Eastern Sun, 29 January 1970

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    23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY VV Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1251 Thursday, 29 January 1970. ft MC (P) 1016 Price 15
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    Lock icon Israelis Bomb Cairo Suburbs
    306 1 CAIRO, Wed. (Reuter) Israeli planes bombed the outskirts of Cairo today, killing three civilians and escalating the Middle East conflict a stage further. A military spokesman said 12 other people were injured in the mid-morning raid by four Israeli jets in the area of Maadi and
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    Lock icon 'Search All Passengers'
    69 1 MALMOE. Sweden. Wed. (UPI) Knut Hammarsk* joeld. Secretary General of the International Air Transport Association (lATA). said today that a search of all air passengers may be necessary to stop passenger plane hijackings, "We must work together to stop the hijackings and safeguard air safety," Hammarskjoeld said
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    Lock icon Belgian Visitors
    42 1 NEW DELHI. Wed. (Reuter) The mayor and 5.000 citizens of Delhi welcomed King Baudouln and Queen Fabiola of Belgium this evening m a s un set ceremony in the historic 350-year-old Red Fort In the heart of the old city.
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    Lock icon CASTE AWAY
    23 1 NEW DELHI, Wed (Reuter) Legislation Is to he Introduced here oroviding stringent punishment for caste Hindus practising untouchability. atlicials said today.
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    Lock icon Wilson Watching US Money Policy Closely
    278 1 WASHINGTON, Wed (Reuter) British Prime Minister Harold Wilson reviewed world problems with President Nixon today and then discussed with U.S. officials effects of Washington's deflationary policies on Britain's improving economic position. British official* said the Prime Minister did not ask the Nixon administration to
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    Lock icon Till Saturday To Renew Work Chits
    185 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Non citizens holding three month employment permits and who ore entitled to renew them under Articles 15 (1), 15,(3), 16 and 19 (1) of the constitution will have to renew their permits by Saturday. No appeals for renewal will be considered
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    Lock icon Police Deny 18 Indonesians Were 'Arrested' In House
    242 1 Shipwrecked In Java Sea THE Police spokesman, ASP Leslie Wong, yesterday denied a local press report that 18 Indonesians including a woman, were arrested in Singapore as "illegal immigrants" and taken to the Queenstown Police Station for questioning. According to the report
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    Lock icon EXPIRED AT 106
    108 1 KYOTO Wed. (UPI) Ishlzo Iwate. Japans oldest man. died Monday at the age of 106 at his home in Kumlhama town. Kyoto prefecture. Doctors said he died from complications of a cold he caught a week ago and for which he had been confined to bed. Iwate.
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    Lock icon Boy With Lamp Caused Inferno In Central Java
    201 1 53 DIE IN GASOLINE LEAK JAKARTA, Wed. (UPI) A boy carrying a lamp touched off the fire and explosion at a leaking gasoline pipeline in central Java Saturday night, it was announced today. The state oil company Pertamina said in a statement
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    Lock icon German Heads US Rocketry
    76 1 WASHINGTON. Wed. (UPI) Wemher wit' Bnnn, the German expert who developed the giant rocket that enabled the United States to land men on the Moon. Is being brought to Washington to help plan new space ventures. Von Braun. Germany's foremast rocket authority in World War 11.
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    82 1 BERLIN. Wed. (UPI) West Berlin police were summoned early yesterday to subdue a black man dressed only in a bathrobe and lone underwear who broke 125 shop windows with an iron bar. It turned out he was a 28-year-old white West Berliner who had covered hig whole body
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    Lock icon Freeth New Envoy To Japan
    83 1 CANBERRA. Wed. (UPI) Australia announced today that former External Affairs Minister Gordon Freeth has been appointed ambassador to Japan. Freeth. 55. who will replace Sir Allen Brown, is expected to take up his new post In April. A former heavyweight amateur boxing champion, Freeth failed
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    Lock icon Razak Signs Consultative Council Into Law
    479 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Director of operations, Tun Abdul Rasak, today signed the Essential (Consultant Council) Regulations 1970 providing for the establishment of the Consultative Council. The regulations, effective from January 1 this year, was approved by the National Operations Council re- cently. The
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    Lock icon SECURITY MEET
    37 1 WASHING TON, Wed. (UPI) British Prime Minister Harold Wilson attended a special meeting of the National Security Council todov at President Nixon s express invitation. The council met in the White House. (See this page).
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    Lock icon Angry Etna Hurls Rocks
    95 1 CATANIA. Sicily. Wed. (UPI) —The Etna volcano rocked with explosions today and hurled flaming debris high into the sky Fog shrouded the 10.902-foot mountain. Europe's tallest active volcano, soon after the eruption began, preventing further observation. But scientist < said they believed the outburst was iust
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    Lock icon Police Fire Tear Gas At Hyderabad Mob
    217 3 KARACHI. Wed. (ReuteT) Police firing tear gas shells and wielding staves clashed yesterday with mobs in the second rta* of street violence in Hyderabad City, about 100 miles north of Karachi. A hotel was gutted by fire. iiiere was no wora of casualties
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    Lock icon 5 Years Late
    60 3 TAIPEI. Wed. (Reuter) —A new year greeting card for Mayor Lin Fan Wang of Keelung City arrived last Monday —five years late, the Central news Agency reDorted today. Mavor Lin died of a heart attack in 1965. The sender, a member of the National Assembly. said the
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    Lock icon New Aussie Swimming Champion—A Prawn
    67 3 New Aussie Swimming Champion— A Prawn SYDNEY. Wed <Reuter) Australia has set a new world swimming record by a prawn. A king prawn tagged and released in the Hunter River. New south Wales over a year ago has been caught more than 400 miles away off Cape Moreton in Queensland.
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    Lock icon Mail Train Derails
    92 3 SYDNEY. Wed. (UPI) A mail train with 80 passengers aboard jumped the tracks on a busy suburban line today, at the start of the peak morning hour. Police said one man was killed and 14 passengers were injured and hospitalized All long-distance trains from northern New South
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    Lock icon The Longest Japanese Criminal Trial Ends
    405 3 TOKYO, Wed. (UPI) The longest criminal trial in Japanese history ended today when the Toyko District Court found 90 persons guilty of taking part in a riot on May Day, 1952. Apparently anxious to avoid an appeal that would drag the case out even
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    Lock icon Trans-Siberian Route Opens
    289 3 JAL BLAZES THE TRAIL; MOSCOW, Wed. (UPI) An Americanbuilt Japan airliner yesterday blazed a trial for non-Soviet carriers on the short route from Tokyo to Europe. The Japan Airlines (JAL) DCB-62 left Tokyo after breakfast and arrived in Moscow at lunch-time, by local clocks. The flying time
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    Lock icon JILTED BOY KIDNAPS AMERICAN CO-ED: PI
    454 3 MANILA, Wed. (UPI) A pretty 20-year-old American co-ed was kidnapped at gun-point last night by her jilted Filipino boy friend after he shot up the dormitory of an exclusive Roman Catholic girls' school in nearby Quezon City. Police said other students staying at the
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    Lock icon Indifferent Attitude By Hanoi To Peace Talks
    196 3 PARIS. Wed (UPI) North Vietnam chief negotia-tor-Xuan Thuy yesterday said there would he no early private talks with American diplomats to get the Vietnam peace talks started. He said Hanoi was prepared for an eventual collapse of the talks. In an Interview with
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    Lock icon £14.6 M. SPENT ON JUKE BOXES
    41 3 ROME. Wed (Reuter) Italians more than 22.000 million lire (£14.600.000) last year playing juke boxes and pinball machines Trade statistics issued here said revenue from pinball machines had increased bv 400 per cent since 1964
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    Lock icon Indonesia Bans All Sex Films
    212 3 JAKARTRA. Wed (Reuter) The Indonesian Government has banned a number of foreign sex films following public criticism. Information Ministry spokesman Widya told reporters yesterday that the films could corrupt Indonesian youth. He added the Government also would stop giving permit* for the import of films
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    Lock icon Marcos: Drop Anti-Student Charges
    156 3 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) President Marcos the target Monday of violent demonstrations yesterday ordered police to drop all charges against students Involved. Instead of charging the students. he said authorities should Investigate charges by the students of police brutality. But Marcos was not so forgiving of adults
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    Lock icon Arab Nations Angry Over Nixon's Arms Pledge To Israel
    470 4 BEIRUT, Wed. (Reuter fir UPI) President Nixon's promise to supply Israel with more arms if necessary has aroused a wave of indignation in the Arab world and Lebanon's Premier branded it as an "attempt to impose surender on the Arab countries."
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    Lock icon TRAFFIC JAM TACTICS
    67 4 WEST BEKLIN Wed. (Router) Drivers queued for up f o seven hours last night along West Berlin's access roads because of harassing tactic* by the East German* where the roads cross their territory Although yesterday saw the end of the week-long series of oartv and committer nwtings
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    Lock icon Belfast Mob Clash With Police
    241 4 BELT AST, Northern Ireland,; Wed. (Reuter) A 500-1 strong mob of chanting Protestant extremists clashed with police and troops early yester- j dav after a fourth night of tension in the Ulster capital Fighting started when the Protestants, led by a man carrying the British
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    Lock icon U527.3m Offer To Thalidomide Children Accepted
    247 4 ALSDORF, Germany. Wed. (UPI) Some 1.200 of the 2.000 parent® of children allegedly malformed by the tranquilizer thalidomide have accepted the offer of 100 million mark® <27.3 million US dollars) damages made by the drug's producers, a spokefman for the firm said yesterday. A
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    Lock icon 52 Die In Explosion
    174 4 JAKARTA Wed (t'PI) A fir* and erploelon caused by a eakior gasoline pipeline ««ept through the waterfront in the central Java port rity of Sem a run Saturday n««ht a r cording to delayed reports reaching Jakarta Score* of Indonesian who were getting gasoline from 'he
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    Lock icon USAF Wives In Tokyo
    101 4 TOKYO, Wed 'UP!)—Four American wive» who?e pilothusbands are missing in the Vietnam war had lunrh today with the wife of the VS. Ambassador to Japan before calling on Porenn Ministry and Red Cross officiali to explain their mission. I The women arrived in Tokvo list night
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    Lock icon Brandt's Men To Moscow And Warsaw
    146 4 BONN Wed (UPI) Chancellor Willy Brandt announced yesterday he Is sending his closest personal advisor to Moscow and West Germany s senior diplomat to Warsaw to conduct negotiations on proposed renunciation* of force Egon Bahr. State Secretary in Brandt's office, leaves for Moscow today
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    Lock icon 'Fair-weather' Friends
    69 4 LAGOS Wed. (Reuter) A Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation commentary yesterday criticised Britain. Holland ard the United Sta'es a* fairweather friend? and said Russia had don# more than any other nation to help Nigeria crush its rebellion The commentary, read after new* bulletins yesterday, said the U.S. had adopted a
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    Lock icon No French Jets To Libya If...
    78 4 PARIS Wed. (Reuter) The Frenrh Prim* Minister. Mr. Jacques Chaban-Delmas. Mid last nifht that Franc# wo lid block the delivery of Mirage jets to Libya if ariv of the planes ende* "P e!w«'l»r« than in the North African country. But h» added in a
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    Lock icon London's 1st. Turbanned Policeman Goes On Duty
    81 4 LONDON Wed. (Renter) A turbanned policeman went on doty last nifht in London probably for the first time in Britain. Special Constable Harbans Singh Jabral. 43. a Kenya-born Sikh is patrolling 1Q a police car in Lon- don'* working data East End district.
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    Lock icon 'Get Out' Order By Poland To 3 UK Embassy Staff
    270 4 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) PoUnd yesterday gave three members of the British Emba»»y «n Warsaw four days to quit the country, it was announced in London. No charges were made egiinit the Britons, but the move was evidently in retaliation for
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    Lock icon Fertility Drugs: No Ban In UK
    76 4 LONDON Wed (Reuter) Britain yesterday refused to ban fertility drugs A government spokesman. Lady Serota. described the number of multiple births arising from their use in this country as insignificant The ban had been ealle<} for bv Conservative opposition Peer Viscount Massereene and Ferrard
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    Lock icon Race Problem In Union Denied
    65 4 WEST BROMWICH, England. Wed (Reuter) A leading trade* union official In this Midlands town vesterday denied that there was any racial discrimination in his union Mr. Hugh Scanion. ©resident of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Fourdrr workers was discussing charge* of racial discrimination made
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    Lock icon Sik Seeks Asylum
    38 4 BERNE. Wed (Reuter) Professor Ota 81 k. a member of the Czechoslovaks Government at the time of Liberal leader Alexander Dubcek. has for asylum In Switzerland for hlm*elf and hla family, the government announced yesterday
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    Lock icon More Informal Tours Of Australia, Says Charles
    292 4 LONDON. Wed (UPI) Prince Charles said l«t night tours of Australia by British royalty will become informal alter more visits to the continent. The 21-year-old heir to the British throne was responding to advance criticism in the Australian press of the twomonth royal
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    Lock icon Mrs. McKay In Barcelona ?
    113 4 Mrs. McKay In Barcelona BARCELONA Spam Wed (UVi) Mr*. Muriel McKay, the missing wife of a Ne\vg of the World executive may now be in Barcelona the neu-spaper Diario De Barcelona. said yesterday. The paper said a woman with the exact phvslcal characteristics of Mrs McK*y was seen boarding a
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      49 4 ART BUCHWALD Humourist and P Next Week Joins Ann Landers Joseph Alsop Sheila Graham Dick West Florence De Santis Derek Ingram and other columnists in Your Eastern Sun Watch this space for more about the man they call the "funniest American observer of the world scene since Mark Twain."
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      87 4 TODAY an Thurtdav. January 29, 1970. Thun ill Ul STAR GAZERS By CLAY H POLLAK X t>9ily AdM*y Guid* W Ace.rd.Ho >. »>,• Jf o V "T "rr r TK Vowf oe>v Activity Guitk H Atfrding f« th, St sit. To d»«lop rrwssog* for Thuridoy, r*od words corresponding to number*
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    Lock icon Airlift For Typhoid-Hit Ship's 140 Passengers
    264 5 lTiltS CO V^^ R British CoWed. (Reuter) h f u dre< l *nd 40 pas senRHti.h h th hit British liner, 'Oronsay*. are S* d today to A ulIhllit an N>w Zea,a *>d the hrre mrners announced A spokesman for the f a e
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    Lock icon Jumbo Jet Is Diverted To Germany
    190 5 FRANKFURT, West Germany. Wed (Reuter) A Pan-American jumbo Jet flying from New York and diverted from London to Frankfurt because of fog landed here at OMO local <0740 GMT) today. London's Heathrow Airport was closed overnight when log cut visibility to 50 yards. Pan-American
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    Lock icon The Cheek Of It All
    181 5 CORDOBA. Argentina, Wed. (UPI) Five bandits captured a small-town police station after a gunbattle and then forced a wounded policeman to help them hold up a nearby bank, officials re- ported yesterday. Police said the robbers captured patrolman Lau--1 r elino Mayo while on patrol
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    Lock icon It's A Gas
    90 5 NEW YORK, Wed 'Reuter) The campaign against pollution in the United States reached new heights here when about 25 mothers and their children picketed a department store selling a toy truck that emits REAL smoke from its exhaust The pickets wore surgical masks and carried banners reading.
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    Lock icon INDONESIAN STUDENT PROTESTORS
    107 5 (top photo) shouted abuse in front of the state-owned oil company, Pertamina. in Djakarta recently. They were protesting against increased prices of fuel. In spite of a government ban on demonstrations. some 2,000 students marched downtown carrying placards, Indonesia has increased prices of gasoline and other fuels
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    Lock icon USAF Wife Reveals Real Plight Of POWs
    377 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) The wife of a captured U.S. flier stood up in a congressional hearing yesterday and emotionally contradicted an anti-war leader who had just reported on her visit to a prisoner-of-war camp in North Vietnam. "Mrs. Weiss, you're so very wrong
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    Lock icon PREPARING FOR A N-WAR WITH 1937 MAO GUERRILLA TACTICS
    452 5  -  Bv ERNESTO MENDOZA HONG KONG, Wed. (Reutar) Two of the most popular films in China today are old war epics called, "Tunnel War", and, "Landmine War" which are being re-shown as Peking mobilises the people for a possible conflict. Both are
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    Lock icon Nude Nancy Sinatra Photo
    80 5 LOS ANGELES. Wed. (CPI) A suit asking 500.000 dollars damages has been filed against 'Playboy* magazine, charging a picture of Nancy Sinatra in the nude was published without the photofTapher's permission. Ron Joy. the photographer, said the photo of Miss Sinatra was taken last April 7
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    Lock icon ARRESTED KIDNAPPERS CLAIM: 2 Venezuela Judges Are Accomplices
    390 5 CARACAS, Wed. (Reuter) Five youths arrested here for kidnapping a millionaire's son have named two district court judges as accomplices and olleged that the crime was organised by two well-known lawyers, police said last night. Police added that a state attorney had
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    Lock icon House Votes On Nixon's Veto
    197 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Renter* President Nixon looked set today to win hi* first major battle with Congress this year a House of Representatives rote on his veto of the 19.700 million dollars Health. Education and Welfare Appropriation Bill A two-thirds majority in the 435-seat House is
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    Lock icon ACLU Aids Sinatra's Court Appeal
    205 5 NEWARK. New Jersey. Wed. (UPI) The New Jersey branch of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says It will assin attorneys for entertainer Frank Sinatra in attempts to have a federal court hear arguments on the constitutionality of the State Investigation Commission (SIC). Stephen Nagler. executive
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    Lock icon DEARER TEA
    59 5 POOLE England. Wed. fXTPT> Police have complained because It costs them one pence (one cent) more to net tea from a new machine than it did when they brewed It themselves They even tried shutting off the machine. Installed to save time in the station. But they have
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    Lock icon Too Realistic
    50 5 LEICESTER. England. Wed. (UPI) Radio announcer Ken Warburton wanted to explain to listeners on Monday how to call the emergency telephone number. His call to the Fire Department was too realistic. Within minutes, a score of ftre wagons came racing to the studio looking for a non-existent fir*.
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    73 5 CLEVELAND. Ohio. Wed. (Reuter) James Flnley. a black United state* Air force veteran, claims he changed colour completely In 19M while being treated for a peptic ulcer at the Veteran'a Administration Hospital here. Finley. 33, alleged that within two days of being given the drug Uoriden,' the pigmentation in
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    Lock icon SAIGON'S OFFER TO REDS
    801 6 SCARCELY any attention has been C'vea by political commentators, analysts and interpret ters to the rathar shocking statemant by the South Vietnamese Information Minister Ngo Khac Tinh that the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu is prepared to take "one or two Communists" in the cabinet
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    Lock icon PAKISTAN'S 'FORWARD' FEMALES
    711 6  -  •y Lammy Pinns KARACHI, (UPI) Pakistan's first general •lections based on direct adult franchise could well turn into a bottle of the sexes. Led by the all Pakistan Women's Association j (APWA) the girls are demanding at least 10 per cent of the Assembly seats be reserved
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    Lock icon Celibacy Law: Pope Faces A Challenge
    1013 6  -  »y Ray Moseley VATICAN CITY. (UPI) No Pop* in modern times has faced the challenge that hat been flung at Paul VI over the issue of priestly celibacy. It is coming to dominate one period of his reign In the way that birth control
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    Lock icon Generation Of Vipers
    709 6  -  By Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON Prudent Nixon's report on the state of the nation took no note of a key fact so dangerous that everyone in this nation ought to be thinking about it. The fact is that something perilously close to race war has now begun in
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    Lock icon More Americans Are Killed On Highways Than In Vietnam
    447 6 NIW YORK, (UPI) More Americans were killed on U.S. highway* in 1969 than on all the World War I battlefields or in 10 years of fighting in Vietnam. Projections b v the Insurance Information Institute indicate that 36.300 Americans died In
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    Lock icon THIS IS NAPLES
    423 6  -  ■y Peter Sharrock NAPUS. (Reuter) Romantic Naples has a popular new name The Cardboard City. Since World Wa r U. the beautiful woods which once encircled the gently curving bav of Naples have bee n replaced by a jungle of tall, box-like aoartment blocks, manv of them
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      Lock icon Top Technician Here To Better Dupont's Repair Services
      327 7 Atop technician from S.T. Dupont of Paris, manufacturer of one of the world's most prestigious lighters, arrived Tuesday in Singapore to improve repair services offered by its sole distributor in the Republic, Casey Enterprises Pte Ltd Mr. Claude Fall, who has been
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      Lock icon Quiet Day On The Market
      311 7 ONLY 1.3 MILLION UNITS DONE TRADING was quiet in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Total turnover tell sharply to 1.3 million units compared to last Wednesday s 2.9 million units. Initially, the market trended steady but turned slightly easier on lack of
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      889 7 OUSINESS 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 $2.19 <2) $2 00 (1); Alcaa $213 (16) $214 (1) $2 15 (12)
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      Lock icon EXCHANGE RATES
      129 7 The Association of Banks In Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes in Its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency): SELLING T.T. or O.D. ready: Deutsche Mark* $83.9225; Holland Guilders $85.0325. Swiss Francs $71.7975; Belgian Francs $6.2400; French Francs $55.7550;
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      Lock icon JAL Test Flight
      39 7 TOKYO, Wed. (UPI) Japan Air Lines (JAL) launched its first test flight yesterday over a new Trans Siberian rout© that will give JAL a big temporary advantage in air travel between Europe and the Far East.
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      Lock icon Sydney Closing Prices
      154 7 SYDNEY. Wed (UPI) Wednesday's closing Sydney Stock Exchange selected shares. MININGS Ac max 85 Austral Mm. 1 05 Barrier 1.30 BH South 5.70 C Gold 9So CRA 31.50 fcmper 1.4 C Endur .66 GT Bould 5 70 GT Nthn .60 GT West .23 Kath Inv I *>o
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      41 7 NEW YORK. Wed (UPl> Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Btock Exchange yesterday. 30 indmtrlaU 763 99 20 trarwp 188.13 15 utlls 106.50 65 stocks ***** 40 bonds 68 90 Commodity futures index 137.06 up 0.27.
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      Lock icon Rubber Futures
      62 7 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI) Rubber futures closed unchanged to 25 points higher on no sales yesterday on the New York Commodity Exchange. (CLOSE) (PREV) Mar 26 50A 26.50 Mar 26.25 A 26 00 July 26.25 A 26.00 Sept. 25.00 A 25 00 Nov. 2625 A 26 00 Jan
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      28 7 MANILA. Wed (UPI) The Philippine Clvl] Aeronautics Board <CAB) has approved an application by Air France to Increase Its service to Manila to four flights week.
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      Lock icon N.Y. STOCKS DECLINE
      99 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Stocks declined yesterday with Investors apparently unwilling to purchase securities in the face of some dismal corporate earnings statements and reduced dividends. Trading was moderate. At the close, the UPI marketwlde Indicator was off 066 per cent on 1,584 issues traded. Of these.
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      13 7 The tin twice for yesterday was $669.12} per picul. down 94.374.
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 72 Cts.
      282 7 February first trade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterdav at 72 cents Der lb., ud on® and three eighth* of a cent from the previous close The tone of the market was firm. Conditions were ver v thin and the market
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      Lock icon MR ORDER 25 LOCOMOTIVES
      48 7 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter)— The Malayan Railways have ordered 25 main line dieselelectric locomotives from the British Electrlc-Ael Traction Company. It was announced here yesterday. The order the fourth of Its kind awarded by Malaysia to the British company is worth about three million sterling.'
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      Lock icon GOLD STOCK UP
      63 7 WASHINGTON. Wed. (UPI) The total U.B gold stock Increased by US$6BB million last month to total of UB- billion, the Treasury Department said yesterday. Total U.B. reserve assets. Including convertible foreign currency and the nation's reserve position in the International Monetary Fund (IMF). increased US$364 million during
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      Lock icon SHIPS IN PORT
      197 7 THE Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthing arrangements for ships in port today, Thursday 29: DEPARTURES Godowns Vessels 15'16 Billlton 1/2 DjatUuhur 10/11 Genevieve Lykes 18 President Hoover 19 Sir Lancelot 22 Kyoyo Maru 33/34 Neptune Topai 35/36 Sloterkerk 40 '4l Renoir 46 Salmela
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      Lock icon Aussie Minings Active Again On UK Market
      171 7 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) Australian speculative minings vesterdav active again on the London market following the statement bv Tasminex chairman Singling that the company had discovered nickel at its Mt Venn claims In Western Australia. Th* price jumped from around three stg., overnight. to
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      117 7 NEW YORK. Wed <UPI) Gold prices rose slightly yesterday in routine trading on markets here and abroad. In London, gold gained 2 U.S. cents to 35 00 U S. dollars a troy ounce at the morning fixing and remained at that level for the second fixing.
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      72 7 LONDON. Wed (UPI) Rubber closed thin with seller* referred. No 1 RfiS spot 23j. 24i Settlement House Feb 23-13 16 23-11/16 Mar 24-5 16 24-1 'J Apr 24-9'16 24-13/16 Apr June 24-13 16 24-15/16 Jul Sep 24-13 16 24-15M6 Oct/Dec 24-3' 4 24-15 16 Jan Mar
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      207 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A high-level Toyota business team from Tokyo wa s in Kuala LumDur on a four-day viait last week. It held discussion* with Borneo Motors which it the sole distributor of Toyota vehicles in West Malaysia and Singapore. The team was led. by
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      154 7 rr~w**m Mb T|Tjjn!IMJ Thotech C. Plant .70 1.83 I.TO PROPERTIES Bk «fml)a*anf Bk bembawaru DebCentral Proprrflea City Development* Fa her In ion 2 25 *3a f Island Hotel* (M) Island Peninsula Kl. Properties 92 ■49 .93 HM Mosbert ■50 S3 Sel. Properties Singapore Land Town City
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      86 7 1HK noun price* at tb« (tlnn> pore Chlnrv produce tirbange ir»ltr<tk; wwf> Mm MIM Coconut Oil (PDB-) Bulk 56 50 Commit Oti 57 50 (FOB) Drum Miked Copra 34 SO M unt ok white Pepper 165-00 IFOR) Sarawak Wblte Pepper (FOB.) ***** Sarawak t»pe<->ai Biac* pepper (FOB) 116% NLH
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      127 7 HONG KONG, Wed. (UPI) —Wednesday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): BUYERS SELLERS (In HK dollars) 195 196 per 100 Straits dollars 144 145 per 1,000 Taiwan dollars 6 735 6 745 per Australian dollar 305 325 per 1,000 Burmese kyats 530
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      434 7 ARRIVALS 8 15am MSA 123 R. Lumpur 845 a.m. MSA 110 R Lumpur 12.30 p.m. MSA4SI Rucblng 230p m- MSA 021 K I umpur, Malacca 325 pm. MSA 453 k Kmabalu 340 pm MSA 521 Bangkok. Pe nang 5 40'p m MSA 665 Manila 7 10 p.m. MSA
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      562 8 MAN, like other mammals, take in food with the aid of the lips and teeth. If the solid food is too large to go in the mouth, smaller pieces are bitten off by the front, or cutting teeth. The food is then chewed, ground up by the back
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      385 8 WHY should we have newspapers when we have other modern media like radio and television? The answer to this question lies on the fact that newspapers are the cheapest means of getting factual Information. They are cheap enough for even the poorest. The main function of a
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      727 8 "Oh f How am I going to solve the tough physics questions, but I have to finish them by tonight," I whispered to myself. It was eleven-thirty when I completed them all with splitting headache With sleepy eyes I went to bed Not long
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      511 8 INCHE Abdul Rahman was by no means a poor man But being the sole bread-winner of his family of ten. every moment that he could spare was precious to him. And so we find him on that bright and sunny April afternoon a holidav
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      449 8 I hare reasons to remember that particular day when I was coming out from a cinema show. It was also a hot day and people were drowsy An exciting Incident occurred that day A man suddenly shouted to his friend that there wa* a Are
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      184 8 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SDN'S new essay writing contest for boy* and girls of 14 and under appear* In this page ever? Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express thrmselves properly. And what better way to
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      87 8 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and AkJenMcWiiams UEAMWWILE HSTHArj BAD WENDY' MY RftRTNER IT'S POP yOU, DANNY A LAUGHS ..IT'S I THINK IT'S TPOV. J USUALLY TO BUT HE'S LAUGHING DISGUISE A LIKE A MASTER RAVEN DIDN'T TAKE THE REWARD MONEY PINNED TO TYCO'S UNDERSHIRT/ I DARE SAY HE COULD
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      24 8 AMY By Jack Tippft M I SB < cs "Boy, on I glad you'rt Hon*, Doddy.. .You tako off your coat«*«and I'll fltt tht checkerboard!
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    489 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: For twenty years I have gone with my husband to social gatherings, business functions, civic meetings and what have you. Eugene never introduces me to anybody. His excuse is, "Oh, I thought you KNEW everyone Recently Eugene was named
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    607 9  -  %/#<'##/•//!#/ #W l#f/.s«»/!"... By SHEILAH GRAHAM N'EW YORK Wed. Rex Hamson is very much In love with Elizabeth Harris. who recently divorced actor Richard Harris. Ac- cording to my crystal ball, usually reliable. Rex and Elizabeth will marry as soon as Rex
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    250 9  -  A Lovelier Ton By Mary Sue Miller A teen Lovely writes: I want to blond my hair with a permanent tint. My mother's against It. She says she would not mind so much if I could prove to her that I know how to
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      376 9  - Courages' Collection More Of A Sh ow Than Fashion By Pe ggy Massin PARIS. Wed. (Reuter)' As fashion shows to the collection Andre Courreges presented here yesterday was more show than fashion. The clothes added nothing dramatically new to the Courreges look, but the staging of the show was theatrically
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      398 9  -  By PEGGY MASSIN PARIS, Wed. (Reuter) Pierre Balmain followed the hemline plunge in Paris fashion here yesterday showing daytime dresses sweeping to within fifteen and a half inches of the floor. Balmain's afternoon clothes droop ever further with hems swirling only 12 inches above the
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      267 9 LIDO Pnone ***** opens today: 11 Mi. 145. iH. «M 111 f.a. C*ttaarto« Dtaeuv* "L* Chamada" iHEARTBEAT) IB Color-U A Saturday Midnight Preview 'Chinese New Year Attraction* Pranco Nero A Profaatioaa! Can" Tony Mutant# Jack Palanoo Teehnicojor 'United Artists> CAPITOL Phone ***** OPENS TOMORROW! John Garko Sc K!au* Kinakl "84BTANA"
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      137 9 CATHAY yjfj^lUj3J4oo MiMHilflMafiilfiH' fIXPRHMIi \MV7TVWi RAIDERS I'il l?ill f rifvr V X* *1 A. odeon I OPENS TODAY vnnninHi When THE MAN from "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly" SMILES... HE'S OUT TO KILL! r Y r 1 L* tn, h I cnufuc mil e*ocK prre kevin mccarthY'DUU orcwucn
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      279 9 mn 1 Big ORGAIMISATIOW OR CHARD-***** Opea» Tedaj! 1A i #M 4 9 15 "TM MINI-SRIBT MOB" Color Jeremr Blata D'.ane Ucßtls ON STAGS TONIGHT il t 15 pm "PINK BIBBONS FASHIONS" □EON ***** OPENS TODAY! U U, I.M. «.M. «M A 8.15 p.m Eli Wtiiieh "ACE HIGH" Is Color
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      Lock icon THE MEADOWBANK SPORTS STADIUM. Edinburgh, built at a cost of £2,300,000 and due to to be opened on May 2, 1970, will be the venue for five of the nine sports of the British Commonwealth Games in July. When some 1,800 athletes and officials representing about 40 Games Federation members will fill the central arena (seen above) as the Queen's message in its special gold baton circles tne track before being handed over to the royal personage opening the Games,
      80 10 THE MEADOWBANK SPORTS STADIUM. Edinburgh, built at a cost of £2,300,000 and due to to be opened on May 2, 1970, will be the venue for five of the nine sports of the British Commonwealth Games in July. When some 1,800 athletes and officials representing about 40 Games Federation members
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      265 10 MELBOURNE, Wed. (Reuter) Australia today govt its official blessing to a proposal for a world tennis circuit. The Lawn Tennis Association of Australia at its annual conference here today agreed in principle to a scheme linking the world with a year-round series of open
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      165 10 STOCKHOLM. Wed. (UPI)— Australian open tennis champion Arthur Ashe's proposed televised series against Swedish No. 1 Jan Erik Lundquist was called off yesterday because of a clash of dates with the World Ice Hockey Champion ships. The Ashe-Lundquist series was scheduled for March 1224. but now
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      44 10 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Herbert "Struddy Strudw.ck. the former Surrey a nd England wicket-keener celebrates his 90th. birthday tomorrow. 'Struddy made 1.493 dismissals. including 1.235 catches. both records which still stand, in his first-class career from 1902 to 1927. and was capped 28 times.
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      136 10 ST LOUIS. Missouri. Wed. (UPI) Baltimore Orioles manager Ean Weaver. St. Louis Cardinal pitcher Steve Carlton and New York Met*' slugger Tommle Agee received top awards last night at the St Louis baseball writers" annual dinner. Carlton, who struck out 19 Mets in one game last season. and
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      320 10 Thomas Cup Badminton BLACKBURN, Lancashire, Wed. (AFP) Denmark and England were surprisingly level with two victories each, at the end of the first day of the two-day European Zone semi-final of the Thomas Cup men's badminton match being played here. The winners meet Sweden or
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      101 10 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) Results of tonight's football matches are:— English Football Association Cup fourth round repiays) Burn!ev 1. Chelsea 3 (after extra time score after 9° minute* one-one. Chelsea are away to either Tottenham Hotspur or Crystal Palace in the fifth round on Feb. 7). Northampton Town 2-
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      48 10 WORCESTER Wed (AFP) —Tom Gravenev's Worcestershlr* benefit fund has closed at 7.886 oounds. a record for the county. Previous biggest Worcestershire benefit was L* n Coldwell's 7,502 pounds in 19*58 This is Graveney'g second cricket benefit. When Captain of Gloucestershire in 1959 he received 5,400 pounds.
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      240 10 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI)— Quarterback Terry Bradshaw. a good passer from Louisiana Tech, was elected by the Pittsburgh Steelers yesterday as the No. 1 choice In pro football's annual draft. Oklahoma University had three players among the 26 picked on the prestigious first round. Mike McCoy.
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      165 10 NEW YORK. Wed.(Wed) Tom Seaver. the 25-year-old righthander who helped pitch the New York Mets to the National League Pennant and the World Series championship last year, was named "YMCA National Athlete of the Year." Selection of Seaver, winner of the National League's Cy Young award a
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      68 10 NEW YORK. Wed (Reuter) —New York Mayor John Lindsav is olannin* to ask the state legislature to legalise offtrack betting in hopes of raising 200 million dollars to ease the city's financial troubles. The t>lan has been orooosed several times in the oast but has been turned down
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      217 10 SYDNEY. Wed. cUPI) John Benaud. Captain of the New South Wales cricket team has been banned from playing In future matches for wearing the wrong boots. The New South Wales Cricket Association said Benaud. 25-year-old brother of former Australian skipper Richie, Benaud. defied an
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      447 10 SYDNEY. Wed. (UPI) Donald Dell, outgoing captain of the U.S. Davis Cup team, said today the US. Lawn Tennis Association must pick the right man as his successor or face "great dangers ahead" in this year's cup campaign. Dell, who recently resigned as
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      154 10  -  BY JIMMY LAD Trainer Colin Tulloh's trio. Everything Better i Podmore). Picasso II (White) and La Vlte, did an interesting trial over 3f in 44 on soft going yesterday with Everything Better finishing best. Reganda II (Coles), a beaten favourite last week, went fluently over 3f
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      38 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A total of 255 horses 7l Class One. 109 Class 111 and 75 Class VI has entered for 'he Selangor Turf Clubs four-day Tunku's Gold Cup meeting starting on Feb. 7.
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      224 10 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) Police chiefs in Britain were taking ail reasonable precautions to prevent damage to cricket grounds Home Secretary James Callaghan told Parl.ament tonight. The assurance was sought by conservative opposition MP Charles Morrison who referred to recent vandalism at various grounds around the country
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      81 10 MELBOURNE Wed. (Reuter)—Australia will submit its application to the international Lawn Tennis Federation to stage the Federation Cup —the women'* equivalent of the Davis Cup—m Perth next January. This was decided at a meeting of the Australian Lawn Tennis Federation today. The International Lawn Tennis Federation is expected
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      50 10 DURBAN. South Africa Wed (UPI) Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgoium. South Africa's Indian golfej: will t>lav on British and European pro golf circuit* this vear. sponsored by Indian businessmen here, it was reported yesterday Sewgoium is prohibited by the apartheid law* from playing on the white *olf circuits in South Alrica.
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      1377 10 THE BUKIT T1MAH CUPi CL 2 Did. 11 F. 941* ftnawflaka 7y 9 00 Universe Stable TuDn* ***** Lesai Scholar BY 113 Wonj ft Tao SUb!« Ten 8*»524 Wwar|« 5y S 13 Boon Wah Stable Noordtn ***** Ringmaster Sy 8 0S Ar*coM Stable Heddie KT1S1 Flying
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      328 11 T-risrs WiiistMSsf tttii'ss sft Wfss sr si r v Reid made the prediction at the LTAA annual meeting He was commenting on the move by the US for a special meeting of Davis Cup nations in London on Mareh 19 The meeting will discuss
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      219 11 MIAMI. Fla Wed (UPI)_ In a mini-skirt Barbara Jo Rubin's legs look Just fine, but on a horse her knees give her trouble Yesterday they forced the girl Jockey Into early retirement. The pretty brunette said her knees have been weak since she contracted polio as a child
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      46 11 TOKYO Wed. (Reuter) A team of 11 Japanese gymnastic veterans left here today for Manila on the first leg of fheir four-nation Southeast Asian tour. The team led bv Yoshihiko Kurimoto, President of the Japan Gymnastic Association, will also visit Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Taipei
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      Lock icon A SINGLE goal, ten minutes from time, gave the W.R.A.F. victory over a W.R.A.C. hockey side in the Inter-Services Championships, Singapore. The F.E.A.F. girls thus retained the trophy which they also won last year. The FEAF team seen above was from left (back row): Flying Officer Irene Whan; SACW Margaret Wells. SACW Sheila Dodds, SACW Karen Joseph. Flight sgt. Gerry Lynch, and Cpl. Anne Nicoll; (Front row): the goal-scorer Cpl. Sandra Newall, Cpl. Susan Wiles. SACW Marian Mc-Cullough, SACW Adrienne Dovey and SACW "Lee" Feeney. The F.E.A.F, men's side was defeated 2-0 by the Army.
      95 11 A SINGLE goal, ten minutes from time, gave the W.R.A.F. victory over a W.R.A.C. hockey side in the Inter-Services Championships, Singapore. The F.E.A.F. girls thus retained the trophy which they also won last year. The FEAF team seen above was from left (back row): Flying Officer Irene Whan; SACW Margaret
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      403 11 TOKYO, Wed. (UPI) World Featherweight Champion Shoxo Saijo and Chilean challenger Godfrey Stevens both appeared relaxed and confident today at a contract signing ceremony for their title fight, Feb. 8. They shook hand* amiably as they posed with Yachlyo Manabe. President of the
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      96 11 HONOLULU. Wed <UPI) Adolph Pruitt. the World Boxing Association's No. 1 rankIn* junior welterweight, dropped Oscar "Shotgun) Alverado for an eight count In the 10th round and went on to win a unanimous decision last night. Alverado to be rallying In tne eighth and ninth rounds when
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      48 11 JOHANNESBURG. Wed. (AFP) The South African government has refused the application for a visa by Arthur Ashe, the American Negro tennis player, it was announced here today. Ashe had applied for a visa to compete In the South African championships next month.
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      153 11 NEW YORK, W«d. (AFP) Arnold Palmar wa» voted "Golfer of the Decade" by U.S. golf journalists yesterday. Palmer master of the cliffhanging. last-minute come back, received an overwhelming vote of the 633 votes polled Fellow golfing-miUionalre Jack Nirkiaus came second and Bobbv Casper and
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      81 11 SAN* DIEGO. Calif. Wfd (UPl)—San D;tjo collee* quarterhack Dcnni* Shaw will seek 200.000 U.S. dol'ars to olav professional football even thoufh he was not a (hoice. Shaw wa, taken in the second round of the National Football Leajue draft yesferdav bv the Buffalo Bills. He was
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      74 11 PORT WORTH T**as Wed. 'AFP)—In his first middleweight rontest. Curtis Cokes. Amenta's former world welterweight boxing champion, knocked out Mexican Roberto Pen a in the flfth round here last night Coke s weighing 160 ©ounds controlled the scheduled tenrounn bout from the opening bell. He caught the 158
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      491 11  -  By William Verigan NEW YORK, Wed. (UPI) Emile Griffith without a titl# is like a watch without hands. The seconds keep ticking off, bringing the end of his career closer and closer, but time seems to stand still for Emile when he's not
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      221 11 PHILADELPHIA, Wed. (UPI) Deposed heavyweight basing champion Cassius Clay said yesterday he would personally turn over his world championship belt to the winner of the Joe Frasier-Jimmy Ellis fight Feb. 16. Clay. In an appearance taped for the Mike Douglas television show here, said he
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      610 11 Classified Ad. Books/Publications Golden Opportunity for i Chinese New Year We buy-sell New/Secondhand schoolbooks. Why not call at your favourite Bookahop. MUSLIM KHAN. 70. Bras Basah Road. Tel: ***** Singapore. NOTICE 1 CHAPTER 195 (Pawnbrokers.) L nredeemed Pledged Goods and Jewellery from the following Pawnbrokers' Shops Lam Joan Siong (Chop
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      1188 11 radio (CHANNEL I) PM 300 Opening Annets. In all Language? and Morning Star; 3>o Anothpr Song Another Melody (English) (Repeat); 3-35 It's Happening In Singapore (Chinese' i Repeat i; 350 Housewives Matinee iMoonliaht Serenade Part 2Of A Mandarin Film* English Subtitle*»; 900 Close; 600 Opening Annets. in all Languages and
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    Lock icon Allis-Chalmers Opens Asian Parts Centre In Jurong
    491 12 VISITING Vice-President of Allis-Chalmers said yesterday that 16 major countries in Asia, Australia and New Zealand will benefit with the opening of the warehouse in Jurong. Mr. J, J. Chluski added that the official opening of the warehouse in Jurong was very carefully
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    225 12 A driver. Ahmad bin Mahmood alias Salim, was yesterday sentenced by the Ninth Magistrates Court to six months jail after he had pleaded guilty to a charge of cheating Lee Fatt Furniture and Electrical of a refrigerator valued at $751. On Jan.
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    110 12 A 12-lecture course on "Music of The Western World," will be conducted by the Dept. of Extramural Studies. University of Singapore. Mrs. E.S. Byrd is the speaker during this lecture. Aimed at developing an understanding among participants on the historical sweep of Western music of ancient Greece to
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    64 12 The staff of the Bukjt Panjang/Jurong District Health Office seized Ave heads of cattle during a 6 a.m. round-up operation last Saturday. The cattle were seized following a complaint that cattle have strayed at the Ulu Pandan Sewerage Works "The animals hav been slaughtered and the meat
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    128 12 During the Chinese New Year holidays, there will be no deliver services on Feb. 6 but there will be one complete d«li v *rv of correspondence on Feb. 7The hours of business at the General Post Office on both day s will be from 9 a
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    54 12 A year-old baby. Teo Yu Seng, of Peslaran Kellling. was drowned In a clay basin in a bathroom yesterday. The baby was found by his mother who saw his head Inside the clay basin, about a feet and a half high, and containing two inches of water.
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    45 12 One Ah Lek was yesterday sentenced to two years jail by the Ninth Court Magistrate, Mr EC. Foenande r when he pleaded guiltv to four charges of theft Two of these were pressed while the other two were taken into consideration
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    163 12 A team of ten consulting engineers from the United States are due in Singapore today for consultation with various Industries In the Republic. The mission under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of International Commerce will be in Singapore until Feb.
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    67 12 Gob Kwong Thiam 21 was vesterday fined $l5O or one month's jail bv the Ninth Court Magistrate Mr E C. Foenander, after he had pleaded guilty of stealing t*o pairs trousers, valued at $33. Tuesday. The trousers belonged to two labourers employed at the Jurong Shipyard. Hamsan
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    74 12 The Rock Chapter of the Dale Carnegie Alumni Association is holding their 4th Dinner and Dance at the Hotel Negara on Saturday. Jan. 31 from 7.30 p.m. to 1 a*n. Among the highlights of the evening will be a fashion show by the Joan Booty's School of
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    60 12 Six top Singapore models will display the latest in flight fashions at a fashion show to be held at the Troplcana today. The show, called "Fashion of Flight with Lufthansa", is presented by the Joan Booty School of Charm and Modelling The creations are from Pink Ribbons by
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    219 12 SINGAPORE-BORN Sir Eric Griffith-Jones, 56, Chairman of Guthrie Corporation Limited, one of world'* largest producers of natural rubbers, will visit Singapore between Feb. 28 and March 2. Sir Eric is making his annual tour of the Group's interests in Southeast Asia. In
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    172 12 A TOTAL of 15 firms were charged in the Ninth Magistrates Court yesterday with displaying siqnboards of their business names and advertisements of their products without obtaining the necessary licences from the Chief Building Surveyor's Department. Fines ranging from $4O to $4OO were imposed
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    192 12 AN Australian firm of naval architects, Boulton fir Hercu Pty. Ltd. of Sydney, has opened a representative office in Singapore. A director of the company, Mr. John Boulton, said yesterday that the company had decided to esta- blish in the Republic because of
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    108 12 An overhead pedestrian bridge will be erected across Stevens Road in front of Anderson Secondary School on Feb. 1 at 2 p.m. During the erection which is expected to last two hours, part of Stevens Road fronting the school will b? closed to all traffic. The vehicles
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    95 12 Representative poem* choser? from Blake. Wordsworth. Coleridge. Byron. Shellev and Keats will be examined in some deoth at a 15-lecture course on "The Romantic Poets" to be conducted by Mr. Edwin Thuniboo. a lecturer at the English Deoartment University of Singapore, from Feb. 10. The course, organised
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    25 12 The Science Council of Singaoore ha* todav shifted to 60 Tanglin Road Singapore. 10 The Council's telephone number remains the same ie *****3.
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    281 12 4 Unfaithful Lover Murder TriaV THE accused in the "unfaithful lover murder trial" continuing his defence in the High Court yesterday said he could not remember if he was folding Neela's legs when Palanisamy cut her throat. "I was slightly dazed so
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    341 12 THE University of Singapore Students' Union has welcomed the move by the Minister for Interior and Defence, Mr. Lim Kim San to call up students for full-time National Service on completion of their Higher School Certificate examinations. The USSU welcomed this move after last
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    50 12 Th# Adult Education Board will hold tvpewritmp classes ♦o students to sit for the 1970/71 L. C. C- Typewriting Examinations Classe* are being conducted from Mondavs to Raturdav* in th# mornlrg s a nd evenings at Fort Canning Road The tuition fe e i t $3.00 a month
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    99 12 A 19-year-old youth who sought the acquaintance of a girl he saw at a theatre in November last year yesterday landed in the Fifth Magistrate's Court on a charge of attempting to outrage her modesty. Gonzago Billy Samson. unemployed, admitted that he touched Tan Moi Lee's
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    134 12 Housewife Neo Kwal. 35. who was said to have 'angered evil spirits was found drowned in a disused well at Jalan Bajah. Jurong. on Jan. 3. a coroner was tola vesterday. Her bodv was found floating in the well bv p 0 h Teck. a farmer, who
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    37 12 Professor Wong Lin Ken, M P for Alexandra will hold the 'Meet-the-PeooleV session everv Monday from Feb 2. at No. 34 Mei Ling Street (Block 154>. Singapore 3 No further meetings will b* held on Fridays
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    • Miscellaneous
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      81 12 Time 4k Tide TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN: 2.39 a m. (8.8 ft.) 830 a.m (3.2 ft.) 2.40 t>m. (B.b ft.) 8.38 p.m. '3 ft.) NAVAL DOCKYARD: 2 52 a.m. (10.2 ft.) 8.24 am. (38 ft.) 2.58 p.m. <9-8 ft.) 8.35 p-m. (3.8 ft.) TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN. 3.09 a.m (87 ft.) 918
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