Eastern Sun, 9 March 1970

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    23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY "fr Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1287 Monday, 9 March 1970. MC (P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon Assassination Attempt On Cypriot Leader
    383 1 HELICOPTER SHOT DOWN NICOSIA, Sun. (Reuter) A machine gunner shot down President Makarios' helicopter today in an assassination attempt which left the Cypriot leader unscathed, but wounded the pilot. The badly-wounded pilot, managed to bring the helicopter with bullet holes in its fuselage down on
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    Lock icon Liquid Gas Instead Of Petrol
    87 1 MELBOCRVE, Sub (Router) A nrw car fuel sell'"I »t half the pr*ce of P*tro| and claimed tn treble enrin* bf* and reduce air pollution, announod today. The Victorian Ga» and Fuel Corporation will mar- fret "autogas" in Victoria at aHn-it #»o Singapore cent* a gallon
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    Lock icon CHIN IS NOT IN MACAU
    51 1 MACAU. Sun. <UPI> Immigration authorities say they have no record of entry of Chin Peng, leader of the Malayan Communist Party. They say if he had come to Marau. he would probably have used an assumed name. Coronunist leaders would not confirm Chin Peng is
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    Lock icon Asians Plan Mass 'Exodus' To UK
    256 1 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Thousands of Kenya Asians are planning a mass exodus to Britain and they will set up a pirate radio station off the U.K. it they are barred. Tne militant, moves were re\ealed by the secretary of the Committee for Unted Kingdom
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    Lock icon Aircraft Have Right Of 'Hot Pursuit'
    185 1 BANGKOK, Sun. (Reuter) Malaysia and Thai aircraft can now bomb Communist positions on both sides of their common border, Malaysian Deputy Premier Tun Abdul Razak said today. Tun Razak said aircraft will be able to cross the border In the same way as ground
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    Lock icon TERRORISTS SET DIPLOMAT FREE
    277 1 GUATEMALA CITY, Sun. (UPI) Scon Holly, the American diplomot who wos kidnapped on Friday by Communist terrorists, was released today, the U.S. embassy said. A spokesman said Holly was unharmed, Holly was abducted on the streets of this Central American capital on Friday afternoon by members
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    Lock icon Communist Government In Trouble
    138 1 CALCUTTA. Sun (Reuter) A breakup of West Bengal's Communist-led coalition government appears imminent. Chief Minister Ajoy Mukherjee s Bangla Congress Party has directed him to leave the government. The executive of the party, the second major partner in the 14-party coalition that has ruled West Bengal
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    Lock icon ...And Thousand Stayed Away
    36 1 LAGOS Sun (AFP) A mass march through the streets of Lagos to protest against bribery and corruption In public and private life was scheduled for yesterday but only six people turned up.
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    Lock icon LAOS REDS ATTACK AGAIN
    229 1 VIENTIANE, Sun. (Reuter) North Vietnamese troops are launching probing attacks towards the bases of Sam Thong and Long Cheng. The Government supply bases are 90 mile* north of Vientiane. Military sources said North Vietnamese troops yesterday launched a probing attack against the hilltop position of Dan
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    Lock icon Abandon Ship...
    98 1 TOKYO, Sun (AFF) The Transport Ministry will revise the Seamen s Act to save captains who are governed by tradition into going down with their ships Public opinion in favour of a revision has mounted since the unnecessarv d*ath of Captain Hiroshi Sumimura. master of the California Maru
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    Lock icon Huk Killed
    34 1 MANILA. Bun CUPI) On# Communist Huk wis killed and four others captured in a clash today between a Philippine Constabulary unit and a nine-man Huk band in Tarlac province north of Manila
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    Lock icon Sir Alec's Plane Delayed 12 Hours
    65 1 Former British Prime Minister. Sir Alec Doug-las Home, will arrive thi s morning— about 12 hours late His aircraft has been delayed. He will meet the Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Ruan Yew. and the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Mr. SRajaratnam. at the President's Office.
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    Lock icon Complete Solar Eclipse Awes All
    620 2 NEW YORK, Sun. (UPI) The sun yesterday blinked for North American earthlings and millions on the east coast experienced the spooky day-time dark of a total solar eclipse. The racing shadow of the moon penciled an 85-mile-wide path up the populous eastern U.S. seaboard from
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    Lock icon Cook In Hot Soup
    189 2 BERLIN. Sun. (UPI> Ruediger Krebs, a 23-year-old cook, was jailed on Tuesday in South Africa lor trying to flee the country with his "coloured" fiancee and their 10-month-oid daughter, Krebs father Guenter disclosed yesterday According to his father. Krebs and his fiancee Veronica Williams. 22. are
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    Lock icon HUGE PREHISTORIC PALACE OF GREEK KING OEDIPUS FOUND
    557 2 THEBES, Greece, Sun. (UPI) A prehistoric palace emerging in an archaeological excavation here may have been the home of the legendary Oedipus. The latter is the Greek king reputed to have murdered h»» father and married his mother. Spyros Marinatos, dean of
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    Lock icon 'Eclipse Bus' Tragedy
    61 2 MIAHUATLAN. Mexico. San. < UPTi bus carrying Mexican students who had come here to observe the solar eclipse yesterday plunged off a narrow bridge Into a river-bed 15 leet below. It happened shortly after they were beginning the return trip to Mexico city. Police three •tudenti were
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    61 2 NEW HAVEN. Connecticut Sin (Reuten F. 8.1 agents yesterday arrested two brothers and charged them with bombing a police headquarters, a bark and robbing the bank. It was announced here. Twenty-six people. Including six policemen, were injured In three blasts They Included the blowing UD of a decoy
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    Lock icon Women's Day In Red Nations
    136 2 MOSCOW, Sun (Reuter) —Millions of Soviet women from bu« drivers to the world's onlv female cosmonaut. were presented with flowers or boxes of chocolate# br their menfolk today— the communist world's International Women's Dav. The is equivalent to Mother's Dav :n the west. However, it
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    Lock icon The Mosquito's Answer To THEIR Population Boom
    390 2 RIVERSIDE, California. Sun. (UPI) Mosquitoes have developed a nasty way of controlling their own population explosion. Two University of California (U.C.) researchers hope to help the disease-carrying pests use it more often. Drs Mir Mulla and Toskiaki Ikeshoji o* the Riverside campus have
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    Lock icon 3 BOMB RAIDS IN ARGENTINA
    140 2 CORDOBA, Argentina, Sun. (UPI) Early morning bomb attacks yesterday damaged the office of General Electric and the Institute of Affgentine-Korth American Cultural exchange. A third bomb exploded jn the home of the ch;ef of the north-east regional Gendarmerla Frontier Police Command. The blasts blew out
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    Lock icon Why America Needs An ABM System
    522 2 WASHINGTON, Sun. (UPI) The Nixon Administration is telling Congress the United States needs an Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) System to protect not only the U.S. but America's Asian allies a* well. Last year, the Administration won approval by only one vote in the Senate (or
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    Lock icon Offshore Oil Field's Conditions 'Unsafe'
    265 2 NEW ORLEANS. Louisiana, Sun. (UPI) A federal investigation yesterday showed serious safety and pollution control problems prevailed at an offshore oil field where a multi-well platform caught fire 26 days ago. The report came white high w ndi and bad weather delayed fire-fighters' attempts to
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    Lock icon A 'Plot' To Overthrow Haiti Govt.
    190 2 WASHINGTON, Sun. (UFI) A U.S. magazine yesterday charged that the United States has sponsored at least four unsuccessful invasions of Haiti in an attempt to overthrow the Government of President Dr. Francois Duvalier. Andrew St. George. In a copyrighted article m the April issue
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    Lock icon Indian Jewel Auction To Lure Tourists
    144 2 NEW DELHI. Sun (Renter) A proposal to attract foremen tourist* to India by holding annual jewel auctions ha* been put to the government by the National Minerals Development Corporation The corporation'# plan js to auction cut and polished precious and semiprecious stone* in collaboration
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    Lock icon Lawyers Post Bond
    96 2 CHICAGO. Sun. (UPI) William Kunctler and Leonard Wenglass. attorneys for the Chicago Seven in their recent trial on conspiracy charges. posted bond yesterday on th* contempt sentences imposed on them by U.S. District Judee Julius J. Hoffman after the trial. Hoffman original'v had given them until May
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    Lock icon Suharto Will Get Corruption Report
    253 3 JAKARTA, Sun. (UPI) A special Commission on Corruption will meet Wednesday with President Suharto for the third time in less than six weeks. f They will submit progress report on the commission s activities and suggestions on ways to combat corruption in the government. Commission
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    Lock icon CHARLES MANSON, the Sharon Tate murder suspect, is seen in his 'new look' minus his beard. He was revoked of his right to act as his own attorney on Saturday. Three of his "family" were arrested for contempt in the stormy courtroom session. Judge William Keene then appointed attorney Charles Hollopeter as Manson's defence counsel.
    57 3 CHARLES MANSON, the Sharon Tate murder suspect, is seen in his 'new look' minus his beard. He was revoked of his right to act as his own attorney on Saturday. Three of his "family" were arrested for contempt in the stormy courtroom session. Judge William Keene then appointed attorney Charles
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    Lock icon 77 Nations Represented At Expo '70 Ceremony
    760 3 TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) Seventy-seven nations will raise their flags in Osaka next Saturday to open Expo '7O. It would be the first international exposition to be staged in Asia. An estimated 50 million people, a million of them foreigners, are expected to visit
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    Lock icon Mountaineers
    69 3 KATMANDU. Sun (UPI) —Nirteen mountain-clim-bers. including two women, from three Japanese mountaineering clubs arrived bv air in Katmandu vesterdav or an expedition to try to scale three Nepali peaks. Nipp of the arriva s form th? Kasaj University Mountaneering Expedition to the top of the 24. 714-foot Annapurr.a Peak
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    Lock icon Saying It With Cards
    69 3 OSAKA, Sun. (UPI) Expo '7O guides and attendants who do not speak English will do it by the card system in an emergency. When they find a foreigner ailing, they will present cards which read," "Where does it hurt?" or "Shall I take you to a
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    Lock icon EXPO DATA
    204 3 OSAKA. Japan. Sun. (LTD—Farts and figures on the 1970 World Exposition DURATION: March 15 to Sept 13. WHERE: In the Senri (Thousand Leazue» Hills. 10 miles north-east of Osak si SIZE: The fairgrounds occupy 15 square miles and Include the pavilions of 77 nations. ADMISSION: Adult* 23 years
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    Lock icon Manson's LP Now On Sale
    86 3 LOS ANGELES, Sun. (Reuter) A long-play-ing record of songs by hippie leader Charles Manson, 35. accused of masterminding the Sharon Tate murders, was released yesterday. The 14 titles sung by Manson to his own guitar accompaniment Include, "Don't do anything illegal." "Eyes of a Dreamer."
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    Lock icon Malik: Make Indian Ocean Neutral
    156 3 JAKARTA, Sun. (Reuter) Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik has called on the major powers and regional nations to see that the Indian Ocean is allowed to remain 'a neutral' area Malik spoke to reporters last night on his return from visit to the Soviet Union
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    Lock icon Murder Probe
    82 3 SEOUL. Sun. 'UPI) South Korean and U.S. military investigator* are questioning an Ameriran GI in connection with the murof a Korean couple Wednesday in Tongduchon. 30 mi>s north of Seoul, local press reports said today. The GI was not identified but reports said that he T is a
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    Lock icon Village Chief Abducted
    98 3 HONG KONG. Sun. (UPI) The Government today announced It la considering protesting to Communist China over the reported 'abduction' of a Hong Kong Tillage chief. Lee Kong. 49. a fisherman and cnlef of the Ylm Liu Hsla Village near the border, was reported to have been abducted
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    Lock icon Shoot On Sight Warning
    137 3 MELBOURNE, Sun. (Reuter) Lawyer Frank Galbally warned today that anyone intruding on the grounds of his suburban home risked being shot on sight. Earlier, two men wearing Nazi-styie uniforms planted a bomb In a store-room beneath Galballys twostorey home. They then exchanged shots with security guards
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    Lock icon Cab Overturns
    67 3 SEOUL. Sun. (UPI) A speeding taxi-car killen four schoolgirls and overturned last night near the entrance of a suDer-highwav in Inchon. 30 miles west of Seoul, police said today. The driver and four Passergers aboarH the car were injured seriously an<i hospitalized. Dolice said. The eirls all I*.
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    Lock icon First Israeli-Arab Commando Clash Near Lebanon
    263 3 TEL AVIV, Sun (UPI) An Israeli army patrol killed five Arab guerrillas i" a dash on the Lebanese frontier today, an army spokesman announced. He added the clash took place west of the Zari-5 Settlement, 12 miles west of the Mediterranean coast. The Israeli
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    51 3 JAKARTA. Sun. < AFP* Ten thousand people were left homeless and 1.200 homes destroyed In a fire recently that raged for three hours at Tandjung Balal, North Sumatra. Antara news agency reported today. Firemen were unable to control the blaze when It raced through the bamboo village. No casualties
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    Lock icon Murder Over Garbage Issue: Pygmies To Fight With Filipinos?
    545 3 CLARK AIR BASE, The Philippines, Sun. (UPI) The pygmy Negritos are proud tribesmen who last lifted their weapons in anger against the Japanese in World War Two. They may go on the warpath again. The Negritos are believed to be one
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    Lock icon Nixon Calls For 'Grand Tour' Of All Planets
    330 4 WASHINGTON, Sun. (UPI) President Nixon last night called for a "grand tour" of all the planets in the solar system by unmanned spaceships, and a soft landing on Mars this decade. Manned exploration of Mars, the nert target for the U.S. astronauts,
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    Lock icon Major U.S Space Goals In The 70s
    218 4 WASHINGTON. Sun (UPl)—These are the major U.S. space goals for the 1970 s: 1970-1972 Two missions each year to the moon, including one with a rover vehicle allowing the astronauts to travel 20 to 25 miles from their landing craft to bring back
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    Lock icon MID-EAST PEACE ENVOY RECALLED
    250 4 NEW YORK, Sun. (Reuter) United Nations Middle East peace envoy Gunnar Jarring is under orders to be in New York by Tuesday for urgent talks which could lead to him resuming his media- tion efforts. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant announced the recal! to New York of
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    Lock icon Baby Born A Drug Addict
    56 4 LONDON. Sun. (.AFP) A baby has been born in London suffering from drug dependence, after Its mother had taken heroin and morphine during pregnancy. Doctors at the Roval Free hospital cure<j It in six day* by gradually reducing the doses of the drugs it required
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    Lock icon Christine Keeler Sued For Divorce
    93 4 LONDON, Sun. (UPI) Christine Keeler, central figure in a British government scandal in 1968 which toppled the then War Minister. John Profumo, has been sued for divorce. Her husband, 28-year-old engineer James Levermore says he has begun divorce proceedings through his solicitor. The couple married
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    Lock icon 'Anyone Can Make The Trip'
    92 4 WASHINGTON Sun.(UPI) The chief of the US space programme says ordinary people without elaborate astronaut training will be able to travel in spa?e hv the late *****. Dr Thomas Paine, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said once spar# shuttles are developed to
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    Lock icon Five Die In S.A. Train Crash
    35 4 DURBAN. Sun. 'AFP > Five traln-«ma?h victim* died In hospital last night. They were among 70 passenger* Injured when a train was derailed a« it passed through a suburban station
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    Lock icon Snow Slide Kills 7
    28 4 ROME. Sun. (UPI) An ava,anche of sno«r swept across a military shooting range near Bruneck In Northern Italy killing seven soldiers and Injuring two.
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    Lock icon Frenchmen Vote For Councils
    151 4 PARIS. Sun (Renter) French voters walked through snow and rain to vote today in elections for important local government councils. The elections are for half the seats on local assemblies known as General Councils which control finance. housing, health and education in 94 metropolitan and four
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    Lock icon Heathrow Open For 12 Hours
    53 4 LONDON. Sun (UPI) London's strlke-hlt Heathrow airport reopened for at least 12 hours today. Fire officers carried out the duties of 86 firemen staglne a wildcat strike for a SSIB pay boost. For the past six days the fire supervisors have kept Heathrow open 12
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    Lock icon Tourists Flood In To See The Ghost City
    383 4 ITALY'S 'QUAKE CITY' POZZUOLI, Sun. (UPI) —Thousands of tourists poured into Pozzuoli today, bringing life and money to a city almost killed by a panic over mysterious earth movements. The ancient Roman seaport, its population of 68,685 persons cut almost in half
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    Lock icon Magicians Claim All Will Be Well
    161 4 POZZUOLI, Sun. (Reuter) Leading Italian magicians and diviner* have joined scientists in frying to predict the future of Poixuoli. The magicians brought strange instruments, map? and documenta covered with hleroglyhlcs Their firs* prediction* were optimistic, in line with statements issued by seismologists on Friday
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    Lock icon Home Is Best After All
    618 4  -  Ann Landers FIEAR Ann: Three years ago I 'eft a wonderful home, great parents, and loving brothers and sisters I wanted to "find myself." My folks were heartsick but I was sure it was something I had to do. I found myself all right. Sleeping
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    Lock icon Suspected Spy Arrested Near Base In Italy
    74 4 POME. Sun. < UPli Police in Padua have arrested 37-year-old Italian oa charges of spving on U5. forces Police said Guido Glol confessed spying for Yugoslavia. They said notes about the location of fuel dumps and units of the US. South European Task
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    Lock icon Bomb Thrown At MP's House
    45 4 BELFAST Sun (UPI) An explosion shattered windows in the home of a Nationalist Member of Parliament in Country Tyrone early todav. Police said "the blast caused minor damage to the house, owned bv Austin Curry MP. There were no lnturles.
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    Lock icon Africans Demand Talks On Rhodesia
    170 4 NEW YORK, Sun. (UPI) The 38 African nation* Have requested a new urgent meeting of the Security Council on Rhodesia. Council president Dr Joaquin Vallejo Arbelaez asked him to convene the council "to conaider the deterioration In the situation In Southern Rhodesia following the proclamation
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    Lock icon Submarine Does Collision Test
    63 4 TOULON Sun (UPI) A French submarine conducted test* at sea with a Tunisian freighter yesterday as part of an Investigation to determine whether the submarine Eurydlce collided with the freighter before sinking with 57 men on board The submarine Argonaute followed the ship and conducted electronic
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    Lock icon REGIONAL SECURITY
    867 6 "INDONESIAN Adam Malik made rather supercilious remarks about the Five Power Defence Agreement between Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand and Britain. His remark that Indonesia is not worried about the presence of Australian and New Zealand troops in Singapore and Malaysia showed neither the depth of understanding of
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    628 6  -  by ART BUCHWALD WASHINGTON "And now, Ladies and gentlemen. In a few minutes we shall have the moment you have all been waiting for. While our Judges are marking their ballots, we'd like to tell you a little about this wonderful contest "Each year the American
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    Lock icon To Bring India And Pakistan Together: Ghaffar Khan Is The Man They Say
    806 6  -  By K. K. DUGGAL, Gemini News Service NEW DELHI: Will 80-yearold Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan unfreeze relations between India and Pakistan and initiate a dialogue between neighbours which have not been on speaking terms since the 1965
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    Lock icon He Is Proud Of HisStormy Daughter
    812 6  -  By FRED MPANGA. Gemini New s Service LONDON: Mr. Gwynfor Evans, the sole Welsh Nationalist Member of Parliament at Westminster. is a proud man. "What father would not be proud of a daughter with such courage and conviction?" he asks. Hi* 19-year-old daughter Meinir
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    Lock icon Will The Tour Arrest Moves Away From Britain?
    715 6  -  Australia's relations with Britain ha\e undertone a major change in the last ten years. British trade with Australia has fallen by 45 per cent and politically Canberra looks to Washington rather than to London. The royal tour is the most extensive and
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    Lock icon It's Propaganda -Cambodian Envoy
    111 6  -  Letters... THACH PHIEM Charge d'affaires a I. Rojal Fmbassy of Cambodia in Singapore WITH reference to UPI report from Saigon 'Eastern Sun dated 17th January 1970» reporting that "nearly 85 per cent of the war supplies equipping communist troops in the Mekong Delta and In provinces
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      209 7 THI chairman of South Pacific Textile Industrial BerKjd stated in the annual report that tha accounts at Septembar 30. 1969 show tha position whan tha company had a paid up capital of $5 million i.a. before tha public issue of two million shares of one dollar each at
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      Lock icon YOKOHAMA PROTESTS
      111 7 YOKOHAMA Sun.'UPH— The Yoxonama Municipal Assembly has protested to the government the U.B. plan for restraints on Japanese textile exports to the United States. The protest was made in a written view and sent to Prime Minister Elsaku Sato. Foreign Minister Klichl Alchl and Minister of International Trade
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      Lock icon Gold Reserves
      52 7 TOKYO. Sun (UPI) Japan's gold reserves Increased by 113 million US. dollars in February to total 469 million dollars, a Finance Ministry official disclosed yesterday. The omclal, Teruyukl Okumura. Director General of the International Finance Bureau of the Ministry, made the disclosure at a House of Representatives Finance
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      48 7 TOKYO. Sun (UPI) Th»» First National City Bank of New York has signed a contract with Nippon Shlnpan Co. of Tokyo to provide loans to automobile buyers. Under the contract the New York Bank will provide funds up to US$l.4 million annuallv for automobile purchase loant.
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      150 7 TOKYO. Bun. (UPI) Japan shortly will send four agricultural experts to South Vietnam to help train agricultural special--Ist* in that country, the government a n no u need yesterday. The announcement said they are being sent In accordance with a sixyear Japan«6outh Vietnam technical
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      Lock icon Japan Banks May Help Philippines
      767 7  -  Asian Economic Review By JOSEPH MA HONG KONG. Sun. (UPI) Thair country in a stataof disequilibrium, Filipinos watched tha peso pegged at J. 90 to tha U.S. dollar until banking authorities treed it last month skid to below 6-to-l level in Manila and plunge to
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      Lock icon WEEK CLOSED ON STEADY MARKET
      717 7 The weekly market review STLADY conditions prevailed in Hie Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore last week. Industrials improved considerably on better buying support especially in the better class stocks. This comes on the the heels of rumours that there is a considerable amount of
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      Lock icon PAKISTAN URGED TO DEVALUE CURRENCY
      221 7 KARACHI. Sun (UPI) The World Rank has reportedly urged Pakistan to devalue Its rupee by 80 to 100 per cent. A report yesterday in Karachi's Weekly Mall, quoting its London correspondent. said that according to London diplomatic circles the World Bank had told the Pakistan
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      75 7 TOKYO. Sun. <UPI> Import contracts validated in February were worth 1.283.800.000 UB dollar, the International Trade and Industry announced Saturday The figure represented a 36.7 per cent Increase over February last year and a 1.1 per cent over January, the announcement said. It attributed the rise partly to
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      386 7 ARRIVALS g-15 am MSA 123 R Lampar Mim MSA 119 K. Lumpar 12.Mp.rn. MSA 451 Racking 110 pm MSA 021 R. lampar Malacca 525 p m MSA 453 R Rlaabalu 3 40pm M*4 521 Baagkok. Penan# 5.40pm MsA 637 Tokjo Taipei. Hongkong TlOpm. MSA 027 R Lumpnr. Malacca
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  • PICTORICAL SOCIAL ROUND-UP
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      Lock icon ALL GATHER TO HELP THE BLIND
      140 8 Organisers and helpers of the Singapore Stall of this year's International Bazaar in aid of the Blind met the First Lady, Puan Noor Aishah (front row, fourth from left) at the Istana lastweek to discuss plans for raising the major portion of the $200,000
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      36 8 TEN charming girls from different European countries paid a courtesy coll on the Chairman of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board Saturday. Sitting in the front row is Mr. Runme Shaw, the Chairman (in suit).
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      219 8 MRS J. Tichy, wife of the General Manager of Bata Shoe (Singapore) Private Limited, declared open last week yet another Batn retail store at the President Shopping Centre. This makes it the 22nd store and 51st shop of the Bata organise" tion in Singapore The ultra modern
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE $10 ESSAY WINNERS
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      446 9 FOOTBALL IS the most interesting game Itg varied and vise rules, the numerous combinations of efforts, and the almost infinite number of ways gives a player to display his genius and ipirit of Initiative. And the game is so interesting that when played with
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      484 9 A journey by bus can be great fun and you will feel the endless thrill of being in it. It was about noon one day, when I started walking toward the busstop The bus stop was a few hundred yards away from my house and soon
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      450 9 IN Southeast Asia, there are several countries which have a cosmopolitan population. One example is Singapore. my native land. European tourists normally leave this Republic with a very good Impression of the wonderful harmony of her multiracial population. They marvel at this. for. in their own homeland,
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      Lock icon My Responsibilities As A Citizen Of Singapore
      365 9 MANY qualities are needed in order that one can be a good and loyal citizen. In my country. Singapore, where the people oI different races live together. It la important for us to live in peace and harmony. Every citizen of Singapore must
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      208 9 GARDENS suggest the word "beauty." What la the meaning nt 'garden'? A garden is a piece of ground M here plants and shrubs germinate. Beautiful gardens are displayed in and around Singapore in public buildings, parks and circuses. In the past, emperors and kings took great pains In constructing
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      172 9 Essay writing: Rules to observe *U'"tranl*ar.r equ tedu obt nt th following rule s: 2. Each entrant mutt fill in his/her own uriting the entry form appended below in block letters. 2. Ao entry will be considered without ths entry form properly filled up. 3. The entrant must attach his/her
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      95 9 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Aider McWiHiams TPOy/ RAVEN THANK QOOONESS I CAUGHT YOU Before you LEFT/ V THAT FOOLISH WOMAN HAS RENTED A BOAT'..SHE INSISTS THAT SHE'S SOING TO EAST ISLAND-ALONE/ H 1.1 NO,THE BOY IS FINE/ HE'S UP IN OUR SUITE... BUT SO 15 CONGRES WOMAN JACKSON/
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      20 9 AMY By Jack TippH' l»y.\ 1 as S3 'Good afternoon, Mr. Botes.. .\bu probably don't recognize me...l'm Amy, your doughter."
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  • SUN SPORT
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      Lock icon Arda's Malaysian Open In Tight Finish
      872 10  -  By Ben Variyan TT UALA LUMPUR, Sun. Ben Arda of the Philippines won the $lO,OOO Malaysian Open golf championship here today by one stroke in one of the most thrilling final round* ever witnessed. He fired a four-under par 68 for a four-day score
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      627 10 273: Ben Arda (P) 69 68. 68 68 (33-35» 274: T. Woolbank (A) 63. 70. 69. 67 (33-34». 275: T. Kono (J) 66 69, 68. 72 <34-38). J. Lister (NZ> 70. 69. 68 68 < 34-34 277: T. Murakami (J» 68. 71. 70, 68 i 34-34). 278:
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      Lock icon SABA Pick Kadir For Sports Award
      110 10 THE Singapore Amateur Boxing Association have nominated Syed Abdul Kadlr for the Sportsman of the Year Award. Kadir. 29. who works in a private Arm as a clerk is the light-flyweight champion. He took up boxing in 1966 and has fought with success in
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      Lock icon Indians Win 6-a-side Title
      378 10 Indian Association .scored a shock 1-0 win over the Singapore Armed Forces to capture the Singapore Hockey Association senior division six-a-side title at the Padang yesterday. The winning goal was scored by Veer Singh, international right winger in the second minute of play. Kartar Singh and
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      23 10 TELOK Kurau United Junior A.A bv 11 to one in a FAS Division One leagu? match playat the Geyian* Stadium yesterday.
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      Lock icon Devlin & Lunn Lead Into 3rd Round
      158 10 Devlin Lunn Lead Into 3rd Round ORLANDO, Florida 6un. i (Reuter) Australia a Bruce Devi** scored his second straight flve-under-par 67 yesterday to tie with American Bob Lunn for the lead after two rounds of the US$l5O 000 1*60.000 > Florida Citrus Invitational golf tournai ment here. Devlin, winner of
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      123 10 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) »xn-ers in English league and Cup football: FIRST DIVISION: 25 Pete r Osgood (Chelsea), 24 Jeff Astle (West Bromwich). 21 Alian Clarke (Leedjt United), 20 George Best (Manchester United), 19 Joe Rovle (Everton). 18 Hugh Curran Wolverhampton Wanderers». SECOND DIVISION: 23 Barrv Bridge*
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      Lock icon Sultan's Cup To Trail Blazer
      1103 10 By Our Racing Correspondent PENANG, Sun. Australian jockey Johnny Wilton scored a hat-trick here today. He booted home Star Lustre ($64), Grandeur of Sarawak ($4O), and followed it up in the Spring Plate with Onassis (13). The Sultan of Kedah's Cup went to Trail Blazer,
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      Lock icon Mitchell Due Tomorrow
      51 10 Australian jockey Kevin Mitchell, who rode with success here in the early fifties will be seen in action at the Singapore Derby meeting which starts this weekend. Mitchell, who rode for Bukit Timah trainer Keith Daniels, will be stable jockey to Garnet Bougoure. He is expected here
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      Lock icon Bloemfontein Bars Non-White Jockeys
      192 10 Bloemfontein Bars NonWhite Jockeys BLOEMFONTEIN, Sun. (Reuter) The Bloemfonteln Turf Club have decided to bar non-white jockeys from riding at their race meetings ending 66 years of mixed competition. Racing circles believe the practice of allowing Africans to compete with white Jockeys has been discontinued as a result of the
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      68 10 CAPETOWN. Sun. <Reuten Chichester won the 20.000 Rand <£11.522) Cape of Good Hope Derby here yesterday in a tight finish with Storm Signal. Only a neck separated Chichester, a 5 to 1 chance, and Storm Signal (8 to it. Third in the one mile four furlongs race, a
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      Lock icon City Win League Cup
      385 11 Pardoe N Winner After Extra Time T ONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Manchester City, battling back after a hesitant start, gained their third major English soccer trophy in successive seasons when they beat West Bromwich Albion 2-1 after extra time in a magnificent League Cup final yesterday. City
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      Lock icon France Whip Wales In Rough Match
      266 11 PARIS. Sin (Reuter) Two brilliant tries in the last ten minutes earned France a 17 points to 9 victory over Wales in the Rugby Union "B" international here yesterday. The great tries, by Jacques Cantoni and JeanMarie Bonal. redeemed a scrappy and often rough
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      Lock icon Koch Upsets To Enter Final
      208 11 HAMPTON. Virginia. Sun. < Reuter > Brazil's Tomas Koch scored another upset victory In the U.S. L t .*n Tennis Association indoor tennis championship nerp to move into the final where he will meet holder Stan Smith of the \JS. Koch, who beat second seeded
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      126 11 BLACKPOOL. England. Sun. fßeuter) Brian London, the former British heavyweight boxing champion, and his wife have separated. It was announced here yesterday. Speaking from their home. Mrs. Veronica London said: "From today I no longer reside with my husband. There is a formal separation on the
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      1316 11 ENGLISH DIVISION ONE English football League Cup Final Manchester City 2. west Bromwich 1 (after extra time). Burnley 1. Everton 2. Chelsea 1. Nottingham 1. Derby 3. West Ham 0. Ipswich 1. Stoke 1. Liverpool 0. Leeds United 0. Southampton 1. Sunderland 1 Postponed: Newcastle v Coventry
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      Lock icon Brabham Sweeps To Victory In South African GP
      404 11 JOHANNESBURG, Sun. (Reuter) Australian veteran Jack Brabham opened the 1970 World Driver* championship in record-breaking style when he swept to victory in the South African Grand Prix here. Three-times world champion Brabham, driving hi* own Brabham-Ford yesterday took the cheauered flag eight
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      260 11 LONDON. 6un. (Router) Am?n«n Marty Reissen •cored a 6-4. 6-2 victory over Ken Rosewall to win the Jingle* title and the £2.100 first prize in the Rot hmans* 1n t e rnational professional tennis tournament here last night. It was Reissen s second big pay-out .of
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      Lock icon NZ Varsity Triumph
      99 11 TOYKO. Sun lfeeut*r) The tounnf Kew Zealand university rugbv team today defeated All-Japan 166 in a bruising, muddv encounter here. The New Zealander* held a narrow 5'3 lead at halftime. It was their third successive wm hut hardest game so far on a tinematch tour of Japan
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      42 10 TOTAL POOL: ($21,800) Ist Prize No: *****8 ($7,194) 2nd Prise No: *****1 ($1,798) 3rd Prime No: *****7 ($899) Starters: ($199 each) Nos: *****2 *****5 *****9 *****2 *****9 *****5 Consolations: ($B9 each) Nos: *****1 *****6 *****0 *****0 *****6 *****7 *****1 *****6 *****9 *****2
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      1263 11 KHVNNM Si PM: 300 Opening Announcement* in all Languages General Hospt'al; 325 Woman's World < Tamil); 3.55 A Diary of Events in Singapore This Week Tamil >; 3 N It'g HapFemng in Singapore (Tan-ili Repeat' 4IS Days «f Our Lives; 500 Close Down. 6C5 Opening Announcement* in all Language* Bwana
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