Eastern Sun, 4 December 1970

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents Ettd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1514 Friday, December 4, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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  • 445 1 President Nixon, in his most sweeping commitment yet to America's European allies, pledged there will be no U.S. troop cuts in Europe without reciprocal cuts by the Communists. On the contrary, he said, the U.S. will improve its forces in Europe. His message was
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  • 92 1 BANGKOK Thai officials last night urged people in the southern, central and northern provinces to be prepared to evacuate because of a threatening cyclone. Interior Ministry officials said cyclone warnings had been radioed to the governors of 40 of Thailand's 71 provinces. The cyclone, heading
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  • 290 1 MONTREAL Police and troops yesterday surrounded a house here where the French-Canadian extremist kidnappers of British diplomat James Cross were believed to be concealing him. They evacuated a two-block area In a North Montreal suburb, moving residents from their homes and swiftly emptying a
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  • 69 1 MANILA A movie actress stripped in public and almost started riot in central Manila yesterday. The actxess. identified only as Yvonne, stripped in front of a theatre showing her film to publicise the movie. She later told police who bundled her off
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 252 2 KUCHING The fight against Communist terrorists in Sarawak was a life or death battle, the Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak said yesterday. Tun Razak, on his first visit to East Malaysia since becoming premier, was addressing journalists after flying into Kuching
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  • 341 2 PENANG The Minister of Education, Enche Hussein Onn, yesterday sounded out the need to look into matters such M% th e restoration of respect and esteem for the teaching profession and the reinstalling of a sense of purpose and dedication in teachers. 'Teacher education
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  • 133 2 PENAHG Penang police yesterday advised the public to brief Hieir servants not to allow anyone without proper identification to enter their houses. Thi§ followed a case where youth escaped with $3,510 worth of jewellery from a house in Jalan Bagan Jermal after deceiving
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  • 95 2 IHfc Singapore Numismatic Association and the Group Services Section of the National Library will jointly organise its second Numismatic exhibition at the Library's Lecture Hall. The 3-day display starts next Thursday. A collection of ancient coins and paper currency from the Slraits Settlement till modern Singapore
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  • 397 2 LONDON— The Privy Council yesterday reterved judgment on an appeal which it it claimed could have mride significance to employers and employee® in Malaysia. The case concerns the fleftnltlon of "Employee" in the Employees Provident Fund Ordinance of 1951. Employees and
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  • 185 2 TAIPING Two Indonesian fishermen caught in a storm drifted! at sea in their boat for three days and three nights before landing at Pulau Rineau on the Malaysian coast. The fishermen, Tunku Affan, 55. and Baharl Alang, 57. met some Malaysian fishermen at Pulau
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  • 65 2 A schoolboy who slippy into a school building during a hide-and-seek game fell to his death while searching for his friends, a coroner heard yesterday. Chia Teck Leong, 13, a Primary Six student of Griffin Primary School, wag found lying with a fractured skull at the foot
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  • 58 2 KUAI.A LUMPUR A van carrying $1,500 worth of cigarettes was driven away while the salesman, Slow Yew Cheong and his driver, Goh Chen Chee, were making delivery in a shop in Petaling Jaya near here yesterday. The van, minus the goods, was found abandoned by police in
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  • 46 2 A talk on *Yoga for peace, happiness and perfection' will be given by the World President of the Divine Life Society, Swami Chidanandaji Maharaj tomorrow. The talk will start at 7.00 p.m. and will be held at Govindasamy Pillai Kalyana Mandapam, Sera£g<jon Road,
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  • 56 2 BRISBANE The tire eight-man volunteer nr e brigade at Injune, 300 mile s west of Brisbane, resigned yesterday after a flre gutted a cafe owned b v the brigade superintendent. One hose burst and the pump collapsed on the brigade's 36-year-old Are engine *s the
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  • 703 3 TAWYER N.C. Goho yesterday submitted that his client, bargirl Mimi Wong Weng Siu, 31, did not itab Mrs. Ayako Watanabe to death. And even if she did, ho told tho High Court, it was done in a state of mental abnormality
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  • 245 3 Marianne Pereira "AND this one's of pillar box red crepe with a red and told tissue bodice, it's called Mara. .wouldn't it look nice at a Chinese New Year party...," the compere said. Ruth Warner was describing the one and only mini featured at
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  • 95 3 DR. Augustine H.H. Tan, MP. for Whampoa and lecturer in economies. University of Singapore, will leave on Monday evening, for consultation with the World Bank at Washington DC. and for an academic conference on protection policies 'or industrialization organized by G.A.T.T. at Geneva. The World
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  • 251 3 THE forty-flve-member Singapore Armed Force Medical Mission, led by Captain (Dr.) Seet Lip Chai as Commanding Officer, has established Its base camp at the Fatenga airstrip. On arrival, they were Warmly welcomed by Pakistan military and civil authorities a MINDEF statement said yesterday.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous

  • 608 4 AN assistant headman of a gang was killed in a brawl as 2 of his rivals sought refuge in a brothel, a Coroner's Court was told yesterday. Bar-bouncer Ling Hock Sing, 26, was found dead at Geylang Road on
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  • 262 4 Captain C.W. Leadbetter, R.D., 57, Commander of the ship, 'Rajda/ hat retired from err ice yesterday after spending 40 years of his life as a seaman. He will be returning hom e to Blackpool. England. where be will rejoin hig family. Hig daughter
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  • 237 4 Students in secondary academic, technical and commercial schools will be prepared to sit for the new Singapore-Cambridge (G.C.E.) examination as from next year. They will cover the same syllabus la first language, second language and mathematics and take the same examination. Technical school students
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  • 265 4 KIT ALA LUMPUR A private tutor told the Magistrate's Court that she was with her boyfriend at Tunku Abdul Rahman Park one night when they were confronted bv a soldier. The latter was then posing as a police officer. Private A Seaman bin Hashim,
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  • 71 4 A welder. Liang Ah Ha of Johure, wan yesterday put on probation till his sentence on December 24 when he pleaded guilty to a charge of house-breath ing Liong. 20. admitted that he had stolen a radiogram from the flat of his friend. Lam Yun Soon,
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  • 247 5 THE three-day Nanyang University Economic Workshop beginning today will have no shortage of entertainment and relaxation for participants. The university has prepored a formula of studies and recreation specially for the participants. Everyday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, there will be a display of
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  • 130 5 KUALA LUMPUR Tasmania hopes to increase her exports °f fresh and processed fruits, dairy products and meat to Malaysia, the Tasmanian Minister for Industrial Development, Mr. D.F. Clark, said yesterday. Mr. Clark who is leadin? a six-man mission to South-East Asia and Japan
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  • 41 5 KUCHING Bad weather at Kuching Airport forced a Malay Airlines Boeing 737 to turn back to Singapore with all its passengers yesterday. An Airline spokesman said the plane could not touch down as the visibility was poor.
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  • 51 5 ALOR STAB Tunku Abdul Rahman yesterday held a "kendurl arwah" at the grave of his father, Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah, at Langgar. He also distributed alms to children and the poor who were visiting the royal cemetery. The Tunku was accompanied by Tun Sharifah
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  • 328 5 CRIME Housewife, Sita Kaur was robbed of $450 in cash by two robber, one of whom was armed with a dagger, yesterday. Madam Sita Kaur woke up at 2.30 a.m. to answer a knock on the door. As she opened the door two persons rushed
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  • 67 5 Sahon bin Tahar. 28, is seen being assisted by passers -by after he was involved in a road accident yesterday. Sahon, an office boy at a commercial firm was travelling a'ong Geylang Road at 11.45 a.m. when he rammed into the rear of a motor-cycle.
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  • 34 5 WASHINGTON Th« Pentagon said yestej-day that American pilot* flying reconnaissance missions over North Vietnam will be allowed to retaliate before th«y art attacked in the ftte of an apparent Communist missile threat.
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  • 167 5 Salesman Tan Chor Kwee, 27, of Changi Road, was yesterday found guilty Of possessing three daggers and two bearing scrapers at 11.40 p.m. on June 19, this year. Be was sentenced by the magistrate, Mr. Tan Teow Yeow to three months' jail for the offence
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  • 440 6 Yes, we have our Reds in our hills —Cambodia PHNOM PENH The Cambodian High Command admitted for the first time yesterday the presence of 1,000 to 2,000 Khmer Rouge (Cambodian Communists) in the Kirirom mountains area some 60 miles to the southwest of Phnom Penh. Command spokesman Lt. Col. Am
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  • 169 6 WASHINGTON-A Sss4o million reconstruction plan to help survivors of East Pakistan's disastrous cyclone wave to o t bacfc on their feet is to be launched soon under World Bank auspices. bank officials said." In addition to repair and restoration of the battered one million acre area,
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  • 161 6 LOS ANGELES South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky said yesterday h e was ready to release 35,000 North Vietnamese prisoners in exchange for the freedom of American prisoners held by the Commur.Tsts. "Personally, I'm ready to give them more than 35,000*' Ky said.
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  • 255 6 HONG KONG A group of Hong Kong Roman Catholics have urged Pope Paul to denounce "the atrocious ru!e of Chairman Mao" in China during his three-hour visit here today. In an open letter published by a oro-Na-tionalist Chinese-langu-age newspaper, they warned the Pope against
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  • 156 6 MANILA, A religionhating Bolivian surrealist painter goes on trial before a Philippine court today for the attempted murder of Pope Paul VI, exactly a week after he lunged at the pontiff at Manila International Airport. In the background of the trial of Benjamin
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  • 105 6 HONG KONG— Many Hong Kong oeople have no idea why Pope Paul is coming here today and some think he fa just a tourist, according to a street survey made b v the evening daily China Mail. Mr. K.B. Mahbubani, a 49-year-old businessman, was quoted
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  • 492 7 pT. BENNING, Georgia Paul Narkin, a Hong Kong lawyer who said he was representing 59 survivors of the alleged My Loi massacre, filed a $1,200 million suit agoinst Lt. William Calley Jr. and the U.S. Government. Narkin soid he would seek
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  • 318 7 WASHINGTON A U.S. Defence Deportment study I.cs pinpointed Bongkok os o "clearing house" for oil drugs in the For iost. All drugs are readily available at cheap prices, the study found, and "marijuana grows profusely'' in the country. It is "for sale
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  • 283 7 WASHINGTON Attempts by South East Asian governments to crack down on production of illicit drugs could aggravate I n s urgency problems in the countries, a top narcotics official said. John Ingersoll, Director of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs was reporting
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  • 246 7 TOKYO Japanese officials were yesterday studying a fresh government approach to the problem of China's admission to tho United Nations amid a growing feeling tfiat the present "important question" method i» no longer foatibJe. Japan for some years has been co-sponsor of the UN.
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  • 430 8 $3 million quipment lost in big fire BANGKOK Fire has raxed the American diplomatic mission's medical unit, totally destroying the S$l,500,000 building and an estimated S$3,000,000 worth of equipment. There were about 50 American medical students and nurses attending class in the building when b'.aze broke out,
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  • 209 8 TUEW YORK America and Russia have defended the United Nations' Charter against attempts to review it for possible change. Both nations claimed that the time was "not ripe" for such a review. They also stressed that the {jresent Charter works well when ts provisions
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  • Article, Illustration
    24 8 Wearing an elegant beaded silk pantsuit, French actress Brigitte Bardot carries a gun in her latest movie being filmed in Spain. 1
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  • 107 8 The Vatican Post Office has issued 5 stamps to commemorate Pope Paul Vl's visit to Asia. All the stamps, ranging in value from 12 Singapore cents to 551.05, bear the Latin Inscription, "In uni- versum mundum'* (All over the world). The top stamp on
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  • 178 8 ROME —Thousands of men and women seeking divorces have rushed to startlegal paperwork. They fear that the new Divorce Law might become •illegal' before their cases are decided. The law does not come into full force until 15 days after its publication in the
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  • 31 8 NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana—Three major oil companies were fined a total of S$ 1,698,000 for failing to install safety devices to stop oil spilling into the Guli of Mexico.
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  • 111 8 MOSCOW Soviet intellectuals have been sternly lectured on the need for "ideological vigilance" amid new reports of shake-ups on the Moscow cultural scene. The newspaper, 'Pravda\ voice of the allpowerful Communist Party, has warned those Soviet scientists who do profess communism not to parade the fact.
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  • 371 9 WASHINGTON —The Strategic Arms LimitetlM Talks (SALT) in Helsinki are mark in* time, with the Russians re/using to say if they are willing to cut back the deployment of their giant SS-9 missiles armed with 25 megatons of nuclear power, informed sources said. The
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  • 225 9 CHICAGO A doctor has been charged with sexually assaulting at least five women after immobiling them with drugs in his suburban clinic that also housed a store of weapons, explosives and pornographic materials. Dr. James G. Middleton, 44, was arrested when Cook County
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  • 463 9 LOS ANGELES A member of Charles Manson's hippie family, wanted in connection with a torture slaying last ycar, surrendered to police as the Sharon Tate murder trial remoined suspended because of a missing lawyer. Bruce Dovis, 27, borefooted and with his long dork hair now
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  • 134 9 WASHINGTON, The U.S. National Geographic Society, the makers of aaost wall maps seen in the UShas jast adopted a twoGermany, two-China, two-Korea and twoVietnam policy. A new world map was Kent to members of the Society with this month's magazine. On all previous maps,
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  • 81 9 NEW YORK About 2,500 teachers at North American universities have signed a petition urging Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin to honour a pledge he made four vearg ago and allow Jews in the Soviet Union to be reunited with their families abroad. Professor Hans Oorgenthau.
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  • 623 10 is not well in the 'Soviet bloc of nations and if indications are read with care one might even be tempted to come to the conclusion that a crisis stage has been reached in relations between East Germany and other Warsaw Pact nations. Some truth will emerge sometime
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  • 568 10  -  ;W m Art Buchwald WASHINGTON There was a shoot-out in Phoenix lost week which hos national implications. The police, taking advantage of a "no knock" law, raided a house where they suspected hippies and narcotics. Unfortunately, at the time of the raid the hippies
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  • 143 10 WASHINGTON Senator Edward M. Kennedy today called on Defence Secretary Melvin Laird to justify the Army's gathering of intelligence data on American civilians engaged in anti-war protest. The assistant Democratic leader said the Intelligence operations which were exposed on a recent nationwide television broadcast
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  • 173 10 LONDON Sheikh Mujlbur Rehman said on television here tonight that the result of next Monday's elections in Pakistan would show whether those living in the eastern portion of the separated country wanted their Q wn statehood. The Sheikh was interviewed in Pakistan recently by Michael
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  • 141 10  -  YOLANDE TSIA I notice that the request bus stop near the Maternal and Child Health Clinic In Aljunied Road has disappeared. It Is rather puzzling why this particular bus stop has been removed. Perhaps the authorities concerned wiil care to explain. Another thing I observe in the
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  • THE MORNING AFTER with Weatherbee Wong
    • 1162 12/13 1 OOD morning, people. lnevitably, the subject under discussion is again the mini, midi, maxi, madness. Don't choke on your breakfast coffee I know I promised never again to write that foul word m*x* Sorry but I have no choice. I have been struck down
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  • Page 12/13 Advertisements
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  • 584 14  -  By Lee Mueller It it not o topic wo coro to discuss, but it is truo. Gospel. If thore is ono thing on eorth thot intimidates citizens of the United States, shrivels them into potato crisps, it is an English accent. There is
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  • 811 14  -  4.. «iv, ••■/.vXti CN.V- •>* By John Newell EVERYONE ha, heard of the "miracles" o# modern medical engineering; the development of artificial organs like the kidney, and artificial joints for example. But many people working in this field now believe that much more could
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  • 582 14  -  By LAWRENCE E. LAMB, M.D. Dear Doctor I have been told that I have a slight enlargement of the prostate and need the operation which is done without an incision. I was told that this operation and recuperation would mean several weeks away
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  • 170 14 LONDON Britain tonight decided to drop its experiment of keeping its clocks at central European time all the year round. From winter next year the country will revert to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), one hour behind. The House of Commons took time off from government business and
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  • 712 15  -  rfy Roger Doughty Much like the passenger p i g e on, another rare bird the Broadway actor, sometimes known as the matinee idol is rapidly becoming all but extinct. Barry Nelson, one of the rare birds still around, thinks he knows why.
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  • 59 15 TOKYO: Israeli duo Hedva and David (Hedva Amrani and David Tai) sing their song, "I dream of Naomi/' composed by David Krivoshei as an encore after the cou pie won the Grand Prix (Nov. 22nd) at the closing ceremony of the Ist International Popular Song Festival
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  • 161 15 Nogales, Arizona For William Holden, h s current starring role In Blake Edwards' THE WILD ROVERS, filming In Nogales. Arizona, is quite a homecoming Exactly thirty years ago. the veteran actor of more than 50 screen roles made his first Western, also filmed on location in Nogales.
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 267 15 90SEE7 ORGANISATION L i* no .-W.-VII i SOU SHOWING II a.m. 1.39. 4. «.M A 9.15 Hoc* Hudson. Sy;va Koscina "Hornets' Nest" Color «UA» NEXT CHANGE! "Cotton Conn To HIHMI" Color (United Artist*» (API i o I o v 5 Opens Today. No Fr»t Lilt 11 ana, 1.45, «.:M» 939
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    • 165 15 CDRCAIMISATiaiVJ □EQIM <Mllb OrENH TODAY) 11 mm. i U) O.M lit William Holden Vim* Ual "THE CHRISTMAS TRUE" An MOM Picture la Color IOMORROW MIONIOHTI (.uodbje Darling" Mandarin, Color. Scop* EnglUh Chinese Sub*. □RCHARD 3 76 5 CATHAY ***** IHTH BIG DAY! II *a 13*. 400 630 ».M "Ltil In
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  • 121 16 ROME French (Wp sea explorer JacquesYves Cousteau warned today that the seas of the world would be "dead" within two ow three generations if pollution was allowed to continue unchecked. All organic life would die Of rot and coastal cities would have to
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 749 16 aiies a HI taurus germm cancer mSSSi CARROLL RIOHTER'S GENERAL TENDENCIES: Judgments are apt to be poor now. Much confusion exists about practical affairs but people are trying to be co-operative and to understand what Lb desired In any relationship. A time for discussions but not for making any Important
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    • 22 16 LADIES DAY If B m "I guess you were right, Alice. You don't have much of a figure in a bathing Mlitr
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    • 1112 17 today's tHMSM *3: P.M. CHANNEL 5 8.00 Opening Announcements, followed by General Hospital—A Daytime serial about the staff, and the patients of a hospital. J. 20 For The Family A magazine series in English 3.50 A Diary of Events In Singapore This Week (English) 3.55 It's Happening In Singapore (English)
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  • Article, Illustration
    508 18 Nowadays, fun-fairs are common In Singapore. Almost every week you can see students carrying their schools' funfair coupons to busy p aces lor sale. Our school Is also one of them. It held a food-and-fun-falr. In aid of our new school fund In February this year ior two
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  • 404 18 In the modern world, everything advances for too fost. And boys hove changed very much. Nowadays, boys consider themselves very modern. But it is not in the right direction. They are modern only in the matter of imitating western fashions, flamboyant shirts etc. They
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  • 76 18 AT the general meeting ol Polytechnic or 21st Nov. the follow ing were elected to serve on the pro-tern committee:— Hon. Chairman Mr. Loke Pak Chee; Hon Secretary Mr. Chan Pak Hong; Hon. Treasurer Miss Wong Siew Ching. Committee members: Mr. Teo Teck Soo; Mr. Tan Toh
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  • 608 18 TOKYO Money tops the list of youthful desires throughout the world, followed by jobs, happiness, love, a home, peace and automobiles, according to a global survey conducted by Citizen Watch Company of Tokyo. The survey also Indicated that the majority of young people
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 194 18 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe The Eastern Sun's miy writing contest tor boys end girls of 14 end under (Junior) end boys end girls over 14 (Senior) eppears in Ithis page from Mondey to Fridey. Prix* money is: $lO to* Senior* and $5 to* (union tor every mu> published 9
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  • WOMEN
    • 426 19 Nostalgia is ruling a good deal of fashion these days, and perhaps nowhere more so than in jewellery. Everything from times and places other than this time and this pla:e influences designers. You can go ancient Egyptian, barbaric Tartar abstract pre-Co-lumbian,
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    • 406 19  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: I'm furious with that nitwit who wrote, "I have two children under two years of ag e and am expecting a third any minute." It's people like her who are making this earth uninhabitable for People Uke you and me. S
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    • 125 19 If you've tot your grandmother's late Twenties beaded evening baf around, get It out for the holidays. Velvet ribbon sashes trim them, and their eolouiful floral patterns v't in with the ethnic Wend. In the boutiques that sell such antiques, the kids are paying fancy prices for
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  • 338 20 J3LUE chips ond recently quoted shores were highlights of yesterday's trading in the Stock Exchange of Maloysia and Singapore as demand increased. These shares struck better levels mainly on shortcovering account. However in the caae of Trengganu some light manipulation is believed to exist. The counter
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  • 244 20 Though short, the week's trading was not without incident, according to Holiday, Culter, Bath and Co. Ltd. Th« bullish trend of the previous week was reversed and over three cents was lost at one time from the recent high point of 56] cents. As confidence in the
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  • 278 20 December first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 53-7/8 cents per lb., down 1/8 cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. Opening quotations were marked up cent on London advices but the market
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  • 112 20 m HONG KONG Yesterday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Buyers) (Sellers) 196 197 per 100 Straits dollars 146.25 147.25 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 0.76 6.775 per Australian dollar 340 360 per 1.000 Burmese kyats 475 495 per 1.000 Indian rupees 14<* 164
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  • 662 20 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business in the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS A iiikomoto 1.81 1.93 Alcan 1-26 1.30 Allied Choc. 255 2.65 Ben. M 80 Berjaya .81 106 Borneo xd 147 148 Boustead
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  • 754 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 A CM A $125 (4); Alcan $l3O <1); Berjaya $l.OO 7) 99 ct« (2)
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  • 87 20 THE noon prices Singapore Chinese Exchange yeeterday at the Produce wa>> Corvnat oil (f.o.b.) hulk 61.00 Coconut OH (f.o.b i drum 63-80 Mixed ropra m m Muntok fthit* Pepper «f.o.b.) ASTA 100% N.WL 182. AO Sarawak Whlta Pepper (f.o.b.) 96% NW.L. 172.80 Sarawak Special Black Pepper (f.n.h <*6% NW.L.
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  • COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
    • 281 21 CJYDNEY Trading was stepped up in all sections on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesFollowing a trend set Wednesday, it started on a bright note but slackened slightly towards the close. r>l«illafcai EsracMisnea minen m 4 iwjryweigkti traded firmly wiHi Hm majority posting fair to 9004
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    • 61 21 LONDON An AngloJapanese shipping company is being formed to study fleet operations of very large bulk carriers, tankers and combination carriers with a view to forming a consortium. A joint announcement said yesterday William Cory and Sons of London, the Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd. and Mitsui O.S.K lines
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    • 105 21 BO AC's 100 th transSiberian flight on the airline's new Moscow route from London to the Far Blast landed in the Russian capital recently. In command from Tokyo to Moscow was BO AC Flight Superintendent Capt. Jim Pink. Mr. A. V. Bessedin, Chief International Executive of the Soviet
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    • 13 21 THE tin price for yesterday was (639.75 per picul down cent.
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    • 493 21 ARRIVALS 145 am. MMA ISS Kuala Lumpur 7.50 am MSA 113 Kuala Lumpur •.Mam MSA 451 Kaala Lumpur 11 OS a m MSA 454 Prnang. Kuala Lumpur 1LM a m MSA 103 Jakarta 1.34) p.m MSA 451 Rachitic l4Spa MSA 041 Kola Bahru. Kuala Lumpur. Malacca 3.15 pm.
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    • 149 21 Mr. Han Swan KJe, General Manager of the Engine Department of Tractors Malaysia Berhad U back from Hong Kong after delivering two lectures at the Caterpillar Marine Knglne Technical Seminar for Caterpillar dealers In the Far East. Mr. Han who was one of six speakers Invited to
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    • 39 21 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 902 64 20 Transp ***** 15 Utilities 117.01 65 Stocks 257 80 40 Bonds 67.82 Commodity futures Index 145.32 off 0 29
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    • 260 21 A British firm, tlie Aeromatic Company, it planning to invest in a joint venture to manufacture gas equipment in Singapore. Arrangements for the Joint venture are being made by Mr. iL J. Ham ill. Director of the International Kxport Association. who is now here.
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 470 21 TENDERS P.W.D. SINGAPORE TBIDms are tnvtted from P. WD. Baglstertd Contractors and Irani other suitable contractors for the following woraa:<'on struct ion mt Female PrtMoa and Ancillary Works at Chang I. Singapore. Mhowround: o>nir actors to meet SO. at the main entrance gate of Chanel Waon on Thursday 10 12
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  • 66 22 The visiting Indian Hockey team left Singapore on Tuesday for the Asian Games. During their brief stay in the Republic the Indians played three test matches and bagged a total of 21 goals. They are seen here (right) with the Indian High Commissioner, Mr. Prem Bhatia
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