Eastern Sun, 14 May 1970

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    21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1343 Thursday. 14 May 1970. MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon REDS ATTACK U.S. INVASION BASE
    505 1 Human Wave Assaul gAIGON, Wed. (UPI) North Vietnamese troops mounted their first major counterattack in Cambodia today, with suicidal human ware attacks through the barbed wire perimeter of an American camp. The Americans levelled their artillery and blasted the attacking Communists to pieces Military spokesmen
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    Lock icon PHNOM PENH ALMOST FELL – SIHANOUK
    147 1 PHNOM PENH ALMOST FELL SIHANOUK HONG KONG Wed (Reuter) Deposed head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk said his forr*e« were on the point of taking Phnom Penh when American and South Vietnamese trooos invaded Cambodia "Ou r Peoples Army' had already surrouodad Phnom Penh and was on the point of
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    Lock icon Attacks A Big Success —Nixon
    260 1 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter)— The U.S. assault on Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia has been an enormous success, far exceeding expectations. President Nixon said today. He estimated the ammunition captured already totalled more than the enemy forces had expended in South Vietnam over the last fixt or
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    Lock icon GREEN LIGHT FOR SARAWAK ELECTIONS
    88 1 KUALA LUMPUR Wed. —The Yang di-Pertuan Agon e has given royal assent to the resumption of elections in East Malaysia and Melaka Selatan The elections Commission can now resume elections in Sabah. Sarawak and Melaka Selatan. which were suspended after the May riots last year.
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    Lock icon Wedding Party Locked Inside Burning House
    175 1 BOMBAY, Wed. (UPI) Police today dug bodies from the debris of a building in which rioting Hindus locked a Moslem wedding party and then set it on fire. The number of people who died during the incident at Bhiwandi, 30 miles north of Bombay,
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    Lock icon ISRAELI TROOPS WITHDRAW
    308 1 TEL AVIV, Wed. (UPI and Reuter) Israeli troops withdrew today from southeastern Lebanon, military spokesmen said. They said the Israeli armoured column began pulling back last night after completing a 14-hour search and destroy mission, but darkness delayed the troops. The spokesmen declined to elaborate. The troops
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    Lock icon JUNE POLL IN BRITAIN?
    62 1 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Political sentiment swung sharply today towards the possibility of a June election In Britain. An opinion poll showing the Labour Party with a 7.5 per cent lead over the Conservatives strengthened speculation on a summer vote. Observers felt Prime Minister Harold Wilson will
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    Lock icon Smoking Ban Gets Mixed Reaction
    353 1 THE proposed ban on smoking in cinemas, theatres and "specified" places got a mixed reaction from Singaporeans yesterday. Non-smokers hailed the ban, heavy smokers said It was unfair and on-off smokers shrugged their shoulders. Theatre managements and cigarette manufacturers closed the subject with cautious "no
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    Lock icon U.K. Loses On Foreign Trade
    49 1 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) Britain's overseas trade In April showed a deficit of almost BsBo million the worst figure since July 1969. However. Britain's surplus on Invisible trade services like banking, insurance and tourism is estimated at Ss2Bo million a month, will cover the loss.
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    Lock icon Millions See Drama Live On TV: JAPANESE POLICE KILL YOUNG FERRY HIJACKER
    422 3 HIROSHIMA, Wed. (Reuter) Police shot and killed a young gunman here today 15 hours after he hijacked a ferryboat with its passengers and crew. He had previously sailed round Japan's Inland Sea with armed patrol boats in hot
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    Lock icon AFTER ROCKET RAID: More Viet Terrorist Acts In Saigon
    209 3 SAIGON, Wed. (UPI) Communists terrorists struck twice at allied military personnel in Saigon early today. One person was killed and nine wounded with plastic explosive and rifle fire, military spokesmen announced. The attacks came less than 36 hours after 3 Sovietbuilt
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    Lock icon LEPROSY IN S. CELEBES
    79 3 JAKARTA. Wed. (AFP)— Some 20.000 people In South Celebes are suffering from leprosy. Antara News Agency reported today. The agency quoted Head of the South Celebes Health Service. Doctor Pangerang, as saying that "a mass medical campaign" was being conducted to help the lepers. He commented
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    Lock icon MP Offers To Help Troops Pay Fines
    177 3 CANBERRA, Wed. (Reuter) A member of Parliament, Sir Wilfred Hugehs, yesterday offered to pay half the fines > m posed on 16 soldiers. They were convicted by the Army for offences during the Vietnam Moratorium March In Adelaide last Friday. The 16 soldiers
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    Lock icon Deportation Protest
    72 3 MANILA, Wed. (UPI) About 150 persons demonstrated outside the Taivan Embassy yesterday evening. They were protesting the deportation of Journalists Qul n 11 n and Rlz a 1 Yuyitung. The demonstrators are members of the radical-led Movement for a Democratic Philippines. After it broke up. the demonstrators gathered
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    Lock icon Surgery For Boy With No Bladder
    112 3 SYDNEY. Wed (UPI) Pham Luy. a South Vietnamese boy was crippled by a Vletcong mortar last year. He was flown to Australia yesterday bv Austcare. the Australian refugee relief organization, for medical treatment. Pham comes from a hamlet near Danang. He Is a paraplegic
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    Lock icon International Newsmen In I.P.I. Seminar
    301 3 HONG KONG. Wed (Reuter) Editors and publishers from 38 countries will attend the 19th General Assembly of the International Press Institute here next week. The 220 delegates will hear speakers discuss subjects including Asian mass media, press councils, communications on the Chinese Mainland, professional training
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    Lock icon SEAMEC Meet On Funds For Projects
    164 3 BANGKOK. Wed. (UPI) South-East Asian education ministers met here yesterday to seek greater financial support to educational projects already established by South-East Asian Ministers of Education Council. The nations represented at the meeting are the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia. Singapore. Laos, South Vietnam and Thailand.
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    Lock icon Mao's Ships Not In Indian Ocean
    85 3 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) The Captain of the 15th Frigate Squadron of the Indian Navy yesterday declared there had been no indication of communist Chinese vessels in the Indian Ocean Captain J.S. Bawa is also commanding officer of the "INS Trishul." an antisubmarine vessel.
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    Lock icon USSR Submarines For India
    71 3 NEW DELHI. Wed. 'UPI) Russia has agreed to India's request for four more submarines. Defence Ministry sources disclosed yesterday. The sources said India has so far acquired four 1962-class non-nuclear submarines. The last Joined the Indian fleet on Monday. Informed sources added India will pay Russ.a
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    Lock icon Landslides And Floods In HK After Storms
    209 3 HONG KONG, Wed. (Reuter) Thunderstorms lashed Hong Kong today, causing numerous minor land- slides and flooding. At least 3 persons were killed. A 14-year-old girl was drowned when she slipped into a flooded monsoon drain, police announced. Flood-water swept away a 40-year-old woman
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    Lock icon DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN CAMBODIA AND THAILAND AGAIN
    357 3 BANGKOK, Wed (Reuter) Cambodia and Thailand announced today they would resume diplomatic relations and exchange representatives in the immediate future. A Joint communique was released at the end of an official visit by Cambodian Foreign Minister Yem Sambaur. He and the Thai Foreign
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    Lock icon No Mayor Yet
    68 3 NEWARK. New Jersey, Wed. (Reuter) Elections to find a new mayor lor this scandal-hit city were forced to a run-off today. No candidate emerged with an overall majority in a heavv poll. Negro citv engineer Kenneth Gibson polled a clear margin over incumbent Mayor Hugh Addonizio. However
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    Lock icon Lubbock After Tornado's Passage: SKYSCRAPER IS LEFT SWAYING IN THE WIND
    379 5 LUBBOCK, Texas, Wed. (UPI) —A tornado that repeatedly struck along an eight-mile path of death and destruction here left a skycraper teetering near col- lapse yesterday. As many as 1.000 people were injured and another 10.000 homeless. The twister
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    Lock icon BERLIN WALL TUNNEL DISCOVERED
    127 5 BERLIN. Wed. <UPI, The accidental discovery by the East Germans of a tunnel under the Berlin Wall blocked a plan to bring a large number of refugees to West Berlin. Police said a group of West Berlin construction workers secretly built a 60 it. tunnel unde
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    Lock icon General killed
    30 5 SAIGON. Wed. <UPI> Maj Gen. A.B. Dillard. 50, Commander of U.S. Army engineers In Vietnam, was killed yesterday when his helicopter was shot down in the Central Highlands.
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    Lock icon Top Defensive Missile System In USSR Soon
    395 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) Defence Secretary Melvin Laird disclosed yesterday the Soviet Union had deployed huge radar test installations around itself. They could give Russia a nation-wide defensive missile system in a matter of years. Laird and Defence Research Director John Foster added the
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    Lock icon Fighting Cock Kills Handler
    90 5 PHOENIX Arizona Wed. (Reuter) A 59-vear-old American was killed by a prize-fighting cock. He had fitted it with razor-sharp three-inch spurs for *'a battle to the death" with another bird The cock turned on him instead and ripped two eight-inch bashes in the thigh after he
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    Lock icon On To Cuba
    33 5 HAVANA Cuba. Wed. (Reuter) Antilles (ALM) airliner hijacked earlier yesterday on a flight from Santo Domingo to Curacao, landed in Santiago de Cuba This is about 605 miles from here.
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    Lock icon Blast Puts Station Off The Air
    105 5 MISSOURI CITY. Texis. Wed. <UPI> An explosion last nleht destroyed the transmitter of Houston's Paclflca Radio Station. The latter often mixes live coverage of anti-war rallies and taped speeches of young radicals with popular protest songs in Its programming. Police would no say If
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    Lock icon HOLDUP BY PHONE
    98 5 LOS ANGELES, Wed. (Reuter) A robber escaped with 5530.000 her® in a supermarket hold-up carried out entirely by telephone. A woman cashier at the supermarket did as she was fold when a mystery voice on the other end of a telephone ordered, "Puf all th e money
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    Lock icon New York Protects Reporters
    106 5 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) —New York became the 17th state in America yesterday with a law protecting journalists from a charge of contempt for refusing to disclose sources of information obtained in the course of gathering news. in ceremonies in his New York City office. Gov.
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    Lock icon Move To Aid U.S. Trade
    81 5 WASHINGTON. We d. (UPI) The Nixon Administration yesterday proposed an incentive plan to encourage American exports and help the dwindling US. trade surplus. Treasury Secretary David Kennedy asked the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee to allow US. Industries to defer taxes on income
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    Lock icon BLACKMUN CONFIRMED
    81 5 Washington, wed '(UPI) —Judge Blackmun of Minnesota was confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice by the Senate yesterday. It ended an abrasive dispute with President Nixon that persisted for almost a year. The confirmation vote came two days short of the anniversary of the resignation of Justice Abe
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    Lock icon CRUCIAL BILL ON DEBATE: Senate Bid To Curb U.S. Action In Cambodia
    533 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) The Senate moves today toward! trying to curb U.S. military operations in Indochina by the unprecedented method of cutting off the money. Senate leaders will lay down as "pending business" a Military Sales Act. It
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    Lock icon AFL-CIO: Nixon's Inflation Control Plan 'A Failure'
    258 5 AFL-CIO: Nixon's Inflation Control Plan A Failure' WASHINGTON. We d. (UPI) The AFL-CIO vest* rda* claimed President Nixon's efforts to control inflatioo have been "a complete failure" It further declared the United States has "cr6ssed the threshold of recession" undet his economic policies. The labour organisation's Executive Council denounced his
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    Lock icon Augusta Leaders Appeal For Calm
    303 5 AUGUSTA, Georgia, Wed. <U Pl)—Surly blacks roamed through the riottorn section of Augusta yesterday, helping themselves to goods still left in pillaged stores. Negro leaders meanwhile agreed to go into the strfceta to olead for peace. Six Negroes were killed. 6n blacks and whites lalured
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    Lock icon Beer Therapy Recommended
    113 5 SAN FRANCISCO. Wed. (UPI» A Boston psychiatrist claimed "beer therapy" deserves a larger role in tne practical treatment of geriatric mental patients. Dr. Chlen Chlng Pia of Boston State Hospital gave psychological tests to four groups of senile and psychotic patients. Each patient met on« hour dally
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    Lock icon THE MOST DANGEROUS TROUBLE SPOT
    946 6 ISRAELI forces have carried out a day-long vasion of Lebanese territory with the usual computerized efficiency of their military machine. It was described as the biggest battle of the Middle East since the 1967 war although the Israelis had a clearly-stated limited objective and a
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    Lock icon The Lonely Resistance Of Guy Clutton-Brock
    1183 6 GEMINI. FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT SALISBURY, Rhodesia There I* little in Rhodesia today for the comfort of people who believe in a non-racial approach to the country's affairs. No doubt this thought was uppermost In the mind of Guy Clutton-Brock three years ago when
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    Lock icon Huge U.S. Space Shuttle
    497 6  -  By AL ROSSITER Jr. UPI. CAPE KENNEDY I Tlie Space Agency is preparing to take a major step in th« development of its 1 proposed. mutti-billion-U.S. dollar space shuttle orbital transport. The agencv is expected to awara preliminary, de- I sign contracts worth about t 8
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    Lock icon Anti-Cancer Drug In Chinese Tree
    400 6  -  By Richard W. Hatch RALEIGH North Carolina An obcure Chinese tree called Camptotheca Acuminata has been thrust Into the limelight in the national search for anti-cancer drugs. This April the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the national Institutes of health announced that a drug from
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    Lock icon PRESIDENT NIXON'S GAMBLE
    792 6  -  By Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON President Nixon has now proved that he is a very brave man. Even the opponents of his Cambodian decision have been forced to grant that much. It remains to be seen whether he is also a lucky man which Is just as important
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  • commercial and industrial
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      Lock icon STEADY TRADING SEEN WEDNESDAY
      295 7 Easier conditions proviilod in tho Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday as prices fell in the industrial sector. However, turnover was more than 2.7 million units, partly because Empat Nombor Ekor continued to appeal to traders. Losses ranging from three cents to four cents in
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      1096 7 BUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of units unless otherwise specified:- INDUSTRIALS: ACHA $2.14 (4): Alcan $1.70 (4) $1.71 (1) $1.66 (1); DIM $1.72 (3) $1.73 (4)
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      Lock icon $76.5 m Credit Loan To Japan Airlines
      147 7 WASHINOTON. Wed (UPI) The U.S. Export-Import Bank on Tuesday announced a 5576.5. million credit loan to Japan Air Lines Ltd. < JAL) tc help finance the purchase of three Boeing 747 jet aircraft. Total cost of the three "Jumbo" Jeta including spare engines,
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      Lock icon DOW JONES
      37 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 Industrials 704.59 20 Transp 148.52 15 Utilities 104.74 65 Stocks 231.83 40 Bonds 68.52 Commodity Futures Index 133.95 off 0.11
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      Lock icon STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSING PRICES
      624 7 BID and offer prices officially listed yesterday at the close of business in th e trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore were: INDI'STRIALS B 8. ACM A Cbl 215 Alian 164 Allied 5 52 Ben Jt Co 1-57 Borneo Bhd 1«- 1-73
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      Lock icon RUBBER PRICE: 57 3/4 Cts.
      319 7 MAY first grade rubber buyers doted at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 57} cents per lb. down one and three quarter cents from the previous close. The tone of Hie mar. ket was slightly easier. Lack of follow through in London
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      Lock icon Rubber Futures
      53 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Rubber future* closed unchanged and untraded Tuesdty on the New York Commodity Exchange. (Close:) (Prev.:) May ***** 32.50 July ***** 22 50 Sept 22.508 22.50 Nov 21.758 22.00 Jan 21.758 21.75 Mar 21.758 21.75 May 21.758 21.75 Locally. No. 2 RSS was 21-3 8
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      Lock icon A COMMITTEE TO PROTECT INVESTORS
      136 7 HONG KONG, Wed. (UPI) A committee set up to ensure correct handling of all public listings in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has been proposed, according to an exchange spokesman. The proposal has been made due to the Increasing Interest of the Investing public and
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      Lock icon Gold Prices Decline
      98 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Gold prices declined on Tuesday In routine trading on markets her and abroad London gold dropped 10 cents at the morning fixing to $36 an ounce and slipped another 2-1/2 cents at the second fixing to $35.97. Gold was 13 cents lower In
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      Lock icon Hong Kong Money
      124 7 HONG KONG. (CPI) Wednesday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd). (Bayers) (Sellers) V 194.9 195.9 per 100 Straits dollars 148.5 14f.5 per 1.000 Taiwan dollsrs 6.74 6.75 per Australian dollar 340 360 per 1.000 Burmese kyats 480 500 per 1.000 Indian rupees
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      Lock icon Uncertainties Rule New York Market
      153 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) The stock market, influenced by new Middle East hostilities. Indochina, and economic concern at home, pointed lower Tuesday in stepped-ui> trading. A flurry ol demand developed around mid-session alter a statement by Defence Secretary Melvln Laird that the united States will
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      Lock icon London Rubber Hesitant
      55 7 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Rubber market closed hesitant and slightly easier yesterday with spot 20-5/8, 21. gettlrmentt House June 20-7/8 21-1/16 July 21-1/8 21-5/18 Aug and Jul/Sep 21-3/8 21-1/2 Oct Dec 21-3/4 21-7/8 Jan/Mar 21-7/8 22-1/16 Apr/Jun 21-15/16 22-1/8 Jul /Sept and Oct Dec 22 22-3/16 Jan Mar
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      Lock icon Tin Irregular
      25 7 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Tin was Irregular 250 tons, spot buyers 1580 sellers 1582 business nil. 3-month buyers 1595 sellers 1596 business 1592 1599.
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      Lock icon Hotel's New Multi-storey Car Park Opens Today
      137 7 THE newly completed seven storey cor pork of the tothoy Hotel is scheduled to be opened today, Thursday May 14. The opening of the multi-storey car park marks the completion of the first phase of the expansion programme of the Cathay Hotel and
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      Lock icon UK STOCK MARKET GLOOMY
      150 7 LONDON, Wed (UPI) Gloom enveloped the stock market again Tuesday when lack of buying support and Wall Street's drift kept shares on the downtrack. Most sections suffered losses. Turnover ebbed to very low levels and dealers marked only 7,862 transactions on the session. British government bonds
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      91 7 (Mtnuerf' Price* for May 13) CHAHTKRfcU 1 Ml TRl bT> S Growtb Hinrl l us 1 10 ASIA 1 NIT TRl >1 ImeM land xd 1-21 12« SIMiAPOKfc. I Ml fKlfls 1st Hlnrapnrf 2 09 2nrl eingapoe IN —m 3rd Singapore 1 21\d The Cora. Ind itn 1
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      Lock icon PRODUCE
      89 7 THE noon price* tl f the Singapore Chinese Pro<lme F.* rhantt lesterria* a ere:B B Coconut Oti (FOB.) Bulk 5(1 .V) Coconut oil (FOB) Drum (LAO Ml»Prt Copra SO or Muntok White Pepper (F O B > 1.VV00 Sarawak White Pepper (FOB.) 152-50 Sarawak Special Black Pepper (FOB.) W«%
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      Lock icon EXCHANGE RATES
      57 7 The Association of Banks In Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes in Its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent ot 100 units of foreign currency)• Selling T T. or O.D. ready: Deutsche Marks $84.9823; Holland Guilders $85.0550; Swiss Francs $71.8500; French Francs $55.9225; Danish Kroner
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      16 7 The tin price for yesterday was s<s9B per picul down 3-5/8 of a dollar.
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      Lock icon Mining Shares Lose Ground
      343 7 Sydney Stocks, Closing Prices SYDNEY, Wed. (UPI) Mining shares continued to lose ground in another full trading session on Sydney Stock Exchange Wednesday. Trading was also low in the oil and industrial markets. Wednesday* market was very similar to Tuesday's, with slight falls across abroad front.
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
      496 7 ARRIVALS 145 am- MSA 125 K Lumpur 6 25 am- M>A 584 Colombo 7-30 am. MSA 123 K Lumpur 6 30 am. MSA 452 K Lumpur 1165 am MSA 454 Penang. K Lumpur 11.50 am. MSA 203 Jakarta 1.30 p.m MSA 451 Kucblng 2.80 p.m. 021 K Lumpur.
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      Lock icon TODAY'S SHIPS IN SINGAPORE
      209 7 The Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthing arrangements for today, May DEPARTURES (Godowns) (Vessels) 2 Ever Graceful 13/14 Cyclops 22 Hano Maru 29 30 Mlnetaka Maru 42 43 Broriver 44 Mayasan Maru 47 Lin Yung ARRIVALS (Godowns) (Vessels) 20 WEST Clang Lee 20
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      Lock icon The Importance Of National Service
      277 8 SINGAPORE, for the past fifteen decades, had relied immensely on the colonial power for her protection against aggression. Next year there will be a complete withdrawal of the British soldiers. Since Singapore is now an independent country, what has she to rely on? Self-reliance of
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      Lock icon Beauty Of The Botanic Garden
      298 8 MANY places of interest are found in Singapore such as the Haw Par Villa, the Botanic Garden, the Macß'tehie Reservoir and thp Van Kleef Aquarium. Last weekend, my brother requested me to accompany him to the Botanic Garden. We set off on our journey at
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      Lock icon The Stranger Was A Thug
      256 8 ONE day when my parents went out for a cinema show, I was left alone in my house. When I was doing my homework. I heard someone knocking at the door. So I went to open it. There was a man whom I had never
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      Lock icon Towkay & The Thief
      264 8 Towkay The Thief ONCE a rich Chinese towkay celebrated his birthday by giving a big party to his friends. There were two hundred guests and each brought a gift for the towkay. When the party was over, the towkay counted the gifts he had received before putting them in his
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      Lock icon NATIONAL DAY
      438 8 THE National Day of one country is the day when it becomes independent. Singapore celebrated >ts first National Day on ninth of August, 1965 Every year, we celebrate our National Day with joy and splendour. Pupils in schools also celebrate this day but they do so a day
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      Lock icon Cleanliness
      202 8 THERE are lots and lots of advantages in being clean. Cleanliness is very important for our homes, environment and our health. It is cleanliness that creates a healthy layer of atmosphere for the people to live in. It is also essential to Impress the tourists and Investors who contribute
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      Lock icon The Universe
      596 8 OUR planet earth, is believed to be ninetythree million miles away from the sun with a diameter of 7,926 miles. Since the beginning of the making of history man had made much progress in many fields around him. The alphabet and common language was introduced instead of grunting
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      184 8 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SONS oew essay writing contest for boys and flrls of 14 tnd under appears in this page ever? Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage voung boys and girls to express themselves properly. And what better way to
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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      112 8 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and AldenMcWftams ARRIVING HOME FROM THE ISLANDS, CANNY FINDS THAT ME IS STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR ADA JACKSON'S SAFETY/ MEANWHILE,ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS A FEW MILES AWAy... DON'T LET THOSE REPORTERS FLUSTER yOU, RAVEN f JUST AS SOON AS WE REACH MV APARTMENT, AND I FIND
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      24 8 AMY By Jack Tippit "We ogree about a couple of things.. .number one 7 I don't like him...and number two, he knows it. M
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    Lock icon IT'S BACK TO THE COUNTRY FOR FASHIONS
    614 9  -  By Florence de Santis NEW YORK: Freedom, nature and the simple life all these themes in current thinking have had their influence on fashion, and never more so than for this summer. Freedom means a choice of hemline lengths, anywhere from mini to
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    Lock icon Fred MacMurray-June Haver: 'Things Are Just The Same'
    895 9  -  Speaking Hystlf... By Sheilah Graham NEW YORK: "I can't think whv you wanted to see me," said Fred MacMurray. "Things are just the same with us." waving a hand in the direction of his wife, the former June Haver. Perhaps this Is
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    Lock icon Vadim's First Film In U.S.
    68 9 CULVER CITY Roger Vadim will direct and Gene Roddenberry produce Pretty Maids All In A Row' for MGM this summer. A look at American manners and morals, "Pretty Maids All In A Row" will be Vadim's first film made In the United States. The screenplay,
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    Lock icon Around The Studios
    124 9 LONDON British stage and screen actor Nigel Davenport has been signed for the leading role in MGM'i "No Blade Of Grass". Davenport, who has played major roles on stage In "Incident at Vichy." "The Hostage' and 'A Taste Of Honey, has alio appeared In a number of
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    210 9  -  A Lovelier BY MARY SUE MILLER A Lovely writes: My doctor has advised me to avoid tannine this summer That was a blow! But I have found that makeup really will rover acres of ghoatly skin. Just as a recent column of yours claimed. What I'd like
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      74 9 3RD "GREAT" WEEK "No ***** ever won > war by dying for his country. He won It by making the other poor dumb ***** di* for his country." General Patton s The Tank General Hitler fi* r.c *s cat W-: IF* X vr.t r* rv> 4, Ot* C scon/ karl
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      Lock icon Flying Charger Is Fighting Fit
      248 10 By Our Racing Correspondent OENANG, Wed. Flying Charger looked a picture of fitness when taken out for pecework on e soft track here this morning. Training was held up for an hour when heavy rain fell. Major's Girl was the most outstanding worker. With George
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      Lock icon Annual B'ton Tourney
      118 10 The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation's branch offices at Singapore. Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Malacca. Penang, Muar and Johore Bahru. will hold their annual badminton competitions at the Singapore Badminton Hall from May 16 to 18 This competition which was held in Kuala Lumpur last year is
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      761 10 a. s Div. 1—6 Furs. 11 Spring Grow 4y 9.00 Auric R Breuk ***** The Bliss 3y 8.11 Bliss RS Breuk ***** Highland Inn 4y 8.08 Olympia 73 Spring Power 4y 8 06 Auric R Breuk ***** Sound Speed 3y 8.06 Fountain Mansor 080
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      Lock icon Canada To Stage Next O-Games
      577 10 AMSTERDAM. Wed. (Reuter) The International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday voted to stage the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada. Montreal beat Moscow in the final ballot for the Games with 41 votes to 28 for the Soviet capital. One vote was blank. Los Angeles,
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      157 10 WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Wed. (UPI) Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said today he was "delighted" that Montreal had been chosen as the site for the 1976 Olympic Games. "But. I am sorry that Vancouver was not chosen for the Winter Olympics," Trudeau said. "Th e experience which
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      Lock icon Plans For SA Cricket Tour Remain Unchanged
      418 10 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Britain's cricket authorities yesterday appeared unmoved by appeals from Commonwealth Games organisers and Prime Minister Harold Wilson to call off the controversial tour of South African Cricketers. T"he Cricket council announced yesterday: "plans for the tour remain unaltered." This came
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      204 10 LONDON, Wed. The future of the famous Wembley Stadium in London, if now under active discussion. The once immaculate turf had to be relaid last year because of severe damage caused by a show jumping event. But the new turf did not stand up well
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      Lock icon 'Political Decision' —Moscow
      139 10 MOSCOW, Wed (Reuter> The Soviet Union reacted bitterly last night to Montreal being preferred to Moscow for the 1976 Olympic Games, with the official Tass news agency suggesting It was a political decision. The International Olympic Committee decision "Inflicts a blow on the Olympic movement Itself and
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      130 10 LONDON. Wed. Ever since 1864 when the first athletics meeting between Cambridge and Oxford Universities was held at Oxford it resulted in a tie the two universities have been battling it out for track and field honours. The 96th event, which is the oldest dual athletics match in
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      Lock icon Tulloh's 'Four Million Steps'
      247 10 LONDON. Wed. Bruce Tulloh. former British and European long distance champion, took 65 days to run 2.876 miles across the United States of America from Los Angeles to New York last year. In "four million footsteps", Tulloh who Is a school teacher, tells his own story
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      Lock icon BBC To Bring World Cup To Millions
      108 10 LONDON, Wed. The excitement of soccer's World CUD in Mexico will be brought to millions of international fans bv the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) The BBC olans to broadcast highlights of the matches in which 16 nations are competing to 'isteners throughout the
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      162 10 Thomas Cup JAKARTA. Wed. (AFP»— Nine top Indonesian players have been selected to play In the Thomas Cup final to be held from May 26 to June 7 In Kuala Lumpur, it was announced here today. The players are 20-year-old All-England champion Rudy Hartono. Muljadi,
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      204 10 US Baseball Results Standings NEW YORK Wed (UPIV Results and standings in major league baseball afteJ yesterday's games: NATIONAL LEAGUE: New York 8 Montreal 4 Chicago 4 Atlanta 3 Cincinnati 5 Pittsburgh St. Louis 9 Philadelphia 5 San Diego 6 San Francisco 5 Houston 8 Los Angeles 3 AMERICAN LEAGUE
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      Lock icon Hulme Hurt During Practice
      194 10 INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Wed. (Reuter) Former world motor racing champion Denny Hulme was badly burned on the hands yesterday during practice for this year's Indianapolis 500 and looks likely to miss the race. The 33-year-old New Zealander suffered the burns when leaking fuel from his McLaren car
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      Lock icon Chiba Beats PI's Noel
      76 10 TOKYO. Wed. (UPI) Orient featherweight champion Nobuo Chiba of Japan tonight won a unanimous decision over Jimmy Noel, junior lightweight titleholder of the Philippines, in a non-title. 10-round bout at Korakuen Hall. There were no knockdowns in the fight, which failed to thrill the 2.000 spectators.
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      251 11 Commonwealth Games TSLAMABAD, Wed. (Reuter) Pakistan announced yesterday that they would not participate in the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in July if the AllWhite South African cricket team toured England. The South African tour is due to begin on June 1. The official statement said the
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      270 11 LONDON, Wed. (AFP) Brian London, the 35-year-old Blackpool heavyweight who announced his retirement from the ring after being stopped in five rounds by Joe Bugner at Wembley last night was one of boxing's colourful characters. You did not necessarily like him but you could not
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      86 11 LAS VEGAS. Nevada. Wed. (UPI) Rod Laver was the No. 1 seed in the 2nd annual US$5O,OOO Howard Hughes invitational tennis tournament scheduled to begin here today,. Two other Australians, Tony Roche and Roy Emerson, were seeded second and third in the men's singles event. The
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      254 11 Rose Wants Fight A 12Rounder INGLE WOOD. California. Wed. (UPI) Former world bantamweight champion Lionel Rose of Australia and his manager. Jack Rennie. yesterday asked that the exchampion's bout Saturday against Raul Cruz be extended from 10 to 12 rounds. The Rose-Cruz fight Is coleatured with a heavyweight bout between
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      157 11 The German Sports Federation ider Deutsche Sport bund DSB> to which 9,555.270 members from 38,284 clubs belong will tackle the tasks facing It In the 1970s with new faces at the top. At the recent DSB annual general meeting in Mainz (Federal Republic of Germany), the
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      572 11 MANILA. Wed. (Reuter)—The World Boxing Council have named Vicente Saldlvar of Mexico as their fighter for the month of May for regaining the world featherweight crown from Australian Johnny Famechon in their title fight in Rome on Sunday. Saldlvar first won the title in
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      146 11 LONDON. Wed An 18-year-old English schoolgirl will make her first appearance for Britain in the athletics match against the Netherlands at The Hague on Sunday. She Is Angela King a sixth form schoolgirl In the English Midlands who threw the Javelin 157 ft. 11]
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      Lock icon Centuries By Khan And Carling
      617 11 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Pakistani all-rounder Majid Jahangir Khan and hit Cambridge University colleague Philip Carling both hit centuries and shared a 225-run second-wicKet partnership which gave the University an eight-wicket win over County champions Glamorgan in yesterday's English cricket programme. It was Cambridge's first win
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      57 11 LONDON. Wea. (Reuter) Mark Rowe captured the British middleweight boxing title when he pounded the champion Les Mcateer to painlul defeat at the Empire Pool. Wembley, here last night. In another Brltlah title fight, Scotsman Ken Buchanan made a successful defence of hi* lightweight crown, knocking out
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      1125 11 CHANNEL 5 3.00 Opening Annets. tn all Language* A General Hospital Another Song Another pore <CJ 'Fepeati It's Happening In SmgaSore (C» (Repeat ousewives Matinee (Ah Fook Kor Nin Part 2 of a Cantonese Film). English Subtitles. Close Opening Annets in all Languages Dr Who. News in Brief (E» Banana
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    Lock icon Alleged Killer Asked Pardon Of Victim's Husband—Court Told
    388 12 Alleged Killer Asked Pardon Of Victim's Husband Court Told Bor waitress Wong Wen Siu knelt before the husband of the woman she was alleged to hava murdered and wept and begged for forgiveness, a preliminary inquiry was told yes- terday. Wong, 31, alias Mimi and her ex-husband, Sim Wall Kim,
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    Lock icon Missing Wallet Took A Long World Tour
    267 12  -  By K. S. Sidhu A wallet containing currency notes worth Singapore $2,400 and travellers cheque worth $3,000 went round the world unnoticed after it was left behind in a plane seat by a passenger, in New York. The wallet was found several months
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    167 12 Seven-year-old Sultan, a 76^-lb Alsatian police dog at R.A.F. Changi, was recently enjoying a grooming when a party of schoolchildren turned up to watch rather apprehensively, from a distance. Wielding the brush is 27->ear-old R A F Police Corooral Malcolm Burrows, Sultan's handler. Malcolm's Job is
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    Lock icon $13,000 Burglary
    65 12 A housewife, Mrs. P.B. Chapman, 42, has reported to the Police the theft of jewellery valued at $13,225 from her jewellery box in her house at Leedon Park on Sunday. Mrs. Chapman returned home in th? night from the races to find two glass louvres in the kitchen
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    Lock icon 'Four-Nation' Gurkha Family Wants To Live In Singapore
    288 12 FOUR children of a Gurkha family who were all born in different countries now pose a big problem. They prefer to stay here than to go back to Nepal. The children, two boys, Suren. 8 and SuraJ, 7 and their sisters, Bina.
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    Lock icon Five Years For Burglary
    99 12 Ng Boon Leong. 25. was yesterday sentenced to five years jail after he admitted breaking into a store and stealing typewriters and adding machines worth 53.500. The Court was told that on Nov. 15 last year, Lee Kim Seng of the Aik Wah Trading Company locked
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    Lock icon Australia Appoints New H.C. Here
    125 12 Singapore and Australia have agreed to the appointment of Mr. Nicholas Fancourt Parkinson as the new Australian High Commissioner in the Republic. Mr Parkinson will succeed Mr. A. R Parsons who leaves Singapore at the end of this month after completing his tour of duty,
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    63 12 The managing director of Central Tontine Fund Corporation Limited, Mr C-J ItMason, will be the chairman on the panel of judges in today's Toto draw to be drawn at the Singapore Wonderland Amusement Park. The other two panel members are Mr Tan Kok Soon, a Toto agent and
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    Lock icon Pollution Campaign In Top Gear
    135 12 There will br no "let-up" in the Anti-Pollution Campaign. motorists were warned yesterday. In quest of a cleaner, greener and healthier Singapore. the Traffic Police and the Ministry of Communications' Registry of Vehicles will spare no effort in ridding the streets of Singapore of smoky
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    Lock icon Bookmaker Fined $700
    61 12 A teacher from the Raffles Institution. Lim Eng Fatt, 38, was yesterday convicted In the Fifth District Court, and fined $7OO or three months jail in default for acting as a bookmaker. Lim who was defended by Mr S K Lee was alleged to have committed The
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