Eastern Sun, 9 July 1970

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    20 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daiy 10 E»»d. 1966 Vol. 4 No. 1390. Thursday, July 9, 1970. MC (P) 1616
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    Lock icon EGYPT'S BRIDGEHEAD PLAN ACROSS SUEZ
    293 1 Egyptians ore poised to open o bridgehead across the Suez Canal with Russian assistance, diplomatic sources said yesterday. The bridgehead, they said, will help re-open the vital sea passage to the Indian Ocean for the Soviet navy. The issue was said to be among the
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    Lock icon HONG KONG BANS CONCUBINAGE
    151 1 HONG KONO Hon« Kong's Legislative Council yesterday passed a law banning the ancient Chinese custom allowing men to take concubines. The law which will come into force next year, says: "No man may take a concubine and no woman may acquire the status of a concubine."
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    Lock icon PRISONERS IN 'TIGER CAGES'
    63 1 WASHINGTON This is one of the "tiger cages'* used to confine political prisoners in South Vietnam, according to Thomas Harkin, the lone staff member of a House factfinding team that toured Southeast Asia. Harkin said the "tiger cages" were found in a prison on con Son
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    Lock icon 3 sentenced for life
    170 1 ATHENS, A military tribunal sentenced three of 11 accused Communists yesterday to lite imprisonment for plotting to overthrow the Arm y-backed Government of Premier George Papadopoulos. Seven other defendants were sentenced to jail terras ranging from 20 years to two years. One was acquitted. Sentenced to
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      95 1 Importers ot Carpets ol Quality Distinction YEO'S CHICKEN CURRY Yeo'e Curry Chicken it made from th* choicest. Ireth whole chicken end prepated to their own epecial recipe. Whole chunke 'of tender succriegt chicken. Delicious with rice, potato** or breed. It I* meet in moment Heve few tin* hendy so convert*
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    Lock icon Store looted with stolen gate key, Court told
    347 2 gHIRTS worth $20,000 were missing this morning after the assistant manager of a departmental store missed a back door key, the previous evening. Charged with breaking into J.T. Chanrai (b) Pte. Ltd., at High Street and stealing the shirts, were the stpre's
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    Lock icon Police conduct always under public eye
    102 2 Mr. Cheam warned recruits that the police were constantly under the scrutiny and often criticism of the public. The Commissioner mid JO 1i oe officers should berefore not only avoid doing anything evil but also avoid anything which has the appearance of eviL Mr.
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    Lock icon WRONG NUMBER
    22 2 IV Eastern San yesterday Inadvertently printed *****62 as one •< Ike mtkmmm €t the *l9 Lucky Wtaaei** inn k npcMal' error
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    Lock icon Stab victim is better
    47 2 The condition of Tan Lian lfent. IT. who waa atabbod with a bearing scraper yesterday haa improved. Tan waa waylaid by four persona, one armed with a bearing acraper. as he waa walking along Block 40. Peslaran Kellllng. last night at 11.15 P-m.
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    Lock icon WORLD'S MOST HANDSOME CROCODILE
    276 2 DAK WIN, Australia The bterutiwal Saurian Lovers' Society voted Bi( Fat Charlie "The World's Most Hirtnn Crocodile". Charlie, all threequarter* o| a ton of him. lire® at Hartley's Creek Fauna Reserve, 25 miles north of Cairns, north Queensland. The reserve's curator. Gary Zillfleisch, explained how Charlie
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    Lock icon Back to old classicals (Eastern)
    320 4 SINGAPORE'S small omd "aasoag" community of Chinese musicians are fighting fa make their music a viable occupation. They face two problems. One: Fewer ond fewer Chinese youths take to classical Chinese instruments any more Because of westernized culture, they prefer the guitar to the flute.
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    Lock icon Ban on Army livery
    96 4 KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Gorer time at yesterday banned the mat of camouflage aniform or camouflage cloth by the pmk£c. The finergency Ordinance, making It an offence for anyone except members of the Malaysian Armed Forces to wear or possess such material, was apby the National
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    Lock icon Claims on accident
    116 4 A woman told the High Court that she required corrective surgery on her (ace after an accident Her right cheek bone was fractured, she said. Madam Ong Kim Choo is claiming damages of $4,500 against Mr. Cheong Kwok Kiong, a motor* cyclist. The plaintiff Ong alleged that
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    Lock icon Honorary consul
    38 4 Mr. Alan Gerard Clarke hat been appointed as the Honorary Consul of Ireland to Singapore. The Singapore Go- ▼eminent and the Irish Government agreed on this consular relationship to strengthen existing relationships, between the two nation*.
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      214 4 e. M I Downtime... We cant eliminate it altogether but we can reduce it drastically ML When your machine breaks down I production stops. It must be repaired and put back in operation quickly. Here's how The Professionals'* it Tractors Malaysia Berhad can help you do it both faster and'cheaper.
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    Lock icon LIGHTNING SETS OIL TANK ON FIRE
    109 6 LE HAVRE, Prance A dock-side oil tank, set ablase by lightning early yesterday brought fears of a major explosion. Ships are evacuating this port on the northwest coast of France. Flames lit the sky tor several hours before dawn and people watched the blaze
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    Lock icon New York: 3 more bombing incidents
    200 6 VTEW YORK Thre# ptoyfa wore slightly iijiftd on Tuesday afternoon when a bomb exploded outside Hie Haitian Consulate here. Another device was found unexploded five blocks away in the Portuguese Travel and Infor- mation Agency. Police are seeking a man spotted entering the Portuguese
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    Lock icon RUSSIA MARS MOOD OF YOUTH ASSEMBLY
    262 6 NEW YORK A world assembly of youth from over 1M nations opens today to seek greater international harmony with the Rassian group jarring the atmosphere. Over 600 person* and a dozen dependencies accepted invitations to attend the World Youth Assembly, organised as the first
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  • BRIEFLY AROUND THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Bid to solve rail strike
      250 6 WASHINGTON President Nixon ordered a day-long railroad strike halted on Tuesday for at least 60 days to give a final chance to settle their prolonged dispute over firemen's jobs. Nixon's appointment of a Special Emergency Board exhausted his remedies under the National Railway Labour Act
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    Lock icon VICE-PRESIDENT ON TOUR
    47 7 NATION A UST CHINESE VICE-PRESIDENT C. K. YEN (centre) and bis wife (on a wheelchair) went on a sight-seeing tour during their visit to the ancient Japanese capital, Kyoto. They arc seen admiring the Nijojo Castle while an interpreter explains |o them. UPI radiophoto.
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    Lock icon Rumania-USSR treaty: BETTER DEAL FOR SHREWD MOSCOW
    249 7 Jl/f OSCOW The new Soviet-Rumanian Friendship Treaty stresses Hie savereignty and independence of each country but commits them to fight for each other in the event of 'any armed attock.' The treaty was signed rn Bucharest by the two countries' Prime Ministers. It
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    Lock icon 'Minor' GI pullout soon in S.Korea
    235 7 SEOUL America is planning to pull out "a small portion** of its 60.000-strong force stationed bere the Wime Minister's Office announc- Ed resterday. The U.S. ambassador here, William Porter, ha* told Prime Mini* ster Chung. 11. Kwon that" it was part of Washington's overall
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    Lock icon MINISTERS' SHOWDOWN OVER BELFAST VISIT
    214 7 LONDON A coldly polite showdown between the Foreign Ministers of Britain and the Irish Republic took place yesterday. Dr. Pattrick Hillery, Dublin's Minister for External Affairs made a secret trip across the border to Belfast trouble spots on Monday. The incident outraged North Ireland's Protestant
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    Lock icon RUMANIA'S INDEPENDENT STANCE
    575 8 gOVIET Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev gave illness as the excuse for not going to Bucharest to sign the treaty of friendship but apparently did not mind being seen in a football match in Moscow. This political "illness" and what Rumanian Prime Minister lon Maurer said after
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    Lock icon How Republicans stole Christmas
    519 8  -  By Art Buchwald I 1 H E Democrats won't soy it publicly, but they're not too happy about the Republicans stealing the Fourth of July. While the "Honour America Day" celebration in Washington was advertised as nonpartisan, any professional politician knows that when the American public
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    Lock icon Passing the accident buck
    227 8 WASHINGTON After spending 40 years studying auto accidents, J. Stannard Baker, director of research and development In Northwestern University's Traffic Institute, has come up with "Baker's Law" tend to explain their traffic accidents by reporting circumstances of lowest culpability compatible with credibility." That's a mouthful, and
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    Lock icon THOUGHTS
    29 8 The history of mankind is one lone record of giving revolution another trial and then limping back at last to sanity, safety and hard work. Ed Howe, journalist.
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      57 8 rorrlio newt and feature* appearing In all editions of the Eastern Man and The bun are from: Reuters. United Press International. Agence fraart Presee Editor* Press Syndicate. News* paper Enterprise Association Pubfobers Hall S/ndlcste Los Anseles Times Syndicate. Oeaslnl New* Service. North American Newspaper Alliance. first Features. Inter-Press Featuies and
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    Lock icon IT'S BACK TO SQUARE ONE
    644 9  -  Part two of Tom Culleris report from Belfast PAGE S 311 SPECIAL Tom Cullen's TAR. Robert Simpson, minister of comm unity relations for the Northern Ireland government, describes His job os being "fire chief in bell." His assignment is to try to reconcile Northern Ireland's
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    Lock icon Sexuality in sperms is equally divided
    335 9  -  DOCTOR'S MAI LB AC By Dr. Wayne Brandstadt A —ll% the sperms in any specimen of semen are equally divided between those that produce boys and those that produce girls. Q— My husband, 56, has one testicle that is much boxer than the other.
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      Lock icon Will Edgar Hoover stay head of FBI?
      651 10/11 THE big auastioa at tfca Fadcral Bureau af Investigation (F. 8.1.) it: will J. Edgar Hoover still ba at tfca halm wke« tfca agaaicy moves into its new headquarters? Neither Mr. Hoover. 75. nor the new building across the street from the FAX'S
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      Lock icon Gen Yahya Khan hopes to return to his 'job'
      561 10/11 WITH Pakistan moving uneasily toward elections in early October, retired Air Marshal Noor Khan is back on the political scene. The dapper Air Marshal. who gav«> Pakistan "clear skies" during the 1965 war with India, told a recent news conference he
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      Lock icon EVEN THE REDS LINK WITH THE VATICAN
      561 10/11 A special report from Vatican City MORE than 40 countries from Nationalist China to Communist Cuba think it worth their while to keep diplomatic representation at the Vatican. A score of others soon to be joined by the United States-send diplomats to the
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      Lock icon Newark's Negro Mayor battles an image
      834 10/11  -  Not eve can ex miracles By Tom Tiede rfO weeks after the exhausting mayoral campaign, this city is shabbier than ever. Hundreds of thousands of campaign posters have begun to split, and shred, and peel away from the walls and the windows of the
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      1359 12 LOOKING AND LISTENING....* radio guide r«s v July 9, 1970. CLAYS. JbtKffco Sfon. dswly —SOps for Thurxfey, Food wcmiJi corrMpondra 90 finwi cf your Zodioc birth sigrv. |1» lllll I HMay «2VM* 33 No A3 Look UCnTAAIUll rowmiM ;>OA 41 Gaw .iirtwf ■<! 71 WNh mm 42EmkmUV 4j 85# a
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    Lock icon Matthau wins male lead in 'Plaza Suite' movie
    573 13  -  By Sheilah Graham The Aim version of "Plaza Suite" stars Maureen Stapleton, who originated her role in the Neil Simon play on Broadway. Also, Barbara Harris, who should be seen more often in Alms, and Lee Grant will be in it. The
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      250 13 TOTV RGAI\ilSATinr\J DOEQM ***** OPENS TODAYt 11 Mi. I S#. 4. 6.M. #l5 p.m. •'The Dirty Heroes" In Color Frederick Stafford. Scop* ON STAGE At ».U |JI. TIMEX rrrtniu BEAT THE CLOCK' Audience r»rtlclp»tt»* Show Simultaneous Midnight Saturday I ODEON OKCHARD 12 M'NITB 11.45 pm Richard Harris m •A Mas
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      52 13 BPEHS I CATHAY] TODAY! Daily 5 Shows at 11 a.m., 1.30, 4.99, 8.30 A 9.39 p.m. IT BRINGS TOD FACE TO FACE WITH SPIES, WOMEN OF THE SHADOWS, ADVENTURERS AND KILLERS... .WHERE LOVE AND HATE ARE WEAPONS NOT EMOTIONS! ft A r '4£ i. Jigs??* 1 Thomas Hunter Marie Venial
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      206 13 SB TTiffnTiTT HON LID O Phone 3734 14 OPENS TOUAti 11. I.U 4. 0.3* 1.11 »m 'HOA BINH" In Colof (Prom Warner Bros Saturday Midnight at Line Vun "HELLGATE" tA SHAW PRODUCTION» Mandarin In Scope A co.or CAPITOL PHuno 5975 V Technlscope Technicolor NEXT CHANOEI "SECRET OF THE DIKE' <4
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      Lock icon His future teacher was father's lover
      729 14  -  Date m Ele, Walt Dulaney DBAS ELK AND WALT: My father Is a whMl principal, la his school there's a voaas teacher he's beea carrying «s with ler almost tvs years. rai a Junior In school and Mat year 1 hare to lake senior
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      Lock icon Changing face of Singapore
      427 14 ONCE an insignJfieant fishing village, today Singapore is a thriving republic with a great peieaUai future. Its rise to its present status te due to the laborious and painstaking effort of the people from the past and the present. But, we must not deny that much
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      Lock icon 'Hit and Run'
      300 14 la Singapore, various types of accidents OCCKT every day. These accidents may happen at any place on the road sides and other places. Certain accidents are minor ones but some of them are quite serious where death is Involved. Most of these accidents can be prevented by
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      Lock icon Rangoon students set exam record
      99 14 RANGOON A too* bey aad girl took this year's record as Ike best fiw sitters. Khin Maung Nyunt, 19-year-old son of a teashop owner and Nila Tin, 17, notched up six matriculation passes in their entrance examinations for university. Both passed in exactly the same
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      185 14 ESSAY CONTEST: Roles to observe Tlii Eastern Ssa'i assay writing contest tor boys anri girls a# 14 anri eerier (Junior) snd boys and girls sear 14 (Seniar) appears in tbis page Ivans Monday la Friday. Prize money is: $10 for Seniors and $5 for Juniors for every essay published All
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  • ADVENTURES IN A SINGAPORE KITCHEN
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      Lock icon SANDWICH PLUS
      241 15 WHEN it o sandwich more than a sandwich? When it's a sandwich baka. it's a full meal-in-a-dishf A ham and cheese sandwich, favourite of "combos'" Is baked in a rich custard to make a delicious, satisfying luncheon or supper dish. What's more, you make it ahead even tbe
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      Lock icon Pie is the main event at dinner
      333 15  -  By Ruth Bakalar THIS pfo it a gloX -in 1 -i- fiviea cnoeseburgor. For th i version of Hit kids' favourite you don't shape tho minced boo# info hamburgers, grill HifW, top Hiom with cheese, and servo on a bun. For a cheeseburger
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    Lock icon Enough is enough —of Ann's recipe
    460 15  -  Ann Landers DEAR READERS: 1 •were I would not print another word abont that Mo—ln* meat leaf recipe, bat then along oaase a letter informing me that Ann Landers' meat loaf took first prise in a contest In New Orleans. The newfc seemed too
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      145 17 Situations Vacant APPLICATIONS are invited from energetic young men/women for the following vacancies at various locations in Singapore: a Service Station pump attendant b. Service Station lube-bay helper c. Motor mechanic d. Motor maintenance/repair foreman. CENERAL REQUIREMENTS: Age between 20-25; good physical condition and having a cheerful personality; experience not
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    Lock icon Penang fields for this Sunday
    1021 18 CI. 3 Dlv. 1 1-5% F. Til 17 MoaBlrkrndia Ay 9 00 J Breuk Tjoa ***** Kerakah 6y 8 06 HC Too 0 Movie tlouse V Domino H 49 3y B 00 8 02 Shaw Domino E Donnelly Lee Mill LuttrlM 8y B02 K lived
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    Lock icon TRAINER TEH'S HORSES IN SPARKLING FORM
    214 18 (By Our Racing Correspondent) PENANG, Last start winner, TREDEGA-i, did a splendid gallop here this morning. With jockey Frank White astride, Tredegar went fast from the sf, easing up in the straight to run the last 3f in 39 1/5. The going was good.
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    Lock icon LAGUNA FAILS AGAIN
    136 18 OAKLAND World lightweight champion Ismeal Laguna lost another court bid on Tuesday to gain reinstatement from the California Athletic Commission. Laguna, under temporary suspension by the commission for running out on a bout with Armando Ramos in Los Angeles on May 22, was told by Judge Robert
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    Lock icon Baseball results and standings
    208 18 NEW YORK —Results and standings In major league baseball after Tuesday's games: NATIONAL LEAGUE East W L OB New York 45 36 Pittsburgh 46 38 U Chicago 40 40 41 St. Louis 39 42 6 Philadelphia 34 47 11 Montreal 33 49 12} West W L
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    Lock icon FARMER SUED FOR BREACH OF PROMISE
    557 20 Damages claimed Girl wos 'deflowered': Court told A FARMER wos yesterdoy accused in the. High Court of having "deflowered" a girl 20 doys after their engagement. Ng Ban Huat, who is sued for damages for breoch of promise, broke off. with Miss Ang Bee
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    Lock icon BOMB FOUND BESIDE JETTY
    130 20 Capt. Stan Huggett, a bomb disposal expert from 54 (FARELF) Support Squadron, Royal Engineers and Lt. Tony Lombard, Royal Navy, the second-in-command of the Fleet Clearance Diving Team, examining a large bomb found beside the jetty at Tanjong Berlayar Tuesday evening. Seen watching the two experts,
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    Lock icon THAIS AGREE TO TRAIN CAMBODIAN RECRUITS
    308 20 BANGKOK Thailand has agreed to train regular Cambodian Army recruits. Thai Premier Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn said yesterday. The Premier told reporters that the first batch of 2,000 Cambodian recruits would come to Thailand for 16 weeks' training. According to official sources the decision
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    Lock icon 40 die in launch mishap
    87 20 NEW DELHI More than 100 persons out of 155 on board a launch that sank last Sunday at Pira Lanka, in Krishna River 1 in the South Indian State of Andhra Pradesh, have been rescued. Indian news agencies reported yesterday. The agencies quoted Andhra Pradesh
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    Lock icon QUEST FOR P.M.
    91 20 ROME v Italian President Giuseppe Baragat completed his talks with political leaders vesterdav In his quest for someone who can form a government. Saragat conferred with four leading politicians during the evening in the opening phase of consultations for a way out of the second government crisis
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