Eastern Sun, 16 February 1967

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  • 25 1 Eastern Sun Independent. National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol, 1 No. 207 Thursday, February 16 1967. ☆MC (P) 2251 KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 495 1 'Vietnamese people will never submit to brutal force HOMGKOMG, WED. (REUTER) THE Voice of Vietnam Radio, commenting resumption of the bombing of North Vietnam, said today the V ietnamese p "never talk with the U.S. aggressors under bombs and bullets." It said the temporary cessation of bombing
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  • 215 1 BAIGON. Wed. (Reuter)— Vietcong guerrillas today marked the end of their seven-day New Year truce by sinking a U.S. minesweeper and damaging two others in the Long Tao River leading to Saigon. One U.S. seaman was missing after the incidents and 13 wounded The missing man and
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  • 375 1 NEW DELHI, Wed. (UPI) Widespread violence today marred the start of India's elections for a new Parliament. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who was hit by stones during a campaign speech last week, was among the first voters. She mailed her ballot at Allahabad, capital
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  • 178 1 AntiMaoists accused HONG KONG, Wed. <CPI> Peking wall posters said today dissident Communist Chinese Army units used grenades, iron bars and clubs to defeat Red Guard supporters of Mao Tse-Tung and seize control of Tibet. The wall newspapers claimed local military commanders Imposed martial law on the Tibetan capital of
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  • 1324 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Minister of Welfare Services, Tuan Haji Abdul Hamid Khan, today received from Hume Industries (M) Ltd., a donation in kind in the form of 15,000 Hudex asbestos cement roofing sheets 5 ft. double width, weighing 20 tons. These
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  • 191 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A 29-year-old Chinese ri ce dumpling stall-assistant was shot to death at point blank range by unknown assailants in Cross Street here late last night. Low Kow Fah, was shot f *'ice, once in the abdomen and once in
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  • 405 3 In search of knowledge KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A man with a better and broader outlook will prove to be a finer master in his profession. And the best way to achieve this outlook is by "cruising" round the world and
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  • 118 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A four-man Thai delegation to the SEAMES meeting which begins in the Federal capital tomorrow arrived here today. It was headed by the Thai Minister of Education. Mr. Pin Malakul. He told newsmen on arrival that one of the main objectives of the SEAMES
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  • 131 3 PENANG. Wed. Prompt action by the police, following a tip-off, resulted in the arrest of three masked robbers armed with a pistol and kukri after they had robbed more than $25,000 from the safe of Hotel International in Penang Road early this morning. The robbers
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  • 6328 4 SINGAPORE, Wed.—Following arc the 1966 Cambridge Higher School Certificate Examination results. The first figure after the name indicates the HSC (Full) result while the second figure in brackets indicates the G.C.E. (4) Indicates that the candidate has been awarded a Higher School Certificate. <The conditions for
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  • 3740 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The following are the results of the Higher School Certificate examination for Selangor schools. The figure "4" marked against the candidate's name denotes a full certificate and "5" denotes a statement. MBS. JALAN DAVIDSON Abd. Rasip Bin Abd. Latiff 4. Baki Bin
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 519 6 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter).— Prime Minister Harold Wilson declined to throw his full weight behind United Nation Secretary General U Thant's three-point proposal to end the war in Vietnam. U Thant's plan includes unconditional cessation of the bombing of North Vietnam by the Americans.
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    • 204 6 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) Negros formed 17.8 per cent of U.S. enlisted men Killed in combat in Vietnam during 11 month? last year, although they formed only about 11 per cent of the U.S. fighting force there, a Defence Department study showed today. The
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    • 54 6 T ONDON. Wed. (AFP)— Elizabeth the Queen Mother will visit Canada from July 10 to 21. it was announced today. The Queen mother will make the Atlantic crossing by air both ways. During her stay in Canada she will visit the Atlantic coast provinces aboard
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    • 138 6 NEW YORK. Wed. (Reuter) An advertiser in the London Times who said he was seeking "an authentic ghost" could not be traced today at least in this world. The advertisement, in the Times "agony column," said that an American author wanted contact with a ghost "or person
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    • 55 6 HERE is the bevy of celebrated Parisian fashion designer Pierre Cardin. wearing the latest of the Cosmos hats during Cardin's presentation of 1967 Spring and Summer collection recently in Paris. His line for the young Is Cosmos line and while it has a touch
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    • 162 6 HONG KONG. Wed. (Reuter)—Hone Kong faced water rationing today for first time since 1965. Mr. A.M.J. Wright, Director of Public Works, said that because of poor winter rain fall, supplies would be cut to 16 hours a day from today. Hong Kong was down to
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    • 203 6 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) The British government is to set up a fund to enable grants to be made to certain overseas students, particularly from developing countries, who cannot afford an increase in fees at British colleges. But Education Minister Mr. Anthony Crosland, in
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    • 52 6 NEW YORK. Wed- (Reuter) Sixty paintings by former E resident Dwight D. Eisenower will be exhibited for the first time at the gallery of modern art here from May 17 to July 4. The paintings are on loan from friends and associates to whom Mr. Eisenhower
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    • 199 6 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter)— The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Valentine came to an end in the divorce court here yesterday—St. Valentine's Day, the traditlonai festival of lovers. A judge granted a decree to Mrs. Iris May Valentine, of South London, because of adultery by
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    • 123 6 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Chicago-born Frank J. Scholl, who earned millions by bringing comfort to the world's aching feet, died here on Monday aged 83, his firm announced today. He and his older brother William, who is still living in the United States, were the founders
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    • 249 6 WARSAW, Wed. (Reuter) Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, Vatican specialist on Communist affairs flew into Warsaw quietly yesterday for talks aimed at laying the basis of a Church-State agreement here and ending 20 years of religious controversy. The top Vatican negotiator paid a private visit
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    • 178 6 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) —Roy Brooks, whose humorous and brutally frank Sr ope r t y advertisements ave made him Britain's most talked about estate agent, has run Into censor trouble. He announced today he would stop advertising in the.. Sunday Times if the newspaper continued deleting
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    • 129 6 'Stuffy museum a disgrace LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) The British museum one of the citadels of world art and scholarship i s in such bad physical shape as to be a discredit to Britain's international reputation, its trustees complained today. In their first report on the state of the museum since
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    • 141 6 MANILA. Wed. (Renter) The Philippine Justice Department has informed the government's Rice an<j Com Administration there would be nothing illegal about importing rice from Red China through Hong Kong or Singapore. Justice Undersecretary Mr. Claudio Teehankee. in a four-page memorandum to the Rice and Corn
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    • 162 6 JOHANNESBURG. Wed. (Reuter) Indian twin brothers. 24-year-old Goolam and Casslm Moosa. were acquitted in the magistrate's court here yesterday of charges of housebreaking with Intent to steal and theft. They were alleged to have stolen state documents. including evidence against them in a case yet to be
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    • 98 6 SAIGON. Wed. American film star An Mansfield flew into this morning wea J in A.vi silver mini-skirt and M» sweater to entertain Lni*» States troops. Miss Mansfield will spend four days in the war zoShe was accompanied t» personal hairdresser lawyer. She told reporters at the airport
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    • 344 7 HONG KONG, Wed. (AFP) Chinese Deputy Premier and Defence Minister Lin Piao pledged •-the greatest national sacrifice" to support the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front (NLF) in a telegram yesterday to the Vietcong marking today's "Liberation Armed Forces Unification Day", New China News Agency said
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    • 282 7 SAIGON, Wed. (AFP) Three American minesweepers were destroyed by the Vietcong on the Long Tau River which links Saigon to the sea this morning. Thirteen crew members were wounded and another was missing. Two mine-sweepers fell in an ambush three kilometres East of Saigon
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    • 116 7 HOBART, Wed. (Reuter) Rain fell on Tasmania yesterday extinguishing the few minor fires that have persisted since last week's bush-fires in which 52 people died. Local authorities reported a relief programme for the thousands of homeless is proceeding steadily. The Australian government is expected to announce
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    • 119 7 BONN, Wed. (AFP) British Premier Harold Wilson and Foreign Secretary George Brown arrived here late last night to an official reception by ViceChancellor Willy Brandt and off-stage effects by students demonstrating for German Reunification. H. Brandt was at the airport despite Mr. Wilson's request for simplification of
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    • 62 7 TOKYO, Wed. (Reuter) Peking Radio yesterday completely neglected the 17th anniversary of the Sino-Soviet treaty of alliance. This was the first anniversary to pass unnoticed by the radio. Until last year the two countries had exchanged messages and held receptions in their capitals to celebrate the occasion even
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    • 208 7 Sabah claim MANILA, Wed. (Reuter) Former President Diosdado Macapagal has said the Philippine claim to Sabah is at variance with the United States Inte- rest and policy in Asia. Mr. Macapagal in his continuing memoirs published by the Ma\nila Times daily said this was the main
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    • 80 7 .LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Britain's defence bill for Malaysia and Singapore in 1966-7 is estimated at £B2 M. sterling, Mr. Denis Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, stated yesterday. He gave the information a written reply to Mr. Paul Rose (Labour), who had asked in the
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    • 162 7 CARSON CITY, Nevada, Wed. (Reuter). Patrons at one of the oldest and most unusual gambling establishments in the world a casino run by inmates for inmates of the maximumsecurity state prison here—may soon be placing their last bets. Known as th e Bull Pen. the convicts'
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    • 90 7 WASHINGTON. Wed. (AFP) —The United States and the Soviet Union signed an agreement on fishing rights here on Monday, it was reported today. The negotiations for the agreement began in January. The agreement covers fishing for giant crabs in the Bering Straits, as well as other points
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    • 166 7 NEW DELHI, Wed. (UPI) Balloting for a new Indian Parliament today was marred by violence in wide areas of the country. Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi, who was hit by stones during a campaign speech last w r eek. was among the first voters. She
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    • 60 7 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) Bio-satellite One, an insect-filled U.S. spacecraft which has been orbiting the earth for the past two months, has landed "somewhere near Australia," the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced early today. Aircraft are searching for the spacecraft along its orbital path over
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    • 79 7 ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, Wed. (Reuter) By the end of this century, countries facing population problems may increase taxes on couples as they have more children, a New York biologist predicted here. Professor H Bentley Glass, of the biology department of the State University of New York,
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    • 147 7 MONCTON. New Brunswick Canada, (AFP) —Two young children living here will soon die of a disease producing effects of extreme old age, doctors said today, Ricky Gallant, aged 11, and his sister Norma aged 8, will never live past the age of 14, because
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    • 136 7 MILFORD HAVEN. Wales, Wed. (Reuter) A Dutch coaster, in danger of blowing up, drifted off the Welsh coast today amid fears that she might enter Atlantic shipping lanes as "a floating bomb." Coastguards said they would consider using aerial rockets to destroy the 300ton vessel
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    • 77 7 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter)' Detectives searched buses and houses here yesterday for an axe killer who battered two elderly people to death. Miss Alice Bibby, who was in her eighties, and 68-year-old William Sharpe were found dead on Monday night in her South London home.
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    • 328 7 WASHINGTON, Wed.(AFP) Secretary of the Treasury Mr. Henry Fowler said today that the speed with which the United States could reach a balance in its ex ternal payments depended on the trade balance and the position in Vietnam. Commenting on the 1966 balance of
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    • 524 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (AP and UPI). The president of the National Student Association has revealed that the association received money from the Central Intelligence Agency, the "New York Times'* reported yesterday. The association is the largest college student organisation in the United States. Mr. Groves
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  • 740 8 YESTERDAY was the 25th anniversary of the fall of the British fortress of Singapore to the victorious Army of General Yamashita. Over a television station in England this week, one of the defenders of Singapore, Lt. Col. Dennis Russell-Roberts, said that the worst defeat in British
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  • 1301 8  -  bv: BEN D'CUNHA A GOODWILL gesture on the part of the Japanese Government in 1962 to build a park in Singapore as a war memorial sparked off the present controversial 'blood debt' claim. It led to anti-Japanese feeling being whipped
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  • 945 8 COLO, Indonesia, Wed. (UPI) The former Communist strongholds in Central Java are falling into line behind the new order military government in Indonesia, thanks to a combination of intensive propaganda, heavy army pressure and sheer political expediency. An intensive propaganda campaign carried out by
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 213 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. (UPI) —Japan's leading k electric appliance maker, Sanyo, will shortly set up joint enterprises here and Malaysia to produce and sell household elec- trical appliances. The announcement ir.ade by Sanyo's general office in Osaka said the two joint enterprises with "Malaysian and
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    • 116 9 S I NG A P O R E. Wed. The Association of Banks in Malaysia made the following cnanges in its rates to merpiants: NfW YORK: Buying T.T. 32 1/16; Airmail O.D 32 13/ 6; 90 d/st. 33 1/4 credit bil*: 33 9/16 trade bills. CANADA: Buying T.T.
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    • 115 9 LONDON, Wed. A revolutionary car that can "walk" up a kerb stone or a small flight of stairs lias been built by London University scientists for children who have lost the use of their legs. The outer discs fitted to the wheels incorporate "legs" that are pressed back
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    • 360 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. A seve.i-man trade mission from Leicester, central England, will visit Singapore. Hongkong, Tokyo. Vancouver and Toronto during a three-week sales tour, beginning on Mar. 30. The mission will be here from Mar. 31 to April 5. SjK>nsored by the Leicester
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    • 132 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Mr. Fong Gim Siew, a senior technical assistant of Dunlop Malayan Industries Ltd., left here yesterday for Britain on a special technical training course. Mr. Fong becomes the 27th member of the Dunlop organisation to be sent overseas for training since the establishment
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    • 276 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. March first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 57} cents Per lb., unchanged. The tone was quiet. Opening quotations were marked down in sympathy with lower London advices and thereafter the market ruled quiet and about
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    • 27 9 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Rubber market opened very quiet with No. 1 RSS spot 17-5/8 17-3/4 No. 1 RSS CIF basis ports FE 17-3/16 17-5/16.
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    • 24 9 NEW YORK, Wed. (AP) Rubber standard futures closed quiet. No sales. Spot No. 1 ribbed smoked sheets 21 N (N —Nominal.)
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    • 952 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. Industrial shares continued to improve on the Stock Market, but the tone was quiet. Buying interest extended further on Malayan Collieries which showed a good rise of 17 cents during the day. Business done from $2.01 to $2.08. But the turnover was
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    • 22 9 HONG-KONG. Wed. (UPI) Money quotations: HK55.*****/5.7425 per US dollar for cash, HK$ 15.99 per pound sterling. HK5264.25 per tael gold.
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    • 473 9 STOCK EXCHANGE MALAYSIA, S'PORE SINGAPORE Stock i Ex- change hid and offer prices officially listed at the clo*e of business. INDUSTRIAL B. s. Rou«tead 1.52 C. >ugar 1.84 1.86 Chemical Co. 1.76 1.77 Cold Storage 8.18 Dun lop (Old) 2.31 2.32 E. Smelting 4.24 4.44 Esw> Ords 3.26 3.28 Fltzpat
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    • 51 9 (Managers Price*) First Malayan XD 2.19 2.S9 Second Malavan XD 1.50 1.8ft Third Malayan 1.15 1.«S The Commerce Industry Fond... .88 .89 The Savings frund 1.38 1.48 Malaysian Investment Fund .90 1.00 Sterling Commodity 4 4/7 First Hong konjt... 1.00 t.M» Second Hong Kong .70 .:4* (•Hong Kong
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    • 113 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. sincnpore Chinese Produce Exchange noon prices today were* Coconut oil e a. O a beliers (FOB) Bulk 45.00 Coconut oil (FOB) Drums 48.00 Loose Copra Mixed Feb/Mar 28.00 Sugar (Java) exgodown 25.50 Nutmegs 110« 4.-»ri.oo Nutmeg* B X- W 210.00 Garbled Lampong Black Pepper (FOB) as 102.50
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    • 15 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. The tin price for today was $603.37$ per plcul, up $1.37*.
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    • 179 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. The following ships are expected in port today: Godowns Vessels 1/2 Ibaraki Maru 3/4 Canberra Maru 5 Andrzej Strug 6/7 Nachisan Maru 10/11 Gloria Maru 13/14 Straat Fiji 15/16 Cyclops 18 Varild 19 Empire Gannet 21/22 Eizan Maru 23 Kvosho Maru 24 Tjiliwong 25 26 Shinsein
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    • 887 9 AIR MOVEMENTS S'PORE, K. LUMPUR ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 7.05 a.m. Airline MSA 029 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 8.3.' a.m. Airline MSA 019 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 9.20 a.m. Airline GIA 982 from Jakarta. Time 9.30 a.m. Airline MSA 121 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 10.00 a.m. Airline MSA 451 from
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  • 165 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Association of Accredited Advertisers Association has elected Mr. J.D.C. Flanagan, Managing Director of LPE Singapore Limited, as its President for 1967 and Mr. A. B. Green of Cathay Advertising Limited as Vice President. The election took place at the Association's recent annual general meeting
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  • 123 10 BINGAPORE. Wed. The Singapore National Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Committee was yesterday unanimously admitted to membership of the 60member Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation. The acceptance came on the second day of the Organisation's annual council meeting now going on in Nicosia, Cyprus. The delegations present, which Included
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  • 134 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. Mr. Justice Buttrose today described the sentence of four years imposed on Davamani Kesava Padayachi for housebreaking as "a little savage" and reduced it to two years from the date of conviction. He remarked that though Davamani escaped from Police custody he
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  • 89 10 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Illegal squatters at Scudai Kanan here will be given land by the Johore Government. This assurance was given today by the Mentri Besar, Dato Haji Othman Mohd Sa'at. He said this after meeting 112 squatter families comprising nearly 1,000 people at Scudai
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  • 187 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. Miss Josephine Tan, the Passenger Relations Hostess of Qantas, employed at the Singapore airport to welcome and assist tourists and business people visiting the Republic recently attended a course in Sydney, the headquarters of Qantas. The course covered the Qantas organisation, history,
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  • 56 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. A police supervisee, Chua Siaw Teck, had his sentence of three years reduced to two years by Mr. Justice Buttrose today on appeal. Chua was sentenced by a Magistrate's Court to three years imprisonment for failing to report to a police station on a Tuesday at
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  • 146 10 PENANG. Wed. The chairman of the Board of Directors, Southern Bank, Tan Sri Saw Seng Kew, on behalf of the bank, presented a cheque for $5,000 to the Chief Minister, Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee. for the Penang State Scholarship Fund, today. He also presented another cheque
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  • 134 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The High Commissioner for India, Mr. Mustafa Kamil Kidwai will leave tomorrow on a day's farewell visit to Malacca. He will call on the Governor and the Chief Minister to say goodbye to them before relinquishing his post on March 6. On Friday he
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  • 289 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Public Works Department is constructing a Pan-Island Expressway to link the Kallang industrial basin with Toa Payoh and Jurong New Towns. Sections of this Pan-Island Expressway which are being constructed are: New MacPherson Road South from Paya Lebar Road to Aljunied Road. Work
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  • 234 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Ministry of Health has formulated a scheme to send more promising radiographers abroad to learn new techniques and observe the latest trends in radiography. This was disclosed today by the Minister for Health, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, at the first graduation ceremony of
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  • 69 10 KUALA LUMPUR, A 17-year-old office boy with the Public Works Department here was seriously injured when he fell five storeys down the shaft of a lift in the China Insurance Building in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman at about 1.30 p.m. today. N. Balachandran. who received
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  • 257 10 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. The dispute between Hospital Assistants in Johore and the Ministry of Health has been referred to the Federal Establishment Office. The matter was sent to the F.EO. after a recent negotiation between top officials of the Ministry
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  • 286 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Singapore Boy Scouts Association and the Singapore Girl Guides Association will jointly celebrate Scout-Guide Week commemorating the birthday of the founder of the Scout and Guide movements from Feb. 19-26. An elaborate programme has been arranged and the President, Enc he Yusuf Ishak.
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  • 42 10 SEGAMAT, Wed. About 100 people were made homeless as floods deteriorated here tonight. The homeless were given temporary shelter by relatives. friends, and rescue operators. Heavy downpour continued here and all policemen have been put on alert.
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  • 165 10 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Several parts of the State were again heavily flooded today after a lull of almost three weeks. The Johore Bahru-Segamat Road which is under four-and-a-half-feet of water is impassable to traffic. A Police report said the flood level was increasing The report
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  • 148 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. A cashier who was on his way to a bank to deposit $6,000 was reportedly forced into an unknown car and robbed of the entire sum which was in cash this morning. Police said today. The robbery happened at busy South Bridge Road
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  • 108 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. Two Royal Air Force P er sonnel died in a road accident yesterday whtn their Land-Rover collided with an on-coming lorry At Tam1 pines Road. Charles Holden. 27. the driver, and his passenger. Edmond Ryan, 35, sustained head injuries aid on the
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  • 41 10 PENANG, Wed. Thieves broke into the residence oi an executive of SandilarButtery, Penang office, m** W. K. Chubley. 39. in Jesselton Road and stole more than $3,000 worth oi articles including tv writers cameras, watcne* and a sewing machine.
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous

  • 572 11 SINGAPORE, Wed. —The towering 222foot Memorial to Civilian Victims of the Japanese Occupation, 1942 1945, was unveiled this morning by the Singapore Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. During the unveiling ceremony, religious leaders of the Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, randu, Jewish, Sikh and
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  • 398 11 SINGAPORE, Wed. Memorial to Civilian Victims of the Japanese Occupation commemorates an experience, which, in spite of its horrors, serves as catalyst in buildins: a nation out of the young and unestablished community of diverse immigrants. The Singapore Prime Minister, Mr. Lee
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  • 236 11 SINGAPORE, Wed. *lr. Justice Buttrose today quashed the conviction and sentence of Tan Heng alias Lee Eng T°h on two charges of causing hurt and ordered a retrial. He ordered the re-trial to take place at the "utmost speed" before another District Court Judge. in passing
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  • 432 11 SINGAPORE, Wed. Eight persons were today charged in the Second District Court here with rioting and causfng hurt to four Police Officers on Oct. 30, last year. I They are Ooh Chu Chung, 25, Peh Kin Swee. 20. Tan Lee Huak. 19, Lee Team Sing, 19,
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  • 435 11 SINGAPORE, Wed. While most people spend their 21st birthday celebrating their coming-of-age at a party i n their homes or at a restaurant, Andrew Keith Wilson, spent that ever-impor-tant date in a man's life, "digging my own grave." The incident which
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  • 407 11 SINGAPORE, Wed. Royal Navv ships todav helped in rescue operations when a Thai vessel, the S.S. "Mahathevi" (1,780 tons), ran aground at Pulau Pemanggil, 30 miles off the east coast of West Malaysia and 75 miles north-east of Singapore. At 3.20
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  • 125 11 SINGAPORE, Wed. While the Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, this morning unveiled the Memorial to Civilian Victims some 80 yards away, a Police Corporal dived into the sea to save the life of a 21-year-old girl. The Police Corporal, Hamdan
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
    • 326 12 A nice looking pot was made by an excellent potter. Many beautiful designs were carved on it. Actually it was I who had been born as a lovely pot. My master, the potter named me "The FloweredVase". I was proud of this beautiful name
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    • 497 12 'THE street is dark except for the dim halo of light near one of the only streets near my place. A slight wind is blowing, bringing with it the smell of rubbish in the choked drains. Occasionally, one hears the howling of dogs which sends
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    • 178 12 English is a 4 very common language. We can find people speaking English in every corner of the world. 'Many countries, such a| New Zealand, Britain, Ue United States, Australia, India and some ntwly-independent counties use English as their official language. English is now becoming more
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    • 266 12 MY 2nd term holidays began on 29th July 1966. On that day, I went for a visit to my aunty in Singapore. At first, she was shocked to see me calling at her door early one morning. She stood at the doorway to greet me.
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    • 447 12 I WOKE up on a sunny morning. The birds were singing happily, but I thought they were teasing me. I turned over so that I could not see the sun, and thought about what I would do. It was a holiday I could do anything I
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    • 170 12 THE television programme I never fail to see is "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." Napoleon Solo is my favourite actor. His face looks very much like Dev Anand, another actor I like very much. The reason why I like Napoleon Solo is because when he is
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    • 208 12 ONE day I was going back after a midnight show with my friends, when it rained. We looked for shelter and we saw a house not far from us. We ran into the house. It was very dark. We sat on something but we
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    • 314 12 BANGKOK is geographically known as the "Venice of the East". However, I had always visualised Bangkok as a filthy town full of radiating canals. I was wrong about this for it is indeed the most wonderful city, beautiful, fascinating and simply exotic. On reaching the
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    • 363 12 RING-A-LING! R i n g-a-ling! My ears are constantly droning with this ringing and the regular buzzing of voices. I had experienced for quite a number of years, my job for human beings. As I am a public telephone, I had no particular name. How
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    • 285 12 I WAS walking by the river when I saw an old temple. It was already 8 p.m. Though it was not very dark, the loneliness and quietness made the temple look very haunted. Suddenly, there came a loud scream from the temple. I
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    • 147 12 NEW ESSAY CONTEST FOR THOSE WHO ARE 14 AND UNDER THE EASTERN SUN'S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears in this page every Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And
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  • NEWS FROM WEST GERMANY
    • 584 13  -  By ALBERT KOMMA Bonn, Wed. All nations share the concern that the area where their populations live might be attacked with nuclear weapons or damaged and contaminated by nuclear explosions on neighb o u r i n g territory. The atomic power, too, must share these preoccupations,
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    • 562 13  -  By Dr. Gerhard Schroeder. Federal Defence Minister T>ONN, Wed. It is now possible to affirm that security policy within the framework of the North Atlantic Alliance so far practiced by the Federal Government has preserved the German Federal Republic from external thread In the interest
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    • 196 13 QTt TTGART (Dal)) Wed. The pavilion of the Federal Republic of Germany at the World Fair in Montreal promises to be an' architectural sensation. The German "circus tent" as the manypointed building is called has been erected on the island in the St. Laurence River and the interior
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    • 137 13 HAMBURG, Wed. The 1967 International Boat Exhibition was opened here recently. Three of its numerous attractions were a light foamed plastic motorboat for water go-karting (as shown above), an unsinkable floating seat of lightweight impermeable material and a new underwater camera with flash device. Four hundred
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    • 201 13 DK LEVERKUSEN, Wed. The West German Farbenfabriken Bayer, one of the nation's three major chemical combines, increased its overall turnover to 6.900 million marks last year 9.5 per cent increase over 1965. Future business prospects are bright, according to the company's board. Bayer expects to
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  • 344 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Selangor Hockey Association will start its knock-out and six-a-side competition for the season 1966/1967 next month to pick the best team to represent the state in the Malaysian Hockey Federation's six-a-side tournament which is scheduled to be played at
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  • 63 14 LONDON. Wed. (AFP) Former world champion racing driver John Surtees left London yesterday for Tokyo where he will test Japan's Honda three litre Formula One racing car. The Honda, which overcame mechanical problems to finish third in last month's South African Grand Prix, should make its
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  • 209 14 MANILA, Wed. (AFP) The newly-formed Amateur Swimming Federation of Asia (ASFA) will hold the first ASFA swimming tournament in Manila on May 21 to 27, swimming officials here disclosed today. The championships will be a biennial affair aimed at the rapid development of swimming
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  • 321 14 SEREMBAN, Wed.-The Negri Sem bilan Hockey Association has named 38 players for their first state trial which will be held on Sunday. Two other trials will also ->e held on Feb. 23 and 24. The matches will be played on the N. S. padang.
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  • 285 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Malaysian Hockey Federation Executive Council will consider the proposal to run this year's Tun Razak Cup hockey competition on a carnival basis, when they meet here o»n Saturday. The Competition Committee of the M.H.F. which is
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  • 81 14 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) The England badminton team to meet South Africa in the semi-final of the European Zone of the Thomas Cup the men's team championship of the world at Wallasey, Cheshire on Feb. 22 and 23 includes two new "caps." They are David
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  • 100 14 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) The Czechoslovakian Sparta Prague football team made a clean sweep of its three-game Chinese New Year series by defeating the Combined Chinese team 4-2 in the final game last night. Score was 3-1 at the end of first half.
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  • 276 14 CLEVELAND, Ohio, Wed. (AP). Because of the touchy political situation in Africa, African representatives to the 1967 Carling World Golf Tournament will qualify in two different groups. Tournament director Howard R. Taylor said yesterday two places in the world tournament, being
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  • 132 14 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) Sir Alf Ramsey, manager of England's world champion soccer team, yesterday attended a Buckingham Palace investiture to receive the accolade of a Knight Bachelor from Queen Elizabeth. England's captain, Bobby Moore, also was at the Palace to receive the insignia of an 0.8.
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  • 39 14 IPOH, Wed. Exhibition badminton matches, sponsored by Messrs. Malayan Tobacco Co. Berhad, will take place at St. John Ambulance Hall here at 7 p.m. on Monday. The exhibition games are being organised by the Perak Badminton Association.
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    • 660 14 TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Patau Pinang: 6 Ipoh and Melaka; 3/10 Johore Bahru; 4 Taipin?; 7 Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang. (Singapore viewers, please switch to channel 3 for T.V. Malaysia programmes). P.M. 5.45 OPENING ANNCT Prog. Summary. 5.50 NEWS OUTLINES in the National Language. 5.55 NATIONAL SONGS.
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  • 1733 15  -  Tulloh, Rinus score doubles By WINDSOR LAD KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Chiaramella, confidently ridden by apprentice Hassan, created a spectacular upset when he led all the way to coast home a six-length winner in the 6f. for Class Five Division One, to pay $134 at Kuala Lumpur this
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  • 117 15 SINGAPORE. Wed. The first round in the FAM Cup series between Singapore and Johore will now be played at Johore Bahru on February 19. This was disclosed to Sunsport by the vice-presi-dent of FAS. Lt./Col. G.W. Shaw, here today. Lt./Col. Shaw said Johore
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  • 156 15 NEW YORK. Wed. (Reuter) Cassius Clay will meet Zora Folley in the next defence of his world heavyweight boxing title, according to Press reports here. The bout, expected to be held in New York on March 22, will be announced today by the
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  • 143 15 EDINBURGH. Wed. (Reuter) Scotland's Rugby Union team to play Ireland at Murrayfleld here on February 25 is unchanged from that which defeated Walos earlier this month. The selectors have pinned their faith in a team which is solid and workmanlike and which has a
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  • 111 15 CHITTAOONO. Pakistan, Wed (Reuter) After early shocks M.C.C. Under 25 had the best of things today when they began a two-day match with an XI raised by the Governor of East Pakistan. On a newly laid turf pitch, M.C.C. lost their first three wickets with
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  • 154 15 DARMSTADT: She It now 21-years. old, has won 125 times in S-tests, 60 of which were hi official international tournaments and was herewith one of the most successful jumping horses in the Federal Republic of Germany. Then she bore five fillies hi a row: Halei, Ha 11
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  • 183 15 SINGAPORE. Wed The captain of the Indian cricket team. Mr. P. R. Umrigar today criticised South Africa for mixing cricket with politics. He said the apartheid policy on sports in South Africa was "all wrong". The captain was spesking to newsmen at Paya
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  • 242 15 MILAN, Wed. (Reuter) Inter-Milan seek revenge over Real Madrid, who eliminated them in last year's semi-finals, when the two "giants" of post-war European football clash here today in the first leg of their European Cup quarter final. Inter, European champions in 1964 and 1965.
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  • 143 15 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Mark Rowe, England's Commonwealth Games champion in Jamica last year, last night stopped Ernest Musao (Rhodesia* in the fourth round of their eight rounds professional middleweight bout at the Albert Hall here. The referee stopped the fight to save Musso further
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  • 296 15 SAN JOSE, California, Wed. (IPI) The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) were at each other's throats again yesterday while the rest of the United States was busy exchanging valentines. The AAU touched off the latest skirmish between the two feuding groups
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  • 489 16  -  MANAGER DENIES OWING FAM $2,700 By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Wed.—The manager of the touring Swiss side, Mr. Albert Glatt, today denied that the supporters who accompanied the team owed the Football Association of Malaya a sum of $2,700 in respect of hotel accommodation
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  • 257 16 SALISBURY, Maryland, Wed. (UPI) Top foreign seed Cliff Drysdale of South Africa and Davis Cupper Marty Riessen, the sixthranking American from Evanston, Illinois, had to go all out on Tuesday to win in the second round of the 64th U.S. Men's Indoor Tennis
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  • 311 16 SINGAPORE, Wed. Mr. Albert Glatt, manager of the Swiss soccer team and free-lance sports writer today criticised Helenio Herrera, the highest paid soccer coach in the world for advocating a soccer revolution to break the "stranglehold'* defence tactic. Mr. Glatt was
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  • 42 16 SINGAPORE. Wed. Tampenis Rovers beat Schools B' in the first round of the FAS youth knockout soccer tournament played at Farrer Park today. Other results: Peru Indians beat Windsor Rovers B' (5-3); Hamilton S.C. beat Kolam Ayer (1-0).
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  • 589 16  -  By Ian Pereira KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Wee Choon Seng of Singapore and Tan Leng Houw of Indonesia moved into the first court for the first singles of the four-day Pesta Badminton which started at the Sta« dium Negara tonight. The Indonesian edged
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  • 35 16 CO LOME BECHAR (Algeria) The sand yachts are lined at the starting line here before the start of this unusual race of 2,500 kilometres through the Harian Dunes. UPI pix. UPI pix.
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  • 166 16 SINGAPORE, Wed. The People's Association will be organising a basketball referees' training course some time in March this year. Eighty trainees will be recruited for the course. They will be given both theoretical as well as practical coaching while under training. Trainees will
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  • 208 16 SINGAPORE. Wed. Malaysian sprint ace and former medical student, Mani bade "sayonara" to Singaipore today. The "fastest man in Asia" and golden boy of the Malaysian athletic contingent to the Asian Games left here this morning to take up his new post in Kuala
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  • 178 16 SINGAPORE. Wed. A 22-rrun strong German national amateur soccer team will make a twomonth tour of Asian countries from December 1967 to January 1968. The vice-president of the Asian Football Confederation. Mr. Soh Ghee Soon, disclosed that the Football Association of the Republic
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  • 146 16 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Swiss football association is actively working out plans in preparation nost the Asian All-Sta. tour of Europe between April and May next ypar. This was disclosed Sunsport by the soccer team manager. > Albert Glatt. at Paya Lebar International Airport toda_Mr. Glatt said
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  • 340 16 LIEGE, Belgium, Wed. (UPI) Brazilian soccer star Jose Germano will marry runaway Italian heiress countess Giovanna Agusta "within a few days/' a Belgian newspaper said today. The 21-year-old heiress to an Italian motor cycle fortune arrived here over the weekend to marry Germano
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  • 106 16 IPOH, Wed. A six-a-side volleyball tournament among teams in Perak will take place in the first week of next month. The matches will be played at the Yuk Choy Primary School courts in Hugh Low Street, starting at 7.30 p.m. for the first match and 8.30 p.m.
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