Eastern Sun, 31 October 1970

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents Istd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1486 Saturday, October 31, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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  • 407 1 THREE men yesterday stole nearly $1 million from the doorstep of the Chartered Bank. The theft took place in a few seconds soon ofter 11 o m. in Battery Rood. The men escaped with the 100t—5946,000 drawn for the bank from the treasury on a motorcycle
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  • 208 1 SAN CLEMENTE, California, President Nixon was roused from his bedroom in his pyjamas b v a fire which spread smoke through the Western White House, early yesterday. White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler said Nixon moved to a guest house on j th
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  • 322 2 efforts by the National Theatre Trust have gone into full swing through a campaign to prevent "a national disqrace. So far, the Fund-raising Committee headed by Mr. Wee Mon Cheng has raised $16,300 "from friends and well wishers." The Trust has admitted that It
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  • 54 2 Captain Vissor, Master of the vessel, "Eastern Supplier" c/o Messrs. Straits Transportation of 1.C.8. Building, was yesterdav fined $250 when he pleaded guilty to discharging oil into the waters of the Republic of Singapore on Sept. 2. He committed the offTence alongside Ciodown 46,
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  • 310 2 State Coroner, Mr. Liew Ngik Kee, yesterday recorded verdicts of murder by person or persons unknown on two men stabbed to death earlier this year. The first Inquiry was told that on Feb. 4. a bar patron, Kok Ah Kiew, 27, unemployed, was fatally stabbed during
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  • 183 2 A PUBUC Health Division labour, P. Ganadahan, 40. was killed when a 50-pound dustbin loaded with bricks, sticks, stones and debris fell on him yesterday. Ganadahan, of Joo Chiat Place, was unloading the dustbin into the Public Health lorry at 8.05 a.m. at Ipoh Lane when
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  • 84 2 A Malaysian Chinese, deported from Australia as an Illegal immigrant following expiry of three extensions of his visa as a visitor, arrived In Singapore at 11.30 p.m. yesterday on board a Qantas flight. Ho Kum Weng. 27. a well-known cook in Sydney for his culinary art. was
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  • 114 2 Sam Mgon, 21. a"d Chng Teow Choon, 19. were yesterday sentenced to three years" jail and six strokes of the cane e a ch for armed robber v at th e junction of Guillemard Road and Lorong 26. Geylang. They pleaded guilty to robbing
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  • 51 2 Pehre have arrested a suspect in connection with the arson attempt on Bukit Panjang Post Office on Oct. 19. The suspect, who is in his teens, was arrested by a policeman last Monday. He is being detained by the Police under Section 55 (Preservation of Public Security
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 30 2 Around Town 8.30 a.m. to 8.04 p.m. Inhibition to mark 2.'ith Anniversary of United Nations at National Library foyer. 2 30 p.m. Combined S capped in "Handi cap Children's Week
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    • 106 2 at Fairer Park Athletic Centre. 7.30 p.m. Finals of the Second Annual Badminton Championships of the Ban Cheong Goldsmith cup at Bukit Ttmah Centre. 7.30 p.m. Variety Show by Toa Pay oh Commu nlty Centre at National TTieatre. 7.30 p.m. Hong Kong Troche w opera sponsored by See Hup Company
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    • 39 2 Tomorrow's toto draw Toto Draw No. 87/70 will be 'live* telecast over Channel 5 or Television Slngapura tomorrow at 4.25 p.m. The acting director of Metal Industries Development Centre. Mr. Chua Soo Tian. will chaif the panel of judgea.
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  • 346 3 JEWELLERY worth $lO/000 was stolen by four armed robu bers from a goldsmith's shop in Hill Street yesterday. The dari rig daylight robbery took place about 11.30 a.m. in the premises of Lim Sing Hing Company. The robbers made off with their loot in
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  • 83 3 A MAN tentatively charged with the double murder at Toa Payoh was yesterday remanded at the Woodtoridge Hospital for medical examination. Too Ee Huat, 21, an odd-job labourer was charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court on Oct. 16. Teo is alleged to have murdered Miss
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  • 97 3 Cigarette advertising will be banned on radio and television from Jan. 1 f but advertising in cinemas will not be affected. A spokesman for a tobacco company said the ban was unlikely to cause his company a loss. He said the ban might save
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  • 46 3 KANGAR, The cooperative Bank of Malaysia will operate a commercial bank when its capital reaches $2O million. This was stated bv its President, Tan s r 1 Sheikh Ahmad bin Mohamed Hashim Th e bank has a capital of $4 million at present.
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  • 437 4 1/~UALA LUMPUR The High Court yesterday reserved judgment in the appeal by 2 police officers who were convicted in the $207,630 Treasury voucher case. Chief Inspector Loh Kwang Siang and Inspector T.M. Rajagopal are both from the Special Branch Office, Kuala Lumpur Police
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  • 133 4 KOTA KINARALU.— Babah police have detailed 2 men for pMKwioa of 4 cold bar* worth more than 14.1 M at the KoU Hinabaiu Airport. IV nen who flew la from Brunei were om their wa T to Labuan when police stopped then. CID men stationed at
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  • 260 4 KUCHING A member of the Security Forces told a preliminary inquiry in Kuching yesterday that he saw a member of the Police Held Force shoot and kill a captured man m March this year. Peter Rosen Anak Norot, 32, a member of the Sarawak Field Force,
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  • 84 4 KUCHING. A large crowd looked on while a 19-year-old mason Eng Swee Keong, writhed in pain after he had fallen from the roof of the General Post Office. It took 2 passing soldiers who were attracted bv the large crowd to rush Eng,
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  • 104 4 This is the British Army's unique way to literally drop in first by air and later drive out by road. A Land Rover (above photo) has in fact set a record of being pitched out of a plane 64 times and is still serviceable. The
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  • 247 4 TAIPING The Taiping Town Council ii offering the animals at the xoo tor adoption by individuals and commercial firms. The Chairman of the Council, Zaluddin bin Haji Sulong, announced that appeal letters would be sent soon to potential adopters to seek
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  • 363 5 GOVT. MUST ACT TO END UNIVERSITY 'STERILITY' STUDENTS FHE Government wos yesterday urged to help overcome intellectual sterility" in Singapore by removing one of its main causes the Suitability Certificate. The Suitability Certificate serves only as a "deterrent to intellectual inquisitiveness/' the University of Singapore Students' Union claimed. The demand
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  • 76 5 KUALA LUMPUR—The 3 member Indian delegation of the Indian Govvernment, led by R N. Muttoo, Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi, called ©n the Minister of Finance, Tun Tan Siew Sin, at the Federal Capital. The Indian
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  • 46 5 BUKIT MERTAJAM, The Chairman of Gerakan Eaayat Malaysia, Professor Syed Hussain Al-Atas. called for science and technical text books of international standard to be written in Bahasa Malaysia. "In this way. Bahasa Ma'aysla w ill progress with the times," he declared.
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  • 174 6 PHNOM PENH Vietcong gunners hare attacked a Cambodian naval transport vessel killing 13 Government troops and wounding 30, Hie High Command reported yesterday. The Command spokesman, Major Am Rons, said the attack took place on the Mekong River about seven miles east of Phnom Penh.
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  • 62 6 JAKARTA. About 1.9 million Indonesians will be disfranchised in next year's general elections o n th e ground that thev were involved in the September 1965 abortive coup in which six generals were mur-' dered. Announcing this yesterday. Mr Eman Hariustaman. Deputy Secretary Of the General
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  • 305 6 WASHINGTON With the coming of the dry season. North Vietnam has significantly increased infiltration of men and war material southward along the Ho Chi Minh trail. Nixon Administration officials predict increased pressure against the allies during the next few months. It is assumed that
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  • 138 6 LONDON South Vietnamese Ambassador Le Ngoc Chan, has •aid he was more optimistic about the future of South Vietnam because of increasing high morale in his country. The ambassador was speaking at a reception in the British House of Commons, given by an all-party group
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  • 83 6 Brit. Geo. Carlos Horn ulo, Foreign Secretary of the Philippines, has asked the United Nations to aid his country in overcoming the damage caused by typhoons. In if letter to Sec-retary-General U Thant, Romulo said the storms caused havoc" unequalled In many decades in the Philippines
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  • 107 6 MANILA National Police are seeking the deportation of three Philippine-born Chinese students who worked for a newspaper published by the nowimprisoned Yuyitung brothers, police sources said yesterday. The sources said the Deportation Board was investigating a report from Colonel Tagumpay Nanadiego, National Police judge advocategeneral, seeking
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  • 32 7 These beauties are rivals but they're still the best of friends. Miss France 1970, Micheline Beaurain (right) embraces Madine Lorcery, 19, after she had been elected the new Miss Paris. UPI photo.
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  • 281 7 Reuter. American troops' deaths from overdoses of heroin and other hard norcotics hove skyrocketed recently in Vietnam, according to Senator Thomas Dodd. Dodd, a chairman of the Senate Juvenile Deliquency subcommittee, said: "The drug situation Is disastrous among the troops and has spll'.ed over
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  • 177 7 NEW YORK More than 100 governments have pledged contributions of almost *****.5 million to the United Nations Development Programme. However, the UNDP's 1971 budget is expected to reach $720 million when all contributions have been received. The UNDP, which finances most of the
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  • 58 7 SAN JOSE California, —Students have exhumed a 1970 car which thev had ceremonially buried in February before a mil« was registered on its dials. The car. interred new to save the atmosphere from its potential fumes was an ugl v heap of rusted metal when a mechanical shovel
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  • 96 7 BRISBANE Four ocean adventurers aboard a balsa wood raft are approaching the Queensland coast after a 7,000 -miles voyage across the Pacific from South America. A morse code message picked up from the craft said the crew fears the raft may drift on to the
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  • 56 7 SYDNEY A man who tried to hijack a plane with a toy pistol and a flick Knife, has been sentenced to live years »n Jail. Clerk Theodore Nicko--Ins Perrotis, 23, pleaded not guilty to assaulting Captain James Farrell, the pilot of the aircraft, end entering the boundary of
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  • 126 7 WASHINGTON U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration will start planning future joint Soviet-American space enterprises. A NASA official said that "only a dozen" technical problems stand in the way of docking Soviet and U.S. spacecraft in space. Joint plan Arnold Frutkin, NASA assistant administrator for
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  • 440 8 Red Party is now running in NY polls NEW YORK For the first time since 1946, the Communist Party is running candidates for New York state offices in this November elections. The part y Is on the ballot by petition, meaning that It was able to collect
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  • 258 8 r ONDON Britain's chief Common Market negotiator, Geoffrey Rippon, said the Government hoped to break the back of the negotiations on British membership of the six-nation community by next summer. Rippon was reporting to Parliament on Tuesday's ministerial meeting in Luxembourg. He said
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  • 118 8 SANTIAGO—Dr. Salvador Allende, Marxist President-elect, told a news conference that 2 attempts have been made on his life. "Both failed because we took the necessary measure." he disclosed. He did not elaborate. Allende\» remarks coincided with a broadening of the police search for the
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  • 170 8 BELFAST Troops used CS nausea gas and a water cannon yesterday against a crowd of about 200 persons which tried to storm an army barricade. Despite the gas and the cannon, the mob refused to disperse and retaliated at one point by throwing a gasiline
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  • 253 8 LONDON A senior British diplomat yesterday attacked former Foreign Secretary George Brown for saying harsh things about Britain's Foreign Office men in a series of memoirs. Brown is now being elevated to the peerage as Lord George Brown. He was Foreign Secretary in the former Labour
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  • 142 8 VATICAN CITY The Vatican has banned any further experiments with the Roman Catholic liturgy. Vatican sources disclosed. The ban comes in a still unpublished "instruction'' on liturgical practice issued by the Congregation for Divine Worship. The document specifically prohibit* experimentation with the Mass, the central
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  • 268 9 SEATTLE, Washington— A Federal Appeals Judge has stopped the U.S. Air Force from discharging ('apt Su san Struck, an unmarried. pregnant nurseJudge Eugene Wright of the Mh Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary restraining order after a lower eourt Judge had turned
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  • 519 9 CAN JOSE, Colifornio Demonstrators hurled eggs, rocks and bottles at President Nixon Thursday night in the lorgest ond noisiest anti-Nixon protest he has foced since becoming President. The anti war protesters, about 900, confronted the President's sedan as he entered and left an
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  • 307 9 LOS ANGELES Aff e r four-and-a-half months and testimony by 79 witnesses who called Charles Manson a killer, a devil and Jesus Christ, the Sharon Tate murder trial is almost haJf over now. The prosecution presented testimony by psychiatrists to determine whether or not the
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  • 66 9 "Ruddy can you spare us a song The answer from American singer -entertainer Buddy Greco came in one syllable yes Greco, who opened at the Talk of the Town night-spot, London, on Oct. 26 accompanies himself on guitar as he serenades showgirls Ingrid Gregoriceva (right) and
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  • 372 10 BRITAIN'S White Paper on maintaining a military presence here has some interesting features. It is a highly realistic approach for which the Conservatives have to be congratulated. The Five-Power Defence Agreement itself has been ostensibly reached to protect Malaysia and Singapore from external aggression. But, as British
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  • 355 10 THE re-election of Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato as the President of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which automatically Insures his continuance as the head of government, will not come as a surprise to anybody but there are various points that have to be clarified. Japan is riding
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  • 742 10  -  By Joseph Alsop, What President Nixon is up to in this year's election is now plain for all to see o» at least almost plain. The confidential list of states where the President currently plans to give on-the-spot aid to Republican candidates has now lengthened once
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  • 371 10  -  By DICK WEST, During the first half of the 20th century, the first thing the U.S. Government did in time of national emergency was seize the railroads. The trains still didn't run on time, of course, but seizing the railroads had a very Important psychological Impact. For
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 779 12  -  By LESLIE NAKASHIMA NAGOYA, Japan Nationalist China's Hsieh Min Nam and Japanese world cup player Takaaki Kono shared a twostroke lead with a five-under-par 139 yesterday at the halfway mark in the Tokai Classic International open golf tournament. Hsieh, the first round leader with
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    • 195 12 MELBOURNE The best racehorses in Australasia were gathered yesterday for Melbourne's spring racing carnival which opens today with the Victorian Derby. Eighteen three-year-olds from four states and New Zealand will face the starter in the 12furlong classic with South Australian Derby winner Clear Prince the
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    • 448 12  -  A column on American sports by Milton Richman NEW YORK Brooks Robinson's son was severely troubled. He had Just come home from his first day in school and the other kids, having nothing reall T better to do. had given him a hard time. "t>addy, who's
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    • 277 12 CANBERRA Peter Beams, a virtually unit no w n 23-year-old golfer from England, Jed the Dunlop International Golf Tournament at Royal Canberra after yesterday's second round. He returned a four under par 68 to have a total of 137 in the 25.000 Australian Dollar (S$85,000) championship.
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    • 129 12 EAST STROUDSBURGH. Pennsylvania With his broken right foot completely healed, heavyweight champion Joe Frazier "will be as quick and relentless as ever" when he defends his title against light heavyweight champion Bob Foster in Detroit Nov. 18. according to Frazier's manager Yank Durham. "Joe
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    • 117 12 NEW YORK Cassius Clay, who made an impressive comeback to the ring with victory over Jerry Quarry on Monday, said here yesterday his next fight was about set for Decern be I against Argentinian Oscar Bonavena. Clay said he did not think a December fight against
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    • 55 12 ADELAIDE. Yorkshire opener Geoff Boycott led an M.C.C. ascault on the South Australian attack here yesterdav with an unbeaten century in the opening iratcb of the English team'a tour. Boycott slammed 173 not out in the M.C.C. total of 326 for two on the first
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    • 898 13 Taking a line through home record ond dawn displays DIXIE MONARCH is a confident bet to win the class three division four race over 6f here today. Although the Just Whistle's gelding has yet to race since arriving here almost a year ago,
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    • 43 13 PENANG A total of 32 entries from Singapore and Malaysia have been received for the Malayaian motorcycle scramble to be held at Glugor here this Sunday. The Royal Australian Air Force Motor Club is organising the scramble.
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    • 321 13 IPOH STELLABELLE, a winner last week, showed that she was retaining her winning form in a gallop here this morning. With Lyle Harbridge up Stellabelle strode out styiishly over 3f in 37 3 5 on a good track. On that workout, Stellabelle has a good c hance
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    • Article, Illustration
      248 13 MELBOURNE, Australia There are few tennis enthusiasts in the world who have not either watched or heard about the Australian tennis star, John Bromwich, who with his powerful dou-ble-handed strokes dominated the world tennis scene from 1935 for 15 years. The famous doublehanded strokes are again to be
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    • 883 14  -  Story by: John Hanafin SYDNEY, Australio In hit football gear he looks every inch the typical footballer: solidly-ilt, tough and fast on his feet as a trained athlete should be. The coritiast comes when he dons the garb he normally wears away from
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    • 99 14 IPOH The Ipoh branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals hopes to arrange a football match between the Perak Chinese Football Federation and the Perak Indian Sports Council to be played at the Stadium Perak here on Nov. 14. The match
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  • 832 15  -  By Frederick H. Marks, 'A NTON,N RAYMOND «s probably the last of a special breed in the world of art and architecture. He's one of a group of self-proclaim-ed rebels who helped drag the world from the Victorian Age into the 20th century. Raymond is
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  • 110 15 TAIPEI YOUNG Chang Yung-Ho, from Chiayi In South Taiwan, has been given the chance of a secondary school education because he was honest enough to hand back a wallet containing 900 U.S. dollars which he found in the street. Yung-Ho, the son of a hawker, had to stop
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  • 28 15 It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience. Horace Bnshnell, divine an J author.
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  • 512 15  -  By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D. Adults often ignore the fact that they are on drugs. Yes, we live in a drug culture. Everyone who uses coffee, tea, colas, tobacco and alcohol is really using soft drugs. You can add to this the "go
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  • 620 16  -  From Gloria Baylon A LMOST overnight, o smoll dusky, Filipino, whose assets are her smile and her throoty voice, has become the Cinderella of the Philippine cinema. Nora Aunor, five feet tall and 17 years old, was unknown
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  • 651 16  -  BY DESMOND ZWAR Th c future for millions of British television viewers is being charted by a woman in a country cottage surrounded by chestnut trees. Veteran astrologer, playwright and former actress Evadne Price, is pouring over celestial charts preparing the horoscope she
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  • 347 17  -  By VERNON SCOTT, Television's most unlikely producer is a towering blond giant whose who* is "Insight," and whose message is the Ten Commandments. He la Father Ellwood Kieser. a Roman Catholic priest who looks like a football player Father Kleser Is in his 10th year of producing the
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  • 599 17  -  By Dick Kleiner, You may not have thought about it, but Robert Aldrich says that this coming election will hare a lot to do with the kind of movies you'll see next year. Aldrich, one of Hollywood's top producerdirectors, is currently filming a story
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  • 86 17 Wendell Burton has been signed to star ts Smitty in the film version of "Fortune And Men's Eyes". The film will begin production on location in Canada with Donald Ginsberg as Canadian co-producer. Burton made his film debui starring opposite Liza Minnelli in "The Sterile Cuckoo".
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  • 891 20  -  by Marianne Pereira Agatha is a procuress. She wa» pickco up by police soon after she began organising her racket. Her husband had deserted her for another woman She claims she had no choice. She had six children to feed and clothe and she
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  • 377 22 OANDWICHED between thee Thursday holiday and the close down for the weekend quiet conditions permeated through all sections of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Routine business was again the order of the day in sympathy with the general trend on Wednesday when operators
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  • 92 22 TUB noon prion Hlniapore Chinese Kacuuuge yettfrtlaj at the Prod urc wai Coronal Oil <f.o.b.) bulk Coconut (lil (I o,b.) drum Mixed aura Muntok Whlta Proper (f.o.b.) A .VIA |(H)% N.W.L. Sarawak White Proper (fob.) •6% N.W.L. Sarawak bpeclai Black Pepper (f.o.b.) \m% NW.L Sarawak ASTA Black Pepper (fo.b.)
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  • 60 22 KYOTO. Japan, Automobile manufacturers an<i oil companies from lour countries yesterday announced substantial progress on developing a pollution-free car. After a four-day conference here the participants issued a communique saying that prototype cars fitted with devices 10 check exhaust emissions had completely fulfilled all requirements of the project which
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  • 13 22 The tin price for yesterday was $655.75 per picul down $l.OO.
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  • 268 22 November first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 50 cents per lb. up 5/8 cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was un- certain. The market suffered from lnter-holiday lethargy and conditions were very quiet as
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  • 111 22 HONG KONG Friday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Buyers) (Sellers) 196 197 per 100 Straits dollars 149 15i per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 6.76 6.775 per Australian dollar 340 360 per I,oo© Burmese kyats 510 530 per 1.000 Indian rupees 145 160 per
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  • 678 22 BID and otter prices officially listed at the close of business in the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Acraa 1.32 1.33 Ajinomolo !W Aican 1.3* 137 AllMd Choc. 2.7* Ben. 1.02 1.04 Be r jay a 1.12 1.14 Borneo 1.63
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  • 756 22 iv•:■ <•• v.*. •«:*»>•• 'o* BUSINESS done .n d reported to the trading room, of the Stork exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS ACM A $133 (2); Ajinomoto $2.05 (1); Borneo $1.63
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  • 37 22 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 753.56 20 Transp 14(5.95 15 Utilities IUS 8f 65 Stocks 2 40 6J 40 Bonds 65.51 Commodity futui«* Index 145.13-0.77.
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  • 441 23 OYDNEY Heavy selling in mining leaders squashed o" hopes of an end of week revival on Sydney Stock Exchange Friday. Yesterday was the fifth consecutive day of the shake-out which has sent share prices down the boards. In morning trading it was hoped the shakeout was beginning to
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  • 63 23 LONDON A 15 per cent increase in the freight rates on goods shipped from Britain to Red Sea ports in the Middle East was announced Thursday. It will come into effect, on February 1. Shippers have also been warned that if costs continue to rise which is the
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  • Article, Illustration
    77 23 A Lufthansa Boeing 747, one of three currently in service with the German airline, undergoes line maintenance in a new Ss36 million hangar built specially for these aircraft and other high capacity jets at the Lufthansa maintenance complex at Frankfurt airport. The new building, which occupies a covered
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  • 232 23 BRUSSELS The Common Market wants to keep its prices from rising more than three percent annually over the next five years, according to a programme for economic growth in the period 1971-1975 publish* ed Thursday by the EEC Executive Commission. The programme sets growth
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  • 133 23 LONDON Half a dollar an ounce was clipped off the price of gold on the London market Thursday, making a drop of 83.5 cents in 24 hours. The fall, attributed to too few buyers and too many profit-takers wanting to sell, means that the precious metal
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  • 193 24 PARIS Former Premier Maurice Couve de Murville returned from a three-week visit to Communist China and said he found Chairman Mao Tse Tunc "vigorous, active" at the ace of 76. Couve, who described his visit to China as "private," was
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  • 330 24 YORK Egypt has denounced a U.S. proposol to extend the 90-day Middle East truce to another 3 months. The American resolution had also called on the United Nations' General Assembly to urge the prompt resumption of the deadlocked peace talks. Egyptian Ambassador Mohammed
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  • 51 24 LONDON. The London fKr market gold price plummeted yesterday bv 77.5 cents an ounce. It was one of the biggest single trading session falls for a very lone time and meant that since Monday the price of gold has dropped by 161 cents an
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  • 58 24 MACAO Portuguese businessman Alberto Ma. galhaes has left for a ■mall offshore island of this Portuguese enclave to start his two-month exile imposed by the Macao Government. Mngalhaes was unescorted and presented himself to Gastao Barros, Administrator of Tai Pa island. An official source said Magalhaes
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  • 39 24 Malaysia beat South Vietnam 65-44 in the opening match of the Third Asian Women Basketball Tournament in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday night. Ten countries, including Singapore, are vying for honours in the tournament held at Stadium Kegara.
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  • 248 24 WASHINGTON The United States, showing a deterioration in Soviet-American relations has demanded in a formal note that Moscow promptly release two U.S. army generals it has held since Oct. 21. John Irwin, Acting Secretary of State, handed the note to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynln
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  • 206 24 OTTAWA Britain's decision to maintain a military force in Singapore was related more to South-East Asian defence than to the situation in the Indian Ocean, British Defence Secretary Lord Carrington declared. Nevertheless, /ships and planes could be deployed quickly there from Singapore as
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