Eastern Sun, 21 April 1971

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1 24 Eastern Sun
  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily Final edition 10 cents Esrd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1626 Wednesday, April 21, 1971 MC |P) 2510
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  • 491 1  -  Jet, helicopter base being set UP at Colombo Airport By ROBERT TAYLOR UPI /COLOMBO The Soviet Union is setting up a MIG-17 fighter base in Ceylon diplomatic sources said yesterday. Soviet ground crews arrived secretly in Colombo at the weekend. They are staying In a remote hotel
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  • 53 1 These five twinging beauties are all set to give American singer Jack Jones p4 en *V curvy comfort. They will model 30 outfits at the Jack Jones Show tonight at the Golden Lotus, Hotel Malaysia. The models are (left to right) Janie, Tatiana, Mary Rose,
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  • 62 1 MOSCOW Russia Is silent on the progress of Its unmanned Salyut (Salute) space station now circling tbe earth. Informed Soviet sources said a manned launching is likely in the near future so cosmonauts can work with the scientific station. Salyut has evoked speculation that the
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 7 1 The great automatic turntable. SNUAPOfC* KUALA UWUR'POH-PENANG
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    • 118 1 MANDAS FOR TRAVEL. s 22-A, Raffles Place, Singapore 1 Tel! ***** Study the past, if you would divine the future...Conivcius. Sincel9o6, Four Seas Communications Bank (then known at the Sze Hal Tong Banking and Insurance Ltd.) has been serving a need, a V particular demand of a growing community which
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  • Article, Illustration
    70 2 The British High Commissioner, Mr Samuel Falle. yesterday presented diplomas and certificates of the Trinity College of Music London to 34 candidates. The ceremony took place at the Sintaporr Council for Social Services In Penang Lane. Thirty candidates received Grade Certificates while four others were awarded Teachers Diplomas
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  • 288 2 MURDER-SUICIDE DRAMA A 70-year-old man yesterday hacked to death his nine-month pregnant grond niece then hanged himself. The murder-suickJe drama was sparked off by a bitter quarrel over the dead woman's two young daughters at 6 pm. The dead man Chia Lai Cheng
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  • 300 2 Singapore's hard-earned reputation for high standards in the shipbuilding and repairing industry should nevar be allowed to be tarnished by shoddy work. The Industry must relentlessly seek to improve standard*. Mr John Boater senior ■urveyor of Lloyds Register of Shipping here, said yesterday. Mr Boater,
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  • 64 2 A voung woman yesterday lost h« r personal documents in a bus travelling from New Bridge Road towards Toa Payoh She is Miss Mary Siew Lai Khum of 42 Lorong Samak The documents were in a brown envelope. They include her Cambridge School Certificate, a shorthand certificate
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  • 21 2 The wife of the Singapore High Commissioner in Ixmdon. Mr. A- P. Rajah, died early yesterday.
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  • 91 2 ITOH Two founder members of the Malaysian Chinese Liaison Committee far national unity were yesterday charged with sedition is a special sessions court. They are Mr Sim Mow Yu. 2X. president of the PanMalayan Chinese ■phool Tea chers' Union, and Mr Khoo Eng Kuan. 31. a
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  • 98 2 This Is no toy car the two men axe admiring It's made of chocolate. The man on the right Is hat- trick Grand Prtx winner Qra e m e Lawrence, the man on the left Is Mr Nelson Vermette, general manager of the Mandarin
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 83 2 Tb« weather bareaa predicts fair weather today. YESTERDAY Maximum Temp: 90.7 Minimum Temp: 74.5 Raia: Nil itaindays: I TwtaJ K.iim April C.ZS Uamiditjr at II pm: 0 I SWKAPORK TO WW IM am. (4.t ft C 57 am. (7.S ft.); 1.55 pm. <l.l 11); 149 pm. (7-5 6 TOMORROW 2.17
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  • 211 3 A well-organised ring raided a storeouii in Perera Road, District 12 and escaped with 25 tons of copper worth $83,000 yesterday. The *anr of seven tied, blindfolded and gaitfd two watchmen at the Sheo Prasad Sharma Company Limited. The thieves earlier
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  • 404 3 T.T. Rajah yesterday mode a special application to have three senior Supreme Court judges to hear another habeos corpus application in the High Court. He said he would renew his opplication for the judges to sit at the next hear ing to ensure a
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  • 106 3 She's a secret in the private lives of many thousands of married men—The Other Woman. If she remains a secret the best she can look forward to is a life of deceit. If the secret gets out she will have to live in an hostile world.
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  • 46 3 A U.S. tourist agent was found dead In his hotel room on Sunday morning. He was John Aloysius Holden, 43, oI Maryland. He arrived In Singa pore last Thursday and was due to leave for Jakarta today. Police do not suspect foul play.
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  • 60 3 A coroner yrstrrda T recorded a verdict of misadventure on the death of a labourer, Ng Hon Nam. Ng fell from a fifth floor scaffold on March 31. Ng, 19. was nailing some planks beside an unfinished block of flats at Taman Jurong. The
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  • Page 3 Advertisements

  • 168 4 Forty volunteer social workers yesterday met at the btana to discuss the organisation of the Singapore stall of the International Bazaar for the Blind. The bazaar, the central project for the annual fund-raising campaign for the blind, will be at the Victoria Hall
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  • 114 4 yY brave housewife yesterday tried to beat off two armed robbers and gave in only when one held a knife to her throat. She is Madam Kho Geok Eng, 43, of Block, 23, Tiong Bahru, District, 3. Madam Kho, a mother of four, was
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  • 177 4 Let's Bo soul today with a sole bargain sole Is only 60 cents a hatl at the market. Today's prices (I* katis unless otherwise mentioned): VEGETABLES Cucumber Ml# Cauliflower SO.M French beans M.3i Long beans M-3S Ladies Angers $0.50 Pumpkin M-2# Watercress MM Angled loofah WJI Turnip
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • 251 5 There la BO connection between drug-taking and so-called "drug flavoured" pop songs. The average person is not really interested In taking drags. So said Jeff Christie. 24. lead singer and bass guitarist with the threeman group "Christie" who arrived at Paya
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  • 196 5 A man leaped to kit death offer falling his wife he wot going to tea a doctor, o Coroner't Court wot told yestardoy. The man. Lek Choon Chye, 41, Jumped from the 15th floor of Block 23. Outr&m Park, on March 31. He died
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  • 65 5 A man yesterday Claimed trial to a charge of Mint criminal force on a 23-year-old woman with the intention of outraging her modesty. Chew Mok Chi a. 48. was allowed bail of $9OO pending trial on July 15 at the Magistrate's Court No 3. Chew
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  • 186 5 First District Jodie A.W. Ghows yesterday called for reformative training and a probation report on a labourer charged with hurting a woman The accnsed had tried to extort money from her. Chan Choo Tee, 19. admitted voluntarily causing hnrt •to a hawker. Madam
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 233 5 SovUt Boat Quay, on Um Smgtport Aw-two blocks from e Ban* of Amartca iranctt Man-on-the-spot*... In Singapore. You'll find his offices on Raffles Place. In Paris, our man is located on the Place Vendome* From Hollywood to Hong Kong—ln California, across the nation and around the world BANK OF AMERICA
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  • 356 6 Washington: More than 1,000 Vietnam war veterans have begun a week-lone demonstration to protest the war In Vietnam. The veterans, many of them elad in combat ■niforms, marched from the Lincoln Memorial to the U.S. Capitol, whrre they burned toy runs a symbol of
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  • 156 6 CANBERRA Prime Minister William McMahon said yesterday Australia would adopt a more liberal policy toward China. Mr McMahon told the House of Representatives the Minister for Trade, Doug Anthony, would *oon announce plans for Increased trade with China. "An exchange of sporting teams between Australia
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  • 97 6 JAKARTA A former Indonesian army sergeant has been sentenced to death for attacking and killing deputy army Chief of Staff, Major General Parman. Th« major was killed on the eve of the 15)65 abortive Communist coup attempt. Former sergeant Setar was found guilty of
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • 262 7 (UPI) LONDON A 23-year-old school teacher who appeared nude in a aeCool sex education movie has been suspended. She defended her action. saying sex la "as normal and natural as brushing your teeth." The teacher, Mrs Jennifer Muscutt. Is shown extensively in
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  • 123 7 NEW TOR* Secre-tary-General U Thant has said the Middle Bast may be faring Its last chance for peace Referring to the formation of the federation of Arab republics, and the internal Implications of the new union. U Thant said: "This development is another Illustration
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  • 302 7 UPI Four Sabre fighters of Jopan's Self Defence Air Force mistakenly mode attack runs against o Soviet destroyer while on a military exercise on Morch 30. A spokesman for the Defence Agency soid this yesterday in confirming a report appearing in a Japanese
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  • 164 7 CHICAGO A 13-year-old has been accused off causing the deaths by drowning off two younger boy* and th« attempted drowning of a third. Frank Tclposky, whom a police officer described as a "neighbourhood bully," was held for further hearing after the weekend death* of
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  • 46 7 NEW YORK, Two women were have been at a New York church run by a homosexual. The service yesterday was one of mor e than 20 similar ones Father Robert Clement savs he has performed at the nine-month-old Church oI the Beloved Disciple
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  • 205 7 SEOUL Four Communist spy reams aiming to instigate an uprisinq during Hie coming elections hare been arrested. The Security Command said the 51 members of the rings wanted to win over students, intellectuals and workers to create public uprisings and social disorder during the
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 45 7 flfiil ToMollRflrs DRAW NO: 31/71 (22-4-71) WILL BE HELD AT THE SINGAPORE WONDERLAND AMUSEMENT PARK AT 7.45 P.M. SSX. CASH JACKPOT IS $130,000 v TO WINNERS WITH 5 NUMBERS CORRECT THE OTHER GROUP PRIZES REMAIN THE SAME PLUS FREE ENTRY FOR 3 CIRCLES CORRECT $5OO/'
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  • 190 8  -  By COLIN DEACON (Reuter). Former World Heavyweight Champion Muhor*~ mad Ali hat begun his last battle against a five-year prison sentence for evading military service. The issue before the U.S. Supreme Court Is whether his Black Muslim beliefs will allow him to fight under
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  • 53 8 LONDON Unemployment in Britain this month l« the worst for an T April in SI rears, according to government fig urea released yesterday. About 815,000 people are now out of work. !I,MI more than In March. The figures heighten fears that 1.000.000 Brl tons could be
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  • 152 8 LOS ANGELES—CharIes Manson and his three girl followers sat quietly yesterday as they were formally sentenced to death by Tate murder trial Judge Charles Older. Manson told the court: "I accept this court as my father and I accept the judgment." The girls made no
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  • 342 8 NEW YORK An explosion damaged the offices of the South African Tourist Board yesterday just a week after a similar blast at the South African Consulate. LONDON The Government has denied reports in the British Press that South Africa has asked to buy six frigates from Britain.
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  • 152 8 New York. Mri Pat Nixon, America's First Lad y, once worked as Hollywood extra in such movies as "Ben Hur' and The Great Zlegfeld," and had a crush on actor Ro bert Taylor. This has been disclosed hy McCalls magaiine. In an Interview for the
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
    • 533 9  -  Pont sav I am smarter' lawielee M 1 Iffß Ang Tong Tay, super-solesmon of the year, doesn't wont to admit the foot. Mr Ang, 69. this week won the Scanservice Salesman of the Year award for his services as a freight canvasser He was able to get
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    • 85 9 Show business IHe may well be a lot of hard work, but that doesn't mean it can't be fun too. Sue Lund, one of a singing and dancing bery of TV beauties called the Gold Diggers finds plenty to smile about anyway. From Denver, Colorado,
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • 240 10 »J*HE United States Government Is fighting two wars in Indochina. One is against the Communists. The other against a fifth column, an enemy within. The enemy Is drugs, particularly heroin. Two American Congressmen who visited South Vietnam last week have revealed that up to 30,000 American troops
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  • 221 10 QPEED, high pressure living, size and volume, of things and events are the relentless forces that compress human activity into what is loosely, and mistakenly, called "success and productivity". Nations become so mesmerised by the volume and turnover of goods, services and events that they forget
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  • 633 10 The Art Buchwald column TIfASHINGTON It's very rare that the Central Intelligence Agency gets caught flat-footed, but it certainly did recently. Red China invited the United States to send a table tennis team to Peking, and the CIA discovered it had no champion ping-pong
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 137 10 SIR: WE appreciate Hie Government's desire to implement a streamlined, first-rate bus system. But please have the compassion to erect safe and adequate bus shelters. The days are growing hotter and hotter. We have to stand under the sweltering sun and wait for the
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    • 115 10 A BOUT 60 of us at 3) ms Thomson Road are greatly inconvenienced by the new bus system not by the routes or the fares, but by the failure of the bus companies to extend their services up to midnight. We are forced to
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    • 93 10 SIR: TREAD with interest a report in the EASTERN SUN (April 19) about bar owners and retailers of liquor wanting to form their own wholesale organisation to fight manipulation of prices. Any move to stop the prlc« of booze going up is welcome. I suggest that boozers should
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  • SUNSCOPE
    • 508 11 Reuter r A MAP of changing colours in Tarwon's Foreign Ministry shows the country's waning political influence. In the last six months, eight countries on the map have changed colour. Five have gone from blue which denotes diplomatic relations with
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    • 80 11 THE reckUtt road hog squealed down the highway. Only the alertness of driven saved his bacon. Then on* of them called the P<v Hee and said: 'There's a pi* streak ioft down th« main road at 20 mph."* For Percy the sex mad boar was
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous

  • Page 12/13 Advertisements
    • 118 12/13 I!®* Sole Distributor for Singapore. Brunei B. Malaysia S. S. MUBARUK BROS. PTE. LTD. Trade enquiries to: COLLIE'S INTERNATIONAL O-C. Tflok A) er Street, Singapore 1 Tel: *****0/9706*. Vs has the latest in foot-gear to go with your maxis, midit and minit Call at 334, Orchard Road, Ist Floor* Singapore,
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    • 435 12/13 sun Wednesday shopping special •H J. H Tone up your hair WELLA the international hallmark of glossy, silky, beautiful and healthy hair has been brought inte Singapore by the Tai Wah Trading Co. Tai Wah is at 114 Kllllney Road. Its showroom is at Unit 340. first floor In People's
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    • 99 12/13 Jewellery of Distinction hcfMUM i«w«4l«ry •iik o>Mwts« a tIKiWI SIMM Cult*,,* FmH OimmiMi Im4» mm 4 CaM Onxawrtt. iSH MIKIMOTO PCAKLS TIN SING w°, GOLDSMITHS (PTE) LTD. JEWELLCRS Estjblnhrd over t *1 s Century) 215-217 South Bridge Road. Singapore-1. (Opposite Malay Mosque) Tel: ***** i ***** We Take Care Of
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    • 65 12/13 For varieties of surprises Visit VARIETY ENTERPRISES We have all sorts of new and unusual items for yourself or as gifts for all occasions. Solve your gift problems It VARIETY ENTERPRISES SO*. VICTORIA BTRKKT. SINGAPORE t. (Corner of Victoria Street and Jslu bullae). Tel: 8376*. X MTU Ha' 9ft A
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    • 53 12/13 for all your COSMETICS PERFUMERIES (you name it. we have U) *«|e *l* a£e sla Ojf- tie *ia *l* |i* a|a •T* *l* *T* •X" v "T* YEW HENG CO., 98. HILL STREET. SINGAPORE 6. TEL: ***** an exceptionally rr-y.i rrxrtrri m 62 M MtdUfe P rm\ Surqinore 1. Tt*
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    • 230 12/13 V vxi m Vft 1L 4" at J INTRODUCTORY OFFER! New fabric just ft 8 arrived from U.S.A. B&B Boutique g A Division of Buttons Bows Hong Konfl H*B Pi 4SO. ORCHARD ROAD. HINGAPORR. £> T*L: ,70.04 DC-300K The Latest! Multi-amplifier Stereo system v FOQN L electronics corpn Head Offlee:
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  • RELAX
    • 98 14  -  By Brian Thomas TWO little brothers live in house with no telephone. So their mother, Mrs Everton, was at her wits' end when xm Iris sfadfc birthday lirry, Iter eWer wo, aAed to hear tdfephene bedtime story on the new Post Office service. Then she
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    • 576 14  -  Voices from beyond ■BY ALAN WHITTAKER. fHUtCH uieiimrti wpeiU Wmve fceen investigating tope recorded messages which a scientist believes are the voices of the dead. Arwj electronics engineers ore now analysing the results df their work. I cam reaeal exclusively that
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  • 751 15  -  Crazy Horse Saloon where strip is an art form reports from Rosette Hargrove ■Paris- JT started in a large coal cellar on the swanky Avenue George V as a sort of bistro for "cowboys de luxe." Owner Alain Bernardin,
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 216 15 #aaK7 ORGANISATION l> O *****4] llth DAT No Free List llif u Film Length «i SHOWS! Not* limfi I) >o> <3» «.:M) 9.lft is Jack Lemmon Shirley liftcLaloc Irma La Bum PanaTL-IoD. Color >o*l NEXT CHANGS' THE SINGING KILLER' (A SHAW PRODUCTION i vlHuonrlL ID ScuDe-Coloj CAI'ITOI. a»7r<» Now Showinf!
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    • 240 15 CATHAY w.i MI ,nm CATHAY IJ4OO UHT DAYI 4 Skews At U «■> t.m IN ».M pa. 'UmiiNO UU" CotOJ Julie Andrew* Rock Huotn PaoaViilon Paramount Opto* Tomorrow! "Myra Breckinridge" Kaquel Welch: Color Panavistoa (Po» ORCHARD 376 5 8 8 14th 810 DAY! S lk«wi U.a 4.M A »1» t»
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  • 528 16  -  ANN LANDERS IkhAR ANN: Mikf and I weni together for six years. W« planned to marry. One evening 1 learned he had been sleeping with someone (Besirtei me.) I was crushed. It seemed a* ij my whole world crumbled. 1 told him 1 never wanted
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 705 16 i CARROLL RIOHTER'S a TAURUS GFMN CANCER ARIES (Mar. 21 to Apr. 19) Idea.) day for expanding In your field of endeavour and to show others you are a very considerate person. Engage In a hobby you like with mate tonight. Show that you are particularly devoted. TAURUS (Apr. U
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  • 477 17 A flock of some old name stars will get a chance soon to prove their durability or lack of it on regular weekly TV shows in America. Network programmers have pulled everything else out of their bogs, with miserable results, so now they shrug
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 705 17 I CHANNEL f OPINING ANNOUNCEMENTS, followed by HOUSEWIVES MATINEE "Unfor gotten Memory" (Part I of a Cantonese film) (English Subtitles) FOR THE FAMILY A magazine aeries presented In Chines* A DIARY OF EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (Chinese) DAYS Of OUR LIVES A dramatic s*ri*l about a dedicated physician CLOSE
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  • YOUNGSUN
    • POPPING AROUND with Platter Pete
      • 884 18  -  By RICHARD GREEN 'THE success story of the Shadows is amazing! Not having worked together for so long, and without a hit record since "Maroc" in April, 1967, they hare again won the British Instrumental Unit section of the NME Poll by almost 1,000 votes.
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      • 421 18 Disc-cussion PERCY FAITH: I THINK I LOVE YOU (CBS). With his fabulous orchestra ond chorus, PERCY FAITH has got another sure winner in this album possibly bis most commercial erer. For a start, there's the Piitiiiff Family's gigantic hit "I Think I Lore You.' The Hetties' "He
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  • WOMEN'S PAGE
    • Article, Illustration
      104 19 My, my whet wii they think of next? New it'* that wiWi way of huHwiai out lhe oast wind Hi# laggto. YM, HW bamWe toggle has boon Jniw to stand bctwaon girl and hor modesty, holding the two halves together while letting a goalie wa breene on
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    • 335 19  -  ®y Florence de Santis From nowhere. It seems, a new craie foe doing handwork has sprung «p amoif us. In young fashion circles so prevalent has "making your own" become that even the fashion magazine* have been devoting a lot of ■pace to sewing,
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  • COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
    • 334 21 SYDNEY Support for o handful of nickel issues helped brighten the mining market on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. North Broken Hill rose Hiree cents to $1.93 following news Hist Pickands Mather, in which North Broken Hill has a 28 per cent interest, reported up to 2.3
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    • 59 21 t>U UMI TKI IS intrM Tam4 1.3* 1.34 M'Ua Pro*. I W MS CHABlfcllfcU I'M! rairr* 80. Fund MS 111 tINUAPOKt 1 Nil TttldT* f*' g*por» ijrrtd CM. fad io» (.14 S. Lund l.ii MS H P. rand 103 l.OSmd M. I mad 111 l.SSxd M Prog. 1.11
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    • 121 21 FOUR Executives of Gathrie Waugh Berhad have left Singapore for the United Kingdom to attend various courses tn management development. They are Mr Tao Shih Ching, General Manager, Air-condition-ing A Building Services Division; Mr C. L. N. O'Connell, Marketing Manager, General Engineering Division; Mr Victor Lee
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    • 111 21 HONGKONG Yesterdays 5 pm currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): i Bayers) (Sellers) 195 198 per Straits dollars 147 149 per laiwac ouiian 6 735 6.755 per Australian douai J4O 380 per l.«* Burmese kyats 495 515 per i>ooo Indian rupees 16c 165 oer 10.UO1
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    • 289 21 WASHINGTON A spokesman for the Philip pine sugar industry has warned that if "would be disastrous" for the Philippines if its sugar export quota to the United States was not increased. The warning came as John A. O'Donnell, Washington representative for the Philippine
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    • 29 21 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange: 3# Industrial 948.85 20 Transp 218.91 15 Utilities 124.27 65 Stocks 312.97 Bonds 71.68
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    • 353 21 SYDNEY The export of chilled beef to Japan showed every indication of becoming a permanent feature in Australia's overseas trade, chairman of the Australion Meat Board Col Malcolm M. McArthur says. Almost 1,200 tons of chilled beef had been shipped to Japan sine* lest
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    • 222 20 TOKYO Japan Is planning to switch Its export emphasis to hifn-prlced. higfti quality goods, the Mlnittr? of International Trade and Industry (MITI) says. At the same time, the ministry said it was also contemplating a plan to systematically increase Japan's imports. The measures are
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    • 93 20 Rubber Association of Singapore *»<* Malaysian Rnbber Exchange closing price* In cents per kilo were:— B 8 Int. 1 nss prompt fob ***** 111.50N Int. 1 RS.& May 110.75 ***** Int 1 USS June ***** 111.00 Int. 2 RS.S. buyen 102.75 sellers 103.50N UK/Continent buyers 102.25 sellers 102.75
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    • 330 20 INDUSTRIALS closed on an easier bias In the stock exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. At the outset prlcea were firmer In continuation of Monday's trend but later values eased as profit taking took control of the mar. ket Of the 80 industrial sharea traded, 36
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    • 317 20 NEW YORK— Monday's closing prices on the New York Stock Exchange: A R Rednc 24-1/8 Alcaa Alum 23-3/8 Allied Ch 30-1/4 Ailis Chal 17-1/2 Alcoa 05 Am T Andt 51-2/8 Ampex 22-7/8 Anaconda 22-7/8 AU Rich 75 Bendix 33-7/8 Bengnet 9-1/2 Beth 8t 24-1/2 Boeing Co
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    • 1302 20 INDUSTRIALS Aetna 1.38/139. 1.37 (2); Alcan 1.43/1.44. 1.44 (2) 1.45. 1.43 (8); All Choc 2.808, 2.54. 2.80 D; 2.55 D; en 1.15/1.7 i, 150 (2) 1.19. 1.18 (2) 1.17, 1.20 <2) D; B Kawat 1.18/1.19; Borneo 2.03/2.04. 2 02 (5) 2.01 2.03 (3) 2.02 Di
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 1119 22  -  By A. P. Duncan IN June 1970 o British car established the fastest time in motor racing history, winning the Belgian Grand Prix at an average speed of 149.9 mph (241.24 kph). It was a personal triumph for Mexican driver
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    • 436 22 HONGKONG A hastily-assembled Australian table tennis team crossed into China yesterday on a trip of "Ping pong diplomacy." Cheering Chinese sport* fans ran alongside the train as It pulled away from the station In Kowloon In brilliant sunshine. But the cheers were mostly for
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    • 481 23 FINAL TEST ENDS IN A DRAW Reuter. PORT Of SPAIN, Trtmdod likKo Monday ctimhed Iwjfroiic 7«t wrin victory over the West Indies as the fifth and final cricket Test here ended in a draw with the home side fighting desperately to avoid defeat. The result gave
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    • 127 23 BANGKOK Thailand's farmer woHd Hyweight champion Chartchai Chionoi iurvn>«d a first round luockdowß to force a draw with unranked Japanese bantamweight challenger Eiichi "Snappy" Asa no m a 10-ronnd how* here Mon- day night. It was Chartchal's first comeback fight since be lost bis World Booting
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    • 222 23 Vigilante Corps SA, Guthrie Waugh, Fathul Karib Club and Police SA are heading the FAS Division one loagne with 8 points each. Vigilante Corps and Guthrie Waugh have won four matches each and lost one each. Fathul Karih won 3 and
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    • 38 23 NIW YORK Results of Monday'* Major lea*ti« baseball games: AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 5. Boston 4 (13 innin«») Minnesota 0, Kansas City 8 NATIONAL LEAGUE Ban FTaneikco 4» St. LoaLs 2 Las Angeles 3, San Diego J
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    • 20 23 8 HA: Division I K&alsa Assn. FWD Chib and Division 3 BAFA vs fflnnaoore Polytechnic at 616 pin.
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    • 237 23 TOKYO Sixteen nstlont will competß in the 13th Asia Youth Soccer Tournament, April i\ Ma* 5, at the National Stadium and three other sites in the Tokyo-Yoko-hama area. )jk was announced yestrrday. Laos h* dropped oat. The opening ceremonies will be held at 2 pm
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    • 102 23 Singapore's top rally driver Dick Arblaster win compete la Bangle eag's "Both man's RaUv 1971". The rally will be- held In Hongkong from April 23-to 25 ArWaster wtll team uo with John BoJ*. They wtll drive an Austin 1300 GT The Hongkong rally la
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    • 190 23 Singapore bowfer* are good but lack rib* ability and concentration needed to reach «ny CUM. Professional bowler John Fitch, general manager of the newly opened International Bowling Centre- in the Hyatt Hotel, said this yesterday Fttch said he hoped to train Singapore bowlers. Fitch turned
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    • 69 23 TOKYO Kunlakl 3hi. bata will make the first defence of his World Boxing Council's (WBC) featherweight crown against No 9 contender Raul CTus of Mexico June 1 in Tokyo. It was reported yesterday. A spokesman tor the Japan Boxing Commission said matchmaker Richie Lnouye of
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  • 169 24 CANBERRA Thirty-five Australian soldiers in Vietnam have been convicted for illegally trading in goods in the past year, Federal Minister for the Army Andrew Peacock said yesterday. JAKARTA An Indonesian newspaper editor went on trial here yesterday on charges of "insulting the President, high ranking government officials
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  • 185 24 Yahyas stern note to India: UPI DELHI Pakistan yesterday demanded that India oust the rebel Bengali diplomats from the Pakistani Deputy High Commission in Calcutta. It said thot failure to do so would be regarded as "an unfriendly act." Pakistan also announced that Mahdl Masud,
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  • 181 24 PHNOM PENH Cambodia has no Prime Minister following the shock resignation of ailing General Lon Nol yesterday. The General, appointed Prime Minister by Prince Norodom Sihanouk in late 1969 before the Prince was ousted as Head of State last year, said in a letter
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  • 30 24 MANILA The verdict in the trial of Bolivian painter Benjamin Mendoza on a charge of at tempting to kill Pope Paul will be handed down today.
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  • 155 24 BANGKOK Twen-ty-four people were burned to death when Are raged through Bangkok's Imperial Hotel terdaySeveral were trapped in their rooms in the four-storey building At least two were killed as they Jumped in panic from the third floor. Several other hotel guests escaped badly
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