Eastern Sun, 14 October 1970

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents Estd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1472 Wednesday, October 14, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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  • 93 1 Pictured: Rescuers come to the aid of a half-naked Rosy. UPI radiophoto. Note: Neither of the girls won the contest. THE scene was quite incredible.... The (rand finals of the Star of Italy beauty contest were underway in Enna, Sicily... And everything was going smoothly until Maria Pecorara, the hot-tempered
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  • 139 1 NEW YORK Management consultant opposes the miniskirt because it is "detrimental to office efficiency." To back up his charge, Robert Nolan, ran a "distraction-time-value" study of office workers and found that the average American man spends one hour out of every work day staring
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  • 623 1 jyjALPRACTICES ond crooked dealings which give Singopore o bod nome with tourists were put before o tourism seminar yesterday. Singled out for criticism were unlicensed ond crooked tourist guides, dishonest taxi drivers, ond red tape involving Airport Police ond Port of Singopore Authority personnel.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 85 2 Six members of the Singapore Armed Forces are currently undergoing training on the techniques of handling dogs at RAF. Seletar's Police Dog Unit. Giving them training Is an RAF policeman, Sgt. Ronald Chester, N.C.O. offieer in charge of Seletar's Police I>og Section. Photo shows R.
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  • 242 2 A FORMER union leader charged with misappropriating $5/000 belonging to the Singapore Portworfcers' Union yesterday made his defence under oath in the First District Court, Nagalingam Mathiyooke, the union's former secretary-general, had pleaded not guilty to criminal breach of trust of the money on
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  • 260 2 Two Marine pilots attacked to the Third Commando Brigade Air Squadron have been decorated with the "Queen's Commendation" awards. Sgt. J. E. Summers and Sgt. 8. Watson have been decorated for outstanding flying skill, courage and devotion of duty. It was on June 1 this year
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  • 153 2 A businessman from Johore was robbed of $4OO In cash yesterday. Mahmud bin Udln, 23. told the police that he was waiting at a bus stop along Pasir PanJang Road when a car stopped by to offer him a lilt. As they were travelling along
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  • 96 2 KUALA LUMPUR—The USIS libraries In Penang and Kuching are to be closed down from Dec. 15. A USIS statement yesterday said the Jefferson Centre In Penan e and the Roosevelt Centre in Kuching would be closed as a result of reorganisation of USIS In
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  • 129 2 THE Hick CMrt, titer a beariAf involving 3 parties in an accident ■nit, yesterday awarded ho«e-painter Ho Yeo« Hui, $|.5M in a consent judgment. Ho. 2& te-Ufled he was riding hit motorcycle aiong Tel o It Blangah Road on July 29, 1967, when be
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  • 106 2 The Economic Development Board will conduct A "Light Industries Services" course from Nov. 2 to Dec. 4. I The course hi English, will place strong emphasis on practical work on offset printing machines. Lectures will be from 15.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays ;and
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 144 2 AROUND TOWN 10.00 am Cooking session by Mr. Peter Gchrmann, executive chef of Mandarin Hotel at Hollandsche Club, 22 Camden Park. 12.45 pen Luncheon Meeting talk Unman factors in Town Planning by Professor K. Nagashima at Coleman Room, Adelphi Hotel. S30 pm Career's photographic contest/ exhibition by Vocational Guidance Steering
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  • 448 3 A MOTHER of 6 yesterday confessed she did not know why the husband, she had always dominated, wanted her dead. Madam Lim Mian Sim, 31, an office caretaker, said this at the Coroner's inquest into the death of her husband, Tan Sai
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  • 106 3 A senior officer of the Singapore Armed Forces leave s for Trinidad toda v to serve on a court martial enquirln E into an ann v mutiny The latter took place in Trinidad in April. He i s Lt. Col. Edward long, who has been
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  • 170 3 Lighter capsized with 12-ton goods A LIGHTER carrying 8 tons of fish and 4 tons of rope capsized at the Detach Hole, Outer Roads, yesterday. Its taikong, Loh Tian Chin, 28, and another crew member were immediately picked up by a passing motor-sampan. Police said the lighter
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  • 101 3 TWO youths yesterday p'eaded quilty to exlortion charges in the Fourth District Court. The are Koh Sam Soon, unemployed, and Ang Bong Seng, a contract labourer. They admitted that o n August 27 thev and two others approached Chye Leng Ee at L'm Chu Kang
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  • 52 3 Mr. Ee Peng Liang, President of tne Singapore Council of Social Services, has agreed to become patron of the Singapore Handicaps' Friendship Society. Club Secretary Stephen Yeo said Mr. Ee's presence would encourage members to achieve their objects in improving the lot of the handicapped through self-help, friendship
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  • 303 3 Many people in Tiong Bahru are fighting an endless battle with traffic police and claim it is all the Housing and Development Board's fault. The problem Is lack of legal parking space. The complaint la "merciless summonses" when frustrated residents are forced to park Illegally
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • 129 4 IV (Wu4» of the in (matio«it (Vihirt Hoti for Ike iaror»bk. (iron i) Captain GL. Cheshire, yestcr<U T paid a courtesy call Oa President Yu •of Uuk at the Ista«»a Grp. Capt Cheshire is currently oa hi* tnuhtiooal aaaoal three aonth world tow to risit all
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  • 422 4 T/'UALA LUMPUR The Mjlaysion Government may offer additional incentives to investors to encourage in* dustrial development in the less-developed ports of the country, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Enche Mohamed Khir Johari, said yesterday. Enche Khir said the incentives may be patterned on
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  • 218 4 fcl/AI.A I.(JAIPUR The Sclangor Govern uacnt will take stern action against tho»<* who •pyost Us decision to resettle squatter families in Kepong, the Mentri Besar, Dato Haji Harun bin ldris. said yesterday. He told reporters after the weekly Meeting of the State Operation* Commit
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  • 112 4 KUALA LUMPUR The Ministry of Social Welfare has made preparations to assist victim* in the event of floods in any part of the country, the Minister, Tan Sri Fatimah binte Haji Hashim, said yesterday. Officials of the Ministry. especially those from the Social Welfare Department, have
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 333 6 JAKARTA An ledoeesiae natttwy commander warned HMI MOMting student agitation was causing public The Anny would now talce necessary action to ensure peace and stability Major General Ai Wltono, West Java Mllitary Commander, had also held a meeting with President Suharto to report on
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  • 42 6 HAPPINESS is munchmg a doughnut and holding an armful of new clothes. Marines brightened the day »f more than one South Vietnamese child when they brought a truckload of clothes, toys and refreshments to inhabitants of Trung Son hamlet.
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  • 96 6 LONDON A teplf—b'onde stole tha Ihnelight at the press preview of the LMIM Mator Show yesterday. As hordes of pMtgraphers hovered around waiting for the ftrst show Of nudity, a lissom Monde on a sports car whispered. "Will this help?" and peeled off her
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  • 124 6 SAIGON South Vietnamese Vice-Presi<le»t Nguyen Cao Ky is planning to return to Paris in a few days for next Thursday's session of the peace talks. informed sources disclosed. Ky was called home from Paris at the weekend by President Thieu for talks on President Nixon's latest
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  • 29 6 MOSCOW. Gordon Arnold Lonsdale, the Soviet Master sp v who st°l* secrets from Britain bv posing an American. has died of a heart affaclr near Mosmw
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  • 209 6 BANGKOK Bandits kidnap and rob car NMenfem in South TkaOand Mar Malaysia, Mm opposition party spokesman disclosed. Somboon Slrithorn. Democrat Party spokesman, declared that the band'ts. under a leader named Vor Teh, had their major road-blocks on the main Narathiwat Pattanl Highway. Somboon said
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  • 211 6 ■OM KONG. Canada's agreement wMh China to establish diplomatic relations was seen in Hon* Kong yesterday a s a major breakthrough for Peking's campaign. China has been trying to extend its contacts abroad after its selfimposed isolation dur- ing the Cultural Revolution. China already has diplomatic relations
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  • 228 6 WASHINGTON The Defence Department has evidence that North Vietnam Is trying to resupply border areas in Laos and Cambodia, as well a s forces in the Third and Fourth Corps areas of Sooth Vietnam. However, U.S. Secretary of Defence, Melvin Laird declared America and South Vietnam
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  • 466 8 Smog hits Dutch students ROTTERDAM—A thousand school pupils complaining of sore throats, headaches and watering eyes, were sent home yesterday. "Hie densest smog ever recorded in Rotterdam had spread over the Rhine estuary region. CANBERRA Prime Minister John Gorton has told the Northern Irel*®d Protestant leader, Reverend
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  • 352 8 F ON DON London's River Thames could become foul and fishless if the "dirty jobs" strike continues for another week. The warning came as the nationwide walkout for more pay by 55,000 dustmen and sewage workers entered its third week. Morever, It also threatened to
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  • 281 8 VATICAN CITY The Vatican's No. 2 man; Cardinal Jean Villot, declared abortion was 'murder under any circumstances.' Villot stressed the Roman Catholic Church cannot even accept "therapeutic," abortions to save the life of an expectant mother. "Abortion has been consldered 'murder* from the very earliest
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  • 214 8 NEW YORK—A group of anti-Castro Cubans demonstrating outside the United Nations suddenly stormed the sates. They then hauled down the flag of Byelorussia, a Bovtet republic. U.N. security officials, short-staffed because of a "sick-out" job action, ousted more than a dozen Cubans who got inside
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  • 40 8 BELFAST, North Iraland—Saboteurs tried U blow up the main ratV way Line linking Nortl Ireland with the neighbouring Irish Republic yesterday. However, the 2 bomb® caused little damage to the tracks and trains wer« running oormalJjr.
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  • 291 9 LONDON The clench ed fhd of Mack Power hit the Land** atage an Man day display which left tha critics nursing their bruises. Twenty-five critics and playgoers had marched smartly into Lmdos'i Institute oi rosietiperary Arts to see the pcenuere of American Negro playwright ltd Bullins'
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  • 68 9 NEW YORK Five bomb blasts rocked the city of Rochester, New York. Monday, two more bombs exploded in New York City, an eighth went off in Orlando, Flolida, and the revolutionary "Weatherman" group claimed responsibility for an explosion on Saturday that wrecked a New York City
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  • 67 9 SEOUL. The United Nations Command <UNC) boycotted a meeting of the Korean Military Armistice Commission yesterday in protest against the attack on U.S. fuards by North Koreans at the truce vUkge of Panmimjom. An American guard was critically injured after he was nit on the head by
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  • 215 9 STOCKHOLM The Swedish chemical company Plantex said if had stopped production of an herbicide because of indications it may cause deformities in children. Plantex moved as authorities started an Investigation Into report* that at least two babies had been born deformed after their mothers had
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  • 399 9 WASHINGTON President Ni*on has announced tf M wt 4i be 205,500 fewer Amerkon soldiers m Vietnam this Cbristmos than when he took office 19 months ogo. Num revtakd the new troop figures on Monday, wying the total level «m Dec. 31
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  • 133 9 T)ALIAS. Texas A Cbriitmas to make Santa Clans cringe is up for sale here a replica el Noah's Aifc complete with Kv c homsio dragons, n»nsk oxen and three- teed jloffcj. The price of this bizarre package offered by Neiman-Martus Speciali- ty Stor« is
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  • 55 9 SHrs A PEACH, the titie she w«b is "Miss Pears l»7«. u Seven-year-old Bei»-da-Jane Anderson of Scotland was selected as Britain's prettiest little girl in a contest that began with 87,000 contestants. It was the third time Belin-da-Jane had entered the "Miss Pears" competition, perhaps disproving the
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  • 396 10 Y HE organisation of a vigilante corps or a vigilance committee appears, on the face of it, an excellent move by the residents of the Toa Payoh housing estate. Mr. Eric Cheong, the representative in Parliament for that area, ought to be congratulated on this move. However,
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  • 258 10 ANE had always associated the kidnappings of diplomats with the peculiar politics and political crimes of Latin America and one is rather surprised that it should happen in a staid society like the Canadian. Much in the same way most of us had taken lightly the
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  • 725 10  -  By Joseph Alsop, The Cambodian episode has so far receded that it is barely mentioned any longer* But simply as a study in the ways of modern government, it is worth reporting ew have now proved the extreme shrewdness of Presidest Nixon's decision to invade Hanoi's Cambodian sanctuaries.
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  • 452 10  -  By John Rogers, PENNY PINCHING Maharajahs have had to do without their remnants of pomp and circumstance since September when they were stripped of their purses and privileges by Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi. The Maharajah Jayachamaraja Wadiyar of Mysore, deprived of
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  • 846 11  -  With elections for Australia's Senate due to be announced soon, John Gorton's government appears to have damaged Its prospects by banning *he American Negro entertainer* Dick Gregory, from entering the country Gemini News Service's chief Australian correspondent sums up the situation. By Don Whitington fpHE
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  • TODAY'S WORLD
    • 508 12/13 3,000- strong force to guard Pope MANILA The PhilipSines is setting up a ,000-man unit of army, air force, navy and constabulary (national police) personnel to Suard Pope Paul during is visit next month. The Papal security unit, one of the largest ever mustered for a visitor to the Philippines,
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    • 800 12/13  -  Behind the momentous events in the Middle East over the past few weeks, life hits been going on ai usual in the territories Israel occupied after the Six• Day War. "As usual" means 9 as this Gemini Sews Service report points out, a dose of
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    • 534 12/13 THAILAND wants the United Stales to broaden its policy of Vietnamlsation to a rather awkwardly phrased concept called "Southeast Asianisation." What Thailand means i s that the United States should give more military and economic aid to Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. Thai leaders insist this
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    • 657 12/13  -  by Dara Kadva AMID the internati on a I uproar over the hijacking of planes by Palestinian Commandos and the fighting in Jordan, an internal political crisis in tiny Lebanon does not seem to have attracted any world notice. This may be because
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  • 744 14  -  By Dick Kleiner, far from the luxury-oozing. Hotel Ivoire here, you can find women washing clothes in a stream and beating them on rocks to get the dirt out. The 10-ycar-old Ivory Coast is a country of contrasts on a continent of contrasts. Although per capita income
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  • 426 14  -  By LAWRENCE E. LAMB, M.D. II you are having a problem controlling your weight a change in your physical activity may kelp a great deal. Fat stores develop because you either eat or drink too many calories or don't exercise enough.
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous

  • 315 15 CWEN stars can get stagef right. A properly nervous Stevie Wonder kept wedding guests and his intended waiting at the church for almost 40 minutes, explaining when he arrived that he had developed a sudden nose-bleed while dressing for his wedding! Stevie was promptly
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  • 339 15 From Allan Smith in London Dusty Springfield is tho latest recruit to the British pop business's newest in-thing, conveyor belt interviews. I therefore joined a queu e of fellow journalists the other dav to hea r her view on the current state of her career. Sh e
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  • 248 15 HI THERE! I'm terribly excited about NANCY WILSON'S coining. She's one of my all-time favourites, and I hope all of you catch her show at the National Theatre. Like, man, she's a singer in the real sense of the world, and I get turned on every time
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 211 15 L I D O Phone *****4 J I.AST DAY! No Free List 11 M. 1.45. 4. 6.36. 11.15 pm. "Loo( Road To Freedom" i A SHAW PRODUCTION Mandarin to Scope. Color OPENB TOMORROW) "What Ever Happened To Aaat Alice" Color »SBi CAPITOL Phon* 7P759 Now Showing—No Frff List Note REVIBED
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    • 205 15 MfT a ml| rrjl OBGANISATIOW DEOW 2111 LAST DAY! 11 M. I.N. 1 AIM pm. Chans Hung "THE LOYAL BEVEM" Mandarin. color Hcopa (English A Chinese Suha.t OOCHAPO 3765 M HURRY! HURRY! Last Days! See It Now! S Show.: I 4ft. 9.lft IN Ada: 1154 It. ft# A MM THE
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  • WOMEN
    • 629 16 Foshion these days often seems to meet itself coming nd going, so the jewellery that is to accent it often shows the same olmost bizarre confusion. Trend* in jewellery designing are usually slower to change tlian those in clothes, simply because the
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    • 173 16 FASHION trends started by that fringe element loosely called "the hippies" don't usually spread very far beyond the fringe. The "ethnic" look, while it has sparked such mainstream fashion as the gypsy and peasant styles, is one of the hippie looks which
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  • 381 17 An oddity is going unnoticed amidst all the mini-midi controversy. It s the surprising acceptance of the new maxi length, especially among some of the most vociferous midi haters. In fact, quite a number of Hie midi protesters have been seen,
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  • 232 17 LOOK FOR new clothes meant for resorts, north and south ...the one-piece Jumpsuit for skiing, with a tunic-length matching Jacket, often In quilted *atlny nylon with lots of lhaggy fake fur. ...knickers, for the devoted hiker, In sturdy corduroy, with the proper Scandinavian knee socks, ankle boots, cableknit
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  • 338 17  -  ANN LANDERS Deat Ann: I enclose a letter from a reader in Bridgeton, NJ. I hope this helps solve another reader's "Ilea problem." J.M. MeM. Philadelphia Inquirer. Dear Executive Editor: Ordinarily I would just read Ann Landers column and say.
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1847 18 rauK m vy oAsrtnn oun niDMSDAir, UITOtKR 14. 1970 m LOOKING AND and radio guidei from the Carrol Righto Institute GENERAL TENDKNC llio: TOOay« lUII moon Dnngs into active expression many of the changes that have been planned—and a great many that had not even been considered ao moat everyone
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  • 488 19 "Should mothers 90 to work?" is o common discussion between married couples. The husbond usually disagrees with the wife when she soys she wants a job. There are many reasons should she or should she not go to work. A mother 1s very much needed
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  • 314 19 luauutiMs are held to lad oat the anouat of knowledge a stadeat has absorbed. An examination encourages students to study hard because they will be questioned if they show poor results. Abolishing examination may result in many pupils becoming lazy as there is no means
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  • 614 19  -  DATELINE By Ele, Walt Dulaney Dear Walt: I'm very inhibited when it comes to showing affection. To hold o girl's hand takes all my nerve and to kiss her is almost impossible. I know this comes from growing up in a home where
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  • 59 19 HUA 71 Government Chinese Middle School will celebrate its fourteenth anniversary today. The celebrations •tart at 2JQ pm. An exhibition of art and crafts, Chinese calligraphy and photograph y wtU also be held. MP for Delta constituency Mr. Yeo Choo Kok will officiate at the opening ceremony,
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  • 15 19 Is as far frtm conceit •Mhe dealt# to from freed. Chaining Pollock, America* playwright.
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 190 19 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe Tke Eastern Sun's essay writing contest for boys and girl* of 14 and under (Junior) and boys and girls over 14 (Senior) appears in Hus page from Monday to Friday. Prise money is: SIC U>< Senior* end (5 fof iuruors ewery euev published AM entrants
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  • 311 20 STOCK rPHE Stock Exchange of Moloysio and Singapore opened 1 yesterday's business following the previous days trend with sellers dominating the floor. A significant improvement was shown during the last 20 minutes of trading when operators were In a mad rush for sliortcovering. The speculative elem« nt
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  • 37 20 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages Monday on the New York Stock Exchange: SO Industrials 764.24 90 Ralls 152.89 15 Utilities 106 34 65 Stocks 245.26 40 Bonds 65.83 Commodity futures index 145.91 up 0.47.
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  • 300 20 November first grade robber boyers closed at ft p.m. in Singapore and Koala Lompor yesterday at 491 cents per lb. op 2| cents from the nrrvinus close The tone of the market was qoiet bat steady. The market at the opening had a softer tendency due
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  • 82 20 TI1E noon prH*» Singapore (hlnrw E»<bs»D«r |«l«rdi} at tba Prodnro «a* n_ Coronal Oil (fob.) bulk Corooal Oil (lok.) drum KKUMKSrtpMi <r»b> A*TA 100% HaranVk Whll* rtpRff (f ob M% nil Marawak 8p*«UI Blark hpp'f <r.ob.) vl% N.WJL Sarawak AST A Sa/WS K Wl UinpoDi Hlaek En'yr AMTA ((ok.)
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  • 113 20 HONG KONG Tuesday's 5 p.m. currency rales (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): i Buyers) (Sellers) per 100 strait* dollars 196.5 197.5 150.5 152.5 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 6.76 6.77 per Australian doilai 340 360 per l.OOo Burmese kyats 500 520 per 1.000 Indian rupees 140 160
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  • 684 20 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of bosiness In the Singapore and Koala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange vesterdav were: INDUSTRIALS B 8. ACMA 1 30 132 Ajinomoto A lean L98 1.32 203 1.40 Allied Choc. 2.76 2.80 Ben. 1.01 1.04 Berjaya 1.05
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  • 933 20 BUSINESS done In ana reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded In brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS Ajinomoio $2 00 (2); Alcan $1 33 (1); Berjaya $104 *1) $108 (4) $106
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  • 13 20 THE tin price for yesterday was $651.75 per picul up s3|.
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 433 22 WESTPORT, Connecticut New Zealonder Denis Hulme of Hie Gulf McLaren team attempts to clinch this years Canadian American Challenge Cup championship on Sunday against a field of 36 other drivers in the Monterey-Castrol Grand Prix at the Laguna Seca course in Monterey, Calif. Peter
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    • 201 22 MELBOURNE Promoter Bill Long said yesterday he was prepared to offer Scotsman Ken Buchanan a purse 'He has never dreamed of to defend his World Boxing Association lightweight title here against Australian Lionel Rose. Long would not confirm newspaper reports of
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    • 135 22 SYDNEY Englishman John Spencer increased his lead In the 1970 World Professional Snooker championship. Playing against fellow countryman and former English amateur snooker champion John Pullman, Spencer won four of the six frames decided, and Pullman two. He has now won 51 frames and lost
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    • 104 22 U.S. Olympic track star Wilma Rudolph, who won three gold medals in the 1960 Games at Rome, has accepted a job with Universal Studios where she will help publicise the studio s motion pictures and television shows. At Rome, Wilma captured gold medals in
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    • 135 22 LONDON The owner, trainer and jockey associated with brilliant colt Nijinsky in his British triple crown triumph were voted honours in the annual Lord Derby Awards. American Mr. Charles Engelhard, who owns Nijinsky, topped the vote lor the flat-racing owners' award in a poll of the
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  • 540 23  -  By JONATHAN SHARP HONG KONG Thirty-two of South-east Asia's best amateur golfers tee off today at the lush, rolling Royal Hong Kong Golf Club at Hie start of the Putra Trophy championship. The championship, the premier golfing event in the region for amateurs, is
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  • 210 23 HONG KONG Governor Sir David Trench said yesterday that the com petition lor the Putra Trophy enabled players not only to enjoy golf but also to promote friendship. He told the opening ceremony of the 10th Southeast Asian Amateur Golf team championship for the Putra
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  • 245 23 Singapore's 'Golden Girl', Patricia Chan bettered the Asian Games mark for Hie 100 metres backstroke when sh« returned a time of 69.3 seconds at the Chinese Swimming Club yesterday. Patricia's time, returned during the trial for the 4xloo metres medley relay also broke
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  • 283 23 The Singapore Amateur Athletics Association's sub-committee (selection) decided to recommend six athletes to be included in the National contingent to the forthcoming Asian Games to be held in Bangkok. So far nine athletes had qualified for the Asian Games. They are the National (men
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  • 51 23 MOSCOW Alexander Metrevell and 01 g a Morozova won the singles titles In the Soviet Lawn Tennis championships in Alma Ata. Metrevell, 28. beat Toomas Lejus 6-4, 6-4. 8-4 In the men's final. Miss Morozova, 21, defeated Zalga Yansone 6-4, 6-3 to win the women'*
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  • 352 23  -  By Leslie Murphy JAKARTA Australia was Hie only undefeated team after the third round of the Far East Bridge Federation men's team championships here last evening. Australia, who got maximum points for their latest match defeating South Korea eight to nil, have established a
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  • 199 24 KUALA LUMPUR Police are looking for pistols the site and shape of a pen believed to have been snuggled to Malaysian criminals b T a Filipino syndicate. Police stations throughout the countr» have been ordered to yearch for the following the seizure of a pistol
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  • 391 24 QTTAWA Canodo yesterday onnounced establishment of diplomatic relations with Communist China. In announcing the diplomatic ties, Canada acknowledged the Peking regime as "the sole legal Government of China." External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp announced the move in the House of Commons and released a
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  • 279 24 MONTRiAL Behind a police shield three blocks deep, representatives of the Government held negotiations in the City Jail yestrday with the separatist terrorists who hold two political hostages. The kidnappers' lawyer was himself In jail, and his clients two commandos In cells out of touch
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  • 60 24 MANCHESTER, England Six nude models are going on strike here this week —by keeping their clothes on. It's all for the cause of the nationwide "dirty jobs" strike. The models at a local Art College received a "Don't strip" order from their union, which is backing
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  • 51 24 LONDON Gold prices soared once more on the London Bullion Market yesterday rising US 17 cents to a peak this year of U5537.36 <S$ll2.OB) an ounce. Some dealers credited yesterday's gains largely to a build-up of specula, tive demands based on hopes for Higher gold
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  • 79 24 PARIS A croup of Palestinian Arab leaders are prepared to proclaim a Palestinian Arab Provisional Revolutionary Government and enter negotiations with Israel to end the Middle East conflict, General Abu Sameeh Touquan, spokesman for the group, said here yesterday. Gen. Touquan, who said he was
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