Singapore Herald, 2 February 1971

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  • 15 1 THE SINGAPORE herald No. 165 Singapore Tuesday, February 2, 1971 MC(P) No. 2525 15 CENTS
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  • 334 1 Apollo mission in danger HOUSTON, Mon. The first of America's spacemen and two rookies overcame a docking drama and hurtled onward toward the moon today. But their landing chances are m doubt. The problem a linking mechanism that wouldn't work confronted Apollo 14 astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and
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  • 543 1 The luck of four bank robbers STORY: Harold Soh PICTURES: Sunny Bay THREE gunmen and an accomplice walked into a Taman Jurong bank, held up an armed guard and the staff and got away with more than $100 000 yesterday. w,ww The gang got a head start because the burglar
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  • 53 1 AFTER a delay of 44 I alaatet becaase of A weata«r coadldoa* (see m •torai cloads la back- m *r*™*h Aaalla v atop m Its flaailag Satara V V rocket lifts off the W laaach pad at Cape V Keaaedy aa Saaday W AP
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  • 108 1 BRIEFLY After the docking was completed, Ceraaa radioed control: "Tell Sta that session this raoralag paid off/ That session. It tamed oat, was a Roman Catholic Mass held earlier la the day for Isssa aad Ceraaa at the crew quarters. ill Before take-off Alas Shepard said he was disappointed at
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  • 231 1 THE teacher-student ratio at the University of Singapore has been deteriorating and students are receiving far less attention from the staff, according to the president of the university's Academic Staff Association, Professor Roland Puccetti. In a 13-page report, Professor Puccetti, who has tendered
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  • 126 1 BANGKOK, Mon. Thai Forces killed nine guerillas during a large-scale "search and destroy" operation launched over the weekend m Southern Thailand after Government forces had clashed several times with guerillas m the last few days. Three soldiers were killed and 12
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  • 255 1 U.S. has already won in Vietnam' WASHINGTON, Mon. The United States has basically won the war m Vietnam, says a well-known U.S. national security strategist. Dr. Herman Kahn, director of the Hudson Institute, also forecast a more dominant role m Asia for Japan m the near future especially if the
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  • 91 1 MANILA: Foreign Secretary Carlos P Romulo said today that the Philippines should either open diplomatic and trade relations with Communists stage by stage, starting with Russians and the Soviet bloc, "or take the plunge at once, and make overtures" even to China. He was briefing the House Foreign
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  • 722 2  - American cities fight for life ROY MACARTNEY REPORT FROM WASHINGTON BY MANY American cities such as New York are like leaking buckets ready to sink into chaos unless the Federal Government bails them out. The United States has the problem of a swollen central Government enjoying major revenues while States
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  • Viewpoint
    • 316 2 DRAMA: NO NEED TO LOOK BEYOND S'PORE I WAS extremely interested to read of Mary Lee's concern over Singapore's lack of response to drama m general, and to the proposed drama festival m particular. In fact one feels that to hold a festival at all m the face of such
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    • 33 2 All totters to Viewpoint mutt be signed and carry the writer's address. If correspondents wish to have their names withheld, thoy may use a pen name, but their letters must still be signed.
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    • 185 2 WHERE EVEN THE POOR ARE LUCKY... AFTER reading the write-up by Tan May Lin headed "Scratching for a living daily m dirt and filth" (S.H. Jan. 25) and the comment which was followed by Mrs Rani Dally, (S.H. Jan. 26) congratulating both the reporter and the photographer, I feel as
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    • 554 2 I FIND I am duty bound to reply to "Frustrated Teacher" whose comments appeared m the Singapore Herald on the February Ist issue. As I am myself involved with the teachers' union I cannot help but personally undertake to reply to "Frustrated Teacher." My version
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  • 448 2 //^T Tuesday, February 2. 1971 *)V THE SINGAPORE HERALD EVERYONE associated with the University of Singapore must share the desire to improve it. But there is of course no unanimity on how this common objective should be achieved. The administration, the staff and the students all have
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  • 445 2  -  C.C. MINICLIER By Nairobi The military coup m Uganda has evoked waves of caution or fear for leaders of six other nations m East Africa, an area of 77 million people. The charges of corruption, tribalism and favoritism that were voiced by leaders of the
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  • 219 3 Man tells court: Housewife sold me forged US $20 bills KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A businessman, Mr. M.E.M. Amanulla, told the Senior Sessions Court here today that a house-wife had sold him forged U.S. $20 bills for $30 each. He said that he and his business partner, Soosai, gave an initial
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  • 172 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A man accused of killing his sister said m the High Court here today that it pained him to talk about her affairs with men after she married at the age of 14. R Rasanako, 39, wno pleaded
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  • 363 3 Open door for Malays wanting to become seamen in Singapore THE Seamen's Registry Board is to make as many seamen's jobs as possible available to Malays as a result of the recent seminar on Malay participation m National development. The Board's offer was made through the Central Council of Malay
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  • 48 3  - Beat the flood tunnels to be finished soon DAVID LIM IN THIS picture, the workmen at the mouth of one of the newly completed < tunnels which passes through an area near the SAF camp m Ulu Pandan give an idea of the size of the tunnels Picture by
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  • 304 3 A MAN was told to sign a $500 bond yesterday to guarantee the good behaviour of his son— because he had failed to look after him. First District Judge A.W. Ghows placed Heng Soon Liang, 17, under probation for 18 weeks for his
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  • 610 3 A FORMER High Court clerical officer who was described as a person with a very low resistance to pain yesterday sued the Singapore Traction Company Limited for damages for a knee injury sustained m a road accident. Joseph Navaratnam and his
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  • 102 3 FOUR yoatas held ap eaglaeer Smui Nlshioko, 32, art his wife ud retted them of their watches ud a white gold rIM Talaed at Ittt aad $Mt la cash la Jar*ag oa SMday. NlsktoU was dri vUg do wa lienmtf— al Road whea aaother
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  • 220 3 -TRADING TOKEN OF EAST INDIA COMPAN tt f nrwc Mi foSgn^i'a^ock mounted on a podium with the inscription "C.S. Read" on one side and a 16-point flower on the other. The Jawi writing on it reads "Natah Melayu" (Tanah K.manu" th At Arm Jin f
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  • 445 4 THREE more people have come down with typhoid m the current outbreak m the Jalan Tebu area, off Jalan Eunos. This brought the number of confirmed cases to 27 last night. A Health Ministry statement said yesterday that poor sanitation and unhygienic storage of water and
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  • 439 4  -  FLORENCE CHONG By FOR TEN days this month, 14 amateur dancers from the People's Association's cultural troupe will perform alongside professionals from every part of the world at the Festival of Perth m Western Australia. This is the first time Singapore has
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  • 245 4  - Locals to lay down their arms and be honoured a stamp by THE i as t of the British Army's "locally-enlisted personnel Malaysians and Singa poreans will be demobilised at the end of this year. For the last 33 years they have been a familiar sight m the British ranks.
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  • 248 4  -  PIRAT Panpatana, 36, is a doctor and a microbiology lecturer at the University of Bangkok and was once a virology researcher m Philadelphia but if she had her life to live over again, she says she would choose to be a
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  • 84 4 'Peking not interested in having tourists' TAIPEH, Mon. Taiwan delegate to the Pacific Area Travel Association annual convention m Manila last week said here today that he saw no possibility of Peking being represented at the next convention m Malaysia early next year. Wu Wang Chi, supervisor of the Taiwan
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  • 64 4 PARIS, Mon. Mr. Francois Simon De Quirielle has been named ambassador to Kuala Lumpur, it was officially announced today. Mr. De Quirielle, who entered the diplomatic service m 1945, has held posts m Rio De Janeiro, Warsaw Casablanca, and Yaounde, before serving as ambassador to Libreville from
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  • 168 4 ALL tour vehicle operators will now have to get approval from the Tourist Promotion Board before they can apply for licences from the Registrar of Vehicles. In a statement yesterday, the Board said that as from Feb. 1 applications for Contract Carriage
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  • 180 4 KUCHING, Mon. Two Communist terrorists, one of them female, were killed by security forces m Sarawak's First Division yesterday. In the early morning encounter with a band of terrorists m the Bukit Santol area of the Bau District, several other terrorists are believed to
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  • 56 4 HONGKONG, Mob. The "Voice of the Malayan Revolution" hailed the 22ml anaiver sary today of the "Malayan National Liberation Army** with an editorial which defined the tasks ahead for the Malayan Commnnlst Party ami the Liberation Army as "the arming of the masses with Mao thought as well as weapons
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  • 105 4 Hussein Onn leaves for Canberra KUALA LUMPUR, Mon The Minister of Education, Inche Hussein Onn, left here tonight at the head of the Malaysian delegation to the Commonwealth Education Ministers' Conference beginning m Canberra on Wednesday. Others who left with him were the Director-General of Education, Tuan Haji Hamdan bin
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  • 268 5 Graduates finding it hard to escape Govt bondage GRADUATES who return from Government or Governmentsponsored scholarships for specialised training abroad are finding it increasingly difficult to move into private industry. Some of these bonded officers who have wanted to take up better paid Jobs In industry are now told they
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  • 90 5 Newsmen off to visit Melbourne BO AC inaugural flight V 724 left London on Sunday for Melbourne with stops m Zurich, Tel Aviv, New Delhi, Bangkok and Singapore. On board are journalists from eight countries, including five from Singapore. The once-a-week flight leaves London on Sunday and returns from Melbourne
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  • 72 5 KUAH Poh Beng of Cavan Road was fined a total of $220 yesterday for committing four traffic offences m Lornie Road on May 16 last year. He was fined $70 for driving his car at 60 mph m a restricted area, $30 for not having "L" plates
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  • 45 5 MR. Kwa Soon Chuan took up his new post yesterday as Permanent Secretary to the Labour Ministry. He replaced Mr. Lim Joo Hock who Is now on a year's leave prior to retirement. Mr. Kwa was formerly acting Permanent Secretzry (Social Affairs).
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  • 601 5 JAPANESE-SINGAPORE COMBINE TO SHARE $90 MIL COSTS... A $90 MILLION shipyard designed to take vessels up to 90,000 tons is to be built m Jurong by a Singa-pore-Japanese shipping combine and will start production before the end of the year. The shipyard will
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  • 167 5 PLEA TO GOVT ON FIRE CRACKER TRADITIONS FIRECRACKER dealers want the Government to allow people to let off crackers la Ike compounds of their homes during festivals. Though the Government has lifted the cracker-firing baa oa three days of the Chinese New Year seasoa, It has restricted the firing of
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  • 114 5 TWO-year-old Chua Kian Chuan was drowned when he feU into a shallow pond, 30 yards from his house, a coroner was told yesterday. Chua's body was found partly submerged m the water by his grandmother, Madam Ong Poon, 76, of Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim. His aunt,
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  • 92 5 A SECRET society youtn who was caught la the act of extorting money from a worksite contractor la Caveat Gardeas oa Saturday was Jailed for six months yesterday. A magistrates* court was told that Low Chnaa Lye, 17, and another yoath had demanded $108
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  • 254 5 TRADE between Singapore and New Zealand rose by 54 per cent m the last two years from $26 million to $40.1 million last year. Disclosing this yesterday, the visiting New Zealand Associate Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr. L. R. Adams-Schneider said
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  • 122 5 PONTIAN, Mon— The Mental Besar of Johore, Dato Haji Othman Sa'at, today urged economically successful non-Malays to realise the weakness of Malays m the economic field. Although the Government had formed such bodies as Fama, Mara and Bank Bumiputera to raise the economy of Malays
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  • 361 5 MR. HANS Koschnick, Prime Minister of the West German state of Bremen, summed up his impressions of a threeday stay m Singapore m one word Excellent. He had this to say yesterday before leaving for Jakarta: HOUSING "I have never seen such
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  • 45 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The East Coast states of West Malaysia, recovering from heavy floods, today received up to 10 hours of scattered moderate to heavy rain. And the meteorological office here reported a cyclonic circulation over the South China Sea.
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  • 182 5 THE committee reviewing the conditions of service of non-com-, missioned officers and rank and file m the police force has extended the deadline for written submissions from Jan. 31 to Feb. 16. In a statement yesterday the committee said this was to allow members
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  • 64 5 A SEMINAR on the "Problems m the Study of Regionalism m South-East Asia" will be held at the Institute of South-East Asian Studies, Cluny Road, on Feb. 10 at 10 a.m. It will be conducted by Mr. Llewellyn D. Howell Jr., a visit ing graduate student at
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  • 170 6 CHENG Chek Wab wasted te stow off to Us frieads, so be boaght a pistol aad six roaads of ammaaitioa. Bat his aewfoaad esteatattoa did aol last loag he attracted the atteattea of the police aad had Us boase raided. Yesterday, he was
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  • 62 6 RESERVE stocks m the Blood Bank have risen from 753 units last week to 786 units yesterday morning but there is still a shortage of Group "O" Blood. A total of 500 blood donations were given last week, bringing the number of donations to 2,612
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  • 353 6 FOR little Philip Savage; the Scout's rule of doing a good deed a day is a reality and not a mere rule to be observed only when it has to be. After reading m the Herald of Jan. 25 that it blind Scouts from
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  • 342 6  -  SYLVIA BARTHOLOME By A YOUTH told a magistrate that on the night he was alleged to have been rioting he was, m fact, attending a prayer service for his recently deceased father. Three brothers, Ravanethran, Ramana and Balasubramaniam Somu, of Kirn
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  • 237 6 Pleas of dead worker's family ignored' A COMPANY "repeatedly" ignored a union's request for payment of service benefits due to the family of an employee who died, the Industrial Arbitration Court was told yesterday. Mr. Gregory Nalpon, advocate for the Singapore Manual and Mercantile Workers* Union, said this m the
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  • 96 6 AN 18- YEAR-OLD youth who admitted stabbing his uncle to death on Chinese New Year's Eve last year was ordered to be sent to the Reformative Training Centre by the High Court yesterday. Yeo Chye Lai, a pork-seller's assistant, had admitted to a
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  • 52 6 GRASS planter Ang Cheng Chye, 18, was found guilty of breaking into a shop m Tampines Avenue on Oct. 20 last year and stealing 83 ballpens, 11 tubes of tooth paste and 12 packets of raisins worth $24.50. Sentence was postponed to Feb. 20 pending a
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  • 192 7 Fewer people on the dole in Singapore FEWER Singaporeans are receiving public assistance from the. Social Welfare Department today. Rapid industrialisation and improved standards of living have enabled the Government to cut down spending on public assistance and allowances for TB treatment. This picture emerged from figures obtained yesterday of
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  • Article, Illustration
    25 7 Mr. Tang, who was on the upper floor of the house next door to the lire, jumped down from the window and injured his leg.
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  • 236 7 8 YEARS' JAIL FOR BEARING SCRAPER KILLING NG BOON HOE, It, was Jailed for eight yean by the High Coart yesterday whea he admitted caasiag the death of Say Chew Seag alias Ah Teh with a bearlag scraper last Febrmary. Ng had beea charged with calpaMe homicide mot amoaatfag to
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  • 94 7 IN MAGISTRATES' Court No. 1 yesterday, 125 people including 10 women were fined a total of $4,360 for gambling offences on Saturday and Sunday. The largest group arrested consisted of 22 people who were caught playing "Pai Kow", m Sago Street on Sunday.
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  • 447 7  - Man leaps for his life on to a car SUHAIMI BIDIN TIN CAN MACHINES WORTH $1 MILLION DESTROYED IN FIRE By A MAN leapt from a window to escape a blaze which left a family of five homeless yesterday. Mr. Tang Slow Cheng hurt his leg when he landed on
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  • 187 7 TECHNICIAN Rengasamy Appavu told a preliminary inquiry yesterday of the afternoon he saw an armed man rushing toward a car after a $124,000 robbery at the Public Utilities Board depot m Kitchener Road on Nov. 7, 1969. He was testifying at the trial of
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  • 48 7 A 19- YEAR-OLD national serviceman denied causing the death of a woman by having driven negligently m Jalan Boon Lay on Dec. 5. Lim Yew Thye was allowed bail by a magistrate's court yesterday and the trial has been set for Feb. 13.
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  • Article, Illustration
    16 7 rae four shops, Nos. 3t2, 3»4, 3t€ and 3tB Jalan Besar, which were swept hy Ore.
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  • 434 7 THE University of Singapore's Faculties of Engineering and Science and the Polytechnic will form a large industrial teaching complex m the mid-70s as the main foundation for the Republic's economic planning for the future. This was stated yesterday by Dr. Toh Chin Chye,
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  • 65 7 HARI Raya Haji will be celebrated m Singapore on Saturday, Feb. 6, the Muslim Religious Council announced yesterday. The Council will hold a Hari Raya Haji congressional prayer at an open field of the Queenstown's sports complex (near the police station) for the
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  • 268 7 A DRIVER yesterday sued his former employer for $5,646 which he claims he earned doing overtime over a period of four years, but was never paid for. Long Abas told Mr. Justice D'Cotta that he was not paid overtime for work done on
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

  • 152 8 C 'wealth Chief Scout to make official visit here THE CHIEF Scout of the Commonwealth, Lord Charles Mac Lean, will visit Singapore from Saturday to Feb. 9. He will be accompanied by Mr. Gordon Woodward, Assistant Area Commissioner m New South Wales, Australia. The Singapore Scout Association has arranged a
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  • 63 8 AN unemployed man hanged himself m a house m Jalan Pacheli on Jan. 20, a coroner was told yesterday. Tek Kirn Koon, 57, was found hanging from a beam by his wife Madam Yeo Guan, 45, at 5.30 a.m. when she went to wake him up. She
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  • 34 8 POH Sun Kiang of Lorong Jurat was fined $20 at a traffic court yesterday for spilling muddy water when he drove a lorry along Connaught Drive on Sept. 9, 1989.
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  • 152 8 NARROW ESCAPE FOR PASTORS AS PLANE CRASHES KUCHING, Mm. Four pastors of the Seventh Day Adveatist Chsrca had a ■arrow escape whea their plane crashed iato some telephone poles ob landing at the Ayer Maais School ia Seria*, 44 Miles from here, ob Saturday. Mr. Richard Hall, a pastor ud
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  • 133 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Only 12 out of 400 executives m West Malaysia are women, Shell's Trade Relations Manager, Mrs. P. Schubert, disclosed here today. Speaking at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Pudu Rotary Club, she said these women were m advertising, marketing, research,
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  • 543 8 Tum Razak: Malay progress will not be at expense of other rices KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Tun Abdul Razak stressed today that the Government's policy of increasing Malay participation m commerce and industry would be carried out without depriving the legitimate rights and interests of the other communities. Speaking at the
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  • 48 8 KUCHING, Mon. Total donations m Sarawak so far for the National Disaster Fund is $81,000, the State Ministry of Welfare announced today. Meanwhile, about $31,700 had been received m the state for the Gurkha Welfare Appeal since it was launched here last year.
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  • 422 8 AMENDMENTS THE visiting Japanese investment survey mission met the Prime Minister yesterday afternoon for a "business discussion" that lasted 90 minutes. Picture above shows Mr. Lee Kuan Yew at the meeting, flanked by Mr. I.F. Tang (left), chairman of the Economic Development
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  • 404 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Madam Jutta Lydia Graf-Kraft, a beautician, who was sued for divorce on grounds of adultery by her husband, was today granted a divorce from him m a sudden turn m the case m the High Court here. Madam Graf-Kraft, 33,
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  • 219 8 Warning Tor doctors who fail to serve Govt term KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Health Minister Tan Sri Haji Sardon Haji Jubir warned doctors today that they would be prosecuted if they failed to comply with the new legislation requiring them to serve the Government for two years on first registration. "Once
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  • 115 8 AN unemployed man who admitted stealing $26 from a restaurant m Gagak Selari Barat on Sunday was sentenced to a day's jail and fined $500 yesterday. The Magistrate's Court No. I was told that Koh Boon Chee, 26, approached the proprietor,
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    • 244 8 Leow beats Aussie Master SINGAPORE'S 14-year- 14 e5 Nds old Junior Champion, 15 Nds: etffi Leslie Leow, caused an upset when he beat I =1 Australia's National 8 JtJ S^fH Master Bleicher m a 7 mg^^m^^^a^^ brilliant game m the ..9> mk i. recent Karlis Lidums •ft I Ll,' International
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  • 412 9  - town ralk Map-collecting for fun LEECHIU SAN By SINGAPORE collectors can now add map-collecting to their hobbies. The Connoisseur, a shop m the Singapore Hilton, caters specially for them. The antique maps sold at the Connoisseur are not the dry and dusty sheets which people would expect old maps to
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  • 386 9  -  A.K. LEE By EAST is East and West is West, and the same can usually be said for left and right. But drivers face dilemma when they drive along one particular road m town where they can't tell whether right is really
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  • 102 9 PETER O'Toole (left) made a surprise visit to director David Lean (right) while Lean was shooting RYAN'S DAUGHTER on location m Ireland. O'Toole, who starred In Lean's LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, showed np secretly on the location and asked for an extra's Job. A sharp-eyed assistant to
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  • 96 9 8 a.m.— B p.m.: Exhibition of books by Charles Dickens at the National Library, Stamford Road. 6 p.m.: Carnival Trade Fair 1971 at Great World Amusement Park, Kirn Seng Road. 7— p.m.: At the National Theatre Club (first floor) National Theatre, Clemenceau Aye., 7 p.m.: Indian dancing and
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  • 365 10 GABABOUT Families: Should they be large or small? Miss Judy Wong, 21, salesgirl: "I'd like to have a small family, the same as my parents with about five children. If there are more, everyone will have fights and quarrels." DDD Mr. John Mede, 22, student: "I suppose a small family
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  • 802 11 HISTORICAL NOTE: The exciting stories of Hercules are part of the mythology of the Ancient Greeks He was the strongest man around m the world of Gods and demiGods. And he was given tasks to perform by Eurytheus, King of Argos, because there were some high-class jealousies
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  • 319 11 WHY THIS BIAS AGAINST THE ARTS? By Lucien Wong National Junior College OUR PRESENT educational system calls for the streaming of students into the arts, science or technical fields as early as the age of 15, when they are m Secondary 3. This practice, adopted from the British, has been
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  • 445 12 MANILA, Mon. A Filipino University student was shot m the forehead and home-made bombs exploded m downtown Manila m separate outbreaks of violence as a partial transport strike started here today. The strike, staged by Manila's jeepney (ten-seat mini-bus) drivers, was only about 15
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  • 60 12 HONGKONG, M on. -An army general has been appointed Minister of Foreign Trade m Peking, the Hong Kong Star reported today. The Australian published and edited newspaper quoted its "own sources m China" as saying that Gen. Pel HsiangKuo was named to the post as part of
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  • 283 12 HONGKONG, Mod. Peking has set March 20 as the date to convene its longawaited Fourth National People's Congress, the local tabloid Star said today, quoting its "own China sources." The preparatory committee for the Congress m Peking has ordered all provinces
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  • 130 12 ROTTEKDAM, Msa. fc WM have itod taday hi a Ore which swept the crew't a— i tm i «f British shla aaderg«4.g repairs here. Mare tkaa M flremea J^«^M~ J*^rd the. ••sjs), which Is smaaa«ed by J.MJ. Deahstai ef Glasffew. The fire hrake s«t la
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  • 307 12 w,' P&W; T, n k-JUv: i.v '"-'jJiUi:. ADDIS ABABA, Mon. Ousted President Milton Obote of Uganda made a quick secret trip to Addis Ababa today for secret talks with Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. Also present at the meeting were Zambian Foreign Minister E.H.K. Mudenda
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  • 169 12 Still no tuna fishing truce WASHINGTON, Mon. An Organisation of American States conference on the U.S.Ecuador fishing rights conflict recessed yesterday with the two sides seemingly as far apart as ever. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Jose Maria Ponce Yepes declared that he will not authorise direct negotiations with the United States
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  • 298 12 Going to war with the black market PHNOM PENH,— For USs3t.3s a Cambodian clrtllaa who waste to fight for kit embattled ceaatry caa go oa Pkaeai Peak's Mack Market aad rig himself oat la Amerlcaa battle dress, complete from steel helmet to jangle boots. At tbls price, be caa acqaire
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  • 520 12 Nation-wide strike No. 2 starts in Britain LONDON, Mon. Twenty thousand production workers walked out today m Ford Motor plants across a Britain already suffering from a nation -wide postal strike. Ford's pay dispute with its 50,000 British workers appeared to be spreading to all of its 21 British plants.
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  • 65 12 TOKYO, Mon. The Japanese Defence Agency was reported today to have begun a study of security problems related to China to formulate the future course of the nations defence policy. Director General of the Agency Yasuhiro Nakasone ordered the study because various issues involving China, together
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  • 41 12 JAKARTA, Sun. Indonesian officials have given up any hope of finding eight air forcemen including the son-in-law of the late President Sukarno who apparently perished a week-and-a-half ago when their plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean near West Irian.
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  • 149 12 SITUATION CRITICAL AS MOZAMBIQUE FACES MORE FLOODS LOURENCO MARQUES, (Mozambique), Moo. Fresh flooding pushed inland by strong tides, disease and starvation threatened today the hard-hit Zambezia area of northern Mozambique. An area half the size of metropolitan Portugal was under water m the wake of last week's cyclone Felice, said
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  • 65 12 MONTREAL, Mon, A Chinese delegation from Peking headed by Mr. Hsu Chung-Fu arrived at Montreal International Airport last night amid tight security precautions. Mr. Hsu is China's first official envoy to Canada since diplomatic relations were established between the two countries last autumn. He will serve
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  • 107 12 TEL AVIV, Mm. Israeli raiders crossed arts sialhura UstaMß darlag the aight, attacktag twe gaerUla streagThe Military Caaiaiaßd ■aid taaight aae Israeli ••alieT was killed aad three ■■■■iii hi the clash with Arah ieteadui. At least ate guerillas were killed. Three •fen are thsachi te have
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  • 413 13 Pop goes the show as riot police move in PARIS, Sun. Police and pop fans clashed here last night after a 150-strong "commando" of young people invaded a pop concert at the Palais des Sports and ransacked the premises. Eleven police were injured m the clashes and 26 people arrested.
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  • 157 13 WASHINGTON, Mon. President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers said today that the prospective enlargement of the European Common Market "will affect world trading relations substantially." They added: "The United States has long supported the integration of Western Europe because the broad
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  • 166 13 Man found hanged after parents kill his mistress SWANSEA, Wales, Mom. A 23-year-old Pakistani hanged himself from a mountainside tree yesterday Just two days after his parents were found guilty of murdering his girlfriend and dismembering her body. The dead man was Akhtar All Mohammed, who on Friday saw his
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  • 247 13 WARSAW, Mon. Output of Polish shipyards dropped by half m the first three weeks of this month following the strikes m December, Stanlislaw Skrobot, overall manager of the Baltic Shipbuilding Industries, said m a recent television interview. He said that the persistent unrest m the
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  • 343 13 Anti-police rally ends in death T^-- n y -S LOS ANGELES, Mon. One person was shot dead, more than 25 injured and 70 businesses damaged or burned when violence exploded after a weekend demonstration against the police m a mainly Mexican-American district. It was the third major outbreak of violence
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  • 122 13 Painting in a church may be masterpiece LOWTRENCHARD, Mod. An obscure and dusty painting was taken down from the wall of St. Peters Church here this weekend and stored m a secret hiding place after clergymen were advised It may be a rare 15th Century masterwork. "I will stake my
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  • 109 13 BAGHDAD, Iraq, Mon. Censorship on out-going news from Iraq is being abolished as of today, Minister of Information Shafeek Kamali announced yesterday. He called m foreign correspondents and said they would henceforth take their dispatches straight to the cable office for transmission abroad without prior
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  • 188 13 LONDON, Mon. Women's liberation m Britain reached for the sky today with a Member of Parliament urging British airlines to employ female pilots. Mr Norman Tebbitt, a former pilot for British Overseas Airways Corp. (BOAC), charged that BOAC and British European Airways
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  • 251 13 CAPE KENNEDY, Mon. About 200 blacks who marched here to protest at the Apollo 14 Moon flight yesterday heard one of their leaders say "America sends lazy white boys to the Moon" because "if there was work to be done, they'd send a
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  • 129 13 Catholics in Red priest protest BALTIMORE, Maryland, Mon. About 60 people protested yesterday against the Baltimore Roman Catholic Archdiocese's involvement with two priests allegedly involved m a bomb and kidnap conspiracy. The demonstrators, all Catholics, marched for almost two hours m front of the Cathedral of Mary our Queen, main
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  • 80 13 AMMAN, Mon. The acting Chief of the Arab Truce Commision m Jordan said yesterday there were no more problems pending between the Jordanian Government and the Palestinian guerillas. Three meetings between the two sides over the past four days settled all pending matters, said
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  • 683 14 F C ONOMIf AFF AIRS 1 I WASHINGTON, Mon. President Nixon pledged today to cut inflation sharply scale down high unemployment, and bring economic prosperity to the United States by mid-1972. He said his Administration would achieve these goals with a great economic leap forward this
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  • 285 14 SINGAPORE-MALAYSIA Merchant rates fixed yesterday 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. Sterling Pound 7.4000 7.3675 7 3550 £££Ti£2r 3teo i a *"i 33 7 i New Zealand Dollar 3.4700 3.4225 3 3925 ?t°c th
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  • 347 14 TOKYO, Mon. The Bank of Japan announced that the nations total savings at the end of 1970 stood at 10,788,500 million yen (U5529,968 million) or nearly 90 per cent of the target for the current fiscal year, ending March 31, 1971. Savings showed a big increase of 3,650,600
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  • 271 14 PEOPLE in business Mr BENJAMIN C. DAVIS, Jr., president of the international division of Canada Dry Corporation, will arrive m Singapore today for a two-day study tour of the local soft drink market. Mr Davis Before joining Canada Dry, Mr Davis, a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard School of
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  • 46 14 (Yesterday's closing prices, m U.S. dollars per ounce). Singapore (1) 39.60, (2) 150.25; Hongkong 40.00; Beirut 38.55; London 38.175; Zurich 38.1 08, 38.255. Paris 38.63. Note: (1) Export price to non-sterling areas m U.S. dollars. (2) Local dealers' price m Singapore dollars, per tael.
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  • 28 14 (Closing buyer /seller prices for Feb. 1, .m sterling per metric ton). Tone: Steady; Spot 1443 1444; 3-month 1444 1445; Settlement 1446; Total turnover 265 tons.
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  • 477 14 lower following press comment on the interim results. Banks reacted after recent firmness, ahead of the "big four" figures. Government bonds were easier m quiet trading, long and medium dated issues were up to a quarter point lower on lack of support. Oils were depressed by the
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  • 329 14 was up 20 cents and advances led declines by nearly two-to-one. Volume was about three million shares. CST, m U.S. dollars.) Feb. 1 Jan. 29 I Paper 38-1/8 38 M, ITT 55 55-1/8 Jones L. 11% 11 X Alum 36-7/Bxd 37-7/8 Kenn 38V 4 38% Litton
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  • 348 14 AMSTERDAM In easier internationals yesterday, Unilever and KLM were weak. Plantations and shippings were dull, but insurances were very firm. Local industrials were mixed. Investment funds showed a firmer trend, although banks were narrowly mixed. State loans opened quietly mixed, but some issues closed firmer. PARIS The market
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  • 179 15 TAIPEI, Mon.-Tai-wan s economic growth l»st year reached an impressive 10 per cent while its per capita income also hit a new record of US$292 an official report said today. According to preliminary statistics compiled by the Directorate General of Budgets Account and Statistics, industrial
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  • 431 15 STOCK EXCHANGE OF MALAYSIA! AND SINGAPORE AFTER the long Chinese New Year holidays, the share market yesterday opened on a quiet note with activity again focussed on industrial counters. Industrials, however, finished mixed with 27 gains balanced by 28 losses, while the other sections saw marginal price
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  • 77 15 (Managers' prices for Feb. 2) R. 8 B. S. The Saving ASIA UNIT TRUSTS Fund 1.13 118 Mai. Invt. Fund 1.31 1.36 Singapore Mai. Progress Progress Fund 1.02 1.07 Fund 1.05 l.io xd (Managed' prices for Feb. 1) CHARTERED UNIT TRUSTS Sterling Singapore Commodity 4/9 Growth Fund 1.08
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  • 257 15 THE PORT OF SINGAPORE AUTHORITY HAS MADE THESE BERTHING ARRANGEMENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 2. OUT: Calchas 14/15; Trang 20 east; Lycaon 31/32; Rhexenor 35/36; Queensville 44; Florian Ceynowa 46; Glenbeg 48; Swat 47. IN Tamuraeverett (after Pando Cape) 42/43; President Jackson (after Nowshera) 1/2; Radnorshire (after Calchas) 14/15;
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  • 444 15 TOKYO, MonNippon Oil, a major distributor of petroleum products m Japan, said today it would raise it, prices next month. Nippon Oil officials said prices of gasoline would be raised about 1,000 yen (US$2.7B), or 8.3 per cent, per kilolitre and heavy oil would
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  • 325 15 i«JS k mark et y?«*«fday pared later by profit-taking, closed higher after an irregular Some high priced stock., session as selective interest including Sony, Matsushita alternated with, profit-taking. Electric and Daiwa House, also Low priced issues, which lost ground, but Nishimatsu met good support during the Construction,
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  • 133 15 COMPANY NEWS Gammon G ammon Southeast Asia announced that Gammon (Hongkong) ceased to be its subsidiary as of Jan. 29. This followed the sale of 500,000 Gammon (HK) shares of HKSS each by the parent company on that date. In July last year, the parent company sold 300,000 shares of
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  • 682 15 MALAYSIA/SINGAPORE RUBBER LONDON RUBBER 47-3/8 cents int. l r.s.s. RUBBER a lb. (down three- Feb 105.25 105.50 quarters cent). Int. 1 R.S.S. (Yesterday's official After a slow Start yester- Marc h 108.00 108.25 buyer/seUer prices, m pence day trading becan m th* nt 2 Rss 104 25 i O47
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  • 220 15 Volume of business was a net gain of $1.2S at *31.75. steady at $20.10 while fair ,n a steady market Banks lost an initial $1 Yangtzekiang improved to yesterday after the long Lunar gain to close unchanged from $4.70. New Year holiday recess. previous closing levels. Slater
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  • 188 15 LONDON, Mon. The market opened on a quiet note today but grain cargoes were reported to have been fixed from Halifax to Tokyo/Hakata range at US$lO.5O fd (free discharge) for March 10/25, and from British Columbia to the Netherlands at US$lO.3O flo (free m and out) for
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 811 15 Singapore Malaysia Jan. 26 667.88 432 79 Feb. 1 666.75 433^47 pst.., WG^z ggggsg szvr" BEN 1.17/1.18; 1.17 (2) 118 5£ <6 > «Di ME LIN -63A64,. .64; (8). 1.16. 1.19 D;.. 01. M W WOOL .76/77; .77 (3). S STEAM 2 14/2 17 ifi UnCh BERJAVA 1.27/1.29; 1.27. (2)
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  • 81 16 KEY FOR EASY REFERENCE. The shipping schedules beginning on this page are given m four parts for ships westbound, eastbound, southbound and coastal. Each entry gives the following information: NAME OF SHIP, date of arrival/departure, ports of call, name of line abbreviated/name of agent(s) abbreviated. At the bottom
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 703 16 LINES DD. (INCOWXyUTEO IN THC HtPUBUC Of MNGAEO*C> ICB BUILDING 2 SHENTQN WAY SINGAPORE V TEL »*****-7 U.K. EUROPE SERVICE LOADING FOR LONDON, H'BURG, R'DAM, HAVRE, ■Mtgipajf p.l'htm PtMM ARRIVES NirrUMt AMBCR Gdn.4o/4i j/4 FiO D/b FeO H burg 8/3. RrJam 11/3 S*' 1 2 F b Havr« 14/3. Ldoo
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    • 1076 16 XA/ootlKrM IfliH l cludin 9 i ALL ships bound for the Americas, e.g. Coast ports of North, Central or South America V V\Z7OILJv./LJI IvJ shIDS filing east out of Singapore to Pacific and through the Panama Canal to the Gulf ports, etc. MOONIE Mar 9/12 P. Sham (Mar 13/15), Penang
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  • 537 17 Including ships sailing out of Singapore for Far East ports to the north-east ALASKA MARU c. b n/1i i^^^^^m FeD 13/14 Hongkong. Japan. MOSK/LEO ALCOS MASTER fln Q/ Apr 19/22 Osaka. Yokohama. Vancouver B.C. Jeddah. AOL/ASC ALCOS RANQER Mar 18/21 Osaka. Vhama, Vancouver. B.C. Jeddah. AOL/ASC ALCOS VICTORY F
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  • 335 17 I sci/js Including ships calling at Malaysian and Indonesian ports. AUSTRAL MARU Feb 20/22 Sydney/Manokwai/Biak/ Hamarinda. DU/DU "CHERRY BAGUS" lnPt/Feb4 Kuching. LS/LS CHERRY MOLEK SLSTDY Sibu. Sarike,. LS/LS OARPOLIMA lnPt/Feb4 Pangkal Batam. Sl/S DARPOSATU Feb3/5 Sorong/Biak/ Dj aiapura. S./S. DELIMA Feb9/12 Ampenan/Ntt PL/Pl ENDE SLS TOY Djambi/Djakarta. PL/PL EPAR
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  • 198 17 Mainly ships bound for Australia and New Zealand, including ships calling at Manila, etc. »v^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^p I AUSTRALASIA n p. Fremantle (Feb 8). AUS/AUS AUSTRALAS.A Feb 18/22 Fremant.e (Mar 1). AUS/AUS BRORIVER Feb27/Mar2 Adela.de. Me.bourne. Sydney. SSL/TC BROWIND Mar 26/28 Adelaide. Melbourne, Sydne y- SSL/TC CENTAUR U3N/U4S Feb 15/16 Fremant.e
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 642 17 JSS? MALAYSIAN INTERNATIONAL JW|| SHIPPING CORPORATION BERHAD M No. 30K Jin. Ampang. Kuala Lumpur Jj I The National Shipping Line of Malaysia FAR EAST/EUROPE SERVICE Staaap*" P.S'lMm Mm, a^rK^: BUNGA MELOR 27 Feb/2 Mar 3/6 Mar 7/e Mar Havre 2/4. London 4/4 Mbura 10/4. R-#rl 12/4 A'wrp X 4/4. Br.m.n
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  • RACING HERALD
    • 552 18 Other horses to follow are: Headlines Aerospace 11, Regal Rite, newcomer Taksenonoh, Page Boy and Famille Verte. Head liner came from the rear to finish a fast second to Paramount Chief over lOf. Aerospace II back m training after' a long spell ran two
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    • 172 18 Albatross still leads in Cape-to-Rio race CAPE TOWN, Mon. The field m the Cape-to-Rio yacht race remained almost unchanged at the last position reports yesterday with the South African entries Albatross II and Mercury still holding first and second places respectively on both. handicap and actual position. Albatross, the Van
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    • 734 18 RACE WEIGHTS For Penang meeting wmL~T L«~ Stream 8.06 Okay Okay 7.08 Gold Tax 8.08 weekend races at Natf Lemak 8.04 Big HiU 7.07 Pleasant Fair 807 Penang, Feb. 6 and 7. Zanzibar II 8.04 Tengah 7.07 M^HluTur 10l SATURDAY G^l' View Ifs oJ^StTVoo SUNDAY Movie Lad^ .04 C^onvslrf Q^
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    • 174 18 LONDON, Mon. Sir Alf Ramsey, manager of the England soccer team, yesterday called up two new men defender Roy McFarland and striker Martin drivers to reinforce his injury-hit squad for Wednesday's European Nations Cup game against Malta. Neither has played m a full international game before. McFarland,
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    • 22 18 Katong Ocean with Johnny Nelson astride after winning the Class One, Division One main event over lOf on Sunday.
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    • 404 18 SAN DIEGO, California, Mon. George Archer, (U.S.) slump-ridden since winning the 1969 Masters, stormed out of the pack yesterday with a brilliant, seven-under-par 65 and won the Andy Williams-San Diego open golf tournament. The 6' 7" Archer, a former cowboy, had a
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 10 18 DAVY JONES By Sam Leff ressJ f&ffrasgg feawps^ smsMfr^ 3
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    • 313 18 |RfSRRTTSHS33R!II^99I ACROSS DOWN 4. They steer one into devious i. Sauce for cat to have a meal schemes (6) (6) 8 Silver circle on a sandbank 2. Shrill cry of Indian black bird (7) (4) 10. Yes, cats will go wild m rap- 3 Hurried round vessel to ture! (7)
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  • 236 19 MING Court defeated Malaysia-Singapore Airlines 3-0 m the Singapore Business Houses Football Division Three T" league match at Farrer Park yesterday. U J f n evenl y contested first half with neither side able to find the net. Ming Court however,
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  • 446 19 MONKS Hill Secondary, St Joseph's Institution and Raffles sailed through the preliminary rounds with flying colours m the City District 'IT division badminton tournament at the Bukit Ho s *ee Secondary School yesterday. Raffles beat Balestier Hill Technical 5-0, Monks Hill edged Kirn
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  • Article, Illustration
    17 19 Home's goalkeeper Hraeisj I Makes a timely save from Ttoraycroft's forward Staaley <rl«M). Pix by Sulaiman Ismail
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  • 331 19 AUSSIES' FIGHTING CHANCE ADELAIDE, Mon. England's captain Ray Ulingworth decided not to enforce the follow-on after Australia collapsed for 235 m the first innings of the Sixth Test at Adelaide today. His decision was a surprise and gave Australia a fresh hope of salvaging a
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  • 235 19 NEW DELHI, Mon. The Indian cricket team to tour the Carribbean left Bombay today for London en route to Kingston, Jamaica, confident of doing a "lot better" than the previous tour to the islands m 1962. The sixteen man team, headed by captain Ajit Wadekar, includes five who
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  • 386 19 HONGKONG, Mon. Fleet-footed, hard kicking inside right Harms Kuppers scored twice to give Austria's touring Swarovski Wattens soccer team a 2-1 victory over a Hongkong Combined Chinese here yesterday. It was Wattens' only win m Hongkong m three games. The Austrians were held
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  • 216 19 DESPITE a spirited and determined rally m the second half. Cold Storage went down 2- 1 to Malaysia-Singapore Airlines "B" team m a Division Two Singapore Business Houses Football league match at Geylang Stadium yesterday. Centre-forward Ram Singh was the hero of MSA's win scoring both
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  • 319 19 14 countries for first Commonwealth table tennis FOURTEEN countries have indicated that they would participate m the First Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships at the Singapore Badminton Stadium from March 20 to 25. This was disclosed by the Organising Council headed by the Minister of Social Affairs Inche Othman Wok yesterday.
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  • 86 19 THE final of the British Army Farelf inter-unit boxing championships will be held at the Crest Road Gymnasium, Nee Soon, tomorrow from 8.30 p.m. The units competing are the 1 Battalion Irish Guards, the winners from Hongkong and 95 Commando Light Regiment Royal Artillery, the winners from
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  • 206 19 SCC still unbeaten in women's hockey SINGAPORE Cricket Club started the second round of the Women's Hockey Association league tournament m a fine style when they trounced a ten-member Combined Schools *B 5-0 on the Padang yesterday. SCC, who completed their first round with an 100 percent record, had the
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 88 19 BADMINTON: City District Championships (Bukit Ho Swee Sec. Sch. 8.30 a.m 2.15 p.m.): "B" Div. Girls Rangoon Road Sec. vs Spore Chinese Girls; Ist Toa Payoh vs St. Nicholas Girls; CHU vs Monk's Hill Sec; "C" Div. Girls Bukit Ho Swee Sec. vs Spore Chinese Girls; Rangoon Road Sec. vs
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  • 215 20 TOKYO, Mon. The Japanese Government and mass media have chosen to ignore a savage attack on Emperor Hirohito by China. The attack, which came from the official Chinese news agency Hsinhua (New China), is seen here as an embarrassment to the Government
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  • 205 20 SABAH TALKS ON SPEEDING NEW PROJECTS KOTA KINABALU, Mon. Heads of government departments m Sabah met here today to discuss the speeding up of development projects. The Chief Minister, Tun Datu Haji Mustapha Bin Datu Harun, has directed that the meeting be held fortnightly. Chaired by the State Minister of
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  • 92 20 LONDON, Mon. Twenty Irish demonstrators ended a 24-hour hunger strike last night by handing the Government a petition for the release of 19 Irishmen jailed m Britain, mostly on charges of illegal arms deals. The demonstrators were members of the London branch of
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  • 555 20 From Page 1 associations, the Academic Staff Association, led by expatriate lecturers bat comprising both local and foreign teachers, and the Kesatuan Akademis Universiti Singapura (KAUS), comprising local teachers. "An opinion poll of our members showed overwhelming support for merger of the
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  • 438 20 Britain still hopes for oil settlement despite late setback price on which taxes and royalties are calculated. At present, taxes are half of the posted price and royalties 12.5 per cent. This stands today at $1.79 a barrel of crude. Reports from Teheran say the Gulf States want to increase
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  • 100 20 KARACHI, Mon.-A large number of rare books m Sindhi Arabic and Persian were destroyed m a fire yesterday m the Sindhiology Department of the Hyderabad Library m Sind province. Police said today it was Arson. They found a broken window through which gasoline-soaked cloths and
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  • 346 20 From Page 2 00 to 1971 riBin to $5 billion by 1976. But Congress is jealous of its revenue-raising power and influence. The proposed revenue-sharing bill died m the House Ways and Means Committee, where the powerful Democratic chairman (Mr. WUbur Mills) would not even
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  • 164 20 A TAIWAN artist-sculptor, Professor Yuyu Yang, is putting the finishing touches to a large stone mural with a Chinese mythological theme m the main lobby of the Mandarin Hotel. The 69 feet by 28 feet mural depicting "A Procession of Taoist Fairies Paying
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  • 389 20 Apollo-14's mission to bring back moon rocks From Page 1 ica's first space flight nearly 10 years ago. The launch, seen by a half million people at Cape Kennedy, Florida, and millions on television, was 40 minutes late because of clouds that were layered 4,000 to 10,000 feet above that
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  • 62 20 JAKARTA, Mon. Mrs. Harjati Sakri, divorced wife of the late President Sukarno, went on trial here today on charges of damaging the house which she once occupied. Mrs. Harjati, jwho was divorced by Dr Sukarno m IMS, was forced to leave the house m August,
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