Eastern Sun, 1 November 1966

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  • 26 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 107 Tuesday, Nov ml>«*r 1 1966. ■fr MC 19t2 KDN 2309 Price 15 cents
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  • 313 1 SEOUL. Mon. (AP) President Johnson flew today to this capital city of a staunch ally in the Vietnam war, and received the greatest reception of his Asian tour by two million cheerine persons. At a twilight welcome rally in Seoul's City Hall Square.
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  • 385 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Things returned to normal this morning here following the departure of President Johnson and Mrs. Johnson, whose visit yesterday sparked off violent demonstrations in many parts of West Malaysia Early in the morning before their departure, the strong force of troops,
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  • 141 1 MANILA, Mon. (AFP) The "Daily Mirror", in a running account on the "inside story" of the Manila Summit Conference today reported U.S. President Johnson pounding his fists on the conference table, com- paring Ho Chi Minh to Adolf Hitler and having a heated exchange with
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  • 648 1  -  At 7.45 a.m. Pres. Johnson and Lady Bird flew to Seoul thus bringing to an end a truly historical visit By CHAN KAM YAU KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A happy and smiling President Jo a quiei but very warm send-off when eventful 21-hour whirlwind visit to M The
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  • Local News
    • 109 2 The Yang: di-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong entertained President Johnson and Mrs. Johnson to lunch at the Istana Negara, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong and
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    • 151 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Democratic Action Party today called on the Government to hold a public inquiry into the killing of demonstrator here yesterday. An unsigned statement. Issued in the name of the party's chairman, Dr. Chen Man Hin, reads: It is shocking that in attempting
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    • 180 2 IPOH, Mon. Mr. Justice Chan? Min Tat in the High Court here today sentenced a poultry farmer, Ah Me alias Yee Ah Yew, 24 to five years' imprisonment in addition to six strokes of the rottan on a charge of raping a 17-year-old rubber
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    • 356 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Minister of Transport Tan Sri Sardon bin Haji Jubir today said the Malaysian Meteorological Service had been completely re-organised after the separation of meteorological services in Malaysia and Singapore on Aug. 9, last year. The service was now embarked
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    • 275 2 Malaysia S. Korea air talks begin KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Malaysia and South Korea started negotiations today on an air services agreement between the two countries. Leading the seven-man Malaysian delegations was Raja Azam bin Raja Kamaralzaman. Secretary to the Ministry of Transport. Tan Sri Kyu Hah Choi, the Korean Ambassador
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    • 428 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Country-wide "peaceful picketing during office hours by more than 500 staff of the National Electricity Board will begin tomorrow till Nov. 6. They belong to the 1.200 strong NEB Technical Services Union and are mostly workers in the upper grades. The workers
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    • 74 2 KAMPAR, Mon. An 18 year old girl was produced before the assistant District Officer here, Mr. Michael A. Robert for possession of a Chinese do cument calling, 'Johnson go home*. Ng Ah Moy alias Ng Mook Lan of Jalan 14 Waeh Loong. here was arrested on
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    • 102 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Chief of Staff to the Ministry of Defence, Colonel Othman bin Ibrahim, has been promoted to the rank of Brigadier. Brigadier Othman, a graduate of Staff College, Camberley, Britain became the Chief of Staff in August. He comes from Johore Bhi.ru and
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    • 282 2 IPOH, Mon. An 18-year-old student. Harban Singh, had a premonition of impending danger to his father, Mohan Singh, 48, of being attacked in his sleep on his charpoy outside the quarters at the Central Mental Hospital, Tanjong Rambutan, the High Court here, was
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    • 63 2 TAN JONG MALIM, Mon. Watches valued at $3,000 were yesterday reported stolen from a shop in Main Road here yesterday. A shot guo, belonging to the proprietor, Mr. N.W. Menan, which was left in tho shop, was also missing. The shop had earlier been locked up when
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    • 43 2 PENANG, Mon. An application has been made to the Registrar of Trade Unions, Kuala Lumpur, to register the Penang Port Workers' Union, which would cater for the complete organisation of all port workers registered with the Port Labour Board her#.
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    • 177 2 PENANG, Mob.— Due to controversy arising from the showing of a Mandarin picture, "Knight of Knights," a ten-man Penang delegation will move a resolution at the eight general conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists to be held in Chiengmai. Thailand, from Nov. 6 to
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    • 101 2 KUCHING, Mon. The Governor of Sarawak, Tun Abang Ha.ii Openg. yesterday opened a trade fair sponsored by the Sarawak Manufacturers Association at Padungan Gardens. Participating in the fair are 40 manufacturers of Sarawak and 30 from Western Malaysia. In declaring the fair open the Governor said that
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    • 278 3 Sequel to Sunday's demonstrations SINGAPORE, Mon.—Twenty-six persons, eignt of whom were women, today appeared before a Magistrate's Court charged with being members of an unlawful assembly during last Sunday's demonstrations in various parts of the island. Eight of them also faced charges of rioting and causing
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    • 173 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Barisan Sosialis today strongly condemned both the Singapore and the Malaysian Governments for shooting down defenceless people who demonstrated against the visit of President Johnson to the Malaysian capital. In a Press statement today. the leader of the Barisan Sosialis, Dr. Lee
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    • 211 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Four Barisan M.P's resignations have been accepted today by the Speaker of Parliament, Mr. Punch Coomaraswamy. They are Messrs. Tan Cheng Tong (Jalan Kayu), Ong Lian Teng (Bukit Panjang), Poll Ber Liak (Tampenis) and Koo Young (Thomson). With these four Barisan members vacating
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    • 135 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. A sunny smile from 10-year-old Wong Bee Geok, who had a welcome hug for StafT Sergeant Kevin Carter, of Toowoomba, Australia, when he visited the Singapore Spastic Children's Centre. Little Bee Geok is one of 150 inmates of the Spastic Centre conducted by
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    • 221 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The survival of Singapore depends upon an organised and tightlyknit society. It was everyone's duty to ensure its prosperity and progress, said the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, yesterday. Mr. Lee was speaking at the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of the Hock San Teng
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    • 168 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. A middle-aged man stopped before a cigarette stall and drew out a $1 note. He bought a packet of cigarettes with it and received 55 cents change. He was about to put away the change when he noticed something peculiar with one of the coins.
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    • 125 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Duxton Plain Community Centre will hold a National Language Essay Writing Contest on Sunday, Dec. 4, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at its premises. This is io conjunction with the National Language Month celebrations. The purpose of this contest is to encourage
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    • 68 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Cheam Kim Seang. will act as Commissioner of Police in place of Mr. J. Le Cain who will go on leave for a month from tomorrow (Tuesday). This was contained in Police announcement today. It also announced that the
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    • 172 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Singapore has set up an Export Promotion Centre to provide economic and commercial information for local manufacturers. A Government Press statement said: "In selling to competitive foreign markets, one of the main obstacles encountered by our local manufacturers is the lack of
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    • 167 3 SINGAPORE, Mon—Singapore students seeking admission to medical, engineering and other professional institutions in India need five essential qualifications before tbey can be admitted during the academic year 1967-68. Candidates should have passed the Intermediate Science Examination of an Indian university or equivalent examination with
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    • 623 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. An attractive bar waitress, Susy Lim Chai Kok, 24, drank heavily for several days after she discovered that she had been cheated of $8,400 in a gambling session. This was disclosed by her colleague and chief tenant, Margaret Lee, at
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    • 288 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce was today told that it was "unavoidable" that both Singapore and Malaysia would have separate currencies by June 12, next year. The President of the Chamber, Mr. Soon Peng Yam, said this at the monthly meeting of the Chamber,
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    • 138 3 SINGAPORE. Mo n Amateur magicians should get ready by brushing up on their hoodoo-voodoo for the fifth annual magic competition to be held on Saturday, Nov. 12. by the International Brotherhood of Magicians, Singapore Ring 115. The competition is open to only semi-professional and amateur magicians
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    • 125 3 IPOH. Mon. Eight persons, including 3 girls were today jointly charged in the Magistrate's Court here with being members of an unlawful assembly with the common object of demonstrating against President Johnson's visit to Malaysia at the junction of Anderson Road and Hume Street at
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    • 489 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon- On the occasion of the Vietnam National Day tomorrow, the Ambassador for Vietnam to Malaysia, Tan Sri Tran Kim Phoung, has sent the following message to Malaysians:— On the occasion of the Vietnam National Day, once again I have
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    • 55 4 PARIT BUNTAR, Mon.— Work on the new $120,000 town hall here has been started. The hall, to be named "Merdeka Hall,' will be completed early next year. It will also have facilities for badminton and other indoor games when completed. This will be the first
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    • 198 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. A five-man film team from New Zealand's National Film Unit left recently for Hong Kong after spending 50 days in Singapore and Malaysia collecting material for television and docu- mentary films. The men are Mr. John King, director, Mr. Hugh Mac Donald,
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    • 146 4 SINGAPORE Mon: —Lord Wakehurst, Lord Prior of the Order of Jerusalem arrived here tonight from Hong Kong for a three-day visit. He told newsmen at the airport that the purpose of his visit is to inspect and advise on the work of the St. John's
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    • 331 4 PENANG, Mon. Police riot squad stood guard outside the First Magistrate's Court as 12 persons, including two girls, kept singing "Unity Is Strength" in Chinese as they were whisked away in a black maria after appearing in the Court this morning. This
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    • 157 4 MALACCA. Mon. The MCA State branch pledged its support to the national president, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, yesterday. It urged, however, the national working committee to "reconsider" the expulsion of Mr. Sin Mou Yu, one of the three national chairmen of the MCA Youth section.
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    • 141 4 Kuala Lumpur, Mon. The closing date for entries for the "Fifth Singapore and Malaysia Students Photographic Competition" organised by the Singapore Polytechnic Photographic Society has been extended to Nov. 4. This is to allow students sitting for examinations a chance to participate in the competition.
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    • 179 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Mr. John Lee Joo For, lecturer in art at the Special Teachers' Training Institute, here, will leave by air tomorrow for Rome to be the official representative at the exhibition of Malaysian art which is to be held there in
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    • 55 4 The barefoot Lady Bird KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Lady Bird Johnson paid a brief visit to the National Mosque yesterday afternoon. She was very imprsesed by the outstanding buildings and the expanse of greenery in the country. KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Picture shows Mrs. Johnson presenting a silver box compact to Tunku's
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    • 184 4 MALACCA, Mon —Three of the seven persons arrested in yesterday's anti-American demonstrations have been released. They were all from Tangkak town, 28 miles from here. The three, including a woman, were freed last night. The remaining four per- sons still in custody were charged in court
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    • 245 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. The much publicised "Bakhor Folk Dance Ensemble'' from the Iron Curtain will make its Singapore debut very soon. Wellknown for its colourful and rich dances from its home Uzbekistan, this dance troupe have won far and wide appraisal wherever it went.
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    • 172 5 SINGAPORE. Mon. A SOmember Italian trad© mission will arrive here to try and boost the existing Singapore-Italian trade and Investigate the prospects of joint ventures with local industrialists. This was revealed today bv Dr. G. Modugno, acting Italian Trade Commissioner here. The mission
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    • 327 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. The current issue of TIME magazine reports that a recent statistical study shows that Seventh-day Adventist church men live longer than other men. A detailed study In one area also shows that no lifelong Adventist has died from lung cancer. The report comes
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    • 148 5 SINGAPORE. Mon. A four-man Hungarian trade mission led by Dr. Sandor Perjes, Director of Foreign Trade, today met Government officials to discuss trade promotion between the two countr es. The Singapore delegation was headed by Mr. Kok Ah Loy, Director of Trade, Ministry of Finance. Other members
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    • 182 5 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Social Welfare Department set up an emergency relief centre yesterday at the Maude Road Community Centre to aid Kitchener Road fire victims. The fire broke out yesterday at 9.35 a.m. and rendered homeless some 104 families numbering 417 persons. The fire victims were
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    • 199 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. A parade of colourful movie stars and talented artistes from South-East Asia, along with their local counterparts, will cut a dashing figure when they appear on "Fantasia '66". It is a glittering variety show, which will be held at National Theatre on Nov.
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    • 181 5  -  By BERNARD WILLIAMS SINGAPORE, Mon. A marine security officer, Mr. P. R. L. Wilson, was attacked three times by sampan operators last Friday. The first two attacks took place aboard a foreign ship carrying copra from the Philippines to Europe. Mr. Wilson, who boarded the ship
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    • 374 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. Two T.Y\ Singapura personnel, Miss Lucy Leong and Mr. Cheng Toon Fong, are among 23 persons going to France this year on scholarships granted bv the French Government. The French Charge d'Affaires here, Mr. Andre Villepreux, described the 23 scholarships granted this year
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    • 70 5 SINGAPORE. Mo n. Residents of Kallang constituency and the surrounding areas are advised to note the date for the registration and issuance of new laminated identity cards. Jalan Tenteram Community Centre from Nov. 2—5; Kim Keat Community Centre from Nov. 8—10; and Balestier Community Centre from Nov.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 54 5 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 1.30 a.m. (8 9 ft.), 1-56 p m- (f>\ ft >* Port Swettenham: 6.37 a.m. (13.3 ft.), -3 pPort Dickson: 7.57 a.m. (9.4 ft), 8.05 Singapore: 12.24 a.m. (8.8 ft), 11J1 pm- O- 4 ft >- Sedili Kechil: 10.12 a.m. (6.9 it). Kuan tan; 9.26 a.m.
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    • 51 5 STORE DIARY 8 p.m. Victoria Theatre. Empress Place: "T ela t a h Jurangan". a Malay Drama. 7.30 p.m. Free film shows by the Ministry of Culture: Kampong Dunearn; Pin Ghee High School, Kampong Chai Chee; Tho Mong School, Yio Chu Kang Road; and Keat Hong Hng, Cbua Chu Kang
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 191 6 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI). House Republican leader Mr. Gerald R. Ford said yesterday President Johnson's Asian trip has failed to increase U.S. prestige, allied solidarity or democratic chances of victory in the Nov. 8 congressional elections. In a television interview (Issues and
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    • 100 6 HELSINKI. Mon. (UPI) —A top-level Soviet Communist Party delegation will arrive today on an invitation of the Finnish Communist Party. The delegation is led by Mr. Mihail Suslov, who is usually regarded as one of the five top leaders in Russian hierarchy. He is a member
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    • 260 6 CHICAGO, Mon. (UPI) A 16th century Italian masterpiece valued at half a million dollars was stolen from the Chicago Art Institute, it was discovered yesterday. The painting, Antonio Correggio's "Madonna and child with the infant St. John," wsus acquired recently by the
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    • 39 6 NEW YORK, Mon. (AP) t'nited States carrier, Oriskanv, shown near Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, last year is reported to be afire off the Coast of Xcrth Vietnam. A spokesman said 33 men were killed and three injured.
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    • 344 6 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI). VICE-PRESIDENT. Mr. Hubert H. Humphrey said yesterday Communist China's explosion of a nuclear missile was "a warning bell to humanity." But he said it would not cause the United States to rush into development of a costly
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    • 214 6 MOSCOW, Mon. (UPI). The Communist Party newspaper Pravda yesterday praised French President Charles de Gaulle's call for an American withdrawal from Vietnam. Reviewing de Gaulle's Friday news conference, Pravda political analyst Mr. Viktor Mayvsky also hailed the French President's views
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    • 75 6 DUBLIN, Men. (UPI) Two Scotland Yard detectives pursued the trail of escaped master-spy George Blake yesterday after receiving a report that he had been seen in suburb of Limerick. Blake, serving a 42-year sentence as a spy for the Soviet Union, escaped from London's Wcrmwocd Scrubs
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    • 31 6 MOSCOW, Mon. (UPI). A special postage stamp has been issued to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Revolution, the official news agency TASS reported yesterday.
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    • 59 6 CHILDRESS, Texas, Mon. (tTI) A two-car, head-on collision yesterday claimed the lives eight persons. Seven of them died in the crash and the eighth died in hospital later Four other persons were critically injured. Police said the accident occurred when one of the cars moved across
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    • 127 6 BONN. Germany, Mon. (AP) Pressure for Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's resignation mounted in West Germany yesterday. Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin. Head of the Opposition Socialist Party, said his group would be ready to join a coalition government. This seemed intended mainly, however, to put
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    • 90 6 EAST CHICAGO. Indiana, Mon. <AP»— United State Senator Edward M. Kennedy says he plans to visit the Middle East after the Nov. 8 election. Mr. Kennedy, climaxing a seven-day. all-day tour in the state of Indiana, said on Saturday night no itinerary was outlined. although
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    • 78 6 NEW YORK. Mon. (AP) An 11-year-old boy trying to rescue a younger friend from the Harlem River was accidentally knocked into the water by his little sister and drowned yesterday. The friend managed to get back to shore. Police said Duane Davis was on the edge of
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    • 155 6 WASHINGTON. Mon. (UPI) The United States said yesterday its Ambassador to Guinea, Mr. Robinson Mcllvaine, has been placed under house arrest by the Guinean government at American Embassy. Under-secretary of State. Mr Nicholas Debm Katzenbach summoned the Guin. ean Charge D'AfTaires to his office yesterday to
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    • 40 6 TRIESTE. Italy. Mo n. (AP) Policemen pull a demonstrator onto their vehicle recently after he was caught in tear gas clouds during rioting between strikers and police. The strikers protested a Government plan to reorganise shipyards.
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    • 132 6 BLANTYRE, Malawi. Mon. (UPI) The government is Investigating a number of reports that Portuguese security forces invaded Malawi territory in their hunt for Mozambique rebels, informed sources said yesterday. The sources said the government had received complaints about a number of border incursions in the
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    • 115 6 NEW YORK Mon. (UPI) A 17-year-old boy who had undergone a rare liver transplant operation died early yesterday in New York's Metropolitan Hospital. Doctors said James Jones had been in "Very Critical" condition since Friday when a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Lan Campbell
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    • 146 6 ROME, Mon. (UPI) Italian authorities yesterday announced the smashing of a large-scale racket in illegal drivers licences. Charges of fraud, bribery and forgery were filed against more than 700 persons. The accuse included 12 municipal government officials, several owners and employees of driving schools,
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    • 153 6 LUBBOCK, Texas, Mon. (UPI). —A lion being shown to two men planning to buy animals from the Caprock Town Zoo attacked and mauled its keeper yesterday, severely clawing him about the neck and arms. The zoo keeper, Bill Slate, 24, had Ray Folsom and Dick
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    • 47 6 SUNDERLAND. England, (UPI). A shipyard explosion and fire in the propellor shaft of a cargo vessel yesterday killed seven men. The explosion occurred in the shaft of the 10,000-ton freighter Toronto City, currently being fitted out at the William Doxford and Sons Sunderland Shipyard.
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    • 96 6 WINNIPEG. Manitoba, Mon. (AP)—Kenneth LeLshman, who with nine companions escaped from a Winnipeg jail last montii and was recaptured in Indiana. escaped again last night, police said. Leishman, 35, was being held on theft and conspiracy charges in connection with $383,000 gold bullion robbery from Winnipeg airport
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    • 136 6 CHARLEROI, Belgium. Mon (UPI) Firemen searched the debris of a wrecked lodging house last night as hope increased the casualty toll" from an explosion and fire shortly after midnight might be very low. Firemen found only one body. Police said 14 or 15 workers, mostly foreigners,
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    • 84 6 ROME, Mon. <AP> Italian movie star RAF Vallone, getting in shape ior a new part as a soccer coach, fell from a trapeze in his home yesterday and broke three ribs. Vallone. one of Italy's leading male actors both in films and on the stage, fell from a
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    • 523 7 NfcW \ORK, Mon. (AFP). Police arrested some 15 men yesterday and seized several tons of arms and ammunition after uncovering a plot by the extreme rightist "Minutemen" organisation to blow up the headquarters of left-wing and communist organisa- tions. The police acted after
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    • 247 7 CARACAS, Mon. (UPI) —A bid to bring back former dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez ended in a Maze of gunfire in which the leader of the conspiracy was killed yesterday. The Defence Ministry, in a statement, said Lt. Col. Clemente Pacheco Ochoa, apparent leader of
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    • 76 7 TOKYO. Mon. The most attention getter in the 13th Tokyo Motor Show at Harum i Fairground has been a Wissan Prince Royal shown in foreground. It has a special reason. A same type of the car was ordered by the Imperial Household agency for the Emperor's
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    • 333 7 MONTREAL, Mon. (AFP). Canadian Premier Lester Pearson last night said a free trade area with the U.S. and the Carribbean was possible only if Canada retained political independence. Mr. Pearson was speaking at a Liberal Party banquet in Montreal. The Canadian Premier said: "Canada
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    • 52 7 RIO DE JANEIRO. Mon. (AP) The German song "Krag dem wind (ask the wind)" defeated songs from 28 other countries and won the first place golden rooster trophy in the Rio de Janeiro international song festival last night. With the award went US$5,OOO prize money for composer
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    • 84 7 MADRID. Mon. (AFP). —Madrid police yesterday violently dispersed some 2,000 Carlist demonstrators who marched on Madrid's Royal Palace to the huge Puerta Del Sol Square shouting "Down with repression," "Liberty", and "Long live King Xavier". The Madrid demonstration followed a rally of 20.000 Carlist Military veterans outside Madrid
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    • 289 7 ACCRA, Mon. (CPI). The arrest by Ghana authorities of a 19-man Guinean delegation to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Foreign Ministers meeting: flared into an international incident yesterday with the United States caught in the middle. The Guineans. including Foreign
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    • 548 7 FOLKESTONE, England, Mon. (I'PI). —An international conference on the contraceptive pill was told yesterday that nearly one out of five women taking it probablv should not. But only on Saturday the same conference was told the pill had proved helpful in preventing and treating
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    • 138 7 LONDON, Mon. (AFP). The Foreign Office legal adviser Sir Francis Vallat defended the principle of taking the British-Spanish dispute over Gibraltar to the World Court at the Hague, yesterday. He said that he favoured this in cases in which litigation between states did
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    • 171 7 CHICAGO, Mon. (UPI)— An acrobatic burglar stole a 16th century Italian painting valued at US$5OO,OOO from Chicago's art institute yesterday but stuffed it into a trash bin 10 blocks away and tipped off police to its whereabout 18 hours after the theft. Police at
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    • 130 7 MOSCOW. Mon. (UPI). The man former Prer.«i?r Nikita Khrushchev tried to uiake into a scapegoat for his disastrous virgin lands crop failures was rehabilitated in his death notices yesterday. Nikolai Belyayev died on Oct. 28 at the age of 63. He was a member of the
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 28 7 BC I THINK HUMAMS D\& ccMe" back AS ANIMAL'S. what Doytu suppose WELLCCMS&ACKAS. WHeN WE DIE ITfc CURTAIMS FOR US! MAYBE,... I'D RAWER COME BACKAS A DRAPE. A
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  • 472 8 AFTER all the pomp and excitement attendant on a visit of a head of State, the most important aspect of President Johnson's programme while he was here was his visit to a land development scheme in Negri Sembilan. At Labu he saw for himself how Malaysians
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  • 328 8 CINGAPORE'S Premier, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, is much concerned about the future of the Republic. Today and perhaps for the next five years the picture is rosy, but he stresses it is the future that counts. He says that no one can foresee the future, not even the
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  • Letters...
    • 590 8 THERE has been a recent outburst against the teachers from the Ministers who accused them of not showing enough dedication and taking teaching as the last resort. Today, teaching has become a stopgap from which to go on to better vocation. One cannot blame our ambitious
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    • 420 8 IT is surprising that those undergraduates who are members of the Democratic Socialist Club of the University of Singapore should express doubts as to whether the independence of Singapore is phoney or not. And what is worse is
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    • 72 8  -  ARTHUR CHEW Singapore. BRICKBATS have often been heaped on the Income Tax Department for inefficiency, etc. However, I wish to record my appreciation and state that the Income Tax Department deserves a bouquet this time. I wrote to the Income Tax Department on 12-10-66. I
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    • 276 8  -  YUSSOF AHMAD Kota Bharu. I WAS very happy to read the statement from the general secretary of the D.T.C. Union regarding the success of the union in its fight for parity with college trained teachers. As a parent I take my hat off
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    • 222 8  -  Dato R.P.S. Rajasooria. Kuala Lumpur FORGIVE me the temerity In entering the arena, where political giants are bandying words, to the delectation of those who would love to fan the fires of misunderstanding and distrust amongst citizens of Malaysia, who have lived, and must live in
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    • 130 8 IT is relevant to point out that "Ho Pak Toe. Sin gapore Planning and Urban Research Group" which appeared in the Eastern Sun on the October 8. 1966, should have read "Singapore Planning and Urban Research Group" instead. We are. indeed, glad to note Mr. Khan's assurance
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    • 438 8 A GREAT deal of newsprint has been consumed In publicising the iniquities of the Unified Teaching Service, but, in the pre-occupation with salaries and allowances, a very important feature of the system and one that is likely to have far-reaching effects has not been
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    • 194 8 THE Licensing Section (Radio and T.V.) of the Inland Revenue Department should explain to the public, especially radio and T.V. owners, the follow- ing:— (1) A person applies for a new radio licence at the end of the month e.g. 31-10-66. The expiry
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    • 218 8  - M.T.U. —a splinter union? LEE CHONG SENG Kuala Lumpur. THE M.T.U. was formed with the sole intention of unifying all the existing splinter teacner unions, but as it is, it appears now that the M.T.U. is also a splinter union, with the least number of members on its record. As
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    • 111 8  -  T.M. KHAN. Supt., Car Parks Division. Singapore. I REFER to a letter from one of your readers, in the Eastern Sun of October 8, regarding the misbehaviour of one of the Parking Attendants. This Division places a great emphasis on courtesy by parking attendants when dealing with
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    • 351 8  -  Tan Peng Gee. Chief Parks Officer. Singapore. I shall be grateful if vok will grant me the courtexj of your columns to clarify my position in connection with certain remarks made by Mr. Tay Soo Yong of the Football Association of Singapore and
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  • Commercial and industrial
    • 195 9 CAIRO, Mon. (UPI).— Egypt nas quietly exported one-third of the sold backing for iis currency for sale abroad to help the country out cf chronic financial difficulty, informed sources said today. They said $48.3 million worth of gold has been shipped to Switzerland with
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    • 265 9 SINGAPORE. Mon Air Kew Zealand has continued Its "in-the-black"' operations with an after-tax profit of £86.000 (5M722.400) for the past financial year, a result that is probably considerably better than the cold figures might indicate. For this was the year in which New Zealand entered the International
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    • 292 9 CASCAIS, Portugal, Mon. (UPI) The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) has called for a single Western European Market to end the economic divi- sion of the continent. An official communique released after a two-day meeting of EFTA's Ministerial Council said
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    • 150 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. Since 1962-3 export by New Zealand manufacturers have incrased by 42 per cent to Australia. 50 per cent to the Pacific Islands, 150 per cent to the United States and Canada, and more than 300 per cent to South-east Asia, said
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    • 16 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. The tin price for today was $6OB-3/8 per picul, down 25 cents.
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    • 181 9 SINGAPORE SINGAPORE, Mon. The following ships are expected to be in port today:— Godowns V essels 1/2 Yewbank 3/4 Yoshinosan Maru 67 Thorsorient 8/9 Myrmidon 10/11 Sudan 13/14 Rajah 15 16 President Buchanar 18 Var 19 Kamiji Maru fl 22 Sibigo S3 24 Straat Banka 25/26 Tchibanga 27/28
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    • 217 9 STOCKHOLM. Mon. Total investments in Swe dish industry and public utilities in 1966 are estimated at Kr. 7,800 million (*****.000.000. $1,515,000,000) compared with Kr. 6.900 million year, according to a survey made in September by the Central Bureau of Statistics. For industry proper, investments
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    • 75 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. According to the Akron Beacon Journal, most automobile manufacturers are equipping their 1967 models with a size larger tyre than those placed on their 1966 models. "Some firms explained they "up-sized" the tyres on their medium and lower priced lines due
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    • 95 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. Mr. Edwin H. Sonneken, Director of Corporate Plan ning for the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co., recently estimated natural rubber consumption in the Free World in the next five years would increase by 200.000 long tons annually, and synthetic rubber by 1,000,000 tons annually. For
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    • 90 9 TOKYO Japan Mon. Makoto Usami, the Governor of the Bank of Japan has predicted a "very bright future" for Japan's economy. Addressing a meeting recently of Cabinet Ministers concerned with the nation's economy, Usami said, however, that the Bank of Japan was still trying to pinpoint the
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    • 452 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Stock Exchange was very quiet and featureless. Most prices were generally easier throughout the industrial's section. Gammon dropped to 51.50; Malayan Banking eased to $8.40; down 10 cents from previous levels. Singapore Traction dealt at 43* cents from 44i cents. Cold Storage was the
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    • 273 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. November first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 631 cents per lb., down i cts. from previous close. The tone was very quiet. After an easier opening due to lower London advices the
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      • 198 9 B S Boustead 1.49 1.50 Chemical Co 1.40 1.41 CcJd Storage 3.00 3.02 Dunlop 2.43 2.47 E. Smelting CD 4.10 4.12 Esso Ords 2.90 2.91 United Holdings 1.34 Fitzpatricks XD 1.45 F N. Ord 3.36 3.40 Gammon 1.49 1.51 Georgetown 1.25 Guinness 2.28 2.29 Hume Pref 1.56 1.60 Hotel
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      • 115 9 Ampat CCR 10/3 10/9 A'jkam 3.50 Austral Amal 22/10* 23/Austral Malay XR 32/6 Ayer Hitam XD 20/4* 20/6 Berjuntai 33/10* 34/9 Hong Kong 31/3 K pong Lanjut 24/1* 24/4* Kamunting 18/9 19/Kent 7/6 Killinghall 40/3 Kramat 11/7* Kuala Kampar 24/9 Kuchai CD 1.90 La rut Lingui CD 11/2.00 2.04
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      • 35 9 Central Prop 68£ .71 City Dev 33 .33 i Faber Union 47 .49 Island Pen 47 .47 K. L. Prop 85 San Holdings 26 i .27£ S'pore Land XD 73 .74* Town City 68
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      • 43 9 Bassett (50cts) .80 Batu Lintane CD 1.63 CD 1.40 Jeram Kuantan CD 2.03 Kempas 1.91 1.97 Kluang Ord 1.63 Mentakab 1.60 New Scudai 4.10 New Serendah 2.15 Riverview 2/5 Sungei Bagan 1.56 Temerloh 1.90 Ulu Benut 1.55 United Malacca 1.74 1.90
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      • 27 9 Anglo Asian Anglo Oriental XD 1/3 3/7£ 1/5 Bk S'bawang 5/3 Beradin Chembong 1/3 Consol Salak Golden Hope 2/5* 5/2/7* Guthrie 26/6 Strs. Rubber 1/2
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      • 29 9 First Malayan 2.15 2.25 Second Malayan 1.51 1.61 Tnird Malayan XD 1.07 1.18 Malaysian Commerce 87 .98 Mai Savings Fund 1.27 1.37 Sterling Commodity XD 3/10 4/4
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      • 177 9 TIME: AIRLINE FROM 7.00 a.m. CPA 701 Hongkong. 820 a.m. MAL 019 Kuala Lumpur. 9 30 a.m. MAL 121 Kuala Lumpur. 10.30 a.m. MAL 451 Kuching. 10.55 a.m. MAL 005 Penang. Ipoh. Kuala Lumpur. Malacca. 12.55 p.m. Thai 407 Bangkok, Penang. 245 p.m. MAL 045 Kota Bahru,
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      • 202 9 TIME: AIRLINES: TO 7.00 a.m. ML 034 Malacca, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh. 7.00 a.m. Penang, Alor Star, K. Bahru. BA 789 K. Lumpur. Colombo. Bombay 7.00 a.m. ML 452 Cairo, London. Kuching. 7.31 am. ML 122 Kuala Lumpur 8.00 a.m. PA 842 Saigon, Manila. Guam. Honolulu, Los Angles.
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      • 141 9 TIME AIRLINES FROM 7.45 a.m. BOAC <BA "39) Singapore. 8.15 a.m. MAL (ML 122» Singapore. 8.25 a.m. MAL (ML 034) Singapore. Malacca. 9.15 a.m. MAL (ML 005) Penang, Ipoh. 9.40 a.m. Cathay (CX 574) Singapore. 10.05 a.m. MAL (ML 042). Singapore. 12.30 p.m. MAL (ML 512)
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      • 139 9 TIME AIRLINES TO 825 am. BOAC <BA 789) Colombo. Bombay. Cairoi, London. 9.30 a.m. MAL (ML 005) Malacca, Singapore 10.05 a m Cathay (CX 574) Bangkok, Taipeh, Osaka. Tokyo. 10.20 a.m. MAL (ML 042) Kota Bahru. 1 05 p.m. MAL (ML 512) Bangkok. 12.50 p.m. MAL
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    • 120 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange noon prices today were: Previous Today's Sellers Sellers Coconut oil (FOB) Bulk Sept 42.75 42.75 Coconut oil (FOB) Drums Sept 44.75 44.75 Sugar (Java) ex-godown. 25.75 25.75 Nutmegs 110s 485.00 485.00 Nutmegs B W 240.00 240 00 Garbled Lampong Black Pepper (FOB) 125.50
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  • 604 10 Tonnage handled shows in KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Port Swettenham, despite being: located between Singapore and Penang, two of the major ports in the East, has been holding its own over the past years, and indications are that the port has a very bright future. Predicting
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  • 54 10 KAMPAR, Mon Two men were produced before the A.D.O here on a charge of robbery and assault. They are Perumal s/o Govinda 44 of Kinta Tin, Batu Gajah, and Suppiah s/o Kaniappan 23, of Sungei Chinoh Estate, Trolok, Perak. They were charged with robbing Seeni so
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  • 131 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. Two prominent local advertising executives left for Taipeh recently to attend the sth Asian Advertising Congress. They are Mr. Cheo Seng Koon, Managing Director of Art Friend Advertising Corporation Ltd., and Mr. Lee Siew Mun, Manager. The aims of their par- ticipation in the
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  • 512 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. The importance of road safety education in the school curriculum was recently emphasised by Mr. A. C. Durie, Director General, Automobile Association of Great Britain. Road Safety education, he said, was designed to help students get acclimatized and to recognise the values
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  • 135 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. Netaji Hindi High School will hold an Indian dance drama, "Anarkali", on Nov. 16 at the Victoria Theatre at 8.30 D.m. to raise funds for its new building. "Anarkali" is a tragic story of India during the period of the Mogul Emperor. Akbar the Great.
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  • 158 10 C'wealth SecretaryGeneral coming KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The Commonwealth Secre-tary-General Mr. Arnold Smith, left London yesterday for official visits to India, Ceylon, Malaysia and Singapore. He is visiting these Asian Commonwealth countries at the invitation of their Governments. He will spend two weeks in India and approximately one week each in
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  • 545 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. The expansion of the present research facilities will be the main emphasis in the future development of Nanyang University. This was outlined by Nantah's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Huang Ying-Jung, at the opening ceremony of the million-dollar university's library building on Saturday. Professor Huang
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  • 751 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. An exciting innovation will soon be introduced into educational institutions here early next year educational television! With its introduction a new chapter in Singapore's educational history will begin. This pioneer project will benefit some 500.000 students in the various
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  • 214 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. Warrant Officer Bill Griffiths of the Royal Air Force Changi has an unusual task conducting an unending war against mosqui* tos, hornets, cockcroaches, poisonous snakes, insect* and reptiles which are harmful to human beings. W. O. Griffiths is in charge of the
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  • 198 10 PENANG, Mon.—The Chief Police Officer, Penang, Enche Salleh bin Abdul Rahman, said here late last night that the people must realise that the Police have a duty to perform in enforcing law and order to maintain peace in the State. Commenting on
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  • 117 10 SINGAPORE. Mo n. Pupils from the Junior School at Royal Air Force, Changi collected 800 tins and packets of fruits and vegetables for distribution to several charitable organisations. These were distributed to the Trafalgar Home. Salvation Army homes. Roman Catholic homes, and St.
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  • 76 10 JESSELTON, Mo n Sabah s Chief Minister. Mr. Peter Lo Su Yin. left here by air this afternoon for a two-day visit to Kuala Lumpur. While in the nation# capital. Mr. Lo will discuss with the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, development
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  • THE NEW FILMS
    • 278 11  -  By: LIM THOW BOON KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The years of feuding princes, warring popes, and in particular the conflict between two of the greatest personalities of the Rena'ssance Michelan gelo and PoDe Julius II are eloquently captured in "The Agony and the Ecstasy." Although the
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    • 294 11  -  By: CHAN KAM YAU KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Joseph E. Levlne's "The 10th Victim" based on a science fiction novel by Robert Sheckley takes us to the bizarre world of the future (the 21st century. to be exact). Here, you get married by putting
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    • 734 11  -  By HAL FIMBERG HOLLYWOOD, Mon. IT is unoriginal but no less true for that to say that a finished motion picture is, for good or ill, a collaborative effort. As a scenarist, it may sound less than modest of me to proclaim that the
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    • 395 11 Bible' magnificent beyond cinematic belief SINGAPORE, Mon. This beautiful face belongs to Ava Gardner who will soon be seen on our screens in the Dino de Laurentis epic production, "The Bible." It is a face we have seen before in a number of pictures in which Miss Gardner has appeared.
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    • 837 11 What's on in today's 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. Petang 5.45 Pernbukaan dan rengkasan ranchangan; 5.50 Rengkasan Berita dalam Bahasa Kebangsaan; 5.55 Lagu2 Tanah Ayer; 6.00 Berita dalam Bahasa
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  • 115 12 KITWE, Zambia, Mon. '(AP) Angry Black and White mobs fought each other yesterday after a huge explosion at the main oil storage depot rocket this small copper mining town. As plumes of smoke shot 3,000 feet into the air, Africans stoned cars, police mobile squads
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  • 204 12 UCHINOURA. Japan. Mon. (UPI). Japan today successfully launched the largest rocket ever developed in the country in a new attempt to fire an earth satellite into space. A team of scientists of Tokyo university blasted the Ml-1 rocket into skies in clear weather from the
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  • 49 12 MANILA, Mon. (UPI) President Marcos proclaimed today and Tuesday as public holiday in the Philippines to enable the living to pay respect to their dead. Filipinos traditionally flock to the cemeteries on Nov. 1, "AH saints day", to keep vigil over the tombs of their departed.
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  • 45 12 GALVESTON, Texas, Mon. (AP). Crew members of the first planned Apollo flight practice emergency manoeuvres in the gulf of Mexico five miles off shore. Astronaut Virgil Grissom. centre, prepares to join astronauts Edward White II, left and Roger Chaffee in a rubber raft. AP Photo.
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  • 586 12 UNITED NATIONS, Mon. (AP). Africans are out to reshape the International Court of Justice in an election of five of its judges to start here tomorrow. A long deadlock is foreseen over one or two for the seats. The Africans campaign stems
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  • 549 12 BERLIN, Mon.—An Indian evangelist decried in an address to the World Congress on Evangelism here the secularisation of modern society, the new morality, the death-of-God theology, and the use of escape mechanisms such as the drug LSD. "Civilised man is psychologically
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  • 164 12 Radio aid in Blake spy escape police LONDON. Mon. (AFP) Police were today working on the theory that double agent George Blake's spectacular escape from worm wood scrubs prison here earlier this month may have been organised by radio. A roughly-made aerial three yards high, made with two bamboo sticks
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  • 77 12 MADRAS, INDIA, Mon. (AP). Air and rail communications in Andhra State were completely disrupted yesterday following two days of student agitation in support of demands for location of India's fifth steel plant in the Port Town of Vizagapatam. Southern railroad authoririties in Madras announced suspension of trains
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  • 102 12 LOS ANGELES, California, Mon. (AP) A Motorist was speared in the arm with a six-foot lance yesterday while sitting in his car waiting for a traffic light. The lance was thrown by a man wearing a sheet as a toga. His face was painted in blue and white
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  • 425 12 ROME, Sun. (UPI). Italy's socialists, ending nearly two decades of sometimes bitter schism, yesterday chartered a United Party committed to challenge both capitalism and communism by building "a socialist society founded on liberty and democracy/* More than 15,000 jubilant delegates, gathered in the
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  • 270 12  -  Bv DON C. BECKER MANILA, Mon. (UPI). Through a decade in prison and under house arrest, Indonesian journalist Mochtar Lubis said today that he never lost his conviction that the long suppressed spirit of freedom in Indonesia would spring again to life. Mr. Lubis made
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  • 376 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Asian badminton singles champion, Dinesh Khanna, 23, will leud India's five-man team aga nst Malaysia for the 7th Thomas Cup Asian West Zone tie, to be played at Stadium Negara on Nov 26 and Zl. This was disclosed by
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  • 285 13 SINGAPORE, Mo n. P.A. Levy from the Swift Athletes Association won the "King of the Mountain" load walk title when he breast the tape first in the face which finished at the top of Mount Faber here yesterday. Levy, together with B.K.S.
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  • 597 13 SINGAPORE, Mon. More than 2,500 athletes from 18 countries will once again "march into sporting history" when the sth Asian Games is staged in Bangkok from Dec. 9 to 20. The Asian Games. like the Olympics, aimed at stimulating a closer bond of "friendship and
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  • 196 13 KAMPAR, Mon. —Perak's Southern Zone Amateur Athletic Association's 27-mile marathon, which was supposed to have served as an Asian Games trial here yesterday, was a success. All told 38 athletes took part. But the Malaysian Amateur Athletic Association's qualifying time of 2 hours and
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  • 140 13 BANGKOK, Mon. (AFP) —The Fifth Asian Games organising committee decided yesterday to remind countries not affiliated to international sports associations to keep away from such events of the December Games, it was reported today. The committee noted that Indonesia was not affiliated
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  • 98 13 NEW YORK. Mon. (UPI). —The United States widened its lead in international jumping at the New York National Horse Show yesterday as Mrs. Frank Chapot, riding White Lightning, won the international class with Bill Steinkraus, the U.S. team cafftain, taking second. Gail Ross of
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  • 36 13 NEW ZEALAND. Mon. The New Zealand team took the lawn bowling fours gold medal at the World lawn bowls championships at Sydney this week with an unassailable record of three wins and one draw.
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  • 253 13 SINGAPORE, Mon. Singapore will now participate in six sporting events at the forthcoming Games of the Newly Emerging Forces (Ganefo) to be held at Phnom Penh from November 25 to Dec. 6. Disclosing this to Sunsport, the secretary of the Singapore
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  • 361 13 MEXICO CITY. Mon. (AP) "Our players felt that if they had one or two days more of practice over this course they would have done much better in the competition." said Japanese nonplaying captain T. Okahashl at the conclusion of the Eisenhower Trophy
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  • 308 13 Singapore, Mon Two top Australian drivers who participated in last year's Grand Prix here are expected to compete in the 1967 Singapore Grand Prix to be held from March 25 The two Aussie competitors Greg Cusack and Steve Harvey acquitted themselves creditably with
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  • 192 14 HONOLULU, Mon. (AP). Ted Makalena posted an almost perfect final round of 68 yesterday and won the US$B,5OO first prize in the Hawaiian Open Golf tournament. He finished with a four-round total of 271. Makalena's round played in the pressure of a hometown gallery and behind
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  • 151 14 ZEPHYR COVE. Nevada, Mon. (AP) Czechoslovakian pilot Mira Slovak and William Hurrah's Tahoe Miss, the 1966 U.S. champion unlimited hydroplane, abandoned their attempt for the world propeller-driven boat speed record yesterday at Lake Tahoe. Tahoe Miss made its final speed test, clocking 163 m.p.h.
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  • 132 14 ZURICH, Mon. (AFP). Danish amateur cyclist Ole Ritter smashed the world 10 and 20 kilometres world record at the covered Hallenstadion here yesterday The 25-year-old Dane timed 13:33.8 for the 10 kilometres (an average of 47.758 kilometres per hour) and 25:14.6 (47.537) for the 20
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  • 73 14 VOLKETSWIL, Switzerland, Mon. (UPI). World champion Eric De Vlaeminck of Belgium won the international cycling cross country here yesterday covering the 21 kilometres in 54.55 minutes. He was followed by Hermann Gretener of Switzerland,, same time, and former world champion Renato Longo of Italy who
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  • 221 14 SHIRIN CAUSED BIGGEST UPSET SINGAPORE, Mon. Singapore's 1966 open champion. Sharin Osman (above), caused the biggest upset in the "Guillemard Cup*' tennis match between Singapore and Malaysia which concluded recently, when he defeated Malaysia's No. 1, A. S. Azman in the first singles. Sharin defeated Azman in
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  • 90 14 KAMPAR, Mon. The Tan Sri V.T. Sambanthan Soccer Cud final played here on the Town Padang yesterday was woo by the Kinta Indian Association who beat the Ipoh Youngsters by two goals to one. The presentation of the Cup to the K.I.A. by Mr. N. Ramalingam,
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  • 917 14 MEXICO City, Mon. (AFP) Australia yesterday won the world amateur golf championship with two strokes advantage over the United States team which played second. The combined British Irish team squeezed into third place with a one stroke lead over South Africa, yesterday's leader. The final
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  • 313 14 RIVERSIDE, California, Mon. (AP) A wily Englishman who knows the value of pressure John Surtees scurried to victory yesterday in the 200-mile US$65/000 Los Angeles Times Grand Prix for sports cars. Surtees, driving a smooth Lol-Chevrolet, and to fight most of the way to
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  • 90 14 FREEPORT, Grand Bahama, Mon. (AP). Evelyn Petterson holds the world diving record for women for the second after plunging 125 feet three inches into the Atlantic Ocean. The 24-year-old Bahamas resident, formerly of Kitwe, Zambia, bettered a 117-foot mark set last August by Giuliana Crealeani
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  • 24 14 VIENNA, Mon. (AP) Austria yesterday defeated Iran 5 1 in an international table tennis competition held during the Austrian International Championships.
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  • 498 14 SINGAPORE, Mon. The exclusion of the hockey team from the Republic's contingent to the sth Asian Games at Bangkok may be a "death blow" to the future of hockey in the island. This is the opinion expressed by both players and
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  • 182 14 SHIMONOSEKI. Japan, Mon. (UPI) South Korea's Suh Kang 11, the World Boxing Association's No. 2 junior lightweight, won a one-sided unanimous decision last night over Japanese junior lightweight champion Yuji Amashima in a non-title 10-round bout. There were no knockdowns although the two fighters
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  • 198 14 HELSINKI, Mon. (AFP)— Finland won the first round of the Kings Cup tennis against Yugoslavia her# when the Yugoslavs scratched following yesterday dispute over a foot fault. The teams had shared the opening singles and the finnish champion, Pekka Sailae was leading in the third
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  • 103 14 MELBOURNE. Mon. (AFP)—the target operating machinery for the world modern pentathlon championship starting here next weekend has been stolen. The theft, from the Pistol Club's quarry range on the outskirts of Melbourne was discovered yesterday. As a result the full dress rehearsal for the championship and
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  • 217 14 RIVERSIDE, califor ni a, Mon. (UPI). A petition protesting the "arbitrary" removal of five qualifiers from yesterday's Grand Prix for sports cars has been signed by three-fourths of the drivers in the race. An estimated 30 drivers, which included three-quart-ers of qualifiers in
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  • 107 14 LONDON. Mon. (UPI) Donald Campbell said last night he would make a new attempt on his own world water speed record. He said he will try to beat the present record of 276.33 miles an hour set in Australia two years ago "to something nearer
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  • 79 14 BUENOS AIRES Mon. <AP> Norma Baylon Argentina, and Cliff Richey. U.S.. won the women's and men's events of the 37th Argentine and 19th South American International Lawn Tennis Championships yesterday. Miss Baylon won both the women's singles defeat{ft ?rz<. Rlchey us Richey won the men's
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  • 490 15  -  By R. D. SELVA KUALA LUMPUA, Mon.— The Malaysian Cyclists' Federation yesterday selected 11 cyclists after its final trials for the forthcoming Fifth Asian Games at Bangkok. Six cyclists will be for road races, and five for track races. 100 kilometres Road Races (team):
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  • 147 15 SYDNEY. Mon. Tony Rsche, 21 year old lefthanded Australian tennis itar. has received an offer to become a professional. He discussed the offer and financial details on Oct. 19 with the executive director Of the Professional Tennis Players' Association, Mr. Wally Dill, who
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  • 75 15 HER talisman always goes along toj whenever 19-vear old German athlete Heidc Rosendahl of Solingan competes. It is an inflatable rubber make-believe creature which has already accompanied her to the Kuropean Championships in Budapest, where she won the silver medal in the women's pentathlon. And
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  • 309 15 SINGAPORE, Mon. The American Business House's Eagles, the dark horse in the Singapore Softball Association's 1966 senior division knock-out tournament, entered the final round yesterday when they defeated the Shell Sports Club's Shellane at Paya Lebar Road here. The Eagles caused the first upset
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  • 152 15 SINGAPORE, Mon. A dozen special commemorative stamps will be issued to mark the staging of the sth Asian Games to be held at Bangkok in December. The stamps, variously coloured, have been specially designed for the auspicious occasion. Each stamp will measure 27 by 45 mm.
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  • 234 15 PANAMA, Mon. (AP). —lndian lawyer Mihir Sen resumed his ocean-to-ocean Panama Canal swim on Sunday after having been forced to give up his attempt to do it non-stop. Sen was taken from the water on Saturday night vomiting and suffering from stomach cramps
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  • 104 15 MEXICO CITY, Mon. (AFP) Japan lost their final game to Venezuela 19 —1 in the first World Softball Championship on Saturday. The Japanese nine tied with Canada for seventh place in the elimination round with three wins and seven losses. The four highest teams. United States,
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  • 136 15 LONDON, Mon. (AP) The British Amateur Athletic Board (BAAB) on Sunday barred Anne Smith, 25, British women's half mile champion, from taking part in the international track meets until Dec. 31, 1967. Miss Smith walked out of the European Championships at Budapest
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  • 374 15 BRAND'S HATCH, England, Mon. (AP). Austrian Jochen Rindt in a Brabham Cosworth won the first heat of the international Formula 2 auto race here on Sunday. He covered 10 lays of the 2.50-mile Brand's Hatch circuit in 16:15.0, an average speed
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  • 418 15 HAVANA, Mon. (UPI). Rumania were ahead of the leaders of all groups on Sunday in the fourth round of the 17th Chess Olympiad here with 15 points, half a point more than the powerful defending cham- pions, the Soviet t'nion. Rumania's achievement followed its
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  • 94 15 HAVANA, Mon. The Philippines defeated Switzerland. 1-0 in their fifth round match on Sunday in the 17th World Chess Olympiad here. However, the Philippines still trailed Switzerland in Group One standings. Philippines was fourth with a point total of 10.5 and Switzerland third with 11.5. Hong Kong
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  • 86 15 MELBOURNE. Mon.—Collingwood delegates have failed in a move to have 22 home-and-home matches instead of the usual 18 in the 1967 Victori 11 Football League season. Opening round of the seasons will take place on April 15 and the closing home-and-home round on Aug. 26. The semi-finals,
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  • 89 15 SEREMBAN, Mon. The Derrick "Dilemma" continues in Malaysian Hockey Federation training camp at Batu Cantonment here. Whilst all the others together with the stand-bys selected by the MHF for the Asian Games are undergoing serious training under coach V.V. Naidu, Penang's Derrick David has still not reported
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  • 53 15 BRISBANE, Mon. (AP) Berger Folke of Sweden defeated Terry Ryan, South Africa, on Sunday in the second round of the men's singles in the Queensland Lawn Tennis Tournament. Folke held a 2-6, 6-4, 4-3 lead after three sets and won on forfeit when Ryan withdrew after
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  • 30 15 BUDAPEST. Mon. (UPI). Janos Farkas scored all three goals on Sunday as Hungary beat Austria, 3-1, in a friendly international soccer match. Hungary led, 1-0, at halftime.
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  • 260 15 LONDON, Mon. (AP). Alf Ramsey, the man who steered England to victory in the World Soccer Cup Championship at home this year, already has his eyes on the defence of the cup in Mexico in 1970. He picked 22 players for England's
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  • 415 16 WASHINGTON, Mon. (AP). Former President Dwight I). Eisenhower assailed conduct of the ietnam war today, asserting: "I believe in putting in the kind of military strength we need to win, and getting it over with as soon as possible." However, the five-star general offered
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  • 246 16 £OLOMBO. Mon. (AP). U.S. roving Ambassador Averell Harriman said yesterday he had the impression that the Soviet Union wanted to see the fighting in Vietnam stopped. Mr. Harriman was speaking at a news conference at the Premier's official residence. He said that following
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  • 50 16 NEW DELHI, Mon. (AP) The Indian Government is considering imposing restrictions on the issue of passports to doctors, because of the large number leaving the country. Officials estimated 6,500 to 8,000 Indian doctors are working abroad and even more are out of the country on advanced studies, fighting continues."
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    49 16 CAPE KENNEDY, Mon. A three-stage delta rocket boosts the Comsat Corporation satellite off the pad at Cape Kennedy recently toward its orbit over the Pacific Ocean. The attempt was to establish the first commercial space communications link between the United States and South-East Asia.—AP Wirephoto. AP Wirephoto.
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  • 47 16 SHILLONG, Mon. (AP) The State Government is considering a proposal that a tax be levied on a family on the birth of a fifth child and on each subsequent child. The move, it is hoped, would help check th e State's high birth rate
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  • 57 16 BANGKOK, Mon.—King Bhumibol Adulyajed and Lady Johnson, wife of the American President, chat during the official call on the Thai Royal family by the Johnsons in Bangkok recently. In background, the Royal daughters Sarinthom (left) and I'bolratana (right), look over gifts brought to them
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  • 570 16 T ONDON. Mon. (AP).— Extracts from editorials in London newspapers today: The Daily Express (Independent) on President Johnson's Asian tour "If China hoped to provoke President Johnson by firing her first nuclear missile during his Far East visit, she has been sadly disappointed. "Firmly, without
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  • 315 16 Washington, Mon. (AP). —Vice President Mr. Hubert H. Humphrey said yesterday he thought President Johnson's Asian trip would have no appreciable effect on the Nov. 8 Congressional elections. "I do not believe that the President's journey was in any way politically motivated, nor do I
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  • 89 16 KARACHI. Mon. (AP) President Mohammed Ayub Khan has urred a common market of Moslem Nations to force unity among the Moslem religion. In an interview published recently in the Lahore weekly Urdu language Journal, "Jahan Numa," President Ayub declared: "Moslems occupy a land mass which Ls the heart
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  • 119 16 MANILA. Mon. (LTD Tropical storm "Lorna" roared closer towards the Philippines and threatened to slice across the farmlands of Northern Luzon later today. The Manila Weather Bureau immediately raised storm warning signals over thickly populated Luzon, including the Manila area, and warned residents to expect strong rains
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  • 78 16 TOKYO. Mon. (AP> Tokyo's Metropolitan Government has proposed the abolition of cityoperated trolley buses and street-cars to save money. The Metropolitan Governments say that the lines are losing i 8 million yen (US$5O,OOO) a day and has asked the City's Assembly to abolish trolley buses by
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  • 316 16 JAKARTA, Mon. (UPI). President Sukarno has the ultimate power to decide whether 14 men sentenced to death by special military tribunals, including his former righthand man, Dr. Subandrio. will live or not, according to Army Strongman Gen. Suharto. Gen. Suharto told newsmen
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  • 283 16  -  By Elizabeth Halstead SAIGON, Mon. (UPI) Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky ambled into the newly completed Independence Palace early today and said he liked it just fine. "You know I'm a poor man," the mustachioed Prime Minister said jokingly "This is nice and big." "I
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  • 141 16 SAIGON. Mon. (AFP) A United States military policeman opened fire today on a car stopped in front of a hotel for Americans here. wounding the driver, a South Vietnamese Air Force officer. The incident came as fear of Vietcong terrorist activities mounted here with the approach of the
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  • 186 16 SAIGON, Mon. (AP).— American artillery barrages killed 23 Vietconf near the Cambodian border yesterday, U.S. Headquarters reported today. This was the only action of any size reported on tho quieted battle fronts as South Vietnam prepared to celebrate National Day tomorrow. Artillery units of the
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  • 293 16 TOKYO, Mon. (I'Pl). The text of the last will of Japan's wartime Prime Minister Gen. Hidckl Tojo long a secret was revealed here todav. Gen. Tojo, who commanded the Japanese Nation in World War 11. wal executed for war crime! by the Allies after the
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