Eastern Sun, 12 December 1970

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    21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents btd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1521 Saturday, December 12, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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    Lock icon Big wind uproots 50 trees
    82 1 Policemen and firemen were kepi busy yesterday chopping ij D trees spread across Woodlands Road the aftermath of a 40minute whirlwind The tree clearing operations stretched along Woodlands Road from the 13th milestone to the Johore Causeway. Hundreds of wives and children sat huddled In
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    Lock icon Mendoza asks to see a psychiatrist
    59 1 MANILA Counsel for Bolivian Benjamin Mcndoca. accused of trying to murder Pope Paul VI, filed a request for a psychiatric examination of the painter yesterday. Celso Fernandez, the defence counsel, explained that if the painter was insane during the assassination attempt on November 27,
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    Lock icon DEFENCE TALKS TOP OF AGENDA
    342 1 Commonwealth Defence of the Indian Ocean is listed for study at the Commonwealth leaders' conference in Singapore next month. The subject is included in o draft ogendo which has been circulated to member governments by the Commonwealth Secretariat. The agenda and other conference arrange, inentg
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    Lock icon Whirlwind and rain cause pain, damage
    259 2 A 40-minute vhirlwind, thunderstorm and rainfall caused panic and havoc in the northern sector of Singapore yesterday. Several Huge trees along Woodlands Road were uprooted by the whirlwind. A few houses including the Mellow Theatre at Lorono Marsiling were damaged. Haifstones were also reported
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  • Article
    Lock icon Toto special draw jackpot now $175,000
    78 2 The prize money for the third in the aeries Of seven Christmas special Toto draws has snowballed to a spectacular sum of $175,000. There were no first and second group prize winner® in la«t Thursday's draw. The third special draw for the festive season
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    Lock icon Robbers hit housewife
    114 2 A HOUSEWIFE received a "blackeye" when she fought with two armed men who held her and her husband up on Thursday night and robbed them of $l,OOO. Madam Tan Teck Muen. 52, and her husband, Ko Choon Llan, 63, were counting the days taking in their provision
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    Lock icon Telecom men discontented
    190 2 Discontentment over service conditions *s simmering amongst telecommunication employees. Hie frustration over their working conditions Is contained In the latest Issue of the Tele Voice the official organ of the telecommunications branches of the Amalgamated Unions erf Public Employees. A front page article said service conditions were
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    Lock icon Girl's death a 'misadventure'
    48 2 A coroner yesterday recorded a verdict of misadventure on a 12-year-old schoolgirl who was drowned while catching crabs on Nov. 22. Suzila Samuel, a student of Jalan Kayu Primary School died shortly after she was brought up from the Seletar River by her uncle.
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    Lock icon Gangs hold up petrol kiosks
    221 2 Armed robbers yesterday raided three petrol kiosks and escaped wifh $426 in cash, property worth $5,954 and a car valued at $6,000. The first raid was made at a lonely petrol station along East Coast Road at 3 a.m. when four robbers woke up K.
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    Lock icon Ban on pets from UK to go
    38 2 DOGS and cats from the U.K. can enter Singapore without compulsory quarantine from next Tuesday. However, besides the veterinary requirements, a permit has to be obtained from the Primary Production Department.
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      159 2 Around town 9.00 a.m. to 1.00 pJL Shell 197# Children 1 Party >t Kallang Wonderland Park. 9JO aai. Opening ceremony of the 'Seminar on the prospect for a career In acr—nUnry by Mr. WM| Si one Poon, President •f Singapore Society of Accountants at Nanyang University, Leetare Theatre No. 1,
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    Lock icon Donnie has an answer to shopping blues
    93 3 People worry about their Christ mas shopping except little Donnie Tan, 3i He knows what he wants and has got them aU written down for him. And why shop when yon can have it delivered by Santa Clans? That was what Donnie did
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    Lock icon CALL FOR MALAY SECRETARIAT TO BRIDGE LOCAL GAP
    402 3 T'HE setting up of o Malay Secretariat to tackle the problems of bridging the socio-economic gap between Malays and non-Malays wos proposed lost night. The coll came from the Porliom?ntory Secretory (Culture), Mr. Sho'ari Tadin, at the seminor organised by the Central
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    Lock icon New twist to the family planning story
    225 3 SUN Reporter Planned parenthood normally meant controlling the size of the family bu Mr. A Rahim Ishak, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, yesterday gave it a new twist. "It la very Important." he said, "that parents plan and have their babies born
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    Lock icon Driven to death, salesman claims in suicide note
    442 3 A salesman who jumped to his death from a block of flats left a suicide note blaming a company executive for his action. In his note, read out In the Coroner's Court yesterday, Tan Ah Cheng, 37, said he had been driven
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      85 3 From 6th to 27th December 1970 TOMORROW'S DRAW NO: 99/70 First group GASH JACKPOT U to winners with 5 numbers correct CORRECT $5OO/- W. PLUS ATTRACTIVE X'MAS CASH BONUSES S let prize $lO,OOO (based on last 6 digits) fctf 1 2nd prize $l,OOO SS (based on last 5 digits) 13rd
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    Lock icon Local-made beacon to help navigation
    140 4 THIS rocket-like object lying off the waters of Jurong U actually a 56-ft. tall navigational beacon which Is to he installed in the Macassar Strait. It was built by a local marine contracting Arm. Straits Engineers Pte. Ltd., and will be set up to guide
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    Lock icon Unpopular Reds' only weapon— Terrorism
    266 4 IZUCHING Communists have resorted to terrorism be- cause they do not have the support of the people, Dato Haji Abdul Rahman Yakub, Chief Minister of Sarawak, said yesterday. He was answering a question from Mr. Michael Lim on the "Your Minister Mee'i You" programme over
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    Lock icon Bound over for killing watchman
    301 4 KUALA LUMPUR The magistrate court yesterday bound a youth over for two yean in $3,000 for causing the death of a night-watchman. Low Eng Chuan, 20, wa s bound over bv the magistrate, Ranita binte Hussein, when he pleaded guilty to causing the death of
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    Lock icon Police seek girl's help
    81 4 IPOH Police are lookins tor a girl to help in thetr investigations into the death of a five-year-old boy. The latter had died minutes after he was admitted to the Batu Gajah District Hospital on Thursday The girl had brought the boy to the hospital and
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    Lock icon Court strikes out $3,970 civil suit
    128 4 KUALA LUMPUR— Tbe Senior Sessions Court President, lames Loh, yesterday struck oat m $3,970.40 civil suit when parties to the suit did not turn up in court in time. The action was In keeping with the recent directive that civil cases In which the
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    Lock icon 31 hurt in bus-lorry collision
    110 4 IFOH Thirty-one people were Injured when bus and a north-bound lorry were involved in a collision about two miles from Ipoh yesterday. The Injured Included SO passengers of the bus. 12 of them women, and the driver of the lorry, Wong Man Weng. 30. Two
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    Lock icon Man, 30, pleads guilty to molest charge
    76 4 FOO Chee Lien. 30. wra* fined $250, or a month's jail in default, after he pleaded guilty to ting a 16-year-old girl He admitted in the Ninth Magistrate's Court that he rode past on a motorcycle and pressed her left breast while she
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    Lock icon Cane, jail for youth on 4 charges of robbery
    260 5 Yew Hock Chye, 20 unemployed, was sentenced to three years' jail and three strokes of the cane when he pleaded guilty to four charges of robbery and theft. ASP R. Sandosham read out the details of one charge in the Third
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    Lock icon Relief work in Pakistan ends
    220 5 The British relief operation to East Pakistan, Operation Burlap "escribed T»y East Pakistan's Governor Admiral Ahsan as "magnificent." ended yesterday when the assault ship, 'lnterpid,' and the logistic ship, 'Sir Galahad,' weighed anchor (or Singapore. They were flic last of the British Task Group under
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    Lock icon Students protest shooting
    76 6 Students attach moefc corf tin to a b saner which CMMIMIM "blMtßhirsty American so'dters who shot to death a Qui Nhon "student** daring a dcauMstiathn In Saigon v e^teid«ivTht boy ima shot hp an Aaaritaa aoUiav guasdlmr a Qui Nhou military installation. A curfew has been clapped
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    Lock icon PHNOM PENH RATIONS PETROL TO CIVILIANS
    385 6 jPHNOM PENH Nhol lIIIIMH in PUom Ptnh ycsitiity slwftti wanting motorists they may rtm out of petrol m twa or tlirat days because of Hie 21 -day clasiin of Rotate Four from hmom Peak to tW seaport of Kompowg Sam. However, high command spokesman
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    Lock icon Saigon confiscates 13 daily newspapers
    253 6 iAIGCN The South Vietnamese yw«m«ent conMacaM yesterday's editions ot 11 newspapers for uwpim a news story remaining Hie possibility of an extended holiday ceeeefcre. The government branded It as a false report it was announced today. Several of the newsJ>apars were confiscated or carrying a
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    Lock icon Muslim guerrilla escapes capture
    128 6 BANGKOK A Mmlta gaerrilla indtt vftth a SIIJM# prise on U» head larmrlj escaped irlea the pftbcc raided his camp La Sauthcrn Thin ptoviace on the border with Malaysia. Police source said Yuuous Pnkae. the guerrilla leader., was resting in the strongly fortified camp when 30
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    452 8 Thirty die in worst train crash: Portugal SACAVEM, Portugal—Two passenger trains collided near Sacavem on the outskirts of Lisbon early yesterday, killing an estimated 30 people and Injuring about 50 others. Lt was Portugal's worst train crash since 1965. Rescue parties, working in pouring rain, pulled headless
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    Lock icon LOW GOAL PRACTICE: Czech Premier warns managers
    256 8 DRAGUE Czechoslovak Prime Minister Liibomir Strougal has warned factory managers that they could bo dismissed if they continue the traditional communist practice of setting goals as low as possible. Strougal was speaking at a meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. Factory executives
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    Lock icon 22,000 cholera cases in 3 months
    237 8 GENEVA A total of 22,000 cases of cholera have been notified to the World HeaJth Organisation (WHO) by 30 countries in Hie last three months. The United Nations organisation spokesman pointed out that "the figure only represent* the tip of the iceberg." "Some of
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    Lock icon SOLZHENITSYN FORCED TO DROP SWEDEN VISIT
    166 8 STOCKHOLM Soviet writer Alexander Solxhenitsyn yesterday said in a message to a Nobel Prixe-winners' banquet that his absence was involuntary. He also pointed out that the ceremonies In Stockholm coincided with Human Rights Day. He concluded "The prize-winners cannot avoid feeling their responsibility over
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    Lock icon Pro-Hitler group to defy ban
    149 8 BONN The leader of a small right-wing (action which praises Hitler has warned he will defy any official ban on protests. He also intends to lead his club-swinging members in a march on Bonn today. Roland Tabbert, 42-year-old head of the German Liberation Movement, whose
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    Lock icon Quite an impression
    85 8 Tass News Agency has released the above photo showing the tracks left by Lunokhod -1 along the Moon's surface. Part of the lunar vehicle and its shadow are also seen on the right. The robot has Just awakened from 2 weeks of hibernation and resumed its travels.
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    Lock icon U.S. rail strike crumbles
    303 9 WASHINGTON U.S. government Ud iidutry heaved aifbtj curb «f relief yesterday as a nationwide rail strike collapsed after stopping trains only 24 hours. Rail services across the ronntry are expected to be back to normal by tonight The biggest and nnost defiant onion involved the Brotherhood
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    Lock icon HANOI TOLD: DON'T UPSET WITHDRAWAL OR WE'LL ATTACK
    538 9 President Nixon hos bluntly warned Hanoi U.S. bombers will smash military targets ond supply lines in North Vietnam if American troop withdrawals from the south ore threatened by any Commrimst buildup. The President took his stern line ot o recent wide-ranging press
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    Lock icon $630m COMPROMISE ON SST FINANCES
    245 9 WASHINGTON Senate-house negotiators have agreed on a Ss63o million appropriation for the Supersonic Transport (SST) plane, permitting continued development of the controversial faster-than-sound jet- liner. The House was expected to give swift approval to the conference agreement, but there was a definite threat that it
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    Lock icon 'Integration by force not good'
    127 9 WASHINGTON President Nixon has flatly rejected the idea of using federal funds expressly to build housing for lowincome Negroes in affluent all-white neighbourhoods "I believe that forced integration of the suburbs is not in the national interest." he told his press conference yesterday night. Nixon,
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    Lock icon US. ECONOMIC POLICIES ARE SOUND: NIXON
    229 9 WASHINGTON President Nixon side stepped leading questions on U.S. economic policy at bis press conference yesterday but stated that fiscal and monetary policies were on an expansionist path. He made it clear he was unsatisfied with present efforts to contain inflation, but said he
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    Lock icon AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR
    651 10 Paris peace conference and President Richard Nixon's press conference the questions of American prisoJSSnS 111 Vietnam came up although by now the United States must understand that no amount of negotiaSSSP°? li or conce ssions is going to help free the Americans held by Hanoi. The
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    Lock icon Crime climb worries Britain's police
    875 10  -  By Cecil Porter The British ore said to be famous for their self-restraint, their deep low-abiding instincts, JS befitting the people who invented the unarmed police. But the picture is not quite accurate. Take 100 people at random on the streets of any city today
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    Lock icon 12th round of talks
    108 10 WEST BERLIN The ambassadors of the big four powers today held their 12th round of talks on the Berlin problem without appearing to move closer to an agreement which could pave the way towards improved East-West European relations. But informed sources said the talks, started by
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      Lock icon Why should I pay more?
      120 10  -  TOH LENG HUA Singapore I would like to bring to the attention of the appropriate authorities two malpractices regard* ing hair-cut charges and hike in taxi fares during the Chinese New Year. Just before the Chinese New Year, barber* suddenly increase hair* cut charges This
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      Lock icon Cost of lift attendants
      111 10  -  Lim Pek Hong Public Relations Officer Housing A Developjnent Board. Please refer to the article in Dec- 9 Eastern Sun (page 3) under th e heading "Better Lifts for Estates" in which it i R stated that "it would cost the Board about a million dollars
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  • SUN SPORT
    • Sixth asian games
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        Lock icon CHI WINS FIRST GOLD FOR CHINA
        466 11  -  SPORTS LIFTOUT By Graham Stewart BANGKOK Nationalist China's triple world recordholder Chi Cheng lived up to expectations and raced away with the title of Asia's fastest woman at tne Asian Games yesterday. Chi, the glamour girl of the Games, streaked to a scintillating win
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        Lock icon Medal standings
        58 11 BANGKOK Medal standings ta the «t*tfc Asia Games after jc&terdajr's competition: COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZB Japan 12 a Iran i i t Thailand i a a CtHna Burma 1 0 1 Oeykm lot Israel o a i India 0 14 Indonesia Philippines 0 1 Korea 0 0 4
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        Lock icon Another double for Japan in shooting
        159 11 BANGKOK Japan again dominated the Asian Games shooting yesterday winning the individual and team honour! in the air rifle event Twenty nine year old Minoru Ito shot a 367 out of a possible 400 to win the individual title and the four-man Japanese team,
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        Lock icon Chi Cheng —the fastest girl in the world
        889 11 TAIPEI They call her the "Iron Girl" and the "Flying Antelope." By either name, Miss Chi Cheng is the fastest girl in the world tip to a distance of 400 metres and a versatile track and field athlete to rank with Babe
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      • Results
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          383 12/13 MEN'S LONG JUMP FINAL I Ogura, Shinji (Japan) 7.62 V Yamada, Hiroomi (Japan> 7 52 3 Labh Singh (India) 7.43 4 K. Raghunath (India) 7.20 5 Shi. Show —Ting (China) 6 95 6 Karimi. Asghar (Iran* 6 80 7 Suriyijun. Chaisit (Thailand) 6 64 P Su. Wen—Ho (China) (Absent>
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          36 12/13 Men's Teams: Japan bt Pakistan (3-0) Iran bt Thailand (3-1) South Korea bt Indonesia 13-0) Women's Teams: Cambodia bt Nationalist China (3-2) Japan bt Philippines (3-0) Iran bt Thailand (3-1) South Korea bt Indonesia (3-0)
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          21 12/13 Men's Team; Malaysia bt Philippine, (3-2) Japan bt Hong Kong (3-2) Indonesia bt Nepal (3-0) Thailand at Nationalist China (3-2)
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          11 12/13 Malaysia bt Ceylo n (7-0) Japan bt Hong Kong (1-0)
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          11 12/13 India bt S. Vietnam (2-0) South Korea bt Iran (1-0)
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          34 12/13 Nationalist China bt Malaysia 82 62 (halftime 39-29) Japan bt S Vietnam 80-56 (half-time 41-30) Iran bt Singapore 98-58 (half-time 58-34) India bt Thailand 70-64 (half-time 37-29) Philippine* b» Iran 92 90 44|
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        Lock icon BANGKOK Singapore's Noor Azahar clearing 2 metres to win fifth place at the sixth Asian Games here Thursday. Winner was Ghiassi Teymour of Iran who cleared 2.06 m. in the men's high jump final.
        72 12/13 BANGKOK Singapore's Noor Azahar clearing 2 metres to win fifth place at the sixth Asian Games here Thursday. Winner was Ghiassi Teymour of Iran w ho cleared 2.06 m. in the men's high jump final. UPI photo. BANGKOK Japan's Fumihiko Moroyama (No. 5> trying to prevent a goal by a
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        Lock icon A nightmare for newsmen covering the field events
        457 12/13 BANGKOK It has bean a nightmare thm far tor the foreign press writers covering the athlatics competition of the Sixth Asian Games. The organising committee had promised a fast computer service and the results were expected to be available much (aster than
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        Lock icon JAPAN COLLECTS SIX MORE GOLDS
        289 12/13  -  By Ernesto Mendoza HONG KONG Japan surged ahead in tin* battle for Asian Games gold medals yesterday but Nationalist China's wonder girl Chi Cheng f a triple world record h<lder, drew most of the cheers. The Japanese took six of the nine gold medals at
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        Lock icon 7-0 victory for Malaysia
        454 12/13 hockey BANGKOK Malaysia trounced Ceylon 7-0 in a group "A" match in the Hockey Tournament of the Sixth Asian Games here yesterday morning. At half time Malaysia led 3 0. in a one-siaea game, Malaysia adapted themselves very well to the hard ground and settled down
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      Lock icon MCC pile up 257 for two
      478 14  -  Second Test By Jon Henderson PERTH, Australia Skipper Bill Lawry condemned Australia to o day of toil in the sun when he sent England into bat and saw the touring team pile up a first day score of 257 for two in the second
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      Lock icon Little Nene leaves for world trip
      119 14 FTLEMON O. BALAYSAY, better known as Little Nene In the boxing world a few years ago will go on a 'mini' round the world trip starting Saturday in what he ealls "just one more time" boxing try. Nene will make stopovers in London. New
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      Lock icon Clay granted Texas licence
      191 14 HOUSTON Catiin Clay (Mulummxl Ali) was gnatd a Texas boxing licence, Thursday opening the way for a possible world heavyweight title fight against champion Joe Frasier at Houston's Astrodome. The Astrodome is vying with New York's Madison Square Garden to stage the fight early next year.
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      Lock icon First PAP Inter-Branch Tournament
      113 14 Mr. Tang See Chim. Minister of State for Finance, will present the prises at the first P.AP. Inter- Branch Badminton Tournament on Dec. 20 at Queenstown Secondary Technical School Hall. The tournament, which is organised by the P AP. Hong Bahru Branch. Is sponsored by the
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      Lock icon "Never too old to bowl"- Percy
      286 14 Take it from Percy Talbot you ore never too old to bowl and become proficient ot it. And Percy Talbot is the man bowling centre managers always happily present to doubters and convert a few bowlers. The records show he picked up the game
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      Lock icon 3 share lead in golf classic
      160 14 DUNEDIN, New Zealand Sukree Onsham, of Thailand, and Australians Kel Nagle and Vic Bennetts shared the lead at the halfway stage in the 72-hole Ota 90 Charity Golf Classic here yesterday. Onsham. who led by one stroke after a course record of 65 m
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      Lock icon Hole-in-one by Sanders
      70 14 FREEPORT BAHAMAS American Doug Sanders notched a hole-ln-one a* he took the lead In th e 8*400,000 Bahama Islands Open here Thursday with a first round 66. John Jacobs of the United B&ate s was second on 67 one stroke ahead of his compatriot Arnold Palmer. Palmer
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon A black eye for Elizabeth Pepys
    759 15  -  ■roAYQ* A 1°- b "2. UJ |Jg CO. By Fred Mpanga, Gamini Seneviratne A T Christmastide 1664 Samuel Pepys, the English diarist, gave his wife Elizabeth a black eye. Pepys became remorseful about the unhappy incident. On Christmas Day he wrote: "Up —my wife's
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    Lock icon New product for stuffing
    115 15 WASHINGTON; A fireresistant, soft fibre glass cushion filler developed •s part of the US. manBed moon landing programme is now becoming available for use in consumer products. The material was developed by the North American Rockwell Corporation's Space Division for couches in a vacuum chamber in
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    Lock icon Ear Artery Malfunction Can Impair Your Balance
    446 15  -  By LAWRENCE E. LAMB, MD. Dear Dr. Lamb—l've been told I have hardening of the arteries in the inner ear. Can you tell me what causes that? Will that affect the brain? When I walk I lose my balance. Dear Reader-"Har-dening of the
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    Lock icon THE SEARCH FOR THE PIRATE KING'S BURIED TREASURE
    1034 16  -  Gamini Seneviratne The romance, ruthlessness and rope of Hie Spanish Moin two or three hundred yeors 090 it being resurrected in a small way by two young Englishmen, on American ond half a dozen ormed Costa Rican policemen. Tht Simon Leak and
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    Lock icon Scripters trouble by 'godfather' realities
    797 17  -  By Harold Heffernan HOLLYWOOD Whot about "the godfather" as a motion picture? Some 7 million who have bought It in hard and soft covers and countless other borrowers appear more interested in what Hollywood will do with or to it than perhaps any novel since
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      271 17 I l> O .17.141 I NOW SHOWING! n am. l-4ft. a.M A 0.1 S "CtliOi Contra To llirlfa Color (United ArtuU) See "MISS WORLD" to NEWS PICTORIAL.! I'AI'I I 1)1 UH7311 Last Day! No Pre# List! II Mi I.M 4. e.4ft. ».3V ..'A TIME POR LOVE' Mandarin to Scope. Coior
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      151 17 ORGAfMItJATIOIM ORCHARD 17 65 it 8 I Now HhewlDft IN, «.M. I N A 111 Tomorrow Extra Show it 11 am. Poi'i "MMlnttM" Color starring Michael Crawford CATHAV 3 J4OOJ OPENS TOOATI 11 am. I.N. I, IN IN "Days Of VttfriiM" Color Qiullano Otoma Be apt If ODEON 2 1
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    Lock icon POP WRITERS BASE NEW HIT SONGS ON GOD, NOT ON DRUGS
    466 18  -  Ij Roger Doughty MEW YORK The rockers o# America, fully aware that Vice President Agnew has a keen eye scanning the Billboard Tap 40 charts (and an even keener ear glued to a transistor radio) in search of pop
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    Lock icon Talash portrays man's quest for lasting love
    362 18 Talaah. one of the meet expensive Hindi movies ever made, la the human atory of a rich girl* March for true love. Raj Kumar played by Rajendr* Kumar has been brought up to belie** hi one fundamental principle: Never do anything against your
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      1164 19 "**■> television SHMGAPURA P.M. CHANNEL 5 1.05 Opening Announcements, followed by Astroboy 'The Sphinx". Animated cartoon series. 1.30 The Don Knotts Show. A comedy-variety series. 2.30 Tarzan Feature 'Tar ran and The Green Goddess." 44 Big Boss** of the A 1 Capone days, actor Edward G. Robinson portrays again in
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  • Article
    Lock icon Cholera warning by WHO
    133 20 GENEVA Cholera outbreaks which this year hit the Soviet Union, the Middle East and parts of Africa may extend even further in the next few years. The World Health Organisation (W.H.0.) warned here today. Despite suppression of Information by certain countries. 1970 had proved the worst
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      818 20 aiies F2 59 ill SrS s taurus «s» 55 gemmi swa cancer n zm 9 CARROLL RIOHTER'S GENERAL TENDENCIES: Today'® Pall Moon brings considerable activity to most everyone. You would be wise to make use of the energy released to contact people with whom you should have discussions and conferences.
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      22 20 LADIES DAY ft* Vl* 3? as M i fill >C 3> ft er"Ask her what she wants to talk to me aboutl"
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  • WOMEN
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      656 21  -  ANN LANDERS DEAR ANN: Last week oar cat had kittens five of the cutest little things I ever saw. Father said we couldnt keep them because they were too much trouble. I offered them to our neighbours but they all said no thanks. It seems
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      48 21 Cut it out that's what the Americans are doing to shoes. Newton Elkins* rose kid (left) crisscrosses an open vamp. Julianelli strips for afternoon in inky patent (centre), and on the right Elkins laces a dash of lime all the way to the knee.
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    267 22 PEARLY steadiness wot reversed in the latter port of trading when easier tendencies trickled in the Stock Exchange of Moloysia and Singapore yesterday. However under the lead of a handful of sparkling issues, turnover made a significant jump to 1,238,000 against the previous ot 1,109,500 units. Leading established
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    272 22 December first grade rubber buyers doted at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 52 cents per lb., down 1/2 cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. The market ruled lower on disappointing London adviceg ana ranged between 52 and 54)
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    87 22 THB noon prrrea Hlncapore Chlnnr Exchange rtftrrdt) at the Produce waj > Corunnt oil (fob.) balk 60 00 Coronal on (f.o.b.) dram 82.50 Mixed Copra 88.00 Muntok White Pepper ifo.h.) A8TA 100% N.WL ISLM Sarawak Whit* Pepper itob) 86% N W L 172.SO Sarawak HprclaJ Black Pepper (f.ti.h.) H6%
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    260 22 Mr. Keith Granville la to become th« first serving member of BOAC's ftaff to be appointed Chairman of the airline. His appointment, effective Jan 1. was announced recently in the House of Common* In a worldwide message to BO AC staff the present Chairman
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    111 22 BONG KONG Yesterday's ft p.m. currency rales (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Bayers) (Sellers) 196 197 per 100 Straits dollars 146 148 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 6.76 6.776 per Australian dollar S4O 360 Der 1.000 Burmese kyatc 455 475 per 1.000 Indian rupees 149 164 per
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    692 22 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Koala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday INDUSTRIALS Aema 1.22 1.28 AliriornoU) 2.0S Ajoan 126 1.32 Allied Choc 2.61 2 86 Be*. 89 Mi Berjaya I-Oti ItJ Borneo id 1-59 1.89
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    830 22 BUSINESS done tn and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets fn lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS A lean $1.28 <l>; Ben. 88 eta. (1); Berjaya $lO7 (7); DIM $1.09 (5);
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    58 22 (Manager Prices for Dec. 14) AM* I'Nil Till M. Invest Mind in i n M'*la Pro*. 1.03 1.08 CIIAKI ICKt-.l) I'NI'I TR18TH 8.O. Fund 0M 103 SINOAPOKP. I'MI TKI'HTX 2nd s'pore 1.88 3rd H'pore 1.18 Com. Ind .96 l.Olxd Thr -mlnr Mind 1.01 100 8.P. Hind 9ft 1.00
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    332 23 CYDNEY Mining shares on Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday appeared to shrug off a recent pounding and close the week on a firm note. Nowmc after Hm' market opened on Hie brightest note teen this week, tellers made their pretence felt and tent pricet tumbling across
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    548 23 AKKI\ AI.B 1-45 aiu MX ltd Kama l.umpur 8 M>t jM Madras 7JO I Ilk MsA lies Kuala Luuipur •.SO a.m. MsA 4Mr Koala luuipur 1030 a m MS A 44* Kicblag 11 05 a.m M»A 4.V1 Pricing. Koala Lumpur 11..t0 am Ms.% 2IM Jakarta 1.20 pm. MSA
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    108 23 NEW YORK Gold prices rose in routine trading on markets here and abroad Thursday. London gold slipped 121 UJS. cents at the morning fixing but added 17J US. cents for a second fixing of 57.15 CiS dollar per troy ounce. Paris gold gained 18 US, cents
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    36 23 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 821.06 20 Ralls 157.82 15 Utilities ***** 65 Stocks 262.54 40 Bonds 68.10 Commodity futures index 143.40 down 0.50
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    13 23 THE tin price for yesterday was $633.00 D«r picul down $lOO.
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    332 23 In Kajima, about 100 kilometres east of Tokyo, 10,000 acres of land once covered with barren sand dunes and patches of reed brush, is rapidly being transformed into a huge industrial coin- plex. When competed, the KaJ ma Industrial complex will have a port facility capable
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    171 24 President Nixon hos stressed thot America must eventually establish diplomatic relations with Communist China. In o nationally televised news conference on Thursday, he further said he would continue to ease trade and travel restrictions with Peking. The President emphasized, "We have no plans to
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    117 24 TOKYO Japan may be forced to adopt an "incomes" policy to hold down spiraling wage and price increases. Prime Minister Eisaku Sato said yesterday. I'm afraid the government might have to adopt an incomes policy under the circumstances." Sato said. Although Sato stopped short of
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    44 24 LAGOS--The Organisation of African Unity has pledged increased aid to anti-Portuguese guerrilla groups and called for special measures to unmask and eliminate armed mercenaries in Africa. The council has been meeting since Wednesday to discuss last month's invasion of Guinea.
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    47 24 LONDON Britons yesterday waited anxiously but without great hopes for the outcome of talks to settle the crippling go-slow by electric power workers across the country. The only consolation was that plans to extend the go-slow on Monday had been called off.
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    57 24 This midi with matching boots (South Ame-rican-style) appears to suit tall Sandra Van Geysel. This was one of several creations she modelled in an one-hour show called Bacardi Fiesta, held last night at the Spot Spot in Singapore Hilton. The show, stylishly presented without a compere, was
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    204 24 PARIS Screaming demonstrators have attacked a car taking former British Cabinet Minister Duncan Sandys to a meeting. They smashed lis windows, tore open the door and tried to drag him out on Thursday. "I'm a bit bruised but I'm quite all right."
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