Eastern Sun, 2 February 1971

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  • 21 1/24 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents isfti. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1561 Tuesday, February 2, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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  • 106 1/24 ADDIS ABABA Dr. Milton Obote. deposed President of Uganda arrived unexpectedly yesterday. Obote, who has been staying in Tanzania since he was overthrown by the Ugandan Army Commander General Idi A rain a week ago visited the new regime in Mombasa on Sunday
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  • 467 1/24 I>OLICE yesterday almost caught four bank robbers escaping with $106,000 but an error in a radio message enabled them to slip past a police LandRover. As the rnen were speeding away at Boon Lay Road in Jurong in a stolen A/cms 1100, a
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  • 102 1/24 VIENTIANE—The southern Lao town of Luong Phalane has fallen to a heavy Communist attack, the Lao Defence Ministry spokesman said yesterday With roads drying out after the rain v season the spokesman, General Thongphanh Knosky. also reported strong build. up 8 Of communist force* in both
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  • 98 1/24 HOUSTON Stuart Roosa's heart was beating at 132 times a minute when ADOIIO 14 lifted off. Edgar Mitchell's heart rate was measured at 90 beats a minute. Alan Shepard lost his sensor. A Space Agency spokesman said S hepa rd's sensor probably can be
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  • 670 1/24 Mystery trouble on Apollo 14 J-JOUSTON Apollo 14 moonmen Alon Shepord ond Edgor Mitchell moy never wolk the barren lunar surface. Trouble yesterday with three docking clasps moy spell foilure for the $51,200 million space mission. Last night the three astronauts probed the cause
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  • 97 1/24 IZMIR, Turkey, Three ships of the American Sixth Fleet left here early yesterday following antl-Amerlcan demonstrations and Incidents, cutting short a scheduled week's stay in Izmir. Since the three landing craft arrived four days ago. windows have been smashed at the offices of Pan
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  • 31 1/24 WEST BERLIN Traffic on the roads linking West Germany with West Berlin 110 miles Inside East Germany returned to norma] yesterday, after five days of East German ly£a.-,s^ent.
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  • 76 1/24 CAIRO Foreign Minister Malimoud Riad said Egypt does not place any particular significance on February 5 the date when the current Middle East ceasefire expires. It is "just another day in the war," he told reporters on his return from visits to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. "The West
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  • 392 2 Singapore Polytechnic will soon be developed into o first class technical training institution which wilt also cater for students from neighbouring countries. This was stated yesterday by the Minister for Science and Technology, Dr. Toh Chin Chye. He hoped students from other countries would
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  • 101 2 A stall-holder wis yesterday fined $5O far scalding his business rival with hot oiL Lim Kim Slah. 35. inflt r to Hie offence at Ms stall at Lor ABC 1, Geyhusr M Jane 19. 197«. He had ear lies claimed trial to an original charte
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  • 95 2 aid his family™* were Nbbed of ISM la cash and property worth $460 bar um BID u they were driving al«« International lead. Jurong, yesterday. Mr. Susumu Sishikimo, 32, an engineer attached to the Jurone SMporard. was *rMa« along International Ran* at 4Jt p.m. when
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  • 43 2 The AM MMCMM Batrd be fiMrt inc Tiimi classes for secondary four students. on February 8 and students who are interested are leqwettort to register at the Vktotit School Centre o» Thursday snd Pride* frsss T M earn, to 1.00 pJB.
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  • 211 2 CHEW Eng Huat, 31, o hawker; was slashed across Hie forehead during on orgumost wrth another hawker yesterday. Enj Huat who sells cooked beef near lane off Malacca Street was admitted to hospital where his condition is reported not serious. LOW CHUAN LYE;
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  • 71 2 Formal evidence were yesierdJhv heard against a man teetaiiveiv charged with the murder of a PUB labourer. Ling Ah Mee alias Ah I.alt, £l, tentatively charged with the murder of K.S. ThangarajalL 55, during an allefea gang robber T on November 27. 1969. Lin* is alleged (too to
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  • 168 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Doctors who faU to comply with tne new legislation enforcing service to the government for two years on first registration will be prosecuted. "Once they are convicted their names would be taken off the register" the M nlster of Health. Tan Sri Hajl
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 117 2 The weather btrtu predicts Isolated i>mn from 6 a.m. to 1Z YESTERDAY Max: Temp: 111 Mia. Temp: 711 Rain: IN Total rain to date: 4.27 Total rain days to date: IT days Simshinr yesterday: O M hows Humidity at 11 p.m. 93 oer eeat l I SINGAPORE TOWN 3 (12
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  • 72 3 A two-year-old boy, who followed his grandmother to a main road to watch vehicles passing by. slipped and (ell into a pond, a coroner was told yesterday. Chua Kian Chuan was later fished out from the 2}-foot-deep pond which was about 30 yards from
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  • 50 3 KUAL.A LUMPUR— Tun Abdul Ra/ak stressed yesterday that the government's policy of increasing Malay participation in commerce and industry would be carried out without denrivIng the legitimate rights and interests of the other communities. He was explaining the objective of the government's new economic policy.
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  • 103 3 The Police Committee formed to review the salary schemes and working conditions of the local police force have extended their deadline for public opinions to February 16. All members of the public, organisations and even police personnel can submit tnelr views In writing or orally to
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  • 65 3 STOCKS of Group "O" blood are still very low though an average of 71 donations has been received per day, a weekly bulletin from the Blood Bank announced yesterday. However, there was an Increase of 33 units of reserve stocks of blood of all groups
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  • 343 3 TWO early morning fires yesterday destroyed property worth $1,232,500. The first blaze occurred 1.55 o m. when fire broke out in the warehouse of Starlight Timber Product (Pte) Limited at Jalan Taman, Jurong. The fire destroyed 18 crates of plywood. Police said the rause
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  • 158 3 KUCHING A plane carrying four pastors of H»« Seventh Day Adventist Church crashed into some telephone poles at a private airstrip in Serian, 49 miles from Kuching, on Saturday. A Civil Aviation Department spokesman said yesterday that there were no casualties. Mr. Richard Hall,
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  • 82 3 TWO overseas students were awarded fellowships for a 12-month research in Singapore by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. They are Mr. Lau Teik Soon from Malaysia and Mr. Soemarsaid Moertono from Indonesia. Mr. Lau, a formal graduate of University of Singapore, hopes to begin
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  • 35 3 KUALA LUMPUR— The Dean of the Faculty of Arts in Universiti Kebangsaan, professor Syed Mohamed Naguib Al-At-tas. left tor Indonesia yesterday on a monthlong lecture tour at the invitation oI universities there.
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  • 84 4 wMI take put a rally I* auk the fWI mt Ik* Cktef See* mi the Ike rally wU take plaee at Ike Ckiaese Hick SekaeL Leri Ckartes MacLeaa kae beea dated wttk tke See* ■MMt wimc* be Jaiaetf it aa a Wetf Oak tm
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  • 424 4 FORMER oil-round sportsman taking morphine to kill pain from injuries sustained in a road accident involving an STC bus ended up as an addict, the High Court was told yesterday. Joseph S Navaratnam, 40, now walks with a severe limp supports himself with
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  • 51 4 The Singapore Ouppy Club will be having a Chinese New Year Dance at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Saturday. Hie highlight of the dauce will be a fashion show aud the presentation ceremony for trophies and certificates won at the International -Ouppv Show held In Berlin and
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  • 124 4 P»rk Trndrrlion at only |2 W a pound is today's best bay Market Prices PORK Pork Fillet $2 AO a pound Minute Steak $2.00 Pork Chop $2.30 Bell* Pork $1.40 Pig Heart $l.BO M Crown Roast $2 U Leg Pork $2.3$ LAMB: Limb leg $1 Ms pound
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  • 291 4 AN outbreak of typhoid so far there are 24 cases confirmed has cleared the Geylang Serai area of all food hawkers. The Health Department ha s banned all food hawkers from operating in the area in an intensive drive to contain the outbreak, at
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  • 52 4 MR S. Thillamnithu has been elated chairman of the Penang Bar Committee at ita annual general meeting. Four lawyer* were elected members while Miss C. S Ong was elt ted secretary The four members arc Mr. K Cheah. Dak AMoolcader Mr. Lit Saiv "ee and Mr. Dav.4
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  • 158 4 FIRST DAY WW» WIN be land m tkc >»nd of this M«tk to conaC service British Amy by Maltniaa ud SingaTV tele is abt tke na■iremir of the day •a which the ftrst of the MJM "locallynHdrd personnel" foiled the army is tm. The hit
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  • 31 4 A coroner yesterday recorded a suicide verdict on the death of a sick man. Tek Kim Koon ST. wtio was found hanqrtn* In k Jalan Parhall hut on January
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  • 415 5 innocent mon was assaulted and fatally stabbed by four youths because the intended victim escaped, the High Court was told yesterday. One of the attackers, Ng Boon Hoe, 19, was sentenced to eight years' jail by Mr Justice Choor Singh, when he pleaded guilty
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  • 104 5 KUCHING Two Communist terrorists, one of them a woman, were killed by security forces In Sarawak's First Division on Sunday. In the early morning encounter with a band of terrorists In the Buklt Bantol area of the Bau district, several other terrorists are believed to
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  • 50 5 KUALA LUMPUR Finance Minister Tun Tan Slew 81n yesterday received four cheques totalling $15,713 for the National Disaster Relief Fund. The cheques were from Kwong Ylk Banking Corporation Berhad (410,000) the Bank of Tokyo ($5,000) and lta staff ($213) and Azman, Wong SaUeb and Co., ($500).
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  • 66 5 KANGAR The Ministry of Agriculture and Lands is to ban Ashing with drag nets, the Minister Tan Sri Haji Ghazali Jawi, announced yesterday. After hearing complaints from coastal fishermen against the use of these nets brought forward by Members of Parliament and State Assemblymen. Tan Sri Ghazali
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  • 236 5 A two-notion airlift last night ended the sad sogo off 87 Australians, New Zeolonders and British emigrants stranded in Singapore. Special Air New Zealand and Qantas flights enabled them to continue their Journey, disrupted last Friday when they found themselves without connecting
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  • 116 5 HONO KONO, The clandestine radio "The Voice of Malayan Revolution" has called on Malayan guerrillas to launch fiercer attacks against their enemy. The radio in an editorial marking the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the Malayan National Liberation Army said: "Our army should further develop the
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  • 250 5 KUALA LUMPUR Trainee nurses will be accepted next year by the Ministry of Health as students and not as employees of the Malaysian government under a new scheme. The scheme is aimed at checking the drain of qualified nurses from government service
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  • 69 5 SUNDAY'S Toto Jackpot prise of $115,000 hat been won by a punter who bought the coupon from the Sims Avenue Toto booth. The first group prize (or this coming Thursday's Toto Draw No. 9/71 will start again with $lOO,OOO and it will be held at the ~TK)
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 49 5 Around town (■M a.m. to 8.N p.m.-* Exhibition of book* by Charles Dlekcn at the foyer of tho National Library. 6.00 p.m. Carnival Trade Fair 1971 at Great World Amusement Park, Kim Sen* Road. 7.30 p.m. Performance by the Hons Kong Sin Ngal Teorhew Opera at the National Theatre.
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  • 179 6 BEIRA, Light Planes ran a chain of relief supplies to the flood-hit Quellmane area of northern Mozambique where thousand* of Africans were reported to be without shelter. Planes landed every few minutes on the one runway now In operation at Quellmane airport. On nearby high
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  • 106 6 NEW DELHI —The passengers and the crew of the Indian Airlines Fokker Friendship plane hijacked to Lahore crossed into India yesterday afternoon at Husseniwala checkpost on the Sino-Pakistan border. Press Trust of India reported Pakistani o ffl c i a 1 s drove the stranded
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  • 342 6 'pEL AVIV Israeli troops raided two Arab guerrilla bases in Lebanon early yesterday morning. Several guerrillas and one Israeli were killed, a military spokesman said here. Three Israelis were wounded. Two Israeli forces thrust across the border and one destroyed a building used as a
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  • 174 6 GAZA CITY, Israeli-occupied territory A bomb planted in the Gasa Strip's main post Office exploded among local Arabs who had come to pick up pay cheques from the Israeli occupation authorities, killing three persons and wounding 20. The explosion blew out the entire
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  • 57 6 MOSCOW The Soviet Union expelled a British exchange student accused of photographing a defence installation, the British Embassy said. A spokesman gave his name as Norman C. Bauer and said his own version of the incident which led to his expulsion was that he was taking a picture
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  • 162 6 BTRAI, Japan Polson gas generated by burning a new type of Japanese building material may have caused the deaths of 10 beauticians in a fire i Sunday, police said I yesterday. Two other women escaped from their se-cond-floor apartments during the Are in this city
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  • 309 6 CANBERRA. Sir John "Black Jack" McEwen yesterday walked away from Parliament House where he spent 33 years fighting for farmers while getting Austral.a's economy otT the sheep's back. A small crowd of tourists and newsmen watched as Sir John turned and waved at the white building.
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  • 453 8 Major flood threat to Aussie towns BYDNET Two towns were Isolated by flood waters yesterday and others were facing a serious flood threat In the eastern half of New South Wales. Gunnedah (pop. 8,000), 300 miles north-west of Bydney, and Moree (pop. 8,290) 414 miles north-west of
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  • 341 8 EXCELSIOR The illicit sex scandal that rocked this little town is likely to make the government drastically rethink its controversial Immorality Act. The latter bans sex across the colour line. The dramatic withdrawal this week of charges under the Act against five white men
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  • Article, Illustration
    73 8 A Bantam anti-tank rocket is seen fired by a Swiss infantryman above during a field test. The Swedish-made rocket has a twomile range. It consists of 3 parts: a 3-pound rocket with starter and main mechanisms with armoured explosives charge; a take-off box used to transport the weapon and
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  • 197 8 NE Y K .'^f.T. ,week ma 9 a n has published a full-page article on Britain s Royal Military Academy and concluded that "for all its dedication to the profession of arms. Sandhurst has fallen on difficullt davs It explained, "Owing 1 to a strongly
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  • 136 8 REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy More bombings, streetfighting and sabotage Have rocked this southern city. One Cabinet Minister called It "a senseless revolt" against a government decision to name rival city capital of a new region. The Italian chief delegate to the Unlited Nations declared the disorders
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  • 32 8 LERIDA, Spain Two people were missing yesterday after an avalanche crashed down on a winter holiday resort In the Pyrenees, in Spain's Lerida Province. Another four people were injured.
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  • 31 8 LONDON Britain was faced yesterday with the prospect of a new strike hitting Ford Motor Company's main plant at Dagenham and anothar week without mall.
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  • 305 9 The Nixon odminist ration at considering pollution tox such os o levy on emissions of oir-pollution sulphur oxides. This is on effort to give industry on incentive to cleonup, President Nixon's Economic Report said yesterday. The report was prepared by the President's
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  • 170 9 LOS ANGELES A 17-yeoroM youth has bttn shot dead and eight people injured as demonstrators rampaged through East Las Angeles streets an o stona and bailie throwing spree. Trouble flared in East Los Angeles after 5.000 Mexican-Americana staged a protest rally against alleged police brutality.
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  • Article, Illustration
    53 9 She asi saij stkcri were involved is a massive reclamation project la the 11.8. With the increasing psß-sst of Amriiu Iftei from Sooth Vietnam, business at Saigon bars hasn't been too good. Pic tore shows shapely bar girls try to attract a couple of rather dubious GTs into
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  • 119 9 KIEL. Genut PMr East Germans JwH their skip when M was Inside the Holtenan Isek In the KM Canal. They have asked West German authorities tor political asylnm, police said. A spokesman said the four, a !7->ear-«M MChanie, his 24-year-old wife, their foor-yearold daughter and
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  • 39 9 GENEVA Thousands •f Czechoslovak refugee. in Western Europe an a North America have become victims of blackmail and intimidation bv the Prague government. This was claimed by the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA) yesterday.
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  • 116 9 WASHINGTON lep. Bella Abanf. Df»«-erst-New T«rl, nid If there were tMrik member* «f her ■ex IB Centres* the aatton (NW pat end n war. They >IM create a aatleaal health prapuuM ud provide tin cnt hoaxing far every American Mr*. Ahrar. worn la
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  • 239 9 MONTREAL An 1!-mon communist Chinese diplomatic delegation koi orrired in Chine to sot uo on embouv. The* arc the first emissaries of Mao TseTUng to arrive in North tung to arrive in North America. The delegation, headed by Chai je d'AfTaires Hie
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  • 205 9 LOS ANGELES Parents of the hippie girls convicted in the Sharon Tate murder trial yesterday pleaded with the jury for the Uvea of their daughters. The girls. Patricia Krenwinkel, 23, Susan Atkins, 22, and Leslie van Houten. 21, and theii hippie cult
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  • 401 10 POST ELECTION PAKISTAN PAKISTAN'S post-election problems which 1 Include the drafting of a constitution and the establishment of parliamentary government are just beginning to surface. Zulflkar Ali Bhutto, an extreme pro-Peking leftist, emerged as the leader of West Pakistan while Sheikh Mujbir Rahaman, a moderate socialist, swept the polls in
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  • 221 10 fTHE dropping of charges under the Immo- rallty Act against Ave white men and 14 African women in the small town of Excelsior in South Africa at first appears as a liberalization of Pretoria's racist policy. The Immorality Act makes It a crime for a white person to
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  • 891 10  -  By THOMAS WOLFE 'jpHE principal problem in Soviet foreign policy in Asia todoy remains that of averting outright war with China. The arsenal of modern arms at Soviet disposal doubtless permits surgical" strikes at vital Chinese installations. The prospect however of becoming bogged down In
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  • 292 10 SUN SOAPBOX ""ASFM T REFER to reports recently regording the dismissal of four police officers. A "senior civil servant" alleged that his suits, liquor and magazines were stolen by police officers who had gone to his house to investigate a burglary. One of these
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  • TODAY'S WORLD
    • 810 11  -  h ALAN RAKE GEMINI. TIfHQ4 Prtsidert Milton Obote left for the Commonwealth Premiers' Conforesee Sif poie it hod olreody been 4mdim4 Ai wmmo ve General Idi Amin from fcii peat m Amy Commander. The dfaaa of Kampala, Uganda's capital, apßlWa Jnamdctm.
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    • 666 11  -  By FRED MPANGA Dear Mm Exile. After nensfy fire years of it 1 fed I can give you some advice an Hfe In exile. There are nun Asa and don'ts. things h expect and things Tt'bahvlth, should yon now feci tty urge to write Bare
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  • 610 12/13  -  From Bob Gates GEMINI. YIfHATEVER happened to the airship? It it alive again and well for the growing number of scientists and business experts who are planning the new revolution in world transport. During the Twenties and Thirties airships made hundreds of
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  • 450 12/13 By DICK WEST WASHINGTON A month has passed since 1. along with millions of other Americans, gave up cigarette c o m m e rcials. 1 don't know whether my case is typical, but I still miss them like crasy. The time I want a
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  • 74 12/13 The peoplewatchers have arrived. They're Eastern Sun cameramen with Itchy shatter fingers. They're on the prowl for people to capture them on film. We will share oar People Watchers' people with you every Tuesday. I It pays to advertise Lunch time: curry and rice on the five-foot
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  • 746 14  -  FROM TOM TIEDE is o tavern owner m Philadelphia who has been burgled, vandalised or help up an average off twice a month for the last two years. it hos cost him thousands of dollars in loses and repairs. But what really
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  • 50 14 Heavy snow In Washington all bat obscures the Jefferson Memorial Hall and rives the area bleak, deserted look. In spring and summer the Memorial Is flanked by avenues of Japanese cherry blossom trees and Is one of the chief tourist attractions of the city.
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  • 455 14  -  LAWRENCE E. LAMB, M.D. DEAR Dr. Liib I am recuperating from losing two lobes of my lungs. My questions and comments concern tive permission granted in hospitals today to smokers wtoo pollute the air we breathe. WHY? WHY? WHY on earth la It allowed
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  • 90 16 TAIPEI Wang Lai, Mandarin aim actress from Hong Kong on location In Taipei for a .mrordwoman picture, yesterday frightened a Samurai knife-wield-ing burglar out ot her hotel room by her screams Scored was scared to deaUk and screamed and screamed," she was quoted as saying She la
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 755 16 aiies taurus i £2 3 m CARROLL RIOHTER'S GENERAL TENDENCIES: A day when nothing carefully planned —> to work out as you wish. Bat you would be wise to avoid deprcaiton or annoyance at obstacles and delays. However, you also have an interesting and dramatic good fortune arising that can
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    • 18 16 "If yon must play that thing, can you change it from 'lnto each life, tome fain mutt fall?J
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1083 17 today's MBM TV SINGAPURA CHANNEL S P.M. 3.00 OPENINC ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by CENERAL HOSPITAL A daytime serial about the staff and the patients of hospital. 3.20 FOR THE FAMILY A magazine series presented in the National Language. 3.55 A DIARY OF EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (National Language). 4.00 IT'S
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  • 823 18 QNE has often heard the saying that an Indian who leaves his hometown and travels to another part of Indio is in a situation similar to that faced by a European tourist in Turkey. The differences in language, customs and even food
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  • 466 18 street hawkers ore people who sell food in the open air, setting up their stalls in busy streets. There are plenty of customers ond one hawker does not compete with onother. Among the stallholders, four will sell rice, such as curry rice, chicken
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  • WOMEN
    • Article, Illustration
      319 19  -  Br Florence de Santis QNE of the real fashion trends of the past decade has been the rise of knits. It's safe to say that there doesn't exist today a woman who doesn't have a large proportion of knits in her wardrobe. Science and colour have now combined
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    • 291 19  -  Ann Landers Dear Ann: Here's the letter I've been meaning to wiitc for ages. It' is for the ls-year-old who bought two blouses and a sweater and wasn't charged lor the sweater. She thought she saved $ll. When I was 16 (I'm 20 now> I
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 290 20 jgUYERS and sellers put up on equal battle on the industrial front in quiet conditions in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Better grade shares were noteworthy counters. Most of the Issues acquired significant gains in light trading. The day finished off with 1.369,500
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    • 287 20 February first grade rubber buyers doted at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 47-3/8 cents per lb. The tone of the market was easier. The market opened fractionally lower on London advices and slipped farther on dealer hedge selling due to a build-up
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    • 68 20 THE noon pnee* at the »»pore Chinese Produce ange yesterday was: a Coconut Oil (fo.b.) hnlh SOOO Coconut Oil (fo.h.) drum 62.A0 Copra *7.00 Muntok White Asia 100 M.1..W. 170.00 fturuwiik White I'cppcr !Mi% iho.oo laranak Special Hlack 90% N.LW 147.50 Biirawak Anta Black 100% KL.W. ***** Laniponjt Hlack
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    • 123 20 BONG KONG Yesterday's 5 p.m. currency rates (supplied bt Foreign Kxrhange and Investment Ltd.): (Buyers) (Sellers) 195 190 per 100 straits dollar* 146 148 per 1.00« I'amar 'dollar* 6.73 6.75 per Australian doilai 940 36C oer 1.000 Burmese kyats 460 480 per 1,000 Indian mi pees 149 164
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    • 640 20 BID and offer prices officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and KuaJa Lumpur trading rooms of tbe Stock Exchange vesterda? INDUSTRIALS ACMA 145 145 Alcan 1.46 1.47 Allied Choc. 2.95 Ben 1.17 1.18 Berjaya 1.27 1.29 Borneo 1.82 1.83 Boustead 1.98 2.95 C. Plywood
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    • 877 20 BFSINFSS 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 onlti unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS A lean $1 46 (4); Allied Choc $297 <S); Ben $ll7 (1) $llB <2>
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    • 103 20 THE local marketing company for all Philips products. Electronic Supplies, has been awarded the contract to provide a range of highly sophisticated communication equipment for the $3.5 million Dewan Sri Plnang. Electronic Bupplles will deliver and Install a Philips Conference Hall System which will Include background music
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    • 293 21 THE East Asiatic Company Limited has won a $5 mMiaa ca■tract fa tapfly and install five automatic Cimbria padi drying plants at lW Mida River Irrigation Schema for the Federal Agricultural Marketing Antberity. It 1s to enable the authority during the rainy season to undertake
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    • 302 21 SINGAPORE will benefit greatly from the expected tourist boom that will follow the RATA Conference recently concluded in Manila. This was the conviction hotel executive Paul Peralta came away with after attending the Conference from January 21 to 29. Mr.. Peralta. Director of Sales and
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    • 107 21 TWO female staff members of The Chartered Bank in Kuala Lumpur have been promoted to the position of assistant officers. In announcing the new appointments, Mr. Charles McCullodi, the manager of the bank, said that previously all assistant officers in the Kuala Lumpur branch had been men.
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    • 119 21 SEOUL, South Korea yesterday announced an ambitious plan to build 29 electronics manufacturing plants costing a total of U8td1.714.000 Commerce and Industry Minister Nak-Sun Lee said the cost of the plants, which would create a major export Industry, would Include U5537,500,000 In foreign exchange. When
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    • 74 21 BRUNEI Brunei's oil production rdehtd 138,000 barrels a day last rear compared with 125.000 barrels in 196», the Brunei Shell managing director, Mr. R.A.B. C lough said. Speaking at an annual presentation awards ceremony at Sena Oil town, Mr. Clough also disclosed the discovery of a
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    • 43 21 (Manacrr Pries* fw Vrt. t> ssia CNIT TWISTS M. limi 141 I.M MiUs Frog. IN l.lotS CiaSMVKKMJ 1 Ml film Ba. Cud LU bINOAFOKR DKIT IWIMTM ss 257 is rn«S t.IS MS HJ* r«ad i.«e 107 (Haaatcv trie* foraS/l/lt) Mcrtlac g/»
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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  • 929 22 THE following are the rue weight! for the vcekcad ratine ai Prnang. SATURDAY CL. 3 DIV. 3 6 FUR. Glamour Prince 9.00 Panegyric 9 00 Colony Suri 9.00 Pilot 900 Pil Marshal 9 00 Rickshaw Lam 8 13 Sugar Daddy 8 11 Purple Gem 8.10 Bambi
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  • 416 22 H.M.S. Dido, beat PARC by 4 coals to 1. In a soccer friendly played at Bukit Chermin last night. In a clean, fast and exciting game, both the teams displayed classic football much to the delight of soccer fans. PARC playing superb ball control and fine
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  • 68 22 CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand Jun Kamiwazumi and Toshiro Sakai of Japan won their first round matches against New Zealand opponents in the New Zealand Tennis championships here yesterday. Kamiwazumi beat R. Webster 6-1, 6-2, and Sakai toppled P- Bedcroft 6-4, 6-2, 7-6. In the women's
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  • 257 22 MELBOURNE Evonne Goolagong pulled off one of th« biggest victories in her startling rise to tennis stardom when she beat world number one Margaret Court in the final of the Victorian championships yesterday. The 19-year old Aboriginal player clinched a thrilling 7-6. 7-6
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  • 127 22 BUKIT Ho Swee Secondary School triumphed over First Toa Payoh Secondary School, in the City District Badminton Championships 'A' group tie for *C division boys. Bukit Ho Swee won all the three singles and two doubles played at the school hall yesterday. Results Bukit Ho Swee
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  • 206 23 SAN DIEGO, California George Archer, IOM Unit, I#w7 united Masters champion, birdied four successive kotos to clinch a Throe-stroke victory in the *****,000 Andy Williams San Diego Open golf tournament The ft ft. 6 ins. tan Archer was locked in a
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