Eastern Sun, 29 August 1970

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cants fcstd. 1966 Vol. 5 No. 1483 Saturday, August 29, 1970. MC (P) 1616
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  • 452 1 First two meetings ended in SINGAPORE, whose MSA service to London wos postponed twice, is woiting for on official notice from Britain to resume talks for the third time. This was stated yesterday in a Ministry of Communications reply to the British H«gh Commission's statement
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  • 121 1 A van driver Anthony Tay, 22, was rushed to the General Hospital in a serious condition after he was extracted from his van following an accident yesterday. His van had an headon collision with a lorry along Jalan Sompahah. The Impact of the
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  • 83 1 /OFFICERS of the Singapore Armed Forces pay their last respects to 2nd Lt Tay Siow Kai, who died in a hand-grenade incident on Wednesday. Coffin The above picture was taken at the mortuary yesterday and shows the coffin draped with the state flag bearing
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  • 64 1 Yesterday's go-slow affected BOAC flights in this manner; BA 718. an immigrant charter flight, arrived here at 6.55 p.m. and took off at 8.30 instead of 7.40 p.m. •BA 708 arrived here at 5.20 p.m. and left at 10.05 instead of the scheduled 8.30 p.m. BA 799 arrived at 4.50
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  • 369 2 Non-aligned and their J£UALA LUMPUR The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, yesterday called on non-aligned countries to stop outside powers from interfering in tfieir internal affairs. Tun Razak who will be leading the Malaysian delegation to the non-aligned nations conference in Lusaka,
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  • 209 2 A MAN, who was sentenced to three years' Jail last year for cheating a bank director, yesterday won his appeal against conviction and sentence In the High Court. Richard Kwan Chuan Siak. tried in the Fourth Magistrate's Court, was charged with cheating Mr Y.K. Hwang,
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  • 35 2 Unemployed Omar bin P.K. Mohamed. 19. was yesterday sentenced to a month'g jail and fined s2oo for possession of two rolls of eanja at a •tall opposite Bedok Rest House ou July 17.
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  • 66 2 A coroner yesterday recorded a verdict of misadventure on the death of Manikam Arunanandam. 16, who was drowned at Changi Point on Aug. 14 while on a family picnic. Arunanandam, who could not swim well, was believed to have been swept some eight feet away by the
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  • 67 2 LIM GOE HUAT, 15, was yesterday sentenced to two months' Jail when he p'eaded guilty in the Ninth Magistrate's Court, to possession of housebreaking tools. He was arrested Thursday at 11.30 a.m. by a police constable on beat duty at Dunsfold Avenue. He bad
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  • 25 2 Chow Ta Yah, 39, was yesterday fined SSB.M for possession of dutiable Mae petrol after .he pleaded guilty in the Ninth Magistrates Court.
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  • 110 2 SISTERS Ong Guat Kwee, 7, and On* Guat Leong, 10 (right), yesterday sobbed in a corner of the mortuary. u P\ ei father, On* Chew Kit. 47, stood by helplessly. They were there to claim the body of their mother. Madam Neo
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  • 295 2 T*HE 'rosy picture' A now painted of Singapore must not lull Singaporeans to complacency. This warning came from Enche A. Rahim Ishak. the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, in the wake of a politically-turbulent Southeast Asia. Enche Rahim was speaking at a seminar
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  • 203 2 A TWO-DAY series of activities will mark this year's Teachers' Day Celebrations, commencing on Aug. 31. The highlight of the two-day programme will be a grand dinner expected to be attended by more than 1,500 teachers on the first day at the Monk's Hill Secondary School
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  • 262 3 OOLICE are up against an athletic gang of cat burglars In their Investigation of a $19,000 theft at a store in the Arcade, Raffles Place. The theft was discovered on Thursday and whatever evidence left on the scene convinced investigators that they
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  • 241 3 A SCHOOLGIRL yesterday told a magistrate's court how her stepfather would molest her everytime her mother was out gambling. The girl, 14, a student of the Oulllemard Integrated Primary School, was testifying in a preliminary inquiry in which her stepfather Ong Toh, 53, is tentatively
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  • 232 3 Hunt for the t goes fRIME busters from the Kondong Kerbou police ~?ation hove arrested two persons involved in the armed robbery at the South-east Asia College in Upper Serangoon Road, yesterday. The police party led by Act. ASP C. V. Chandra
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  • 111 4 Tan Bis Benpst, a Pengeran g fisherman, yesterday received a reward of $100 from the Royal Air Force for Hading a rubber diaghy. The latter was lost when Llahtning pilot Flying Officer Michael Rlgg ejected from his Jet fighter Into the sea
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  • 173 4 T>ANGKOK America will not get militarily involved in Cambodia but wants to see that nation continue a neutralist policy, U.S. Vice-President Spiro Agnew stated after talks with Cambodian Prime Minister Gen. Lon Nol. Agnew however added that the U.S. will "continue military
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  • 218 4 CAPE KENNEDY A secret satellite designed to warn of missile attacks apparently failed to reach its proper orbit after launch in Jane. It is looping Earth in a highly elliptical path now. it was learned yesterday. According to the latest satellite situation report
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  • 147 4 CHICAGO Detectives are hunting two young blonde women who vanished shortly after two tear gas grenades exploded during a performance by a Russian folk dance company in an opera house. i The dance troupe, the Moiseyev. went on stage on Thursday despite
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  • 194 4 NEW YORK A leading derautolorist has come op with an argument against drag-taking that may carry greater weight with the young than uaoet of the pleas addressed to them by anguished paints. Dr. Irwin Lohowe disclosed drags can spoil the complexion and threaten the
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  • 20 4 MOSCOW. Former Premier Nikita Khrushchev has been released from hospital after a three-month bout with a heart ailment
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  • 106 4 NEW YORK Tw« major life laawasce companies operating la both America aad Canada have announced they win H longer lame policies to marijuana ■sen The first evidence that insurance firms were cutting off marijuana users came earlier 'his week, when Occidental Life of
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    • 59 4 Featuring the Top Young Musical Talents in our Republic. TALENTIME FOR SCHOOLS 1970 GRAND FINALS at the National Theatre Saturday, sth September, 1970 at 7.30 p.m. Tickets: 50 cts. $l.OO, $2.00 are on sal* at C K Tang. Cold Storage and Robmson'v •SPOT THI TOP TALENTS CONTEST' ®F"™ I'WwWW'l IP
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  • 217 5 ORUSSELS Suggestions Hiot NATO should be Gorged to counter growing Soviet norol power art highly unlikely to be token seriously by the ollionce, informed sources 1 a I mC. Kilefl NATO officiols declined to comment on the suggestions mode in the new
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  • 127 5 WASHINGTON Scientists hare snapped important pictures of an essential life process never fully viewed before. The process, protein synthesis, ultimately determines the nature and behaviour of all living ceHs. A candid camera view of sueh bacterial genes in action was reported by the
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  • 232 5 TOKYO Two young Frenchmen and a Malta-born manager of a Tokyo travel agency were being questioned by police in connection with aircraft tickets allegedly stolen In America two years ago. Reliable sources disclosed that police at Haneda International Airport picked up
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  • 92 5 GEISLINGEN, West Germany A consignment of Sodium Cyanide poison enough to kill 250,000 people has vanished tr om a sealed goods wagon in a siding near Geislingen, police announced. A spokesman for the Bade n-Wuerttemberg Police said the 55pound consignment Iras la a container bound for a
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  • 149 5 PARIS American film star Jean Seber* gave birth to a premature baby girl in Geneva last Tuesday but it died a few hours later» exhusband Romain Gary disclosed. He said Jean was rushed to hospital by helicopter. The baby was sixtythree days before its
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  • 88 5 BANGKOK Nearly 350 villager* in Phrae Province In North Thailand are believed to have drowned In torrential floods, the *Bangkok World' reported. The newspaper said the 350 people, who reaided in three remote villages, have not been aeen since floodwaters ewlrled Into the area on kiondaj.
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  • 139 7 NEW DELHI —lndian customs men confiscated the unexposed film of a British Thames Television tea m filming in Calcutta. Authorities have also Impounded 2.400 feet ol exposed film sent for shipment, disclosed Chri s Ooddard. director of the team from the "This Week"
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  • 309 7 TEL AVIV Israel warned that it cannot keep turning a blind eye to one-sided breoches of the ceasetire and will stop talking peace if fighting is renewed. Both Premier Golda Meir and Defence Minister Moshe Dcyan spelled out clearly Isroeli determination to safeguard its
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  • 131 7 MELBOURNE. Australia St. Kllda Councillor Ivan Trayllng confessed Prince Charles was quite right In his criticism of Bt. Kllda Beach during his recent Australian tour. The Prince, after a moraine swim, compared "is experience to "swimming In diluted sewage." A crank Trayllng said he
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  • 67 7 MICHIGAN Police keep a clone watch on some of the 2M youths who were arrestfd during the third aiitht of violence. Outbreaks started when a park, ased by the youths, was closed. Some of those arrested were Hoed "P against the wall while others were
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  • BRIEFLY AROUND THE WORLD
    • 372 7 RAN CLEMENTE, California, President Nixon has written to Soviet Prime Minister Kosygln endorsing his call for better understanding. However, he avoided any response to a fresh Soviet call 1 or a European Security Conference. Kosygln urged discussions of east-west problems at an allEuropean forum in a letter
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

  • 367 8 JJ.S. Vice President Splro Agnew is making an unscheduled visit to Phnom Penh but It does not come as a surprise. Few have any real understanding of what exactly is going on In Cambodia but Agnew's visit is unlikely to change the course of events one way
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  • 183 8 /\N matters pertaining to infringements v and violations, none can beat the Communists. Years of expertise have gone into the art of prevarication which made the Soviets masters of the game. A recent example is the Middle East First, the Soviet Union through its ally
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  • 586 8  -  By Art Buchwald, A T first glance Tahiti and surrounding islands live up to their reputation as being an earthlike paradise, But after a week you notice many things wrong. It's sad to report but Tahiti lacks many of the refinements that Americans are used to. For
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  • 404 8  -  By Ross Annabell, Rotorua, New Zealand. TWO Australian scientists appear to have made a dramatic discovery which could lead to fairly accurate predictions of volcanic eruptions. Potentially dangerous volcanoes might eventually be monitored to give people living nearby at least the few hours' warning
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  • 150 8 LONDON The new edition of the annual Jane's Fighting Ships, commenting on Russian naval growth warned yesterday that "there is no hiding place from the hammer and sickle". While the Soviet Navy was continuing the expansion begun in 1960, the fleets of the United States
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  • 10 8 Who dnr»* nothing, need hope for nothing. Johann Schiller.
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  • 987 11 gELADANG has been running some good races after a let up and is a confident bet to win race four today, opening day of the Penang autumn meeting. At Ipoh a fortnight ago, Seladang battled on gamely when third to Hand In Hand over 6f.
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  • 197 11  -  By Our Racing Correspondent PENANG SUN RAGE went like a winner here this morning. With Johnny Rao astride, Sun Rage sprinted stylishly over 3f in 37 3/5 on good going. PURPLE GEM (Llm) and Sir Namron provided an interesting trial. Clapping en the pace from
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  • 158 11 COPENHAGEN Tom Bogs of Denmark needed all his strength to retain his European middleweight title last night with a close 15-round decision over Chris Finnegan of England. The Dane looked far from world class as he toiled through most of the fight against the Olympic
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  • 182 11 KOBAYASHI'S TOKYO The Panamanian Boxing Commission has lodged a strong protest with its Japanese counterpart over the controversial decision of the world junior lightweight title match last Sunday in which title holder Japan's Hiroshi Kobayashi retained his title. In a cable to the Japan Boxing Commission
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  • 76 11 MOSCOW Kestutis Shapka, a 20-year-old Russian, has achieved the best high jump performance In Europe this year with a leap of 2.21 metres (7 feet, 3 inches). Shapka was competing at Vilnius, Lithuania and according to Taas. the Soviet news agency, the jump was the third best in
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  • 42 11 SANTOS Brazilian soccer star Pele yesterday became the father of a four kilo (8 lb. 8 oz.) son born at the City Hospital here. Pele and his wife Rosemeri have a three-year-old daughter named Kelly Christina, also born in Santos.
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  • 119 11 NEW YORK. Bobby Rlggs and Vic Seixas won opening round singles matches yesterday as defending champion United States Sabbed a 2-0 lead over reat Britain in the seventh cup championships for senior tennis stars. There were three former Wimbledon champions competing in the opening day
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  • 944 12  -  •y E. C. GOH ITAPPY focts, o forest of logs ond smelly socks five miles later these sum up the first Pesto Sukon Notional Walk. In case anyone wants to know why this report on on event which took place over 10 days ago
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  • 149 12 CLEVELAND, Otto U.S. Darts cap tram captain Edward Turrille ■aid today he has decided who will play singles far tte United States ia the challenge round matches against West Germany this weekend. The decision smounted to an elimination of one of three strong contenders: Arthur Ashe, Stan
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  • 610 12  -  A tolumn on A by Milton Richman NEW YORK Richard Nixon loves to talk about football. Okay, I've got a suggestion for him. Ho ought to talk to the sam* foNow I did. Th o gentleman's name it Jo# Paterno and ho makes his living coaching
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  • 820 13 AS they got into the narrow streets of the town and were threading their way between ox and hand carts, the mercenary sitting in the front of the lorry with Adam, asked. "Where do these people think they're going?" Adam shrugged: "It's panic. Hall the
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 1898 14 LOOKING AND LISTENING.... fv CAVVVfOUL RIOHTEft'S from the Carroll Righter Institute GENERAL TENDENCIES: This it a good d»y and evening to express a great deal of pride. Refrain from setting involved in questionable practices or undertakings with strange or unreliable persons. But it is an excellent time for whatever you
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  • 758 15  -  Saturday showbiz By Roger Doughty JJEW YORK Once upon a time David Frost was o kid in England who wanted to grow up to be the best soccer player in the world. If you can believe his publicity people, he grew up to be
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  • 549 15  -  By Dick Kleiner lIOLLYWOOD There are three kinds of scenes which are directors' nightmares: Scenes involving a specific kind of weather, rain on cue, or a sunbeam slicing through a cloud. Scenes with toddlers who have to «ay something cute. Bcenes with animals who have
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  • SATURDAY WOMEN
    • 805 16  -  My Nathalie Mont-Servan rTHE "mom" style -*> hot caught on but the gea•rd public IKS bun MI prompt in fl i v i R g up the mini" skirt. Why? French fashion houses are feeling the pinch of the public's reluctance to make the changeover from mini
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    • 201 17  -  Marianne Pereira FROM TOP: With a large, burnished cold buckle, this Mir is of crushed, beige leather. The buckle besides being a trendy conversation piece adds sine to the tread. The style is borrowed from the cowboy boots of olde 0 0* Don't be a spectator, wear these
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    • 118 17 T OUISE of Benjamin's advises: "Don't wear anything that doesn't live up to your shoes/' to any girl who wants to look effective from top-to-toe. Trendy footmanship has zoomed to chunky steel heels and burnt gold or old silver buckles where day
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    • 500 17  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: A word to that mother who w»s heartsick because she sent her fine, young son off to the Ivy Leagoe and he returned a hippy radical. She blamed the school* his far-out friends and the new student movement. Perhaps
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 258 18 'THE easier tendency in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singa--1 pore the previous day was reversed as a firmer note was injected Into the market yesterday. However transaction* were small and still selective with a bulk of 2.1 million units. Properties persisted to be
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    • 281 18 September first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 52-1/S cents per lb. down 2/8 cent from the previous close. The ton e of the market was quiet and slightly steadier. After an about uncbanged opening the market became steadier
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    • 27 18 LONDON, Tin was very steady on Thursday with 75 tons. Spot buyers 1495 sellers 1497 business nil. 3-month buyers 1497 sellers 1498 business 1496 1498
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    • 13 18 The tin price for yesterday was $653.50 per picul up $3.00.
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    • 53 18 LONDON Rubber market closed uncertain on Thursday with spot 19|, 19] nominal. SETTLEMENT HOUSE Oct 19-5/8 20 NOT 20 20-1/4 Oct/Dec 20 20-1/4 Dec 20-3/16 20-7/16 Jan/Mar 20-7/16 20-9/10 Apr/June 20-3/4 20-15/16 Jul/Sept 20-3/4 21 Oct/Dec 20-7/8 21-1/8 Jan/Mar 21 21-1/4 Apr/June 21-1/16 21-5/16 Jul/Spet 21-1/8 21-3/8
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    • 80 18 THE noon price* at the Binnpore Chlnm Prod ace Exchange yesterday t»ere: Coconut Oil crqn.) Balk S3 .AO Coconut (MJ (FOB.) J>rym mm M. Copra 3100 Muntok White TfTi) Sarawak •KJKi Black 1 <ro.B.) 187 50 White 185-00 Special •eppet i 157.50 u 1 Special 220-M 1 Slack F
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    • 81 18 The Port of Singapore Authority has made the following berthing arrangements for today, Aug. 29. DEPARTURES Godowns Vessels H3/14 Wonorato 18 Australasia •0 East Qlang Ann 21 West Bldor 23/24 Manoloeverett 27 Choyo Maru 31/32 Neptune Topas 44 Bennachle 20 West Scudal ARRIVALS Godowns Vessels 20
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    • 629 18 BID and offer prices officially listed at the rlose of business la the Singapore and Kuala Lompur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS 8. AJinomoto 1.96 203 Akan 1.39 1.49 Allied Cho« 2.69 Ben. Ed 1.97 1.08 Berjaya 1.30 LSI Borneo 1.(5 Boustead 1.91 1.93
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    • 813 18 BUSINESS done In and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in bracket* In lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS ACM A $1.42 (1); ALCAN $1.40 (1); Allied Choc. $2.66 (7) $2.67 (4); Ben.
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    • 65 18 NEW YORK Gold prices rose in moderately active trading Thursday on markets here and abroad. Zurich bankers attributed recent gains to an Increase In Industrial buying In an otherwise thin market. London gold sained 18} cents at the morning fixing but slipped 14) cents for a second
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    • 39 19 NEW YORK. Dow Jones closing averages Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange were: 30 Industrials 759.79 20 Transp 136.64 15 Utilities 100.44 65 Stocks 239.01 40 Bonds 64 69 Commodity Futures Index 145.02 up 0 62
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    • 347 19 SYDNEY All sections of the market Improved to some extent on the Sydney Stock Exchange Friday. Speealathres received a good run with many of the More established issues posting sign in cast rises. The whole mining market livened to very early In trading as buyers moved
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    • 493 19 ARRIVAL* nr. am MSA 188 Kuala Lampur 62ft K-tn MSA >Hfi Madras 7*o a m MnA ICS Kuala I. a is par 9SOam. Ms 4.52 Kuala Lampur 10 SO a m MSA 449 K«(Mm liar, am. MSA 464 Penang, K Lampur 11 .SO Jm. MSA 20:< Jakarta ISOD
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    • 146 19 Mr. Malcolm Thom, Associate Director of Cathay Advertising Ltd., has just returned from London after a series of successful talks with BOAC's Controlling Agency Foote, Cone and Beldlng. While In London Mr. Thom outlined BOAC's 1971 advertising programme for Singapore and Malaysia as well
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    • 160 19 LONDON Stock markets drifted on lack of interest today as trading slackened in front of the holiday weekend. By mid-afternoon the Financial Times Index had fallen 1.0 to 341.8 But here and there special situations threw up scattered features. Modest support lifted government stocks by one-eighth
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    • 56 19 NEW YORK Prices on the New York Btock Exchange closed mixed In moderate trading Thursday. At the bell the Dow Jones industrial average of 30 selected Blue Chips stood at 759.79. off 0.68. Of the 1.583 Issues traded. 652 advanced and 825 declined. Volume of 12.440.000 shares
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  • 373 20 Students exhorted to help. people. SINGAPORE needs more mandarins who are brave, wise and dedicated to lead the people to a better life. This was stated yesterday by Mr. S. Rajoratnam, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labour, in a talk to pre-university students attending the
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  • 147 20 KUCHING Sarawak's Chief Minister, Da to Haji Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, was yesterday awarded $90,000 damages with costs in a libel suit against a local Eng-lish-language d a i 1 v, "Hie Vanguard, and its editor. Mr. Desmond Leong. Mr. Justice B T.H. Lee.
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  • 39 20 BELGRADE United Nations Secretary General U Thant flew in here yesterday from Paris on a three-day official visit to Yugoslavia. The U.N leader was scheduled to meet Yugoslav Foreign Minister Mlrko Tepavac later yesterday afternoon.
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  • 72 20 An AMX 13 tank accomplished this feat (cutting up a car almost in two) not so long ago. A piling rig's kelly bar yesterday more than equalled the record. It snapped during construction work for a shopping complex in Shenton Way. Three tons
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  • 245 20 KUALA LUMPUR Home Affairs Minister, Tun Dr. Ismail, said yesterday it was imperative that the Malaysian and Singapore Police maintain close relations. This, he said, was because the security of the two countries "cannot be divided." "As long as there is this
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  • 61 20 MADRAS Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew arrives here tomorrow from Ceylon on the second leg of a tonweek world tour. Mr. Lee will spend five days in India and will meet the Indian Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, and the Foreign Minister, Mr. Swaran Singh.
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  • 173 20 QEOUL The prosecution yesterday demanded the death penalty for a man accused of murdering his sister, an alleged high society prostitute. Chong-Uk Chung was accused of killing his sister, Miss In-Suk Chung. 26, with a pis to. and robbing her In a car which
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