Eastern Sun, 29 May 1970

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    21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1355 Friday. 29 May 1970. MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cent*
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    Lock icon Top Reds Flee Deep Into Cambodia: U.S. TROOPS FIND VIETCONG HQ
    543 1 CAIGON, Thurs. (UPI, Reuter) American troops have found four Vietcong Command headquarters' camp in Cambodia but the top Communist commanders had flown the coop. Military sources said the bases were the Communists Central Office for T.outh Vietnam (COSVN). The
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    Lock icon Troops Advance On Red Camp
    217 1 BANGKOK, Thurs. (Reuter) A joint Thai-Ma-laysian force pressed towards a major Communist camp on a rugged 2,000 foot hill today while Malaysian troops moved to cut off guerrillas fleeing across the border. Thai army heavy mortars and helicopter gunships pounded guerrilla positions for the second
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    Lock icon Two Die When Prop Explodes
    46 1 MANILA. Thurs. (UPI> Two persons were killed and two injured when a bomb being used to drop up a stove exploded The explosion, at San Augustln on the island of Tablas left a crater two feet deep and four feet across.
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    Lock icon BELGIAN TV TEAM FREED
    118 1 VIENTIANE. Thurs (Reuter) A four-man Belgian television team arrived In Vientiane today and said they had been held captive by Pathet Lao guerrillas for the past two months. The four flew into Vientiane from the Royal capital of Luang Prabang. They told reporters they were captured
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    Lock icon No Fixed Deadline —Thieu
    156 1 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu said today his troops will stay in Cambodia past the withdrawal deadline for U.S. troops 3ut they will need American combat and logistical support. 'We have no fixed deadline for withdrawal from Cambodia." Thieu said. "As
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    Lock icon $55 FOR A VIETCONG
    43 1 PHNOM PENH. Thurs. 'CReuter) The Cambodian Government is offering rewards to people who capture North Vietnamese snd Vietcong. military communique requesting Cambodians to a.d the government offered about 5555.00 to women and SS3O to men who capture a Communist.
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    Lock icon Aussies Charge KL Stripper
    125 1 PERTH. Thurs (Reuter) Malaysian strip-tease dancer Rose Chan. 44. faces a possible two years in an Australian jail on a charge of performing indecently in public. Miss Chan her real name Is Chan Wai Chang from Kuala Lumpur was arrested after appearing at a football club
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    Lock icon PIRATE TAXIS TO SHARE IN CO-OP
    328 1 T3IRATE taxi drivers will be offered shares in Singapore's first 1 Workers' Transport Co-operative. This assurance was given yesterday by the Secretary-General of the National Trades Unions Congress, Mr. C. V. Devan Nair. Mr. Nair said proposed reorganisation of the transport system In Singapore
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    Lock icon Moore To Be Freed —Official
    159 1 BOGOTA Thurs. (Reuter) England's football captain Bobby Moore is expected to be released from custody late today, according to a senior Colombian justice official. Moore is alleged to have stolen 554.200. A top justice official who did not want to be named, said "I am
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    Lock icon Ceylon Votes In Left-Wing Govt.
    279 1 COLOMBO, Thurs. (Reuter)' —'Ceylon swung to the left today with the victory of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandanaraike's opposition United Front coalition in the general election. In a crushing defeat of Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake's National Party, her three-party front chalked up a total of 109 seats
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    Lock icon 2,000 Indonesian Pro-Communist Troops Sacked
    112 1 JAKARTA. Thurs. (Reuter) Nearly 2.000 troops from central Java's Diponegoro division have been dismissed for secret ties with underground Communist organisations Central Java military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jusuf Achmadi said the 1.923 soldiers and officers were believed to have been involved in Communist activities. He
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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    Lock icon Wife Alleges Acid Threat By Husband, In Divorce Case
    367 2 A housewife seeking a divorce yesterday alleged that her husband threatened to "destro/" her face with acid. Madam Foo Moi Ying said she was slapped, kicked and constantly abused for no reoson by her husband/ Lim Siew Yong, a restaurant employee.
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    Lock icon BUS DRIVERS PASS FIRST AID COURSE
    58 2 TWO hundred but drivers received their Proficiency and First Aid Certificates from Mr. Phua Bah Lee, Parliamen- tary Secretary to the Ministry of Communications, at a graduation ceremony held in St. John Ambulance Headquarters in Beach Road, yesterday. The drivers were taught Practical driving,
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    Lock icon Anti-Crime Exhibition Saturday
    120 2 Defence Minister, Mr. Lim Kim San will declare open a week-long Crime Prevention Exhibition at the Singapore Conference Hall tomorrow. The exhibition organised bv the Singapore Police Force hopes to educate the public :n <*rime prevention In Singapore. The exhibition week: To familiarise members Of the public
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    Lock icon 9 Months Jail
    26 2 AN illegal immigrant, Hussien bin Hassan, 21, was yesterday sentenced to nine months jail for theft by the Magistrate Mr. Giam Chin Toon.
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    Lock icon Beethoven Contest: Entries Close June 1
    160 2 There will be an "Open competition for Pianists" to commemorate the 200 th aniversary of the birth of German classical composer, Ludwig Van Beethoven. The winner of the com* pctiton, organised by the Singapore Music Teachers Association will receive a new upright pianoforte donated
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    Lock icon Raja's Talk
    35 2 The Minister for Foreign Affairs. Mr. S. Rajaratnam will speak on "Asean and International Co-operation in Southeast Asia" at the New Lecture Theatre 1, University of Singapore, on June 11 at 7.30 p.m.
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    Lock icon Search Continues For Lost Jet
    180 2 Sea and air operations are still continuing today in search for the pilot of a Lightning Fighter which was lost at sea on Wednesday, 50 miles NorthWest of Singapore. This was disclosed by Mr Dixon, Public Relations Officer of the Far East Air Force. The
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    Lock icon 'Gourmet's Mecca' Vision For S'pore
    217 2 AN International German chef hopes to make Singapore a "gourmet's mecca" for Southeast Asia. Herr Hans Wolfgang Fillinger an executive chef of Shangri-La Hotel arrived here recently to fulfil his dream. "The Shangri-La Hotel will not only be known as the only holiday resort hotel
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    Lock icon Girl Took Own Life After Quarrel With Sister, Court Told
    242 2 Schoolgirl Mok Sau Hiong, 12, broke a bowl, her elder sister, Siew Moy, 15, scolded her and killed herself in the night. Sau Hiong told the Coroner's Court at an inquiry yesterday that their father, Mok Loke, reprimanded both of
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    Lock icon Charity Recital Tonight
    120 2 THE Singapore Musical Society will present three well known musicans in a joint recital tonight at the Conference Hall at 8.45 The musicians are Peter Chiang, pianist. Hool Hin Kiong, bass, and Line A 1 Ee. accompanist. All proceeds derived from the concert, which is sponsored by
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    Lock icon O.A.C. STAFF PICNIC
    39 2 The Overseas Assurance Corporation will celebrate their 50th anniversary by holding a staff picnic on May 31 at the Pasir Rls Holiday Camp. The highlight of the picnic will be the election ol a picnic queen.
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    Lock icon 15 ARRESTED
    26 2 Police yesterday broke up an unauthorised procession by about 100 men and women along Amoy Street. Fifteen people. 10 of them women were arrested.
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    Lock icon Tourist Guides Must Re-register
    108 2 REGISTERED Tourist Guides are requested to re-regis-ter at the Tourist Promotion Board from June 1 to June 21 from 8.30 a m. to 5 p.m. during office hours. They should bring with them their badges, letters of authority, identity c ards. certificates of language proficiency and
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    Lock icon Gang Robs Finance Company
    89 2 Four men. all armed with parangs and bearing scrapers burst into the Xgoh Vat Finance Company at Serangoon Road and robbed three employees and a customer of $2,140 in cash and watches yesterday morning. The manager, Lee Yen? Pow, 55. was in the bank with two
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    Lock icon NZ Leader Due Today
    74 2 The leader of the Opposition New Zealand Parliament. Mr. Norman Kirk, will arrive this afternoon for a five-day visit of the Republic. While here, ne will call on the Prime Minister and also the Education Minister and pay courtesy call on the President. He will also
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    Lock icon MOVING OFFICE
    38 2 THE Registry of Land and Titles Deeds on the ground floor, City Hall, will be closed till Saturday as the Registry is moving to its new premises at the second floor, National Development Building, Maxwell Road.
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    Lock icon Rogers 'Yes' To Arms Pullout From Europe
    630 4 OOME, Thurs. (UPI end Reutcr) U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers yesterday agreed to offer the withdrawal of some tactical nuclear weapons from Europe to the Soviet Union in return for a similar Russian reduction, U.S. sourres said. Rogers won approval for
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    Lock icon French Students Battle Police
    231 4 PARIS, Thurs. (Reuter) Students blocked three roods in the latin quarter here early today as some of the sharpest and most prolonged clashes with police since the MayJune riots of 1968 raged in the centre of the capital. Clouds of tear gas filled the streets of
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    Lock icon Rumanian Floods Kill 176
    268 4 VIENNA, Thurs. (IPI) The mighty Danube gathered the water of Rumania's raging rivers yesterday and bore down at flood level on major cities on its way to the Black Sea. With flood crests at the Danube delta industrial cities of Galatl and Braily only two days
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    Lock icon Mao Group Told To Dissolve
    118 4 PARIS Thurs. (Reuter) The French government has ordered the dissolution of a Maoist group championed by philosopher JeanPaul Sartre and described by interior Minister Raymond Marcellln as the most dangerous extremeleft movement in France The Cabinet the dissolution of the Gauche Proletarlenne (Proletarian left» movement
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    Lock icon Thant Warns Of Virtual War In The Middle East
    285 4 UNITED NATIONS. Thurs. (Reuter) A grim warning by Secretary General U Thant that a virtual war situation now exists In the middle east today focussed United Nations attention on rising tension in the region. U Thant expressed particular distress over the
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    Lock icon • A policeman and a policewoman eject one of a group of anti-Cambodian war demonstrators who, on May 27, invaded the American Embassy in London. The group were protesting against the US escalation of the war in the Far East. UPI radio picture.
    42 4 A policeman and a policewoman eject one of a group of anti-Cambodian war demonstrators who, on May 27, invaded the American Embassy in London. The group were protesting against the US escalation of the war in the Far East. UPI radio picture.
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    Lock icon Wilson To 'Soak' The Rich If Labour Wins
    323 4 LONDON. Thur* (I'PD— Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labour Parly last night pledged to lew more taxei against the rich If tt Is returned to power In the June lft national election. The party's election manifesto, or platform, said "We shall cniure a
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    Lock icon Jackie Mum On Rift With Ari
    304 4 ATHENS, Thurs. (UPI) —Jacqueline and Ariatotle Onassis, are still saying nothing about rumours of a rift between them. They prepared yesterday to play hosts to American spacemen and other personalities on their private island of Skorpios next month. More than 100 staff members are
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    Lock icon Refugee Crisis: Beirut To Act
    317 4 BEIRUT, Thurs. (Reuter) Interior Minister Ksmal Jumblatt announced yesterday the Lebanese government will shortly act to curb anti-Israeli guerrilla activity along its border. He told reporters after a Cabinet meeting that from June 15, the army would arrest any Palestine commando firing from Lebanese territory,
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    Lock icon Trans-Arabian Pipeline May Be Closed
    149 4 BEIRUT. Thurs (Reuter) Lebanon's Foreign Minister Mr Kasslm Majdalanl said yesterday Saudi Arabia had Informed him It was considering the possibility of closing down permanently the Trans-Arabian pipellne which carries Saudi Arabian oil to the Lebanese terminal near Sidon across Jordan and Syria Last Sunday
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    Lock icon Rift In Israeli Govt Over Mideast
    353 4 JFRt'SALEM Thur*. Reuter) Difference* with the ruling coalition over a Middle East peace settlement emerged into the open in a parliamentary vote approving a. state of the nation address hv Prime Minister Golda Meir. Members of the rightwing Oahal Party, second largest partner m
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    Lock icon £6,500 For Visit To The Dentist
    130 4 LONDON. Thurs (Reuter> The High Court yesterday awarded an right-year-old ho v £6.500 for a visit he made to the dentist which ended with doctors remo\ing a tooth from his hack. Th* boy. Lan Gregg, went to the dentist four years ago to have
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    Lock icon Weird Wind Slams Roof On To 400 Children
    107 5 FADFORD. Virginia, Thurs. (UPI) A sudden gust of "twister-like" winds slammed into an ciemen tar v school yesterday. It splintered a glass-and steel roof and injured six children, one seriously. The weathe r Bureau in Richmond about 200 miles away. said "couldn't
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    Lock icon Cancer Virus Can Be Communicable
    367 5 HOUSTON, Texas, Thurs. (Reuter) Mounting evidence that at least some cancers are caused by viruses is being presented here. One expert has warned that a cancer virus could be communicable. Viruses are ultra-mlcro-tcopic parasites which attack body cells. They have long been inspected a.* a
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    Lock icon Loophole For U.S. War Critics
    158 5 NE W YORK, Thurs. a'PI) There is a littleknown statute in the New York (State) Civil Rights Law. It bars New Yorkers from participating in "an undeclared war without the assent of the people of the State." Democratic senatorial candidate Theodore Sorensen. former aid to
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    Lock icon £76m Facelift For Dockyards
    69 5 LONDON. Thurs (Feuter) The British government yesterday announced a £76 million facelift for the Devonport and Portsmouth naval dockyards. The modernisation programme provides £43 million for Devonport. on England's south-west coast, to be spent mainly on refitting facilities for the S rowing nuclear submarine eet and
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    Lock icon PARENTS SUE U.S. FOR SON'S DEATH
    122 5 NEW HAVEN. Connecticut. Thurs. (L'PI) A Connecticut couple yesterday filed suit against the Initrd States oovernment and top military officials for the death of their son in Vietnam. Attorneys for Mr. and Mrs. Russell Rotko. Sr., filed the 551.500.000 damage suit against the Government.
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    Lock icon More Funds For SST Development
    126 5 WASHINGTON Th-irs (UPI) The House > esterday approved an idiitional S?870 million fo r -ontinued development of the supersonic transport (SST 1 plane despite critics' most concerted lobbying effort vet aeainst the controversial jetliner Thev claimed it could turn into "a Flying *v>do The amount
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    Lock icon Attorney For Manson Still In Doubt
    317 5 LOS ANGELES, Thurs. (UPl)'—'With the Sharon Tate Murder Trial two and a half weeks away, the question of who will defend Charles Manson was still un- decided yesterday. Superior Court Judge Charles Older denied another of the hippie cult leader's requests yesterday to represent
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    Lock icon MEN WITH SHOULDER LENGTH HAIR or untidy beards are being refused unemployment pay at Monterey, California, according to James Hammond (right), Office Manager. Such department renders them "objectionable" for employment by some. "They have only to shave or trim their hair to receive payment," Hammond explained. – (UPI radiophoto).
    48 5 MEN WITH SHOULDER LENGTH HAIR or untidy beards are being refused unemployment pay at Monterey, California, according to James Hammond (right), Office Manager. Such department renders them "objectionable" for employment by some. "They have only to shave or trim their hair to receive payment," Hammond explained. (UPI radiophoto).
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    Lock icon Switches Blamed For Apollo 13 Explosion
    284 5 SPACE CENTRE, Houston, Thurs. (UPI) A pre-lounch accident at Ccpe Kennedy apprently damaged two automatic heater switches inside an Apollo 13 command ship oxygen tank. They could then cause the tank to explode on the way to the Moon, the Space Agency announced yesterday.
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    Lock icon Ice-breaker 'Manhattan' Hits Another Ship
    234 5 HOUSTON. Texas, Thurs (UPI) The "Manhattan." the icebreaker-tanker which made the historic North-west Passage voyage last year, collided yesterday with the Louis' "St. Laurent." The latter is the Canadian icebreaker accompanying it on another journey into the Arctic ice. A spokesman for the Humble Oil
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    Lock icon AID FROM JAPAN
    668 6 T'HF fifth aftftual review of Southeast Asia's economic progress just completed in Jogjakarta hard on the heels of the Jakarta conference on Indochina makes Indonesia the upcoming centre for diplomatic activity in Asia. The conference itself was more of a routine nature but some points came up
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    220 6 TN the recent celebrations to mark the centenary of Lenin's birth the world over, one of the groups that conducted an impressive meeting was composed of French Trotskyists who call themselves the Communist League. Their meeting in Pans was so crowded that the opening speaker, Charles Mlchaloux, a member
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    Lock icon Britten's Dream Restored
    950 6  -  By Oliver Carruthers GEMINI LONDON: It could have been the opening of the Aldeburg Festival itself, for all the excitement that went with the acoustics test at The Maltings, Snape, Suffolk. Almost a year ago to the day, just as the opening night of the 22nd Aideburgh
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    Lock icon Gambling Is Britain's Fastest-growing Industry
    669 6  -  Bv Cecil Porter GEMINI LONDON: The old firm called Ladbrokes calls itself "bookmakers to the Establishment for over half a century." These days, the Establishment Britain's upper classes are eagerly looking for a June 18 winner. Bv the time the votes are cast on general
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    405 6  -  By Dick West UPI WASHINGTON. A leading American financial writer noted the other day that the stock market drop this spring, although seemingly steep enough to strike terror in the ranks of investors, had produced little of none of the 1929 type panic. This could mean that modern Investors
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    Lock icon TONGA-ALL SET FOR INDEPENDENCE
    785 6  -  Br Glen Wright GEMINI APIA, Western Samoa: The 200-island constitutional monarrhv of Tonga. a British Protectorate since 1900. becomes indel»endent and joins the Commonwealth as a full member on June 4. King Tauf'ahau Tupon IV, KBE, issued the proclamation a few days after the one-day visit
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  • commercial and industrial
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      Lock icon MARKET SHARES WALL STREET SENTIMENT
      269 7 TRADING wag carried out briskly in th« Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore which yesterday showed considerable improvement following favourable reports from Wall Street. Blue Chips were better with light transactions. Hotels and properties were rather featureless and declined to 13,000 and 45,000 units respectively.
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      966 7 "BUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms ot the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of .1,000 units unless otherwise specified:- INDUSTRIALS Alcan $l5O <i9) $l-6 (3) 5! 49 (3) »1 42 (1J; DIM $1.53 t3>
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      Lock icon H.K. MARKET BETTER TOO
      96 7 HONG KONG. Thurs. (UPI) The Hong Kong stock market, which had been declining every trading day since May IS as a result of the Wall Street slump, made an abrupt turn around yesterday. The Hang Seng marketwide index rose by 3.08 points to close at 162.64.
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      Lock icon Gold Prices Decline
      72 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Gold prices generally continued to decline on markets here and abroad yesterday. London gold dropped 2J cents at the morning fixing and another 6 c»nts In the afternoon to $35.74 per ounce. In Zurich gold lost 5 cents to $35.70 bid. $35.80 asked
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      Lock icon PRODUCE
      94 7 IHfc noon prl'e* »t (be Singapore Chlnebe Proout* K* change yetterdai aere:H Coiunui Oil I- O-M Bulk M 30 COtollUI oil (F O H > Drum 60 Mixed topra 33..*) Muntok While Pepper (1 OR > 157 30 >ar.<«,ik White Pepper <1 OB) 1.VV00 >ar;n\ak pedal Klack I't Ul»'l
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      Lock icon STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSING PRICES
      660 7 BID and otter prices officially listed yesterday at the close of business in the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaytia and Singapore were: 1NDI STKIAI.S B s. klcan 13* len Co 1 60 Borneo Bbd. id 1*1 B'lu-teiirt rd 1 82 1 «S8 <
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      Lock icon Hotel Royal To Open By Next May
      213 7 THE Hotel Royal is expected to commence business by May 1971. This was disclosed in an interim report by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Hotel Royal Ltd., Dato Aw Kow. Construction of the superstructure has reached the eight floor and contracts
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      Lock icon European Marts Also Improve
      129 7 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) European stock markets beat Wall Street to the gun yesterday and started to move higher even before American markets opened for business. Buyers returned to trading floors seeking bargains among cheap looking top quality stocks hit by the long price slide as if
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE RECOVERS
      53 7 LONDON. Thurs. <UPl> Tin ©rice recovered over 20 pounds a ton on the London metal exchange vesterday. Buyers started f o appear on the market and values were gradually marked highter. Tuesdav the metal dumped £B7 pounds a ton —one of the biggest falls in day that
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      Lock icon H.K. CURRENCY RATES:
      125 7 HONG KONG Thura 1C! PI Thursday's 5 pm. currfDcy ralm (supplied by t oretcn Exchange and Investmrni l td (Buyers) (Sellers) |tlT l'«6 or 1.000 Taiwan dollars €745 6 755 per Australian dollar 360 per ljlOO Burmese nyata 465 485 pfr 1.000 Indian rupee* 150 170 per
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      Lock icon Rubber 57 1/2 Cts.
      259 7 JUNE first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 57} cents per lb. up cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was steady quiet. A very quiet session ruled during the morning which revealed no fresh
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      81 7 (Manager** Price for Ma? 29) CHARTtRKD I'M! TIU STS 8 Growth fund 00 1 04 ASIA 1 Ml 1HIMS M lnve»t Hind id 1.13 1.181(1 MNG \POKt UNIT TRUSTS l*t Singapore 2 57 2nd hingapore 183 :trd Sin* ipure 1.12 The Com. Ind- lOOvn The Sav Fund xd
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      17 7 On the Straits tin market yesterday, business was done at $660 per picul up $17.25.
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      Lock icon TODAY'S SHIPS IN PORT
      111 7 The Port of Singapore Authority has made tne following berthing arrangements for today. Mav 29 DEPARTURES Godowtii Vessels 3/4 Neleus 6/7 Ragna Bakke 8/9 Gurdun Bakke 10 11 Shusei Maru 18 Lucv 20 WESTToan Maru 20 EAST Sirusa 21 EAST Sletter E.W. Jetty Rok an 149
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      Lock icon Picture shows the barge – BP Marine 70 steaming to fuel a ship in Singapore.
      60 7 Picture shows the barge BP Marine 70 steaming to fuel a ship in Singapore. British Petroleum's first bunkering barge in Singapore is now in service. Costing over $l.l million, the 760 dead weight tons vessel was built by the Jurong Shipyard. BP recently took delivery of the barge which is
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      Lock icon Stunning Recovery On New York Mart
      147 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) The stock market staged a stunning recovery yesterday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average up more than 30 points from the 7J-year low reached In the previous ses-. sion. Trading was heavy. The U.P.I, market Indicator. measuring all stocks traded,
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      Lock icon London Rubber Hesitant
      57 7 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) Rubber market closed hesitant. W SETTLEMENT HOUSE July 20-3/8. 20-5/8 Aug. and July/Sept. 20-s'B. 20-7/8 Sept. 20-3/4. 21 Oct./ Dec. 21. 21-1/8 Jan./ March 21-1/8. 21-1/4 April/June 21-3/16. 21-5/16 July Sept 21-1/4. 21-3/8 Oct.' Dec 21-5/16. 21-7/16 Jan 'March 21-3/8 21-9 16 Anril June
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      Lock icon DOW JONES
      39 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 663 20 20 Transp 139.75 15 Utilities 100 04 65 Stocks ***** 40 Bonds 67 63 Commodity futures Index 134.49.
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      Lock icon Peso Unchanged
      27 7 MANILA. Thurs. <UPI> The Philippine peso aea'.n remained unchanged today at 6.165 pesos against one US dollar. Turnover vas USSISOOOO on the interbank currency market.
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      Lock icon ALL SECTIONS PUSH FORWARD
      358 7 Sydney Stocks, Closing Prices 1 Mi#'-,,#r,//%. v g SYDNEY, Thurs. (I'Pl) A better performance on the Wall Street exchange and renewed suppor for BHP by investors today pushed forward all sections of the Sydney Stock Exchange market. After weeks of heavy selling the market is now
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
      409 7 AKKIVAUt 14% am MSA l?S K Lumpur Ms* 123 K Lumpur 9 m MSA 452 K Lumpur 11.05 am MSA 454 P«i*n. K Lumpur 11 50am M>A 203 Jakarta |.:<opm MSA 451 Kuchlng 2-30 p m MsA 021 K l umpor. Malacca 335 pm Ms* 50* Hongkong. Bangkok.
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  • Students' Corner
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      Lock icon Comex Hots Up The Pace: Singapore, Here We Come
      869 8  -  Br Derek Ingram GEMINI LONDON: Recruiting is under woy for Comex 4, most ombitious yet of the series of expeditions that travel nearly a quarter way round the world overland so that young people of East and West can get to
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      220 8 The Raffles Photographic Society has once again organised the 3rd Inter-School Photographic Com petition, judging of which was held on 17th May at the Photographic Society of Singapore. The judges were Mr. Yip Hoi Kee ARPS. Mr Tan Yip Sen* ARPS. A RAP. and Mr
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      671 8  -  SCIENCE Bv E. C Thomson LONDON: 'Tntouched by hand" is a familiar and praiseworthv slogan in many modern food shops and markets, but who'd imagine it applying to letters in the post? Anyway, that's what we're coming to. Soon the only person actually handling the letters will
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      109 8 The Supervisory Committee of St. Teresa's High School gave a luncheon last week to celebrate the school's success in the Pasir Panjang District basketball tournament. The school came in first in the Girls "A" and "B" divisions while their Boys "A" and "B" were runnersup and
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      312 8 ADELAIDE, Australia: Mr. Lee Choon Huat. 24. a fifth-year Medical student in the University of Adelaide, South Australia. won several prizes in the university's annual examinations. Mr. Lee. a Colombo Plan scholarship student, gained distinction in the Second Professional Examination, and was recommended for the J.B.
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      858 8  -  DATELINE By Ele,Walt Dulaney Dear Ele and Walt: I am not a pretty girl and I know it. Boys don't beat a path to my door and that's no secret either. So why do mv uncle and aunt have to rub it in my
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      18 8 AMY By Jack Tipptt "He can't fetch a stick, but he can catch peanuts with his eyes closed."
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      93 8 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Alden McWilliams WHEN DANNV AND TQOY REPORT TO THE GLOBAL NEWS OFF ICE,THEY RECEIVE AN UNPLEASANT SURPRISE A RESEARCH ASSISTANT f? YOU'RE KIDDING/ LAKE WE NEED HER LIKE A RUBBER CRUTCH' R IINTRODUCED ROBIN JACKSON AS AN ACT OP .FRIENDSHIP, BOSS...yOU DIDN'T J MAV*
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    438 9  -  By Florence de Santis NEW YORK: Barry Bourn is president of Riviera Eyewear, designers of some of the grooviest sunglasses on the current fashion scene. There isn't much Riviera hasn't done, from glasses with switch-about tinted lenses to glasses that look like the mask
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    588 9  -  Speaking For Myself By Sheilah Graham NEW YORK: Hayley Mills ha« been asked to play Hedwig in "The Wild Duck." The Ibsen play starts rehearsals next month in London. If the producers will limit Hayley's contract to something less than four months, she will
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    517 9 Q: In June I am taking a guided tour of the Alps. What weather can I expect? Will knit suits be too warm? Will an all-weather coat be warm enough for the excursions to the peaks? The trip will take three weeks, and I wonder what will
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    601 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: I am an amateur chemist, age 15, who has gotten into a little trouble. The neighbour's dog hit me- I decided to give him something to make him sick- I didn't want to kill him. 1 just wantrd to get even.
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    248 9  -  A Lovelier You By Mary Sue Miller The feet are marvelous mechanisms, setting you In motion on command. Literally. they understand vou. But how much understanding do you give in return? How considerate air you of your feet, for Instance, when sidewalk* sizzle, as can happen
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      242 9 ■SHAW I iWrtMimaa [L I D O Phone *****4 II •Oi 1.45 Imt HHi »J3 p m it.m No-.aic .v C nt Waiafr IHt l.Kt\l KWK ROKHtBT" Pf n v i V\Bi NEXT CHANCRE GiuMarto C>r;nma Bbt Andfwon 'BLOW HOI. BI.OW rOI.D it) C-I o- w.rn»' R r qa- 7
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      33 9 T ODAY an f y. j Friday. May 29, 1970. SIFT. 31 OCT. SCOBHO OCT. 211 *3; 1-1223- AQUARIUS JAM. 10 imir. 2 13-24-35 U I 10 And 60Atw# \UAB. ssssi.- 5 PJwIKSJ
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      412 10 By Our Racing Correspondent IPOH, THurs. Silver Spray, a last start winner over 11 f at Bukit Timah, did a sparkling workout here this morning when he clocked 39 for 3f on good going. Rod Dawkins, who returned here yesterday after a short stay in Australia following
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      445 10 PARIS, Thurs. (Reuter| Sixth-seeded African Bob Hewitt was knocked out of the men's singles at th e French International Open tennis championships here after an often brilliant but typically bad-tempered display yesterday. Hewitt, who was born in Sydney, Australia, was the first seed
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      1995 10 1 Race l: CI. 5 Div. 3—SVfe Fur*.—2.15 P- ($5,000) 1 ***** Tymkrn 43 900 Net Boucourt Mtietitll 2 ***** f'ranw fl 61 8.12 Sea TulJoh Podmora ***** Rn»n Prince ff* 8 10 K A T E Breuk wi:»oo R0372 Ten So Trump* 43
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      523 10 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPP Don Buford's bouncing two-run single with the bases loaded in the seventh Inning sparked the Baltimore Orioles to a 5-4 come-from-behlnd victory last night over the slumping Cleveland Indians. Reliever Mike Paul walked leadoff batter Dave Johnson In the seventh before
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      33 10 ThiS QUEENSLAND. Rri?H«.. Re Uten Great Britain g touring Rugby League side crushed Wide St* 45 nX£ 10 seven In their match here yesterday. At naif time Great Britain led 20-7.
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      283 11 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Intikhab Alam, Surrey's Pakistan Test spinner, produced his best bowling performance in the English County cricket championship yesterday when he took eight Middlesex wickets for 74 intikhab looked set to dismiss all ten batsmen after claiming the first eight wickets, but then
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      27 11 DEN BOSCH. Holland. Thurs. (Reuter) Ajax Amsterdam. European soccer cup finalists last year, beat PSV Eindhoven 2-0 In the Dutch Cup final here last night.
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      220 11 EDINBURGH, Scotland, Thurs. (Reuter) Ticket' sales for the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in July have topped the £lBO.OOO mark, with 50 days still to go before the opening ceremony. It was announced yesterday. Sir Herbert Brechin. Chairman of the Organising Committee. said -Breakeven''
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      57 11 PRETORIA Thurs. (Reuter) The South African Minister for Sport. Mr. Frank Waring, last night dashed the hopes of sports administrators that the government might permit more contact between black and white on the playing fields. He firmly ruled out any chances of a summit conference of sports officials
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      90 11 Devinder Singh's goal in extra time enabled Military to beat the Police in the annual hockey match at the Padang yesterday. The game, played at a a fast pace, thrilled the 2,000 hockey fans, including Mrs. E. W. Barker, wife of the Minister for Law
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      234 11 ROME. Thurs. <AFP)— Nino Benvenuti of Italy has received a one hundred million Lira £83.000 offer to defend his world middleweight boxing title in New York against Argentina's Carlos Monzon. ranked as the world's number one challenger. Benvenuti successfully defended his title in Umago. Yugoslavia
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      208 11  -  By Charlie Chan SINGAPORE bowlers will be able to take part in a "one-versus-five" event soon to be introduced by Europe's formost bowling professional, Paul Lane. An AMF professional from London, Lane will be here for three days in the course of a
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      118 11 FORTIN. Mexico. Thurs. (Reuter) Flying Finn Hannu Mikkola. 23. has won the 16.000 mile World Cup rally the toughest In the history of International motor sport according to unofficial calculations here yesterday. The women's prize seemed certain to go to Ireland's Rosemary Smith and her two
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      121 11 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) Evonne Goolagong. the brilliant 18-year-old Australian, underlined her claim as the world's most promising junio r when she triumphed over United States junior champion Sharon Walsh at Surbiton here yesterday. Miss Goolagonc lost the first set 4 —6 before taking the next two
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      62 11 MELBOURNE. 1 hura. (Reuter) South African players have been refused visas for the world netball championships in Kingston Jamaica, next year The manageress-coach of the South African side touring here Mrs. Rita Oosthuizen. announced this when the tourists reached Melbourne today. "The Jamaican Government has
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      211 11 NOTICES APPOINTMENTS P.W.D. SINGAPORE TENDERS are Invited from PW D Registered Contractors lor the mdermentioned work:1- C'on«trurtion and completion of Avenue Extension from Pa>a Lehar Koad to Jalan Kunon "Civil Er.gineerlng or "Roa<l9" above 5250.')00/Closlng Date: 26 670 Pull particulars may be »een and obtained at the oftlce of the
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    397 12 A remand prisoner, yesterday told a court that a gang responsible for a $124,779 holdup met at his flat to split the loot. Tan Peng Poh added that the gang-leader, known as 'Macao' visited him, before the robbery and told him to
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    173 12 Four Royal Air Force Phantom jets bound for Hong Konq on a non-stop training flight were forced to return to Singapore by bad weather over the British colony. The aircraft took off from RAF Tengah at 615 am. for the 4-hour 2.000-mile
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    79 12 KUCHING. Thurs. (Feuten Tight security measures are being imposed to prevent Communists from disrupting the forthcom.ng Parliamentary and ftate Elections in Sarawak Mr Harun Ariffin. rhairman of the governing State Operations Committee, told reporters here todav that additional police units were being placed in sensitive
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    291 12 THE Royal New Zealand Air Force's contribution to the strike forces of Bersatu Padu—six Canberra bombers of No. 14 Squadron —is due to arrive this afternoon. The aircraft, led by the Squadron Commander. Squadron Leader D. R. Smith, are due to touch down at RAF
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    32 12 Bill collector cum salesman Rahim bin Abu 3akar. was yesterday sentenced to two years jail when he admitted that he committed criminal breach of trust of 526.537.35 cts.
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    366 12 The Kidnap* Killing A warning letter written by Lee Chor Pet, one of three men charged with the kidnap-murder of Ong Beang Leek on May 24 1968, was produced in the High Court yesterday. The letter addressed to Chia Chin Poh. a prosecution witness was
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    196 12 Thomas KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday Indonesia —as expected took the commanding lead when they beat New Zealand by four matches to nil on the opening day of the eighth Thomas Cup quarterfinal at the Stadium Ncgara. In the opening singles match, 27-year-old Asian champion made short work
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    156 12 The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) has launched a fund-raising campaign for building a new animal sanctuary in the Republic. The Society, former 23 years ago. today handles 16.000 animals a v ear. However, its present sanctuary is not sufficient to meet
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    18 12 Ther*» were a total of 55 accidents, three of which were described as serious, on Wednesday.
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