Eastern Sun, 20 April 1971

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  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN snore's own national daily Final edition 10 cents Estd 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1625 Tuesday, April 20, 1971 MC (Pi 2510
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  • 397 1 Army firing squads dispense instant justice Army firing squads J have begun executing left-wing insurgents. A, determined crackdown on the rebels is underway, in a rubber and tea plantation area near Kegalla. Ten have been executed and 12 are under sentence of death. "When I am convinced
    UPI Radio photo  -  397 words
  • 73 1 L O N D O N—Thousands of Britons found out yesterday that berause of an oversight in a census qurstionaire they will be recorded as coloured immigrants or as the descendants of immigrants. They are the people whose parents, back in the days of the British
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  • 448 2 Illegal, says lawyer lawyer representing eight women political detainees yesterday branded the Moon Crescent Detention Centre at Changi Prison as "a torture chamber". Mr T.T. Rajah also accused the Solicitor-General, Mr Fronds Seow, of "twisting" the story that the detainees were allowed to talk freely about
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  • 105 2 KUALA LUMPUR The editor-in-chief of the Utusan Melayu, Melan bin Abdullah, was yesterday charged in a special sessions court here with publishing a seditious articlo. Mr Melan. 51. who pleaded not guilty, allegedly violated a section of the Sedition Act. The offence was satd to
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  • 52 2 Police have Identified the dead youth found at K a tonj Park on Saturday as Can Ee Seng, 21, a labourer Gao was found dead on the beach at Katong Park He had no papers of identification. His parents came forward to claim his
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  • 46 2 A tanker, "Trigon," was yesterday fined $lOO for dischargin e oil into Singapore water at Chermin Wharf. at Keppel Shipyard (Private) Limited last Friday. The tanker's master, Mr BefTeriou Antonios. pleaded guilty on behalf of the owner at the First Magistrate's Court
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  • 93 2 A smoker s rarelesaneas cost him his life, a Coroner's Court was told yesterday. Goh Buck Har, 19. died on April 2 from bums received when a woodpile caught fire on March 31. Before be died in Outram Road Hospital, readmitted to police that be
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  • 134 2 Eighteen scouts. the hrftsl group ever to attempt to scale Genon* Tahan. will leave Singapore for Malaya today. The team consists of 18 scouts from the 2101 Raffles Scoot Group, 16 of whom are students from ages of 15 to 18. They will leave under the
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 70 2 burraa weather Humidity at 11 pm: 96 SINGAPORE TOWN 5.M am. (7.4 ft); 1212 pan. (2 a); 8.18 pa. (C.t ft) TOMORROW IN mm. (4.8 ft.); <.51 mm. (7J ft); 1.56 pm. (1J ft); Mi pm. (T5 ft) NAVAL DOCKYARD 43C aa (8.4 ft); 12.14 pm. (2.9 ft); B.fc pm.
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  • 258 3 r pHE Tenants' Compensation Board yesterday drastically slashed compensation claims demanded by three dispossessed sub-tenants on the Ocean Properties Private Limited. The board, which considered the original claims "excessive and unreasonable," handed down an award totalling only $61,307. The three subtenants had wanted a total
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  • 222 3 A man recently released from §ail committed robbery "just one more time" to get money to open a stall. Lai Soon Keng, 25, was caught, convicted and sentenced to five years' jail. Lai. who pleaded guilty to robbery with violence, was also ordered to
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  • 73 3 Commercial Crime Police yesterday seised 440 lb of mantil yellow dye worth $2,000 from shop in Beacb Road The mantil is a yellow dye used to illegally colour bean cordA police spokesman said mantil was poisonous. A police party from Commercial Crime raided the
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  • 50 3 A 73-year-old woman fell to her death from a block of flats is Commonwealth Crescent, yesterday. She was Madam Lee Ah Tee, of Block 78, Commonwealth Crescent. She was found dead on the grass serge at about 6.15 am. Police do sot suspect foul play.
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  • 178 4 AH afternoon show lost Sunday cost two brothers and their wives $B,OOO. While they were at the show, thieves were ronsacking the house they share at Still Road. The thieves escaped with valuable items including rare jewellery from Pakistan. The women are Mrs
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  • 87 4 A total of motor vehicles with smoky eihaunta were "booked" daring the year-lone anti-pollu-tion campaign which ended last month. Ministry of Communications said yesterday, that during March, 99« good* vehicles including four Malaysian registered lorries formed 56 per cent of the vehicles booked the
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  • 178 4 Ton may not be run down by one of the* tyres oat you're hound to tome to s screeching baH. Three of the girls pictured above are wearing outfits incorporating Bridgestone tyre designs The girls from Joan Booty, School of Moilcl- line and Charm are
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  • 198 4 FOOD glorious FOOD Here's a tender bargain to caress your market budget today pork tenderloin has dropped to $3 a kati. Mince and knead the pork with mashed potatoes and egg batter. Deep fry to a crisp brown. Today's prices (in. katis unless otherwi.se mentioned): VEGETABLES Vegetable
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  • 86 4 The British High Commissioner. Mr Samuel Falle. will present Diplomas and Certificates of the Trinity College of Music London to successful Singapore candidates. The ceremony will take place at the Singapore Council for Social Service, 11 Penarig Lane, on Tuesday 20th April at 3.30 pm 3o
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  • 54 4 A housewife who died of insecticide poisoning was suffering from an incurable disease, a Coroner's Court was told yesterday. Madam Rengasamy Amirthamalli, 36, was admitted to hospital on March 39 after drinking insecticide at her home in Raoe Course quarters on March 39. She died the
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  • 77 5 TRUCK driver Neoh Chin Toh, 35, (left) had a lucky escape when his track skidded along Braddell Road, yesterday morning. His truck (right) laden with sand landed on its side near a drain. The entire load of sand spilled oat. Neoh told The
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  • 232 5 engineer HI Madagascar wa« yesterday ordered to pay $15,500 damages to Hie widower and seven children of a woman k« killed in an accident four years ago. The High Court found Mr Balakrlshnan a/o P. Ramasamy, 26, now working in Madagascar at chief engineer
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  • 152 5 CANBERRA Malaysia is tightening control over its students who complete their degree courses in Australia, acting Malaysian High Commissioner Walter Ayathury said yesterday. Ayathury said Malaysian students will now have to return to their country on completion of their bachelor's degree and not be allowed
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  • THE WORLD THIS MORNING
    • 225 6 —(Reuter). JJEW YORK Tw# psychiatrists yesterday challenged claims that marijuana is relatively harmless intoxicant and said young people suffer serious psychological disturbances from regularly taking the drug. Their report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, soid that of a group
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    • 80 6 FREETOWN Premier Sink a Stevens introduced a Bill m Parliament yesterday to cbanfa Sierra Leone. member of the Commonwealth, into a republic. The Bill was reportedly identical with ona sponsored by former Pwmier, Sir Albert Marfai. which was approved in a first
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    • 130 6 (Reuter) BANGKOK Thai army troops, supported by planes, have killed at least 20 guerrillas in a battle to capture a large communist jungle camp in North Thailand. Sources «ald the da* took place last week during sweeping operation* near two mountain
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    • 193 6 KINGSTON, Ontario Rebellious prisoners freed unharmed five guards they had held h«nlnf* (or four nights and ended their revolt after a violent flare up which left one man read and 11 injured. Immediately the 500 rtbrlHm convicts in the Kingston Federal Penitentiary Canada's largest
      UPI Radiophoto  -  193 words
    • 85 6 (Renter) SYDNEY Australia has received an unofficial invitation to send a table tennis tram to China, the Australian Table Tennis Association said yesterday. The wife of the Association President, John Jackson, said he had told them he was going to Peking yesterday. According
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    • 124 6 PHNOM PENH North Vietnamese troops yesterday launched a bit assault against two Cam bodian battalions defend ing the strategic Pich Nil pass but were repulsed after fire hours of fifhtiuf. There were no details of casualties on either side. A High Command spokesman
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    • 182 6 (Rruter) STPNKT Australian cauMt largo number* at Asians la tkdr said* t, the Federal Opposition 1> h on r Party's »>«<■ Minister tar luicratiN nil Frederick Daly was speaking ia a television interview on Sunday. "It would be like askinc them to ware a magic
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  • 282 7 MOSCOW K gypITI tian Porelm Minister Mali mo ud Riad says the Middle East situation Is "extremely serious because of Israeli acrreastos aad expansionism." Riad has kees to Moscow slnee last Thursday far talks M the Middle East with the Bovlet Foreign Minister
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  • 429 7 TERROR MISSION FOR LOVE CH IAM (UPI) JERUSALEM The orrest of three pretty girls who undertook o terror mission for love could smash on A rob guerrilla network in Western Europe, Israeli police sources said yesterday. The Popular Front for the Liberation
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  • 163 7 MOSCOW RHM yesterday put i scientific space start** Named "Wytt*, into eestfc orbit but tfcene were sppsrewHy mm nee mm beard. Ta*s News Agency •aid U was launched to perfect "elements of the design and an board systems and for conducting scientific research
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  • 93 8 When shapely Census checker Anne Clements comes knocking at your door you'll want to tell her all the secrets of your life. And your secrets will be safe with her, for she says she'll hide them under her bed. Britain's Census Registrar General Michael
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  • 343 8 CReuter, UPI) WASHINGTON A Republican congressman has said he will challenge President Nixon for the Presidency next year if he does not halt "indiscriminate killing of civilians in Indochina." Paul McCloskey says thousands of villages In Laos a|> pear to have been deliberately bombed
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  • 138 8 PRAGUE Czechoslovak Communist Party leader Gustav Husak has denied press reports that the Party and Government are planning to In term political opponents daring neat month's party congress In a speech to the Prague Ciiy Party Conference Husak said: "This is a 1». "Nothing like that is
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  • 110 8 LONDON An air. crew pay dispute has (rounded iu first commercial jumbo jet flight by British Overseas Airways Corporation. A hundred passengers waited in vain at London Airport for the flight to New York and Bermuda. The state-ran airfligiht engineers have decided to boycott
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  • 220 8 LONDON Police believe that the buxom Phantom Stripper at Hurst may be a man. They have been keeping a midnight vigil at the Phantom's pond and are suspicious of the speed of the strlpper'g getaway. Sne or he once emerged In
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  • 340 8 FORT LAMY. Chad President Francois Tombalbaye has released 149 political prisoners as a move for national reconciliation. NEW YORK Eight people, believed to be members of the Black Panther Party, have been arraigned on charges of possessing dangerous weaKns after a raid on their tel room. HEW
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
    • 489 9  -  Singaporeans lead the way burielee HONG Kong's wild nightlife is getting wilder...and Singoporeans ore partly responsible. 4 Ttie topless craze is sweeping through nightclubs and tourists and locals alike demand the bolder and more bizarre And in the front of the topless revolution are a number of
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    • Article, Illustration
      42 9 Table-cloth ckecki look very dishy spread tightly over Erica Bergmann't fine frame; Austrian-horn model Erica, prefers bloomers to hotpants. She thinks they are a little more feminine, and her hot skirt is split to show off the matching seersucker check.
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous

  • 420 10 ■pHE creation of a federation of Egypt, Libya and Syria may herald a decisive new phase in the Middle East conflict. The federation in the planning stage iL mo climaxes recent developments which started with the heady euphoria of possible peace ushered in by the first ceasefire
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  • 523 10  -  By David E. Anderson UPI. If the United States is to avoid the disasters of overpopulation, a two-child limit on American families is a national necessity, Nixon administration officials believe. Warning that the time has come for action, presidential counsellor Robert Finch told the President's
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 166 10 SIR: YOU report in THE SUN (April 18) that more than 30 firemen either have, or are in the process of, resigning their jobs. This is a shocking state of affairs In a department so vital In our dally life. II only three or four
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    • 130 10 SIR: T HE new bus system is slowly catching on. This Is chiefly because the public have done their homework with the aid of a little bus guide. But there is one ugly aspect exploitation. Vendors near the Registry of Vehicles and post offices are purchasing
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • SUNSCOPE
    • 710 11  -  By Brian Blockwell likely to happen. Far East Feature*. KONGG KONG: IUGULARLY, wdtf cover o* iorknm, a mml boat wiM bob •long Hm cooct of Qum'i Kwangtung Piormca. It is leaded with band el grim, determined men. They are highly-trained fanatics whose top-secret orders are explicit and
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  • 757 12/13  -  By Our London Correspondent IXAS realism in the cause of education gone too far? Is it reolly necessary to photograph the sexual activities of models, in the most intimate detail, to make a film about "Growing Up" the object showing it in schools? The
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  • 88 12/13 The SUN People-Watchers ore interested in you at work and at ploy. Every day our cameramen are on the lookout for the human side of life funny and serious. Whether sleeping, eating, or just ploy, YOU and your friends could be featured. The PeopleWatchers appear every Tuesday
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  • relax
    • 413 14 »ucu (UPT). YORK For centuries in India and China, no couple dared marry unlets their horoscopes proved them compatible. Parents never dared plan a future for their children without consulting an astrologer. Superstttitioo? Maybe, bu I Americana in the last third of
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    • 93 14  -  Report: Doug Watson Lost in tkovght as th« looks ©of at soa is 21-year-old Linda Desramault, and by H»a look on her face her thoughts are far from happy. Wkkk is Mt surprising, since she's just keen through a broken marriage
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  • 292 15  -  By Vernon Scott HOLLYWOOD Bob Hope is stunned and bewildered by recent humiliating; episodes which characterised the comedian as something less than humanitarian. First San Fernando Valley State College students objected to the school giving Hope an honorary degree. Then the New York City Council of Churches
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  • 426 15  -  By Harold Heffernan A LTHOUGH he's in Hollywood to ploy the stor role in o chilling suspense mystery, "Autumn Child/' Robert Shaw's mind isn't completely on his film assignment. Shaw likes to discuss a fantastic play He's about to launch in London. Called
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  • 176 15 Dino Martin, J t, son of singer Dean Martin, has married Olivia Hussey, star of "Romeo And Juliet" in a brief civil ceremony at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. Martin is 19 and it was Miss Hussey's 20th birthday. Martin, Sr, and
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  • 38 15 Omar Shariff, separated from his wife resents the "ladies' man" label pinned on him by gossips. "The idea is a complete myth," h« offer* dolefully. "I think I'm a failure with Just one girl."
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 219 15 ORGANISATION LIDO *****4 13th DAT No rree Lint Our to Film* Length 4 HHOWB! Not* rimr. II am. <.30 B.SO B.lft pa Jsck LemmoD. Shirley UacLaine Irma La Panatb-lon. Color IDA I NEXT CHANGE! 'THE SINGING KILLER' IA SHAW PRODUCTION I Manaano Is Scopo-Culoi C A l» I T O
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    • 186 15 AT HAY ODEON ***** UTR BIO D«TI (No FrM LUII 4 Show* Kill) at 4 Show* Daily ■< U M t.M M i I N h> CAhH BOOK I NO H ONLY Ua: II. It. CI M Oolumbia't -WATERLOO" Rod Btelcer Color Ctirlatophr' Plummer TOMM MmI: II N U any
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  • 515 16  -  ANN LANDERS DEAR ANN: ton have published letters from women who have married mama's boys men who can't seem to cut loose from their mothers. But what about girl* who can"t cut loose from their daddies. 1 am married to a girl like that and
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 773 16 CARROLL RIOHTER'S GENERAL TENDENCIES: Early in the day you have a good chance to put in elTect an unusual plan you have been working on wfiich others will approve. But later in the day and in the evening you find most person* take an opposite view and feel that they
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 804 17 today's TV SINGAPURA CHANNEL 5 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by DAYS OF OUR LIVES A dramatic serial about a dedicated physician FOR THI FAMILY A magazine series presented in the National Language A DIARY OF EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (National Language) IT'S HAPPENING IN SINCAPORE (National Language) (Rpt.) A series
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    • 28 17 > if <<• m w9! V. m t Jr ;#T Tkoia famous faces of Slattery'j People lit back tonight In another episode entitled "The Last Commuter", Channel Fire at 9.25*
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  • 132 18 ABOVE: Catering officer at RAF Teng a h, 35-year-old Fit Lt Frank Dutton (right) was a very special guest at Hie Seletar christening of Sian, daughter of dental officer Flight Lieutenant Roger Jenkins and Mrs Jenkins, pictured celebrating with champagne at the reception in the Officers
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  • 469 18  -  Doctor's Diary B* LAWRENCE E IAMB, MO HEAR Dr Lamb Could you please aniwer some questions for me regarding Hie virus Guillion-Barre? The virus is named after two Frenchmen who discovered it. I had this virus, a month at home in bed, three weeks in hospital, a
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  • WOMEN
    • 429 19  -  By Florence de Santis 'THE great variety in fashion right now has affected the creation of makeup. Where there was once one fashion trend and one makeup to go with it, today's love for costume-like clothes means that makeup ought to be
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    • 148 19 Q: I like long pant* because they hide my ankles, which are thick. Is there any way I could wear knickers or gauchos without boots, which certainly don't help my legs to look slim? A: Wear stockings In as dark a shade as will
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 160 20 Vosper Thornycroft Private Limited increased itf turnover in the 16 months period to October 31 lest by on onnuel rote of more thon 50 percent compared with the previous 12 months period. This is revealed in the 1970 annual report of the company's parent body,
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    • 112 20 HONGKONG Trtterday'i 5 pm currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Bayers) (Sellers) 195.20 196 20 per 100 strait* dollars 147.50 149.50 per 1.000 ttuwat collars €.735 6.755 per Australian doilaj 840 360 per 1.000 Burmese icyata 485 505 per 1.000 Indian rupees 160 165 oer
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    • 98 20 Rubber Association of Singapore and Malaysian Rubber Exchange closing prices in centg per kilo were:— B 6 Int. 1 R.S.S prompt f.o.b 110.50 111.SON Int 1 R.S.S. May 110.25 ***** Int. 1 R.SS June 110 00 110.25 Int. 3 R.S.S. buyers l(fi 50 sellers 103.25N UK/Continent buyers 102.00
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    • 126 20 Mr ToD( Rao Haci, Manager, Besley Pike (Singapore) Pie. Ltd., a leading envelop manufacturer, will be returning to Singapore at the end of April after spending six weeka at his company's head office and factory at Rocklea, Australia Mr Yong was In Australia to gain additional
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    • 207 20 Firm conditions prevailed In the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday following last Friday's steadier close. Trading was fairly active especially in the lower-priced industrial* which attracted a fresh spate of speculative buying. Volume dropped slightly, however, to 1,679,500 units with industrials accounting for 1,534.000
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    • 1300 20 INDUSTRIALS Anna 1.35/1.39, 135; Alcan 1.42/1.43, (143); AU Choe 2.50/2.60; Ben 1.18/1.19. 1.16 (4) 118; B Kawat 1.17 byv; 1.18 (3) 1.17; Borneo 2.01/2.03. 2.02 <2) 2.03 (12): Boostcad 2-22/2 26. 2.24 B M Trust 1.20 byr; C Sigars 2.13/2.15, 2.12 <2) 2.13 (9) 2.14
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    • 278 21 WASHINGTON A leading advocate of freer world trade has urged the administration to follow up its reopening of trade with mainland China with steps to remove the barriers to the flow of goods within the free world. The Committee tor a National Trade Policy (CNTP), through
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    • 66 21 A»I4 IINI1 TKI rr» M LB«M Tmn4 131 M *la rrw«. I H 1JS 111 CHAM1 t.KM) Ml 1 Ml o ru»ii i tt 1 IT «IMMeiiK» (Ml 11ll »T» Ir1 S IHIRR 1 ?7«il III 114 V A- run* 1.11 lit II P. t'Mnil U IMid M
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    • 336 21 SYDNEY The mining turned in o mixed session on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Glendale sold as high as 70 cents, before a stock exchange inquiry to which directors replied that they knew of no reason far the sudden rise in the price of the
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    • 533 21 ECONOMIC HONGKONG Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato last Thursday ordered the formation of a government goodwill mission to visit Communist China in the autumn. The call follows Pre»dent Nixon's relaxation of. U.S. trade restrictions against mainland China. Takeo Noda. 75. chairman of the ruling
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    • 171 21 A source close to the Nationalist Chinese Board of Foreign Trade said last Tuesday Taiwan Is launching a four-point plan to end within five years its trade gap with Japan, which reached a record of Ssl,os£ million last year. If the plan does not work out,
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  • 168 22 LE MANS Three-litre cars swept the board in the first ever Le Man three-hour race here Sunday after their more fancied five-litre rivals had led for most of the race. Final victory went to the Porsche 908 driven by Frenchmen Claude Ballot-Lena and Guy Chasseuil who
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  • 357 22 BARCELONA, Spain Scotsman Jackie Stewart Sunday defended on early lead against o strong challenge from Belgian Jackie Ickx to win the Sponish Automobile Grand Prix for the tnird time in o row and take over the lead in world chom- pionship standings.
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  • 288 22 MUNICH The first contours of the Munich Olympic skyline are now becoming visible, but at first only on the ground: at the moment the steel network is being "knotted" for the 800,000 square feet of tent roof over the main stadium, the covered swimming stadium
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  • 248 22 Singapore Amateur Athletic Association's first aU-Comers Meet held on Sunday was a disappointment. The meet did not attract sufficient numbers of competitor* in some events. There was only one competitor In several. This was the major obstacle against competitors who came with the hope of Improving
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  • 129 22 MOSCOW Vastly AlfxryfT of the Soviet Union set a world record for the superheavy wright Jerk at a weight lifting tournament in Taganrog Sonday. AlexeyeV jerked 230.5 kilograms (508 pounds) to add half a kilogram (1.1 pounds) to his previous record. PALERMO, Sicily Roger Taylor of Britain Sunday
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 109 23 Meet Alfonso Dy. bowling champion in the making. Eleven-year-old Alfonso is the son of 50-year-old veteran bowling champion Jesse Dy. Alfonso, took u© bowling at the age of five and is being coached by his father. His father recently added another title to his
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    • 20 23 Singapore Recreation Club beat Prisons' Sports Club 4-0 in the SHA Division fixture played at thp Pndang yesterday.
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    • 378 23 AU TO APPEAR BEFORE US. SUPREME COURT WASHINGTON Dethroned world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali goes before the country'e highest court Monday for the final round of his long fight to avoid a five-year prison sentence for refusing to serve in the U.S.
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    • 129 23 NEW YORK Results of Sunday's games played in the two major baseball leagues were: National League New York 5. Pittsburgh 2 (Ist came) Pittsburgh 2, New York 1 (2nd game) Atlanta S. Philadelphia 4 (1 innings) Montreal 3, Cincinnati 2 (Ist game) Montreal 5, Cincinnati S (2nd game)
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    • 43 23 PITTSBURGH Ronald J "Ron" Norfchey. former Major League baseball player, coach and scout, died Friday night after a heart attack in hi* home. Norther, who would have been 51 on April 26. was dead an arrival at North Hills Passa▼ant Hospital.
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    • 274 23 Singapore Malays made a great come back to local soccer scene when the? scored a well earned 2-1 victory against Johore Malays i« the Sultan's Gold Cup Sou Hi Zone fixture ptay* ed at Jalan Besar Stadium last night. It wss the penalty goal scored
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    • 746 23 The following are the Stipendiary Steward's report on the weekend racing at Ipah: SATURDAY Race 1: Tiny Tim (Low) missed the start bv several lengths Race 2: At the start Blue Chips (All) and Policy Holder (Wilson) were slow to begin. Near the
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  • 180 24 PARIS France has reiterated that it would block delivery of mirage Jets to Libya if it discovered that they were going to other countries* A foreign ministry spokesman was asked about the effect of the formation of the new federation grouping Libya, Egypt and Syria on France's
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  • 198 24 DELHI Pakistan army troops have advanced to within a few miles of the spot where rebel leaders declared their independent government of Bangle Desh. They also have seized a subdivisional headquarters in the eastern sector of East Pakistan, Radio Pakistan said yesterday.
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  • 66 24 When you've been a policeman as long as this man has, there is little that surprises you. Until you come face to face with a pint-sized gunslinger like Adrian Cross, 7. Adrian wa s parading his new dungaree tartan outfit in Hyde Park, London, when he
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  • 116 24 New Chin* News Agency yesterday dharged that Soviet shio was responsible for a "serious marine accident" in which 11 Chinese fishermen died and 11 were Injured. The agency described as a "sheer distortion of facts'' a Tass report of the collision between the Soviet motor ship
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  • 155 24 LONDON A 25-year-old woman teacher's role in a frank sex education film for teenagers has resulted fa a summons to appear before her superiors. Mrs Jennifer Muscutt, a 23-year-old probationary Instructor who teache s 15-year-old boys at a Birmingham technical college, Is
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  • 47 24 SAIGON Two U SCongressmen investigating international heroin and opium trafflc believe that as many as 39.0 M U.S. troops in Vietnam may be addicted to heroin. Robert Steele, and Rep. Morgan Murphy, said the drug problem in the war lone "clearly has reached epidemic proportions."
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