Eastern Sun, 3 February 1971

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Microfilm: NL6689
Total Pages: 23
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  • Title Section
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    22 1 EASTERN SUN Singajiore s own national daily 10 cents £»td. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1562 Wednesday, February 3, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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    Lock icon SAIGON PARATROOPS INVADE SOUTH LAOS
    335 1 Is top-secret raid underway? IMYSTERY deepened yesterdoy over whot is happening on the war front in Southern Loos. The Japanese KyoHo news ogency reported several t! ousand South Vietnamese paratroopers junrped into Southern Laos on Monday. And in Moscow. Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin claimed "an
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    Lock icon Cyclist hurt
    60 1 Cyclist Oh Chin Seng, 24, when his bicyde and a taxi were in a collision in Upper Thomson Road. was cycling along the 6) mile Upper Thomson Road. An eyewitness said Oh was flung off his bicycle and landed on the roof of the taxi. He was admitted
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    Lock icon LAOS 'INVADED'
    33 1 MOSCOW The government newspaper livestia said a major force of South Vietnamese troops "under the direct command of American officers" had invaded Laos with the aim of capturing its southern provinces.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon CLERK DENIES HE HAD EXCESSIVE SICK LEAVE
    277 2 HIGH COURT DAMAGES SUIT lawyer yesterday told the High Court that former all-round sportsman Joseph S. Navaratnam had not been boarded out of work on medical grounds but had been "made to retire in the public's interest." Mr. C. Arul, representing the Singapore
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    Lock icon 11 women held for protesting before PM's office
    173 2 POLICE yesterday arrested 11 women who demonstrated outside HM Prime Ministers office demanding the release of political detainees. The women, who said they wanted to meet Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, distributed pamphlets to passing motorists and pedestrians outside the City Hall steps.
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  • Article
    Lock icon Brothel keeper fined $500
    170 2 A woman who converted her rented flat into a brothel was yesterday fined $5OO or in default. three months' jail. Attractive Yvonne Maroetl, 23. admitted before the Third District Judge, Mr K T. Alexander. that she turned her flat at Orchard Court Into a brothel for
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    Lock icon New drug menace
    53 2 A new drug abuse has been uncovered by the Criminal investigation Section's Narcotic* Branch. Police have reason to believe that pedlars are pushing a drug "Methaqualone" among dopeprone youths. This followed the arrest of two youths on December 18 last year who were charged with possession of
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      109 2 TV wrattirr bureau predict* fair weather today. YESTHIU>AY Ma* Temp: 84.1 Min. Temp: 71.5 Rain: 0.01 Total rain to date: 4.28 Total rain days to date: 18 days Sunshine yesterday: 3.20 hours Humidity at 11 pm. <JO 00 per cent BfTifiU BINCIAPORF TOWN 337 a.m. (8.8 ft.); i 0.22 a.m.
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  • Article
    Lock icon Have you lost 2 records, a camera ?
    110 3 Have you lost 2 records, a camera Police are unions to contact the person who had lost a Minolta ■ln) camera, one Chinese LP record and one 45 rpm record two months ago. These at tides are still in police custody after a man had heca eoaTicted and sentenced to
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    Lock icon Police shoot wanted thug
    116 3 KUALA LUMPUR A wanted thug nicknamed, "King Cat," was shot In the right arm in a running battle with police la Pudu near Koala Lumpur yesterday morning. The thug, believed to be known as Chow Ken Sang, was later arrested after a car chase. During the
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  • Article
    Lock icon Hari Raya: No mail
    135 3 THERE will be no dellvery of letters and parcels on February 6, a public holiday on the occasion of Hart Raya Hajl. The General Post Office and Damsey Road Post Office will be opened from 9 a.m. to noon but all the other post offices will
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    Lock icon BIZARRE SUICIDE
    215 3 Because a mother forgot... J-JOUSEWIFE Madam Lim Chiow Tee, 44, mad* one mistake when she locked up her flat before going to the market early yesterday. She left the keys behind on the kitchen cupboard within reach of a sick daughter she had wanted to keep indoors for
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    Lock icon THE TRISHAW'S LAST STAND-AT A HOTEL
    220 3 TRISHAWS The dying mode of manpower transport will find a permanent place in the Hotel Royal when it opens on September 1. The $lO million 16storey hotel will engage In a shopping spree to buy used, preferably old trishaws to stock Us novel Trishaw
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    Lock icon U.S. pianist to help raise funds
    187 3 KUALA LUMPUR American pianist Jennette Haien la coming to Koala Lumpur to help in raising fondi for Koala Lompor'a first "city piano." The concert piano from Japan costing aboot $15,000 will be presented to the city of Koala Lompor. The campaign to collect the
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    Lock icon Restless mother kills herself
    184 3 A mother of seven suffering from insomnia plunged to her death from a six-floor flat in Lengkok Bahru. This was related In the Coroner's Inquiry yesterday by one of her sons, Abdul Rahman bin Aziz, 24. He had kept observation on her till 2.05 a.m. on
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    Lock icon Bomb blast at police station
    64 3 A parcel placed on a window still outside the Central Police Station at South Bridge Road exploded at 10.30 p.m. on Monday. No casualties or damages were reported after the blast. However, police found torn pieces of paper and many small pieces of lead smelling
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    Lock icon PUB MAN TELLS OF $124,000 PAYROLL GRAB
    333 4 A Public Utilities Boord cashier yesterday told of how three men armed with revolvers held him and two officers and escaped with $124,000. The money was Hie payroll for workers waiting to cele- brote DeepoYoli. Lee Teng Poh was giving evidence in a
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    Lock icon FOOD glorious FOOD
    117 4 C.rrrn Pea s at sl*o a pound in today's best buy. Market Prices:— NEW ZEALAND BEEF: Fillet Steak $4.70 a pound Rob Soast $2.20 Veal Chops $1 80 Breast Veal $l.OO Ox t.iver $l.OO N Ox Tail $1 28 Calves Kidney $1 AO Scotch Steak $2.60 Porthouse
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    Lock icon FIRECRACKER BAN LIFTED
    60 4 The ban on fireworks and crackers will be lifted today at 19.09 p.m. till 2.9# p.m. t—writ. The lettlag-nff is allowed U thsse above 16 years old at the 15$ desigaated areas indicated by flags and In the presence of police. Police also remind car owners not
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    Lock icon GEYLANG SERAI RE-DEVELOPMENT STARTS TO ELIMINATE TYPHOID OUTOREAKS
    294 4 THE Government hi already started redeveloping th# lowlying Geylsng Serai area, tha target o# Hie current typhoid outbreak. It announced yesterday that most of the re-development schemes for the area are still In the blueprint m Initial work would be on major
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      54 4 Around town 6 a.m. to 8 p m —Exhibition of books by Charles Dickens at the (oyer of the National Library. 6 p.m Carnival Trade Fair 1971 at the Great World Amusement Park, Kim Seng Road. 7 34) o m Performance b v the Hong Kong Sin Ngai Teochew opera
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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      137 5 I new fastback ✓✓x *r v vV v. ■f0 V D |k I lb Find out how ft feels when Honda marry high performance to prestige. In the new Honda 1300 Coupe. Outstanding performance from speeds up to 110 mph, with acceleration to match. Inside and out it has the
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  • Article
    Lock icon JAPAN TO BEEF UP NAVAL STRENGTH
    223 6 r |X)KYO Japan's Army and Air Force will grow slowly during the next 10 years, but the Navy may be expanded, Yasuhiro Nakosone, Director-General off the SelffDefence Agency said yesterday. In statements at a question session of Parliament Mr. Nokosone said: The Japanese Army
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    Lock icon Ex-wife's wrath on a house
    111 6 JAKARTA A former wife of the late Preaideat Sukarno has t«ae om trial here on charges ef wilful destructioa of private property. Madame Haryati. 29, is charged with having sent several employees to wreck a house she had lived in when she was one of
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    Lock icon Illegal jail
    28 6 AMMAN Security men have found a prison run by a Palestinian emmando organisation Amman and arrested eight prisoners and their guerrilla guards, the government announced yesterday.
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    Lock icon SATO WEEPS OVER UNUSUAL SUCIDE
    250 6 TOKYO Prime Minister Eisaku Sato was moved to tears in the Diet (Parliament) by the description of a young factory worker who killed herself because she was diseased b* excessive amounts of cadmium in her body. The ▼ictlm. Takako Nakamura. 28. killed heraalf 1B 1969
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    Lock icon Vietcong playing it quiet now
    160 6 PHNOM PENH NO contact with Vietcong or North Vitfionr forces ba« been reported by Cambodian troops carrying oot sweeping operations around Phnom Penh and along the banks of the Mekong Hm northeast of the capital, the High Conunand said yester- "We just (pal know why
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    Lock icon Police fire to dear Manila Streets
    279 6 MANILA A police Mn was shot in tfci chest and at least 20 slhw people were injured in fierce clashes with students and jeepney driven pretesting against feel prices. Most of the casualties were from a battle at the Philippines State University at nearby;
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    Lock icon NO. 128 IN UN?
    63 6 UNITED NATIONS The Security Council was expected to meet Wednesday to take up the membership application to the United Nations of the tiny Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. Bhutan, population 800,000. ȟbmitted the application early in January through I nd and would become the U.N.'s 128 th
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    Lock icon THE TRUCE IS ALMOST OVER
    114 7 Israeli patrols out in force and in Cairo, car lights are. being pa airatfl iittli aa°™the eaat kaak af the BMI Ca- ICTPt kaa wlwtel miwh tar the MMmm mi Hi am* reaero la cue tcbttec kreaka eat aa Friday Armfc fverrlßaa ate •eea»M ky
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    Lock icon Children duck as Amin's men attack house
    207 7  -  •y Nicholas Moore 1/AMfALA CfciMrw «no Kompola nursery school by on Hie floor today at barely 50 yards away armoured personnel carriers poured machine gun fire into a house. I watched as troops ringed the house, apparently flushing out resistance to the new
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    Lock icon Ecuador asks U.S. to quit over tuna war
    73 7 WASHINGTON Ecuador ha* asked Che United States to withdraw its military mission. The move was a result of the fishing right controvers* between the two countries. The Ecuadorian decision was announced by the country's Foreign Minister Jose Maria Ponce Yepez. It came
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    Lock icon French sub, trawler in collision
    65 7 BREST, France The Ffceneh nuclear submarine Redoubtable has been in a collision with a trawler off the coast of Western France, the K«T» revealed yesterday. Naval headquarters said the submarine continued on its course, but had no detail* of any damage it may have suffered.
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    Lock icon Pre-dawn raids
    24 7 TOKYO Police stated 25 pre-dawn raids throughout Tokyo yesterday on extremist leftwinfi organisations. Five student* were arretted anH 1 366 weapons confiscated.
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      72 7 BIG CASH JACKPOT WON! 11l LAST SUNDAY'S DRAW NO: 8/71 SWGAPOMC TOOLS (PTC) LTO. N? *****70" it rjOD □□□it □□□£<□ □□i W* vH+amtm THIS KMT lON Of TMC COUPON WU.L M MTMNtO M THf COMPANY'S iddRDDQ^C I A' r Vs;.l FOR TOMORROWS DRAW NO: 9/71 (4*2-71) the Ist Group CASH
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Fashionable ragtime
    77 8 A leery line-up of designer Jacques Esterel's mannequins parade together at his fashion show recently in Paris. The above picture shows the theme of his Spring and Summer Collection. In a blaze of colour, these ready-to-wear outfits consist of scanty one-piece pantsuits (already nicknamed, 'Nothing Pants'). The girls
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    Lock icon UN Assembly next year in Geneva?
    270 8 NEW YORK If Hie current harassment of United Notions' missions in New York continues, the General Assembly may decide to hold "o protest meeting" away from New York in Geneva next year. However, such a three-month session might incur disproportionate costs in secretarial, conference
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    Lock icon $4,200m BALANCE OF PAYMENTS SURPLUS FOR UK
    145 8 LONDON Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber hat disclosed that Britain would have a balance of payments surplus of 554,200 million from 1970. He Indicated this would help It enter the Common Market. In a speech to foreign bankers at London's Oulldhall, Barber
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    Lock icon READY FOR ANY TROUBLE
    61 8 R E G G IO CALABRIA. Italy New barricades, higher and stronger than before, have been set up in this riot torn city as leaflets calling for a massive demonstration yesterday littered the streets. A total of 140 security police had earlier searched 22 houses belonging
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    Lock icon RISKY PILL IS STILL POPULAR
    87 8 LONDON Women will still use the piU even though their blood group makes It a higher risk, according to a Family-Planning Association official. Mrs. Helene Grahame, the Association's Assistant Director, made the comment on Sunday after a new report of a link between the pill
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    304 8 Karachi schools student unrest closed after KARACHI Schools and the university in Karachi have remained closed by magistrate's order after student violence last week. The riots were over language rivalry between Urdu, Pakistan's national language, and Slndhl, which the original Inhabitants of Sind province speak. RIO DE
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    Lock icon MANSON GIRL SCREAMS AT HER MOTHER
    380 9 'She was a good girl' T OS ANGELES Anguished parents yesterday mode emotional attempts to save their three convicted hippie daughters from the gas chamber. They ignored the girls' otfempts to spurn them. Patricia Krenwin- kel, one of the trio facing a possible death
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    Lock icon Frazier socks it to 'em—via music
    72 9 Being world Heavy weight champion involves hard work. And when you soon have to face Cassias Clay in a match that will make boxing history, at least financially, the work gets tougher. Joe Frasier takes time off from his heavy schedule to sing with
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    Lock icon Trudeau claims Singapore meet averted a war
    221 9 OTTAWA Canodion Prime Minister Pierre Trudeou believes the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference may hove helped overt "general racial war" in Africa. Reporting to Parliament on the Conference and his Asian tour, Trudeau said he was pleased Canada was able to help prevent a
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    Lock icon 14 NATIONS OKAY TERRORISM TREATY
    192 9 WASHINGTON The Organisation of American States (0.A.5.) tentatively agreed on a treaty to combat terrorism against diplomats yesterday. But the effectiveness of the agreement waa put In doubt by a walkout of six Latin American nations. Three othem were absent, diplomatic observers said. Argentina and
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    Lock icon Operations suspended
    45 9 ROME—Surgery at Rome hospitals has been suepended for a month be* cause as anaesthetist# are on strike to back demands for battel working conditions. The anaesthetists plan to continue their action throughout February, but skeleton staff are standing b v for emergency operations.
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    Lock icon THE NEW SPIRIT
    709 10 n N A P ril 12 WW. the late Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Oagarln rode Vostok i into space to become the first man to orbit round the earth. About three months earlier John F. Kennedy had become the President of the United States. It became clearly evident
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    Lock icon ARMS DISPUTE COMPROMISE VITAL TO INDIA
    1093 10  -  reports Ian Tickle from Switzerland JNDIA's attitude to great power involvement in the Indian Ocean area is of necessity complicated. With a left-wing government like that of Mrs. Gandhi in power, there could naturally be no question of assenting to any kind of arms
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  • SUN SOAPBOX
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      Lock icon Employers are on young folk's side
      186 11 SIR: THE National Servicemen (Employment Act) 1970 which makes employers legally obligated to employ National Service Reservists assures employment for time young people. However, it strikes a cord of despair and dismay to fee people who are not affected by the call-up and who
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      Lock icon Moved by young patriot
      107 11 Iwas moved by the story of national nnlwm Joree In the Eastern Sun of 29th January. It is a loss to the nation that such a fine young man should die before he could make a valuable contribution to the country. But Jorce did not die
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      Lock icon Smoking danger in shops too
      121 11 SIR! SURELY the prohibition against smoking In theatres should be extended to cover shops and lifts in public buildings? During the height of the Christmas and pre-Chlnese New Year rushes, local departmental stores were dangerously crowded. Should fire have started because of the carelessness of
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      Lock icon Skidlids lose all purpose..
      50 11  -  A. MUNUSAMY SIR: IT is good to see so many motorcyclists' helmets along the highway. But ghouldn't they be worn properly, securely strapped? Some obviously forget that wearing a helmet unstrapped is as useless as no helmet at all. Surely this too is against the law?
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      Lock icon Tax forms are unintelligible
      110 11 SIRs I try hard to pay my taxes promptly but each time I receive the tax assessment forms from the Comptroller of Income Tax, I groan. Paying income tax la not exactly enjoyable. It's necessary to pay for amenities the Government pro*, vldes. But why punish
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    Lock icon Swinging Teddy on Seafront
    59 11 What in the world did his mother feed hJm on? Five-year-old Heather Sayers tries to work that one oat as she gases at the six foot tall Teddy bear at Brighton's Seafront. Teddy In his swinging tartan shorts was one of the bandreds of toys exhibited
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    Lock icon Vast resources idle in developing countries
    435 11 NEW YORK Developing countries ore using only 25 per cent off their netural resources to improve the living standards of their people and 12.5 per cent off their humen resources. This has been claimed by Paul Hoffman, Administrator of the UN Development programme (UNDP).
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    Lock icon Making up for lost time
    73 12/13 It's never too late to learn Is the rule that this Ageing Indian goes by. In the dim light of a kerosene lamp, tits old eyes piek out the words •o the page, lie is one of the many people in India that have been
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    Lock icon JAKARTA OIL BOOM OFF TO GUSHER START
    908 12/13 International multi-million scramble in the Java Sea JAKARTA The American Atlantic Richfield Company's decision to produce 75,000 oil barrels a day in the Java Sea by 1972 has set what promises to be Indonesia's biggest oil year off to a gusher start. Atlantic
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    Lock icon Oil pact breaks Arab hold
    533 12/13  -  By IAN MACDOWALL BEIRUT A secret agreement In Damascus between Syria's BaathJst government and American oilmen has eased the Arab oil states' recent stranglehold on the world's energy market. At the cost of higher transit fees the American-owned Trans-Arabian Pipeline company (Tapllne) secured Syrian consent
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    Lock icon WHEN THE BURMESE HAVE TO BRAVE BULLETS FOR FOOD
    519 14 JJAN MAE KON KAN, Northern Thailand This remote, border village under towering wats (buddhist temples) is a shoppers' paradise strictly for Burmese people who brave Burmese army bullets to cross the border. The main road of the vilioge Is a dirt
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    Lock icon Restrict your salt intake
    461 14  -  By LAWRENCE E. LAMB, M.D. DEAR DR. LAMB 1 do not use much nit, only white cooking reft table*. Hie rest of my family adds more at the table. Would It be possible to for you to comment In yonr column on the effects of salt?
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    Lock icon India takes to lotteries with a vengeance
    584 14  -  By K. K. DUGGAL Officials tracked down a 14-year-old schoolgirl to her home in a mod hat In the Punjab to tell her that she had become s millionairess. And It had cost her one rupee (4§ cents). Charanjit Kaur had won the
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon KOOPER AND STILLS -GIFTED BUNCH
    603 15 SUPER SESSION (CBS) album isn't exactly too new, but it's such o fabulous one, I figured a belated review is better than none. The LP features KOOPER, STEVE STILLS, and MIKE BLOOMFIELD, and like the sleeve notes say, "it's not very often such a gifted
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    Lock icon Walker brothers stay apart
    187 15 What would hare been the most exciting reunion of the year has after several month* of discussions, neg o 11 atlons and consideration failed to materialise. The plan was to reactivate the Walker Brothers without Gary, who is now living In America, but with Scott and
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    Lock icon PLATTER PETE'S POSTBAG
    152 15 HI THERE! How's the CHINESE NEW TEAR treatinf you groovy onesT Me? Like I rot loads of the RED STtJFF man! Like... Wowsville! Only trouble is, what's In it ain't red! Oh we 11.... you can't win them aIL Please address all correspondence to Platter Pete c/o
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      236 15 P}SHAW| I. I l> '..17,1111, Lul Day! No Free LUIt li MM 1-45 BJW M it IUK lAKK TYCOON' Mandarin to ScoDf it Color OPENS TOMORROW I "Venreanee Of A Hnowflrl" IA SHAW PRODUCTION l Mandarin In Scope Color (API 1 O I, «l»7 5H Opeai Today'—No rw Usl Due
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      188 15 IWfil ORCAIMISATICIIM I I CATHAY i LAST DATI U IJk Ml fa. MUU'I DIBTT DINGUft MAUII' Frana Sinatra Color: P"VUloo Opana Tumorrowt Color "Hrj Of TV A tracer' Tarculo Malm Columbia ORCHARD J7»5»» UND RECOU DAT! No rrw Uat OAILT I HHOWH: t.ao. i.M M* m "TOKA" DTAITHi I.M AM
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    Lock icon Not the marrying kind: U.S.
    89 16 WASHINGTON Divorce in America has risen 33 per cent in the past decade. Men are remarrying (aster than women, the Federal government has announced today (Monday). The statistics indicated there were twice as many divorced and still unmarried women as there were men in thai
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      778 16 aiies sa tm CARROLL RIGHTER'9 taurus a gemm ?8 m ZSnOl IfcL&Zl m ZA GENERAL TENDENCIES: Until Noon jog are •We to arrange the practical side of your existence so that you have a greater amount oI material benefits for the future. However, the afternoon and evening find you restless
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      30 16 LADIES DAY 1 "You know Gladys, that rose jacket with blue braids and but* tons, mauve sleeves with purple polka dots and gold hat with red trim really suits youl?
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
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      1055 17 today's MMSM TV SIIMGAPURA CHANNEL 5 OPENINC ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by HOUSEWIVES' MATINEE "No Cirl For Me" (Part I of a Cantonese film English Subtitles). FOR THE FAMILY A Magazine series presented in Chinese. A DIARY OF EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (Chinese) DAYS OF OUR LIVES A dramatic serial about
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    Lock icon Defence of our people is so vital
    541 18 The Got eminent introduced National Service alter Hie announcement of Hie withdrawal of the British forces from Singapore in 1972. Thus it is evident that the purpose O# introducing national service is to enable our citizens to take over the defence of the
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    Lock icon Gale washes up jewel smuggler
    655 18 T IGHTNING cut- across the sky in flashes, brightening up the ruffled sea around us vividly. Ali looked at me, fear written oil over his toce. The anticipated storm had begun. For half an hour the sky had been overcast, though It was still quite
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      189 18 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe Tfce Eastern Son's c may writing cwtttt tot koyi and girts of 14 and undts (Jnnior) and boys and girts mi 14 (Saniar) appears in HMS PAT« from Monday to Fvtfay. m r *v h: $lO to* Swlon and I) K> (umri to nr> etuv
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    Lock icon No-fuss dresses to the fore!
    501 19  -  By Florence de Sante 'PASHION moves too fast nowadays for many women to keep op with. Just as they've absorbed one trend, mother seemingly hits them before they're ready for it. That was what happened with the change from short skirts back to longer lengths.
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    Lock icon Parental delusion at its very worst
    422 19  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ann: Our 16-year-old son and Kit friend are in serious trouble because some stupid person pat temptation in front of him. >iag barns, they couldn't resist it. Juddy and a IS-year-old pal were walking along the street fetft evening aad they
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  • commercial and industrial
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      Lock icon Frail support for industrials
      246 20 tendencies rammed into shares in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterdoy. Other than a handful of busy counters other industrials received frail support and finished a shade lower from the night's business. Lower ranked shares were the worst hit yesterday when periodic bouts of
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      Lock icon PRODUCE
      70 20 THR noon pntff at the ftlncapore Chinese Produce Kschanse wtrrdi) was: B Coconut Oil 11-e.b.) bulk woo Coconut Oil drum 62.04 Capra <n.oo Montok White Aata 100 KXTw. 170.00 •aramak White ivpper M% 100.OS Sarawak HpcclaJ Hlack M.L.W- 14? JO Burawak Aata Black 100% N-L.W. 170.00 Umpuni Black AMa
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      36 20 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 877.81 20 Rails 192.40 15 Utilities 124.33 65 Stocks 289.44 40 Bonds 71.31 Commodity futures in. dex 143.57 up 0.23
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      Lock icon Rubber 47 1/2 cts.
      273 20 Rubber 47 1/ 2 cts. February first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 47} cents, up 1/8 cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. The morning session was very quiet and thin. After some initial steadiness caused
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      122 20 BONG KONG Yesterday's 6 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Biivvra) (Sellers) 194.50 196 per 100 Strait* dollar® 145 147 per 1.000 Taiwan dull an 0.73 6.75 per Australian doilai S4C 36( oet 1.000 Burmese kyats 460 480 per 1.000 Indian rupees 149 164
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      651 20 BID and offer price* officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Koala Lumpur tradin6 rooms of the Stock Exchange vesterdav INDUSTRIALS CLOSING PRICES ACM A 1.42 AJinooioto Alean IN 144 1.49 Allied Choc 3 0.1 Ben 1.12 113 Rerjaya 1.14 Borneo LS4 1.95 Bo
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      954 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 1,140 n n 11 s onless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS Akan $146 (4) $1.45 (4); Allied Choc. $3.00 (8); Ben $1.15
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      63 20 MEXICO CITY —Central Bank of Mexico Sunday ordered a one per cent reduction in the rate of interest on existing loans and fixed maximum interest rates on all new loans. In making the announcement, the bank said the measures were designed "to help diminish inflationary pressures" and give
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    155 21 Mrs. MARIANNE PEKEIRA has been appointed Public Relations Officer of Hotel Imperial. Fornacrly of the Woman's Pace of a local English-language newsSper, she Is a graduate political science, sociology and English literature. Mrs. HEDY NG has been appointed Personnel Manager. Previously she worked in the personnel and
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    342 21 gYDNEY An impressive gain by industrial leader, BHP, pared the way for widespread buyer interest resulting in gains in all sections on the Sydney Stock Exchange yester- day. BHP rocketed 80 cents to $13.75 after pea in 9 25 cent* higher at $13.20 and did
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    96 21 JAKARTA The Indonesian government has issued a permit to the Holland-American line* (HAL> to establish a pleasure cruise lines in Indonesia. Communications Minister Fran* Seda said yesterday. The HAL was reported to have assigned two ships to start the new route, picking up passengers from outside Indonesia
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    250 21 TOKYO A world shipping conference yesterday considered a proposal Hut developing nations bo given technical and financial aid to enable them to operate economically-viable mercnanr neers. Conference sources said the proposal was made because since a 1966 Oslo meeting, nag discrimination and cargo reservation had
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    173 21 WASHINGTON. Chairman Arthur F Burns of the Federal Reserve Board (FED) says he believes the U.B. economy Is on the road to recovery without any Immediate need for further easing of the supply of money. Burns said he believed enough money would be available, under recent FED
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    249 21 RUSSELS Foreign Minister* of the six, Sunday night failed to agree on a reply to Britain's proposals on the key question of British contributions to the Common Market budget despite a consensus that they were insufficient. Informed sources said they decided to aeek a a
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    165 23 JAKARTA Asian go-kart racing champion Henky Iriawan of Indonesia plant to stage an unofficial world championship* in Jakarta next July. He told Reuter he was flying to London for talks with British gokart racers and later would go on to West Germany.
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    64 23 NEW YORK World heavyweight champion 'Joe Frazier was named "Fighter of the Year 1 for 1970 by rln« magazine Monday In the boxing publications* annual review Issue. Frazier, who meets former champion Muhammad All (Casslus Clay) In a title match here on March
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    266 23 ADELAIDE Australia were engaged in a bitter uphill struggle yesterday to save the sixth cricket Test against England and now go into the final day today with their main batsmen carrying a heavy burden of responsibility. Australia, set to make 469 runs for victory
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    119 23 PENANG: Tripoli and Fiery Flight did a splindid gallop here yesterday morning. Clapping on the pace at the half mile, the pair raced over 3f In 38 1/5 on a good track. Fiery Flight, with Cheam Ah Kin up. waa In front at the finish. Fair
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