Eastern Sun, 29 March 1971

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  • 20 1 EASTERN SUN own national daily 10 cents Esfrd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1607 Monday, March 29, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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  • 379 1 DELHI Pakistan Air Force jets hove launched bomb attacks against the East Pakistani cities of Comilla and Chittagong in an attempt to take rebel holdouts. The Press Trust of India (PTI) said this yesterday. The report was relayed from the Indian town of Agartala on the
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  • 133 1 NEW DELHI India yesterday rejected a protect by Pakistan that it was "interfering" in its affairs. At the saute time, according to an Indian military source, the Government made a derision to strengthen security along its border with Pakistan The decision to strengthen security
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  • 588 2  -  The following eye-witness account by Reuter's Howard Wnitten is the first dispatch out of Dacca since censorship was imposed there last Friday. He was flown from the East Pakistan capital on Saturday to Karachi. Howard Wnitten I )ACCA I was bundled out of Dacca
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  • 211 2 NEW DELHI Radio Pakistan has denied that the martial law administrator of East Pakistan, Lt Gen Tikka Khon was wounded in a clash in Docca on Saturday. The radio, quoting an official statement Issued In Dacca, said the report was completely without foundation.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 73 2 iii y BINGAPORE TOWN 12.03 am. (9J ft.); 6.18 am. <0.6 ft.); 12.43 pm. (9.8 ft.); 6.41 pm. (2.4 ft). TOMORROW 12.34 am. (9.9 ft.); 7.04 am. (0.4 ft.); 1.33 pm. (9 2 ft.); 729 pm. (3.1 ft.). NAVAL DOCKYARD 12.18 am (11.4 ft.): 6.58 am. <0.9 ft.): 12.49 pm
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    • 30 2 The weather bar can predicts fair weather today. YESTERDAY Maximum Tfcmp-. 88-7 Minimum Temp: 73.1 Rain: Nil Raindays: 11 Total Raia March: 3.66 Sunshine: 9.55 Humidity at 11 pm; 92
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  • 314 3 A black market syndicate has cheated gullible Singaporeans of thousand* of dollars. The people gave their money to the syndicate to send to India to be sold at a high-profit black market rate, an Eastern SUN investigation hag revealed. Then the gang vanished in
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  • 177 3 A mother and her daughter were tied and gagged by three masked men who robbed them of $2OO yesterday. The victims axe Madam Ong Slew Eng. 54. and her daughter Tan Bui Slen. 29, of River Valley Road. They v ®re a. ?ep in
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  • 119 3 When 14-year-old schoolboy Baljret Singh (above) died in an accident last week, he directly helped raise money for charity. His school chums from the Ponggol industrial Training Centre passed their hat around to collect money for his family But his father, Mr Fatah Singh, 50,
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  • 66 3 A man died when his car skidded and overturned at 11-mile Mandai Road yesterday. He was Chia Seng Kee. 12, of Woodlands Road. A woman and three Children travelling In the car were hurt. Madam Cheng Ah Sion, 55. of Bukit Panjang Village, Miss Chia Peng
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  • 37 3 A 17-year-old girl who fell oil a bus at Circuit Road 10-days ago died on Saturday night at the Outram Road Genercd Hospital. She was Miss Yar> Ho Lan, of Race Course Road.
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  • 43 3 Whampoa Member of Parliament, economist Dr Augustine Tan, will lead a 13-membcr trade mission to Tokyo on April 14. Six other members will Join them later In rokyo. Delegation members are from a cross-section oi local Industrie*.
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  • 114 3 Poller are still hunt inr for a woman con litlcnce trickster preying on houscwivw ID the Holland DistrictShe has cheated, several housewives in Holland Koad, Moonbeam Terrace and Bin Tone Park. A police spokesman <aid the woman who calls herself Mary Tan usually calls on housewives for
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  • 88 3 Year after year they come, bringing fruits, intense and joss slicks. Every year about this lime, the dead are remembered by relatives who flock to the cemeteries in their thousand*. This Chinese festival IN called 'Cheng Bene' or All Souls Day. The grave* sre
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    • 31 3 call for a cold E&Jfy refreshing K r Carlsberg the premium beer Wt 4 m. <'', il l niiiiir n —-**>* m J 'J i 1 C •> fc*r-" THE EAST ASMHC COMRMfY I
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous

  • 369 4 TOHORE BAHRU The government will act as sureties for Malay businessmen who wish to obtain capital loans from commercial banks the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Ismail said yesterday. Organisations such as the Federal Land Development Authority (FLDA) will be empowered to buy
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  • 60 4 An elderly woman wa& killed when she knocked down by a car at the junction of Tanlong Pagar Road and Tapah Street on Saturday night. She was taken to the Outram Road General Hospital where she died at 8 am. Those who know her are requested
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  • 115 4 A police spokesman said yesterday that all the 163 youths arrested on Saturday night were released after question int. Crack detectives from Kandang Kerbau Police Station mounted "Operation Eagle*' to round up all the badhats in the Kandang Kerbau District. The operation went into full swing
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  • 182 4 Planners must predict five or ten years ahead if their plans are to succeed. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs said on Saturday night. Mr Rahim Ishak warned; "Planning based on all the relevant available factors in a given situation by itself cannot ensure success."
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  • 50 4 WASHINGTON The U.S. Export-Import Bank says it will provide US $25 million (Ss7sm) of lending support to lending activities of the First National Bupk o t Chi- cago's branch in Singapore. The Export-Import Bank financing assistance will be used to back the sales of U-S--good and services,
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  • 220 4 Many people buy old Chinese paintings not out of love for the art form but only as living room decorations to blend with their furniture. Americans are particularly notorious for this, a well-known Chinese painter. Professor Llm Tslng-Al. told the SUN He said:
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  • 166 4 TV Central Manpower Base at Kalians will hold national service examinations from April 4 to June IS for all citizen* born between July 1, 1953 to September M, 1955. Ttie examination will be spaced out according to the dates of births of the citiaens. These in
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  • THE WORLD THIS MORNING
    • 220 5 REBEL BOMB RAID EXPERT LOSES HAND J-fONGKONG A biscuit-tin bomb exploded outside centrol government offices here lost night. It ripped off the hond of o British bollistics expert who hod tried to defuse it. A Chinese poster similar to those that accompanied terror bombings in thi* British colony during leftist
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    • 212 5 TOKYO Prime Minister Eisoku Sato yesterday retracted on earlier statement that the China-Japan issue would not be settled while he was in office. Mr Sato indicated his new position in the Diet in reply to a question from a Socialist member. The Socialist
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    • 29 5 BELFAST A bomb wrecked offices in the Northern Ireland Housing Trust headquarters early yesterday. The bomb was hurled through a window. Mo one was hurt
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    • 150 5 LOUDON A Conservative member of Parliament wants a ban slapped on a book which tells schoolchildren how to make love, set an abortion and defy school discipline. The Little Red School book which also Includes advice on contraceptives and drugs has been the
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    • 27 5 WASHINGTON The United States respects Burma's policy of nonalignment and has no plans to introduce new projects there. Secretary of State William Rogers said yesterday.
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    • 78 5 Meet a frog that's literally showing a leg. Normally, a frog born with a mutation will only lirt for several days. It has been discovered by a Philadelphia firm that imports thousands of African wator frogs annually. This photo was made with a macro lens through
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    • 162 5 WASHINGTON The communist insurgency in Thailand has failed wis popular support, Secretary of State William Rogers said yesterday But he said the eomsiunists are still trying to expand their influence and over- j throw the government. Rogers told Congress 1 in a special foreign
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  • 173 6 ROUND-THE-CLOCK TRAINING The Egyptian Air Force is on the alert and ready for "a ferocious and vigorous" war with Israel, sources said yesterday. Cairo newspapers which reflect official views claimed the airmen are oow ready to face any eventuality with the Israelis.
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  • 192 6 WASHINGTON A U.S. presidential assistant has accused Japan of going back on its word to President Nixon on the touchy question of textile imports. The assistant, Mr Clark MacGregor said he saw nothing wrong with Representative Wilbur Mills negotiating an agreement with private Japanese
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  • 234 6 AMSTERDAM The planned visit to Holland by Emperor Hirohito of Japan in October may be cancelled because of Dutch public criticism, the popular morning newspaper De Telegraaf said. A story from its Tokyo correspondent, splashed on the front page, said "The imperial court Is said to
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  • 224 6 TOKYO Cars, kissing and cosmetics are seldom seen in Peking, says a Japanese Member of Parliament just back from Communist China. "There are no lovers walking in the streets." wrote Ryoichi Nagata, a Conservative Member of Japan's Lower House He spent 20 days
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  • 96 6 LONDON Princess Anne, 30, has been thrown from her horse during a show* jumping event at Aldershot. The Princess was not hurt. The mishap occurred when her horse refund to jump a five bar gate. She quickly remounted and completed the three remaining fences. However,
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  • 311 6 NEW DELHI India's major internal airline has ended a lock out of its employees which grounded its fleet of 70 aircraft for more than two weeks. Indian Airlines management representatives and union officials agreed to hold talks aimed at settling their pay dispute. JAKARTA Indonesia's political parties
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  • 125 7 ALBACETE, SpainFive have died and a sixth is gravely iD alter sharing an alcoholic drink can taiaing strychnine. Police said the poison was apparently mistaken for an gar. Thr dead were an elderly married eonple, wko prepared the drink, and three women aged 26. 31 and
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  • 77 7 EAMTHA, Jordan Jordaaiaa authorities rUaprd a earfew on the ■ortkfri towi of Irbid aad sealed it off with a eordoa of troops testerday. Security forces went through the town in a wide-ranging search for armed Palestinian guerrillas. Gunmen ambushed one of the search parties, killing four
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  • 238 7 MOSCOW Soviet police were apparently clearing Moscow of potentially disruptive elements yesterday in order to ensure there is no trouble during tomorrow's Communist Porty Con- gress. Informed sources said more than 30 people who went to the office of Chief prosecutor Roman Rudenko
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  • 159 7 LOS ANGELES The Tate murder trial jury could possibly give a verdict on the case today. The Jurors have extended their first session of deliberations on the sentence for the four accused. This could mean that the jury is pressing for a verdict today. It could
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  • 51 7 ATHENS A women's underground organisation has appealed to Greek women to stop having children "so as not to make new slaves." In a handwritten proclamation addressed to "enslaved Greek women," the National Women'# Resistance alleged that four rears of army rule had led the country to
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  • 360 7 Thousands face death RECIFE, Brazil Thousands off peasants in drought-stricken northeastern Brazil kept watch near the town off Cupira yesterday ffor a food convoy to save them ffrom death by starvation. Cupira's Mayor Manue Jooquim do Silvo soid 5,000 storving people were lurking like a
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  • 36 7 Bill Sonders, 20, puts o "bear hug" on Victor. But Victor, a 455 lb bear is not thot easily put down. The motch at a show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ended in a draw.
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  • 546 8 WfHEN a national leader and his political party win a landslide victory in elections, It restricts rather than Increases their freedom of action. This is equally true of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and the People's Action Party, of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Congress Party
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  • 769 8  -  by Andrew Waller Reuter jyjOSCOW The Kremlin is expected to concentrate its attention on Europe when international affairs are dealt with at the Soviet Communist Party Congress opening in Moscow tomorrow. Russia's other front, In the east with China, will probably receive less public attention.
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 261 8 SIR: Singapore's taxi drivers really bug me. And so, here I am, writing another letter complaining about inefficiency, dishonesty and rudeness. I had great hopes f° r COMFORT. I thought their drivers would be different, what with Devan Nair himself personally running the show.
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    • 59 8 SIR: FVEN the incessant drumming of courtesy into the heads of bus-drivers is useless. The driver of a bus I was in this week demonstrated his highly developed skill of rudeness. He bumped and rattled his bus all the way from the depot to my destination. Why
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
    • 640 9  -  Melee THE Leper didn't look up when he spoke. Instead he bowed his head and talked to the table. He felt ashamed that 1 bad to look at his face The leprosy on his face la the reason he never moves out of his tumbledown
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    • 68 9 JILL (left) and Anne love twtmming and cycling end at lest they've found e way of doing boHi at the tamo timo on a recently developed amphibian tricycle called the "Boa* bon Cycle". It hat three balloon-shaped wheels and a propeller at the back. Here the girls
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  • relax
    • 800 10/11 *TIO you lie awake worrying about tomorrow? Do you silently fume with fury when somebody insults or annoys you? Or do you throw the insults back and more? i Do you laugh quite spontaneously often? And do you cry almost as easily?
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    • 124 10/11 The Communist Silver Star troupe from Hong Kong appears to have taken Kuala Lumpur by storm. Daily, thousands lined up outside box offices at the Stadium Negara to get tickets for the show. Very often, it ended in near fight. Police had a tough
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    • 676 10/11  -  Doctor's Diary By LAWRENCE E. LAMB, MD DEAR DR LAMB About three years ago I started a jogging programme. At first I could jog only one-sixth of a mile. Occasionally my knees hurt. My question la: Am I hurting my body? I now jog
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  • 538 12  -  ANN LANDERS DEAR ANN: I work for a heart specialist. A patient whom we have been seeing tor several months just left the office in a state of near collapseA neighbour had telephoned her after midnight to inform her of tha death of a mutual friend.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 747 12 »7.1 '.II a GENERAL TENDENCIES Ton an* tied down to all aorta and kinds of exacting duties of a down-to-earth nature, and although you feel 70a want to ran away from them, they would only tie waiting for you with accumulated interest and more dust when you return. Show your
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  • 130 13 It looks a bit like the revue of "Oh! Calcutta", which is still packing the theatres. It's the same, but different. Members of the cast of Jean-Louis Barrault's new production "Rabelais" take a break in rehearsals at the Round House Theatre, London. The nude show
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  • 452 13  -  By Harold Heffernan JJOLLYWOOD Autograph-hunters have been plying their trade since who-knows-when, but the still unsolved question is what do they do with their trophies? Save, trade, or eventually throw them away? Some sorely-harass-ed stars have actually launched Investigations to And out, but they,
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 250 13 wssm ORGANISATION LL I U o *****4J l-»»« Days No Free List llam I 45. I. c Wl A #l5 Cheng Pei pet 1,0 i,ieh THE LADY HERMIT" •A SHAW PRODUCTION Mandarin to Bcope A Cok>> OPENS WEDNESDAY Marlon Brando "BURN" Color by DeLuxe iUA> CAPITOL ***** Last t Dart!
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    • 144 13 OHGANISATIOM CATHAY *****! NOW SHOWING! U Ml I M 1..1 D Kitty Swan ID ~G|TNGALA rur BLACK PANTHEB C.IBL" in Co'or □EON ***** NOW SHOWING! II I" I.W I N «M) Paramount'! 'Bar**!!**' Starring: Alain Delon ORCHARD 3 7651 11 LAST OAT! I.M. «M l ift |.b. The Great Whlw
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  • 48 14 Indian Kathok d oncer and drummer Rom Chandra Suman (pictured) will give o concert at Hie Cultural Centre Hall, Conning Rise, at 8 pm. Suman, who comet from Delhi, has given concerts in Fiji, New Zealand and Australia. He plays tha tabla and pakhawaj drums.
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  • 57 14 French entertainer Maurice Chevalier is making a speedy recover* from a throat Infection and will probably leave hospital next Satarda* The 82-year-old suging star entered the American Hospital in Paris eight days ago for a check-up. Doctors said his stay had been prolonged because he had slight
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 801 14 V JJOO OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by GENERAL HOSPITAL A daytime aerial about the staff and patient* of a hospital. 1.20 KM THE f AMN.Y A m*azme s#ries pfwentcd in Tawl--1.55 A DIARY OF EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS wen (Tamil). ♦OO ITS HAPPENING IN SINGAPORE (Tamil) (Repeat) A series on It*
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  • 99 15 The rise and fall of hemlines over the years has led fashion designers to believe that there is a direct relation between the degree of leg exposure and stock prices. They say that as stock prices rise so do the hemlines. How
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  • 387 15 IT SEEMS that in Britain at least the mini skirt will again be the fashion of 1971. The midi is already on the wane. Hot pants, the latest challenger, are well favoured with a big majority of both sexes either liking or quite liking them.
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  • YOUNG SUN
    • Article, Illustration
      559 16  -  THE AGONY OF ADOLESCENCE FIRST IN A 2-PART SERIES «y Joyce Gabriel THE teenager is caught between wanting to be more of an adult and not knowing whether he can handle it. In this two-part series New York psychiatrist, Dr Michael Kalogerakes, looks at the problems facing
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    • 387 16 Parliament backbenchers last week kit out at pop music, bellbottom trousers, pornographic literature, violence and sex and passion on the screen. Tbey branded these M signs ef deeadenee In Singapore. Most young men and women disagree with their MPs a SUN survey indicated. They
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 61 17 Mr Chan Chart Ton;, manager of Novelty Store Pte. Ltd., Singapore, and Australian Trade Commissioner Mr 11. C. Sargent inspect some of the range of Australian-made silverware displayed by the manufacturers K. G. Luke Australia in the Australian Trade Commissioner's Showrooms. Discussing the quality of the goods (right)
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    • 123 17 JAKARTA Jakarta has been chuaen as the headquarters for the newly formed Asean Travel and Tour Operators Association (ATTA). The group'* first meeting here formed a 15-man board of directors headed by Mr Sri Budojo of Indonesia as chairman. Mr Tan Chee Chye of Kingaporr
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    • 134 17 Kumpulan Guthrie Sendirian Berfcad has received new orders for Malaysian oil palm seeds totalling approximately $182,000 from seven countries. A spokesman for KOSB's Commerc al Division said that export orders for more than 300.000 seeds had been dealt with during the first two months
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    • 141 17 TMK WVllcomf Foundation Ltd will market its specialist life saving drags in South east Asia, even if th», cannot be done profitably because of tbe low incidence of the specific diseases they prevent or cure. This commitment was made by Mr e G. Stack.
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    • 150 17 NINE prominent top management executives were elected to the 7th Governing: Council of the Singapore Institute of Management at their Annual General Meeting held at Hotel Equatorial on Friday evening. The nine elected members are:- Messrs. Chu Chui Lum, Director Secretary. National Cash Register Co.
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    • 409 17 Trading sessions lost week were uninspiring on carried-over lock of interest from the previous week, i The market was virtually in the doldrums as most operators never got enthusiastic. Several market analyst* are of the opinion that big investors have vanished and the market la only
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    • 90 17 THE Portals Group, of which Paterson Candy International and The Permutit Company Ltd. are members, are at present rationalising their overseas representation. This was announced by Mr John Copeland. Director of Peterson Candy (Malaysia) Ltd. on his return from hLs annual visit to the United
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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    • 585 17 NOTICE CHAPTER 195 (Pawnbrokers.) UHMNIM* fU«|M Good* to |rw«il«rt KM HM inflowing Pawnbrokers Slwpi Lam loon Stong tOo» Sem Fon) 135. New Bridge Road- Ho Van Kce. iChop >long FMti Yona Kit 255 South Bnage Road Seow Kan (Nam OMQTM Pawnshop Llttl 287. South BIMMC Road: Lam 100 Oral (Choc
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  • 1318 18 TOP Kingdom (Velu) scored on upset win when he got up in the last couple of strides to beat Prince Argent (Rao) in the class six division four race to pay $ll5 for a win yesterday in Kuala Lumpur. The forecast tote for both horses
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  • 105 18 Punch Gunalan (right) and Ng Boon Bee (both facing camera of Malaysia are seen in action against Indonesia's Rudy Hatono and Indra Gunawan at Wembly, England, in the doubles finals of the All-England Championship on Saturday. The Malaysian pair won. Results of all finals Men's singles: R.
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  • 382 18 NAGOYA, Japan Japan, Hungary, Sweden and West Germany yesterday won their opening matches without dropping a set in the men'* team event for the Swaythling Cup on the first day of the 31st World Table Tennis Championships. The Communist Chinese were scheduled
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 46 18 TOTAL POOL: ($9,339) Ist Prise No: *****8 ($2,311) 2nd Prise No: *****8 ($1,155) 3rd Prise No: *****2 577) Starters ($57 each) No*: *****0 *****5 *****2 *****2 *****6 *****3 *****6 *****4 *****3 *****4 Consolation ($5l each) Nos: *****3 *****9 *****4 *****5 *****6 *****1 *****2 *****5 *****0 *****1
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 452 19 Wirti entries from 12 countries for Hie main events for cars and motorcycles, this year's Grand Prix from April Bto 11 promises to be full of excitement with very keen and competitive racing. Hie best drivers and riders from Japan, Hoar Kong, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia,
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    • 306 19 fPHE Five Star Award Scheme, organised by the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association was launched yesterday at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre. At Hie launching of this latest training scheme, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and the President of the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association, Mr
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    • 142 19 The Singapore Badminton Association has got off to a good start in its effort to produce a stiong National side capable of winning laurels for Singapore. Secretary of SBA. Mr Hamzah Mohammad said the association is now holding monthly tournaments. This will help maintain steady interest
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    • 47 19 LAHORE Pakistan took a 2-0 lead against Malaysia in the opening singles of their Davis Cup Eastern Zone Section 'B' first-round tennis tie here today. Results: Haroon Rahim beat S A. Azmnn 6-2, 6-2, 6-2. Munawwar Iqbal beat Ta n Song Kean 6-3, 6-3, 6-L
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    • 224 19 BANGKOK Nationalist China's Lu Liang Huan came from behind yesterday to win the Thailand Open Golf Championship with a thrce-under par 69 that gave him a 10-under-par total ot 278 and 556,000 in first prise money. The 35-year-old pro from Taipei, the Asian circuit
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    • 213 19 Singapore had Hie unique distinction of organising the inaugural Asian Table Tennis Championships in 1952. In 1971 Singapore gained yet another distinction of organising the Inaugural Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships In which 14 nations competed. The Vice-president of the International Table Tennis Federation Mr TO. Ranga
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 132 19 TODAY'S SPORTS SBHFL Soccer: Division o L C: Hongkong Bank v s Metal Box; Cold Storage vs Borneo Croup and Sime Darby vs M S A. "B" at Farrer Park. Divivion 3A L C: Ming Court vs Thornycroft at Geylang and Chartered Bank v s F. N. at Fraser Neave
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  • 131 20 German Minister assaulted LAPAZ. Bolivia A 69-year-old German yesterday hit visiting West (ierman Foreign Minister Mr Walter Scheel several times before he was subdued by police. According to police, the attacker Ernest H. Ferger Zieger, reached Scheel when he was laying a wreath of flowers at the
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  • 304 20 LUMPUR Thousands of almost faultlessly forged tickets are being circulated for the pro-communist screen stars' show. Police believe they are the work of o big-time syndicate wonting to get o big haul from the stars' popularity. More than 1,000 of the tickets were discovered on
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  • 139 20 SAIGON United States warplanes hove sharply stepped up bombing raids against near-record communist truck convoys rushing supplies through the Ho Chi Minh trail. Strategic Air Command (SAC) eight-en-ftined 852 bombers and Air Force, Marine and Navy fighter-bombers are hitting the supply routes. Between 1.200
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  • 83 20 Reds to invade South WASHINGTON Senate Democrat leader Mike Mansfield has said that the North Vietnamese might invade South Vietnam after the Laos incurlion. He also believed it had put the Laotian Government in a very precarious position Though he said the incursion has widened the Indonchina War. he also
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  • 73 20 COLOMBO Ceylon's opposition United National Party (UNP) yesterday boycotted the opening of tbe new Parliament be- cause of government moves to abolish the Senate, where it has a two-thirds majority. Tbe UNP has 2» Mem- bers in the 30-seat Senate, including the President and Deputy President.
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  • 61 20 Brautiful Monday SUNbird Diaor hiford is really going places. She's a singer with the Australian pop group The Goiag Thing, now packing in the crowds in Singapore. Diane, 19. loves reading, walking and listening to classical music. "I've fallen In love with Singapore," the sexy
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  • 153 20 FREETOWN, Sifrr# Leone Prime Minister Dr. Siaka Stevens said yesterday that the armies of Sierra Leone and Guinea have 'become one" to prevent trouble makers bringing down the government in Freetown. Dr Stevens said in an earlier nationwide broadcast in the morning that he
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