Singapore Herald, 27 August 1970

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  • 14 1 THE SINGAPORE herald No. 32 Singapore Thursday, August 27, 1970 MC(P) 2207 15 CENTS
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  • 405 1 TUNKU: NO GOVT POLICY CHANGE AFTER I GO... &UALA LUMfUK, Wed. Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman said today there would be no change m government policies after his retirement. He said the policies he had laid down during the past 15 years were the most suitable for a multi-racial society
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  • 213 1 MIDDLE EAST PEACE TALKS- UNITED NATIONS, Wed. The Middle East peace talks were m suspension today after an ftyt-fr'g round last night that brought no indication of any movement towards a compromise. Israel Ambassador Yosef Tekoah flew to Jerusalem as scheduled to report on the opening
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  • 69 1 TALKS between the Governments of Singapore and Britain on air traffic rights broke down earlier this month and since Saturday, MSA ground crew at Paya Lebar have been going slow m servicing BOAC aircraft The full story of the negotiations m London has come out at last
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  • 523 1 THE GOVERNMENT has said that unless MSA is given "reasonable rights" to fly to London, BOAC and Cathay Pacific Airways will have to stop their services to and beyond Singapore from next August. A statement was issued yesterday by Mr. Ngiam Tong Dow, acting
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  • 86 1 LEE IN COLOMBO FOR 4-DAY VISIT COLOMBO, Wed. The Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kui Yew arrived here today oa a four-day official vhrts. Be was met at Colombo's airport by CeyUa's Prime Milliter Mrs. Slrlmavo Baadaraaalke, other Ceylon government leaders aad members of the diplomatic corps. Talks between the
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  • 1052 1 Airline staff union steps in to direct plane go-slow THE Singapore Air Transport Workers Union decided yesterday to take an active part and direct the anti-BOAC campaign at Paya Lebar airport. It took note of and attacked as a "veiled threat" an MSA circular to its staff yesterday urging them
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  • 72 1 Ground crew work first on other airliners AT PAYA LEBAR airport, the freight and cargo sections of MSA have joined the catering section m the go-slow campaign against BOAC aircraft. Last night, luggage for BOAC aircraft was left unattended as alr- port personnel worked first on planes of other airlines.
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  • 116 1 GRENADE KILLS SAF OFFICER A SINGAPORE Army officer was killed and two soldiers injured by a hand grenade yesterday at a SAFTT firing range m Pasir Laba, off Jurong. The officer, Second Lieut Tay Scow Kai, of the School of Artillery, Tainan Jurong Camp, was giving a demonstration on the
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  • IN BRIEF
    • 76 1 AMMAN, Wed. One Palestinian guerilla was killed and three civilians were wounded m a gun battle between guerillas and Jordanian security men m Amman today, eye-witnesses reported. The cause ofrthe outbreak was not immediately determined. The witnesses said a group of guerillas on
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    • 49 1 Members of a "secret organisation" m the Sudanese army are reported to have been arrested for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government of General Gaafar El Nimeri At the same time m Khartoum, President Nimeri announced that the country's entire Press will be nationalised from tomorrow night AFP
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    • 29 1 North Vietnamese leaden have reaffirmed that their people can count on increased support and aid from a united Socialist camp until "total victory" over ''aggressive American imperialism." AFP
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  • 421 2  -  GRAHAM SAGE By ONE of the most interesting aspects of every language is the way its native speakers avoid using certain taboo words, words which for reasons we shall look into are regarded as undesirable. But if the word is undesirable, the meaning has still often
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  • Viewpoint
    • 164 2 TIME TO BURY THE HATCHET AND PAY HEED TO SERIOUS MATTERS I HAVE viewed with concern newspaper reports on the actions of the Singapore police m cutting the hair of three Malaysians. I am surprised at the reaction of the Malaysian Government, which obviously has made a mountain out of
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    • 255 2 Mr. Wilson and the CID I refer to Mr. P.R.L. Wilson's letter written m defence of our C.I.D. (S.H. Aug. 22) May I point out first and foremost that he is a white man and, secondly, a somebody m the local business world, fully informed of his legal rights. That
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    • 370 2 FIRST let me congratulate you for having published the letter by P. Lee on 'Hippies, Long Hair and Fashion." It is an indication that you have kept the promise to make the Herald a forum for the
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    • 276 2 ♦TABIR ASAP' (Column Seven, Aug. 10) made many misleading statements. Tourists do see different faces of Singapore, this is what they come for, and they all take back many memories m the form of photographs etc. They have seen the dirt and
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    • 57 2 I AGREE with "Crusader's" comment on TV programmes (S.H. Aug. 17). I would like to add that the FM Stereo service .is no better. In the classical music programme, scratched or defective records are played. 1 There are too many interruptions and announcement during the' light mood
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  • 608 2 fiF^^ Thursday, August 27, 1970 THE SINGAPORE HERALD_^_^_^^_ m THE first thing to be said about the quarrel between Singapore and Britain over air traffic rights (on which yesterday's Government statement has at last shed some light) is that the current Air Services Agreement, negotiated m
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  • 263 3 Inter-trade 'a must for friendly countries' Economic interdependence among friendly nations has increased over the past 25 years and no country can smugly retire into a shell of self-sufficiency, Mr. Prem Bhatia, High Commissioner for India said last night. He was opening a two-week mammoth Indian Trade and Industrial Exhibition
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  • 330 3 Change to two terms is good, they say PARENTS, school principals and pre-university students all described as a "good compromise** the decision by the University of Singapore to have only two terms, instead of three, from next year to enable national servicemen to study there. Under the new system which
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  • 98 3 ailN\jA*-\-»I\E. UUUUC99UICU are welcome to invest m the Riau Province of Indonesia, its Governor, Brig. -Gen. Ariffln Achmad, said yesterday. "There is still a lot of potential m logging, rubber and coconuts, and some businessmen from Singapore have already invested m the timber
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  • 74 3 MALACCA, Wed. All land schemes under the second Malaysia Plan will be aimed at alleviating unemployment m the country. Minister of National aad" Rural Development, Inche Abdul Ghafar Baba, said today. With the high population growth, it would be impossible for the government to
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  • 76 3 Press dinner' s guest of honour THE Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education, Inche Mohd. Ghazali Ismail will be the guest of honour at a dinner to be given by journalists from the press, radio and television on Saturday at the Singapore Conference Hall. The occasion is m honour
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  • 71 3 Boys between the ages of ten and 14 can try acting In "Tale's from Many Lands." The Theatre World Association, an amateur drama group, will be holding auditions today at 9 Balmoral Road at 5.30 p.m. Interested parties can also contact the Association President, Mrs. Gracia TayChee
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  • 145 3 A TAXI driver, who began quarrelling with his wife a fortnight after they were married, was granted a divorce by Mr. Justice D'Cotta m the High Court yesterday. Ngin Mook Huang, 29, of Jalan Perisai, said the quarrels continued until his wife, Yip
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  • 167 3 A lobby driver was alleged to have drepped earth hi aheatea Way ea March 14 bat It was Us hess whe appeared la the Teath Magistrate's Ceart yesterday ea a charge ef astag crimimai force ea a public servaat. Preseeatißg Officer Sr. lasp.
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  • 211 3 RAFFLES' GIRL WIN SAFETY FIRST CONTEST RAFFLES' Girls' School student Wang Look Tsui, 16, won the 4th Annual Safety First Chinese Oratorical Contest held at the Cultural Centre yesterday. The result came as less of a surprise when it was learnt that Wang attended Nanyang Girls' High School until last
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  • 192 3 Illicit samsu still is wrecked in Customs raid IN A six-hour raid. Customs officers destroyed an illegal samsn distillery 1b this clearing off Chua Chn Kang Road early yesterday. Doty on the mash and samsn found was estimated at more than $3,* M. The "moonshiners" escaped In the dark warned
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  • 263 3 A SOLDIER told a coroner's court yesterday how a friend of his was beaten to death by a mob of youths. Pang Wan Seng, 22, recalled the night of Sept. 27. He and two others LJauw Knee Toong and
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  • 243 3 LIM Ah Kee, 25, who is now serving a five-year jail sentence for robbery and armed robbery was yesterday given another five years' jail and six strokes of the rotan by by the Third District Court. This time, Lim was convicted of causing
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  • 242 4 A 17-YEAR-OLD youth was sentenced m the First District Court yesterday to two years* jafl and six strokes of the rotan when he admitted a charge of armed robbery and another of vandalism. Another charge of armed robbery, three others of vandalsm
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  • 265 4 CONTROL of foreign capitalists m Singapore will be a growing problem facing the Government, with the rapid rise of foreign investment m the Republic. This was stated yesterday by Miss Chan Heng Chee, a research fellow of the Institute of South-Bast Asian Studies, on
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  • 925 4 Foreign capitaland a problem of CONTROL to counteract the accusation from left-wing opposition that the Government was far too enthusiastic over the West. Reviewing Western involvement m South East Asia as a whole. Miss Chan said that the trend on the part of the United States and Britain was to
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  • 363 4 Robber gets five years and 10 strokes TAN Lai Hock, 42, was sentenced to five years' jail and 10 strokes of the rotan m the First District Court yesterday on two charges of armed robbery involving a total of $38,303. Tan, unemployed, was sentenced to five years jail and five
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  • 144 4 A MAN admitted m court yesterday that when he became the stepfather of a 15-year-old girl m IKS, he visited her room about twice a week to have sexual Intercourse with her. PUB Labourer Mohammed Yusoff Mahmood, of Ah Hood Road, was jailed
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    • 169 4 THE DIARY a.m.— 5 p.m.: Exhibition of Great World Amusement books on business Park, Kim Seng Road, management at the National 7 p.m.— Midnight: National Library. day exposition at Gay World It ftjav- 1 p.m.: Exhibition of Amusement Park, Geylang. granite and wood sculpture by 7 p.m.: Night bazaars at
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  • 61 5 THE Singapore Teachers' Union is to bold a dinner at the Monk's Hll Secondary School ground to mark Teachers' Day on Monday. The former Minister for Education, Mr. Ong Pang Boon, the Minister of State for Education, Dr. Lee Chiaw Meng, and the Parliamentary Secretary to the
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  • 170 5 THE KING'S Hussars have replaced the Queen's Own Hussars at Meiktila Barracks m Pasir Panjang. They will formally take over the Saladin, Saracen and Ferret scout cars from the Queen's men today. The Prussian eagle, emblem of the 14th/20th King's Hussars,
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  • 374 5 FILLING TOP MANAGEMENT POSTS VISITING Indian Professor K.S.Basu has urged countries m this region to have a new kind of management training programme for people m managerial posts and those intending to be managers. Prof. Basu, president of the Association of Asian Management Organisations of
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  • 173 5 Society's plea for voluntary flag sellers THE Singapore After Care Association which helps discharged prisoners, la appealing for volunteers lor Hs flag day on Sept It. A* association spokesman said: "We need every help we can get far oar flag day aad hope the public will reap— i generously with
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    • 913 5 r\ P* if &m& iradliKS) C—}> V-/ l Wild, Wild Watt— Night of the Camera Starring Robert Conrad THMirUT'C b«V as James West, the Western IVyIN I van I o version of James Bond and Ross CHANNEL 3 UirUl irUTCV Martin as Artemus Gordon who is HI Oil LI Oil
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  • 163 6 A local wig is hair to stay, says expert TIRED off coiffures that sag and and bouffants that droop m Singapore's steamy weather? If you're thinking off a wig to solve the problem you are assured that wigs made m Singapore are off high quality "comparable to world standards/* The
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  • 232 6 Education's aim— for the WHOLE personality EDUCATION should centre on developing the WHOLE personality of a child mental, emotional, social and aesthetic, Prof. Ruth Wong, the Director of Education of Research Unit, said yesterday. She was speaking to kindergarten teachers and supervisors on "The Principles and Philosophy of Nursery Education**
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  • 222 6 25 police officers get 'well done' letters TWENTY-FIVE police officers will receive commendation certificates from Commissioner of Police Cheam Kirn Seang today for their "devotion to duty, initiative and outstanding ability." Among them will be the Police Force's public relations officer, Acting DSP Leslie Wong Sze Ying. He and four
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  • 145 6 ADHESIVE TAPE FACTORY FOR PRAI KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A $2 million adhesive tape factory is to be set up m Prai, Bntterworth, under pioneer status. The factory is being built by Loy Brothers Sdn. Bad. with Japanese technical assistance, and will begin production next February. The chairman of the company,
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  • 71 6 BUS DRIVER Mm bin Sa'ad of Jalan Geylang Serai was found guilty of negligent driving and fined $40 m the First Traffic Magistrate's Court yesterday. He was driving along Whitley Road on Aug. 29 last year when, intending to make a U-turn at a break m
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  • 117 6 MR. PHUA Swee Cheag, aa art master of the Chaagkat Chaagl Secondary School, gave a talk aid demoastratioa basic techaiqaes of mosaic design ami creations at the Natioaal library yesterday. Mr. Phaa stressed the importaMe of origimU ideas la mosaic work. He said: "Lack
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  • 154 6 SOME 3,000 workers at Sembawang Shipyard are now working round-the-clock to repair 14 ships at the yard. Mr. R.E. Butler (above), managing director of the shipyard, said yesterday that this is the largest number of vessels under repair at any one time
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  • 183 7 FORCES KILL TWO REDS IN SARAWAK JUNGLE KUCHING, Wed. Security forces m Sarawak killed two Communist terrorists m Tanjong Engkilo m the Third Division yesterday, after being tipped off by local residents. Two others escaped, a State Operations Committee statement said today. The security forces came into contact with the
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  • 146 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Selangor is expected to have a surplus revenue of $50 million over a period of five years from next year. The Mentri Besar, Dsto Hsrun bin Hsji Idrls told Bernsms thst the surplus would be msinly from
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  • 123 7 A REAL estate development company, Vat Yuen Hong Co. Ltd. of Oxley Rise was fined $75 by a magistrate for allowing mosquitoes to breed at bw ll<Wt> g sites. The company failed to remove stagnant water which had been breeding mosquito larvae at three
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  • 216 7 SOLE BREADWINNER FOR FAMILY OF NINE... CONSTRUCTION worker Ho Si Chong, 33, who lost both legs when he was run over by a train, still says he will work with his hands to support his family of nine. Ho and his wife,
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  • 298 7 Son of Tun Lee dies of bar brawl injuries KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Robert Lee Kut Lung, second son of former Finance Minister Tun Sir Henry HJS. Lee, died at the General Hospital here at 8.45 this morning. He was admitted to the SAMSU SEIZED hospital last Thursday night after he
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  • 262 7 KUALA LUMPUR,. Wed. Police have been alerted against possible attempts to sabotage the week-long Hari Kebangsaan (National Day) celebrations beginning on Monday. Home Affairs Minister Tun (Dr. Ismail said, "Precautions have been taken to prevent any incident during the nation-wide celebrations. "The government would not
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  • 101 7 Centre for Malay Studies KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The National University will be expanded and organised m the next five years to become a major centre for the study of Malay language and literature. Its vice-chancellor, Dr. Rashdan Baba, said it would enable scholars and undergraduates to do research locally without
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  • 192 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. There has been an increase m the number of people emigrating from Malaysia to Australia. Three hundred left to start a new life m Australia m the first six months of this year, a spokesman of the Australian high commission disclosed. For the whole
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  • 83 7 TWO THOUSAND, two hundred and forty-two years is a long time to work for one concern. Split between 92 employees of the Port of Singapore Authority, the total is still impressive. Mr. Tan Keng Kwee, for instance, tops the list with forty-two years and
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  • 251 7 IPOH, Wed. The labour law is to be amended soon to allow women workers m certain industries to work on three shifts a day, Minister with Special Functions, Tun Tan Slew Sin, said today. Tun Tan, who is also the chairman
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  • 48 7 PROFESSOR Cheng Ye Tung of Nanyang University was awarded the Public Service Star on National Day for his contribution to the reorganisation of the university. He was then Dean of Students. He is now a professor m Nantah's Department of Chinese Language and Literature.
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  • 285 8 Finding the lady who found America AN ingenious technique of underwater "excavation" has been put into operation by explorers ■oping to uncover traces of Christopher Colambss's flagship, the Santa Maria. ft ini£B aew hape af pracreas Ike AMffcM Saa*a Maria ripnailliß hi the* search for Ike earal reef aff Cap
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  • 1226 8 BACKGROUND TO THE WORLD NEWS Israel finds it tough at the top I CLARE HOLLINGWORTH DESPITE Israeli claims that Egypt has violated the ceasefire agreement by moving SAM missiles into the "stand still" zone on the west bank of the Suez Canal, the armed forces still give their full support
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  • 379 8 AMERICAN power cuts m contrast to most happen at the height of the of the summer. The severest strain on electricity supplies comes from everyone turning up their air conditioners full blast during a heatwave. The threat of a "brown-out" a cut but not a
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  • 827 8 BUFF ON THE BEACH "THE best beach on this coast is the next one; ideal for children/ said the friendly Frenchwoman. "I should warn you, though, that no one has any clothes on. You do not mind that?" Of course not, I said, and anyhow if it was the best
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  • 1089 9  -  SHIGENOBU INOUE TWENTY-FIVE years ago, Japan surrendered i unconditionally to the Allied forces. The Japanese people who were left m the ruined land, worn out and j hungry, tasted defeat for the first time. The pleas of "no more war" reverberated
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  • 332 9 Canaries feed their bird of passage SPAIN'S Canary Islands, situated on the mail trade routes from Europe to Africa and South America, have long been sustained by their free port states, like Singapore, the Canaries possess few natural resources sad trade continues to be their lifeUood. The archipelago was decreed
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  • 397 10 Phnom Penh digs in to face big Viet assault PHNOM PENH, Wed. Most of the capital's defence forces was today shipped across the flood-swollen Mekong River to break up the biggest concentration of Vietcong-North Vietnamese troops ever to threaten Phnom Penh. By this morning eight Cambodian infantry battalions, including four
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  • 94 10 EGYPTIAN representative Mohammed Hassan €1Zayyat and U.N. mediator Gunnar Jarring after their opening round of talks on Tuesday to try to settle the Middle East conflict. Dr. Jarring also had separate sessions, at United Nations Headquarters m New York, with the Israeli and Jordanian
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    • 227 10 WASHINGTON, Wed. The United States has provided approximately $89 million In arms aid and military equipment and services to Burma over the past 12 years, the State Department disclosed. The equipment, Including T-28 Jet trainers, transport planes and helicopters, was designed to
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    • 36 10 NEW HAVEN (Connecticut), Wed.— Several hundred demonstrators blocked a police car carrying Black Panther defendant Lonnie McLucas away from court, but police opened an exit route through the group and the car drove off.
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    • 252 10 LONDON, Wed. A mother wrestled with a lioness to free her little girl at one of England's stately homes on Monday. The beast grabbed live-year-old Slan Symoas-JoBS through a car window durlMg a visit to the Duke of Bedford's aalmal park at Wobarn
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    • 205 10 HONG KONG, Wed. Prince Norodom Sihanouk has made a second appeal m a week to Czechoslovakian President Ludvik Svoboda to intervene so that the Prince's embassy members m Prague may not "starve to death." The Cambodian Embassy there was seized by the Second Secretary,
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    • 41 10 GENEVA, Wed. The International Air Transport Association said forgers had produced fake airline tickets for the first time m aviation history. lATA warned the public against busing tickets elsewhere than from airlines or from their authorised outlets.
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    • 156 10 Britain is urged to use force to end Smith rule UNITED NATIONS, Wed. The Decolonisation Committee voted by 16 2 m favour of a resolution demanding that Britain take effective measures including the use of force to end immediately the "illegal racist minority" regime of Rhodesia. Britain and the United
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  • 25 10 "WUI they let us m, dressed like this?" m "GtoapuMUag? Wfcy?" ©It1». TOK.HTO TKLECHAM SVNDICATT ro»* rUNI/H "Where's this place, pal?"
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  • 186 11 REJECTED: PLAN FOR VOLUNTEER ARMY TO END THE DRAFT WASHINGTON, Wed. The Senate yesterday rejected an amendment aimed at recruiting an all-volunteer, well-paid army and thus pave the way to end conscription. Rejection came on a 52-35 defeat of an amendment sponsored by Senators Barry Goldwater and Mark Hatfield. The
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  • 116 11 TOKYO, Wed. The Architectural Institute of Japan has selected the Canadian, Czechoslovakian and Swiss pavilions as having the best design at Expo '70. The institute will present to the six architects who designed these pavilions a special award for architectural excellence m Expo
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  • 257 11 FOUR MORE VICTIMS AS HONGKONG'S MURDER TOLL SOARS HONGKONG, Wed. Murder is m the air m Hongkong. la the first three weeks of August six men and a women have met violent death, bringing the year's toll to 44. Four of the killings came last week. The first was on
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  • 241 11 local NEW DELHI, Wed. The Indian Foreign Ministry today ordered the British Broad casting Corporation to dose down its operations m India by Saturday and withdraw its local correspondent, a Foreign Ministry spokesman reported. The spokesman said the decision was conveyed to the British High
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  • 429 11 (JAIRU, wed. President Nasser conferred last night with Al Fatah chief Yasser Arafat and other Palestinian commando leaders m an effort to solve differences arising from Egypt's and Jordan's acceptance of the U.S. sponsored peace plan for the Middle East.
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  • 31 11 PARIS, Wed. Mr. Michel Debre the French Defence Minister, said there was no reason to have "any particular fears" about the increased Soviet presence m the Indian Ocean.
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  • 793 12  -  V.K. Chin BUSINESS /COMMERCE/COMMODITIES/FINANCE^/INDUSTRY/ By KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Developing nations depend almost entirely on developed ones to ship their primary produce for the overseas markets and Singapore and Malaysia are no exception. The present dilemma facing the timber exporters m Singapore and Malaysia is a
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  • 340 12 The market ruled mixed m quiet trading yesterday as operators adopted a wait-and-see attitude. Gains had a slight lead over losses, and the stock average was up 0.18 at 2,153.36 yen. Petroleums advanced further after a steady opening m anticipation of favourable results and active foreign buying.
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  • 455 12 ij«i:r vi tuicrcsi m leaning issues showed throughout the day m the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday with most traders pulling out before the close, although selective buying was apparent among scattered stocks. Miners fell sharply, with Tasminex, International, Samin and Westralian Nickel losing up to 40 cents
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  • 82 12 The market yesterday opened easier under increased selling pressure. But the lower levels later attracted cheap buying support which steadied the market. On balance, however, prices were slightly lower than previous levels. Total turnover was valued at $14.97 million. Wheelocks were traded heavily between $14.60 and $14.90.
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  • 149 12 (Cloring buyer /seUer price* m Hongkong dollars) Aug. 26 Aug. 25 HK Shanghai (local) 163/164.00xd 164.00/165.00xd HK* aK-fh^t (London) 129.00/130.00xd 1 29.00/1 30.00xd Bank E Aria 87.00/87.50 87.00/87.50xd FE Invest 14.00/14.20 14.20/14.30 Whadoek 14.60/14.70 14.90/15.00 HKIK Wharf 29.60/29.70 29.90/30.00 HK Docks 11.40/11.50 11.60/11.70 Taikoo Docks 70.00/71.00 71.50/72.00 China Prov 42.25/43.00
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  • 384 12 FURNACE ATMOSPHERIC pollution and water contamination are being effectively checked at Nippon Kokan's Toyama works where a new electric furnace, the largest of its type m the world, has been put on stream. This 40,000 KVA closed type, three-phase, submerged electric furnace with an annual capacity of
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  • FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
    • 143 12 Merchant rates today, fixed by the Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore. Local dollars par unit of foreign currency. SELLING BUYING T.T./O.D. T.T. O.D. 8 8 9 Sterling Pound 7.3926 7.8600 7.3475 Australian Dollar 3.4660 3.4160 3.3960 Canadian Dollar New Zealand Dollar 3.4650 3.4176 3.3875 South Arabian Dinar 7.4100 7.3876
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    • 92 12 (Rstes in Hongkong dollar*, for Aug. 26). On New York TT 6.11 On New York DD 6.1026 Gold (99% fineness, per tael) 279.876 Note Rates: Chins (per 100 renminbi) 180.00 India (per 100 rupees) 46.00 Indonesia (per 10,000 new rupiahs) 141.00 Japan (per 10,000 yen) 166.76 Philippines (per 100
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    • 32 12 Yesterday's noon buying/selling rates, quoted to one sterling unit: United States 2.8841/43 Canada 2.4268/68 Canada Cross 98.25/28. West Germany 8.6640/70 ■^■S^BBS^BBS^BBBIISBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBI Netherlands 8.6826/66 Switzerland 10.2470/600 Belghun 118.31/36 **»nee 18.1685/66 Italy 1489.80/90.20.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 288 12 SHIPS IN PUT THE PORT OF SHIPS IN THE ROADS AS S I N G A P ORE AUTHORITY AT 9 A. M. ON AUG. 26. HAS MADE THESE EASTERN ROADS: BERTHING ARRANGE- Englishman, British Monarch MENTS FOR AUGUST 27. Golden Spring. Jotor! IN: Shinsei Mam 1/2 (after Madonna, R.C.
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  • INVESTMENT/PROPERTY/TAXATION/TECHNOLOGY
    • 478 13 LONDON, Wed. "Abnormally rapid" price increases m Western industrial nations, mainly the result of big wage hikes, is threatening world trade, an authoritative British research institute said. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research thus backed last month's cry of alarm from
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  • 112 13 JAKARTA, Wed. The lidoaeslaa Government has granted a m,tta. hectare forestry coaccsai— la the ftlaa area, Ceatral Sumatra, to a jofat conpaay owned by Jassmag lacorporated of the PhUippiaes aad P.T. Partlsa Tradlag of lailwla. Aa agreemeat to this effect was sigaed here yesterday by Mr SadJarwo Director-Geaeral
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  • 1596 13 STOCK EXCHANGE OF MALAYSIA ANO SINGAPORE KEY Ckwtaf buyers' and sellers' prices arc follow ad by the business don*. Figures, m buckets denote traded IoU la I.OOO's. When the price Is not followed by figure m brackets, it means only a single lot of 1.000 shares was
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  • 35 13 declared a final dividend of five per cent, tax exempt, payable on October 1. Lodgement date is September 7. This makes a total payment of 10 per cent for the year ended March.
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  • 76 13 (Managers' price* for Aug. 27) B. S. ASIA UNIT TRUSTSI MaL Invt. Fund. 1.16 1.20 MaLProgroa* Fund 1.00 1.06 SHARTERBD UNIT TRUSTS Ungapon Srowth Fund 1.02 1.07 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUSTS Second «Hnipor* 1.76 ThM Singapore 1.17 The Commerce Ind. Fund .96 1.01 The Saving Fund. 1.01 1.06 Singjipoce
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  • 118 13 PEOPLE in business MB MALCOLM -THOM, associate director of Cathay Advertising, has returned from London after talks with BOAC's controlling agency Foote, Cone Belding and regional marketing officers. Mr Thorn outlined BOAC's 1971 advertising programme for Singapore and Malaysia, and the benefits BOAC and the region can expect from the
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 380 13 RUBBER U% cents a Ik. (op five-eighths ceit). Talk of world-wide inflation and a drop m the sterling exchange rate helped sustain levels here yesterday. First business passed at 52-1/4 cents for RSS 1 September. October widened to almost seveneighths cent premium over September, reflecting the lack of
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    • 44 13 Commodity followed by value with rate of duty m backets for Aug. 27 to Sept. 2. RUBBER 61* cent* a Ib. (2 cents, total 7% cents). COPRAS 5496 a ton (£49.60). PALM OIL 9725.25 a ton ($54.*****). PALM KERNELS 5402.76 (f40.275).
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    • 61 13 (Yesterday's official buyer/seller prices, m pence perlb). Tone: Firm; ClF's Sept. 18-5/16 18-1/2, Oct. 18-0/16 18-3/4, Nov. 18-3/4 19; Spot 19-1/4 19-3/4; Settlements Oct. 19-11/16 20, Nov. 20 20-1/4, Dec. 20-1/8 20-3/8, Oct/Dec. 20 20-1/4, Jan/March 20-5/16 20-7/16, April/June 20-11/16 20-7/8, July/Sept. 20-13/16 21, Oct/Dec. 20-15/16 21-1/8, Jan/March
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    • 70 13 TIN: $«52 apical (d«wa P). The Straits tin price, continued on its downtrend yesterday and dipped by $3 to $652 a picul on an estimated offering of 285 tons, down 10 tons. The overnight metal price m London also slipped and eased by £7 a ton. Main enquiries
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    • 31 13 (Closing buyer /seller prices far Aug. 26, m sterling per metric ton). Tone Very steady but quiet; Spot 1491 1493; 3-month 1492 1493; Settlement 1490; Total turnover 445 tons.
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    • 167 13 (Yesterday's 1.30 p.m. prices, m sterling per long ton, unless otherwise stated). COPRA (U.S. dollars per long ton): Philippine Sept. 203 to 200 paid; Philippine/Indonesian Aug. 200 resellers, Sept. 202 resellers, 200% paid, Oct. 203 resellers, Nov. 204 resellers, Dec 209 paid. COCONUT OIL: Straits Aug/Sept. 135 resellers;
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    • 45 13 (Yesterday's closing prices, m U.S. dollars per ounce). Singapore (1) 37.60, (2) 141.00; Hongkong 38.07; Beirut 36.85; London 36.686; Zurich 36.668 35.665; Paris 35.95. Note: (1) Export price to non-sterling areas m U.S. dollars. (2) Local dealers' price m Singapore dollars per tad.
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  • 408 13 Stocks wave •trout on moderate trading as the session passed its mid-way point yesterday. The Dow Jones industrials were up more than four points, while the Stanpoon index addad 62 cents. Upside issues dominated the losers by better than two-to-one. Volume was nearly tight million shares.
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  • 528 13 The market yesterday rallied m late tmding on expectations of a firm opening on Wall Street. Selling was noted mtd session with recent views of the economy and labour disputes m the motor industry proving unsettling influences but buyers returned m the late afternoon. Towards the dose,
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  • 205 13 AMSTERDAM Moat international* were weaker yesterday with the trading volumes mostly smaller than on the previous days. Royal Dutch reacted to Wall Street and Unilever was •l*o weak, while Hoogovens and Philips eased. Local industrials were quietly mixed. Boh was among the weak spots but Albert Heijn was
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  • 228 14  -  R. Nathan SINGAPORE'S ace sprinter Canagasabai Kunalan is seriously considering to quit athletics after the Sixth Asian Games at Bangkok m December. Reason: He is suffering from recurring leg injuries a sore tendon on the left knee and an injured right heel
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  • 546 14 Bernard unlikely to skip CSC waterpolo team DEFEN D I N G champions Chinese Swimming Club may miss the services of water-polo skipper Bernard Chan m this year's Singapore Amateur Swimming Association waterpolo league championships which start on Aug. 30. Bernard, who had a knee operation recently, is not likely
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  • 139 14 SINGAPORE wicketkeeper Pritam Singh has been dropoed from the Singapore Cricket Association's national team to meet Malaysia m the three-day Test match at Kuala Lumpur from Sept. 4, 5 and 6. They are competing for the Putra Cup. Pritam's ommision was the only surprise
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  • 162 14 NAAFI Imperial Club defeated Ceylon Sports Club by two games to one m the Singapore Billiards Association Junior Inter-Club Medley championship at the Indian Association clubhouse last night. Naafi started badly m the three ball game when Salleh Ahmad lost narrowly to
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  • 102 14 CHINESE Swimming Club open Three Ball Billiards Championship will commence on Aug. 31 at 7.00 p.m. at Amber Road. Reigning champion Alan Puan is seeded to meet last year's runner-up Quek Eu Huat m the final. The dark horse for this competition is Choo Kirn
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  • 274 14 Hockey star outjumps rivals to take trophy STATE hockey player Kamalachelvan outjumped six others to win the long jump event on the first day of the Singapore Recreation Club's annual athletics meet on the Padang yesterday. V.K. Chelvan, as he is popularly known, cleared 20ft. l*4in. beating his closest rival
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  • 244 14  -  Max Lange THERE is every possibility that softbail would be Included m the next Asian and South East Asia Peninsular Games. The International Softball Association, presently meeting m Osaka, will study the recommendations by the Amateur Softball Association of Asia that softball be included m
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous

  • 250 15 n£^ FPOEO Japan, president of the wed. a total of 140 International Ski foreign athletes and Federation (FIS) told the officials will be invited to press here today, the pre-winter Olympic Mr. Hodler is visiting Games m Sapporo, Sapporo to inspect how Hokkaido, Japan's
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  • 253 15 Noverraz recalled to helm the third race NEWPORT, Rhode Island, Wed. The 68-year-old Swiss Louis Noverraz was yesterday recalled to take the helm for La France's third race against Australia's Gretel II m the America's Cup elimination series. Noverrai, dropped after the French boat lost the first Test last week,
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  • 166 15 BerkrerkMasao bout definitely on in Oct. BANGKOK, Wed. Berkrerk Chatvonchai of Thailand, the World Boxing Assodation (WBA) flyweight champion, will "definitely" defend his title against Japan's Masao Ohba m Tokyo Oct. 22, his manager said yesterday. The manager, Boonsong Kljkalamsuan, made the emphatic statement after reports that Berkrerk's former manager,
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  • 77 15 JOHANNESBUEG, Wed. South Africa's only representative on the International Olympic Council (IOC), Mr. Reg Honey, said today m Johannesburg that he would not resign from the movement following South Africa's expulsion from the lOC Mr. Honey, who attended the lOC meeting m Amsterdam earlier this
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  • 82 15 INGLEWOOD, California, Wed. Antonio Gomez of Venezuela and Fernando Soteto of Mexico aty wiU box for the vacant North American featherweight championship here on Sept 5. Gomes is a top contender for the world 121 lb. title. Vincente Saldivar of Mexico is recognised as
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  • 133 15 LOS ANGELES, California, Wed. Sixteen American swimmers among them Gary Hal, who set three world marks (400 m individual medley, 200 m butterfly and 200 m individual medley) at the National AAU swimming championships here last week will represent the United States m international meets
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  • 485 15 Turks snatch narrow win over Japan Turin, Wed. The Sixth World Student Games got under way with a torchlight and firework ceremony m Turin's Corso Galileo Ferraris. Six Italian athletes, all Universiade gold medal winners, bore a torch resembling the rocket which m 1706 a Piedmont soldier, Pietro Micca, used
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  • 206 15 PENANG, Wed.—Bukit Timah trainer Colin Tulloh's newcomer, Royal Mark, impressed m a workout here this -rning. With Nawari Ali up, he strode out fluently over 3f m 39 and three-fifth on a good track. Thank Yon II (Johnny Nelson), another newcomer.also worked well, Starting
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  • 223 15 OF THE 30 horses entered for the Penang meeting, SIEGFRIED a gelding by Rousseau's Dream out of Selore can be followed having won over six-furtongs plus seventy-five yards m March this year returning 1: 17.1 with 8.6. He was on board three times m
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  • 96 15 FOREST HILLS, New York, Ned. Jaroslav Drobny and Jerry Oakley woo the last two tingles matches as Great Britain completed a 5-0 victory >ver Canada m the Stevens ?up international senior tennis earn eliminations yesterday. Britain now faces the lefendm* United States team
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  • 127 15 YOUTH TOURNEY SEOUL, Wed. Japan easily defeated Malaysia SO-C2 today m its first match In the Asian Youth basketball championships which opened here yesterday. The taller and faster Japanese boys led 49-28 at halftime m the one-sided game at Changchoong Gymnasium m Seoul. HIGHEST SCORER
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  • 565 16 Agnew assures Chiang: We stand by you TAIWAN, TOO, WANTS TO EXPAND ARMED FORCES TAIPEH, Wed. Visiting Vice- President Spiro Agnew today reassured President Chiang Kai-shek of continuing commitment to the American treaty obligations and also pointed out their limitations. He arrived here from South Korea on the second leg
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  • 153 16 INDONESIA TO RECALL SERVICES ATTACHES OVERSEAS JAKARTA, Wed. Indonesia is to recall most of its 40 military, naval and air attaches from its embassies overseas, a reliable Army source said today. They will be replaced by specially trained men who will be known as "defence and security attaches." The source
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  • 143 16 London, wed. Scotland on a luxurious London Hotel. Yard touched off a world-wide The weapons were believed search yesterday for the destined for Middle East source of arms and guerillas. ammunition captured to a raid SpecUl Branch detec tives experts m security investigations checked movements
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  • 57 16 DEMONSTRATORS carrying placards and banners march outside the Soviet Embassy m New Delhi last Saturday m protest at what they called "the cartographic egression of India" by Russia. They were objecting to the recant Soviet maps which show 50,000 square miles of India's Himalayan border as
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  • 366 16 1,200 girls in Vatican nun running probe VATICAN CITY, Wed. Vatican officials will interview each of the 1,200 Christian Indian girls now m European nunneries who were allegedly trafficked by the Church m India, the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano said yesterday. The interviews show just how far Vatican authorities intend
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  • 679 16 THE mid-year school holidays are over. During the two short weeks many active students headed for the beaches at Tanah Merah and Changi for a few days of camp ing: I can bet that they all will have complaints regarding (i) the condition of the
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