Eastern Sun, 29 August 1966

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  • Title Section
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    26 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. I. No. +l. Monday, August 29 1966. "fc MC (P) 1912 KDN 2309 Price 15 cents
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  • Article
    Lock icon USA LOSES 346 PLANES OVER NORTH VIETNAM
    315 1 Phantoms, Thunderchiefs attacked fhree depots near Haiphong SAIGON, SUN. (AFP) THE Americans lost three aircraft over North Vietnam during the past 24 hours, a military spokesman said here today. Two pilots were reported missing. These latest losses brought the total number of U.S.
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    Lock icon 'One national transport service'
    227 1 SINGAPORE, Sun. Singapore Premier Lee Kuan Yew said tonight that in 10 years' time the Republic would have a one national public transport service. He added that in other advanced countries there was only major transport company serving the needs of the people. He was speaking
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    Lock icon Jet crashes at Tokyo airport...
    54 1 A column of black smoke rises from a burning Convair 880 jetliner which crashed at Tokyo International Airport on Friday soon after taking off the airport towards downtown Tokyo for a test flight. All four crew members of Japan Air Lines and one Transportation Ministry
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    Lock icon King, Queen and 5000 bring joy to lepers
    340 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong this morning visited the Sungei Buloh Leprosarium, 14 miles from here and declared it open to the public. Later, more than 5,000 people visited the settlement to bring joy and
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    Lock icon Sarawak Reds plan systematic guerrilla war
    183 1 KUCHING, Sarawak, Sun. (AFP) Communists in Sarawak are planning a systematic guerrilla war, a captured document has revealed, the government announced today. It said the document captured at Sijijak, seven miles from Kuching, is believed to be a directive from the clandestine Communist organisation.
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    Lock icon FLOODS WARNING
    97 1 VIETIANE. Sun. (AP) Flood warnings are out all along the Mekong River valley. According to the Lao Presses, official government newssheet. the river has risen 1.36 meters at Viettiane and 1.94 meters at Luang Prabang within the past ten days. The river is still rising and experts believe
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    Lock icon Indon govt. urged to trade with S'pore on mutual respect
    112 1 JAKARTA, Sun. (UPIV The Indonesian Consultative Body for private enterprise has urged the government to found trade and economic relations with Singapore on mutual help, mutual respect and mutual understanding and trust, the official news agency Antara reported today The
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      599 4 What's on in today's Radio and Television TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Penang; 6 Ipoh and Malacca; 3 and 10 Johore Bahru; 4 Taiping; 7 Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang. P.M. 5.00 Opening Annct.; 5.05 Pertandingan Pest a-B o1 a Merdeka; 5.55 News In The National Language; 6.00 News
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      47 5 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 12.04 p.m. (7.4 ft.). Port Swcttenham: 5.06 a.m. (12.0 ft); 4.17 p.m. (12.0 ft.). Port Dickson: 5.37 a.m. (7.3 ft.); 6.46 p.m. (7.9 ft.). Singapore: 11.03 a.m. (7.2 ft.); 9.56 p.m. (8.2 ft.). Sedili Kechil; 9.45 p.m. (7.5 ft.); 7.47 p.m. (6.0 ft).
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      63 5 Singapore diary 7.30 p.m. Free film shows by the Ministry of Culture: Kampong Jalan Kayu'. Jalan Penggaga; Hwa Ming School, Lai Hock Kee Hng; and Chwee Chium School, Jalan Lama. 10 a.m. tc 6 p.m. Victoria Memorial Hall, Empress Place: Art Exhibition. 7.30 a.m. Victoria Theatre, Empress Place: Chinese variety
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Model seeks insurance policy to guard against pregnancy
      264 6 TORONTO, Sun. (AP). Curvaceous model Louise Baker, 21 years old and unmarried, has applied to Lloyd's of London for an insurance policy covering herjigainst becoming pregnant in the next five years. "There's nothing silly about this," the auburnhaired model said as she
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      Lock icon Pakistan to take defence measures
      81 6 ISLAMABAD, Sun. (AFP) Pakistan's Defence Minister Mr. Sharifuddin Pirzada told reporters here today that Pakistan would take the necessary defence measures in view of Indian troop movements and manoeuvres along her frontiers. Mr. Sharifuddin said that the "troop concentrations" did not worry him but they
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      Lock icon 2 planes downed
      32 6 HONG KONG, Sun. (AFP) —North Vietnam Forces brought down two United States aircraft today, the Vietn Ti news agency reported were downed over ghe An Province, the agency said.
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      Lock icon THE BOY WHO TALKED TOO MUCH
      94 6 PARIS, Sun. (AFP) Nine schoolboy housebreakers were behind bars today because one of them wasn't strong enough and talked too much. Daniel S. 12, stole an expensive tape recorder from a house in Vitry Sur Seine, near Paris. It was too heavy for him
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      Lock icon Delegation in Peking
      55 6 HONG KONG, Sun. (AFP) A five member North Vietnam-People's China Friendship Association delegation arrived by air in Peking today, the New China News agency reported. Headed by Association Vice-President and Secretary Ton Quang Phiet, the delegation is to take part in 21st anniversary celebrations of the founding
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      Lock icon Last photos for Lunar
      70 6 HAMPTON (Virginia), Sun. (AFP) —Space camera Lunar Orbiter will probably take its last photographs of the moon during its 55th orbit early tomorrow morning, the space centre here announced today. But this does not mean that its work will be finished The space camera will spend
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      Lock icon RUSK MEETS U THANT
      44 6 talks o (AP). —Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Rusk, left, SuLPM nlt J d Nations Secretary-General, U Thant during a meeting recently headquart e™ in N ew York. The War in Sooth Vietnam was a topic during Mr. Busk's visit
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      Lock icon American film opens 1966 Venice Film Festival
      500 6 VENICE, Italy, Sun. (AP) 4N American film opens the 1%6 Venice I to ight and A to add new the annual Venice affair now is totally eclipsed festival, and no longer attracts big-name stars to its beautiful Adriatic setting, Before the two-week festival
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      Lock icon Move to improve relations with People's China
      355 6 BANFF, Canada, Sun. (AFP). Canada's Secretary of State for External Affairs, Mr. Paul Martin and top Canadian diplomat Mr. Chester Ronning, in speeches to the Canadian "World Affairs Congress" in Banff, today stressed the urgent need for improved relations with People's China. Mr.
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      Lock icon 3 million hit by floods in Calcutta
      164 6 CALCUTTA. Sun. (AFP) Over three million people have been hit by floods spread over an area of 3.000 square miles of North Bihar, it was reported her e today. In one area alone. 900 villages were affected, their inhabitants took refuge on high
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      Lock icon Freighter docks at Beira port
      96 6 BEIRA (Mozambique), Sun. (AFP) A 29.000 ton Greek registered freighter has docked at Beira and is reported to be taking on a cargo of Rhodesian chrome ore destined for Britain. A tight veil of secrecy shrouds the docking of the shiD. The "Nini", but an
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      Lock icon Threat to security
      40 6 MOSCOW, Sun. (AFP) The Soviet government in a note to People's China charged that the activities of Peking's "Red Guards" threatened the security of Soviet embassy personnel in the Chinese capital, the government newspaper "Izvestla" said today.
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      Lock icon Indira will not attend minister's confab
      94 6 NEW DELHI, Sun. (AFP) Indian Prime Minister, Mrs Indira Gandhi will not attend the Commonwealth Prime Minister' conference opening in London on Sept 6 but will be represeted by Foreign Minister, Mr. Swaran Singh, officials laid here today. The extension of the current parliamentary
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      Lock icon Beautician wins contest
      76 6 NICE, France, Sun. THE new beauty queen of Nice, famous French summer resort, is a worthy representative of the profession she follows, Miss Arlette Dahan, 17-year-old, is just starting out as a beauty expert and she is a most striking reflection of the objectives of her work.
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      Lock icon DJIBOUTI BACK TO NORMAL
      84 6 DJIBOUTI, Sun. (AFP) After two days of violent demonstrating during French President Charles de Gaulle's visit Djibouti was back to normal today. Shops opened as usual, workers went to their jobs under the blazing sun and troops, which had turned out along the route of the
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      Lock icon UNION LEADER ARRESTED
      78 6 PARIS. Sun. (AFP) Mohammed Ahmed Issa, leader of the OpDosition Afar Democratic Union has been arrested in Djibouti, charged with knifing another person authoritative sources said here today. His arrest followed the demonstrations during President De Gaulle's visit to Djibouti In which three people were reported killed
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      Lock icon Bohdan named
      27 6 WARSAW. Sun. AFP) Bohdan Tomorowlcz has been named Poland's permanent delegate to the United Nations with ambassador rank, the Polish News Agency P.A.P. reported today.
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      Lock icon Goldwater: Nixon 'best equipment' to beat LBJ
      265 6 WASHINGTON, Sun. (AP). Mr. Barry Goldwater calls former Vice President, Mr. Richard M. Nixon the Republican with "the best equipment" to beat President Johnson in 1968. Mr. Goldwater, in an interview published today by the Magazine Human Events, coupled that praise with a
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      Lock icon Cadets under training
      119 6 MOSCOW. Sun. (AFP) Young North Vietnamese officer cadets are being trained to fly supersonic fighters at the Soviet Union's oldest Air Force School, the Communist newspaper Pravda reported today. The Pravda article, illustrated by pictures, said: "They are learning to pilot ultra-sound interceptors, to strike the enemy
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      Lock icon Humphrey's son weds beauty queen
      170 6 MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Sun. (AP) With church bells echoing through downtown Minneapolis, former smalltown beauty q u e en Donna Erickson was wed yesterday to Vice President Hubrrt H. Humphrey's son Robert. The 675 guests, including most of the State's political leaders, filled the main floor
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      Lock icon Countries aiding US aggression
      90 6 HONGKONG, Sun. (AFP) The North Vietnamese government paper Nhandan today accused Britain, India and Canada of helping United States aggression against Laos. New China news agency reported. The paper referred to the unilateral publication by the British government on Aug. 22 of a letter written by
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      Lock icon Marcos to head 8-member party to America
      396 7 HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sun. (AP) 'IHE Press Secretary to the President of the Philippines began yesterday what he called "a dry run" for Philippines President, Mr. Ferdinand Marcos. The Filipino President will arrive in Honolulu on Sept. 12 for a one-day stopover before embarking
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      Lock icon Girls? Oh no, we want food, says seamen
      172 7 NEW YORK, Sun. AP). —Not every seaman has a girl in every port. The Filipino boys with USS WASP which anchored here this morning don't have one or don't even want one. They want Filipino food. "You see, our home Port Boston
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      Lock icon Airways resumes operations
      116 7 LONDON. Sun. (UPI) Olympic Airways aircraft resumed operations yesterday after British European Airways (BEA) maintenance men responded to an appeal by their unions to return to work on the Greek airlines comets from midnight on Friday. The appeal followed their refusal to service the comets in sympathy
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      Lock icon SHANGHAI VISIT
      48 7 PARIS, Sun. (AFP) Congo-Brazza National Assembly Chairman. Andre George Muyabi and his wife arrived in Shanghai this morning, the New China News Agency, monitored here, reported. Muyabi is a guest of the chairman of the permanent committee of the People s China National Assembly, Chu Teh.
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      Lock icon 'Hurricane Faith' hits the Bahamas
      343 7 MAIMI, Florida, Sun. (UPI) Hurrican Faith menaced the South Eastern Bahamas with 90 miles-an-hour winds last night as it pushed into a "Hurricane Doldrums Alley" where it was expected to slow down. The storm entered a slotlying just off the eastern edge of the Bahamas
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      Lock icon Highest elevator testing tower
      84 7 THIS artist conception of a modern tower Is the world's highest elevator testing tower, 90 metre tall, to be established at Mito in Ibaragi Prefecture by Hitachi Co. by the end of this year. The tower, to be painted in white and red, will be used
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      Lock icon ARREST LEADS TO SEIZURE OF DRUGS
      95 7 ALGECIRAS, Spain, Sun. (AFP) Spanish customs officials arrested three Britons here today after finding 90 pounds of drug in their car The three were Ryston Dunford. born in Poole and owner of the car transported on the Ciudad de Tarifa from Tangier. Patrick William,
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      Lock icon Dealer kills his daughter
      78 7 ATLANTA. Sun. A 70-year-old retired Atlanta car dealer killed his daughter yesterday and wounded two of his grand children and a policeman. Police said Fred Paschal fought a 30-minute shotgun battle with police from his barricaded home, before apparently killing himself. Officers charged the Paschal home
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      Lock icon Boy who tip-off police gets protection
      188 7 UPI. LONDON, Sun. (UPI) Scotland Yard today put a round-the-clock security guard on a 14-year-old boy who raised the alarm on a holdup gang. Police feared the hunted bandits might try to harm the youth. The boy spotted five men pulling stocking masks over
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      Lock icon CIVIL WAR TURNING INTO ARMED CAMPS
      180 7 WASHINGTON. Sun. (AP) A "civil war" in the streets of America is "turning our social classes into armed camps." a police association official said yesterday. Quinn Tamm, Executive Director of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, said also war in the streets "is
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      Lock icon U. Thant in Panama
      91 7 PANAMA City, Panama. Sun. (UPI) United Nations Secretary General U Thant arrived here yesterday afternoon for a 17-hour stopover en route to Santiago, Chile for the inauguration of a U.N. building there. He was met at the airport by Foreign minister Mr Fernando Eleta Almaran and
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      Lock icon Secretary is crowned
      57 7 COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sun. (AP) The State of Utah's entry, Denise Blair, last night won in the national finals of the Miss U.S.A. World Beauty pageant. The 19-year-old brunette was crowned before a large crowd at the Ohio State Fair. Miss Blair, a hazel-eyed secretary, is 5-feet-5, 122
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      Lock icon Senator speaks about Vietnam war
      182 7 NEW YORK. Sun. (AFP). New York Republican Senator Mr. Jacob Javits today spoke out against escalation of the war in Vietnam. He claimed that "increasing doses of force in North Vietnam apparently have not been effective in halting infiltration of men and supplies into the
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      Lock icon Guerrillas receive training
      115 7 JOHANNESBURG, Sun. (AFP) The African guerrillas trapped by South African police in Ovamboland received their training at a camp at Bagamayo 40 miles from Dar Es Salaam, Sunday Express reported from its correspondent in Lusaka. The newspaper said that instructors in the camp were both Red Chinese
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      Lock icon Visit to Peru cancelled
      48 7 LIMA. Peru. Sun. CAP).— The visit of Tong Won Lee, South Korea's Foreign Minister to Peru has been cancelled, the government announced. Tong Won Lee was scheduled to arrive here next September. The announcement was made by an official spokesman of the foreign ministry.
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      Lock icon Wounded victims of sniper marries
      164 7 DALLAS. Texas, Sun. (AP) Miss Janet Paulos and Abdul Kashab, two of the luckier victims of the University of Texas sniper, were married yesterday in the first Unitarian church. Miss Paulos. 20, and Kashab, 26, of Baghdad, Iraq walked down the aisle without assistance and
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      Lock icon Thai Royal couple goes sightseeing
      113 7 MUNICH, Germany, Sun. (UPI) King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand yesterday went sightseeing separately during their private visit to the world's beer capital. Neither saw a brewery, however. The Thai rulers had almost three hours to look over the Boelkow Aviation plants at Ottobrunn
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      Lock icon Private visit
      23 7 MADRID, Sun. (AP). Thailand's Minister of the interior Prasert Rusirawonge flew into Madrid from Zurich yesterday for a private visit here.
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      Lock icon Condemned man's death smile
      76 7 GEZIRA ISLAND, U.A R., Sun. Here's a condemned man who can still smile for photographers. Driving away from the Supreme Security Court at the Revolution Command Council Headquarters, Ge*ira Island, on Aug. 21st, is Saved Kotb (right) the man alleged to have inspired the 1965 plot
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      Lock icon Eight Soviet traitors shot by firing squad
      135 7 MOSCOW, Sun. (UPI). Eight Soviet traitors convicted of serving with the Nazis and carrying out mass murders have been executed, it was reported today. The eight all Russians of German descent were found guilty of massacres in which more than 3,600 persons died,
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      Lock icon Dog saves life of boy, aged 7
      221 7 GALLUP, New Mexico, Sun. (AP) Being a heroine is getting to be routine for April. The 3-year-old dog has been credited with saving the lives of two children in separate incidents within the past year. In the latest case, on Friday, the black,
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  • Article
    Lock icon THE EDUCATED ELITE
    373 8 is a tendency among certain professional and university societies in Singapore to treat newspaper reporters like poor relatives. They invite the newspapers to send reporters to cover their functions, but usually they do not have the common courtesy to provide sitting accommodation for the reporters. Last Saturday
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    Lock icon INDUSTRIAL SITES
    389 8 JN the search for Industrial sites, industrialists should explore the suitability of small towns in various parts of West Malaysia. So long as power, water and good roads are available, certain industries need not have to be established in crowded industrial areas, where the costs of land and
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    Lock icon The development of a marine mining industry
    1259 8  -  By Walter R. Hibbard, Jr. r THOSE In science and A engineering who have been working in fields related to oceanography have long been intrigued with the great opportunities to be met in the sea. Having read and heard of the mineral wealth
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    Lock icon The policies and politics of President de Gaulle
    1027 8  -  By Leslie Hamori PARIS, FRI. 'T'HE most interesting de- velopment in European foreign policy in recent months have been French. The first "grand coup" of French foreign policy was de Gaulle's ultimatum to NATO on the withdrawal of foreign troops from French
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    Lock icon 'Highways for people not vehicles'
    505 8 "TJIGHWAYS are for peo- pie and not for vehicles 9t In this straightforward language, Rex M. Whitton. U.S. Federal Highway Administrator, sums up the philosophy becoming increasingly prevalent among U.S. highway engineers. In building America's expanding road system, particularly the 41,000-mile (65.969-kilometers) intersstate highway network
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    Lock icon Research solves over-population
    559 8 TOKYO, Thurs. One of the world's most crucial problems—over population—can be solved through continuing research, a U.S. demographer told the 11th Pacific Science Congress recently. Dr. Irene B. Taeuber of the office of Population Research at Princeton University. reported "problems of] population have been resolved in some
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  • Finance
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      Lock icon National City men promoted
      229 9 CINGAPORE, Sun. —The k First National City Bank has announced the promotions of three of its employees in Singapore. They are Messrs. Wong Nang Jang, Ong Thian Slew and Chan Kwong. Mr. Wong, of the RafTles Quay Branch, has been promoted to Assistant Manager. An old
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      Lock icon Tea exports
      31 9 MADRAS, Sun. (AFP) Jr ciian tea exports declined fi 'een million kilos last year Chairman Baghwandas fa id at the annual conference of Tea Planters Association in Madras State.
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      Lock icon Gold will go up in price, says British banker
      376 9 LONDON, Sun. (UPI) An eminent British banker and international finance expert says that the gold price will one day hare to be raised and failure to find general agreement on re-valuation of the metal ultimately cause more currency devaluations. Sir Frederick
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      Lock icon Finance firm to expand
      139 9 SINGAPORE, Sun. A finance company which has assisted some 1,000 people here to buy their own homes, will expand its business by opening another branch in the East Coast Road district next month. The company's chairman, Dato Tan Kim Chua said he he hopes the company
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      Lock icon FREIGHT RATES UP
      49 9 TOKYO, Sun. (AFP) Shipping freightage rates from Japan to Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil will be raised by five per cent from November 1, it was announced today. The Far F.ast-River Plate and Brazil shipping conference said the increase will apply to all shipments leaving Japanese ports.
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      Lock icon Trade prospects
      57 9 TOKYO, Sun. (Kyodo) The Foreign Office predicted that trade in advanced countries would continue to grow in the second half of this calendar year while that of developing countries would move downward because of dull markets for their primary products. The Foreign Office based its forecast on a
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      Lock icon A window covering industry soon
      144 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun, Malaysia and Singapore will probably have their own window covering industry by the end of the year. Mr. John Kirkham, Assistant General Manager of the I.A.C. (Singapore) Ltd., disclosed that his company was negotiating with the Meyers Taylor Propriety Ltd. to set
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      Lock icon Shipping crisis in Vietnam area
      254 9 NEW YORK, Sun. (AP) A Lew Vietnam shipping crisis is building rapidly because the U.S. Government is operating without a shipping policy in the war emergency, a labour leader charged. Mr. Jesse M. Calhoon, President of the AFL-CIO Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, said engineers and
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      Lock icon SUGAR IS DOWN TO NEW LOW
      216 9 LONDON. Sun. (AFP) Commenting on the new fall in the price of sugar on the London market it has reached its lowest level in post-war years at sterling £15.155.0 d. a ton the commodities review of the "Financial Times" said: "The new low price
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      Lock icon Top tobacco man to head MTC
      245 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Mr. W. K. Foster has arrived in Kuala Lumpur to assume the chairmanship of Malayan Tobacco Company. Mr. Foster will take over from Mr. Dudley Brinsden at the end of September when Mr. Brinsden will return England to take up an
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      Lock icon Overseas training for BM men
      76 9 SINGAPORE, Sun. In line with Borneo Motors' declared policy of assisting local youths to obtain best possible overseas factory training, two further candidates will leave for Birmingham by Air India on Sept. 7th. They are Mr. H.L.F. Boudewyn and Mr. P.J. Green. They will commence
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      Lock icon Kai Tak traffic up
      65 9 HONG KONG, Sun. (AP) Traffic at Hongkong's Kai Tak International Airport increased during the second quarter of 1966, the Civil Aviation Department reported. It said the airport handled 5,898 aircraft and 273.865 passengers, a 12.8 per cent hike in aircraft and 23.9 per cent increase in
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      Lock icon Motors men for Australia
      107 9 SINGAPORE, Sun.—Two members of Messrs. Borneo Motors staff. Mr. Khoo Teik Chooi, service manager of Penang. and Mr. Poh Kbee Seow, service supervisor of Singapore, will leave for specialist service training with British Motor Corporation (Australia) Pty. Ltd. next month. They will be away for aoout
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    • AIR MOVEMENTS-SINGAPORE, KUALA LUMPUR
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        Lock icon ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE
        176 9 TIME AIRLINE FROM 8.20 a.m. ML 019 Kuala Lumpur, 9.30 a.m. ML 121 Kuala Lumpur. 11.05 a.m. ML 451 Kuching. 10.55 a.m. ML 005 Penang. Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur. Malacca. 11.40 a.m. PR 501 Manila. 12.50 p.m. PA 841 San Francisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Guam, Manila, Saigon. 2.45
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        Lock icon DEPARTURES FROM SINGAPORE
        169 9 TIME AIRLINE TO 10 10 p.m. AZ 764 Rome, Teheran, Bombay, Bangkok. 7.00 a.m. ML 032 Malacca, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Penang. Kota Bahru. 7.13 a.m. ML 122 Kuala Lumpur. 7.40 a.m. ML 452 Kuching. 8 00 a.m. TG 402 Bangkok. 8.30 a.m. ML 616 Kuala Lumpur, Hongkong.
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        Lock icon ARRIVALS IN K. LUMPUR
        126 9 TIME AIRLINE FROM 8.15 a.m. MAL (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 043)
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        Lock icon DEPARTURES FROM K. LUMPUR
        120 9 TIME AIRLINE TO 7.15 a.m. MAL (ML 019) Singapore. 8.45 a.m. MAL (ML 122) Singapore. 8.45 a.m. MAL (ML U32> Penang, Ipoh, Kota Bahrd. 9.30 a.m. MAL (ML 005) Malacca, Singapore. 9.50 a.m. MAL (ML 616) Hongkong. 10.30 a.m. MAL (ML 118) Trengganu. 12.20 p.m. p.m.
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      Lock icon Ayub opens refinery
      42 9 KARACHI, Sun. (AP) President Mohammed Ayub Khan yesterday inaugurated a US$2O million oil refinery 10 miles from Karachi. The refinery, which will have a yearly capacity of one half million tons, is th# second of three to be built.
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      Lock icon STEEL PLATE NOW USES CHROMIUM AND NO TIN
      227 9 PITTSBURGH, Sun. (AP). National Steel Corporation announces it has perfected a method of coating steel with chromium, thereby eliminating the tin coating usual on tinplate. National Steel said the chromium plating was in metallic form and that it has the only system
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      Lock icon INDIAN SHIPPING CAPACITY
      154 9 NEW DELHI, Sun.—The Indian shipping is expected to handle at least one half of the country s overseas trade by the end of the Fifth Plan. The Fourth Plan programme for the shipping industry envisaging an outlay of rupees 2,670 million has been drawn up with this
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    956 11 where the warm and very friendly-.. "INSIDE INDONESIA" with Musa Scully, our staff reporter who has just returned from a ten-day tour of the Republic. He and a group of Malaysian journalists were guests of the Indonesian government for the recent Indonesia's Independence Day celebrations. This is the
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    412 11 SINGAPORE, Sun.— Ringo is back in town to provide action fans with the latest gadgetscowboy style-in the new M-G-M presentation of "Ringo and his Golden Pistol". This film filled with action laughter and suspense is good lor the young and the not so young. It
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    506 12 News from Australia (CANBERRA. Sun. The Australian Government's Commonwealth Serum Laboratories has taken out world oaten; rights for the manufacture of an Australian developed influenza vaccine that is free of sideeffects. Medical authorities consider that the vaccine is the 6afest yet produced. It was developed
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    568 12 CANBERRA, Australia, Sun. 'THE new Mayor of Darwin, capital of Australia's Northern Territory, is a busy man these days. A He is Alderman Harry Chan, 48, whose recent election made him the first Chinese to become mayor of an Australian city. But his public
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    438 12 By RICHARD C. LONGWORTH MOSCOW, Sun. (UPI). x A One of the great trials of the travelling life is the Varying standards of haircutting to be found throughout the world. Moscow barbers, while as entertaining as any, are chancier th?n most. Over the course
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    598 12 CANBERRA, Australia, Sun. a MALAYSLAN student looking for suitable accommodation, visiting Japanese trade unionist examining Australian working conditions, a Thai exporter searching for markets all have one thing in common. They have been helped by an organisation in Australia whose sole aim is to bring the people
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      313 13 If parents must send their children to Britain for their education, "OPPORTUNITIES AFTER O LEY EL edited by Kenneth Newton and Sonia A brums (Pelican Original. 340 pp. 7/6) is just the book for them. The book attempts to unravel the bewildering complexity of the
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      267 13 STOCKHOLM, Sun. American colloquialisms and some of the differences in the common usage of Ame rican and British English are being explained in a new book, "American Words," published in Sweden. The stress is on highfrequency words which may cause misunderstandings for the person
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      2138 13 YES, it was like good old yest e r d a y. Those long, leisurely cruises along the Pahang River. The exciting prospects round a bend of the river. I certainly can't think of a more restful way of spending one's week-end than a slow, long
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    134 14 SEOUL. Sun. (AP) Three Asian records were tied and one South Korean record was broken yesterday in the opening day of a two-day. Japan-South Korea, goodwill weightlifting contest here. Featherweight world-re-cord holder Yoshinobu Miyake of Japan snatched 122.5 kilograms to tie his own Asian record,
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    263 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Young people coming together lrom different countries for an international meet, contribute to the course of international friendship and understanding. This was stated here yesterday by the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Inche Senu bin Abdul Rahman. Speaking at the prize giving
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    487 14  -  By Lucian Peters TAIPING, Sun. A very prominent figure in the "sporting world" has become the first Commissioner of Prisons in Malaysia. He is Dato Murad bin Ahmad who has been active in sports for the past 26 years. Forty-four today, and still
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    367 14 TOKYO, Sun. (AP). Ten men's and 13 women s world swimming records set in Dob were officially recognised by the International Swimming Federation (Final) here yesterday. New records: men 200meter freestyle —1:57.2 by Donald Schollander, U.S., at Los Angeles, July 29, 1966. 440 yards freestyle 4:15.0,
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    119 14 TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) World bantamweight champion fighting Harada will meet Columbia's Antonio Herrera, the world Boxing Association's No. 2 featherweight contender, in a nontitle 12-round bout Oct. 25 in Osaka. Harada's manager Takeshi Sasazaki said the contracted weight for the fight is 126
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    136 14 MILWAUKEE. Wisconsin, Sun. <AP) Mario Andretti. U.S. auto club defending champion, exchanged, the lead with Gordon Johncock several times yesterday before winning a 200-mile car race. The Italian-born Andretti led for the first three laps, yielded the lead to Johncock for the next 10. led
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    198 14 LONDON, Sun. (AP) Standings in the first and second divisions of the English soccer league after Saturday's games/ DIVISION 1 W D L Pts. Burnley 3 0 0 6 Arsenal 3 0 0 5 Sheffield Wed. 2 1 0 d Chelsea 2 10 5 Manchester City
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    158 14 NURBURGRING, Sun. (AFP) —Holland's 20-year-old Evert Dolman proved himself to be the best amateur road cyclist when he won the world amateur championship over the famous Nurburging circuit. Covering the 182.400 kilometres, in 4h 59m 435. He just pipped Britain's Les West, who was
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    53 14 LONDON, Sun. (AFP) There have been no further developments in the discussions between Thailand boxing promoter B. Lartricho and British boxing promoter Jack Solomons with a view to a joint-promotion of a world flyweight title fight between Scotland's Walter McGowan, the title holder and Thailand's Chartrai Chinoi, in
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    196 14 DOUGLAS. Isle of Man. Sun. (UPI> Another spate of motorcycle accidents here today put two more riders in hospital during practice for next weeks T.T. races. The first, on a 500 c c Italian Gilera. put English rider Derek Minter out of the races
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    115 14 VANCOUVER. British Columbia, Sun (AP) Elaine Tanner of Vancouver and Karen Muir of Kimberley. South Africa, jointly set a world record of 2 min. 32 sec. in the 220yard individual medley at the British Columbia centennial swim meet yesterday. Time cards showed Miss Muir finishing in
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    74 14 DOUGLAS, (Isle of Man), Sun. (AP) Italian motor cycling star Tarquinio Provini was taken to a hospital with back injuries and severe abrasions yesterday after crashing at 130 miles per hour during trials for next week's Tourist Trophy races. Provini. among the world's top dozen riders,
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    349 14 BROOKLINE, Massachusetts, Sun. (AP) Dennis Ralston and Clark Greabner, America's No. 1 tennis team, overcame the scrambling tactics of Mexico's Marcelo Lara and Joaquin Loyo-Mayo for a 13-11, 13-11, 6-4 quarter-final victory yesterday in the 86th U.S. national doubles tennis championshins Australians
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    69 14 MANILA, Sun. (UPI) South Korea s Yonsei University basketball team scored its third straight victory here last night with a 78 —69 beati.ig of the local Puyat Steel squad. Yonsei's Shin Dong Pa smashed P'jyat's defences and gave his team six vital points in the last five
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    257 14 SOUTHAMPTON, Sun < AFP). Hampshire often do well against touring sides and such was the case here, where they bowled out the West Indies on an easy paced pitch for 191. Shortly after lunch, such an achievement seemed highly unlikely. Indeed with Gary
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    72 14 CHICAGO. Illinois, Sin. (AP) Heavyweight champion Cassius Clay continued to set a fast training pace for his Sept. 10 title defence against Germany's Karl Mildenbergef in Frankfurt, Germany. Clay sparred 12 rounds against Jimmy Ellis, Willie Johnson and his brother. Rudy Clay. Clay,
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    66 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. In goes Japan's first goal in the sixth minute of their match with Nationalist China in
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    486 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun 6ab a h Sarawak today emerged as regional champions of the Royal Malaysia Police third athletic championship meet at Gurney Road. The champion state award went to Sawarak, with a total of 91 points and Selangor second with a total of 51 points.
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    698 15 IPOH, Sun. —(Robert): An Indonesian goodwill team comprising four men and two women has entered for the Malaysian Lawn Tennis Championships which will take place here from Sept 1 to 4. They include the Indonesian woman singles champion, Mien Suhadi and S.
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    67 15 VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sun. (UPI) Don Schollander, who won four cold medals in the 1964 Olympics, broke the world record for the 220-yard freestyle at the British Columbia centennial swimming meet here yesterday. Schollander, a junior at Yale who was representing the Santa Clara Swimming Club,
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    290 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Asian Football Confederation has set up a planning committee to look into the feasibility of sending an Asian all-star football team to tour Europe. This was disclosed here today by Mr. Koe Ewe Teik, secretary of
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    81 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Abrilliant unbeaten 106 by K. Pathmanathan was the highlight of a cricket friendly between T.P.C.A. and Kajang Indo-Ceylonese played at the Princes Road ground to day. T.P.C.A. won by four wickets. Kajang batting first, totalled 110. Thurairajah made 22 and S.S. Rajah, 21,
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    24 15 SINGAPORE, Sun. Vietnam will play Singapore at Jalan Besar at 7-30 p.m. tomorrow which marks the first of a four-day football festival.
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    449 15 LONDON, Sun. (AFP) The West Indian cricketers were severely taken to task for their lack of friendliness and sportsmanship by Denis Compton former England and Middlesex batsman in today's "Sunday Express", of which he is now cricket correspondent. Under the headline "West Indians are
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    185 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Scottish and German national football teams may visit Malaysia and other Asian countries next year. Mr. Koe Ewe Teik, secretary of the Asian Football Confederation, disclosed this today after an executive committee meeting here. He added that the
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    89 15 MALACCA, Sun. North today defeated South by 180 runs in the annual cricket game with one day to spare. The game was played on the Malacca Ground. Mike Shepherdson, the North's captain, contributed 87 the highest in the game —in the North second innings
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    503 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun A 31st. minute goal in tonight's first match gave India a one goal win over South Korea to snatch the third place in the Merdeka Soccer tournament. India has to thank their goalkeeper, Thangaraj and a first-class defence for the spirited
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    192 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman today urged the Football Association of Malaysia to change the preliminary rounds of the Merdeka soccer tournament to a grouping round. He said this year's preliminary rounds did not have its original effects of eliminating
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    66 15 NEW YORK, Sun. (UPI)— Former bantamweight champion Eddie ("Cannonball") Martin died yesterday of a heart condition at his home here. He was 63. Martin, who had been ill for the past two years, won the bantamweight title from Abe Goldstein of New York on Dec. 19,
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    349 15 NEW YORK. Sun (AP).— "We're going to Australia," the chairman of the U.S. Davis Cup tennis committee said yesterday, "and, take it from me, we're going to bring back the cup." American confidence is soaring as one of its most formidable teams in years prepares
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    407 15  -  By UNNY KRISHNAN KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Vietnam, the underdogs, snatched victory over Burma with a beautiful goal five minutes from time to win the Merdeka soccer championships for the first time. It was an evenly fought match with both teamsplaying excellent football to the delight of a
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    960 16 PEKING, Sun. (AFP) Thousand of young people, apparently from outlying provinces of the North-East, have been flooding into Peking over the weekend and observers are taking the railway-station crowds as an indication of a forthcoming nation-wide boost in the activity of the
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    172 16 MANILA, Sun. (AFP). Immigration commissioner Samuel Reyes on Friday threatened resident foreigners in the Philippines with punitive action if they failed to report the deaths of their relatives to government authorities. This follows a recent disclosure here that certain foreigners have been concealing
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    44 16 MADRAS, India, Sun. (A P) —The body of Lukman Hakim, the Indonesian Ambassador who died in Bonn Aug. 20, will be flown to Jakarta via Madras by a special West German military plane today, according to the Indonesian Ambassador in Delhi.
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    385 16 SAIGON, Sun. A political colleague said yesterday militant Buddhist monk Thich Tri Quang has promised to end his anti-government fast now in its 81st day. The monk is growing weaker with his daily nourishment of only a liquid dextrose solution and can
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    200 16 SAIGON, Sun. (AP) President Marcos will have almost instant communications with his nation's forces in Vietnam when the first big group arrives later this month, officials said today. Radio links have already been set up linking the Philippine base camp at Tay Ninh
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    174 16 TOKYO, Sun. (UPI). Japan suffered its fourth commercial airline disaster this year when a Japan Air Lines convair 880 jetliner exploded on takeoff from Tokyo International Airport on Friday killing its five occupants, and bringing the year's death toll to 329. All victims of Friday's
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    153 16 BANGKOK, Sun. (AP) Three members of the Danish parliament budget committee belonging to different and opposing parties, agreed today that Denmark's financial contribution in an aid project to Thailand is being rightly used. The three— Carl Petersen of the Labour Party, J. Jensen of the Conservative Party
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    78 16 VIENNA, Sun. (AFP) Red China's official New China News Agency wants to transfer its European headquarters from London to Vienna, the independent Vienna newspaper Die Presse reported yesterday. Peking envoys have been looking for office space and printing facilities for several months, the daily said.
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    131 16 TOKYO, Sun. (AP) Former Foreign Minister Zentaro Kosaka and seven other Liberal-Democratic Party members of the Diet (parliament) left Tokyo by plane for Peking via Hong Kong today. Besides Kosaka. the group also includes four former ministers, making it one of the important Japanese group
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    128 16 JAKARTA Sun. (UPI) Government owned newspapers—a legacy of Sukarno's "guided democracy." may soon dissappear in Indonesia. Information Minister B. M. Diah, speaking at a press conference for local newsmen in Jakarta on Friday, said he agreed that government newspapers were unnecessary and a burden to the
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    59 16 Jakarta: President Sukarno (left) with General Suharto (right) talks to newsmei after KOGAM (Crush Malaysia Command) meeting at the state palace in Jakarta. President Sukarno said KOGAM would revert bark to Koti (High Command) because the peace treaty to end the undeclared war was signed in Jakarta
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    73 16 SAIGON, Sun. (AFP) A Catholic political leader said today the government should encourage union between anti-Communist groups in a more concrete fashion or his Vietnam Catholic citizens bloc would have to reconsider its position. The Rev. Hoang Quynh. previously secretary-general of the bloc, and now head of
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    143 16 BANGKOK, Sun. (AP) Thai doctors yesterday were reported to have grafted the severed leg of a 22-year-old Thai Royal Air Force cadet. The English-language daily Bangkok Posl quoted one of the doctors who performed the operation at the provincial hospital in Chieng Mai. North-West of Thailand,
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    190 16 MANILA, Sun. (AFP) The Philippine senate committee on national defence said yesterday "there is a clear and present danger*' of liuks infiltrating the regular force of the Philippine Constabulary (National Police). In a special report submitted to the upper hous« excerpts of which were published in
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    89 16 HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sun. (AP) Lieutenant General Kengoro Tanaka, Vice Chief of Staff of Japan's ground Self-defence Forces, arrived in Honolulu yesterday for a three-day visit with the army in Hawaii. Gen. Tanaka will tour Schofield barracks, home of the 25th infantry, which is fighting in Vietnam,
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    331 16 MANILA, Sun. (AP)— Relations between the Philippines and Communist countries, including countries, hitherto non-existence In recent months, Filipinos with the official approval of the foreign office, have been travelling in ever increasing numbers to Communist countries, including Russia and Red China. Senators and congressmen
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