Eastern Sun, 26 July 1966

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  • 26 1 EASTERN SUN INDEPENDENT ENGLISH NATIONAL DAILY ■fr Estd. 1966. \ol. I. No. 10. -fr Singapore, Tuesday, July 26 1966. MC(P) 1942 KDN 2309 Price 15 rents
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  • 627 1 ministers SINGAPORE, MON. i RESIDENT Sukarno of Indonesia tonight- announced a new Cabinet with a Presidium of five first Ministers and twenty-four Ministers. The five-man Presidium will be led by strong man Lt. General Suharto. Announcing the new Cabinet over Radio Jakarta, heard in Singapore,
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  • STOP PRESS
    • 60 1 SINGAPORE, Mon. —Two men were admitted to the General Hospital here tonight in a critical condition after a row near New World, Serangoon Road (opposite a petrol kiosk at the junction of Owen Road and Serangoon Road.) One of them *as struck by a vegetable chopper on the
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    • 45 1 SINGAPORE, Mon. Mrs. Lee Kuan Yew, wife of Singapore's Prime Minister, will present certificates to the students of Methodist Girls' School at the Founder's Day and graduation reremony at Shaw Auditorium in the school at Sophia Road tomorrow at 8.30 a.m.
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  • 63 1 Here are the top five winners in the 1966 Miss Universe contest held at Miami Beach, Florida, on July 16. The photograph shows from left Miss India (Yasmin Daji) placed 4th; Miss Finland (Satu Ostring) 2nd place; Miss Universe (Margarata Arvidson); Miss Thailand (Cheranand Savatanand) placed 3rd;
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  • 331 1 JESSELTON, Mon. CABAH'S Chief Minister, Mr. Peter Lo said today that he and his government were fully consulted on and had agreed to the extension of "Operation Ha- rapan" to the State of Sabah. Mr. Lo was commenting on a report in the
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  • 149 1 JAKARTA, Mon.—President Sukarno was effectively stripped of direct leadership of his Cabinet late today by the appointment of Lt. Gen. Suharto as Chairman of the Ruling Presidium. Army Strongman Lt. Gen. Suharto told a Press conference before formal announcement of the Cabinet that he would
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  • Article, Illustration
    583 2  -  By KHOO BOON CHOO Witchcraft this word of ten letters may sound rather eerie or weird in this modern era. However, it still does exist today for in Penang, there is "Witchcraft" for all to see and admire without having their hair standing on end. There is no witch
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  • 337 2  -  By Taffy Lage pENANG, Mon. The atmosphere in the room was tense and charged with excitement. All eyes were on the elderly man as he slowly walked up to the platform and stood in front of the dhoti-clad pastor. In a soft voice,
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  • 125 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Mr. Martin M. Rosen, executive vice president of the International Finance Corporation, an affiliate of World Bank, called on the Minister of Finance, Mr. Tan Slew Sin, this morning. They had discussions on LF.C. participation in industries in the private sector in
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  • 66 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Singapore pianist Miss Margaret Tan will present a piano recital at the British Council Hall here next Friday night. Twenty-one-year-old Miss Tan has Just completed a four-year Bachelor of Music course at the famous Julliard School of Music in New York. Her recital will start
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  • 172 2 DAP not going to topple govt. by force KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.~ The Democratic Action Party will launch a massive campaign throughout the country in the next few months to raise funds for the party This was disclosed last night by Mr. Devan Nalr, secretary general of the DAP at the
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  • 109 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The body of a 65-year-old Indian who was killed In an accident here yesterday, is still lying in the mortuary of the General Hospital today. The police are trying to contact his family in Kuala Lipis. The man, Sanfaram Perumal. of 122, Hill Road,
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  • 299 2 BUTTER WORTH, Mon. The Alliance Government is always aware of innocent students being caught in the political traps of Pan Malayan islamic Party, said the Minister of Education, Enche Mohammed Tobari. he r e today. He was speaking at the official opening of trie
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  • 114 2 KUCHING, Mon. Dato Teo Kui Seng, vice Chairman of the Sarawak Chinese Association, has described as satisfactory his talks with Alliance leaders In Kuala Lumpur on the association's demand for two ministerial posts in the State Cabinet. He said this at a Press conference today
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  • 507 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Selangor Stat* Government today submitted that it did not recommend abolution of local councils "realising that this is the lowest rung of administration in the system of democratic government" It maintained that the system should be encouraged to
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  • 145 2 KUALA LUMPUR, The Minister of Finance, Enche Tan Slew Sin, has accepted the invitation of the organising committee of the "Mary Poppins" charity premiere to be patron of a special morning matinee film-show. The show sponsored by the Walt-Disney Film Company and the Cathay
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  • 123 2 KOTA BAHRU, Mon.— The Central Government will not render any assistance to flood victims unless it has been declared a national disaster. The Minister of Welfare Services. Tuan Haji Abdul Hamid Khan, said this at a Press conference here, today He said
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  • 159 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Traffic Police Chief, Deputy Supt. Mansor bin Mohamed Noor, today made an appeal to the Municipality to erect more central dividers along the main roads in the town "More central dividers should be built and built quickly along such main
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  • 744 3 p_— Around the VKuala Lumpur schools with j i i; John Kam 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Men. The Methodist Boys' School, Kuala Lumpur, seems to have done exceptionally well in the various school activities and a welldeserved pat goes to them. They emerged as
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  • 469 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The implementation of the Industrial Relations Ordinance in 1960 and the subsequent changes that were made to it had done away the fears of employees of arbitrary penalties inflicted by employers. Mr. John D. Da vies, Director of Management Consultant
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  • 175 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Government must have both the money and people to formulate an intelligent and farsighted education policy, said Mr. S. Rajaratnam, Minister for Foreign Affairs. today. He was speaking at the opening of the Willow Ave- nue Secondary School here. He added
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  • 63 3 Lord Florev leaves the Canberra Theatre in procession after his installation. He is p.eceded by >»ie cnitcrsity Marshal, Professor A. G. Behind Lord Florey is Senator J. G. < (*oron, Minister in charge o Aus.ralian Government activities in education and research, the University Pro-Chancellor,
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • 222 4  -  By KUOO BOON CHOO PENANG, Mon. The dead body of an R.A.F. personell, Cpl. P. Fitzgerald, was found by a fisherman in the sea, north-west of Penang island oday. He was one of the two airmen reported missing after their boat capsized in the
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  • 364 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. UMNO chief publicity officer Wan Abdul Kadir Ismail said today the remarks by DAP. chairman, Dr. Chen Mah Hin on certain "communal-minded politicians" is both provocative and mischievous. Dr. Chen referred to the efforts of nation building as being aimed at 'Malaysia'
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  • 352 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak will attend the third ASA Foreign Ministers' conference in Bangkok from Aug. 3 to 5. The Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman who was originally scheduled to attend the conference is unable to
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  • 63 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The paymaster of the Federal Military College today claimed trial to a charge of making a false report. Captian Abdul Rahman bin Samsuri was alleged to have made the report to Assistant Superintendent of Police Zainal Abidin Raus on May 19 at the Sungei Besi
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  • 95 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. Indonesia's Minister for Trade and cooperatives, Maj. Gen. Ashari, was quoted by Radio Jakarta today as saying his country would soon send a trade mission to Singapore. 'The mission will be followed by an official one in due course,' the broadcast quoted Mr. Ashari
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  • 341 4  -  By HOO BAN KHEE KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Mr. John Lee Joo-For is an artist who does not paint to please. He searches and questions man's purpose and destiny in life with his brush. Rambling amidst his huge collection of works displayed in the Art
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  • 140 4 KUCHING, Mon. Mr. Leonard Linggi Jugah, 24, the eldest son of Tan Sri Temenggong Jugah, the Federal Minister for Sarawak Affairs, has just graduated as a Bachelor of Law with honours from the University of Hull, Britain. A holder of the Supreme Council Centenary Scholarship.
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  • 93 4  -  Story by Hoo Ban Khee. KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. lt's r-e-l-a-x-a-t-i-o-n after a day's hard work. So Bedro, the seven-year-old chimpanzee is helping himself io a glass of c o-o-l grape fruit juice. Bedro, the Italian-born versatile musician is the band-leader of the fourmember chimpanzee band of the
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  • 60 4 PENANG, Mon. A lecturer from the Teachers* Training College in Kuala Lumpur, Mr. George Wood, reported loss of articles and jewellery, worth $1,500, at the Government Rest House in Jesselton Crescent yesterday. He was staying at the Rest House. His property was stolen from his room. The
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  • 77 4 PENANG, Mon. A shopassistant, Tan Hock Ping. 31, who was caught red-handed writing out illegal charactei lottery numbers, was fined $l,OOO in the second Magistrate's Court today. Tan admitted assisting in the carrying out of the 100 1,000 and 10,000 character lotteries in Acheen Street yesterday. The court
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  • 371 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The pickets were out in MOURNING as the 8,000 strong National Union of Teachers accused the Government of not keeping their promise. i. About 200 picket-carrying teachers dressed in black picketted outside the Federal House where the Ministery of Education is
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  • 231 4 Shipping line will be big' KUALA LUMPUR. Mon— The proposed National Shipping Line should have at least 60 per cent local participation in Its capital structure, the Minister of Transport, Tan Sri Sardon bin Haji Jubir. said today. "Any independent country should have Its own National Shipping Line," he told
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 741 4 CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Penang; 6 Ipoh and Malacca; 3 and 10 Johore Bahru; 4 Taiping; 7 Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang. 5.45 Opening Programme Summary; 5.50 News in National Language; 5.55 Malaysian Songs; 6.00 News in Tamil; 6.10 THE MA GILL A GORILLA SHOW; 6.35 A MAN CALLED SHENANDOAH;
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  • 526 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. An alleged seditious article was described in court here today as a "through justification for its severe criticism of the government". In the circumstances, considerable latitude must be given to political writers, iubmitted Mr. T. T. Rajah. He said this in his summing up
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  • 36 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, speaking to a large turnout of kampong folks when he toured the Nee Soon Constituency yesterday. EASTERN SUN PHOTO. EASTERN SUN PHOTO.
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  • 368 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Minister for Interior and Defence, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, has stressed the need for democratic Asian states to create new institutions and promote new social values to meet the challenge of modernisation. Dr. Goh said that unless this was
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  • 111 5 SINGAPORE, M on Lieutenant-General Sir Alan Jolly, Commander Far East Land Forces, for the last two years, will bid farewell his headquarters tomorrow Sir Alan *nd his wife are eduled to leave Singapore J Britain aboard the SS u ?ria. J? will take over his new
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  • 74 5 SINGAPORE, Mo n Public Utilities Board has announced that on Wednesday water will be shut off in section of Orchard Road from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. to divert a 12-inch main near Orchard Theatre and Grange Road. The affected locality
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  • 309 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. An international authority on finance. Dr. Harley H. Hinrichs, described Singapore's political and economic leaders as South-East Asia's "greatest problem solvers'' At the airport, he said, "There is no denying that Singapore has its share of big problems but while other countries
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  • 111 5 SINGAPORE, Mon.—The Singapore Government is planning to send a highpowered trade and goodwill mission to Indonesia, it ;s reliable learnt here today The leader for the trade and goodwill mission is expected to be the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
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  • 112 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. —The PAP Malay Affairs Bureau is organising a Koran reading competition in December. The contest, expected to be held at National Theatre, is open to all Muslims, irrespective of their political inclinations. Enche Mohd. Ghazali Ismail. secretary of the Party's Malay Affairs Bureau, who is
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  • 523 5 SINGAPORE, Mon.—More than 500 aliens, mainly businessmen and tourists, have called at the Malaysian High Commission here to obtain visas to visit Malaysia. This was revealed by the Officer in Charge, VisaSection of the Malaysian High Commission in an interview with the Eastern
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 349 6 HONOLULU, Hawaii, Mon. (AP). \IRS. John F. Kennedy, widow of the late President, thanked the people ot Hawaii yesterday for "a perfect vacation" that was "unwatched and unnoticed." Mrs. Kennedy, in a handwritten two-page letter to the editors of the Honolulu star-bulletin and
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    • 155 6 DAMASCUS, Syria, Mon. '(AP) —Syria warned Israel yesterday that any further raids on Syrian territory would "definitely lead to war." Israel has threatened to retaliate against Syria for harbouring "Palestinian Commandos" Arab terrorists out to restore Israel to Arab rule and 10 days ago bombed
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    • 129 6 LONDON, Mon (AFP) King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit of Thailand drove to Seaford (Essex), today where their son Prince Vajiralongkorn, 14, finished the school year 1p«-* w°ek. The King and Queen have been in Britain since July 16 on a 10-week stay. The Royal couple
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    • 169 6 NICOSIA, Cyprus, Mon. (AP) —For the second straight day, UJN. peace force troops and armoured cars yesterday took up positions between rival Greek and Turkish cypriots to prevent a serious clash. Yesterday crisis was at the Turkish cypriot village of Malousha, 15 miles southeast of Nicosia. According
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    • 125 6 ROME, Mon. (AP)—Vietnam will be one of the major topics in Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani's official talks with the Polish government in Warsaw this week, the authoritative magazine "Esteri" said yesterday. "Esteri", which is written by Foreign Ministry officials, was commenting on Fanfani's four-day visit to
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    • 74 6 KAMPALA, Uganda, Mon. (AP) Three country chiefs Senior Bugandan government administrators were listed among 13 persons detained under emergency regulations issued here yesterday They are Nafutali Musoke, Chief of Gomba county, Juma Tomusange, Chief of Butamvala county and Yusefu Kakoza, chief of Mowokota county. The list brought
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    • 474 6 WASHINGTON, MON. (AP). [MR. Averell Harriman indicated yesterday that iTI several hundred North Vietnamese prisoners may be held in South Vietnam but Hanoi has shown no willingness to exchange them for nearly 100 Americans who may be captives in the north. There has
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    • 38 6 SEATTLE, Washington, Mon. (AP) Former Washington Governor Arthur B. Langlie died in a hospital here yesterday after a prolonged illness. He would have been 66 tomorrow. Death was due to a heart ailment, leukemia and complications
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    • 55 6 CAIRO, Mon. (AFP) Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sabah Elgaber arrived here today on a visit aimed at mediating between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Republic on the Yemen question. He met immediately with UAR President Gamal Abdel Nasser. President Nasser also had a meeting today with Moroccan
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    • 133 6 TOKYO, Mon. (AP) A Panamanian freighter and tanker collided in a fog at dawn today .off Ixu Peninsula, the freighter Taiwind with a crew of 39, sent a distress message. the Maritime Safety Agency (MSA) said. MSA quoted the message as saying the 7,262ton ship
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    • 104 6 DAMASCUS, Mon. (AP) The Vietcong today sent "all out support" to Syria in its stand against Israeli bombing of Arab operations tc divert the River Jordan headquarters in Syria, it was officially announced. The announcement said the support came in a teleSram to Syrian Premiei
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    • 48 6 HONGKONG, Mon. (AFP) Two American aircraft have been shot down in the last 48 hours over North Vietnam, the new China News Agency reported from Hanoi today. One was brought down today over Ha Tinh province and the other yesterday over Nghe An province.
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    • 94 6 Mr. George Brown, Britain's Deputy Premier, makes a statement to newsmen on the steps of No. 10. Downing Street at midnight last night, following a 90-minute talk with Prime Minister Mr. Harold Wilson, Mr. Brown stated. "I have decided it is my duty to
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    • 100 6 Even the dead have no peace at the Wall erected by the Communist in Berlin. the cemetery on the Bernauer Strasse, Soviet Zon e border guards have already begun exhuming the remains of the dead (picture) in order to be able to
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    • 115 6 BOLZANO, Italy, Mon. (AP) Three Italian Customs Guards were ambushed and cut down by machine gun Are as they returned to their barracks in this terrorist plagued border region shortly before midnight yesterday, police reported One of the guards was killed. Carabinieri (National Police) converged
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    • 103 6 ZERMATT, Switzerland, Mon. (UPI) Swiss "Glacier pilot" Bruno Bagnoud last night became the first flyer to land a helicopter on the summit of the Matterhorn. The 31-year-old pilot landed his Alouette-3 helicopter on the 60 ft. long, 5 ft. wide summit ridge for a "short moment
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    • 41 6 WASHINGTON Mon. (AP) Edwin O. Reischauer, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, left yesterday for Tokyo. He will go by plane first to Los Angeles where he will take a Pan American plane, arriving in Tokyo at 8 p.m. today.
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    • 27 6 LONDON, Mon. (AP) Former Vice President Mr. Richard M. Nixon, his wife and two daughters arrived from New York last night on a private visit.
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    • 153 6 HONG KONG, Mon. (AFP) The U.S. was branded an arch-criminal and common enemy of all people and free countries by the newly-formed North Vietnamese "committee to investigate U.S. war crimes in Vietnam", the New China News Agency monitored here reported today from Hanoi. The
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    • 93 6 WASHINGTON, Mon. (AP) —Luci Baines Johnson attended church services with her father vesterday and plain showed fatigue from three consecutive strenuous days. President Johnson took his 19-year-old daughter firmly by the arm as they walked down the steps after services at the National City Christian Church.
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    • 116 6 NEW YOK, Mon. (AP) Diplomats in Paris and Washington are "beginning to see a good chance for" a meeting of Presidents De Gaulle and Johnson in Ssptember, Newsweek magazine said. The nationally circulated weekly publication of news and opinion says in its forthcoming issue that De
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    • 136 6 CAIRO, Mon. (AFP) Iraqi President General Abdul Rahman Aref has apparently cancelled h i s plans to make an early official visit to Cairo, a joint communique indicated here today The communique, marking the end of talks here by Iraqi Premier Abdul Rahman Bazzaz said
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    • 72 6 NEW YORK. Mon. (AFP) North Vietnam is not contemplating any immediate trial of U. S. airmen war crimes charges, North Vietnam President Ho Chi Minh said in a telegram to the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) today. President Ho was replying to a query by the CBS, sent
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    • 75 6 HONGKONG, Mon. AFP —The Vietcong today claimed to have damaged at least 16 helicopters and aircraft in a mortar attack on the Nuoc-nam Heliport (East of Danang) yesterday. The Vietcong claims wer« reported in a new Chini News Agency despatch monitored here. The despatch recalled
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    • 125 6 LONDON, Mon (AP) Secretary General U Thant arrived from New York yesterday night enroute to Moscow for talks with Kremlin leaders. The Burmese diplomat was met at London airport by representatives of the foreign office. He will spend the night at a London hotel and resume
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    • 523 7 ASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky said in on interview published here today that only a m itary invasion of North Vietnam can bring complete victory, a i*«? i!7nW held in Saigon and published in the current issue of
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    • 145 7 BUDAPEST, Mon. (AP) The Hungarian Communist Party newspaper Nepszabadsug yesterday said the Geneva agreements on the treatment of prisoners of war cannot be applied to U.S. pilots downed over North v.etnam as the U.S. has not de la red war 'n an editorial, the paper Hided
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    • 129 7 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. T.lon. (AP) —Carrying an effigy of President Johnson as a cowboy with pistols drawn 300 pro-independence marchers demonstrated in San Juan yesterday in protest over Puerto Ricans fighting with U.S. forces in Vietnam. The demonstration was orderly. At a rally later, five Puerto
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    • 96 7 NEW YORK, Mon. (AP) -7 M. Floyd B. McKissick, National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality (COKE), disagrees with Urban league Executive Director y-'hitney Young's report from Saigon that the morale of the *>'*,ooo Negro servicemen in South Vietnam is high and the majority o/
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    • 33 7 AMMAN, Mon. (UPI)— Jordan has decided to establish diplomatic relations at the Embassy level with Thailand, official sources said here today. Jordan's Ambassador is expected to be named soon, they said.
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    • 116 7 GENOA, Mon. (AP) Police said last night they had arrested a woman who admitted having thrown her three-year old daughter from a 150-meter-high cliff. The child, Nicoletta Tidal, was found dead at the base of the cliff near the town of Sestri Levante. At first
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    • 29 7 Pplnf<K M'irrarpt admires a bust of the late Sir Winston ChurchUl by Spode at an exhibition of BrilUh-made tableware oreaniwd by the Brittah Pottery Promotion Service Ltd.
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    • 252 7 fHICAGO, Mon. (AP). Illinois State's Attorney Daniel Ward said yesterday he will present evidence to the Grand Jury today in the case of Richard Speck, accused of slaying eight student nurses who were strangled and stabbed in their quarters on July 14. "We anticipate the
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    • 65 7 GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Mon. (UPI) —Peoples National Congress Member of Parliament Charles Chanasue fatally shot himself late Saturday in the bedroom of his home here, police reported yesterday, Mr. Chanasue had recently returned from a trip to Taiwan to look into Formosa's economic development. Authorities said he had
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    • 22 7 A wounded American trooper sets encouragement from a fellow soldier after being ambushed by Vietcong guerillas in Vietnam.
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    • 306 7 MOSCOW, Mon. (AP). —U Thant arrives here today for four days of talks with Kremlin leaders expected to centre on Vietnam and a possible second term for Thant as U.N. Secretary General. U Thant will hold his first personal meetings with the men
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    • 121 7 LONDON, Mon. (UPI) A 20-year-old unemployed Irishman was charged with the murder of a 15-year-old school girl whose body was found early in the morning in a glade of Epping Forest on London's eastern outskirts. Police identified the Irishman as Joseph Kiely of Dublin. He will
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    • 69 7 NICOSIA, Mon. (UPI) —A police patrol and a group of Turkish Cypriots exchanged shots early yesterday at Melousha village, 15 miles southeast of here. Officials said about 300 shots were fired by both sides in the exchange. No casualties were reported. The situation was said to
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    • 148 7 NEW YORK, Mon. (AP).— The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) said it received a cajaie yesterday signed by North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh saying "No trial in view" in answer to a query from the network on whether he had network to place captive
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    • 282 7 WASHINGTON, Mon. (AP). Mass famine in the 1980s cannot be prevented unless the less developed nations do more in the next five years to feed themselves, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman said yesterday. By then, he said, because of world population growth
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    • 124 7 DEATH VALLEY, California, Mon. (UPI) Frenchman Jean Pierre Marquant yesterday passed the halfway point of his 100-mile "hike through hell" and was still going strong despite energy-sapping temperatures Mon. Marquant, a 28-year-old ex-paratrooper, planned to continue hiking through the foreboding Death Valley inferno, except for
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    • 61 7 LONDON, Mon. (UPI) Lord Snowdon, Princess Margaret's husband, has been in St. Bartholmews Hospital here since Friday as a National Health Service patient, it was learned today. Lord Snowdon is in the hospital for a checkup involving several laboratory tests under the supervision of his doctor, Sir
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    • 274 7 PASADENA, California, Mon. (AP) Surveyor 1 bounced two to three inches when it touched down on the moon at a speed of seven miles an hour on June 1, a study of information radioed by the U.S. spacecraft showed yesterday. Signals generated by strain gauges
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    • 81 7 NEW YORK. Mon. (UPI) Strategists estimate that 95 per cent of the major military targets in North Vietnam have been wiped out since the end of January, Newsweek Magazine said today. The weekly, in its Periscope column, said the U.S. Air Force has thu« decided
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    • 47 7 NEW YORK. Mon. (UPI) The famed Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is expected to open soon as a new crossing point into the Soviet zone in a move to catch more summer tourist traffic for the East Germans, according to the weekly magazine Newsweek's Periscope Column.
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    • 630 13 ■rur WASHINGTON, MON. (AP) THE United States said last night why it has not closed the Communist port of Haiphong. ♦v, testimony, Secretary of Defence Robert S. McNamara said the military rewards would not be impres ive if the principal North Vietnamese
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    • 218 13 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPl)—Former Republican Presidential candidate Barry M. Goldwater defended President Johnson's Asian Policy yesterday as "a continuation of past U.S. aims in the Pacific. Mr. Goldwater, who losi to Mr. Johnson by an overwhelming majority in 1964, suggested once again that the chief critic of
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    • 45 13 North Vietnamese captured and taken prisoner in battle in South Vietnam are escorted to the bridge spanning: the border between North and South Vietnam as they are repatriated. Three of the prisoners however chose to stay in the South. UPI PHOTO.
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    • 98 13 ACAYUCAN, Mexico. Mon. (AP)—About 1.000 enraged farmers ran their parish priest out of town yesterday because he refused to accept their claim that a miracle had occurred. Police said an old tree which had been lying on its side for five years was found standing upright after
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    • 156 13 LIM B U R O Germany, Mon. (AP)—Thirty Belgian school children were killed today when their holiday bus plunged off a bridge and fell more than 10 meters to a road below. The accident occurred on the Frankfurt Cologne Autobahn, police reported.
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    • 55 13 TEL AVIV, Israel, Mon. (AP) New anti-noise regulations went into force yesterday, with fines of up to 2.000 Israel pounds (M 52,000) or six months in prison for anything causing a noise nuisance during the afternoon rest hours of 2.30 p.m to 4 p.m. or at night between
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    • 344 13 CHICAGO. Mon. (AP) Documents taken from North Vietnamese prisoners show Hanoi would violate its own pledge for safe treatment of prisoners of war If it attempts to punish captured American pilots U.B. Representative Roman C. Pucinski, Demo-crat-Illinois, said yesterday. Pucinski made public a leaflet
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    • 275 13 DETROIT, Mon. (UPI) A method Qf transplanting brain tissue to the spine of a paralysed person may offer new hope to thousands of paraplegics in the future. The process, described by Dr. Leslie W. Freeman, Director of Surgical Research at Indiana University, involves transplanting the tissue
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  • 449 8 (CERTAIN progressive Malay leaders have been exhorting their people to discard old ways and ideas in order to keep in step with the times. While the younger generation welcome this call for the older folks to open the windows of their minds to modern ideas and
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  • 304 8 'J 1 HE Singapore Minister for Finance, Mr. Lim Kim San, has asked the educated elite to set the lead in civic consciousness by serving the community and the country. To become civic leaders he advises educated people to study the needs and problems of the masses
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  • 1006 8 THIS is the story written by STAN MARKS exelusively for the Eastern Sun of an Australian team of kidney grafters who has achieved considerable successess with kidney transplants over the last few years. This story should be of interest to the people of
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  • 532 8  -  BY EUGENE LEVIN Seoul, Mon. (AP) There's something of a gold rush on in South Korea today a rush to Vietnam for high paying jobs. A writer in the Korea Times desscribed it in these terms:
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  • 745 8  -  By EUGENE LEVIN Seoul, Mon. (AP) South Korea's opposition parties are showing increasing defiance toward President Chung He e Park. They are mobilizing for general elections that could prove his severest test since he came to power in 1961. At present the 49-year-old
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  • Finance
    • 334 9 THE HAGUE. Mon. (AP) Topics of "the group of ten" Finance Ministers at their twoday meeting that behere today include the situation of the British pound and the Labour government's measures last week to restore confidence in sterling. Deputies of the Finance K! nisters were
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    • 124 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Australian Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation has received its first contracts for building Italian Macchi jet trainers in Australia. Value of the contracts is •bout $A7,000,000. Contracts for engineering, tooling and production were let to the corporation as a prime contractor for Macchi ■ir-frames
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    • 489 9  -  BY JOHN PIERSON WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) U.S. officials weren't asking for whom the bell tolls this week when they applauded the harsh steps taken by Prime Minister Harold Wilson to save the British pound. It tolls for them, and they know it. In
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    • 540 9 BRUSSELS, Mon. (UPI) The common market yesterday completed the biggest farm deal in European history when the six member nations agreed on price and marketing rules which will affect 10 million farmers and 180 million consumers for years to come. Prof. Walter Hallstein, President of
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    • 96 9 LONDON, Mon. (AFP). The London Times said today the agriculture agreement reached yesterday among the common market ministers in Brussels was "another giant step forward". The Independent newsPaper said It would nov. be P'wisible to make a realistic caiculative of what enter- ing the common market
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    • 356 9 ARRIVALS S'PORE 8.20 a.m: MAL 019 (from KL); 9.30 a.m: MAL 121 tfrom KL); 10.55 a.m: MAL 005 (Penang, Ipoh, KL, Malacca); 11.05 а.m: MAL 451 (from Kuching); 2.45 p.m: MAL 045 (from Kota Bahru, Kelantan, KL); 3.30 p.m: MAL 401 (from Kuching); 5 p.m: MAL 613
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    • 172 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. A 14-strong Korean trade team led by Mr. Yong 111 Kim, a textile magnate and hon. vice-chairman of VietnamKorea Businessmen's Association in due in the Republic tomorrow to promote further trade between the two countries. Mr. Suk Woo Kim is the co-leader. The mission
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    • 216 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. Aug. first grade rubber f.o.b. buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur at 65| cents per lb. unchanged from the previous close on Friday. The tone was inactive. R. A. 9. and M. R. E. closing prices in cents per lb. to-day were: Buyers
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    • 357 9 SINGAPORE. M on.—The tin price to-day was $630 per picul, down SINGAPORE, Mon. The Stock Exchange was quietly steady today. Industrials continued to improve although gains were small. Other sections were featureless. Turnover: 270,530 units (to the value of $631,169). Of these industrials totalled 212,830 units, properties 22,000, tins
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    • 271 9 ARRIYALB —K.L. INTERNATIONAL: BOAC: From Singapore (BA 789) 7.45 a.m.; London, Zurich, Rome, New Delhi, Rangoon (BA 712) 5.25 p.m.; Cathay Pacific: from Singapore (CX 574) 9.40 a.m.; Tokyo, Osaka, Taipeh, Hong Kong (CX 575) 5.30 p.m. Qantas: From Sydney, Singapore (QF 733) 7.15 pjn.; Malaysian Airways: from
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    • 151 9 PORT SWETTENHAM Old Port: No. 1 Starford; No. 2 Seminyeh, Mutiara; No. 3 Hugheyerett; No. 4 Batu; No. 5 Bankurna. New Port: No. 6 Radnor, No. 7 Hamburg; No. 8 Tobias Maersk; No. 9 Suyo Maru. Stream Berth: No. 1 Janmatejka; No. 2 Bayemstein; No. 3 Sarghoda; No.
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    • 61 9 SINGAPORE, M on—Chinese Produce Exchange, Singapore noon prices per picul today. Coconut oil; bulk s4&i tellers, drum sellers. Pepper: Muntok white $lB5 sellers. Sarawak white $lB2l sellers, special Sara* wak black $l4O sellers, garbled Lam pong black sl42| (N) sellers (all 9€% NLW) ASTA $1571 sellers (100% NLW). Singapore
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    • 230 9 Alex Bricks Ord. CD B S B. M. Trustee Boustead 1.56 1.59 C T S Ords 55/3 Chemical Co Cold Storage XALL Dunlop 2.44 2.45 E. Smelting 3.94 3.98 Esso Ords 3.04 3.06 U D. Holdings CCR 2.00 2.08 Fitzpatricks 1.07 1.85 FtN. Ords 3.66 3.68 Gammon 2.18 2.19
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    • 31 9 Central Prop 96 City Dev 38 Faber Union Island Hotel Island Pen 48 K. L. Prop 85$ San Holdings 34 Sel. Prop 1.30 S'pore Land 63* 64 Town City 1.00
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    • 131 9 Ampat CCR 10/- Aokam 3.48 Austral Amal 24/1* 24/3 Austral Malay CR 43/- Ayer Hltam 24/6 Berjuntai CD 36/6 37/Chenderlang 22/Oopeng CD 39/Hong Kong 37/6 Idris Hyd. CD 17/Johan K'pong Kamuntlng K'pong Lanjut XCR Kamuntlng 20/3 20/6 Kent 9/3 Kesang •mm 52 Killinghall 47/- Kinta Kellas Kramat 12/10£ 13/3
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    • 76 9 Ayer Hitam 1.20 Bassett (50cts) 78 Batu Llntang 1.65 1.70 Bedford CD 1.44 Benta XD Borelli (New) 2 20 Glenealy 1.56 1.60 Jeram Kuan tan 2.18 2.20 Kempas 2.00 2.02 Kepong Plant 1.70 Kluang Ord Kundong Tg. Pau 1.80 1.90 Kuala Sidim XAU, Mentakab CBI New Scudal New
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    • 56 9 Anglo-Asian Anglo Oriental B. Kawan Rprfidln 1/2 3/4/H B. Panjong Castlefleld Consol Salak Craigielea DJember 1/4* 1/6 Duff Dev E. Asiatic Gadek 12/Golden Hope Guthrie K. L. Kepong Kulim 2/4* London Asiatic Malakoff Malaya General Malaysia Merllmau Pegoh Mt. Austin pptfcllnfc Hlnl Rub. Est. Malaya Sabah Timber Seafleld
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  • 313 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. Singapore businessmen are "best in the world", according to Mr. Stantcho AS. Stantchev, commercial counsellor of Bulgarian Trade Representation here today. Mr. Stantchev, 52, pointed out that this was not only his opinion but that of the Bulgarian trade
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  • 196 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. Enche Othman Wok, the Minister for Culture and Social Affairs expressed the hope that efforts to make the Prophet Mohamed scholarship fund grow would be fruitful. The fund is for the use of deserving students of all communities. The Minister said this at a
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  • 46 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Catholic Teachers' Movement will hold a Social Dance at St. Patrick's School on Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets are at $2 per couple or single are available on that night. Band in attendance will be Harold de Rozario and his Libertones.
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  • 90 10 IPOH, Mon. A widow, Hajjah Halimah binte Abdul Rahim, 56, was shocked to find her cash and jewellery amounting to $21,000 stolen from her house in Selama yesterday. She placed her jewllery in a trunk under her bed. She found that her house had been
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  • 95 10 SINGAPORE, Mon.—Singapore has no "official news** yet concerning the proposed Indonesias cultural mission to the Republic, the Eastern Sun learnt today. Radio Jakarta reportsd yesterday that the KOGAM (Crush Malaysia Command) would send a bg cultural mission here to promote cultural relations and to reopen air,
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  • 30 10 SINGAPORE, Mon.—The Ist Anniversary Independence Dinner and Dance organised by the Kota Raja Community Centre will be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Saturday at 8 p.m.
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  • 812 10 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The "miserable" condition of the River Segette, which cuts through the heart of this town from the Straits of Johore, highlighted the resumed debate in the Johore State Assembly here today. Enche Daud bin Ahmad, an Alliance back bencher representing the Tampoi constituency, said
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  • 375 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. King-size "ang-pows" yesterday exchanged hands in a "five and take" cheque presentation ceremony in the cause of Singapore sports. Soon after he gave out cheques amounting to $12,580 in the Conference Room of his Ministry, the Minister for Social Affairs
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  • 82 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. The first of eight barges ordered by the Pakistan Government and built by Jurong Shipyard was launched today. The 300-ton barge took two months to build an average of 30 workers per day were employed on the job. The contract of the
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  • 108 10 TAIPING, Mon. Police are now taking intensive measures to curb the spate of burglaries, house-breaking and robberies in the district. A senior police spokesman said that more mobile parrols were now visiting the various areas and increased vigilance was being kept day and night. Police have warned
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  • 35 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. An unidentified male Indian was run over by a train at about 8.15 p.m. at the intersection behind Sin Wah open-air cinema at Bukit Panjang. He died on the spot.
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  • 260 10 CINGAPORE, Mon. The Singapore Association Football Referees Society have agreed to return to the field in the interest of goodwill and co-opera-tion and for the promotion of football in the nation. This was disclosed to the Eastern Sun today in an interview with the President
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  • 583 10 CINGAPORE, Mon. The Singapore Eye Bank will soon send out letters to 1.000 doctors in the Republic to appeal to their patients to donate their eyes after death. Mr. R. C. H. Loh, of tht Singapore Eye Bank. disclosed this to the
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  • 94 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. Troops of "Charlie" Company of the 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, on border security operations in Sarawak, are looking round for a "couple of spare carpet snakes." They want, the snakes as secret weapon in their war against an increasing bushrat population
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  • 154 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. Students were today reminded of their duty to make full use of every facility available in the classroom, so that as educated adults they would become worthy citizens of the Republic of Singapore. "The enormous investment in education has brought and will,
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  • 74 10 KUALA LUMPER, Mon.— Dato Harun bin Haji Idris, the Mentri Besar of Selangor was elected president of the Selangor Ten-pin Bowling Association which held its first general meeting yesterday. Leslie Dawson, P. S. Tan, Eric Oh, and Jack Morrison were elected vice-presi-dents. Other office-bearers are: Secretary,
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  • 134 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Republic's First Lady, Puan Noor Aishah, will attend a gala film premiere of "Do Badan" (Love is Cruel) at Galaxy Cinema on Thursday at 9 p.m. The film premiere is in aid of the Singapore Association of Retarded Children and the Kamala Club funds.
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  • 68 10 SINGAPORE, Mon Enche Othman Wok, Minister of Culture and Social Affairs, will open the 14th Singapore and Pan-Malaysian Photographic Exhibition at the National Library Auditorium on Wednesday at 5.30 p.m. The exhibition, organised by the Photographic Society of Singapore, will be from July 28 to 30 from 10
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  • 34 10 SINGAPORE, Mon.—The Seletar Choral Society will hold a concert tomorrow at Saint Peter's Anglican Church in Tavistock Avenue, Serangoon Garden Estate, at 8 p.m. in aid of the Church Hall Building Fund.
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 57 10 TIME AND TIDE 26/7/66: Penang 7.39 a.m. (6.9 ft.; 7.41 p.m. (6 ft.); Port Swettenham 11.56 a.m. (11.6 ft.); Port Dickson 12.14 a.m. (6.4 ft); 1.06 p.m. (7.5 ft.); Singapore 5.06 a.m. (6.8 ft.); 5.20 p.m. (7.2 ft.); Sedili Kcchil 4.15 a.m. (6.3 ft.); 3.39 p.m. (6.9. ft.); Kuantan 3.33
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  • 255 11 ON THEIR HONEYMOON HOLLYWOOD, Mon. Singer Frank 6inatra and his bride of four days, Mia Farrow, emerged from a honeymoon hideaway in Palm Springs, Calif., on Saturday and flew to Hollywood for an apparent round of parties before heading for New York city and London.
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  • 53 11 Sulky, seductive, sensational Sophia Loren has reached the top rung of the movie-ladder. Whatever her mood may be she has achieved what thousands have dreamt about. But, failed to realise their life-long: ambition. This sultry Italian actress will soon be seen in Singapore and Malaysia in a new
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  • 42 11 Ann Margaret, vibrant and vivac.ous is a hn in any dress and the one she's wearing now is no exception. Soon she will be seen in "The Swingers." A delightfully produced film for the young and the not so old.
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  • 567 11  -  HOLLYWOOD MOM, By VERNON SCOTT ON DON may lack palm trees and year around sunshine, but at the moment it's making more movies than Hollywood Of the 59 movies in production this month only 11 actually before the cameras
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  • 719 11  -  BY DAN GURAL New York Mon. (UPI) Actor Montgomery Clift, threetime academy award nominee once for his portrayal of an ill-starred soldier in 'From Here To Eternity I —died early last Saturday of a heart attack in his plush East Side town house. He
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 410 11 LIDO Phone ***** NOW SHOWING: 4 Shows Daily Note Time*: 11, S.30. 6 A 9 p.m. "Mad World" etarU promptly at ll.*0 a.m.. 2.50. 4.1? 8.22 p.m. "IT'S A MAD, MAD. MAD, MAD WORLD" Panavision, color <UAt Next Change "The GROUP" color IAPITOL Ph"^7"297S9 Last Day 11-1.30-4-6.45-9.30 WINNER of BE8T
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  • 933 12 BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA, MOM. (AP) JOSPI Broz Tito, often reviled by Foreign comrades as revisionist, deviationist and No. 1 renegade of world Communism, has emerged stronger than ever through the purge of his Chief Lieutenant. Pres. Tito's Communist neighbours to the East are
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  • 93 12 PERTH, Moil. (AFP) The 7,000 ton Greek freighter Nicolas Michalos, loaded with 10,000 tons of wheat Xor India, was being towed towards Fremantle today by the tug "Yuna", after breaking down 200 miles off the West Australian Coast. The Yuna with the Nicolas Michalos, a
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  • 65 12 SAN FRANCISCO, Mon. (uPI) A Labour dispute that threatened to tie up 123 West Coast ships has ended. The pacific maritime association, which represents shipowners, and the marine engineers, union late Friday settled their differences over contributions to the engineer!, pension programme. The agreement permitted the American President
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  • 181 12 Cologne, Mon. The model of the first German sodium-co o 1 e d nuclear power station was recently presented to the public in Cologne (Federal Republic of Germany). Development and construction of the new installation was taken over by the International Atomic Reactor Construction Society (Interatom)
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  • 676 12  -  For U.S. tourists: Dinner, bed and breakfast in a stately home BY MARIS ROSS pOR American tourists only: Dinner, bed and breakfast in a stately home. This is the new twist to the stately home business in Britain, where crippling estate taxation has
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  • 481 12 PARIS, Mon. (AFP)—Paris is all set as the curtain goes up on the autumn an winter fashions shows, which start tomorrow, to make a stand against the miniskirt. Not only do the majority of designers say that they are against any
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  • 163 12 LANSING (Illinosis) Mon. (AFP) It is feared that Tony Lema, one of America's top rated golf pros lost his life yesterday in the crash of a chartered twin engine aircraft. Nick named Tony "Champagne" Lema because he always brought champagne for the
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  • 150 12 TOKYO, Mon. (UPI) The Foreign Minister of Japan and the Soviet Union opened their formal talks here today with discussion of important territorial and fishery issues. But there was hardly any agreement. Russian Foreign Minister Mr. Andrei Gromyko and his Japanese counterpart, Mr.
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 540 12 NOTICES mggggjgggggm MAJLIS PERBANDARAN KOTA MELAKA (MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE TOWN AND FORT OF MALACCA) Tenders are invited for the tenancy of the Municipal Clinic numbered A.23 Jalan Bendahara (Wolferstan Road) for a period of 10 years with option to renew not exceeding 10 years. 2. The floor area of
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  • 202 14 Jorge Albrecht of Argentine clears off the line with a scissor's kick as Spain's Jose Armando Ufarte (No. rushes in and Argentine's goalkeeper Antonio Roma watches during their World Cup match recently Birmingham, England. Argentine won 2 —l. The Portuguese goalkeeper Americo Lopes is caught
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  • 421 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Trainer Rinus Van Breukelen was leading trainer at the recently concluded Penang Turf Club's July meeting. He sent out three winners and four J winners were: JOY SPINNER, STREAMLIGHT and ADMIRAL BYRD. tM A He is well ahead in the trainers
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  • 745 14 KUALA Lt MPI R, Mon. The following are weights for Friday of the Selangor Turf Club H.M. The Agong's Gold Cup meeting:— H. M. The Agong's Gold Cup. Horses: CI. 1 Div. 1 Abt. 6F. Top Honour 9.13 Lord Jim 9.11 Kokoru 9.07 Silver Crows 9.05
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  • 96 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon The higher the ball goes, the belter for them. TTiey are members of the American All-Star inter-college basketball team. And their average height is well over 6 feet! The team will play exhibition matches in Malaysia and Singapore from Aug. 4.
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  • 349 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Malaya's "Mr. Racing Bob Norton will be leaving Singapore for Hong Kong on Thursday enroute to Vancouver, Canada, on retirement having served Malayan Racing for over 24 yean as starter, handicapper and stipendiary steward. It was Mr. Norton's second retirement from duties so
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  • 169 14 SINGAPORE, Mon. J. Griffins from the Singapore island Country Club caused an upset in the Keppel Club's open 'A* medal golf competition, when he brat Singapore schoolboy winner of the Malaysian Amateur Open Championships, Phua Tien Kiay (handicap 2) by two strokes here yesterday. J. Griffins
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  • 177 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday, The 22-man Malaysian contingent for the Commonwealth Games in Kingston were entertained to lunch by the Federal Travel Agency today. Eastern Sun picture by Mok Voon shows, from left, Tan Sri Ghazali Shafle, Per- manent Secretary to the Ministry of External
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  • 180 15 SINGAPORE. Moil.—Singapore's Contingent to the Bth British Empire and Commonwealth Games at Kingston which left here last night, are confident of winning a few medals at the Games. The Contingent including five officials, received the accolade of the sporting fraternity on their departure at
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  • 174 15 SINGAPORE, Mon. —ln the Singapore Island Country Club's 'D' division medal golf competition held over the weekend at the Sime Road course, Gan Kim S on emerged the winner with a stableford score of 39 points. Runner-up was W. Maclay, who scored a close
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  • 255 15 SINGAPORE. Mon.—Singapore's two most promising swimmers. Tan Thuan Heng, Alexander Chan were among the 15 sportsmen and five officials who left by air last night for Kingston to represent Singapore in the forthcoming Commonwealth Games. Thuan Heng, 18, who entered the water
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  • 170 16 MANILA, Mo n. (AFP) Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos may yet call off his projected state visit to the United States in September if the Huk situation in central Luzon deteriorates, an official statement issued by Malacanang palace indicated. Pres. Marcos is expected
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  • 183 16 TOKYO, Mon. (AP) North Vietnam's Labour (Communist) Party has called for stepped up training of scientific and technical cadres and economic managers "in the new conditions of socialist construction and of the struggle against US. imperalism," Hanoi's Vietnam news agency said yes terday. In a
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  • 155 16 MANILA, Mon. (LPI) Filipino sportmanbanker Arsenio "dodjie" 1.-*»»rel and two others were reported safe today after ditching their light plane in Ragay gulf, about 120 miles South-west of Manila. Mr.. Laurel, well known In Asian sports car racing circles was piloting the single-engine Cherokee aircraft
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  • 115 16 Gromyko TOKYO, Mon. (UPI) Police today arrested 10 members of the Ultranationalist "Great Japan Patriotic Party" who tried to force their way into the foreign ministry premises to protest against the arrival of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. The party President Mr. Bin Akao and nine others
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  • 106 16 SAIGON, Mon. (AP) U.S. Military headquarters said yesterday that it had no evidence of any Chinese troops on the Communist side in South Veitnam. The statement was issued after news stories reported that a young North Vietnamese, taken prisoner by U.S. Marines, had told interrogators there were Chinese
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  • 92 16 TRADE FAIR JAKARTA, Mon. (AFP)— Indonesia expects to cash in at least US $4O m. from an International fair to be held here by the end of this year, the chairman of the Indonesian council for fairs and exhibitions. Mr. J.M. Laidhad said in Jakarta last
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  • 89 16 Independence KARACHI, Mon. (AFP). Pakistan's new Foreign Minister Mr. Sharifuddin Pirzada said here yesterday that his country's foreign policy was "independent, Islamic and national in its outlook". He added: "The pivot of our foreign policy is Pakistan first, Pakistan second and Pakistan last". Speaking to newsmen at the
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  • 60 16 North Vietnamese soldiers captured in the South await the release in a ceremony held at the southern end of Peace Bridge over the river Ban Hai on July 20 to mark the National Day of Shame. All the prisoners were under 20. Of the 16 released, 13 crossed the bridge,
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  • 59 16 The South Vietnamese Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu (left) and the Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ry, mixing earth brought from various parts of Vietnam in a ceremony held at the Independence Palace's Park in Saigon on the occasion of the National Day of Shame on July 20. The earth
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  • 245 16 Mao swims river again Peking TOKYO, Mon. (UPI) Radio Peking reported today that aging Communist leader Mao Tse-Tung, 72, swam 15 kilometres (9 miles) down the Yangtze River on July 16. The Japanese-language broadcast, monitored here, said the one-hour dip recalled the time Red China's Party Chairman swam the same
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  • 155 16 MANILA, Mon. (UPI) More than 100 persons, most of them children, suffered a mild electric shock while 12 others were injured in a stampede on Saturday night during a showing of free movies in a town in the southern Philippines. The Philippine news service reported that
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  • 141 16 CAMBODIA PHONM PENH Mon. (AFP) —The Cambodian government yesterday denied that it had asked the United Nations security council to "reaffirm" the International Court's decision over the frontier temple of Preah Vihear. The government was commenting on press reports from United Nations headquarters, New York, that Cambodia had
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  • 97 16 The mass murder victim MANILA, Mon. (UPI) The foreign office today backed the efforts of the Philippine Consul-general in hicago to seek legal means to enable him to visit the survivor of the Chicago mass murder. Consul-General Mr. Generoso Provodo had charged that
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  • 945 16  -  Peking purge list grows... Hong Kong, Mon. by Frank Williams Frank Williams The list of high-level officials being swept away in the Chinese Communst p o 1 it i c a 1 purge now has passed 50, according to an unofficial compilation. When the purge of Communist
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  • 33 16 TAIPEH Mon. (AP) Chinese Communist gunners hit the Quemoy islands on Saturday night with 57 shells and the Matsu Complex with 10, the Chinese Nationalist defence ministry in Taipeh reported yesterday.
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  • 196 16 JAKARTA. Mon. (AFP) The powerful orthodox Indonesian Muslim scholars party "Nahdatul Ulama" during the weekend advised the North Vietnamese government to stop meddling in Indonesia's domestic affairs "because this besmirches Indonesia's support and sympathy for the North Vietnamese". The first deputy chairman of the Nahdatul Ulama.
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