Eastern Sun, 1 March 1970

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    23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY <& Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1279 Sunday Edition, 1 March 1970. MC (P) 1616 Price 15 cent*
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    Lock icon Thais Bomb Red Camp Close To Malaysia
    320 1 BANGKOK, Sat. (Reuter) Air Force planes have bombed a large guerrilla base camp believed to be the headquarters of Kalim, a top leader of the Malayan Communist Party. The aircraft were called in yesterday after guerrillas in the camp only eight miles north
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    Lock icon Emergency Delays Airport Strike
    99 1 LONDON. Sat. (UPI) The 89 firemen at Heathrow Airport gathered to take a vote on a strike last night that wouJd have forced the airport to close. But. 15 minutes before the strike was to have started, an emergency call came through from Aer Lingus. A
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    Lock icon Shot At Dawn
    43 1 ALGIERS. Sat. (Reuter) Mohamed Khelif. 27. sentenced to death on Wednesday for misappropriating public funds, was executed by firing squad at dawn today. He was found guilty by Algeria's Economic Crimes Court of having misappropriated about *****.000 in one year.
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    Lock icon Journalist Ends 15 Years' Exile
    104 1 BRISBANE. Sat <Keijter) —Australian Journalist Wilfred Burchett. a passport bv thf government, landed without d'WrultT today to end an "exile" of 15 years. Burchett. 58. a well-known writer on Communist affairs who covered the Korean and Vietram wars from the Communist side clajms he lost
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    Lock icon Laos To Formally Seek Geneva Talks
    180 1 VIENTIANE, Sat. (Reuter) The Lagtian Government will ask Britain and the Soviet Union to set up a Geneva-type conference on the Laotian situation. A letter will be addressed to Foreign Ministers of the two countries co-chair-men of the 1962 Geneva Conference which guaranteed neutrality
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    Lock icon Students Vow To Demonstrate
    50 1 MANILA. Sat. <Reuter) Student agitators today promised their biggest street demonstration next week in protest against a police raid on a Manila college. The students will march through the city's main streets despite of a Supreme Court rejection of their petition to hold demonstrations without authority.
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    Lock icon 3 Helicopters Shot Down
    34 1 SAIGON Sat (Reuter) Vietcong gunners shot down more American helicopters yesterday, killing seven Americans, wounding six other* and bringing to 1.490 their toll of U.S. helicopters downed in the war.
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    Lock icon Guatemala's Foreign Minister Held To Ransom Jailed Rebel
    275 1 GUATEMALA CITY, Sat. (UPI) —A rebel organisation today kidnapped the Foreign Minister and threatened to kill him if one of its jailed members is not released within 24 hours. A note delivered to a radio station by the Armed Revolutionary Force said
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    Lock icon Clamp On Money Racket
    114 1 PHNOM PENH, Sat. (Reuter) The Cambodian government today tightened security at ports, airports and frontiers to thwart the re-importation of "old" 500-riel notes. Th* notes were declared worthless on February 24 and now have to be exchanged for new ones by March 8 But th« importation
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    Lock icon PEOPLE READY TO FLEE QUAKE
    232 1 NAPLES, Sot. (APT) The 67,000 inhabitants at the Naples suburb of Poxxuoli are preparing to flee their homes as earthquake experts predict "possible disaster." Officials are preparing for the evacuation of all children. Hospital patients will be moved to a nearby town and many public
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    Lock icon Death Sentence
    38 1 NEW DELHI. Sat (Router) A dnvfr who killed the Saudi Arabian cultural attache in Delhi last vear herause he would not let him use a car for an errand has been sentenced to death by hanging
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    Lock icon Pollution: Airlines Charged
    155 1 NEW YORK. Sat. (Reuter) The Attorney General today filed suits against 11 foreign airlines, accusing them of polluting the air over New York A statement by the Attorney General said the New York State Supreme Court will be asked to order the airlines either to stop pollution
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    Lock icon Police Say Arab Posted Bomb
    49 1 BONN. Sat. (Re uter) Police said today an Arab detained In Frankfurt helped post a package believed to have contained the bomb that exploded on an Austrian airliner last week. The man. Ja*er Qasem. 27. was detained with another Arab. Issa Abdullah Abu-TOboul. 30
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    Lock icon Pure Fantasy
    26 1 PARIS Sat (UPl)—Official circles Saturday described tvir* fantasy a report in the Hongkong Star that France hart sold Chm a 48 Mirage fighter bombers.
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    Lock icon Americans Freed
    28 1 BANGKOK. Sat. (UPI> Fi\> American sailors were release todav after three weeks' detention in Cambodia where their tvatrO! boat straved from a river in South Vietnam
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    Lock icon 'Uphold Democracy For Continuous Social Progress'
    246 2 SINGAPORE'S democratic system must be upheld so that Its achievements of national integration shall not be destroyed by political adventurers with entirely different ideologies. The present level of achievement must also be maintained and improved, said the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education,
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    Lock icon Sarawak Girls To Woo The Tourists
    206 2 "MISS Tourism Sarawak, 1969" Miss Vivian Wee passed through Singapore yesterday on her way to Australia to get more tourists to visit her home state. Miss Wee who beat 10 other contestants for the title, is a manageress in a travel firm and will
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    Lock icon FIVE HELD
    50 2 Five youths believed to have been involved in a number of armed robberies. hav e been arrested The robberies. involving eight taxi drivers, took place in the Queenatown Division between Feb. 10 and 17. Police have recovered two wrist watche* from a pawnshop in Tanjonc Paga r Road.
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    Lock icon Rented Two Addresses To Cheat Firm
    153 2 FRANCIS PERISAMY, 37, was yesterday sentenced to 12 months jail by the Third District Court Judge, Mr. K. T. Alexander, when he pleaded guilty to cheating a company of two television sets. On Dec. IS last year Peruiamy went to Tan 800 Tlow, a
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    Lock icon Charity Sale March 3
    126 2 THE Children's Charities Donation Draw Committee under the Chairmanship of Mrs. Diana Eu is organising a BRING AND BUY SALE function at 75, Dalvey Road (residence of the Australian High Commissioner) on March 3 from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. The function Is the last tn
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    Lock icon 3 Robbed
    106 2 Three armed men robbed three women of about $235 when they broke into a house at Trengganu Road early Friday morning. The three women were gambling in the house with seven others when the robbers came in. One of them was armed with an object which looked like
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    Lock icon $40,500 Haul At People's Park
    170 2 Thieves broke into a shop at the People's Park shopping complex and got away with $40,500 worth of textiles early Friday morning. The theft was discovered by someone who ranjj up the proprietor of the shop Tian Seng Textiles, at his home at Belinbing Road.
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    Lock icon Five Youths On Murder Rap
    73 2 Five youths were charged In the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday with the murder of Say Chew Seng. 31, on Feb. 14 at Paya Lebar Road. They were Tang M!e Lian. Tan Guan Soon. Ng Boon Heng. Ho Joo Huat i and Lim S:ang Heng. The
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    Lock icon LUCKY winners of the Eastern Sun's first "Test Your Knowledge" contest yesterday were awarded handsome prizes, at the office of the newspaper. Everyone agreed it was a great contest, easy to win and full of fun. Now they nope to win more prizes. "It's a cinch,'' one of them said. So readers, if you have not participated in the contest, it's time you did. Don't forget to get your copy of the Eastern Sun daily.
    75 2 LUCKY winners of the Eastern Sun's first "Test Your Knowledge" contest yesterday were awarded handsome prizes, at the office of the newspaper. Everyone agreed it was a great contest, easy to win and full of fun. Now they nope to win more prizes. "It's a cinch,'' one of them said.
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    Lock icon Hilton Has Its First Wedding Reception
    121 2 MR. JURG E. TUSCHER kisses his bride, the former Miss Wendy Katherine Stone of Port of Spain, Trinidad, after cutting the four-tiered wedding cake, at a reception held at the Singapore Hilton yesterday. The couple were married at the Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer
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    Lock icon THE Minister for Communications, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, taking salute by members of the Anglo-Chinese School Boys' Brigade at the 84th Founder's Day celebration of the school yesterday. (Sunpix story in Page 12.)
    33 2 THE Minister for Communications, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, taking salute by members of the AngloChinese School Boys' Brigade at the 84th Founder's Day celebration of the school yesterday. (Sunpix story in Page 12.)
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    Lock icon Sculpture Course
    67 2 Registration is now open to those who wish to enrol for the Adult Education Boards 12-week course on "ceramic sculpture." commencing on March 22. The course, which will be held at the Rangoon Road Secondary School art room every Sunday, will be conducted In English by Mr. Roderick
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    Lock icon 70 Accidents
    49 2 An old man. Moo Toh Lin, 68. of Ka'.lane Airport F> tate. died on the spot followI ire a collision with a car a'one Nichol Highway on I Friday morning Ther#» wrrf a total of TO arcidents fi\> <4 which were I described as serious on Friday.
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    Lock icon 3 Arrested By Police
    124 2 A police partv from the Joo Chlat Police Station and CTD n n routine rounds Friday arrested thre* person.*. lncludine a gh"l believed to bp involved m a recent armed eang robbery. At about 1 is pm Friday, a police party were at the junction of
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    Lock icon BUS MEN'S DINNER
    50 2 The Pay a I-ebar branch of the Singaoore Bus Emnoyees* Union will hold its fifth anniversary dinner «n March 1 at th* 5J nvles Upper Serangoon Road community Certre Thp will b* Mr Fh'ti gsh Le* MP for Tempires and Farl'an.entarv ?-e<"retarv to *ht Ministry of Communications
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    Lock icon 'Reds Shot Up M'sian Patrol'
    302 2 KUCHING, Sarawak, Sat (Reuter) Communist guerrillas shot up six-man Malaysian Army patrol killing one man and wounding two others in an hour-iong ambush last Wednesday in the Sarikei District of Sarawak The chairman of the Btate s Governing Operations Committee, Mr. Harun Ariffin. said yesterday
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    Lock icon Volunteer Soldiers Wanted
    182 2 THE volunteer element of th e Armed Forces, the People's Defence Force (Infantry), is recruiting persons who are interested in part-time soldierring. Male citizens who are between the ages of 20- 35, Physically fit and not liable for National Service are nrged to volunteer for parttime service.
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    Lock icon Police Fire On Mob Attacking Mysore Train
    300 3 NEW DELHI, Sat. (Reuter) Police fired on a chanting crowd of 2,000 demonstrators who attacked a passenger train at Gadag in Mysore State last night. The demonstrators, mostly students, smashed windows and shutters and forced passengers out of their carriages. After a baton
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    Lock icon 17 Missing In South Pacific
    44 3 PAPEETE. Sat. (Reuter> Seventeen peopie are missing. feared drowned, in the South Pacific from two boats which were caught in sudden squalls An air search found no trace of the boats, which are a week overdue at Mamhi Atoll.
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    Lock icon Order Of The Boot...
    134 3 LUCKNOW, Sat. (Reuter) A member of the Uttar Pradesh State Assembly hurled his shoes at another member today, and the Assembly was abruptly adjourned. The target. M r Kanhavalal Sonkar. a member of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Congress Party, had raised a point of order during
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    Lock icon 5 Rescued Workers Join Hunt
    173 3 AUCKLAND. Sat. (Reuter» Five of the seven men rescued from the collapsed Kaimai tunnel left hospital today to join the search for the three men still missing. Hope for the missing men was growing slim as the search neared the end of its fourth day.
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    Lock icon Thais Cancel Treaties With 17 Countries
    82 3 BANGKOK. Sat (UPI) Thailand has cancelled its treaties of friendship, commerce and maritime navigation with 17 Asian and European nations. Cancellation notices were sent vesterdav to various embassies concerned. The nations are Burma. Taiwan. Pakistan. India. Indonesia. Japan Belgium. Denmark. Luxembourg. Italy. West Germany.
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    Lock icon JUMBO JET RULES EASED
    49 3 WASHINGTON. Sat. (Reuter)—The U.S. government has cancelled regulations orcering a 10-mile gaP between aircraft like the Boeing 747 jumbo jet and following airCf The Federal Aviation Administration said aircraft need stav orlv five miies behind ov 1.000 ft. below aircraft weighing 135 tons or more.
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    Lock icon THIS picture, released today by United Nations Secretary-General U Thant's family, shows the world's top civil servant paying obeisance to his 87- year-old mother when he was in Burma recently. It is the traditional Burmese way of paying respects to elders. U Thant was in Burma this week as a guest of the government
    53 3 THIS picture, released today by United Nations Secretary-General U Thant's family, shows the world's top civil servant paying obeisance to his 87-year-old mother when he was in Burma recently. It is the traditional Burmese way of paying respects to elders. U Thant was in Burma this week as a guest
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    Lock icon DEPUTY BEATEN DURING ARREST
    375 3 SAIGON, Sat. (UPI) A weeping, wailing South Vietnamese woman deputy, said today that imprisoned Deputy Tran Ngoc Chau was brutally beaten when he was arrested by national police. The outburst from Mrs. Kieu Mong Thu came at a joint session of the Senate and National Assembly
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    Lock icon Nepal's Crown Prince Marries
    404 3 KATMANDU, Sat. (Reuter) Crown Prince Birendra of Nepal and 20-year-old Princess Aishwarya were married today at the auspicious hour of 17 minutes to five am. Brahmin priests chanted sacred Sanskrit verses as the 24-year-old prince, dressed in gold, joined hands with his bride who wore a
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    Lock icon 232 Reds Freed In Jakarta
    55 3 JAKARTA Sat. (AFP) Jakarta military authorities today released 232 Communist political prisoners including seven women An Army spokesman said thev were some of the 400 Communists, detained in the capital. The Communists will go home, but must report weekly to local authorities during the first
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    Lock icon Help On Way To Japanese Icebreaker
    123 3 TOKYO Sat. (Reuten The Soviet icebreaker Ob' is on its wav to the icebound Japanese icebreaker Fuji' to help it escape thick Antarcticice. The Fuji' has been locked in thick ice about 40 miles from Japan's Showa base since the four blades on its
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    Lock icon Off To Paris
    30 3 NICE. Sat. <UPI> Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia left Cannes today for Paris after a sixweek stay on the French Riviera during which he underwent medical treatment.
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    Lock icon Short Circuit Kills Mother, Two Children
    257 3 ADELAIDE, Sat. (UPI) A washing machine short circuit today electrocuted a Greek woman and her two small daughters in the laundry of their home. Mrs Desplna Danambasis. 34. and her daughters Vasilikl 3J and 10-month-old Sophia. Screams of "papa papa," from the woman's two-year-old
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    Lock icon Eban: Why Israel Didn't Hit Back
    482 4 Bombing Of Swissair Plane T ONDON, Sat. (Reutcr) Israeli Foreign Minister Mr. Abba Eban last night said that Israel did not retaliate against the bombing of a Swissair plane last week because it is counting on the fury of international opinion to lead to
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    Lock icon Berserk Man Beats Child To Death
    168 4 MIDDLESBFOrGH. England. Sat. (Router) A berserk young man beat a sleeping child to death and battered five women at a house party here early yesterday. One of the women partygoers took the man along to the house after picking him up at a local
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    Lock icon Thant Waits For Response To M-E Peace
    147 4 UNITED NATIONS. New York. Sat. <Peuter> Secretary-General U Thant waited today for positive responses by the Big Four powers to his suggestions for a M'ddle Fast settlement. Informed sources s%'d there was hope that thes» would be forthcoming by the time the U.N.
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    Lock icon National Guard In Riot Town
    219 4 SAN FRANCISCO. Sat (Reuter) Armed National Guardsmen moved into Santa Barbara today to police the streets after thiee nights of rioting Dozens of rioters are in jail following a police swoop on students who hurled stones and molotov cocktails. A spokesman for the local sheriff's
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    Lock icon Jordanians Refused Air Tickets
    126 4 ROME. Sat (Reuter> An Air France captain last night refused to take two Jordanian*, expelled from West Germany. a$ passengers aboard his Caravelle airliner to Beirut. Airport police, who declined to disclose the names of the men. said they had been expelled for "administrative reasons." The
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    Lock icon MGM Manager Shot Dead
    50 4 BEIRUT. Sat. <Reuter> Mr. Edward Sasson. manager of the Beirut office of Metro-Goldwyn-Maver pictures. was shot dead in his office early today. An MO M. spokesman said Mr. Sasson. 54, was shot three times in the back soon after he entered his office at 6 a.m.
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    Lock icon America To Maintain Rhodesian Consulate
    179 4 WASHINGTON Sat fßeuter) —The United States intends to maintain its consulate in Rhodesia when that country declares its new status as a republic next week, the White House said yesterdav. However, White House spokesman Ronald L. Ziegler stressed that this decision did not constitute anv
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    Lock icon Big 4 To Meet On Future Of Berlin
    254 4 BONN. Sat. <t*Pl) The American. British and French governments on Friday accepted n Soviet proposal that the four meet In Wert Berlin to consider the city's future. Talks *"ith an aim to improving West Berlin's situation were Dropcsed bv t-e western powers
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    Lock icon Ganges Talks Deadlocked On Barrage Issue
    69 4 ISLAMABAD Sat 'Filter* Indian and Pacstani official* mating on the sharing of the waters of the River Ganges appeared to be deadlocked today No official statement was Issued after Ave hours of talks in two sess.ons and sources indicated that no headway was made.
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    Lock icon Separate Planes For Queen, Prince Charles
    106 4 WELLINGTON Sat (R«uter> Q e»»n El.rabe'h and Trince Charles heir to the B' =.h thrme will travel in separate planes rjunng their tour 0 f New Zealand next rronth Prime Mims'er Keith Hnlyoake said in a statement today. H's statement follows cen-<*e-n expressed in
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    Lock icon Smith Expected To Serve Another 5 Years
    252 4 LONDON, Sat. (Reuter) Commonwealth heads of government are expected to announce soon the reappointment of the Commonwealth s SecretaryGeneral, Mr. Arnold Smith, for another five-year term. Mr. Smith, a distinguished Canadian diplomat, took up the post In 1965 and his term Of office
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    Lock icon NIGERIA CAN'T AFFORD STUDENT UNREST
    79 4 LAGOS. Sat. <UPI» MaJ. Gpn Yakubu Gowon said Thursday Nigeria cannot afford student unrest while th»» country still '.s trvina to recover from the effect# of it* civil war. In an a:rport statement In Sokoto. capital of the north-western state. Gowon said discipline must be
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    Lock icon Railway Guard Weds Duke's Daughter
    167 4 LONDON, sat. <Feuter> A Duke's daughter yesterday married a railway guard in a 15-mlnute ceremony attended only bv friend? at a London register office. Tbe marriage of Lady Kathleen Pelham-Clin-ton-Hope. 19 year old daughter of the Duke of Newcastle, and 20-year ild Edward Reynolds, a
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    Lock icon Singer Robbed Of Jewels Worth $75,000
    102 4 NEW YORK rßeu'er) French sirjer Fatachou has been robbed of jewel* worth 5575.000 while takina: te* «Mth friend at a hot<»l here. I"** j:nj»r' t huahand theatrical producer Arthur Lesser said the jewel* including a dlarnond brooch a diamond and platinum bracelet and tw
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      112 4 Y BR r/i i VV\ I O AVE WEB yoUR MENAGE, Ml? FROST—AND I SAW HIM JUST BEFORE I LEFT FOR THE OFFICE/ HE KNOWS HE HAS AN APPOINTMENT WITH YOU AT NINE O'CLOCK I'LL CALL HIS APARTMENT/ sn r I'M TERRIBLY SORRY IF MAR6O WAS UPSET ABOUT OUR GOING
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      182 6 Radio Manila (FEBC) Dan* Programme Guide (Summary rem) English Service 7.00 am 7 15 7 30 J 00 9 25 9 JO 1000 11.30 12.00 to 1 00 p® 4 30 pm 4 35 530 8 30 8 45 to 7 00 pa 7 15 7 30 7 45 to
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    Lock icon Getting Into Step With The Seventies
    1120 7  -  By David Hunter THE end of an era; that's what 1969 meant to BOAC S Traffic Branch. For them it was a year of improvement and preparation, a time when standards were raised and plans laid. For nearly 25 years the techniques for handling
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    Lock icon How The Traffic Branch Set About Beginning Of A New Era
    841 7 Don Flint. Superintendent Traffic Services, says: "We have been very happy with this system over the last six months. In this period we recovered 44 bags that would otherwise have been lost and irretrievable This was an example of
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  • commercial and industrial
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      Lock icon London Rubber Steady Quiet
      71 7 LONDON. Sat <UPI> Rubber market closed steady quiet yesterday with spot 211. 22i. Settlement House April 221. 222. May. June and April/ June 22i. 22 2. July oept. Oct Dec. Jan/ March, April/June. July Sept and Oct Dec 22L 22| Jan March and April/ June 22-3/16.
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      Lock icon EXCHANGE RATES
      64 7 THE Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes in it* rates to merchants <rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency!: SELLING TT or O D ready: Deutsche Marks $B3 6125; Holland Guilders $B4 8275; Swiss Francs $7l 7700; French Francs
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      Lock icon DOW JONES
      41 7 NEW YORK Sat. <UPI> Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday 30 Industrials 777 59 20 Transp 177 58 15 Utilities 115 25 65 Stocks 162.20 40 Bonds 69.33 Commodity futures Index 134.09 off 050
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      14 7 THE tin pric# tor ytswas $661 62j per picul, up $0 87$.
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      Lock icon Asia May Face Severe Rice Surplus Crisis
      196 7 BANGKOK. Sit (UPI) Asia mav lace a severe rice surplus crisis unless reg.onal co-operation measure# are taken, executive secretary U Nyun of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) said on Thursday. Nyun told an ECAFEsponsoren meeting of rice experts
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      Lock icon Half The Ships Launched In The World Last Year Were Japanese Built
      378 7 LONDON, Sat. (Reuter) Nearly half the ships launched throughout the world last year were built by the Japanese, according to official statistics issued here this week. The 19,315>290 tons launched everywhere wis an all-time record for the fourth
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      Lock icon Rubber Futures
      62 7 NEW YORK. Sat. <UPI> Rubber future* closed 25 to 75 points lower on no sales yesterday on the New York commodity exchange (Close) (Prev.) March 23 00 23.25 Mav 23 00 23 25 July 2300 2325 Sept. 2300 23.25 Nov. 2250 23.25 Jan. 22 50 23 25 March
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
      439 7 ARRIVAL* I ai.tam- I'M K Lompur ***** M*\ 119 K I umpur ir:n» pin M* A 4M Kuihlna 2-so p m M».% Oil k I umpur. Malaco SSSpm 4.M Kola balo140pm M*» Ml |Un«k«»k. Prnant 5Wp m MM TH vdnej. D*np.«»ar (Hall). 7 10pm MM ot: ft. I
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      Lock icon N. Y. PRICES ADVANCE
      124 7 NEW YORK Sal. Pnce s advanced sharply on the New \ork stock exchange on Friday after a reduction in the orime interest rate by another small bank Trading was brisk. At the final bell, the UPI marketwide Indicator was up o.Bfl per cent on 1.614 issuei
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      Lock icon Industrials Dull In UK
      76 7 LONDON. Sat (UPI) The booming pound which hit a two-year high or Friday did little to help industrial share s although :tg strength kept British government bonds quiet v firm Industrial shares oroved dull. Lack of buying zest kept the popular blue chips in gentle downdrift
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      Lock icon US Gold Stock Up $69 Mil.
      56 7 WASHINGTON. Sat. »UPI) The United States total gold stock Increased by Sg6P million in Januarv to a total of 8135 64 billion, the Treasury Department reported on Thursday. It was the sixth Increase in the last seven months It boosted the total stock to
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      Lock icon Japanese Cranes For Red China
      74 7 TOKYO Sat. <UPI» Kubota Iron Works of Japan announced it has agrees to export 210 mobila cranes worth 3.100 million yen < US$8,610,000) to Communist China An announcement said the shipments will begin In June and are expected to b« completed In August next year
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      Lock icon First Colour TV Phone In World
      38 7 TOKYO Sat (UFI) Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co. (Toshiba), one of Japan's leadin* electronic appliances makers. announced Thursday the development of what is claimed is the first colour television phone in the world
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      Lock icon PRODUCE
      85 7 THE HOOD price* at the Mn(ipurf Chinese Prnfljl* Kxchange ye»terdaj were:. Seller Bujer Coconut Oil 53-50 (POB> Bulk loconui Oil (F-O-B-) Drum M 00 Mixed Copra 44-00 Mwntok White Pepper (FOB.) 167 50 Sarawak White pepper 165 00 (FOB.) Sarawak Ppectal Blark (F-0 B-) IHiS 120 00 Lam pong
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      589 8 ALBUMS •TOUCH EM WTTH LOVE" BOBBIE GENTRY (Capitol) Included in this album is Bobbie's huge "IH Never Fall In Love Again" hit; but also included in this album is much much more. It really shows what a versatile vocalist Bobbie is from the throaty "Touch Tm With Love" to
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      319 8 HI THERE? For those of vou who asked for 'something' on that chart-topping EDISON LIGHTHOUSE, well, you've got the complete low-down on them today. But send me no thanks it isn't necessary; unlets, it has a serial number on it. (Can you blame a guy for trying?)
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      403 8 COMMON TO ALL Imports n» engagement abroad. Tour o* USA in April Most thrilling experience: T oo Of The Pops" Current hit: "Love Crows" Albums: Currently making first album, "Love Crows With The Edison Lighthouse" Disc label Bell Recording manager: Tony Macauley Personal managers. Tony Macauley
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      856 8 BILLY GRAHAM discusses: LOVE, SIN PEYTON PLACE One fa ce among the millions of American faces fumed towards their television sets that evening was creased with concern Billy Graham had been watching the chronicle of life and times in "Peyton Place" unfold In a smgie half hour he had heard
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    473 9  -  By DAVID NG TONIC for a relaxing evtning of fun and leisure is MGM's adventure packed film, 'Captain Nemo and the Underwater City/' now showing at the Odeon. Without pulling any punches, the movie is a "must see" for the entire family. And you
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      1556 10 Race 1: CI. s Dlv. 1—7 Furs.—2.00 p.m. ($5*500) t 36*52 I ***** 3 R9075 4 '.*014 5 0TO49 «5 ***** 7 :17*»0 n 7000k 7 531tO 10 707M 11 ***** 12 SOP* C han Malt Chan Chaichana Bompa Shinxhii Hid Ir»*h F.jf« Golden Sun Manhattan 11
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      1071 10  -  By Jimmy Lad INTEREST looks a safe bet in the class two division one 8-if event (Race Seven) at Penang today. The Carbon Copy mare put up two sparkling performances when runnerup in both her outings at Bukit Timah last month. Over the mile on the first
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      62 10 HONG KONG. Sat <Reuter» Former British jockey Bill Rickaby. seriously injured in a car accident 25 days ago. U still semi-conscious in hospital, a government spokesman said today His condition was described as poor. Rickaby. 51. is at present assistant stipendiary steward of the Royal Hong Kong Jockey
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      559 10 LONDON, Sat. Fleet-footed Jimmy Greaves, world-famous England and Tottenham Hotspur soccer star, will be going to the World Cup Final in Mexico by car this year. But it will be a drive with a difference for Greaves will be one of the elite team
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      417 10 NEW YORK. Sat (UPD Olymp.ans Charlie Greene and Willie Davenport successfully defended their titles in the sprints and hurdles and pretty Chi Cheng of Nationalist China became a triple gold medal winner last night in the 82nd annual Amateur Athletic Union iAAUi indoor track and.
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      129 10 LE MANS. Franc*. Sat. (Router) American film star Steve McQueen will team with world champion driver Jackie Stewart in the Le Man s 24-hour endurance race next June, organisers said here todav McQueen, who has raced cars and motor-cycles, showed his driving skill in
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      166 10 NEW YORK. Sat. <Reuteri American athlete Martin McGrady broke his own world indoor time for 600 yards here last night with one minute, 7 6 seconds to win his specialty in the US. National A.AU indoor athletics championships. McGrady, a 23-year-old Washington. DC., school teacher beat
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    400 11 By LITTLE NINE TISIIH YUNG YO, 36, a golfing wiiord from Tamsui Golf ond Country Club in Toipeh and Alan Murray, 29, an unattached professional from Sydney, carded a 70, and 71 respectively for an aggregate 208 to share the lead after the third
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    57 11 SYDNEY. Sat. (Reuter) Australian Karen Moras last night swam the second fastest 400 metres freestyle by a woman and *he fastest In the past year. Competing In the Australian championships. Miss Moras. 16. clocked four minutes 26 3 seconds oniy 18 seconds slower than the world
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    421 11 20*: Hsieh Vung Yo (C) 67-71-70 (35-35). A Murray (A) 66-71-71 (35-36). 209: H. Yasuda (J) 71-70-68 36-32). S Suwanapong (T) 72-68-69 35-34). T. Kendall (NZ) 70-69-70 (3733) K. Hosoishi (J) 72-68-6n (34-35). Chen Chien Chune (C) 71-66-72 (35-37). P Thomson (A) 72-67-70 (37-33). 210 A. Teramoto
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    1193 11 By Our Racing Correspondent PENANG, Sat. Visiting Australian jockey Ron Hutchinson, who loaves here next week to ride in England, was in top riding form here today. He bootod home Stay Free ($110), Herringay ($24) and Datin's Choice (S2l). Champion jockey Glynn Pretty had
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    230 11 Ist TEE 9 00 U (T); H. Kobari (J); W. Godfrey (NZ); 9 10 Park Chung Woong (K); T. Ishll (J); T Woolbank (A); 9.20 S. Uchida (J); E. Nival (P); T. Suzumura (J); 9 30 Hsieh Min Nam (C); T Murakami (J); B Arria (P); 9
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    36 11 NEW YORK Sat. (UPI) Nino Benvenuti. the world m.ddleweleh; champion, will meet Tom "Yhe Fomb" Bethea in a non-titV bout on March 13 at the Melbourne Velodrome in Australia promoter Dewev Frtfetta announced yesterday.
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    435 11 TNI visiting MCC turn piled up a massive 315 runs for three declared on the opening day of the twoday friendly cricket match against the Singapore Cricket Association XI at the SCC Padang, yesterday. Singapore, who then went in to bat, chalked up 123
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    124 11 LONDON, Sat. (Reuter) The Diamond Jubilee All-England badminton championships have attracted a record entry from IS countries with Asians again expected to carry off most of the titles. Indonesian Rudy Hartono will be seeking to win the world's most coveted individual badminton title for the third
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    52 11 TURIN. Italy. fiat. (Reuttr) Dr Vlnlclo Lucci, Preaident of the newlyformed European International Women'* Football Federation, has announced that the world women'a soccer championships will take place in Italy next July. Eight national women'a team* Italy. Denmark. Cwchoalovakia. Brazil, France Argentina and Britain will complete. the
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