Eastern Sun, 12 March 1971

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  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily Final edition 10 cents Isrd. 1966. Vol 5 No. 1593 Friday, March 12, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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  • Article, Illustration
    58 1 Three shot down Three young British soldier s were marched from a Belfast pub and executed by Irish Republican army gunmen on Wednesday. Here police and troops guard the spot where they died outside a pub on the outskirts o Belfast where they had gone for a drink— UPI
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  • 314 1 MAN charged with raping two young girls has been found hanged from a tree ending a three-month police manhunt. The .man was Poh Ah Huay alias Poh Ping, 23. He was one of four prisoners who broke out from the Central Police Station lock-up
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 77 1 Buy Jewellery of Distinction AS A ROCK The bank for all big and small We are glad we are the strongest and largest local Bank in Malaysia and Singapore. Because this means we can serve you with the greatest safety and effectiveness. Whether you are big or small, we welcome
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  • 371 2 FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN BALANCE JOHORE BAHRU The Notional Operations Council has no power to subjugate the fundamental rights of the individual as enshrined in the Malaysian Constitution. This was stated in the High Court here yesterday by Mr C.K.G. Pillay when applying for admission of
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  • Article, Illustration
    73 2 Singapore recording arthte Rita CHao last night celebrated her 2lit birthday with a twinging party at a hotel suite. Among those present were her tutor, Mr Henry Foo Soo Yin, a successful composer, and her musical director Mr Reggie Verghese. Rita, who started singing at 12, has
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  • 190 2 Phyllis Lee, 22, a supervisor with Singapore Pool's Private Ltd, told the High Court yesterday that she did not make mistakes when verifying a business accounts statement. Miss Lee said that on August 10. 1968, after verifying Hu Slew Min's statement, dhe found the
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  • 76 2 Malaysia If holding 2.331 people In detention under the Internal Security Act and the Emergency Prevention of Crime Ordinance. Assistant Minister for Home Affairs, Mr Mohamed Ya'acob. said this yesterday in answer to a question in Malaysian Parliament. The query was posed by Dato James Wong (SNAP
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  • 188 2 Police yesterday warned they would get tough with cyclists who con. tinue to float traffic laws. They may be fined up to $4OO If convicted, police spokesman acting DSP Leslie Wong, He said In 1970, K79 cyclist* were involved in accidents, nineteen were killed
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  • 352 2 Two gang* clashed over a prostitute, a preliminary inquiry at the First Magistrate's Court was told yesterday. The clash, on March 21, 1969 on Cummings Street, ended with a man stabbed to death. Lee Ah Beng, 19. a detainee at Changi Prison, was giving evidence at
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 48 2 Toto draw Thursday Toto Draw: S3, 34, 4. 16. 28. Additional Number: 14. Iliree-circle Draw:— *1 19, 4. THE weather bureau predicts fair weather today. YESTERDAY Max. tamp: 87.5 Mia. temp; 73.4 Rata: 0.21 Total rain March: 9.44 Total rain days March: 4 Saashine: 3 10 ■■midity: 90
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    • 64 2 ■U SINGAPORE TOWN 503 im (3.1 ft.)- 1106 am. (9.1 ft)' 5.34 pm (1.7 (I.); 11-47 rm. (8 5 ft NAVAL DOCKYARD 4.56 am. (37 ft): 11.27 am. (10.6 (I.); 5.16 pm. (2.4 ft.i TOMORROW 12.01 am. (102 ft.); 5.23 am (3.2 ft); 1158 am. (10.7 ft.); 5.41 pm. (2.6
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  • 111 3 The Deputy Director [ienrral of the British 1 Council, Mr R. APhillip*. y ester da > summed up his three day visit to Singapore In two words I He was "absolutely delighted", he told re-1 porters at a press ton-1 Ference. He was pleased with 1
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  • 46 3 The driver of Hie truck pulling this trailer escaped unhurt when it overturned near the corner of River Valley Road and Kim Seng Road yesterday. The trailer spilled several bales of cotton waste over the road. They held up traffic for 30 minutes.
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  • 296 3 pX>REIGN Minister S. Rojoratnam yesterday left for Manila to attend the conference of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). The conference, which begins today, will hear the voice of private industry for the first time. Three distinguished businessmen are expected to address the conference
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  • 45 3 KCALA IXMPCR All member countries must agree to any security arrangement* within ASEAN. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tan (i>r) Ismail said this day at Kuala Lumpur International Airport before leaving for the Fourth ASFAN Foreign Ministers conference in Manila.
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  • 197 3 A 15-year-old girl left home to live with a married youth and worked In a bar at his suggestion, the Third District Court was told yesterday. The man refused to let her go borne until two days later. She told her mother
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  • 212 4 NO COMMENT SAYS LIM ipiHE Director of Broadcasting, Mr Lim Phoi Som, yesterday refused to comment when asked what steps Radio-Television Singapore was taking over alleged bad conditions there. "We have no comment to moke/' he said, when asked what was being done
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  • Article, Illustration
    41 4 TUs to the aew beigetibwti which aeaberi ®f the fMagapere AraH For* ees Maritime Com—will wear from today. The Maritime Command will be the only element in the SAF which will sot be in the familiar Temasek Green uniform
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  • 134 4 FOOD glorious FOOD Heir's I "Fair dinkum mark ft bargaia A matraliaa «x tripe at only 99.95 eeals a pound. Ox tripe roes wry well with cabbage, which has dropped «re cents so Marketing should be «heap today. Prices (ia pounds unless otherwise Mentioned): VEGETABLES ftayor
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  • 189 4 A petrol kiosk attendant was kHled in a road accident last night with a wish unfulfilled. Ramli bin Panorhlk. 16. «u returning home in a car when it skidded and hit a tree In Chang! Road, at the 13( milestone He was rushed to Outram
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  • 301 4 THE Government's "referee role" in industrial relations is likely to increase in the future, NTUC Secretary-General C.V. Devon Nair, predicted yesterday. This could be expected as the workings of the industrial relations system become more complex in the course of industrial and technological development.
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  • 79 4 The President ol the World YWCA. Mrs A. Athanassiou (left* gives a lifemembership certificate to Mrs E.V. Davies on behalf of former Singapore First Lady Pu a n Noor Aishah. The certificate honouring the former First Lady was {iven in conjuncion with the 96th birthday
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  • 64 4 Truck driver One Lre Tw. 25, In in Outram Road General Hospital la critical condition after hia truck overt armed last night. He was travelling along Gejrlang Road at 4 am when the truck skidded, hit two shop pillars and a post. then flipped over.
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  • 112 5 The construction of a pipeline in Southern Thailand's Kra Isthmus will not affect oil operations in Singapore. Nor will it undermine Singapore's economy, oil company spokesmen here said yesterday. They were commenting on the Thai Government's decision to conduct a feasibility survey for construction of
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  • 311 5 Bank accused of forgery rpHE High Court yesterday dismissed with costs a textile firm's claim of $139,496 from their bank over an irrevocable letter of credit for the purchase of a fishing vessel. The firm Gian Singh and Company, Limited of Singapore claimed that Banque de
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  • 186 5 KUALA LUMPUR Thirteen MPs walked out of Parliament yesterday in protest against "unfair treatment during proceedings and allocation of time". The MPs from the Democratic Action Party largest opposition party will also boycott the present session of the Third Parliament which is scheduled till
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  • 65 5 Eight Illegal Indonesian Immigrants were Jailed lor two months each at the First Magistrate's Court yesterday. All admitted entering Singapore without any valid pass or permit They are Mook Ah Long, 23, Wong Teck Cheng, 20. Teo Bee Liang. 22, Chee Beng. Heng, 28. Tan Ah
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  • 64 5 The rape trial of ex-In-spector Amanur Rahman starts today at 2.30 pm In the High Court before Mr Justice Choor Singh. The trial was postEoned yesterday to give is counsel Mr David Gerald Jeysegaram, time to prepare the case. The 24-year-old Inspector allegedly raped a teenage
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  • 115 5 Taking tea, Japanese* style, Is a ritual, as some Singapore students found out yes* terday. But it can be fun too, especially If It is served by a charmer in traditional kimono. The students were among 300 youths entertained at a tea party
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  • 93 5 KUALA LUMPUR Four men were yesterday charged with raping a young housewife near a Chinese cemetery. They are Jaw h a r Singh 40, a car salesman. Ourdev Singh, 29, a lorry driver, Jangh Singh, 30, a watchman, and Awtar Singh, 29, a car salesman.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 34 5 MPine and Dance AT JURONG tL dL U« i: mm liiiftNi Entertained by Popular Singer ft Miss Sakura Chan Music by Ali His Boys Chinese Western Food Delicious Jurong Satay Tn *****1 ltu *****1
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  • THE WORLD THIS MORNING
    • 282 6 LOS ANGELES A judge has refused to appoint a conservator to manage the affairs of aetren Terry Moore because "people have a constitutional right to he stupid." Judge Steven Wrismao was obviously irritated after hearing testimony about Miss Moore's relationship with a swimming pool maintenance
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    • 238 6 I JONG KONG Peking told the United Stotes yesterday to heed its warning on Indochina which carries the veiled threat of Chinese intervention. The warning was contained in o joint communique issued by China and North Vietnam last night, two days after
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    • 34 6 WASHINGTON The United States has said Main it is not considering any action ia the Indochina war that would threaten China. State Department spokesman Robert McCloskey gave this assurance yesterday.
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    • 128 6 PARIS Chief U.S. negotiator David Bruce was the only delegation leader to turn ap at the Vietnam peace talks yesterday and he dismissed the proceedings with his cnrtest speech ever. The veteran diplomat's €2-word statement read: "Ladies and gentleman. "We have made clear repeatedly that we
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    • 212 6 NEW DELHI Mrs Indira Gandhi has wan an absolute majority in the Indian House of Parliament. She may have about 350 of the 521 seats when all results are In. Another 150 results are still to come. The 53-year-old Prime Minister said she had
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    • 96 6 RAWALPINDI Pakistan has received an Indian note expressing willingness to begin a dialogue to settle oatstanding disputes. They include the hijacking and destruction of an Indian airliner, officials said yesterday. Officials said the note was in reply to a Pakistani message on February I{.
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  • 400 7 McMahon has no mandate' Opposition leader Gough Whitlam said last night that he will press a Labour Party no-confidence motion in Prime Minister William McMahon's government. The motion, due to be put forward yesterday, was odjourned to next week to allow time for the
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  • 215 7 HAIFA, Israel Premier Golda Meir has criticised indirect ArabIsraeli negotiations as comedy." Nonetheless, her Government has rejected a parliamentary motion to pull out of the talks under UN envoj Gunnar Jarring. Meanwhile, the 'Washington Post' has reported that Israel la now considering a
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  • 128 7 KHE BANH Sooth Virlnamrse forces fcaw palled out of the strategic Laotian crossroads town of Tchepone towards high ground. About 8,000 North Vietnamese troops are reported to have massed around the shattered town during two days ol bad weather. Fighting was reported late yesterday five miles
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 263 8 T>ELFAST, North Ireland Three young British soldiers have been executed by terrorists from the outlawed Irish Republican Army. The unarmed soldiers were then left in a ditch on a lonely rood to die. The victims were taking their first leave since their regiment arrived in
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  • 181 8 HOUSTON Mrs Delores Pullard Johnson, the world's tallest woman, has undergone brain surgery. Her Bft 21n frame was spread across two operating tables for the seven-hour operation. Surgeons removed a benign- tumour which had caused her pituitary gland to produce too many growth hormones.
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  • 56 8 MOSCOW Police have ejected more than 100 Jews from a Parliament building where they had staged a sit-in. They are pressing for permission to emigrate to Israel, reliable sources said. The Jews, several of whom had spent more than six hours in the office, left
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  • 71 8 WARSAW A Polish spy had admitted he worked for Radio Free Europe In West Germany under the control of the American central Intelligence Agency Captain Andrzej Czechowicz, 34. said he worked for the antiCommunist radio station In Munich for six years. He was on an
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  • 178 8 HONG KONG A Taiwan spy was yes- I terday convicted of Illegal possession of explosives. He was sentenced to 30 i months in jail. i Wong Tak-Siu, 53, was J acquitted of possess- in* arms and ammunition. Wong, a career military officer admitted he
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  • 83 8 PARIS —Jean Jacques Servan-Schreiber. millionaire publisher and politician. Is to ask the government to place nude busts of Brlfitte Bardot as a symbol of France In the nation's 34.000 town halls. Servan-Schreiber yesterday unveiled a Nist of the popular star which did nothing to hide
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  • 326 8 HONOLULU Cambodian Premier Lon Nol has checked out of Tripler General Hospital. He Is now convalescing at a U.S. government guest house at Hickam Air Force base in Honolulu. PRAGUE One of 19 alleged young radicals on trial for subversion has admitted in court that they had
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
    • 506 9  -  Housing estate blues laurielee THE sm of urine greets you os you step into the lift going up to Mrs C. B. Ton's fifth-floor Hot. She says It's the work of grown men. not children Nobody knows why grown men urinate In lifts But, then,
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    • 50 9 Pretty Portuguese Laura do Costo Boque, 21, won the Miss Hong Kong title in 1967. Now she is working for o model agency in Sydney. No doubt thot she is much in demand, Laura wants to stay in Sydney. "It's so big after Hong Kong/' she soys.
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  • 310 10 HPHE Indian election results and the certainty of Mrs. Indira Gandhi's Congress Party winning an absolute majority in Parliament should be heart-warming to those who have despaired of the situation there during the last few years. It is not that we think that Mrs. Gandhi's brand of
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  • 243 10 OECENTLY a controversy was raging In Washington whether it was Henry Kissinger or William Rogers who was advising President Nixon on foreign policy. It is a valid question because whatever Nixon say a about It, there was a strong rumour aired In the Press last year that Rogers was
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  • 520 10 Art Buchwald WASHINGTON President Nixon has given all of us assurances that the American Gls will not do any fighting in Laos, Cambodia, or even North Vietnam on the ground, that is. Therefore, the burden of all the fighting will be on the South
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  • SUM SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 96 10 SIR: CANNOT understand the logic of "Prude". He shuns non-censor-ship because he claims it will give Singapore the suicide rate of Denmark (which, contrary to "Prude's" claim, Is NOT the highest). None of the recent studies on pornography give the slightest indication that it brings out
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    • 74 10 SIR: TMANY people have ATI suggested ways of ridding the Botanical Gardens of its abundant monkey population. Why don't we fire bomb the Gardens? I know this may seem absurd (because of the obvious expense Involved), but I am willing to start a collection to pay for
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    • 70 10 SIR* CAN the Housing and Development Board please explain to me why, as a bachelor, I do not qualify for one of their flats? It seems that it it only married peoplo who are considered for HDB flats, but I cannot understand why. Is
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  • SUNSCOPE
    • 520 11 A NEW Anti-Corruption Bill, expected to be posted by the Indonesian Parliament today, will give the government wider powers to crack down on graft but makes no provision for the trial of post offenders. The Bill has been debated In parliament for six months.
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    • 420 11  -  By PAUL FURTADO TOWN plannen and town dwellers In fwr continents have keen learning about "community harmonics." A planning and design development Arm in Toronto has for 10 year* been introducing the idea into a variety of international projects in Ethiopia, Somali, Kuwait, Scotland,
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  • THE MORNING AFTER with Weatherbee Wong
    • 110 12/13 I know women ore capable of a lot of things but I didn't know they could destroy the world by wearing "immodest" gear. But it's true, according to a lay preacher in Johannesburg. He says that revealing garments like hotpants can bring floods, droughts and
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    • 1044 12/13 We have too many psuedo-discos rPHINGS always move at the HOTEL MALAYSIA'S underground PUB. You can't get tired of the sound with four groups to keep you swinging. The GROUP ONE, TWO, THREE, th e LOG STOCK and BARREL, the THI'NDERBIRDS and
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  • Page 12/13 Advertisements
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    • 93 12/13 Vlllajge 3-A. CUSCAOEN ROAO. SINGAPORE 10 TEL *****2 6 o.m to 2 a nrv (NO COVER CHARGE) PONGGOI (Air -conditioned) HIT*-CLUB. RESTAURANT 6 COFFEE HOUSE TRACK 24 PONGGOI ROAD 11* ms Singapore 19 TKL: *****4 (3 LINKS) Chinese European Cuisine Sea-food Open Oail> from 10.00 a.m. to 1.0(1 a.m. Weekends
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    • 105 12/13 MIXED PLATE' Fillet Steak < Pork Chop Lamb Chop Sausages Every Saturday SIRLOIN STEAK $9 00| Sunday T BONE STEAK 19 00 CHICKEN KING POOLSIDE prawn S $8oo) HAMBURGER $5 00. The above main dishes will 1 be served with Vegetables^ il KS% SkV* Mixed Salad. Roll, and Coffee or
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  • 645 14 relax THE doys of the infatuated young man on bonded knee socking the hand of o vounq lady are over. At least tt tooks thot woy. In these days of transformation*, marriage has probably undergone the greatest transformation of all.
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  • 57 15 Toasting their success Sophisticated Julie Andrews and debonair Rock Hudson tram up for the espionage Aim "Darling Liii, Or Where Were You The Night You Said You Shot Down Baron Von Rlchthofen?'* It's a musical comedy, with lavish settings and chio costumes. using top-class actors and actresses. The film is
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  • 302 15 MIA Farrow must be one of the world's most unpretentious stars. She prefers to wear no make-up, ond has always been noted for her simple style of dress. And. since she first cut her long, fair hair, her hair-cut has been of the simplest
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 249 15 #OEEE7 ORGANISATION L I D O *****4 I.AM Utt! 10.30 M 1.43. A M 5.45 pm Norma Prices: (1. I ft 1 Audrey Hepburn Rt Harrison "MT rAII LADY" IWBI 70mm Panavuiion, Color School ch.lilrrn 11 00 to test at 10 30 am 1.45. Si 6.30 pm. «hows. OPENS TOMORROW!
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    • 186 15 I QRGAIMISATIOM J I ODEON ORCHAND 1 NOW SBOWINGI INO Pre* Liati (CASH BOOKINGS ONLft Batb Tbfitrft I Sk«n ODEON: U a.ar I-M 1 A Ml OICIAiSs 11 IJ*. 1 I.lft (Joioeo Harvest Prenanu Wan* Vi Ikliur* liui la EATOICHI AND THft BOVI.NG SWOBDSMAN iUi HMdtriai Dyaliacope gaatmanroK r Sndlab
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  • 505 16  -  ANN LANDERS DEAR ANN: Two months ago our little girl died of a heart defect. She wa* only a tew weeks old so we didn't have much time to love her. Many of our friends have small babies. Since we lost our child we have
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 806 16 CARROLL. RIGHTER'S GEMN VRGO GENERAL TENDENCIES During the day there is a strong and unusual need to be most cooperative with others and not yield to an urge to make problems out of some small, unimportant differences of opinion. The evening then is good for joining with others in the
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 863 17 TV SIIMC3APURA CHANNEL 5 OPENINC ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by CENERAL HOSPITAL A daytime serial about the staff and the patients of a hospital FOR THE FAMILY A magazine series presented in English A DIARY OF EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (English) IT'S HAPPENINC IN SINCAPORE (English) (Rpt.) A series on the
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    • 34 17 Lovely Era Gabor stars opposite Eddie Albert a simple farmer. in "Green Acres", a hilarious situation Tonight's episode on Channel Five at comedy about a millionaire who yearns to be 9.25 is "Wealthy Landowner".
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  • YOUNG SUN
    • 156 18 COR INN A Is not a wonder child and not mpant to become one. Rut her memory is fabulous. She remembers everything that is told to her and can repeat it without mistake. Names, dates and accompanying explanations are stored. computer-like, in her little head. She
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    • 402 18 J AWOKE to Hear the pottering of feet in the undergrowth nearby. It come from neor the huge coconut tree in the gorden leading to the doorway of my house. I was terrified. Thunder cracked, lightning flashed, and It seemed as though doom's day
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    • Article, Illustration
      138 18 QH! How I love the wind that blows My hair across my cheeks and nose, Making ny skirt swish around my knees. Filling me with delight and glee. Oh! How I love the wind that blows, Which makes the kites fly high and low* The light clouds sweep
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 179 18 ESSAY CONTEST: Rules to observe The Eastern Sun'* essay writinq contest foi boys and girls o( 14 and under (Junior) and boys and qiris over 14 (Senior) appears iw this page on Friday. Prtea money SIC for Senior* md $5 fo» lurici ♦n» «v*f> IM» OublisTtCO All entrant* art tountec
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  • WOMEN
    • 432 19  -  By Florence de Santis ABOUT ten years ago, knits began to ■nova out of o special class of sport and travel wear into use as fabric for any and all fashions. The move into dresses, suits and even coats was accomplished through the use of double-knit,
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    • 115 19 YOU may not be a mad dog or an Englishman, but you still hare to venture out into the mid-day. sun. Yet for some strange reason, inspite of the sweltering heat in Singapore, women exhibit a curious reluctance to wear hats.
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  • 221 20 Cheaper price shores were the main losers in trading on the tloors of the Stock Exchonge of Moloysla and Singopore yesterday. The industrial sector clearly showed routine dealings and carried-over selling. Power and Telecoms led the field with sales in the easier manner to 78 cents with 137,000
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  • Article, Illustration
    61 20 The Bank of America recently announced the promotion of Mr Jayaram Krishna as an officer at it* Singapore Branch Mr Krishna was educated at St. Joseph's Institution and began his banking career in 1966. He Joined Bank of America in Julv 1969. Mr Krishna will serve as the Offlcer-in-Charge
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  • 275 20 March first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 pm. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 97.50 cents per kilo. The tone of the market was quiet. Opening levels were about unchanged and there the market remained in dormant conditions until noon. After noon more buyers
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  • 117 20 HONG KONG Yesterday's 5 pro currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Buyers) (Sellers) 195.20 196.20 per 100 straits dollars 146.50 148.50 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 6.78 6.78 per Australian doilai 340 360 ner 1.000 Burmese kyats 460 480 per 1,000 Indian rupees 150 165 ner
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  • 665 20 BID and offer price* officially listed at the close of business In the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange vesterdat INDUSTRIALS B. 8 ACM A 1.37 Ajinomoto 190 Alcan 141 1.42 Allied Choc. 2.83 2.88 Ben 1.24 1.28 Berjaya 1.22 1.23 Borneo 1.94 1.95
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  • 833 20 BUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the ncmber of shares traded In bracket* in lots of 1.000 on Its unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIALS Air an $143 (2); Ben $126 (2); DIM $125 (2); Borneo )1.94 (11);
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  • 81 20 ■'life noon price* •I the Singapore t hlnrne Produce Kkchanie »eMerdaj ww> a 8. Coconut Ol) if.o.b.) balk mam 07.50 Coconut nil if.o.b.) dram mm 60.00 Corpra 36 00 W Munlok While Asia 100% Nl.». mm 177.00 Sarawak White Pepper mm 1*1.00 Sarawak special Muck »6% N L.W. mm
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 348 21 SYDNEY Confident speculators invaded the mining market on Sydney Stock Exchange this afternoon. Nickel stocks received particular attention with notable gains being registered by Tasminex, Selcast, Spargos. Tasminex shot up 21 cents to $1.05. but selling pressure reduced them to 98 cents at closing time Higher
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    • 120 21 Some 400 Singaporeans will be required to man the 321-room Hotel Royal at Newton Road opening on September a. i97i. "The recruitment and lntervlewlngs of experienced personnel have already started by our Personnel Manager from our multiracial community for the rese;ctlve Departmental eads." said Mr Lee
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    • 83 21 MANIUV Air Manila and Trans-World Airways (TWA) have signed an agreement which will give the Philippine domestic airline the capability to fly International routes. A 1 r Manila President Rico Ricardo Sllverlo said yesterday. Under the agreement signed. Air Manila Would lease two Boeing 707
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 315 21 TENDER TENDERS wtll be received in the Ministry ol Defence. Pearl's Hill. Singapore 3, for the following item* up to 1200 Noon oa daunt shown •gamut each Item: L Tailoring of Uniforms (Standard) sice* —Closing Date: 19.3 71. S. Knife Heat —Closing Date: 36 3.71. Tenders will be restricted to
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    • 522 21 TENDER NOTICES NOTICE GOVERNMENT OF TUB KEfIBUC or SINGAPORE TUB LOCAL. GOVERNMKNT INTEGRATION OKDINANCK, IMS (NO. 18 of 1963) NOTICB LNDKR MKCTION 18(10) WHEREAS ID exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (1) and (S) of Section 19 of the Local Government Integration Ordinance. 1963 (hereinafter referred to m "the
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    • 477 21 P. W. D. SINGAPORE TENDERS arc Invited from P. WD. Registered Contractors and from "Specially Reentered Contractors for the following work:— Uyini of Main Hrwerw from Balektler Redevelopment to Rangoon Koad Sewsge Pumping Station Civil Engineering Cootractor a boy# $lOO,OOO/-. Closing Date: 13.4 71 at 10.00 a.m. Persons or companies
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    • 485 21 P. W. D. SINGAPORE BMK.T.-3/71 Tenders are Invited (or the following > (A) —I (four) unite: I'oam tiff Trutier. Large. (B) —t (two) nulls: Water Tender, l.urgr, I'lre Service 1700 gallon capacity. |C) —1 (one) unit: Airport Fire Service. Rescue Tender. Restricted to P.W.D. registered Contractors under "Supply of Mechanical
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 453 22  -  "y Alice Tan IF football It to progress in Singapore all teams must have equal treatment. The President of the Ocean Sports Club, Mr L. 8. Rajoo said this in a letter to the Football Association of Singapore. In a letter to the
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    • 157 22 MANILA th e World Boxing Council (WBC) Wednesday voted world heavyweight champion Joe Frazlfr as it'* "Boxer of the Month" for his March 8-declslon over Muhammad All In New York's Madison Square Garden. The WBC ratings for March put Cas&lu* Clay (Ail)
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    • 462 22  -  By S. Selvarajoo OFFICIALS of the Toble Tennis Federation of Asia will moke a speciol trip to Japan on March 26 to try and get Toiwan admitted to the World Table Tennis Federation. Mr Tang Tuck Wah, Secretary of
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    • 144 22 THE Singapore Tenpln Bowling Congress will hold a tournament to select a bowler to represent Singapore in MGM's Third Men's Singles Tournament in Australia. This is the first time the tournament has been held In Australia. Bowlers from Hongkong, Japan. Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan and Singapore will compete. The
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    • 312 23 Tcnri UnirtrMty Turn routed Singapore Youth Side by six goals to nil in a friendly hockey fixture played at the Padang yesterday. To the vlaltorg this was the golden opportunity to gain experience from Singapore. To Singapore's Youth Side, this was the first match since they
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    • 584 23 Trainee Jack Spencer's Slack Belt and Floral Mile (Wadi) did a epectacular gallop at Bukit Timak yesterday. Breaking from Hie 4* post, tke pair raced strid* for stride ever tke last if in 36 on a good track' witk •lack Belt, apprentice Sairi up, doing
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    • 219 23 Japan's World Cup player Haruo Yisuda, shot o blistering 6-under-par 66 for the sole first place in the opening round of the $75,000 Mala ysian Open Golf Championship the third leg of the Asian circuit. The 28-year o I d Japanese professional
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    • 60 23 Singapore Cricket Club played superb soccer lo nand out a three goals to one defeat to Singapore Recreation Club. In a friendly fixture played at the Padang yesterday. SCC, a much improved team this season, had no difficulty in scoring this victory against the SRC. Kennedy
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    • 74 23 NEW YORK Mille® Barber with *****,000 led the Iwt of too 100 monejrwinnerg so far this rear on the professional golf circuit, with Bruce Crampton of Australia. in 29th place. the best non-American in the standings released Wednesday Tom Sha w was second at *****,000.
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    • 519 23 PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad India snatched a remarkable seven-wicket victory over the West Indies with a day to spar« in Hie second Test at Queen's Paric Oval her* Wednesday and registered Hieir first ever win in 25 Tests between the two countries. The Indiana struck
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    • 140 23 Urine testing of all horses prior to raring, as carried out at the Singapore and West Malaysian Turf Clubs will soon be introduced in the State of New York. During the Ninth Asian Racing Conference held last year in Malaysia and Singapore, Mr Fosner.
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  • 144 24 Latest US bank rate reduction NEW YORK The Chase Man. hattan Bank, the second lamest in the United States, announced It was cutting its prime lending rate from 5-3/4 to 5-1/4 per cent. The action was expected to be followed by other major banks. The reduction was
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  • 238 24 ITARACHI Panic-stricken Bengalis thronged the airport yesterdoy in a frantic effort to get back to East Pakistan. They fear a bloodbath will follow the deepening crisis between the East and West parts of the country. The airport was like a refugee camp. Families crowded into
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  • 273 24 CANBERRA Former Australian Premier John Gorton said yesterday that a'ter he lost the premiership, he felt "like a galley slave Mho has been set free." In an interview with the 'Melbourne Herald'. Gorton said he had mixed emotions about his defeat. He added. "I don't
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  • 29 24 JAKARTA Former Indonesian Communist Party youth leader Bukatno was yesterday sentenced to death for plotting to revive the banned party and overthrow the Government.
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  • 174 24 MANILA —An opposition Philippines senator has claimed that several missing Filipino agents were captured in Sabah while on an intelligenceinfiltration mission. Senator Benlgno Aquino told a congressional committee here yesterday that one of the agents was captured 'n Tawau, Sabah, sometime in September or October last
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