Singapore Herald, 12 February 1971

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  • 15 1 THE SINGAPORE hlerld No. 174 Singapore Friday, February 12, 1971 MC(P) No. 2525 15 CENTS
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  • 316 1 Now a Saigon push north to the 17th parallel KHE SANH, Thurs. South Vietnamese parachutists and ranger commandos in southern Laos, protected by artillery fire from the Laotian mountains, are preparing to move up towards the North Vietnamese frontier, according to reports here. The commandos will go "as far as
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  • 92 1 JAKARTA, Thurs. Police in Medan have arrested several youths for allegedly raping two- girls, Antara news agency reported. The two girls, one of them the daughter of an army officer, were taking a stroll last week when they were abducted by a group
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  • 384 1  - Traffic 'toll' probe CPIB by CORRUPT Practices Investigation Bureau officers made simultaneous raids ota more than 25 lorry transport companies yesterday in connection with a "toll" allegedly levied by members of the Traffic Police Mobile Squad. The entire bureau, assisted by divisional police inspectors and the Reserve Unit, fanned out
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    162 1 Phone links with Padang JAKARTA, Thurs. Direct telephone links between Padang, Singapore and Kuala Lu r m P ur wiu be opened soon The head of the West Sumatra and Riau Telecommunications Department, Mr. Dachlan, who ?i SCl u Sed this, said that the telephone network was made
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  • 232 1  -  JENNY LEW By BUT didn't the island of Krakatoa lie to the WEST of Java? "Shoosh," said Barbara Werle, star of the film Krakatoa, East of Java. "It was a mistake." Miss Werle is a warm-hearted person, singer, actress and former dancer all
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  • 179 1 Barnard: Extend 5-nation defence exercises MILITARY exercises under the five-power agreement should not be limited to Singapore and Malaysia, but should be extended to Australia, Mr. Lance Barnard, deputy leader of Australia's Labour Party, said yesterday. He said he discussed this with Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, who "agreed that it
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  • 45 1 BANDAR Seri Begawan, Thurs. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei today announced the formation of a 21-member Legislative Council all appointed by the Ruler. It replaces the former partly elected body dissolved in April last year at the end of its fiveyear term.
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  • 89 1 PENANG, lliurs. The Royal Malaysian Navy has begun recruiting for its commando unit. The Chief of Naval Staff, Commodore Data K. Thaaabalaslngam, said today the unit's multi-purpose role Includes investigation of surrounding islands in East and West Malaysia. Commodore Dato Tha- balasingam said the
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  • 46 1 ABOVE: CPIB officers removing books and documents from a transport company in Geylang Road yesterday. ODD RIGHT: Two Reserve Unit policemen stand by as a CPIB officer checks the books of a transport company in Peking Street. Story: HAROLD SOH Pictures: DAVID LIM
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  • 147 1 CAIRO, Thurs. Six hundred Jordanian troops backed by tanks this morning began storming the Redeployment Centre for Palestinian militia in Amman's Jebel-EI-Hamian district, the Palestinian Central Committee announced here. The attack followed shelling of the militia building and other civilian structures in the area by
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  • 319 2 TIES WITH LAGOS: CHINA'S BIG TACIT VICTORY IN W. AFRICA HONGKONG: The establishment of diplomatic relations between Nigeria and China was a major diplomatic breakthrough for the Peking government in West Africa, according to analysts here. Oil rich Nigeria, which has only recently emerged from the Blafran civil war, is
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  • 610 2  -  JOHN SLEE INDIAN POLLS BEGIN NEXT MONTH By PRIME MINISTER Indira Gandhi seems set to confirm decisively both her own position as leader of India's 550 millions and her party's supremacy in next month's elections. It was precisely because of increasing attacks on her
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  • 288 2 WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO SOLVE VARSITY PROBLEMS viewpoint IN any institution there will always be problems and difficulties, especially so when significant changes are instituted consequent on the cumulative demands made on it by the society at large. Some of these problems may be temporary whilst others are of a
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  • 396 2 India is most anxious to help Nepal THE despatch by John Ridley (S.H. Feb. 11) regarding trade relations between India and Nepal is to say the least, a most unfair presentation of the current position. r It is sheer cussedness on the part of John Ridley to speak of Indian
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  • 115 2 PART-TIME AND FULL-TIME SERVICE MY son, born on Sept. 28, 1952, is at present in Pre-University 11. He will be liable for full-time National Service when he leaves school at the end of this year. He is being called up for part-time National Service (Special Constabulary) as from Feb. 15,
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  • 412 2 MY wife and I, being childless, eventuallyadopted two children. I had no time to take up legal adoption previously, as I have a job which entails considerable travelling from Singapore. Our lapse boomeranged. Later, during her formative years in school, our eldest child came face to
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  • 7 2 Friday. February 12, 1971
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  • 477 2 MIDDLE class families of the same size, with the same household income, can have very different standards of living in Singapore today. The determining factor is whether they own their homes or rent them. So high are rents for middle class housing that the difference
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  • 146 2 THE Cambridge HSC results will soon be published. I am sure the whole of Singapore will be anxious to find out how our new National Junior College will fare. The crux of the issue is this. The College takes in only the cream from
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  • 202 3 PREMIER LEE PLANS TO VISIT MALAYSIA 'VERY SOON' SAYS ENVOY IPOH, Thurs. Singapore Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew Is expected to visit Malaysia "very soon," Singapore's High Commissioner to Malaysia, Mr. Maurice Baker, said here today. However, Mr. Baker, who Is on a oae-day official visit here, did not
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  • 173 3 THE Ministry of Defence announced yesterday that the Singapore Armed- Forces will hold a series of military exercises in various parts of Singapore this month. A Ministry statement said the SAF would be conducting a demolition exercise at their Southern Islands Artillery and Demolition
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  • 112 3 ATHMAN Buang bin Jahaya thought that a licence was not necessary for his transistor radio because it was so small. When asked yesterday by Magistrate Chiam Boon Keng whether he knew the maximum fine for the offence was $1,000, he replied that he
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  • 169 3 THE MP for Kallang, Inche Abdul Aziz Karim, will raise several questions in Parliament on the future of hawkers at Rayman Market in the Balestier Road area. He will ask the Minister for Health, Mr. Chua Sian Chin, whether he considers "justified" the
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  • 277 3 A LABOURER who killed his sleeping friend in cold blood in a Hindu temple in Coronation Road last year was sentenced to death yesterday the first death sentence this year. Velusami Suppiah, 48, who has a wife and two children in India, slashed Malayandi
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  • 103 3 TWO YOUTHS armed with parangs held up two women on the staircase of their block of flats in Lorong 17, Geylang, and robbed them of their jewellery worth $l,#M and $5,000 early yesterday. Madam Low See Moi, 37, and her friend Jenny Tan, 2f,
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  • 85 3 Road safety talks for primary students PRIMARY school pupils will receive instructions on road safety during Safety Week beginning tomorrow. Police instructors will speak to 1,500 Girl Guides and Scouts tomorrow at the Anglo-Chinese School, Kim Seng Technical School and St. Patrick's Secondary School. On Sunday, an American expert on
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  • 251 3 Workers flee building in panic A CIGARETTE DOWN THE CHUTE... HUNDREDS of office workers ran out of the A. I. A. Building in Robinson Road shortly before the lunch hour yesterday when they found smoke coming out of air-conditioning ducts in their offices. The smoke from a fire in a
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  • 305 3 'Give basic computer knowhow first, don't train specialists' COMPUTER science courses in Singapore universities should aim at providing all undergraduates with an elementary knowledge of computers rather than lat training specialists as they are developed, according to Professor R.A. Buckingham, a leading British computer scientist at present visiting the Republic.
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  • 76 3 MSA TEAM TO TAKE DELIVERY OF BOEINGS FROM TEXAS MALAYSIA-Singapore Airlines will take delivery next month of the first of two Boeing 707s it bought last year. A crew of four will leave for Dallas, Texas, to fly the plane here. The second 8707 will be delivered in April. Both
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 45 3 BEETLE BAILEY By Mort Walker NC/ 7 E p D W^ V" I DID ROCKy A K oERK PROBABLE YOU,. >/ I I 1 ANY LUCK IN ?2L* KJE5NY KNOv\ V_ DRAWING I h "bf^" LUCKTy NN MERE ME kEEP^ \P AWAV FROM P 4 i
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  • 226 4 THREE men were each fined $400 or three months' jail yesterday for assaulting a policeman who had caught them speeding. They were storekeeper Lim Chee Peng, 22, and two mechanics, Goh Tang Kein and Lin Boon Kwong, both 21. Ali three pleaded
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  • 320 4 $94,000 damages for 'living death' JUDGE: ONE COULD NEVER COMPENSATE HIM COMPLETELY MR. JUSTICE Winslow said yesterday that $94,000 was not a "daunting figure" to award a former factory worker who is in fact going through a "living death" after an accident three years ago. In passing judgment on an
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  • 268 4 110 Squadron to be disbanded a second time THE RAF's 110 Squadron, which has completed 24 years' service in the Far East, is to be disbanded for the second time on Monday. A disbandment parade will i be held at RAF Changi tomorrow at 6 p.m. The squadron which took
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  • 145 4 POLICE arrested two of three youths who tried to escape shortly after they had robbed Ang Cheok Pah, 17, of a watch and $15 in Ciemenceau Avenue on Wednesday night. Ang was on his way home at about 10.15 p.m. when he
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  • 177 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. About 75,000 fishermen in East and West Malaysia will benefit from the establishment of a fish marketing scheme which was approved by the National Operations Council yesterday. A statement issued after the NOC meeting said that the scheme, which would be controlled and
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  • 100 4 STATE Coroner Liew Ngik Kee recorded a suicide verdict yesterday on Loh Lye Chew, 23, who jumped from an nth floor flat in Prince Charles Crescent oirFek 2. Her mother, Madam Lim Cher Tee, told the court that her daughter was a
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  • 49 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Malaysia today signed an agreement with the Federal Republic of Germany for a "soft" loan of $4.1 million to assist small and medium-sized industries. The loan is repayable within 18 years at s% per cent interest, including a grace period of five years.
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  • 37 4 SINGAPORE scenes will be included in 75,000 coloured postcards that will be distributed by Lufthansa German Airlines throughout the world. The Singapore card features the city centre, Raffles Place and Haw Par Villa.
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  • 154 4 $25.9 mil. income tax case settled KOTA BHARU, Thars. The hearing of an order to release attachment against the property of the Eastern Mining and Metal Co. of Dungun for recovering additional income tax amounting to $25.9 million in the High Court here was discontinued yesterday when both parties reached
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  • 136 5 REGISTERED SCHOOL BUSES NOW EXCEED MINISTRY TARGET ANOTHER Ist school bases were registered last month, bringing the total to 815, according to flgnres released by the Ministry of Com munlcatlons. Of the new bases, 36 were registered by private Indi vidnals. 32 by COMFORT, the NTUC transport co-operative, 88 conversions
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  • 82 5 SEVEN people, including a 51-year-old woman, were fined $40 each in a magistrates 1 court yesterday for letting off fire crackers outside the designated areas on Wednesday. A 75-year-old man, Chew Keng Yip, was discharged after being cautioned by Magistrate Tan Lian Ker. ODD JAYCEES
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  • 297 5 Now ALL the bus men are to learn courtesy BUS drivers have had their turn now conductors are a lso to be sent to school to learn all about courtesy and providing efficient service for their passengers. Officials of the Registry of Vehicles are working out details of training courses
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  • 58 5 MR. YAHYA Cohen has been re-elected president of the Singapore Surgical Society for the fifth time. Other officials: Mr. E.M.T. Lu, vice-president; Mr. W.H. Sung, hon. secretary and treasurer; Mr. N. Balachandran and Mr. H.B. Ang, committee members. Col. P. Dignan from the British Military Hospital was
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  • 359 5 MORE social facilities should be available around the clock to help the increasing number of shift workers to adjust themselves to the mental health problems created by shift work, Professor Phoon Wai -on, Professor of Occupational Medicine at the University
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  • 149 5 A TOTAL of 220 people were booked last month for falling to wear crash helmets while riding motor-cycles and scooters. Reporting this yesterday, the Ministry of Commanica tions said the figure was "comparatively very low," considering the total of i*s,4ot motor-cycles
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  • 97 5 HOTEL Imperial, which is due to open on Monday, has installed a $500,000 automatic laundry and drycleaning plant. Hotel guests will have normal service within the same day and urgent services within an hour, he said. The hotel, with a paid-up capital of $10
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 37 5 fi >*0 m\ (D Km, F^t.r^ ij*d~*%.. Uc.. l»7>. W.rU H«ku m.,W j w^, > "As bad as the food was, the company banquet ended on a happy note. The boss got indigestion and couldn't make his speech."
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    876 6  -  ALLAN CHAN By WHO THIS WEEK FORSAKES A CAR TEST TO LOOK AT... The real GTs A FEW months ago, you may have noticed an exchange of correspondence in this page on the definition of a G.T. car and which of today's models could be categorised as such. I
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  • 756 6 THE final section of the transmission system of a motorcar is the rear live axle which is connected to the gearbox by a long propeller shaft. Here, we will deal with a car of the conventional design, that is, one with a front north-south engine and rear- drive wheels. The
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  • 1064 7  - of! MOTOR CYCLING Idiot- proc YCLING I LIVE almost next door to a motorcycle repair shop, and in the last five years we have had motorcycles brought to us with all sorts of complaints. Most of the damage was caused by abuse on the part of the owners. We have
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  • 161 7 Suzuki supperbike S SUPERBI becominj advanced tl sporting which many have. The latest in Japanese supei is the Suzuki 75 Lined up wit Four and th Mach Three, another one machines mos dream about. The Suzuki watercooled with three c: four exhausts. FRAf The radiatoi front of the f kept
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    72 7 i you flowing I the other d the Legality apart, tyres with insufficient tread Wom drum linings or disc pads are lethal normally j™ d n ro Wh **Y w.ll gr.p w«ll on Pads should have at least 1/Bin above the 1 *heels (or BY JOHN RORiw^nw S^^ e$ the
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  • 846 7 SO YOU know how to ride a motorcycle. Do you know how to be a good pillion rider? When your own bike is in the workshop and all your friends are going for a run, do they tell you to hop aboard any pillion or does
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  • 552 8 JAKARTA, Thurs. Plans are being shaped to increase the handling capacity of Jakarta's Tanjong Priok, the nation's largest ocean port, from three mllion to eight million tons a year, according to Director General of Sea Communications Harjono Nimpuno. He said US$3.9 million would
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  • 232 8 WASHINGTON, Thurs. The Nixon Administration has asked Congress to extend the interest equalisation tax (lET), designed to discourage foreign Investment, for two more years. The tax, now at l% per cent, Is levied on foreign securities sold In the United States. Its purpose Is to
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  • 235 8 SINGAPORE-MALAYSIA Merchant rates fixed yesterday by the Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore. Local dollars per unit of foreign currency. SELLING BUYING T.T./OJ). T.T. O.D. Sterling Pound 7.4040 7.3715 7.3600 Australian Dollar 3.4625 3.4200 3.4000 Pfinadian Dollar New Zealand Dollar 3.4726 3.4225 3.3926 South Arabian Dinar 7.4200 7.8475
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  • 468 8 LONDON, Thurs. Broking sources here expect few problems on the London Stock Exchange and the money markets when they reopen next Monday following closure from today to facilitate the switch to decimal currency. The sources said there might be a slight decline in stock exchange volume while
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  • 21 8 LONDON, Wed.— (Changes in brackets): Industrials 321.9 (-2.3); Tins 64.42 (-0.13); Rubbers 166.12 (-1.63); Oik 272.39 (-0.22).
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  • 385 8 Stocks moved sharply higher in early active trading yesterday. Standard and Poor's industrial average rose 23 cents and advances led declines by five-to-three. Volume was more than two Chase Manhattan Bank topped the active list and was up one-eighth at 5314. Lockheed lost a point to
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  • 278 8 AMSTERDAM Internationals were led lower yesterday by Unilever and Akzo, which dropped on Enka-GlanzstofFs prospect. KLM finished maintained. Shippings and plantations were steady. Investment funds eased while banks firmed. In otherwise steady insurances, Amfas lost ground. In local industrials, Heikenken met a further sharp setback and Lucas Bols
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  • 191 9 LONDON, Thurs. Pre-tax profits for the year ended September 30, 1970, were £12,590,000, after charges and receipts, (compared with £12,642,000 for the previous year). Tax took £615,000 (£693,000). Group net profit after tax was £11,975,000 (£11,949,000). Group net profit after adjustments in respect of the previous year
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  • 460 9 STOCK EXCHANGE OF MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE PRICES in the Stock Exchange yesterday improved over a wide front on mainly shortcovering and also some cheap buying. The better prices, however, attracted profit-takers in the late afternoon and some gains were slightly reduced. Industrials and hotels closed very steady
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  • 13 9 FRASER'S INDUSTRIAL INDICES Singapore Malaysia Feb. 10 651.44 425.13 Feb. 11 653.70 427.01
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  • 77 9 (Managers' prices for Feb. 12) B S B. S. The Saving ASIA UNIT TRUSTS Fund 1.13 1.18 Mai. Invt. Fund 1.29 1.34 Singapore Mai. Progress Progress Fund 1.03 1.08 Fund 1.06 l.llxd (Managers' prices for Feb. 11) CHARTERED UNIT TRUSTS Sterling Singapore Commodity 4/11 Growth Fund 1.08 1.13
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  • 323 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries today set up a working party to find a permanent solution to the question of United States stockpile disposal. Malaysia and Indonesia are responsible for preparing possible solutions to be submitted to the Secretariat
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  • 300 9 THE PORT OF SINGAPORE AUTHORITY HAS MADE THESE BERTHING ARRANGEMENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 12. OUT: Friesenstein 8/9; Eiko Mam 19; Petaling 20 east; Kostao Maru 22; Strut Clement 25/26; Yuzui Maru 5; Kyoihin Maru 37 /3a; Poly Ampat (Barge) 39; 1.0.8. BarcM No. 5 39; Hua U 21
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  • 142 9 LONDON, Thurs.—Britain lost £11 million in tradtag with the rest of the world in January, the Department of Industry and Trade announced. Bat officials said the recorded deficit may not be an accurate accounting of the country's trade performance. They said Britain's nation-wide postal strike delayed
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  • 221 9 The market was steady changing hands. The of $3 per share and a yesterday wtth small price counter closed at $112, up rights issue, the terms to changes. $2 on the day. be notified later. Lands were well traded After the close. Lands Turnover for the day
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  • 303 9 STRAITS TIN TIN $123.25 a plcul (up 12^ cents). The Straits tin market yesterday steadied on good buying orders from the United States and Britain and the commodity price rose by 12V6 cents to $623.25 a picul. The official offering in Penang was reported as 260 tons 45 tons
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  • 203 9 LONDON, Thurs. The market opened on a moderately active note today, with grain cargoes fixed from the U.S. Gulf to Antwerp/Hamburg range at US$4.5O fio (free in and out) for March and from the U.S. Gulf to Lisbon at U555.75 fd (free discharge) for February/March. Grain business
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    • 596 9 SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE Mining shares plunged higher at 75 cents. to four cents each, while into another round of International Mining Ampol and Interstate Oil dispirited selling yesterday lost support to drop seven remained unchanged, although some issues cents at 35 cents, while Industrial shares managed to record Tasminex, Eastmet,
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 1087 9 i^TJic. "I Uow d by to U mean, only lot of 1.000 wu t«d«| at that price. The lu» ffure. the dl»«r«nc« in prtc brtwn ye^enUy', Iml tnu»-etio n and tfc. ynZJTuy-" INDUSTRIALS M CABLES 1.528 I S'PURA BLD 1.32/1.35. I M COURT 86/ 96 ACMA 1.25/1.39. M CEMENT 1.89B;
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  • 127 10 SEREMBAN, Thurs.— Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak today expressed the hope that the relief aid offer from the Peking Red Cross Society for flood victims in Malaysia was an indication of a change of attitude on the part of the Chinese
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  • 84 10 AN AMERICAN firm. Tucor Services Inc., plans to start a container feeder service in this region. The plan calls for a number of low -draught vessels to take on or discharge containerised cargoes for import or export through Singapore's container complex. This was
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  • 187 10 ALOR STAB, Thnrs. Two armed men emerged from their hiding placet In the bold of a fishing boat and speaed fire oa Its crew of seven aboat eight miles from Kaala Kedah last aight. The story of the
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  • 87 10 DR. A. H. BOERMA, the Di-rector-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, flew in from Australia yesterday with a party of officials on his way to Pakistan. He said he was here on an unofficial visit and had no plans to meet
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  • 99 10 LEEDS, Thurs. A British technician says computers lose their cool when a girt la nylon underwear walks by. Harry Eastwood, manager of Leeds University Computer Laboratory, said the otherwise stoical machines are apt to have their concentration destroyed by static electricity that builds up
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  • 373 10 Why change is needed— Lee MR. LEE Kuan Yew spoke last night of the need to modify Singaporeans' traditional forms of celebrations. "Otherwise, we shall do irreparable damage to ourselves," he added. He was referring to the restrictions on the firing of crackers during the Chinese New Year season this
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  • 195 10 FEB. 20 THE BIG DAY FOR 44 CADETS FORTY-FOUR young men and women in the National Cadet Corps will pass out on Feb. 20 as cadet-lieutenants. They have been on a 10-week course consisting of eight weeks part-time and two weeks' full-time in military and leadership training at Beach Road
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  • 47 10 HONGKONG, Thurs— Customs officials today seized more than 57 lb. of gold valued at US$3O,OOO at Hongkong's Kai Tak international airport. Police said two men believed to be a European and a Malaysian Chinese were assisting them in investigating the case. AP
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  • 154 10 From Page 1 Yesterday he called on the Defence Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee. Australia, he said, could discharge her responsibility under the five-power defence pact in other useful ways, one of which could be assistance in moves to standardise defence equipment. Australia
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  • 453 10 New loan scheme for small industries SMALL industries in the Republic will soon be able to get loans so they can expand their business on the basis of the company's capabilities rather than its assets. The First National City Bank (FNCB) announced yesterday that it had started a survey of
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  • 68 10 ONE of three men who took part in the $30,882 holdup of Loong Foong Goldsmiths in Toa Payoh on Nov. 12 last year was jailed for seven years yesterday for possession of arms and ammunition and for armed robbery. Goh Kit Thiam alias Chat Kia, 30,
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  • 436 10 SOME 120 pre-univer-sity and university science students will be given a chance to learn how to prepare for and participate in scientific meetings. They will be taking part in a speech contest jointly oganised by the Singapore National Institute of Chemistry and
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  • 255 10 A Yonng man whe has came for, and plams to go further before he's finished FOURTEEN months ago, a young Indian steel mill clerk gave up his job because of an irresistable desire to see people and places. Since then he has pedalled 35,000 miles on a bicycle through five
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  • 117 10 From Page 1 Miss Werle, who flew in yesterday, dressed in a maxi and with very little make-up on, said: "Most women look better with more make-up but I look ugh!" She begins a 10-day nightclub engagement at the Hotel Malaysia tonight. Although trained in opera, she prefers
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  • 116 10 PENANG, Thnrs. Malaysia and Thailand agreed today on joint measures to prevent Infiltration of Communist guerillas by sea. The agreement for coordinated naval patrols was reached following a three-day meeting here of the general border committee. The leader of the Malaysian delegation, Gen. Ibrahim
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    • 396 11 Jaanese envoys test the Peking thaw ADSF SADF SDF SDF SDF DF HIGH-LEVEL MISSIONS TO CHINA IN BID TO EASE RELATIONS 808 REECE Herald Foreign Editor A NEW phase in Sino-Japanese relations began yesterday with the departure for Peking of two highlevel missions. Former Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama and Kaheita
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    • 391 11 I fearedgas chamber, says Sharon's killer LOS ANGELES, Thurs. Susan Atkins, who confessed on Tuesday to killing actress Sharon Tate, told a jury yesterday she was threatened with the gas chamber if she didn't testify before the county grand jury. Speaking calmly, the slender, 22-year-old brunette said her grand jury
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    • 219 11 Lockheed chief flies to London for talks LOS ANGELES, Thurs. The board chairman of Lockheed Corporation, Mr. Daniel Haughton, plans to fly next week to London to meet with officials of Rolls-Royce and the British Government. In Washington, a member of the House Banking and Currency and Government Operations Committee
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    • 170 11 ISRAEL'S NEW PLAN TO RE-OPEN SUEZ CANAL CAIRO, Thurs. Egypt rejects Israel's proposal for direct negotiations on reopening the Suez Canal to all shipping including Israeli vessels, Cairo radio said today. It said: "Israel's reply to President Sadat's initiative is a simple manoeuvre paving the way to new bargaining
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    • 111 11 MUNICH, Thurs. The wreckage of the crack Munich-Zurich express lies tangled by the side of a road after it jumped the rails on a curve at Kaufbeuren near here on Tuesday. Now experts have begun a top-level investigation into the crash one of the
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    • 163 11 PROTESTS OVER LAOS INVASION NEW YORK, Thurs. Despite sub-zero temperatures, 2,500 anti-war demonstrators massed in Times Square yesterday to protest the U.S. South Vietnamese drive into Laos. But except for New York, Boston, Baltimore, and Berkeley, Calif., the anti-war protests drew sparse crowds in university towns across the country. The
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    • 73 11 NEW YORK, Thurs. One of the rarest and most sought sculptures by Pablo Picasso was donated by the artist to New York's Museum of Modern Art and brought here yesterday in the luggage of the Museum's curator, William S. Rubin. The piece, the 30-3/4-inch cubist "Guitar,"
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    • 186 11 SAIGON, Thnrs. A Sooth Vietnamese helicopter carrying four top news photographers was shot down over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos apparently killing them and seven others aboard. Among those missing and presumed dead were three of the best-known combat photographers
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  • 498 12 From R.G.ALABASTRO in Manila FILIPINO households are today reeling under the impact of the worst price inflation in the country's postwar history, with no sign in sight of any slackening in the price spiral. The reality of galloping prices and the havoc
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  • 402 12 Quake: Evacuate order is relaxed WITH the death toll in the California earthquake at 51, Mayor Sam Yorty has extended for 48 hours the evacuation order for 80,000 people living below a cracked dam which might crumble if another sharp tremor occurs. The count of those injured hi the earthquake
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  • 141 12 Now you see it ...now you don't IT'S THE moon not a shadow of doubt about it. But what exactly is going on up there to cause this lunar blackout? The answer had nothing to do with the Apollo mission. It was nature taking its course as the earth's orbit
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  • 210 12 Berlin settlement: Draft sent to Russia WASHINGTON, Thurs. Secretary of State William P. Rogers yesterday confirmed that the United States, Britain and France have handed to the Soviet Union a draft agreement which could provide a basis for a Berlin settlement At an impromptu, brief news conference opening the State
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  • 88 12 ISLAMABAD, Thnrs. Mere than 4tt policemen fired •cores of teargas shells to break «p mobs of rampaging students who Invaded the honses of Indian diplomats and bnmed the car of the Canadian Economic Counsellor here yesterday. About stt stadeats roamed streets In the heart of this
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  • 137 12 KERALA CIVIL SERVANTS GOON STRIKE NEW DELHI, Thurs. The administration in the whole of Kerala state in South India was paralysed as Government employees yesterday went on an indefinite strike to press their demand for wage increase. The strike followed the failure of negotiations between representatives of the Government and
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  • 255 12 MOSCOW, Thurs. The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed a treaty today banning nuclear weapons and other instruments of mass destruction from seabeds and ocean floors. Soviet Premier Alexei Kosy gin told Moscow's diplomatic corps at the ceremony that he
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  • 80 12 MONTEVIDEO, Thurs. Two members of the Tupamaro urban guerilla movement yesterday became the first suspects to be formally charged in connection with the Jan. 8 kidnapping of British Ambassador Geoffrey Jackson. Eduardo Ariosa Anilivia and Nelson Larraud Sales, the former an economics student, were
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    • 280 12 Fine positional play by Choo n q e I ■O'APL 4 A Wx ft S»^^B Hill SINGAPORE S Choonp g-^^^^^™^j»^^^^^*^^^^^« Liong On gave a fine s mm* Mhlß^ B display of positional play a S^B^BXjB when he beat Australia's BHi bm w bbi w BBf^? M. Winslade in the 1971
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  • 526 13 b G E p Y m F R EAS I REFERENCE The shipping schedules oeginning on this page are given in four parts for ships westbound, eastbound, southbound and NA 3 MF a npQum" H y giVC the fo owi "8 information: NAME OF SHIP, date of arrival/departure,
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  • 194 13 HC Harrisons Croatia Id ***** IK Islay Kaar A Co. (Pta) Ltd ***** lAL Intarasia shipping Agency *****8/9 lOL Interocean Lines (S.E.A.) Pte. Ltd *****/9 *****/9 JS R. Jumabhoy A Sons (Pte) Ltd *****/7 LEO Leo Shipping Pte Ltd *****2 LK Lam Kok Shipping Co. (Pta)
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    • 178 13 AOL Alcos Overseas Line; APL FRL FroU Line. (Pte) Ltd I LS Lian Soon Line SMIL States Marine-Isthmian American President Line; AUS t Lines. SM Safmarine; SCAN Austasia Line— Golden Line. GBL Golden Buffalo Line. K^ ISC International scanservice; SCI S.C.I. Lines; Snip p in I Corpn; MM SEN shipping;
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    • 695 13 ORIENT LINES LTD Vt (INCORPORATED IN THE WtPUfAIC OF SINGAPORE) ICB BUILDING, 2 SHENTON WAY SINGAPORE 1. TEL *****3-7. U.K. EUROPE SERVICE LOADING FOR LONDON, H'BURG, R'DAM, HAVRE, Slacape** *.l'htm P*nang arrives NEPTUNE AMETHYST 25 Feb/1 Mar 2/3 Mar 4/5 Mar L'don 1/4. H burg 8/4. R dam 11/4. Havre
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  • 469 14 Including ships sailing out of Singapore for Far East ports to the north-east ALASKA MARU Feb 15/16 Hongkong, Japan. MOSK/LEO ALCOS MASTER Apr 19/22 Osaka, Yokohama, Vancouver B.C. Jeddah. AOL/ASC ALCOS RANGER Mar 18/21 Osaka, Y'hama, Vancouver, B.C. Jeddah. AOL/ASC ALCOS VICTORY Feb 20/23 Osaka, Yokohama, Vancouver B.C. Jeddah.
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  • 313 14 Including ships calling at Malaysian and Indonesian ports. AUSTRAL MARU Mar 15 Sorong/Manokwai/Biak/ Hamarinda. DU/DU "CAROLINE" In Pt/Feb 14 Djakarta. LK/LK "CHERRY BAGUS" In Pt/Feb 17 Kuching. LS/LS "CHERRY MOLEK" Feb 16/18 Sibu. LS/LS DARPO DUA In Pt/Feb 14 Sorong/Biak/Djajapura. SI/SI DARPOLIMA Feb 15/17 Pangkal Balam. SI/SI DARPO SATU
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  • 198 14 Mainly ships bound for Australia and New Zealand, including ships calling at Manila, etc. RENOIR Mar 7/11 P. S'ham (Mar 12/16), S'pore (Mar 17/19), Melbourne (Apr 2), Sydney (Apr 9). AUS/AUS STRAAT CLEMENT In Pt/Feb. 13 Brisbane, Sydney. Melbourne. lOL/lOL STRAAT CUMBERLAND Feb 25/27 Suva, Lautoka. Auckland. Wellington, Lyttelton,
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    • 624 14 jJP MALAYSIAN INTERNATIONAL Jj U SHIPPING CORPORATION BERMAD \<> 301: Jin Ampang. Kuala Lumpur H The National Shipping Line of Malaysia FAR EAST/EUROPE SERVICE Staoaeav* P.S'fcan Nm«i Antaaa: BUNG* MELOR IT Pa*/2 Mar 3/* Mar l/a Mar Mavr, 2/4. LatMon 4/4. 'H'burg 10/4. R dam 12/4*. Aware 14/4. Braman 17/4.
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  • 714 15 Why so few are interested in drama THEATRE seems to be the one cultural pursuit that has very little appeal to Singaporeans. It is believed that not enough interest is being cultivated at the schools and the number of drama enthusiasts therefore remain very small. Another popular belief is that
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  • 461 15 All Things Must Pass George Harrison (Apple Records) THE Apple Scruffs are sitting outside Apple headquarters in Saville Row, London, waiting for the Beatles, who they've kept vigil over almost daily for the past seven years. The Scruffs are 16 hardcore Beatle fans who
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  • 301 15 Operatic group seeks local singers THE Sceneshifters, an operatic group, is looking for local people to take part in their next production "Land of Smiles" to be staged at the Victoria Theatre in June. The opera, written by Franz Lehar, has two of its three acts set in Peking (the
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    • 161 15 Another person who has been involved in the theatre for many years is Joe Thwaites. Like Eileen, he is willing to share his experience with any school teacher who wants advice in starting or running a drama club. Mr. Thwaites is to give a lecture on lighting, special effects and
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    • 137 15 a.m.— 7 p.m.: Penguin pa- Centre, Canning Rise. rade at the National library, 7.3t p.m.: Course on "Knowing Stamford Road. Our Singapore" at the Arts l.» a.m.— 4 p.m.: Safety first Lecture Theatre, University of campaign with exhibition and Singapore, Bukit Timah. safe cycling rally at Girl 8 p. m:
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  • 227 19 LONDON, Thurs. Joe Bugner, the Hunga-rian-born hope of British heavyweight boxing, was held to a surprise draw over 10 rounds by Canadian Bill Drover at York Hall, Bethnal Green, here last night. Twenty-year-old Bugner has shot to the top of the British heavyweight rankings
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  • 411 19 Tae-Kwon-Do shows vast improvement in sparkling workout PENANG, Thurs. Tae-Kwon-Do did a spark ling trial on a good track here this morning. The Street Fighter gelding was eager to gallop but Johnny Nelson kept him on a tight rein over 3f in 37-3/5. He ran unplaced over 7f on the
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  • 266 19 PALM SPRING, California, Thurs. Marty Fleckman carved out a six-under par 66 for a one-stroke lead over Arnold Palmer in the first round of the five-day 90-hole Bob Hope Desert Classic golf tournament yesterday. "It's probably the best round of my career," the darkly
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  • 124 19 AP LIMA, Peru, Thurs. -Peru's under-25 national football team last night blanked South Korea's national team 4-0 in an exhibition game played before 27,000 fans at Lima's national Stadium. The home team led at halftime 1-0. At 21 minutes middle fielder Mifflin opened
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  • 344 19 U.S. indoor tennis starts next week without pros ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, Thurs. The U.S. national indoor open tennis championship will be played next week without any of the professionals under contract to Lamar Hunt's World Championship Tennis, Inc. Witiam F. Riordan, general chairman of the tournament, said that the current impasse
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  • 124 19 Chi Cheng will not defend sprint and hurdles titles POMONA, (California), Than. Formosa's Chi Cheng, the world's leading female athlete of ISTt, will not defend her sprint and hardies titles at the United States indoor track and field championships on Feb. 2t at New York Madison Square Garden. After a
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  • 133 19 GONZALES HOPES TO REPRESENT UNITED STATES AGAIN CHICAGO, Thurs. Just a little more than 21 years after he last played in the Davis Cup, Pancho Gonzales announced mat he hopes to represent the United States in the competition again this year. Gonzales, now 42, has been a professional since 1949,
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  • 257 19 MANILA, Thurs. The Philippines, where frmkftball is the most popular sport, feds it's time the elders passed the bal to the kids and let the youngsters dribble and shoot. So, in May, they are yielding f the country's main court to players not
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  • 409 20 JAPAN HEADS ENTRY LIST ASIAN GOLF CIRCUIT MANILA, Thurs. The 1971 Asian Golf Circuit gets under way this month with nearly US$l6O,OOO at stake. The nine-leg tournaments starts with the Philippine Open from Feb. 25-28. At stake is the U*****,300 prize money put up by clubs hosting the circuit, an
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  • 188 20 SINGAPORE Vocational Institute gave a spirited display to beat St. Joseph's Institution 3-1 in the "A*' Division City District football tournament at Bras Basah Road yesterday. Vocational Institute gained control of the game after IS minutes of even play and had the Josephians pinned
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  • 54 20 BADMINTON: City District Schools C'ships Semi-finals "B" "C" Div. (Bukit Ho Swee Sec. Sch. 8.00 a.m. 2.1S p.m.) HOCKEY: Schools National six-aside C'ships Whitley Sec. Sch. 8.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.) SOCCER: SRC vs Borneo Group Pa dang 5.15 p.m.) POLO Annual Tournament (Polo Club 2 p.m.) GOLF:
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  • 378 20 LAST year's Asian Age group gold medallist Lock Hong Kuan stole the limelight on the first of the two day Chinese Swimming Club junior age group swimming championships at Amber Road yesterday. Lock won the 200 metres individual medley in the boys
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  • 546 20 RAFFLES Institution captured the City District *'C" Division badminton championship with a 3-2 victory over fancied Bukit Ho Swee School in the final at Bukit Ho Swee yesterday. The Rafflesians also qualified for the "B" Division semi-finals with an impressive win over Kim Keat
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  • 232 20 RUSSIANS EXCEL IN THE SPORT OF GENGHIS KHAN SAPPORO, Thurs. An Olympic winter sport bat It sounded like a small battle going on here in the snow-shrouded Hokkaido mcuntains. A surgeon stood by with plasma jnst In case. Its name is the Biathlon, the Icy equivalent of the Olympic Pentathlon.
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  • 341 20 French yacht Striana ahead on corrected time RIO DE JANEIRO, Thurs. The French Yacht Striana which crossed the finish line on Tuesday evening, was reported yesterday leading the overall standings of the Capetown-Rio Regatta on corrected time. With a corrected time of 35 hr. 23 min. 33 sees, the French
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  • 308 20 MORE than 50 teams from the secondary schools have entered the six and seven-a--side tournaments starting at Dover Road tomorrow. The teams: •A' DIVISION BOYS: Telok Kurau, Anglo Chinese School, Queenstown Technical, Raffles Institution, Victoria 'A', Maju Secondary, Toh Tuck Secondary, Outram Secondary, Saint Joseph's, Saint
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