Eastern Sun, 15 April 1971

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1 24 Eastern Sun
  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN sagprfs own national daily Final edition 10 cents Est* 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1621 Thursday, April 15, 1971 M.C (P) 2510
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  • 289 1 Students' request rejected SINGAPORE'S four bus companies hove rejected a student oppeol fo cheaper bus fares. The companies could not afford it, Communications Minister Yong Nyuk Lir said yesterdby. The University of Singapore Students' Union had appealed for bus concessions In a letter last mf»nth. They
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  • 388 1 A man who wrote "poison letters" about the police to the Prime Minister and other ministers was yesterd a y jailed for six months. He is Teh Hong Teck. 36. a clerk with a trading; company. He pleaded guilty to 13 charges of
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  • 410 2 pARENTS should take their children to hospital at once if they suffer from headaches accompanying head injuries. A pathologist, Dr Chao Tzee Cheng, gave this advice yesterday at a resumed hearing at the Coroner's Court into the death of o schoolgirl.
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  • 112 2 The Jurong Bird Park yesterday received M quail from Texas and 225 eggs including 22 laid in transit. The birds were supplied by Colt Industries. The comp any's programme manager, Mr George Heckler, presented the birds and eggs to the chairman and managing director of
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  • 181 2 Manufacturing took up the lion's share of loans from the Development Bank of Singapore last year. This wa 8 disclosed in Chairman Howe Yoon Chong's statement in the bank's annual report for 1970. The five industries receiving the major loans were electronics industries,
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  • 102 2 Pretty Margaret Nathan offers Singapore Tourist Promotion Board Chairman R a n m e Bha w s drink bnt his •Mention appears to be turned elsewhere. Miss Nathan is one of the pretty waitresses in jazsy outfits employed at the Shangrila Hotel Mr Shaw
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  • 147 2 Hie proposed canal at the Kra of Isthmus in southern Thailand will not affect Singa pore's economy, an oil expert said today. He Is Mr P. G. Casalet, regional coordinator of BP for Australia. New Zealand and the Far i£ast. He said the canal would reduce
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 104 2 H The weather bureau predicts fair weather today. YESTERDAY Max ham temp: 93.0 Minlmam temp: 15.2 Rain: all Raindaya: t Total Rain April: 1.55 Sunshine: 10 60 Humidity at 11 pm: 95 BINGAPORE TOWN 12.34 am. (9.1 ft.); 7.05 am. (0.7 ft.); 1.49 pm. (7.6 ft.); 7.05 pm (3-9 ft.).
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  • 278 3 'Asians denied a chance! EXPATRIATES in Moloysio-Singopore Airlines hove been occused of trying to maintain "white supremacy" in the company. The accusation was contained in a memorandum by the Singapore Air Trans- port-workers Union (SATU) to the Prime Minister and submitted through the Nationol
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  • 227 3 Japan will contribute another $9O million to the Asion Development Bank's Special Fund. Japanese Finance Minister Takeo Fukuda announced this last night on his arrival for the ADB Board of Governors* fourth annual meeting. The meeting starts today and will list until
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  • 56 3 Ng Chine Fo, 43, yesterday admitted possessing liquor not under customs control on board a ship and was lined $5,004. The First Magistrate's Court was told customs officers made a check on board the ship Gallantry at the Western Anchorage last Saturday. Thirty gallons of whisky
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  • 56 3 Two Malaysian students have been detained by the Taiwan Government for allegedly listening to Radio Peking. A spokesman of the Ftorelgn Ministry In confirming the arrest yesterday said: "The Malaysian Consulate In Taiwan is Investigating." According to local Chinese press reports the detained students are believed to
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  • 129 3 Rural West Police are looking for two youths who may be able to identify the killers of a schoolboy stabbed to death on Tuesday. Goh Cbenf Kim. 16. of 10-milestone Upper Bukit Timah Koad, died of a stab wound after three youths attacked
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  • 251 4 Many people are still missing the bus.. SINGAPORE'S 3,800 registered taxi drivers are doing record business thanks to the new bus routes. The reorganised routes have caused a lot of confusion. This has caused many more people than usual to take taxis. Taxi
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  • 162 4 Fatal rood Occidents soared lost month compared to the same period lost year. Thirty-five people were killed in March this year su against 27 tor March last year. And so far. 90 people hare been killed In the first three months
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  • 35 4 A 55-year-old housewife was killed instantly when a car knocked her down at Jalan Besi. Jurong, on Tuesday night She was Madam Im Slew Tim of Lorong Jodoh, off Holland Road.
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  • 193 4 Singaporeans Mr Jackson C. Tap SI eft) and Mr Edmund Wee (right) share a happy moment with Miss Elisabeth Philipp, student officer. External Aid Division, New Zealand Foreign A f f a i r a Ministry. They were enjoying a break during the orientation
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  • 141 4 Dr Yip Tat Hoong has been appointed the first Director of the Regional Institute of Higher Education and Development (K1IIKD). Dr Yip. aged 36 and a Malaysian, is Dean of Economics and Administration at the University of Malaya He is described as one of the most articulate
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  • 203 4 FOOD glorious FOOD Bait the family group with a grouper today It's only $1 40 a kaU at the market. Grouper is best steamed with pork and shredded stater. Today's prices (in katis unless otherwise mentioned): VEGETABLES Vegetable marrow (0.10 Mustard greens 90-40 Cucumber Mil
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  • 464 5 Friendly Red Premier chats about hippies PEKING Premier Chou En Lai told visiting American table tennis players yesterd oy their visit meant "a new page" in Chinese-American relations. The Premier said more A mericons will come in the future, including correspondents "in batches." The Chinese Premier
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  • 169 7 MEW YOWL, Britain yesterday was praised at the Called Nations for IW baadNag af racial nisliliaw at boat, bat was crtttdaed #vtr Bhmtesia. Several delegates •peaking before the UN, committee on the elimination of racial discrimination expressed satisfaction at a report by the British
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  • 33 7 HEW YORK. Three armed men escaped with about 5f750,000 from a bank in Brooklyn after kidnapping the bank manager at his home and forcing him to open a yault.
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  • 321 7 WASHINGTON Thr tOTernmat hlattd yesterday that It «Mdd Uke to bear from Peking about the possibilities of resuming the ambassadorial talks betimi tbe two (ontries to Warsaw. State Department spokesman Robert Me Closhey said tbe United States la ready to resume the talks.
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  • 287 8 JJELFAST Two thousand Protestants armed with petrol and nail bombs, paving stones and bricks besieged British troops guarding a church near a Catholic suburb yesterday. They rampaged around the outskirts of the Ballymacaret Estate, after a 13-year-old boy and a man
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  • 127 8 NEW YORK Youths have invaded two Soviet officers in New York and released a batch of mice in one and several dozen frogs in the other. A spokesman for an organisation called Student Activists for Soviet Jewry said his group was responsible for both
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  • 36 8 LONDON The Evening Standard of London says some veterans of the World War II Burma campaign were uneasy over restoring Emperor Hirohito of Japan to the Order of the Garter.
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  • 218 8 BONN Dr Karl Vialon, a former highran k 1 n g Government official, has gone on trial at Koblenx for perjury. He la charged with telling a court he had no reliable Information on the Nazi extermina- tion of Jews in the Soviet Union.
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  • 317 8 MONTEVIDEO Leftist terrorists have kidnapped a Uruguayan Industrialist who becomes the third captive in their "people's prison," police said. Rlcardo Ferres Terra, 52. executive in a consortium was apparently taken from his car shortly after he left for work. NAIROBI A goods train was derailed after hitting
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  • 130 8 WASHINGTON The United States plans an underground nuclear explosion almost five times more powerful than past underground blasts. The explosion .will take place in early October at Alaska's Amchitka Island. The Atomic Energy Commission says the test will be conducted in the autumn
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  • 100 8 FAYETTE, Mississippi Negro leader Charles Evens, expected to run for Governor, admitted he was once involved in prostitution, bootlegging and gambling. But he wants people to "judge me for whal I am now." Evers, the black Mayor of Fayette, admitted he ran for
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
    • 534 9  -  in skirts no less iMlee MrS Sue Anders stretched bock in the big upholstered chair. "I feel quite comfortable here/' she said. The chair In which she was gluing belonged to the chairman oi the board of Polygon Product*...a newly formed precision tool making company at
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    • Article, Illustration
      52 9 IT'S o topsy-turvy world as ony girl will tell you. And to see whot it would be lake if everything were up-side-down •II Hie time, lovely 22-yeor-old Jenny Corter balances on Her shoulders on a choir. But which ever way we look at Jenny, we think she's
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  • 363 10 fHE plethora of speculation that has acx companied the visit of the American ping pong (a pejorative for table tennis) team to China has centred on why China chose to issue the invitation and why the United States chose to accept it. The invitation Itself was made at
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  • 500 10  -  By K.JC. THALER JONPON The critical Sino-Soviet frontier talks on Peking's claims to large areas of Soviet territory have reached "complete impasse" and may collapse altogether, diplomatic sources say. The Russians have told Communist China that any territorial concessions are out of
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  • 171 10 THE Asian Development Bank's annual rex port for 1970, In dealing with "The Regional Scene" is mildly critical and mildly optimistic as if somebody has not Quite made up his mind. Couched in generalities and specialised Jargon, the report fails to come to grips with realities. It is
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 229 10 SIR* THINKING it would be fun at the fair on Saturday 3rd April, we set «ut with our children and friends. How very disappointed we were to find ourselves exploited. While I fully support the method of raising funds for school expansion programmes and other
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    • 73 10 SIR: REFER to your report on the decline of the prawn industry, the result of a shortage of land, or government acquisition of land. Singapore is steadily finding solutions to most of its problems, so why not this one too? Perhaps the Primary Production
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    • 66 10 SIR: T'HE picture on the -L centre pages of the Eastern Sun of April 8 really touched my heart. Mrs Weber who was feeding milk to both her baby and a chimpanzee, has a lot of love. We need more people like Mrs Weber to spread
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  • SUNSCOPE
    • 365 11 Reuter. TOEKING has told Britain that four British subjects detained in China are in good health and still under investigation, a Foreign Office spokesman said in London yesterday. It Is the first time that China has given Britain Information about the four the
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    • 219 11 Reuter. A leading British pathologist has tested a simple early warning cancer test which might make possible mass screening of the population. Dr Dudley Tee, director of Experimental Pathology at London's King's College Hospital Medical School, said the test could provide earlier warning of cancer
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    • 259 11 Reuter. Scientists in Tokyo have finally found something nice to say about Japan's chronic water pollution it makes fine building materials. They have developed techniques for converting sludge, which is fast turning Japanese rivers Into dead water, to building blocks. Sludge. a thick layer of
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  • 456 12/13 Reuter. THE 1972 General Assembly of the United Nations will be held in Europe if o growing body of the membership has its way. Supporters of the plan believe they have enough for the idea. But several member states with no particularly strong views either
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  • 1338 12/13 IN a few months the United Nations must choose a successor to U Thant as its Secretary-General. His term of office ends on December 31. He has said that he will not be available again, but he might be persuaded to stay if no agreement can
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  • 528 15  -  By Harold Heffernan r pRY to imagine how that Detroit high school teacher must feel when she turns on her TV set and that voice she didn't want for her school's singing group comes belting out of the tube. "That
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 332 15 CATHAY ***** tad 810 WEEK! 4 Show. Dally >1 11 Am tn IN IM pa OAKLING LIU" Ooloi June Andrewa. Rock HiMteoi PaaaVUloo Paramoutii ORCHARD 3765 d 8 i tnd BIG WEEK! > ShowIt ISO 4 ill pa Sunday Extra Show v am „ASH BOOKINGS ONI V' (NO KREK LIST)
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  • 477 16  -  ANN LANDERS DEAR ANN: Please don't tear me to pieces, 1 know 1 did a terrible thing. What I need now is advice. My husband will be Home from overseas in a few weeks I bee a nr/e involvea wrth a married man while he
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 717 16 CARROUL RIGHTER'8 (DSESdS GENERAL TENDENCIES: Let Influential men whether they understand you or have different idea* from yours, k now what you feel they can do u> increase your wellbeing. Help them out with what they want. also. Make a point to uae care in dealing with women, however, who
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  • 450 17 UPI JJOLLYWOOD Poul Newman represents that most untenable of all masculine absurdities, the male sex symbol. A sex symbol is fine if the idol is Raquel Welch. Females know instinctively how to handle the disquieting sobrtque of sex symbol. But a man is
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 822 17 TV SINGAPURA CHANNEL 5 Pfefl 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by DAYS OF OUR LIVES A dramatic serial about a dedicated physician 3.20 OUR MUSIC MAKERS (Malay) (Rpt.) A light musical programme featuring "Perse mbahao Ku" 3.40 IT'S HAPPENINC IN SINGAPORE (Chinese) (Rpt.) A series on the life people in our
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  • 36 18 Grand Prix hot-trick champion, Graeme Lawrence of New Zealond, receives his trophy from the First Ledy, Mrs She* res, at a ceremony this week. Lawrence won the GP for cars at the weekend.
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  • 280 18  -  ■y VICTOR CHAPPLE THE day U.S. comedian Bob Hop* met aa English lord set him hankering for a hlaa-blooded ancestor of bit owa. But year-lon* inquiries by a professional researcher hare failed to torn up a noble pedigree for «7-year-old Leslie Townes Hope. Hope was
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  • 476 18  -  Doctor's Diary By I LAWRENCE E. LAMB, MD HID yon know Hut H»e amount of add digestive juice manufactured by the stomach is influenced by your brains? This is why the brain and emotions can induce ulcers. A nerve (vagus) from the brain to the stomach, stimulates
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous

  • 555 19  -  Thursday food by Ruth Bakalar Think Sprinf! Spring deserves a welcome even in a country where the sun shines and the lowers bloom all the Tear around. Ring some chances set the table with brightly coloured straw mats and contrasting napkins. Invest in some
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  • 801 19 Dear Adventurer: A friend who is an old Singapore hand (she has been living here for more than a year!) tells me that you once published a recipe for a homemade biscuit or scone mix. I would like a copy of the recipe particularly if it can
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  • COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
    • 209 20 WILMINGTON, Delaware Shareholders of the Du Pont Co. were told bankruptcy of the son of the firm's chairman would hare no effect on the giant chemical compony's business. Charles B. McCoy, Du Pont president, made the comment at the annual shareholders
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    • 100 20 Rubber Association of Singapore and Malaysian Rubber Exchange closing pricts in cants per kilo were:- B. 8. Int 1 RSS. prompt f.o.b. 107.90 *****N lot 1 RS.S. April 111.00 111.25 Int 1 RSS May 108.50 108.75 Int. 2 RSS. buyers ***** sellers 101.50N UK/Continent buyers 100.00 sellers 100
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    • 118 20 HONGKONG Yesterday's 5 pm currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): »Bayers) (Kellers) 195 198 per 100 Straits dollars 149 151 per 1.000 raiwac auUus 8.735 0.755 per Australian doiiai 340 380 per I.OOC Burmese kyata 485 505 per 1.000 Indian rupees 150 185 oer 10.000
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    • 236 20 TRADING remalneu quirt in the stock eithanit of Malaysia and Singapore. Total turnover contracted slightly to 1,112,500 units compared to 1,121.000 Tuesday The market was marked by a bearish undertone with little or no Incentive to trade. Industrials which accounted for 917,000 shares finished with 24 counters down
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    • 334 20 NEW YORK Tuesday's closing prices on the New York Stock Exchange: Air Reduc 23-5/8 Alcan Alum 22-5/8 AMs Chal 16-1/2 Alcoa 60-3/4 AM T 50 3/8 Ampex 24-1/2 Anaconda 21-1/2 Atl Rich 72-1/2 Bendix 34 Benguet 9-5/8 Beth St 22 1/8 Boeing Co 21-1/2 Borden 27
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    • 1093 20 INDUSTRIALS Arma 134b 1.34; Alcan 1 40 1.39 (3); All Choc 2 50/2 ss; Ben 114/1.16 1.14 (2); B Rawat 110/1.11 1.11; Borneo 1.95/1.98 198 (16), 1.97 (3), 199 (2), D: Boustead 2 20/2 26 222 (2): B M Trust 1 20b; C Sugar* 2
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    • 63 20 ASIA DNII TRUSTS M invest Fund 1.30 1.35 MMa Pro*. 1.08 119 I IIAK I KHKI) I/Ml THIHTH 80. Pond 1.10 1.15 SiMiAPUKfc UNII TBUBTH 9r«l H'pore 1.2 Astf Com. Ind 107 112 T- 8. Fund 1.10 1.15xd 8. P. Fund 1.01 1.06x4 M 1. Fund 1.90 1.95
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    • 105 21 LONDON The price of tin soared by £34 a ton on the London market following a United States Government announcement that It was suspending sales from its stockpile of the metal. With the prospect that the American selling embargo which was described as of indefinite duration
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    • 193 21 LONDON The discovery of a replacement for platinum which could save industrial users millions of pounds o year wos disclosed here by Imperial Chemical Industries. Its particular use would be In the nitric acid industry which accounts for about 20 per cent of world platinum
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    • 32 21 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange:— 30 Industrials 927.28 20 Transp 213.33 15 Utilities 123.66 65 Stocks 307 69 40 Bonds 71 78
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    • 253 21 Ahother batch of two students from the Singapore Polytechnic has left on board the 210.000-ton Shell tanker. «Mitra H for the Persian Gulf to begin their Bhell training scholarship as cadet marine engineers. They are Kwan Seng Fatt (IS) and Lim Tiong Wee (19)
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    • 327 21 SYDNEY Key West was yesterday subjected to a stock exchange inquiry after it jumped 14 cents to 36 cents. Key West recently started drilling at St. Ives, Western Australio, where WMC discovered nickel a few years ago. Its partner Towarnie closed six cents
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    • 243 21 TAIPEI The Gulf Oil Corporation of H»e United States, contracted by H«o Nationalist Chinese Petroleum Corporation (CPC) to conduct oil prospecting north ot Taiwan, has boon requested to resume its operation!. Washington ha# adviced against this operation, CPC says. Gulf Oil withdrew Its prospecting
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    • 97 21 ALGIERS The daily El Moujahid published the provisions of the Algerian basic law on hydrocarbons. Foreign companies wishing to ooerate in Algeria must set up a company under Algerian law in association with the state-owned Sonatrach Company, which will have a minimum 51 percent partnership.
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    • 77 21 TOKYO The 372,400 deadweight ton tanker, Niweki-Maru, claimed to be the largest in the world, will be launched on April 20 at the Kure Yard of the Ishikawa-jima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI). IHI said the tanker will be delivered to Tokyo Tanker Company, which is affiliated with Nippon
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  • SUN SPORT
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    • 233 22 IPOH KATONG OCEAN worked like o winner on a good frock here yesterday morning. Ridden by Ismail Asban. the Da r a gelding, winner of the Tengku's Gold Cup earlier this year, stepped out stylishly over 3f in 37-3/5, finishing with full of running. Katong Ocean
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    • 133 22 SEOUL A total of 180 golfers including 42 amateurs. will tee off today to open the four-day 197! Korea Open golf championship, the eighth and next to last leg of the Asia golf circuit. The tournament will be played over the scenic par 72,
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    • 113 22 PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad India was in a comfortable position at 247 for five at stumps on the first day of the final Test match against the West Indies Tuesday. The Indians, leading -0 in the series, need only to tie this final match
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    • 171 23 It H»e Football Association of Singapore making profit? The President of the Football Assocatlon. Mr LP. Rodrtgo says It Is making a profit and that the money la being shared among senior FAS teams. But this picture, taken on Tuesday during
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    • 408 23 UPI. PEKING The U.S. and Communist Chinese fable tennis teams, almost broke out even in o total of 19 matches, including two warm-up matches played in Peking Tuesday with the Chinese taking 10 matches and the Americans nine. After the U.S. team had won two
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    • 77 23 NEW YORK Results of Tuesday's major league baseball games: American League New York 5, Detroit 2. Oakland 2, Milwaukee 0, California 3, Chicago 1 (1 innings), Boston 5. Washington 3, Kansas City 5, Minnesota 3, Baltimore and Cleveland postponed by rain. National League Montreal 4, Ne w York
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    • 588 23 The success of the Sixth Singapore Grand Prix shows the need for o permanent circuit for Singapore. Last year 45,000 paid to see this popular event. This year a total of 57,406 people paid. This figure could have well been higher had It
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    • 54 23 MELBOURNE Australian golfer Kel Nagle, h&« been fined 8$ 165 for walking out of the Victorian Open here last February, Australian PGA secretary Godfrey Gunn, said yesterday. Nagle disqualified himself from the championship after being penalised two strokes for replacing a ball which had accidentally been
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    • 55 23 Record number of bowlers have entered for the Philippine Air Lines' International Bowling Tournament now being held at the International Bowl in the Singapore Hyatt Hotel. The semi-finals of the tournament will end at midnight on Friday, April 16 and the finals will be held on Saturday, April
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  • 156 24 LONDON A direct telephone link between Britain and China served by the Chinese in May, 1949. will be re-established this morning, the British Post Office announced. The high frequency radio link with Bhang4tal through which telephone calls can be channeled to other parts of China will reopen
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  • 416 24  -  By Granville Watts DELHI The Press Trust of India reported yesterday that bitter fighting is going on in East Pakistan. Pakistan troops have won control of two towns while the Bangla Desh (Bengal nation) liberation fighters captured the jute centre of Sylhet,
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  • 115 24 ENGLAND The pretty girl picked out h> Koy Holmes' headlights looked well equipped for the cold, wet night with her red umbrella and waterproof boots except that she naked. By the time Holmes had turned his. car round, the girl had gone, bat his startled reaction
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  • 247 24  -  BY CLARENCE FERNANDO COLOMBO The Ceylon government has asked friendly governments for arms to enable the country's armed forces to continue operations against left-wing insurgents. A government announcement gsve no details of the assistance asked for or received. Indian and British helicopters hsve been
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  • 81 24 SEOUL Stones hurled by college students protesting military training on campus hit a convoy escorting President Park Chung-Hee to a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday. A car at the head of the convoy was hit by the stones but neither the President nor any others In the convoy
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  • 158 24 MANILA A Philippine court trying Bolivian painter Benjamin Mendoza on a charge of attempting to kill Pope Paul says It will hand down its verdict in the next few days. Judge Pedro Bautista of the suburban Pasay City Court said he would first read through the
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