Eastern Sun, 15 August 1966

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  • 26 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Kslil. 1966. Vol. 1. N O 30. Monday. August 15 1966. MC (P) 1942 KDN 2309 Price 15 cents
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  • 590 1  -  By Tai Sing Onn, John Kam, Jamal Ali, Lim Thow Boon, Chan Kam Yau,Hoo Ban Khee. KUALA LUMPUR, SUNDAY KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Violence broke out just after high noon in the Federal capital. It started with a demonstration by 300 people against the pres en c e
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  • 515 1 By SUHAIMI BIDIN SINGAPORE, Sun. The Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, has urged the people to understand the problems of a multiracial society in the Republic and to plan for future happiness and well-being. The Prime Minister was speaking at the National Day Celebrations
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  • 114 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. —The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, commenting on today's demonstrations, charged that the Labour Party looked to the Communists for inspiration and guidance. He was referring to the circulars issued by the anti-American demonstrators. The Tunku in an interview with T.V. Malaysia said
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  • 91 1 SINGAPORE. Sun. The recently concluded Pesta Sukan Minggu Mcrdeka competition has won praises from sports officials and organisations. Leading sports officials and organsiations paid tribute to the week-long festival of sports. They said that the competition had helped to "build a new image" for sports promotion
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  • 282 1 JAKARTA, Sun. (AFP)' Former Vice-presi-dent Mohammed Hatta last night warned a mass rally in Tjirebon (West Java) against the dangers of dictatorial powers. Mr. Hatta said a dictator will never be satisfied. A dictator will gradually adore only his own ego. Mr. Hatta did not mention names.
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  • Local News
    • 238 2  -  Bv BEN d'CUNHA KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Debate on the peace accord between Indonesia and Malaysia will highlight the next session of Parliament Aug. 22 to 27. Although the accord will receive the overwhelming support of the government backbenchers and the opposition, the government is expected
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    • 135 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. —Mr. C. V. Devan Nair (DAP MP for Bungsar) will ask the Minister of Labour in Parliament when it sits from Aug. 22 to 27 if he is aware that journalists on the payroll of the "Daily Citizen" till its closure on
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    • 49 2 KUCHING, Sun. A security forces spokesman stated in Jesselton today that one Australian soldier was killed, and one slightly injured in a traffic arrident on the road from Keningau to Pantewan in the interior residency of Sabah on Aug. 9. The next of kin had been informed.
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    • 43 2 DR. ADAM MALIK, the Indonesian Foreign Minister bade farewell to the Malaysian leaders and well wishers at the International Airport before flying home. A section of the rrowd at Svbang Airport who wished Dr. Adam Maiik 'Selarnat Jalan.'
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    • 251 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The CUEPACS is to meet on Tuesday to take a decision on a crucial matter which affects 30 odd ancillary grades allied to the clerical service. A CUEPACS statement says it understands that the revision of salaries for this grade of
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    • 44 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. State security executive committee here deciaed today to lift off-shore night curfew from 12 noon The areas concerned are South-Westem Johore from Sungei Pontian Kechil to Tg. Kupang and in South-East-ern Johore. from Tg Pengelih to Tg. Pungzai.
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    • 49 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The Minister of Labour, Enche V. Manickavasagam, accompanied by the ministry's senior officers, today inspected the new $87,000 labour industrial relations office in Segamat, Johore. The Minister, who is on a tour of Segamat ani Muar districts, also visitea the North Labis Estate.
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    • 173 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The goodwill committee set un by the Ministry of Health was not to soy on the hospital nersonnel but to promote closer relations between the public and hospital staff. This was said by Enche Ibrahim bin Abdul Rahman the Parliamentary Secretary to
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    • 156 2 PENANG. Sun. Miss Doris Wong, a 28-year-old typist of Nestle'g Products (Malaya) Ltd., Penang Branch, was overwhelmed with joy when she learned that she was one of the 20 winners in the Eastern Sun's $3,000 Quiz Contest No. 1. "This is the first time that I
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    • 169 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The annual gala ball of the Gurney Road Government Offices here will be held on Auk. 30 at the Chinese Assembly Hall. The total proceeds will be donated to the Montfort Boys' Home. Several spot dance prizes, floor shows and other surprise
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    • 40 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— A former trade unionist, Mr. Vifva Lingam, has been appointed adviser to the Union of Clerks in fully-assisted schools, Malaya. Mr. Lingam is union adviser to the Union of Manual Workers in fuily-assisted schools. Perak.
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    • 44 2 KUCHING, Sun. The Women's Institute Association, Bakam branch recently donated a sum of $2O to the National Defence Fund. The mcney was handed to the District Officer, Miri, by Timot binti Tua Kampong Haji Yusof on behalf of the women's institutes.
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    • 178 2 BUTTERYVORTH. Sun. An elaborate and gTand entertainment to cater for all has been drawn up to celebrate Malaysia Day in the Butterworth town and district. The entertainment, a three night affair, will be held on the lovely sea beach at Bagan Ajam. here from Aug. 31
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    • 546 3 Meeting with Suharto JAKARTA, Sun. (UPI)—A sevenman Singapore liaison team arrived in Jakarta by Royal Dutch airlines jet last night to pave the way for normalisation of relations between Singapore and Indonesia. The team was led by Singapore Finance Ministry Permanent Secretary, Mr. Sim Kee Boon.
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    • 41 3 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Gurkha Contingent, Polis Repablik Singapura, will carry out navigation exercises at the Mandai Catchment area on Monday from 7.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pyrotechnics will be used. The public are advised not to to alarmed.
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    • 59 3 SINGAPORE, Sun. Water will be shut off from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, at first lane of Resettlement Area 102, off Lim Chu Kan? Area 16£ m.s. The purpose of the shutdown is to install a 4 in. x 4 in. Tee connection for
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    • 160 3 TOUORE BAHRU, Sun. J The people of Johore have special reasons for iK-ing jubilant over the singing of a peace agreement between Malaysia and Indonesia. Speaking on behalf of the Mentri Besar at a civic course for 48 pengulus at the Bukit Senyum Training
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    • 39 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat —At the National Monument (from left) are Dr. Adam Malik (in dark suit and 'songkok'} and beside him (right) Tun Razak in grey suit and 'songkok'. Eastern Sun Picture. Eastern Sun Picture.
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    • 475 3 SINGAPORE, Sun. The 3,000-strong Singapore Traction Company Employees' Union strongly supported the steps taken by the National Trades Union Congress to accept a challenge made by the Prime Minister to be a "responsible critic of the Govern- ment". The removal of overtime and treble pay for
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    • 34 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Singapore's millionaire burglar, Chew Kim Lin, was yesterday sentenced to another three years' jail for housebreaking and theft and rsOi seven year? as suggested in the heading.
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    • 77 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. A crack crime buster, Assistant Commissioner, X. A Nicholas, today assumed duties as the 0C.C.1. of Johore with office at the Police Headquarters in Jalan Majidee here. He succeeded Superintendant Sarauan Singh who recently went on transfer as the principal staff officer at
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    • 45 3 7.30 p.m. Free Film shows by the Ministry of Culture: Firemen's Quarters, Naval Base; Changi Village Market Open Space; Hwa Ming School, Lai Hock Kee Hng; Hong Sian Tong Chinese Kampong, Nee Soon Road. 8 p.m. National Theatre, Tank Road: "Jaihind" variety show.
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    • 297 3 SINGAPORE, Sun. A pharmacy graduate of the University of Singapore will go to Melbourne, Australia, next year to study for the University of Melbourne's Master of Science Degree in Pharmacology. *»■<■ He has been awarded the second scholarship offered by the Federated Pharmdcectical Service Guild of Australia
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    • 146 3 SINGAPORE, Sun. The President, Enche Yusuf bin Ishak, said tonight the expression of cultural values serves as a source of inspiration and contributes towards the common good. Speaking at the Singapore Music Festival at the Victoria Theatre, he added: 'lt is fitting that at the first
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    • 54 3 Malaysian delegation attend opening session of the World Assembly of Youth (Way) at a Tokyo Hotel recently. They are from right; Mr. Govinda Raj, Mr. Anthony Wong, Mrs Abdul** lah, Tunku Abdullah, Mr. Khoo Oon Soo, Miss Rahmah, Balasubramoniam f Enche Nik Mustapha, Enche Mad Yosuff.
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    • 85 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Thousands of Malaysians turned up at the airport yesterday to say goodbye to Dr. Adam Malik. KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Indonesian Foreign Minister, Dr. Adam Malik, (garlanded) waves to cheering crowd. Beside him is Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak. Malik says farewell
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    • 266 4 PENANG, Sun With the streets lively decorated with flags and buntings and arches put up by the various Chambers of Commerce, Penang, will go all gay during the first official visit of Their Majesties, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong.
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    • 30 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. —The Jesus Saves Mission of Crlag Road celebrate its 2nd anniversary today. A special thanksgiving service was held at 5 p.m. at 420 Balestler Road.
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    • 365 4  -  By LUCIAN PETER PADANG BESAR, Sun. This bustling border town has suddenly become a town of open secrets and rampaging rumours following a surprise terrorist attack that killed ten members of a Malaysian-Thai patrol in south Thailand. Members of the security forces have
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    • 135 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. "I feel that the task of building our nation generally rests with our youths." said the acting Minister of Culture. Youth and Sports, Ungku Muh.sein bin Abdul Kadir. when he opened the training course of Malayan Association of Youth Council at MAYC training
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    • 178 4 JESSELTON, Sun. (AP). The Chief Minister of Sabah, Peter Lo, today described Article I of the peace agreement a "good" one because Sabah Alliance would need a platform of this nature to give people an opportunity to reaffirm their faith in Malaysia.
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    • 47 4 JOHORE BHARU, Sun. State security and executive committee bee has decided to life offshore night curfew from 12 noon. The areas concerned are South-Western J oh ore, from Sungei Pontian Kechil to Tc. Kupan?, and in South-Eastern Johora, from Tg. Pengclih to Tg. Punggai.
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    • 206 5 SINGAPORE, Sun. The double taxation agreement between Singapore and Malaysia will be signed on Tuesday in Kuala Lumpur. This was revealed by Mr. Tan Siew Sin, Malaysian Finance Minister, at the airport before he left for Kuala Lumpur today. Mi. Tan flew in
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    • 87 5 Wine, bread and paradise' KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Ah, a glass of wine, a loaf of bread and Dr. Adam Malik (right) "well, with me .is paradise now.' This is what Tun J* 1 1 (centre) the Minister of Home Affairs, seems to be thinking to judge by the beatific expression
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    • 2275 5  -  S. Radhakrishnan, .(President of India). SINGAPORE, Sun. Several congratulatory messages were received by the President of the Republic of Singapore, Inche Yusof bin Ishak, the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, on
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 301 2 Answers to first quiz contest SINGAPORE, Sun. Twenty of our readers have won the first $3,000 quiz contest. Have you entered for the second S3.000 quiz contest? If you have missed it you are still not too late to enter for the third $3,000 quiz contest which begins tomorrow. Meanwhile,
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    • 380 2 EASTERN SUN $3,000 Contest CONTEST NO. 3 Quiz for August 15 1966 1. What was the date of Eastern Sun's first issue? 2. Who stars as James Bond in the movies? 3. What is the name of the Straits that separates Singapore from Johore? v ANSWERS TO QUIZ FOR CONTEST
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 643 5 CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Penang; 6 Ipoh and Malacca; 3 and 10 Johore Bahru: 4 Taiping; 7 Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang. PM. 5 45 Opening Annct. Prog. Summary; 5.50 News in the National Language; 5.55 J National Songs; 6.00 News in Tamil; 6.10 Lawman; 6.35 Aminal Parade; 6.50 Junior
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 121 6 VATICAN CITY, Sun. fAFP) The Vatican today "forgave" the Beatles, under a cloud since Beatle John Lennon said the famous pop group was more popular than Christ. "The affair is closed" wrote the "Osservatore Romano", the Vatican's newspaper. Forgiveness from the Vatican came after Lennon's explanation
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    • 41 6 LUSAKA, Sun. (AFP)— 7. amb i a n Vice-President, Raufcen Kamanga denied today that he and Foreign Minister, Simon Kapwepwe would attend the Commonwtalth Prime Ministers conference in London next rrx»nth on their way home from a six-nation tour.
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    • 179 6 J ONDON, Sun. (A.P.). Lj Hundreds of armed police in the biggest manhunt in London's History yesterday sought the killers who gunned down three unarmed policemen. As the dragnet widened throughout the metropolis, this order went out from Scotland Yard to all police officers "These
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    • 235 6 HONOLULU, Sun. (UPI). —A medical scientist said yesterday 15 per cent of the worlds women are using oral contraceptives but added that innovations must be constantly made since the population of the world is scheduled to double in the next 35 years. Edward Brady.
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    • 170 6 T ONDON, Sun. (AFP> Home Secretary Mr. Roy Jenkins today discounted the possibility of restoring the death penalty for police slaying, following yesterday's murder of three policemen outside Wormwood Scrubs, the big West London jail. He told questioners a decision to bring back
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    • 101 6 CAIRO, Sun. (AFP)— North Vietnam cpnsiders that the proposed Asian conference on the ietnam war is merely a "manoeuvre" by countries which are "agents of the United States, North Vietnam's Ambassador Nguyen Xuan was understood to have told Cairo officials today. Mr. Nguyen Xuan
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    • 137 6 SALISBURY, Rhodesia, Sun. The wives of three of the British University lecturers detained by the Rhodesi«n authorities in a dawn swoop on the University College of Rhodesia in Salisbury, recently., are interviewed by newsmen after they had been allowed to visit their husbands in jail here.
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    • 310 6 WASHINGTON. Sun. (UPI). —The House Committee on un-American activities is heading for a confrontation with some of the bitterest U.S. critics of the Vietnam war—those who have sent blood and supplies to the Vietcong. Eleven leaders from a handful of organisations have been subpoenaed
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    • 54 6 LONDON, Sun. (AFP) Queen Elizabeth telephoned personally to Sir Joseph Simpon, Commiosioner of Metropolitan Police, today to express her sorrow at the murder of three detectives shot dead yesterday near Wormwood Scrubs prison in London. Scotland Yard was continuing its manhunt for the person or persons who
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    • 151 6 NEW YORK, Sun. (AFP) r~ Police in several United otates towns were counting up arrests this morning after another night of sporadic racial violence. In Philadelphia, detectives swooping after a tip-off round a quantity of dynamite and two baj-onets in a branch office of
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    • 101 6 MEXICO CITY, Sun. (AFP). Four Mexican villagers have died and six hundred others are suffering from intoxication today because a baker went crazy and mixed arsenic with the dough. Half of the sick people were said to be in a critical condition. M. Medina, a
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    • 57 6 ROME, Sun. fUPI) American movie and television actor Lang Jeffries, 35, yesterday married Gail Harris Getty, 31, in a brief civil ceremony ;»t Rome's City Hall. Jeffries is a former husband of film actress Rhonda Fleming. His bride recen:ly divorced Paul Getty T r., son of the U.S.
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    • 27 6 SAN ANTONIO (Texas) Sun. (AFP) President Johnson, who *s spending the weekend on his Texas ranch, announced yesterday Carol C. Laise, 48. Ambassador to Nepal.
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    • 340 6 'TUNIS, Sun. (AFP)—Tuni--1 sian police were on the warpath against girls in miniskirts today, after a radio and television call from President Bourguiba to oultaw skirts that show too much legs. A few hours after the President's outburst against "girls who
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    • 289 6 MUSKEGON, Mich, Sun. (UPl).—About 1,000 young negroes went on a rock-throwing and looting rampage early today following a dance at a downtown hotel on Friday night. About 70 policemen, including state police and Muskegon County sheriffs deputies, quieted the crowds after nearly three
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    • 153 6 KARACHI. Sun. <AFP>.— In an anniversary message today President Avub Khan regretted the current relations between Pakistan and India. He pledged to help the population of Jammu and Kashmir which he said continued to be subjected to Indian oppression, to achieve self-determination.
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    • 50 6 PARIS, Sun. (AFP) The famous Eiffel Tower here claimed its 347 th suicide victim late last night. A man apparently aged about 30 leapt from the tower's top deck to instant death on the first-story platform below. Police had not ascertained his identity by this morning.
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    • 28 6 HANOI. Sun (AFP) A U.S. pilotless plane was shot down over Quang Ninh Province (North Vietnam) today, according to a report by the Vietnam News Agency.
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    • 53 6 These people are enjoying a cool beer in summer seated in a one of the three 100-gallon barrels used as restaurant rooms with 3 metres in diameters. This novel restaurant idea applied after 2,000 years on the road Pra-£ue-Plzen at Karez in Western Bohemia. Czechosiavia. PANA
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    • 221 6 WASHINGTON. Sift (UPI). —Sen. Len B. Jordan (Republican) Idaho, toid th« senate on Friday he felt "w# have waged war more vigorously than we have waged peace" in Vietnam. Jordan said "a predominantly military approach naS produced only more war. The more brutal
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    • 96 6 CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sun. (UPI> Cleveland clinic doctors said they have effectively developed a low cost artificial kidney from a washing machine. The new kidney, which can be used by patients at home, will sell for about Sl5O. said Dr. Wlllem J. Kolff, who invented the world's fUvt artificial
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    • 489 7  -  BY DONALD H. MAY WASHINGTON, Sun. (UPI) The United States sees conflicting signs of North Vietnam's intentions regarding the Vietnamese war, officials reported yesterday. si n s HJjKht indicate the Hanoi regime is digging in for a long conflict. For example, there have been
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    • 147 7 UNITED NATIONS. Sun. (UFI). U Thant may be expected to stay on for an abbreviated term as U.N. Secretary General atter his five-year term expires on Nov 3, a cross-section of diplomats agreed yesterday. I 7 Thant, who has made no secret of the fact that
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    • 34 7 BUDAPEST, Sun. (AFP) Danish Foreign Minister Per Haekkerup yesterday advocated bi-lateral relations between NATO and Warsaw Pact countries a s a prelude to multilateral relations and finally a general conference of European nations.
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    • 62 7 NEW DELHI. Sun. (AP) The incidence of blindness in India is probably the highest in the world, the Indian Society for the Prevention of Blindness reported. It said five out of every 1,000 Indians was blind. The society complained India has only one eye speciallist for
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    • 50 7 HE lICOPTFR that can be used also as a car has been developed by a West German firm. By pressing a lever the engine can be made to drive the four wheels for road use. The four-seater has top speed of 185 km per hour.
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    • 247 7 WASHINGTON. Sun. (UPI). The State Department said yesterday that a Chinese Communist official vic nought refuge at the I S Embassy in Damascus. a. has since left there ••ot volition." For the first time. the )artment revealed the if entity of the man, about wr.om there
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    • 226 7 WASHINGTON. Sun. (AFP). President Eisenhower rejected eight years ®uo a suggestion by President de Gaulle ihat a sort ol three-nation directorate be established over NATO, Senate Sub-Committee confirmed yesterday. Resident Eisenhower also turned down General de Gaulie's proposal that the competence of the North At
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    • 39 7 A MODEL of Lunar Orbiter being: examined by directors of the programme in Washington. The cam»ra-carrying spacecraft is designed to make a detailed aerial survey of the moon's terrain for possible landing sites lor astronauts.
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    • 67 7 LUCKNOW, India, Sun. (AP) State Agriculture Minister Genda Singh suggests that rat meat be included in the Indian diet as much as fish and chicken. Ugra Sen, member of the Swatantra Sociallist Party, asked if the the government would launch an "Eat the Rat Campaign"
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    • 82 7 MOSCOW. Sun. (UPI) Moscow Radio told the Russian people yesterday the Soviet Union exploded the World's first hydrogen bomb in 1953, seven months ahead of the United States. The statement was 'n variance with American claims. A broadcast oeamed tc listeners inside the Soviet Union said Russia
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    • 419 7 WASHINGTON, Sun. (AP) U.S. Secretary of Defence Robert S. McNamara estimates the United States in the current fiscal year will lose 580 attack aircraft worth US$l2 billion in the Vietnam air war. But Mr. McNamara has assured senators that the pending US$53 billion defence
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    • 144 7 STOCKHOLM, Sun.—Prof. Gunnar Fant at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm has received a $33,600 grant from the U.S Department of Health, Education and Welfare for continued research into the physiological and psychological condition for human speech. Prof. Fant is connected with the Institute's speech
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    • 39 7 ESCHWEGE (West Germany), Sun. (AFP) —An East German froniier guard who fled to West Germany has stated that a drive has been launched in the East German "Peoples Army" to recruit volunteers for North Vietnam, local officials reported.
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    • 143 7 WASHINGTON, Sun. (AFP) The 10.500 French civilian personnel employed by American forces in France will receive about US$ 2.700,000 compensation when the Americans move out, it was revealed here. The information was supplied by Defence Secretary Robert McNamara at a meeting of the Senate Estimates
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    • 27 7 WASHINGSTON. Sun. (AFP)—Officials here heard with surprise and disappoint* ment yesterday the news of Prince Norodom Sihanouk's cancellation of roving ambassador Averel! Harriman's visit to Cambodia.
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    • 191 7 EJONN, Sun. (AFP) South Vietnamese Vice-Premier General Nguyen Huu-co. here on a "goodwill visit" told the press yesterday that Saigon authorities were sure to achieve victory ''sooner or later" although they launched only defensive operations Mr. Dinh Trinh Chin*, a Secretary of State at the
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    • 210 7 BERLIN, Sun. (AP) A Hanoi correspondent o the East German news agency ADN reported last night that U.S. bombs had destroyed one village and heavily damaged another near Hanoi, killing women and children. The correspondent, Klau« Anton said the bombardment of the villages near a dike
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    • 49 7 PARIS. Sun. (AFP) Bulgaria's Premier Tbdor Zhivkov will make an official visit to Paris i n October, authoritative French sources confirmed today. An invitation to visit Paris was extended to Mr. Zhivkov by French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve D? Murville when he visited Sofia in April.
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    • 334 7 LONDON. Sun. (AP) Shots uere fired at a police prowl car early today as police hunted the killers of a three-man prowl car crew. The shooting; occurred in the sleazy Soho area in London's West End about 4.30 a.m. Two men were being questioned about the
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    • 475 10 PHNOM PENH, Sun. Prince Norodom Sihanouk has announced that he has cancelled a planned visit by U.S. roving Ambassador, W. Averell Harriman, but plans to have a historic "Coronation of kings" welcome for President De Gaulle during the same period.
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    • 259 10 NEW DELHI, Sun. (AFP) India is understood to have urged the United States to reciprocate North Vietnam's "gesture" in not placing captured American pilots on trial as war criminals, according to nonofficial sources close to the government here. India expects the United States to
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    • 86 10 SAIGON, Sun. (AFP) The United States lost at least 15 aircraft over North Vietnam this week, U.S. officials said here today. The loss were the heaviest so far for a one week period since the air offensive against the North began in
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    • 188 10 VUNG TAU, South Vietnam. Sun. (AP) More than 3,000 troops of the new 196 th U.S. Light Infantry Brigade arrived in South Vietnam yesterday morning in a further build up of U.S. forces. The new arrivals raised to 291,000 the total of American troops now in
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    • 467 10 PEKING, Sun. (AFP) China is preparing a new "great leap forward" on the domestic front and a final divorce from the USSR on the world scene, observers said yesterday after studying the communique published by the central committe of the Chinese
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    • 119 10 PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Sun. Prince Sihanouk has declared the ASA-backed 'all Asian* attempt at a Vietnam peace conference as a "farce". He recently met a group of "Americans want to know" team who were on a fact-finding mission in Cambodia. The team reported that they did
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    • 104 10 MANILA, Sun. (AFP)— Central Luzon Huks (Communists) have listed down one hundred persons for liquidation in Northern Philippines, the Sunday Chronicle, quoting Military sources, reported today. The death list contains name? of politicians, wealthy landowners and former Huk members and sympathisers who have defected to the
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    • 184 10 TOKYO. Sun. (AP) Peking's News Agency today referred to guerrillas in Thailand as "The People's Armed Forces." a description reserved for Communist insurgents. New China News Agency (NCNA) said "The People's Armed Forces of Thailand have dealt repeated blows recently at the leactionary troops and
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    • 52 10 MANILA, Sun. (AP) —Catalino Macaraig, head of the Philippines Prisons Bureau cannot understand why his prisoners do not like his jails. They keep trying to escape. He has now called in a psychologist to interview recaptured prisoners to try and find out what made them want
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    • 203 10 TOKYO, Sun. (UPl>—Chu Teh, chairman of Communist China National People* Congress standing committee. said that the three nations proposal for convening an Asian conference on Vietnam was a "farce, instigated by U.S. imperialism," the New China New» Acency reported yesterday. Marshal Chu made the statement
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    • 102 10 At midnight, two young men andl two 14-year-old girls slipped unnoticed into the sewerage canals on the East Berlin side. For hours they fought their way through sewage, pipelines and barbed wire. Suddenly they found themselves in front of a wall. Through the gully
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    • 189 11 CHICAGO, Sun. (UPI) Recused mass slayer, chard Speck Is suffering from a heart ailment that c uld require up to a year f almost total bed rest, iok County jail. Warden j Johnson has said. Johnson said an electroc adiogram taken on the 04.year-old Dallas drifter,
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    • 90 11 SAIGON, Sun. (AFP)— Over one hundred young Japanese have volunteered to fight the Vietcong alongside the South Vietnamese troops, Vietnam press reDorted this morning. They have reportedly made their offer to Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky through the Vietnamese embassy in Tokyo. The youths are members
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    • 184 11 TOKYO, Sun. (AP) I clings news agency today referred to guerrillas in Thailand as "the People's Armed Forces" a description reserved for Communist insurgents. New China News Agency (NCNA) said "The People's Armed Forces of Thailand have dealt repeated blows recently at the reactionary troops and
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    • 56 11 LONDON, Sun. (UPI) Deputy leader of the Conservative opposition and former Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maulding said yesterday efficiency is the key to curing Biitain's economic problem. "Hours worked in this country are probably too long." he said in a statement. "but the way they
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    • 157 11 PHNOM PENH, Sun (AFP) The Cambodian government issued a strong protest today against Unites States claims that the bombed village of Tholk Trach was shown on maps as being in South Vietnam. A Cambodian government spokesman called these suggestions "cynical" and said they represented an attempt
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    • 68 11 MIAMI, FLORIDA, Sun. (AP) —The Cuban government has apointed new Ambassadors to North Vietnam, France, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the United Nations, Havana Radio said last night. In a Miami-monitored broadcast, the radio named the ambassadors as: North Vietnam Major Julio Garcia Hungary, Jose MatarFrance, Baudilio Casterlla-nos-Czechoslovakia, Ernesto
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    • 56 11 MANILA, Sun. (AFP)—A Philippine barge laden with copra was set afire by arsonists in Central Philippines, yesterday, resulting in critical burns to five crew members, the Sunday Times reported today. The barge was in total debris after the fire Its cargo, vllued at several thousands pesos,
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    • 91 11 A record number of 110 persons drowned and some 25-reported missing following a mass exodus to shores, beaches, river and lakes to escape soaring temperatures, throughout Central and Western Japan. Literally millions of Japanese thronged highways and trains leading to beaches despite warnings of high sea
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    • 123 11 WARSAW, Sun. (AFP)— Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn, Premier of Thailand has presented h?s condolences to Poland 'or the murder of a Polish commercial delegate named S. Gleb in Bangkok on Aug. 4, the Polish News Agency P.A.P. reported today. The news agency said the Polish government,
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    • 128 11 ADDIS ABABA, Sun. (AFP) Twenty-one of the 36 member states of the African Unity Organisation are in favour of an O.A.U. summit being held here from November 4th-Bth, Dr. Hassan Zayat, U.A.R. under secretary of state for Foreign Affairs told AFP today. This was
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    • 349 11 NEW YORK, Sun. (AP) ARTHUR Schlesinger jr., adviser to the late President Kennedy, last night accused the Johnson administration of paying "lip service" to the idea of a negotiated solution to the war in Vietnam. Schlesinger, now Albert Schweitzer, Professor of
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    • 126 11 LAGOS, Sun. (AFP) Nigerian political leader Chief Obafemi Awolowo today said there would be "terrible, unknowable, unpredictable -disaster -'"And catastrophe'* if Nigeria were split up into "lour component parts." Chief Awolowo. the 57year old former Western Region Premier recently released with a pardon from a ten-year
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    • 87 11 PASADENA. Calif.. Sun. (UPI) Lunar orbiter, streaking accurately toward its picture taking course around the moon, yesterday picked up the light of the star Canopus. its chief navigational reference point. Scientists, already cheered by the accuracy of the orbiters trajectory toward the moon, were hopeful the
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    • 123 11 HIGHLAND Heights, Kentucky, Sun. (AP) The wedding party had its head in the clouds almost literally. The marriage of Deirdre Dorsel, who is 6 feet tall, to Charles J. Seliman, 6 foot 3 took place yesterday in nearby Cold Spring. The bride's attendants
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    • 146 11 MEXICO City, Sun. (AFP) Mexican Police today rouaided up another 17 people following earlier action against ol accused of plotting a left-wing antistate conspiracy, the Evening Paper Ultimas Noticias said tonight. A full country-wide inquiry into the ramifications of the alleged plot has been demanded by
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    • 94 11 NAIROBI, Sun. (AFP) The United States agency for international development is to lend Kenya £303,000 to the University of East Africa and agreement to this effect has just been signed. The loan and Kenya government's contribution, amounting to £190,000 sterlings will be used to build three
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    • 218 11 f UCCA, Italy, Sun. (AP) Actor William Holden ha* been charged with manslaughter for a July auto accident in which an Italian died, the prosecutor's office here said yesterday. The 43-year-old actor was at the wheel of a sports car and was heading for the
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    • 138 11 NAPLES, Florida, Sun. (AP) Seventy-ftve men looking like winners of sales competition checked into a resort hotel yesterday to recall a time 24 years ago when none expected to live the year out. They are survivors of a forced march as prisoners of the
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    • 191 11 BERLIN, Sun. (AFP) East Germany staged a military parade today to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Berlin Wall the first time the date has been marked in this way. Western military commanders in Berlin immediately protested that the parade was a violation of
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    • 37 11 LONDON, Sun. (UPI) The 22,000 tons Cunard liner "Carinthia" has damaged a propellor blade and will be dry docked for an emergency replacement immediately after she sails into Liverpool on Friday next Aug. 19.
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    • 250 11 MELBOURNE, Australia, Sun. (AP). —Twentynine elderly men died and 12 others were injured last night in a fire at a Salvation Army Home for the destitute, police reported. They said it was the heaviest death toll from a single building blaze
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  • 828 8 fTHE people of East Malaysia are in the same position today as the people of the former Un-Federated Malay States were 50 or more years ago. Then the Straits Settlements of Penang, Malacca and Singapore were acknowledged as the most progressive areas in the old Malaya, particularly Penang
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  • 1315 8 THE legal status of women In New Zealand is one of equality with men, both in the family and in society. New Zealand women may vote, stand for Parliament or enter any profession. In general, however, they prefer to devote themselves to their
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  • 600 8 AUSTRALIA, SUN. 'THE world's first waterA proof r 'ety matches are now being mass produced by an internationally known Australian Match Manufacture. The new waterproof safety matches were developed by the company's research department in Melbourne after legislation in various Australian States prohibited the sale
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  • 735 8 tl/'ASHINGTON, Sun. (AP) Nikita Khruschev's boast that the Soviet Union would catch up industrially with the United States by 1970 is heard no more in Russia, Congress has been told. A massive report on the Soviet economy says that although
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  • 1041 8 CAIGON, Sun. (UPI) The Vietcong machine gunner fingered his trigger and waited. Twenty feet away a U.S. army paratroop Sergeant came crawling toward him. The Communist fired, his bullets laying open to the ribs ctf the chest of Sgt. Charles B.
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  • Finance
    • 211 9 SINGAPORE, Sun.— Shipping movements in the Port of Singapore increased sign ificantly over the first six months of the year. This was stated in a release issued by the Port of Singapore Authority which i.s now in charge of all shipping movements within port limits. The
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    • 100 9 SINGAPORE, Sun. Mr. Foong Seng Hoi (above), who joined Kodak (M) Ltd. as a colour photofinishing trainee in 1958 has been pronoted Photofinishing Supervisor. His promotion was announced by Mr. Hugh J. Knapp, managing director of the company. With the increased public Interest in colour photography in
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    • 81 9 TOKYO. Sun. (AFP) The idea "of a Pacific common market is likely to be the focal point if the Cana-dian-Japanese ministerial trade talks to be held this fall, government sources said today. Japan is sending Foreign Minister Etsusaburo Shiina, Minister of International Trade and Industry Takeo Miki.
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    • 284 9 ]\EW YORK, Sun. Selling pressure and a drought interest continued to plague the stock nr J? 8 week and the list registered another deficit. Trading was moderate. The week opened with the Dow-Jones industrial average on the downtrack with a loss of 3.34 on
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    • 241 9 SINGAPORE, Sun A top Singapore executive, Mr. Neo Kian Seng, chairman of SAMTAS (Supervisory and Management Training Association of Singapore) will leave here on Aug. 20 to attend the 14th International Management Congress of CIOS in Rotterdam. CIOS (Conseil International pour L'organisation Scientifique), now in its
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    • 109 9 SINGAPORE, Sun. Mr. Tan Joon Hock has been made a Terminal Superintendent of Caltex Oil Malaysia Ltd. at their Tanjong Penjuru and Tanjong Pagar terminals. Mr. Tan, an old boy from the Anglo-Chinese School in Seremban. received his his engineering degree from the Southern Methodist University in
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    • 239 9 PENANG. Sun. The RIBA Bronze Medal for the building of the most exceptional merit erected in Malaysia during the period 1961 to 1963 inclusive, has been awarded to the American International Assurance Co.. Ltd's building here This award is made every three years and any building
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    • 68 9 MR. SALLEH A. Basharahil. chairman of the Chambers of Commerce joint standing committee last week opened the "Plastics Month Display" at the Economic Development Board's Product Design Centre at John Little's Building, Raffles Place. Eighteen Singapore firms manufacturing plastic goods are exhibiting their products which include bags, shoes, briefcases, belts,
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    • 533 9 HAMBURG, Sun. The great stock market fluctuations of the automobile firm NSU in the Federal Republic of Germany again led to speculations on the automobile industry's most burning question: Will German car manufacturers join together within the next seven to
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    • 173 9 SINGAPORE. Sun.— Regional problems and consequent stringency had a restraining influence on Town and Country Ltd's operations last year, its chairman, Mr. Oei Tjong le, says in his annual statement to shareholders. But, adds the chairman, the company's performance and profitability for the financial year ending
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    • 42 9 SINGAPORE, Sun —The British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., announce the retiral of Commodore Benjamin Andrew Rogers, 0.8. E., D.S.C., R.D., R.N.R., (Retired > with effect from 12th August. 1966. He was appointed Commodore of the Company's Fleet on 11th June, 1962.
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    • 100 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— Two resident managers of Esso Standard Malaya Limited here havs been selected to attend the Esso Standard Eastern's first "Workshop in Management course in Bangkok which Is in session till Aug. 26. They are Mr. Christopher Chew, retail sales manager; and Mr.
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    • 276 9 CYDNEY. Sun. A new fruit and vegetatle peeler, covered by world-wide patents, is now being manufactured in Australia for overseas sale. The new peeler, made of moulded plastic and equipped with a specially ground tempered steel blade removes a thin layer of peel at each
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    • AIR MOVEMENTS-SINGAPORE, KUALA LUMPUR
      • 187 9 TIME: AIRLINE FROM: 8.20 a.m. MAL 019 Kuala Lumpur. 9.30 a.m. MAL 121 Kuala Lumpur. 11.05 ajn. MAL 451 Kuching. 10.55 ajn. MAL 005 Penang. Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur. Malacca. 11.40 a.m. PAL 501 Manila. 12.50 a.m. PAA 841 San Franciso. Los Angeles, Honolulu. Guam. Manila, Saigon. 3.20
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      • 176 9 TIME: AIRLINES; TO: 7.31 a.m. MAL 122 Kuala Lumpur. 7.40 a m. MAL 452 Kuching. 8.00 a m. Thai 402 Bangkok. 8.30 a.m. MAL 616 Kuala Lumpur, Hongkong. 9.00 a.m. CPA 572 Bangkok. Hongkong. Taipefa, Osaka. Tokyo. 9 00 ajn. MAL 044 Kuala Lumpur, Kuantan. Kota Bahru.
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      • 128 9 TIME: AIRLINE: FROM: 8.15 a.m. MAL i ML 122) Singapore. 8.25 a.m. MAL (ML 032) Singapore. Malacca. 9.15 a.m. MAL (ML 616) Singapore. 9.15 a.m. MAL (ML 005) Penang. Ipoh. 10.05 a.m. MAL (ML 044) Singapore. 12.35 p.m. MAL (ML 008) Singapore. 1.25 p.m. MAL (ML
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      • 125 9 TIME: AULINE: TO: 7.15 a.m. MAL <ML 019) Singapore. 8.45 a.m. MAL (ML 122> Singapore. 8.45 a.m. MAL <ML 032) Ipoh. Penang, Kola Bahru. 9 30 a.m. MAL (ML 005) Malacca. Singapore. 9 50 a.m. MAL (ML 616) Hongkong. 10.20 a.m. MAL (ML 004) Kuan tan,
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    • 180 9 SINGAPORE, Sun. To maintain its reputation as one of the world's key recruiting centres for seamen, Singapore has taken pains to see its sailors are fully trained. The Seafarers' Welfare Board offers a three-month scheme for youths who choose a life on the ocean waves.
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    • 50 9 TOKYO, Sun. (AP)—Mitsui Shipbuilding and Engineering Company said yesterday it plans to build a mammoth dock with a capacity of building 200.000 deadweight ton ships. Mitsui said construction will begin at its Chiba Works, southwest of Tokyo, upon government permission and is to be completed in 1968.
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    • 43 9 MANILA, Sun. San Miguel Beer, a product of San Miguel Corporation at Manila, was recently awarded a diploma and the "Gold Medal for Quality 1966" by the I.C.S.P. (Investigation Centre and Sales Promotion), an international organisation with headquarters at Brussels, Belgium.
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    • 28 9 MEXICO CITY, Sun. Mexico has placed an order for a television network costing US$B million, to be in operation in time for the 1968 Olympic Games.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 246 11 faSHAwI ORGANISATION f Pfl 1 LIDO Phone ***** Last Day: 11-1.45-4-6.50-9.15 School Children $1 to any seat at all shows during season "CARRY ON COWBOY" color Sidney James fc Kenneth Williams OPENS TOMORROW School Children $1 to any seat at all shows during season! ••LOVE Si KISSES" color Rick Nelson
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    • 170 11 :iuM f!»•*•*•mWwm IS TJT* r; ORGANISATION *2 11| CAT HAY Phon. j3«oo|M SlOtta DAT! DAILY 4 SHOWS AT 11 a.m.. 2.30. 6.00 9.00 p.m. a Cash Bookings Only t*J No Free LUt "H 1 D*™. MARY POPPINS 8 Julie Andrew* Technicolor School Children Concession "T1 11.50 To Any Seat At
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  • 1260 12  -  CAN THO, T A THONG is 13 years old. She will probably not live to be 14. If she isn't already dead she will die before this day Is out. The small Vietnamese girl, who looks half her age, lay on
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  • 154 12 TVTEW YORK. Sun. Four American astronauts are winners of the 1966 Harmon International aviation trophies, the "Nobel Prize of aviation and astronautics. The winners are U.S. astronauts Walter M. Schirra, James A. Lovell, Frank Borman and Thomas P. Stafford, pilots of the two-man Gemini spacecraft. The
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  • 100 12 WASHINGTON, Sun. (AP) —At Barry Goldwater's urging, four major conservative organisations took a step today toward a new political alliance in the United States. They announced a plan to pool their efforts, without actually merging, and, in Mr. Goldwater's words, *to provide over-all direction and purpose
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  • 207 12 ITfASHINGTON, Sun. Presidential envoy W. Averell Harriman will visit Cambodia early in September for talks with chief of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk on relations between the two countries. State Department spokesman Mr. Robert J. McCloskey said the visit "grows out of an exchange of
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  • 383 12 WASHINGTON, Sun. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Rusk, says that the United States has tried to concentrate on bombing military targets throughout North Vietnam, and that a "strip along the (Communist) China border" is out of bounds to U.S. pilots to Srevent "overrun" of tie
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  • 521 12 SEOUL, Sun. (UPI). 'THERE may be many 1 promising actresses in Asia, but who is the most promising one? It is Korea's Miss Nam Chung-Im as long as this year is concerned. Miss Nam, 21, received the "most promising actress award" at
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  • 360 12 TTNIVERSAL computing machines are finding more and more uses every year. They solve a great variety of complicated and diverse problems and do a lot of other jobs. Now is the turn of geology to be computerised. Geologists at present have to reach to great depths
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 101 12 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS SITUATION VACANT 20 Words $5/- (Minimum) DOCTOR REQUIRES Courteous Driver Apply with testimonials to Box E. S. 1001, S'pore. CAR RENTAL 20 Words $5/- (Minimum) U- DRIVE LATEST Airconditioned or Non-Aircon-ditioned Cars for Touring Malaya and Singapore. Ring *****, Everflne Co. (Rent-a-Car) Ltd. TENDER NOTICE TENDERS ARE INVITED
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  • BOOKS
    • 301 13 By "Eastern Sage The Earl of Swinton, has *been at the centre of power for 60 years the longest experience of anyone alive today in the top flight of politics. Starting with Lloyd George, he has served in ten Governments and nine Cabinets
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    • 436 13  -  By R. C. Pande NEW DELHI Sun. (UPI) The latest official campaign in India is to do away with kissing. As depicted on public billboards that is. Despite the fact that the Kama Sutra, an ancient Hindu book depicting all sorts of
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    • 291 13 Hammarskjold— A clear pure note in the silence "I am being driven forward into an unknown land. The pass grows steeper, The air colder and sharper. A wind from my unknown goal Stirs the strings Of expectation." Dag Hammarskjold, late UN secretary-general goes on to ask: "Shall I ever get
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    • 234 13 AUSTRALIA, once dependent on British and American publishers for almost all its books, now has a virile and efficient book publishing industry of its own. This industry not only caters for an increasing share of the voracious demand of the Australian public
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    • 860 13 Two books on sports this week. One, "THE FREDDIE TRUEMAN STORY" written by the man himself (Stanley Paul. 143 pp. 21s) is about cricket about one of the world's best loved games. The other "GLORY IN THE CENTRE SPOT by Eric Ashton (Pelham Books.
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  • 374 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. India beat Hong Kong by two goals to nil in the preliminary round of the Merdeka football tournament played at the Merdeka Stadium tonight. The match was evenly fought between the two teams with Hong Kong having the edge
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  • 27 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Kim Maung Tun, the Burmese goal-keeper seen tapping the ball over the cross bar from a shot taken by centre-forward Mahat Ambu of Singapore.
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  • 294 14 Cycling SINGAPORE, Sun. Singapura Press Club cyclist Hamid Najat showed splendid form when he won easily the 10,000 metres mass start here at Farrer Park Athletic Centre during the weekend. Hamid clocked a time of 16 mins. 56.2 sees, in the 52-lap race, one of
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  • 29 14 KINGSTON, Jamaica: Scotland's Jim Alder wins the Bth Commonwealth ames marathon run here recently. His time was 2hr. 22min. 07.8 sec. United Press International Photo.
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  • 51 14 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Minister for Labour has appointed Mr. L. N. Van Der Beek to be a member on the employer panel for cne year under the Industrial Relations Ordinance. The appointment, which had become effective since Aug. 5 was announced in this week's Singapore Government
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  • 450 14 Softball SINGAPORE, Sun. The cherished hopes of Combined Schools taking top spot in SSA's Pesta S uk a n "RoundRobin" League were obliterated when they crashed s—l to the Government Services in the final played at Raffles Institution grounds over the weekend. By virtue
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  • 185 14 CINGAPORE, Sun. Fifteen top riders from Singapore and Malaysia, including several G r and Prix winners, successfully completed the Suzuki 1,000 mile nonstop endurance test from Singapore to Butterworth through Malacca, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Butterworth, and back again. The gruelling motor cycle run
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  • 40 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Johore's ace sprinter, schoolgirl Beatty Lau. is among the 15 athletes who will represent the State in the Malaysian Amateur Athletic Union championship in Pen a n g from Aug. 18 to 20.
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  • 969 14 Ocean Bay ahead Bowling SINGAPORE, Sun. The Sansui Tournament now in its second qualify, ing week, got off to a fine start and attracted more than 200 entries. Koh Kay Kee, heads the men's division with a 879 pinfall over four games averaging 219. Next
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  • 2268 15 Makyong surprises pays $B4 S'pore race SINGAPORE, Sun. Gwana followed up her Kedah Cup success in Penang with a fluent win over the mile when she inflicted a neck beating on Super Chief (Coleman) to pay $l4 at Bukit Timah this afternoon. I Brilliantly ridden by
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  • 119 15 KINGSTON, Sun. (AP) Malaysia ended ud in 12th place in the final list of medals won in the Commonwealth Games. Following is the list: Go. Sil Bro. England 33 24 23 Australia 23 28 22 Canada 14 20 23 New Zealand 3 5 13 Ghana 5
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  • 32 15 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Rotary Club of Singapore, will hold its weekly luncheon meeting on Aug. 17 at the Cathay Hotel. Rotarian. Dr. E. W. Jesudason, will speak on "Alice of Vandalia."
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  • 620 15 KINGSTON, JAMAICA SUN. (AFP) ALTHOUGH the athletics events did not attain the tremendously high standard achieved by the swimmers, with only one world record falling during the whole programme—and that not until the very last event of the Games—the national stadium nevertheless saw some
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  • 282 15 Following is the Stipendiary Steward's report for the second day of the Singapore August meeting. SINGAPORE, Sun. Race 1. Chen Li Chu, (app. Soaidi), was slow to begin. Near the 5 furlongs Fleetmuster II (app. W. Liew), who was racing greenly, had to be checked off the heels
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  • 281 15 KINGSTON, Jamaica Sun. (AFP) Thousands of throats joined in singing a nostalgic Jamaican tolklove melody called "Jamaica Farewell" and not long after, the Duke of Edinburgh declared the Eighth British Empire and Commonwealth Games "officially closed". It was "Jamaica Farewell" and "Hello Scotland." There were innovations
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  • 85 15 IPOH, Sun. The Minister of Transport, Tan Sri Sardon bin Haji Jubir. today called on flying clubs in Malaysia to strive harder to stand on their own feet. "My advice should not be interpreted that the government is having in mind to withdraw its financial aids in
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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  • 772 16 Carrying banners demonstrators.. KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday IVAN YANG Siang Pau lady photographer, Madam Chew Lan Ying, was slapped twice here today. She was taken to the High Street Police Station and released after more than one-and-a-half hours at 3.30 p.m. This was her account of the incident:
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  • 291 16 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Member of Parliament for Telok Blangah, Mr. Bernard Rodrigues, tonight threatened to resign from the Parliament if the Government were to arrest a top trade unionist, Mr. K. Suppiah. Mr. Rodrigues is a member of PAP. Mr. Suppiah is the President of
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  • 53 16 SINGAPORE. Sun. A housewife had hef Rold necklace, worth $lBO. snatched from behind by a thief at Arab Street yesterday. The housewife, Aisha binte Mohd. Yunus was then on a shopping spree when the incident happened. When she raised an alarm, the thief fled into a nearby
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