Eastern Sun, 17 November 1970

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Microfilm: NL6660
Total Pages: 23
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    Lock icon Reporter watched woman's death walk into river
    196 2 Low Suan Choo, 32, walked into the Singapore River and continued moving until she disappeared. All this happened before the eyes of a reporter, Victor Ng, who happened to be crossing the bridge on October 19. Mr. Ng told a Coroner's Court in
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    Lock icon Three hurt as lorry rams van rams a taxi
    146 2 Three taxi passengers were injured in a triple pile-up at Kallang Road, yesterday. All three were admitted to the General Hospital m a serloua condition Taxi driver Nordln bin Mohamed escaped Injuries. At about 4.45 p.m. a motor van driven by
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    Lock icon Junvenile Court to try girl, 15
    124 2 A K' r l yesterday claimed trial to a charge of robbery but a young man pleaded guilty to the same charge. The girl, aged 15, was ordered to be sent to the Juvenile Court for trial. The man, Lein Chong Cheh, 23, was
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      57 2 Around town 10.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. 8.00 p.m. Grand An- Swiss watch exhibi- nual Concert by Uni- A _1 u versity of Singapore tton at Victoria Memo- Music Society at Vicrial Hail. toria Theatre. 8.00 p.m. Oriental 8.30 p.m. Kingston Dance and Malay Trio from U.S.A. to Drama at
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  • Article
    Lock icon RANSOM: A $100,000 DEAL FOR TOWKAY
    279 3 rFHE kidnappers of frowkay Tan Han Seng are believed -L fro have agreed fro accepfr a ransom of $lOO,OOO for his release. Th.s bargain was struck late yesterday, a reliable source said. Details about when, where and how delivery Is to be made are
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    Lock icon Russia opposes any military blocs in S.E. Asia
    247 3 Soviet ambassador lllya Safranov last night said his counter was opposed to any form of military •nd political organisation in Southeast Asia. He reiterated h i s government's policy of supporting efforts to secure peace in the reg 1 on through the
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    Lock icon Dental meeting
    52 3 A three-member delegation from the University of Singapore's Dental Society ha s left for the First General Assembly of the Asian Pacific Dental Students Association. The delegation will be in Bangkok, Thailand from November 18-22. The members are Mr. Ong Chong Hock. Mr. Sim Choo Jek and Mr.
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    Lock icon Blue films
    49 3 Leone Thu Cheong 51, was fined a' total of $650, when he pleaded guilty to two charges of possession of obscene films and exhibiting the reels. When police raided 29 Jalan Pekan, on November 14. in a room Leong wa s screening a reel of blue film.
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    Lock icon New rates: Shippers to protest
    74 3 SINGAPORE will send a strong delegation to a shippers' meeting in Hong Kong to protest against proposed increases In freight rates by the Far East Freight Conference, This was announeed last night bj the Shipping Freight Working Committee, which resolved to form a Shippers' Council.
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      136 3 Canola 162 Quickly. Silently. Precisely: This is how every Canola calculator works. Thanks to tiny ICs (integrated circuits) and optically perfect display panels. Canon's precision in optics and electronics makes the difference. And Canon design ensures aesthetic perfection. Canola 163 and 1200 especially. They're winners of "Good Design Mark" awards
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    Lock icon 3 admit guilt in Treasury fraud case
    454 4 If UALA LUMPU* Three men, including a former f*»nk manager and a former boak siib-accountarit, yesterday pleaded guilty m Hie Special Sessions Court to abetting the $207,630 Treasury fraud. The accused are the former branch manager of the Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation, Sungei
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    Lock icon Projects for the jobless
    112 4 KOMTTN The Malay •lu Government is to baach wrenl prefects to offset MfkyCTt pro Mesas arising out of the (kw» of the Rots pl: Ha Mtae at the end of the year. Measures include 200,000 acre integrated timber complex. A million project to turn Bukit Ibatn
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    Lock icon PRAKASH'S IDEA IS 'IMPRACTICAL'
    258 4 KUALA LUMPUR The proposal to set Hp a central body to develop Bahasa Malaysia as "unrealistic and impractical at tfce womeet," declared Hie Acting Director of iW Dewan Baiiasa da* Pwtab, Hassan Ahm.id He would disclose the reasons prlrately later to the President of the Academic
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    Lock icon Accord on retirement benefits
    88 4 KUALA LUMPUR More than 200.000 plantation workers In Malaysia are to receive retirement benefits under an agreement signed between the National Union of Plantation Workers (NUPW) and the Malayan Agricultural Producers Association (MAPA) yesterday. The agreement, which come* Into effect on April 15 next year, covers
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    Lock icon Alleged forger in court
    50 4 A Malaysian commercial artist was tester-day charged with having in his possession materials capable of counterfeiting Malaysian $5O notes Tan Bee Seng. 23 was alleged to have had the materials on board the vessel 'Hoi Wong,' anchored in Singapore waters, on Nor 14, at 5.15 p.m.
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    Lock icon No bra-less support from Mrs. Coleman
    284 4 Followers of the bra-lets movement are not likely to find much support from Mrs. Beatrice Coleman. Impropriety 1* one reason. Another Is that Mrs. Coleman Is in th e brassiere manufacturing business. Bhe is the President of the world's largest women's undergarment manufacturing (Inns
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    Lock icon Study to aid ASEAN co-operation
    288 4 KUALA LUMPUR The qn cslion confronting ASEAH cmMtviei was Mt WFC€TK« there lIIOMM be rajiotul co-operation in South-East Asia hnt when and how fast the countries conld accelerate the process. This was stated yesterday br the Assistant Minister of Finance, Ali bin Haji Ahmad, when
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    Lock icon MIMI WONG DENIES SHE BELONGS TO A GANG
    477 5 Mimi Wong, on trial for the murder of her ex-lover's wife, yesterday denied she belonged to the "Red Butterfly Gang" a women's secret society. She wos replying to Mr. John Ton Chor-Yong, counsel for her estranged husband, Sim Woh Kum, 37, during
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    Lock icon Malaysia gives $40,000
    48 5 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has donated $40,000 to help victims affected by last ThurFdity'i hurricane in East Pakistan Meanwhile, Radio Malaysia quoted the Protem Secretary of the Islamic Secretariat, Tunku Abdul Rahman, as saying that he had sent telegrams to •11 Muslim nations appealing for donation*.
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    Lock icon Cohen to demand job back
    60 5 Prof. Leonard Cohen yesterday wrote to Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and Nanyang University Council Chairman Wee Cho Yaw that he be reinstated in the university. Prof. Cohen, whose services as Professor Of Industrial and Business Management were terminated by Nantah last week, asked that
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      133 5 HP 122 UNDER $5OO «i "0 6 o iiifr JAQB^.. •:< J. 0;' y INTRODUCING v A >«K- Dili BROTHER You remember HP-122, well now here's the big brother, bigger, more powerful speakers, more powerful and sophisticated amplifier and a beautifully finished full size turntable with a smart plastic dust
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    Lock icon Jury choice delays start of Calley's My Lai trial
    279 7 GEORGIA Everything w«® ready yesterday for (he start of the court-martial of Lt. William C alley everything but the Jury. Lawyers still faced more drawn-out testimony to And >t least five suitable jurors. Seven more officers were appointed to the prospective
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    Lock icon Aussie troops will continue to support Saigon-Gorton
    195 7 MELBOURNE Australian Prime Minister John Gorton plans to keep troops in Vietnam ■ntil Saigon forces are able to defend themselves. Speaking on a television programme, he added, however, that be could see the possibility of ending the Australian commitment without a political settlement
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    Lock icon SECURITY TIGHT AS KY FLIES IN FOR U.S. TOUR
    329 7 YORK South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Coo Ky has arrived in New York for a 17-day visit that will include a tour of military bases and a meetinq with President Nixon. Ky flew in from Paris where he had been attending
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    Lock icon Farmer to attempt gold hunt
    118 7 ALICE SPRINGS, Aus--5™ a An En BHsh rarmer, accompanied by nis wife, two geologists and two assistants, has set out to find the leKendary Lasseter's Gold Reef" in South Australia. Reginald Stonier, of Btoke on Trent, Staffordshire, said If his expedition falls to find the
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    Lock icon Opposition gains lead in Brazil
    203 7 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazilians turned out in large numbers in weekend national elections in spite of an intense campaign by urban guerrillas urging abstentions and blank ballots to show disapproval of tbe militarybacked regime. The guerrillas attacked a suburban radio station in Sao Paulo a
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    Lock icon World in brief
    544 8 Another try on defective brake system SEATTLE, Washington Boeing Co. officials would give the "new and improved" anti-skid brake wystem on their 7478 jumbo jet another try after it blew 16 tyres on the first test. The plane Is a heavier version of the 747 Jumbo Jet
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    Lock icon Doomsday draws closer for man
    378 8 f ONDON If you have J trouble relating the worry of scientists about pollution and over-population to yourself, "Th e Doomsday Book" has an analogy that might help you. Author and scientist Gordon Taylor suggests you remember that we are all astronauts in a space
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    Lock icon ALGIERS HOLD 3 FRENCHMEN IN SPY CASE
    175 8 ALGIERS Three French men go on trial today before tJie military tribunal of Blida, about 31 miles from Algiers charged with a "threat to national defence." They are Dr. Augustln DalmaLs. a physician working under FrancoAlgerian co-operation, his brother-in-law, Eugene Oidon, a telecommunicating
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    Lock icon Counter charges over 'invasion'
    250 8 SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador Government sources have claimed that Guatemalan planes attacked El Salvador's fishing fleet off the Pacific Coast during the weekend. Guatemala, however, reported that its Air Force had repelled an invasion attempt from unidentified ships. Thirteen fishing boats were strafed on Saturday according
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    Lock icon Where ideas are a crime
    107 8 MOSCOW "No criminal court has a moral right to sentence anyone for views he put forward. To sentence ideas be they true or false seems to be a crime in itself." So defended Andrei Amalrik, author of "Will the Soviet Union survive until 1984?" before
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    Lock icon Heath's way to fight apartheid
    57 8 LONDON Prime Minister Edward Heath has told the Archbishop of Canterbury that the British Government believes economic sanctions, cultural and sporting boycotts will not end apartheid in South Africa. Though he rejects and condemns apartheid, experience has shown that isolation only strengthens those forces which
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    Lock icon Crashed jet was flying fraction too low
    294 9 HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, A DC-9 jet which crashed while coming in to land in fog on Saturday night, killing all 95 people on board, would have landed safely If it had been flying a few feet higher, the inquiry team said. The Southern
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    Lock icon FLQ MEN STEAL POLICE GUNS BEFORE THEY FLEE
    401 9 jyjONTREAL The Quebec Liberation Front told Canada yesterday how the nations, three most wanted men hid for hours in flot lull of police. They then escaped and stole the searchers guns on their way out. They were hidden behind a false wall
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    Lock icon Congress faces bitter fights
    202 9 WASHINGTON Congress returned to work for an unusual postelection session in which political in-fighting and a pre-Christmas adjournment rush could scuttle major legislation stiH pending before it. Political skirmishing •s a result of the November 3 mid-term congressional elections and advance manoeuvring for the 1972 presidential
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    Lock icon Nixon feels Kennedy will run in 1972
    104 9 NEW YORK President Nixon expects Senator Edward Kennedy to be hi g Democratic opponent »n the 1972 presidential election, Time magazine reports. Nixon believe# the only other top contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination are Senator Edmund Muskie and Senator-elect Hubert Humphrey, the
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    Lock icon Cuba's base- Soviet backed
    140 9 Cuba's baseSoviet backed WASHINGTON V Unj *ed Stales mfli-nal-s still gntertala that Russia ha s dropped all intention of station. ,n e nuclear missile submarines in Caba. fa spite of a reported secret understanding thai Moscow will not do this. This reported secret understanding is the basis for a public
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    Lock icon EXAGGERATION
    314 10 fpHE imposition of an embargo on a press release is either being misunderstood or being misused. The embargo is used by government leaders or by world organizations when a speech is released before its delivery or a news story released in advance specifying the time of publication or broadcast
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    Lock icon DOUBLE TALK
    290 10 OTRANGE contradictions emanate from Moscow when the need to follow the party line conflicts with diplomatic statements made abroad. The Red Star, the Soviet Defence Ministry newspaper, has roundly condemned the Five Power Defence Agreement between Singapore, Malaysia, Britain, Australia and New Zealand while less than a month
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    Lock icon Where Nixon went wrong
    554 10  -  By Art Buchwald WASHINGTON The question that everyone is trying to figure out is where the Nixon strategy went wrong. Heinrich Applebaum elite professor of political science at Moribund University, bel ieves he can pinpoint the exait moment when President Nixon lost his chance to gain
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    22 10 Wisdom la the power that enables us to use knowledge for the benefit of ourselves and others. Thomas Watson. American politician-
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    Lock icon Aussie sheep to help raise India's wool yield
    464 10  -  By JOHN ROGERS Australian Corriedale sheep ere grazing oncetangled scrubland near this northern town on an Australian-aided farm aimed at improving the quality of Indian wool. The 7,000-acre IndoAustrallan sheep breeding project, about 150 kilometres northwest of New Delhi, is the biggest
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      56 10 ForrlKn news and features appearing In all edition* uC the Eastern Hun ana The Sun are from: Reuters. United preu International. Agencc France Presw Editors Press Syndicate Newspaper enterprise Association Publisher* Hall Syndicate. Lot Angeles Time* Syndicate Gemini New* Service North American Newspaper Alliance. first Features, Inier-Press Features and The
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  • TODAY'S WORLD
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      Lock icon DEATH RIDES IN ON A BIG BLACK CLOUD
      513 11 East Pakistan has the world's worst weather has conspired against East Pakistan, giving it some of the worst weather in the world. Each year cyclones, tornados and tidal waves rip into the islands and coastal regions where a new disaster hit last
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      Lock icon Hussein was ready to call in the Israelis, book says
      421 11 LONDON King Hussein sent a secret message during the Jordan civil war in his country, indicating he would welcome Israeli intervention, according to a new book. "Leila's Hijack War." is written by two British television newsmen. Following the invasion of
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    Lock icon 2 MISS SOUTH AFRICAS —WHY NOT THREE?
    745 12/13  -  What about a splinter group from America From 64 countries, 65 potential Miss Worlds From Chris Andrews OARELY four-and-a-half million people of South Africa's total population of 16 million will be represented at this year's Miss World contest in London. This may appear
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    Lock icon Labour has doubts on Common Market
    415 12/13 T ON DON—Britain's opposition Labour Party freed from restraints of office, is showing increasing uneasiness about the implications of Britain's b*d to join the European Common Market. Former cabinet minister, Anthony Wedgwood Benn circulated to his electors a newsletter calling for a national referendum
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    Lock icon CHECKMATE, OLE! SAYS THE SPANISH-SPEAKING COMPUTER
    450 12/13 |||ADRID Spaniards have been queueing to see a 50-year-old computer which piays three-piece chess against human opponents and flashes a warning light if you try to cheat. The compirter, which was built in 1920 by Spa" nish inventor Leonardo Torreg Quevedo, wins everv game
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    Lock icon You can tell American abroad by his neuroses
    644 14  -  When I am back home in Texas I'm gonna set' up a screen. It's time I took my very first look At aM the wonderful things I've seen. By Lee Mueller THIS bleeding little ditty is from o British ploy which depicts
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    Lock icon Rules for seeing a doctor when you develop a cold
    523 14  -  By Lawrence E. Lamb Most people who have a cold or mild respiratory infection do not see a doctor. This isn't too surprising since more than one of every two people has a cod In the winter and one out
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    Lock icon Towards more nutritious grains
    315 14 WASHINGTON. A new scientific technique with a long name X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy has been added to the weapons used against malnutrition and starvation. Introduced by two U.S. atomic scientists, the new tool helps agricultural experts develop more nutritious grains. The experts believe that a 10 to
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    Lock icon BROADWAY PRICES ITSELF OUT OF PLAYS
    647 15  -  By Roger Doughty If you're wondering where your next mortgage payment is coming from or how you're going to stretch the grocery money for another week, consider the plight of Broadway (formerly known as The Great White Way), which is wondering the same thing.
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    Lock icon She then decides to follow him
    386 15 HARRY England (Michael Crawford) has one great passion in life motor cars. Once a mechanic, now a car salesman, girls come many laps behind a good car in his young life. One day, as he pulls in at a ga s station, his expert
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    Lock icon Writer-Director Alan Arkin
    132 15 HOLLYWOOD Ala n Arkin, one of the outstanding creative talents in the entertainment field, has been signed to make his debut as wri-ter-director of his first feature-length motion picture. "Jimmy Shine," for Columbia Pictures. It will be filmed under the aegis of Pang- loss Productions, corporate name
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      189 15 3C3AIMIS ATtQINJ □EON ***** NOW SHOWING: 11 I in i. :ii t» :ti Jaine." Oarner in Columbia s "A MAN CALLED SLEDGE" Technicolor. Techniscope Next Change! John Oarko "Five For Hell" co'or. Scope CATHAY ***** LAST t DAYS II a.in I 30 4. H. 341 ».S0 'Forbidden Temptation' Yvonne De
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      198 15 w SHAW L I D O Phone *****4 Now Showing! No Krw Lut II am. 1.45 6.30 IMS pm WaiiK Yu "Chinese Itoirr" <A SHAW PRODUCTION' Mandarin In Scop*. Color CAPITOL Phonr 29/J9 LAST DAT! 11 am I.4ft e:» A •SO Christopher Lee "Taste Ihe Blood Of DKACL'LA" In Technicolor
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  • WOMEN
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      Lock icon Martina wants to look just 'like Mummy'
      94 16 Martina Sackmann Is only two years old and she already seems to want to look like mummy Kiki Backmann, a top Singapore modeL Eastern Sun photographer, William Ng caught her trying to look "like mummy". Martina was in a cute little red dress,
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      Lock icon NOTES ON LEARNING TO BE 'MRS.' NOT 'MISS'
      337 16  -  by Marianne Pereira ONI Satarday m October. Karen Zegarac and David Steel* were married. It w&s a dream American wedding with all the traditional trimmings. Their wedding invitations were enclosed in two envelopes and the bride wore something old, something new, something
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      Lock icon FINLAND REACHES THE WORLD WITH DOLTS OF BRIGHT, BOLD TEXTILES
      523 17 For so small a country, Finland has hod an outsize influence in both clothing and home fashions. One of the latest examples is Metsovaara. a brilliantly creative textile artist who works for eight producers in three win.tries. She designs ready-to-wear.
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      Lock icon FASHION FUTURES
      220 17 IOIA rwif tm4mt+r. •Art bdirt t*4 *4 lt < Utt t riaji HI itar#« r» f«l( kuU IB tM« U «ru ■taw'r~v «1 »m Bit/" *4 a*d kite, itetfru .7 frm««4 me4e m mk. ifc —H r bn uml al| h«4i i baxta t*4 rKi art* «4f Uf
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      Lock icon HUSBAND-BOSS TEAM IS TOO MUCH FOR BORED WIFE
      339 17  -  ANN LANDERS Dear Ann L«Mm: *7 h«L»bJind it a wfciltwnrkint a nun liitjax l»uM*e«nr Thit tyrxat ku (ite pr<»id«at i fif uk i» lh« b*u forte la tfce wjiamu.)®. He tntenftftoaaQty rcia* famiff pixoj wtBß ah minate ii»TH>*frifflF all Btgkt J»ee* pottci,
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
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      1810 18 LOOKING AND LISTENING.... Tv and [CARROLL RIOHTMrS f inm C«ffoil Right* Institute GENERAL TENDENCIES: Concentrating on your long-range plans where home, family, property and possession* are concerned, takes away possible trouble in the future You also can gain peace of mind Avoid getting all stirred up about what you cannot
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      Lock icon New science solving old problems
      640 19  -  TRIBOLOGY SCIENCE By David Arculus Until recently, engineers and industrialists regarded the massive cost of friction friction wearing away at machinery, wheels, axles, bearings and pistons as inevitable. True, they would put oil and grease on their machines and hope that it stopped some of
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      Lock icon IN FIFTY YEARS...
      540 19 In Fifty years or half a century, great changes will occur, especially for us the inhabitants of the earth. Perhaps newly-married couples by then may be able to go to the moon for their honeymoon. Man may conquer space. Jupiter, the largest planet, is likely to become
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      Lock icon A narrow escape
      359 19 Ring Ring Ring? There went the alarm clock. I got up from my sleep and in less than half an hour. I was all set to go to the appointed place. My friends, May and Jane had earlier suggested going boating at Changi Point. When I arrived
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      194 19 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe mMMMMMMMMSSSSSiSBm The Eastern Sun's essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 end under (Junior) and boys and girls over 14 (Senior) appears in Htis page from Monday to Friday. Prix# money is: $lO for Senior* end $5 for |union to* every essev published
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    Lock icon Volume of trade low
    348 20 11 ALF-heorted trading was again the tore-point in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Volume of business transacted struck at a very low key with 557,000 deals at the official close. Turnovers for the active counters were below the 50,000 mark except for San
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    Lock icon Rubber 51 3/4 cts.
    245 20 December first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 51-3/4 cents per lb., down 1/8 cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was dull. The market was listless and dull during the morning. Opening levels were
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    Lock icon Oil import
    49 20 WASHINGTON The United States oil import administration disclosed Sunday that in September of this year imports of crude and oil products into the United States and Puerto Rico totalled 2,985,205 barrels daily. This total does not include the exempted imports from Canada and Mexico, the announcement said.
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    Lock icon Trade wars predicted
    141 20 NEW YORK The world may soon split into warring trade blocs struggling for supremacy, a former White House aide «&ld in a magazine article Sunday. "If trade wars come, they will come hard," wrote Harald Malmgren, assistant special representative for trade negotiations under President Johnson In 1966-67,
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    Lock icon PRODUCE
    89 20 THE noon prices at the ftlnxapore Chine** Produce Exchange yesterday wan a S Coronal Oil (f ob hoik 59.00 Coconut Oh if.ob.) drum 61.AO Mixed Copra Hunt oh White :u repper ifo.b.) ASTA 100% W W L. 180 00 Sarawak Whtta b 170.00 Sarawak Special Black Pepper <f.o.h.) W<j%
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    Lock icon H.K. currency
    112 20 HONG KONG Yesterday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Ruvers) (Sellers) 195.8 196.8 per 100 Straits dollars 149.5 150.5 per 1,000 Taiwan dillara 6.76 6.775 per Australian doilai 340 360 oer I.ooc Burmese vats 600 520 per 1.000 Indian rupees 149 164 per
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    Lock icon CLOSING PRICES
    673 20 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Kuala Lumpnr trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS B 8. Acma 125 131 AJinomoto 1.92 200 Aku LM Allied Choc. 2-00 2.07 Ben. '.lt J7 Berjaya 104 1.07 Borneo ed
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    649 20 BUSINESS done In and reported to the trading rooms of the Stork Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS A loan $1.35 (1); Berjaya $1(18 <2) $lO7 (5); Borneo $lO5 (3); C. Sugar
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    60 20 WASHINGTON Japan and the United States were reported still some distance apart in their search for a voluntary agreement to limit Japanese textile imports. This was stated Sunday by the Japanese Ambassador Nobushiko Ushiba, after presenting his country's counterproposals to President Nixon's negotiator, Peter Flangian, at a meeting
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  • commercial and industrial
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      Lock icon INTEREST LAGGING IN SPECULATIVES
      340 21 OYDNEY Buying interest flogged in the speculatives at the start of th< week's trading on Sydney Stock E&« change yesterday. I The market wat lackluster and buyers showed no enthusiasm throughout trading. BH South fell 10 cents to $4.10 following the trend of nickel Issues such
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      588 21 AKKIVAI.B 1.43 ft ni Mil 12ft Koala l.uiupur I.Wam. MSA OIK Matiru.. Kuala l.uiupur I.JO aat M>A I»3 Kuala Luinpor 8.30 a jii MsA 44* Kuala Lumpur 11(15 a in. MSA 4U Penan* K a I ft Lumpur ll.ftUft.in MSA .'in Jakarta 1-3U put Ms A 4SI Kuchlng
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      Lock icon Malaysia-Laos air agreement
      167 21 KUALA LUMPUR An air services agreement between Malaysia and Laos will be initialled Wednesday. The Deputy SecretaryGeneral of the Ministry of Transport, Mr. Saw Huat Lye. said yesterday that the Minister of Transport, Dato Abdul Ghani Gilong, will sign for Malaysia. The Laotian Minister of Public Works
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      Lock icon THAI-INTER'S NEW UNIFORMS
      97 21 Regular travellers on Thai International flights were impressed by the new uniform of its male crew which was changed from Nov. The former grey ensemble is now replaced by a stylish combination of dark blue and gold. The flight and cabin crew will team crisp white shirts
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      Lock icon Promotion
      110 21 Mr. Loh Ah Sae has been appointed products engineer with E ectronlc Supplies (Spore) Pte. Ltd.. the marketing company for all Philips products, to look after all the marketing of medical equipment and also electronic products for Industrial application. In confirming this. Mr. J. C. Tollenaar. General Manager of
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      13 21 The tin price for yesterday was $657.25 per picul up $1.25.
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      65 21 MR. Lim Ewe Hin, Oeneral Manager of the Singapore Hilton, said that the hotel will be the venue for the annual Hilton International East Asia Annual Auditors' Meeting this Thursday and Friday. Mr. Bam F. Oraham, the company'• VicePresident of Finance. New York City, will address the meeting
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    Lock icon AUSTRALIA WINS WORLD CUP GOLF
    888 23  -  By MICHAEL LOCLEY BUENOS AIRES Australia Sunday won the World Cup Golf championship after easily holding off a determined last-round challenge in which Argentina pulled back 10 strokes. But the home crowd had much to cheer about for their idol, 47-year-old Roberto De Vicenzo, clinched
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    129 23 Leading individual scores in the WoHd Cup Golf tournament which ended Sunday. 269 R. De Vicenzo i (Argentina) 64, 67. 68, 70; 270 D. Graham (Australia) 65, 67. 65, 73. 275 B. Devlin (Australia) 66. 69. 66. 74; 279 D. Stockton (United States) 67, 7:i.
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    284 23 PARIS Arthur Ashe joined fellow-American Cliff Richey in the lead in the race for the 25,000 dollar (S$ 100,000) first prize money in the 150,000 dollar (S$600,000) Lawn Tennis Grand Prix here Sunday. Ashe picked up another eight points for his win in
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    70 23 SYDNEY Centuries by opening batsmen Brian l.uckliurtst and iieoff Boyeott yesterday held the 'our day match against New Sooth Wales state to a draw after the tourist* were forcrd to follow on with their second Innings. PAI.MA. Majorca US. master Robert Fischer yesterday had a commanding lead in
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    122 23 The Singapore Hockey Association yesterday named a team of 16 Jilayers and five officials or the Asian Games to be held in Bangkok. The selection wa« based on the recommendations submitted b v the German coach Horst Wein. The meeting was chaired b v the Chairman of
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    53 23 ZURICH, —Pierre Trent of France broke his own Amateur Cycling world record for one kilometre with a flying start here Sunday, setting a new time of on« minute 02.44 seconds. The previous record, set on November 5.1967, was 1:04.08. the professional record for thia distance with a flying
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    168 24 BANGKOK Thai police have arrested 238 suspected bandits In a series of lightning raids in three predominantly Moslem provinces on the Malaysian border. Provincial Police Commissioner Major General Chanrai Mangklaratana told reporters that hundreds of police swooped on villages In Narathiwat, Yala
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    366 24 YORK Time magazine says Jordan's King Hussein has held secret border meetings with Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon on unilateral peace negotiations and has also met Israeli Premier Golda Meir. The King has not yet agreed to enter into such negotiations, but the two countries
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    94 24 MANILA A field commander of the Huk dissident movement has surrended to a police force conducting an intensive drive against the anti-government guerrillas. Commander Tony, 30, of the Maoist New People's Army, surrended peacefully after brief negotiations between his relatives and the police force. It was the
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    192 24 NEW DELHI The official death toll in last week's hurricane disaster in East Pakistan now stands at 41,000, according to Radio Pakistan. A total of 30.000 bodies have been recovered in the Barisal area of thp Ganges Delta, the radio added. On some off-shore islands. entire
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    143 24 NAHA, Okinawa Voters in American-admini-stered Okinawa yesterday elected left-wing candidates to four of the seven seats allotted to the Ryukyu Islands in the Japanese parliament. It was a sharp slap lor Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, whose Liberal-De-mocratic Party, rules Japan with conservative and pro-American policies. Sato arranged
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