Eastern Sun, 24 January 1970

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    21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1246 Saturday, 24 January 1970. MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cent*
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    Lock icon U.S. Will Share Responsibility
    507 1 Nixon Envisages WASHINGTON, Fri. (Reuter) President Nixon has charted a quieter world role for the United States avoiding foreign entanglements and devoting more energy to solving pressing domestic problems. "We shall be faithful to our treaty commitments, but we shall reduce our involvement and our presence
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    Lock icon Reds Kidnap Thais And Flee To Laos
    204 1 BANGKOK. Fri (Reuter)— More than 20 Pathet Lao troope crossed the Mekong river from Laos into North Thailand and kidnapped a number of villagers, police sources said todav. The source* said that the Pathet Lao. armed with Chinese automatic rifles, raided a village
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    Lock icon Suharto's Son
    68 1 JAKARTA. Fri (UPI) A son of Indonesian President Gen. Suharto was beaten by "several irresponsible high school students in Jakarta" the Ajmy daily Pelopor Baru New Vanguard) reported Friday. The report said several teachers and parents of students Friday held a meeting with Jakarta Military Oarrlson Commander MaJ.
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    Lock icon Brandt's Offer
    49 1 BONN. Fri (Reuter) Chancellor Willy Brandt lias offered East Germany discussions on establishing eQual relations as t>art of non-aggres-sion negotiations the west German government announced today The proposal was contained in a letter sent by Brandt to the East German Prime Minister yesterday and ©ublished here today
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    Lock icon TEST SCORE
    32 1 CAPE TOWN South AfricaFri. (Reuter) South Africa wag all out for 382 with E. Barlow scoring 127 today. At close of olav Australia had lost four wickets for 39 runs
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    Lock icon Seamec Meet Approves Three Regional Centres
    401 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The constitutions of three regional centres and the proposed agreement to be entered with the respective government were approved by the fifth conference of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Council which ended here today. The centres Are: the Regional English
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    Lock icon Schuman In London
    143 1 LONDON. Prl. (UPI> British leaders today discussed with visiting French Foreign Minister Maurice Schuman terms for admission into the European Common Market, following the end of France's veto on entry. Schuman. here for a twoday visit, met with Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart and foreign office Minister for
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    131 1 SAIGON Fri. (Reuter) —War can sometimes become boring and when it does some American troops wage classic battles if a chessboard is handy and if one isn't some realistic substitutes are used. Troops at artillery base Gettysburg in the Mekong delta showed how. they took a board and
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    Lock icon Belly-Landing At South Pole
    86 1 WELLINGTON. N. Zealand, Frl. (Reuter) Max Conrad. America's flying grandfather, was uninjured when his tiny aircraft belly-landed in the snow near the South Pole tonight. The 67-year-old wlo aviator force-landed only five minutes after taking off from the United States Navy's South Pole station on the
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    Lock icon Paris Talks
    41 1 PARIS. Fri. (Reuter) Philip C- Habib. Acting Head of the U-S. Delegation to the Vietnam peace talks left for Washington todav for consultations with his government He expects to be back in Pahs in time for next Thursday's session.
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    Lock icon Ne Win Back
    30 1 RANGOON. Fri. (Reuter) Gen Ne Win, Chairman of the Burmese Revolutionary Council. returned to Rangoon today after a week-long visit to India. it was officially announced tonigh'
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    Lock icon Party Rakyat Quits Council
    270 1 PENANG, Fri. The Party Rakyat of Malaysia today announced its withdrawal from the National Consultative Council scheduled to meet at the Parliament House in the Federal capital Tuesday. Party Chairman Enche Kastim Ahmad taid the move follows the detention of two of the party's aisemblymen in
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    Lock icon Ojukwu Gets Asylum In Ivory Coast
    171 1 ABIDJAN. Ivory Coast. FrL (UPI) President Felix Hop-houet-Bolgny announced Friday he was granted political asylum to defeated Biafran secessionist leader Gen. Odumegwu Ojukwu. The announcement said Ojukwu Is In the country, but It did not reveal hi» whereabouts. The statement ended a week of
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    Lock icon Engineer Claims Pressure To Quit
    835 2 Hume Industries Case KUALA LUMPUR, Fri, An engineer told the Sessions Court here today of a day how he was threatened and confined to his office to get him to submit his resignation from the company he was working for. Sivagananam Thambipillai, 42, former head
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    Lock icon Cultural Development Essential
    296 2 IT IS important for Singapore to develop culture side by side with economic advancement because culture is the realism in which "final human values reside", the Acting Minister for Culture, Mr. Wee Toon Boon, said yesterday. "If we accept this, then it follows that it is necessary
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    Lock icon Hotel Death Still Mystery
    115 2 MYSTERY still surrounds the death of American engineer, Richard John Wilson, 46. whose naked body was found in the bathroom of a leading hotel Thursday. A spokesman for the American Embassy who disclosed that Wilson's next of kin have been contacted, refused to elaborate further. Wilson,
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    Lock icon Festive Music
    34 2 The National Theatre Company Chinese Orchestra has just released a long-playing "Chinese Festive Music" record with eight songs. More than 500 of these will be distributed to broadcasting stations throughout the world.
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    Lock icon Student Pilot Trophy
    158 2 THE best all round student pilot graduate from the training school of the Air Defence Command of the Singapore Armed Forces will receive a 24-inch challenge trophy presented by the Singapore Division of Hawker de Havilland Australia Pty Ltd. Mr. R. R Green, the General Manager of
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    Lock icon Shaw Says Hotel Seminar Valuable To Participants
    266 2 THE Chairman of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, Mr. Runme Shaw who officially closed the week-long seminar on Hotel Management pointed out that the experience gained by the participants was of great value to the hotel industry in Singapore. Mr. Runme Shaw who
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    Lock icon Prayers
    57 2 PENANG. Fri. A special birthday prayer .service for the long life of Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, will be conducted at the Chaiva Mangkalaram Thai Suddist temple at Burmah Lane here on Feb. 8. The Chief Priest. Ven. Phra Kru Prasit Chaiya Mongol, and resident priest* will offer prayers
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    Lock icon HELMETS
    83 2 The Government yesterdav issued a stem warning to all holders of provisional "L driving licenses learning to ride motor cycles or motor scooter* to wear crash helmets with effect from Feb. 1 or face a fine up to $2OO. Legislation making helmets compulsorv for all L" riders was oublished
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    Lock icon Electronics Here To Be Expanded
    310 2 A TOP-LEVEL team from one of Japan's largest manufacturers of electronic home and office appliances arrived Here yesterday to discuss expansion plans for a local factory manufacturing their products. They are from Sharp Corporation of Japan Mr A. Saeki. the executive director. Mr. M. Furuyabu.
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    Lock icon 2 DIE IN FESTIVAL
    147 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Frl. The Thaipusam festival In the Federal Capital claimed its second victim yesterday when a schoolboy. T. Ramasamy, 16. was run over by a train at the 4$ mile. Jalan Batu Caves here. Ramasamy. of Jalan Bungsar here, was among the 12.000 people Including
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    Lock icon Ipoh Robbery
    85 2 IPOH. Frl. Thieves had a field day yesterday and made off with cash $2,109 and liquor and cigarettes worth a total of $1,500 in two separate incidents around here. In the first case, they broke into a petrol station at Jalan Changkat Jong In Teluk Anson and escaped
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    Lock icon Importance Of Defence Stressed
    234 2 The Minister for Social Affairs. Enche Othman Wok yesterday said stability and confidence in the economy can only be maintained If Singaporeans hav e the means to fend themselves. The Minister said this at the send-off for national servicemen at Pasir Panjar B Community Centre yesterday
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    Lock icon MORE JOBS
    67 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Restriction of overtime imposed bv the national operations council three months ago has resulted in th« creation of 7.100 new Jobs Disclosing this here today, the Minister of Labour. Mr. Manlckavasagam said more HPW Jobs would be created when the restriction of overtime was fully
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    Lock icon WEARING leis given to them in welcome, the three Japanese directors (from left) Mr. M. Furuyabu, Mr. A. Saeki, and Mr. Y, Okada, pose for a souvenir picture at the Paya Lebar International Airport shortly after their arrival yesterday. Beside Mr. Furuyabu is Mr. Y, C. Li, managing director of Roxy Electric Industries (Singapore) Ltd.
    57 2 WEARING leis given to them in welcome, the three Japanese directors (from left) Mr. M. Furuyabu, Mr. A. Sa e ki, and Mr. Y, Okada, pose for a souvenir picture at the Paya Lebar International Airport shortly after their arrival yesterday. Beside Mr. Furuyabu is Mr. Y, C. Li, managing
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    Lock icon WOMAN ACCUSES EX-HUSBAND IN COURT DRAMA
    761 2 A former bar waitriu and social escort yesterday broke down and wept bitterly in court during a preliminary inquiry in which she and another man were charged with the murder of a Japanese housewife, Ayako Watanabe. Wont Weng Siu. 30. caused a stir in
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    Lock icon 10 Years Prison In No-Jury Trial
    419 2 SUB-CONTRACTOR Ng Kuay Tin, 34, who became the first man in the legal history of Singapore to be tried without a jury for murder was yesterday convicted and sentenced to 10 years' jail an a reduced charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      37 2 TOTO DRAW THERE were no first and second group prize winner* for Thursday'! toto draw The first prize for next toto draw will he $145,000 The draw will be telecast "live" over Channel 5 on TV Singapore.
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    Lock icon Big Red Attack In Laos Soon
    723 3 VIENTIANE, Fri, (Reuter) Military officials believe that the war in North Laos, quiet for several months now, is likely to boil up again with a Communist offensive in the next six weeks. The most likely target, according to American and Laotian sources, is the
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    Lock icon PI: Tighter Security For US. Buildings
    280 3 MANILA, Fri. (UPI) Philippine military authori ties today ordered tighter security around U.S. establishments in the Manila area after a suspected communist Huk bombing attack on an American military building Wednesday. A military spokesman said intelligence findings showed Huk terrorists were behind the time-bomb
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    Lock icon Indon Students Defy New Protest Ban
    384 3 JAKARTA, Fri. (URI) An estimated 2,000 to 3.000 Indonesian high school students defied a new ban on demonstrations today and marched through the streets of Jakarta protesting the recent fuel price increases. The largest group of students gathered in the central area of Jakarta
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    Lock icon HK Forgery Case Gets Outside Aid
    154 3 HONG KONG. Fri. (UPI) United States. Philippine and Thai authorities have joined the Royal Hong Kong Police investigating into the biggest currency forgery ring exposed in Hong Kong but spokesmen today silent. The Hong Kong police still have not disclosed the amount of the
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    Lock icon S'pore Boat For PI Navy
    78 3 MANILA. Fri (UPI). A Philippine Navy patrol craft built in a Singapore shipyard is scheduled to arrive in Manila tomorrow the first boat j to be acquired by the PhllipI pines outside of the United States. j Trie Navy said the 87-foot, i wooden-hulled boat
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    Lock icon Anti-Chiang Govt Prof. 'Escapes' From Taiwan
    417 3 NEW YORK, Fri. (UPI) An America-based Formosan organisation claimed last night Prof. Peng Ming Min, said to have been arrested in Taipei in 1964 for reportedly publishing a declaration critical of the Chiang Kai Shek regime, has safely fled the island. The group. United
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    Lock icon Settlement Of Okinawa Strike Remote
    262 3 NAHA, Okinawa, Fri. (UPI) The five-day strike by the Okinawan workers at U.S. bases in Ryukyu Islands ends midnight today but a settlement of the dispute was still remote. Some 21.000 member* of the All-Okinawa Military Workers Union (Zengunro) were planning to stage a huge
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    Lock icon Golden Opportunity
    67 3 SAIGON Fri. (Reuter) A Vietcone paymaster with a pack of sold on his back was caotured by American troops when he unwittingly walked into their camo. The gold, worth 1,300 U.S. dollars and in the form of sheets l/32nd of an inch thick, was found in the guerilla's
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    Lock icon THE LENNONS ARE FASTING
    58 3 COPENHAGEN. Fri. (UPI) Beatle John Lennon and his Japanese wife Yoko Ono. with their hair cut "Twiggy-style" on Monday are continuing their niti* day fast, a spokesman for the couple said last night "They have been living on water onlv since last Jan 14 for the
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    Lock icon New Clash Between 2 Congress Groups
    335 3 NEW DELHI, Fri. (Reuter) The President of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's ruling wing of the split Congress Party yesterday sent his officials to take over the party headquarters here, but they were kept out by opposition congressmen. Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, Secretary of the
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    Lock icon For Kicks: The Bucket
    84 3 TOKYO. Fri. (UPI) Police yesterday reported 161 persons died in 1969 as a result of "thinner sniffing." the wav a lot of Japanese teenagers eet their kicks. The Doliee asencv said sniffing of the liquid used for thinning paint was the niethod used b" 77 persons
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      183 3 duplidupiic ate Xerox have made a fortune out of copying things. As have Gestetner, and Ricoh, and Kodak. And also a few less scrupulous firms. They duplicate medicines. Their medicines look the same, but they seldom work the same. That's why we go to a great deal of trouble to
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    Lock icon Nigeria To Give Another £11m. For Relief Work
    427 4 LAGOS, Fri. (Reuter) Nigerian leader MajorGeneral Yakubu Gowon announced last night the government would give a further 10 million Nigerian pounds (over £ll million) towards relief work in recaptured secessionist territory. He told an international press conference here the money would be
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    Lock icon Big 4 Envoys Hold Secret Talks Again
    312 4 UNITED NATIONS. Fri. (UPI) With the United States virtually having signalled an end to bilateral efforts with the Soviet Union on the Middle East, the big four ambassadors went into another secret session today seeking a peace formula for Israel and the Arabs.
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    Lock icon Quake Topples Castle Tower
    85 4 BONN. Fri (Reuter) An earthquake rocked parts of southern Germanv yesterday, causing a cattle tower to collapse and sending tremors through surrounding regions of Switzerland and France. Serious tremors lasting from 15 seconds to two minutes, with an estimated force of 7-8 points on a 12-pomt
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    Lock icon Woman Jailed For Causing Accident
    66 4 PRAGUE. Fri. (UPI) A 52-vear-old female railway clerk was given a seven-year orison term for causing a railway accident killing 24 people, the news agency CTK reported vesterdayThe woman, identified only as A.K.. failed to drop the bar at the Bezdecln level crossing near Mlada
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    Lock icon 2000 Man: A Nervous Wreck
    72 4 NEW YORK, Fri. (Reuter) Most people living in cities will be totally deaf by the year 2000 if noise levels continue to increase at their present rate, accord ing to the current issue of "The Sciences," published by the New York Academy of Sciences Besides
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    Lock icon Guerillas Die In Clashes
    73 4 SALISBITRY. Fri. (Pouter) Rhodesia said yesterday that six African nationalist guerillas were killed in a series of clashes in the Zambezi vallev frontier with Zambia. A Ministry of Information communique *aid a member of the Rhodesian security forces had been killed and three wounded. The communique
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    Lock icon Unemployment More Difficult To Solve Than Food Shortage
    328 4 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) Tackling unemployment in the developing countries was going to be a much more difficult Job than solving their food shortage, said Britain's biggest bank operating in the developing world in a survey today. The review, by Barclays Deo described
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    Lock icon Big Clash In The Red Sea Between Arabs And Israelis
    331 4 CAIRO. Fri. (UPI) Egyptian defenders killed or wounded at least 30 Israeli paratroopers and shot down two warplan es in vicious band to-hard fighting for control of the Egyptian held island of Shadwan, a military spokesman said yester- day. The
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    Lock icon Soviet Warships In UK Channel
    109 4 LONDON. Fri. (UPI> Three Russian warships ied by the helicopter earner Moskva made an aooroach tn the English Channel vesterdav but hav# turned back. British defence official* said. A Mlnistrv of Defence spokesman said the Moskva, making its first vovae* in the Atlantic since joining
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    Lock icon IRAQ EXECUTES 40 WHO WANTED TO TOPPLE GOVT
    397 4 BAGHDAD, Fri, (Reuter) Iraq 1111 night announced that 40 military officers, former officers and civilian! have been executed following th« disclosure of an alleged Iranian backed attempt to topple the ruling Baath Socialist Party government. The execution itft reached 40 after an
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    Lock icon Student Passes Off As Wealthy Brody
    232 4 LONDON Frl (Heater) A |onc-halred American student ga\e him*elf a taste of instant fame on yesterday's inaugural Jumbo jet flight to London when he successfully pawed himself off as margarine heir Mlehael Brody. It all began when I<-year-old Stephen Kennedy met a Texan at
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    Lock icon Public Support Against Spread Of Pornography
    293 4 PARIS, Fri. (Reuter) The Salvation Army ha» found new and unexpected public support tor it* battle against the spread of pornography. The army says letters and telephone calls are pouring in daily at its headquarters here supporting the organisation's stand against nudity and the
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    Lock icon 'Church Of Love' For A Female Christ
    169 4 SANTIAGO. Chile, Fri. (UPI) —Three Spanish-born Roman Catholic priests recently suspended from priestly functions and excommunicated from th« church for participating in "spiritualist" activities vuth a Chilean medium yesterday said they plan to state a "Church of Love The Church of Love, according
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    Lock icon France Will Train Libyan Pilots
    267 4 PARIS Fri (Renter) France *'ill ihortlv begin training Libvan Air Force pilot* well before the first batch of l°o French Mirage Jets and other aircraft are <lelivered to Libra fovernment aource* here *aid veaterda*. The traininr will take in ground crew operation*, day ard night
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    Lock icon 'GREAT EXPECTATIONS'
    744 6 U. 6. President Richard Nixon, in his State of the Union address to Congress, described America as a "society of large expectations", somewhat pointedly avoiding the Dickensian epithet. America is a country that was founded on idealism but there has been no vitiating process since that has dulled
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    Lock icon VIETNAM HAUNTS THE CORRIDORS OF THE UN
    826 6  -  by Betty Pilkington Gemini News Service UNITED NATIONS: The United Notions it not officially seixed of the Vietnam war issue, primarily because three of the four belligerents are not UN members and two of those three reject any side-door route. But just es
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    Lock icon NYT On Warsaw Talks
    162 6 NEW YORK, (UFI) The New York Times in an editorial Thursday was encouraged by the resumption of the Warsaw talka between Communist China and the United States. It commented, in part: "Renewal of formal BinoAmerlcan diplomatic eontacts has been accomplished by the usual deep secrecy that
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    Lock icon Old And New...
    109 6 (AFP) —<• Mehamed Hassanein lleykal editor of the influential Cairo dally A 1 Ah ram today accused the Lgyptian high command of using archaic methods In flghtlna the israeliamHe gaid In an editorial "Israel Is fighting a psychological war against Egypt using the most modern and scientific
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      Lock icon UNSATISFACTORY PUBLIC TRANSPORT
      559 6 RECENTLY the Minister for Communications made a statement in Parliament that Singapore's outmoded transport regulations, which were apparently enacted during the colonial days, would be revised. The public had anticipated that a revision of the transport regulations would bring about an Improvement In the transport system. So
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      Lock icon Wanted Statistics
      67 6 Dear Sir. Singapore appears to be a cleaner city last year as compared with 1963 It should therefore be a healthier place to live in. The Health Ministry should back this up by confirming that the Incidence of cholera, typhoid, dysentery, malaria and haemorrhagic fever was lower in
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    Lock icon Laying An Old Ghost
    793 6  -  lr J oseph Alsop WASHINGTON. Inside *nt J outside th« government, the ghost of the "missile gap" is haunting the argument about American ABM deployment. Since this is a deadly dangerous business, it may be well to lay the ghost. The way the ghost works, particularly
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    Lock icon The Spring Tree Tradition
    595 6  -  »y Van Ngan SAIGON, (MP) Each year in Viatnam around tha end of Hie Lunar Year whan tha Kitchen Genia Tao Quan speeds along tha Milky Wav to Haavan to report to tna Jade Emperor, tha Spring trees blossom. Not unlike Christmas trees, which arc the
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      Lock icon Quiet, Steady Trading At Stock Exchange
      277 7 Malaysia and Singapore yesterday rulad quiet and slifhtly itaady in trading still effected by the suspension of delayed dealings in 17 counters. Pnco movements waro marginal. The market had mixod sontimont though bullish influence and covering Interest appeared to have a better edge. Initiative
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      1009 7 JJUSINESS dent in end reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the numbor off sheroe traded in brackets in lots off 1,000 units unless otherwise spedffied:- INDUSTRIALS A CM A $2 20 (1) $221 (s>; Alcan s2ls (6) $2.17 (20) s2ls
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      Lock icon Sydney Closing Prices
      148 7 SYDNEY, m (UPI) FT1day;* closing Sydney stock Exchange (selected shares): MININGS Acme* .90 Ass Mm 8.40 Austral Mln .95 Barrier 110 BH South 5.50 C Norse 9.00 cm 30-70 Jttnper 1.30 Endur .M OM Kalg 1.22 Ot Boulder 5.20 Ot Nthn .59 Ot West .19 Hammersley 15.20
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      Lock icon PROMOTED TO SHIPPING EXECUTIVE
      103 7 Mr. Phua Song Chye, «9«d 23, has been appointed a shipping executive, Operations Department# with The last Asiatic Ce. Ltd. Mr. Phua joined the company two years ago as a trainee executive. Before being appointed to his present post, Mr. Phua was sent by his company
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      41 7 NEW YORK. Frt. (U*l) <- Dow Jonea closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: SO Industrials 786 10 20 rails 172.07 18 utllltes ***** 65 rtocks 257.86 40 bonds 69 18 Commodity futures Index 137.68 off 0.14.
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      Lock icon BIGGER ROLE FOR S'PORE IN BOAC'S EXPANSION PLANS
      211 7 SINGAPORE will feature prominently in BOAC's plant to encourage more travellers into S.E. Asia. This was revealed today by Mr. Barry Barnard, the British airline's newly appointed Marketing Officer in South-east Asia, who is based in Singapore. "Extensive marketing research by BO
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      Lock icon Stocks Mixed On NY Mart
      115 7 HEW YORK Prt (UPI) Stocks closed mixed yesterday, but pollution control issues benefited from a pledge by President Nixon in hi K State of the Union message to wage a stiff campaign to clean up the air. Trading was modersaid the first step In the
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      Lock icon SAS To Fly The Siberian Route
      70 7 TOKYO, fri. (Reuter) The Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) yesterday signed an a*reenj»nt with Japan allowing it to fly into Tokyo on the Siberian route via Moscow. the Japanese Transport Ministry said here yesterday. Under the agreement. SAS can start the Siberian service from either
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      Lock icon On Month-Long World Tour
      96 7 MR LEE HIAN CHUA (above) of The Guthrie Waugh Organisation has left Singapore on a one-month world tour to visit Principals overseas Mr. Lee. Singapore area sales manager of the Building Materials Division, will receive product and marketing training during the course of his tour. He
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      Lock icon EXCHANGE RATES
      124 7 The Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore venterday made the following charges in its rates to merchants (rate® are Quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency): SELLING TT. or OD. readv Deutsche Marks $B3 9950; Holland Guilders $85.1300; Swiss Franet $71.8500; Belgian Francs $6.2375: French Francs
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      15 7 The tin price for yesterday was $693.00 pe r picuL up $5 00.
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      Lock icon SCOOTER PRICE INCREASES
      138 7 At from this week th« list prici of two models of thi Vesp* motor scooter will be increased slightly. Thi» was announced on Tuesday by The East Asiatic Company, sole distributors of the Vespa in this region. A company spokesman disclosed that recent nation-wide strikes in Italy
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 70 3/8 Cts.
      297 7 February first Brade rubber buyer* closed at 5 p.m., in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 70-3/8 cents per lb., up seven eighths of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market wa« steady quiet. Sellers were scare at the start ann bldg
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      Lock icon Oil Pact By US, Japanese Firms
      79 7 TOKYO. Pri. (Reuter) United States and Japanese companies hav e signed an agreement for joint oil exploration off Indonesia. The agreement is between the Natomas Company of the U45. and C- Itoh and Co. of Japan. It provides fer a Japanese investment of US$2l
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      Lock icon SHIPS IN PORT
      220 7 THE Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthing arrangements for Rhip s in port today. Saturday 24: DEPARTURES Gedowne Vessels 1/2 Vishva Seva 3/4 Tjinegara 8/9 Talythyblua 18/14 Hua U N.W. 2 Auby N W. 3 Telamon 25/?6 Vega 27/28 Trier 29/30 Nede r Rijin
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      Lock icon Stock Exchange Closing Prices
      625 7 SINGAPORE—Stoel Exchani re •old and other price* official listed at the cloee of boalne**. (J INDUSTRIALS ACMA t ps. Alcan 5.1 4 I 5 Bm Co Borneo luirt. Bo iu lead *d Camel rls ood Central sugar* tt.M C* itonn i 9 0 4 .8. 7
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      90 7 1 Mb noon pnm at tftf Mnispore Chtne*e Produce mrhanse > nlrnlk) »frf v Barer IM"ller Coronal on (F O B Balk 57 50 C«M-onui oil (FOB-) brum *•50 Mined Copra 1560 Mum ok white Proper (FOB) ***** gurxMiik White 1 re* pet (FOB) 167 50 Sarawak »pe<iu| Biatt
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      53 7 NEW YORK. m. (UPI) Rubber futures closed unchanged and untraded on th« New York Commodity Exchange yesterday. (Close) (Pre*.) Mar. 26.50 2650 May 26 00 2fi 00 July 26 00 26 00 Nov. 26 00 26.00 Sept. 2500 2500 Jan. 26.00 26.00 Locally. No 2 RSS was 253'B
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      145 7 HONG KONG. fr\. (UPI) Fr.day's 5 P.m. currency rate* (supplied! by foreign eachan§e and Investment Ltd.): BUYIRS SELLERS (In H.K. dollars) 195 196 per 100 Straits dollars 144 5 145 5 per 1.000 Ta«wan dollars 6735 6745 per Australian dollar 305 325 per 1,000 Burmese kyats 530
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      348 7 ARRIVALS 811 am MSA 123 K. Lumpur H4sa.n. MsA 119 K Lumpur 12 30 pm. MSA 451 Kuchlng 2.80 pa. MSA 021 K l.umpur. Malacca 8.25 pm. MSA 453 K Ktnabalu 340p m. MSA 521 Bangkok. Penang 5 40pm MSA 665 Manila 7.10 pm. MSA 027 K. Lumpur,
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    1030 9  -  TOHN Lennon has sent his M.B.E. bock and for the moment, the rest of the Beatles are keeping out of the public eye. But are they knocking their fans the latest accusation to be aimed at them? By David Ellis IN the midst of
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    525 9  -  Ann Landers DIAR Ann: Our four-year-old child is diabetic. The only difference between Her and the children she plays with is that she must stay on a restricted diet, eat regularly and take insulin every day. We enrolled her in playschool, three mornings a
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    130 9 NEW YORK, Fn. The success of Chanel clothes and accessories in New York stores tying in with the musical, "Coco," is leading fashion manufacturers to take a fresh look at Chanel After all, the interest right now in Twenties and Thirties clothes has to include Chanel. She always
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    191 9 TOOTHPASTE, bath soaps or the AJax detergent. Ask for these at any supermarket and you find the Colgate-Palmolive rante. Has anyone wondered If this Includes shampoo? Yes. Colgate-Palmolive ha* barred to ladles, their new LUSTRE CREME SHAMPOO. It la an exclusive shampoo formula combining
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      21 9 ODEON: TONIGHT MIDNIGHT! When THE MAN from "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly" SMILES••• HE'S OUT TO KILL! s4l9^ to
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      257 11 LONDON, Fri. (UPI) The English Cricket Council announced l«st night the Marylebone Cricket Club's (MCC) forthcoming tour to the F«r (est will be oxtended to make up for cancellation of the East African part. me nasi Aincan portion was called off
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      212 11 PEBBLE BEACH, Calif., Fri. (UPI) Bart Yancey, Ron Cerrudo, Bob Murphy and Bob Goalby ihof matching fire under par 67s yesterday to share the first round lead in the 150,000 dollars Bing Crosby National Pro-Am Golf Tournament. With the weather turning into a
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      196 11 MONTE CARLO. Monaco, Fri. (UPI) Bjorn Waldegaard and Lars Helmer of Sweden gained their second consecutive win in the Monte Carlo rally todav. bringing an unprecedented three-in-a-row victory for the German Porsche team, according to provisional unofficial resultsWaldegaard, who led from start to finish in his rea
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      215 11 Newcomer Cordon Bleu (Rod Hawkins) did a smart trial at Buklt Timah on good goint yesterday morning. He was on his bit for his 3f. in 37 2'5, reports Jimmy Lad. Interest (Johnny Wilson) was on tight rein for his in 39 3/5. She looks fighting flt.
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      128 11 SINGAPORE Chines* Recreation Club held Ceylon Sports Club to a two-all draw In a Singapore Hockey Association Division Three league match played at the CSC ground, Balestler Road, yesterday. SCRC open account first In the 12th minute, when Beet Cher Hng scored off a short corner hit. CBC.
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      40 11 LONDON, Frl. (AFP) Joe Bugner, the 19 year-old Hungarian-born heavyweight, voted the best young British boxer of 1969. was presented with his award, at the annual dinner of the "Boxing Writer* Club", at the Cafe Royal, last night.
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    293 12 MR. R, N. KAUL, Deputy Commercial Director of the Hotels Division of AirIndie, yesterday welcomed the participation of Malaysia-Singapore Airlines into India as "the more the merrier." He was speaking to newsmen at a press conference held at Air India's office In
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    52 12 THE National Theatre Trust will be presenting a "Musical Concert" by the Singapore National Orchestra together with the National Theatre Company Choir on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at the Singapore Conference Hall. Tickets at $l. $2 and $3 are available at the National Theatre box office and other
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    183 12 TWO directors and a secretary of a feed mill will be charged in court today with alleged offences under the Companies Act, 1967. They are Mr. R.C. Briggs and his wife, both directors of the Asia Feed Mills Limited and Mrs. M. Holmberg, the secretary.
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    46 12 Local residents from Buklt Ho Swee who are receiving Social Welfare aid will be distributed with rice, sugar, milk, flour, towel and a Chinese New Year "ang pow" by the Buklt Ho Swee Constituency Citizens' Consultative Committee and Its Central Management Committee on Jan. 25.
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    252 12 A STENOGRAPHER who felt she lacked "what other girl* have" and thua could not offer a man anything for a happy married life, killed herself on Dec. 23. last year, the Coroner's Court was told at an Inquest yesterday. The coroner. Mr. Leone Keng
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    286 12 A BRITISH husband and wife stage team will arrive in Singapore to perform a drama "Labours of Love'' from Feb. 10 to 12. The couple, Barbara Jefford and John Turner, both graduates of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, have had prominent roles in Shakespeare's
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    93 12 Three m en were arrested by the police after thev were seen tampering with a motor car at Joo Chlat Road on Thursday morning. A police constable and a detective on dutv at about 3.15 a.m. that day at Joo Chlat Road saw the three behind a car
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    32 12 The man who complained that the lock-up at Central police station was "smelly and bile-infested" on Jan. 10 was vesterday fined s4oo or two nonths jail for hitting a police officer.
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    95 12 A man. Ong Teng San. 23, was stabbed in the head and body by a group of people at Johore Road on Thursday night. Ong. of Old Airport Road, was drinking coffee In a coffee stall when he saw people running away. On seeing this, he panicked and took
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      74 12 Time Tide TOD AT SINGAPORE TOWN: 12.43 a.m. (8.2 ft.) 5.48 a.m. (44 ft.) 11.37 p.m. (9.5 ft.) 6.25 p.m. (1.2 ft.) NAVAL DOCKYARD: 12.53 a.m (10.2 ft.) 5.51 a.m. (5.2 ft.) 1159 a.m. (10.5 ft.) TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN: 1.06 a.m. (8.4 ft.) 6.20 am. (4.1 ft.) 12.13 p.m. (9.6
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