Eastern Sun, 30 January 1970

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    22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1252 Friday, 30 January 1970. MC (P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon 'S'pore Can Have Water Needs From The Sea'
    287 1 AMERICAN experts can provide Singapore with the technological process in desalting tea water to enable the Republic to be self-sufficient in water supply, Dr. J.I. Bergman said yesterday. Dr. Bergman, who is a member of nine-man mission from the Consulting Engineers Council
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    Lock icon New Year
    32 1 TAIPEI. Thurs. (AFP) —Chines nationalist* today Quotes Communist radio in Fukien as saying that the Chinese people on the mainland would observe a "revolutionary" lunar new year festival this year.
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    Lock icon 32 Die, 16 Hurt In School Bus Smash Horror
    277 1 JOHANNESBURG, THurs. (Reuter fir UPI) Thirty-two schoolchildren were killed and 16 others were injured some seriously when an express train plunged into a school bus at Henley-on-Clip, near here, today. Eye-witnesses said the bus, carrying about 60 children, stalled at a
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    Lock icon Film Epic
    53 1 CAIRO. Thurs. (UPl)—'The Egyptian government has ordered the state-owned television to show the film "Battle of Britain" to hel© orepare the Egyptian people for further possible Israeli air raids officials said. When the film was shown in local cinemas recently it drew capacity audiences They hope the British
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    Lock icon Imageine That...
    45 1 CHAN SECK WAH, a police constable was yesterday fined $6OO or four months jail in the Seventh Magistrates Court for retaining a pair of handcuffs from the Queenstown Police Station. He was accused of keeping the handcuffs on July 26 at 11.00 a.m.
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    Lock icon Trudeau Dates Bab Streisand
    147 1 OTTAWA, Thurs (UPI) Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau last night escorted singer Barbara Streisand 10 a gala ballet performance and reception honouring the centennial of the province of Manitoba. Trudeau dated Miss Streisand during a visit to New York City last autumn. Trudeau. 50, Is bachelor
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    Lock icon War Boom
    99 1 HAIFA. Israel. Thurs. <UPI) An Arab jet flghter streaked low over the Israeli port city of Haifa yesterday, shattering windows with Its supersonic boom. An Israeli military spokesman in Tel Aviv said "an enemy aircraft passeo over Haifa at a low altitude at 4:05 p.m. it did not
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    Lock icon Australia: No Big Power Role
    583 1  -  POLICY REITERATED By Suhaimi Bidin AUSTRALIA is not, and is not likely to be, a world power and does not aspire to play a "world role" as in the case of France or China, her High Commissioner in Singapore, Mr. A.R. Parsons, said yesterday. He
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    Lock icon Skyvan To Test For Rural Routes In M'sia
    260 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. An 18-pass-enger aircraft will arrive here on Monday for evaluation flights over proposed airline routes and if plans submitted by a local company is accepted by the government, Malaysians can well patronise a second domestic airlines by September this
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    Lock icon BRIG. Gen. Sugandhi, Information Director of the Defence and Security Dept. warns a student delegation ogainst further demonstrations to protest fuel oil prices.
    26 1 BRIG. Gen. Sugandhi, Information Director of the Defence and Security Dept. wa rns a student delegation ogainst further demonstrations to protest fuel oil prices. UPI Pix.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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    Lock icon 'CONFERENCE' ONLY FOR SHOW: Complete Border Talks Stalemate
    501 3 LONDON, Thurs. (UPI) The Sino-Soviet Talks In Peking, called late last fall to ease the mounting conflict between the two communist giants, have come to a complete standstill, authoritative diplomatic sources disclosed yesterday. By tacit mutual agreement, both parties nevertheless intend to
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    Lock icon Students And Marcos Draw Up 5-Point Agreement
    251 3 MANILA Thurs. (Reuter) President Marcos met Filipino student leaders for two hours last night and drew up a fivepoint agreement to deal with their problems. a presidential spokesman said. The meeting followed incidents last Monday when student demonstrators threw bottles at Marcos after
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    Lock icon Free Supplies Of German Measles Vaccine
    214 3 CANBERRA. Thurs The Australian Minister for Health. Dr. A.J. Forbes, announced yesterday that the Commonwealth would make svailable free supplies of rubella vaccine for use in vaccination campaigns by the State Governments. Forbes said rubella vaccination was now considered by medical experts to be
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    Lock icon US V-N Command Denies News Censorship Charge
    669 3 SAIGON, Thurs. (UPI) Charges that American Gls in Vietnam receive censored news broadcasts on radio and television are "completely unfounded and unsupported," the U.S. Military Command said yesterday. The Command issued a four-page statement based on an investigation made by Hie inspector general's
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    Lock icon UK Mission Of Mercy In Laos To Disband
    347 3 VIENTIANE, Thurs. (Reuter) —A lack of British doctors willing to work in Laos is forcing the British Government disband its tiny medical team in this war-wrecked country. A British Embassy spokesman said today that he was hopeful some form of medical aid
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    Lock icon UNDP Study Of S.E. Asian Transport System
    170 3 UNITED NATIONS. Thurs. (UPI) The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP* has initiated an extensive survey of South-east Asia's transport system to prepare the ground for co-ordinated development of maritime and air transport in the area.* In its sessipn last week, UNDP's governing council
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    Lock icon Stepping Out Of Tune?
    71 3 SAIGON, Thurs. (Reuter) South Vietnam's soldiers were not asking too much In wanting to enjoy dancing but they do not have the time, according to President Thieu. His ban on dancing In South Vietnam covers private homes as well as public places "While everydav our soldiers
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    Lock icon Suharto To Visit KL
    90 3 JAKARTA. Thurs. (Reuter) President Suharto will arrive in Kuala Lumpur on March 19 for a three-day visit to Malaysia, high government sources said today. From Malaysia, the Indonesian leader will fly to Bangkok for a three-day visit to Thailand, they added. The sources said President Suharto
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    Lock icon Couple Makes Up After Kidnap: American Co-ed 'Safe And Happy'
    322 3 MANILA, Thurs. (UPI) Prttty American co-ed Deborah "Debbie" Stevenson was reported safe today. She apparently had kissed and made up with her former Filipino boy friend who kidnapped her at gun-point Tuesday night. The suspect Cris Lecaroz, scion of a
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    Lock icon Acquitted -29 Years Later
    155 3 OSAKA Japan. Thurs. (UPI) A Japanese convicted 29 yearr. ago of setting fire to a steel plant in Pusan. Korea, had his persistence rewarded when he was acquitted yesterday. Takeshi Kanamori, 70. had pleaded guilty In 1941 to setting alight to the plant In the city
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    Lock icon Soviet Air AndLand Power
    41 4 LOW-FLYING jet fighters make a pass as tank unit moves forward during recent attack training exercise somewhere in the Soviet Union. The picture was released from an official Communist source. Tass photo Tass photo via UPI telephoto.
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    Lock icon Security Tightens In Cairo
    222 4 CAIRO. Thurs. (UPIV Egypt today began clamping tight restrictions on Cairo after an Israeli air raid which killed several civilians and sent scores of school children. Including British and Americana scurrying for safety. Civil defence officials began strictly enforcing the partial blackout of this city which
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  • Article
    Lock icon Equal Pay For Women In UK By Dec. 1975
    177 4 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI> The government yesterday introduced legislation into Parliament to make equal pay for women compulsory by December/ 1975. The house of Commons gave the Bill a formal first reading without debate. The Bill provided that If "satisfactory progress" towards
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    Lock icon Food And Medicine Pour Into Nigeria
    287 4 LAGOS, Thurs. (UPI) Relief supplies poured into Nigeria yesterday as the Red Cross announced an improvement in the distribution of medical facilities, food and drugs in areas hit bv the civil war. British. American and Canadian planes landed here with vehicles and medicines destined
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    Lock icon Obedience Call By Pope Paul
    65 4 VATICAN CITY. Thurs. (Reuter) Pop# Paul yesterday made an uncompromising call for obedience to hi* autho. rity and attacked Roman Catholics who aave their own arbitrary and new interpretation" to church teaching. Addressing ©ilgrlms Saint Peter's Batilica. he quoted St. Paul's earning to the Corinthians
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    Lock icon Coloured Union Leaders In UK?
    55 4 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Trade unions in Britain will one day have coloured leaders, according to Mr. Vic Feather, general secretary of the Trade, Union Congress His prediction was made |a an interview published yester* day in the first edition of Community. a new quarterly journal
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    Lock icon Admiral's Pot Sold For £270
    100 4 LONDON. Thurs (Reuter) One of the rarest treasures ever recovered from the seabed was sold here yesterday for £270 an Admiral's chamber pot from the sunken warship Association. The pot was apparently specially made for Admiral Bir Cloudesely Shovell. the Commander-in-Chief of the British Mediterranean
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    Lock icon RED RABBITS
    49 4 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) China exported to Britain in the first eleven months of last year 6.245 tons of frozen rabbit meat valued at 1 462.947 sterling. James Hoy. Parliamentary Secretary at the Agriculture Ministry, stated last night He was answering a question In the House of Commons.
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    Lock icon Belfast: British Troops Place On Alert
    228 4 BELFAST. Northern Ireland. Thurs. (Reuter) British troops have been put on a full scale alert after a fifth night of demonstration* by Protestant extremists here. In street fighting last night a police officer was struck by a flying brick and taken to hospital with
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    Lock icon CENSUS ON IMMIGRANTS
    96 4 LONDON Thurs cßeuter) An attempt to identify and classify all Britain's immigrant communities for the first time will be made In next years census Plans released here yesterday. show that the census, to be held on April 25. 1971. will ask more question* than ever before Including
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    Lock icon BRANDT MAN IN MOSCOW
    67 4 MOSCOW Thurs (UPI) Wlllv Brandt's right hand man arrived in Moscow yesterday to add fresh impetus *o negotiations on the mutua! renunciation of force bv West Germany and the Soviet Union Egon Bahr. a State Secretary and th* West German Chancel, lor's most trusted adviser, received
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    Lock icon Strougal Is New Premier After Cernik Resigns
    686 4 PRAGUE, Thurs. (Reuter) —Mr. Lubomir Strougal, a conservative, was last night named as the new Czechoslovak Prime Minister following the resignation of Mr. Oldrich Cernik. President Ludvik Svoboda named a new government and also accepted the resignation of seven members of Mr. Cernik's
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    Lock icon 'DRAGON LADY' LOSES LIBEL
    67 4 PARIS. Thurs. (UPI> Madame Nto Dinh Nhu. sister-in-law of assassinated South Vietnamese ruler Ngo Dlnh D.em. yesterday lost a libel action against a French magazine which called her a 'Dragon Lady". Madame Nhu. who has liv«d IB Rome since the d«ath o* her husband and Diem,
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    Lock icon STRIKE HALFS FLIGHTS
    42 4 PARIS. Thurs (Reuter) Air Frank's flfth strike in a I month bv hostesses and stew- ard 5 yesterdav slashed regular flights by more than half. The one-day strike is to be I followed bv another 24-hour I stoppage tomorrow.
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    Lock icon MP:'A Lot Of Rum Is Good For Sailors'
    288 4 LONDON. Thurs <Reuter> Member* of Parliament fought a spirited action in the House of Common* last n-ght to save the British Navy* traditional daily rum ration from being abolished. The Admiralty Board have decided to do awav with the centuries old tradition
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    Lock icon Fog Blankets Britain
    78 4 LONDON Thurs <UPI> Fo e most of Britain and cut air and rail traffic ve&terday. Visibility in many areas fe'l to five vardg and combined with icv roads to cause traffic chaos In many towns Both of London's msm airPorts Gatwick and Heathrow were forced to close
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      120 4 TODAY,and YOU.. 1 Friday, January 30, 1970. mx r, u 13 Gear 14 Buck 15 Sailing 16 Coo 17 Real 18 Find 20SmilM 21 To 22 A 23 Thought 24 Of 25 Up 26 Fa lows 27 Moke 28 Monty 29 Be 30 Sailing <5 43 Thinking 73 You 44
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    Lock icon Sadistic Suspect Booked For Assaults
    363 5 SAN PEDRO, California, Thurs. (UPl)'—'The main e u *J ,,r Hie man drove a station wagon described as white and salmon" in colour and that three of his victims had just left bars and were driving home alone in the early morning hours. Since Oct.
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    Lock icon Teenage Drug Ring Scandal
    159 5 NEW YORK Thurs (UPI) Police sought a fagm narcotics supplier and his stable of teen-age and younger heroin peddlers yesterday in a new drug scandal which followed disclosure that the sons of three prominent eastern politicians and a psychiatrist have been arrested In separate drug cases.
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    Lock icon 'Playboy' Salvation?
    70 5 RALEIGH. N. Carolina Thurs. '(UPl)—Should North Carolina prison iijmates be allowed to fead "Pla3*>oy". magazine" A group of North Caroliners raised the question Tuesday after learning from the R ev Thomas Dunn, prison chaplain, that prison policies bar the magazine from the prison cells Dunn told the clergymen.
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    Lock icon Moon Rock For Soviet Scientist
    65 5 HOUSTON. Texas Thurs. '(UPl)—Officials at the manned Spacecraft centre approved Solan vesterday to make the rst shipment of an Apollo moon rock sample to a scientist behind the Iron Curtain. Dr. Miioslav Vobecky of the Nuclear Research Institute of the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences wa
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    Lock icon Students' Home-made Weaponry On Police
    269 5 WASHINGTON. Thnri. (UPI) The detailed instructions demand such kitchen standby* as red pepper and sugar, but it is by no means a oook book They call for a scarf, makeup, and rings, but it has no resemblance to a jet-set fashion magazine. Red pepper to
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    89 5 IPSWICH. England. Thurs (Reuter) Strike-plagued Britain faced another threat today—from 13 church choirboys demanding a one penny sterling wage increase The boys, from the St Francis Parish Church in this eastern England town are also seeking arbitration on an even more serious issue Thev want a ruling that
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    Lock icon New Kennedy Opponent
    68 5 NEW YORK Thurf- 'UPI>— William Baird. the crusader for birth control and abortion law reform, said yesterdav he would run for the Senau from Massachusetts against Edward Kennedy. The Long Island physician miv have to aunch his campaign from jail. Baird has been convicted of violating Massachusetts
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    Lock icon FRENCH INTELLIGENCE FOILS ISRAELI MIRAGE PLOT
    247 5 LONDON. Thurs (UPI) French Air Force intelligence agents foiled an Israeli plot to •y 50 Mirage jet-fighters from France to Israel Dec 25. the London l>aily Telegraph' said today It Maid the plot was timed to coincide with "removal of Are gunboats from Cherbourg
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    Lock icon Wilson Flies Home After Successful Talks
    628 5 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Reuter) British Prime Minister Harold Wilson flow Home today with Hie belief that President Nixon's tight fiscal and monetary policies are unlikely to cause a recession and hurt the British economy. Wilson's cautious optimism In the President's ability to deflate the overheated
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    Lock icon ALL DISCLAIM INVOLVEMENT: How Did Federal Agents Get Press Credentials?
    306 5 SAIGON, Thurs. (UPI) —The American Embassy and the South Vietnamese Government disclaimed involvement today in the U.S. Command's issuance and later revocation of press credentials to two federal agents mas- querading as 'newsmen." The Donnybrook occupied much of the regular
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    Lock icon Gems Dug Out By An Oil Company
    213 5 HOUSTON. Texa*. Thurs. (UPI) A major oil company sought to And out how much children in this state know about oil. Texas produces one-third of America* petroleum. Here are some of the responses to a questionnaire submitted to Houston elementary and Junior high
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    Lock icon Boy Has Never Seen Father
    147 5 TOKYO. Thurs (UPT> Mrs Stephen Hanson showed the Red Cross official a colour photograph o* her three-year-old son. Todd He was in pyjamas and his hands were clasped j n orayer. "Every night my so n say* this prayer: Please bring my daddv home'.** Mrs.
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    Lock icon Wrong Music
    120 5 WASHINGTON. Thura. (UPI) British Prime Minister Harold Wilson apparently i bring* out less than the best In the State Departments i diplomatic protocol department. His departure from the White House yesterday was to the accompaniment of "Yankee Doodle" played by a drum and bugle corps dressed In revolutionary
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    Lock icon Congress Loses To Nixon's Veto
    194 5 WASHINGTON. Thirl, (Renter) The House of Representatives today failed to override President Nbton's veto of a controversial Social Services Appropriations BillDemocratic leaders of the House were unable to round up the necessary two-thirds vote to override the President's veto of the 19,700 million dollars Appropriation
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    Lock icon NEW SOLUTIONS FOR OLD ILLS
    551 6 rpXJN Abdul Razak, Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia and Director of the powerful National Operations Council, has made a cogent presentation of numerous arguments for the establishment of the National Consultative Council. However, he could not eschew the gloom. He struck a chord which one
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    Lock icon THE STREET NOISE
    292 6 TT looks as though emotions like fashions have seasons. Probably, warm weather, excess seasonal spending or surplus energy. «ingly or collectively, egg on men to agitate. This is the beginning of a great decade In which hopes of reconstruction are renewed. Rioting and demonstrations if left unchecked
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    Lock icon Makarios Faces New Terror Group Problem
    914 6  -  ■y ANDREAS HADJIPAPAS Gemini News Service NICOSIA:— Trouble of o now kind this time it is not between Greeks and Turks is c o us i n 9 concern in Cyprus. At first, cyclostyled leaflets were distributed in the streets and people did not
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      Lock icon Mosquitoes And MacRitchie
      151 6  -  Ruth Chan Mrs. Public Relation* Officer. Public Utilities Board I refer to a letter in the Eastern Sun of 15.1.70 by Mr. C. Maniam Inquiring whether mosquitoes are breeding in the Macßitchie Reservoir and what steps are being taken to prevent such breeding May I assure the
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      Lock icon Problem For Teachers
      154 6 T am s teacher in Semhawang. In addition to being an educationist, we are now exDected to detect diMaMi in our young charges. This if because of the death of school child suffering from diabetes. I understand that diabetes in the vounf is a rare medical condition.
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      Lock icon National Anthem
      106 6 One day. walking alone road outside the fenced confln e of a military camo. I was politely requested to stand attention while our National Anthem was in the air. I did not do so because I felt it was unnecessary for one to do so outside the fence.
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    Lock icon Strikes Hit Sweden
    481 6  -  •y STEPHEN CROALL STOCKHOLM, Re titer A rath of ttrikn has upset Sweden's traditional industrial calm and threatened a crisis in labour-manage-ment relations, until now considered the best in the Wottorn world. Alter some delay and warnings of a major conflict which many Swedish commentators attributed to
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    Lock icon Tie Success Of 'Skinflint':
    398 6  -  Expenditure: Income: S29Million ly DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI) The biggest hits, both critically and financially in the motion picture line lately have been such low budget productions as "Putney Swope," "Alice's Restaurant" and "Easy Rider". Meanwhile, a couple of lavish musicals like Hollywood used to make
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    Lock icon How To Get A Letter In The Times?
    337 6 LONDON. (CPI) The letters column* of the Ttanee where Britain's great and Utile are debated, was partly devoted Wednesday to an intriguing issue— how to ret a letter In the The debate began two days ago when Author J. ArmourMilne wrote to
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    Lock icon NIXON'S ELECTION YEAR STRATEGY
    764 6  -  By Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON The President's election-year strategy barely peeped through the uell-knlt paragiaphs of his mesaage on the State of the Union It was no time for a fighting apeech; but It la certainly a fighting strategy. Perhaps surprisingly, Harry S. Truman is one of
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon Stock Exchange Closing Prices
      631 7 SLVCAPOM-atoek Kiriuon Mild and olher price* offiriAiK |T»(ed TI the CIOM of f business. INDL8TKIVL8 8 8 i rmi 4-iO A« an tmj, MIBM i Z-13 MJ 1.70 0.". 1.38 Horneo BH4 1-73 K«iiL«tead Co. TIS X 04 (Minrl PI)»UOO 1-J3 4 i-ntral »Diatn 4-10 1't'M
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      Lock icon Sydney Closing Prices
      146 7 SYDNEY, Thurs. (UPI) Thursday's closing Sydney stock exchange »elected shares: MININGS: Aemex .95 Austral min 105 Barrier 1.35 Bh South 5 50 C Gold 10.05 Cra 21.50 Endur 69 Gt Bould 5.30 Gt Nthn .64 Gt West 28 Hammersley 15.90 Kath Inv 5.50 K Kampar .70 Lake
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      90 7 1UK noon Drier* at Che HlOM pore ChiDfM 1 frodflf* nrbtmt icttaNkf ware* Bare* MelM* Cor.m at oil (FOB) Bulk —> 56-50 Coennut <Hi 57 V) (FOB) Drum mm Mixed CO»r« M M >1 ii 111ok White Pepper 165 00 (FOB) Sarawak WMte Pepper 102 50 (F.OB.) Sarawak special
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      Lock icon TEN PRICE
      13 7 Th* tin orice for vesterday was $678.25 oer oirul. up $4,124.
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
      383 7 ARRIVALS 8-15 a m MSA t23 k Lompur 045 am. MSA 119 k Lumpur 12 30 pm MSA 451 Kachtng 2.30 pm. MSA 021 k Lumpur, Malacca 325p m. MSA 453 K Klnabaln 340p m. MSA 521 Bangkok. Penang 540 pm- MSA #37 Tokyo, Tal?tl, H Kong ISA
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      Lock icon Another Rather Quiet Session In Market
      172 7 IT was a not bar quiat session in Hi a Stock ixchanga of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Operators had little inclination to deal and apparently had no new Incentive to. Conditions steadied after a slightly easier opening. As business was concentrated in industrials, selective
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      789 7 PUSI NESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in bracket! in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified:- INDUSTRIALS Aema $2.19 (4) $2.20 (1); DIM $2.24 (2); Alcan $2 12 (2> $2
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      Lock icon Rubber Futures
      60 7 NEW YORK. Thur». (UPI) Rubber future closed 80 to 125 polnti higher yeaterday on the New York Commodity Exchange. 8ale« totalled 2 lots. (CLOSE) (PREV) March 27.00 A 26.50 May 26.75 A 26.25 July 2675 A 26.25 Sept 26.25 A 25.00 Nov. 26.75 A 26.25 Jan. 26.75 A
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      Lock icon Correction
      60 7 In Thursday's Issue of the Eastern Sun, a picture accompanying an article on 8-T. Dupont on this page was, erroneously captioned. Mr. Tan Keng Yan. who appeared in the picture with Mr Claude Fall. Is the General Manager of Casey Enterprises Pte. Ltd., sole distributors of Dupont lighters, and
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      42 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Dow Jones closing ay trace* on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 industrial! 758.84 20 transp 187.76 15 utilities 105 92 85 stock* 250.15 40 bonds -88.85 Commodity future* Index 137.00 off 0 08.
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 72 CENTS
      310 7 FEBRUARY first grade rubber buyert cloted at 5 pjn„ is Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 72 oenta per lb unchanged from the prevloua close. The tone of the market was quiet After opening higher on London advice* Profit-taking made itself felt and clipped half a cent
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      Lock icon Hong Kong Money
      121 7 HONG KONG, Thurs. (UPI) Thursday's 5 p.m. currency rafts (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Invtihntnt Ltd.): BUYERS SELLERS 195 196 per 100 Straits dollars 143 5 144.5 per 1,000 Taiwan dollars 6.735 6.745 per Australian dollar 305 325 per 1,000 Burmese kyats 530 545 per 1,000 Burmese
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      Lock icon Gold Prices
      44 7 NEW YORK. Thur*. (UPD Gold prices were mostly unchanged yesterday In routine trading on market! here and abroad. In London, gold remained unchanged at the morning fixing but slipped 1 U.S cent for a second fixing of U5534.99 $34.99 per troy ounce.
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      407 7 UNITED NATIONAL FINANCE (SINGAPORE) LIMITED (Incorporated in Singapore) BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30TH JUNE, 1909 LIABILITIES SHARE CAPITAL AND RESERVE Share Capital Authorised 10,000.000 shares of fl etch t lasued and fully paid 3.000.000 shares of tl each Reserve Fund Profit and law aeeount $10,000,000 AMOUNT SET ASIDE FOR FUTURE
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    Lock icon The Mini Goes Marching On
    1013 9  -  By- Anne de Courey T ONDON, Thurs. There is rid need to throw away either last year's mini-dress or this year's trouser suit when you plan your wardrobe for 1970 tha.' is the message from the majority of Britain's fashion designers in the ranges they
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    Lock icon IN-LAWS WHO SPOIL KIDS WITH GIFTS
    598 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: THIS IS for the mother who doesn't know what to say to her children because her in-laws never bring a gift when they come to visit which is every Sunday afternoon I would love to trade places with her. My
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    572 9  -  h... I n, f SHEILAH GRAHAM TTOIAYWOOD. Thur». XI oig Young and I have one thin* in common. We are both compulsive home buyers. At one time. I had three apartments In New York and two home* in California I wasnt living In-
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    231 9  -  By PEGGY MASSIN PARIS, Thurs. (Reuter) Paris fashions took a big stride forward yesterday with two outstanding collections unveiled by Lanvin and Ungaro. Soft clothes from both houses were shown with the common denominator of supple sheer fabrics, an explosion of colour, and
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      231 9 LIDO Phone ***** Catherine Deneuve "u Ckuudt" HEARTBEAT! ta Co!or-UA OPENS TOMORROW* Anne Hevwood. Richard Crenn* MIDAS EOT Color BB Tomorrow Mldnlfht Preview 'Chinese New Year Attraction) Franc© Nero "4 Professional G«n" Tony Musanw Jack Palane* Technicolor 'United Artiato I C APITOL Phon. 2975P OPENS TODAT* U am.. 1 45.
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      3289 10 SATURDAY Race is CI. 5 WY. 2—'6 Pura.—2.15 p.m. ($6,000) 4jr 0 00 We<«t Johnson 9 1 ***** gaptrtfo a fVWTl Supreme Confidence ty 4y 4y 4y 5y 900 Fountain Stable Manaor E Donnelly Coleman 15 a 4 ***** 2747 Beep Beep The Bo* Aramada 8.13 A
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      301 10  -  TRACK WORK By JIMMY LAD TUDOR LIGHT, an impressive winner lost week, again caught the eye *hen he sprinted smartly over 3f in 41 on o yielding track at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. He wos full of running at the finish. With this workout, Tudor Light
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      124 10 TORONTO. Thursdtv (UPI) A boxer who swapped punches with the referee was suspended for six months by the World Boxing Association < WBA > Wednesday, the promoter of the bout said The fighter. Humberto Trottman. a Panamanian middleweight boxing out of New York, was also fined an
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      280 10 The visiting Inter Bratislava soccer team of Czechoslovakia will arrive In Singapore tomorrow, to play a oneday friendly international match here on Sunday. They will play against the Singapore Selection side at the Jalan Besar Stadium. (Kick-off at 7.30 p.m.). Included in the visiting
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      83 10 JOHANNESBURG, Thurs. (Reuter) The Rhodesian Amateur Weightlifting Association has unanimously decided to resign from the International Weightllftlnff Federation Clarence Oehley. President of the South African Amateur Weightlifting Union, announced this vesterday at Carletonvule near here He said the resignation followed a letter from Oscar Stat«. General Secretary
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      299 10 THOMAS CUR BLACKBURN, Thurs. (AFP) Denmark, Hit reigni ing European champions, qualified to meet South Africa or Sweden in the final of th« European Zone of the 4 Thomas Cup badminton tournament when they esta-1 blished a winning lead of six two against England in thej
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      405 11 League TOP favourites Singapore Armed Forces scored an easy 4-0 victory over Prisons in their first league match of the SHA Division One played at the Farrer Park Athletic Stadium, yesterday. For Prisons this was the second defeat. They went down 0-2 to Khalsa Association in
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      232 11 LONDON. Thurs. tUPI> First Divialon stragglers Crytal Palace made mockery of league form Wednesday night by ousting aristocratic London neighbours Tottenham. Hotspur from the FA. cup. Palace, who held Spurs to a scoreless draw in the first encounter Saturday at White Hart Lane
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      73 11 LAS VEGAS. Nev. Thurs. (UPI) Denny Moyer. veteran mlddleweitht contender from Portland. Ore. improved his chances for a match with world champion Nino Benvenuti Wednesday night by scoring a •econd-round technical knockout over Boston's Mike Pusateri. Moyer. 160 bloodied hia 138-pound opponent's face In the
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      500 11 WASHINGTON, Thui*. (Router and UN) The U.S. State Department today ex pros ted great reoret over South Africa's denial of a vita for American Negro tennis star Arthur Ashe to compete in the South African national championships. In a statement, the department said it
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      217 11 CLIVILAND, Ohio, Thun. (UPI) Emile Griffith, •••king the on* victory that might earn him the chance to win hit sixth world title, rallied midway through the bout to beat fourth-ranked Doyle laird Wednesday night in a 10- round unanimous decision. Griffith, the heaviest of hia career,
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      112 11 GLOUCESTER En*.. Thurs. (Reuter) Anti-apartheid demon»trator» heavily outnumbered by police caused little trouble at the Springbok rugbv match here this afternoon afalnst Southern Counties. About 2SO demonstrators marched to the Kinisholm ground chantine the uaual Springbok* out" There thev were confronted by nee 1 barricades and about
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      258 11 THE world's longest smallboat fa'lini race, the gruelling «o-m:le Singapore round-the--1 aland event, will be held this Sunday The race started 10 years ago by the Army Yacht Club, and then attracted 30 entries. Since then the number of boats has grown steadily and this year's
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      396 11 Classified Ad. Where To Stay C est?e". room*, private bath. Bar/ Restaurant. Homely Tervtee». TeU: ***** *****. TENDER P.W.D. SINGAPORE »tvr^F R ?A r nvlt ®d iTOttt P.W.D. Retired Contractor® for the undermentioned works: letting of look-up shop to baa shelter on Guillemard Road at junction of Geylant Road Guillemard
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      265 11 TENDER NOTICES tutor* i i Pw ifil Sen Mechanical Contractors Closing Da 10.00 a.m. Construction Serangoon meat Works Building Coi $250,000/-. Closing Date a.m. Persons or cc within Singapc who are not re Contractors wi to tender as "S tered Contracts Specially Regi derer is requl brief details of qualifications
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      610 11 PUBLIC munis BOARD. SINGAPORE JTTRONG POWER STATION TENDER TENDERS are invited for the painting of plant and certain other painting, associated with Unite No*. 3 and 4 at Juronf Power Station. Contractors who wish to tender should apply in writing In duplicate for tender documente to the Chief Electrical Engineer.
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      1010 11 r radio (CHANNEL I) PM 3 00 Opening Annets. J. 03 Morning Star; 3.30 Womin'i World <E'; 4.00 Singapore This Week <E>; 4 05 Its Happening In 1 Singapore <E>; 42n Scarlett Hill "Una Dodds"; 430 Close; 600 Opening Annets; 6/)3 Lucky Dip; 630 News in Brief; 635 Sports Parade;
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    133 12 THE Singapore Delegation to the 13th Session of the Committee on Trade of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) to be held in Bangkok from Feb. 2 to 11th will be headed by Mr. Ridiwan Dzafir, Deputy Director, Trade Division, Ministry
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    99 12 Two armed men ooeinr as meter readers entered a house in Jalan Seaview, yesterday morning and robbed the occuSnt Ytrag Liew Choo* of imltion jewellery valued at $l2O. .e robbers, both in their early twenties, gamed entry into the house after thev told the
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    84 12 A 16-YEAR-OLD youth. In the middle of his trial, changed his mind and pleaded guiltv to a charge of robbery with hurt. Kamar Jamar bin Hassan, yesterdav claimed trial to a charge of robbing a sundry shop, together with three other youths, of sundry goods worth $161.90 and 37
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    297 12 SINGAPORE received a pat on the back from ar international airline executive who described th« city as the "cleanest, where food is excellent where hotels are of international calibre and where shopping is a great delight." This compliment was received from Mr. Vagan Christensen, General
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    104 12 A WIDOW of three months. Madam Chua Tay died of profuse bleeding at a house in Lorong Mayang on Jan. 5, a coroner was told vesterday. Her sister-in-law, Madam Oh Gin Huav told the court that Chua, a mother of eight children. was in her advanced
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    104 12 Mr. Ng Song Khim has been elected the President of the Singapore Aquarists" Society at their 16th annual general meeting held at the YMCA Auditorium last Saturday. The other office bearers are: Vice presidents: Dr. Ng Eng Lim and Mr. Tylone Wong; Honorary Secretary: Mr. Seah Kim Swee;
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    74 12 TWO youths robbed a newsagent, Lee Choo Yeo. at knifepoint of $2,500. near a lift in B'.ock 6. Kampong Arang. yesterday morning. Lee was about to take the lift up to his flat when the robbers struck. One o* them pointed a knife at him while the
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    32 12 The Old Siglapian Association will hold its Fourth Annual General Meeting on Sunday. at 3 o.m. at the Pink Pussycat Restaurant at No. 272A/286A Orchard Road. Singapore 9.
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    35 12 A Chinese New Year gettogether dinner party will be held at the Rochore Community Centre tonight. The Minister for Science and Technology. Dr. Toh Chin Chye. wiu be the guest of honour.
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    65 12 THIS lady certainly has an iron neck as she easily bends a steel bar held firmly by a few men. The act was one of the severel held at the Metropole Theatre on Wednesdey night. Among the guests was the Defence Minister Mr. Lim Kim Sen. and the occasion was
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      108 12 Letters To Extend Stay Of Three Manager On Immigration Fraud Charge A SHIPPING manager, Tan Peng Ban 35, was yet.terday charged in the Ninth Magistrates Court on nine counts of forging letters of guarantee to extend the stay of two women and one man in Singapore. Tan was alleged to
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      110 12 Toto Draws THE following numbers wer* drawn in yesterday's Toto Draw: 26 36 3 38 34. The additional number drawn is 16. In the three circle draw, the numbers are: 39 28 30 Time €t Tide TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN: 3.09 a m (8-7 ft) 9.18 a.m. (3.1 ft.) 3.32 p.m
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