Singapore Herald, 28 July 1970

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  • 17 1 28 JUL 1970 THE SINGAPORE herald No. 6 Singapore Tuesday, July 28. 1970 MC(P) 2207 15 CENTS
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  • 697 1  -  HERALD REPORTERS LORD CARRINGTON AN EYE-WITNESS By 'NO CLOSING OF ANY OPTION' AN RAF supersonic Lightning jetfighter crashed into marshy farmland yesterday morning minutes after it took off from Tengah airfield. The pilot was killed and a 60--year-old farmer severely burned. He was
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  • 355 1 Pullout to go on till 5-power meeting THE RUNDOWN of British forces m the SingaporeMalaysia area will continue at the present pace until the fivepower defence talks are held at the end of the year or early m 1971. Announcing this m Singapore yesterday, Britain's Defence Secretary Lord Carrington said
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  • 208 1 A man surrendered to police laying siege to a house m Block 64 Lorong 5, Toa Pay oh at 2 a.m. today and said another man m the house had shot himself. Police investigating the murder of watchshop owner Fong Thian
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  • 36 1 H UKS KILLED MANILA, Mon— Philippine troops m helicopters killed two HUK guerrillas and captured two others m a brief but fierce battle yesterday m a village of Tarlac Province 75 miles north of Manila. AFP
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  • 17 1 TOKYO, Mon. Seventythree people drowned or were missing while swimming or boating m Japan yesterday.
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  • 321 2 A tough life at 'Leopard' Bubu' G.M. NOON'S complaint (S.H. July 24) about long hours and pow pay for Police Reserve Unit men is very true. The PRU base at Mt. Vernon is known as "Leopard Colony" and at Queensway as "Bubu's Territory." Popularly known for labour and confinement. Commonly,
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  • 153 2 TEACHERS are resigning because of the pay disparity. Some who entered service before 1.5.58 were given the Old Normal Scale, while others were given the New Certificate-in Education Scale, even though they received the same training m the same class and same year.
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  • 110 2 My son, a teacher m a secondary school, is also m charge of a uniformed group m his school. Apart from his full teaching duties, he spends all the Saturdays training his cadets and also one afternoon every week doing cadet work. Every December
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  • 139 2 It appears that most of the buildings of the new University of Singapore complex will be situated right along the present Kent Ridge Road. This will certainly spoil the view from what must be the most scenic drive m our entire island. Kent Ridge has
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  • 475 2 THE HERALD reported on Friday Traffic Engineer Mr. S.F. Pok and his "Three E's" for greater road safety, Engineering, Education, and Enforcement. Would not "Three M's" be equally suitable? Maintenance, Manners, and Miles per hour. MAINTENANCE implies ade quate upkeep of the roads
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    58 2 s*l G HI I SHoucD WAV* KMoWKJ BtTfpft Sigh! I should have known better CONGRATULATIONS to the Singapore Herald. Keep up the good impression. It's time Singaporeans had a daily newspaper that sees things their way. I hope to read unbiased and constructive comments on matters affecting
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  • 77 2 Red faces and cropped heads I AM a National Serviceman serving part time m the police force. One of our officers at a rehearsal for the national day parade, decided that our. haircuts did not conform to his idea of a short haircut. So 54 of us were forced to
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  • 482 2 Tuesday, July 28, 1970 THE SINGAPORE HERALD Lord C: It's on with the guessing game Whatever Lord Carrington may have told the Singapore Government, he certainly told the Press very little. The closeness was to be expected. The size of the military presence Britain should retain m SingaporeMalaysia is probably
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  • 240 3 Putting on a better front— by order BILL TO MAKE OWNERS REPAINT DIRTY BUILDINGS... THE Government is to make owners or tenants repaint dirty buildings. This is one provision of a Bill to amend the Environmental Public Health Act, which will be read a second time at the next session
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  • 223 3 $12,000 CLAIM FOR A BOY'S EYE A WOMAN told the High Court yesterday that her seven-year-old sob was Minded la the left eye four years ago by the alleged negligence of a Housing and Development Board gardener. Goh Hock Seng is suing the HDB for $12, dM damages through his
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  • 71 3 A SURVEY clerk was yesterday acquitted of a charge of stealing two torchlights valued at $6 from a PSA Godown on Feb. 12. Garry Yap Hock Kwan of Commonwealth Crescent was cleared on the grounds of circumstantial evidence when his counsel, Mr. Ng Kong Yearn, submitted
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  • 395 3 The girls want to keep their hair on THE Education Minister's "get your hair cut" order had schoolgirls worried yesterday. They fear they might lose their long locks. One girl, from a leading school m town, was adamant about keeping her flowing tresses. "My long hair is part of my
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  • 176 3 FIFTEEN Americans who are keen to get first-hand knowledge about Asia flew into Singapore yesterday. The University of Hawaii's Asian study tour is made up mainly of teachers and other professional people. The group has been to Japan, Taipeh and Manila. It will visit
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  • 42 3 LORRY driver Quek Sim Chye, 26, yesterday denied causing the death of Sim Siew Ser by a negligent act at Jalan Pipit on May 6. The Ninth Magistrate fixed trial for Aug. 1 and allowed bail of $1,000.
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  • 381 3 Smoking of pot among S'pore youth on the increase GANJA smoking is spreading among Singapore's youth. In a fiveday test campaign last week, Customs officers arrested 60 people most of them 21 years old and younger for possession of the drug. Most of the youngsters hang out m the shadier
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  • 35 3 CORONER Liew Ngik Kee recorded a verdict of misadventure on two-year-old Goh Siew Fan of Purvis Street who died on July 5, four days after she was scalded by water from a flask.
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  • 360 3 A BILL curtailing the freedom of bank directors to lend as they please is before Parliament. When the Banking Bill is passed, every bank shall send to the Commissioner of Banking particulars of all advances, loans and credit facilities
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  • 44 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon A three-day ASEAN meeting on communications, meteorology and air travel services will begin here tomorrow. Officials from Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia will discuss ways of improving future communications and air services m the region.
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  • 196 4 THE NTUC is holding another two workers's education courses as part of its modernisation programme. The first starting on Aug. 3 is a three-week course on Joint Consultative Machinery to be conducted by Mr. S. Ramalingam, an ILO expert attached to the National Productivity
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  • 141 4 IT was flying high m the sky above Thomson Road yesterday all €8 tons of It. Four months ago four pretressed concrete beams just like It toppled down on this same spot and crushed to death a coffee seller. Aid just before work resumed on lifting 29 of
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  • 126 4 Pre-GCE test for private students THE MINISTRY of Education will hold a qualifying test on Dec. 3 for private candidates intending to sit for any English-medium subject at the Singapore Cambridge General Certificate of Education '0* Level Examination next year or m subsequent years. Candidates living outside Singapore may register
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  • 51 4 TWO Malaysian bar girls were fined $100 each by the Ninth Magistrate yesterday for "engaging m professional employment" at the Silver Bar and Restaurant between Wednesday and Saturday. Ooi Ah Too, 36, and Ng Mooi Mooi, 33, were granted visit passes between July 22 and Aug.
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  • 195 4 Six years' jail for robbers ODD THE AUSTRALIAN High Commissioner, Mr. N.F. Parkinson, will present $3,400--worth of books to the Institute of South-East Asian Studies at Cluny Road this Wednesday. TWO men who pleaded guilty to a total of 10 charges of armed robbery were sentenced to six years' jail
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  • 135 4 ARMS CASE AGAINST SECURITY BOSS POSTPONED THE case against a security chief charged with unlawfully possessing arms was postponed yesterday. In the Ninth Magistrate's court, the case against Mr. Paul Robert Linfield Wilson, above, was adjourned to Aug. 3. Mr Wilson, managing director of Secnritas Private Limited, Is alleged to
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  • 67 4 POLICE recovered a .22 2 revolver, 60 rounds of ammun ition and four daggers during a raid on a Toa Payoh flat yesterday. A 19-year-old youth was arrested, and will appear m court today. Police spokesman ASP Foo Hee Keng said a party of detectives
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  • 85 4 THE Singapore Traction Company Ltd., was ordered yesterday to pay $I,IM damages to Lee Ngok Tit of Toa Payoh who was injured hi an accident with a has. Lee was boarding a STC bos at Balestier Road when the hns drove off pre-
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  • 132 4 Taxi men ask for extra three years TAXI owners want the Government's proposed seven-year age limit for taxis to be increased to ten. The president of the Taxi Transport Association, Mr Lim Chuan Huat, said taxis were inspected half-yearly and this should keep the vehicles m good condition. "If school
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  • 74 4 Wanted man shot in police ambush IPOH, Mob. A man wanted In connection with a series of robberies was shot and wounded when he tried to escape from a police ambush here last night. A police spokesman said today the man received a stomach wound, bnt kit condition was not
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  • 83 4 Fine for illegal joy-rider A MOTOR-scooter ride on Nov. 27 last year cost National Serviceman Tan Chai Hup, of Have lock Road, a day's jail, a total fine of $450 and a threeyear licence ban. A traffic magistrate fined 20--year-old Tan $250 and sentenced him to a day's jail for
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  • 45 4 MANILA, Mob.— Twenty-five Korean seamen from the grounded merchant ship Dal Young of the Taipei Star Line have been rescued In the South China Sea 350 miles southwest of Manila by the U.S. Seventh Fleet ship Monticello, the U.S. Navy announced today AFP
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  • 195 4 EXPORTS of chickens, ducks, pigs and eggs are rising according to the Government. Figures issued by the Statistics Dept. yesterday reveal that Singapore produced 23.2 million chickens, 1.5 million ducks, 950,000 pigs and 320 million eggs last year. ProductionTs up on a decade ago
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  • 118 5 SENNETT ESTATE TO RAISE $200, 000 FOR COMMUNITY CENTRE SENNETT Estate residents are raising funds to build a new S2NMI community ceatre. Mr. Lee Yoke Joo, chairman of the management committee, said yesterday the present building m MacPherson Road was too small to serve residents of the estate. He said
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  • 97 5 I'm fine now says kidney transplant woman MRS. Doreen Tan, Singapore's first kidney transplant patient, is bright and happy bat a little uncomfortable because she can't move around freely. Her doctors at Outram Road General Hospital have told her to have complete rest m bed. Doreen, wearing her own clothes
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  • 215 5 MANY top Singapore civil servants who visit Kuala Lumpur on official business sleep m hotels unaware that they can stay at Temasek, the State house. Apart from the Prime Minister and his Cabinet colleagues, Temasek is also open to Ministers of State, Parliamentary Secretaries, Permanent Secretaries,
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  • 245 5 French monetary curbs hit Singapore timber sales SALES of Singapore sawn timber have dropped by $1.5 million a month since May. France the biggest buyer, which used to buy 10,000 tons per month, has cut down its orders by 40-to-50 per cent although the price has also dropped about IS
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  • 25 5 THERE were no first and second prize winners m Sunday's toto draw. The jackpot prize for this Thursday's toto will be $105,000. ODD
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  • 31 5 THE National Cadet Corps will hold an open day at the Sea Training Centre m Kallang and the Air Training Centre m Kolam Ayer on Aug. 1. Doa
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  • 24 5 RESERVE stocks of blood of all groups m the Blood Bank has fallen from 725 units last week to 654 units yesterday.
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  • 562 5 Rubber exports— and what wasn't said... THE Singapore and Malaysian Governments seem to have taken the wind out of the sails of rubber exporters m their fight against the Far Eastern Freight Conference's inflated rates by making their respective national shipping lines join the Conference. At least, that is the
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  • 32 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Selangor State Development Corporation has so far spent $8 million on housing projects m the new state capital, Shah Alam, 16 miles from here.
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  • 337 6 Eupoc affairs in hands of two receivers AFTER THAT J.T.C. WRIT. THE Development Bank of Singapore has taken the management of Eupoc Pulp and Paper Industries out of the hands of its board of directors and placed it m the hands of two chartered accountants. The accountants are Mr. Goh
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  • 140 6 Elly, Meng Li to appear on stage at charity show TWO Hongkong film stars, Elly Tarn, (above left) and Meng Li arrived m Singapore yesterday for personal appearances at the Odeon. They will appear on stage at a chairty premiere of the Mandarin film "The Apartment" tomorrow. Hie film stars
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  • 14 6 "I'm afraid, General, there's no cure for being a hawk."
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  • 134 6 NO politics please, Hamzah tells students KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The new Education Minister Dato Hamzah Abu Samah today called on Malaysian students not to become involved m politics and said they cannot help society by being ignorant of its problems. Dato Hamzah was speaking at the opening of a six-day
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  • 75 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The housing census, the first stage of the 1970 housing and population census, was launched today with about 22,000 enumerators taking part m the count. It will end on Aug. 9 and will be followed by the population census from Aug. 25 to Sept.
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  • 443 7 A union strikes at its 'softy' image THE Pioneer Industries Employees' Union is trying to remove the image that it is not worth joining, said executive secretary Ang Taie Ping. Negotiations with several firms, including Jurong Shipyard, Bridgestone Tyres and Sugar Industries of Singapore, are now under way for a
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  • 34 7 "CRITICAL Thinking," a six-lecture course conducted by the Extra-Mural Studies Department, will start on Aug. 6. The speaker is Mr. J.J. Clarke, a lecturer m the Department of Philosophy, University of Singapore.
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  • 82 7 SINGAPORE Is establishing diplomatic relations with Ceylon and Mr. Patch Coomaraswamy above, has bees appointed first High Commissioner 1b Colombo. He will continue to be High Commissioner to India and Ambassador-designate to Nepal, residing m New Delhi. Mr. Coomaraswamy, 45, a
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  • 86 7 WILL Singapore re-appraise its relations with China, m view of the rapid changes taking place m South-East Asia? Mr. Low Yong Nguan, MP for Crawford will ask this of Foreign Affairs Minister S. Rajaratnam at the next sitting of Parliament. He will also ask
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  • 60 7 KUCHING, Mon. Forty geologists from Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, the U.S. and Malaysia are attending a five-day symposium here. The symposium will find out more about the Sunda Shelf area off Sarawak to facilitate proper exploration of mineral and petroleum resources. Representatives from several oil companies, which
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  • 144 7 RELIEF teachers are to be trained how to teach "the proper way." Many relief teachers have no idea how to conduct a lesson or how to maintain discipline," claims the viceprincipal of the Teachers' Training College, Mr. Chan Kal Van. Now a five-week
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  • 579 7 V V HILE there's no truth m the story about the stockbroker who sold his Mercedes because he couldn't afford the parking fees, there's no doubt that it's getting very difficult to park a car m Singapore without having to pay through the nose. Sometimes the
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  • 155 7 THE Chinese V.M.C.A. promises an exciting vacation for adventurous school children during their August holidays. For those between the ages of six and twelve, there will be two day camps from Aug. 12 15 and Aug. 19-22 at the club's premises. Day
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  • 44 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman has decided to extend his stay m Japan and will return to Malaysia m the first week of August. He left on June 16 for official visits to Britain, Sweden and Japan.
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    • 65 7 BLONDIE By Chic Young |l|!ll!il|!||i|i iISB r was m a murry and i I if you think *i my eyebrow pencil broke] MJJI4J h DIDN'T MAVE A PEN, v U TMATONE IS MESSY »> 1 AND I HAD TO J—^^ r~\ B SO r USED MY y^J V WAITU.VOU SEE
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  • 275 8 What more can I ask for? -by girl who has everything WHAT does the ordinary girl aspire to? Perhaps to be a great success m her career, perhaps to marry a successful man. Happiness m marriage and fine children, a three-year-old boy the list. Perhaps travel, higher education, charm, social
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  • 183 8 $200,000 start for College appeal THE CATHOLIC Junior College Fund got off to a good start yesterday with donations totalling $200,000. Disclosing this at the annual dinner of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, Mr. Ec Peng Lian, president of the society and chairman of the fundraising committee for
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  • 36 8 LORRY-DRIVER Neo Tong Sin of Lorong Ah Soo, was fined $25 In a traffic magistrate's court yesterday for driving his lorry too slowly along Braddel Road, two years ago, on April 27. 1968.
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  • 45 8 Salvaged-a camera BELOW: Farmer Chong's son, Kirn Yong, 30, a salesman, who salvaged a camera from the debris with the help of an RAF policeman. The girl at bottom left is his sister who also helped to search for personal belongings m the gutted house.
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  • 50 9 Jet wreckage strewn all over house gutted OVER THE CRASH SCENE A RESCUE HELICOPTER... ABOVE: The Lightning jet fighter demolished farmer Chong's house and disintegrated. Wreckage was strewn over a wide area. Note the pieces m the gutted house. At left, a rescue helicopter is seen above the crash scene.
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  • 167 10 1 50,000 JOBLESS MALAYSIANS ARE UNDER 21 YEARS KUALA LUMKTR, Mon. Seventy-Five per cent (150,000) of Malaysia's estimated 200,000 unemployed are below 21 years old. Of these, 70 per cent are new job seekers. This was stated m a report compiled under Government auspices today on the situation of youth
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  • 25 10 THE Society for Aid to the Paralysed will be having a jumble sale at the Presbyterian Church m Orchard Road on Sept. 2.
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  • 134 10 Tie safest way to fly-at cadet Corps' open day LIKE to find out what It's like fly a plane with bo risk of crashing? You can if yoa visit the National Cadet Corps' Air Training Centre at Kolam Ayer during its open day on Saturday. Visitors will be able to
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  • 144 10 KUCHING, Mon. Malaysian marine police m Sarikei have detained two more Thai fishing trawlers for allegedly fishing within Sarawak's territorial waters, bringing to four the number of Thai trawlers now being detained m Sarawak for illegal fishing. This was disclosed by Deputy Chief Minister Stephen
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    • 177 10 Tory MPs say: Let more Asians into Britain LONDON, Mon. Four Conservatives urged the government to ease entry restrictions on Kenyan and Ugandan Asians with British passports. They demanded work vouchers not taken up by other Commonwealth countries be allocated to United Kingdom citizens under pressure m Africa. They said
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    • 25 10 SAIGON, Mon. President Nguyen Van Thieu will address the people on Friday night on radio and television to explain his terms for peace.
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    • 79 10 LONDON, Mm. Police and traffic wardens are going oa a decibel huat to track down noisy cars and tracks. They are to be Issued with pocket-size aolse measariag meters developed as part of a campaign to tan British vehicles lit© the quietest la Earope. Road users maklag to* maca racket
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    • 471 10 Death comes slowly in Dinjapur 'THE HUNGRY DO NOT MARCH' DINJAPUR (East Pakistan), Mon. One and a half million tons of wheat, mostly from the United States, have been rushed to East Pakistan, but m this crowded corner pocket of the province, officials say thousands still go without food. "You
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    • 223 10 Korean forces to be built up before US troop pullout SEOUL, Mon. The United States had agreed that the modernisation of South Korean armed forces would precede any American troop withdrawal, Defence Minister Jung Nae-hiuk said today. Mr Jung, who returned home on Saturday from the U.S.Korea defence conference m
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    • 190 10 HOUSTON, (Texas), Mon. Carl Hampton, president of the People Party Eleven, a movement close to the Black Panther Party, was killed and six other people were wounded m a gunfight with police here dur-< ing the night. A white man, Roy Haile
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    • 85 10 TAIPEH, July, 27 (AFP)— The government m a bid to attract more overseas Chinese for advanced studies here, will require each university to reserve each year from 10 to 20 places m its graduate shcools of literature and history for them, according to a local report. The
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    • 24 10 SAIGON, Mon. A South Vietnamese soldier accidentally dropped a hand-grenade m a theatre killing seven people and wounding seven others. DDD
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    • 29 10 HANOI, Mon. A delegation representing the International Commission of Investgation of U.S. War Crimes arrived here to collect information on U.S. air raids on North Vietnam.
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    • 124 10 SYDNEY, Mon. Small cfaft m Sydney Harbour gave a hero's welcome to 25-year-old Danish adventurer Hans Tholstrup when he ended his 9,000-mile voyage around Australia yesterday m a 17-foot outboard-powered craft. He began the voyage on May 11 with a faulty compass and no knowledge
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    • 277 11 Hanoi's slogan: An inch of land is an inch of gold HANOI, Mon.— The Communist Party official newspaper Nhan Dan today urged North Vietnamese peasants to make an all-out effort to meet the country's rice demands. This exhortation comes m the wake of the Hanoi Government's publicity this year of
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    • 82 11 WASHINGTON, Mon. Mr. Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, said today he believed the economic slow-down was about over, and that inflation was "m the process of unwinding." "We're just about on the right track," Mr. Burns said m a television interview. Mr.
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    • 23 11 MANILA, Mon.— Singapore is one of seven countries attending a six-day regional conference on fish culture which opened here today AFP
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  • 153 11 LAGOS, Moa. Nigerian Communications Minister Amlnn Kano has called on African countries to put a stop to threats and resolutions over British arms sales to South Africa and set up a continental government and military command. "An African command culminating
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  • 218 11 LISBON, Mon. Dr Antonio Salazar, ex-ruler of Portugal, died here today. He died 22 months after suffering a disabling brain stroke that left him an invalid and caused his replacement by Marcello Caetano as Prime Minister. Until the stroke m September 1968 ended his
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  • 463 11 Now Nasser s party accepts peace plan CAIRO, Mon.— The national convention of Egypt's ruling Arab Socialist Union last night declared its full support for the United States peace proposals which were accepted by the Egyptian Government four days ago. The convention, presided over by President Nasser, said the plan
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  • 296 11 BUT SYRIA AND IRAQ REFUSE TO BUDGE BEIRUT, Mon. Syria and Iraq yesterday rejected any peaceful settlement to the Middle East crisis and thus threatened President Nasser with the biggest internal crisis m the Arab world since the 1967 war. The rejection by the two rival Baathist regimes comes m
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  • 171 11 CHICAGO, Mon. The White House has ordered ships of the Sixth Fleet not to go closer than 25 miles to the Egyptian coast, the Chicago Sun-Times said yesterday. The normal territorial limit is three miles but President Nixon wants at
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  • 41 11 LONDON, Mon. Several hundred people demonstrated here calling for the release from jail of Bernadette Devlin, the young civil rights MP who is serving a six-month sentence m Belfast for her part m the disturbances m Northern Ireland.
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    • 157 12 VISIT MING ART GALLERY Shopping Arcade Ming Court Hotel Tanghn Road. Largest collection of works of art by foremost local artist. Open daily. MEYER GALLERY has a comprehensive selection of all mediums of local art. Open daily 10a.m. 6p.m. 6A, Raffles Place Spore *****. classified ads I WORK WONDERS ring
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  • FINANCE/COMMERCE/INDUSTRY
    • 199 13 THE half-year unaudited report up to June of Dunlop Estates snowed a slightly lower profit before tax of $5.4 million compared to $6 million for the previous corresponding period. This was attributed to cheaper prices for all grades of latex and dry rubber. However, total
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    • 38 13 AMPAT TIN KENT DREDGE has worked out its remaining ore reserves by July 24, the directors reported. Steps would be taken to dispose of the fixed assets, spares and stores prior to the company's voluntary liquidation.
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    • 87 13 DAIWA PLANS JOINT FIRM TOKYO, Mon. Daiwa Securities plans to form a joint brokerage firm m Hongkong with Overseas Securities to help South-East Asians invest m Japanese stocks. Daiwa said it hopes to establish the new company, to be known as Daiwa Overseas Securities this year. The new company will
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    • 1684 13 STOCK EXCHANGE OF MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE TRADING m the Stock Exchange yesterday turned easier m reaction to last week's strong sentiment. There was heavy profit-tak-ing m moat counters and prices fen widely 35 stocks eased while 13 improved among industrials. Trading began 12 minutes late for which
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    • 77 13 (Managers' prices for July 28) B. S. CHARTERED UNIT TRUSTS Singapore Growth Fund 1.02 1.07 ASIA UNIT TRUSTS MaLlnvt. Fund 1.14 1.19 MaL Progress Fund -99 1.04 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUSTS Second Singapore 1.75xd Third Singapore 1.17 B. S. The Commerce Ind. .96 1.00 The Saving Fund. .99 1.04
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    • 188 13 TONG MENG INDUSTRIES made a profit before tax of $303,207 m 1969, its chairman Dr Lai En Fo, has announced This profit includes the net profit of its subsidiary company, Tone Meng Malaya. No dividend was declared for the year under review. But a maiden interim
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    • 86 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Federal Cables has been granted a $1 million longterm loan to finance new projects. The loan, from the Malaysian Industrial Development Finance, will go towards a $3.2 million project to refine and roll copper bars and rods from scrap copper and manufacture enamel conductors and paper
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    • 81 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Four companies have been granted letters of approval for tax incentives to produce instant noodles. Malaysia imports nearly $2 million worth of noodles a year from Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore ($38,000). The four factories will be able to meet this demand when production starts m six
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    • 92 13 TOKYO, Mon. Japan will export 35,714 tons of polished rice to Indonesia under a 30-year deferred payment contract, the Food Agency said today. Price is US$l4O ($420) a ton, and shipments are to be made between August 10 and September 25. Under the contract signed m Tokyo today, Indonesia
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    • 71 13 THE BANK OF AMERICA announced that its subsidiary, Bamerical International Financing Corporation, has invested US$3 million, for 10 per cent equity, m Cliffs Western Australian Mining Company, which is participating m the US$3OO million Robe River iron ore project. The project is a joint venture between CWAM, Mitsui Iron
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    • 38 13 KARACHI, Mon. A consortium of Pakistan International Airlines and Royal Jordanian Airlines, which held its first board meeting here yesterday, is expected to start regular operations to Europe and Southeast Asia early next year, PIA announced. AP
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    • 106 13 SINGAPORE-MALAYSIA The Association of Banks m Malaysia and Singapore, made no changes m its rates to merchants yesterday. HONGKONG (Rates m Hongkong dollars, for July 27. On New York TT 6.*****. DD 6.*****. Gold (99% fineness, per tael) 276.26. Note Rates India (per 100 rupees) 48.50; Indonesia (per
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    • 162 13 PEOPLE in business Mr. Anthony Westers, a marketing development specialist of Eastman Kodak, is now conducting a radiography seminar for technical sales representatives from Hongkong, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand. He is assisted by Mr. Albert H. Allard, former international co-ordinator of Kodak's radiography. markets
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    • 367 13 RUBBER 52-1/2 cents a Ib. (op half a cent). Early indications were made at 51-3/4 cents buyer for RSS 1 August. First business, however, was struck at 52 cents and the market improved a further quarter cent before meeting reasonable selling. Talk of an early settlement to the U.K.
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    • 414 13 Share prices turned back after a firm start on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday to close on a generally weaker note. A number of mining shares attracted speculative support, however, and bounded ahead m active trading. Tastninex was m demand all day, closing A52.50 higher at AsB.lo
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    • 167 13 Prices held steady m moderate trading yesterday. Providents improved, and Wyncorr was slightly better at HK516.40 Electrics, Docks and Wharves were little changed on a fair turnover. Lap Heng, which was listed yesterday, had sales at small premiums over its offered price. Business m the counter ranged
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    • 169 13 BRIGHTER conditions ruled m the market yesterday morning as buying was focussed over highpriced issues and stocks related to public hazard prevention. Gainers included Matsushita Electric, Sony, Alps Electric, Sharp and Fujisawa Pharmaceuticals. Buying sentiment was also encouraged by increased demand from institutional investors. The market turned
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    • 316 13 AMSTERDAM: The market closed yesterday slightly mixed after an initially firmer opening. Hoogovens was maintained and Philips and Unilever steady. Akzo eased, and at the end of the trading Royal Dutch turned weak on U.S. offerings m a rather thin market. Plantations ruled mixed. KLM airlines was down
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  • 308 14 Nantha's goal saves the day NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS NANTHA Kumar's 50th-minute goal from a penalty stroke, helped Whitley Secondary to hold Victoria School to a two-all draw m the Schools National junior hockey championship final for boys at Farrer Park yesterday. Whitley boys played a much superior brand of hockey than
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  • 178 14 AN INTERconstituencies sports (Intercons Games) involving Members of Parliament too will be opened on Aug. 2 at Mount Vernon Secondary School by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Law Minister, Mr. S. Ramaswamy. Announcing this at a press conference yesterday, Inche Gazali Ismail,
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  • 146 14 SINGAPORE will field a 16--man squad for the Merdeka soccer tournament at Kuala Lumpur from July 30 to August 16. FAS president Mr. L.P. Rodrigo said yesterday: "This is the first time we are fielding a group of young players for such a big international... The
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    • 594 14 B CHANCES TO GIVE YOUR CHILD A UNIVERSITY EDUCATION MOTHER i bursaries ll CCCAV njnvnji Singapore uOOMT nr Herald Essay Compe- PHMTPQT I I 3S= titions will be at three |3= UUIM I L.O I By *-M levels for Pre-Univer- CCW IDHM fc^nnnW 3^ sity students, for f| OUUrUIM g
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  • SPORTS WORLD
    • 176 15 Kunishi dropped from Merdeka squad TOKYO, Mon. The national soccer team of Japan left for Malaysia by MSA to take part m the 13th annual Merdeka anniversary tournament a Kuala Lumpur from July 30 to Aug. 16. The 17 member team departed without its top player, Kunishi Kamamoto, generally considered
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    • 283 15 Top level team work on sports blueprint A 13-MAN top level adhoc committee is now helping to draw- up a blueprint on sports amenities m Services establishments after the British pull-out next year. The committee is headed by Inche Othman bin Omar, Permanent Secretary (Special Duties), Ministry of Social Affairs.
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    • 436 15 Record win gives Raffles the lead RAFFLES' Institution XV's winning streak m the Schools' Rugby Tournament continued yesterday when they trounced a disorganised Victoria School team 65 points to nil at Bras Basah Road. Raffles, led by the brilliant State under-23 and Combined Schools' winger, Lai Poh Wah, scored seven
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    • 36 15 POLITICAL secretary to the Education Ministry. Inche Ghazali bin Ismail, will give away prizes to winners of the Singapore Schools' National Bureau championship at Chung Hwa Girls' High School, Bartley Road, on Thursk day.
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    • RACING HERALD
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        785 15 For Singapore meeting BUKIT Timah weights for the weekend: SATURDAY CLASS I DIV. 2 BF Mastrel Boy 9-0 Yangtze Kiang 9-0 Yakin 8-13 Desert Apache 8-13 Medal Music 8-t3 Literati 8-12 Flying Finn 8-1 1 Royal Meadow II 8-9 Fleet Arm 8-7 Mount Paterson 8-7 Master Pride 8-6
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      • 478 15  -  STIPE'S REPORT STIPENDIARY Steward's report for the first and second day of the Singapore races: SATURDAY Race One:— Pan Rajah (Omar) and Utara (Shaari) were backward m the jump. Approaching the 5 furlongs Raub (Velayutham) had to be eased off the heels of The Peacock (White). A furlong
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      • 471 15 Exchange Rate now in top class EXCHANGE Rate, a runaway winner over 6f on Sunday has been promoted to the top class together with Special Steel and Fleet Arm. Enjoyment IV (Podmore) kept hanging out m the back straight and Podmore the rider had to straighten him repeatedly. However, after
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      • 35 15 TOURNAMENT Committee of the Football Association of Singapore has decided that the abondoned league sec cer match between Vigilante Corps atnd Alexandra SC be replayed at Jalan Be tar stadJum aeraettme next month
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    • 61 15 DAVY JONES By Sam Left PLEASE GIV6 A RENOIR, A VAN GO6H.T NOTHING ELSE Al [EVERY ONE OF THOSE OFFICER- DO I'VE GOT A HUNCH !ME A LIST OF A BOTTICELLI, A DEGAS 1 WAS TOUCHED/ I PICTURES IS WORTH YOU THINK WE THAT YOU'LL GET THE STOLEN VANDA GAINS6OROUGH^/>
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  • 121 16 We're going to see a let more of Ani-Margret IN town last night a lot of glamour. In the mouth-watering shape of Ann-Margret, the Hotel Malaysia's most glamorous guest. The redheaded star is appearing there and the National Theatre tonight and tomorrow. She flew m with husband Roger Smith of
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  • 67 16 LOH Mun Keok, 24, was stabbed m the chest by two men who tried to rob him at Martia Road on Sunday. He was admitted to the Outram Road General Hospital. Police said Loh was walking with a companion. Miss Long Ah Wah of Joo Chiat Terrace,
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  • 250 16 Aussie troops out if Labour wins: Whitlam KUALA LUMPUR— Australian Opposition leader, Mr. Gough Whitlam, said here yesterday that Australia's present contribution to the defence of Singapore and Malaysia is not "basic or fruitful". He said the. Labour Party would withdraw Australian troops from Singapore and Malaysia if elected m
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  • 328 16 LONDON RUBBER TIN/ etc. LONDON RUBBER (Yesterday's official buyer /seller prices, m pence per lb.) Tone Idle; ClF's Aug. 18-7/16 18-5/8, Sept. 18-9/16 18-3/4; Spot 23-1/2 N/buyer 24-1/2 N /seller;*. Settlements Aug. 21 N/buyer 21--1/2 seller, Sept. 21 N/buyer 21-1/2 N /seller, Oct. 20-1/4 N/buyer 20--3/4 N/seUer, Oct/Dec. 20-1/8 20--1/2,
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  • 403 16 Singapore Central Bank: Step One A NEW institution which will form the nucleus of a Central Bank is to be set up by the Government. A Bill before Parliament provides that the "Monetary Authority of Singapore" (MAS) will: ACT as banker of, and financial agent to, the Government; PROMOTE, within
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  • 94 16 Three killed, 12 hurt in border ambush BANGKOK, Mon. Three policemen were killed and 12 civilians wounded m a recent ambush staged by Communist guerillas at Ban Sang, at the extreme south of Thailand, it was learned here today. According to the reports m Bangkok a convoy of police and
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  • 92 16 UNIVERSITY of Singapore authorities are probing a folk music session during which 120 students sang a banned song. The University's PRO Mr. Peter Lim, said: "I have sent a note to the President of the Music Society, Mr. Robert liew. So far I have
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  • 419 16 Iron-out these quirks in the call-up AS ONE of the thousands of parents whose sons have been affected by National Service, I feel that it is indeed a good and wise step taken by the Government and the many benefits derived from it need not be enumerated here. They are
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  • 52 16 ON JUNE 1 last year, a 48--year-old cyclist started a Uturn from an unnamed road that took him into Boon Lay Road, Jurong, where he collided with a car. The cyclist, Wong Thow of Lorong Ayam Tolak, was fined $10 m a traffic magistrate's court
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  • 31 16 ST. Margaret's Secondary School will be presenting an operetta, Mozart's Barbarina, at the Cultural Centre on July 31 and Aug. 1. There will also be Indian and Balinese dances.
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