Eastern Sun, 18 February 1971

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Microfilm: NL6689
Total Pages: 23
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  • Title Section
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    23 1 EASTERN SUN wgaporefs own national daiy Final edition 10 cents Istd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1574 Thursday, February 18, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon FOOD WILL COST MORE
    535 1  -  Oil price rise will hit imports By Anwar Anverdeen SINGAPORE'S food costs moy skyrocket if potrol and oil prices increase as is almost certoin. Food dealers indicated this yesterday in a special SUN survey. Several vegetable and fish merchants who import their goods from Malaysia said
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  • Article
    Lock icon The 20 – month emergency ends
    118 1 The 20 month emergency ends KUALA LUMPUR The 20-month emergency in Malayiia following Hie May 1969 riots will end with the dissolution of the National Operations Council tomorrow, says Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak. The country will return to parliamentary rule the following day. Tun Razak announced yesterday the dissolution
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      103 1 Importers of Carpets <£ Rugs ol Quality Distinction Indian* Pakistan, Belgian, English, German, b French. AMIR «c SONS l Bat 1V71) 370. Orchard Road. !>lngap<** Tel: *****5 w HOUSE OF TAIMG BARGAIN COUNTER (2ND FLOOR) Cardigans 98.75 upwards Plaotlt Shopping MM from Door Miti from CHILDKKN Boy's Activity Kinglets Girl's
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon National Service: appeal fails
    390 2 THE Chi*# Jistkt, MR WN CUmmq Jim. y—toDAY DISMISSED MI IMCAL BY »cbool>O» Victor Lee Tew Kwowg, convicted for faWng to comply wiH» a court order to ngiitw for NaUiml Service last year. But he cut the sentence to a $l5O tine or 15 day*' Jail
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    Lock icon Youths jailed for $118 armed robbery
    164 2 TWO youths both with previous convictions for armed robbery were yesterday jailed for a similiar charge when they appeared in the Second District Court. They are Lim Seng Hock, 20, who was jailed for 2i years and Lau Mong Hua 20, jailed for 1i
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    Lock icon FINE WAS MORE THAN THE DUTY
    136 2 The Court of Appeal yesterday reserved J«dgemeut in an "unusual" custom v case involving 434.24 lbs of cigarettes seised from an Indo■esiaa vessel last year. Horjus Poppe. 32, the Indonesian captain of coastal vessel "Harlingen'* wa<j fined $ll,OOO for possessing 434.24 Ib> of dutiable
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    Lock icon Following their kilt-clad leader
    75 2 Commonwealth Chief Scout Lord Charles Mac Lean, tests a bamboo bridge built by Mcoata at HA.P. Chanel. He la fallowed by the Station Commander Group Capt. A. D. A Honley Oaring hfc visit Lord MacLeaa made scouting history by presenting Gold Arrow awards to cub scouts
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    Lock icon Man's body found at foot of flat
    60 2 A 63 year old man wMfound dead at the foot of Block 123. Kim Tiaa Road yeslerday at 11 a m. Police identified fetm as Yeo Cheng Koh. of 217-D Tiong Bahru Road. A pair of slippers and an umbrella were found on
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    Lock icon Policeman accused of rape
    105 2 KUALA IDMPW A police constable yesterday was cMuutM for trial im the Hi*fc Cwrt lor ahpiy raping hia IS-jw adopted daughter. He Is Jaafar Mb Haji Ott— ss It, who allegedly raped the girl between April aad August last year at the police heat base at
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      70 2 SINGAPORE TOWN 2.52 a.m. (8.7 ft.); BJI a.m. (2.8 ft.); 3.44 p.m. (6.8 ft.); 8.55 pjn. (4.4 ft.) TOMORROW 3.38 a.m. (8.4 ft.); 18.24 a.m. (2.8 ft.); 5.10 p.m. (8.1 ft 9.43 p.m. (5J ft) NAVAL DOCKYARD 3.88 ajß. (18 ft.); BJB a.m. (3 Jt ft.); 3.52 p.m. (8.4 ft.);
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    Lock icon Double murder: MAN, WOMAN STRANGLED, COURT TOLD
    336 3 'J'HE corpses of o man ovtd o womon were found with strangulation marjcs on their necks, at their ploce of work, an inquiry was told yesterdoy. v Inspector Ling Diong Kwong of the Organised Crime Division of CID, wos giving evidence ot the
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    Lock icon NEW ACTS
    38 3 KUALA LUMPUR The Attorney-General. T«n Sri Abdul Kndir said yesterday that the Government would convert all the Emergency ordinances not dealing with emergency matters into permanent Acts of Parliament before the proclamation ol emergency 'is revoked.
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    Lock icon Rosita's in love... with the sun
    59 3 Sexy Roslta Richards Just loves the sun—th a t' s why she spends as much time as possible at the beach. Rosita, 18, also likes pop music and reading thriller novels. "I often lie In the ■on and re a d," pretty Rosita said.
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    Lock icon Two held in police ambush
    118 3 POIJCE mlfriUy ar rested two men ud recovered tw* loaded KTotven. Tbe arrest* followed a tip-off. Police laid an ambush at a petrol kiosk at ■e en-milestone, I'pper Bokit Timata at 7.45 am. At 9 a.m. they saw a car carry lac three men pull
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      171 3 m msw ..:x... Uk M ***** y-> I y.A/tyf...-. v»xk R Wi sp«riM «N refineries In many parts of 1h« world... and we laarn a lot of thlnge. Whan wa began building our refinery on Putau Ayer Chawan wo laarnad tha trua meaning of Intarnatlonal good will and understanding. For
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    Lock icon Woman's 999 call traps three intruders
    131 4 130 LICE raced to a house in Cairnhill Rood yesterday and arrested three intruders. The house was broken into at 3.30 in thejnorning. The housewife Inside dialled 999. from another room. A patrol car rushed to the scene. Police spotted a trishaw parked at
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    Lock icon BOATMAN LOST HIS RACE WITH DEATH
    149 4 Coroner's Court told A boatman, Yotin bin Saning, 42, yesterday told State Coroner Liew Ngik Kee, bow bis desperate half-mile swim failed to sore Hie Ihres of two people. Yatln. a veteran boat, man, said that on February 7, his boat capsized with four
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    Lock icon Miramar opens Saturday
    91 4 The 9t e*trt Miramar la Haretock R«Mi wiM mm («r business Mi Saturdiv The 16-*tarey buildIn* tarns 216 rooms and suites, Chinese restaurant. nightclub, cocktail lounge and a coffee house, Indoor gardens and shopping arcades. A unique feature is the foyer, entry to which is through three
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    Lock icon Fowl's cheap...but check your bird
    276 4 FOOD glorious FOOD FOWLS at $1.70 a kati and roasters at sl.4fi a kati are today's best buys at the market. But before buying cheek these facts: The most tender chickens are under 19 months nf age. They start to lay eggs at round the
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    Lock icon He wore booty on his waist
    67 4 A la-ear w Uh stote« 14 lb plus round Ms waist waked ■lraacely d "J* 1 poUcrmaa mitcMa. the First Magistrates Court wx* told T«* terday. Mohanted llnni l/O Hakmood. 41. a lastar at the Hi-pr*"! Shipyard Pte Ltd., admitted stealing the plat worth
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    Lock icon Robbery suspect arrested
    78 4 IB last of the Chartered Baak theft ewreeU has heea arrested h Reliable sources said Malaysian police arreted him two or three days ago. CID here was informed only yesterday. Singapore police are now waiting for arrangements to pick him up. Police have already arrested three men
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    Lock icon Thugs snatch gold chain
    42 4 "two thugs snatched a $290 gold necklace from middle-aged woman as at the function of Middle Boad/Waterloo Street. The woman. Madam Lob Yuet Wan. 90. of Selegie House. 3-5 Selegie Road, chased them for •400 yards, then collapsed.
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    Lock icon War—and not one casualty
    59 4 ITS fan being yoang specially when you're got a make-believe satawrtae to play In, like these lads. They were among hundreds of visitors to the Wonderland Amusement ***** at Kaliang last night. The boys spent hoars at tkf realistic periscopes. Then they moved an la drWtae
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      34 4 r\ THE weather bveti predicts fair weather today. YESTERDAY Max. trmp: 84.1 Mia- temp: 7U Raia: l.Ji Total raia t« date: 7.CC Total raia da/a this year. Sunshine: IN Humidity at 11 p.m.: 94
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    Lock icon Cultural show to help temple
    121 5 SINGAPORE baa been called cultural desert bat 15 energetic women are out to prove this wrong. They have organised a variety show this Sunday to raise funds for the Sri Sengapa Vinayar Temple. Fifty participants will perform 16 items consisting of dances and songs in
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    Lock icon ACCUSED JAILED FOR 7 YEARS
    155 5 Wild Cat Bar death trial 'J'HE prosecution in the Wild Cot Bor death trial, yesterday dropped the murder charge against Wong Cheng Chua. The charge wos amended to culpable homicide and he was jailed for seven years Mr. Justice Kulasekaram said that it appeared there
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    Lock icon Man gets $43,360 damages
    125 5 Welder Lim Row Elm, who cannot iqoat after an accident two years ago, was awarded $43,369 damages In the High Court yesterday. A bus belonging to the Tay Koh Yat Bus Company knocked him down while he was opening the boot of a taxi along Sembawang
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    Lock icon Local leaders to tour bases
    105 5 MORE than 20 Ulu Pandan community leaders will make a study tour of two ministries today. Dr. Chiang Hai Ding, MP, and the chairman and secretary of the Citizens Consultative Committee Mr. Low Tiow Lye and Mr. Foo Ho Hang, will lead the group. They
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    Lock icon Peace, beauty go hand in hand for female sex
    259 5 FOR women, there i s peace where there it beeuty and beauty can be achieved through make-up, a leading coemetician claimed yesterday. He is Mr. M. Baruch. managing director of Helena Rubinstein. He is here to review the local cosmetics market
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    Lock icon Gang robs train
    109 5 MANILA Eight men armed with sans and knives held up a passenger train 60 miles north of Manila early yesterday in the first known train robbery In the Philippines. A Philippine National Railways spokesman said the men boarded the train at Dan Station Just outside the big
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    Lock icon Shot-gun wedding must wait
    87 5 A store inlitut dye to marry his pregnant g trlf riend la two months was yesterday Jailed for 1) yean for robbery. Secoad District Judge Tan Hoay DJln told Tan Choon Kiat. 21. to postpone his wedding. Tan, who has three previous convictions, admitted robbing Leong
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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      204 5 HOUSES/FLATS FOR SALE OR FOR LET SPECIAL DISCOUNT FOR CASH <A> Modern Luxury 4-Storey flat*. 3 b«*rooms, 2 balk, I balconies. bathroom A kitchen, etc. (B) Modern shophnuses with flats above, Jrttta wide frontage, kitchens, store, open yard, w.c. etc. flats with 8 bedrooms, t balls, I balconies, 2 bathrooms,
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      231 7 1 II s V V--3r«: v ;£V*V > N. -v*,. w- x xVi $C.;* V->& ~>t :> r N *:4r •> xf ■k .V -V > >7 X s: "v <* s > 7/' j*** j-■ **<*.. 4 y..,w;i «v v<.. Vv* v y*sy Site in < f 2SW >
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    Lock icon ASIANS URGED TO WORK WAY HOME
    310 8 Their bedroom is the pavement T ON DON A "bock fro homeland" commifrfree said it would urge coloured immigranfrs in Brifroin fro earn enough money fro refrurn fro frheir home counfrries. This would help them avoid the risk of any imposed "re- patriation." The
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    Lock icon Queen liner towed to port
    149 8 MIAMI Florida—The 83.000-ton former "Queen Elisabeth" liner headed for Kingston, Jamaica, at the end of a towllne yesterday. It has been crippled by engine troubles on a voyage from port Everglades, Florida, to Hong Kong. The SZ-year-old ship Is now renamed "Seawlse'' after a twoyear
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    Lock icon Britain rejects strikers' plan
    123 8 LONDON Management official* yesterday rejected a union proposal for mediation im Britain's postal strike. As the strike enters ed its fourth week one postman was convicted of stealing food for his family and a critical plasma shortage threa- tened a major blood bank. The rejection came
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    Lock icon Ice age woman dies—60 ft down
    208 8 TUCSON, Arlsona Mrs. Margaret Campbell, went underground In 1946 to protect herself from what she feared was the coming of a new ice age. On Sunday she died underground. Mrs. Campbell spent the last 25 years of her life expanding and lm- proving her
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    Lock icon NEWS IN BRIEF
    257 8 MANILA. Six Taiwanese entertainers and a Malaysian have been deported after entering the Philippines with false documents accrediting them as 'delegates' to a recent conference. KARACHI Police charged and fired teargas at J,000 stone-throwing demonstrators attempting to reach the Indian High Commission on Tuesday. Fifteen protestors and
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
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      Lock icon No need to visit a doctor, put one in your hag
      605 9  -  iyrote BESIDE me I hove a little phial of sweet-smelling potent medicine which the monufocturers promise will give speedy, effective relief from more thon 50 oilments I might hove. And I'm having trouble convincing people the manufacturers of this
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      Lock icon A SPLASH AND HE'S DEAD
      272 9 POLLUTION has Ml only infected the world of mm. It has also become a great dancer In another world the world of the microbes. These millions of microbes, Invisible to the human eye, probably mean nothing to you. The Greeks first gave them their name.
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      Lock icon LUCIA MAKES A FRIEND
      45 9 SARINA Hie elepkant never object* to a bit of company tpociaßy if W% WWWN 14# Lucia Duckentka. The five-ton elephant wet only too ploatod to KCMMM4II« LMW. wko felt like I rut after Iter tiring walk round Taronga Park Zoo, Sydney.
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    Lock icon NEIGHBOURLINESS
    407 10 IpHE formation _of a united defence force by Australia, New Zealand and Britain will be a welcome move when the Five Power Defence Agreement is finalised In April. The unified force will sharpen the effectiveness of the alliance and Rive it more vitality. But the unification of these forces
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    Lock icon THE COMING BATTLE
    202 10 "CWERYTHING seems to be going well for the South Vietnamese army which is now In the process of cutting; the Ho Chi Minh Trail too well, we are afraid. Airborne troops have reportedly occupied the hills overlooking the North Vietnamese headquarters at Tchepone and are said to
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    Lock icon SORRY, THIS IS EMBARGOED
    595 10  -  The Art Buchwald column WASHINGTON "We regret that for security reason* an embargo has been imposed on this column today. Are there any questions? "Can you give us Q reason for the emborgo on your column. No, I cannot. As a matter of fact, you are
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
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      Lock icon How optional is education?
      235 10 SIR: AS a former schoolteacher now residing In Singapore, I would like to pose a question to the proper authorities. First, the reason for my query: Dining at a car park the other evening, we w«re waited on, very adroitly, by an attractive youngster who told
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      Lock icon Walking at your own risk
      97 10  -  WONG YOKE YONG. SIR* T*HE stretch of Kep--1 pel Road between Cantonment and Tanjon; Roads is death trap. Alohg it is a craggy, steep grass embankment and a deep monsoon drain. Mid-way along this stretch is a bus stop serving several different bus companies. But
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      Lock icon Throw out those ties
      78 10  -  PENNY NG SIR: NKCKTIES on girls are about as awful lookin e as the new "hotpants" line... But for some reason the school authorities in this day and age still insist their girl pupils wear ties as part of the school uniform. la this climate It
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      Lock icon Plea from forgotten pedestrian
      157 10 SIR: THE pedestrian b Singapore's forgotten man. Ask anyone who h*» ever tried to get from one side of a bnsy traffic circle to other. At Newton Circus, with its dozen or so traffic lanes, crossing can take a quarter of an hour There is no
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  • SUN SCOPE
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      Lock icon Hospital says Calley is normal
      279 11 A U.S. Ann* Smmttv Boned hat found Lieutenant William Calley, cfcarpnd witfc murdering 102 Sou Hi Vietnam CM civilians, was "normal •very respect. Colonel Rdd Ken»edy. the Judge at court martial at Fort Bennlnc Georlla, aald: 1 have the report of the Sanity Board. "It
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      Lock icon Traditional Chinese medicine is going modern
      492 11 lif ANY yong people think of Chinese medicine ot boiling brews of •tronge terrible-smelling herbs. They remember when they hod to quip down bowls of piping hot herbal-water under the watchful gazes of their mothers. Now they can relax. Cblneie medicines have been modernised
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  • RACE HATE
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      Lock icon 'I'm gonna shoot him dead'
      847 12/13  -  By Tom Tiede £JAIRO, Illinois There is a man who lives in this community, a respected and successful man, who keeps a loaded shotgun behind the door in his bedroom. s °ys every time he hears trouble outside, he grobs the gun, goes out on
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      Lock icon 'Separatism is nothing'
      506 12/13 "DECENT headline-grabbing Negro attempts to set up o separatist movement in the U.S. are almost certainly doomed to failure. History shows that such attempts have been made before and failed because they offered no real hope of sloving the the Negroes' problems. Many believe the latest movements
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  • RELAX
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      Lock icon Must the over 40's be short-changed on love?
      1137 14  -  By DAVID ELLIS JT seems thot loves scenes aren't for the middle oged. Not in the film world anyway A top man In the film world has just dealt a body blow to all middle aged men and women who still consider
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    Lock icon CLIFF HAS THE COURAGE OF ALL HIS CONVICTIONS
    962 15 Pop stars life has new meaning... TT takes a lot of courage for a British pop singer to announce to millions of fans many of them young and possibly cynical about religion that he is now following the path of Christianity. Cliff
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      205 15 SB L I D O 373J1J m pat n» ,uk CASH BOOKINGS ONLY Due to film l«o|U> Not* REVISED TIMES lt.M IJi 4.lft. NO tNCR*ABE IN Prlceel Nit Super CINERAMA "KraktM (Ml Of i»»»" ID TECHNICOLOR An Invitation to din* In tbe company of Barbara Werie at Ooldea Lotus on
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      16 15 Opens ODEON Tomorrow! THE MOST EXCITING ADVENTURE EVER TO EXPLODE ACROSS COLUUBiAPCnfIES ft u vt i
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      162 15 "LOST COMMAJW* la (Mar cuiuamn Anthony Qatnn fTtoi— Saturday Mldnlirhtl fUrrlng QluUuo Umuu CATHAY -i li m roraui wtni II I* i M M M*tr»-Oold tm Hint -TfcjM'* »«r to" «l»u Prwlay. Ooia« ORCHARD w noffmi n, riM U)t .M«" I UOWIi jtotrm show at 11 CAM BOO« DJOfl fp_«
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    Lock icon A crisis over smoking
    481 16  -  ANN LANDERS DEAR ANN: My dance and 1 have a family crisis we'd Hke to settle before #e marnr. I hope yon will not think we are a couple of nuts. Neither Leonard nor 1 use tobacco. We both dislike smelly ashtrays and the lingering odour
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      755 16 CARROLL. RIOHTER'S tauris cmcer P GENERAL TENDENCIES: You haw a whol« new set of Ideas under which you can operate now. Also the chance to combine jour Intuition and prophetic insight with your mature and best judgment, giving you the chance to forge ahead to new inspired goals and With
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      1176 17 TV SIIMOAPURA CHANNEL j 3.00 OPENINC ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by GENERAL HOSPITAL A daytime serial about the staff and the patients of a hospital. 3.20 ANOTHER SONC ANOTHER MELODY (Malay Rpt) A light musical programme featuring "Rahimah Rahim" 3.3S IT'S HAPPENINC IN SINGAPORE (Chinese Rpt) A series on the life and
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    104 18 ABOVE: A member of Hie Maori Concert Party of the I*t Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, Mrs. Naomi Keating (centre) shows a Maori fighting club at a New Zealand Day celebration held by the Battalion's Wives Club this week. With Mrs. Keating, from left, are: Mrs. Pamela
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    Lock icon Ulcers—not hard to diagnose
    571 18  - Ulcers —not hard to diagnose doctor's diary By Dr LAWRENCE E. LAMB QFTEN you can make a diagnosis of a peptic ulcer from the symptoms it causes. When the symptoms are sufficiently characteristic, the ulcei is usually there even if it cannot be seen by X-ray studies. The most constant
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    Lock icon Fish fillets in tomato juice steal the show
    319 19  -  Thursday food by Ruth Bakalar Fish fillets never had it so |«MI as in this quick-to-make special. They're rolled around a tomato stalling and baked In tomato Juice. The result, fish In the pink of perfection! Use frozen whitefleshed fillets any sort
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    Lock icon Snacks for youthful king-sized appetites
    495 19 Of eourse, it isn't tne that the young of the human species, like the young of birds, est constantly. It only seems that way. Conscientious mothers, aware of the importance of s balanced diet, particularly to the growing young, try to discourage excess consumption at
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    Lock icon PRICES CLIMB IN MARKET
    248 20 PRICES forged ohcad offer a sudden burst of mild speculotive support in shores on the Stock Exchange of Moloysio and Singapore yesterday. Volume of the day's business climbed substantially to 2.341,600 against the previous day of 1.8 million units. However main activity was centred on Gammon
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    32 20 HEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock exchange: 30 Industrials 890.06 20 Rails 195 38 IS Utilities 125 48 65 Stock 293.37 40 Bonds 71.70
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    56 20 (Manarrr Prtrm tor rtk. 17) AMLS UNIT TBI NTS H invest and I.BS 1.54 M'kli Pros >M 1.1 lid CHAKTKKKU VNII THl'BTtt ft G Pan# IN U1 BINUAPOMK UNIT TKUSTN Ird Npore 1.80 Com. Ind. I.oft I.l* Thf ha viae rood i.it l.i? BP. Fund 1.01 I.H (Manager
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    Lock icon Rubber at 101.50 cents
    270 20 MARCH first grade nibb«r buyers closed at 5 pm. in Singapore and Kusls Lumpur yesterday at 101.50 cents per kilogram. The tone of Hie market was quietly steady. Opening quotations were marked down 50 point,, in sympathv with London and first business was struck at 100-75
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    120 20 BONO KONG festerday's 6 p.m. eorrtnn rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Boy era) (Srllers) 195.50 195.50 per 100 Straits dollars 145.50 147.50 per I.OWi laiwan dollars 0.75 0.77 per Australian dollar 84i m oer I.OfX Burmese kyata 480 500 per 1,000 Indian rupees ISC 165
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    Lock icon CLOSING PRICES
    637 20 BID an<| offer price* officially listed at the close of business In tbe Singapore and Koala Lompor trading rooms of tbe Stock Exchange resterdav INDUSTRIALS B. 8. A CM A 137 Ajinomoto 1.85 Ale an 1.4# 1.41 Allied Choc. 3.44 Ben 1.17 1.18 Berjaya 1.22 1.34 Borne* 1.84
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    Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
    925 20 BTSINFSS done in and reported to the trading rooms of tbe Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets In lots of 1.000 units unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS ACM A $1.38 (1); Alcan $1.39 (1) $l3B (1) $l4l (2); Allied Choc. $2
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    Lock icon PRODUCE
    58 20 TUB noon prices at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange yesterday was B Coconut Oil (f.0.b.) Diilk 89.04 Coconut OU (f.0.b.) drum 81.89 Copra 36.00 Mantok White Asta 100 N.L.W. 172.50 Sarawak White Pepper 162.50 Sarawak HpeehU Black Mft N.LW. 158.08 Sarawak Asta Black io«% N.LW. 177JW tampons Hiack Isy
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    Lock icon STRONG GAINS IN SYDNEY
    379 21 SYDNEY Mining and Industrials shares ihowsd confidant gains in a heavily traded buying session on tfce Sydney stock aickang* Wednesday. Share turnover showed a significant Increase compared to the last lev days. Trad.iiß was at Its most active level In the afternoon with buyers dominating the
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    Lock icon Resident engineer
    77 21 A Japanese photo mechanical equipment company has appointed a regional engineer to be stationed in Singapore. He U Mr. Tsuyoshl Ka'o. 30. of Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Company Limited. Mr. Kato said: "The Singapore market la similar to the Hong Kong market. "Although Its domestic market in the equipment
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    244 21 HI first KmHw tor technicians dealing with new printing process called Nyloprint will beheld in Singapore In The process Involves the utilisation of plates made from tough restHeat nylon. Its plate prints hare many advantages for the printer and Is used in au fields of letterpress. letter-set.
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    Lock icon Executive on tour
    139 21 MR Stanley C. Fenwick. Grotip Vice-President International Operations, Smith Kline and French Laboratories, is now visiting the firm's regional office here in conjunction with the launching in Southeast Asia of the new consumer product ViTime, the timed release multi-vitamin capsule. Mr Fenwick Is accompanied by his wife.
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    Lock icon Safety first display
    103 21 Secondary school children are now being given a practical "leason'* In Scooter safety. This la part of the current campaign on motor-cyclist and cyclist aafety organised by the 'National Safety First Council. Sixteen Vespa scooters are being put on display at various schools since February 7 until
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    711 22 SYDNEY, England regained The Ashes when they beet Australia by 62 runs in the seventh Test ot the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterdoy. Victory came 25 minutes before lunch on the fifth day when Derek Underwood dismissed Terry Jenner and Australia were all out for 160. The
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    102 22 SYDNEY Mr. Alan Barnes, secretary tHe Australian Cricket Board of Control, said here yesterday that h« had not received England captain Ray lllingworth's letter of complaint ibout Test umpire l-ou Rowan- Illlngworth wrote the tetter last Saturday following: Rowan's decision to warn John Snow after
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    389 22 SYDNEY TH* Ashes, symbol of cricketJ»upremacy in nearly a century of confes Australia and E« 9 I«<!. r ,u J > home aqain without ever leaving their traditional retting place at Lord'*, London headquarters of the game. E l&r d iri«' lß 'AU.U.:
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    313 22 CAPE TOWN Interior Ministry officials wer# Tuesday studying an application by American Negro tennis star Arthur Ashe tor a visa to play in the traditionally all-white South African Open tennis championship in Johannesburg next April. Interior Minister I Theo Gardener confirmed in Parliament Tuesday that an
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    110 22 HONG KONG —The Eastern zone Davit Cup tje between Hong Kong and Australia will oe played here March 27 to 29. a spokesman for the Hong Kong Lawn Tennis Association (11KLTA) said Tuesday. The spokesman said the Australians picked the colony as the venue, due
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    168 22 MIAMI BEACH Former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Alt promised Tuesday to announce his prediction of the outcome of his March 8 title fight with Joe Frazier five minutes before the fight but only for the closed circuit television audience. Ali said he would open
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    218 23 GHQ Farelf "A" played easy rugby to beat SCC "A" 20-5 [1 goal, 4 tries and 1 penalty to 1 goal) in a friendly match at th« Padang yesterday. GHQ were superior in all departments and took their chances with grtt and determination. GHQ opened account
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    353 23 INJURY hit Guthrie Waugh 'A' emerged champions of the SBHFA Division One league, with o penolty gool scored by left-holf Gulim in the vital match against MSA 'A', played ot Jalan Besar stadium lost night. The Chairman of Guthrie Waugh's Sports, Mr. Koh Yong
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    43 23 DR. L. LIM will g:ve a talk on "Sports Medicine'* at 7 p.m. on February 19. at Sports House. Farrer Park. All sportsmen and coaches are Invited to this talk which Is the first of Its kind to be held here.
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    28 23 Uansenites qualified for the SHA Under-23 KO. semi-finals, when they beat Schools 'B' by 2 goals to 1, in the quar-ter-finals played yesterday at Farrer Park.
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    95 23 KUCHING* The Sarawak Government formed an eight-man ad-hoc sports and athletic committee. It was set up b* the Chief Minister, Dato Haji Abdul Rahman Ya*kub to study and make recommendations for the co-ordination and promotion of sport* and athletics in the state. The acting permanent secretary
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    159 23 THE Malaysian Rugby Union lias announced Hut its first annual award for the "Outstanding Rugby Player of Of Th# Year" has gone to Brian A popular figure in local rugby circle*, and Captain of the COBRA League team. Brian haa represented Selangor In Malaya Cup fixtures
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    271 23 TRAKEDA, a class three Horse, worked extra well at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. With FAVERSHAM for company, he went better Hian his class two companion at the end of a 3f spin in 38 4/5 on a yielding track. Trakeda LB ENGAGED In the Jack and
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    133 24 Britain to pay Europe LONDON Britain has bowed to its European partners and agreed to pay £32,M9,990 (about 8)25 m.) over a five-year period as its contribution to NATO's infrastructure programme. The decision an apparent change of mind was announced by Defence Secretary Lord Carrincton in unveiling
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    184 24 Sub for Singapore Britain hot given fop priority to improving its military manpower and alto moved to strengthen its forces east of Suez. The Conservatives announced that British naval forces east of Suez will include a sixth frigate or destroyer, plus a submarine to
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    158 24 IGAMA, Gum, Am nuurrtcd Thai wornn who left her newborn child In a trash basket aboard a Jetliner over the Pacific said yesterday she thoaght the baby was dead. "1 am happy my baby is alive and I want him back." said lliss Vanna Scrlcomolsict
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    38 24 JAKARTA Tfce Udokrdu Defence Ministry ka« rejected ma air force appeal for aew aircraft to replace its obsolete Soviet pisaos. The Ministry said M bad no monr v |o bay Phantoms, Janars or Mirages.
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    210 24 DALLAS, Texas Investigators believe a whole neighbourhood knew on Mon- day night that two gunmen had planned to kill five policemen in a house. The lawmen were all tied up then. However, nobody did anything about it except talk and the gunmen coldly carried out their ex-ecution-style
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    124 24 SAIGON Heavy fighting flared yesterday in mountain jungles northeast of the (7-8. airstrip at Khe Sanh. American reinforcements were pushing into the battle*round under cover of jet flfbter-bom-ber strikes. military spokesmen reported. U.S. officials said the action broke oirt last night in an area vest
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    52 24 JERUSALEM Forcljti Minister Abba Eban yesterday rejected an Israeli withdrawal from the 81nal Peninsula as proposed by U.N. envoy Gunnar Jarring. Eban rejected a return to the lines that existed before the 1t67 war. saying "this has been government policy from the beginning, and it continues to
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