Eastern Sun, 4 May 1970

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    22 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 Mo. 1334 Monday. 4 May 1970. -jV MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon Supply Dumps Uncovered: 1,100 REDS DIE IN CAMBODIAN WAR
    408 1 Sun. (UPI, AFP) Allied forces fighting in Cambodia tonight claimed 1,094 Vietcong and North Vietnamese have been killed in the two operations. U.S. forces today launched a massive helicopter assault and cut a key Vietcong supply route in Cambodia for the
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    Lock icon The Kissing Had To Stop
    44 1 WELLINGTON. Sun (Reuter) A student kissing contest has been banned from a Cuba Street shopping rpntre berause the shopkeepers say the v are afraid of what it misht lead to. A graduation week pianosmashing competition has also been banned.
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    Lock icon 24-Hour Curfew
    29 1 KUCHING. Sarawak. Sun. (R#»uter) Police today imposed a round- the-clock curfew on parts of the Sibu and Binatang districts, in Sarawak's Third Division, effective from noon today.
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    Lock icon U.K. Consul Kidnapped In Uganda
    129 1 KAMPALA. Sun. (Reuter) A British consular official. in Uganda. Brian Lea. has been kidnapped a High Commission spokesman said today. The spokesman said the British High Commissioner. F Slater. received an anonymous telephone call at his house iast night telling him that Lea was kidnapped
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    Lock icon Four Refusals For Malik's Peace Bid
    162 1 JAKARTA, Sun. (Reuter) Four Asian nations have told Foreign Minister Adam Malik they will not attend His Asian and Pacific conference on Cambodia. And doctors today told Malik to rest or risk a breakdown. Foreign Ministry fpokesman said the Minister will not receive visitors
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    Lock icon U.S. THREATENS TO BOMB NORTH
    341 1 WASHINGTON. Sun. (fleuter) The United States has threatened to resume bombing North Vietnam if Hanoi strikes at American operations in Cambodia by starting a major action across the Demilitarised Zone into South Vietnam. The threat came in a tough statement by Defence Secretary Melvin Laird.
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    Lock icon ECAFE Team To Study Site Here
    219 1 A MISSION from the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East will visit Singapore soon to discuss the setting up of permanent headquarters of the Asian Institute for Economic Deve- lopment and Planning. Singapore offered to provide land and buildings and
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  • Article
    Lock icon Mao's Satellite Still Singing
    45 1 BONN. Sun. (Reuter) China's earth satellite launched on April 25. is still sending strong signals to earth, the Bochum Space Tracking Station reported today. The station's director said the satellite had been stabilised and was no ''•nger tumbling through soace uncontrolled.
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    Lock icon Sihanouk's Son Goes To China
    76 1 HONG KONG. Sun (Rruter)—Prince Sihanouk's eldest son. Prince Norodom fevalfltk. his left for Chin» uilh his wife and four-year-old son. The prince crossed into Chim :»t ♦h*" Lowu hordor bridge. Yuvaneath arrived In Hone Kong on M.irrh 16 two day* before his father was overfiro"
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    Lock icon LON NOL TO SPEAK SOON
    91 1 PHNOM PENH. Sun. (AFPI The Cambodian Government will soon announce its official tiew on the American and South Vietnamese intenention in Cambodia political observers said tonight Cambodian Premier General lon Nol w11 1 consult Public Safetv Committee and National Assembly members and various military chiefs
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    Lock icon Jet Runs Out Of Fuel: 25 People Killed
    292 1 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Sun. (Reuter) A DC-9 airliner which ran out of fuel crashed into the Caribbean Sea killing at least 25 people. Another 38 people were plucked from shark-infested waters 18 miles off the Virgin Islands Six bodies were recovered
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    Lock icon Climbers Die In Avalanche
    29 1 TOKYO. Sun. (Feuter) Three Japanese mountaineers were killed and seven others seriously injured today in an avalanche on Mt. Tanigawa, 90 miles north of Tokvo
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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  • Article
    Lock icon Deported Chinese Face Trial In Taiwan
    200 3 TAIPEI, Sun. UPI > Thirty-three Chinese deported from the Philippines arrived her e today. They were promptly put under detention to await and possible trial here. The group, including two women. wer e the first of 109 Chinese ordered deported by the Philippine Government
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    Lock icon SINGAPOREAN CHARGED IN INDON COURT
    110 3 JAKARTA. Sun. (AFP) The prosecution in a Jakirta court yesterday asked for one year's jail sentence on a Singapore business man. He was accused yesterday of importing banned records of Chinese songs and books in Chinese into Indonesia. He is Chong Hin Gwan. Originally, he
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    Lock icon VIETCONGS LANGUAGE OF DEATH
    556 3  -  By BARNEY SEIBERT SAIGON, Sun. (UP I) "Send him to dive for shrimp," the handwritten order said in neat script, inscribed in two colours of ink. It was a Vietcong assassination warrant. Like Mafia's underworld assassination squads, the political assassins of the Vietcong and North v
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    Lock icon U.S. SOLDIERS take time off to make welcome use of a block of ice just delivered by helicopter. They were searching for enemy installations inside Cambodia. – (UPI radiophoto)
    29 3 U.S. SOLDIERS take time off to make welcome use of a block of ice just delivered by helicopter. They wer e searching for enemy installations inside Cambodia. (UPI radiophoto)
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    Lock icon Warning On British 'Paki-Bashing'
    113 3 KARACHI. Sun. ißeuter) A small group of Pakistanis has warned that "Paki-bashing" beating up of Pakistanis in Britain may lead to British bashing" here. About a dozen Khaksars, members of an organistation devoted to the enforcement of Islamic law. staged a demonstration outside the British Deputy
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    Lock icon AUSSIE CRIME CRACKDOWN
    82 3 MELBOURNE. Sun. (Reuter) Police here arrested 406 people and charged another 1,011 with offences ranging frorp traffic violations to shop-breaking in a nine -hour crackdown on crime. It ended early yesterday. Assistant Police Commissioner Ron Braybrook announced the 1.000 police who took part checked 1,333 motor vehicles.
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    Lock icon For Firing On Unarmed U.S. Reconnaissance Planes: Hanoi Anti-Aircraft Sites Are Bombed
    455 3 TyASHINGTON, Sun. (Reuter) U.S. fighter-bombers have been sent into North Vietnam recently to attack its missile and anti-aircraft sites, a Defence Department official announced last night. The bases there had fired on unarmed American reconnaissance planes, the spokesman
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    Lock icon Youth Gives Up Vigil On Expo Tower
    326 3 OSAKA, Japan, Sun. (DPI) The "hijacker" of Expo 70's theme statue has a record of 2 previous arrests in connection with left-wing protests. Police identified him as Hideo Sato. 25 He voluntarily abandoned his lone vigil this morning after a police captain subjected
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    Lock icon Indian Reds Kill Landlord
    110 3 CALCUTTA Sun. (Reuter) Seven people were killed and nine injured In a clash between a landowner and communists at Chakmakram Mouja in the midNapore District of West Bengal on Saturday. An official report here yesterday said supporters of the pro-Moscow Communist Party In India, armed with
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    Lock icon Support For Arrested Writer
    130 3 JAKARTA, Sun. (AFP) Seven West Sumatran intellectuals have offered to share any jail sentence imposed on an author beinq tried for alleged blasphemy, Antara News Agency reported today. They called on other Intellectuals to Join them West Sumatran author. H. B. Jassin, is on trial for
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    Lock icon Bogus Bill Case
    83 3 TAIPEI. Sun. (UPI) A Japanese salesman Is facing an indictment for passing a counterfeit American bank-note In Taipei. Youshikane Nakamura. 37. will be arraigned before a Taipei district prosecutor In a day or two. The spokesman said Nakamura was arrested on Monday but later released on bond
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    Lock icon Long Road Ahead For India
    248 3 NEW DELHI, Sun. (UPI) India, the world's second most populous country, has hundreds of years to go before it can catch up with the major industrial powers. Despite rapid Industrialisation. estimates put India 218 years behind America 176 years behind Britain. 142 years behind Italy
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    Lock icon No Trade With China For 4 Japanese Firms
    128 3 TOKYO. Sun. (Reuter) —China yesterday barred four leading Japanese firms from trading with her, disclosed a report from the Canton Trade Fair. According to the report, made to the Japanese Association for the Promotion of International Trade, the four firms were Mitsubishi
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    Lock icon Australian Royal Tour Ends
    122 3 SYDNEY, Sun. (Reuter) The royal tour of Australia ended today. A BO AC VC-10 Jet airliner carried Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Princess Anne from here to London. The last sight of Australia for the royal visitors was the beach at Kurnell where Captain James Cook
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    Lock icon Expo Guard Stages A Holdup
    175 3 OSAKA, Japan, Sun. (UPI) A guard employed at Expo '7O was accused of trying to hijack a car containing money collected from Expo telephone booths. Expo officials said the attempted holdup occurred 630 a.m. near the Indonesian pavilion. Thpy related the guard stopped a car
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    Lock icon Teargas Foils Student Protest
    124 3 SAIGON, Sun. (Reuter) Police last night used teargas and a nauseous liquid to disperse protesting students here. Thev were demonstrating against the treatment of Vietnamese in Cambodia. The students were about 300 in number. The v had marched from the National Assembly building where they had
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    Lock icon Greek Colonels Celebrate Coup
    684 4 WEEK-LONG FESTIVITIES \THENS, Sun. (Reuter) Greece's military rulers began a week of celebrations today to mark the third anniversary of the army takeover of oower. The Colonels, who staged their bloodless coup ot dawn on April 21, 1967, are still firmly in power, with the bulk
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    Lock icon Democracy Not In Danger—Papadopoulos
    216 4 Democracy Not In Danger— Papadopoulos A f HENS, ban. (Reuter) Premier George Papadopoulos opened the third anniversary celebrations of his army-backed revolution by telling Greeks that democracy is not in danger. In a nation-wide radio and television address the Prime Minister also said his regime would not yield to foreign
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    Lock icon Heart Man's Condition Is Serious
    155 4 CAPE TOWN, Sun. (AFP) The condition of pieter Smith, South Africa s longest surviving heart recipient now in the Groote Schuur Hospital, is understood to be serious, the "Sunday Times'' reported today. The newspaper said Smith is losing weight rapidly, and is either "unable or
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    Lock icon POLISH OFF
    40 4 BANGKOK, Sun. (Reuter)— Four men were killed here on Friday by the polish thev were using on the floor of a Chinese restaurant. Police said the chemical polish exploded when it came in contact with a short circuit.
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    Lock icon Finding A Way Out Of The Prison Of Fear
    508 4  -  Ann Landers TIEAR ANN: Since you a re read and quoted by millions of people will you please say something to the thousands of ignorant fools who are wrecking their As an otologist's nurse I can vouch for that old saying,
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    Lock icon Military Police Jeep Attacked
    45 4 BELFAST. Sun. (Reuter) About 150 youths broke the uneasy peace of Belfast last night when thev attacked a Military Police landrover with pieces of paving stone. The windscreen was smashed, but the vehicle did not stop and the driver was uninjured.
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    Lock icon ATTENDANCE RECORD AT EXPO '70
    87 4 TOKYO Sun. <AFP» Favoured by a sunny Sunday a npw record in turnout at the Osaka World Exposition in Osaka was registered today, when 492.000 people passed through the gates by sundown About 400.00fl people, mostly families and groups of youne men and women, rushed
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    Lock icon Red Cross Has Money Worries
    55 4 BANGKOK. Sun (Reu- The Laotian Fed Cross Society is running out of money to care for the 700.000 refugees who have fled from Communistoccupied parts of the country, according to its president Dr. Souvannavong Oudom. He said the problem had been aggravated by the recent
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    Lock icon Jordanian Troops Ambush Arab Commando Raiders
    193 4 BEIRUT, Sun. (Reuter) Threats of a fresh commando-government confrontation hung over Jordan today after guerrilla reports of a 10-nour battle with Jordanian troops. The Palestine Armed Struggle Command said Palestinian commandos and eight civilians were wounded in the clash. The commando-unit, on its way
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    Lock icon HOLLYWOOD MEMORIES UP FOR SALE
    422 4 HOLLYWOOD. Sun. (Reuter> An auction of costumes, furniture and properties from 2.200 Hollywood films made over the past 56 years opened today at Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer's studios The auction started with the sale of furniture, expected to last three days. The auction's highlight the sale of
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    Lock icon MASSIVE 'CRIMINAL' ROUNDUP IN PRAGUE
    271 4 PRAGUE, Sun. (UPI) Nearly 500 people were arrested at the weekend following a roundup of "criminal elements" by Czechoslovak security forces. Police checked out 4 109 persons In the security sweep at the beginning of a week of important celebrations that will include a visit
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    Lock icon Egypt Starts A Diplomatic 'War'
    141 4 CAIRO. Sun. (UPI) Egypt has begun to implement diplomatic initiatives called for by President Gamal Abdel Nasser in his May Day speech. Nasser appealed to the United States to settle the Middle East crisis and added Egvpt would contact all A rah nations to try
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    Lock icon BIAFRA FOOD SHORTAGE ALMOST OVER
    94 4 LAGOS. Sun. (Reuter) The Nigerian Red Cross Society said today the food emergency in Biafra is almost over and its relief operations will end on June 30. The society has sent almost 3.000-ton of food a week into the eastern region since the civil war
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    Lock icon NIXON EFFIGY BURNED IN NZ
    47 4 AUCKLAND. Sun. (Reuten A petrol-soaked cardboard effig v of President Nixon was set alight outside a building housing the United States Consulate as angry demonstrators protested against the the invasion of Cambodia. Police, who quickly put out the fire, made no arrest*.
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    Lock icon Newspaper Strike Deadlock
    193 4 LONDON. Sun (Renter) Peace talks were deadlocked today in the pay dispute which threatens a shutdown of Britain's nationnl newspapers in five days. Talks broke down between the National Graphical Association. the printing union at the centre of the dispute. the Newspaper Publishers Association and Britain's Trade
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    Lock icon Grenade Thrown Into Gaza Bus
    45 4 TEL AVIV. Sun (AFP> Two Arabs were killed and nine wounde-1. some seriously. when a hand-grenade was thrown at a bus in Gaza City today. The bus was leaving Gaza for Jerusalem when the grenade explored, an Israeli spokesman said.
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    Lock icon Fascists Rampage In Rome
    139 4 ROME. Sun <rPI) Young fascist* waving iron barn and baseball bata toured Rome on motorcycle* and car* at the weekend protesting the death of a partv colleague who wa* hit on the head with a bottle. Police broke up the motorcade before there was any violence.
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    Lock icon TASK AHEAD FOR ASIAN LEADERS
    922 6 ANOTHER wound ig being inflicted on tortured Indochina and whether this wound will become a quick-healing surgical excision of a cyst or will become a festering chancre is vet to be seen. Long before American action in Cambodia we pointed out in these columns that
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    Lock icon Were The Gods Astronauts?
    136 6 Mr-NT CH A fl.m na» been H a e out ox Erich voo Dan.ken* Memo; <* Of tat Future waicb nu i ready been tr*naiated mto .4 languages Pnou» tiiowi the riling uod ox t'alcqquc and aa aniionaat .n ma •pace oapsu.e Baaed on »um iitmoiii.
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    Lock icon Trouble In Trinidad: Brilliant, Aloof, Expressionless Dr. Williams
    762 6  -  By Godfrey Jacobs LONDON, To meet Dr. The Rt. Honourable Erie Eustace Williams, Prime Minister of strifetorn Trinidad and Tobago, can be an off-putting experience. Witn his dark glasses, hearing aid. expressionless countenance. and aloof manner, one gets the feeling of an
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    Lock icon Wake Up Vegetarians
    404 6  -  By Peter Sharrock ROME Although vegetarians may find it hard to stomach, animal proteins ar« as indispensable to man as calories and vitamins, accordinq to United Nations nutrition experts here. Animal foods art rich in high quality protein, which contains a better balance in amino acids than
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    Lock icon ISRAEL'S PERIL
    818 6  -  By Joseph Alsop JERUSALEM Israel is now in deadly peril not immediately to oe sure, but for the long pull. That is by far the most probable meaning of the introduction of Soviet SAM-5 missiles into Egypt, complete with Russian crews masquerading in Egyptian uniforms. This is no
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    Lock icon Corregidor Now A Tourist Spot
    414 6  -  Br Patrick J. Killen (UPI) COR REGIDOR ISLAND. Philippines Philippine officials have finally taken the physical pain out of visiting Correcidor. the World War II island bastion at the entrance to .Manila Bay. "Hydrofoil marine craft, air conditioned Japanesebuilt buse.« well kept roads and historical
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  • COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon NEW PRODUCT FOR STEEL INDUSTRIES
      508 7 MELBOURNE, An Australian company will begin exporting early in 1973 a new iron-ore product of major importance to the world steel industry. Hamersley Iron Pty. Ltd will export 6,500,000 tons of its Hlmet metallised product, containing about 92 per cent iron, to two Japanese trading
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      Lock icon CHARTER DEMAND SHRINKS
      200 7 LONDON, Sun <LPI) Vorth and South American chartering shrank almost out of the picture last week after the startling rate increases experienced Thursday and most other nu.ior leading areas were quiet. The May Day holidays in n>-iiy parts of the world no d 'ubt played their part
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      Lock icon Fishing Accord
      44 7 TOKYO. Sun. iUPI) Japan and Mauritania has signed a fisheries agreement which permits Japanese boats to operate just three miles from Mauritania's shores. Negotiations on the agreement was started in 1987 when Mauritania extended its territorial waters 12 miles from its shores.
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      Lock icon Car Assembly
      29 7 TOKYO Sun <UPI) Nissan Motor Company has announced plans to assemble its Sunny 1200 models this year in Thailand Malaysia. Australia. Portugal. New Zealand and South Africa.
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      Lock icon Silver Linings Revealed In London Stock Market
      503 7 LONDON, Sun. (UPI) Braver-than-most investors plucked up courage to buy on Friday and prised open a chink in the black clouds enveloping stock markets tor tne last two weeks. After a tense session playing a "waiting for Wall Street" gam e as U.S.
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      Lock icon Markets Follow New York Trend
      441 7  -  ASIAN ECONOMIC ROUNDUP By JOSEPH MA HONG KONG, Sun. (UPI) Stock markets in Asia declined last week following New York downward trends and President Nixon's sending American troops into Cambodia. It is too early, however, to assess the implications of America's widened military involvement on
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      Lock icon Widespread Fears Of Wall Street Collapse
      646 7 NEW YORK, Sun. (UPI) "The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities/ is on a sound and prosperous basis..." said President Herbert Hoover in October 1929. A few days later came the worst selling stampede in Wall Street s
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      Lock icon Rice Purchase
      44 7 TOKYO. Sun- (UPI) South Korea has contracted to buy 7,432 tons of rice from Japan, the Food Agency announced yesterday. The rice will be shipped by the end of the month at the F.O B, price of 148 U.S. dollars a ton.
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      Lock icon Prices Up In Japan
      158 7 TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) Consumer prices In Japan rose by 6.4 per cent in fiscal 1969 for the highest annual rate of rise in consumer prices recorded In the past four years, the Prime Minister's office disclosed yesterday. Th© rate exceeded by 0.7 per cent over 5.0
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      Lock icon JAPAN SETS FISCAL MARK
      88 7 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) Japan's over-all payments balance for fiscal 1969 which ended March 31 this year recorded an all-time high of 1,990 million U.S. dollars, the Finance Ministry and the Bank of Japan announced yesterday. An announcement said this was an increase of 360 million dollars
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      Lock icon Ship Contract
      82 7 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) Kawasaki Heavy Industries Co. yesterday It has signed a contract with the world Wide Co. of Hong Kone to build for It a 46.000dwt liquified petroleum carrier. The carrier is to be delivered In M%y 1971. The ship will cost 3.900 million yen <5532.4 million)
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
      446 7 ARRIVALS 1.45 a m M>A 125 Kuala Lum7 00 a m ?1°A 580 Colombo. Kuala Lumpur 7 30am MSA 123 Kuala Lumpur 9 30am \l*A 452 Kuala Lumpur. 1105 a m MSA 454 Penang. Kuala Lumpur. 11.50 a m MSA 203 Jakarta 1.30 pm. MSA 451 Kurhing 2
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      Lock icon Australia Exports New Type Of Iron
      97 7 AN Australian firm is producing for export a new metallised product called Hlmet which is processed ore containing about 92 percent iron. The product it designed as a direct feed for electric steel furnaces enabling the blast furnace stage to be by-passed. The firm,
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  • PICTORIAL SOCIAL ROUND-UP
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      Lock icon Thai International's Tenth Birthday Party
      235 8 WINE dealers ond merchants as well as business associates attended the gala dinner party given by Jas. Henncssy and Co., Cognac, of France last week The dinner was to mark the sale of the 25th million bottle of Hennessy in 25 years. SEATED from riqht:
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      Lock icon First Prize Winner
      80 8 SEVEN local cooking enthusiasts were presented with a total of $1,100 by Mr. H C Sargent, Australian Trade Commissioner in Singapore at the Trade Commissioner's Display Room in Clemenceau Avenue recently. The ladies had taken pa r t in a dairy food r*»cipes contest organised for the
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      Lock icon 100th Voyage Celebration
      139 8 CAPTAIN G. Lomox, skipper of the Shell supertanker, Mure* (left) presenting a token gift to the Minister for Science ond Technology/ Dr. Toh Chin Chye, last Monday. Dr. Toh had visited the supertanker to witness the awarding of scholarships to two Singopore Polytechnic students, Tham Choon Kin
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      Lock icon Elegant, Sprightly Too
      90 8 Mrs EM. Klemm. at M Is still a ver T elegant and sprightly grandmother who dances to th* tune of her husband The reason is not far to seek Her husband. Mr E C. Klemm, 51 is the Vice President of the City of Perth Band which
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE $10 ESSAY WINNERS
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      Lock icon Ambition
      523 9 SUCCESSFUL living depends upon one's determination to follow a set course. In fact, success begins with a person's ambition. Then, a positive, purposeful and Creative ur »r the achievement of th® goal. Life is not plain sailing We suffer hard times, encounter difficulties and obstae'es. As an old proverb
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      Lock icon Values Of Travelling
      364 9 IN an advanced world such as ours, travelling: is no problem as It is made convenient man by the invention of automobiles, ships, trains and aeroplanes. Inspite of all these time-saving, fast, and yet. safe methods of transport, there are some people who still regard travelling as
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      Lock icon A Strange Present
      676 9 ALL Of us will be wondering what we are going to get for our forth coming birthdays. We would be passing a shop and on seeing some beautiful lewellery or dress or perhaps perfumes in the shop window, we begin to think whether it will be anyone
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      Lock icon All Eyes Were On The Court Entrance
      336 9 THE court is like an octopus with its own tentacles. Its long, s'ender tentacles would serve as the organ of touch and would seize the law breakers that come in its path. Alan Luke was heavy in heart He was being drawn slowly
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      Lock icon Goldsmith's Wrong Customers
      300 9 IT was the eve of Christmas. The sun had withdrawn all its light and hid In the west mountain. A goldsmith's shop on one side of Middle Road was without customers The shop assistants were arranging the jewels in good order and settling the accounts. All was
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      Lock icon At Last The People Knew His Worth
      375 9 FAR away, the church bell struck three times. Ignoring the strokes. Prasad went on writlne furiously. Then when he had finished, he put down the pen. read the poem, then slowly turned off the lamp. He made his way towards four dark figures
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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      89 9 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and AJden McWilliams is. Tj i V /jUI DO you SUPPOSE THE HELICOPTER IS GONE FOR GOOD,PAVEN? I DONT WEAR ITS" MOTOR/ V M E I'M SURE HE'LL BE BACK,ADA THE/ WON'T STOP LOOKING FOR US I <r OUOTHE THE PAVEN. WITH FINGERS CROSSED—AT LEAST
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      17 9 AMY By Jack TippHSSS3 "Archie, I'm too pooped to finish...l'll have to set the front half tomori-&/•*
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  • SUN SPORT
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      Lock icon The Stipe's Report
      528 10 The following is the Stipendiary Steward's report on the weekend races at Buklt Timah. SATURDAY RACE 1: Bulldoier (Anuar) was slow to begin. Near the 5 furlongs Showman IV Pod more) lost considerable ground when he attempted to buck. RACE 2: G Bougoure. trainer of Zinnia Fair
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      Lock icon Welsh Pageant Triumphs
      70 10 NEWMARKET. England, Sun. (Reuter) Welsh Pageant owned by HJ. Joel won the Victoria Cup handica D run over seven furlongs here yesterday. Lord Roseberys Crooner was second with H. Brown's Chebs Lad third of 14 runners. Sandy Barclay rode Welsh Pageant, Johnny Gordon Crooner, and Geoff Lewis
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      Lock icon C-in-C Defies 9.3 To Win In A Canter
      1914 10  -  By JIMMY LAD pOMMANDER-IN-CHIEF defied a 9.3 impost to canter home a sevenlength winner in the Class One main sprint over 6f at Bukit Timah yesterday. Ridden by champion jockey Glynn Pretty, Commander-in-Chief paid $lB. Commander In Chief was the second leg
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      Lock icon Dust Commander's Kentucky Derby
      153 10 LOUISVILLE. Kentucky, Sun. (Reutcr) Dust Commander won the U*****,300 Kentucky Derbv classic by about four lengths here yesterday. My *)ad George, the favourite. was second and High Echelon was third in the 10 furlongs race at Churchill Downs in the 98th running of America's classic horse
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      325 10 LONDON, Sun. (Reut«r) Anti-apartheid group! made a quiet, disciplined start to the cricket protesl season up and down England yesterday. Police stooc by but there was no trouble and no arrests. Demonstrators against the South African tour beginning on June 6 staged "warmup" protests at
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      101 10 BANGALORE. India. Sun. (Reuter) The second match in the Davis Cup Eastern Zone final between India and Australia here today was left unfinished at two sets all after Premjit Lai had won the first to give India a 1-0 lead. In the second match,
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      130 10 LONDON, Sun. <UPI> A new organisation, headed by a Conservative Member of Parliament, was formed today to try to stop the South African cricket tour in June. The group, called the "Fair Cricket Campaign." will be headed by Tory M P Sir Edward
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      156 10 BOURNEMOUTH. England. Sun. tUPI) Australian Margaret Court retained the women's title in the British hard court championshi© vesterdav with an easy 6-2 6-3 w;a over Briton Virginia wade. Mrs. Court s victory over Miss Wade first winner of the British Open title, earned her £l.OOO. Miss Wade
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      99 10 NEW YORK. Sun (Reuter i —Results <9f yesterday's major league baseball games: American League New York Yankees 7, Milwaukee Brewers 6. California Angels 8. Boston Red Sox 4. Minnesota Twins 4. Baltimore Orioles 2Oakland Athleticr 6, Washington Senators 3. Kansas City Royals 4« Cleveland Indians 3. Chicago
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      73 10 BANGKOK. Sun. (Reuter) The New Zealand and Danish Thomas Cup badminton teams play friendly matches in Thailand on their way to Malaysia for the cup final, Mr. Phiensak Sosothikul. Secretary-Gene-ral of Badminton Association of Thailand, said today. Mr Phiensak said the New Zealand team will play n
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      315 11 BOURNEMOUTH. England. Sun. (Reuter) Mark Cox thrashed South African Davis Cup star Bob Hewitt in straight sets here yesterday to become the first Briton to win the British hard court tennis title for six years. An overwhelming 6-1 6-2 6-3 victory in
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      212 11 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) Six Pakistani players attached to English County clubs have received letters from the Pakistani Cricket Control Board urging them not to take part in matches against the South African touring team this summer. The six are Intikhab Alam and Younis
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      266 11 DENVER. Colorado, Sun. (Reuter) Former world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis was committed to Colorado psychiatric hospital here Friday night for "observation, diagnosis and treatment for mental illness", a hospital official announced. The former boxer's son, Joseph Louis Barrow. Jr., had his father
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      121 11 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Arsenal, the newEuropean Fairs Cup holders crashed to a 1-0 defeat against Totten ham Hotspur in the final league match of the English soccer season here yesterday. The game produced little positive football and the 47.000 crowd expressed their displeasure by slow
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      132 11 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) Leading scorers in the 1969-70 English Football League programme which endea yesterday. Division One 31 Peter Osgood (Chelsea) 30 Jeff Astle (West Bromwich Albion) 24 Allan Clarke (Leeds United) 23 George Best (Manchester United). Joe Royle (Everton) 22 Hugh Curran (WolverHampton Wanderers), lan
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      261 11 DALLAS, Texas, Sun. (Reuter) Jack Nicklaus scored a two under par 68 yesterday to take over the lead from Palmer in the second round of the US$lOO,OOO (£41.665) Byron Nelson golf classic here. Palmer slipped to a one-over-par 71 on the 7.000yard Preston Trail
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      104 11 WORTHING. England. Sun. tßeuten Bernard Hunt, the British Ryder Cup golfer. took the first prize of *750 with a twostroke victory in the JL4 000 Penfold tournament here yesterday. Hunt carded a flnalround 66 for a nine-under-par 72-hole total of 271 on the Hill Bars
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      429 11 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Rohan Kanhai, the West Indies Test batsman, gave the English County cricket season a whirlwind send-oft yesterday as he slammed an impressive century for Warwickshire against Nottinghamshire. Kanhai. who reached his 100 in under three hours, shared a thirdwicket stand of
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      113 11 OVAMA, Japan, Sun. (Reuter) World champion driver Jackie Stewart of Scotland today easily won the Japanese Grand Prix motor race at the Fuji speedway here. The 30-year-old Scot, driving a Brabham-Ford, took the lead from the start and finished 50 seconds ahead of Maxwell Stewart
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      51 11 LONDON, Sun. <Reuter> Results of rugby matches played yesterday were: Rugby league Champion Semi-final Castleford 9 St. Helens 9. Leeds 47. Hull Kingston Rovers 5. Rugby Union Fylde 5. Rugby 0. Gloucester 16. Liverpool 20. Leicester 17. New Brighton 6 Irish International Trial White 6 Blues
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      1110 11 LONDON. Sun. «Reuter)— English and Scottish final inotball league Ubies.— ENGLISH DIVISION ONE Everton P W D L r A Pts 42 29 8 5 72 34 6»> Leeds 42 21 15 6 84 49 57 Chelsea 42 21 13 8 70 50 55 Derby
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      72 11 SYDNEY. Sun. (Reuter) Vladimir Zrno. the former Czechoslovak international now living in Australia. was beaten 15-4. 15-1 by Australian E Chuah in the men's singles semi-finals l n the Sydney badminton championships here yesterday M Subramanya. the former Indian cricketer, also slumped to defeat, losing 14-18.
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      23 11 MANILA, Sun. (Reuter) Burma defeated Indonesia 3-0 last night to win the 12th Asian Youth soccer tournament. Halftime score was 1-0.
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      109 11 CLEVELAND. Ohio, Sun. (Reuter) The United States yesterday named the same six players who successfully defended the Davis Cup against Rumania last year for the 1970 U.S. team and added a 19-year-old Junior. Non playing captain Ed Turville said Stan Smith, Arthur Ashe. Cliff Richey.
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      43 10 BIG IST PRIZE No. *****3 ($4,689) 2ND PRIZE No. *****3 ($1,339) 3RD PRIZE No. *****6 669) STARTERS ($l5O each) Nos: *****5 *****6 *****1 *****7 *****5 *****0 *****1 *****5 *****7 CONSOLATION ($lOO each) Nos: *****3 *****4 *****6 *****2 *****1 *****5 *****9 *****3 *****9 *****8
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      1039 11 I DE CHANNEL 5 3 00 Opening Anncts General Hospital 1 Woman's World <T» Singapore This Week <T» It's Happening In Singapore (T» Days Of Our Laves l C'ose. 1 Opening Anncts. Bwana Don i News in Brief Family Affair The Old Cowhand" Woman's World <C> News and Newsreel <C>
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    332 12 SINGAPORE must be vigilant against the deadly trap of drifting into a spiritual and cultural vacuum while developing a futuristic society willing to accept technological inno- vations. The Parliamentary Secretary (Law) and M.P. for Potonq Pasir last night said that our varied
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    224 12 EVERY citizen can express hi s views on how certain things can be effectively translated into practical policies, the Parliamentary Secretary (Culture), Enche Sha'ari Tadin said yesterday. Hp was speaking at the Kampon; Chai Chee PAP Branch annual picnic held at Tanah Merah
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    113 12 MR. H. Kenneth Palmer, Assistant Manager of Credit and Marketing, Chase Manhattan branches in Singapore, left last night for New York for another assignment. Mr. Palmer came to Chase Manhattan Bank in Singapore in Nov. 1966. He joined the Bank in New York in early 1965.
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    35 12 A woman was found hanged in the lavatory of her flat yesterday. Police identified her as Ng Gan Hoi. 45. of 373 B, Block 49, Hov Fatt Road. No foul play is suspected.
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    305 12 THE Singapore Red Cross Society as an active and dynamic organisation in Singapore deserves the support and encouragement from the people, the Minister for Social Affairs, Enche Othman Wok said yesterday. He was speaking at the combined parade of voluntary aid detachments and Junior Red
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    177 12 A 9,000-ton vessel, M.V. "Vishva Dharma" arrived here a few days ago from Calcutta on its maiden voyage to the East. The vessel owned by the Shipping Corporation of India Ltd., is operating from major ports in India, Penang, Port Swettenham. Singapore,
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    162 12 Six young artists have again kept their promise to put UQ an exhibition this year. They are Yau T'an Yau. Tan Soo Thiam. Wu Fook Weng. Loy Chye Chuan, Eng. siak Loy. ar| d Han Luan Cheng They have zealously worked since their first
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    181 12 THE Dental Health Exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Health will open today at the Victoria Memorial Hall. The exhibition, to be formally opened by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health. Mr. Chor Yeok Eng, is to mark the beginning of Dental Health Week,
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    64 12 The body of a handicapped youth was found at the foot of a block of flats at Toa Payoh late Saturday nieht. He was believed to have fallen from the 16th floor of the block of flats. No identification papers were found on him. He was
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    108 12 A notor cyclist, Heong Kwong Fai. 34. was killed when he was pinned under a truck at I'pper .Ayer Rajah on Saturday afternoon. Heong was travelling towards the city with a pillion rider when the truck grazed his side The impact was so great that
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    56 12 PENANG. Sun. The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, toda discussed the country's political situation and the trade union movement with the general secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Mr Harm G Buiter. "My discussions with the Tunku were frink and cordial Mr Bui f
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      230 12 CLASSIFIEDS AND NOTICES APPLICATIONS are Invited from Singapore Citizens for the following posts in a large organisation. CLERKS. with Senior Cambridge Certificate and knowledge of typing. DELIVERY CLERKS with valid driving license and a minimum of Secondary Two education. MESSENGER BOYS, minimum Secondary Two In an English medium school, strong
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      31 12 TOTO DRAW NUMBERS drawn in yesterday's Toto Draw were: 9 7 46 35 19. The additional number drawn was 38. Three-circle D r a w's numbers picked were: 33 45 38.
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      81 12 TIME AND TIDE TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN: 341 am. (1.7 ft.); 10.02 am. <8.7 ft.); 4.03 pm. <2.3 ft.); 10.04 p.m <8 8 ft.). NAVAL DOCKYARD: 326 a.m. (2.3 ft.); 10.15 a.m. (10.4 ft.); 3.54 p.m. (3.0 ft 10.20 p.m. (10.1 ft.). TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN 421 a.m. (0.9 ft.); 10.50 a.m.
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