Eastern Sun, 22 October 1970

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1 24 Eastern Sun

  • 139 2 Meet the fastest gnu alive in town well, almost. Bis name is Ee Peng Liang and when he b not making lightning fast draws, he is devoting his energies to welfare work in his rapacity as president of the Singapore Council of Social Services.
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  • 272 2 rFHE National Trades Union Congress yesterday expressed A grave concern at the lack of interest shown by workers at British bases in getting themselves retrained tor other jobs. The Government has set up the Bases Economic Conversion Department (BECD) tor this specitic purpose
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  • 381 2 The modernisation of the labour movement in Singapore was presented as a case study yesterday before the seminar on Trade Unions and Co- operatives for Asia. Mr. C. V. Devan Nalr. Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress. In a Paper entitled "Common Interests and Re"
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  • 70 2 A coroner yesterday recorded a verdict of misadventure on the death of Yan Fook Lim, 48, who died of a fractured spine on Oct. 8. The incident happened on Sept. 30 when Yan, a caulker, was patching holes in a tug boat at a shipyard
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  • 182 2 A man. who pleaded guilty to setting (ire to a trishaw, was vesterda* ordered to he remanded at the Woodbndge Hospital for observation. Sentence on Tag Ah Yong, 36. has been postponed till NOT 4. Tng admitted setting fire to a trishaw belonging to Klamon bin
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  • 70 2 AN unemployed youth was yesterday sentenced to 3 years' J all an<j 6 strokes of the cane for armed robbery. Loh Ah Hock, 24. pleaded guilty to robbing Tang Sin Kwong along Market Street on February 19. armed with an lc« pick together with Yeo Ser
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 151 2 AROUND TOWN 8.30 a m.—8.00 p.m. Exhibition —to mark 25th anniversary Of the United Nations at National Library foyer. 9.00 a m.—7.00 p.m. Painting exhibition bv Wee Ron* Chai at National Librar v Leeture Hall. 9.00 a m.—7.00 p.m. Exhibition by Singapore Photographic Society at National Library 1.00 pm. Rotary
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  • 327 3 boy who has never seen his father does not know his mother is dead bar waitress Low Suan Choo, who drowned in the Singapore River on Monday. Five-year-old Ah Ping's father is believed to be a Royal Air Force
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  • 253 3 Singapore t car owners indirectly are responsible #or the rising incidence of thefts from and of motor cars. Few motorists have heeded police advice to lnstal anti-theft alarms. And most of those who have, seldom bother to turn on the antitheft devices when the novelty
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 204 3 •r- 1 -:v-v' v |r '< "'x J r Whoever heard ofan overloaded engine that wont breakdown? I Under the most testing conditions even the toughest J engine will feel the straiDi The result-downtime and money lost. No one can afford to have heavy equipment standing idle. But if you've
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  • 300 4 UALA LUMPUR The Maloysian Government yesterday warned wholesalers and dealers not to take advantage of the ban on imports of rice during the next 2 months to raise the price of rice. The warning was given by the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Enche
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  • 54 4 IP OH. The slippers-to-work protest by some of the staff of M a I a y s i a-Kingapore Airlines at Ipoh airport which started on Monday, continued yesterday. Thosf staff who were supplied only with uniform* but not shoes ar P taking part in the
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  • 340 4 KUALA LUMPUR Armed communist terrorists took away a shotgun with 10 rounds of cartridges, exchanged fire with 6 residents and abandoned 8 camps and 8 dumps in Sarawak during the first 2 weeks of October. The National Operations Council disclosed after its meeting that communist terrorist
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  • 167 4 KUALA LUMPUR An agreement on the pay for 5,500 workers affected by Hie closing down of the Rompin Iron Mine in Pahang was signed at the Ministry of Labour yesterday. It was reached at a two-da v meeting between representatives of the Eastern Mining and Metals
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  • 35 4 A Hon« Kon e seaman, Chan Gan. 57. died at the Naval Base Hospital on Tbesd*y after he was knocked down by a hit-and-run car along Sembawang Road on October 10.
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  • 36 4 School-teacher. Kong Soon Han, 23, was yesterday walking along a lonely lan e at Paya Lobar Road when two robbers confronted him. He wa s robbed of $2B and a wrist watch worth $lO.
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  • 55 4 The Minister for Social Affairs was one of the many well-wishers present aft a send-off for National Servicemen held at Pa?ir Panjang Community Centre. Mr. Othman Wafc, (with his back to the bus), shakes hands with the new recruits as the* board the trucks which
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  • 168 4 KUALA UTMPIIC The former Secretary of the Au 81 ral i a MaJaysia Corporation Sdn. Rhd Walter Loh Poh Khan, was yesterday acquitted on a charge of cheating his company of $225. Loh. Is also the Democratic Action Party MP for Setapak. He was
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  • 204 4 KUALA LUMPUR A total of 156 Immigrate i ion Officer* and clerical staff are being recruited to man a control centre to be set up at the Immigration Headquarters. The/ will implement the check system of visitors coming into Malaysia Enforced The Director General
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  • 330 5 A self-confessed prostitute yesterday denied everything said in a police statement about a man living on Her immoral earnings. The result a Malaysian, David Tan Sew Jong. 22, was acquitted and discharged by the First District Court. Tan was alleged to have been living on the
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  • 142 5 TWO teenagers were yesterday sentenced to a day's Jail and fined (300 each for the theft of generators and ZOO pounds of lead Sunday. Lee Yong Pheng, 15, and Tan Eng Gunn, 17. pleaded guilty to stealing f;enerators and lead vaued at $6OO Irom the
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  • 115 5 KUALA LUMPUR, The UMNO General Assembly will be held from January 22 to 24 next year, the Party's Chief Publicity Officer. liaji Othman Abdullah, announced. The dates were fixed b v the UMNO Central Executive Council which met on Tuesday night The meeting presided Over
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • World in brief
    • 448 8 BELFAST, North Ireland North Ireland's civil rights Member of Parliament, Bernadette Devlin, was secretly released from prison at daybreak yesterday. 8he Immediately went Into hiding. She was Jailed in June for P art ln re Mgioua riots in Londonderry last year. S22S2JT Z~ The Sov,et
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  • 241 8 OONN Federal Authorities took oyer the hunt for 3 Arabs wanted in connection with the murder of a man in Frankfurt. The State Prosecutor's Office in Frankfurt, where the body was discovered in a hotel room, declared he had not yet been positively
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  • 73 8 Three Malaysian girls name a 3-month-old orang-utan at the Zoological Gardens in Perth, West Australia, as "Puteri" ("Princess"). Zoo Director Tom Spence discusses the name with (from left) Zainab Jiman, Jamilah Ibrahim and Nik Faridah. The girls are first year students of University of Western Australia.
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  • 239 8 CANBERRA Australian Army Minister Andrew Peacock offered to resign after his wife appeared in an advertisement endorsing a brand of bed sheets. However, Prime Minister John Gorton re- jected the resignation. The doub.e-page advertisement in a national women's magazine, a so showed
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  • 151 8 VENICE The director of Venice Airport flatly denied that there had been a clash between himself and Prince Philip over where the Prince's plane should be parked. The Italian News Agency Ansa earlier reported a difference of opinion between the 2 men when h«
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  • 703 10 I[ C President Richard Nixon has won C.O. commendations both internationally and domestically for his handling of situations in the world's two worst crisis areas Indochina and the Middle East. Just before President Nasser's untimely death the American plan for ceasefire and peace talks in the Middle East
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  • 764 10  -  By Joseph Alsop, That wise historian and brave Englishman/ Duff Cooper, once defined middle age as extending from 30 to 60. This was a bit self-serving, for he was well past 50 at the time. But he admitted that once he had passed 60, he would have
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  • 217 10 MANILA The nationalist newspaper Manila Chronicle said In a recent editorial, today, "The sheer dynamics of power Is bound to compel Japan" to assume a military role in Asia. "Her determined denunciation of militarism Is part of the lingering effect of the Hiroshima trauma,
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  • 143 10 BERNE: Pieter Joubert, an Afrikaans actor in South Africa has been having an interesting experience. He has to play a "wild Moor" in a Shakespeare play, and to do this he has to be made up jet black. But the theatre has no facilities for washing
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  • 264 10 How far can gullibility go BERNE: 'Radio Peace and Progress" is in the Soviet Union. It beams Moscow politics to India, and in the past these have often taken the form of attacks against Indian policies. These broadcasts always take the form of intimate discussions of Indian Internal affairs, and
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  • 714 11 RJM. Sorge reports the UN's silver jubilee meeting AJEW YORK C. K. Yen, Vice President and Prime Minister of Hie Republic of China, has warned that the admission of Communist China to the United Nations would destroy the organisation. The Chinese Communist regime, he
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  • 234 11 Chinese disunity nude an appearance in front of the United Nations building a few hours before C. K. Yen addressed the General Assembly. Three groups of demonstrators were on parade. The groups represented the Nationalist Chinese, the Communists and the Formosa ns. Waving Chinese and American
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  • Article, Illustration
    125 11 UNABLE TO LAND because of thick brush and trees a helicopter hovers while South Vietnamese troops drop to the ground and prepare to secure a position about 400 miles north of Saigon. WORKHORSE FOR SPACE. Artist*a concept of a highly versatile, reusable space tag which could be flown
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  • 647 14  -  General N a devout and a socialist By Don Dallas, LEFT-WING soldier-politfcian who studied in the United States but regards that country as an arch-enemy of the Arabs is leoding the Sudan into a closer relationship with Egypt and with the Communist states. The sudden death
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  • 488 14  -  By Lawrenee E. Lamb, M. D. LET'S dkcuia an "optimal'' diet for you. The American Heart Association has a fat-controiled. low cholesterol meal plan, entitled "The Way to a Man's Heart"' that will help you write or call your nearest heart association and
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous

  • 609 15  -  By Harold Heffernan, 0 U c ro oy on nt stage and screen —is a young actor with tiny feet. He got tired of shopping for his shoes in the kid department and did something about it in a most spectacular if sneaky manner. And a^
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  • 404 15  -  By Vernon Scott, Joseph Cotten belongs to that silent fraternity who can't really get started on the day's work until they have completed the daily crossword puzzle. H« believes the word puzzles are a major reason for millions of Indlvlduals buying newspapers. In
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 265 15 r L I D O Phone *****4 Shaw Festival i Price LAST DAY! 11 ana. I SO. 4. 30. »15 Beau Bridges "AUAM'h WOMAN" Color (W B OPENS TOMORROW I Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulln "THE DAMNED" In Color (Warner Bros) B CAPITOL Pbanr *****1 Opeoa Today No Free LLst 11
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    • 343 15 CATHAY ***** 2nd BIG WEEKI Dally 3 Shown: 11, t A I MOM'S DOCTOR ZHIVACO' Omar Sharif, Color. P'Vision NEXT CHANGE! Cantlnfla* Thr Little Priest' A Columbia Picture In Color □nCHARD 3 715 Ml OPENS TODAY! No Free Lltl, Dally 4 Show*! I.M. 3.45. «U> Ift P m Sundays and
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  • 392 16 One of the immrroin ad\ autages mi life in Singapoit'i multiracial society in the proliferation of holidays and it's a wise Singaporean oho celebrates >n ail! The 28th day of this month brings Deepavali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, and some very special sweets to aoark
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  • 503 16  -  Thursday food with Ruth Bakalar YOU dont have to be an avant-garde cake couturier to create this striking new-look cake. The people w ho make Swans Down Cake Mixes have worked out the pattern for you, and provide a yellow cake mix of
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  • WOMEN
    • 108 17 In Hie beginning tie-n-dye was only for T-shirts, and at the most for mini skirts or perhaps a pair of bell-bottoms for the mod set. But now, maxis are going tie-dye too. This long sleeved tie-n-dye maxi Thelma wears has a beige background with a multi-coloured
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    • 301 17  -  ANN LANDERS Dfar Ann: I was interested In the letter about the child who was a compulsive counter. He had to put on his pyjamas frontwards, then backwards, three times every night He also had to count his piggy bank money twice before he went
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1760 18 •'V*' »»V nnvn i vtiUßEn M, IJfU LOOKING AND LISTENING.... Tv CARROLL RIOHTEVTS from the Carroll Rightef Institute (GENERAL TENDENCIES: Good day and evening for you to strut *nd enjoy past accomplishments. It is also a good day to go to those in positions of power and authority to let
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  • 371 19 NATURE has mode it so that we, the higher class of animals, have lots of opinions on persons we are for or against. Dislike is a quality which is possessed by everybody. One dislikes another because of the other's habits or character. In some cases, even appearance
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  • 183 19 Have you p'ayed basketball? Well the 'Harlem Globetrotters' is a basket ball team formed by group of American Negroes. As Americans are supposed to be the first to Introduce this game, they sure possess the finest teams and the 'Harlem Globetrotters' Is one ol them. This basketball team
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  • 1059 19  -  DATELINE By Ele, Walt Dulaney Dear Ele and Walt: My father is in the service and travels a lot. He usually brings me something back from each place he visits. Some of my friends see these souvenirs and want me to ask him
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 191 19 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe The Eastern Sun's essay writing contest for boys and giHs of 14 and under (Junior) and boys and girls over 14 (Senior) appears in Hits page from Monday to Friday. Prize money is: $lO for Seniors and $5 to Juniors for every essay published All
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 292 20 ACTIVITY in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday was trimmed down further. Operators hod poor oppetite for issues lifted from the ban in delayed business earlier this week. Most of the day's trading persisted to be confined to the hlghfliers which closed marginally better.
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    • 136 20 HONG KON G The Philippine peso Wednesday sank to its lowest exchange rate against the U.S. dollar on the Hong Kong open money market in more than six months. Deak and Co. quoted the peso at 6.94 against the U.S. dollar buyers and 6.84 sellers. The rate 6.94
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    • 125 20 PARIS For the second time in less than two months, the Bank of Prance announced today I lowering of its official liscount rate from 7-1/2 k> 7 per cent The discount rate had been at its all time high of 8 per cent for nearly one
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    • 247 20 November first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 48-1/2 cents per lb. up S/8 cent from the previous close. The tone of Hie market was quiet. The market opened un_ changed on last night's final levels and steadied
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    • 113 20 HONG KONG Wednesday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied Investment Ltd.) by Foreign Exchange and < Bayers) (Sellers) 196.5 197.5 per 100 Straits dollars 150 152 l>er 1.000 Taiwan dollars 6.755 6.775 per Australian dollar 340 360 per l.OOo Burmese kyats 502.50 522.50 per 1.000 Indian rupees 140 160
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    • 36 20 NEW YORK— Dow Jones closing averages Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 758.83 20 Transp 151.14 15 Utilities 108.72 65 Stocks 243.70 40 Bonds 65.62 Commodity futures index 145.15 oXJ 981.
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    • 697 20 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange vesterdaj were: 1NDU8TKI Al.S ACM A 1 22 1.44 AJINOMOTO 2.0t 244 ALCAN 1.41 1.43 Allied Choc. 2 74 2.7* BM, 1 93 Berjaya 1JI
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    • 855 20 BUSINESS done in 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 Alcan $143 (2) $142 (3); Berjaya $1.19 (1) $l2O (4) $122 (2) $1.21 (18);
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    • 56 20 (Manager's Price for Oct. 22) ASIA UNIT TBISTB M lnve«t Fond 1.18 1.23td M'sia Prog. 1.02 1.07 CHAKIKKtU DMI TRt'HTh 8. O. Fund 1.05 1.10 SINIiAPOKh UNI) TRUSTS 2nd S'pere 1.86 3rd snore I.lBxd Coin lnd. 99 1-04 The saving Fnnd 1.01 1.06 B.P. Fund 96 I.Olxd (Manager*'
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    • 13 20 THE tin price for yesterday was $665 per picul up $l-7/8.
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    • 426 21 CJYDNEY Selected buying in o few of tfce more established miners yesterday helped check the sliding trend started Tuesday on Sydney Stock Exchange. Pre-report buying in Poseidon boosted the issue $4.00 higher to $82.00 with many associate nickels following lh« same example to recover some
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    • 155 21 CATHAY Pacific Airways will extend its services to Jakarta with effect from Ist December. 1970, Mr H. H. Lee, the airline's manager ID Singapore. announced yesterday. There will be one flight on Tueaday. x Friday, and Sunday, departiiy Singapore to the early evening and with a quick
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    • 64 21 TOKYO Communist China is building a diverse chemical industry based on huge resources the American magazine "Chemical Engineering" said yesterday. "What emerges from the statistics is the confusing picture of a giant nation that has, practically unaided, scored impressive production and technological gams in some areas, while
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    • 124 21 NEW YORK —Gold jumped higher on markets here and abroad Tuesday as buying continued brisk in an otherwise thin market London gold rose 27 U.S. cents at the morning fixing and gained an additional i U.S. cent for a second fixing of 38.874 U.S. dollars a troy
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    • 97 21 THB noon price* at (he Htngapore Chinese PrtMtnre Kxefcaace r eMer«tay wmr. a i. COAMBt Otl balk 53.50 CIM-MUI Oil (fab.) dram 55.00 Mixed Copra XT 50 Monro* *hH» Pepper <fo.b> AHTA >OO% N.Wi. IMO 00 Sarawak White Pepper <f-«b) 96% N.WL. 170.00 BuraMak Special Klack Pepper (f.0.b.) !Mi%
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    • 486 21 AKKIYAI.S 1 44 I JL MHA 185 Kuala •.25 a n». f.uiupur MSA 584 Colombo 7 30 a.ra MSA 123 Ku.tl« Lumpur 9 Mt a-iu. MSA 452 Kuala 11.05 a a. 1. II in p II r MSA 454 Praang. Kuala Lumpur 11. AO a m. MHA 203
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    • 168 21 is Ae Abloy No. 3041, tKc rrcurity padlock that lives up to the m»we#actwfwr»' slogan O#: "Wot afraid of skeleton k«y»". It is the latest model of high-security locks manufactured by Oy Wartsila Ab Helsinki. Finland, and Is designed for industrial and household use. The medium-size padlock
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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  • 687 22 r)H Trainer George Wesf's CORRUPTION continued to show improvement here this morning. In o trial with stablemate MAHSEIR, a class one horse, the pair raced stride for stride over 3f in 37 3/5. Corruption, with apprentice Abdul Rahman up, was going better at the finish. On
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  • 587 23  -  reports from Canberra DON WHITINGTON The problem of continuing association with South Africa is occupying the minds of Australian sporting bodies. A tour by South African women basketball players attracted much hostility in Australia. Next year South African cricketers are due to tour
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  • 187 23 MELBOURNE South African golfer Gary Player has accused Australian Golf officials of being 'unfair' following a ban on practice at the Kingston Heath course, venue of the 1970 Australian Open Tournament. Player, who arrived here Tuesday to compete in the tournament, said last
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  • 81 23 ALOR STAR —The Kedah Youth and Sports office is planning to popularise «ports in the rural areas to enabl* youths to utilise their time usefully. The State Youth and Sports officer, Enche Mohamed Soffian bin Abdul Rahim, said yesterday that for a start the office planned
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  • 130 23 Crack Australian jockey JJ Miller who was on a brief visit here earlier this year will soon be seen in action again at the forthcoming Perak Turf Club meeting beginning this Saturday. He has been engaged to become stable Jockey to Bukit
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  • 68 23 The visiting Northern Suburbs Rugby XV edged an enterprising SRU's All Singapore XV 18-16 at the Padang yesterday. The total tally for the visitors were three goals and a try to Singapore's two goals and two penalties. The visitors who played their last match here
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  • 92 23 SYDNEY The MC. Cricket team arrived In Australia yesterday and captain Ray Illingworth vowed his side would play positive cricket. "We will try to get wickets and to score runs as fast as we can," Illingworth told Exporters. He said that his tactics would be
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  • 163 23 The La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club from San Diego, California played their first game her* yesterday. The visiting club comprising nine men and nine women played against a team from the Tanglin Club. The La Jolla Club team arrived here from Bangkok
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  • 127 24 I O N D O N Britain's J two biff est independent airlines were merged yesterday when Caledonian announced It was taking over British United Airways (BCJA) in a deal worth nearly seven million sterling (about 8552 million). The new service, to be called CaledonianBUA,
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  • 513 24 Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte, kidnap victim of Liberation Movement extremists, was strangled to death, possibly by the chain of the crucifix he wore around his neck, a Montreal coroner said yesterday. Dr. Laurin Lapointe, the Montreal Chief Coroner, said other wounds found on the
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  • 233 24 TOKYO Japan hopes to give its Army 1,000 new tanks and buifd 200 light ships for its Navy during a Five-Year Defence Plan starting in April 1972. Yasuhiro Nakasone, director general of the Japan Self-Defence Agency, outlined the scope of the plan in an address on
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  • 21 24 CAIRO. —Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi was swom in yesterday as Prime Minister of Egypt b v President Anwa r Sadat.
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  • 43 24 MELBOURNE A bomb explosion ripped through the Yugoslav Consulate here last night. wrecking the two-storey building The blast blew a ten feet b v live feet hole in the front of the building, police said. No one was injured.
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  • 216 24 M.G. Ramachandran, Hie 'South Indian movie idol, arriving in Singapore from Kuala Lumpur yesterday, faced a strong protest by the Singapore National Union of Journalists. Ramachandran. declared the Union's Secreta-ry-General Chang Hin Chong. "wa s reported to have behaved in an arrogant manner
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