Singapore Herald, 30 April 1971

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  • 15 1 THE SINGAPORE herald No. 240 Singapore Friday, April 30, 1971 MC(P) No. 2525 15 CENTS
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  • 114 1 LATE NIGHT BLAST SHAKES ROADSIDE DINERS A THUNDER-FLASH exploded last night beside a PUB fuse box along Race Course Road. The explosion startled people eating at food-stalls only a few yards away, but caused no injury or damage. Police and two troops from the Reserve Unit sealed off the intersection
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  • 440 1 MRT plan goes to UN TRANSPORT REVOLUTION: A BLUEPRINT FOR THE 1990s A FUTURISTIC plan to transform Singapore 's transport system was revealed last night. If it is accepted, traffic bottlenecks will be wiped out by a rail system linking Geylang, Toa Payoh and Jurong and a series of "super"
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  • 239 1 ISRAEL LISTS TERMS FOR RE-OPENING SUEZ CANAL TEL AVIV, Thurs. Israel will insist on three conditions under any agreement on a reopening of the Suez Canal, Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir said today. they are: 1) Israeli shipping must have the right to use the canal; 2) Egyptian troops should not
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  • 190 1 PEKING HAS NOT CHANGED POLICY ROGERS LONDON, Thurs. US Secretary of State William P. Rogers said yesterday that China had not abandoned an expansionist policy even though the Chinese Government has made encouraging overtures to the outside world. "Communist China hasn't changed its basic policy at all," Mr. Rogers said.
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  • 45 1 A 15-YEAR-OLD youth, Khoo Teck Hin, of Jalan Bukit Ho Swee, was stabbed to death at Block 23, Tiong Bahru Road, last night. Khoo, an ex-student of Outram School had been unemployed since he left Secon dary Two last year.
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  • 343 1 PARIS, Thurs. French police were still waiting tonight for a Peking official to come out of a drug trance after they stopped Chinese officials from trying to drag him on to a Shanghai-bound airliner. Reports said they believed him to be a
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  • 248 1 S'pore plans to send trade team to China THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce plans to send a trade delegation to China later this year. It will be the first to visit China since independence m 1965. The last time members of the Chamber visited China was m 1956. This
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  • IN BRIEF
    • 154 1 HONGKONG, Thurs. A Spring Patriotic Hygiene Campaign has cleaned up the three major Chinese cities of Peking, Shanghai and Tientsin, Radio Peking reported today. In Peking, teams of medical staff fanned out into railway stations, markets, streets and other public places to propagate Mao's
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  • 87 1 Winners of free trip to London OUR Ideal Travelling Companion Contest, which closed last week, was such a success that it took our judges nearly a week to get through all the entries including some from Indonesia. The winners will be announced tomorrow. The prizes are: Free BOAC return tickets
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  • 28 1 Marshall in role of Tarzan FANCY Mr. David Marshall cast m the role of Tarzan! It's all m the mind off a reader, off course. See Page 2
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  • 57 1 PITY we don't have a resident star-gazer. Otherwise he (or she) could have produced new stuff on the spot or at least predicted that our syndicated Starscope prognostications would be disrupted, m time for us to make alternative arrangements. We are sorry, but we can't tell you what the
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  • 270 2 Marshall in the role of Tarzan Viewpoint AS Mr. Lawrence Sia predicted, Mr. David Marshall has m fact reacted m an anguished fashion. Instead of answering a simple question, he has chosen to beat his breast like an enraged Tarzan, challenging all the other animals m the jungle to a
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  • 261 2 LAST week Mr. David Marshall wrote m to your Column Seven condemning PAP arrogance. Besides expressing indignation at being called a coward, he also listed a number of objectives which he felt a Singaporean political party ought to have. On Monday, Mr. Sia Khoon Scon*. accused Mr.
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  • 242 2 I HAVE been reading the letters published by you written by Mr. David Marshall, Mr. Lawrence Sia Khoon Seong and Mr. Samuel S. Marshall over the past few days, and I must state that I am somewhat disturbed by the same. Mr. David
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  • 215 2 THE SINGAPORE HERALD Friday, April 30. 1971 IF THE difficulty of solution measures the size of a problem, then finding a newname for the United Nations' Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East is a massive problem. The commission has had to defer an unresolved
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  • 471 2 More on the bus system IT is unfortunate that no mention was made of the very inadequate ABS bus service No. 156 m your otherwise excellent front page report (S.H. April 27) regarding the new bus service. Before the transport reorganisation, commuters between Toa Payoh and Serangoon Garden had three
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  • 475 2 EX-DETAINEE (S.H. April 22) crowed with pride that our political detainees are not physically tortured and that they do not live m "Tiger Cages." His pride is grossly misconceived while his concept of modern torture is hopelessly out of date. ODD Torture nowadays
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  • 267 3 Police chiefs hold secret talks on fugitives INDONESIA'S Inspector-General of Police, General Katik Suroso, held talks with Singapore Police Commissioner Cheam Kirn Seang at Pearl's Hill yesterday on "technical matters" connected with an exchange of fugitives. His unannounced visit here comes after a report m the Herald last week that
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  • 228 3 MALACCA, Thurs. The Chief Minister of Malacca, Dato Haji Talib Karim, advised the public today not to buy rubber estates unless they are certain they will receive titles to their property He reminded them of the two laws governing the transfer and sub-division of estates.
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  • 50 3 A PEDESTRIAN died m the Outram Road General Hospital eight hours after he was knocked down by a Singapore Herald van m Bukit Timah yesterday The accident occurred at about 6.15 a.m. when the van was approaching Newton Circus after delivering newspapers m Bukit Timah area.
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  • 411 3 THE former First Lady, Puan Noor Aishah has been honoured by the National Trades Union Congress for her services to voluntary and charitable organisations. She has been awarded a "Special Medal of Honour" m the first May Day Honours List, announced yesterday.
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  • 597 3 DELEGATES at a safety course were warned yesterday about the dangers of oil at sea. A nine-foot wide oil slick can spread across to 120 ft. of sea m just 10 minutes, a fire chief told them. Mr L.O. Valberg, chief officer at
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  • 125 3 MALAYSIA-Singapore Air lines has engaged an international firm of management consultants to help it plan its growth profitably. Turquand Young and Layton-Bennett of London, will help the airline introduce modern concepts of company planning. The six-month project started this month. Two representatives of the consultant's firm
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  • 80 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs A warder, Abdul Jalil bin Mohamed Ali, 27, was found guilty today by a magistrate's court here of negligently letting a prisoner escape from his custody m July last year. He was fined $450 m default of four months imprisonment Abdul Jalil
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  • 205 4 SEVENTY hawkers m the Delta area were allotted temporary pitches yesterday by the Housing and Development Board. It cost the Board $M,OOO to provide the pitches on vacant land near the Community Centre m the area. Balloting for the stalls was conducted by the MP
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  • 400 4 Admiral: More British ships coming More and bigger British naval ships will be calling at the Naval Base than m the past, Admiral D. Empson, the outgoing commander of the British Far East Fleet, said yesterday. Admiral Empson leaves Singapore today after a stay of 20 months to become Britain's
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  • 246 4 LEADERS SHOULD SHOW MORE CONCERN SINGAPORE'S leaders and educated elite should have room for more compassion even while they pursue a pragmatic policy for economic survival. Dr. Bernard Tan, a Singapore University lecturer said this at the seminar on "Society and the Individual" organised by the Students' Christian Movement of
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  • 76 4 THE Tourist Promotion Board will have a special unit dealing with conventions. Mr. Runme Shaw, Chairman of the Board, said last night that the machinery for setting up the unit was already m motion. A conventions officer had been appointed and a United Nations
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  • 519 4 Russians will double their shipping fleet In S-E Asia RUSSIA'S biggest shipping company will double its shipping operations m South East Asia by 1975 and use Singapore as a repair base. Mr. A.E. Danchenko, president of the Black Sea Steamship Company said that his vessels would use Keppel Shipyard for
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  • 294 4 MR. S.K. Lee, counsel, for two men on graft charges submitted yesterday that the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau had subjected his clients to excessive air-con-ditioning. He described it as a "refined method of torture." "It leaves no tell-tale mark on the victims," Mr Lee told the
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    • 28 4 Kmg F.«t«f«. SyiUiou. Inc 1971 World rightt rt., r ,.d "If your sales pitch is as poor as your excuses, no wonder your sales record is so low."
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  • 210 5 Students told: Do some social work STUDENTS attending the Communism and Democracy Seminar were told that last night that they should commit themselves to social service, to give care and love to the sick and old. Dr Chiang Hai Ding MP for Ulu Pandan said this at a closing dinner.
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  • 152 5 A NOODLE maker whose foot was amputated after an accident four years ago was awarded $12,500 damages m the High Court yesterday. Lim Kirn Tong, 24, told the court that on July 4, 1967, he was riding his motor-cycle m Upper Serangoon
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  • 52 5 THE Home for the Aged m Thomson Road, run by the Little Sisters of the Poor, received a $200,000 intertelephone system yesterday. The cost was borne mainly by the Malayan Breweries Main Distributors Association with a donation of $1,000. The rest came from five
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  • 137 5 Students who have been studying the nations future took aim at a different target yesterday. As their seminar on Communism and Democracy ended they had a chance to see how law and order is preserved. They toured the police academy yesterday
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  • 292 5 BUSINESSMAN Chan Mun Sun, 48, charged with counterfeiting US$2O and Indonesian 1,000--rupiah notes and three others charged with trafficking them wer^e remanded for another week by a magistrate's court yesterday. Magistrate Michael Khoo granted the application by Mr P.O. Ram,
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  • 124 5 New Zealand newsmen will learn about S.E. Asia SEVEN New Zealand journalists will arrive here tomorrow for a five-day visit to learn about the situation m Singapore and other South East Asian countries. The journalists, who are on a seven-week study tour of ten Asian countries, will interview Prime Minister
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  • 180 5 $2.4p for Johore to build schools JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. The Ministry of Education is expected to spend about $2.4 million m Johore to build primary and secondary schools, hostels, extensions, canteens and other projects. The biggest project will be a national secondary school m Kluang which will have a hostel
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  • 400 6  - A wedding anniversary with a difference MARY LEE -By THE Stage Club has drifted away from presenting typically British drawing-room comedy for its next production, "The Anniversary". Written by Bill Maclrwraith, the play Is of a matriarchvelli villain who gathers her three sons and their women around her to celebrate
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  • 567 6  -  AMAR JEET I A SHORT BUT MEMORABLE FLIGHT WHEN a popular rock group breaks up there is every reason to be sore and disappointed. And when an Air Force is grounded and its wings clipped, it could be shattering news. However, Ginger Baker's
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  • 223 6  - Local pop band will play in Thai nightclub SAM NATHAN A LOCAL pop group The X-Quisites— will leave today for Bangkok to make their debut at a nightclub there on Saturday. The group signed a sixmonth contract with the An An nightclub where another Singapore band The Establishment— is playing.
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    • 87 6 Congratulations Best Wishes to H.M. Queen Juliana on the occasion of her Birthday and National Day of the Netherlands CENTURY MANUFACTURING CO., JAVA PROVISION STORE, 117, Killlney Road, Smgapore-9. "CENTURY'S DELICACIES" DRY CURRIED CHICKEN, BEEF MUTTON SATAY CHICKEN, BEEF MUTTON, TROPICAL CANNED FRUIT CHILLY SAUCE, KECHAP BENTENG, ETC. hD FRUIT
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    • 168 6 10 a.m.— 7.30 p.m.: Bulova Java/Keng Lee Roadwatch exhibition at the Margaret Drive; Circuit Malaysia Room, Singa- Road; Tai Thong pore Hilton, Orchard Crescent; Telok Kurau Roa<l (between Lorongs H and 3 p.m.: Talk m Chinese by X); Thomson Road; Mr. Sia Chong Khoon on Upper Serangoon Road choosing a
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  • 147 7 PENANG, Thurs. The chairman of the Penang MCA Political Bureau, Mr. David Chooug Ewe Leoag, said today that the Gerakan State Government's choice of Prof Syed Hussein Al-Atas (above) as a senator displayed -a lack of confidence" In the people of Penang.
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  • 57 7 PENANG, Thurs. Sale of blood by professional donors will continue unless a monthly supply of 350-400 pints could be maintained, Mr. Khoo Leong Hun, chairman of the Penang branch of the Red Cross Society, said today. He added that the branch was carrying out campaigns for blood
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  • 88 7 HOTEL Malaysia was fined $50 yesterday m a magistrates' court for failing to submit tax particulars last year. Mr. Michael Kwang, for the hotel, said that the note from the tax officer had been misplaced and the hotel had not known of the Chief Assessor's
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  • 30 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Tun (Dr.) Ismail leaves here tomorrow for a week's visit to Sarawak and Sabah, his first to East Malaysia since becoming Deputy Prime Minister.
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  • 358 7 HARPERS INVESTS MORE IN FACTORIES KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Harper Gilfillan Group of companies is investing more money m the manufacturing sector as part of its diversification programme, its chairman, Mr Desmond Brown, said here today. He said this when announcing a bonus issue followed by a rights issue to
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  • 176 7 Keep Malaysia beautiful campaign KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Voluntary, civic and social organisations were urged yesterday to start community relations programmes to beautify Malaysia. The call was made by Inche Nasruddin bin Mohamed, secretary-general to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, at the opening of a seminar on Keep Malaysia Beautiful,
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    • 921 7 THE SINGAPORE TRACTION COMPANY *****1 LTD. As from Sunday, 2nd May, 1971, the following changes to S.T.C. Services will come into effect for the convenience of the public:Service No. 30/30A (Siglap Jurong Ind. Est.) aO/lo^A^aTfSlo^:" 0 SIGLAP tO JURONG fuU route of Service No. Service No. 61 (MacPherson Est. to
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    • 585 8 Vietcong hint at ceasefire PARIS, Thurs. The Vietcong hinted for the first time today that it might be willing to accept an unconditional ceasefire with American forces m South Vietnam. The hint appeared unobtrusively m a prepared speech delivered by Vietcong Foreign Minister Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh at the 111
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    • 214 8 MOSCOW, Thurs. The United States has made several discreet approaches to the Pathet Lao to determine the number and condition of U.S. prisoners held by the leftist forces m Laos. The most recent approach, at the end of March, was made m Moscow to
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    • 129 8 The games in Spain may keep the demos tame MADRID, Thurs. Are Spaniards politically-minded or sports-mad? Saturday, May Ist, should give the answer. Illegal organisations, opposing the Franco Regime, have announced May Day protest demonstrations m the largest cities. The Government-owned television system is screening a special bullfighting-soccer programme m
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    • 190 8 HOME RULE FOR PAPUA BY 1976 CANBERRA, Thurs. Legislation was introduced m the Australian House of Representatives today to assist Papua New Guinea achieve self-government by It7t or earlier. It increases the Bomber of elected members m Papua New Guinea's House of Assembly as recommended by the Constitutional Development Committee
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    • 69 8 WASHINGTON, Thurs. A blonde 19-year-old peace worker, arrested on a Washington rooftop by FBI agents, was held yesterday as a material witness m the March 1 bombing of the U.S. Capitol. The girl, Leslie Bacon, was held m US$lOO,OOO bond after authorities said she
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    • 180 8 Floods cause havoc in Brazilian city SALVADOR (Brazil), Thurs. This old and picturesque Brazilian city began cleaning up today after what residents and the press called "the worst tragedy m a century." Teams of firemen, military and civilians dug through the rubble of collapsed homes, mainly slum huts, under a
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    • 346 8 PompidouHeath talks on ECM likely LONDON, Thurs. France and Britain are informally exploring the possibility of a summit meeting between Prime Minister Edward Heath and President Georges Pompidou before the summer on Britain's bid to join the European Common Market, authoritative sources said todayNo definite plans have been made so
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    • 130 8 ISRAEL'S NEW TANK ON SHOW TEL AVIV, Thurs. Here is the new U.S. made MlO9 tank equipped with a powerful self propelled 155 mm cannon. Standing alongside (centre) is the Commander of the Israeli Artillery Corps, Brig. General Baruch Druchin. The tank was shown m military parade today to mark
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    • 296 8 vjiuieiu t lt wi x A# 1 1^ i ww 111 -l hrn tnurnpv -1 a a 1 *i%^ I%^ W a b c d c f g h GRANDMASTER \l Q a 3 2a3Gufeld won a strong 20 ba3: Bg4tournament at Gori 21 Rd 3 ReB (Soviet Union) with
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  • 362 9 China 'is giving military aid to Pakistan' RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Thurs. Western diplomats said yesterday they believe Communist China is supplying military equipment to Pakistan and has agreed to outfit new units m the Western province to replace troops sent to suppress the Awami League m Easi Pakistan. The diplomats said
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  • 315 9 KATMANDU, Nepal, Thurs. By a vote of 28-2, the members of the International expedition to Mount Everest have decided to try to conquer the world's highest peak by only one route up the almost vertical South- Western face. According to a message mountaineers, from 11 countries,
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  • 426 9 Ceylon rebels suffer major defeat PINDENIYA, Ceylon, Thurs. Ceylonese infantrymen, backed by artillery and helicopter gunships, surged into this rebel stronghold yesterday after a two-hour jungle battle 50 miles North East of Colombo. It was a major defeat for the youthful insurgents m the flashpoint Kegalle district described as the
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  • 75 9 LONDON. Thurs. British diplomat David Miller arrives at Heathrow airport yesterday after being expelled from the Soviet Union. Miller, a Second Secretary at the British Embassy m Moscow. was declared "persona non grata by the Russians on the grounds that he had engaged m "activity
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  • 320 9 STRIKERS COST BRITAIN 9.5 MILLION WORKING DAYS LONDON, Thurs. Minister of State for Manpower Paul Bryan yesterday told Parliament that 9.5 million work days had been lost to strikes m Great Britain m the first three months of 1971. The figure for the same period last year was 2.2 million.
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  • 333 9 WASHINGTON, Thurs. The U.S. State Department stated for the first time yesterday that the question of Taiwan's sovereignty could be settled by direct discussion between the Peking and Taipeh Governments. Department spokesman Charles Bray said, "Obviously we cannot hope to resolve the dispute between
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  • 200 9 Dutch hit by Cabinet crisis AMSTERDAM, Thurs. The Netherlands coalition Government parties suffered heavy losses m yesterday's parliamentary elections, losing their majority m the Second Chamber (lower house) of Parliament. But the opposition Progressives failed to win a workable majority. Senior statesmen said that the country was faced with one
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  • 1188 10  -  IAN BALL BACKGROUND TO THE FOREIGN NEWS By IF pollution was the status social problem of 1970, privacy or rather the theft of it by unthinking, unforgetting computer data banks seems to be looming as the fashionable issue for 1971. On both sides of
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  • 951 10  - Religious war poses wider threat to Asia PETER COOK From m COTABATO CITY A SAVAGE WAR between Christian settlers and independence-seeking Muslims has been raging for six months m this remote southern Philippines province. It is a backwater war but it holds explosive potential for South-East Asia: the threat of
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  • 266 10  -  ROBIN MANNOCK By m PHNOM PENH ORDINARY Cambodians are treating the crisis inside their Government as if it was the sort of thing that happens every day. In fact, the crisis which is now m its second week, unwinds with agonising slowness m an atmosphere of calm
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    • 418 10 lihllllJllldJJL— ACROSS I DOWN 1. Embraced to settle a i. An officer's fine as a chef (4) bargain? (8) 2 Black, fellow gets help, being 4. Account m connection with put up j n hotel (6) land area (4) 3 Anger cuts short a fatal 8. Work for strange fellow
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  • 830 11 Leeds in Fairs Cup final for the third time European Fairs Cup, semi-final (second leg): LEEDS: Leeds United 0 Liverpool 0. Leeds qualify for the final on 1-4) aggregate. TURIN: Juventus (Turin) 2 Cologne 0. Juventus qualify 3-1 on aggregate. European Cup Winners' Cup semi-final (second leg): MANCHESTER: Manchester City
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  • 276 11 TOKYO, Thurs. Japan's elimination of Australia m 1971 Davis Cup tennis competition this week was heady stuff for Japanese players and fans. It was the first Davis Cup victory for the Japanese over the Australians m SO years. But it did not at least not
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  • 621 11 NEW YORK, Thurs. Willie Stargell is becoming enemy number one to National League pitchers the way he's whacking' out hits for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The leading home run hitter m the majors with 11, and m runs batted m with 26, slashed a tworun double
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  • 829 11 I ASIAN YOUTH SOCCER TOKYO, Thurs. Host country Japan today defended Malaysia 4-0 while defending champion Burma drew with India 1-1 and Israel and South Korea also played to a 1-1 tie to complete their preliminary rounds of the 13th Asian Youth Soccer
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  • 338 12 LONDON, Thurs. Members of the Pakistani cricket team were escorted by police last night as they ran the gauntlet of a scuffling, jeering crowd of Bengalis on their way to a reception m Mayfair, Central London. Shouts of: "Go back, murderers" and "Pakistani
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  • 321 12 MUNG Ching Hong, Telok Ayer Community Centre and Shing Wah Sports Club all scored convincing victories m the opening rounds of the Singapore Table Tennis Association men's junior inter-team championship at Monk's Hill School last night. Mung Ching Hong trounced Naafi 5-0; Telok Ayer beat Tuan Mong 5-1
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  • 227 12 18 new records in Mt Vernon School meet EIGHTEEN records were established at the Mount Vernon Secondary xSchool athletic meet at the school ground yesterday. Soon Sng Hong of Mt Alvernia and Wong Tan Weng (Mt Pleasant) shared the "A" division trophy. Individual champions: "A" Division Boys: Soon Sng Hoe
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  • 84 12 HOCKEY: SHA Div. 1 CSC v SAFSA (CSC, 5.15). SOCCER: Ocean SC v Telok Kurau United (J. Beaar, 5.30 p.m.); Hamilton SC v RN Wanderers (J. Besar, 7.30 p.m.); Kota Raja v PARC (Bukit Chermin). ATHLETIC: Victoria School meet (VS. 2.45 p.m.); Gan Eng Seng School meet (GESS,
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  • 247 12 New relay mark by ACS in swim meet ANGLO- Chinese School's Bernard Kan, Toh Yui Joe, Felix Yeo and Mark Chan re-wrote the 4 x 100 metres freestyle relay national record (boys under-14) on the third day of the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association Junior Championships at River Valley Road yesterday.
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  • 285 12 (Boys under 1 7): 2 00m. F ree— 1 A ndr e w Yeo(CS-St. Pats.) 2:20.5; 2. Charles Bohman (CS-ACS) 2:26.5; 3. Alistair Blease (CSC) 2:28.3; 200 m. Back-1. Andrew Yeo(CS-St. Pats.) 2:54.5; 2. Tan Boon Hiang(CSC) 3:02.6. 100 m. Butterfly-1. Lionel Liew(CS-ACS) 2:58.4; 2. Koh Yoong
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  • 231 12 POLICE Sports Association whipped the off-form Alexandra Sports Club 7-2 m a Football Association of Singapore Division One League match at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. This win put Police on top of the league table with 12 points (six wins and one loss). By
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  • 61 12 SINGAPORE Recreation Club trounced a depleted Port Authority of Singapore side 7-2 m the Singapore Hockey Association Division One match on the Padang yesterday. The Nonis brothers Douglas and Lenny between them netted five goals. Dong contributed three. Yuasof Kadir scored the other two goals.
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  • 106 12 St Joseph's to meet Raffles in final DEFENDING champions St. Jo seph's Institution qualified for the final of the national schools hockey championship when they trounced Serangoon Garden Technical School 4-0 on the Padang yesterday. The Josephians will meet Raffles Institution who eliminated Victoria School 1-0 m the opening match.
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  • THE SINGAPORE herald Section II
    • 258 13 The eight MSA girls who will take part m the sales promotion campaign m Europe: From left, Lin Chu Yu (Taiwan), Yasuko Ichiki (Japan), Kelsombe binte Hashim (Singapore and Malaysia), MontaJ Begum (India), Ccli o Tan (Philippines), Mabel Chan Po Ling (Hongkong), Phannie
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    • 124 13 KOTA KINABALU, Thurs. More than 3,000 people of the Murut community m Pensiangan m the interior residency of Sabah became Muslims today. It was the largest group of Muruts m the State to embrace Islam at one time. Among those converted were 20 ketua kampongs (village
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    • 40 13 THE Singapore Indian Film, Arts and Dramatic Society will hold a Swinging Nite at St. John's Ambulance Hall, Beach Road, at 8 p.m. tonight. The MP for Anson, Mr. P. Govhidaswamy, will be the guest of honour-
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    • 39 13 A DISTRICT court sentenced electrician Tan Tong Beng, 30, to a year's jail yesterday for robbing Mr H.K. Hong of a watch, gold chain and a gold ring altogether worth $165 m Jalan Besar on Feb. 24.
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    • 338 13  - 'Luckiest lady alive' tells of her brush with death JULIAN LAUW By LIFE at sea on a cruise ship isn't all sunshine and gay parties as MrsEza Ely, 57, found out m Buenos Aires it can be a mighty big splash. She fell into 20 ft. of oil-polluted sea between
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    • 262 13 Fraud case man lost $30,000 on horses A MAN, who admitted having committed criminal breach of trust of eight television sets and a refrigerator worth a total of $8,450, confessed m a court yesterday that he had done so because he had lost heaviy on horses. N. Nadeson Ramadass, 50,
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    • 59 13 THE Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Leslie Bury, and his wife, will arrive here tomorrow for a three-day unofficial visit He will be accompanied by the Assistant Secretary to the Department of Foreign Affairs, Mr M.J. Cook, and his private secretary, Mr I.H. Hutchens. The
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    • 71 13 TANJONG DAWAI, Thurs. The Kedah State Government will cut down on the building of houses of worship under the Second Malaysia Plan, the Mentri Besar, Dato Syed Ahmad Shahabuddin, said today. He added that this was because so many had been built that
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    • 102 13 TAX TEST CASE MAN FAILS TO TURN UP THE Income Tax Department yesterday put up a test case to prosecute a businessman for allegedly falling to appear before a tax officer but the businessman did not turn up In court. In the first case of its kind, Ng Keng Teong
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    • 85 13 Prison cook goes inside for real... PRISON cook Lee Kok San, 25, was convicted yesterday of housebreaking and theft. He was sentenced to six years' jail. He was found guilty of breaking into a flat m Jalan Korma on Dec. 7 last year and stealing cash and jewellery worth $425.
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    • 370 14 A QUARREL WITH GIRL FRIEND OVER ANOTHER MAN A DISTRAUGHT lover snatched a revolver from a policeman's holster, after a quarrel with his girl friend, a court heard yesterday. Er Hock Lye, 19, a student, was charged with snatching the revolver from Cpl. Zaini
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    • 206 14 A 54-YEAR-OLD Social Welfare Department clerk was awarded $5,500 damages by the High Court yesterday for injuries sustained m a road accident. The damages were awarded against a labourer, Mohamed Osman, 24, whose insurance company had repudiated liability for the claim because of a lapsed policy.
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    • 36 14 STATE Coroner Liew Ngik Kee recorded a suicide verdict yesterday on a mental patient, Madam Yu Soh Goat, 49, who was found dead six floors below her Lower Delta Road flat on April 16.
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    • 312 14 HUSBAND KICKED ME WHEN I WAS PREGNANT- WIFE A HOUSEWIFE who is having psychiatric treatment because her husband illtreated her, was yesterday granted a divorce on the grounds of cruelty. Madam Chia Mcc Chin married Yong Wei Shon, alias Yong Wee Loon, on Jan. 21, 1967 and they have two
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    • 210 14 FIREMEN EXPECT TO GET PAY RISE NEXT YEAR SINGAPORE'S 3o« firemen are likely to get their first big pay rise next year. The first hint of the increments came from the general secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Public Employees, Mr. G. kandasamy. last weekend. He said, however, that the
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    • 682 15 NSW Govt against I n SIQG charp Oil CJ I VJ trading SYDNEY, Thurs.-The New South Wales State Government said it would legislate immediately to outlaw 'inside' trading m the Sydney Stock Exchange. Under the legislation, insider traders, employees who use secret company information for gain, would
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    • 635 15 STRAITS -STEAMSHIP'S group pre-tax profits m 1970 improved by $335,010 to $2,457,818 despite shipping cost increases. After deducting the amount due to minority shareholders and for taxation, the profits stood at $1,661,739. This better result was achieved after paying a substantially increased
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    • 455 15 PARIS, Thurs.-French talk of higher gold prices and uneasiness m international finance brought another rise m the price of gold to an 18-month peak today m Europe's major markets. In Paris, gold sold for higher than the 7,000-franc thresholdU5539.46 an ounce-for the fourth time m
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    • 271 15 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 7.4040 7.3715 7.3600 Australian Dollar 3.4625 3.4200 3.4000 Canadian Dollar New Zealand Dollar 3.4725 3.4225 3.3925 South Arabian Dinar 7.4200 7.3475
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    • 586 15 The market closed very firm yesterday. There was small profit-taking but this was quickly absorbed. Towards the close, the Financial Times index was up 8.7, the highest level since April 1970. Beechams led industrials higher with a gain of round 11 pence, and Hawker, Courtaulds, BSR, Dunlop,
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    • 301 15 MALAYAN BANKING will hold an extraordinary general meeting next month to elect a newboard of directors to assume control and management of the bank's affairs. The bank is now run by a board of eight directors after revocation of a M alaysian Government order
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    • 357 15 The stock market moved ahead slightly m early active trading yesterday. The stanpoors industrial average gained 15 cents while the New York Stock Exchange composite index advanced .four cents. Gainers outpaced losers by a margin of about 53 to 456. (Paid prices at 1100 EST. m
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    • 205 15 AMSTERDAM Internationals were quietly mixed yesterday. Akzo and Philips were maintained. Royal Dutch steady and Hoogovens rather weak. KLM airlines was firm on Wall Street advices. Shippings and plantations were mainly steady. Among local industrials Dutch Ford moved ahead despite the announcement of a first quarter loss. PARIS
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    • 259 16 CANBERRA. Thurs. Mr Kiichi Miyazawa, Japanese Minister for International Trade and Industry, has spelt out m detail here a plan for an Australian-Japanese partnership to operate on a global scale. The plan is a development of Japan's ''new resources' diplomacy, and is
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    • 1756 16 STOCK EXCHANGE OF MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE Singapore Malaysia April 28 679.86 431.19 April 29 682 23 432.92 A FOLLOW-THROUGH of Wednesday's buying pressure brought the majority of prices to higher levels on the Stock Exchange yesterday. The day's total turnover rose slightly to 1,596,500 units. The industrial
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    • 83 16 (Managers' prices for April 30) B. S. ASIA UNIT TRUSTS Mai. Invt. Fund 1.27 1.32xd Mai. Progress Fund 1.11 1.16 CHARTERED UNIT TRUSTS Singapore Growth Fund 1.13 1.18 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUSTS Third Singapore l 28 xd The Commerce Ind. Fund 1.09 1.14 B- S. The Saving Fund 1.1
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    • 1001 16 RUBBER/ TIN/ COCONUT/ PEPPER MALAYSIA/SINGAPORE RUBBER Yesterday's report prices RUBBER 111.50 cents per kilo (up one cent). Trading began yesterday at 1.50 cents higher than the overnight official closing level after favourable advices from London, reflecting Wednesday's after-hours upswing m prices here. The market fluctuated between 111.75 and 112.25 cents
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    • 214 16 LONDON, Thurs.— Grain shippers covered cargoes from the U.S. Gulf to the Spanish Atlantic at US$7 fio (free m and out) for May and from the same loading area to Syria at (US$9.4O fio for April/May. In the sugar section, business developed from two parts, Jamaica, to
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    • 520 16 Mining stocks were marked down m moderately active trading yesterday. Oils were easier while industrials proved a mixed marketAmong heavyweights, WMC shed 15 cents at $4.45 and Metals Ex slipped six cents at $5.46 after selling at $5 n 5£ A CRA took a ten-cent fall at
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    • 257 16 The market overcame early profit-taking to close on a firm note and most issues were higher on balance. Trading, however, was quiet most of the day and value of total turnover declined to $10.76 million. compared with $15.86 million on Wednesday. Hongkong Bank London registers spurted to
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    • Article, Illustration
      1005 18  -  ALLAN CHAN By Potential winner 1 1^1 m# 1 1 Idl IV d AIMED directly at the American market but a potential winner m any market, the Datsun 240-Z Sports made its debut here as one of the main features of last month's Japanese trade exhibition. The car attracted
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    • 190 18 New Jaguar vee 12 AT THE beginning of this month, Jaguar unveiled Series 111 of its E-type and simultaneously introduced a new power plant a 5,343 c.c. vee-12. The two banks are canted at a degree angle and each cylinder has a bore and stroke dimension of 90 m.m. and
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    • Article, Illustration
      105 19 DRIVE IN Pictures DRAWN BY JOHN ROBINSON In fog it is difficult to know your exact limit of vision. Use the car ahead as a measure or if there is no car trees, lamp-posts or similar objects, and gauge speed by them. If your passenger is a driver and fog
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    • 1354 19  - Racing is an expensive hobby LEE CHIU SAN Q MOTOR CYCLING By THE excitement of the Singapore, Selangor and Penang Grand Prix races has just ended but the memories linger on and they will be the talk among sportsmen at their club meetings for the next six months. In the
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    • 61 13 CINEMAS/Page 14 ECONOMIC AFFAIRS/Pages 15/16 MOTORING/TV/Pages 18/19 SHIPPING/Pages 17/20 FORM GUIDE/Pag«» 21/22/23 mm*m CESTD.I92I) -J-rS ;^.j| j| 2 76, ORCHARD ROAD, SINGAPORE, 9. ?s&s ft "SALE NOW ON" IK Direct Importers of Carpets S Rugs f©: KASHMIR NUMDHAS fM *S U. X.WALL TO WALL xm LwJ BELGIAN GERMAN CARPETS 3R
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    • 44 13 BLON DE By Chic Young V^* "V 1 f ifl ll^ 1 PI F ~\\JP II7 y' V^ I; |f IT'S OUST THE NAMES )'jl| MOW DO H. ot_| TUE GOSSIP THAT KEEP X ON, OAGWOOP WOMEN FIMD V_ IS AL.WAVS L^C CMAMO.NJG f
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    • 282 14 X vl vm*'* W*—Vo+*ooooo***4*oo*oooool*Pooooooo4to0 900,pt 0§ 00t0 M I |M^ IT TAKES A MAN (The Brave Thing) I TO TREK "ORANG MAWAS" IN THE PAHANG JUNGLE IT TAKE A LOT OF MANHOOD (The Poor Th ing) j I [V TO ENCOUNTER WITH THE LUBIDUBIS IN CARRY ON UP THE JUNCU
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    • 127 14 L OPENING TO NITE HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN they are back JUST COMPLETED A SUCCESSFUL 15-WEEK ENGAGEMENT IN LAS VEGAS bV' H BbA jH B^ r i 3 ~^t c I^BBjBB^BBBVBJI v"'-*-\ Brr*^ V X w^ «s•£• Hp <^» wK w i Ml CHORDS! 0 THEIR NOWSOUNDW.LL SEND YOU
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    • 728 14 ORGANISATION i ft NOW SHOWING! (No Fra« List) X X 11 am. 1 30. 4. 7 4 930 p m S Golden Harvest presents A Q "THE BLADE SPARES NONE" Miao KerHsiu Hsieh Hsien JX X Mandarin OyaliScope Color j| English Chinese Subtitles Si j| TOMORROW MIDNIGHT! H JOHN WAYNE
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    • 18 14 DENNIS THE MENACE "The rest isn't vwy iMfOROMT So, if kxj're BUSK MXJ CAN HAVE A AN<3£L LISTEN.
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    • 57 14 IN LAST night's Toto draw No. 33/71, the num- i bers picked were: 43, 41, 36, 27 and 46. The additional number was 44. In the circles draw the numbers were 48, 10 and 46. The jackpot is $140,000. TODAY: 1.15 a.m. (9.2 ft.); 3.17 p.m. (7.1 ft.) TOMORROW: 1.58
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    • 338 15 1 ADVERTISEMENTS FOR YOUR BUSINESS frauds and commercial crimes or uniformed REOIFFUSION secunty guards, consult SHEARES T.V. RENTALS. HP. OR CASH AND PANG Tel 34/ob/<?1038 w e nave a complete range of models and prices at our HAVE YOU PLANS? Bring them to SHOWROOMS Motion Smith v Battery Road, 18^
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    • 675 17 D borberOteg SAILING TO U.S. ATLANTIC EAST CANADA. aingap*™ r St.. -n p.n»n» N.Yark. tto.ton F»m Wmmw Martntal BONNEVILLE In Pt/M», t j u n m Jun JJ TAI PING May W/n H»ilt/lS July a July n Jul» J* Jul. i* FERNBUOOK N-^U/M May 1//1* M »yH July! July; JJ
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1065 17 1I I \l\ KEY p 0 R EASY REFERENCE: The shipping schedules I I VI >s. beginning on this page are given m four parts for I l\ x. A ships westbound, eastbound, southbound and coastal. .f. m j_#- r»^T7 tftMW VfeVfem^*^^ Each entr y 9 ives the following information:
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    • 293 20 MALAYSIAN INTERNATIONAL JH| SHIPPING CORPORATION BERHAD \o (01 J!n \mpang, Kuala Lumpur ,fl H The National Shipping Line of Malaysia FAR tAST/EUROPE SERVICE «!■♦>■»" n»i» a\«arn Arrtviw: BUNG* OHKID I *> Juo 6/9 Jun 10/11 Jun Havrs t> London a// Hamburg 14//H'dam ib// Antwerp it/ 1 Bremen /i// UNGA MCLO*
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    • 277 20 SHIPS IN r vn I THE PORT OF Utan II, Lilia, Six Stars, SINGAPORE Union Brenda, Sumber AUTHORITY HAS Tunas II, Professor MADE THESE Deryugin, Rytter, BERTHING Borneo Gold, Cynthia, ARRANGEMENTS Dona Youla, Nanayo FOR APRIL, 30. Maru, USS Bronstein, Hariet, Kaptai, OUT: Never 5; Gamsolo, Fajardo, Peleus 15/16; Shinun
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    • 873 20 t JJOtmAI ini^l Including ships sailing out of Singapore for Far la-UOIUvUI \\A East ports to the north-east. fjßßlßj^ ASTRIDBAKKE May 11/13 P. Sham, Penang. Hongkong, MEDAN MARU May 27/28 Kobe Osaka Japan, Vancouver. knut/<;r r\r\ui/bH Nagoya. Yokohama. TSK/OL BARBER MANGAN flay 29/31 Seattle (June 26), IV/1/ 1 Nir v
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      11681 1 FOR THIRD FOURTH DAY IPQH SATURDAY mammmmmu 1. ***** MASTERMIND (Count) Cimbrone) 3A 9.00 (d2*2) Ford Avenue/Tulloh (9) 15/15 KL3/4 d2c5 8.12g 6f; 1:14; ft, l'/4, hd Nawari. 7/9 SP21/2 d2c4 7.10h 8f; 1:44.6; Nk. 3, 2, Harbridge. 2. 3600 BIG SURF (Arragon) 5NZ 9.00 (dc) a Aurie/R.
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    • 393 8 NESS LANE did an impressive workout on a good track at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. Accompanied by stablemate Light Burden, the pair raced stride for stride over 3f m 37 4/5 with very little between them at the post. The fastest workout was by Royal Bourbon (Asuwadi)
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      • 37 8 /2~// Ccp, 70 Gtn F»oW. Co t \J "We'd better check the classified ads for an older babysitter next week." SPORTS: in Pages 11 and 12. Davy Jones in Page 11 and Crossword in Page 10 today.
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