Eastern Sun, 13 March 1970

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    22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1291 Friday, 13 March 1970. ft MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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  • Article
    Lock icon Mobs Loot, Burn Viet Districts Of Phnom Penh
    415 1 "PHNOM PENH, Thurs. (Ail Agencies) Gangs of Cambodian rioters swept through Vietnamese districts today looting shops, burning buildings, beating up residents and desecrating two Roman Catholic churches. Defying a threat of Chief of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk, to resign, mobs attacked Vietnamese
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    Lock icon Three Bombs Explode In New York
    144 1 NEW YORK Thurs (IP!) Explosions rocked three Manbatian buildings early today causing "heavy damage Police «aid they were warned In advance but could not stop the bombings. No Injuries were reported. The explosions rocked the Socony Mobil Building, offices of the IBM Corporation and
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    Lock icon Boy Drowns In Flooded Canal
    148 1 Schoolboy S, Pandian, 8, drowned yesterday when he fell into a flooded canal near his home in Haig Road. He was swept away by strong currents when he had slipped while playing on the canal bank Police recovered his body at 3 45 p.m. A
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  • Article
    Lock icon Take A Hint Fellows...
    99 1 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) Thousands of posters showing a "pregnant" man dolefully clutching his swollen stomach will soon be put up all over Britain to persuade men to seek advice on contraception The poster asks: "Would you be more careful if it was you who got pregnant?"
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    Lock icon UK Agrees To Pay Colonial Pensions
    131 1 Britain will soon take over the payment of pensions and compensation to former colonial officials in Singapore and Malaysia. About 30 former British are now paying benefits to ex-Brttlsh civil IIS fleuter report from London yesterday said Britain had given in to pressure from
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    Lock icon Leila's Here Without The Men From Smersh
    136 1 Th" last tiro* Singaporeans saw belly-dancer Leila liuiraut "doing her thing"' cunmrn popped out of nowhere and bullets began to (IT. She was dancing for «up»r .»i h Rrittsh a g en t James Bond. Tl' *s in the 007 movie with Love."
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    Lock icon Damaged Engine Delays MSA Jet At Kai Tak
    83 1 HONG KON'O, Thurs. (Reuter) A MalaysiaSingapore Airlines" Boeing 707 jet delayed its depart ture from Kai Tak Airport for Kuala Lumpur today as technicians repaired a damaged engine. An airline spokesman said one engine was slightly damaged as the aircraft landed No
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    Lock icon The Winner —No Sweat
    31 1 ATLANTA. Thurs. *Reuter)—The American sroup Blood Sweat and Tears edged out Johnny Cash and the Beatles to win this year's Grammy Award for the best record album.
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    Lock icon JAPANESE DIPLOMAT KIDNAPPED
    227 1 SAO PAULO, Thurt. (Reuter) Stronq forces of troops and political police sealed ail approaches to Sao Paulo today after the gunpoint kidnapping of the Japanese consul. Consul Nobua Okuchi was driving home last night from a meeting with a Brazilian businessman when three cars blocked the way.
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    Lock icon Girl Wed To Earn Freedom
    147 1 LONDON, Thurt, (Reuter) A marriage arranged to free a girl from a Polish jail has been annulled. The marr.age between Dr. Sryman Szechter. 49, a blind Polish historian, and secretary Nina Karsov was declared Invalid by a London Divorce Court Judge. Now he is free
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    Lock icon Man Acquitted Of Cheating Dato S.Q. Wong
    289 2 A MAN who was alleged to have cheated Dato S. Q. Wong, a prominent businessman, of $3,000 by impersonating one of his friends, *as yesterday acquitted and discharged without his defence being called. In acquitting Bobby Wong, th e Fourth District Court Judge.
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Mr. Shaw Yee Meng, a director of the Shaw Organisation handling over the keys of a Ford Capri to Mr. Lim Teck Phuan (right) who won it in the Lucky Draw of the Carnival Trade Fair 1970 held at the Great World Amusement Park recently. The presentation was made at the showroom of a local motor firm, Wednesday. Meanwhile, an Easter Trade Fair will be held at the New World Amusement Park from April 10 to May 10. Valuable prizes, including a car, will be given away at the Lucky Draw. More than 100 exhibitors will be participating in the Fair.
    101 2 Mr. Shaw Yee Meng, a director of the Shaw Organisation handling over the keys of a Ford Capri to Mr. Lim Teck Phuan (right) who won it in the Lucky Draw of the Carnival Trade Fair 1970 held at the Great World Amusement Park recently. The presentation was made at
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    Lock icon Every Citizens Has Role In Economic Stability
    482 2 FIVE hundred and fifty students and undergraduates from the four institutions of higher learning were reminded yesterday that the economic stability of Singapore would remain good provided every citizen played his part. The advice came from Hie Minister for Science and Technology, Dr.
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    Lock icon Guthrie To Supply Rubber Milling Plants To Indonesia
    269 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Kumpulan Guthrie Sendirian Berhad if to supply part of the machinery to set up seven more crumb rubber factories in Indone- sia. A loan agreement will b* signed shortly between the British and Indonesian governments under which Britain will
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    Lock icon Ladies Get 'Rubber Diploma'
    116 2 Mi»s Fwi Kum Yong, 22, is one of the five girls among 19 students who passed a three-year course in rubber and plastic quality control organised by the Singapore Section of th e Institution of the Rubber Industry. Miss Fwt Is seen receiving her diploma from
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    Lock icon Avalanche
    29 2 ZURICH. Thurs. (Reuter) —An avalanche roared down a mountainside rear the winter sports resort of Arolia today and police sain thev feared some skiers had been swept away.
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    Lock icon SABAH TIMBER
    104 2 KOTA KINABALU. Thurs. Sabah exported 3,156,104 tons of timber, worth $344.8 million in the first 11 months of last year. According to the latest monthly report of the statistics department here more than two-thirds went to Japan which imported 2,178.991 tons worth $238.4 million, the report added. The
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    Lock icon Lizards For The Agong
    97 2 JAKARTA. Thurs (AFP) President Suharto will presen* a pair of Komodo giant lizards to the Yang di-Pertuan Agon/ when he visit* Malaysia from March 16 to 19. Antara News Agencr reported today. The Komodo lizard® are a gift from the Indonesian people to the Malaysian people.
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    Lock icon Envoy Approved
    41 2 JAKARTA. Thurs. (Reuter) The Indonesian Government has approved the appointment of Mr. Lee Khoon Choy as Singapore's new ambassador to Indonesia, a Foreign Offiot spokesman said today. Lee. 45. replaces P 8. Raman, who has been assigned to Australia.
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    Lock icon A.C.S. Opening
    26 2 THE President of the Anglo-Chinese School Old Boys' Association. Dr Ong Swee Law will open the School's sports complex at Barker Road oa Saturday.
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    Lock icon Malaysian Jamboree In July
    114 2 MALACCA, Thurs.— Pakistan has accepted the invitation to participate in the second Malaysian Scout Jamboree to be held here from July 29 to Aug. 4, the Deputy Chief of the Jamboree Camp, Mr. Horace Sta Maria said today. He said Pakistan was the latest foreign contingent
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    Lock icon RED SHOT IN CLASH
    114 2 KUCHING, Sarawak, Thurs. (Reuter) Malaysian security forces yesterday shot dead an armed woman guerrilla and captured a man in one of two clashes in the Nonok district of the state's First Division, according to an Armed Forces statement. Meanwhile another statement annourjred a round-the-clock curfew in
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    Lock icon Abbot Honoured
    53 2 VENERABLE Phra Kru B saldhammanides. an abbot of the Thai Buddhist Monastery. will be felicitated at a tea-party i n honour of the Royal Title conferred upon him bv the Kin* of Thailand recently The party will be held at tbf. Singapore Conference Hall reception room on Saturday
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    Lock icon Presentation
    43 2 FINANCE Minister Dr. Goh Ken* Swee will present the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce Science and Technical Education Fund donation certificates and the Pioneer and Export Enterprise Certificates to the Chamber and Chairman members of the Economic Development Board at 7 p.m
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    Lock icon Bulgarian Airline To Use Kuala Lumpur
    91 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The acting Minister of Transport, Dato V. Manickavasagam (right), and the Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, Mr. Ognian Tihomirov, seen after signing the Air Services Agreement between the two countries Tuesday. The agreement would pave the way for the Bulgaria's
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    Lock icon Bulgaria Will Give M'sia Credit
    128 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Malaysian businessmen were told today that Bulgaria was prepared to extend reasonable credit facilities to Malaysians interested in buying machinery made in that country. The Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and leader of a visiting Bulgarian trade delegation, Mr. Ognian Tlhomirov
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    Lock icon 'WILLY NILLY' DEFENCE IS NO GOOD
    119 2 CANBERRA. Thurs. <UPI) Flexible and mobile military forces should be concentrated in Australia and not scattered "willy nilly" through Southeast Asia, the Labour defence spokesman Lance Barnard said today. Barnard, opposition deputy leader, was replying in the House of Representatives to Defence Minister Malcolm
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    Lock icon SEMINAR
    30 2 THE MP for Telok Blangah. Mr. N Govindasamy. will open a course on "Payment by Result" at th« NTUC Central Committee Room. Singapore Conference Hall, on Monday, March 16
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    Lock icon Legal Advisers
    20 2 Messrs J B. Jeyaretnam Co- has beer appointed as the Lega; Adviser* of the Singapore Bank Employees' Union.
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    Lock icon Cocktail
    26 2 CARRIER Oversea® Corporation will be having a cocktai] party tn honour of delegates to the Territor 1 Managers Course on March 12 at Cuscaden House.
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    Lock icon New Hostel
    29 2 THE First Lady. Puan Noor Aishah. will at the opening of the Young Women's Christian Association's ne»* hostel at Fort Canning Road on Saturday, at 4.30 p.m.
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    Lock icon SEATO MEET ON APRIL 7
    376 3 VENUE: MANILA OR BAGUIO MANILA, Thurs. (UPI) The eight-nation SouthEast Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) will hold its 15th annual Foreign Ministers' Meeting on April 7 and 8 either in Manila or in the mountain resort city of Baguio. Philippine Foreign Secretary Carlo* Romulo announced at
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    Lock icon India Will NOT Make N-Weapons
    220 3 NEW DELHI, Thurs. (Reuter) —Defence Minister Swaran Singh yesterday rejected right-wing demand in Parliament that India should make nuclear weapons. He stressed nothing had happened to change the government's policy of using nuclear enegry only for peaceful purposes. Nonetheless, he declined to say whether this
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    Lock icon Biggest Sub Made In Japan
    148 3 KOBE, Japan, Thurs. (UPI) —The largest and most modern submarine built in post-war Japan was launched with simple ceremonies at the Kobe shipyard of the Kawasaki Heavy Industries Co. The vessel, a killer-type submarine with a teardrop hull, was built on order of the Japan
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    Lock icon LONG QUEUES formed in front of banks, post offices and other financial agencies in Japan recently. They were lining up for the Expo '70 commemorative 100-yen coins. The queue above is at Tokyo's Central Post Office. The nickel coin (bottom photos) is 25 mm in diameter. At right is the head of the coin. The tail is on the left.—
    62 3 LONG QUEUES formed in front of banks, post offices and other financial agencies in Japan recently. They were lining up for the Expo '70 commemorative 100-yen coins. The queue above is at Tokyo's Central Post Office. The nickel coin (bottom photos) is 25 mm in diameter. At right is the
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    Lock icon CANNIBAL MICE
    114 3 MELBOURNE. Thurs. (AFP) Australia's maraudint mice have turned cannibal, according to latest report* here. The mice have been sweeping in an army of millions through New South Wales and Victoria States. They devour crops and have now begun eating each other in some areas. This was seen by
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    Lock icon TIBET'S HOPE
    47 3 NEW YORK. Thurs (UPI) The Dalai Lama has reminded the world that six million Tibetans under Communist Chinese rule are still aspiring for freedom The exiled ruler Issued an appeal here Tuesday on the 11th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against the Chinese in 1959
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    Lock icon 7 Die Over 2 Bowls Of Rice
    115 3 PORT MORESBY. PapuaNew Guinea. Thurs <Reuter) A dispute over two bowLs of rice triggered a wild brawl in which seven lndigenoua plantation markers were killed, police announced today. The seven men died from axe. knife and spear wounds. Eleven arrowa were found In
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    Lock icon OIL SLICK
    62 3 VENICE. Louisiana Thurs. <UPI> An oil slick the colour of chocolate, fed by a cluster of offshore wells spurting crude oil 100 feet high into the Gulf of Mexico, yesterday spread 10 miles long and half a mile wide toward Louisiana. Windy weather and rough seas hampered efforts
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    Lock icon Thieu Seizes Anti-Govt. Edition Of Newspaper
    161 3 SAIGON, Thurs. (Reu- South Vietnamese authorities today seised copies of a Saigon newspaper that said democracy no longer existed in the country and that President Thieu had lost the support of the people. An official government spokesman confirmed that today s isaue of the
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    Lock icon China Detains 2 UK Ships For 'Breaches Of Rules'
    245 3 LONDON, Thurs. (UPI) —Communist Chinese authorities have detained two British cargo liners in Shanghai for alleged 'breaches of local regulations' by crew members, the Ocean Steam Ship Company an. nounced yesterday. The spokesman added also Capt. John Ray. master of the
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    Lock icon Indira To Heal W. Bengal Crisis
    166 3 CALCUTTA, Thurs. (UPI) —Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi yesterday invited "for consultations" in New Delhi th» Chief Minister of West Bengal State who has threatened to resign from the communist "United Front" Government. The coalition it composed of 14 parties. Chief Minister Ajav Mukherjl
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    Lock icon Another Blow To Gorton
    144 3 CANBERRA, Thuri. (Reuter) —The ruling Liberal Country Party coalition's hopes of holding the reins of government for the next three years received another blow last night. Two government backbenchers crossed the floor to vote with the opposition. The two liberal backbenchers. Henry Turner and John Jess,
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    Lock icon A DILEMMA
    458 6 "FOR many years India has been reported to have had the know-how to make nuclear weapons. In addition to the know-how, India also has the oasic industrial complex and sufficient technically trained personnel to obtain membership in the Nuclear Club. However, it has been one of the tenets
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    Lock icon SIHANOUK'S ULTIMATUM
    473 6 T'HE Cambodians have been isolated for so long A that they do not seem to have heard that it is distinctly unfashionable to attack the embassies of Communist countries. Possibly, with the head or' state, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, out of the country there was nobody to tell them
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    Lock icon ART FIT FOR HEROES TO LIVE WITH
    887 6  -  \jSQS (By Derek Ingram, Gemini News Service) LONDON: When, in 1954, Sir Winston Churchill was eiahty years old and still Prime Minister of Britain his fel-low-Members of Parliament commission* ed a portrait of him from the country's most highly regarded painter, Graham Sutherland.
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    Lock icon The New Road Threatens Stability Of N. Laos
    627 6  -  By Jack Walsh LI ANG PRABANG, Lao* (I PI) From the air it looked like most other road* in Southeast Asia. It is a dirt highway, two lanes wide, which wind* about 90 mile* through northern Laos and carr.es little traffic an
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    Lock icon Soviet Experts Call For More Official Recognition Of Psychology
    423 6  -  By Alan Thomas MOSCOW. (Reuter) A leading Russian psychologist has called for more official recognition of psychology in the Soviet I'nion. where suspicion of Sigmund Freud and his "anti-Marxist", sex-orientated psycho-analysis has been long-entrenched. Professor Alexel Leontiev. head of the Psychology
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    Lock icon Trouble For U.S. Traders
    467 6  -  Bv Robert Crabbe TOKYO (I'PI) The American businessman, who traditionally made money in his dealings with Japan, is losing it todav. For trost of the 116 years since Admiral Perry's black ships forced secluded Japan to open her doors to the western businessman. Japan has been
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    Lock icon An Hour's Wait For STC Bus
    71 6  -  .otters,,. HEADACHE THERESA I fully agree with 'Dally Hazard' In his comment on STC buses. I am also one who suffered to stand by to see two or three buses pass on. How I wish there are private taxis running along Orchard Road to
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    596 6  -  by ART BUCHWALD WASHINGTON There have been some frightening figures coming out of the Pentagon lately on Soviet missiles. Thev have been released by pure coincidence at the very moment that the Defence Department is asking for the second down payment on the antiballistic missile system. We have been
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  • commercial and industrial
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      Lock icon Mart Easier On Profit-Taking
      453 7 THE STOCK Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore closed easier yesterday increased profit-faking especially in industrials. Levels declined further and generally, losses ranged from two to eight cents. Trading wet fairly active and apparently with substantial speculative liquidation in selected industrials including Paper Products, Malayan Credit, Setron,
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      1151 7 JgUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore TnSn lUmb1 Umb f r 0f s are fraded in brackets in lotVof 1,000 units unless otherwise specified:- INDUSTRIALS 241 $2.40 (3); DIM $2 43 ill- Alcan sl>B (1) r»ivt i?L
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      Lock icon PRODUCE
      86 7 THK n«x»0 <l» ■■Port riling Pr<w)o<r It* B»n»r »#llrt omnia Oil Rtilk *4-VI roconui on (1 O R Drum R«.V» MlWd npra M.ininb liter Pmper (F'>Bl t«; VJ Mm««l Uhllr Prppei 'I'lBi imoo MuNik Hitrk i O H WV IH AO L* rotmnc »IK rid' Rtirfc P'PIKr iMiK i
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      Lock icon STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSING PRICES
      766 7 3|D and offer prices cff'cially listed yesterday at t-Se close of usiness in the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia an J Singapore were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers tellers Arm» 2.36 2 42 A b an mm J. 96 B»-n <1 Co 1 72 1 80
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      Lock icon • Mr. T. Osuka, chief of overseas engineering services of Toyota Motor Sales Company in Japan, is now in Malaysia for a week-long familiarisation visit. He arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, after a two-day inspection tour of Toyota's operations and interests in Singapore. Picture shows Mr. Osuka looking on as Mr Ho Kai Lye (second from left), an instructor at the school, explains a point to Mr. Cho'ng Teong Ghee and Enche Shamsuddin bin Sultan, two of the Borneo Motors trainees who are at present attending courses there. Also looking on is Mr. Jack Underwood, technical manager of Borneo Motors.
      100 7 Mr. T. Osuka, chief of overseas engineering services of Toyota Motor Sales Company in Japan, is now in Malaysia for a week-long familiarisation visit. He arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, after a two-day inspection tour of Toyota's operations and interests in Singapore. Picture shows Mr. Osuka looking on as
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 60 3/8 Cts.
      284 7 March first (trade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 60-3 8 cent* per lb. up flve eighths of a cent from the previous close The tone of the market was very quiet. After a higher opening following last night's
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      Lock icon Cotton Output
      45 7 OSAKA. Thurs. <UPI> Pure cotton yarn production In February amounted to 224.593 bales for a 20.8 per cent increase over January, the Japan spinners association announced Wednesday. The association attributed the increase to the 4.31 more operation days in February than in January*.
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      80 7 (Manatrr* Prlcea for March IS) I'HtHIKKMi 1 Ml IKl»l» S. Growth Hind 111 116 »*l 1 M l TKt hTl Mai InvrM Fund 1.42 141 SIMiAPOHE I'M IT 1KUITX l«t !t;n(ipurc 93 2nd MnnntMir# -1-t 3rd Mnnpofr 1M Th» Com Ind 10' 111 The >»% Kund \d 1
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      Lock icon Bill Fixes Peso At 6 To US$1
      285 7 MANILA, Thurs. (UPI) A Bill pegging the Philippine peso at 6 to USSI was introduced Wednesday in the Philippine Senate. The measure, if approved, would scrap the '♦loafing peso rate" adopted by the Central Bank which allowed to seek its own level on
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      Lock icon Stocks Pull Back On N.Y. Market
      164 7 NEW YORK. Thurs (UPI) Stockg pulled bark late Wednesday, leaving major market indicators in the minus column In light turnover At the close, the 17PI market indicator, measuring all stocks traded, showed a loss of 0.14 r*r cent on 1.578 issue s on the
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      13 7 The tin price for yesterday was $676,121 Per Picul, down W.B7J.
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      Lock icon Industrials Buoyed On London Mart
      171 7 LONDON. Thurs (UPI> Hopes of further small relaxations in Britain's chain of economic restraints buoyed Industrial shares on the stock market Wednesday where gains took the upper hand. The Index moved 3.3 higher at 397.2 near the end of the session. Signs of strength i
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      Lock icon Gold Prices Mixed
      117 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI> Gold prices were mixed in featureless trading Wednesday on markets here and abroad. In London, gold rose 3 cents to $34.99 a troy ounce at the morning fixing and remained at the level for the second fixing. Zurich gold remained unchanged at $35
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      Lock icon Rubber Futures
      56 7 NEW YORK. Thurs (UPI) Rubber future§ closed unchanged and untraded on Wednesday on the Nfw York Commodity Exchange (Close) (Prev) March 22.258 22 25 May 21.508 21.50 July 21-508 2150 Sept 21 508 21.50 Nov. 21.508 21.50 Jan 21.258 2125 March 212*8 2125 Locally. No. 2 RSS was
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      Lock icon TODAY'S SHIPS IN SINGAPORE PORTS
      226 7 THE following Is a berthing list issued by the Port of Singapore Authority for today Friday. March 13: DEPARTURES Godowns Vessels 10 11 Automedom 15 'l6 Montevideo Maru 18 Browind 19 Malaysia 20 West Petaling 20 East Katong 27 2f> Thomaseverett 42 '43 Texaco Bahrain
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      Lock icon Mining Makes Upturn
      277 7 Sydney Stocks, I Closing Prices SYDNEY, Thurs. (UFI) —Mining stocks made a slight recovery on the Sydney Stock Exchange Thursday. The selling pressure, which has affected the market througnout tne wee*, eased slightly but falls still outnumbered the rises by 93 to 60 cents Some nickel stocks
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      Lock icon DOW JONES
      44 7 NEW YORK Thurs <UPI) Dow Jones closing on th* New York Stock Exchange vesterdsy. 30 industrials 778 12 20 transp 176 08 15 utilies 116 62 65 stocks 261 30 40 bonds 69 «5 Commodity futures index 134 36 up 0 58.
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      Lock icon Hong Kong Money
      137 7 HONG KONG fUPI) rency rates (supplied Investment Ltd.): Tuesday's 5 p m rurby Foreign Exchange and (Buvers) (Sellers) 195 106 per 100 Straits dollars 144 145 5 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 7 5 6.76 per Australian dollar 340 360 per 1,000 Burmese kyata 510 530 per 1,000
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
      395 7 ABRIYAL* 8 19am MSA IZS K Lumpur H 4."i m M>A 119 K Lumpur 12.30 pm M*»A 4.M kucblng 2 30pm MM 021 K Lumpnr. Malacca Itlyn MSA 453 k Ktnahaln 340 pm MsA 521 Bangkok. Penan* 5 40pm MSA 637 Tok»o. Taipei. H k<>ni 710 pm >lfA
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
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      Lock icon The Bat Fauna Of Australia
      1350 8  -  By HARRY FRAUCA CANBERRA: Recently, my wife and I discovered a bat cave in the Watalgan Range in central east Queensland. On a stifling hot summer day with low clouds pressing down on the forest-clad range, we made our way across a scrub-choked gully to
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      Lock icon How Can She Politely Shut Her Mother's Critic Up?
      431 8  -  DATELINE By Ele,Walt Dulaney Dear Ele and Walt: MY mum has a good figure. She dyes her hair hut TOO can't tell it and she knows how to wear make-up. She looks like mv older sister instead of a 39-year-old woman.
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      Lock icon Cook, Architect Of Modern Sea Navigation
      964 8  -  Bv PETER STUBBS LONDON: Captain Cook's three voyaqes between 1768 and 1780 were the first with o predominantly scientific aim. The voyage of the Endeovour, though it d<d not accomplish all it might have done through no fault of either Cook or the scientists
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      72 8 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Alden McWiliams OH.OH HERE COMES MORE TROUBLE/ LAY-01t... LAY-DEE' THE MAN SAID VTXJ PUSH A BUTTON TO STAPT' AND I SUPPOSE I MUST UNTIE SOME POPES... v OP SOMETHING m IT'S MUCH LIKE DPIVING A C <r+ PERMIT ME ONE QUESTION, MISS HARDHEAD-DO VOU
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      81 8 QUIZ 1 What are: (a) cryp tojfTaphers: (b) choreographer?? 2. What is a street open only at one end called? 3. Why is a certain type of well called "artesian"? 4. Differentiate between (a) exceedinclv: (h) excessivelv. 5. Distincuish between (a» denote: (b> connote 6 Wha* is an antonym? 7.
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    680 9 A m m w NEW YORK. Thurs Early Easters always pose fashion problems, as so much »f the country Is still too cold for real spring clothes. Rut this year an added problem has lots of women in a tizxy what are they
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    209 9 LOOK FOR... 4 STRIPES, worked to accent the long-torso look, horizontal on a hip-length bodice, vertical in the pleated skirt, in red or navy and white. POLKA DOTS, returning from the Thirties, in soft dresses with Ascot stoles. In oow-tied blouses with linen suits. In tops for panta.
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    517 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: I work very hard to be a topnotch secretary. If I do not finish the day's work by quitting time I stay until it's done. Sometimes I work as long as two hours after the others have gone home.
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    602 9  -  SfU'iiliiiiff lor By SHEILAH GRAHAM VEW YORK. Thurs ■W I wanted to laugh when the interviewer on television asked Britt Ekland whether being the wife ex now. of Peter Sellers had hindered her career. Good heavens, no one except Darryl Zanuck.
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    108 9 NEW YORK. Thurs. A case can be made for the Seventies being the era when the fashion Ideas stated by Yves St. Laurent In the Sixties are going to dominate a good d«l of fashion. St Laurent started the whole modern "sportswear look" In 1962 with
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    50 9 BEVERLY Todd has wen slrned to co-star opposite S:dne v Po:tie r in 'Kane." which Poitiers E H Productions Corporation will film for Columbia Pictures. "Kane" i s the storv of a black man who returns to his small home town in the South after a lon* absence.
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    41 9 MARIAN Mccargo Scott Brady and Richard Anderson have been added to the cast of "Doctors' Wives." Miss McCargo recently appeared in "The Undefeated." Brady co-stars In "Marooned." and Anderson, wll-lcnown television actor, will soon be seen In "Macho Callahan."
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    2863 10 Race 1: CI. 6 Dlv. X—6 Furs.—1.15 p.m. ($5,000) 1 ono«s Glory of Sarawak Raub Fleeta Sprint Finer Pim Fory 1 Ion Ctl* 'V 9 no FT Wee Al|an PoHmore 9 ***** 494*4 ***** ***** 5y *T 9.00 13 Sultan of Tthant Lee PS Bre'ik Harbndge
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    630 10 Danish Open Badminton COPENHAGEN, Thurs. (UPI and Reuter) Ippei Kojima of Japan almost dropped a third set 7-0 lead but steadied to qualify for the final of the Danish Open Badminton Tournament with an 8-15, 17-15# 15-12 victory over Ole Hansen of Denmark last night.
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    283 10 CHRISTCHURCH. N.Z. Thurs. (Reuter) Opening batsman Bruce Murray hit a century to si re New Zealand from collapse on the flrst day of the second unofficial cricket Test against the Australian second team here today. Murray scored 110 of 2uo runs which came from the
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    103 10 CASERTA. Italy. Wed. (Reuter) Franco Zurlo of Italy today retained his European bantamweight boxing title In a challenge fight aga.nst Spanish challenger. Franc sco Martinez when the referee stopped the bout in the fourth round. Zurlo opened a cut under Martinez's left ey e during the
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    64 10 NEW YORK Thurs <UPI> Wednesday's exhibition baseball results; San Diego-San Francisco—cancelled, wet grounds New York Yankees 6 Atlanta 5 Pittsburg 4 Cincinnati 2 Los Angeles 15 Houston 14 Kansas City 6 Montreal 4 New York Mets 6 Philadelphia 3 St. Louis 4 Detroit 3 Washington 12 Minnesota Chicago
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    235 11 LEAGUE B PHANTOMS V are leading in the Cosmopolitan bowling league played at the Jackie's Bowl, Katong every Thursday. They are placed in the top position in the table with 53 points and a total of 40,042 pinfalls. Behind them are the Selangor Pewter with
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    118 11 IPOH. Thurs. The 48th Malaysian Amateur Athletic Union Championships to he held here from Au*. 5 to 8 is estimated to cost SW.OrtO. the Mentri Besar of Perak Dato Sri Ha.il Ahmad bin Said disclosed today. Dato Sri Ahmad who is also the chairman
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    185 11 LOS ANGELES. Thur*. (UPI) Gary Player, the sturdy little South African who thrives on a diet of fruit and nut*. Is expected to defend his tournament of champions title this year and the event may have a record number of entries. That was the
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    308 11 By JIMMY LAD S A YA DATANG (Kang) did an impressive gallop when he sprinted smartly over 3f in 37 1/5 on good going at Bukit Timan yesterday morning. This was the fastest time of the morning. Monaco (Rahman) went better than stablemate
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    149 11 LONDON'. Thurs (Reuter> Ajax Amsterdam emerged as favourites to win the European Fairs Cup when they crushed Karl Zeiss Jena of East Germany 5-1 last night to stride Into the semi-finals. Beaten finalists In last years European Cup. Ajax looked doomed to elimination when
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    218 11 CALCUTTA, Thur». (UPI) Rainj fell intermittently today on the e*e of the start of the Indian Open Golf Tournament, the latest addition to the Asian circuit, but the sky cleared by nightfall. Officials hoped the weather would remain clear when 135 golfers, lnclud.ng 79 foreigners,
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    214 11 MANILA, Thurs. (UPI) President Ferdinand E. Marcos yesterday pledged Government support to the holding here of tne 17-nation 12th Asian Youth Football Championships scheduled from April 15 to May 2. Officials of the Philippine Football Association (PFA). which sponsors the championships for the Tunku
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    112 11 CAMBRIDGE. Mass. Thurs. <Reuter> Australians John Newcombe and Fred Stolle completed a 5-2 victor\ over the four-man United States Davis Cup team In the "World Title" tennis contest here last night. Newcombe. 23 was voted Smith 6-3. 6-3 and Joined with Stolle In a 6-2.
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    58 11 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Results of last night's rugby matches were: Rugby League Blackpool Borough 0 Warrington 50 H K. Rovers 9 Bramley 2 Swlnton 2 Wlgan 10 Whitehaven 7 Huyton 5 Rugby I'nion Club Brigdwater Taunton and Weston Combined 8 Penguins 30 Ebbe Vale 18 Penarth 3 Leicester
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    161 11 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) Lotus, famed British motor company that specialise* In f.ports and racing cars, la showing its new Lotus 7-S4 (Series 4) sports car at the Geneva Motor Show opening on Thursday. The new car has a stressed tubular steel chassis with a bolt-on glass
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    302 11 Singapore Armed Forces, top favourites, dropped one more point yesterday and also lost their opportunity of capturing the Singapore Hockey Association Division One title, when they drew 2-2 against Police in the last league match at Thomson Road, yesterday. A victory yesterday would have given Forces
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    390 12 HONG KONG, Actress Ch«n Txe Tex who sliped into Singapore on Wednesday night received a pleasant shock when she was mobbed by some 100 fans at the Ministry of Social Affairs, yesterday. Miss Chen had gone to pay a courtesy call on the
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    76 12 SAT A free mass X-Ray campaign will be held at the Jurong Communitv Centre 13 3/4 m.s. Jurong Road on March 16 and 17 from 5.00 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. daily. Residents otf the Jurong Constituency are asked to attend the chest X-Rav as this is
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    36 12 A 5 9-year-odd pedestrian. Madam Bu Ah Lak died on the spot when sh e was knocked down by a motorlorrv at the junction of Tan Quee Lan Street and North Bridg# Road, yesterday.
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    521 12 AN industrial workers' union which will test the effectiveness of the recommendations of the recent Seminar on Modernisation of the Labour Movement has been formed. Its formation was announced yesterday at a press conference by Mr. C. V. Devan Nair, adviser to the National Trades
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    172 12 THE Singapore Government will award 25 PreUniversity scholarships to outstanding students who are Singapore citizens or children of Singapore citizens for Pre-Univer-sity studies. These scholarships are valued at $4BO per annum and tenable for one year in the first Instance The awards may be renewed
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    169 12 An executive of a garment firm was yesterday fined $6 000 by the Third District Court for evading income tax amounting to $25,915.40. Ng Kuan Po, the managing director of Ngoh Hock Garment Company pleaded guilty to submitting his income tax returns for 1968 as
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    146 12 The non-Muslim population can help by developing a deeper and more genuine understanding of Malay society and the Islamic Religion, Professor Dr. Syed Hussein Alatas, said yesterday. Professor Syed Hussein Alatas. who is the Head of the Department of Malay Studies. University of Sin- gapore was speakmg
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    40 12 THE Malabar Muslim Jama-ath of Singapore will hold a farewell dinner party in honour of the former President. Dr. Pareed Pillai and his wife at the Jama-ath office in Victoria Street on March 14 at 8 00 p.m
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    72 12 THE Minister for State for Foreign Affairs, Enche Rahim Ishak, left, is welcomed by Mrs. Leif Donde, wife of the Danish Charge d'Affaires in Singapore, on his arrival Wednesday night at their residence to attend a reception to mark the 71st birthday of King Frederik of Denmark. Mr. Donde, centre,
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    235 12 A seven-man Canadian hotel equipment trade mission arrives here on March 18 for a three day stay, with an eye on the tourism boom here of the 70's. The members of the mission are experts in the manufacture and marketing of a complexity
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    41 12 Heats of the Junior Chamber of Singapore's nationwide "leader* of Tomorrow" Oratorical Cortest will be held or March 21 at the Cultural Centre Theatre Th* Anaie will b* he d on April 7 at the Singapore Conference Hall.
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    76 12 The National Library reached a new target of 160,977 members at the end of February this vear This is the continuation of an upward trend in membership arw is oartlv due ta the opening of the new branch librarv at Queenstown which now has a total of
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    32 12 Swaml Nltya Chaltanya, Yati. second In succession, of the Naravana Gurukula Movement will arrive in Singapore on Sunday He will stay here for a f*w days, before proceeding to Australia
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