Eastern Sun, 24 March 1970

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    23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY <fr Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1301 Tuesday, 24 March 1970. MC (P) 1616 Price 15 cent*
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    Lock icon NO ANTI-CHINESE PLOT – RAHMAN
    320 1 NO ANTI-CHINESE PLOT RAHMAN Malaysia-Indonesia Treaty \TALAYSIAN Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, yesterday gave a firm assuranee that the Malaysia-Indonesia (Malindo) Friendship Treaty was not an "anti-Chinese plot". "The treaty was signed to build better relations between the two countries," he told reporters at Singapore Airport before leaving for home
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    Lock icon Hanoi May Not Stop This Time: Souvanna
    361 1 VIENTIANE, Mon. (UPI) —Premier Souvanna Phouma warned today that recent government losses may be "only the first step in the biggest North Vietnamese military offensive" in Laos, Describing the North Vietnamese as "strong and shameless," Souvanna said an extra 13.000 Red troops had
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    Lock icon Chau Case Probe
    40 1 SAIGON Mon (UPI) A special Senate committee. Investigating the conviction of National Assembly Deputy Tran Ngoe Chau for alleged Communist activity, today asked the Supreme Court to reconsider Chau's prison sentence of 10 years at hard labour
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    Lock icon Shots Fired To Disperse Protestors
    116 1 MANILA. Mon <UPI> Riot police fired Into the air todiT and used teargas arainst at lea*t 1 demonstrators in Manila. Some of the demonstrators retreated into back alleys and swarmed into a nearby private university when the shooting started. Otheri stood their ground and taunted
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    Lock icon ASEAN IS A DANGERINDONESIA
    223 1 JAKARTA, Mon. (Reuter) The former Indonesian Ambassador to Malaysia, Lieutenant General Jatikusumo, says Indonesia's participation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations "risks our national security." Antara news agency said the general made the statement during a lecture to students at Jogjakarta. Central Java. He was
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    Lock icon COLD WAR SQUABBLE
    70 1 WEST BERLIN. Mon <Beuter) A 25-year-old West Berliner smashed his car through border barricades into Communist East Berlin today because be was depressed after a squabble with his wife. The car stopped on the Eastern side of Glienick Bridge at the entrance to Potsdam Communist guards led
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    Lock icon Sihanouk Will Establish A 'National Liberation Army'
    255 1 PEKING, Mon. (AFP) Deposed Cambodian Head of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk announced today tha* he will organise a "national liberation army" to free Cambodia. He said he aLso would form a "National Liberation Government." Prince Sihanouk Bald that as Cambodian "head of state"
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    28 1 HONG KONG, Moo (Reuter) Radio Hanoi &aid today North Vietnam would support deposed Print# Norodom Sihanouk and "the in their struggle to overthrow" the new Cambodian government.
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    Lock icon THAI POLICE SHOOT FIVE MEO REBELS
    67 1 BANGKOK. Mon. (Reuterl Thai Border Police have hilled five Communist Meo tnbesmer in a clash near a major police camp about 250 miles north of Bangkok Police sources said the border police had to ask for reinforcements during the battle in Phitsanuloke Province. But.
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    Lock icon Congo Coup Fails
    185 1 BRAZZAVILLE. Mon (AFP) Loyal troop® snuffed out a coup attempt today after a battle for control of the country's radio station. As many as 10 of a group of 30 men who took over the building died in the fighting Lieutenant Kiganxa who allegedly led the coup
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    Lock icon Manila Arrests Chinese Editor
    43 1 MANILA. Mon (UPI) The publisher and the editor of the Chinese Commercial News in Manila were arrested today on charges o* "advocating arme rebellion". The arrests were ordered bv President Ferdinand Marcos on recommendation of Defence Secretary Juan Ennle.
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    Lock icon 10-STOREY HIGH FIRE IN MANILA
    140 3 MANILA, Mon. (UPI) Downtown Man i I a't first big fire of th e 1970 dry season shot flames more than 10 storeys high today. It burned through a commercial section near once-fashionable Escolta itreet. The fire broke out in a idrge building housing the
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    Lock icon Critical Talks On Dock Strike
    177 3 SYDNEY, Mon. (Reuter) —Hopes of settling the three-day old national dock strike rose today when union and employar parties were asked to a conference before an arbitration commissioner here tomorrow morning. The invitation came as the parties considered next moves. This followed cancellation by Labour
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    Lock icon 'Lie-In' For Marcos
    87 3 MANILA. Mon (UPI) Police bodily removed 29 students who staged a "bein" i n front of the Presidential Malacanang Palace today. They prevent traffic from entering and leaving the Philippine version of the White House. A spokesman for the demonstrators said thev represented the Young Christian Socialist
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    Lock icon Japan Hopes To Start Talks With China
    251 3 TOKYO, MOA. (UPI) Prim# Minister Eisaku Sate today announced his Conservative Government still hopes to open ambassadorial talks with Communist China. The Prime Minister's Government maintains diplomatic relations with Nationalist China. He confessed it is difficult to seek settlement of pending problems between
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    Lock icon Lone Voyage Across The Pacific To Japan
    174 3 OAKLAND California, Mon. (UPI) A professional fisherman from JaCan plans to sail hi« ome-made 26-foot sloop from San Francisco Bay to his home in Shima, Japan, as soon as the weather i« right. Miyoshi Takeuchl, 23. hope s to make the 7.000mile trip
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    Lock icon Woman Falls At Queen's Feet
    102 3 TAU*AN*GA. New Zealand lien. <Reuter> The British Royal Family sailed from this North Island port today after a five-hour visit. A weeping woman dashed from the welcoming crowds aad threw herself at the Queen's feet. Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh had just stepped
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    Lock icon SEATO Ships In PI For Exercise
    224 3 MANILA, Mon. (UPI) Naval power of six nations today steamed into Manila Bay and anchored beside th e city rocked by two months of violent protests against Foreign military presence. The ships of six Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation <SEATO) members are however, on a
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    Lock icon Paper: America Will 'Sell' Tanks To Pak.
    226 3 NEW DELHI. Mon. (Ufl) The Indian Government has instructed its embassy in Washington to "raise at the highest level'' India's deep coiacern over a reported plan by the United States to I sell neighbouring Pakistan 100 tanks at a nometal price, the Press
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    Lock icon BOMB KILLS 14 IN PAGODA
    71 3 SAIGON. Mon (ATP) Fourteen people were failed ann 20 were wounded last night when a bomb exploded in a pagoda in Saigon's suburbs, a South Vietnamese army spokesman announced today Most of th* victims of the explosion were women and children. Th* bomb wa* a
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    Lock icon Quake Hits W. India
    203 3 AHMEDABAD, India, Mon. (Reuter) —Tho bodies of 18 people Have so far been discovered in the debris of the Indian western coast town of Broach, shaken by an earthquake early today. Official sources said at least 18 people were killed. 69 Injured and 100 houses damaged.
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    Lock icon Violence In Belfast Again
    338 4 BLACK EASTER SUNDAY? BELFAST, North Ireland, Mon. (UPI) A bomb exploded near a British Army sentry post in Belfast today and youth* threw firebombs at soldiart who intervened to prevent a Roman Catholic Protestant brawl n Londonderry. No serious injuries were reported in either inci> dent
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    Lock icon Two Ship Hammings In Harbour
    194 4 NORFOLK, VIRGINIA Mow. (UPl)—Five ships were involved in two separate collisions in fogshrouded Hampton Road's harbour yesterday. Tour men were injured when a cable snapped as they were helping dock the American merchant ship 'Western Clipper' at the Norfolk naval station. The 'Western Clipper* then
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    Lock icon MT. ETNA'S LAVA FLOW
    128 4 r CATANIA, Sicily. Mon (UPI) A new mouth in the Mt. Etna Volcano opened Saturday night and spewed lava a thousand yards down the aide of the mountain, voleanoloiist g innounced yesterday. Prof. Silvestri Cucuzra a! the Catania University Institute of Volcanology said the mouth was
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    Lock icon BOMB HOAX
    72 4 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) A South African airwaya Boeing 707 Jet with 110 passengers aboard returned to London's Heathrow Airport last night from over the French coast after an anonymous bomb threat. The aircraft returned to the altport 75 minutes after take-off. The 13 crew dlaembarked with passengers and
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    Lock icon RC Bishops Defy Ian Smith's Act
    163 4 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Mon (UPI) -—Rhodesia's Catholic bishops yeaterday defied Jh# regime of Premier len Smith end Ml d they not accept the apartheid policy outlined n th# Government's New Lend Tenure Act. The bishops' lUM follows several months of protest by religious leaders
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    Lock icon The 'MBE' A Big Laugh To Beatles
    275 4 PARIS, Mon. (Riutcr) Beatles smoked a joint a marijuana eigarttt® tn toiUta of Buckingham Palaco befor Queen Elisabeth honoured them with the British Empire medal, according to an interview with Beatle John Lennon published here yesterday. t ews magazine. L Express quoted him
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    Lock icon SDS Members Behind Post Strike
    274 4 NEW YORK. Mo n. (Routor) —Troops were foday standing by to begin moving mountains of maii hald up by America's first postal strike after veiled throats by President Nixon that he would sand in th« Army and the National Guard. However. Jsmes Rsdemacher. President of
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    62 4 BONN. Mon (Reuter) We *t German State Secretary Eaon Bahr has returned here from Moscow after a first round of exploratory tslki on a poaslbl# nonsggresaion treaty with the Soviet union. Bahr told reporters in Moscow, after a three-hour session with Gromyko, that he would return to the
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    Lock icon A NEW YORK POLICEMAN takes notes outside a Bronx stockbroker's office. The letter had been damaged by a bomb explosion on Sunday. The blast also shattered windows of nearby buildings. There were, however, no injuries in the blast. Police investigators later found an unexploded fire-bomb on the window ledge of a bank in the same neighbourhood.—
    58 4 A NEW YORK POLICEMAN takes notes outside a Bronx stockbroker's office. The letter had been damaged by a bomb explosion on Sunday. The blast also shattered windows of nearby buildings. There were, however, no injuries in the blast. Police investigators later found an unexploded fire-bomb on the window ledge of
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    Lock icon Discotheque Is Latest Bombing Target
    210 4 NEW YORK, Mo n. (Reuter)- A bomb exploded in a New York discotheque late last night, injuring at least eight People, one seriously, po'ice said. About 150 people, most of them students, were in the psychedicellydecorated night-club at the time. Damage to the building was
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    Lock icon FLOATING SEX CLUB UNDERWAY
    140 4 COPENHAGEN, Mon. (UP!) Denmark get* her first floating sex club, when a chartered ship with accommodation for 150 members start* service between Copenhagen and a Swedish port on May 1, the organiser* disclosed yesterday. Joren Hallund. a cophenhagen pornography wholesale dealer and the chief organiser added.
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    Lock icon Voting On Move For US-Soviet Freeze On N-Arms Deployment
    312 4 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) A sweeping resolution giving edvance Senate support for an immediate U.S.-Soviet freexe on Miclear arms deployment will be rushed to the senate floor within the next three weeks. Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield an- nounced today. Mansfield said
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    Lock icon Sealing Fate Of Gulf Seals
    139 4 CAP-AUX-MEULES, Quebec. Mon. (Reuter) Hunters have clubbed to death iomi 25/000 Milt in the Hmt two diyi of the annual hunt in the Gulf of St. Lewrence, According to Fisheries Department ettimatet. The hunters, working on foot on ice Hoot, here a quote of 50.000
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    Lock icon A CAN OF DISASTER
    97 4 GLASGOW. Scotland. Mon. <Reuten Tour nurses in a Jewish old people'a home here were sacked after an empty can of pork luncheon meat was found In the kitchen dust- I binAll cockery and cutlery j in the home haa been dea- U troyed since the can
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    Lock icon Israel Hopes To Change Nixon's Mind
    144 4 JERUSALEM/ Mon. (UPI) The Israeli Cabinet, anticipating rejection of Itrael't current requett for more American jet fighter-bombers, yesterday ditcutted moves to persuade Fretident Nixon to change bit mind toon. The Cabinet transformed 1 taeif Into a ministerial security committee for discussion of the sensitive
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    Lock icon ROME GOVT.
    32 4 ROME. Mon. fßeuter) Italy's caretaker Premier. Mariano Rumor, is likely to tell President Giuseppe Saragat today that he can form a new government thus ending the country'* 44-dty political crisis.
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    Lock icon USSR Sam-3 Upsets Mid-East Power Balance
    397 4 A BIG BLOW TO ISRAELIS: TEL AVIV, Men. (UPI) Deployment of Soviet SAM-Thre* anti-aircraft missiles in Egypt may force Israel to curb drastically its bombing raids along and beyond the Sues Canal, foreign military sources commented yesterday. Not only will Israeli pilots face more
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    Lock icon Boy Falls From Plane
    126 4 BEAVER, Utah Mon. <UPI) A two-year-old boy playing In the back of a small airplane with two other children fell 2.000 feet to his death when the baggage compartment door opened. The body of Jeffery Myers, son of Mr. and Mrs Snerman Myers of this southern
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      102 4 SAVE TIME! ITS CONVENIENT! ENTER NOW FOR THE m "STANDING ENTRY" SYSTEM TOTO "Standing entry" system is for participants to submit a permanent set of 5 numbers for 5 or 10 consecutive draws. Remember to circle 3 numbers which is FREE. 5 DRAWS 1 TABLE 250 5 DRAWS 2 TABLES
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      Lock icon P.A.S. Spring Exhibition
      226 5  -  by WSF TH* Photographic Amoeiation of Singapore held their 1970 Spnng Competition last week for member* of the Association. More, than two hundred entries Including monochrome prints and colour slides were we:ved for Judging. The winners were. Monochrome prints. First Mr. Er Puay Kee. for hi* print
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      Lock icon "Trees" Contest A Big Success
      381 5 CONTEST B "TREES" was j tremendous success. Mor e than a hundred photographers submitted not less than 150 entn#s. However, there wer® still some pictures with incorrect them e representation and these were disqualified, Entries received bearing previous contest ciury torms were elso disqualified. A..e
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      384 5 FOTORAMA '7O CONTEST 'C' Sponsored by Moutri« (Pte.) Ltd. Agent for MINOLTA CAMERAS. OFFICIAL ENTRY FOR A Potorama Cos test ~JV EASTERN SUN 23-B Cantonment Road. Singapore 3 Is cotnr.yinß wits the rulea of this content X submit herewith my entry and ahall abide by the
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      139 5 trTtnoH-a SUP m ft'-. M JT K i. -t> V\F !^vvw »rr •v. Too Load t Tod see! Ton shoot! It's all fan making lively home movies with Minolta Antopah -BS6 One, two, three! Movie-making is as simple as that with a Minolta Autopak -8 S6. Everything is automatic. The
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    Lock icon LEE'S WARNING
    884 6 rpHE discussion about the future of democracy in Singapore by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew could not have been better timed. The only defect that could be found in the speech he made at the dinner of the Singapore Advocates and Solicitors Society, is its brevity. Southeast Asia
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    Lock icon Lunar Landing: MR. SWALEH BEGS TO DIFFER
    856 6  -  By FRED MPANGA, Gemini News Service LONDON: In the interests of truth and at the peril of incurring the displeasure of President Nixon, it is hereby recorded that Haji Swaleh, a Moslem of Bombo, in Uganda, thumbs his nose at the American moonmen.
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    Lock icon Palace Of Darius The Great Unearthed
    508 6  -  By ALI MEHRAWARI TEHERAN, Reuter A magnificent palace built 2,200 years ago by Darius the Great has been unearthed by Iranian and French archaeologists at Susa, winter capital of the Achaemenian Empire. A French team led by Professor Jean Perrot, together with Iranian archaeologists.
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    Lock icon The Gateways Of Pakistan
    1422 6  -  By J. H. Rizvi In the glow of thi rising sun, life begins to throb with activity in all the three fullfledged ports of Pakistan at Karachi, Chittagong and Chalna. In endless chain ships, big and small, call at and leave these ports, keeping all their
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    Lock icon IATA's Secret Plan To Keep Out Hijackers
    657 6  -  By Vergil Berger GENEVA. (Reuter) Behind closed doors. the International Air Transport Association (lATA) which group* 103 of the world's airlines, is busy working out ways of thwarting potential hijackers and saboteurs. But it is keeping details secret. During the past two years,
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      Lock icon Govt. Warning Depresses Day's Performance
      396 7 AS with last week, trading in the stock market yesterday continued easier in generally quiet conditions, depressed after the government warned again that it may have to intervene in the Stock Exchange. In what appears to be one of the strongest censure of the Stock
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      1046 7 T>USINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange ot Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS Aem» $2 35 (1) $2 34 (1> $2 33 (1); A'can $1.74 11» $1.73
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      Lock icon Off For UK Training
      103 7 MR. Henry Tlo Kheh Beng of Bata Shoe (8) Pte. Ltd.. will be sent to the British Bata Shoe Company Limited In East Tilbury early next month to participate In a flve-month intensive training course. The course, which is prepared with Booz Allen Consultants. will deal
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      Lock icon EXCHANGE RATES
      104 7 SELLING T.T, or OD. readv; Deutsche Marks $€4.2825; Holland Guilders $B5 1525; Swiss Francs ?71-7P75; Belgian Francs $6.2325; French Francs $55.7225 Italian Lire $0.4915; Danish Kroner $41.1800; Norwegian Kroner $43.2325; Swedish Kroner $59.4225 and Japanese Yen $0.8675. The following rates are quoted to the equivalent of one unit
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      Lock icon STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSING PRICES
      675 7 BID and offer prices officially listed yesterday at the dose of business in tthe trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia an* 1 Singapore were: ■TOU8TR1A1S A em* Ben Co. Borneo Bbd- i Bouttead Co. Camel Plywood Central Sugar* xd CCM Cold Storage Holds. Cycle
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 61 3/4 Cts.
      286 7 April first grade rubber buyer closed at 5 p.m.. In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 61-3 '4 cents per lb., down one quarter of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was inactive. The market was In the doldrums for the
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      Lock icon Another New Flight
      88 7 SWISSAIR will Introduce another flight to the Far East from April, the airline« area manager for Singapore-Malaysla-Indone-sla. Mr Grant Campbell, announced. He also announced tUat the airline would operate Douglas DC-8 Jets t 0 Singapore to replace the Convair 990. The new flight will bring the airline's
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      Lock icon New Appointments In NCR
      614 7 MR DAVID WOO. NCR's Electronic Engineer, has been appointed acting technical manager of TOe National Cash Register Co. (Singapore) Sdn. Berhad. Mr. Woo. a graduate of the Singapore Polytechnic, Joined the company in October 1963. He received his preliminary training In electronic data processing equipment in
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      Lock icon Off To West Germany
      57 7 MR. E A- HUDDE. factory representative of DaimlerBenz AG stationed in Singapore left recently by Lufthansa on a hollday-cum-business trip to West Germany. While In Germany. Mr. Hudd*» will hold discussions with his parent company. Mr. Hudde attached to Cycle Carriage, the local agents for Daimler-Benz
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      Lock icon TODAY'S SHIPS IN S'PORE PORTS
      237 7 The Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthing arrangements for today. March 24. DEPARTURES < God owns) (Vessels) 6/7 Golden Summber B'9 Autolycus 13/14 Tsuruharu Maru 18 Fernvlew 19 Iman 20 West Sandy 20 East Cherry Laju 29/30 Tsedek 31/32 Telemachus 33/34 Benvenue
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      Lock icon Bad Day For Mining
      326 7 Closing Prices SYDNEY, Mon. (UPI) Trading started badly for the second week in succession when mining shares fell heavily on Sydney Stock Exchange Monday. Last week shares fell heavily but made a slight recovery later in the week but Monday mining shares fell again. At the
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      14 7 The tin price for yesterday was 5681.25 per picul. down 50.12 J.
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      133 7 BO.VG KONG. Man (in>—Moodar 5 p.m cairoac? rates (supplied by Forties Exehanre and ImMtaeni Ltd (Burcrsi (Sellers) per 100 Stra.lt* dollar* 195 196 3 46 5 147.5 per 1,000 Taiwan dollar* flc76 6.77 per Australian dollar 540 370 per 1.000 Burmese kyata 483 505 per 1.000 Indian
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      359 7 ARRIVALS 815 am. MSA 123 K Lumpur 9-45 a-m. MM 119 K Lumpur 12.30 p.m. MSA 451 Kuchlng 2.30 p-m- M>A 021 Lumpur. Malaora. 825 p.m. MSA 453 Rota Klnabala. 3.40 pm MSA 521 Bangkok. Penang. 7.10 pm MSA 027 Lumpur. Malaora 710 pm. MSA 639 lokjo, TalCel.
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      Lock icon World's First Iron Steamship Towed Back To Britain
      1053 8  -  By John O'Callaghan LONDON: On a sandbank in Sparrow Cove in the Falkland Islands has sat for many years Brunei's pioneering iron ship, the Great Britain. Her exile is ending; the £150,000 needed to tow her home was offered by Mr. Jack
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      Lock icon Returned To His Trade With A Dog
      1031 8  -  By COLIN MANN DARWIN, Australia Paddy is a big Golden Labrador guide dog. In working hours you will find him stretched out under a bench somewhere in the Australian Commonwealth Department of Works plant and machinery repair depot in Darwin, Northern Territory. A
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      Lock icon Big Brother Ought To Flake Out
      379 8  -  DATELINE Br Ele,Walt Dulaney DEAR WALT: There a boy in my school who was my "Big Brother" when I first enter high school. It was supposed to last only one week but he's stretching it into the second year now. By that I mean
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      93 8 DATELINE: DANGER! AS THE TROPICAL STORM MOVES CLOSER, OAKINy AND ADA FIND THEMSELVES IN A CRITICAL, SITUATION/ THE WIZARD OF ID 'A m m i K I by John Saunders and AUen McWiliams THERE'S A LOT O* JUNK IN HERE INCLUDING LIFE JACKETS SO THE SEARCH ISN'T A TOTAL WASTE
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      163 8 1 What do we call the the treaty of friendship between Great Britain and France 5 2 Distinguish between: (a) ascetic, (b) aesthetic 3 To whom is the following saying attributed Eureka 1 4 Give th e author and title the work: (a) The paths of glory lead but to
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    Lock icon Nina Ricci Collections
    87 9 PARIS, Mon. A variety of the latest fashions was shown to an appreciative audience at a recent fashion show held here recently. The outfits were from Nina Ricci spring collections Top picture shows an evening dress in Ottoman white, printed with red dots; short sleeves and pockets;
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    Lock icon Weekend Girl Problem: Dad Handles It Cooly
    583 9  -  A nn Landers T\EAR ANN: My hus- band and I were amused by the letter from the mother whose college ton announced he wai bringinq a girl home for the weekend. The boy said it would be vary honest end mature of hit
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    Lock icon Oscar Going To Wayne, Bujoid, Nicholson And 'Midnight Cowboy'
    702 9  -  V'"''""/ Wi/w//... "ft SHEILAH GRAHAM VIW YORK, Man. At this tim® of tho yaar, I find it fascinating to speculate about who will walk off with tho Oscars. Tti« data this year, April 7, is naar enouoh for you to ramambar
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    Lock icon Stewart Edges Out Unlucky Brabham
    755 10 BRANDS HATCH, England, Mon. (UPI) Jackie Stewart, the reigning world champion, won a dramatic last minute victory from luckless Jack Brabham yesterday to give the British March its first victory in the Formula One Race of Champions. Brabham twice shattered the lap record tor this
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    Lock icon Rod Laver Defeats Rosewall
    356 10 SYDNEY. Mon (Reuter) Dual Grand Slam winner Rod Laver beat fellow Australian Ken Rosewall 3-6. 6-2. 3-6. 6-2. 6-3. in the final of the men's singles In the Dunlop International Lawn Tennis Tournament yesterday. American Billy Jean Ring won the women's title with a 6-2. 4-6,
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    Lock icon Chile Wins Cup Tennis
    78 10 BUENOS AIRES. Mon. (UPI> Chile eliminated Argentina from the Davis Cuo elimination round yesterday 3—2. in the competition'* final matches Chile will fa*> Brazil for the South American Zone championships In the singles final match. Chilean star Patricio Cornejo won over Argentina's Julian Garzabai 6 —3
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    Lock icon January Birdies Six Holes To Win
    224 10 JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Mon. (Reuter)—Don January sank six birdie putts to come from three strokes off the pace today to tie Dale Douglass at 279 and force a playoff tomorrow in the greater Jacksonville Open Golf Tournament. The winner of the 18hole play-off will pocket
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    Lock icon S. Africa's Exclusion From Davis Cup Seen
    283 10 LONDON, Mon. (UPI) South Africa's precarious position in the Davis Cup, virtually the Republic's last foothold in world sports, is likely to end today in ex- clusion from the global tennis competition. South Africa's participation in the tournament will be decided at a
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    Lock icon Pele Near-Unanimous Choice In 'Dream Team'
    417 10 LONDON, Mon. (UPI) Brasilia* all-time great Pele was an almost unanimous choice in a poll conducted among 80 soccer writers from 35 countries invited to select their "Dream Team." The brilliant inside-forward, who snapped back to world form with two goals for Brazil in
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    111 10 DUISBURG. Ger m a ny. Mon (UPI) Dieter Mueller of West Germany last night won the European three-cushion (Cadre 4/71) billiard championship. In his final match, the 28-year-old Mueller, the defending titlist. gained a 300-128 points victory over Belgian world champion Ludo Dielis in five innings. Mueller was
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    100 10 COCOA. Fla. Mon »UPI> Centrefielder Jlui Wynn. the last holdout of the Houston Astros, signed his 1970 contract yesterday after a 20-mlnute conference with General Manager H B "Spec'* Richardson. Wynn. who had been holding out for U.S. $62 500. said he and Richardson reached
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    42 10 ADDIS ABABA. Mon (UPI) —Israel beat Ethiopia s—l5 —1 yesterday in a World CUT> warm-up soccer match here Israel led 3—o at halftime. Ethiopia, who were comDietelv outclassed from beginning to end. netted in the final minute through centre-forward Tesfaye.
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    82 10 MANILA. Mon. (Reuter) About 100 amateur boxers from 14 countries will arrive here on April 1 for the fourth Asian Boxing Championship starting on April 4. It was announced today. The Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines <ABAP' said champion nation South Korea would bring the largest team
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    Lock icon Lawry Explains Poor Showing
    267 10 JOHANNESBURG. Mon. (Riuter) Australian cricket Captain Bill Lawry told a press conference here tonight that poor performances by himself and paceman Graham McKenzie were partly to blame for the touring teams dismal showing in South Africa. "I personally think McKenzne and myself had rather poor tours
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    Lock icon Mays Aids Giants Beat Japan Team
    232 10 SHIMONOSEKI, Japan, Mon. (UPI) Will?* May*, later to be injured in the third innings and forced to leave Hie game, doubled horn® two runs in the first innings to get the San Francisco Giants on the way to a 6-3 victory over the Lotte
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    Lock icon W. Indians Told: Don't Play Boks
    383 10 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) —West Indian cricketers were warned by a new and militant anti-apatheid group today they would be blacklisted if they play against the visiting South African team this summer. And British cricketers were told their sefety could not be assured in the
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    37 10 VICHY. Prance. Mon. (Reuter) Mike Tagg of Britain today won the 7-5-mile international cross country event here ahead of Gaston of Belgium and Bntain'e Trevor W right. En dand •'.so easily took the team prize.
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    194 10 NEW YORK. Mori. fUPIV Exhibition baseball standings:— AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pet. Washington 0 4 .692 New York 10 5 .667 Oakland 8 7 .533 Baltimore 5 5 .500 Cleveland 8 8 .500 Chicago 7 7 .500 Boston 6 8 .429 Seattle 6 8 429 California 5
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    189 10 SAN FRANCISCO. Mon. (UPI) Nearly 6.000 members of this city's Irish colony were treated 1© a thrilling display of Gaelic football yesterday as the world champion county Kerry Side swamped a San Francisco all-star squad five goals and 23 points to four goals and four points.
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      Lock icon Youth Footers' Debut Today
      251 11 THI Singapore Youth soccer team, now undergoing centralised training, will play their first friendly match today, in preparation for the Asian Youth soeeer championship) to be held in Manila next month. The boys will play against the West Australian under--18 side at the Jaian Besar Stadium.
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      168 11 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter> Twenty-four acceptors were announced yesterday for next week's Irish Sweeps Lincoln handicap first ie* of the Spring Double The race to be run over one mile at Doncaster on Wednesday if worth a total of £9.870. with the winning owner receiving £6.428. The acceptors,
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      116 11 JOHANNESBURG. Mon. (Reuteri Bill Lawry. captain of the Australian cricket team, headed th* batting averages on the tour of South Africa, which ended yesterday. Johnny Oleeson, the unorthodox spinner, was th« top bowler. Lawry had an average of 84 30, scoring 545 runs In 15 innings
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      92 11 PEBBLE BEACH. Calif. Mon. iTJPI) Stanford University defeated the Peninsula Ramblers of San Jose 30-0 yesterdav to win the 12*h Annual Monterey National Rugbv Tournament. a two-da* contest featuring 24 teams from across tne country. Third place went to the bay area Touring Side Bats, made up mainly
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      Lock icon Sunpix shows Keep Going (Pretty) after the race being led in at the winner's gate by Mrs. Barbara Sung.
      86 11 IN one of the most exciting finishes ever seen at Bukit Timah for a long time, Keep Going pipped stablemate Man Of Courage at the post to win by a nose
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      251 11 MUNICH, Germany, Mon. (UPI) Delegations from tight cities «ager to stage the 1976 Olympie winter and summer games made their presentations to international sporti officials meeting here thi» week. end. Although the 1§72 Munich games are still two years ■way. more than 130 dele. gates
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      143 11 BROOKVILI.E. Ne*. York. Mon (UPl)—Cliff R; c hey dropped the first point and then ran off a string of '0 straights yesterday to defeat Clark Graebner of New York 31-17 and take the L'SSI.SOO first pri?e i n the round Robin Vass Lon? Island Indoor tennig tournament.
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      32 11 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Results of yesterday's rugby league matches were: Batley 7 Huyton 3 Hunslet 23 lB Hull 9 Warrington 15 Kelthlev 23 Doneaster 5 Wakefield Trinity 30 LaecU 23
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      1019 11 IPOH Following ere th e weights for this weekend's racing here: SATURDAY CI. 4 l>tr I—5J Pur Lord Shah 9 00 Disney Land a. 13 Linos Vista 0 12 Radiant Moon 8 12 Enchanted Island 812 Forever Yours 8 11 Hao-Kunlang 8 11 Lusteriod 8 11 Bunga
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      Lock icon Wilt's Bid For Comeback
      142 11 INGLES WOOD. California Mon. (UPI) W;!t Chamberlain scored 21 points and played 42 minutes In the third game of his comeback vesterdav n:ght as h§ and the Los Angeles beneh led the Lake r to 121-118 vtctory over the Seattle Sonlcs in the last game of
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      24 11 STOCKHOLM Mon.(UPI) —Czechoslovakia beat Pnlann 10 —2 in their world i<*e hockev chamPionshi»< eame yesterday Period scores were s—o.5 —0. 2—2 3—n.
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      Lock icon New Coach Helps Brazil To Win
      242 11 SAQ PAULO, Men. (UPI) —Pele, accused by Hit previous national team coach of being not fit for match play, scored two goals yesterday in hit first start under the new coach to lead Braail to a 5-0 exhibition soccer victory over Chile's national team.
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