Eastern Sun, 28 April 1971

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN Singapore's own national daily 10 cents Estd. 1966. Vol. 5 No. 1682 Wednesday, April 28, 1971 M.C. (P) 2510
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  • 53 1 School pupils sit glumly on their school bags yesterday while waiting patiently in Toa Payoh for a bus to school. The Ministry of Communications reported considerable improvement yesterday In school bus services. The bus companies are expected to get over the new services' teething troubles soon.
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  • 179 1 WASHINGTON The State Department is examining proposals which might lead to an agreement to limit naval forces and arms in the Indian Ocean. Officials yesterday would not rule out the possibility that a neutralisation proposal by Ceylon and other states around the
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  • 44 1 KUCIIING, Sarawak Fifty-one political detainees, including 13 women, were released yesterday after renouncing Communism and pledging their loyalty to king and country. They had been detained for between one to four years. Their ages ranged from 20 to 50 years.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 24 1 LOOK! PAGL U SUN travel PACE 14 Platter Pete PAGE 18 The hot skirt PAGE 19 AND much more (GRUnPIG~) For better sound. Jebsen&Jessen
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    • 83 1 Available from leading hardware shops. another up-and-coming businessman It's never too small with us to assist our local businessmen in their enterprises. They come io confidence. We talk. And up goes another distinctive pro- ject in town. A great benefit to the Community. FAR EASTERN RANK LTD. HEAD OFFCE 137/139.
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  • 82 2 President.. Benjamin Henry Shea res stoops to take a closer look at the badge worn by Kifrawi bin Kim, 17, Pre-U II student at Swiss Cottage Secondary School. Kifrawi is one of 200 Pre-U students from 45 Pre-U schools who attended a tea reception
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  • 390 2 A taxi driver who used his cor to run down his elder brother was yesterday sentenced to six years' jail for manslaughter. Quek Boon Yan, 36, pleaded guilty to the amended charae. He was oriainallv charged with murder. He told the High Court: "My
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  • 207 2 An elderly man fatally crushed by lit could have slipped Into the shaft while the door was ajar. An assistant Uft engineer, Mr Robert Chew, of the Marubeni lida Company, said this yesterday In the Coroner's Court. He was testifying at an Inquiry Into
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  • 69 2 A youth was yesterday discharged, not amounting to an acquittal, on a murder charge. Ong Lam Aik, 22 was originally charged with the murder of Seah Beng Gee, 21, on the ninth storey of Block 2, in Jalan Bukit Ho Swee on April 9 at about 6
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  • 108 2 A contractor and a worker were rushed to Outram Rood General Hospital after six armed thugs assaulted them on Mon- day. The contractor is Lim Kim Ting, 45, of Lorong Buklt Tinggl. Police did not give the name of the worker. Police said
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  • 39 2 A three-day American Food Exhibition will open on May 6 at the Singapore Conference Hall. Local retail and institutional food traders are invited to the exhibition which is being presented by Bulagar Associates, U.S.
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  • 83 2 A auto was yesterday fined 15— and jailed for two weeks for falsely declaring himself a bachelor before a kathl who solemnised Muslim marriagesKhalil bin Manan, 32, pleaded guilty. The Second District Court wis told Khalil declared himself before Nalb Kathl. Hajl Ibrhim bin Haii Ramly.
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  • 44 2 THE welfare officer of Neptune Orient Lines said his company was still studying a report that 1.000 seamen were waiting for Jobs. Two day* ago. the state-owned line was accused by Singapore seamen of recruiting It girl* as ocean-going stewardesses.
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  • 227 2 KUALA LUMPUR An air .services agreement between Singapore and Malaysia is necessary to stop essential services being disrupted. The director-general of Malaysia's Ministry of Transport. Mr RamU bin Abdul Hamid, said this yesterday Mr RamH (s leading the Malaysian delegation at negotiations
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 65 2 MMM SINGAPORE TOWN (.48 am. (OS ft.); 135 pm. (8.4 ft.); pm(3.B ft.). TOMORROW 12.36 am. (9.6 ft) 137 am. (0.1 ft.); 2.26 pm. (7.8 ft.); 7.40 pm. (4.1 ft.). NAVAL DOCKYARD 12.16 am. (10.9 ft.); 6.20 am. (0.0 ft.); 1.28 pm. (103 ft.); 6.45 pm. (4.5 ft). TOMORROW 12.50
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  • 325 3 Toa Payoh residents yesterday appealed for more buses. They complained that lack of biue* —especially In the morning—made hundreds of them late for work. Yesterday Mr Tut Kong Eng. president of thr Chinese Bos Companies Association said the situation was being studied
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  • 284 3 TORITAIN will stage on industrial exhibition in Singopore and hopes to boost its exports here to £lOO million a year. The British High Commissioner to Singapore, Mr Samuel Falle, said this yesterday. He was speaking to the Foreign Correspondents' Association. Mr Falle said that last year
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  • 70 3 A "lucky to be alive" timber grader was awarded $4,650 and costs in a negligence suit at the High Court yesterday. Mr Yusuf Yacoobally, 22 escaped death when the mini-car he was driving collided with a truck at Chua Chu Kang Road two years agtf. Yacoobally.
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  • 154 3 The leftist Industrial Workers' Union of Singapore has accused the Special Branch of attempting to cripple it as an effective labour organisation. The union made this allegation following the arrest of three officials of their Changl branch under the Internal Security Act last Monday. A
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  • Page 3 Advertisements

  • 157 4 EMFTY affiliate members of the Singapore Council for Social Service will meet soon to discuss the financial crisis facing welfare and charitable organisations in Singapore. A spokesman said yesterday the council was aware of the "ever-pressing problem of financial needs of welfare and charitable
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  • 57 4 Resideats of P«MI*I Md Upper Smaiota Road were yesterday busy repalriac tbelr homes dajnaced by a freak wblrlwiad oa Monday afternooa. PUB worker* also were repalriac fallen laap po*(« eleetrlcal wires. The freak wblrlwiad ripped throach the Poaccol and Upper Seraagaoa Boad areas at S.M pat
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  • 84 4 The Blood Trans fasten Service report* that bleed slocks are In an average posi Men. The nnmber of blood donations received daring the week eadlag last Bnaday was 7SI, aa average of 114 donations a day. The Blood Traasfnslea Service will preseat awards to 82}
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  • Article, Illustration
    69 4 There's no point In pussj footing around when you've got time on your hands it's much more fun to play with your pet cat And that's what this lad who was too shy to tell us his name was doing when the EASTERN SUN photographed hi m
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  • 228 4 Here's a watery market bargain to caress your budget watercress is selling at only M cents a katiAccording to the Chinese, watercress when boiled with lean pork has a cooling effect especially suitable (or this sultry climate. Today's prices (in katis unless otherwise mentioned): VEGETABLES Spinach $0
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 95 4 win v< ana < It: r o H7RP "**#t V JZ**' y 6'\v. Tv V V a y. 5 CHOCOLATE ready to drink This contest is open to all students and as A SPELMAL the fn'NMMf elosf mil Iw «irariM a tiay's fun-tour of Jurong as guests a/ GENERAL MiLK
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  • 303 5 Zoo work now in full swing Senior zoo-keepers at the Singapore Zoological Gardens will be trained in Switzerland and Ceylon. They are expected to leave for a six-month training course late this year or early next year. Dr Ong Swee Law, chairman of
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  • 166 5 A man yesterday was Jailed for three years each on two charges of robbery with causing bodily harm to the victims. The Second District Court also ordered Loke Sing Kong to be given three strokes of the cane. Loke's sentences are concurrent. Loke robbed Chang Shang
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 190 5 r 9 a a ■3 n i m n 1 •s, sr 0 < i»» n WW -^•v e&c 2V < fer-w 1 d. A lot of airlines can fly you to Sydney. But be careful. It's a long way and once you're off the ground there's no way to
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  • 103 6 GRAVEDIGGER Tony Adnitt goes to work with a song in his heart. Like "Ain't it grand to b« blooming well dead." And cheerful Adnitt, a freelance digger, ornaments his business card with a sketch of a grave above the slogan: The Last to Let You Down. "Why
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  • 518 6 PARIS French oil companies have called for a world-wide boycott of Algerian oil to help them win an equitable compensation for property nationalised by Algeria. President Pompidou's Cabinet fully supported the move, the latest in a tun of war over the future of the Frenchbuilt oil and
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • 468 7 'Medina held victim's hand' Reuter pORT McPHERSON, Georgia Captain Ernest Medina held a Vietnamese prisoner's hand while another captain cut off his little finger, a court martial was told yesterday. Captain Eugene Kotouc, 37, foces charges of maiming ond ossaulting a Vietnamese prisoner. Captain Medina
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  • 239 7 HONGKONG The Vietcong's top military command has ordered them to stop attacking American service men who oppose the war, the Giai Phong Press Agency reported yesterday. The order was issued by the Command of the South Vietnam People's L i be ration Armed Forces.
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  • 120 7 HONGKONG A Supreme Court judge and a seven -member jury went to the cinema yesterday for their tfcird sword-fighting film in two days. It was in connection With a civil suit for unspecified damages lodged by Shaw Brothers against another local firm,
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  • 113 7 TEL AVIV Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union broke into tears yesterday aa tfcey watched Israeli Jets rehearse for one of the most spectacular Cypasts in the country's history. The 190 immigrants caught a flrst glimpse of the flypast shortly after arrival at Lod International Airport
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  • 132 7 LOS ANGILIB Convicted Sharon Tate ■ardcrtn Charles Man son and Sou Atkins, back from a brief visit to their death row cells, have appeared in coart to face further murder charges. The pair was sentenced last week to die in the gas chamber for
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 43 7 TOMORROW'S DRAW NO: 33/71 (29-4-71) WILL OE HELD AT THE SINGAPORE WONDERLAND AMUSEMENT PARK AT 7.45 P.M. JSS. CASH JACKPOT IS $140,000 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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  • 240 8 Reuter UPI Anti-war protestors hare begun invading government offices on Capitol Hill. The invasion marked the start of a new phase of activities after a week of peaceful marches. The demonstrators have vowed to disrupt the "normal function of the Government" for two weeks
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  • 187 8 LONDON The British Government has chosen remote marshland on England's southeast coast as the site for London's third airport and promptly heard it denounced as the white •lephant of the century. After month* of toplevel debate, the cabinet decided that on environmental
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  • 76 8 POST- AU-PRINCE, Haiti The Government has opened the fortress-like home of the President, National Palace. to the Press for the first time since 'Papa Doc' took over. The nation's new President, Jean-Claude Duvalier, took foreign reporters and cameramen around the Palace. He was later
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  • 70 8 BIRMINGHAM, England A controversial British sex education film which includes a scene showing a woman teacher masturbating has been banned from being shown to Birmingham school children. The Birmingham Education Committee voted 33 to 11 that the film called "Growing Up" was not suitable for
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • A PLACE IN THE SUN
    • 586 9  -  Animal lovers' threat laurielee SINGAPOREAN Daniel Chee's name is mud among animal lovers in Europe. They think he's some kind of monster who skin* crocodiles alive. Mr Chee manager of the Tan Moh Hong Reptile Skin (Crocodile Farm) In Upper Serangoon Road He was branded as a
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    • 55 9 With that smooth silky •kin, that fine golden tan, 20-year-old Nora •s a splendid advertisement for CIGARS. Those off beat advertising people took one look at Nora and, with a rare genius for typecasting put her in a cigar advertisement. When she's not giving cigars an
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 47 9 SONY'S new two-in-one... a cassette-corder and FM/AM radio all in one versatile unit THE BIG 3I EXCLUSIVELY fOW EASTERN SUN READERS All fhe details can be found in THE SUN beginning May 7 Make sure you* copy Contact your regular newsvendor or call *****0 or ***** now.
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous

  • 517 10 gEVERAL of the speakers at the seminar on "Communism and Democracy" have called democracy an alien or a Western concept. It is possible to dispute it but it is unnecessary in this context. Most people, we believe, will trace the concept of democracy to Plato's Republic although today,
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  • 795 10  -  Max Lerner IN case we doubted it we now have the bleak report, from two congress* men back from their Vietnam inquiry, that heroin has reached epidemic proportions among the American soldiers. But being a soldier in Vietnam is an extreme situation, and its tensions
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  • SUN SOAPBOX WHERE READERS HAVE A SAY
    • 118 10 SIR: I WISH Singapore would make up its mind about its tourists and its capabilities of coping with them. First we had a building boom. when hotels mushroomed as fast as the plans rolled off the architects' desks. Then the government stepped in and halted any
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    • 110 10 SIR: I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with the recent comments made by Laurie Lee on the question of licences for the handling of boats. It is high time that some form of standard qualification was made towards making licences compulsory, especially in the case of speedboats. Some of
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    • 102 10 SIR: THF recent threat by East Pakistanis in Britain to break np the forthcoming tour of the country by Pakistani cricketers is extremely childish. We're all concerned about what's happening in East Pakistan, but resorting to violence in a country thousands of miles away isn't going to solve
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • SUNSCOPE
    • 741 11 A N influential commission yesterday recommended to U.S. President Richard Nixon that the United States support the admission of Peking to the United Nations under a two-China policy. The presidential commission beaded by former U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, said that under no circumstances
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    • 172 11 UPI BRITISH Foreign Secretary Sir Ale< DouglatMome uid yesterday there Had been j "»low but welcome" improvement in Britain's relations with China. H« tiiluntiif tritam'» Charge 4'AHiirn in, Peking. |ohn DtMo* wit w*th Chine** Premier Chow In Lti M March 2. Theee Ha* keen *isw
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    • 518 11 Reuter THE former headmaster of a Peking secondary school yesterday described being hauled up in front of his school and verbally attacked by hit pupils during the Cultural Revolution. Ma Yu San. in his fifties, also had to sign statements repenting his errors, each statement more setf-critical
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  • Page 12/13 Advertisements
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    • 540 12/13 sun Wednesday shopping special YOUNG r I /Ctiturb* y 1 MAY young, V yy A lovelier you... KANEBO May Young Hie world's top creator of beauty in cosmetics is in Singapore to open a new era of refinement in make-up. Andrew Associates (Pie) Ltd at 117-A New Bridge Road has
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    • 117 12/13 THE NEWS! MCAISHMI for Great Sound Select Your Program** Straight Aweyt Repeat Yur Favourite Programme a* long et r°* wish.. re las while yon drive ~1,-bU is always ready to entertain you. Specialise ia: All kindi at auto radios, car stereo* and cassette players. TYE ELECTRONIC CO. 201 Cantonment Road,
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    • 65 12/13 has the latest in foot-gear to go with your maxis, midis and minis 334, Orchard Road, 1st Floor Singapore, 9. Tel: *****3 DC-300K The Latest! Multi-amplifier Stereo system FOQN LOONG electronics coran electronicscorpn Head Office: 120. Ground Floor. People's Park Shopping Complex (New Bridge Rd.. Singapore i Branch: 122, Ground
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    • 56 12/13 Sole Distributor for Singapore, Brunei B Malaysia. S. S. MUBARUK BROS. PTE. LTD. Trade enquiries to: COLLIE'S INTERNATIONAL S-C. Telok Ajer Street, Singapore 1 Tel. *****6/*****. INTRODUCTORY OFFER! e New fabric just arrived from U.S.JL Q B&B Boutique g A Division of Buttons Rows Hong Kong to*B 439. ORCHARD ROAD.
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    • 136 12/13 Pf "'M. Jeu/ellerq of Distinction w TIN SING GOLDSMITHS (PTE) LTD. JEWELLER* (Established over i of i Century) 215-217 Soath Bridge Road. Singapore (Opposite Malay Mosque) Tel: ***** b 71 Be For varieties of surprises visit Mr?' VARIETY ENTERPRISES "Ma We have all sorts of new and unusual items for
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  • SUN TRAVEL
    • 306 14 JAPAN is just hours by jet away from your home. This holiday paradise spreads its 148,000 square miles over steep mountains, across wide plains of rice paddies, through densely populated cities, around rocky inlets end down long stretches of sandy beaches. The land
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    • 87 14 Are you one of tfce many thousands of Singaporeans who travel abroad each year? Or do yon dream of strange lands as you thumb through the travel folders? No matter what category *ou fit into, the SUN has you In mind with its new TRAVEL feature. Every
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    • 201 14 TOKYO, capital off Japan, is the centre off national administration, education and finance as well as being a thriving city. Tokyo Metropolis is on the largest island, Honshu. It has a population of 11,173,000 within its expanded area of 796.5 square miles. It faces the
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    • 245 14 SAPPORO, the City of Youth, is the capital of Hokkaido, the northernmost idand of Japan, which Is the floating garland of Asia. Sapporo, was founded approximately 100 years ago. It sprang up from a clearing in a primeval forest when modern civilisation wa s already in
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 58 14 wf rißHilil I x £2 I AGENTS FOR AEROFIOT •Operating twice a week from f Singapore to Moscow with connection from Moscow to London and ail cities in Europe. Direct flights from Moscow to Montreal, New York and Tokyo 'Twice a week via Delhi Once a week via Karachi FOR
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    • 112 14 EUROPE TOUR LONDON HOLIDAY ALL FARES INCLUSIVE 20 DAYS FAR! $2,220/Retwm '6/6/71 6/7/71 14/7/71 3/8/71 11/8/71 31/8/71 8/9/71 28/9/71 27 DATS FARC $2,455/Retwrw 30/6/71 27/7/71 28/7/71 24/8/71 12 DAYS FARE $1,950/Return 28/7/71 10/8/71 4/8/71 17/8/71 WEEKLY ECONOMIC FLIGHTS SIN/KL/LON b return LON NEW YORK b rttva For Details Please Contact:
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  • 599 15  -  By Harold Heffernan WHY does o studio decide to world-premiere one of its major films in a city that has absolutely no connection with the picture or any of its players? The reasoning in times like these is simple by doing so,
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 283 15 V UVORGANISATION ORCHARD *****8 list DAY! S Shows: UM *SV on Bat 61 Sun Extra Show 9 am -ASH BOOK IM lb UN 1V Aam |1 50. 13 60 U W MOM* Dtllkltr' Kooert Mitchum Color Irevoi Howard P'VUIOD ODEON ***** 11. I.M. 4.M. 6 .Ml, IM pm "YOU CANT
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    • 273 15 fgaoE7 ORGANISATION I Q O *****4] Today 4 Show.! No Pre* U>t II an. I.lio, 4 A 4 10 pia. rHft SINGINO lILUI A tfHAW PRODUCTION Mandarin to Bcod*<)olm TONIGHT (.IS pm Prealm (No Free LUt) "U»WI A Other Straafera" ID Color <ABC-KOX) A Pre* Jar of POND'S OOLD CREAM
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  • 515 16  -  ANN LANDERS DEAR ANN MY BOSS is a charming, successful, educated, well-paid executive who uses language that would shock a mule skinner. He doesn't use this language at me but in my presence. For example, when 1 am taking dictation and he gets a phone
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 765 16 CARROLL RIOHTER'S GENERAL TENDENCIES: In the midst of many surface problems, there Is a definite forward movement which will enable you to gain your ends. Plan In detail and ignore the small annoyances. Focus your energies and your activities on going after longtime desires steadily. ARIES (Mar. 21 to Apr.
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 904 17 K r »r. i "ty« singapura CHANNEL 5 PM 300 OPENINC ANNOUNCEMENTS. followed by HOUSEWIVES' MATINEE "A Miserable Mother" (Part I of e Hokkien film) (English Subtitles) 3.35 FOR THI FAMILY A magazine series presented In Chinese 4.05 A DIARY Of EVENTS IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK (Chinese) 4.08 DAYS Of
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    • 27 17 There's a pretty good line up on Channel Fly# at 10.05 tonight when Spencer Tracey, (Catherine Hepburn (above), Lucille Ball and Keenan Wynn appear in "Without Lore".
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  • YOUNG SUN
    • POPPING AROUND with Platter Pete
      • 383 18  -  ML Alan Smith CUFF Richard this week releases a MW riaik la which he riao af imßcUm and petit Joins growing list of meaningful haflads throws la ameac Ms lightweight discs like "Sum, llwt, Girl The Richard sincerity Is we il-proved. -But whea It cones
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      • 581 18 A NDY WILLIAMS: LOVE STORY (CBS). Andy Williams is always a wel- come. His latest album is no exception. On this album, the selection is varied, from George Harrison's gospel-sounding "My Sweet Lord" to Lynn Anderson's country number "Hose Garden" to his own hit "Love Story**.
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      • 83 18 Dear reie, What's the latest from Ringo Starr please? G.L. LIM Bear G. L.. A disc entitled It Dont Come Easy." Dear Pete, Where can I write to Tom Jones? KELLY HO Dear Kelly, O/o J, 231 Charleton *oad, Bhepperton, Snrrey, England. Dear Pete, ■ow tall la Tom Jones,
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  • EVE CHAT
    • 75 19  -  ■y Deirdre McSharry IF THIS little skirt reminds old-timers of the mini skirt they knew and loved so well, they should keep very quiet. For riM mini is deed. The rag trade calls this natty number Hie hot skirt. Following in Hie runaway
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    • 72 19 Th« intricate art of macrame reaches its perfection in this delicate evening necklace. Macrame is the rather novel way of creating jewellery, clothes, art objects and furnishings out of mere knots. A knot here, a twist there and hey presto! a beautiful work of art. And If you
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  • commercial and industrial
    • 346 21 PARIS France's two major oil companies has called for a worldwide embargo on purchases of Algerian oil in retaliation for nationalisation measures by the Algerian government. Clearly acting with the support of th* French government, the companies said they were warning potential foreign
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    • 102 21 TOKYO Japan's Kawasaki Steamship Company (Kawasaki Line> has reached agreement with two Singapore Shipping firms to organise a joint shipping venture, local shipping sources said. Ther said the new joint Arm would be set up in Singapore by the Singapore state-run Neptune Orient Line, the Jurong Shipbuilders
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    • 218 21 DETROIT Ford Motor Co executives am optimistic about future sale* after reporting first-quarter profits of Sssoo million a hike of 37 per cent from profits of ***** million for the same quarter last year. Board chairman Henry Ford II and President Lee A. lacocca.
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    • 124 21 ROME Foreign Trade Minister Mario Zagari has called on Italian businessmen to Join forces and pool experience In an effort to penetrate the giant market of mainland China. Zagari, wno will lead a trade delegation to Peking sometime next month, brleled a group of businessmen
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    • 131 21 A new drug which cures certain heart disease* will be available in Singapore soon. Thla was announced by Mr T. H. Toon, aa advertising and publicity executive of Imperial Chemical Industries (U.K.). Mr Toon was In Singapore recently to stndy the advertising and production facilities
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    • 359 21 SYDNEY Industriol stocks were again well supported on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Bank and finance stocks were the dominant issues in the industrial section. Bank of New South Wale* improved 10 cents to $6.20, CRA rose 12 cent# to $2.20 and CBC Sydney closed five
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    • 31 21 NEW YORK Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 944.00 20 Rails 227.46 15 Utilities 121.77 65 Stocks 315 01 40 Bonds ?i.31
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    • 191 21 LOS ANQELEB A China Airlines (CAL) Boeing 707 touched down at International Airport yesterday to launch the carrier's second transpacific route. Four flights a week were planned for the new Talpel-Tbkyo Honolulu Loe Angeles route, but sources In the Nationalist China Airline Indicated It was
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    • 130 21 The Americas business Journal "Fortune" has published Its Bth annual list of the 200 largest industrial concerns outside the United States. Heading the list is the Anglo-Dutch Royal Dutch 'Shell Group, which aa had a turnover in 1969 of 5529.100 million. Second place la occupied by the Unilever
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    • 364 20 Quietly steady conditions ruled on the stock exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. Small buying and a o m e short-covering brought marginal gains in Industrial* which finished with 28 gainers, 31 maintained and 22 losers. Price changes were restricted to narrow limits. The turnover fell further to
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    • 435 20 NEW YORK—Monday's prices on the New York Stock Exchange: Air Reduc 25-1/8 Alcan Alum 21-1/8 Allied Ch 38-1/8 Allls Chai 18-3/4 Alcoa €8 AM T and T 48-5/8 Ampex 21-1/2 Anaconda 22-1/2 Arm co stl 28-3/8 Atl Rich 73-1/2 Bendix 25-3/4 Benguet 8-1/4 Beth St 23-1/2
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    • 1164 20 INDUSTRIALS Acma 1.40/1.41; Ajino 1.80/1.96; Alcan 1.45/1.47. 1.46 1.47; All Choc 2.46/2.50; Ben 1.15/1.20, 1.15 1.16, (2) Dim; B Kawat 1.19/1.20, (118); Borneo 2.14/2.15, 2.12 (11) 2.13 (3) 2.14 (2) 2.15 (4) 2.14 (4) Dim, 2.15 (2) Dim, 2.16 (2) Dim. 2.17 (2) Dim; Bstd
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    • 111 20 JAKARTA Indonesian Trade Minister Dr Sumitro believes the pric« of natural rubber would increase this year, the independent KNI news agency reported. The minister, speaking In Djambi, North Sumatra, did not say how much the increase would be but he believed that the economic stagnation in
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    • 117 20 HONGKONG Yesterday's 5 pm currency rates (supplied by Foreign Exchange and Investment Ltd.): (Buyers) (Sellers) 195 196 per 100 strait* dollars 146 147.50 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars 6.73 6.75 per Australian doiiaj 300 340 per I.OOC Burmese kyats 4®5 490 per 1.000 Indian rupees 352 160 per 10.000
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    • 99 20 Robber Association at Singapore and Malaysian Rubber Exchange closing prices in cents per kilo were:— B 8 lnt 1 RS.S prompt f.o.b. 110.25 111.25N lnt 1 RS.S May 110 75 111.00 Int. 1 RS.S. Jun e ***** 111.75 lnt 2 RS.S. buyers 104,00 sellers *****N UK/Continent buyer» 103.25
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    • 117 22 Blngapore Business Houses Football League's Junior and Senior Knockout Competitions will begin on May 3. The opening fixtures for Junior Knockout competitions are: Ming Court s MSA *C: Guthrie Waugh 'B' vs Singapore Hilton and Thornycroft vs Hume Industries. All fixtures will be played at Farrer Park at
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    • 51 22 NEW YORK Results of Monday's major league baseball games: NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 12, St. Louis 2. Philadelphia 2, Houston 1. AMERICAN LEAGUE Mln n e sota 7, Washington 2, Detroit 8, Kansas City 3, Oakland 1, Baltimore 0, California 8, Cleveland 0. Milwaukee and Boslon postponed bv
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    • 387 22 KING'S FLAME did a dashing gallop at Bukit Timah here yesterday morning. Breaking from the half mile, the King's Troop geldinq sprinted stylishly over 3f 3/5 on a good track. King's Troop appears to have improved greatly since his only start at tne last meeting
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    • 165 23 Swimmers Pat r i cia Chan, T»y Chin Joo •md Roy Ckan left last eight tor Israel with their coach Kee Soon Bee. They will compete in Israel's 'Hapoei Oamet' lo be heid in Tel Aviv Horn May 1 to 5. Patricia wllj be competing
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    • 383 23 Six records were shattered at the second day of the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association's 28th Junior Championships yesterday at the River Valley Road Swimming Pool. In the 200 metres breast stroke event. Alan Lelah registered a new time of Z:54.9. He held the previous record of
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    • 223 23 Port Authority Recreation Club nas withdrawn from the Singapj.e Government Services Football League'# Knockout Cup competition. Chairman of PARC's Board of Control of Games Mr L. O. Valberg said yesterday that PARC's withdrawal was due to the club's preparation for the interport games to
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    • 22 23 SHA Hockey; Division I—Combined Schools vs Jansenites at S.IS pm. Soccer: Port Authority Recreation Club vs Johor« Fiat Sport Club.
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    • 251 23 The Singapore Hockey Association has nominated goalkeeper Anwarul Haque for the Best Sportsman of the year award. Other men nominated for the award are: Tan Thuan Hen* (swimmer), Tan Eng Bock (Water Polo), C. Kunalan (sprinter), Nor Azahar (high jumper), Leow Khim Liat (rugby),
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    • 180 23 HONGKONG Malaysia's Fundi Gunalan, the Asian Games champion, stepped back from the brink of defeat to win the Hongkong badminton open men's singles title lest night. He beat Muljadi of Indonesia 10-15, IC-11, 15-12 In one hour and 30 minutes the longest championship
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    • 129 23 Seven new records were set in the 19th Annual Athletic Meet of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus held yesterday at Farrer Park Athletic Centre. Madeline Teo, shattered the previous 200 metres record of 31.5 sees with a new time of 28.2 sees,
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    • 51 23 Customs SC beat Singapore Recreation Club 4-3 in a friendly soccer match played at the Padang yesterday. In another fixture Hongkong and Shanghai Bank beat Singapore Cricket Club 1-0. Hockey: Khalsa Association and PWD Sports Club played a scoreless game in yesterday's SHA division one fixture at Serangoon
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    • 243 23 TOKYO Hongkong refused to plaj South Korea jrtslcrdt; la the first dispute to develop since the 13th Aslaa Youth Soccer started la Japan last Saturday. The trouble started when Hongkong and South Korea were tied 1-1 in the *o' group gamo at Tokyo'* Komazawa
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  • 97 24 COLOMBO, Ceylon Mrs Sirl. mavo Bandaranalke yesterday fixed Saturday as 'Surrender Day' for Insurgents to give themselves up in return for her pledge of "reasonable" treatment. CAPETOWN A commission of inquiry yesterday recommended aa essential the Introduction of television In South Africa—the last developed country still without it.
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  • 470 24  -  By Joseph Galloway UPI ITEGALLE, Ceylon Small bands of Che Guevara rebels are carrying out a campaign of ambushes and attacks on Government offices in the Kegalle districts between Colombo and Kandy. District military commander Lieutenant Colonel Cyril Ranatungo said platoons of 25 to
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  • 188 24 MANILA Asia's developing countries yesterday called for Hie establishment of an Asian investment centre to coordinate foreign investment in the region. Only two delegations Japan and Australia expressed reservations about the proposed centre. The centre was proposed at the annual meeting of the United Nations
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  • 114 24 JERUSALEM Foreign Minister Abba Eban has signalled an apparent softening of Israel's peace stance by saying the government wants only an open-ended cease-flre. Previously Israel insisted on a for nal Egyptian statement ending the state of belligerency. He said of the moves now afoot
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  • 191 24 Reuter UPI NEW YORK The Vice-Consul of Pakistan, Mahmood Ali, has become the first member of Pakistan's Foreign Service in the U.S. to resign and offer his services to the Bengali rebel movement. Ali, 28, and his wife Shaheen, 20, are seeking asylum
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