Eastern Sun, 10 October 1970

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    21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national dail) 10 cents Ittd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1469 Saturday, October 10, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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    Lock icon Truck, cars crash
    110 1 The Japanese driver of tins flattened car was injured last night when he was involved in a collision with a Morris Minor and a military truck. Yuichai Sorimachai, s?*.. wa driving along Holland Road towards Farrer Road when the truck and his ear collided. Sorimachai's car rolled
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    Lock icon SCIENTISTS SOUGHT FOR ARMED SERVICES
    299 1 Ministry of Defence is working to estoblish o strong scientific ond technological base for the Singapore armed forces. It is trying to attract some of the best "young scientific and technological brains in the country/' the ministry's permanent secretary Mr. J.Y.M. Pillay said yesterday. He
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    Lock icon Denounced
    23 1 MOSCOW,-The Soviets yesterda v denounced the Nobel Prize award to Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. saying it was prompted by "specn'ative political conskleraliuus.''
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    Lock icon Writing on wall leads two boys to a fight
    352 2 rFHREE words scrawled oa o woH "Richard lores Alice" sparked off between two schoolboys a fight which ended in the death of one of Hiem. Richard See Ping Hong, 15, died of heart failure on Sept- 7. an assistant pathologist. Dr.
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    Lock icon Suicide verdict in boy's death
    171 2 The Coroner's Court ye.sterday returned a verdict of suicide at the ;nd o t an inquiry into the death of a labourer. Tan Ah Pong, on Sept. 19. Tan fell to his death from the eighth floor of a block of flats at HaveJock Road.
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    Lock icon Misadventure
    28 2 A coroner yesterday recorded a verdict of misadventure on the death of Toh Eng Henf. 19, national serviceman who was drowned in Kranji River on Sept. 26.
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    Lock icon Defence: Larger UK share than expected
    233 2 "ORITISH commitment to the Fire-Nation Defence Arrangements after 1971 will be "larger" than the other four governments ex- pected it to be. Stating this here last evening, British UnderSecretary of State for the Navy, Mr. Peter Kirk, said the size and form of the
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    Lock icon Six years, 9 strokes for phone box thief
    287 2 The First District Court yesterday sentenced man to six years' jail aod nine strokes of the cane for vandalism and theft. Leong See Meng. 34. pleaded guilty to 151 charges of damaging and stealing from telephone booth coin boxes. The Deputy PibHc
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    Lock icon Thugs rob salesman
    172 2 A salesman. Mohamed Faruk. 25. (outhi an armed robber for IB minutes after he was robbed of $5,040 on Oct. 8. But the robber overpowered him and managed to escape. Scores of people nearby watchea without helping Faruk, had earlier collected a sum of $5,000 from a
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    Lock icon Ban on crackers not lifted for Deepavali
    98 2 The general prohibition on t&e letting off of firecrackers will not be lifted on Deepavali and Ouy Fawkes Day Any person who wished to let off firecracker* should apply for a permit, a police statement released yesterday stated. The statement warned that possession
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      61 2 AROUND TOWN 8.3fl a.m. Inauguration of Esso Youth and Industry Project Victoria School. 10.00 a.m. Horticultural Show— Turf Club, Buklt Tlmah. 10.00 a.m. Red Cro* Food Festival Victoria Memorial Hall. 12.00 noon Opening of Malay Literary Association Fun Fair Geylang Serai Industrial Training Centre. 5.30 p.m. Art Exhibition Cedar Girls'
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    Lock icon ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS: BID TO FIND NEW MARKETS
    431 3 T OCAL manufacturers of electronic components, hit by the U.S. economic recession, are trying to find new markets in Asia and Europe. At one stage recently, three companies Texas Instruments, Fairchild Pte Ltd. and National Semi-Conductors were forced to cut down production by
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    Lock icon Don't neglect workers, warns Nair
    270 3 Secretary-General of the NTUC Mr. C.V. Devan Nair, yesterday warned of the "penalties" for neglecting the "human side of industrial enter- prises." He said this aspect of Singapore's industrial development has so far not received the attention it deserves. He warned that If It "continues
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    Lock icon Man on ganja charge
    49 3 A man will be charged in court today (or t>ossesslng 100 katis of ganja. He wa s arrested by two detectives Iro m the Narcotics Department along Lorong 27 on Oct. 9 at 12.30 p.m The paper bag which he was carrying contained the ganja.
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    Lock icon $4,540 damages claim dismissed
    74 3 The High Court yesterday dismissed a painter's $4,540 damages claim. He could "not recall to any degree of accuracy" the state of affairs when he was knocked down In an accident Involving his motorcycle and a lorry 3 years ago. Onn Song Chlm, 26. had alleged
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    Lock icon Seaman relieved of headaches after fall
    230 3 Ceaman Kok Kin Weng's nine-year spells of headaches and giddiness ended yesterday he died after falling from the 15th floor of a block of flats in Outram Park. Kok, of Nelson Road, left his house at 11 a.m. after informing his family that he
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      32 3 FIRST GROUP THIS SUNDAY'S DRAW NO: SI/TO (11-10-70) CASH JACKPOT IS > TO WINNERS WITH 5 NUMBERS CORRECT THE OTHER GROUP PRIZES REMAIN THE SAME PLUS FREE ENTRY FOR 3 CIRCLES CORRECT $5OO/-
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    Lock icon FREE FILM SHOWS FOR CHILDREN
    83 4 Children of Kampong University will soon be able to enjoy free cinema shows in their own play ground thanks to the donation of a power generator ty the British Army. The generator was obtained as a result •f persistent efforts by an active social worker,
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    Lock icon Our delegation to UNESCO
    70 4 Minister for Education Mr. Litn Kim San, will head a three-man delegation to the month-long 16th General Conference of UNESCO at Pans next Monday. Singapore is requesting for the services of an archives expert and an educational programmer. The Republic will also receive the ear-marked sum
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    Lock icon Not with that is mind
    40 4 PEKAN The Pahang Government has lost millions of dollars because Individuals who wore given timber areas to work on have sold them to others. Mentrl Besar of Pahang. Tan Rrl Yahya bin Mohamed fleh. disclosed.
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    Lock icon Commonwealth to meet in Malaysia ?
    183 4 Commonwealth to meet in Malaysia CANBERRA Malaysia may hast next year's Commonwealth Parliamentary Assiciation Conference following Zambia's surprise refusal to provide the venue. The Association's Executive Committee has decided at an emergency meeting yesterday to ask the leader of the Malaysian delegation. Tan Sri Ong Yoke Lin, to approach his
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    Lock icon MUSLIM CALL FOR PALESTINE STATE
    225 4 JAKARTA Five countries urged the Hut conference of the AfroAsian Islamic Organisation (A.A.I 0.) to call for the setting up of an independent Palestine state. Conference source Identified them a* Syria. Nigeria. Indonesia. Pakistan and Ceylon. Conference delegates are working behind closed doors to hammer
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    Lock icon Probe into land deals
    48 4 KUALA LUMPUR A committee has been appointed in all the states in West Malaysia, except Penang. to look into Malay reservation lands that have been mortgaged to money-lenders. The report of the findings is expected to be ready by the end o£ the *>onth.
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    Lock icon Tunku in Kota Kinabalu
    119 4 ROTA KIN ABA LU Tunku Abdul Rahman and his wife. Tun Sharifah Rodziah, arrived in Rota Rjnabalu for a Sday visit. They were to have made the visit nearly a month ago but the Tunku had had to make a 4day official visit to Thailand When
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    Lock icon New post for British envoy in Singapore
    120 4 LONDON Sir Arthur de la Mare. Britain's High commissioner to Singapore will be the new ambassador to Thailand. the Foreign Office announced He will succeed Sir Neil Pritchard. who lg to retire from the diplomatic service. The next British High Commissioner to Si
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    Lock icon MENTRI BESAR IN HOSPITAL
    45 4 KUALA LUMPUR The Mentri Besi r of Negri Sembilan, £nqho Mansor Osman, was admitted to Seremban General Hospital for rest and a medical check up. He had collapsed on a visit to a land scheme to officiate at a rubber-tap-ping ceremony.
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    Lock icon FAREWELL RECEPTION FOR MR. KIERKEGAARD
    79 4 About 25« people attended a reception at the Golden Lotus last night to bid farewell to the out-going General Manager of the East Asiatic Company Ltd. and to welcome his successor. The Minister for Law and National Development, Mr. B. W. Barker and his wife
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    Lock icon Nasser wanted to resign long ago
    220 6 CAIRO President Nasser had many time considered resignation because of ill health. However, he stayed in office because the Arab World 'looked to him' to make good the de feat by Israel in the June, 1967. War. The disclosure came from one of the
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    Lock icon Nixon: Communists will reconsider peace plan
    401 6 TITASHINGTON President Nixon is confident Hanoi and the Vietcong will eventually give his proposals serious consideration. His 5-point peace plan had received most favourable reaction at home and abrcad- The President flew overnight Into Florida for a weekend rest Long-time congressional critics of the
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    Lock icon Vietnam truce 'in 10 days'
    97 6 PALO ALTO. California Senator Barry Goldwater the unsuccessful Republican Eesidentiai candidate 1964, forecast that there would be a ceasefire in Vietnam within 10 days Speakin? at a Republican Party dinner, Senator Goldwater claimed that President Nixon "would not have risked the speech he made on
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    30 6 GENOA More rain brought fears of fresh flooding along the waterlogged Italian Riviera yesterday. At least 23 people have drowned in Italy's worst floods for two years.
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    Lock icon Golda feels Egypt never wanted peace
    173 6 PARIS Israel's Prime Minister, Mrs. Golda Meir, declared that the late President Nasser's acceptance of the Middle East ceasefire may not mean thai he wanted ptffce. In an Interview with the newspaper, "Le Figaro,'• she pointed out that Nasser immediately violated the truce by
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    Lock icon MILLIONS WASTED BY GIs OVERSTOCKING
    268 6 W A S H I NGTON U.S. forces in Vietnam have wasted millions of dollars and fed inflation at home by heavily overstocking supplies. A congressional group, the Government Operations Committee claims man v thousands of items have been left to rot in warehouses and
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    390 8 Indians chain themselves in protest BRUSSELS—Seven Indians chained themselves to the railing of Brussels' Royal Palace. They were protesting the Heath Government's refusal to let them enter Britain. The seven, all horn in Uganda, held a British passport In one hand and carried signs saying, "India does
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    Lock icon Bonn warns U.S. about pullout
    402 8 WASHINGTON America still-receives private warnings from West Germany about substantial U.S. troop pullout now from Europe. Informed sources d isclosed the latter feels such a move would be psychologically disastrous. The West Germans believe that any large-scale reduction In U.B. combat strength now would raise
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    Lock icon Minister of Culture dies
    69 8 PARIS Edmond Mlchelet, French Minister of Culture, died yesterday at his southern France home, one day after his 71st birthday, government officials announced. Mlchelet recently suffered a stroke and had been taken to his country home In Marclllac to recuperate. Mlchelet. a former National Assembly deputy,
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    Lock icon MEDITERRANEAN SEA IS SHRINKING
    205 8 NEW YORK Geological drillings in the Mediterranean indicate that the tea is shrinking, a group of marine geologists dicclosed. The findings also show that mountains will one day replace part oI It. The drillings Indi- cated that the Mediterranean is being affected by the known drift
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    Lock icon Princess at work
    105 8 MRS. TAKAKO SIIIMAZU (right), 31, Is no ordinary employee of a Tokvo department store branch. She is the youngest daughter of the Japanese Emperor. Recently, she broke tradition by going to work as an adviser to customers. The salary, if any, was not disclosed. She is seen
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    42 8 HONG K O N G, A spokesman for Bishop Francis Hsu, Roman Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong, disclosed an invitation ha 8 been extended to Pope Paul VI. asking him to include the Crown Colony in hit forthcoming Asian trip.
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    Lock icon Brandt's majority halved
    260 9 BONN —The already slim Majority West German Chancellor Willy Brandts LeftLiberal eoalitioa was halved yesterday when the opposition Christian Democrats admitted three Liberal defectors to their ranks. The Opposition floor lea der, Herr Rainer Bar ■el, announced the admission of two former Free Democrats, Dr. Erich Mende
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    Lock icon WOMAN WITH GUN HELD AS SHE BOARDS AIRCRAFT
    241 9 OOSTON A 30-yeor-old West German woman was held in 10,000 dollars (S$30,000) bail Thursday night after Customs officials seized a revolver she is alleged to have tried to take aboard a Ron American Airwoys jet flight en route to London ond Zurich.
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    Lock icon Healthy again
    50 9 BIAFRAN BOY, bark in good health, smiles as he holds his little brother, who has not fully recovered from malnutrition. Pair was photographed at UNICEF convalescent centre in Okporo, Nigeria. UNICEF workers are trying to re-establish and reequip the school system and hospitals shattered by recent civil war.
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    Lock icon 4 Indon ships sold as scrap
    65 9 JAKARTA Indonesia has sold four naval ships for cash which will be used to buy spare parts and permit maintenance of other vessels in the fleet. Naval Commander Vice-Admiral Sjamsul Bacbri announced. Speaking to reporters at Surabaja, East Java, the Admiral said Indonesia's only
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    Lock icon MANSON 'NO' TO COURT
    206 9 LOS ANGELES Hippie leader Charles Manion refused to leave his cell on Thursday to hear the testimony of two womenwho, police allege, originally broke the Sharon Tate murder case. Virginia Graham. 37, And Ronnie Howard alias Shelley Nadell, 31, were giving an account of how one
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    Lock icon Beast as guard!
    32 9 BE A llr* AND THE BEAST share a bench the French Riviera. The 11- month eld lioness is supposed to be a bodvguard for Pierrette Raina, "Miss Nice, 1970."
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    Lock icon Bolivia's new President ready to crush revolt
    299 9 LA PAZ Troops loyal to Bolivia's new leftwins President rallied behind him yesterday to crush a revolt by a 500-man regiment led by a right- wing colonel. General Juan Jose Torres, who seized power in a near bloodless coup two days ago, Thursday
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    Lock icon LESS RISK ON FILTER-TIP
    84 9 NEW YORK—Smokers who have switched to ftlter-tip cigarettes run less risk oi developing lung cancer according to the American Medical Association Journal. The journal said in its latest issue that the lower risk was probably due to the inhalation of less tar. It cited studies carried
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    Lock icon Police quell riots
    81 9 HAMILTON, Be rmuda—After si x nights of sporadic acts of violence in different parts in the island, golice new arc mobiAn estimated 1)8 <SSIBO.MO) damage has been caused. All police leave has been postponed and Police commissioner George Duckett has returned from an Interpol conference fat Brussels
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    675 10 fpHE Commonwealth is an extremely loose organization which is technically supposed to unite nations in some mythical common bond and exists as a grouping without a charter like the United Nations, without a treaty like European Economic Community or even without a declaration of objectives as the ASEAN,
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    Lock icon UNREST AT THE WHITE HOUSE
    526 10  -  BY ART BUCHWALD, THERE's probably nothing more embarrassing for the President of the United States than to appoint a commission to investigate a serious situation in the country, and discover he's part of the problem. This seems to have happened with the President'* Commission en
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    Lock icon Free Fiji looks to new sources of income
    480 10  -  By Ross Birtwistle, ON the brink of independence, Fiji is seeking new sources of income, through fourism and light industries, to diversify its sugar-based economy. Government officials say they hope to offer tax and tariff concessions to foreigners who bring light Industries
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    Lock icon Taxi-drivers must change their attitude
    171 10 n iHijiHuiiii nip \\\m HBEaa Many of my friends who use taxis have. complained about the attitude of some taxi-drl-vers at some leading hotels. I can personally vouch for the following incident which confirms the complaint that taxidrivers prefer to pick up foreigners rather than
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    Lock icon Bringing out hidden talents
    1130 11  -  ■r CONSTANCE WALSH, Despite th« varied education oft opportunities open to young people in Britain today, there are stHI girls who, for one reason or another, leave school as soon os •hey are 15 or 16 years aid. Obviously these youngsters are only partially equipped to
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    761 11 XIEW DELHI I*dia's propeuiTC Prime Minister, Mrs. Wire Gandhi, has pledged herself to a crusade against touchability a aoeial carbuncle India has net Wen aMe to enre despite 23 years t freedom. In an emotions! address to the Indian parliament, Mrs. Oandhi said the main reason for
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    Lock icon Forced marriages in Zanzibar upset the Shah
    777 12/13  -  By Billy Chibber ZANZIBAR was a slave trading centre under the Arabs Now a different type of human bondage Is being prac<» tised on the island. Fair-skinned, attractive Arab and Ferslan girls are being forcibly married to Government officials. This follows a recent
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    Lock icon CHINA'S GOLDEN LOTUSES
    818 12/13  -  By Peter Wong THE Chinese are a sophisticated people. But sophistication sometimes is accompanied by cruelty, such as in the case of the Golden Lotuses. In old China, judgment for femininity was based on the weakness of the female sex. Toward this end, ladies of the upper
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    Lock icon 'Antitourists' go out of their way for fun
    623 12/13  -  By Tom Cullen An an* ti-tourist is a traveller who a sleeping bag under the stars to a bridal suite at Hie Hilton, a dog sledge expedition in Lapland to a sunshine holiday on the Costa Brava. A true an ti-tourist never
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    Lock icon AS PARIS CHANGES
    1200 14  -  Even Eiffel I: •> ..f. Wj&. :v; ,|lp Js:| Tower Is No "-'•v ii •.y .<• i v.. 'mE&sS®wM xSf irtfe*l Secure By Rosette Hargrove "PLU8 ca change, plus c'est la meme chose." (The more things change, the more they remain the same.) Alphonse Karr in Les
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    Lock icon Tokyo's new plan for textile exports to U.S.
    243 14 TOKYO, Japan is preparing a new plan for control of Ita textile exports to the United State?, the Asahl newspaper said today. Still in preparation by the Ministry of International Trade, It calls for Japan to accept two years of restrictions of
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      24 14 PLAIN-JANE BY FRANK BAGINSKI WCV/'TMISISTWE I kTEPTWMEtsJ 1 WAS SIX YEA«S r\t rM f TopU/ I a/wzi rtg -froo fouQ HAVEN'T CUAN<bED MUCU,WAVEI? 'ill!
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    419 15  -  »r GERNON SCOTT, The ads read: "Actors wanted. We can place you in a feature movie, television show or commercial." They can be read in Southern California newspapers, in the trade press or seen on television. It's a racket. Charlton Heston, President of the Bcreen Actors
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    Lock icon Ryan O'Neal owes it all to his wife and mother
    738 15  -  BY Harold Heffernan, HAD it not been for the advice of his two "severest" critics, Ryan O'Neal would have turned down what now promises to be the most rewarding role of his motion picture career. He couldn't see himself as
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      179 15 00 1 OOGAMISATICJM '.TT CATHAY 3 34 im EXCITING DAT! II Mi. U» M A I N pm MOM'S "HUT'S BUOU" Ctlnt Eaatwooo PaaarUloo Metrocolor OEDN ***** I#TH SCBEAMING DAY! II IJI i IM Ml "SefWMi A»d Hcrraas tinn Vincent Price In Color TONIUHT MIDNIOHTI .iun»bt»'» "luU t\nrm KarlqS In
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      332 15 SHAW J SLI2QHI HON L I D O Phone *****4 NOW SHOWING! 11 am. I.4ft. 4. CM. t.lft p.m. "The Hunter, The Ranted A The Girt" Color Scop* TOMORROW MIDNIOHTI at LIDO A CAPITOL Don'i Let The Wlvee Km' Mandarin In Scope, color. CAPITOL Phrn* Now Shewliu—Ne tree Ust Due
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      2101 16 ID EABTIRN DUN SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1970 f LOOKING AND LISTENING...iv and radio guide I CARROLL, RIOHTER'S from the Carroll Righter Institute GENERAL TENDENCIES: You have a chance to make gome important decisions where your obligations and responsibilities are concerned. First make sure you use your Rift of prophetic insight
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    Lock icon Well, what does Carlo have that we don't? Sophia
    813 17  -  SATURDAY SHOW BIZ ROGER DOUGHTY YORK There are those who feel that Sophia Loren it the most beautiful woman in the world. Others may hold out for Raquel Welch o Elisabeth Taylor or Fran Jeffries, but faithful Loren fans (like me)
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    Lock icon Inside the White House with Mrs Nixon
    852 19 ABIGAIL Adams, wife of John Adams, the first President of the United States to live in the White House, found it "a beautiful spot, capable of every improvement." MRS. Richard Nixon, following the example of nearly every other First Lady, is now making
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    Lock icon The choice between death for a puppy or wife and family
    529 19  -  ANN LANDERS DEAR ANN: I (eel like a murderer, which I am, in a way, but it was a choice I had to make. A choice between hitting that beautiful collie pqppy or running off the road into a
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    Lock icon Trade volume year's lowest
    249 20 A LIFELESS trading session ml«d the Stock Exchange of Moloysio and Singapore yesterday with the lowest volume of turnover ever recorded this year at 989,500 units. The gloomy market saw operators with insincere bids as speculative shares fell into the doldrums. Trading therefore was mainly concerned
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    Lock icon Rubber 47 7/8 cents
    272 20 October first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 47-7/8 cents per lb. up 5/8 cent from Hie previous dose. The tone of the market was quiet. The market opened higher following last nights alter hours rise but idle
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    Lock icon OIL PALMS IN SARAWAK
    72 20 KUCHING The Sarawak Development Finance Corporation plans to open up 16.000 acres of land in the northern Fourth Division for use as oil palm plantations, according to the corpora tion's Acting General Manager Amin Haji Satem. During a briefing to the Chief Minister Dato Haji Abdul
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    239 20 THE chairman of Malayan Breweries recently announced the achievement of a new records In their sales and profit for the first half of this year. The group net profit after providing for taxation amounted to $9,903,000 against the previous year of $8,498,000. The excellent results reflected the
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    Lock icon H'kong money
    118 20 HONG KONG Friday's 5 p.m. currenry rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Buvcrt) (Srllrra) 1965 197.5 per 100 straitf dollars 151 153 per 1 000 I uiwar cu liars 6.755 6775 per Austral ion doilai 940 SB( oer l.OOi Burrnm nyau 500 620 per l.ooo Indian
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    683 20 UliiiMt: cmmcec BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business in the Singapore and Kuala Lnmpnr trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday were: INDC8TKIAL8 Acata IS 1-34 Al.n.xnoto iUcu IN 133 134 Allied Ckoc 2.09 ML B*W» Ui 1 M 1.07 lU>rn^o 169 BOUXUMI M 1.99
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    736 20 BUSINESS done In and reported to the trading rooms of the Stork Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets In lots of 1,600 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS Alcan $1.34 (1) $132 (1) $1.33 (1): DIM $1.35 (1); Ben. sl.Ol (1); Berjaya
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    13 20 The tin pric* for yesterday was $652 per plcul down $4.50.
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    393 21 OYDNEY Speculative stocks slumped on Sydney Stock Exchange Friday as profit takers moved in to take advantage of recent high prices. V Sellers were keen to attack selected speculative feaders early in trading but as the day progressed they turned their attention to the ex- plorers; Poseidon's
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    500 21 KRRIVU9 44fta in Ms* itfl Kuala Lanpnr ill <t m t4» n MM ftM Murira* MM Itl kulu Lorn *ax »3u «<a. M*% 43X Kuala Laaipur lt tu a m MM Ka rtilni 11 OA m MM Pfn«ni K Lumpur 1) to m IJV P O MM <03
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    34 21 NEW YORK—Dow Jones closing averages Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrial* 777.04 20 Transp 155.73 15 Utilities 106.72 65 Stocks 248.93 40 Bonds 65.81 Commodity futures index 145 44.
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    Lock icon PROMOTIONS
    90 21 THE general manager of Scandinavian Airlines System and THAI International for Brunei, East Malaysia and Singapore. Mr. John Hoyer, announced two staff promotions effective this month. Mr. Michael K. S. Tham has be?n promoted to assistant sales manager and Mr. Stephen Tay as head of cargo sales of SAS
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    78 21 More than 200 camera dealers and well wishers attended ft Yashicft 'electro nite' dinner at the Raffles Village Thursday. The 'James Bond' belle. Mis* Noriko Ishizaki, 23 and her colleague Miss Seiko Shimade, 22 were among the guests at the dinner. Photo shows from left: Mr. J.
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    265 21 The controversial measures that the Stock Exchange committee recently introduced to enable it to fight against manipulators were discussed at tlie first luncheon of the Stockbrokers Association of Singapore at the Automobile Association Restaurant yesterday. Mr DO. Hebdtge. chairman of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia
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    Lock icon British test cricketer migrates to Australia
    244 22 SYDNEY The former English test cricketer, Tom Graveney, arrived here yesterday with his family to "lead a more normal family life." The 43-year-old batting star who has thrilled cricket followers throughout the world with nla grace at the crease, landed at Sydney airport with
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    137 22 BRIDGETOWN. Barbados Gary Sobers, already selected to lead the West Indies in the test series ag&lnst India next year, will be chosen as captain of the Barbados team in the coming regional Shell Shield cricket «erle 4 If he Is available, a top
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    221 22  -  By JOE NAGLE WENTWORTH, England Jock Nicklaus played near faultless golf to crush fellow American Gene Littler 5 and 4 in the first round of the 18,400 pounds (44,160 dollars) Piccadilly World Match Play golf championships. Nicklaus, the 3-1 favourite, was eight-under-par for 22
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    124 22 NECKARSULM, LeadIn* gymnastic expert* the Neckarsulm (West German*) Gymnastics centre nave now demonstrated conclusively that the car la more than Just > comfortable and convenient method for getting from one place to another: press-ups, standing 0 n one's head, touching your toes and doing a
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    114 22 MERTHYR Tydfll, Wale a The people of this Welsh coal mining town have started a campaign to get Scotsman Ken Buchanan recognized by the British Boxing Board as the new lightweight champion of the world. At a reception for Buchanan last night the Mayor, Alderman D. J. Williams,
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    131 22 WELLINGTON Two halfbacks have been included in 10 nominations by New Zealand for a world XV to take part in England's Centennial Rugby matches next year. The nominations were announced yesterday by the New Zealand Rugby Football Union's Chairman, Jack Sullivan, after a meeting of the
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    126 22 BANGKOK, Berkrer* Chartvanchal, Thailand's World Boxing Association flyweight champion, left at noon yesterday for Tokyo, where he Is scheduled to defend his WBA title against Japan's Masao Ohba at the Nlhon University hall on Thursday, Oct. 22. The champion, who la defending bis
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    Lock icon Singapore in FEBF C'ships
    151 23 JAKARTA Bridge players from ten Asian countries and Australia began arriving here yesterday for the fourteenth Far East Bridge Federation championships starting at the Hotel Indonesia today. First to arrive were teams from Australia. South Vietnam and the Philippines, with the defending champions Nationalist China the
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    52 23 IPOH "Sports play an important role in the daily life as it keeps one active, enforce discipline and create goodwill among the people, the Sultan of Ferak said yesterday. The Sultan was speak ing at the opening of the two-day Malaysian Government services athletic meet at Stadium
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    532 23  -  The ftot-so-jolly Hockey sticks of Kenya and Pakistan met ia biood-stained battle in Nairobi recently in a sporttfield incident that threatens the first world Hockey Cup series due to bo bold in Lahore early next year. A Gemini News Service correspondent was
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    152 23 L.ONDON England international Jack Charlton lias been banned from, representative matches pending en English Football Association inq lirjrj <nto remarks he made in a television interview last weekend. The English F.A. said yesterday their emergency committee had heard a recording of the Interview
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    109 23 THE National record for the women's 200 metre* breaststroke was shattered by Esther Tan at the Asian Games swimming trials yesterday. Esther registered 3:2.3 sees, to beat the National record 3:3.8 sees, set up during SAS'a open championships in April this year. Esther with her record breaking
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    106 23 Mor e than 60 bowlers will compete in the two Tengah Ten p i n Bowling Championships which commences at 930 a.m. at the Orchard Bowling Alley today. The third in the series since the Club's Inception. it is only open to members of R.A.F. Tengah and
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    161 24 MONTREAL A Montreal radio station received an anonymons telephone call giving authorities another Zi hours to free ''political prisoners" in exchange for kidnapped British diplomat James Cross. A spokesman for the French-language sta- tton CKLM said the call came soon after the
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    425 24 T3HNOM PENH Cambodia yester- day became the Khmer Republic in a colourful, heavily guarded ceremony boycotted by East European, French and Indian diplomats. Tanks stood by at nearby barracks and military police armed with submachineguns and grenade launchers ringed the National Assembly building
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    276 24 PHNOM PENH North Vietnamese trojps, ottacking under o blistering hail of mortar fire, yesterday delivered their heav.est blow in four days of fighting at Tang Kauk against Cambodian troops pinned down on Highway 6. Officers at Tang Kauk, 52 miles north of Phnom
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    58 24 THE HAGUE —Six people were killed and about 60 injured in a "catastrophic" pile-up of cars in thick fog on the main road from The Hague to Amsterdam yesterday, police said. Ambulances and trucks equipped w ith cranes rushed to the scene but had difficulty
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    67 24 A man yesterday chased and caught one of two robbers after they had snatched a gold chain from a woman at Ku.lm Place. The chftln was recovered, but the other escaped presumably with the chain's locket. The robbery occurred at 1.30 p.m. when three women.
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