Eastern Sun, 19 August 1966

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    26 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Esld. 1966. Vol. 1. No. 34. Friday, August 19 1966. ■fr MC (P) 1942 KDN 2309 Price 15 cenU
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  • Article
    Lock icon PREFERENTIAL RATES TO BE REMOVED
    908 1  -  For the first time in her history Malaysia is running a deficit in her current account' By BEN D'CUNHA. KUALA LUMPUR, THURS. MALAYSIA is to remove a number of Commonwealth preferential rates of import duty to meet her serious budgetary deficit. Announcing this here today
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    Lock icon King lauds Penang's hospitality
    510 1 PENANG, Thurs. \falaysians have an Important role to play in help--IVA ing to build a happy, united and prosperous nation which will be an example to the world. This was stated by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, at the State Banquet at the E. O. Hotel here
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    Lock icon 'We are determined to remain in Malaysia'
    346 1 KUCHING, Thurs. The Sarawak Chief Minister, Penghulu Tawi Sli, today re-affirmed the desire of the people in jhis state to remain in Malaysia. Speaking at a state luncheon to bid farewell to Major General G. H. Lea, former Director of Operations, East Malaysia,
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    Lock icon Mochtar Lubis will get Magsaysay award Aug. 31
    156 1 MANILA, Thurs. (AFP) Mr. Mochtar Lubis, the militant Indonesian journalist who was recently released from prison, will this month receive the Ramon Magsaysay award for journalism and literature which he won eight years ago. Mr. Lubis will be special guest at the
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  • Local News
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      Lock icon Thieves steal $21,500 worth of radios
      314 2  -  By Chan Kam Yau KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Thieves broke into a radio and television shop at Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman here on Tuesday night and escaped with goods worth about $21,500. This is the second radio shop to be burgled in Kuala Lumpur in
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      Lock icon Power stations for Muar
      52 2 MUAR, Thurs. The Malaysian Government is to spend a total of $2,936,000 on the construction of sub-power stations in twenty-one kamoonßs in Muar North under the rural development programme. Enche Ahmad bin Arshad, Member of Parliament for Muar North, said the scheme would benefit more than
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      Lock icon KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. — A happy Lee Lean Beng today thanked the Eastern Sun which enable him to take his family for a short holiday in Penang. Malayan Railways clerk, Mr. Lee, 30 is one of the 20 winners of the first Eastern Sun quiz. He won $150. "It was such a surprise to me. I and my wife were very happy when we were told that we had won the quiz," he said. "Thanks to the Eastern Sun, there will be lots of sunshine, swimming, sight-seeing during my annual leave starting from next Monday. "Your word quiz is so simple, so educational and so interesting. My wife said she wanted to start her own entries next week," «he said. Picture shows a beaming Mr. Lee receiving a cheque for the amount from Miss Angie Ng, one of the staff of the Eastern Sun, Kuala Lumpur.
      146 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. A happy Lee Lea n Beng today thanked the Eastern Sun which enable him to take his family for a short holiday in Penang. Malayan Railways clerk, Mr. Lee, 30 is one of the 20 winners of the first Eastern Sun quiz. He won $150. "It was
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        Lock icon Goodwill is essential
        161 2  -  G. B. S. THE Peace Treaty signed on Aug. 11 between Malaysia and the Republic of Indonesia will help to bring peace to both States in particular and South East Asia in general. What is needed now is goodwill in its implementation. The Republic of Singapore was
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        Lock icon Wrong report
        108 2  -  Zainal Abidin bin Ahmad General Secretary, Negeri Sembilan Government Services Welfare Recreational Council. I would like to refer to your report on Page 15 of 12th August 1966 under the caption "Negeri Sembilan Government to help Hockey Association." It is most unfortunate that I have been quoted as
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      Lock icon Maharaja pays tribute to Tunku
      158 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Governor of Madras Maharaja Shri Jaya Charmaraja Wadiyer Bahadur, said today that he wa*> greatly impressed by the harmonious blending of various races in this country. i He attributed this to "the sreat personality'' of the Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman.
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      Lock icon Employers fined
      87 2 TAIPING, Thurs. The Northern Transport Company Limited were fined a total of $1,500 on three charges of failing to submit contributions to the Employees Provident Fund in respect of three of their employee? in the Magistrate's Court here yesterday. They were alleged to have failed to remit a
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      Lock icon Man with pistol arrested
      199 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. A man with a pistol on his hip was arrested by a police patrol in a hut at the 17ith mile Kuala Lumpur Rawang Road last night. Another man who was also in the hut escaped on a motor cycle. A police spokesman
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      Lock icon TAB's public inquiries on footwear soon
      260 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Milk, mosquito coils and footwear are among some of the items which Tariff Advisory Board will shortly hold public inquiries on. r The full list of commodites are: milk, condensed and sweetened; milk, condensed unsweetened; milk, sterilised; cream, liquid; milk, powdered.
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      Lock icon Tanker driver killed
      91 2 .KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs A Shell tanker driver. Mat Dom bin Abdul Gham, V ai killed in a traffic accident at the Bth mile Federal Hi gn way yesterday morning. He was involved in a collison with a car. A passing motorist, Mr. Lim Siim 00, took Mat
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      Lock icon Burglars jailed
      77 2 TAIPING, Thurs. —Three men, Othman bin Saad, 52. Basseri bin Yusoff, 28 and Desa bin Dollah Ahmad, 35# were sentenced to six months' imprisonment each yesterday by Magistrate Encht Shaik Daud, for house-brea-king and theft. They are alleged to have broken into a sundry goods shop in Kampong
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      Lock icon $266,748/- bridge
      30 2 $266,748/bridge JOHORE BAHRU, Thun. The Minister of Horn* Affairs, Tun (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, will declare open a $266,748 bridge across Mersing River in Mersing on Aug. 29.
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      Lock icon King, Queen given red-carpet welcome in Penang
      387 3 Penang, Thurs. rHE Yang di-Pertuan Agon j and the Raja Permaisuri Agong were given a red :arpet welcome when they or v d Bayan Lepas Airport today on their first official state visit here. Over 10,000 school children lined the route from the
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      Lock icon 'Sunday Times' sales dropped 14,000 copies due to policy change'
      452 3 Singapore. Thurs. An award for the printing workers of the Straits Times Press (M) Ltd., in 1962 was one of the reasons which caused the scrapping of the "street edition" of the Sunday Times and consequently led to a drop
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      Lock icon Currency's strength gauged by political, economic stability – Raja
      244 3 Currency's strength gauged by political, economic stability Raja SINGAPORE, Thurs. The strength of a nation's currency is gauged by the country's political, economic and social stability and not by its geographical size. This was stated today by Singapore's Foreign Minister, Mr. S. Rajaretnam before he left for Seremban on a
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      Lock icon Approved
      26 3 MUAR. Thurs. The Buklt Bakri Local Council, at its monthly meeting approved $1,200 for the setting up of light jQuipment to a local basketball court.
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      Lock icon S'pore, Malaysia govts. 'dynamic practical' says U.N. official
      278 3 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Singapore is a remarkable example of a country with effective planning and progress in its housing and industrial development. This was the opinion of Mr. David Blickenstaff, United Nations Resident Representative in Singapore and Malaysia, in an exclusive interview with
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      Lock icon 4 Barisan MPs save seats by 7 days
      179 3 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Four Barisan Sosialis Members for Parliament have been saved from losing their seats by a matter of one week when the Singapore Parliament sits again on Aug. 26. All the four boycotted the Singapore Parliament since the opening session in
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      Lock icon 95 accidents in one day
      22 3 SINGAPORE. Thurs. There were 95 road accidents. three serious, during the last 24 hours in the Republic.
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      Lock icon Missing girls...
      58 4 IPOH. Thurs. Two girls, Honp Kam Peng, 17, and Koo May Khuan, 15, (above) who have been missing from their homes in Menglembu, Perak. Their parents have offered rewards of SlOO and $2OO for information of their whereabouts and safe return. Both are students of Ave Maria Convent.
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      Lock icon Audit course
      40 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Two Malaysian cooperative officers from Sarawak will leave for India for higher training In co-operative audit. They are Enche Saflan bin Wahie and Enche Yong Nyuk Loi, co-opera-tive officers in the Cooperative Development Department, Kuchlng.
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      Lock icon Floating trade fair will sail to 10 Malaysian ports
      277 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The first made-in-Malaysia floating trade fair will set sail on its Journey to 10 Malaysian ports, Singapore and Brunei on Sept. from Port Swettenham. i Housed in the specially re-fltted M.V. "Rajah Brooke", the floating fair will display
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      Lock icon Foundation's gift of $81,000
      86 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The Minister of Labour, Enche V. Manickavasagam, who is chairman of the Montfort Boys' Home in Batu Tiga, Selangor, today announced receipt of $Bl,OOO donation from the Lee Foundation towards the construction of the second phase of the Home. On behalf of the
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      Lock icon Books exhibition
      70 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak will open the National Language Books Exhibition on Aug 20 at Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka. Thousand of books in the National Language will be exhibited from Aug. 20 to Sept. 3. Several firms are taking part in the
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      Lock icon Gunpowder injuries
      109 4 IPOH, Thurs. Sixteen year old Abdul Tahim bin Hussain sustained slight injuries on his hands when a bottle containing gunpowder prematurely exploded. Rahim, according to a police spokesman, had collected the gunpowder from firecrackers since the last Hari Haj'a Puasa holidays. The boy and his younger brother, Dollah,
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      Lock icon Ministry's new home
      47 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. —•The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will move into its permanent "home'' at Jalan Hose this weekend. This will bring the ministry under one roof At present it is located in the State Secretariat Building and TV Malaysia complex at Jalan Ampang.
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      Lock icon SONGKLA, Thurs.—Tunku Abdul Rahman Prime Minister of Malaysia is seen here pre senting a cash relief of $1000/- to Mrs. Charinporm whose husband was wounded in the recent Betong ambush. The bottom picture shows the Tunku inspecting a guard-of-honour soon after his arrival in Songkla airport. (Story and picture by Miss Lilly Chee, Songkla).
      62 4 SONGKLA, Thurs.—Tunku Abdul Rahman Prime Minister of Malaysia is seen here pre senting a cash relief of $1000/- to Mrs. Charinporm whose husband was wounded in the recent Betong ambush. The bottom picture shows the Tunku inspecting a guard-of-honour soon after his arrival in Songkla airport. (Story and picture by
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      Lock icon Ibrahim's first art show opens Monday
      289 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs, The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tan Sri Ghazali Shafie will open an exhibition of paintings by Enche Ibrahim Hussein at Balai Ampang, AIA building here on Monday. This is Ibrahim's first solo-show and aiso his first since he returned
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      Lock icon Two with same name alleged to have raped, murdered girl
      822 4 TAIPING, Thurs. Pretty 20-year old Miss Choe Poh Kim was whisked away by armed men, while in the company of her boy friend at the Lake Gardeni hel This was related in the Magistrate's Court today at a preliminary inquiry.
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      Lock icon 'Gazelles' in Santiago
      60 4 SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Thurs. (AFP) The South African "Gazelles" rugby team arrived here yesterday afternoon from BuenosAires. Earlier the 23-player team had beaten the Uruguayan team 75-nil. Today the Gazelles are to play an exhibition match in the Prince of Wales Country Club here. On Saturday, they
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      Lock icon Malay Bazaar may go
      106 4 MALACCA, Thurs. The Malay Bazaar in the town may have to go if the municipal council agrees to surrender the site to the state government in exchange for land in St. John's Hill used by the council for the construction of a water tower. The land
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      Lock icon Madam Chan needs YOUR aid!
      170 4 Too poor to go operation KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Madam Chan Tai Moi, 29, mother of four, is facing a doomed future unless help comes for her to go for a heart operation oversea. She is suffering from an imcompetent mitral valve in the heart and
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      Lock icon Currency split 'sad thing' say commercial leaders
      316 5  -  By Lim Meng Kee CHAMBER Icodcrs today regretted the Government's announcement that Singapore would issue its own currency from June 12, 1967. The deputy chairman of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce, Mr. J.R. Lowe, said the decision in issuing different currencies was
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      Lock icon My challenging post in N. Zealand—Byrne
      219 5 SINGAPORE, Thurs. One of the main tasks of a Singapore's envoy is to influence New Zealand's policy makers to understand the Republic's strategic value and political stability in the region. This was disclosed last night by Mr. K. M. Byrne before his departure to
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      Lock icon Buddists' memorial service
      105 5 SINGAPORE, Thurs.—The Buddhist Union will hold a memorial service to commemorate the 49th day of the demise of its founder, the late Ven. Dhammasukha on Saturday at 11 a.m. at its Jalan Senyum Shrine. In conjunction with this memorial service, gifts in kind will be distributed by
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      Lock icon Long service awards for 76
      356 5 SINGAPORE, Thurs—The Malayan Breweries has awarded 76 of their employees who had served th e ComDany for 25 years •nd 15 years respectively with Ions: service medals. Mr. Tan Chin Tuan. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company gave away the medals. Two
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      Lock icon Charity film on Wed.
      77 5 SINGAPORE, Thurs—A gala charity premiere of the Hindi film "Dosti" (Friendship) will be held under the distisguished patronage of the Republic's First Lady Puar Noor Aishah, on Aug. 24, at Galaxy in aid of Singapore Association for the Deaf. The film, winner of six "Filmfare'* awards
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      Lock icon Aishah attends premiere
      132 5 CINGAPORE. Thurs.—The Presidents wife Chu Puan Noor Aishah above receives a bouquet of flowers from Miss Hilary Peralta. on her arrival at the Odeon Theatre for the charity film premiere of Carl Foeman's "Born Free." The picture was based on Joy Adamson's international bestseller which has sold
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      Lock icon Religious seminar for Sikh
      202 5 SINGAPORE. Thurs. More than 150 81kh boys and girls from various parts of Singapore and Malaysia are now attending a oneweek religious seminar at the Youth Hostel in Tanah Merah. The religious seminar, the first of its kind to be held here, is organised by the
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      413 2 Why crack your head when you can tackle easier quiz like ours EASTERN SUN $3,000 Contest CONTEST NO. 3 Quiz for August- 19 1966 1. Docs a pineapple grow near the ground or on a tree? 2. Although it lives in the sea, a whale is not a fish, what
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      87 3 K.L. Diary National Zoo at Ulu Klang 9.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.: Musium Negara 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.: Jalan Weld Swimming Pool 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., 2 pjn. to 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Ninth National Art Exhibition at National Art Gallery 10 a.m. to
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      698 4 What's on in today's Radio and TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Penang; 6 Ipoh and Malacca; 3 and 10 Jotaore Bahru; 4 Taiping; 7 Batu Pahat. P.M. 3.00 Opening Annct.; 3.01 Orkes Malam Ini 3.25 The Big Mac Show; 4.00 Sherlock Holmes; 430 Close Down. 5.45 Opening Annct.;
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      132 5 Singapore Diary 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Victoria Memorial Hall, Empress Place: Exhibition of Embroideries. 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The Military will carry out a Platoon Battlecraft demonstration at Bukit Panjang Secondary School playground. 7.30 p.m. Free film shows by the Ministry of Culture: Kampong Wak Hassan; Rampong Lim
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Air strike: 1,000 tourists seek alternate route
      191 6 LONDON, Thurs. (AP). About 1,000 American tourists, stranded by the U.S. Air Strike affecting Trans World Airlines (TWA), are Jamming European airports looking for a way home. One has appealed to President Johnson to make a U.S. Air Force transport plane available to
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      Lock icon Longest newspaper strike
      113 6 NEW YORK, Thurs. (UPI) The newspaper strike against the World Journal Tribune, Inc., yesterday became the longest in the history of New York City's as it entered its 115 th day. Three years ago, the printers staged a 114-day walkout. Officials of the recently merged publication and
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      Lock icon LIGHTNING KILLS 6
      77 6 MILAN, Italy, Thurs. (UPI) Freak lightning, haii storms and high winds battered Darts of Northern Italy for the third day yesterday, causing millions of dollars in damage and raising the death tool to more than a dozen. Authorities reported at least six persons killed by lightning since
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      Lock icon BOY, 15, HOLDS POLICE AT BAY...
      130 6 WATERLOO, lowa. Thurs. (AFP). A 15-year old boy, furious at not being allowed to use his father's car, barricaded himself in his room with five rifles and three carbines and kept police at bay for an hour before being shot. James H. Harp was
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      Lock icon LBJ MEETS WESTMORELAND...
      30 6 FREDRICKSBURG, Texas, Thurs. (AP) —President Lyndon B. Johnson talks with General William v. Westmoreland as they enter St. Barnabas Episcopal Church recently* At left is Mrs. Johnson.
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      Lock icon MAN GETS 5 YEARS AND $10,000 FINE
      122 6 NEW YORK, Thurs. (UPI) A former welghtlifter was senten c e d to five-year prison term and a $lO,OOO fine for acting as a "lure" In a nationwide shakedown ring blackmailing homosexuals. Federal Judge Irving Ben Cooper called John Fellebaum, 27, one of
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      Lock icon HOPE NAMED FOR AWARD
      107 6 KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Thurs. (AP) Comedian Bob Hope was yesterday named recipient of the People-to-People National Distinguished Service Award. Joseph S. Farland People-to-People Executive Committee Chairman. said, "Bob Hope is being honoured for his personification of the Peope-to-People concept. He Is an excellent example of person
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      Lock icon Royal visit
      46 6 COPENHAGEN, Thurs. (AFP) Thailand's King Bhumipol and Queen Sirikit will pay a private visit to Denmark when their present visit to London ends, it was announced here today. The Royal couple are expected to fly to Copenhagen for three days from Sept. 2 —5.
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      Lock icon Thant to announce plans in 2 weeks
      240 6 UNITED NATIONS. Thurs. (UPI) Secretary-General, U Thant has made his decision on whether to stand for re-election as Chief Executive of the United Nations and planned to announce his plans In two weeks, it was disclosed yesterday. Thant was expected to offer to
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      Lock icon Plague on the rise in New York
      161 6 NEW YORK. Thurs. (AFP) The incidence of bubonic plague has risen alarmingly m South Vietnam since 1962. with over 3.000 cases in 13 provinces reported last year, an article in the September "Esquire" magazine reported today. The article, entitled "Plague and war 1966'
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      Lock icon Lawyers walk-out in protest against an 'atmosphere of terror'
      395 6 Clients left without counsel as seven... WASHINGTON, Thurs. (AP). SEVEN lawyers walked out on a hearing of the House Committee on un-American activities yesterday leaving their clients without counsel after protesting to what they called an "atmosphere of terror." The walkout
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      Lock icon Police: Maniac confessed to two killings
      195 6 STOCKPORT, England, Thurs. (UPI). Police warned yesterday that a maniac at large had confessed to two murders, proved he did one of them and threatened to kill a teen-ager next. Stockport Police found on their station doorstep on Tuesday night a parcel containing a
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      Lock icon Ban on supply of arms
      121 6 CANBERRA, Thurs. (APF) Sweden has imposed an embargo on the supply of arms to Australia, the Swedish embassy here confirmed today. The ban has been imposed because of Australia's Involvement in the Vietnam war. in conformity with Sweden's policy of neutrality, the Embassy stated. Australian
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      Lock icon LBJ to speak
      26 6 KINGSTON, Rhode Island. Thurs. (UPI) President Johnson will deliver a major address at the University of Rhode Island, a White House spokesman announced.
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      Lock icon Finnish President to meet Kosygin
      105 6 HELSINKI, Thurs. (AFP) President Urho Kekkonen of Finland will meet Soviet Premier Mr. Alexei Kosygin during a fishing and hunting holiday in the Soviet union, the foreign ministry announced here today. This will be the second meeting between the two statesmen this year. Mr. Kosygin
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      Lock icon Plane mishap
      55 6 VIENNA. Thurs (UPI) Rumanian authorities are still withholding information about a plane crash that occurred in Rumania last week and reportedly claimed 24 lives. The only news about the crash leaked out through the Australian Embassy in Bucharest, which was officially informed that an Austrian couple died in
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      Lock icon Tattooed man arrested in connection with the slaying of 3 London detectives
      422 6 LONDON, Thucs. (UP).— Police in Glasgow, Scotland yesterday seized a scar-faced, tattooed man as the second of three men wanted in the slaying of three London policemen. There were reports they were tipped off by the underworld. John
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      Lock icon Ky dances with Imelda
      51 6 PREMIER Nguyen Cao Ky makes a side step with the wife of the President of the Philippines. Mrs. Imelda Marcos during: a Presidential Ball at Malacanang Palace recently. The Kvs made the trip to personally thank President Marcos for his decision to send Filipino troops to
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      Lock icon RUSSIA TO SUPPLY DATA TO STATIONS
      90 6 MOSCOW, Thurs. (AFP) The Soviet Union will henceforth supply Foreign as well as Soviet weather stations with data relayed by its scientific "COSMOS" satellites, Tass news agency reported today. This decision was made m view of the favourable results obtained from the COSMOS satellites
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      70 6 LAGOS, Nigeria, Thurs. (UPI) Armed soldiers swooped on a prison at Beinin, 150 miles east of Lagos, last night and liberated 21 prisoners. Unconfirmed reports said the released men were soldiers who were detained after the Jan. 15 military takeover in Nigeria. That takeover was followed last
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      Lock icon JAYNE IS FINED $220
      90 6 CARA C A S, Venezuela, Thurs. (AP) Actress Jayn# Mansfield paid a $220 fin# yesterday for what the Venezuelan Finance Ministry said was forgery of a dat« on her tax clearance papers. However, she was not personally charged and hearings continued to determine who changed the
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      Lock icon 6 soldiers killed
      46 6 LISBON, Thurs. (AP). Six Portuguese soldiers died in action against rebels in Angola last week, a military communique reported yesterday. Rebel losses in Angola were not listed but another communique reported ten rebels killed by Portuguese forces in Guinea during the same period.
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      Lock icon Bomb found
      39 6 OMAHA (Nebraska), Thurs. (AFP) A homemade bomb was discovered yesterday at the OfTutt Air Base headquarters of the Strategic High Command, It was disclosed today. The bomb, apparently made of gunpowder, was disarmed. An inquiry was opened.
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      Lock icon 'Blue Belt' subs of Russia are plague to West
      549 7  -  BY HENRY S. BRADSHER MOSCOW, Thurs. (AP) The Soviet Union's "Blue Belt" of defence is being troced to its naval power which, by the best available estimates, includes the world's lar jest fleet of submarines with an increasing number of them
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      Lock icon SOVIET SPY ON NATO
      144 7 NORFOLK, Virginia, Thurs. (AP) The Russians have discovered operation "Straight Laced," and are observing the exercise with aircraft, ships and submarines, says the U.S. Navy. Straight Laced is a NATO exercise involving units of five nations. A striking fleet led by U.S. Vice Admiral Kleber S.
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      Lock icon Non-US killed in Vietnam
      85 7 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (AP) An estimated 24 non-American citizens have been killed while serving in U.S. forces in Vietnam, Pentagon records indicated yesterday. An unofficial check disclosed possible, although not definite, alien casualties from Yugoslavia, Colombia. Jamaica, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Venezuela, Ireland, Costa Rica, Haiti, Germany, Canada
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      Lock icon Six perish in fire
      54 7 SYDNEY. Thurs. (AP) A family of six died in a fire that destroyed a house outside Menangle, 38 miles south of Sydney, early today. Police said the bodies of dairy farmer Robert Mutton his wife, Mary and their four young children were found in the ashes
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      211 7 I ASTEL GANDOLFO, Thurs. (AP). Pope Paul VI declared yesterday that the Roman Catholic Church was on the threshold of a great period of lawmaking. Jl" appealed to Roman Catholics to understand the many great changes that are ahead for them and their Church and to
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      348 7 NEW YORK, Thurs. (AP) The City says Pete the Collie has taken one more bite than the law allows and must die as a vicious dog. William Jones, 17, the dog's owner, insists Pete Is not vicious, merely playful. And he has
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      156 7 NAIROBI, Kenya, Thurs. (AP). Five prominent Asian residents of Mombasa yesterday branded a commentary by the Kenya Government's news agency and radio which questioned the loyalty of their community as "an unadulterated piece of racial diatribe." "To condemn the entire community for the action of some
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      37 7 PARIS, Thurs. (AP). Two French scientific research rockets will be fired from a base in Argentina on Nov. 12 during a total eclipse of the sun. the French National Centre of Space Studies said yesterday.
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      44 7 AUGUST is holiday month for 20.000.000 Germans especially because of the school holidays. In addition to German cars, motorists from Holland. Belgium and Northern Europe drive in. Traffic reached its peak recently when 76,680 cars jammed the Frankfurt to Mannheim highway.
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      403 7 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (AFP). The trade balance surplus was the crux of America's external payments problem, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler said here yesterday. Mr. Fowler expressed the firm hope that the fall in this surplus over the past two years would be corrected in the
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      90 7 NAIROBI. Thurs. (AFP).— Kenya President Jomo Kenyattp's personal physician yesterday labelled as "completely false. irresponsible and without foundation" a report appearing in the London Daily Mail saying that Mr. Kenyatta had suffered a mild heart attack and that two specialists were flown from London to attend to
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      115 7 FRANKFURT, Thurs. (AP) West Germany's Communist underground yesterday fired off leafletcarrymg propaganda rockets in several cities of the Bonn Republic to mark the tenth anniversary of the party's ban by the constitutional court. Fire police climbed a lighting pole in downtown Frankfurt to remove a red flag
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      70 7 SAN FRANCISCO, Thurs. (UPI). Police yesterday sought a youth with a love of brand new cars —particularly, police cruisers—but with little ability to handle them. The youth sneaked into a city parking lot on Tuesday, found a new patrol car with the keys in it and
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      170 7 ADELAIDE, Thurs. (AP) —Ken Hargreaves has made a clock which he claims will tell the time in any oart of the world and, at the same time, show where it is night or day. Hargreaves, 30, of Loxton, 140 miles Northeast of Adelaide, calls it a "universal
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      29 7 BONN, Thurs. (AFP). West German President Heinrich Luebke will pay an official visit to South Korea next Spring, probably in February or March, it was announced today.
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      112 7 MOSCOW. Thurs. (AFP) Soviet Air Marshal Philip Agaltzov said yesterday that the "American aggression" in Vietnam was "hardly to the credit of American flyers who shamelessly use up-to-date aircraft against defenceless civilians". The Air Marshal, who has had 34 years service in the Soviet Air Force,
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      46 7 KUWAIT Thurs. (AFP).— Taiks opened here yesterday between the United Arab Republic and Saudi Arabia in yet another bid to end the four-year old Yemen war thanks to four months of efforts by Kuwait to get the two states to the same table.
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      419 7 STOCKHOLM, Thurs. (SIP). A pilot does not always dare to trust his own "navigational instruments" his sight and sense of balance according to a survey made by the Swedish Air Force testing centre based on interviews with 91 pilots. The survey, which is reported on in a
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      173 7 LONDON, Thurs. (AFP) British negotiators Duncan Watson and Oliver Wright leave h ere today to begin a third series of AngloRhodesian exploratory, talks tomorrow in Salisbury According to certain reports, London, without renouncing the "six principles** providing notably for a gradual transfer of political power
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      202 7 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (AFP) South Africa yesterday strongly protested against American disapproval of the recent International Court of Justice decision on South-West Africa. South African Ambassador H.L.T. Taswell handed Acting Secretary of State George Ball a seven-page note protesting against the view set forth in two
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      42 7 KNIN, Yugoslavia. Thurs. (AP). Six children, aged five to thirteen, lost their iives while playing with a hand grenade. They had been looking for berries when they found the grenade ar*d tried to disassemble it with a hammer and nails.
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      235 11 LONDON, Thurs. (UPI). Soviet Premier Mr Alexei Kosygin has told philosopher Lord Russell the Soviet Union is ready to use its air force to defend North Vietnam against American air attacks if President Ho Chi Minh requests it, a spokesman for Russell said
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      118 11 NAIROBI, Kenya, Thurs. (UPI). Vice-President Mr. Joseph Murumbi last night denied rumours he had given President Jomo Kenyatta notice that he was retiring within two months. Murumbi, 54, took over a? Vice-President in May after Communists leaning Oginga Odinga—then VicePresident formed his opposition Kenya People's
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      86 11 LONDON, Thurs. (AFP)— Britain today officially accused the United Arab Republic of responsibility for the recent machinegunning of the village of Nukub in the South Arabian Federation State of Buihan by two MIG aircraft coming from the Yemen. Referring to a security council debate on the incident
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      63 11 MOSCOW, Thurs. (AFP) Mr. Raul Prebisch. Secretary General of the United Nations conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) today had a talk here with Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vassili Kuznetsov, TASS reported. The Soviet News Agency said their talk dealt with problems related to the normalisation and
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      39 11 LONDON, Thurs. (UPI)— The first battalion, Green Howards, will return to Colchester from Malaysia instead of going on to Borneo, an army spokesman said. The advance party is expected to return here on Aug. 28.
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      114 11 "WEW YORK, Thurs. (UPI) A niece of wood said to have come from The Cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified has been stolen from the Holy Redeemer Roman Catholic Church here, police reported today The Rev. John Radley, Assistant Pastor of the
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      129 11 PASADENA, California, Thurs. (UPI) Lunar orbiter. America's first moongirdling spacecraft, had its camera poised today for today's historic picture-taking mission on the dark side of the moon. The 850-pound flying darkroom laboratory was swinging as low as 124.2 miles above the moon's surface and as
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      68 11 KAMPALA. Thurs. (AFP) Five former Uganda ministers arrested last February for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government of then Prime Minister, Mr. Milton Obote will appeal to Uganda's High Court for writs of "habeas corpus, it was announced today. Two lawyers for the detained men have been
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      66 11 BANGKOK, Thailand, Thurs. (AP Photo). Boats filled with tourists, left, goes through the Chao Phraya river, a few miles Northwest of Bangkok, where it is crowded with floating markets and shoppers. The river, where people live, love and die in boats, remains
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      510 11 MOSCOW, THURS. (UPI). 'THE Soviet Union said yesterday it is beginning to live up to the four-year-old Soviet American agreement to use space for weather studies. Among the weather satellites launched here, it said, was Cosmos 122 the Sputnik sent up on
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      120 11 MONTREAL. Thurs. (AP) Montreal police said yesterday they have discovered about 800 World War Two mortar and artillery shells, many of them live, stacked in a scrapyard of a steel company. Police said the discovery was made two days ago when a child was reported to
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      37 11 LOS ANGELES, Thurs. (AFP.) James Meredith, the first American Negro to enter the University of Mississippi, announced here today that he planned a new "freedom march" In New York at the end of the week.
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      87 11 MONTREAL, Thurs. (AP) Joseph Papp, in a telephone conversation from Paris with his wife, said he was in good condition except for cuts on his hands received while working the controls of his one-man submarine. Papp, 33, claims to have piloted a nuclear-powered submarine across the
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      61 11 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (U PI) —The State Department yesterday announced the appointment of Asian specialist Chester L. Cooper as special assistant to U.S. Ambassador-at-large Mr. W. Averell Harriman who is charged with exploring Vietnam peace possibilities. Cooper left the White House in April to accept a Ford Foundation grant
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      33 11 ROME, Thurs. (AFP).— South Vietnam vice-Premier and Defence Minister General Nguyen Huu Co said yesterday his country could not accept the 1954 Geneva accords as the basis for eventual peace negotiations.
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      229 11 ROME. Thurs. (UPI). South Vietnam Defence Minister Nguye Huu-Co will call on Pope Paul VI tomorrow to thank the Pontiff for his "moral support" of the Vietnam people. The minister, stopping off here after an official visit to the Ivory Coast and unofficial calls at
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      183 11 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (AFP). President Johnson today called on Latin American countries to stop "needlessly" spending money on arms and buying "expensive weapons". The President was speaking at a ceremony here marking the fifth anniversary of the "Alliance for Progress" between Latin America and
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    443 8 npiGHTER control of trade unions in Singapore is the object of the Trade Unions (Amendment) Bill passed by Parliament last Wednesday. Non-Singapore citizens and persons with criminal records cannot now become union officials, nor can they be employed by a registered union. Branch officers, members of committees, and
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    319 8 TT is ironical that countries which can grow rice are running short of this staple food. Many of the Philippine islands can grow enough rice not only for home consumption but also for export. Yet Filipino agricultural officials have been ordered to examine the feasibility of importing
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    841 8 IS IT possible for a civilian to lead a normal life in South Vietnam these days? Veteran war correspondent George Esper explains in this despatch that the risks are great for everyone in the war xone. As for the frequency of civilian casualties,
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    933 8 pAN socialism provide a solution to the great clanger of the present, that of the materialisation of human society? Socialism is part and parcel of contemporary development. Although many parties and people call themselves socialist their beliefs actually have no relationship to socialism. Socialism has
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    1036 8 RETURNING to New York after a five-day stay in Moscow at the end of July, Secretary General U Thant told waiting newsmen at Kennedy International Airport that his fears of the Vietnam war turning into a major one had been confirmed in his
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      157 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. —The Singapore Government is to establish a shipping port and freight unit to study the Republic's potential in the development of her port, shipbuilding and marine engineering industry, the Eastern Sun understands. This unit which is expected to be a part of the Economic
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      49 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Director of the Swiss Watch Industry Technical Centre, Hongkong, Mr. F. Lakner last week gave two special lectures here to salesmen about the inside or the modern watch. He is here to conduct an advanced training course for Singapore's watch-mak-ers and watch repairers.
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      225 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Singapore has every opportunity to win back her export market in Indon«2». sa y s Mr. Andrew Chang, tianaginr director of Trade and Industrial Development. He is one of the great number of business people anticipating resumption of diplomatic relations between Singapore
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      12 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The tin price today was $6lBl, down s3|.
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      171 9 LONDON, Thurs. British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), one of Britain's two stateowned airlines, carried a record number of passengers and clocked a record total mileage in the year ended March 31, 1966, reveals the Corporation's Annual Report. I Aircraft of the Corporation and its
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      90 9 LONDON. Thurs. The first of the new 21-knot Glen Line ships to be built In Britain for trading with the Far East was launched from the Clydebank yard of John Brown and Co. (Clydebank) Ltd. She was named Glenflnlas by Mrs. J. K. Swire, whose husband
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      52 9 NEW YORK, Thurs. (UP I)— Rubber futures closed 5 25 points lower on no sale s yesterday. S*Pt. 22.75 23.25 Nov. 23.00 23.40 23.15 23.50 War. 23.15 23.50 Way 23.15 23.50 £uly 23.15 23.50 Se Pt 23.15 23.50 Locally, No. 1 RSS was quoted at 23J cents a
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      140 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Financial circles today expressed surprise and concern over the prospect of two separate currencies for Malaysia and Singapore. "In view of the close economic ties, the main question is. "Will the existing free flow of goods and funds be ensured?" a banker asked. Meanwhile
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      79 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Association of Banks in Malaysia made the following changes in its rates to merchants today: New York: buying T.T. 32-11/16; airmail, O.D. 3213/16, 90 d/st. 33-5/16 credit bills, 33-7/16 trade bills. Canada: buying, T.T. 353/16; airmail. O.D. 35-5/16, 90 d/st. 35-7/8 credits, 3515/16 trade bills.
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      165 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. A co-operative insurance society reports good response to its plan to give policyholders a chance to Invest in the oil palm industry in Trengganu. Mr. H. A. Kularajah, general manager, of The Malaysian Co-Operative Insurande Society Ltd. said: "We have already
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      315 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Sept. first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m. In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 63-3/8 cents per lb., down 1/8 cent. The tone was quiet but steady. Opening quotations were marked down in accordance with lower London advices. Stale bull liquidation, following last
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      61 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Chinese Produce Exchange, Singapore noon prices per picul today. Coconut oil; bulk $44 sellers, drum $46 sellers. Pepper: Muntok white sl97} sellers, Sarawak white $195" sellers, special Sarawak black $145 sellers, garbled Lam pong black $145 (N) sellers (all 96% NLW) ASTA $l6O sellers *lOOO% NLW). Singapore
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      447 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Turnover showed a marked improvement on the Stock Exchange today with 584,800 units traded. On Wednesday following the currency decision only 483,600 units changed hands. After opening very hesitantly, the industrial section staged a gradual price recovery from the previous day's falls brought
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      82 9 TOKYO, Thurs. (UPI) Japan and Indonesia have signed an agreement on the shipment of US$B.3 million worth of cotton goods as part of Japan's emergency aid to Indonesia. The agreement called for the shipment of cotton yarn worth U556,670,000 and cotton cloth worth US$l,700,000, as part
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      40 9 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (AP) The U.S. Government sold 45 tons of surplus stockpile tin yesterday. 25 tons grade A at U551,555 a pound; 10 tons grade B*at US$l.54 a pound and 10 tons grade C at U551,535 a pound.
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        196 9 B S Boustead 1.61 Chemical Co 1.52 Cold Storage 3.08 Dunlop 2.53 E. Smelting 4.22 Esso Ords 3.04 3.08 United Holdings CCR 2.04 Fitzpatrlcks 1.74 F. N. Ords 3.74 Gammon 2.24 Georgetown CD 1.42 G. E. Life 65/Guinness 2.41 Hotel S'pura 1.07 Hume (M) Ltd 1.86 Hume (F.E.) Ord
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        36 9 Central Prop. XD .94 City Dev .38* Faber Union .56 Island Hotel .65 Island Pen 47* .48 K. L. Prop .91 San Holdings 33* .34 Sel. Prop 1.40 S'pore Land .64 Town City XD 85
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        97 9 Aokam 3.76 Austral Amal. 24/9 25/4^ Austral Malay CR 32/6 Ayer Hitam 22/9 23/3 Berjuntai XD 34/9 35/6 Hong Kong 35/Idrls Hyd. XD 16/41 K'pong Lanjut 24/101 25/11 Kramat 12/6 12/9 Kuala Kampar 26/26/9 Kuchai 1.92 Larut 11/3 12/11 Lingui 2.00 Lower Perak 23/9 24/6 Meru Tin 1/5 Pahang
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        69 9 Ayer Hitam Bassett (50cts) Batu Lintang 1.20 168 .95 Borelli (New) Kempas Kepong Plant Kluang Ord Kundong Tg. Pau Kuala Sidim 1.40 2.22 1.99 2.05 1.76 1.82 1 60 1.43 2.26 2.01 2.22 1.80 1.90 New Scudai New Serendah Riverview Sel. Coconut Sungei Bagan 2.32 2/4 1 58
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        31 9 Anglo-Asian CD 1/3 Anglo Oriental v 3/41 B. Kawan CCR 6/9 Craigielea 1/6 E. Asiatic 1/6 K. L. Kepong 2/4 Kulim Malaya General 1/7 l/10i 2/5 Taiping XD 3/3
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        28 9 First Malayan 2.37 Second Malayan 1 70 Third Malayan 1 28 Malaysia Commerce 92 1 03 Mai. Saving Fund 1.38 1 48 Sterling Commodity 4/2 4/9
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        155 9 TIME AIRLINES FROM 8.20 a.m. 8.50 a.m. 9.30 a.m. 10.55 a.m. 11.05 a.m. 2.45 p.m. 3.30 p.m. 3.50 p.m. 3.55 p.m. 5.00 p.m. 5.30 p.m. 6.15 p.m. 6.25 p.m. 7.05 p.m. 7.25 p.m. 7.35 p.m. 7.40 p.m. 9.05 p.m. 8.35 p.m. 9.45 p.m. 9.15 p.m. 10.10 p.m.
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        151 9 TIME AIELINE8 TO 7.31 a.m. MAL 122 Kuala Lumpur. 7.40 a.m. MAL 452 Kuching. 8.00 a.m. PAA 842 Saigon, Manila, Guam, Honolulu, 8.00 a.m. Thai 402 Los Angeles, S. Francisco. Bangkok. 8.30 a.m. MAL 614 Hongkong. 9.00 a.m. CPA 570 Hongkong, Taipeh, Osaka. Tokyo. 9.00 a.m. MAL
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        127 9 TIME AIRLINES FROM 8.15 a.m. MAL (ML 122) Singapore. 8 25 a.m. MAL (ML 032) Singapore, Malacca. 9.15 a.m. MAL (ML 005) Penang, Ipoh. 10.05 a.m. MAL (ML 004) Singapore. 12.30 pjri. MAL (ML 512) Singapore. 12.35 p.m. MAL (ML 008) Singapore. 1.25 p.m MAL (ML
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        118 9 TIME AIRLINES 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, Kota Bharu. 9.30 a.m. MAL (ML 005) Malacca, Singapore. 10.20 a.m. MAL (ML 044) Kuantan. Kota Bahru. 10.30 a.m. MAL (ML 118) Trengganu. 1.05
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      138 9 LONDON, Thurs. (UPI) Britain's tough credit squeeze and wages freeze has already hit the auto dustryVauxhall Motors Ltd. the British subsidiary of General Motors, yesterday warned workers at Its Dunstable and Luton plants, north of London of possible redundancy and snorter hours. The warnings
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      149 9 SINGAPORE The following ship* are expected to being port today: Godowns Vessels 3/4 Narwid 1/2 Kishun Maru 5 Galazv 6/7 Thosorient 8/9 Stentor 10/11 Johannes Maergk 13/14 Straat Fuahimi 15/16 Hongkong Grace 18 Yarra 19 Sir Lancelot 21 /22 Eimei Maru 23/24 Silletta 25/26 Keningau 27/28 Emilie Maersk
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    488 10 Pakistan and China 'No 9 as... TOKYO, Thurs. Japan is ready to take a "positive part" in an appeal for a joint Asian effort to end the Vietnam conflict through negotiations, the foreign ministry said today. A joint appeal by Malaysia, the Philippines and
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    71 10 NEW DELHI. Thurs. (AP) A villager named Sayeed came to town with his pet the other day and had some unexpected expenses. Police took Sayeed's pet to the New Delhi zoo and fined Sayeed 50 rupees for bringing the animal into the city without a permit. Then the
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    272 10 NEW DELHI, Thurs. (AP) The government of Ir lia has announced plans for a four-day International seminar on leprosy next January to coincide with formal opening of the Japanese Leprosy Mission centre at Agra, site of the fabled Taj Mahal. Leprosy experts from a
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    284 10 TOKYO, Kyodo, Thurs. In the summer of 1967, many a Japanese will be taking a walk in a submarine park at the bottom of the sea, looking at a school of unnamed fish and flower gardens of coral trees and sea anemone through transparent walls of
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    277 10 TUY HOA, South Vietnam, Thurs. (UPI) A North Vietnamese hospital and headquarters complex of 45 buildings was discovered by American paratroopers 25 miles North West of here recently. Troopers of the 101 st Airborne division found the huge base by following the blood trails of wounded
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    344 10 DA NANG, Vietnam, Thurs. (AP) "I was approaching the point of stall. I could see the trees coming up at me. There was no doubt about it: I had to get out of there." That was how Australian born U.S. Marine
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    99 10 KINGTON, Thurs. (AFP)— An armed plot to overthrow the government of Jamaica c has been uncovered here, Development Minister Edward Seaga said in a radio broadcast last night. The plot was foreign-ins-pired and foreign-financed, he said. He claimed that guns and ammunition had been sup plied to
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    53 10 NEW DELHI. Thurs. (AP) Imported cargo valued at 1.7 million rupees was pilfered from India's ports during the past two years, parliament was told. C. M.Poonacha, Minister of State for Shipping, said the problem was so serious a full time Deputy Commissioner of Police has been stationed at
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    213 10 TOKYO, Thurs. (KYODO) Whether Britain will be able to avoid the nightmarish devaluation of pound sterling is believed to 'depend on the success of its long-range efforts to rehabilitate its economy' which are yet to begin, finance vice minister Ichiro Sato said here yesterday. Mr.
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    59 10 SAIGON, Thurs. (AP) The Vietcong burned 130 homes In two Vietnamese Catholic refugee hamlets, a U.S. spokesman announced today. All destroyed property belonging to the several hundred Catholics was only three miles from Quang Ngai city, at Phu Hoa. The U.S. spokesman said the Vietcong did not
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    94 10 -SAIGON; (UPI) U.S. casualties in the Vietnam war edged closer to the 5,001 mark as 101 Americans were killed in combat last week, U.S. spokesman announced today. The death toll for the week ended Aug. 13 brought to 4,711 the total number of U.S. servicemen to die in
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    151 10 THE HAGUE, Thurs. (AFP) Police announced the detention of eight young South Moluccans in connection with the fire bomb incident at the Indonesian embassy here on July 27th when fire caused damages estimated at 75,000 guilders ($63,750) to the embassy's building and furniture. Commenting on the
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    67 10 NEW DELHI, Thurj, (AF P) —At the end of a three day official visit to India Zambian vice-president Reuben Kamanga left here this morning for Hong Kong and China. He heads a seven-member goodwill delegation. During his stay here Mr. Kamanga had talks with Premier Mrs Indira Gandhi
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    173 10 LONDON, Thurs. A London doctor due to takl up a post at the University of Malaya was amonf this year's holders of special Commonwealth award* made by Mr. Arthur Bottomley, Minister of Overseas Development. The awards are made to British academics of outstanding eminence and
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    346 10 BANGKOK, Thurs. Thai Deputy defenct Minister Air Chief Marshal Dawee Chullasapya said today Thailand and Malaysia should seek more effective measures to totally exterminate Communist terror ists operating along their common border. Marshal Dawee made tnt speech at the opening of th« fourth meeting
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    71 10 SEOUL, Thurs. (AP) Twenty persons have died of an epidemic suspected to b« encephalitis, sleeping sickness, since the first victim was reported earlier thil month, the health ministry announced today. A total of 124 cases havi been reported. Officials said medical testl on a limited number of
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    98 10 TOKYO. Thurs. (AP> Japan will export 119 0"0 tons of rolled steel of differ* ent kinds to Communist China under the existr g five-year unofficial tr a e agreement between the countries, a Japanese steel company said today. Yawata iron and steel company, one of Japan's biggtSsteel
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    962 12 UGANDA, Thurs. TTGAXDA is a moderately sized African nation with a big problem. Its seven million normally peaceful citizens found themselves on the brink of widespread civil war in the latter part of May—a tragedy averted by the prompt and firm action by
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    110 12 ROME, Thurs. (AP) Authorities yesterday counted more than 60 dead from auto accidents and violent storms that raked North Italy with lightning, torrential rains and galeforce winds over the weekend. Most of the victims were vacationers away from home for the traditional Ferragosto (mid-August) holiday
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    509 12 PLEIKU, Vietnam, Thurs. (UPI) If you ask anyone In the highlands of Central Vietnam where opium comes from, the chances are that they will point to the sky and give you a knowing wink. Raw opium is being smuggled into Vietnam by plane from Laos
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    52 12 HAMBURG, West Germany. The West German hospital ship Helgoland is pictured leaving Hamburg bound for South Vietnam, as friends and relatives of persons on board wave farewell. The 3,000-ton ship is carrying six doctors and 18 nurses, who will give medical aid to Vietnam civilians.
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    313 12 SYDNEY, Australia. Thurs. —Specialised garden tools, designed and perfected in Australia, will soon come under large-scale manufacture in Britain and the U.S.A. These unique, hand-operat-ed instruments are products of the fertile imagination of an Australian inventor, Mr. Charles J. P. Smith. Mr. Smith's business grew from
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    181 12 GLENDALE, California Thurs. (UPI) A vial that apparently contained radioactive cobalt was found yesterday by two men cleaning up a weed-infest-ed lot here, police reported The radioactive substance, shielded in tne capped, lead bottle, posed no danger to the community of passers-by, polict stressed.
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    551 12 Space Centre, Houston, Thurs. (UPI) The United States may put the first two astronauts on the moon by late 1967 Informed sources concede that it is only a very slender possibility. Yet, the fact that such an early target date is being considered and
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    181 12 pAPE KENNEDY, Thurs. (UPI) An Atlas-Agena rocket was set for another try today to shoot a picturesnapping satellite into an orbit around the moon to scout Astronaut landing areas and get a bird's-eye view of the surveyor 1 Robot. Ihe 850-pour-d Lunar orbiter, stalled
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    120 12 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (UPI) President Johnson said the American people are "well served" by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) even though its operations must remain super secret. Mr. Johnson made the remark during a White House ceremony during which he presented the national security medal to
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    721 13 LONDON, Thurs. (AFP) A multi-million pound enterprise swings into oction on Saturday with the start of the English football season. fi c Jl f les Cup Bafe >y 0n "home" sideboard, and the 1 m h f t onus month Of the best
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    149 13 LONDON, Thurs. (AFP) Owen Davidson, Australia's sixth ranked tennis player, who endeared himself to the Wimbledon crowds with some sterling displays in this year' championships which saw nim reach the men's singles semi-flnals unseeded, has been approached by the all-England club to become their coach.
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    312 13 NEW YORK, Thurs. (AP). —Jack Nicklaus, the Masters and British Open titleholder, and Arnold Palmer, the season's second leading money winner, were named to represent the United States in the International Canada Cup matches at Tokyo from Nov. 10-13. In picking the game's strong iren,
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    234 13 RIVERSIDE, California, Thurs. (AP) Englishborn racing car driver Ken Miles was killed instantly on Wednesday when a sports car he was testing went out of control at riverside raceway, a track official said. The car veered off the course and flipped end over end. Miles, 47,
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    206 13 SEOUL, Thurs. (AP).— The Orient Boxing Fedeiation (OBF) has decided to stage two elimination fights between four top ranked contenders to determine two finalists for the currently vacant lightweight crown. An OBF spokesman said that the decision has been relayed to three other member nations, the
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    282 13 NEWPORT, (Rhode Island), Thurs. (AP) Four Australians and a British moved into the quarter-finals of the Bth annual nationol lawn tennis hall of fame tournament Wednesday at the Newport Casino. They were joined by Dennis Ralston. Arthur Ashe and Cliff Richey of the United States
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    192 13 MANCHESTER. Massachusetts, Thurs. (AP)—Two small girls pulled the first big upsets of the Annual Essex Invitational Women's Tennis Tournament yesterday by toppling sixth-seed-ed Gail Sheriff of Australia and eighth seeded Tory Fretz of the United States. Sue Behlnar, 96 lb. U.S. school teacher, stopped
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    122 13 HONGKONG, Thurs. Table tennis teams from three countries, Yemen, Ceylon and Vietnam arrived in Peking yesterday night to take part in the 1966 Peking International Table Tennis invitational tournament to be heid from August 27 to Sept. 4. it was reported. A
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    109 13 MOSCOW. Thurs. (UPI) Olympic high jump champion Valeri Brumel divorced his wife, Marina, last Friday, it was reported. Brumel was not available for comment. Sports sources said the 24-year-old athlete, who has been out of action since a motorcycle accident last Autumn, limped into court on crutches
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    39 13 MOSCOW. Thurs. (AFP).— Inaian Davis cupper Jaideep Kukerjea went forward to the men's singles third round of the international tennis tournament here yesterday. In the second round, he beat Soviet opponent Youshka 6/2, 6/1, 6/4.
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    161 13 LONDON, Thurs. (AFP) Breast-stroke swimmer Judy Geegan, 21, who won a gold and silver medal in the Commonwealth Games announced last night that she will retire at the end of the .season. With her Beckenham ladies clubmates Linda Ludgrove and Diana
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    307 13 MEXICO CITY, Thurs. (UPI) Two meetings in Latin America next week may kill off the World Boxing Association (WBA) as an international sports body. The rival World Boxing Council (W) smells victory. The groundwork could be laid at the WBA meeting in Panama on
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    77 13 LONDON, Thurs. (AFP).— George Eastham, Arsenal's England inside forward was transferred to Stoke Cityfl today for £30,000. Eastham, signed from Newcastle for £47,000 in 1960, was a member of the England World Cup squad, although he did not play in the competition. He is
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    533 13 PARIS, Thurs. (AFP) A move towards internationalising the up till now tightly restricted world of European professional cycling was taken today when Tour de France organisers here decided to make next year's race open to all. The main aim of the organisers
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    457 13 NEW YORK, Thurs. (UPI) Willie Maye hit the 535 th homer of his career yesterday to become baseball's alltime righthanded hitting slugger, but it was a ninth inning pitch hit by Jesus Alou which gave the San Francisco Giants a 4-3 victory over the St. Louis
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    140 13 MEXICO CITY, Thurs. (AP Mexico City newspapers speculated that Masahiko (fighting) Harada will defend his world bantamweight championship against Jose Medel of Mexico this November in Tokyo. Medel's manager, L up e Sanchez, said a fight between Harada and Medel was set "but I don't
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    58 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Chau Siu Hung, China's centre half scoring their second goal 12 minutes from time. Nationalist China defeated Thailand by 2-1. KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Thailand's goal-keeper, Manop Wijaratnana soen high in air with the ball in front of his goal mouth. Below him attempting for
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    585 14 PENANG, Thurs. Two Selangor athletes, T. Krishnan and G. Rajalingam won the 100 and 200 metres (heats) to qualify for the finals on the opening day of the Third Malaysian National Amateur Athletic Championships at fthe City stadium here this afternoon. The runners had the distinction
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    300 14 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Singapore's representative to the International Badminton Federation in London who is currently vacationing here will participate in the Malaysian Badminton Open Championship. He is Lee Kin Tat, 24 who is doing post-graduate science and physics studies in London He recently returned
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    76 14 NAGOYA, Thurs.—Toshio Banno, 28, a painter suffering from paralysis of the limbs, Tuesday began a 360-mile trek on a wheelchair from Nagoya in western Japan to Tokyo. Banno will wheel his way toward Tokyo at a rate of some 30 kilometers a day. He will sketch
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    349 14 AND IN GRAND TRADITIONAL STYLE T00... PENANG, Thurs. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, who opened the Third Malaysian National Amateur Athletics Championship at the city stadium here this afternoon, told the athletes that they must always realise that in sports, the most important thing was not to
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    669 14 LINCOLN (Nebraska), Thurs. (AFP) The cream of the world's swimmers more than 500 in all will be here today to take part in the American swimming championships. But the organisers of the event, which ends on Sunday were not able to
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    187 14 LONDON, Thurs (AFP)— Two setbacks hit England before the Fifth Test against the West Indies started at the Oval today. First it was announced that John Price was not fit and then Gary Sobers won toss for the fifth successive time. In glorious sunshine West
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    48 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The third Royal Malaysian Police Athletic Championship meet here has been postponed to August 26, 27, and 28. The postponment is due to the Malaysia Amateur Athletic Union holding its meet in Penang on the dates orginally scheduled for the police meet.
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    342 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Vietnam redeemed some of her lost glory in the Merdeka soccer tournament when she beat Japan by four goals to nil in a group B' match tonight at the Merdeka Stadium. Vietnam, who bowed 5 2 to Malaysia in the preliminary rounds
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    68 14 PENANG. Thurs. "Pesta Malaysia" organised by the Penang UMNO division, will be held at Lorong Kulit padang from Sept. 2 to 10. starting at 7 p.m. each night The chairman of organising committee of "Pesta Malaysia," Enche Aziz Ibrahim said today that the occasion was to mark
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    526 14 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Road Walking SubCommittee of the Singapore Amateur Athletie Association in their attempt to popularise road walking in Singapore will promote an Open 30 kilometre walk this Sunday. It will be held under the Singapore A.A.A. Walking Rules and Laws. The Open 30
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    173 14 KUALA LMPUR, Thurs.— American basketball coach Robert R. Griggas is scheduled to arrive at Subang Airport tomorrow to conduct a series of clinics throughout the nation. Hi# 48-day tour of Malaysia is under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State's educational and Cultural exchange
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    1583 16 TOKYO, Thurs. Korean war veteran Red Army General Lin Piao is reported today to be the man to step into Mao Tse Tung's shoes. Commenting on first reports of the change in the communist power heirachy, Nationalist Chinese sources indicated that Lin
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    197 16 MANILA. Thurs. (AFP) A Filipino veterans leader yesterday claimed hat the I nited Mates government had influenced the Philippine decision to send engineers and troops to South Vietnam by dangling the unsettled US$5OO million Philippine ve- terans claims. In a Dress statement,
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    200 16 SRINAGAR, Kashmir, Thurs. (UPI) The Kashmir unit of India's ruling Congress Party last night denounced the US. for its reported resumption of military aid to Pakistan and its "indiscriminate bombing" of North Vietnam. A resolution adopted unanimously at the three-day convention said "The
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    82 16 NICOSIA. Thurs. (AFP) A large plastic bomb explosion shook Nicosia this morning. The bomb, placed under a car in the car park of one of the main police stations in the Greek quarter of the town, shoo kthe city at 0800 local time. The car was
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    83 16 JAKARTA. Thurs. (AP) Police officials in West Java are concerned with "the wild and negative effects by the British pop singers the Beatles" on Indonesia's teenagers. Excessive leisure time brought about by schools being closed while students demonstrate aggravated the problem, police said. To help check
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    101 16 HONG KONG, Thurs. (AP) Eight Hong Kong Chinese who helped rescue American servicemen from a U.S. military plane which crashed here a year ago, have been awarded the Queen's commendation for brave conduct, the Hong Kong government announced yesterday. The Hercules C-130 transport crashed on
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    75 16 TOKYO. Thurs. (AP) Laos Pro-Communist "neutralists" have called for the formation of an anti-U.S. front i n Indochina, Communist North Vietnam's official news agency reported today. The Vietnam news agency (VNA) quoted Colonel Thao Deuane, commander of the Laotian patriotic neutralist Forces (Pro-Communist), as saying "The war
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    51 16 MANILA, Thurs. (UPI) Thieves broke into a house in suburban Caloocan city on Tuesday night and stabbed a 61-year-old rice dealer to death with a bayonet in the presence of his wife and son and fled with 2,700 pesos (US$75O), police reported. Police said they had picked up three
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    181 16 MANILA. Thurs. (AP> Military authorities feared the emergence of tough Faustion Del Mundo, better known as Commander Sumulong, as head of the Huk terrorist organisation indicates there will be more armed clashes with the Army, the Manila Times reported today. Quoting unnamed military sources, the
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    350 16 'Shoot rice smugglers on sight Pakistan DACCA, East Pakistan, Thurs. (AP). East Pakistan border guards have been ordered to shoot at sight anyone seen smuggling wheat or rice into India. Punishment with a whip has been ordered for collaborators or would-be smugglers, drawn by higher prices and attractive barter available
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    147 16 PLEIKU. South Vietnam, Thurs (AP) Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky said yesterday the ultimate size of the American troop commitment in Vietnam would depend on the enemy buildup, but he added that more U.S. troops were definitely needed. Premier Ky told newsmen that
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    515 16 SAIGON, Thurs. —The declaration by the Vietnamese government that it will lift "press censorship from Aug. 26" to coincide with the election campaigns for the September 11 polls will free newspapers from heavy-handed pre-publication censor- ship. In the past, the newspapers
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    192 16 MANILA, Thurs. (AP) President Ferdinand Marcos has ordered all non-paid special agents to turn in the guns and badges within ten days or go to jail. j He issued the edict last night after receiving reports that special agents working for politicians were harrassing business men
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    179 16 SAIGON, Thurs. (UPI) The toll of an air accident, a guerrilla attack and a communist bomb thrower rose to 55 dead and 178 injured today. Two more Vietnamese drivers died of injuries to raise to three the number killed when Vietcong mortar shells plopped
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    33 16 MANILA, Thurs. (UPI) Orlando Palures, an escaped convict, was arrested on Tuesday while selling stolen bicycles in Roxas city in th« Southern Philippines. His would-be customers turned out to be policemen.
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