Eastern Sun, 3 June 1970

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  • 22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1359 Wednesday. 3 June 1970. MC (P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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  • 410 1 Safe Landing With Hole In Cabin ]VT AN I LA, Tues. (UPI) An explosion today ripped a large hole in the cabin of a Philippine Air Lines aircraft flying at 13,000 feet. At least one person was killed and 12 hurt. Police said the explosion was
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  • 300 1 LONDON, Tues. (UPI) New Zealand motor racing driver Bruce McLaren died in a high speed crash at Goodwood track south of London today. Track officials said McLaren's car was travelling at about 180 m.p.h. when it hit a bank and exploded. Police said, the
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  • 111 1 BANGKOK Tues (Reuter) Two Thai policemen were wounded by Communist booby traps today as the.v rushed to iefend a border police camp bring attacked by guerrillas. Police said the paratroopers beat off the Comm-inist attack on their camp in Betong Province and differed no casualties.
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  • 153 1 LIMA, Tues. (UPI) The Peruvian Government still does not know the death tol! in Sunday's massive earthquakes. The government said until now the number of victims is unknown, but the size of the catastrophe Is elevated. The official figures will be revealed as sooi. as thev
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  • 260 1 IIfOSCOW, Tues. (UPI) Two Soviet space--I*l men orbited eorth today on on unheralded and unexplained flight. The spacecraft Soyuz 9. commanded by Colonel Andrian Nikolayev. 40, on his first space flight in eight years and with flight engineer Vitaly Sevastianov. 35. on his first flight, was
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  • 62 1 MUCH will depend on this Malaysian pair of Ng Boon Bee and Punch Gunalan when Malaysia meets Indonesia in the Thomas Cup final on Friday and Saturday. They are seen here in action against Denmark. The ;>ossible changes in the Malaysian lineup and the prospects of Malaysia
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  • 398 1 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) —An egg hit Prime Minister Harold Wilson square on the* forehead last night as Britain's general election campaign showed the first signs of getting tough. The egg. thrown by a heckler as Wilson was about to enter a meeting
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  • 120 1 WASHINGTON. Tues. (UPI) American air strikes on Cambodia will end when U.S. troops pull out. a White House spokesman says. But. the spokesman does not rule out a resumption of bombing If Communist activity in Cambodia threatens the security of U.S. forces
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  • 31 1 PHILADELPHIA. Tues. (CPI) Ecuadorian Consul Alfred Giler. 37. has pleaded guilty on one of two charges arising from hi* arrest for smuggling "lb of cocaine into the U S
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  • 87 1 MIAMI. lues (CPI) A "war party" of Seminole Indians is on its way to Washington for a pow-wow with the white chiefs who dole out federal money. At a tribal meeting, the Seminole Council of Florida decided to send a delegation to the U S.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 540 2 Kidnap-Kitting Lee Chor Pet, the first accused in the Ong Beang Leek kidnap-murder trial, yesterday named the second accused, Lim Kim Kwee as "the mastermind" behind everything. He was continuing with his defence in the trial in which he, Lim, 34, and Ho Kee
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  • 206 2 More alluring lips for Singapore women —three top-class Japanese beauty consultants are in town trying to achieve that. They are Miss Makiko Mori. Miss Keiko Inukal and Miss Eml Okuda from the cosmetic firm of Shi•eido, Tokyo. The three girls will introduce a new concept of
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  • 313 2 SEVERAL thousand gallons of an oil-dispersal agent will be flown today to Mauritius. Three Royal Air Force Hercules transport aircraft of No. 48 Squadron, have been assigned the task. The urgent need is to safeguard the Seychelles shoreline against any oil slick which might spread
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  • 137 2 POLICE warned yesterday that no vehicles carrying sand or gravel, clay, loam or stones are allowed to travel along Airport Road leading to Paya Lebar International Airport. The press statement said: "Much of the effort to keep Airport Road clean and beautiful has in the past
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  • 191 2 FIRE swept through a duster of attap huts at Yong Siak Street, off Tiong Bahru, and rendered 10 families, comprising about 100 people, homeless, last night. The fire, which started at 8.40 pnj., was put out one hour later by firemen using five fire engines.
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  • 212 2 'Banned Man Wins Court Summons M. A. Majid, recently declared "persona non grata" at all Courts by the High Court, was yesterday cleared on two summons charges of mischief and using abusive language on his subtenant. Majid. a former trade unionist was accused of having used abusive language on a
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  • 24 2 P*ERAK. Tues—The new Perak Chinese Chamber of Commerce which cost $300,000 will be officially opened on June 6. *t 2 pffl
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  • 24 2 Three Indonesian women who have been living in Singapore illegally for about 11 years were /?sterrtay sentenced .to a day's jail each
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  • 136 2 THE United National Front has sent a cable to the International Labour Organisation protesting against the Government action for de-registering Singapore Bus Employees Union recently. Mr. R. Vetrivelu, UNF's Secretary General said the SBEU was de-registered by the Government because it refused to lend
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  • 221 2 Bersatu Padu Games THREE air exercises involving aircraft from the air forces of four nations will take part in the Bersatu Padu games. New Zealand, Britain, Malaysia and Singapore are taking part in this air exercise. The exercise designed to test the air defence
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  • 164 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. —A state-wide campaign to shoot all stray dogs to check rabies has been launched in Selangor, which has been declared an infected area. The proclamation of Selangor as a rabies-infected area was made today by the Mentri Besar. Dat? Faji Harun bin Haji
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  • 201 2 Army officers of the five countries taking part in the Bersatu Padu exercises are now enqaged in a two day "telephone battle" which started yesterday. More formally known as a command post exercise, the telephone battle is to practise the standard operating procedures, wrUten for the
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  • 125 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. —lndonesia, as expected, won all their three tingles and two doubles tonight to complete a 9-0 rout of Canada in the semi-final of the eighth Thomas Cup competition here. However. Channaroig Rattan Saeng-Suang formerly of Thailand. no w a Canadian resident, took Parmarii
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  • 94 2 THE President of the Interflora Pacific Unit, Mr. Jac P. Berkhout, is here on a four-day visit to give talks and demonstrations of western flower arrangement. Mr. Berkhout from New Zealand is accompanied by his secretary, Mr. Hargreaves. Mr. Berkhout said hit visit to
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  • 446 3 KAMPALA, Tues. (Reuter) A British Asian told police that the reported "kidnapping" of British diplomat Brian Lea was planned with Lea himself. it was a plot to obtain British entry vouchers for British Asians in Uganda, he
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  • 45 3 HONG KONG Tues. (Reuter) The three remaining staff members of the North Vietnamese embassy in Phnom Penh returned to Hanoi yesterday. North Vietnam withdrew most of its diplomatic personnel in Phnom Penh last March after It had broken off diplomatic relations with Cambodia.
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  • 144 3 DAR ES-SALAAM. Tues. (Reuter) —Two persons were still missing tonight from a pleasure boat disaster here yesterday. Thirteen Asians, all women and children were drowned in the mishap. A search by patrol boats and aircraft was called off as darkness fell. The boat carried 19
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  • 237 3 SAIGON, Tues. (Reuter) South Vietnamese Government leaders, including Vice-President Nguyen Cao Ky and Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam, are expected to visit Cambodia later this week. Lam had originally been expected to take up an Invitation extended last week by his Cambodian counterpart, Yem
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  • 86 3 TOKYO. Tues. (Reuter) Japan's Deputj ViceForeign Minister Shinsaku Hogen will leave here on Thursday for Kuala Lumpur. He will attend a threenation meeting on Cambodia. the Foreign Ministry announced today. Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia were employed by last month's Asla-Paciflc Conference in Jakarta to seek
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  • 103 3 CA NBERRA, Tues. (Reuter) Special eonstables were Hurriedly sworn in Here yesterday after it was discovered that Australia's capital had no legal police force. A flurry of activity followed a magistrate's ruling that none of the police in the Australian Capital Territory
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  • 124 3 AUCKLAND. New Zealand, Tues. (UPI) Tiri 2. lelieved to be the nast pirate radio ship in tne world, closed down transmission for ever last night. Then it lost a man overboard. Radio Hauraki Limited, which owns Tin 2, has been licensed to broadcast from
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  • 123 3 JAKARTA. Tues. (AFP) The sending of an Asian and Pacific peace-keeping force to Cambodia was urged today by Subchan. ViceChairman of the People's Congress. Indonesia's supreme governing body. Subchan suggested that the force could consist of troops from Indonesia. South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan. Australia and
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  • 327 3 Islanders Worried Over Fishing Industry: VICTORIA, Ma he, Seychelle Islands, Tues. (Reuter) The Royal Navy fleet oiltanker, "Ennerdale", lay submerged on a sandbank here last night. Her huge cargo of fuel oil is meanwhile gradually seeping into the Indion Ocean. It is posing
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  • 108 3 BRISBANE. Tues. (Reuter) British woman pilot Sheila Scott was today forced to put off the first leg of her solo world flight. Bad weather over Noumea forced her to land here. The blonde 42-year-old flyer set out from svdney this morning on
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  • 147 3 MANILA. Tues. (UPI) The 16-year-old daughter of a Filipino millionaire was reported today to have been kidnapped 18 days ago. She has not been heard from since. The "Daily Star" identified her as Yolanda Rojas. youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arturo Rojas. The couple
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  • 95 3 CHU LAI. Vietnam, Tues. (UPI) The U.S. First Infantry Division went home earlier this year in a third phase American troop withdrawal. However, Sgt. Bud C. Weiser settled for a transfer inside Vietnam. Bud is a 45-pound mongrel dog. It served as mascot of the division for four years.
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  • 71 3 MELBOURNE. Tues. (Reuter) Thousands of acres of farmland In the east Glppsland area, east of here, were under water today In the worst flood for 20 years. Rivers have risen up to 20 feet In the past three days, and are stiL rising. Families living near
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  • 169 3 JAKARTA, Tues. (UPI) A Jakarta court of appeals has sentenced the Information Minister in ExPresident Sukarno's last cabinet to 10 years in prison. Former Information Minister Achm a d 1 Hadisumarto was sentenced In May 1968 to six years in prison on charges of inciting
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  • 45 3 LONDON, Tues. «Reuter) —A British Airliner took off today on a new short-cut route to Japan across Siberia The Boeing 707 aircraft of British Overseas Airways Corporation was the first western commercial flight allowed across the hitnerto forbidden interior of the USSR.
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  • 157 3 SEOUL. Tues. (Reuter) The South Korean Central Intelligence Agency said today it had arrested a Korean poet, a magazine editor and an opposition party official in connection with a satiric poem bitterly critical of government corruption. They are charged with giving aid and comfort to the
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  • 601 4 TEL AVIV, Tues. (AFP) The Israeli armed forces went on the offensive today ofter a day of Arab rocket attacks which killed a young girl and wounded 10 others. Israeli aircraft raided Egyptian targets along the Suez Canal and artil'ery pounded guerrilla bases in
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  • 159 4 LONDON. Tues (Reuter) Prime Minister Harold Wilson ran into a row with foreign press correspondents as he opened up his election campaign yesterday. At the press conference where Mr. Wilson fired off the first salvoes of his campaign. foreign journalists were excluded. The reason given
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  • 63 4 TEX AVTV. Tues (Reuter) Two Syrian soldiers were killed In a clash with an Israeli patrol In the Rafld sector of the occupied Golan Height* early today, a military spokesman said here. There w*re n") Israeli casualtle* The encounter followed an earlier clash with Arab
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  • 240 4 WASHINGTON, Tues. (Reuter) Nearly threequarters of the U.S. Senate yesterday demanded that the Nixon Administration provide Israel with more jet aircraft. Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott delivered to the State Department a letter signed by 71 senators and addressed to Secretary of State William Rogers
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  • 114 4 LIVERPOOL. Tues. (Reuter) A steel worker who survived after his entire body passed between mill rollers less than six inches apart was awarded £8.500 damages here yesterday John Pownall, 30. an assistant rolling mill operator at the Lancashire Steel Manufacturing Company's factory, lost his rooting while
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  • 110 4 LON'DOJC, Tues (Feuter) Britain yesterday urged the Soviet Union to give serious consideration to NATO's recent offer of multilateral exploratory talks for reducing East-West tensions and improving European security. Mr. Michael Stewart. Foreign Secretary, at a 4.V minute meeting with Mr. Mikhail Smirnovsky, Soviet
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  • 114 4 BELGRADE. Tues (Reutert Britain's Princess Margaret, wined and dined by President Tito last night, will today lunch with Yugoslavia* Prime Minister Mtlja Riblclc. The princess L> the first member or the British royal tamlly to visit a Communist country. She arrived with her husband Lord Snowdon yesterday
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  • 140 4 MOSCOW. Tues. (Reuttr) —Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev 76, was admitted to hospital her« last Friday for a medical check usually reliable Soviet sources said yesterday. The exact nature of his illness was not known. But sources said it was not serious and it was
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  • 101 4 LONDON. Tues. ißeuter) Piccadilly Circus, once the hub of the British empire. is rapidly losing its attraction lor tourists, according to shop-keepers in the area The cause hippies drug trafficking and all the other trappings of an itinerant breed. A Piccadilly store manager said
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  • 530 4 VIENNA. Tues. <*'uter> Vanuhe* markers kept a round-the-clock vigil along tne buu m ir day as the swift flowing, muddy torrent rose to record h g Calamitous damage has already been Inflicted on 37 Rumanian provinces by the worst floods in centuries. But
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  • 139 4 VATICAN CITY. Tues.. (t*PI) Pope Paul VI said yesterday he was saddened that manv priests were leaving the ministry-. Speaking to four Cardinals. 34 bishops and 600 priests who came from Spain for the canonisation on Sunday of Saint Juan De Avila. the Pope said
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  • 148 4 BONN. Tuts. (Reuter) —Chancellor Willy Brandt yesterday launched a campaign to test West German public support for his government's drive to improve relations with Eastern Europe. Mr. Brandts Soritl Democratic Party started t» send out a questionnaire 2.500,000 reople with ttv» aim of consulting
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 377 5 NEW YORK, Tues. {UPI) The Soviet Union's economy is lagging far behind America's, both in quantity and quality, according to three Russia* scientists. They made their views known In a letter to Kremlin leaders last April. A copy was obtained by the "Saturday Review."
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  • 90 5 VIENNA. Tues. IUPIy Austria's tiny Communist Party returned to the Moscow line yesterday after a three-day party congress that carefully erased its earlier condemnation of the Soviet-led Invasion of Czechoslovakia. Party Chairman Frana Muhri told a news Conference the party's 1968 criticism of the Soviet-led
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  • 51 5 AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR BRIAN BURNETT, the new Commander-in-Chief, Far East, inspects a Tri-Service Guard of Honour at Phoenix Park, Singapore. The occasion was in honour of his first arrival at his headquarters her yesterday. He is escorted by the Guard Commander, Squardon Leader T. W. Elmes of the RAF
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  • 130 5 WASHINGTON. TUPS. (UPI) The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that expulsion of two boys from school for wearing their hair long "violated' their constitutional rights The court, without comment, turner down an appeal by Wisconsin school authorities from the ruling by the 7th US. circuit Court
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  • 302 5 WASHINGTON. Tues. (UPI) More than half the communist party members outside the Bloc nations are in Italy. The remainder are scattered over 73 other nations, according to a US. State Department report released yesterday. The 22nd annual report, entitled, 'World Strength of the Communist
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  • 105 5 OTTAWA. Tues (UPI) Opposition parties congratulated Prime Minister Trudrau yesterday on his 19-day Pacific tour. Nonetheless. they could not resist the temptation to rib him about the "playboy" activities that won him headlines in th_ foreign press. Conservative leader Robert Stanfleld recalled a popular television commercial for
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  • 337 5 BUENOS AIRES, Tues. (Reuter) A vast nation-wide search for kidnapped former president Pedro Aramburu was stepped up yesterday. His abductors had announced they planned to "execute" him. The 65-year-old retired army General ruled Argentina from 1955 to 1958. He
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  • 340 5 MOSCOW, Tue». (UPI) A pleased end surprised Neil Armstrong watched the launch of Soyuz 9 in a cosmonaut's apartment. He was told the flight "is in honour of your trip." Soviet sources said today. They were among those at party last night in
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  • 114 5 NEW YORK. Tues (Renter) The career of "Dashing Dan.** a polite bank robber, was believed today to have ended with his 20th gentlemanly holdup. FB I. agents and police arrested a Tunisian immigrant 44-year-old Raphael Pavla He was then stepping out out of a taxi near
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  • 233 5 LOS ANGELES, Tues. (UPI) Charles Manson got a new lawyer in the Tate Murder Case yesterday. His attorney then charged that the State's key witness had taken LSD 300 times and was not "competent" to testify. Irving Kanarek was approved by the court as attorney of
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  • 217 5 HOUSTON. Texas. TUM. (UPl)—Customs Inspector Bill Farrar has got a great nose for his 10b He can smell raw marijuana. In fact, when he comes in contact with the weed. Farrar begins to sneeze and his eyes redden, itch and weep He is as allergic to
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  • 113 5 WASHINGTON, TUM. (Reuter) One of the lowest foreign aid bills in history was s«nt to the U.S. house of Representatives yesterday. It had been heavily cut by economy-minded committee members. The 556.900 million Foreign Aid Bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee was about 551.775 million
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  • 209 5 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Tues. (Reut«r) Bubonic plague has been reported in dought-stric-ken north-east Brazil. Peasants there have held up train* and invaded towns to plunder shop* for food. The Rio de Janeiro evening newspaper "Ultima. Hora," reported the plague epidemic has so far struck
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  • 704 6 THE dispatch of Thai troops to take up defensive positions in the principal cities of Cambodia, including the capital, can be viewed in many ways. The first question that arises is: Are events in Cambodia becoming a free for all? We have to accept the words of Thai
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  • 346 6 TT IS very hard to believe what former Cambodian Ambassador in Peking. Ney Valentin, gives as the reason *yr Prince Norodom Sihanouk choosing Peking and Hanoi as ths cities from which he will operate. Vaierttin fays it was the pressure exerted on him by NOrth Vietnamese Prime
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  • 773 6  -  By Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON The Democrats are audibly hoping that their party will be rescued this year by the dire combination of recession and inflation. The issue In 1970 is "Nixonomics," according to the able chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Lawrence O'Brien. Maybe the Democratic hopes
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  • 748 6  -  By TONY COZIER GEMINI BRIDGE TOWN, Barbados: Neighbours of Trinidad and Tobago have been quick to move against the militant Black Power movement which created the recent crisis there. Prime Minister Errof Barrow of Barbados and Premier Eric Gairy of Grenada took strongarm measures
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  • 929 6  -  Br R. M. SORGE UNITED NATIONS There was a time when producer countries destroyed large quantities of food to stabilize commodity prices. Thousands of tons of wheat went up in flames, streets were paved with coffee and food was dumped into the Oceans. Humanitarians deplored
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  • 427 6  -  By Gamini Seneviratne GEMINI LONDON. The Victoria Embankment and the tube station at Charing Cross hare reached their centenary The station was opened on May 3#, 1870 and the carriageway a few weeks later. Today the Embankment must surely bo the most unchanged road of it*
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 329 7 TRADING was fairly quiet yesterday in Hie Stack Exchange. Leaders had buyars glued at improved (avals as thara wara lack of sallars. Activity was can trad on the lower priced industrials with marginal gains and losses. Hotels and properties were thinly traded while tins and the
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    • 721 7 "pUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms 1 of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specifed:— INDUSTRIALS Ale an $1.54 (7) 51.55 <5): DTM 51.37 (10) 51.55 (8) $1.96 (10);
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    • 64 7 NEW YORK Tues (UPI) —Gold prices slipoed in quiet trading yesterday on markets here and abroad. In London, gold was unchanged at the morning fixing but fell 5 rents for a second fixing of $35.40 per trov ounce Frankfurt gold was unchanged at $35.33. Zurich gold dropped
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    • 41 7 NEW YORK Tues (UPI) Dow Jones closing average.* yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 industrial# 710.36 20 transp 146.80 15 utilities 103 02 65 stocks 231.53 40 bonds 67 73 Commodity futures index 134 37 off 0.06.
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    • 32 7 MANILA. Tues -UPI> The Philippine peso was quoted toda v at 6.17 oesog against on® US dollar unchanged from Monday Turnover amounted to US $500,000 on the interbank currency market.
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    • 16 7 Business done on the Straits tin market yesterday was s66os per picul down $9.75.
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    • 86 7 THE noon prlrw at .e fflngapnrt < hlnrv? Prnflttr cnange jeMerrta? were:0 i. l«rnnnt on iFOHj Bulk Si wo < AT..iiut nil <r Drum 00 00 Mt\*d l opra 3#00 Muntnk Wliltr frpprr lKi Ml (FOB 1 9*rauak White P»pp*r (FOB) I fio no Sarawak i>prrlal Black Pepper IM>HI
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    • 86 7 (Manager** Prlr* fnr Jnn» H Mill Ki ll (Nil llil <«|s s. Growth Funrt... 100 IDS A*IA IM1 TNI >1 m*e*t. Fund til lit 119 MStaPOHk l NIT 1 Kl ST* l«t *lng;ipnri» <60 2nd Singapore 1J7 •trrt Mlnsapore 1-14 Tho Com. Ind. 101 \d Th<* *a*. Fund
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    • 659 7 BID and offer prices officially lilted yesterday at the close of business »n the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore were: INDUSTRIALS ft t. A«-MA KM 1 88 Alcad 1 V» B4»n A- Co 1 Borneo Hhd cd 1 64 l.M B"U«tfirt
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    • 259 7 JUNE first 9'ad* rub* ber buytr s closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala '.umpur yesterday at 57J cents per lb. up cent from the previous close. The tone of tne market was dull. A s'ow morning's trading consisted mostly of switching and squaring with
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    • 128 7 HONG KONG. Tuea. Ct'PI) Today's 5 pm. currency rates supplied bf Fore i(D Exchange aod loveatmetu Ltd (Buyers) (Seller*) 195 1<>0 f»r 100 Strait* dollars 147 14fl per l.noo T»iw»n dollars i.i* 675 per Australian dollar per l Ooo Burmese icrata 340 m 460 180 per 1.000
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    • 168 7 NEW YORK, Tues. (UPI) Stock prices continued to climb sharply yesterday in a continuation of last week's historic advanceTrading was heavy. The Dow Jones industrial average was ahead 9.92 at 710.36 after advancing more than 65 points from Wednesday to Friday last week
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    • 62 7 LONDON. Tu*s. (UPI) Rubber market closed Idle yesterday with spot 19-13 16. 30-3/16 SETTLEMENT HOUSE July 20-1/16 20-5/16 Aug a nd July/Sept 20-7 16 20-11 16 Sept 20-9 16 20-3/16 Oct/Dec 20-13 16 20-15 16 Jan Mar iI 21-1/8 Apr'Jun# 21-1/16 21-1/4 July Sept 21-3/16 21-3/6
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    • 384 7 V Sydney' Stocky Closing Price# SYDNEY, Tues. (UPI) Many leading mining stocks slipped back in afternoon trading after a hectic start to tne day's session on the Sydney Stock Exchange today. Early this morning a large majority of stocks recorded their pest rises in recent weeks
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    • 430 7 AKKIA ALS 144 am MSA 125 k Lumpur 7 30am MSA it* K- Lumpur 9-|oam MSA 4&f k Lumpur 116." am MvA 454 Pcnang. k Lumpur 11 SO a m Ms.A 203 Jakarta 130 p m MvA 4." 1 kuching tiftpm M*A 021 k Lumpur, Malacca 2 «r.
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    • 98 7 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) Prices surged higher for the fourth straight session on the stock market yesterday spurred by Friday's gain* on Wall Street. Before the final bell the Index shot 8.3 higher to 343.8 with Industrial leader* and British government bonds sharing a broad spread of
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    • 101 7 The Port Of Singapore Authority hat made the following berthing arrangement* for today. June 3. DEPARTURES Oodowna Vessels I' 2 Nicobar 6/4 T agaytay 5 Ganges Mam 8/9 London AdvOcate 10'11 Bonneville 15/16 Sehwabenstein Aja x 20 West Kun*k 29/30 Koushi Maru 38/39 Pando souAd 44
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  • 594 9  -  Speaking For Myself By Sheilah Graham NFW YORK: I'm too laiy to be a Latin lover, Mid Marrello Mastroianni on the loration of his present picture. "The Priest's Wife". "One day, I'll do a satire on the Latin lover makin e
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  • 552 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: There are so many sick bovg and girls wandering around the country these days. The other afternoon while shopping in downtown San Francisco, I paused to talk to several haunted looking children as they shuffled aimlessly along t he streets. I asked
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  • 430 9  -  By Florence dc Santis NEW YORK: Ever hear of a "ruana"? If not, you probably have heard by now. of a poncho, a djellabah, a caftan, a sari, a dashiki. perhaps even of a cheong-sam The ruana is just the latest to join a lengthening
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  • 236 9  -  A Lovelier Ynu By Mary Sue Miller Pon t ever make an endurance contest out of tanning You can t win! Your skin is no match for the sun's rays with their power to burn, blister, freckle. dry. peel and wrinkle To come through
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  • 147 9 NEW YORK: On models. fashion editors and youne career girls in New York, you can see a new fad these days. It's a square bag on a braided shoulder strap. The bag is of velvet, richly embroidered in colourful but abstract themes. That's because the
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  • 115 9 Q: Could you help me form a college wardrobe? I'm goine to a small but good Eastern college from a small mid-Western town, and I want to have the right clothes. A: The fact is. there isnt reallv very much that's '•right'* any more. Individualism is the
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    • 257 9 11l ORGANISATION OOEON 211 L*«t Day! 11. 1 P THE OBI.ONG BOX" In Color Vincent Price. Chnatopher L^e Open« Tomorrow' Raque. Welch in MOV» •ruurf* MPtrocolor n CATHAY -***** La»t Da»! 11. 13*. 4, #3«pm CARBt ON tA*Pls«" ColoSidney .Time* Kenneth WI 'HIM i A Runt Organisation Picture■ OPEN'S TOMORROW'
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  • 1077 10  -  England's prospect of successfully defending the World Cup in Mexico is Hie chief topic of conversation in football circles. Here a London football writer who has seen every match played by England since 1966 reviews the situation. By FRANK TAYLOR LONDON. Tues. As England's World Cup squad
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  • 72 10 MEXICO CITY. Tue s. (Xjpi) Brazilian Ambassador Baptista Pineheiro is so confident his country will win the cup that he already has reserved a place for the Jules Rimet trophy at his embassy residence. At a reception over the weekend, quests were confronted with a notice which read:
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  • 364 10 PARIS, Tues. (Reuter) —Americans Arthur Ashe and Cliff Richey will today try to prevent a European monopoly of the men's singles at the French International Open Tennis Championship. Ashe and Richey are the only Non-Europeans left in the event and if they go down in
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  • 531 10 TOKYO. Tues. (UPI) —Japan is determined to dominate the Asian Games next December in Bangkok a s it has in th e past. Japan collected a total of 78 gold, 53 silver and 33 bronze medals in the sth Asian Games
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  • 106 10 LONDON Tues. (Reuter) The Burnham sea scouts soccer tram ha\e decided to call it a day after conceding more than 1,000 goals in two masons The team quit the Essex Prngie minor league after losing all 33 matches. "We just couldn't go on being thrashed week after
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  • 325 10 NEW YORK, Tues. (Reuter) Bill Grabarkewitz •mashed a two-run homer as the Los Angeles Dodgers nipped the Chicago Cubs, 5-4, to highlight last night's limited baseball activity. The loss shaved Chicago's lead -over the World :nampion New York Mets. who were idle, to 1) 4"mes
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  • 43 10 MEXICO CITY. Tues. (UPI) The Mexicans now claim they and not the British, invented soccer. It is claimed that murals in the city of Teotihuacan show a man kicking a sohere which proves beyond doubt that the Aztecs invented the game.
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  • 140 10 MEXICO C)T Y. Tues (Reuter» The disciplinary committee of the International Football Federation (FIFA) yesterday confirmed that five piayers had been cautioned during yesterdays opening World Cup match between the Soviet Union and Mexico. All the cautions were given tor foul oUy and the offending players were
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  • 211 10 By Our Racing Correspondent rOH, Tues. ARATUNGA, a strong contender for the Perak Derby this Sunday, did an attractive workout here this morning on yield- ing going. Ridden by jockey Subian Dalwee the five-year-old Australian gelding by Tulloch went over two rounds finishing the last 3f
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  • 248 10 LOUISVILLE. Ky. Tues (UPl> Portly Bob Murphy rolled In a five-foot birdie putt to defeat Gay Brewer In a sudden death playoff and win a thoroughbred race horse today In the first Kentucky thoroughbred pro-celebrlty golf tournament. Murphy and Brewer were tied at three-under oar
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  • 50 10 MEXICO CITY. Tues. (UPI) Fifteen Israeli students have completed a 1.200 km. walk from the U.S. Mexican border to cheer their team in the match against Uruguay. Israel team officials have informed local police that U-5.5400 worth of cameras, film and watches have been stolen from the hotel.
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 911 11  -  By Ben Variyan KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. After Malaysia's dismal showing in the semi-finals against Denmark on Saturday and Sunday, the $64,000 question is: Is Malaysia going to field fhe same team in the final against Indonesia for the eighth triennial Thomas Cup Coach
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    • 161 11 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Gary Sobers, the West Indies test captain, will lead the Rest of the World in the five matcn cricket series against England this summer, it was announced here yesterday. Sobers, Freddie Brown, who has been appointed the Rest's team manager, and Leslie Ames form
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    • 255 11 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Nijinsky, bred in Canada, owned by an American, trained in Ireland and to be ridden by an Englishman, seeks a victory in the Epsom Derby tomorrow which would establish him as one of the greatest racehorses of the post-war years. Mr. Charles
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    • 60 11 LEON, Mexico, Tues. (AFP) Peru's World Cup plans will not be affected by the earthquake disaster which has struck the South American country, the manager of the Peruvian National Football team said here today. Roberto Ramirez Otarola said: "The terrible catastrophe which has just hit Peru will not
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    • 66 11 BRISBANE, Tues. (Reuter) Australian swimmers could set six world l-ecords at the Commonwealth Games next month, roach Don Talbot forecast here vpsterday. "I think we have a great chance of getting records in the men's four by 200 metres relay, the 400 metres and the 1.500 metres ns
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    • 48 11 ORANGE. California, Tues (UPI) Paul Blair. Baltimore centre-fielder who was hit in the face with a pitched ball, underwent extensive tests yesterday a* S. Joseph Hospital to determine whether his eyesight was affected. The only official announcement from the hospital was that Blair's nose was fractured.
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    • 167 11 CANBERRA. Tues. (Reuter) Australian government interference with sport, ing organisations'* plans for visits by South African sporting "teams would be a "retrograde step." Prime Minister John Gorton said today. He was replying to a question in Parliament from Labour Opposition Leader Gough Whitlam who asked
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    • 176 11 SYDNEY, Tues. (UPI) A Maori member of the New Zealand Parliament said in Sydney yesterday New Zealand is headed for total isolation in th e world of sports unless the rugby tour of South Africa is can- celled. N'atlu Rata, a Labour Member of
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    • 64 11 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados. Tues. (Reuter) —Joey ca rew < Rov Fredericks and Vanburn Holder, all established West Indies test players, are among the five cricketers of the year in tne inaugural edition of ihe West Indies Cricket Annual published here yesterday. The other two ire rising young stars Arthur
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    • 35 11 TAIPEI Tues. (Reiter)— The Asian Judo Union has decided to suspend North Korea from membership and to hold the <rd Asian Judo championships in South Korea in 1974. the Central News Agenry reported today.
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    • 1146 11 UN-TV CHANNEL» P M 300 Open anncts; in all Languages Housewives Matinee (The Will Part l of a Cantonese Film) (English Subt*. 340 Woman's World (Chinese» 4.10 A Diary oi Events in Singapore this Week Chinese; 4 13 Days ol Our laves; 4 55 Closed I' M. 600 Opening Anncts
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  • 381 12 Singapore's national service programme have been made the target of smear campaigns by "the enemies, the idealists and the pessimists." This was stated yesterday by the M P. for Whampoa, Dr. Augustine H.H. Tan when he attended a sending off ceremony for nationa'
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  • 160 12 THE most senior librarian of the National Library, Mr. George Khoo Joo Chuan died last Saturday. He was 49. A Raffles College graduate. Mr. Khoo joined the National Library In 1950 when It was still the Raffles Library, under Its Director Mr. L. M. Harrod. In
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  • 87 12 A GIRL had a rude shock when she went to the bathroom at 4 a.m. yesterday and saw a stranger in her house. Miss Yang Guat Hue. 19. screamed and the Intruder fled before the rest of the family could do anything. On Investigation.
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  • 211 12 The First Lady Puan Noor Aishah will officially declare open the 18th International Bazaar for the Blind on June 6 at the Victoria Memorial Hall. The money collected will go towards the maintenance, and facilities of the School for the Blind Part of the
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  • 85 12 An 8-week course in "Keeping Accounts for Societies" will open on June 6, by the Ad'ilt Education *oard. Conducted in English, this course held every Saturday from 2 p.m to 4 p.m will provide practical training for clubs operating accounting systems. Another two 12-week courses,
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  • 68 12 Tan Woon Teck. 24. was yesterday sentenced to 15 months Jail by the Fifth District Court, after he pleaded guilty to stealing 130 watches valued at $4,000 from a shop at the People's Park Shopping Centre. The court was told that on Jan. 29. Tan.
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  • 146 12 CANBERRA, Tues. (Rcuter) Australian Defence Minister Mr. Malcolm Fraser will visit Malaysia and Singapore from June 13 to June 20 for the five power defence exercise "Bersatu Padu." An official Defence Department statement todav said that Mr. Fraser will also have talks with the
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  • 368 12 TRAFFIC FLOW VERSUS RUSINESS NEEDS The government's ban on loadinq and unloading during peak hours to tack'c the serious problem of traffic congestion in the city area has affected the turnover of several firms. This was disclosed by several firms in the city
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  • 62 12 A National Serviceman attached to Bedok Camp 2 of the Singapore Armed Forces, was yesterday charged with having an offensive weapon—a knife. M. Lathmanan claimed trial for the alleged offence at Wan Tho Avenue, May 31. Lathmanan was ordered to be left in the custody of
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