness to the world." hed better save some to keep uncle SAM happy an income tax expert said yesterday. The mop-haired millionaire could ow* 13 million
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  • 62 5 BERKELEY. California. Tues. < UPI > The University of California ha* recorded a major earthquake, which it says could cause severe damage If it struck In a populated area. The tremor was recorded at 11 32 p.m. EST yesterday <0732 GMT today) and centred 5 900 miles to the
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  • 399 5 WASHINGTON, Tues. (Reuter) Vice President Spiro Agnew, just returned from a 21-day tour of the Far East, will report to President Nixon today that Washington's new Asian policy has the unanimous approval of all 11 countries he visited. But he
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  • 75 5 That WornOut Feeling .LONDON, Tues (UPI)— Many Britons will not replace their underwear until it is worn out because they get a guilty feeling if they spend too much money on clothes, according to a report published yesterday Some will only buy new underwear when they have to visit a
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  • 535 5 PALO ALTO, California, Tues. (Reuter) Human tests of a contraceptive mini-pill on sale in Britain, France and Mexico, have been suspended in th« United States, a major U.S. drug firm announced here today. Syntex laboratories has discovered that dogs given the new pill developed
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  • 135 5 WASHINGTON. Tues. fUPH The cost of living continued to soar last month, pushing inflation for 1969 to the highest vearly mark since the Korean War. the Labour Department reported yesterday. Consumer prices rose sixtenths of 1 per cent in December despite indications that overall business conditions
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  • 66 5 DUBLIN. Irish Republic, Tues. (Router) Thieves with a taste for high adventure made off with an 896pound (480 kilos) balloon parked at the back of a local supermarket. Police said tbev used a truck to cart away the balloon owned bv the Munster Flying Club of
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  • 457 6 U.S. Vice-President Spiro Agnew, a muchneeded controversial figure in American politics, has completed his swing through Asia and on returning to Washington made his pronouncement: "The ship of progress is on course and the prognosis for Asia is excellent. The statement is perfunctory or is a downright untruth.
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  • 362 6 HOWEVER much Indonesia might have changed in the last few years, it appears that it has carried over its sporting spirit from the Sukarno era. The Asian Games that Sukarno staged was the greatest fiasco In the history of international sports. In the last Thomas Cup badminton
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  • 981 6  -  By W. Averell Harriman, man, Chairman, International Affairs Committee, Demo cratic Policy Council. Written for United Press International WASHINGTON, (UPI) The most creative period in recent American foreign policy occurred shortly after World War 11. Through the initiative of President Truman and the effective cooperation of Republican
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  • 134 6 All Unlucky MOSCOW (Route.) A luckv Russian who won a lottery for a Volaa car worth 5.602 roubles (2.600 sterling) oecided he would rather have the monev and so exchanged the ticket for cash at a bank Two women bank workers and the husband of one of them the n
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  • 717 6  -  By Kenneth J. Braddick MANILA, (UPI) The Philippines is turning a new face to the world to win a bigger share of the tourist dollar. r Whether the reputation of danger to life, limb and pocketbook la deserved or not the Philippine* has taken
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  • 758 6  -  Br Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON. The Deep South is getting the headlines, at the moment. But the dreadful fact is that in all sorts of communities, all over the United States, the system of public education is "in danger ot collapse." The high schools are the main trouble
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  • 803 6  -  By John Platter NAIROBI, Kenya, (UPI) Political assassination has suddenly come into vogue in Eastern Africa, threatening the region's stability as It begins the new decade. The assassins of 1969 chose their victims with care and moved with deadly precision. The murdered men.
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 189 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The chairman of the Guthrie Corporation Limited. Sir Eric Griffiths-Jones, will arrive in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. He will be in Malaysia for one week before leaving for Thailand. He will return to Malaysia on February 5 for another three-week stay. While
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    • 367 7 Federal Paper Products was again bloated out of proportion value-wise on continued active dealings despite new moves to curb excessive speculation in the Stock Exchange yesterday. The Committee, apparently, changed its mind overnight in the matter of scrip deliveries for it reversed its
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    • 1020 7 T>USINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified:- INDUSTRIALS ACMA $2 20 (1); Alcan $2 C 9 (11) $2 10 (6) $2.12 (2)
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    • 291 7 February first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p-m.. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 70-1/8 cents p*r lb-, unchanged from the previous close The tone of the market was very quiet. The market firmed uo soon after an improved opening following better than expected
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    • 140 7 NEW YORK Tues. (UPI)— Selling in the glamours and jump in the cost of living index in December drove stocks lower yesterday for the seventh successive dav in moderate turnover The UPI marketwide indicator showed a los« of 0.80 per cent
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    • 154 7 THE oil bant in the reJion is giving shipping a r boost. Said Mr. Chan Teck Kee, manager of the Operations Department of Straits Steamship Co. Ltd.- "With increasing oil exploration in these waters, there is a rapidhr expanding demand for oil-rig supply services.** Mr. Chan,
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    • 135 7 SYDNEY. Tues. <UPI> Tuesday cloaing Sydney stock exchange selected shares. MINING: Acmex go Ass Mln 850 Austral Min JS Barrier 1.15 Bh South 536 C. Nora* 980 Cra 2) 70 Em per 130 Endur .55 GM Ka!f 1 Oft Gt Bould 540 Gt Wwt 26 Hamm»r»|» 15
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    • 127 7 The Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore vesterday made the following changes In its rates to merchants (rates are Quoted to he eauivalent of 100 units if foreign currency): SELLING T..T or O.D. ready: Deutsche Marks $B4 1050; Holland Guilders $85.2525: Swiss Francs $71.7800: Belgian Francs $6.2400; French Francs
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    • 60 7 NEW YORK Tues. (UPI)— Rubber futures closed 40 points higher to 15 points lower on the New York commodity exchange yesterday. There were no sales March 26 50A 26.10 Mav ***** 26.00 July 26.008 26.00 Sept. 25.00 A 25.15 Nov. 26.00 A 26.00 Jan. 26 00A 26.00
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    • 218 7 RAWALPINDI. Tues. (UPI) I Japan hopes to Increase imports of Pakistan commodities to offset a big trade imbalance between the two I countries, visiting Japanese Foreign Vice Minister Shlnsaku Hogen said yesterday. Pakistan could sell more cotton and fish to help offset Japan's big
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    • 151 7 LONDON. Tu«*. (Reuter) The market moved lower over a broad front vesterday. The absence of anv fresh stimulus saw prices retreat undej- small selling but a lack of buyers tended to accentuate the falls. Towards the close the FT index was off 4.2 at 417 4
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    • 246 7 THE following is a berthing list issued bv the Port of Singapore Authority fo r today. Wednesday. Jan 21: DEPARTURES Godowns Vessels 1/2 Rajula 5 State of Ar.dhra 6/7 Vishva Mahlma 8/9 Mlckiewic? 15 16 Bronlewskl N.W. 1 Relho Maru 21/22 Gam bom a 27/28 Hai Hlng
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    • 59 7 MR. J.D. Laws, technical director of East English (S) Pte. Ltd., demonstrates an Australian -made emergency warning lamp, which is said to be theft and vandal proof, at a display of Australian engineering equipment for which his company holds the Singapore Malaysia distribution rights The exhibition, featured 12 products was
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    • 630 7 SINGAPORE—Stock E*ehan*e sold and other prices officially listed at the closa of basine**. INDUSTRIALAt M A Alcan Men A- to Borneo Rhd Roust rad Co. C. Plaj wood C. sugars C.C..M C. storage C. X Carriage xall b.Bh. Ounlop Malayan t smelting K Allied l>so OrdsKw>
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    • 144 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI)— Gold orices were mostly unchanged yesterday on markets here and abroad. In London, sold rose 2 1/2 U.S. cents at the morning fixing but dropped the same amount for a second fixing unchanged at 34.75 U.S. dollar per troy ounce. The closing range
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    • 40 7 NEW YORK. Tues- (UPI)— Do»- Jone s closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 Industrials 776.06 20 Transp. 172.10 15 Utilities 109.18 65 Stocks 256.37 40 Bonds 69.33 Commodity future index 137.46 UD 0.09
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    • 87 7 I Hfc noun ptlf it tbt MOF*. pore Chinese Prodnee UCIMBII mtrnkf were > Hare* teller twnniii (ill (FOB) Bulk 5850 Cm-onui (Hi (FOB) Dram M 59-50 Mlied Cnpr* M IIIIIMK White P^Oft (FOB) 177 50 Mtr'M.ik White 1 RAPPER (FOB) 175 00 Sarawak *pecl«| FLLKT Pepper <FO-B) Mfl%
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    • 73 7 (Managers' Price* for Jan *1) CHARTERED UNIT 18UT S- Growth Fond 1 OS MS ASIA UNIT TRUSTS Mai- Invest Fond 1-30 1-40 SINGAPORE IMT TRUSTS l»t Malayan xd 2-86 2nd Malayan xd 209 3rd Malayan 133 The Com. Ind 1-04 114 The saT. Fund 1.11 1-21 (Manager*' Price*
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    • 14 7 The tin price for yesterday was $693.25 per plcul, down $8 25.
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    • 408 7 ARRIVALS 815 am. MSA 123 k. Lumpur 945 am. M>A 119 K l uinpur 1230 pm. MSA 451 kuctiinc 2-30 p m MSA 021 K l.umpur Malacca 325 pm. MSA 453 K Klnabaiu 340p m. MSA 521 Bangkok. 3-40 p.m. MSA 521 Bangkok, Pfnana. 500p m. MSA 331
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    • 525 9  -  By Vernon Scott Hollywood, Tuh. (UPI) Can a successful, rich, middleaged producer capture the spirit and philosophy of campus revolt in a motion picture? Stanley Kramer, producer of "On The Beach," "Champion,", "Inherit The Wind" and "The Secret of Santa Victoria" among dozens
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    • 472 9  -  .%/»«•«k 'uttf 1 fijsflt It; Sheilah Graham NEW YORK. Tue* Jane Fonda will live at Malibu while husband Roepr Vadlm makes hla first film "Perryl". on thla continent His location* ar* in Canada It will be his first film
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    • 198 9 LONDON. Tuet. Simon Dee steps onto the bif screen in hi* first starring rtfe 88 Basil Beachamp in 'DOCTOR IN TROUBLE' which starts shooting at Pinewood Studios here recentlyWith a coterie of top comedy co-star* LESLIE PHILLIPS. JAMES ROBERTSON-JUS-TICE. HARRY SECOMBE. IRENE HANDL. JOAN
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  • 572 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ann: I was shocked by your seeming approval of legal abortions. Have you taken leave of your senses? Don't you realise millions of people look to you for moral guidance? Our priest has. on occasion, used your column as a basis
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    • 168 9 TODAY and YOU. Wednesday, January 21* 1970. Ml WL.kui <<■ l J w JUI 'rwm. 'W\aM£'A > I 8 Mind 9R«fuio 10 »J H« p 12 To 13M«« 14 Do ISThoiV l6Nor 17 To lSChongwbfa t9Confid» JO Chore --2 21 Moi» 22 Do 23 D«9* 24S«rW astciiM# fSDoy 7 OKW®
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 61 10 LESLIE HUNT at 19 is Australia's women's junior tennis champion. She is now facing strong competition from her 12-year-old brother who is the under-15 champion of Western Australia. A keen surfer, Leslie is on the beach at Cottlesloe, Perth, in picture above of left. Above she is seen during a
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    • 265 10 LONDON, Tues. (AFP) —Anti-apartheid raiders attacked several country cricket club grounds in Britain last night in what appeared to be the start of a concerted campaign to disrupt the South African Cricket tour. First to suffer was the Gloucester county cricket club pitch at Bristol
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    • 185 10 BIRMINGHAM. England, Tues. (Reuter) Controversial soccer manager Tommy Docherty was sacked by Aston Villa, the English Second Division club. following a Board of Directors meeting here tonight. Docherty. 40, joined the cltib on a two-year contract at 7.000 sterling a vear 13 months ago. He sa
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    • 383 10  -  By MARGARET ESSEX PERTH, Nineteen-year-old Leslie Hunt of Perth, Western Australia, who has won the Australian women's junior tennis championship for the past two years, is facing strong competition from her 12-year-old brother John. John is at present the under-15 Western Australian champion.
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    • 250 10 PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, Tues. (Reuter) South African test batsman Graeme Pollock gave Hie Australian cricketer* an impressive warning that he is in peak form for the coming series by hammering a bril- liant century here today. Although Pollocks innings of 105 in even time for
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    • 167 10 LOS ANGELES. Tues. <UPI» Ronan Gabriel of the Rams threw a 28-yard touch. i■ *n pass to Carroll Dale of the Packers with 72 seconds remaining yesterday to pull out a 16-13 West victory over the Eastern Conference All-Stars In the 2oth annual NFL Pro Bowl
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    • 84 10 MANILA. Tues < Reuter) Eight top gymnasts from Japan, including four who took part In the 1968 Mexico Olympics, will give an exhibition here on Jan. 30 at the start of a two-week tour of Asia. The Gymnastics Association of the Philippines today named the group
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    • 165 10 In Neutral Country JAKARTA, Tues. (Reuter) The Indonesian Badminton Federation today announced it wanted to resume its abandoned Thomas Cup tournament match with Thai- land in a neutral country. Last week In Bangkok Indonesian player Muljadi stormed off' the court in a singles match after complainIn*
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    • 356 10  -  ■y JIMMY LAD NEWCOMER Tudor Light, trained at Bukit Timak by Colin Tulloh, did a smart 3f workout in 37 on good going at Bukit Timah yesterday. It was the fastest workout of the day. Another newcomer that caught the eye was Jack Spencer's Amusement IV with
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    • 283 10 SAIGON, Tues. (Reuter) South Vietnam's great bicycle race neared the half-way mark today without mishap after a gruelling second leg through the the central highlands. The six-stage 475-mlle race from the central coastal city of Nha Trang to Long Xuang In the Mekong Delta
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    • 118 10 JOHANNESBURG Tue a (Reuter)—The South African Lawn Tennis Union (SALTU) has received an assurance that American Negro tennis player Arthur Ashe will not make political statement,, if he is allowed to take t>art in the South African championships over Easter. Ashe is still awaiting a decision
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    • 1262 10 a. 2 Dlv 1 1 N. ***** Melxnark 4T 9 00 Goldmine Stable J. DooneQy ***** Ptbui ®y BOO Sultan of Pabanf Daniel* «CM Paler Maa I2y 812 Wao Stable Trij ***** Lord Timothy By 8 11 Malaysian Slabl* Samauri ***** Cuuro By 810 CMA Stable
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    • 403 11 SINGAPORE Telephone Board soccer team scored a 3-1 victory over Police Sports Association 'B' teem in the Division Two league match of the Singapore Government Services, played at the Farrer Park Stadium yester- d»y. fJi* m»tch *11 a thriller from the start ptrtlcularly in front
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    • 84 11 NEW YORK. (UPI) Former Maio r Leaeue catcher Bob Scheffin* was named Mondav as Vice-President and General Manager of the New York Met«. gucceedint the late Johnny Murphy. The W-year-014 scheffinf has been special assignment scout 'or the world champions since the 'all of 19C7. Prior t« that
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    • 143 11 A competitor in the Far East Air Force Golf Society's four- day Championship tournament yesterday used his Number Three wood to kill a four-foot lone green snake which he encountered at the 10th hole of the Old Island course at the Singapore Island Country Club
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    • 170 11 SYDNEY. Tues. <UPI> Professional tennis stars Tony Roche and John Newcombe settled °n a contract today which will earn each of them a minimum of US$l5O,OOO over the next year. The payments will come from playing guarantees and tennis racket endorsements in Australia. Britain and the
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    • 93 11 SYDNEY. Tues. (Reuter) Globe-trotting Australian tennis player Bob Carmichael was forced to withdraw from the New South Wales open tennis championships here today when he pulled a stomach muscle. The 29-year-old Carmichael. who now lives in Paris and represents Belgium, was trailing Australian Davis Cup hope Phil Der.t
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    • 143 11 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI)— Early Wynn. the last Major League pitcher to post 300 career victories, is considered thi leading candidate for election into Baseball's Hall of Fame Tuesday. The Baseball Writers Association of America, which votes on election to the Hall of Fame, will announce
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    • 91 11 RIVERSIDE California Tues <VPI) R«c« driver Jim Cook remained in extremely critical (rendition today following hi s spectacular accident Sunday at the Motor Trend 500 at the Riverside International Raceway. Cook. 48. from Norwalk, California, was under intensive care at the Riverside community hospital with multiple head
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    • 332 11 SANTIAGO, Tu«J. (UPI) Godfrey Stevens.. Chilean challenger for Bh6to Saljo's World Boxing Association (WBA) featherweight, crown, said yesterday he does not plan to lose his shot at the title and will travel to Tokyo on Thursday as planned. Stevens had a raised and discoloured bump above
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    • 120 11 LONO BEACH. Calif.. Tues (UPI> Llghtweitht boxing champion Mando Ramos paid a 1250 fine for hi* conviction on a misdemeanour charge of being present where marijuana was in use by other*. Ramos. 21. whose licence to fight was suspended by the State Athletic Commission, originally was
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    • 375 11 MONTI CARLO, Tues, (UPI) German Works Porsche made i sweep of the top thrtt places In the first time trial of the Mont* Carlo Automobile rally in the French Alp* Tuesday to establish themselves as favourites to win for the third year running.
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    • 139 11 Hotel Singapura defeated the Toto soccer team 2-1 in a hard fought friendly match played at the Farrer Park ground yesterday. Hotel attacking right from the start took an early 1-0 lead in the 10th minute. Hotel's goal came from Hashlm Ismail whose powerful drive
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    • 65 11 PHILADELPHIA T u e a (UPI) The Philadelphia Phillies announced vesterdav seven more p! a vers including pitcher Chris Short have come to terms and sianed 19?0 contract*. Pitcher* Joe Hoeroer. Dick Selma and Ken Reynold* agreed to terms. Catcher Mik* Compton and mfielders Terrv Harmon and
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    • 52 11 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Women soccer players were today granted official recognition for the first time by the Football A**ociatlon. gov. ernlng body Of the game In England. This latest mov# toward* equality for the fairer *ex has been delayed since 1921 when the Football Association first ruled agaln*t
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    • 242 11 SYDNEY, Tues. (UPI) Former Wimbledon Champion Frank Sedgman lad a class field through the qualifying round of the Australian Open Tennis Championship at Whita City Monday. Sedgman. winner of the world championship in 1952. and now 42 years of age. beat Frenchman Bernard Paul 6-4.
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    • 90 11 THE Malayan Amateur Racing Association (MARA) Committee's declalon to amend the weight allowance for ladleg riding in the Hurdle Race, with one exception. has been unanimously approved. Mr P. MacMUlan. acting Executive Secretary of MARA has said that from Jan. 1. ladles who have not ridden two winners
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