Eastern Sun, 10 February 1971

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN ifpibre's own national daily 10 cents Esfrd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1567 Wedneiday, February 10, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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  • 300 1 JERUSALEM Israel lost night offered to kelp Egypt reopen the Sues Conol. But, Prime Minister Goldo Meir soid Israeli troops would not withdraw from the canal's eastern bonk. Mrs. Meir said Israel was ready to talk with Egypt about opening the canal even
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  • 28 1 LONDON— Delegates of coffee-producing countries, mainly Latin-Ame-rican. were hammering out the draft of a resolution to open today's emergency meeting of the 62-nation International Coffee Council.
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  • 220 1 LOG ANGELES A strong earthquake and a series of powerful aftershocks rocked southern California yesterday, killing at least five people. Fires and floods followed the tremors. Damage was widespread. Hardest hit was the 6ar> Fernando Valley area north of Los Angeles Bodies were
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  • 125 1 NEW DELHI India yesterday warned Pakistan "the situation may deteriorate" if tt did not pay compensation for the hijacked Indian plane blown np at Lahore a week ago and retnrn the two hijackers to faee trial. A note handed to Pakistan Hifh Commissioner Sajjad Hyder
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  • 68 1 JAIPUR. India Two men nave been sentenced to death for the sacrificial killing of a 12-year-old boy to appease a Hindu goddess. They were found guilty of killing the boy, Khuman Singh, in May 1968 to earn the goddess's favour before starting work on a
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • Article, Illustration
    56 2 THE United States will launch a bi| campaign toon to sell mora products in Singapore. The Director of Trade Promotions for me US Department ot Commerce. Mr. Dallas Coors (above), said this st press conference here today. He said different U.S. companies would stage "single company'* shows with
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  • 213 2 Wait until next week before buying fish •nd you'll get it at bargain prices. This is our big Up from the market today. Today, settle for skin beef, the best bnrgao at $1.60 per pound. Here's what to watch for when buying fish next week: The gills
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  • 251 2 'HE TALKED TOO MUCH' THEOH Ee HIM*, 21, was yesterday comimtttd to stand trial ia the High Court lav the murder of o teenage girl and her eight-year-old brother. He allegedly stabbed to death Tan Juat Lan, 16, and her brother Kia Pott in
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  • 214 2 MADAM Chta Fong Qwm's life Mi apart fcre years ago when her husband, a mechanic, died. The 33-year-old housewife of Paya Lebar Road never recovered from his death And on Monday her years of agony and loneliness came to an end She fell to her death
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  • 213 2 MR. FWory Ford 11, ctrainM* of tfce Fori Mo»or Company,will arrive horo on February 19 private jrt. His visit is part of an extensrve tour of Southeast Asia. It wUI be his first visit to this part of the world. The bail
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  • 46 2 Th« Anglo-Cfctaeae School In Barker Road will bold i bit fia fair mm Saturday Anril 3. The fair i s to raise money to build a junior college, a two-storey technical wing flor woodwork. metal work, basic electricity and technical drawing courses.
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  • 108 2 As eight-year-eld schoolgirl feU to her death (rem a gwava tree, a Coroner's Court was told yeslerday. Tbe court was holding an inquiry into the death of Chtia Ah Ram on January 23. The girl's mother. Madam Tan Ban Chan, 37, told the court she was
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 119 2 Around town 0 a.m. to 5 pm. Art Exhibition bv Yusman Amiin, IJm Nang-Seng, Nf Teng. Arthur Yap and Thomas Yeo at tW S Star Gallery at Donald Moore's Li at Towers* Orrhard Road 930 a.m. to 4 pm. Safety first campaign with exhibition and •afe cycling rail* at Gist
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    • 63 2 n SiNGATOU TOWP CM MJm. (4.4 ft.); I«4S ta. <&4 ft.); 5-® PA (U fu. TOMOBBOW ins S.M. r&S ft); sa a.*. (f.9 ft); *.«n. (II ft); IM p.m. (1J ft). NAVAL DOC* TA BO 452 Mi. fS.I ft); flit a.a. (113 ft); *H p.m (Lf ft) it 2* ia
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  • 152 3 A prosecution witness at tb« "Temple Murder" trial today said the nun charged with the murder was an excessive drinker but never violent. The witness wag Mr. P. Manic karri, a supervisor at the University of Singapore. He was giving evidence at the trial of Velusamy
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  • 94 3 Two robbers stabbed a niddlracrd woman in the waist when ahe fought them at her boose at Jurong on Monday. The injured woman u Madam Tan Ah Huay. 54. of Jalan Dedali. The robbers armed w:th daggers— came to her house and claimed thev were looking for
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  • 174 3 The Privy Conned Judical committee yen* te relay dismissed n petition by Ten Cheng Leong for special leave to appeal against his conviction in Singapore in February last year on a charge of wring a Are-arm, for which be was sentenced to death. He was charged with
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  • 171 3 seven-month pregnant housewife prayed and cried as four armed robbers tied and gagged her and her husband, on Monday night. She was praying for the life of her unborn child, Modom Ho Chen Ying, 32, told the Sun. She said she and her husband had
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  • 224 3 A 16-year-old girl and her boyfriend were yesterday put on bond pending a probation report when they admitted robbing a taxi driver. The girl, Ng Choon Loi and Ng Yian Seng 17, admitted robbing Chua Tong Chiang with two others, Tan Cheng
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  • 112 3 The Middleton Hog pita I ywdfrdajf con firmed three morr typhoid case*. brine ini the total to 4<i. Texts of 17 morr sample* of water in the homes of the typhoid caw- showed faecal bacteria contaminated two samples. A Health Ministry statement warned that safe
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  • 44 3 A leading British computer scientist i« in Singapore to disruss the development of computer science courses for the universities of Singanore and Hanyang. He in Professor R. A. Buckingham, whose visit was arranged bv th« British Council. He arrived 00 Monday.
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  • 85 4 A policeman leads Koh Seng Keong, 27, (left) away from the First Magistrate's Court yesterday after the latter was charged with the armed robbery of $1N,900 worth of watehes. He allegedly robbed Lee Chay and Company at North Bridge Road with Ho Su Kong, Yau Kal
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  • 457 4 TONDON The Privy Council Judicial Committee has given judgment in a cote of wide significance to employers and employees in Malaysia. It concerned the definition of the word "employee" in the Employees' Provident Fund Ordinance of 1951. Affected workers mad their employers are required
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  • 111 4 A Government chemist told the High Court yesterday soil on an accused killer's chankoi blade was similar to that found In a (rare where a woman was hurled. lfr. Phang 81n ling was testifying at the murder trial of fsrmer Ng Hock Lee, 33. Ng
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  • 88 4 An —iMjlffc joath yesterday told the Coroner's Govt hew to saw his Mead drowa la ChtDii Creek oa Jus* ary St. Anwar bin Yahya of Lorong Geylang, waa testifying at an inquiry into the death of labour* er Abdul Hamid bin Abdul Rahman. Anwar told
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  • 322 4 KUALA LUMPUR Synthetic rubber plant* in Japan would further contribute to the despression of the natural commodity. Minister of Cftm merce and Industry, Mohamed Khir Johari said yesteriby. "If this happens, the price of natural rubber will suffer a depression and It
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 342 5 IT was the laet time Nf Kim Swre had to carry a kavadi la the lea* Hind* Thai pa sam festival of penanee yesterday Im? festival day fer the last seven Sara, he has carried e sft kavadi with its 1M needles thrastin f
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 46 5 Malaysia's Premier Hold Federal Hotel Kuala Lumpur 21 Stony Htm ExMon. BlsUl 460 luxurious rooms, mi lo «mN csrpsts, Zfl|»3 fully air-condHlon»d, wMh in r> A, > pusn- button oontroi pann ■UE7V-. Mm** OtacMri Lo» «w Chan. I*M«M 111 Mta afrou: m»wuwwww oouw us in UPWMMOS Hunt
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  • 159 6 IJNITED NATIONS India charged yesterday the hijacking off an Indian airliner last week had the offfficial support off the Pakistani Government. Indian Ambassador Samar Sen mode the charge in a note to Secretary Gene- ral U Thant ond to most UN delegation. The
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  • 92 6 HONG KONG A Soviet ship being repaired la Hon 7 Kong has been distributing leaflets to dock workers outlining Moscow's views on tke Slno-Soviet dispute. The Hon« Kong Government is concerned about the So'lit propaganda but cannot stop It because the leaflets are beinr distributed aboard
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  • 82 6 ISLAMABAD Indian aircraft are still flying over Pakistan despite New Delhi's ban MI flights by Pakistani planes srer Indfnn territory retoday. omrCt -li hw* fir o 'lndSfi International flights to Moscow, Kahnl and Teheran, as wed •s two domestie services to Bnstern India, were stlU flying
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  • 121 6  -  by Jean Leclerc PEKING Prince Norodsm Siheoook of Cambodia is to return bon <w I toe rot visit lo Nortfc Vietnam. A n announcement here yesterday said the deposed Prince spent several days in North Vietnam as an official guest Rumours of his trip to North
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  • 106 6 TAY NINH, Vietnam A South Vietnamese campaign which reopened Route 7 from the border to the Cambodian provincial capital of Kompong Cham has virtually eliminated the veteran 272 nd North Vietnamese Army Regiment, military sources believe. Lieutenant General Do Cao Trl, the "Pocket Patton" who command
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  • 64 6 An elderly nan shares off the hair of a woman wishing to join the order in a Buddhist ccrenony near Bangkok. About 3,5## women and girls underwent the consecration ceremony in Nakhon Fathom Province. The women spend three Months at the temple and
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  • 83 7 "If Pakistan thinks we're KoUig to (ire pound ever tht hijack Issue, its in for a rode shock." RIGHT. Wkst was that akont the possibility of diefeat for the Congress at the elections? Rakkish! I know much is at stake but I'm HMTC than
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  • 232 7 Emborrossed loughter iprcod through the Mayor's parlour at City HoH whan Princess Anne called on Mayor Miss Margaret Konyotto* 43-year-old daughter of Kenya's President. "Oh, this is your mother?" the Mayor osked as the Princess handed her on autographed picture of herself. "No. I'm
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  • 62 7 JOHANNESBURG. South African filmgoer?, split into black and white audiences nv apartheid laws, will re segregated even further to see a film about trans-sexualism. Male and female audiences will be separated to watch the Christine Jorgensen story. This is the biography o1 former
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  • 16 7 JAKARTA A journalist been sentenced to six month* jail for Insulting the Armed Forces.
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  • 187 7 When 31-year-old Yugoslav seaman Blatko Bill went ashOTe four days ago in New London his brokenEn "lis h statement that he was "sick and tired" ot his Job aboard the Libenan tanker Ph lamon was misunderstood. Be Just wanted
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  • 133 7 WAKEFIELD, Emland Prisoner Mekuiacd Shah, atrrlnc five year fraud sentence. was aahappT with Uw easygoing life of an "open' 1 prisaa. So he weal oa the ran straight back to the tap-security Jail where he had began hl s sentence three year«
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 411 8 Smallpox scare puts passengers in quarantine LONDON Airline passengers flying from Frankfurt to New York have been quarantined after a small girl was thought to hare smallpox. However, after a doctor examined the child the passengers continued their Journej CHRISTCHURCH One of three •towaways, believed to be
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  • 212 8 DELFAST, North Ireland The underground Irish Republican Army (IRA) has stepped up its attacks on British troops. Gunshots and bomb blasts still echoed yesterday after a five-year-old girl died accidentally under the wheels of an army patrol car. A crowd of about 200
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  • 65 8 BOMBAY Authorities have recovered nearly Ss3 million worth of gold hidden on the sea front in Bombay apparently in a imuf Kling attempt. The Maharashtra State Anti-Corruption Bureau found 12 ban containing 823 pounds of gold hidden under rocks The gold wag worth more than
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  • 97 8 More than 4.000 people have been made homeless by the recent earthquakes that destroyed a great part of Tuscania. Italy. Many of them are now living in army tents in pastures around the town (above). Another 270 were Injured in the calamity. One hospital wa«
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  • 60 8 BONN A new item of equipment has been ordered for the West German Army —hairnets for longhaired troops. A total of 30.QM hairnets have been ordered by the Defence Ministry. Explained Defence Minister Helmut Schmidt whose own hair Is lone. "An army has to follow
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  • 152 8 LONDON The British Parliament Has approved the government's handling of the Rolls-Royce crisis. The Conservatives want to nationalise parts of the Industrial giant which went into liquidation on Friday. Premier Heath explained, "This would ensure the safety and efficiency of our armed forces as well
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  • 54 8 SANDWICH, England.— Police yesterday arrested 11 Pakistanis as they landed on a lonely English beach near Sandwich. Also held was the crew of a boat believed to have brought the Pakistanis from the continent. Police are now searching for more Pakistanis believed to have como
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  • 115 8 SYDNEY A Sydney shire council has refused to make its beaches available to the visiting South African life- saving team. Councillors of the Sutherland Shire yesterday rejected an application to hold "a test match" against a Cro■nulla team at the North Cronulla Beach. It had been refusec.
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  • 120 8 FORT LAUDERDALE Florida The former luxury liner 'Queen Elisabeth', will take first-class passengers after her conversion as a floating university. Most of the 83,000-ton liner will be converted Into a sea-going school for the Chapman College in Orange, California. However the students will
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  • 358 9 Manson girl tell court I OS ANGELES A Manson 'family' member claims chief prosecution witness Mrs. Linda Kasobian to "go out and do some killing". She is alleged to hove soid this o few hours before the Sharon Tate murders on
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  • 146 9 MONTREAL A CM** dian Judge ku bulsM Pill Raw from Uf coartroom for the dwti tkm ot his trial. He ia being tried yA murder In the and killing of Piat*# Laporte, the QuetM* Labour Minister 1• it October 17. Tbe judge, Mr. JustiM
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  • 231 9 WILLIMINGTON, North Carolina About 50 m o t i on o« guardsmen and police officers with riflos and machine guns ave raided a church in a troubled black area. They found what they called a sniper's nest. Police believed the Old
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  • 171 9 HARRISBUR/G, PeassyW Tula FOOT Roman Catholic priests sad two others have pleaded not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy. They are charged with plotting to bomb Washington buildings and kidnap Fresldeatfal aide Henry Kissinger In an attempt to speed the end of the
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  • 152 9 WASHINGTON, President Nixon has called lor taxes and charges on air polluter*. He said stricter controls on pesticides and Increased government spending would r*d«»ce water pollution. President Nixon resubmitted to Congress many pieces of legislation that failed to pass last jear. He has added
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  • 446 10 j>RIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew recently came up with the finest exercise In semantics we have heard In a long time the word "meaningful" is meaningless. If we can borrow it from him and twist It Into an oxymoron, the call for a "functional group of cultural engineers"
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  • 157 10 •THE big question as South Vietnamese troops, fully backed by American air power, take the war north into Laos is: How will Peking react? Insplte of all the militant words which she pours forth, China has always acted with circumspection in using her troops Only once,
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  • 446 10  -  The Art Buchwald Column WASHINGTON There is no problem at the Pentagon in organising bombing and strafing raids in Indochina. The real difficulty is what to coll them. A special section of the Defence Department has been set up to supply the secretary
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 201 10  - WHY THE LONG SILENCE A. CHARLES SIR: T refer to recent reports in our local newspaper including the Eastern Sun, in connection with the dismissal of four police officers after a complaint against them by a top civil servant. The public in Singapore is certainly not satisfied with the dismissal
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    • 87 10 SIR: I AM a constant user of Elizabeth Walk and find 'he time spent there truly pleasant. However, lately many unsavoury types have been hanging around there. Last Friday at 3 p.m. I was walking through the park and saw several young men smoking ganja. They were
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    • 96 10 SIR: I RISK a heavy fine If 1 throw a cigarette on the street, bat sometimes it is very hard to avoid. Take, for instance, when I'm riding in a ttfxi. Hardly any taxi drivera bother to have ash trays for passengers and they
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    • 176 10  -  L.L. LEE SIR: I REFER to Dr. Llm Thian Guan's reply to my letter regarding the Jurong Bird Park. The comments In my last letter were entirely based on a visit that I paid to the park on January 9. Consequently, there could have been lm-
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  • 438 11 War hots I up as 1 Saigon moves troops 1 into I Laos 1 A STRUGGLE lor control of Hie landlocked kingdom of Loot has been waged for over 20 poors by two prince i« bo If brothers but bitter enemies. The
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  • 293 11 THE Ma CM Mint Teal, named after U»« North VithwuM prcti it k«y infiltration rout# for North Vietnamese and Vietcong troop* and supplies from North to South Vietnam through neutralist Laos. The trail Is a complex network of road*. rough track* and waterways winding
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  • 410 12/13 From near disaster to triumph SUN special MAN this morning finished another part in his greatest adventure the conquest of space. Apollo 14 splashed down in Pacific bringing home three triumphant astronauts: Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa. Shepard and Mitchell spent more time on
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    • 1019 14  -  How wealthy is the British Royal family?' Part 111 of a new Eastern Sun series by Rupert Butler. r PHE shy young sailor posed for pictures wearing o tight fitting adequately cut double breasted suit. That suit... and one almost
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  • Page 14 Advertisements

  • 71 15 FOR mora Hun 10 yean Elvis Presley baa been the world's top Mai* singer. Bat few knew tbe Elvis behind the stag* door. Tomorrow will M Singapore's chance to see HM King sM Hie stage ,and share those private, personal Moments. Elvis That's The
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  • 424 15 HOLLYWOOD GOES FOR REALISM—BUT ON A BUDGET T>ACK in Hollywood's good old "money is no object" days, a producer who wonted to make a movie about stock car racing in the South would probably just to build a track. But those days are gone. What you do today is roll
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  • 78 15 New Mexico's drive to steal Hollywood production or the thin little skeleton that la left came to an ley halt recent. l7 Hal Wallla and the Shootoat company, starring Gregory reck, was forced to scamper back to Hollywood In the wake of a heavy snowstorm. It waa
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 236 15 3SEEKS I. i i) n .173 ti I. Omu Today No Fnt List CASH BOOKINGS ONLY DIM to aim a '.ength Nota REVISED TIMES M.tt, I JO. ill, iM, NO INCREASE IN PrlCMl New SiM>er CINERAMA Erakatoa E*i| Of Java" In TECHNICOLOR CAIMIOI 2 t> 7 Si U tad WEEK
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    • 120 15 OMOAMISATIOI RCHABQ J 7«• 1 UTH UCOKD DAXI iNo Prat Ll*t) DAILY MOWII war >.M M A I N pm Sunday* a Ho.iOftjr* Batra Hiiov at 11 *od Aa». lIM, UK mw oAHM BUOBIMM4 JM) Ml TOBA! lOBAI tUI/ll imbb m uoior oy >•.«.»• Srbaal CMIHIIHI |1 M U any
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  • 123 16 DAR ES SALAAM. Four people were Jailed for life yesterday for plot tine to overthrow tb* Tanumian government and assassinate Pred* dent Jalius Nyerere. Two others were sentenced to ten years imprisonment for knowinf of the plot and doing nothing to prevent it All were
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    • 805 17 OPINING ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by HOUSEWIVES MATINEE "Sisterhood" (Part I of Cantonese film English Subtitles). FOK THI FAMILY A magazine series presented in Chinese. A MARY OF EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (Chinese). DAYS OF OUR UVES A dramatic serial about a dedicated physician. CLOSE. OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by HUCKLEBERRY HOUND.
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  • 677 18 ANN Moses recoils the filming of new Presley movie. The film cameras were in place, tfce star-studded audience at their fables, the electric tension wot taper-sup e rcharged as tfce lights dimmed suddenly in the Showroom Internationale, then plunged the room into darkThe hose orchestra
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  • 517 18 DISC-CUSSIOM GRAIfD FUNK: LITE ALBUM (Capital). First, "On Time", then "Grand Funk". "Closer To Home", and now their fourth album, which inevitably had to be "live" (everyone bas a 'live* album these days). The album (actually a double a 1 b u m), boggles the mind.
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  • 122 18 HI THERK! Like Holy 1-Cut Stand-H! Bhrta* new movW called 'ELVIS That's The Way It Is" la jut TOO MUCH! I've Kei the ntrlf and lake it from me. If yum ■ever see another movie in life, yoa're still got to arc thin one. It's that good!.
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  • 948 19  -  BY PHYLLIS STROUDLEY jpARIS this Spring is a long, long SHORTS story. And like all long short stories, needs to be brilliant if it is not to become boring. Shorts In every pos- sible variation are IN. Even If your legs start
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  • 342 19  -  ANN LANDERS Dear AM: I've often beard womea complain they are miserable be- ca mat their haniNUMb Please let me tell n> .tory. It imiffht help them. For rears I was annoyed because nu hasband sasrcdL At times I got ao mad I Jabbed
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 261 20 PRICES were little changed in half-tempo trading in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. After an early relapse shares ended only a little above the day's worst in most cases. Operators were generally hestitant and still adopting the wait and watch attitude. Industrials finished
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    • 255 20 MARCH first grade rubber buyer* dosed at 5 p.m. IN Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 46) cents per lb. The tone of the maifcet was slightly steadier. Opening quotations were marked down in sympathy with London advices and the market was slow to form. Later
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    • 55 20 (Manager Prices for Feb. 10) I9IA CNIt TVt'STS M. invest Fund 1.27 1.32 M'sla Prog. 100 1.1 Old (lIAKTRKhU I Ml TRI'fTS 8 0 Panel 101 LIS BINUAPOHC I'M! TKIIBTP 3rd B'pore 1.28 C«m. Ind 1.05 1.10 tli* "«rlni rnnd I.ls IIS B.P. Fund 102 1.07 (Manager Prices
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    • 14 20 The tin price for yesterday was $623.50 pet picul up 23 cents.
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    • 59 20 The State of Sabab is fast expanding its fleet •f Singapore-built fast patrol craft for the purpose of extended sea patrol t and anti-smug-gling. Vosper Thornycroft Uniteers Pte. Ltd., the Singapore specialist boat meet Sabab's requirements for sucb craft Recently, it has built the sixth vessel
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    • 40 20 BRASILIA Brazil's central bank announced last night a new devaluation of the cruzeiro in relation to the ÜB. dollar. The dollar will be brought by the bank from today for Ave eruzeiros and gold for f.03 cruzeiros.
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    • 74 20 THE noon pneet it tM llnnport OMnrr Produce Bsrnance »f*trr<uj Coronal OH (f.0.h.) hulh 69.00 Coconut Oil <f.o.b.) dram 61.80 Copra 34.60 Iftnntok White A*ta too N.I W. 170.09 Sarawak White ivppei t€% 100.00 Sarawak Hpertal Black V 6% M.L.W. 160.00 Marawak Asta Black 100% 61 W. 17*. B0
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    • 116 20 DONG KONG Yesterday's 6 p.m. currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Buversi (Sellers) 194.50 196.50 per 100 Strait* dollar* 145 75 147.50 per 1.000 Taiwan cu liars 0.745 6.765 per Australian dollai 34( net oer 1.000 Burmese kyats 470 490 per 1.000 Indian rupees I4S
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    • 652 20 BID and offer prices Officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Koala Lumpur trading rooms if the Stock Exchange vrstrrdav INDUSTRIALS a S. ACMA 1.26 1.48 AjiQomolo 1.85 1.98 Alcan 1.34 1.36 AMcd Choc. 198 Ben 1 13 L14 Borneo 1.88 1.85 Bonstead 2.M
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    • 840 20 BUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Slock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded In brackets In lots of 1.000 on Its unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS Alcan $135 (1); Ben DIM; $1.13 <1) $1.14 (2); Berjaya $1.17 (1) $l.lB
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  • 201 21 INCREASING prospects for Singapore bated equipment and crews to be Hied in construction work in other parts of Hie world are predicted by Mr. Alan Kfet, Managing Director of Straits Engineer* (S) Flo. Ltd., a local marine contracting firm. Mr Keet has Just returned
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  • 29 21 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange: SO Industrials 881.12 20 Transp 194.70 13 Utilities 123.88 65 Stocks 291.00 40 Bonda 71.53
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  • 483 21 AlKltAUt US t m MBA IU Anal* Lumpu Mk»« NM IKS MMim IkUH LMNT t» ui MfA Its Kaala I »nu IUA LNm»«r U-M a.» 1 tfcSS i NhA <M C* MM K I* Lmmmu »M .-01 J±tntm MM 401 (WM IWUJB 1 N.»A Ml kau Bmhn i
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  • 307 21 SYDNEY Three mining issues closely associated with Mineral Securities, oil showed encouraging gains on the Sydney Stock Exchange Tuesday. The three Issues, Queensland Mines, Kathleen Investments and Theiss, all rose substantially as the impending sell-off slackened notice- ably in the afternoon. Queensland Mine* gained $l.OO
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  • 85 21 Mr. James jr. Chant, a Taiwan law graduate and a scholar of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has been appointed manager of the Hotel New Hongkong at 101, Victoria Street. The 17-storey hotel and Sen Sen Shipping li Trading Co. Pte Limited are
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  • 115 21 Mr. Khoo Chong Quan, Pro-Manager at the First National City Bank, hu left for a one-year course In banking at tk* bank's Head Office In Ne-w York. Mr. Khoo, 25. Joined the bank In 1968 a* an Executive Trainee. He received his Initial training on Cost and
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  • 178 22 PINANG PIL MARSHAL, a winner last week, showed that he was retaining hit winning form in a workout here yestenby morning. With visiting jockey Brian Jago astride, Pil Marshal •printed stylishly over 31 in 38 finishing strongly. Pll Marshal meets stronger company In the
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  • 146 22 LONDON George Best, the long-haired and controversial football star who earlier this year was suspended from his club for failing to turn up at training sessions was on Monday successful in an appeal against a referee's caution received during a match last December. Best, idolised bv
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  • 212 22 Maurice Bembrldge, the English Midlands Ryder Cup player is about to take off on hi* seventh overseas golfing tour after a .sixweek rest at hoome. His first stop will be In Spain where after playing in lour professional/ amateur events he will go
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  • 111 22 LONDON Britain's two richest golf tournaments the Ss- John Player Classic and the *****.000 Alcan 'Golfer of the Year championship will not be staged this vear. it was announced yesterday. A spokesman for Player's said "it la a great pity that our tournament will
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  • 397 23 SYDNEY Aostrafie thmdd bewer e nm Hum ever of EngM fast bowler Joiw Snow in tto •erewHk final Test starting kor« en Friday following Hie tragic injury to Geoff Boycott Mon- d iy. > The ball from Graham McKenzle that shattered Boycott's
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  • 62 23 JAKARTA Indonesia will take part in the Sda* bowling tournament to start in Kuala Lumpur on February 28 in which several Asian countries will participate, it was announced here yesterday. The Indonesian team which is scheduled to leave here for the Malaysian capital on
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  • 22 23 Rugby: Police Military Combined Team beat Royal Air Force Tengah 16-6. Hooker: Singapore Recreation Club beat Singapore Cricket Club 4-nil.
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  • 241 23 THE Undor-23 hockey fmoli for 1970, to bo played ot the Podang this oftwn kehroon Combined Schools ond University, wiM lock tko excitements and tkrills of Cup final. It will not only disappoint the hockey fans who have been hoping for the improvement
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  • 106 23 ftOCCBK 9GSFL.: Division 1 Authority vs Police at P S.A Ground and aA._F.SA. v« Singapore Telephone Board at Fairer Park; Division XB S-A.FS-A. VS Special ConaUbularl* at Farrer Park. SBHFL: Division 1 Naafl v* MJS.A. "A" at Jalan Besar. Division 2 Sime Darby vs MS.A. "B'» at M.F.A;
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  • 603 23 A record nonsbar of 17 IMTMI from Hie Malaysian Polo till will W broogkt liera for H»o Singapore Polo Clnb'i annual toumimoM. The tournament the largeat held by the Club will be mt tta polo pound on February 11 13. 14
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  • 371 24 gAIGON Monsoon rains, thick fog and low-hanging clouds yesterday grounded hundreds of U.S. helicopters needed to support the South Vietnamese task force in Laos. A UPI correspondent reported that even ground convoys to the forward base of Khe Sonh, 12 miles eost of the
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  • 39 24 BOBTON Senator Edward M. Kennedy's driver's licence has been reinstated. It had been suspended for a year because he pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.
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  • 39 24 JAKARTA The owners of the last confiscated British plantation in Indonesia have agreed to a government compensation offer, Agriculture Minister Dr. Tojib Hadiwidjaja said. Tea and rubber estates were taken over by the late President Sukarno in 1963.
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  • 197 24  -  "r AL ROSSITER HOUSTON, Texas, Apollo 14's astronauts roced down the imaginary spoce corridor leading to a landing in the South Pacific today, carrying 96 pounds of the moon and "a wealth of information" to keep lunar scientists busy for years. "Getting closer
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  • 115 24 BELFAST Five men. all civilians, died yesterday when their Land Rover hit a land mine, British military officials said. Tliey said the Land Rover was destroyed by the blast at Brongher Mountain, about It miles west of Belfast and about 15 miles from the army
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  • 47 24 TOKYO Japan's Justice Minister, 71-year-old Takeji Kobayashi, resigned yesterday in the face of bitter opposition attacks on his remarks at an election meeting Mr. Kobayashi came under Are for his alleged statements that opposition parties were of no use in compiling a national budget.
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  • 77 24 Three young Australians are waiting In Sydney to see their six-week-old adopted Viet* namese baby sister. Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lance Barnard, deputy leader of the Australian Labour Party, adopted tho baby from an orphanage In Saigon. The couple, already have two girls and a
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  • 81 24 KUALA LUMPUR Sclancor police yesterday posted > $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of two youths Involved in the murder ®f a shop proprietor is Jinjang South on Sunday. The deceased. Tap Yan Chan, 29, was fatally stabbed on
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