Eastern Sun, 14 December 1970

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents Estd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1522 Monday, December 14, 1970 MC (P) 1616
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  • 715 1  -  By Tony Chandran,Royson Slew jyjORE than 300 people were yesterday made homeless when a fire triggered off by an exploding gas cooker swept through a squotter colony of Towner Road. The fire, wHch storied at about 4.30 p.m. of Kampong Baje r a i spread so
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  • 89 1 Wonder sprinter Chi Cheng of Nationalist China is seen writhing In pain as she collapsed a few metres from the finish of the 400 metres final when she was well in the lead. Apart from depriving her of a sure gold medal in the event and preventing
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  • 296 2 A COMMITTEE to moke recommendations for better salaries and working conditions in the Police Fbrce hcs been appointed. This was announced by the Minister for Home Affairs, Prof. Wong Lin Ken, when he addressed police cadets at SAFTECH Camp, Jalan Kayu, yesterday. Dr.
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  • 159 2 THE body of a preuniversity student. Wee Pen* In, 21, reported missing while swimming off Changl beach, was recovered three hours later by life-guards yesterday. Wee of Toa Payoh Estate went ior a swim In the company of his brother-in-law and his two children
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  • 206 2 Ttw Ministry of Communications Has decided to crack down on Telecoms messengers who are givinq the Department ami Civil Serrice a bad name by making unauthorised collections and soliciting donations on the eve of various yearend festivities. The Ministry. In a statement released yesterday. sa d a
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  • 77 2 Mr. Eu Thim Pan has rightly earned the title of "The Snake Man." Here he is seen with some of his deadly pets entwined round his head. This chilling demonstration was given by Mr. En, now in his Ws, at the Second National Pugilistic
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 90 2 Around town 6.M t.m. to 16.30 nan. Red Cross Youth Leadership T r a 1 n i ng Coarse st Singapore Red Cross Society Training Centre, Nicoll Drive. 10.00 ajn. Art exhlbltion bj "Six Young Contemporaries" at Tang Chou Art Gallery and Framers, Qutram Park. ill Opening ceremony of artist
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  • 242 3 We will relax labour laws in time Raja The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labour, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, last night assured that controls over labour would be relaxed. But this must be {banned and done sysematlcally so that Improvement In the living standards of workers are genuine and not spurious,
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  • 484 4 LARGEST RAID ON ORGANISED GAMBLING WASHINGTON—Attorney General John Mitchell has announced that federal agents had staged the largest co-ordinated raid on organised gambling. They struck simultaneously at iports betting operations in 26 cities. All kinds of sports were involved, although more than half the raid* involved professional
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  • 255 4 /CANBERRA Australia will give Singapore and Malaysia Ss6o million in defence aid over a three-year period. Foreign Minister William McMahon and the Minister for Defence, Malcolm Fraser, announced yesterday that the aid will be for equipment and the training of more than
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  • 117 4 NEW YORK Discrimination against oriental Americans in New York has almost disappeared, according to a survey published in the New York 'Times' yesterday. What has replaced It among the young is a search for Identity and a rejection of the traditional ways of their elders.
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  • 168 4 JAKARTA Two ships carrying clothing, food and medical supplies headed for two small islands in North Indonesia yesterday. Landslides and floods there have killed 82 people and left thousands homeless. 28,284 homeless A spokesman of the North Celebes Representation Office announced that at least 40
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  • 85 4 The U.S. Defence Department yesterday announced promotions for James Modivitt (right) as the first astronaut general and colonel Joanne Holm as the first woman general in the Air Force. Modivitt commanded the Apollo 9 mission on earth orbit in March last year. Mrs. Holm, is
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  • 171 4 PHNOM PENH A powerful government column yesterday stormed and recaptured a vital hill on the outskirts of Batheay Village and reopened the Route Six highway to the main northern front. However, fierce fighting was continuing north of Batheay Village, 30 miles northeast of the
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  • 61 4 PALM SPRINGS, California Singer Nancy Sinatra. 30. married producer- choreographer Hugh Lam pert 40, on Saturday with the Vatican apparently granting special dispensation for the ceremony to be held in church Nancy was previously married to singer Tommy San<i and Lampert. recently divorced, haa two children. Permission
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  • 336 5 CANAAN, Connecticut Connecticut authorities have enlisted the aid of New Hampshire and New Mexico police to hunt for an honour boy scout suspected of killing his mother, grandmother, brother and sister. Police have set up stake-outs at several campgrounds. A family ski lodge
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  • 53 5 TOKYO Japan last year established a new world record In the number of traffic death* per 1.000 cars at 1.7 persons. the Prim* Minister's Office announced yesterday. Japan came second in the absolute number of motor accident deaths with 17.492 persons, against 52,924 persons In
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  • 64 5 TOKYO Japanese experts on Chinese affairs met yesterday In Hong Kong to discuss the changing Chinese situation with the rlew of adjusting Japan's policy to the change. They are renewing the latest moves the Peking Government and the Taiwanese situation after hearing reports from officials
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  • 177 5 PRAGUE A Czechoslovak government commission has beamed a woman signal operator for the dawn crash on Friday of the Panonla Express in which 31 People were killed. She has now been detained for Lnvestication. According to the report of the investigating commission, the woman,
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  • 172 7 "OOGOTA, Colombia Ninety-three people ore officially declared missing ofter an avalanche swept a score of cars and buses into a swift-flowing river neor Bogota. However, unofficial reports put the death toll at around 200. The landslide on Saturday roared down the steep valley f.ope of
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  • 77 7 MIAMI BEACH. Florida Narcotic* agents have Intercepted one of the largest drug shipments In history. They seized between Ss63 Ss69 million in heroin smuggled in from South Africa In Christmas wrappings. Four persons, one a woman and the other three Argentine nationals, were arrested. One
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  • 36 7 RIO DE JANEIRO The Brazilian Government has renewed its call to the kidnappers of Swiss Ambassador Giovanni Bucher to produce a list of prisoners they want exchanged for the diplomat's life.
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  • 204 7 CAIRO The Egyptian Armed Forces fiave ended a 4-day crash training programme using new advanced weapons supplied by Russia, government sources disclosed. Bources said "Exercise Roar," which ended last Friday, was designed to test Egyptian combat readiness after four months of rigorous training
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  • 143 7 PARIS The Paris City Council has come under mounting attack as it wavered over its previous decision to rename one of the capital's most famous landmarks after General de Gaulle. An opposing committee has warned that it would intervene in the next
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  • 69 7 Fist fights broke out while eggs, stones and red paint were hurled between right-wing and leftist elements on the outskirts of Bonn on Saturday. The right-wing protestors were demonstrating against Chancellor Willy Brandt's policy of detente with East Europe. Police above move in to break up a
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  • 128 7 LONDON A farmer, mad at Britain's powerplant workers whose pay dispute had blacked out much of the nation, has punched one of their union officials on the David Frost Television Show. r~— As millions of viewers watched, John Medlicott, 50, a burly farmer, strode
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  • 56 7 NEW YORK Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Daya n ha* declared that Israel is unwilling to negotiate with the Arabs except on equal term. He pointed out that Israel must rely on Itself because neither the United Nations nor America had been able to guarantee Its security
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  • 130 7 RAMSGATE, England A man who daimui he had mated a cat and dog and produced "Data" yesterday confessed that it was ell a hoax. In an interview with the 'People' newspaper, pet store owner Roy Tuit added, "I suppose 1 was a born practical joker."
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

  • 708 8 yUN Abdul Razak makes his first foray in w, International politicking as the Prime Minister of Malaysia when he arrives in Bangkok today. Thailand and Malaysia are very close friends for long but for the first time the new Prime Minister who took office in September will have
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  • 849 8  - Whose economics By Max Lerner If you try to make sense of the see-sowing Nixon economic policies you will end ir. madhouse. After pursuing the gcds of high interest rates, dear money and an economic squeeze, here we are running after the anti-gods of cheap money and economic expansion. After
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  • 352 8  -  By Elizabeth Hawley, The p os t-monsoon climbing season in the Himalayas has ended with an impressive, though not recordbreaking, score of six first ascents and only two failures. Six of the eight expeditions were from Japan and one each from France and Britain.
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  • 756 9  -  By Tom Cullen LONDON Rolls-Royce, Hie proudest name in British engineering, fills the overage Briton with os much owe and admiration os the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London. The shock if Rolls-Royce were to go bankrupt would be like the
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  • 560 10/11 Lion heads for show Two large lion heads and several Buddha masks used for the traditional Lion Dance a personal gift from Mr. Runme Shaw were presented last Saturday to Mr. Denis Mainwood. Mr. Mainwood, the Singapore Students' Liaison Officer in South Australia will have the lion heads
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1142 12 i if i />i i /4 1 f 'i t u C*****Z21 CHANNEL 5 Opening Announcements, followed by General Hospital—Daytime serial about the staff and the patients of a hospital Indian Classical Dance (Repeat) A Diary Of Events In Singapore This Week (Tamil) It's Happening In Singapore—A series on the
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  • 614 13  -  By Dick Kleiner, There couldn't be a worse time to be on the threshold of major stardom, because somebody took the door away and there aren't any major stars any more. a €ne ac k r an f problem. He has Had a procession of
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  • 376 13  -  By Harold Heffernan For an actress who hasn't had much screen exposure the past few years, Shirley Madaine suddenly comes up with two smashing publicity breaks that' got her well bock into newsprint. The first, while winning attention, marked up a loss of
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  • 313 14 What is a teenager? A teenager is a boy or girl who between thirteen and nineteen years of age. The teenage 'life' is not bed of roses. They have many, huge hurdles to skip over. The teenage period can be described as the stage of a
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  • 421 14 THERE are many definitions of the word 'colour*, the most common being one of the constituents into which white can be decomposed. The six letter word Is widely used In the world of nature. It thus plays an Important role. In the animal kingdom, colour differentiate animals
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  • 1009 14  -  By a London correspondent LONDON—The sixth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting was held recenNy in Tokyo Japan. Yes you're right—it didn't make headlines although it concerned international affairs on a continent some five-and-a-half million square miles in area equal to the area of the United States and
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    • 195 14 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe Tfce Eastern Sun's ttuy writing contest for boys end girls of 14 end under (Junior) end boys end girls over 14 (Senior) eppeers in this pege from Mondey to Friday. Ptbe money Is: $lO for Seniors and $5 for tun tor 11 for every «uy
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  • 584 15 Choosing fashion gifts for women has never been much of a problem. As long as you J cnew your giftee well, there was C*mitlcss choice in accessories, fancy robes, jewellery and whatever was the popular fad of the moment, such as the hairpiece this
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  • 646 15  -  ANN LANDERS Dea r Ann: I am writing In response to the woman who asked, "Must a parent die before his children appreciate him?" I am a teen-ager who It asking the same question—in reverse. Does a kid have to die before fcfe parents
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  • 129 16 MONTREAL Montreal police have seizeu more than 100,000 issues ol Scanlan's, a radical American magazine, adding another chapter in the magazine's fight to put out it's October issues, which contain'* an article on how to make bombs. Six thousand copies, the only ones outside Canada, were seized
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    • 757 16 aiies F2 taurus a genrani m 13 cancer a r, 30 SsS? mm GT CARROLL RIOHTER'S M m s GENERAL TENDENCIES: After a Blow earlymorning start In which some Important plans seem to be upset, you reach an Improved tempo by 12 noon. You are then able to get together
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    • 14 16 "He'd have it madel if only the horses he] picked were as fast' asthewomcnr
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  • 608 17 Market review Damp conditions prevailed in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore last week. However business was generoliy better compared to previous week's with most shares pointing up. The partial lifting of counters formerly restricted to immediate dealings and the latest listing in the
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  • 520 17 ARKIVALB I.4ft am MSA Its Koala Lompur. 7*o a m MSA 580 Colombo. K Lumpur. 730 a.m MSA 183 Kuala Lompur. 9.30 a.m MSA 458 Kuala Lumpur. ll.Oftam MS\ 454 Prnang. Koala Lumpur. 11 50 a m MSA 803 Jakarta. 130 p.m MSA 451 KucbIng. B Oft p.m
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  • 221 17 So y Corporation next Saturday will introduce their latest 8 teroe phonic innovation the M 4-Channel Quadradial Stereo System" Into Singapore which will certainly arouse Interest amongst stereo enthusiasts and audio fans here. This "surrounded stereo" really U a musical contraption of four speakers and
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  • 479 17 SYDNEY REVIEW SYDNEY The speculative on Sydney stock exchange this week was another disaster area. Rises were far and few between and the fall* were of gigantic proportions in some stocks. Traders have now become bearish as was shown in the treatment to Selcast's nickel strike and
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  • 76 17 The manager of the Kuala Lumpur office of Cathay Advertising Limited, Mr. Chris A. Arthur, has recently been appointed a full Director of the Company. Mr. Arthur, 32, first joined Cathay Advertising in Singapore in 1963, as Art Director. In 1964, he was assigned to the Agency's newly
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 47 18 This pictur« of the photo-finish in the 100 metro sprint at the Asian Games in iangkok Sunday dearly shows Japan's Masahide Jinno (top) winning by the closest of margins from Thailand's Anat RatanapoJ. Singapore's Canagasabai Kunalan (between them) is seen earning his bronze medal.
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    • 122 18 MUNICH British Olympic athlete Lillian Board's 22nd birthday party has been called off because there has been a dramatic worsening of her condition In the clinic where she Is being treated for oancer, her sister said Sunday. Lillian's twin sister Irene said sh e was •hocked at the
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    • 243 18 BANGKOK India's hockey team, the champions of the 1966 Asian Games, ran away to a 6-0 victory over Ceylon here yesterday. The result left the unluckly Ceylonese without a single goal after their third and final match In the preliminary games at the 1970 Aslad.
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    • 135 18 LAHORE Intlkhab Alam will lead the Par klstan cricket team against the Rest of the World XI in the East Pakistan cyclone victims relief match. It was announced here yesterday. The four-day match will be played In Karachi, starting on December 18. LA. Khan,
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    • 100 18 JOHANNESBURG Second-seeded Bob Maud Sunday won the men's singles title in the South African closed tennis championships by beating seventh seed Terry Ryan 4-6, 6-2, 7-5. Maud rallied in a drab match after dropping the first set to take the second set easily with some
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    • 311 18 TCANGKOK The most sought after competitor in the Sixth Asian Games here is Singapore's hockey player, Farouk Marican. Farouk, who is now in 'hiding/ is being sought by newsmen not for his hockey but because of his age. Farouk's date of birth is registered in
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    • 215 18 CANBERRA New Zealand featherweight boxer Toro George hammered Australian champion Ken Bradley to a halt after six rounds hero Sunday to win the vacant British Commonwealth title. The referee stopped the scheduled 15-round bout at the end of the sixth on advice from the
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    • 103 18 PARIS The International Automobile Federation Sunday fbrmally presented the 1970 Formula One World Champion Rivers Trophy to the widow of Austrian Jochen Rlndt. No other Formula One driver managed to top Rindt's 45 points during the season in spite of his death at the trials for
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    • 144 18 FREEPORT, Bahamas Dough Sanders fired a 68 Sunday to take a twostroke lead over Chris Blocker after 54 holes of the 130.000 U.S. dollar Bahama Island Open golf tournament. Arnold Palmer, seeking to win his first tournament of the vear, blew to a 75 when he took a
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    • 76 18 ARLINGTON, Texas Quarterback James Hamilton guided Arkansas State to its 14th straight win Saturday, as the Indians captured a 38-21 Pecan Bowl victory over Central Missouri State. The Indians, the nation's top-ranked small college team, went to the air when the fighting Mules' defence began to
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