Eastern Sun, 13 February 1967

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  • 24 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 204 Monday* February 13 1967. MC(P) 2251 KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 404 1 eace feeler to Hanoi at end of truce WASHINGTON, SUNDAY (REUTER) THE UNITED ordered a new b over North Vietnam feeler to Hanoi at the end of the tour'day Lunar New Year truce. Full combat operations against the Vietcong resumed when dawn broke over South Vietnam today,
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  • 122 1 JAKARTA. Sun. (AP) Indonesia's Education Direceral declared Presided Sukarno's ambitions to sell himself and ie to Communist was reported today. Mr. Mashuri, speaking Bandung this week, said Pres. Sukarno was only *he designs of Peking before the Communist CO-:? attempt in October 1965. He charged Pres. Sukarno
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  • 130 1 LATEST: VATICAN CITY. Sun. 'Reuter) Pope Paul said today that new anxieties c re worsening the chances for peace in Vietnam. But he he was not giving up hope. Attempts by Influential men. and also by himself, to prolong the latest truce and gpr pp ace
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  • 65 1 JAKARTA. Sun. (AP) Army strongman General Suharto will turn over evidence tomorrow on the trial of Brigadier General Supardjo. a key man in the Communfst coup attempt. Gen. Supardjo's name has been linked to President Sukarno's. The trial of Gen. Supardjo, highest ranking military man
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  • 469 1 TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) Communist' China's powerful Liberation Army placed Peking under military control yesterday in an action believed to be designed to oust opponents of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, a Japanese correspondent said today. The Peking-based correspondent for the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper said the Army took
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  • 118 1 TOKYO. Sun. (Reuter) China will not b e the first to break relations with the Soviet Union. Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi told visiting Japanese businessmen and writers in Peking yesterday. The Peking correspondent of the Japanese News Agency Kyodo quoted Mr Chen as saying. "The
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  • 42 1 When in India, do as the Indians do. This is just what beautiful Japanese actress Kumi Mizuno has been doing since her arrival in Bombav recently in connection with the Toho Film Festival. UPI Photo. UPI Photo.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 463 3 says fai Sing Onn, K'uala Lumpur, Sunday. THE Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Enche Senu bin Abdul Rahman, has said that "there is still a lot we could do in our efforts to raise money for the National
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  • 143 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A 24-man delegation from the Indonesian Army to be led by General Mokoginta will arrive here on Tuesday morning to hold talks on joint anti-piracy patrol with the Malaysian Government. This was disclosed here today by Col. Sigit Sundarjati a member of the
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  • 150 3 Kuala lumpur, sun.— 'WO Factories a tobacco company and an expanded metal factory were razed to the ground during the early hours this morning in :i "»e industrial area of Setaa few miles from this Federal Capital City. r otal damage was estimated at $700,000.
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  • 293 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. More Donations to the National Disaster Relief Fund: Through the Minister of Information and Broadcasting:— Kolej Puteri Tunku Ampuan Mariam. Johore Bahru. $153, and Pendudok2 Ranchangan Tanah Sungai Midah, Jalan Cheras $27.00. Through the Minister of Transport:— M.I.C. Branch, Rengit, Batu
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  • 118 3 JOHORE BHARU, Sun. The chairman of the Rengit, Batu Pahat, Enche Mohd. Salam s/o Khudabax, this morning handed over a $lOO cheque for the National Disaster Relief Fund to the Minister of Transport, Tan Sri Sardon bin Haji Jubir, at the V.I.P. Rest House. The
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  • 122 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Mentri Besar of Selangor. Dato Harun bin Haji Idris, will officiate at a presentation ceremony of awards, bursaries and donations by the Apex Clubs of Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya at the Selangor Education Department theatrette here at Sweettenham Road at 10 a.m.
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  • 715 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Chinese community in the Republic hos returned almost the entire Executive and General Committee members to office in the 34th annual general elections of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce today. The President of the Chamber, Mr. Soon Peng Yam, was returned to
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  • 335 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. The wife of the Minister of State for Education, Che Mawan Wajid Khan, yesterday spoke of the role of mothers "in the context of nation-building in a turbulent part of South-east Asia." She was speaking at the Siglap Women's Association's annual general meeting
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  • 181 4 GIRL: I WAS UNCONSCIOUS AFTER A DRINK JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. A 12-year-old girl alleged in a magistrate's court here today that she became unconscious after she was given a drink by a woman in Singapore. Testifying at a preliminary inquiry before Enche Salleh Eckhard. the girl said the drink was
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  • 381 4  -  By KEN STANLEY KAMPAR, Sun. A live 25-foot python weighing more thon 150 pounds con be hod by either the Nationol Zoo here or the Toiping Zoo for the "mere asking" from an ex- Police Constable here. He is Enche Mohamed bin
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    • 576 4 THE PRINCESS SINGAPORE QUEST 1967 INOFFICIAL ENTTtY FORM APPLICATIONS are invited from SINGAPORE nationals, who have reached their 17th, but not theur 27th, birthday on March Ist, 1967, and who wish to be considered for selection as Singapore's con-testant-delegate to the "Queen of the Pacific" Quest to be held in
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • WORLD NEWS
    • 732 5 r ONDON, Sun. (Reuter) The Duke of Edinburgh left here by air today for a ten-day visit to Australia. where he will attend to preliminary arrangements for hi* study conference there in May and June. He will visit a number of countries on his way to 3
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    • 133 5 CAMBRIDGE. England, Sun. (UPI) A group of Cambridge University dons and students iiicluding several girls claimed yesterday that quantities of LSD are being made and distributed right on the campus. In a letter to the university magazine, Granta the group whose names were not disclosed for fear
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    • 131 5 WASHINGTON, Sun. (AP) The complete skeleton of a two-million year old giant elephant has been unearthed intact in Kenya and transferred to a museum in a "feat believed unprecedented," the National Geographic Society reported yesterday. The excavation and the transfer by truck over 200 miles including
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    • 504 5 CEASEFIRE ENDS gAIGON, Sun. (AP) Full scale military action began in South Vietnam today at the end of a four-day lunar new year ceasefire that had been marred by repeated clashes and bloodshed. Ground operations were launched and war planes pounded targets inside the country. The
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    • 184 5 KosyginWilson talks: Final round LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) The Soviet and British Prime Ministers today prepared for a final session of informal talks, amid speculation that Mr. Harold Wilson plans to use these for intensive discussion on Vietnam. BritisTi Foreign Secretary Mr. George Brown last night held urgent consultations with Mr.
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    • 860 5 MOSCOW, Sun. (UPI). —"Peking does not care about facts." With this plaintive cry. the Soviet Party newspaper Pravda last week vented the Kremlin's frustration at trying to make sense out the senseless surrealism which passes for SinoSoviet relations these days. Much of this frustration
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    • 141 5 JAKARTA, Sun. (Renter) —President Sukarno cannot leave Indonesia without the consent of the ruling presidium (Inner Cabinet) according to Foreign Minister Dr. Adam Malik. Dr. Malik said the Government knew nothing of reports that Pres. Sukarno intended to seek political asylum in Japan.
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    • 73 5 SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. Sun. (AP)—A one and one-half pound infant girl —the sole survivor of a quintuplet birth to a 25-year-old Wyoming woman yesterday morning—clung feebly to life yesterday evening. Mrs. Allen Bradley, Big Pinney. Wyoming, gave birth between 8 and 9 am to three premature
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    • 77 5 SUVA, Fiji. Sun. (Reuter) —When men of the Fiji forestry department found a longhorn beetle ten and three quarters inches long, they claimed to have discovered the largest specimen in the world. But Fiji museum replied that it had a specimen of this beetle only a quarter of
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    • 730 5 QJAIGON, Sun. (AP). —Red haired. 6arir-«y*d MICHELE BAY, the free lance French Journalist who last week walked out of 21 days captivity in a Vietcong village, has always been a charming •elf- iconoclast. Her specialty seems to be breaking down the image she had of
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    • 425 6 ROME, Sun. (Reuter). The Portuguese peasant girl who saw the apparition of the Virgin Mary at Fatima, Central Portugal, prophesied the outbreak of the Second World War seven months before it happened, the Patriarch of Liibon, Cardinal Manuel Cerejeira disclosed yesterday. Three small
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    • 198 6 LONDON, Sun. (AP) Dr. Emil Savundra. 43-year-old Ceylon-born Insurance manager. was formally charged with two charges of fraud yesterday and -ordered held In jail for a preliminary hearing on Thursday. The charges connected with the collapse of a huge Insurance network of companies were recorded at
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    • 65 6 MOSCOW. Sun. (Reuter). —A fairly strong earthquake yesterday shook towns and villages on the Southern shore of Lake Baikal, in Siberia. Tass news agency said the tremor was of force six on a 12-point scale, but it did not mention any casualties in the sparsely populated area.
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    • 105 6 WASHINGTON, Sun. (Reuter) —A scientific committee set up to advise President Johnson recommended today that America give maximum immediate priority to unmanned flights to Venus and Mars. The purpose of these flights should be to determine which of the planets ought to be the focus
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    • 84 6 INDONESIAN students in their thousands staged a massive carnival parade through the streets of Jakarta last week, depicting the life of President Sukarno filled with scorn and humorous political slants, in their new drive to disgrace and oust the once supreme leader of the Indonesian revolution. Photo
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    • 259 6 SAIGON, Sun. (Reuter). Poems from love-lorn Vietnamese maidens, appeals from children pining for their father's return from war. and children's table games with obstacles like "Ho Chi Minh trail" and "Monsoon campaign" are being used in a new propaganda drive by the South Vietnam government The
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    • 186 6 GAINSVILLE, Florida, Sun. (AP) University of Florida girl student Pamela Brewer, found guilty by a faculty board of misconduct for posing in the nude insisted yesterday she did nothing wrong. The penalty against the shapely 18-year-old dramatics student from Springfield. Virginia, is to be announced on
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    • 124 6 WASHINGTON, Sun. (Reuter) Conviction of a U.S. naval rating on a charge of wearing white socks instead of regulation black socks was reversed here yesterday on grounds that the choice of footwear was not a criminal act. The court of military appeals ruled: "Socks, hum- est item
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    • 180 6 COLOMBO. Ceylon, Sun. (AP) Catholic nuns and priests yesterday joined Buddhist monks and school children lining a 23-mile stretch of road from Ceylon's Katunayake airport to Colombo in an enthuiastio welcome for the supreme Buddhist Patriarch of Thailand, the Venerable Somdej Phrasangharaj. The patriarch
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    • 170 6 NEW DELHI, Sun. (AP).—With India's national elections only four days away the two hardest campaigners for the ruling Congress Party Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Party President Kumaraswami Kamaraj were both out of action yesterday. Mrs. Gandhi was resting comfortably and reported to be feeling cheerful in
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    • 593 6 COLONGE, GERMANY, Sun. (AP) Ranking West German ministers have declared that Germany is in no position to giv e aid to the US allies in Vietnam, that Germany should help Britain in her bid to enter the Common Mart, and that Soviet charges of
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    • 75 6 TROON, Scotland Sun. (Reuter Fire brofce out in an hotel here early yesterday where Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin was due to lunch with Secretary of State for Scotland Mr. William Ross. It gutted three bedrooms and damaged the roof. Plans for Mr. Ko6ygin's visit to the
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    • 149 6 MOSCOW, Sun. (Reuter) —New Soviet curb? on Chinese travel across the Soviet Union were seen today as a possible reprisal for the cutting of Russia's vital air and rail links with Hanoi. Diplomatic observers said only a grave development affecting Soviet access to North Vietnam across
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    • 61 6 RONTIAC. Michigan. Sun. (Reuter} General Motor* Corporation has recail*® 26,000 of its new moa« Pontiac cars for checking a possible braking defer*. Company officials al j? yesterday that the affects only Pontiacs, not the "tempest line. They said the defect, covered in test cars, invok e
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    • 455 7 Franco-German relations W ASHINGTON, Sun. (UPI). Secretary of State Mr. Dean Rusk said today that Washington does not ••sit as a Jealous friend" as it watches West Germany's effort? to improve its relations with France and with Eastern Europe. He wa s speaking on a
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    • 37 7 ALBACETE, Spain, Sun. (AP) A Spanish National Railways train called "Safety train 1967" touring Spain in a campaign against accidents gave a poor demonstration here. It was derailed as it entered the Albacete station.
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    • 181 7 CAMPOALEGRE, Colombia. Sun- (.Reuter) The clock on the cracked and crumbling village church tower here still shows 1025. It stopped exactly two minutes after this township a- »he foot of the Andes was br on Thursday morning by an earthquake which rippled through Colombia devastating
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    • 200 7 TOKYO, Sun. (Reuter) Although they spend substantial sums of fancy wardrobes and leisure activities, unmarried Japanese workers still manage to save, according to a survey conducted by the economic planning agency here. The survey, conducted among nearly 3.400 unmarried male and female workers between the ages
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    • 46 7 FUJI-YOSHIDA CITY, Japan, Sun. Majestic Mt. Fuji makes a magnificent backdrop for a group of fishermen enjoying the game on the icy Lake Yamanaka. An estimated 47,000 skaters and fishermen flocked to the "Fuji Five Lakes" area to take an advantage of a glorious winter recently.
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    • 140 7 COLCHESTER, England, Sun. (Reuter) Jeering, banner-carrying students booed Britain's Education Minister Anthony Crosland here yesterday in protest at the government's decision to raise fees for overseas students. They sat in a corridor outside a room where the minister was listening to protests over the increases
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    • 125 7 PASADENA, California, Sun. (AP). The U.S. moon scout Lunar Orbiter 3 is scheduled to fire a braking rocket at 1 p.m. (1800GMT) today to bring its cameras within 28 miles of possible astronaut landing sites. The 850-pound craft now is in a 134 mile by 1,113
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    • 240 7 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter). The American squire of an English country village is selling up his stately home and heading back to the U.S.A. because the English country life doesn't live up to his ideal of hunting, shooting and fishing. Mr. Francis
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    • 150 7 HONG KONG, Sun. (Reuter) A granite milestone found embelled in the outer wall of a hut is exciting widespread interest and argument here as a relic of the earliest days of this British Colony founded in 1841. A government expert said that the stone is believed
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    • 201 7 NEW YORK, Sun. (Reuter) The first traditional Islamic mosque in New York city's history is expected to be built within the next two or three years. This was disclosed today by Dr. Muhammad Abdul Rauf, 49-year-old director of the Islamic Centre here. Dr. Rauf. who
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    • 86 7 DURHAM, England, Sun. (Reuter) Prison warders forced their way into barricaded cells at the top-secu-rity prison here today to end a protest by some of Britain's most dangerous convicts. They had wedged their steel-lined cell doors with broken furniture and refused to accept food in a
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    • 169 7 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter)— Left wing labour M P. Mr. Frank Allaun said today he would table a parliamentary motion tomorrow criticising the speech in which the Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth, said he was "sick and tired of making excuses" for Britain. Mr.
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    • 77 7 SYDNEY, Australia Sun. (Reuter) Sydney's beaches this summer (Southern hemisphere) are being plagued by a stinging type of jellyfish popularly known as the Bluebottle. It was been estimated here that about 20,000 people were stung by Bluebottles in one week during the most recent invasion of the
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    • 272 7 NEW DELHI, Sun. India has given loans and grants amounting to rupees 95 million to Nepal, Ceylon and Bhutan under the Colombo Plan and spent rupees 22.5 million on providing technical assistance to countries of the Plan region. This is revealed in
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    • 140 7 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter)— British ministers were today studying new proposals from Malta's Prime Minister, Dr. Borg Olivier, on the defence cuts crisis and the possibility of opening ministerial talks on a settlement. A Commonwealth office spokesman said the proposals had been received early yesterday from the
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    • 119 7 TOKYO. Sun. (Reuter) Swirling snow over Tokyo and much of the rest of Japan yesterday dampened ceremonies and demonstrations marking Japan's first postwar National Day. Police said 230,000 people attended 1.478 different functions and parades to commemorate the ascent of Japan's first Emperor Jimmu to the
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    • 156 7 NICOSIA, Cyprus, Sun. (AP) President Archbishop Makarios said on his return from Athens yesterday that for the first time there was complete agreement among Greek political leaders on the future handling of the Cyprus question. Mr. Makarios was given an enthusiastic welcome by several thousand Greek
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    • 139 7 ADEN. Sun. (Reuter) —A patrol of Arab soldiers today foiled an attempt to assassinate Britain's High Commissioner in this troubled British protectorate. The official, Sir Richard Turnbull, was due to land at the South Arabian Federal capital of A 1 Ittihad, about 10 miles
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    • 147 7 MANILA, Sun. (Reuter)— High-ranking legislators here have threatened to ask for the recall of the Philippine Civic Action Group (PHILCAG) from Vietnam because of the alleged failure of the United States to comply with "Certain commitments" to this country. The legislators headed by House Speaker Mr.
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    • 61 7 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter)— Security men swigged vodka and puffed cigars here today as they took a break from guarding Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin now on a day's tour of Scotland. The vodka and cigars, a gift from the Russian leader, were shared out amongst 15 special
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • 712 8 Tl/fIUCH has been said and written about developing tourism in Malaysia. The official interest in this potential source of foreign exchange is academic and, at best, lukewarm. Tourism was never traditional to this country as it was to Indonesia. During colonial times, Malaysia was almost an unknown
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  • 809 8  -  by: LOUIS HALASZ In his January 10 press U Thant officially and publicly challenged the basic tenets of the United States involvement in Vietnam. His own position thereupon was challenged neighbouring Vietnam, though not by the United Slates in so many words. Ever since
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  • 921 8  -  by: DAVID STUART-FOX QUI NHON, MAI liked XuanLoc village, a good place for his sick-leave, he thought. There was nothing for him to do and he could spend all his 20 days resting before he returned to his unit. Xuan-Loc was
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  • 1181 8 "T TOLD them that we weren't going to bankrupt ourselves for a load of blacks!" a senior Minister was reported to have said at a Cabinet discussion which preceded Mr. Harold Wilson's cruise in the 'Tiger' with the rebel lan Smith. The words appeared in The
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSRTRIAL
    • 680 9 SINGAPORE, Sun. i l rn ITY on the Stock Exchange during the past weeks was generally firm. The price rises took place mainly in the more speculative sectors of the industrial section. The continue active conditions on the Stock Market would have been
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    • 94 9 TOKYO. Japan, Sun. Nissan Motor Sales Co. of V* 3-chome, Kitashinagawa, Shinagawaku, Tokyo has developed with the co-opera-tion of Hitachi, Ltd. what is claimed to be Japan's first fi utomatic extinguisher NEFPAC. Its chief feature is that it is equipped with a supplementary gasoline engine for ensuring operation
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    • 247 9 LONDON, Sun. A £5,000,000 centre to study ways of increasing safety and efficiency in air traffic control has been inaugurated at Bretigny in France. The ceremony wa s performed by Mr. Roy Mason. Minister of State in Britain's Board of Trade, who is president of
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    • 100 9 TOKYO, Japan, Sun. Hitachi, Ltd., one of Japan's leading machinery manufacturers, recently completed a 1 million volt mammoth electron microscope. Powerful electron microscopes lately have become necessary for direct observation of metallic materials. A super high voltage microscope of 500,000 volts already is being used
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    • 120 9 WASHINGTON, Sun. (AP) The U.S. government sent a protest yesterday to oil companies that have raised gasoline prices about a cent a gallon in recent days. Mr. Charles F. Luce, acting for Interior Secretary Mr. Steward L. Udall, sent telegrams to eight companies urgmg
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    • 111 9 JAKARTA, Sun. (Reuter) The Indonesian government will raise the prices of petrol and other fuels as much as 800 per cent. Information Minister Mr. Burhanudin Muhamad Diah told a press conference here last night that the price of petrol would be raised from 50
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    • 79 9 TOKYO, Japan, Sun. Taihei Kogyo K.K. 2. 1ch'ome Asahigaoka, Nerimaku, Tokyo has manufactured a small, decorative thermometer for room use which offers a pleasing coloured, three dimensional view of flowers. The three dimensional effect is achieved by imposing a special lens on a stereo print. The thermometers measure
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    • 773 9 SINGAPORE, SUN. rpHE city of Aalborg. to A connoisseurs around the world, is the place where some of the world's best aquavit is distilled. Aquavit water of life, in other words is the powerful stuff which Scandinavians and others use to wash down
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    • 215 9 BAN FRANCISCO, Sun. (UPI). Economist, Mr. Milton Friedman predicted the United States will have a recession during the current fiscal year. In fact, he said, it may already be under way. Mr. Friedman, the University of Chicago professor who served as Mr. Barry
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    • 82 9 TOKYO, Japan. Sun. A new self adjusting type of colour television receiving set, equipped with a colour indicator, has been placed on the market by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. of Osaka. The 19-inch 950 D Colour Deluxe is said to be equipped with an "automatic fine control"
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    • 186 9 LONDON. Sun. The biggest British car factory in the Middle East will begin production on the outskirts of Teheran this week, following the arrival of a Rootes group production team from London, it was announced today. The team, which includes experts in panel stamping,
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    • 49 9 LONDON. Sun. (UPI) The Plessey Co. Ltd., today named Field Marshal Ix>rd Harding Chairman in succession to the late Lord Kilmuir. Lord Harding joined the board of the electronics group in 1962. He was formerly chief of the Imperial General Staff and later Governor of Cyprus.
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    • 894 9 ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 12.05 a.m. Airline MSA 029 from K.L. Time 8.35 a.m. Airline ML 019 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 9.30 a.m. Airline ML 121 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 10.30 a.m. Airline ML 451 from Kuchlng. Time 10.55 a.m. Airline ML 005 from Penang, Ipoh,
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  • Books
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      634 10 lReui^ d h CHINESE New Year season time for fun and games and sports. And while still on fun and games and sports, here are three marvellous books. First, there's BET- TER SOCCER FOR BOYS by Tom Docherty (Kaye. 94 pp. 16s net.). FA coach, many times capped
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    • 304 10 "The autobiography of a young Malawian who walk--2/500 miles across Africa to gain an education abroad." This is written on the dust jacket. And inside the book, this simple dedication: "To my mother with love for re-ac-cepting me after I had been fished out
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    • 302 10  -  (Barrie Rockliff. 356 pp. 50s net) By EASTERN SAGE One of those rare politicians who exert a definable influence on their times, PHILIP SNOWDEN (1864-193 7), was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the first two Labour governments of Great Britain. He started life in poverty
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    • 185 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Japanese Government has approved construction of two private atomic power generation plants. The projects are the 40,000 kilowatt station planned by Tokyo Electric Power Co. Inc. in Fukushima Prefecture and the 340,000 kilowatt Mihama station envisaged in Fukui Prefecture by Kansai Electric Power
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    • 198 10 major international rivers in the ECAFE region has been published by the secretariat of the United Nations Economic Commission f«r Asia and the Far East tECAFE). In the introduction to the compendium it is pointed out that the time is ripe for countries sharing international rivers
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    • 113 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A total of 366,000 foreign tourists visited Japan n 1965, which shows a 4 per cent increase over the figure for the preceding year. This increase rate is small compared with past years a nr it is presumed to be due to the
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  • 445 11  -  28-MEMBER MISSION LEAVES FOR JAKARTA By PETER LOKE SINGAPORE, Sun. The 28-mem-ber Singapore trade and economic mission to Indonesia left for Jakarta this afternoon. The mission, led by the Permanent Secretary (Economic Development), Ministry of Finance, Mr. Sim Kee Boon, comprised senior Government officials and
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  • 122 11 SINGAPORE Sun. (AFP) The 28-member official Trade and Economic mission from Singapore arrived at Jakarta's Kemayoran Airport this afternoon. Radio Jakarta reported. The mission which is led by Mr. Sim Kee Boon. Permanent Secretary (Economic Development) of the Ministry of Finance, will remain in Jakarta
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  • 295 11 SINGAPORE, Sun. Although the Chinese New Year shopping rush is over Singapore's shops and departmental stores have a lot of new arrivals to offer. I At C. K. TANG (S) in Orchard Road a wide range of money-saving bargains is on display at
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  • 194 11 SINGAPORE, SHin. Three leading local printers left by air recently for a month's tour of Printing establishments ,n Europe and Britain. they will ttudy the latest techniques ird us^ evelopments thB r-J 11 three are Mr. Leong .sole proprietor of Koon vjf Qi
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  • 125 11 SINGAPORE, Sun. —> An internationally famous puppet show of the Marionette Theatre of Australia sponsored by the National Theatre Trust will perform at the Conference Hall here from Feb. 17 to 19. Called "Tintookies", it is an original puppet show in which each puppet
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  • 158 11 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Field Section of the Ministry of Culture wil give free film shows from Feb. 13 17. All shows will begin at 7.30 p.m. and short talks on current topics will be given by the Field Officers during the shows. The shows will
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  • 122 11 SINGAPORE Sun. The fight against leprosy is to be intensified particularly in South-east Asia, Africa, India and Pakistan. This was announced in London recently by the Secretary of the Leprosy Mission, Mr. G.N. Fox. at the opening of a five-day exhibition of pictures and models illustrating the
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  • 39 11 IPOH, Sun. A girl walking along Hugh Low Street here yesterday was manhandled by a man. She screamed, attracting the attention of a police constable on duty near the scene. The constable gave chase and arrested a man.
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  • 320 11 SINGAPORE, Sun. The co-operative programme of research on rubberized road materials, carried out jointly by the Natural Rubber Producers' Research Association and the Road Research Laboratory of the U.K. Ministry of Transport has been completed. The fifteen-year research programme has successfully achieved its objectives
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  • 20 11 IPOH, Sun. Fishing gear valued at $7OO was stolen from a trawler anchored at Pantal Remis yesterday.
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    • 239 12 ANE of the fascinating Chinese New Year legends is the "Lian" descendant of the dragon. The "Lian", I was told, came from a high, uninhabited mountain. It was a terror as it destroyed houses and swallowed their occupants whenever it attacked a place. Fortunately,
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      232 12 M£N in every walk of life love music for It has a wonderful effect upon the feelings of even ignorant people. Music offers entertainment and it sometimes brings back old memories. A poet has said, "Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast." Soft and sweet music
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    • 215 12 IT was morning. The alarm clock was ringing but I was still drowsy. Slowly, I opened my eyes and to my surprise, I saw the alarm clock floating in the air. Was I dreaming? I glanced around me and was startled to see everything in mid-air: the
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    • 318 12 IVTHAT does hire purchase mean? It is simply the buying of goods in which the customer pays a deposit and agrees to pay the balance by monthly or weekly instalments over an agreed period. Under this system, the instalments paid by the customer are
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    • 246 12 matter where you go in Singapore, you are bound 1 to meet all kinds of motor vehicles. This is especially so if you shop around Raffles Place the trobbing heart of the island Republic—during office hours. To tourists, this Is an encouraging picture of a growing
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    • 279 12 THE afternoon was so warm that I could not do my homework or even sleep. I felt very tired so I went to sit down and read a story book near a stream- While I was reading. I heard the mewing of a cat behind me.
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      295 12 A FOOL's tongue blabs but a wise man seldom talks. The latter will speak aticr thinking for a moment. He is careful in choosing the right words so as to avoid any misunderstanding. Just like his speech, he is also careful in his writing. A wise man
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    • 273 12 Electricity is playing and will play an important role in our everyday life. Nevertheless, it is so much taken for granted that we rarely think twice when we switch on the light or tune on the radio. Our every day life is, indeed, closely connected with
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    • 367 13 /"HINESE all over the world once again ushered in the Year of the Goat in ths traditional pomp and splendour. The cracker-firing repertoire heralded the 15-day festival season of Chinese fscw Year. In homes everywhere bright red buntings hung: over the entrance of
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    • 405 13 In a warehouse, which was used to store rice, were mice. Some of these mice had even eaten through some of the sacks of rice. Nobody knew this. Some time later, a merchant ship arrived at the harbour and all the sacks of rice
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    • 285 13 THE WORLD is but a "vanity fair" a scene of pomp and false display. Nature's beauty is seldom admired by those who are vanity personified, as the number of such ones increase, true lovers of beauty recoil in dis- gust. What is the
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    • 583 13 WHAT is fear? Fear is one of the most elementary of man's emotions. Although primitive men did not understand it. nevertheless. they certainly experienced fear. A child has two basic fears, that of falling and that of loud noises. Shout lustily at an
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    • 185 13 LEARNING the National Language is very essential to every citixen of a country. Therefore, being a citizen of the Republic of Singapore, we must make every effort to study the National Language. Singapore Is a multiracial nation which gained independence recently. Four main races form
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    • 302 13 THE BRIGHTNESS of the day was suddenly changed to lowering dusk as thick and dark clouds sailed majestically across the sky. Office-workers and children on their way home took to their heels. The next minute, with a vivid flash, a cloud split in two
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  • ENGLISH SOCCER LEAGUE and TABLES
    • 456 14 DUBLIN, Sun. (Reuter) England's long, sad record of failure in Rugby Union Internationals ended here yesterday when they beat Ireland 8-3 after leading 3-0 at half- time. But it was only in injury time that England snatched their first win since the 1964-65
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    • 65 14 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) Results of rugby league matches played yesterday were: Batley 9 Blackpool Borough 11. Bramley 12 Hul Kingston Rovers 26. Castleford 19 Leeds 15. Huddersfield 8 Wigan 10. Hull 16 Halifax 10. Keighley 15 Doncaster 9. Oldham 5 Working Town 13. Rochdale Hornets 20 York
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    • 454 14 LONDON, Sun. fAP) Officials of the new National Professional League (NPL) are giving soccer Ave to ten years to get established as a big-time spectator sport in the United States. There are just nine weeks to go before the tenteam NPL
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    • 2102 14 LONDON, Sun. (REUTER) Liverpool and Manchester United opened up a useful lead at the head of the first division in the English soccer league today when both won. Liverpool beat Aston Villa 1-0 in a rehearsal of their F.A. Cup tie next week and
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    • 337 14 COPENHAGEN, Sun. (AP) The world', athletes, including the Russians and the Americans, last night were given a blunt warning: "Don't cheat by over training a t high altitude before the summer Olympic Games in Mexico next year. The International Olympic Board presided over by
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    • 20 14 SEREMBAN, Sun.—Selangor President's XI beat Negri Sembilan Presidents XI by 19 runs in a cricket match here today.
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    • 285 14 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Harlequins, th e London Rugby Union Club, gained their eighth successive win today when they beat United Services, Portsmouth, 28-12. With R.B. Hiller in outstanding form. Harlequins had to struggle to establish a 10-6 interval lead, but they were well on top in
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  • K. L. race results
    • 2084 15 By WINDSOR LAD KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Australian jockey Brian Gilders scored his first success in the country when he landed Charming Beau to pay $117 for a win at Kuala Lumpur this afternoon, First Day of the Selangor Turf Club's Tunku Gold Cup
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    • 350 15 KI'ALA Ll'MPt'lt, Sun. Following: is the Stipe's Report on the Extra Day's races held here last Friday on food going: RACE 1. NEW LIBERTY threw his rider Apprentice Rao prior to the start and galloped away. He was withdrawn by order of the Stewards. Shortly
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    • 139 15 KIMBERLEY, Cape Province, South Afrira. Sun. (APJ Australia were all out for a record first inning total of 620 runs at lunch time here yesterday the second day of the three-day second class cricket match against Griqualand West. Rain stopped play 30 minutes before the
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    46 15 t This UPI picture captured at the weigh-in prior to the world title fUfrt. Seen look daggers at eaeh father are Cassiu s Clay (left) and Ernie Terrell. Could that deep look of Clay's be the answer to the psychiatrist's theory of hypnotism?
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  • 292 15 LONDON, Sun. (AP) A leading British psychiatrist said yesterday he thinks Cassius Clay wins his fights with the help of hypnotism. Dr. Peter Tarnesby, consultant psychiatrist to a number of London hospitals, said he was convinced Clay hypnotised Ernie Terrell before
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  • 127 15 LOUISVILLE. Kentucky. Sun. (Reuter) A 54-year-old Englishman from Birkenhead has volunteered to be called up for military service in place of heavyweight champion Cassius Clay. Clay, 25, has appealed against conscription on the grounds that he is a preacher for the Black Muslim
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  • 117 15 IPOH, Sun. The Perak Turf Club will hold its March Meeting on Sunday (March 26). Wednesday (March 29) and Sunday (April 2) at Ipoh. Classes 3, 4 and 6 horses are being catered for. For Class 3 the first run will be over s|f- straight
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  • 48 15 EAST LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Gary Player, South Africa's 3ft-year golfing star, won the South African Open Golf championship for the third successive year with a 72-hole total of 279 here today Alan Henninf (South Africa) and Mike Hoyle (Britain) shared second place on 282.
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  • 184 15 PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania. Sub. (AP) Ernie Terrell said yesterday he plans to gain a rematch with world heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay by proving Clay fouled him repeatedly with illegal headlorks and eye gougings In their 15-round champion«hip fight. Terrell, hospitalised here with eye injuries
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  • 99 15 ADELAIDE, Australia. Sun. (UPI)—In a battle of former amateur stars Denis Ralston, U.S. turned bark Fred Stolle <M, 6-2, in 4ft minutes yesterday to score his most decisive win over the Australian since they turned pro in the New Year. In the other singles
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 45 15 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: $100,522.00 FIRST PRIZE No. *****0 $24,879.00 SECOND PRIZE No. *****9 $12,439.00 THIRD PRIZE No. *****4 6.219.00 STARTERS ($888.00 each): Nos. *****6 *****8 *****0 *****2 *****5 *****3 *****1 CONSOLATIONS ($552.00 each): Nos. *****2 *****0 *****8 *****7 *****0 *****1 *****3 *****5 *****2 *****0
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  • 693 16 LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, Sun. (UPI > The World Boxing Association recognised Cassius Clay on Friday as wo r I d heavyweight champion. In a statement issued with its monthly ratings, WBA ratings chairman Arch Hindman said, "there is no doubt now that Clay stands supreme in the
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  • 407 16 LOS ANGELES. Sun. (UPI) Australia's Ron Clarke avenged his defeat last year in the two-mile run of the Los Angeles Times indoor games by pulling away to an easy victory over Bill Baillie of New Zealand in the feature race last night. Clarke,
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  • 605 16 By "LEFTHANDER" SINGAPORE, Sun. Badminton Association of Malaysia's "Pesta Badminton" sponsored by the Malayan Tobacco Co. Ltd., due to begin on Wednesday night at Stadium Negara, Kuala Lumpur, will provide enthusiasts in Malaysia and Singapore the opportunity of seeing some of the world's
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  • 211 16 KINGSTON, Jamaica Sun. (Reuter) The Shell Shield regional cricket match between Jamaica and Trinidad ended in a draw at Sabina Park here yesterday. Trinidad scored 330 for eight wickets declared and 155 for six. Jamaica were all out for 268 in their first innings
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  • 95 16 MIAMI. Florida. Sun. (Reuter) —Two Jockeys, including the crack Panamanian rider Braulio Baeza, suffered broken collar bones here yesterday in a threehorse pile-up during the Bougamvillea handicap at Hialeah Race Track. Baeza's mount, Exhibitionist, a four-year-old colt owned by Mrs. Ethel Jacobs, was injured and
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  • 76 16 BANGKOK, Sun. (AP) A bantamweight boxer kicked in the head in his first Thai style professional fight, died on the way to hospital on Friday night. The Boxer, Saengaruv Chor Churit, 22, was knocked out in the first minute of the first round. Two
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  • 551 16  -  By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Sun. Malaysian sprint acc and triple-gold medallist at the Asian Games, Mani Jegathesan, today accuse national athletic coach, Tan Eng Yoon, of having acted in a very "unethical and unwarranted" manner in revealing to the Press certain incidents that occured
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  • 62 16 HAARLEM, Holland. Sun. (Reuter) Lee Kin Tat of Singapore won a place in the quarter finals of the Dutch International Badminton championships here today with a 15-6. 15-11 second round victory over Britain's Dave Horton. Earlier today Lee beat Denmark's Bent Rose 15-13, 15-8 in the
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  • 282 16 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Minister for Labour and newly-elected president of th» Basketball Association of Singapore, Mr. Jek Yeun Thong, has stressed the need for the implementation of a more vigorous island-wide campaign to raise the standard of basketball in the Republic. He
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  • 234 16 DURBAN, South Africa. Sun. (AP) —Canada's Laine Tanner, 15, bettered the current world 440 yards women's freestyle swimming rerord by 0.5 seconds in four minutes 43.8 seconds here last night, but it may never be recognised. Awaiting official, ratification is Australian Cathy Wainwright's time
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  • 299 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. R. Nadarajah scored a double by winning the boy's singles and doubles championships in the finals of the Indo-Ceylonese Tennis Tournament played at the TPCA courts here yesterday. He beat Chandra Sekeran 6-2, 6-4 in the singles to clinch the title.
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  • 114 16 PARIS. Sun. (Reuter) Fly-half Guy Camberabero kicked 17 points to help France to a convincing 20-14 victory over Australia in the Rugby Union international at Colombes Stadium here yesterday. This was Australia's first defeat on their French tour which wound up writh this match. Australia fell before the
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  • 318 16 IPOH. Sun. Twenty three-year-old Selangor golfer. Zainal Abidin. won the North Malaysian Open amateur golf championship for the first time when he beat Darwis Deran. 34, of Perak by three and two at the 16th in the final at the Tiger Golf Course here today.
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  • 126 16 SEREMBAN, Sun. Royal Malaysian Police were to hold a young N.S. Clu® XI to a 1-1 draw in a hockey match played here today. Police fielded four Malaysian Internationals raisamy, Arulraj, Alagarafcnam and Sabapathy in today's match. Five minutes before half
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