Eastern Sun, 10 December 1970

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    21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents Esrd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1519 Thursday, December 10, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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    Lock icon WHAT A WAY TO DIE
    358 1 Angry friends teH the Sun MOTHER yesterday come face to face with the truth she hod half-suspected when she identified the body of her daughter. It was the body of Leong Poh Perig, 13, who wos found ot the Si m s. Upper East Coast
    Sunpix by William Ng.  -  358 words
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    Lock icon A CRISIS IN SELF-INFLICTED BLACKOUT
    120 1 LONDON Britain's power eat In its third day yesterday closed down the foreign exchange market and immobilised lifts in skyscrapers, and forces thf Queen to have tea fcjr candlelight. Millions of Britons shiyered in front of blank TV screens and traffic jammed when the lights
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      99 1 Importers of Carpets Rugs of Quality Distinction to*— AMIR SONS tf mo 2tt.OMi*d M S..*«-por# J7?V« p Hi •U% if i» YEO'S PIG'S LEG For really appetising dish, serve Yeo'a delicious Pig's Leg —> whole chunks of succulent pork slowly stewed in rich sauce with mushrooms and chestnuts. Easy to
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    Lock icon New rules for Grand Alliance
    151 2 J£UCHING The adoption of direct membership rules by the Grand Alliance National Council would allow for further improvements in the Sarawak Alliance its Secretary-General, Mr. Cheng Yew Kien, said yesterday. Mr. Cheng told newsmen on his return here offer attending the meeting of the council
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    Lock icon 19 found not guilty
    52 2 BLOEMFONTEIN. South Africa's Appeal Court yesterday upheld a decision by a Supreme Court Judge acquitting 19 Africans of terrorism charges. The Africans had been found not guilty at their trial last September of charges under the country's Terrorism Act. which included plotting the violent overthrow of
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    52 2 I,AGOS A Nigerian housewife with four sets of twins has given birth to sextaplets, official Radio Nigeria reported veaterday. The Radio said two of the six children, bora in the tin-mining towa of Jos, died shortly after birth while the others and their mother were
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    Lock icon BLESSING IN DISGUISE
    87 2 MONTREAL Janes Cross's doctor believes that the low proteli and low fat diet the British diplomat received during his M days in the hands of Quebec separatist kidnappers probably saved his life. Dr. David Costom. specialist of internal medicine at the Jewish General Hospital, explained that because
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    Lock icon Anti-U.S. protest over killing of boy
    295 2 QUI NHON, Vietnam, Americans, including military police, were ordered off the streets of this coastal city yesterday to prevent further disturbances by civilians demonstrating against the shooting death of a schoolboy by a U.S. serviceman. Some 2.000 civilians, most of them students, Monday and
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    Lock icon S'pore aid centre in Pakistan
    114 2 THE Singapore Military Medical Mmios la East Pakistan established its forward base camp In Sandwip Island last week, the Ministry of Defence announced. The camp b In an abandoned school and the mission has treated as of Sunday 14)91 preventive and 1,851 curative eases. Hie
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    Lock icon A song of Bernadette
    36 2 LONDON Bernadetto Devlin. Member of Parliament, becomes Bernadette Devlin* singer tonight Britain's vo««*cst Member of Parfi*—*- 4 sing at ft concert at Islington To t in aid of the "ctainees Dofence Fund
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    Lock icon Operations in history
    76 2 MOSCOW Bronze Age doctors In the Baltic area successfully have opened and closed patients' skulls in surgical operations 3.000 yearg ago, Tass News Agency reported yesterday. Remains of an adult man who had undergone such «n operation waj found during excavations. Tass claimed. Reason for the operation
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    Lock icon ROBIN HOOD, 1970
    60 2 CORDOBA, Argentina Three men and a woman have held np a meat delivery truck in a Rohin Hood stylr raid. They then forced the driver to fo to a neartar shanty town where they oat tip the beef and distributed it to local people. The attackers identi
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    Lock icon PSA ALLOWS GIRLS INTO POLICE FORCE
    169 3 The Port of Singapore Authority hot engaged women constables to solve the present ocuto shortoge of constables. The shortage is due to an increasing number of resignations,, due mainly to unsatisfactory working conditions and favouritism, reliable sources said. "rile PBA needs at least 500
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    Lock icon Trudeau will attend
    96 3 OTTAWA Canadian Premier Pierre Elliott Trudeau will attend the Commonwealth Premiers' conference in Singapore between Jan 14 and 22, it was officially confirmed yesterday. Before the conference Mr. Trudeau will make official visits to Pakistan (Jan. 6-9) and India (Jan. 10-13), and from Singapore he will travel
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    Lock icon Death at a pig sty
    106 3 A baby girl was found drowned in manure pond beside a pig-sty at 10* milestone, Changi Road yesterday. The baby, the fifth child of Mr. and Mrs. Koh Choon Bock fell into the pond while playing at about 5.00 p.m. The body of Koh Bee
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    198 3 TWO robbers, one armed with a pistol, held up his family in their fiat In Havelock Road and escaped with cash and Jewellery amounting to $1,326 on Monday. Ng Peng Chye, 39, a salesman told the police. An evening of traditional and modern carols and musical
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    Lock icon Big rise in road mishaps
    69 3 Road accidents for the first 11 months of this year totalled 31,108* an increase of 5,894 as compared with ths same period last year. The seriously Injured accounted for 2,481 and the number killed was 269 instead of 2,477 and 271 respectively. However, for the
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    28 3 JAKARTA Mrs TJut Zahara Fonna. still claiming to be pregnant with a 20-montn-old talking foetus. arrived In Jakarta from Bandjarmasln In Borneo under heavy police escort.
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      227 3 There must be a thousand ways to use the instant photo in business. Can you imagine all the things you could do with a camera that develops its own pictures? (Color in 60 seconds, IS for black-and-white.) You could snap damaged merchandise and mail the picture to the shipper minutes
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      85 3 Around town 10.00 a.m. Art Exhibition by "Si* Young Contemporaries'' at Tang Chou Art Gallery and Framers, On tram Park. 10.90 a.m. to 0.00 p.m. Exhibition of water colour paintings at Victoria Memorial Hall. 600 p.m. Shaw Organisation's annual trade fair at New World Amusement Park. 6.30 p.m. Concert of
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    Lock icon OPERATION BIG SCRUB
    63 5 A massive face lift operation Is being carried out in Singapore every day. In most cases, it takes the form of a new coat of whitewash or paint. Several reasons are cited for the face-lift operation—the Government's tough clean-up laws recently enforced, the approach of Christmas and
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      70 5 Christmas Special Draws From 6th to 27th December 1970 TODAY'S DRAW NO: 98/70 >/' >/' m •/< K l(t V M FiratyroupCASH JACKPOT to winners with 6 number* correct. The other group prize* remain th« same plu* tree entry lor 3 circle* correct $5OO/WILL BE HELD AT THI NEW WORLD
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    Lock icon 'Rock bottom' budget cut by U.S. senate
    213 6 TITASHINGTON The senate hot T approved a U5566,417 million (*****,251 m) Defence Deportment appropriation bill which would cat off reintroduction of American ground combat troops into Combodia. The bill cut the Pentagon's "rock bottom" budget request by about U552,300 million (556,900 m.) The
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    Lock icon Cambodian troops regroup to aid lost, bleeding batalion
    152 6 PHNOM PENH Government troops were yesterday regrouping in Hie region of Peam Chikang where a cut-off Cambodian battalion has received a severe mauling from Communist forces. The Cambodian High Command had no new details from the besieged post, 40 miles northeast of
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    Lock icon NEW USE FOR EXPO '70 SITE
    113 6 TOKYO The entire Expo '7O site will be turned into a memorial park covered with lush green foliage and containing cultural facilities, the conference on utilisation of the Expo site has decided. There are differences of opinions among conferees on the kind of cultural
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    Lock icon Thieu opens Asian law conference
    48 6 President Nguyen Van Thieu opens the sixth Asian Parliamentarian's Union conference yesterday in Saigon. This is the first time South Vietnam has hosted the union made up of delegates from Nationalist China, Korea, Indonesia, Japan,. Laos, the Philippines, and Thailand.—UPl photo. UPI photo.
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    Lock icon Guerrilla chief shot at border camp
    124 6 BANGKOK Thai police yesterday killed a guerrilla leader and two of his followers in an hour-long pitched batHe at a dissident Muslim guerrilla camp near the Malaysian border. Policy said guerrilla leader Mapho Hah, who had a 20.000 baht (about S$28> price on his
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    Lock icon New aid from New Zealand
    50 6 WELLINGTON —The New Zealand government has approved aid worth nearly SsB.6 million to Asian countries in the past five months, Prime Minister Sir Keith said yesterday Sir Keith in a statement announced the approval of 8 number of projects and the extension of existing aid.
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    Lock icon U.S. must beef up Seoul firepower
    125 6 WASHINGTON The United States must help modernize South Korean military forces so they can face Communist troops themselves as American forces ar e withdrawn. Secretary of State William P. Rogers said yesterday Rogers told a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee. that "tension on the Korean peninsula
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    Lock icon HUSSEIN, NIXON MEET TO TALK MILITARY AID
    380 7 "y^TASH INGTON President Nixon colled for on eorly resumption of Arab-Israeli peace talks on Tuesday when he conferred with Jordan's King Hussein on ways to reoch a political settlement in the Middle East. The President's appeal was disclosed by the White House spokesman,
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    Lock icon Asians for UK
    30 7 NAIROBI—An estimated four thousand Asian families in Kenya are awaiting vouchers to enter Britain savs the 1969 annual report of the Kenya Immigration Department published on Tuesday.
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    Lock icon Israel to resume peace talks soon
    186 7 JERUSALEM The Israeli Foreign Minister, Abba Eban, said that Israel could be expected to resume the Middle East peace talks in the near future. Speaking at a Labour Party rally on Tuesday night, the Foreign Minister said he did not think It would be
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    Lock icon Student demonstrators use bombs and guns
    137 7 ISTANBUL, Militant students exchanged gunfire with police in Ankara, the capital, and stoned Americanowned buildings in Istanbul during a protest against foreign interests in Turkey on Tuesday. Po tee said a group of eftlst students armed with guns cha o »»d three Plainclothes pu.lcemeu
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    Lock icon 'More U.S. arms to Israel': Laird
    253 7 WASHINGTON Defeace Secretary Melvin Laird said on Tuesday the United States could not stand idly by while the Kremlin continued to upset the balance in the Middle East by pouring arms into the area. He urged the Senate Appropriations Committee to approve quickly a
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    82 7 UNITED NATIONS The General Assembly has voted for self-de-termination for the people of Palestine, declaring full respect fOf their "inalienable rights" indispensable to Middle East peace Israeli ambassador Tosef Tefcoah immediately declared that the action, "makes a mockery" of U-N--principles. Th r resolution declares (hat the
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    440 8 Bid to change site of United Nations NEW YORK In the perennial exercise of dissatisfaction with New York as site of United Nations' headquarters, Iraq has informally proposed that it be moved to Sweden. There had been similar suggestions In the past, all more in the nature
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    Lock icon Bridge over troubled waters
    123 8 Conservationists fear that instead of gold, there may be water at the end of the Rainbow. They warn that Utah's Rainbow Bridge, world's largest natural stone bridge, may be awash in a manmade lake within a year if Lake Powell is permitted to rise another 53
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    Lock icon Basques try to attack judges
    291 8 TOURGOS, Spain Bosque Nationalist guerrillas on trial yesterday rioted and tried to attack their military judges. They screamed and shouted Basque Nationalist slogans. Police threw themselves on top of two men who tried to rush the benches of military Judges. One officer drew his sword.
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    Lock icon PARLIAMENT UPROAR OVER PAY CUTS
    239 8 LONDON Prime Minister Edward Heath was cheered in the House of Commons on Tuesday when he announced that Britain top civil servants, judges, and heads of nationalised industries were foregoing pay rises for six months to fight inflation. However. It was only a brief moment
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    Lock icon BETTER RELATIONS AFTER TREATY
    86 8 WARSAW West German Chancellor Willy Brandt has pledged to follow the goodwill treaty he signed on Monday with practical steps toward improving relations with Poland. Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz declared that the treaty had now removed a threat to peace in Europe and lifted uncertainty on national
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    Lock icon MOVE TO CLOSE MY LAI CASE
    309 9 FOBT BENNING, Geor gia Lawyers for Lieateaant William Calley, said by one wltMi to have spent more than an hoar methodically murdering np to 100 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, yesterday soaght to have him cleared of charges arisiag from the alleged IMS massacre
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    Lock icon U.S. captain made to hand over defector
    287 9 WASHINGTON The captain of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter wept after being ordered to return a Lithuanian defector to Soviet custody Nov. 23, but afterward tried to bush up the incident, a man aboard the cutter testified yesterday. Robert M. Brieze. a Latvian
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    Lock icon Fireman dies in open lift shaft plunge
    71 9 NEW YORK A New York City fireman, fighting a fire at a West Side apartment building, has plunged 11 storeys to his death atter stepping into an open elevator shaft. A tenant was charged with arson and murder. The dead fireman was identified
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    Lock icon HELMSMAN'S ERROR LED TO SINKING OF TAIWAN FREIGHTER
    289 9 gALBOA, Ponomo Canal Zone The pilot said turn left but the helmsman turned right and the Taiwan freighter Sian Yung hit the Panama Canal bank and sank, a court of inqu'rv has been told. The 7,643-ton ship went down in the Canal's
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    Lock icon Unsuccessful bank raid
    61 9 LONDON Thieves have shot a guard and coshed two other men, including a bank manager. during an unsuccessful raid on a security van outside a suburban London bank. They shot a guard who was beside the van In the arm and also coshed two bank officials who
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    Lock icon Bomb plot: U.S. jury indicts six
    117 9 NEW YORK A New York Co*aty Graad Jury has indicted rix people over ma alleged bomb conspiracy that included plana to blow up the former law offices of President Nixoa la 'Jtt Wall Street area. The si*, three men and three women, were arrested
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    Lock icon FORMER EXECUTIVE MAKES LIVING AS SANTA CLAUS
    196 9 CALIFORNIA Design engineer George Florea, 48, a former corporate executive, has donned whiskers and makeup to earn 817.50 an hour as a part-time santa claus at a local department store. Florea does this out of necessity. He has been unemployed siftce last February
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    Lock icon MANDATE OF THE PEOPLE
    660 10 the results of the elections In East Pakistan had been predicted by almost everybody, the results in West Pakistan came as a total surprise. Nobody had expected Zuiilkur All Bhutto's left wing party to score such a remarkable success. Bhutto's campaign was to bring "islamic socialism"'
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    661 10  -  By Art Buchwald WASHINGTON The United States is suffering from its worst shortage of radio and TV talk show guests in 20 years. The reason for this is that while talk shows have been multiplying by the thousands, the people who have been appearing on them have
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    Lock icon Nixon's plan is a flop says expert
    177 10 WASHINGTON The AFL-ClO's too economist said today unemployment w.ll rise at least 6.5 per cent by next fall unless President Nixon changes his game plan" to curb inflation. Nathanlal Ooldflnger. the Union's Research Director, urged the administration to make a "very decisive and
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    Lock icon Parliamentary opposition
    453 10  -  LETTERS S. DOLLAH Singapore Vie question whether a parliamentary opposition should emerge or not in current Singapore's political life rests upon the people as a whole. The existence of oneparty system, the characteristic of Singapore's politics does not provide a healthy political atmosphere, in the traditional sense of
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      58 10 Foreign new* and feature* appearing In all edition* of the Eastern sun and The Sun are from: Reuters. United Press International. Agence France Presse. Fell lorn Press Syndicate Newspaper Enterprise Association. Publishers Hall Syndicate. I.o*. Angeles Times Syndicate Gemini New* Service North American Newspaper AF llance. First Featurea, Inter-Press Features
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    Lock icon SEPARATISTS MAKE TROUBLE IN MANY ASIAN NATIONS
    779 12  -  By Kenneth J. Braddick MANILA French speaking Canadians wh° spread terror in their fight for a Quebec state separate from the rest of Canada were repeating o story of violence which plogue many Asian countries* Asia's separatists, sometimes by shrill voices, occasionally by
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    Lock icon INDIAN RICE CARVING IS SLOWLY VANISHING
    328 12  -  By Ramesh C. Pande NEW DELHI Master craftsmen carve trains of rice into scenes from hL'tory in one of India's moot incredible arts. But rloe carving is a vanishing art because prices are too low and the work too difficult. 'But it is a
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    Lock icon Struggle for the soul of a city
    972 14  -  By Gamin! Senevtratne, London A towering building it climbing up over the historic Fleet Prison, "those wretched dungeons" os Mr. Pickwick colled it, where Charles Dickens himself was incarcerated. When it la finished, Messrs Jones Lang Wootten and Sunlife of Canada (who financed
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    Lock icon 'Strep Throat' Can Cause Rheumatic Heart Disease
    505 14  -  By LAWRENCE E. LAMB, M.D. Dear Dr. Lamb I would like to know If tonsil Infections can cause damage to the heart or cause other problems. I had large tonsils as a child. In my teen years I had frequent tonsllltls attacks. At
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    401 14  -  DATELINE By Ele and Walt Dulaney Dear Ele and Walt: Andy, my boyfriend's brother, is trying to break us op. He tells Jeff that going with one girl is stupid and he should get more experience. Then he tells me that Jeffs been messing around
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    Lock icon Don't give advice to Mariana Hill
    618 15  -  By Dick Kleiner Her career is booming, but every boom hat its bad days. Mariana Hill, since "Medium Cool/' has had bigger and bigger parts and yet things are not always cool. "I'm never going to do what people tell me to do any
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      288 15 r»7SHAW| I. I l> O .***** t OPENS TODAY! 11 Mi. 14ft Ml A 9.lft Cotton Comes To Htrlta" Color i United Artist* r "SEE MIB3 WORLD" In N| jts Pictorial iai'i io i u»» 7n <» Open* Today —No Pro* List II am l». 4. #44. IM 'A TIME
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      53 15 ln Town, the SHOW to see is undoubtedly. "The Christmas Tree" G MGM COLOR "The Christmas Tree" William Holden Virna Llsi Brooks Fuller Bourvil ODEON-NOW! Spine-Tingling Midnight Saturday! T #sr Sr-.-/ s :>/ "'4\ r«,« lO MGM's Naptr Hairßalier la Shocking Cdtr starring JMtlku FrM Ntier Barrett Bofer Davis Kitktrlu
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      219 15 CATHAY ***** OPENS TODAYI 11 Ml. IN, 4.9# IN IN Walt DUney'a "The Horse In The Graf runnel gall" Dean Jonee Diana Baker Technicolor r ODEDN 2111b NOW SHOWING! U aa. IN IN IN William Holden Vlrna Ual "THE CHRISTMAS TUB" An MOM Picture la Color Saturday Mldnlfhtl (MOM) "H*«M
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    134 16 MANILA: The Philippine teenage delegate to the 1971 World Youth Forum will leave lor New York on New Year's day for a three-month free trip around the U.B. Pan-American airways Is sponsoring the trip to mark the 25th anniversary of Its cooperation with the World
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      835 16 libra _oscorpia aiies B 0 PJI its < taurus gemra cancer virgo GENERAL TENDENCIES: You need to think big in the practical department of your activities If you are to get any worthwhile results, so stop thinking about the nickels and th# dimes and quarters and get your thoughts on
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      18 16 LADIES DAY Hf "Next time I'm in* vitcd for boat rida 111 sure 9sk a few, questions first!"*
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      1116 17 today's J- <-> V mm Iffy ml i i *W "jr mm si&s &s :-x- rm i »/> t if m<:Wi A> n V <v m. xvy P.M. CHANNEL 5 3.00 Opening Announcements, followed by General Hospital. Daytime serial about the staff and the patients of a hospital. 3.25 Another
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    Lock icon A week in bed
    568 18 IT was a wet morning so I carried ny heavy school-bag in one hand and in umbrella in the other on my way to ichool. The road was heavy with traffic, rhere were a few school-children hurrying to school and office-workers to work Some hawkers were
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    Lock icon Large and small families
    402 18 I am from a small family but I would like to be a member of a large family. Today's world population is increasing rapidly. Our government has launched the 'Family Planning' campaign to cut down population growth. The idea behind this is to enable our newborn
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    Lock icon Youngsters study while jobs go begging
    128 18 TOKYO The number of youngsters seeking higher education after high school Is sharply Increasing in Tokyo, according to a recent survey. And they are causing an acute shortage of teenage workers, the survey by the Tokyo Metropolitan Labour Affairs Bureau found. It said there
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    94 18 THE Singa Corps of the St. John Ambulance Brigade will hold a 6-day camp at the Pasir His Holiday Camp from Dec. 14 to 19. The Camp which has been organised annually for members (boys and girls) will enable them to discover "what camplife is". It
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    Lock icon Federation of Boys' Clubs officials
    177 18 AT THE annual general meeting of the Federation of Boys' Clubs held on Dec. 6, the following were elected office bearers for the year 1971: President Mrs. E. M. Boswell M.B.E. 8.8.M.; Vice Presidents Mr. Tan Ching Siang; Mr. Chai Ming Chua; Mr. Quek Hiang
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      193 18 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe The Eastern Sun's essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under (Junior) and boys and girls over 14 (Senior) appears in| this page from Monday to Friday. Prize money Is: $lO tor Seniors and $5 tor lumon for every essay published All
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    Lock icon LUNCH-TIME SAVOURY IS MOUTH-WATERING, AND EASY
    395 19  -  THURSDAY FOOD WITH RUTH BAKALAR imposing to see, temptingly delicious to eat, and not at all difficult or time-con-suming to make—who could ask for anything more? Not guests who consider the way food looks almost as important as the way it tastes and not
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    Lock icon Make use of the season's chestnuts
    323 19 Dear Adventurer As a fellow New Yorker, jou muM be as delighted as I am to see hot-chestnut vendors on the streets of Singapore, even If we don't need them to keep our hands warm, as we do at home! Since the season is
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    561 19  -  ANN LANDERS Dear Ann: Poor Rotund Roi seven months pregnant and no Mother's Day gift! I have a 10-month-old baby and I qualified for a gift or at least a card •—but I didn't get one either. Did it bother me? Not in the least! Mike is the
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    370 20 fPHE latest issue Power and Telecommunications Industries to gain admission on the boards of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday was traded at a discount level on the first sale. The latter (18th issue listed this year) had recently placed with the public 3.5 million
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    Lock icon Rubber 52 1/8 cts.
    301 20 December first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and KuaJa Lumpur yesterday at 52-1/8 cents per lb. f down 1/8 cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was very quiet. After a alow start better trading Interest developed towards the
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    Lock icon Compromise suggested by Britain
    180 20 BRUSSELS Britain has pointed the way to a compromise on the major issues in her negotiations for entry into the Common Market at toplevel meeting here. Geoffrey Rippon. Britain's chief Common Market negotiator told E.C.C. Foreign Ministers during a day-long meeting Tuesday that Britain now proposed
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    112 20 HONG KONG Yesterday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Buyers) (Sellers) 196 197 per 100 Straits dollars 140 148 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 676 6.775 per Australian doilai 340 360 per 1.000 Burmese kyats 450 480 per 1.000 Indian rupees 149 164 per
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    669 20 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange vesterda? INDUSTRIALS Acma 123 AJinomoto I.HU 2.94 Alcan 1.27 1.32 Allied Choc 2-61 2.63 Ben. 89 90 IVrjuy.i I 05 1.06 Borneo xd 159 1.60
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    808 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 k nits unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS Aetna $1.25 (1); AJinomoto $1 93 (1)' Allied Choc. $2 63 (1); Ben.
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    90 20 TUB noon prim at the Singapore (Mnwr Produce Exchantf vet-ierdaj was n a Coconut on (f-o.b.) bulk i'lxoilUI Ol. (f.o.b.) drum Mixed Copra 38.00 Mnntok White Pepper d o.b.) ASTA 10(1% N.W-L. Sarawak White Pepper dub) 96% NHL Sarawak special Klack Pepper <l.o.»> «Hi% N.W.L. .Sarawak AST A Black
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      391 21 CYDNEY Another dull trading session was yesterday momentarily brightened by a strong burst of buying on Sydney Stock Exchange. traders lack of interest became more evident towards the close. In a handful of speculative nlckela that resisted the light selling pressure. Southland and Peerless moved ahead,
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      70 21 OSLO The Norwegian government Tuesday froze the prices of all goods and services at the levels prevailing on Nov. 20, and announced it was introducing a wage restraint bill. Firms which have increased their Drices since Nov. 20 will have to cut them back. The aim is to
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      150 21 THE boo mi nf air freight business in Indonesia. Malaysia and Singapore has resulted in Scandinavian Airlines System winning another award, it waa announced yesterday. The airline cargo aales has come up tops in a quota competition against eight other areas in the Far East to
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      54 21 LONDON The pound eased slightly in quiet trading on foreign exchange markets Tuesday. Industrial unrest In Britain and the cuts in electric power got the blame for the pound Inching slightly lower to 2-3895 U S dollars. in the forward markets which handles currency deliveries for future months, sterling
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      142 21 THB Chase Manhattan Bank Singapore, as part of their expansion programme Is sending Mr John Lee Choon Soo, Sub-Assistant Manager. Credit It Marketing, to New York for two years' seclalised training in the Global Credit Division which operates an advanced executive training programme structured to
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    426 23  -  By Leslie Nakashima BANGKOK King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand yesterday officially opened the sixth Asian Games as thousands of pigeons were released and gaily coloured balloons drifted skyward. "I now declare open the Sixth Asian Games," said His Majesty after welcoming athletes and officials
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    234 23 TOKYO Australian Rod Laver whipped American Arthur Ashe in straight sets in the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) Masters tournament here last night, taking another 6tep in his bid to become the first man in tennis to earn 600,000 Singapore dollars in a year.
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    115 23 BANGKOK The Indonesian badminton coach. Mr. Irsan, died of a heart attack Tuesday night but his players said yesterday they would still compete in the Asian Games. Mr. Willy Warokka, deputy leader of the Indonesian team, told Reuter yesterday the players' initial reaction
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    176 24 WASHINGTON Angry onions plan to plunge America into a national railway strike at midnight tonight in defiance of President Nixon and possibly Congress and the courts. The administration has hinted It might ■se troops to keep essential services going and move Christmas parcels.
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    209 24 T>AWALPINDI A coolition government between 2 victorious Socialist parties appeared to be shaping up yesterday after nearly complete results from Monday's elections in Pakistan. Former Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's Peoples' Party in West Pakistan and Sheikh Mujibur Rehman's Awami League in East Pakistan swept lo
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