Eastern Sun, 21 October 1970

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1 24 Eastern Sun
  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents l«td. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1478 Wednesday, October 21, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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  • 303 1 MALAYSIA'S intention to start o domestic airline would be an economic disaster, top aviation sources said in Singapore yesterday. The need for more (domestic flights could easily be filled by Malaysia-Singa-pore Airlines. MSA could probably do this in six months if it gets the
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  • 58 1 MOSCOW Pravda said yesterday Tur-kish-Soviet relations may suffer unless the Turkjg hand back the father and son who hijacked a Soviet airliner last Thursday. In a despatch from Ankara. the Communist Party dally said there were certain quarters ther e who "seek systematically to wreck the
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  • 273 1 MONTREAL CANADA yesterday buried its martyr in the cause of Canadian unity, Pierre L a p or t e, while the search intensified for bis killers and the kidnappers of British diplomat James Y. Cross Canadian political figures, including Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Opposition leaders Irom
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  • 150 1 MONTEVIDEO, Sen. Manuel Florrs Mora has challenged the government's Minister (or Industry and Trade, Julio Maria Sanguinetti, to a duel because of statements published about him in a newspaper tka Minister edits. Sanguinetti, editor at the Accion, accepted the challenge. He named as his
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  • 415 2 LUMPUR A relief attendant, a bank clerk and a massage girl yesterday related in the High Court a shooting incident at the Bukit Bintang car park earlier this year. They were testifying at the trial of Inspector Lim Chooi Tong, 36. He is
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  • 41 2 KUCHINO The setting Uf of a disciplinary board to deal with members of the Sarawak United People's Party who do not akwde by the Party s Constitution will be discussed at its biennial delegates conference on December IS.
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  • 55 2 Carpenter Koh Ching Poo, 49, yesterday pleaded fuilty to a charge of causing grevious hurt and was Jailed for 6 month* Koh was supposed to face a preliminary Inquiry Into the murder of Sim Say Hee, 50 on August 21 at Jalan Reixmg. The charge was later
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  • 332 2 The Singapore Catering Services Staff and Workers' Trade Union yesterday alleged that it had been made the victim of a smear campaign by a rival union. It accused the rival Food, Drinks and Allied Workers' Union of trying to mislead the public on the political
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  • 332 2 Trade unionists Here have begun to realise Hie existence of Hitherto unexploited areas in tfc« field of co-operative endeavour in which they can profitably, participate, Mr. Sia Kali Hui, Minister of State for Labour, declared. He was speaking at the opening of a seminar on
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  • 128 2 Four teenagers. Including a 16-year-old girl 'n Ng tails, were charged in th e Ninth Court with Z offences of armed robbery Tan Chen* Ilwee, 19. Clota Liew Eng. Ng Viang Seng, and Ng Choo Lai, all aged 16. were alleged to have robbed
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 129 2 Around Town 8.30 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. 12.45 p.m. Singapore —Exhibition to mark Sub-Aqua Club's lun25th anniversary of Unit- cheon meeting at Roof ed Nations at National Garden, Adelphi Hotel. Li QnM ry o^ ye r r A 7An 10 00 am to 600 PmPo nfin 6th Modern Art Exhibits
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  • 302 3 A broken promise caused the death of 3 youths and the wreck, ing of a sports car that its owner had intended to sell, a Coroner's Court heard yesterday. Lee Liat, 19. Slow Chong Men?, 20, production assistant, and Goh Han Chuan, 20, a student of
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  • 208 3 rpWO women drowned within 24 hours yesterday and baffled police are still trying to identify them. One of the women walked in *he Singapore River in front of scores of women late Monday. And when some onlookers finally realised she was about to drown and
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  • 179 3 THE Omnibus Services Licensing Authority has approved 12 new services, bringing the total of new busr s on the roads to 209 by December. The Keppel Bus Company (Pte) Limited would extend Its Service No. 1 from tomorrow onwards. The extension will Initially provide Ave
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  • 212 3 'THE President of the Industrial Arbitration Court and members hearing into a dispute involving Hotel Malaysia and its workers yesterday paid visit to the hotel. Mr. Tan, Prof. T.S. Elliot (employees' panel) and Mr M.W. Anthonisz (employers' panel) questioned workers in various sections of
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  • 72 3 A coffee stall hawker was yesterday fined $l,OOO for assisting an Illegal public lottery. Cheln Kim Yam, 62, was found guilty of the offence committed at Beach Road on April 22. He was arrested by detectives of the CID at about 8.00 p.m. and
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 179 3 Ybur money c Mortgage Underwriters of Australia Limited Australia's First Internationa! Mortg igt- Bankers 32 MiMrn Plato. S, Jne t 2000 HHH< Registered Mortgage* on land and buildings have been one of the safest investments over the yean, preferred by careful investors throughout the world for the past century. Australian
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  • 278 4 LUMPUR Malaysia's budget next year will be XV geared to three objectives creating more jobs, narrowing the racial economic imbalance and promoting general growth. The Director of Budget, Enche Ahmad Nordin bin Haji Zakaria, said Monday tnat this was in line with the Second
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  • 324 4 KUALA LUMPUR The Government will have enough stocks to cope with any demand for rice during November and December when rice imports are to be banned. The Minister of Agriculture and land, Tan Sri Mohamed Ghazaii bin Jawi. who gave the assurance on Monday, said
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  • 120 4 KUCHING. Leaders of Communist terrorists operating in Sarawak were still on the loose, though a large number of terrorists had been killed in the recent Operation Jala Kaja Thi s was disclosed on Monday by the Commander of the Third Malaysian Infantry Brigade Brig Gen.
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  • 112 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Famed Indian film star M. G. Ramarhandran, flew into Kuala Lumpur yesterday to a noisy welcome. A big crowd, estimated at 5.000 were on hand at the International Airport to greet him on arrival. The actor would return to the Federal
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  • 181 4 LTUALA LUMPUR The 88th Conference of Rulers has suggested the death penalty for armed robbery with firearms. This was disclosed Monday at the end of the two-day conference at the Istana Negara. The conference suggested that the law be amended to provide for death by
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  • 70 4 An Indonesian barterboat with 5 traders on board sank in the international waters yesterday. The men wer e rescued by a passing British vessel who picked them up at about 11.00 a.m. The boat had left here on Monday at 5.00 a m. bound for
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  • 105 4 With Christmas still two months away, British Service parents are already considering how to fill their c h i I d re n's Christmas stockings. To help them. NAAFI has opened a toy fair at HQ FARELF and one of the first to go
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  • 42 4 A total of 794 pirate taxi drivers have since registered for Job conversion, with 19 registrations yesterday. The third cycle, commencing on Friday, will provide a last chance for the pirate taxidrivers with vehicles bearing registration plates from 0001 to
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  • 121 4 IPOli The $40,000 Old Folks' Home, which was built two months ago in Jelapan c to accommodate about 150 aged destitutes, is still unoccupied. This is because the Ipoh branch of the Central Welfare Council which was responsible for putting up the building Is short
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  • 257 5 P.D. Carlson spends more time with his "mistress" o former Spanish princess than his wife. But Mrs. Carlson does not complain. His "mistress" is a ship, the luxury liner Marco Polo of the Dominion Far East Line (Hong Kong) Ltd. And any sea
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  • 208 5 1 AWYER M. Coo marasamy yesterday made a successful application for court adjournment to allow him to produce several ac tuari e s for his cl'ient's case against a $159,371 accident claim. H e for a British Major Michael Ceaton Gould, the defendant
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 181 5 Germans are thrifty logical hardworking people Save your bet on what Germany is really like until you get to Frankfurt. There are casinos that will j* u give you better winning odds \M\M I for your money. W V M I There are several others in Hamburg. At Baden Baden,
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  • 351 6 DHNOM PENH A mojor Cambodian offensive yesterday scattered 2 Communist rejinients making final prepare* Hons for a co-ordinated attack on Phnom Penh. 'We have forced them out of their base area and have destroyed their plans/' announced Lt.-Col. Prak Meng, Commander of
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  • 59 6 lIONG Kv>NG, Former French Prime Minister Couvc de Murville ended his brief visit to China's ancient clt v of Nanking and flew to Shanghai. While in the city, he inspected the wewiyhuilt Yanftx River Bridge, which ipani the third largest river in the world. The bridge
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  • 263 6 SEOUL Th« world's international mass weddipg takes pJace today with 777 couples participating. The couples 530 from South Korea, 231 from Japan and the remaining 16 from America. Britain, West Germany, France. Italy, Austra, The Netherlands and Taiwan took part in a dress rehearsal on Monday. The
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  • 245 6 TOKYO Japan will mobilise 52,000 riot-trained police today to handle demonstrations during International Anti-War Day. This is an event that has been extremely violent in the past two years. A National Polire Agency spokesman expected about 400.000 demonstrators in the streets of major cities with
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  • 89 6 NATIONALIST CHINESE RESIDENT CHIANG KAI SHE3L who will b#- R2 at th* MJ mt this month, inspects Military parade M Taipei with his wife. He told the troops and spectators be HI lead mm invasion of the Mainland a piumku he has beea M£ ever
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  • 101 6 MANim President Marcos yesterday ordered police to intensify their hunt for the killers of Congressman Floro Cri solos o The latter was a staunch presidential ally in the Philippines Lower House. Crisologo, 61. was shot by gunmen in Vigan on Sunday while attending afternoon mass. A
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  • 249 7 LA PAZ Powerful army colonels have called on left wing President General Juan Jose Torres to return Bolivia to constitutional democracy as «nicfcly as possible. They told him "not to make a second Cnhn of Bolivia.'* The blunt army demands came from their spokesman Li. Col.
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  • 71 7 UNITED STATES Presides* Rirhartl Nixon enjoys the warm waters of Key Biscay ne, Florida, when he relaxes. That's when he's net re- laxing is the "Western White liswe" at San Clemente, CaiiforAnd Miami model Kohyn Whaiely, too. Khcs to frolic in the warm. Mae walm
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  • 363 7 QOQUEL, California Firjmai fighting a Hrt at HM ►3 *****,000 hillside cstote of a wealthy eye surgeon found HM bodies of five murder victims floating in the swimming pool* Sart* Cruz County Sheriff DOU9 James called it "the most gruesome crime »r»
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  • 198 7 MFSCAT Firefighters are hauling huge quantities mi water across the desert t» create a Man-made lake in an effort to extinguish an oil fire already estimated to bare cost The two-month-old fire in one of the Shell Company's wel s In the
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  • 60 7 LONDON A new attempt to establish a "pirate" pop radio station is being made by a group of teenageri rn the village of Reach which thev claim is independent of the British government. Th« would-be operators led by Chris McCarthy, 17, claim that if they broadcast
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  • 25 7 SANTA MONICA. California—A paternity suit against fthn star Cary Grant M. has been dismissed because the mother refused three timus to take blood tests.
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  • 142 7 ISTANBUL— Turks arc filling the graves of their cholera dead with slaked lime, burning possibly contaminated foodstuff* and lining up by the thousands for innoculaU ions. Health officials however said the nation's cholera outbreak is on the wane. Latest official figures say the
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  • 30 7 BEUAST Bernadette Devlin MP., 22, will be released from Armagh Prison on Frida v where sh« i* wving a si*» month sentence lor **w rifin« a rin*
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  • World in brief
    • 434 8 KULMBACH, Bavaria A 14-year-old boy who had spent 10 years In a deep coma died last weekend. The boy, Frlthjotf Kerllng. suddenly fell into a coma at the age of four and despite intensive medical care, he failed to regain consciousness. DKIIRA DUN. Ind.a
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  • 312 8 /CHICAGO A convicted murderer sentenced to death took 2 hostages at gunpoint on Monday. He then tried to force his escape from a courthouse before he was shot to death in a corridor. Gene Lewis, 28, had twice escaped from the Cook County Jail and
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  • 125 8 NEW YORK Edward Heath, paying his first visit to the United Nations as British Prime Minister, had talks with world leaders on major problems. He arrived to make a major policy speech to the United Nations' General Assembly on Friday He is accompanied by sir
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  • 197 8 LONDON A tiny screw cost the lives of 27 passengers and crew lit an air crash, the High Court was told. British European Airways (BEA), owners of the 111-fated aircraft which crashed In December, 1961, at Ankara Airport, Turkey, was suing S. Smith
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  • 72 8 While a Genoa outfitter's premises are cleared of debris and flood water, racks of men's and women's clothings retrieved from the flood- Ed shop line the sidewalk as they are hung out to dry. The boutique was a victim of the disastrous floods that swept through the Italian
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  • 582 9 HOOD, Texas An ex-Army radio operator told a court martial on Monday that he sow an officer and a sergeant emptying their rifles into o ditch full of screoming Vietnamese villagers. Charles Sledge was giving evidence in the first court martial arising from the
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  • 106 9 NEW YORK, A Policeman who infiltrated the Bla<k Panther movement, saved man v live* by substituting r.la* for dynamite in bombs, a court wa* told here. Negro detective Ralph White had performed one of the most daring feats of undercover work, district attorney Joseph Philips
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  • 319 9 JOS ANGELES Terry Melcher, son of actress Doris' Day, listened to the songs of hippie cult leader Charles Manson but decided they were not worth commercial recordings. Gregg Jakobson, an associate of Melcherg In the music business, told the Tate murder trial on Monday
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  • 177 9 LOs ANGELES A Trans-World Airlines <TTVA> 727 jet landed safely Monday at international airport after it apparently was jolted in flight by severe air turbulence. The impact at first was attributed to an explosion. The plane, Flight 79. with 83 passengers and a crew of seven aboard
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  • 265 9 (COLUMBUS, Ohio J President Nixon on Monday ignored ibc chants of anti-war demonstrators and told t campaign crowd of £5.000 that it was time for the American people to light against lawlessness, rock throwing, obscenity and violence. Speaking over the noise from the
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  • 64 9 NAPLES Twelve foreigners detained In a mental hospital for more than 2 months on drugs charges were released. An investigating magistrate had decided they were not guilty of any offence. The 12, who were or-, dered to leave Italy immediately, wer e among 14 people arrested
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  • 716 10 FOREIGN Minister S. Rajaratnam's predic- tion that Japan and Communist China will emerge as two new super-powers during the next quarter century is based on sound reasoning. It is quite obvious that China is attempting to become one and her attempts to create a nuclear bomb arsenal and
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  • 590 10  -  BY ART BUCHWALD, time an old building is torn down in this country, and a new building goes up, the ground floor becomes a bank. The reason for this is that banks are the only ones who can afford the rent for the ground floor of
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  • 525 10  -  By Jonathan Sharp, Hong Kong THERE is no room for the "who-does-what" type of labour dispute in China. Quibbles over who operates what machine or who drills what hole which in th e West sometimes bring whole Industries to a halt cannot be tolerated In China's Industry,
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  • 170 10  -  LE Lt. Gen. Sir Peter Hunt THE Singapore National Appeal of the Gurkha Welfare Appeal was launched earlier this year and is now drawing to a close. The objects of the Appeal are to raise money for the relief of hardship and distress amongst Gurkha exservicemen and their
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  • 384 12/13 NEW YORK Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda says he was only "Joking" when he said President Nixon did not want to see "our ugly faces." Kaunda told an auiience at a dinner of the African-American Institute he was "not going away with any bitterness at all'' even
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  • 120 12/13 NP. W YORK U.N. Secretary General U Thant says while the world's population U surrounded with more material foods than ever before "never has the human life a greater sense of insecurity Noting that global gross national product was U552,455,000 million two years ago, more than doubling
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  • 458 12/13 NO CHANGE ON CHINA ISSUE RAJARATNAM U.N. meets on its silver jubilee SINGAPORE will not change its stand on the admission of Communist China into the United Nations, according to Singapore Foreign Minister S. Rajaratnam. He sud l&si year Singapore voted against the two-thirds requirement for the passage of the
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  • 307 12/13 NEW YORK Cheng Heng, chief of state of Cambodia, has told the United Nations he realises it is unable to come to it« military assistance inspite of its goal of preserving peace. "The North Vietnamese aggression against Cambodia continues with
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  • 85 12/13 The beauty on display at Hie Earis Court motor show this year is enough to make a small boy's eyes glisten and poor man weep with frustrations as he inspects the price tags. Th« car on top is the sleek Italian beauty known to its fans as
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  • 667 14  -  By Paul Majendie, JNDIA is the second-largest film-producing country in the world after N Jopon, but the industry is at present down in the doldrums. A vast number of productions never reach the projection room. Only a smoll percentage ever make a profit. Financiers
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  • 363 14  -  By LAWRENCE E. LAMB, M.D. Dear Dec tor: In an article you implied atherosclerosis and vascular diseases were caused strictly by smoking and drinking habits of youth. I am 40 and have vascular disease and have never habitually smoked or drank. You aee,
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  • 570 14 LONDON Are you a cracker or a noncracker? Of joints, I mean. If you ARE a cracker then It probably means you have a smaller metacarpal head or that your ligaments are taut! But don't worry, that* not &s serious as It sounds and,
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 36 14 PLAIN JANE vaaat*s ~tv»e wc«srr tvmim& That colajd possibly v VAAPP€N TO you, A IT A a I ft 4 VA BY FRANK BAGEVSKI I </* 1 SffiTrc/ 1 TMIMk you SHOULD kNOwW Ww( X; KANJ J"V\
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  • POPPING AROUND WITH PLATTER PETE
    • 365 15 WHILE casually wandering around the WestEnd the other evening, I suddenly becam e aware rrom looking at &U the brightly neon-Ut Electric Kinemas that the unforeseen success of Peter [Fonda's "Easy Rider," both in Its celluloid and recorded form has unleashed a spate of similarly Inspired productions
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    • 290 15 KP EMILIA CONTESSA -Delilah"/"Stand By Your Man"/"Nobody's Ctaild'VTU Never Fall In Love Again" (Pop Sound). WOW! Emilia Contessa is only 13 but she certainly doesn't look it, and more surprisingly, she certainly doesn't sound like any teenybopper! Rather, she sings like a
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    • 192 15 HI THERE! Hope you dig our special exclusive today, where ROY CARR takes an indepth look into the tie between heavy music and revolt films. Say, cats, remember last Sunday when I told you that my ed was a wonderful person? Well, I don't know what's come
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 223 15 fsfeSHAW D O Phone *****4] Shaw Festival Price Today A Tomorrow Only! 11 am. 1.30, 9.15 Beau Bridget "AD AMb WOMAN" Co:or (WB) OPENS FRIDAY! Dirk Bogarde. Ingrid Thulln "THE DAMNED" In Color (Warner Bros) CAPITOL Phone ***** Today Only No Free List 11 am. ].:«> 4. 6.45, 9.30 (AT
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    • 38 15 OPENS ODEON TOMORROW! rVou d bett*r not tall In lov« with ma." aha Mid. 'You'd b«tt»r gal ■way from ma whlla you ctan. Ramambar tha old AJ- r «3, 7T. Chlnaaa provarb... ;.aw- do not waka a 1
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    • 270 15 QRC3 AIMIS ATI OIM ORCHARD -TTTTTII LAST DAY! HURRY! HURRY! SEE IY NOWI S Show*: 1.45. 5.15 A IN 4dm: SI.M Si .50 S4 IMi I UE ADVENTI HERS" (Par PauaVUlou Color OPENS TOMORROW' No Free List, Daily 4 Bko*(t 1.00. 3.45. 0.30 915 p.m. Sundays and Holidays Extra Show
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  • 1065 16/17 THE long skirt turned up (or was it down?) six months ago in the Paris collections. And ever since Women's Wear Daily and the fashion slicks have been feeding the consumer midi-ma-nia in large doses. If we don't wear the "longuette" for
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1834 18 rnu I IO UnTr HH DDJI W r.DNKSUAY, UCTOBE1I 21, 197® LOOKING AND LISTENING....fv and radio guide CARROLL RIGHTER'8 from (he Carroll Righter Institute GENERAL TENDENCIES: This is a day when it would be wis* to think in terms of what ran be done best to {ilease and delight others.
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  • Article, Illustration
    350 19 The word hobby is derived from "hobbyhorse," which is a stick fitted into a wooden horse's head, which children ride astride for their amusement. We still talk of a man •'riding" his hobby. So a hobby is an amusement. Properly, it is any interesting pursuit not our main business
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  • Article, Illustration
    625 19 POETS, artists, dreamers, loners,, heart-broken men, women and children all seek Mother Nature in their own way. Perhaps the beauty of nature has always fascinated even the most cynical and hardbred of men in this world. With a magic wand, she has created all the most beautiful places
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  • 209 19  -  DAT By Ele,Walt Dulaney Dear Ele and Walt: My brother is in the juvenile detention home. I don't know when they'll let him come home. A lot of people are asking where he is and my parents are telling everyone he's working on
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  • Article, Illustration
    87 19 THIS series of vertical stamps from Taiwan bears three reproducing hanging scrolls of the famous "Occupations of the 12 Months". Each stamp features one occupation of these three months 10th. 11th and 12th months. The hanging scrolls were a collaborative work of Tang Tal. Ting Kuan-p'eng and other
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 188 19 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe The Eastern Sun's essay writing contest for boys and girls off 14 and under (Junior) and boys and girls over 14 (Senior) appears in this page from Monday to Friday. Prize money is: $lO for Senior* and $5 for Junior* to every essA published All
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 340 20 sudden upsurge in the market the previous day was only temporary. Trading in the rooms Malaysia and Singapore had its trend altered yesterday by the weakening of shara prices and volume of turnover recorded. Profit taking was believed to be the main factor attributing to the easier
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    • 37 20 MEW YORK—Do w Jones elosing averages Monday on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 756.50 20 Rails 150.99 15 Utilities 106.15 65 Stocks 242 98 40 Bonds 65.67 Commodity futures index 144.34 off 0.85.
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    • 290 20 November first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 48-1/8 cents per lb. up 3/8 cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet Opening quotations were fractionally higher but the market sagged on upcountry selling
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    • 91 20 THE noon prlcfi Singapore Chinese Exchange yenterda) at the Produce wa« U Coronnt Oil (fob.) balk Coconut Oil (f.o.b.) dram Mixed Copra Muntok nhlt* Pepper if o.b.) ASTA 100% N.WL Sarawak Whit* Pepper (f.o.b) 96% N.WL. Sarawak special Black Pepper (f.o.b.) »6% NHJ. Sarawak A ST A Black Pepper
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    • 116 20 BONG KONG Yesterday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.); (Huvers) (Seller*) 1965 197.5 per 1O0 Strait# dollars ISO 152 l>er l.OOd Taiwar QK Uar* 0.755 0775 per Australian dollai 840 .100 oer 1 WK Burmese kvats 500 620 p<«r 1.00(i Indian rupees 142
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    • 13 20 THE tin pric« for yesterday was s6€3| per picuT up $6OO.
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    • 667 20 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS A CM A 1.32 1 42 AJINOJHOT!) 2.13 ALCAN 1.43 1.45 Allied Cboc 2.74 200 Bee. 1 96 1.07 Brrjaya 1 1#
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    • 1058 20 BUSINESS done tn and 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 AKan $143 (2); Ben $1.06 (2); Brrjaya $1.23 (2) $122 (2). $l2l (1) $1
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  • 353 21 QYDNEY Mining issues led by International Mining Corporation (IMC) crumbled heavy selling pressure on Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. A company exploration report released Monday night brought about on® of the worst set-backs the Sydney mining market has teen this year. IMC plunged A$l.DO to close at A 53.90
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  • 606 21 ARRIVAL 1 4% am Ms A 155 Kntla 1 UiiipUr 7 30 *.m. MSA 113 Kuala l.ampur 30 i m Mil 1 Kuala l.titupur 11 0 > m Mh| 4M l*r»tn<. Kuala l.uiupur llUtm. M»A £01 Jakarta 1M p ui MM 451 KuehIni 0'» pro. Ms\ (Ml KoLa
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  • 117 21 The chairman of Air New Zealand, Mr. G. N. Roberts, will arrive in Singapore for a threeday visit on Thursday. Mr. Roberts, who will be accompanied by his wife, is stopping over at Singapore en route to Teheran, where he will attend the annual general meeting
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  • Article, Illustration
    153 21 Passengers flying with Cathay Pacific Airways between Perth and Jakarta will soon have a chance to own a slice of the Western Australian mineral boom. Ail passengers flying to and from Perth with Cathay Pacific will be invited to become members oi Cathay Pacific's Discovery Club. The membership
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  • 230 21 South Johore Omnibus (SJB) will commemorate its silver anniversary in a grand manner this Sunday at Johore Bahru. Shareholders and others associated with the company will be present at this auspicious day marked by a goodwill dinner which is expected to be one of the grandest
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  • 178 21 OENEVA The world'* major airlines have decided to raise North Atlantic air fares but will not say by how much until they can work out an agreement on seating arrangements. This was disclosed here yesterday In a communique Issued by the International Air
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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  • 739 22 IPOH NESS LANE shaped like a winner here this morning. With apprentice Wadi astride, Ness Lane sprinted stylishly over 3f in 36 2/5 on a good track. On that workout, Ness Lane who was a fast finishing third to Olympic Flame II over 9f at
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  • SPORTS BRIEF
    • 191 23 PENANG The annual Inter-Port tennis match for the Hawa Trophy between the Penang Sports Club and the Royal Bangkok Sports Club will be played here on Friday. The captain of the PSC, Mr. Sonny Soon, said a tr im of 21 players and officials will
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  • 235 23 JAKARTA Australia last night won the 10-nation teams event at the Far East Bridge Federation championships here by a slender margin from Thailand after both teams completed eight-nil sweeps in the final round. Australia took maximum points against Indonesia to finish with 98.42 points while Thailand
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  • 182 23 Civilians edged a Under-23 side 3-2 In the Singapore Hockey Association Wilbur Cup tie at the Padanr yesterday. The game which was equally matched by both teams saw Under--23 take the lead in the 10th minute through Joe Francis who flipped the ball Into the goal.
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  • 86 23 THE Paslr Panjang Community Centre la to receive a full-size boxing ring with permanent roof-structure from one of the Brltlah Army'a units In Singapore which is disbanding and returning to Britain. Major 'Dixie' Dean, the Officer Commanding 84 Survey Squadron, Royal Engineers will present
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  • 57 23 The Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment whi|>prd Singapore Cricket Club (Colt*) 1&-3 in a friendly rugger match at the Padang yesterday. RNZIR scored two goals, one try and a penalty to 9CC» try. Both goals were converted by Thomson of the RNZIR. The try was earned
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  • 342 23 Bv LITTLE NENF The countrv's Putra Cuppers, David Milne; Brian Marks; Wong Weng Hong: Gerald Loong; and non-playing Captain Mr. Dennis Lee Kim Yew are back. They arrived by Cathay Pacific Airlines last Monday night. The Team championship which was scheduled for 72 holes, but had
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  • 68 23 MANILA —The Philippines came from behind an anemic start and 11point deficit to hammer out an 84-81 triumph over Japan and won the 10th anniversary tournament of the Asian Basketball Conference last night. The final standings of the tournament (wins, losses, points): Philippines 7 0
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  • 283 24 YORK President Nixon will meet Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gcomyko for talks on the Middle East tomorrow, U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers announced yesterday. Rogers saia the White House meeting was requested by Gromyko. H e told reporters Gromyko did not say
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  • 238 24 JERUSALEM Foreign Minister Abba Eban says Israel has no doubt it will win another Middle East war if the ceasefire ends in all-out battle. "War would inflict Immense suffering on Egypt,'' he said. "We do not want it. We think the ceasefire can much
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  • 94 24 BANGKOK. Thai Government troops killed five Communisttrained Meo guerrillas and captured three others in a fierce battle near the Laotian border, police sources said yesterday. The sources said about 50 guerrillas attacked a newly-built police station and the District Administration Office of Chiang Muan In
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  • 168 24 MANILA, The second destructive typhoon to hit the Philippines in a week roared towards the South China Sea yesterday after leaving at least 69 dead and as many as 100 others missing and feared drowned in the southern provinces. The Disaster Control Coordinating Centre of the
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  • 98 24 MELBOURNE British actor Patrick Wymark, 44, star of "The Power Game" television series, was found dead in a hotel room last nignt. Homicide and Drug Squad detectives were called in to investigate his death, but one of the investigating officers said: "There are no suspi-
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