Singapore Herald, 28 August 1970

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  • 14 1 THE SINGAPORE herald No. 33 Singapore Friday, August 28, 1970 MC(P) 2207 15 CENTS
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  • 449 1 Air row: Britain is still willing to parley THE BRITISH High Commission yesterday said Britain is still willing to resume talks with Singapore over flying rights for MSA to London. But the statement said: "If the existing UK-Singapore air services agreement were to terminate, 'Singapore's rights at Hongkong would obviously
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  • 425 1 Vietnam pull-out by Thais SFO STRENGTHEN BORDERS WITH LAOS AND CAMBODIA BANGKOK, Thurs. Thailand is preparing to withdraw the bulk of its troops from South Vietnam to strengthen its frontiers with war-torn Laos and Cambodia, Premier Thanom Kittikachorn announced today. He made the announcement on the eve of the arrival
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  • 49 1 STOCKHOLM, Thurs. A Soviet destroyer rammed a Swedish frigate that had been chasing her m Swedish waters, the defence staff reported today. Both ships were at low speed and neither sustained any serious damage, it said. The Soviet vessel left Swedish waters after the collision. AP
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  • 199 1 New York women march in revolt against male domination WOMEN carrying signs and chanting slogans march m support of women's liberation on Fifth Avenue m New York oh Wednesday. Women activists across the United States held demonstrations demanding equal rights to eliminate job discrimination, establish child care centres, free abortions,
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  • 246 1 Peacekeeping joint effort for Mid-East? WASHINGTON, Thurs. High U.S. Government officials say the United States would seriously consider agreeing to have U.S. and Soviet units join m a peacekeeping force for the Middle East. The Administration spokesmen say they have m mind a physical presence *of the two powers, perhaps
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  • 108 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Thurs. A Boeing 747 jumbo jet with 2ti persons aboard landed safely 14 minutes after take-off yesterday when two of its four engines shut down. Trass World Airlines said the No. 2 engine failed to develop sufficient power and the
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  • 249 1 Three-in-one Soviet missile tested says Laird WASHINGTON, Thurs. U.S. Secretary of Defence Mdvin R. Laird says the Russians have test-fired multiple warheads on their basic SSll Inter-continental Ballistic Missile for the first time. And his top Pentagon scientist says at the p present pace, the Russians could not only outstrip
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 480 2  - Back to primary school to read a burned book FRANCIS WONG By EARLY this year, the Publications Bureau of the Education Ministry brought out a history book for primary students entitled "The Pioneering Years". It was ceremonially burned. When I first heard of this m March, I remember wondering how
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  • 483 2 A new test of British good faith? f/^-i Friday. August 28. 1970 L>y THE SINGAPORE HERALD THE British High Commission yesterday presented Britain's version of the controversy with Singapore over the revision of the 1966 Air Services Agreement. To what extent does the British statement meet the points raised by
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  • Viewpoint
    • 239 2 THE NJC: NOT AN ELITE SCHOOL BUT IT'S MEANT TO BE ONE I HAVE read the Herald article on the National Junior College and found it to be interesting, revealing, unbiased and extremely analytical The article showed clearly that the N.J.C. has not achieved what is expected ot it. Hoong
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    • 650 2 I am a Singapore citizen residing m Thailand. On a recent extended return to Singapore I had the opportunity of observing my own country with perhaps more disinterested eyes than the local populace. In my daily contact with flat-dwellers, shopgirls, civil
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    • 618 2 THE article you printed by Peter Cole Adams ('Black Power flexes its British muscles' S.H. Aug. 24) is as misleading as the headline you gave it. When much that has been written on the subject m Britain is so sensible, it is strange
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    • 202 2 GOVERNMENT Ministers have decried complacency. However, we cannot totally blame the people for this withdrawal of interest m public affairs. The system prevailing m our society is very much to be blamed. There is an almost repressive atmosphere with hardly any effective channels, whereby one can
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  • 74 3 PASSERS-BY attending to motor-cyclist Karim bin Ibrahim, 33, of Lorong Lampang, Woodlands, minutes after he was involved m a collision with a van at the junction of Newton Road and Evelyn Road yesterday. Shortly after this picture was taken, an ambulance arrived and
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  • 215 3 ESSO is installing a single buoy mooring (SBM) terminal about three miles from Pulau Ayer Chawan near Jurong to service super-tankers. The terminal is expected to -f be completed by October when the Esso refinery will be ready to receive tankers of the
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  • 115 3 Audition soon for young choir THE CHINESE YMCA is organising a choir for young children from six to eight years old. It is to develop their musical skills and knowledge. Children of all races can register today. They will be auditioned on Sept. 12 at the association. The choir will
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  • 211 3 BOAC business down by 75 per cent BOAC's Singapore office is reported to have lost 75 per cent of its business because of the go-slow by Paya Lebar airport workers m servicing the airline's planes. An officer of MSA's reservations section, which handles bookings for BO AC, says that before
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  • 139 3 Mr Lee to call on Mrs Banda in Colombo today MR. Lee Kuan Yew, who is on a four-day visit to Ceylon, will pay courtesy calls on the Prime Minister, Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike, and the Governor-General today. He will have talks with Mrs. Bandaranaike tomorrow. Mr. Lee was given a
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  • 50 3 A GROUP of 40 members from the P.A.P. Siglap Branch will be making a civics tour tomorrow from 8.00 a.m. to S.OO p.m. The group will visit four factories m Jurong and tour Jurong Town, Nanyang University campus, Mandai Orchid Garden and Seletar Reservoir.
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  • 8 3 Hey /viisra2' Which wayto Inoiamakxis
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  • 377 3 FROM PAGE ONE be exchanged between the UK and Singapore. "There is no intention of subjecting MSA to any rigid or unilateral ban on charters from third countries," it said. The Singapore statement on Wednesday said Britain's insistence that MSA could only charter planes from BOAC or
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  • 94 3 GRENADE DEATH LIEUTENANT LOVED ARMY LIFE SECOND-LT. Tay Slew Kai (above), who was killed when a hand-grenade went off at a Safti firing raage at Pasir Laba, off Juroog, Wednesday, was a man .who loved army life. He joined the army for full time national service m February 1968 and
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  • 157 3 Bank officer on attempted fraud charge THE officer-in-charge of the Geylang Branch of the Bank of Singapore Limited was charged with three counts of attempted fraud yesterday. The officer, Sim Kern Liang, 39, of Towner Road, was alleged to have falsified accounts relating to overdrafts. The offences were said to
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  • 323 4 Back-street druggists can be dangerous THE SINGAPORE Government should join forces with the pharmaceutic al profession to prevent backstreet manufacturers from marketing dangerous drugs. Dr. E.F. Hersant, chief analyst of May and Baker Ltd. m England, advised this yesterday when he arrived to take part m a seminar on "Drug
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  • 186 4 Printers to help Govt make the industry more productive THE president of the Master Printers' Association, Mr. Leong Jee, has said the association will help Government m its aims to bring the printing industry m Singapore to a highly productive level. Speaking at the association's 33rd anniversary dinner, he said
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  • 149 4 Boy tells how his father cut his own throat A 11-YEAR-OLD boy told a coroner's conrt yesterday how he made two futile attempts to stop his father, a bean-card seller, from catting his own throat earlier this month. The boy, Phua Hock Meng, was visiting his father, Phna Kirn Keng,
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  • 71 4 SEREMBAN, Thurs. Mara's first junior college will be set up m Seremban next year, Negri Sembilan's Mentri Besar Inche Mansor Osman, said today. Between 250 and 500 students will be enrolled as soon as results of the Malaysia Certificate of Education examination are
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  • 254 4 A MAN who pleaded guilty of criminal breach of trust of $3,270 worth of goods taken on hire purchase had since made full restitution, the Fifth Magistrate's Court was told yesterday. On March 31 last year, Guay Liong Chai was
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  • HOMOLUDENS
    • 244 4 He is a music man "WE'RE going to San Francisco" sing the pop poets. But have you ever thought hoy many of them actually get there. Alfred Choo did. Not with flowers m his hair bu with music m his fingertips. He also went to Boston and at the age
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    • 142 4 THE Naval Base Singers are rehearsing Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado. The show will go on at the Sultan Cinema on October 30 and 31 and the Victoria Theatre from November 3 to 7. Among the principals will be Colin Parsons as Mikado. He first played this part m
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    • Article, Illustration
      90 4 "GET thee to a nunnery," Nicol Williamson tells Marianne Faithful! m a scene from their latest film, "Hamlet." What Nicol, of The Reckoning fame, might not know is that the lovely Marianne has beaten to it. The waif-like "friend" of pop man Mick Jagger was educated m a convent. I
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    • 214 4 THE usually puffedout National Theatre Club has turned into a roaring express. About 600 members are now rehearsing for a giant show. The "express" (which is really the Cultural Week) will screech to a stop on Sunday with a full load of 300 members for
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  • 381 5 Ships are losing the race for passengers THf SINGAPOM Hi RAID HMO AY, AUGUST 28, 1»70 BIG DROP IN LINER TRAFFIC SINCE '67 I THE NUMBER of passenger ships calling at Singapore has dropped drastically since the closure of the Suez Canal forced shipping companies to re-route their services through
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  • 310 5 IAC hands down its award on the STC dispute THE Industrial Arbitration Court yesterday upheld the Singapore Tobacco Company's right to suspend one of its employees, Lim See Howe, for three days without pay for refusing to carry out his supervisor's orders. In the case of Tan Ah Tua, a
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  • 76 5 Filipinos rush home with Intraco inquiries VISITING Filipino businessmen Mr. E. Echauz and Mr. J Malanyaon Jr. will return to Manila today with some firm inquiries from Intraco. Mr. Echauz said they were cancelling their scheduled trip to Jakarta and rushing back to Manila to get Intraco quotations for certain
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  • 207 5 NEW SHIPPING SERVICE WILL BRING MORE AUSSIE VISITORS A NEW shipping service linking Australia and Singapore with Europe will bring more Australian tourists to the Republic, according to Mr. Anthony Kelly, passenger manager of Chandris, a Greek shipping line. Mr. KeUy said the ship-jet service a combination of a sea
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  • 130 5 A RUBBER Upper told a preliminary inquiry yesterday she was resting m the bedroom with her husband when their neighbour, a rag-and-bone mam, walked la and stabbed him to death with a kitchen knife. Madam Eng Hang, 32, of 12% m.s. Sembawang Road, was testifying
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  • 346 5 THE PRIME MINISTER'S call to the Malays to practise family planning recently has had a mixed reception from Malay community leaders. The Mufti, Tuan Haji Mohd. Sanusi Mahmood, said that from the religious point of view, there was nothing wrong with family planning.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 873 5 It Takes A Thief Who'll Bid Two Million Dollars? The hero is a thief, Alexander Mundy (Robert Wagner) who turns into a suave young spy while serving his sentence. He works for the government m super-secret counter*The^hei? veriey HUIbUUeB comedy espionage and escapes unscathed 4.21 Buua splits -Variety show from
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  • 374 6 Daughter of accused gives evidence DUD $50s CASE: HOME SEARCHED COURT TOLD THE daughter of one of the accused m the forged $50 notes case told the High Court yesterday that police searched her home on five occasions, and not three as claimed by the prosecution. Shum Yin Peng, 17,
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  • 233 6 SIX YEARS' JAIL FOR MAN WHO HEEDED WIFE'S PLEA TO GIVE UP KUALA LUMPUR, Than. A man, who surrendered to the police at his wife's request, was sentenced to six years' jail far theft by the Sessions Coart here today. Mervyn Stewart, 24, with three previous convictions, pleaded guilty to
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  • 94 6 THE chief instructor of the Chinese YMCA's Karate-Do Club, Mr. Hedihero Maekawa (left) returned recently from Japan with a sth Dan Black Belt awarded by the Osaka Goju-ryu Association and approved by the All Karate-Do Federation of Japan. In addition, Mr. Maekawa
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  • 253 6 The day police told a woman You've been robbed POLICE arrested two burglars and recovered the goods they had stolen before the victim knew of the robbery. They were caught as they walked along 11 milestone Woodlands Road with one holding a piggy-bank m his hand. Hassan Mohamad, 22, unemployed,
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  • 354 6 SCREAMING women and children ran helterskelter m Telok Ayer Street at 8 p.m. on May 6, when a mob led by a chopper-wielding youth was seen chasing a man towards Boon Tat Street. Two detectives who heard the commotion ordered the mob
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  • 153 6 EIGHTH Magistrate Tan Chin Tiong yesterday called for a probation report on a youth who pleaded guilty to voluntarily causing hurt to a national serviceman. Painter Lim Hian Chong, 17, of Lorong Kinchir stabbed Lim Kian Lam, 19, on the thigh with a dagger m
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 172 6 THE DIARY 9 a.m.— s p.m.: Exhibition of Great World Amusement Park, books on business Kirn Seng Road. (Admission management at National free). Library. 7 p.m.— midnight: National 19 a.m.— 6 p.m.: Exhibition of Day exposition at Gay World traditional Chinese paintings Amusement Park, Geylang. at the Chinese Chamber of
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  • 173 7 Guerilla activities along border on the decline KUALA LUMPUR, Thur. There has been a marked decrease m Communist activities along the Malaysia-Thai border, the National Operations Council said today. In its weekly statement, the N.O.C. said only one sighting had been reported, and it came from Kelantan when four armed
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  • 194 7 COALITION GOVT TO HELP IMPROVE LIVING CONDITIONS KUCHING, Thur. The Chairman of the Sarawak United People's Party, Dato Ong Kee Hui, said tonight the Rukun Negara will undoubtedly serve as an inspiration to all Malaysians as a guide to their way of life. He hoped that the young people m
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  • 36 7 THE Chinese chamber of Commerce will hold its monthly committee meeting at the chamber's conference room on Aug. 31. The chairman, the secretariat and the heads of various sub-committees will present their reports.
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  • 162 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak will leave on Sept. 6 to lead the Malaysian delegation to the Conference of Nonaligned Nations m Lusaka, Zambia. He told newsmen here today that he would visit Yugoslavia and Rumania after the
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  • 88 7 THE SEVENTH Magistrate, Tan Teow Yeow yesterday ordered the arrest of a man who failed to appear m court on an impersonation charge. Mahadevan Kanagarathnam, unemployed, of Serangoon Road was alleged to have posed as a building inspector on the morning of Oct. 17 last
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  • 94 7 DUNGUN, Thar. Tan Sri Ibrahim Fikri will retire as Treaggau's Meitrl Besar at the cad of sezt moath. Tan Sri Fikri, who is bow ob two months* leave will he sacceeded by Inche MrtMMi Salaimaa, who Is bow acting for him. Deputy Prime
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  • 394 7 CASHIER M.P. Sormam, 62, was hailed as "Mr. Courageous" yesterday after students m the South-East Asia Union College learnt that he had put three armed robbers to flight and saved part of a $10,000 payroll. The robbers got away with
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  • 77 7 A CORONER recorded an open verdict yesterday on milkman Ramayan Arumugam who died of blood poisoning as a result of injuries sustained m a collision between his motorcycle and a three-ton military truck. The court was told the accident occured at the junction of Kampong
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  • 42 7 A CORONER recorded an open verdict yesterday m the case of Fhoon Kai Wan, 25, who died of shock and internal injuries after an accident between his motor-cycle and a car at Ayer Rajah Road on July 18 this year.
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  • 98 7 A'WELL DONE' LETTER FOR POLICE PR MAN DEPUTY Supt. Leslie Wong, police public relations officer, receiving a certificate of commendation from Commissioner Cheam Kirn Seang yesterday for devotion to duty la the recent crime prevention campaign. Altogether five officers and 18 policemen received certificates of commendation from the Commissioner at
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  • 128 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Minister with Special Functions Tun Tan Siew Sin has been re-appointed Governor of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) for Malaysia, the Government announced today. Tun Tan will lead the Malaysian delegation to the annual
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  • 914 8 When party time means petting time Personal file I AM nearly 16 and have already attended five parties. When I went to the fifth party, I met a boy whom I was introduced to at the fourth party. He took me to a corner and told me that he wanted
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  • 360 8 Australia must decide on the Aboriginal land rights issue soon CANBERRA. The Federal Government will soon have to make a crucial decision on the Aboriginal land rights issue. It will be forced to do this if, as now appears likely, the owners of the 6158 square mile Wave Hill cattle
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  • 219 8 Colony seeks its own identity From 808 HAWKINS m Hongkong SINGAPOREANS and Hongkongians have much m common. Bat whereas the man from Singapore has a definite goal m life development of his independent sovereign state the man of Hongkong has no such incentive. He knows he must live m the
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  • BACKGROUND TO THE WORLD NEWS
    • 707 8 Buddhists test their strength in South Vietnam poll From JOHN DRAW m Saigon "WE want peace now," proclaims a poster among the many million that have been going up the walls and trees of Saigon since the start of the senatorial election campaign a fortnight ago. In equally bold types,
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 135 8 BLONDIE By Chic Young r \\y* EVERY TIME *M f| jil^ SPENO W\ I 'If NOWSETBACK I I MR. DITHERS, VDU DON'T J l l l 1( I GOME BY HERE I ~v?f MOSTOF "^UR >TO M3UR DESK WAMT Ajg EMPLOYEE y^ > r FIND YOU AT < WORKDAY HERE
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  • 86 9 rights workers who have launched a to help Aborigines squatting at reek on Wave Hill land build a t vi'lage and start pastoral and fcrprises. ag of about 250 people m Melbourne r night decided to make a public $50,000 to send men and materials with seven people aboard
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  • Article, Illustration
    1080 9  -  EUGENE BRAKE Is this the answer to pirates m the air? By m Washington These are the countries whose civil aircraft have been the victims of hijacking, attempted hijacking, or ground attacks between 19C1 and 1969. 1961 Cnba (3); U.S.S.R.; Portugal; Venezuela; United States (4). 1962 Netherlands; United States.
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  • 519 9  - Danger-Anarchy on the roads DAVID LOSHAK From m Delhi ALTHOUGH India has fewer cars, m proportion to its population, than almost any country m the world, the death rate ob its roads is almost the highest. There are eight deaths a year for every thousand vehicles. In Britain, where the
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  • CABLES WORLD WIDE
    • 82 10 THE ODD BOX TORONTO, Thus. Police have recovered the cremated remains of 25 people kkmapped from a cemetery oa June Thomas WBoea ami Donald Fisher, fonnd the 25 vu while searching for scrap metal at the site of a demolished hotel. Before the ashes were toned over to police, the
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    • 202 10 Generals' plot to topple govts of Nato countries OTTAWA, Thurs. Mr. Andreas Papandreou, former Greek Cabinet Minister, said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has prepared plans detailing procedures for overthrowing the governments of Nato countries and had sent messages to be used to inform these governments of an Allied
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    • 18 10 KAMPALA, Thurs.— Twelve people were killed and eight others missing m a landslide near Mbalo village.
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    • 381 10 THAT S3BILLION REQUEST BY PARK WASHINGTON. Thurs. Defence Secretary Melvin Laird said that the three billion dollars South Korea reportedly was seeking to help modernise its forces was unrealistic considering the present mood Congress toward reducing defence spending and foreign aid. The United States, however, would
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    • 57 10 JAKARTA, Thurs.—Beggars are earning more than fishermen m Indonesia, according to the director of the country's Sea Fishery Directorate, Mr. Latief Hasjim. He told newsmen fishermen are now earning only about 200 rupiahs (about USSO cents) daily while beggars m the capital make as much as
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    • 82 10 ACCRA, Thurs.— Ghanaian Government ministers have agreed to immediate salary cuts m order to aid national economic recovery, Prime Minister Khofi Busia announced m a broadcast. He also announced a ban on imports of luxury cars as well as cars for which spares were difficult
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    • 517 10 Guerillas close ranks to block peace makers AMMAN, Thurs. The Palestinian Liberation Organisation, national council facing its most serious crisis as a result of peace moves m the Middle East, met m emergency session today to reaffirm its violent rejection of any settlement with Israel. "A peaceful settlement with Israel
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    • 53 10 CAIRO, Thurs. Egypt has protested to the U.S. Government and the U.N. truce supervision organisation about alleged "continuous violation" by Israel of the cease-fire. Al-Ahram said the reported protest note included "specific actions such as large-scale troop movements, building new fortifications and construction of new roads
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    • 44 10 TOKYO, Thurs.— Two typhoons which hit southern Japan last week caused damages worth U*****,234,000 to crops, forests and fisheries, it was officially announced today. In addition, at least 24 people died, ten others were reported missing and another 527 injured AP
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    • 266 10 A-G REFUSES A MEDAL' FROM STUDENTS JAKARTA, Thurs. Attorney-General MajorGeneral Sugih Arto walked out abruptly on a delegation of students today when they tried to present him with a "medal" and a charter ironically praising him for his "success" against corruption. Unaware of the students plan v the general had
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    • 202 10 Priest: I sent 460 girls with papal blessing NEW DELHI, Thurs. The Rev. Cyriac Puthenpura, Roman Catholic priest of Cheruvandur parish, was today quoted as saying he had sent about 540 girls to European convents since 1964 with papal blessing. In an interview with the Statesman, he said he began
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    • 27 10 MOSCOW, Thurs. Soviet Deputy Premier Vladimir NovDcov, who specialises m foreign economic relations, gave a lunch m honour of Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik.
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    • 25 10 LONDON, Tnurs. BBC correspondent Ronald Rodsool ordered expeUed from New Defci, may set up a new office m Pakistan, a BBC spokesman said.
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  • 232 11 'Russian air crash was spy ruse' charge OSLO, Thurs. A Norwegian newspaper alleged yesterday that the Russians faked an Atlantic air crash to enable Soviet rescue aircraft to carry out a giant espionage operation. The afternoon Journal of Commerce and Shipping reported from Reykjavik, Iceland, there was no definite evidence
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  • 86 11 DELMENHORST, (Lower Saxony), Thurs— a 51-year old worker has died m hospital here after being "lynched" by neighbours suspecting him of trying to rape an 11-year-old girl, police disclosed today. He died last Friday m hospital, a day after being beaten up by a dozen people who
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  • 143 11 SEOUL, Thurs.— The Korea Herald said that Senator William Fu bright 's can for the United States to get out of South Korea was based on "an ill-informed and slanted grasp of the facts and realities of Korea today." The paper said: "It needs no saying that
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  • 261 11 LOS ANGELES, Thurs. An expert said yesterday that the word "Pig" scrawled on the front door of Sharon Tate's mansion was written m blood of the same type as that of the actress. The same type of Mood also was splattered on
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  • 316 11 France to review S. African arms sales policy Addis ababa, Tnurs. trance has told delegates to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) here that it will re-examine its policy on arms sales to South Africa and will study ways of easing African disquiet over the issue, an authoritative French source
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  • 418 11 No chance Of putting off Vietnam pullout: Agnew SAIGON, Thnrs. VlcePresldent Splro Agnew, arriving In South Vietnam today on his second visit la ■tee months declared that "there lsa't any chance" that U.S. troops withdrawals woald he delayed. "The Cambodlaa venture has made It possible to go forward with this,
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  • ECONOMIC AFFAIRS 1
    • 582 12 GEMINI CHIT FUND CORPORATION made a net pre-tax profit of $76,562 for the year ended November 1969, compared with a loss of $5,039 m the previous year. However, the profit did not take into account the trading loss of $68,104 m Gemini's Travel Service. After the
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  • 445 12 Lack of follow-through from overseas markets following last week's rise on stockpile news knocked a good half cent off the market at Friday's opening, after which conditions settled down again to revolve quietly around the 52-cent level for September for a good part of the period, before
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  • 212 12 NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES plans to buy two 30,000-ton tankers, according to its managing director, Mr M.J. Sayeed. The State-owned shipping line is also looking into the possibility of building tankers and bulk carriers. Mr Sayeed said: "With the possible opening of the Suez Canal, prices might be
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  • 348 12 Prices moved irregularly yesterday as profit-taking alternated with fresh buying. The close was steady with the average up 10.14 at 2,***** yen. Daikin Kogyo advanced following a report that it had developed a new synthetic rubber. Selective interest was revived m housing related issues, department stores, chemicals
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  • 51 12 LONDON, Thttrt. The British Government has made its third aid loan this year to Indonesia. An agreement, signed m Jakarta, made available £750,000 for Indonesian projects. The loan is interest-free and repayable over 25 years. The two previous loans for £400,t©« «nd £15 million were on the same terms.
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  • 620 12 The mining market found late support yesterday to move ahead m selected issues, after a rather dull and listless day. Poseidon returned to favour with a $5 rise to $73, while International climbed 26 cents to $2.30 and Spargos jumped 40 cents to $4.10 after early falls.
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  • 268 12 SINGAPORE-MALAYSIA Merchant rates today, fixed by the Association of Banks m Malaysia- Singapore. Local dollars per unit of foreign currency. SELLING BUYING T.T./O.D. T.T. O.D. S Sterling Pound 7.3925 7.3600 7.3475 Australian Dollar 3.4550 3.4150 3.3950 Canadian Dollar New Zealand Dollar 3.4650 3.4175 3.3875 South Arabian Dinar
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  • 238 12 Sellers were inclined to press at the start of trading yesterday. But the downtrend was checked at mid-day and prices recovered slightly from the morning's lows. Afternoon trading was slow with most issues maintaining earlier levels. Dairies continued to decline initially to $58.50 but rallied later to
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 230 12 SHIPS IN PIT THE PORTOF SINGAPORE AUTHORITY HAS MADE THESE BERTHING ARRANGEMENTS FOR AUGUST 28. IN: Archanglos Michales 5 (after Hinode Mini Clara Maersk), Martha Bakke 6/7 (after Clara Maersk), Swat 8/9 (after Martha Bakke), Wonorato 13/14 (after Gudrun Bakke), Saisei Maru 19 (after Genko Maru), dang Ann 20 east
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  • ECONOMIC AFFAIRS 2
    • 244 13  -  ARUN SENKUTTUVAN THE Stock Exchange committee yesterday made it compulsory for member firms to report each and every transaction done by mem. The new ruling also seeks to ensure that no false transactions are reported to the trading floor. Under yesterday's addendum to Bye-
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    • 502 13 PUBLIC BANK Public Bank Berhad made a net unaudited profit of $246,774 m the first six months of this year, after providing for depreciation on fixed assets, income tax and trading expenditures. lids is an increase of 15 per cent over the amount made m the same period
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  • 1484 13 STOCK EXCHANGE OF MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE KEY Oo*n buyers' and Milan' prices ai* followed by the business done. Figures, m brackets denote traded Jots m I.ooo**. When the price is not followed by a figure m brackets, it means only a single lot of 1.000 shares was
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  • 81 13 (Manages' price* for Aug. 28) I B. S. ASIA UNIT TRUSTS Mai. Invt. Fund 1.16 1.20 MaL ProgreM Fund. 1.00 1.05 CHARTERED UNIT TRUSTS Singapore Growth Fund 1.02 1.07 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUSTS Second Singapore 1.76 Third Singapore 1.17 B. S. The Commerce Intl. Fund 0.96 1.01 The Saving
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  • 127 13 PEOPLE in business ME. LEOW BOCK UM, assistant manager, operations, Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., Kuala Lumpur left for Frankfurt and London to study the methods of operations of the bank's Foreign Exchange Divisions m the two cities. Mr. Leow, 27, joined the bank as a trainee m January 1966 and
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  • 673 13 SINGAPORE RUBBER RUBBER 52-3/8 ceats a lb. (down one-eighth cent). After overseas advices had caused a sympathetic rise m price m the market here yesterday first business was transacted at 53 1 4 cents for RSS l September, up threequarters cent from Wednesday's close. Squaring of September RSS 1
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  • 371 13 A sharp rise In leading economic Indicators reverted morning easiness. The Dew Jones Industrial average, after losing more than three points, was up I.M at midsession yesterday. The Stanpoors Index turned aroaad from minus 44 cents to add 11 cent* Galas led declines by three-to-two after
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  • 549 13 The market drifted lower yesterday on lack of interest Trading was quiet ahead of the holiday weekend and special situations provided the only significant movements. Towards the dose, the Financial Times index was one point off at 341.8. Cunard was sharply lower but off the bottom following
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  • 201 13 AMSTERDAM Internationals were quietly lower yesterday. Royal Dutch and Unilever were again weaker, while Akzo, Hoogovens and Philips eased slightly. Local industrials were dull and mixed with only a few large fluctuations. ••PARIS The market yesterday reacted sharply to the bank rate cut with investment and credit companies
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  • 310 14 PROFESSIONAL badminton coach Wong Peng Soon has accepted an offer to coach Thailand's Asian Games team from Sept. 1 Peng Soon, 52, leaves for Bangkok tomorrow to take up his new job with the Thailand Badminton Association. The Thais want the former
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  • 269 14 Gretel II gives La France a sound drubbing NEWPORT, Rhode Island, Thurs. No excuses this time. Beaten twice before by a mixture of bad luck and bad judgement, France's La France was given a sound drubbing by Gretel II of Australia m the third race of their America's Cup qualifying
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  • 62 14 50 enter lifting, bodybuilding contests MALACCA, Thurs. Fifty competitors from nine states will take part m the national weigh tl if ting and bodybuilding competitions here on Saturday. Twenty-two participants will take part m the body-building and the rest m weightlifting. Malacca's Clancy Ang, who won the Mr. Malaysia and
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  • 284 14 Swift Athletic Association one of the top clubs m .Singapore, will have to go all out to defend the r men's title m the I2fh annual inter-club championm ships at Farrer Park tomorrow and Sunday. The n meet starts at 2p.m. each
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  • 200 14 ASTON Recreation Club beat Government Officers Welfare Organisation 3-1 m the Inter-Club Junior Medley billiards tournament at the Singapore Recreation Club last night. The first match was a four ball game which proved to be the most exciting match of the evening when Freddy Fernandez
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  • SPORTS WORLD
    • 214 14 BIRMINGHAM, Thurs. Tony Hateley, Britain's costliest footballer, has been put up for transfer again. Hateley, who is currently on Birmingham City's books, the English second division side, is expected to go to Notts County, (fourth division) his original club, for a fee of around
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  • 486 14 BTABTING times for the John Foo (10) and G. Tan Soon Lee (ie); J.R.H. Bond (12) and !S*A a J£!£ i X? d Cl ub Hock (18); W.H.T. Phoa (11) and B.M.J. OrgUl (14): 7.57: J. Mallal Sir Arnold Robinson Cup at Island
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  • 615 14 A DESPERATE 25 minutes of defensive play by the seventh wicket pair of Geoffrey Whitten and Ron George saved the Australian touring Emu cricket team, of New South Wales, from a certain defeat m their match against Singapore Combined Services on the Padang yesterday.
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  • 231 14 COMBINED SERVICES McCall c and b Whitten 9 Archie Moore c Hutchinson b Smith is Peter Dunt b Smith 44 B. Ellworthy c Shelton b D. Rogers 16 Peter Johnson c George b D. Rogers 1 Roger Keiway lbw Taylor 12 Harry Lucas c Roger b Whitten 28 D.
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 40 14 DAVY JONES By Sam Leff 'IN HEAVEN'S NAME, WHYVHER" FATHER WAST^NOT TOME.TT^ COULDN'T BEAR^nFIIP^SS^ ~~i PIP YOU STEAL THESE ABOUT TO GIVE \JO THE MUSEUM. SEEING ALL THOSE mj^"^^K\ r -^c. .J^STERPieaS, MR. CftOMBY^JLjI^Mjy YO(^/^ <^s MAGNIFICENT ART- Pv^ lM\
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  • THE SINGAPORE herald
    • 16 1 THE SINGAPORE herald I FOR FIRST DAY Penang, Saturday, Aug. 29,1970 —vjiwf^k -NMIK^W -^JlflMtX RACE GUIDE
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    • 1008 1  - S. Wang II should have an easy task CAVALIER COMBINED CARD AND FORM GUIDE JOB SATURDAY SELECTIONS 1 By Sungei Wang II should have an easy task m Race Five m Penang tomorrow, pennant day of the Penang Turf Club autumn meet. The Macquario gelding made hacks of his opposition
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    • 4209 1 THIS combined race card and form guide gives the following information: The first line reads from left: Number of horse, last five runs, name of horse; (sire); age and origin (e.g. 4A for 4 years Australian); weight, up and down m handicap (e.g. +6 up by 6 lb. from
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    • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 580 4 3. 8 AGGRESSION (Affreux) 5A I.lo+ l Prlscllla/Ahmad Nawarl (It) 8/13 PglB/7 d3c4 8.9y 6f; 1:16.4; 7, Vj, sh Kang. 6/11 Pgll/7 d2c4 9.0g 6f; 1:14.8; Mfc, 2, nk Kang 4. 3 MUSTANG II (Pavot) »NZ i.Oiud-3 y Muitang/Ahmad Subian
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    • 441 4 West's Progress does smart 3f gallop PEN ANG, Thurs. Trainer George West's newcomer, Progress, did a sparkling gallop here this morning. With stablemate Mannum Miss for company, she sprinted stylishly over three furlongs m 38 with very little between them at the finish. The going was good. Pepego (Nawari) and
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    • Page 4 Advertisements
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