Eastern Sun, 5 June 1970

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  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ft Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1361 Friday, 5 June 1970. ft MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cenU
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  • 411 1 Tremors Fade: Aid Flow In r IMA, Peru, Thurs. (UPI) A dry natural lake today is a stark symbol of the quake-flood horrors that have gobbled up sizeable towns and villages as snow and mudslides continue to threaten thousand of square miles of Peru.
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  • 146 1 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) —An opinion poll shows the governing Labour Party with an increased lead in oopularity of 4.5 over the Opposition Conservatives. The poll by the Opinion Research Centre. showed that 47.5 per cent of the electorate would vote Labour on June 18 and 43
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  • 87 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The three-na-tion task force on Cambodia will hold its first meeting at Wisma Putra here tomorrow. A government spokesman said the meeting would be for one day only and no arrangements were being made for the delegates to meet either the Prime Minister.
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  • 329 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (UPI) President Nixon announced that "all major military objectives have been achieved in Cambodia'' and that withdrawal of an additional 50,000 troops from Vietnam by October 15 has begun. In a report to the nation broadcast, he said the resumption of
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  • 378 1 NEW YORK, Thurs. (UPI) The Foreign Correspondents Association, representing n*ore than 300 newspapermen from 44 countries, have appealed directly to Secretary General Thant and Prince Norodom Sihanouk, exiled former Cambodian ruler, to insure the release of 24 missing war correspondents. Messages were
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  • 100 1 GENEVA. Thurs. (UPI) Israeli Premier Mr*. Golda Meir said today that King Hussein of Jordan or President Nasser of Egypt can pray in Jerusalem any time they want because the city is open to the L.I. I J whole world. In an Interview with Geneva publisher Dr
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  • 69 1 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) A parson in northern England has told his parishioners that only British-madp tombstones can stand in his new churchyard. The Reverend Arthur King, vicar of the Anglican church in Wentworth said: "we are sticking up for our own industries. Italian marbl«> is
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  • 72 1 NEW YORK Thurs. fßeuter) The Bethlehem Steel Corporation said today at is planning a joint venture in Singapore to set up a new. multi-million dollar company to build a shipyard in Singapore Bethlehem, which will pwn 70 pe r cent of the new shipyard, and
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  • 41 1 Soviet submarines are o n manoeuvres thirty-two miles south of Key West, Florida. Here a submarine of the fleet which visited Cuba recently is seen Tuesday. The submarine was with a cruiser, missile carrier, tanker and another submarine. UPl radio photo.
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  • 216 1 IPOH, Thurs.— The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, today denied that Malaysia had criticised Thailand over the report that Thailand was to send her volunteer troops to Cambodia. "The Malaysian government has never at &ay time issued such statement and I do not think
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 239 2 A Little Olympics for officers and men cf the ships taking part in the Bersatu Padu exercise will begin at the Naval Base in Woodlands today. Competitors for the sports will be drawn from 3,000 officers and men of 35 ships of the
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  • 245 2 THE Acting Director of the Telecommunications Department, Mr. Goh Seng Kim, said yesterday his department has the reserved right to reject any cable which appears objectionable. Mr. Goh was referring to the cable of the United National Front which addressed to the Chairman
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  • 24 2 Goh Too Nee 20, was yesterday remanded pending hearing of charges against him concerning armed robbery. theft and causing hurt, on June 11
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  • 193 2 Plans for more fund raising activities in aid of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals were yesterday discussed by a group ot energetic volun- tary workers. These are the members of the Appeals Committee for the SPC*. headed by Mrs. Helrn
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  • 133 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. All dogs licensed or unlicensed are to be shot if they are found straying about in any part of Selangor. The State Chlej Veterinary Officer, Dr. Osman bin Din. said toda* that as Selangor has been declared a rabies Infected area his department
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  • 297 2 THE Nutritional Anaemia Research Laboratory in Outram Road yesterday received a $26,000-worth of laboratory equipment. The equipment was donated by the Singapore Rotary Club-West and the Rotary District 355 in Japan. Receiving the donation at the Blood Transfusion Service. Mr. Chor Yeok Eng. Parliamentary
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  • 97 2 Sunpix shows Mr. Wong Chew Kwai, (left) of Rank Xerox explaining the 3600 to Sir Arthur James de la Mare the British High Commissioner in Singapore. Third from left is Mr. G. F. Finlayson Counselor (Commercial) British H igh Commission. On the extreme right is Mr. Don Wilson, General Manager
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  • 29 2 The residents of a remote Kampon;, McNair Kampons, will no longer live in darkness as the electricity supp'y will be extended to their Kampong soon.
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  • 86 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. Hippies arriving here will no longer be allowed to stay in Sikh temples even for a night because of their indecent clothing and behaviour. The head of Sikh temple here. Mr. Isher Singh, said: "Indecent clothing and behaviour like that of the
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  • 45 2 Lee Yoo Keong alias Hong Ew Keons yesterday claimed trial to a charge of living in part on the immoral earnings a woman. His case will come u d for hearing on June 13 and bail was offered at $2,000 in one surety.
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  • 94 2 Mr. Tan Jak e Yong. Assistant Engineer in the Water Department of the Public Utilities Board will shortly be leaving for Japan to attend a Group Training Course in Waterworks Engineering from June to August. He will be on a scholarshio awarded by the
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  • 125 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. King Faisal of Saudi Arabia will open the Dewan Al-Malek Faisal built partly with a donation from and named after him —?t the Mus'im College in Petaling Jaya next Monday. The $270,000 hall was built in mid-1967 and completed In l!>68. The
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  • 71 2 Nine Indonesians were sentenced to a months jail each, for entering into Singapore illegally, between May 31 and June 2. They pleade<j guilty yesterday In the Ninth Magistrate's Court, to com:r? into Singapore, wlthou* a valid pass. In another case i..m Keng Chang. 19 a
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 242 2 Singapore Sweep Results Ticket number *****06 won the first prise of $400,000 in the Singapore Sweep drawn last ni«*4»tThe second prise of 5150,000 was won bv ticket number *****84 while ticket number *****68 won the third prize of $75,000. 5 JACKPOT NUMBERS *****78 *****50 *****87 $lO,OOO/*****29 *****54 10 LUCKY NUMBERS
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  • 165 3 BURDWAN, India, Thurs. (Reuter) —A gang stabbed a witness to death here yesterday a s h e left the town hall. He had given evidence at an inquiry into the killing of three men in a political clash last March. The dead man
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  • 185 3 PHNOM PENH, Thurs. (Reuter) Nine Chinese who planned to assassinate the Chinese Head-of-State Liu Shao Chi in 1963 have been released from prison, according to reports here. The men, aged 38 to 68, were then flown to Bangkok and Taipei on Tuesday.
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  • 87 3 JAKARTA, Thurs. (Reuter) President Suharto arrived home to a quiet welcome today after a oneweek state visit to America. He also made a short stopover at Expo '7O in Japan. The President's U.S. visit, during which he had talks with President Nixon on Cambodia and other world
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  • 356 3 HONG KONG, Thurs. (Reuter) China was today urged to build a strong modern navy to counter U.S. and Soviet threats to its long coastline and to "liberate" Taiwan. The call came in an article in the official 'Peking People's Daily" written by
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  • 99 3 PHNOM PENH. Thurs <UPI) Owing to his pants, the family of driver Chang Yu Leng wasn't surprised when he showed up yesterday after escaping from the Vietcong. Leng. 33. was captured on Sunday by the communists while driving a three-man National Broadcasting Company (NBCI television crew,
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  • 103 3 PHAN RANG, Vietnam. Thurs. (UPI) a 24-year-old Buddhist nun died today after pouring kerosene on her body and setting herself on fire. She was apparently protesting the war. "~he An Quang Buddhist Institute for Secular Affairs in Saigon announced the nun. Hoang Thi Gai. immolated herself after
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  • 61 3 DACCA, Thurs. (Reuter) —East Pakistan's 86-year-old pro-Peking peasant leader Maulana Bhashani. has launched a mass campaign against vice in high places He warned corrupt offi- cials to mend their ways. The Associated Press of Pakistan News Agency reported yesterday that he held a mass rally in
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  • 266 3 KATMANDU, Nepal, Thurs. (Reuter) —Nepal's greatest ever mountaineering season has ended —with 11 peaks climbed, Everest scaled again, and two world records broken by Japanese women. However, success was not without its price. Four climbers three Japanese and one Briton and seven Nepalese Sherpa high-altitude
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  • 150 3 OSAKA, Japan, Thurs. (UPI) A labour-mana-gement dispute yesterday spoiled part of the day at Expo '7O for President Suharto. Suharto was scheduled to visit Czechoslovakia's Laterna Maglka Theatre. However it was postponed after 43 Japanese theatre employees, including ushers, walked off their jobs.
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  • 339 3 VIENTIANE, Thurs. (UPI) Laos will establish a new guerrilla force to help combat North Vietnamese invaders, Prime Minister Souvanna told Parliament yesterday. However, Laos will reject any offer of troops from other nations. He did
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  • 185 3 TOKYO, Thurs. (UPI and Reuter) —Japanese Deputy Vice-Foreign Minister Shinsafcu Hogen flew to Kuala Lumpur today. He is to confer with Malaysian and Indonesian officials on how to restore peace in Cambodia. Hogen left Tokyo International Airport aboard a legulariy scheduled
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  • 123 3 HONG KONG, Thurs. (UPI) More than *****0 farmers in South China's Kwangtung Province have been mobilized for flood-prevention work. The west, north and east rivers were rising to dangerous level, the "South China Morning Post" quoted arrivals from Communist China as saying. According to the
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  • 48 3 MIYAZU, Japan. Thurs. (UPI) A Japanese fishing boat sank in foggy Miyazu Bay today shortly after It collided with a Singapore ore-carrier. Maritime authorities announced all five crewmen of the 38-ton "No. 15 Selel Maru'* were rescued. The ore-carrier. "Lalinda." was not damage, authorities added.
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  • 68 3 TAIPEI. Thurs. (Reuter) —A Nationalist Chinese Navy ship was steaming towards Orchid Island off East Taiwan toda v to tow a crippled Greek tanker to safety, the Central News Agency reported. The 16,325-ton tanker. "Altair."' radioed yesterday that its engine had broken down and it was adrift
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  • 130 3 WELLINGTON, England, Thurs. (Reuter) Teams from South Africa and Rhodesia will be coming to Britain next year to compete in the World Ploughing Competition near here in South-West England. However, organisers declared they are not worried about the possibility of an-ti-apartheid demonstrations. A spokesman
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  • 649 4 TEL AVIV, Thurs. (UPI) Israeli jets yesterday dawned three Egyptian Soviet-built MiG 21s in a dogfight over the northern sector of the Sue* Canal, an army spokesman said. He said all Israeli jets emerged unscathed from the air battle and went on
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  • 435 4 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) The Labour and Liberal parties last night ganged up on Enoch Powell, the Conservative Party's arch-opponent of coloured immigration. In the fiercest blast yet by a labour spokesman asalnst Mr Powell. Minister of Technology Anthony Wedgwood Benn accused him of hoisting
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  • 213 4 BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Thurs. (Reuter) British troops battled with angry Irish Protestants here for the second successive night when rioting erupted after a lone gunman fired into a crowded street. The soldiers used gas. batons, and armoured vehicles to disperse the mob which attacked them last
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  • 65 4 LISBON. Thurs. (Reuter) The South African Prime Minuter Mr. John Vorster last night left Johannesburg by air for Lisbon where he will have three days of talks with the Portuguese government developing the already strong relations between the two countries. A foreign ministry spokesman said last
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  • 73 4 GENEVA. Thurs. (Reuter) —Mr. Adrian Conan Doyle, son of sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created Sherlock Holmes, died here yesterday after a heart attack, his secretary said Mr. Conan Doyle was 59 and was himself an author His secretary said he had driven from the
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  • 59 4 PARIS. Thurs. fßeuter) The French government yesterday approved a draft Bill to reduce military service conscription from 18 to 12 months Under the Bill, which will shortly be tabled In the National Assembly, young men will be allowed to serve for any year of
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  • 107 4 BRUSSELS. Thurs (Reuter) Practical jokers here sent out a circular stating that the whole of the Soviet Union would be thrown open to foreign tourists this year to celebrate Lenin's centenary. But the Soviet In tourist (state tourist) Organisation said the circular waa Invalid and
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  • 298 4 MARITAL TIFF DENIED ATHENS. Thurs. (UPI) A spokesman for Aristotle Onassis said yesterday the Greek shipping magnate and hit wife, the former Jacqueline Kennedy, have indefinitely postponed a vacation with American astronauts and other celebrities. The spokesman said he did not know the reason
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  • 248 4 MOSCOW, Thurs. (UPI) Cosmonauts Andrian Nikolayer and Vitaly Sevastianov shitted orbit again yesterday and carried out undramatic but significant medical experiments. Their Soyuz 9 spacecraft moved out of Its elliptical orbit Into an almost circular one between 152 and 164 miles
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  • 88 4 DUESBELDORF. Germany. Thurs 'UPIi—An Austrian who served in Hitler's army told a court yesterday that when his unit commander protested to guards about their shooting defenseless Jews he was told to shut up or he also would be sent to his death. Hubert Pfoch a
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  • 228 4 SKOPJE, Yugoslavia, Thurj. (Reuter) Lord Snowdon consoled a sis-year-old English girl who missed meeting Princess Margaret here yesterday because of an attack of tears. Jane Furniss. from Sheffield. whose father is an installation engineer at a hif new Skonie Steel Works partly built with British aid
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  • 24 4 MOSCOW. Thurs (Reuten A Boviet government decree published last night ordered restriction* on the building of hom«s and factories in earth-quake-prone areas
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  • 198 4 PARIS. Thurs. <Reuter)— Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko yesterday summed up two days of talks with President Pompidou and other French leaders with the Russian romment "everything is fine He said this to reporters after his third round of talks with French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann. with
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  • 267 4 AFTER visiting No. 103 Squadron. RAF., which operates the Search and Rescue Whirlwind helicopter Flight, young pupils of Changi Junior School set about constructing a model Whirlwind for display in their classroom. Here paying a return' visit to the school, are three members of No.
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  • 160 5 MELBOURNE, Thurs. (Reuter) Police last n»ght arrested four 20-year-old youths on charges of assault and resisting arrest. It follower wild demonstrations at the match between the touring South African netball s;de and Victoria. A 16-year old youth will be charged on summons with assault. Meanwhile. a
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  • 157 5 RIO DE JANEIRO, Thurs. (UPI)—A crowd of hunqry men, women and children blocked a train in th e State of Ceara, in drought-plagued n„rth east Brazil. According to press reports, a train carrying goats, chickens, fish and grain was blocked by hundreds of residents of
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  • 351 5 NEW DELHI, Thurs. (UPI) A pretty English girl in search of adventure and romance has landed herself in jail Mary Taylor. 27. was a ong 54 pro-Peking Naxalite communists captured b\ police last Wednesday from their jungle hideouts in Chaibasa District in
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  • 143 5 LONDON, Thurs (AFP) —The British anti-apar-theid movrment is building a "spy network" in industrial firms in South-East London to report on those trading with South Africa. Mr Tonv Emerson, eoorgamser of the South-East London Stop Totally south Africa Trade"' group. said today: "We have
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  • 232 5 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Reuter) Senate moves to cut off funds for future American military action in Cambodia today appeared to be succeeding. President Nixon's Administration lost the first round yesterday The Senate rejected a proposal to withhold limitations on US operations in Cambodia as long
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  • 367 5 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Thurs. (UPI) America will further reduce its military manpower and call on its allies to take a larger role in world affairs, Defence Secretary Melvin Laird announced yesterday. Laird addressed 737 graduating cadets at the Air Force
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  • 243 5 FORT WORTH. Texas. Thurs. (UFI) —Keven Todd. 11. telephoned his next door neighbour early yesterday and asked. "Can you come over a minute?*' When the neighbour. Mrs. N'p.il Head, arrived at the Todd house, she found Keven standing on the front porch. A
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  • 137 5 PITTSBURGH, Thurs. (Reuter) Richard Mellon. head of a family more wealthy than the Rockefellers and with a fortune exceeded in America only by Paul Getty, died here yesterday. He was 70. The family effectively controls Gulf oil with 25 percent of its stock and
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  • 91 5 TOKYO. Thurs. (UPI) An unidentified Japanese fishing boat was seized by a Soviet patrol boat today of! Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, the Japanese Maritime Safety Agency said. It reported the vessel was tak*n into custody about 14 miles east of Cape Nosappu on Hokkaido's
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  • 67 5 COLOMBO. Thurs (AFP) Ceylon Is bankrupt. Finance Minister Dr Perera announced here today Dr Perera speaking at a press conference, said he would take steps as soon as possible to increase taxes. One million rupees at least had to be found immediately the treasury was having trouble meeting
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  • 316 5 LIMA, Thurs. (Reuter) Two teams of mountaineers from Czechoslovakia and Japan were reported by radio to be sheltering in a hill cave in the centre quake-devastated North Peru. However, a New Zealand climbing expedition in the area has
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  • 128 5 MONTGOMERY. Alabama. Thurs. (UPI» George Wallace returned to the Alabama Governor's mansion for another four-year term. He declared he was "not advocating defiance of anything." but promised there would be 'freedom of choice" in public schools. He had "no national political plans" at present, but left the
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  • 66 5 PARIS. Thurs (AFP) Admiral Lord Mountbatten today attended a press preview of one of the four French-dubbed episodes of the film of his life story: "The life and century of Fleet Admiral Louis Mountbatten of Burma" It took Lord Mounbatten and his producers John Terralne
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  • 169 5 TOKYO, Thurs. (Reutcr) Japan's Communist Party, independent of both Moscow and Peking, is taking a new soft line in a bid to achieve power by democratic means. A draft resolution for the party's three-yearly conference. starting here on July 1. Includes plans for forming
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  • 43 5 WEST POINT. New York, Thurs. (UPI) Vice-Pre-sident Spiro Agnew said yesterday we live li. a time '•when the criminal misfits of society are glamorized while our best men die in Asian rice paddies." He was addressing the US. military academic.
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  • 851 6 JUBILANCE was the keynote of U.S. President Richard Nixon's address to the nation about the progress of the war in Cambodia. He rattled off statistics to show how much war material has been captured at negligible casualties among American and South Vietnamese troops. He roundly chastised his
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  • 991 6 GEMINI. TOKYO-Oni Japanese in ten, it is believed, now belongs to Soka Gakkai the Value Creating Academic Society a remarkable militant religious sect that has sworn to dominate the Japanese archipelago. There are no membership lists, but its president, Mr. Daisuke Ikeda, claims millions of
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  • 468 6  -  By PETER JACKSON Reuter COLOMBO, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Ceylon's newly elected Prime Minister, will steer Iter country's foreign policy towards the left of the non-aligned world. Mrs. Bandaranaike. who heads a Unlt*»d Front coalition Including and pro-Moscow Communists. will follow the
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  • 1358 6 LONDON: The manpower on Britain's farms decreases by an average of six per cent annually. But each vear the demand for food rises. To help deal with this everwidening cap scientists are working on various devices that will, sooner or later, result in the completed automated
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  • 94 6 LETTER... I AM sure th« decision t® illOw more bus companies to operate on routes now monopolised b v the ST C. will help solve public transport problems immeasurably. Then bus-users will not have to depend solely on ST.C buses which cannot or unwilling to Dick
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 270 7 TRADING in the Stock Market yesterday wot dull with the exception of a few selected counters on very norrow price movements. Oil palms and minings remained idle. Rubbers tended to ease on light trading. Empat Ekor fluctuated erratically and finally it was able to inch
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    • 810 7 BUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms u of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore vith the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specifed:— INDUSTRIALS Alcan $154 <6> DIM $l-55 6►; Ben Co $1 5« <3> SI 54
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    • 74 7 A new unit trust fund will be launched In Malaysia by Asia Unit Trusts Berhad on June 8. The new fund to be known as Malaysia Progress Fund will be the second fund set up by the company In Malaysia, the first being the Malaysian Investment
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    • 18 7 On th e Straits tin market yesterday, business was done at 5667.25 per picul up $7.25.
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    • 70 7 LONDON Thurs. (UPI) Rubber market closed with sellers reserved No. 1 RSS spot 20-1 8 00-l /2 SETTLEMENT HOI SE July 20-3 8 20-5/8 Aug and July/Sept. 20-5- 8. 20-13/18 Sept. 20-3/4 21 Oct. Dec 21, 21-3/18 Jan March 21*3/18. 21-3/8 April June 21-1/4. 21-7/18
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    • 95 7 THF BMit prl*** »f th« Mntapore t Foidue* tacoani* ittlrriMi *rr# B tovunuc Oli it OH) Bulk (HI IdtlMIUI I til r M B i Oruio Ml 00 Imri 7 u v> Muntok Willi* crpprr 1 170 »M> HIIII* P^ppff 11 o B > A t i«:ao »»rsu4t> 'penal
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    • 729 7 BID and otter prices officially listed yesterday at the close ot business in th e trading rooms ot the Stock Exchange ot Malaysia and Singapore vere: INDUSTRIALS B A« MA cbi 16? Aban 1.3 1.54 Allied C|ut. 3 06 3-18 Ben to. 15? Borneo Hhd xd
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    • 282 7 June first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore ana Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 58-1/8 cents per lb. up 7/8 cent from tne previous close The tone of the market was Quiet but steady. Openinc quotations were marked up t/2 cent on better than
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    • 117 7 NEW YORK, Thurs. (UPI) Gold prices continued to slip In routine trading on marked here and abroad j esterday. In Washington, the International Monetary Fund announced purchase of US$l7 5 million of gold from South Africa this month, confirming rumours that sales by the country were
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    • 231 7 TOKYO, Thurs. (Rauter) Nippon Steel Corporation Mid today Its plan for a giant Singapore-Japan intogratod stool making mill in Singapore was itHI tn the forma* tivo atago. The spokesman said the largest Japanese steel manufacturer said diaeusslons with Singapore's Economic Development Board had so
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    • 187 7 NEW YORK, Thurs. (UPI) Belief that President Nixon will come through with a favourable message last night on the Cambodian operation helped the stock market move higher In active trading. At the final bell, the UPI marketwide Indicator showed a gain of 1.63 per cent on
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    • 105 7 The Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthing arrangements for todav. June 5 DEPARTURES Godowns Vessels 12 Cornelia Maersk 10/11 Nikolaev 19 Sunny Ocean 23/24 Browind Tamuraeverett 31/32 Chilka 33/34 Antilochus 35/38 Yasnomorsk *o 41 Bassein 45 Yarra 47 Jalarashmi 21 West Kah Poh 38/39
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    • 84 7 <Manager*' Price for June 5) lUKII Ri ll I'MI IklSlS S Growth (and.. 1041 1 OS 4"»IA 1 Ml 1Kl«l» M Invest, l-und xd 1 14 1 19 siMilPOKt I'SIT TKlllTo l*t Singapore 260 2nd Singapore 188 3rd Singapore 114 The Com lad. Mlltd Tne Aav Hind xd
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    • 129 7 HONG KONG. Thu rs. (CPI)—Today's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by f oreign Exchange and investment Ltd.). (Buyers) (Sellers) 195 196 per 100 Straits dollars 147 148 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 674 6.75 per Australian dollar 340 360 per 1.000 Burmese gyats 460 480 per 1.000 Indian
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    • 114 7 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) The stock market failed to set a trend in traditionally quiet Derby Day trading but merger situations stirred a few prices and lack of support pared British government bonds. Several household name stocks advanced Including Glaxo, Beecham and Rank Organisation but recently
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    • 39 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. 30 Industrials 713.86 20 Transp 146.98 15 Utilities 103.85 65 Stocks 232 f>B 40 Bonds 67.71 Commodity futures index 134.55 up 0.06
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    • 363 7 r _i r- Sydney Stocks, Closing Prices v > i iv < V O -vise SYDNEY, Thurs. (UPI) Mining stock continued to rise for the sixth successive day during mother heavy day of buying on the Sydney Stock Exchange today. After a bout of mild selling
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    • 445 7 AKKIVAL8 145am MSA 1?5 K Lumpur 730 am M*A 123 K Lumpur »:t(l a m MSA 4.12 K Lumpur 11.05 a m. MSA 454 Penang k Lumpur 1150am M>A iiw Jakarta 130 p in MSA 4~>l Kuchlng 2 30 p-m MSA 021 K Lumpur. Malacca 3 35pm Ms%
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    • Article, Illustration
      99 7 MR HASSO P. Schmidt, director of the new Printing School of Baharuddin Vocational School, left recently by Lufthansa to attend a meeting of Directors of Vocational Schools in Germany. Holder of a degree In graphic arts. Mr. Schmidt had been reading at the Stuttgart School in Germany
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  • 779 8  -  By MICHAEL ARKUS Reuter TEL AVIV, Three yeari ago this week the Middle East exploded into a shor* sharp desert war. The broilling tensions still keep Arabs and Jews locked in conflict. The 1967 war was over in six violent days. The Israelis surrounded on
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  • 125 8 AN Australian firm Is making big business of a growing public interest in sound-conditioning A firm in Melbourne. believes that to overrome objectionable noise, it is no use trying to eliminate it. The solution Is to provide another noise more pleasant to the ear. The firm
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  • 1213 8  -  By HARRY FRAUCA CANBERRA: Some of the most conspicuous landmarks in the Australian bush are the termite mounds or "anthills". Some rise to 20 ft. in height and are some of the world's tallest, others are built on trees and others lie like the tombstone in a
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  • Article, Illustration
    66 8 A kookaburrab (Dareln pig as) looks out of its nesting hole in a termite mound on a tree near Bundaberg Queensland Kookaburras breed in tree boles, hollow limbs or termite mounds. The presence of the insects does not bother them IWn the kookaburras have gone, the termites fill
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  • 519 8  -  DATELINE By Ele,Walt Dulaney NEW YORK: Dear Walt: Can you write some rules about TV? Particularly, what is the family's responsibility if company comes without warning in the middle of a really good movie that everyone is enjoying? One for the Family. Dear One:
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 142 8 AMY By Jack Tippif to "Wanna s'prise your wife and bring home dessert for tonight?" DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and AJden McWilliams WHILE TRYING TO COOL LEE POYS ANGER OVER WENCF/*5 "80/ FRIEND', DAN NT/ HAS GUIDED HIS BROTHER BACK TO SCHOOL/ A HEALTHY YOUNG MAN SHOULO MAKE THAT
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  • 674 9  -  B&gt; Florence de Santis NEW YORK: While you're sitting out the mini-midi controvery, waiting for fall to settle tha hemline question, you can still have a lot of fashion fun with summer party dresses. Lengths? Mini. midi. near-maxl. Silhouettes? Everything from skimmer to fitted bodices
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  • 458 9 NEW YORK When Aria (jlo\es introduced Hands Beautiful, theiy "cosmetic" gloves, were satisfied to make them in three lengths, basic colours and styling. The gloves are made of a special stretch fabric which softens and smooths hand skin, gnes it a constant gentle massage. They have
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  • 222 9  -  A Lovelier You BT MARY SUE MILLER Never stretch your luck so far that you take a lovely complexion for granted. For a clear, dewy skin. Miss Teen can thank her luckv stars and her mother s beauty training But. once a woman passes voting
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  • 585 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: Our 16-year-old daughter, Denise. receives a modest allowance and her baby-sitting monrv so she can have "extras". I buy her clothes but she is permitted to buv whatever she wants with the monev she saves and earns. Yesterday Denise came home with
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  • 576 9  -  Speaking For Myself Bv Sheilah Graham NEW YORK: The press agent for (Catherine Hepburn's next picture, "The Trojan Women," has his strategy all planned although production does not start until the end of August. Kate is famous for her lack of cooperation
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 251 9 r.'SHAW ORGANISATION LID O Phon? *****4 LAS I I SHOWS! 11 am. 1.45. 1.00 A &lt;5.30 p m V a.- Montand a. Mir.a brnell "THE l»E\ 11. BV THE TAIL" Co'or bv DeLme 'C.A&gt; lO.MOHI 9 .15 pm Premier* Qiu :ano lrfmmi Bbi Anc*r;-.«on BLOW HOT. BLOW COLD" in C&gt;r
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    • 30 9 TODAY a Friday, June 5, 1970. CANCit 4-15-26-37 MzAXii 5-16-27-40 i 1 72 8f 85' SCOIfIO 2J *****8 5, CArncoiN Die m s JAM 19 M 2-23-34. 5-67 30-86 H
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    • 173 9 If LU ORGANISATION ORCHARD-***** NOW sHOHINC,: Dall? hhow.t 111 4.00. S.W SIS p m FOE'S "M.A.S H." In Color Donald Sutherland. Color. P'Vjj.on Tomorrow Midnight' Paramount'# "OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR" John M.lis P'Vision. Color □EON ***** NOW SHOWING: 11 am. I.M. 4M. «Vt A .*&gt; p m SIOM'i "FL.
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 289 10 By Our Racing Correspondent IPOH, Thurs. Speechmaker, one of trainer Mansor bin Matban's two entries for this Sunday's Perak Derby, showed good form on a yielding track here this morning. After going steadily round the track once, Speechmaker clapped on the pace to cover the last
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    • 183 10 TOKYO. Thurs. 'AFP&gt; Twenty-nine countries have so far made their registrations with the organizing committee for the 1972 Winter Olympic Games In Saporo, the committee announced today. The committee had sent inquiries to National Olympic Committees of the International Olympic Committee member countries whether they would
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    • 109 10 JAKARTA. Thurs (UPI) Parliament Security and Foreign Affairs Committee today asked football authorities to take steps to prevent a re-occurrence of incidents such as the mob scenes and shooting during the visit of Brazil's Olaria soccer team last week. Five spectators were wounded by stray bullets
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    • 298 10 PARIS. Thurs. (UPI) A limping Billie Jean King of Berkeley. Calif was stopped dead by German champion Helga Niessen today In the quarter final of the 100.000 U S dollars French Open Tennis Championship. Graceful and feminine in her blonde hair and sun bonnet, the
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    • 204 10 COLNBROOK. England. Thurs. (UPI) Team McLaren have withdrawn from the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix at Spa June 7 following Tuesday's death of New Zealand racing driver Bruce McLaren. A spokesman said the team Intended to compete in all events after that, despite the loss
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    • 1720 10 1 Race 1: CI. S Div. 4—6 Furs.— 2.1 S P'»' ($5,000) 1. 008 Voluble 3y 900 ET Breuk 4 2 ***** Graceful View 3T 9 00 Wan 8 8. 973" 8 Chen-Li-Chu By 900 Shining Gold 5 4 ***** Pink Heather 6y 8
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    • 386 10  -  By LESLIE NAKASHIMA TOKYO, Thurs. (UPI) Former World Boxing Council's (WBC) featherweight champion Johnny Famechon's sudden retirement surprised Japanese boxing fans today. The reasons were that Famechon is still 25 and that he appeared to be a great champion when he knocked out Fighting Harada. probably
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    • 83 10 MANILA. Thurs. (AFPV Ten countries and terrltoSfi f re e*P&lt;*ted to take part in the first Manila invitation formula Kart Grand Prix to be held here June 27 and 28, the Philippine Kartlng Federation announced today The federation said foreign drivers from Japan, Hongkong. Laos. Brunei. Singapore and
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    • 63 10 DOUGLAS. Isle of Man. Thurs. (UPi) Briton Michael Collins yesterday became the second rider within a week to be killed while practising for next week's isle of Man International Tourist Trophy (TT.) motor cycle races The 26-year-old rider crashed through a fence on his second lap after losing
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    • 171 10 EPSOM. England. Thurs. (Renter) Charles Engelhard said after seeing his horse Nijmsky win the Epsom Derbv here today that the colt was now worth 3.000.000 dollars (Ss9 million) by American standards. The American owner added: "This was something I hoped to live to see. I have wanted
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    • 69 10 BARCELONA. Spain, Thurs. (Reuter) Italian Francesco Arese ran the fastest 1 500 metres In the world this year clocking three minutes 38.7 seconds at an International athletics meeting here last night. But his time was well outside American Jim Ryun's world record of 3 mln. 33.1
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    • 570 11 MEXICO CITY, Thurs. (UPI) Four favoured teams overcame their first obstacles yesterday at the ninth World Soccer Championship with Brazil trouncing Czechoslovakia 4-1 and the West Germans getting the first fright of their lives before edging unrated Morocco 2-1. It took a 78th minute
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    • 210 11 MEXICO CITY, Thurs. (Reuter) World Cup group standings after yesterday's matches: Group One (Mexico City) P W D L GF GA Pts BELGIUM 1 1 0 0 3 0 2 MEXICO 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 USSR 1 0 1 0 0 0 1
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    • 203 11 NEW YORK. Thurs. YUPI) Following are the standings and results of n.ijor leaque baseball teams •Iter Wednesday's games: AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST W. L. GB. Baltimore 34 16 New York 28 23 6$ Washington 24 24 9 Detroit 22 24 10 Boston 21 25 11 Cleveland 19 27
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    • 121 11 Canberra School emerged is champions in the Newton District Primary Schools athletic meet for the second successive year with resounding victories in both the boy's and girl's teams. The boys' team collected a total of 49 points while the girls bagged 55 points to successfully defend their
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    • 671 11  -  By BEN VARIYAN KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Tonight, two of the great nations in badminton, Malaysia, the defending champions, and Indonesia be* gin their nine-match battle tor honours in the triennial Thomas Cup badminton championships. While all tickets have been sold out for the 12.700 capacity
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    • 176 11 ST. LOUIS. Miss. Thurs. (UPI) Rod Laver beat Australian countryman Ken Rosewall tonight to win the 30.000 U.S. dollar Rawllngs tennis classic. Laver beat Rosewall in straight sets. 6-1. 6-4. and picked up the top prize of 8.000 U.S. dollars. Rosewall earned 4.000 U.S. dollar as
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    • 170 11 Local boxing fans will be able to see their favourites in action today and tomorrow when boxers take to the ring for the National Championships organised by the Singapore Amatuer Boxing Association at the Singapore Badminton Hall. N. R. Virabak. who was recently relieved of his post
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    • 68 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Thur*. The Governor of Jakarta. Major-Gen. All Sadlkln, arrived here yesterday to watch the Thomsus Cup final between Malaysia and Indonesia on Friday and Saturday. Major-Gen. Sadikin told reporters on arrival at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport that he was fully confident of Indonesia regaining the
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    • 351 11 GUADALAJARA. Mexico. Thurt. (UPI) World Champions England, with two points in the baq after Tuesday's 1-0 victory over a rough and tumble Rumanian side, waited for news on her injured players today. Both full-backs Terry Cooper and Keith Newton had X-rays taken after sustaining leg
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 970 11 UN-TV M'll-Ti CHANNEL f 300 Opci General Hospital Woman'j World (E» Singatjore This Week &lt;E&gt; It&gt; Happening In Singapore (E&gt; Davs Of Our Live* Close Open Lucky Did News in Brief Sports Parade English For Everyone &lt;C&gt; News (C* ("h:ne&gt;e V«r-e! V S' News and Newsreel «E&gt; Asianwav i Bob
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  • 416 12  -  Story and Pictur by K. S. Sidhu Miss Take Miyanao has a pretty head for heights she has to have, being an air hostess. Unlike most other air hostesses. Miss Miyanao also is a very determined "mountain climber". While her more adventurous countrymen preferred the icy
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  • 66 12 A youth who admitted stealing a tape recorder had his sentence postponed to June 18 pending a probation report. Tav Kim Guan. 13. admitted yesterday that he stole a tape recorder, valued at $9O. from a Port of Singapore Authority godown on May 8. Tan and
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  • 58 12 The Queenstown Citizen Consultative Committee will hold a dinner party and variety show Saturday to celebrate their fifth anniversary. The party will be at the Double Car Park. Commonwealth Drive, next to the hawkers' pitch at 7.30 p.m. The Minister of Culture and Member of Parliament. Mr. Jek
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  • 57 12 The body of Pang Kim Gua n. 20 a university student and nephew of the Defence Minister. Mr. Llm Kim San. was cremated late yesterday afternoon a t the Mount Vernon Crematorium. Pang was involved In a violent triple-vehicle collision at the Junction of Telok Kurau Road and
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  • 624 12 Lim Kim Kwee, 36, second accused in the Ong Beang Leek kidnap-murder trial, claimed yesterday that he was working on a ship on the night of May 24, 1968. His alibi was that he was on board the "Ocean Pioneer" doing repairs at
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  • 45 12 A "Chinese Picture Entertainment Week" will be held from June 1 till June 12. This is to propagate Taiwan films for the "Asian Films Festival" which will be held soon in Jakarta. Actresses and actors from Taiwan will participate in every show.
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  • 67 12 Singapore's most wanted man responsible for a spat« of robberies and thefts surrendered himself at the Criminal Investigation Department on June l He was responsible for five robberies, one In West Malaysia and four In Singapore A total of $115,000 was Involved in the five
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  • 175 12 MORE Japanese industries are prepared to invest in the Republic. This was disclosed by Mr. S. Satow, the out-going General Manager of Mistui and Company Limited in Singapore. "Japanese Industries are quite prepared to come here to set up factories and to Import Its products to
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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    • 559 12 GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT INTEGRATION ORDINANCE. 1963 &lt;NO. 18 OF 1963) NOTICE LNDER SECTION 19 &lt;10» Whereas In exercise of the powers conferred by subsections (1) and (3) of Section 19 of the Local Government Integration Ordinance, 1963 (hereinafter referred to as "the Ordinance) the
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    • 154 12 Ki \\i w x l \v m t as a pilot in the SAF Be among the pioneers in the Air Defence Command. The SAF offers young men who are physically fit and intelligent the challenge of this exciting and satisfying career. You must be between 17V4 and 23 years
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    • 76 12 TIME AND TIDE TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN- 529 a.m. (0.1 ft); 12.27 Dm. (7.6 ft.); 5.13 o.m. (4.1 ft.). 11.08 ptn. (9 0 ft NAVAL DOCKYARD: 5.10 am. &lt;0.4 ft); 12.35 am (9 6 ft 5.33 D m (4.9 ft.); 11.24 p.m. (9.8 ft). rOMORROU SINGAPORE TOWN; 611 a.m. (0.0 ft.);
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    • 34 12 TOTO DRAWS THE following numbers were drawn in yesterday's Toto Draw: 26, 22, 20, 41, 37. The additional number drawn was 11. In the three-circle draw, the following numbers were picked: 21, 32, 30.
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