Eastern Sun, 6 March 1967

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    25 1 EASTERN SUN Independent. National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 225 Monday, March 6 1967. ☆MC (P) 2251 KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon ISSUE CLEAR: I'M HAPPY
    540 1  -  MAKING A MOUNTAIN... Tunku: Opposition have twisted and misrepresented the facts B y Khoo Boon Choo "pHE Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, said here today Opposition members had twisted and misrepresented the facts on the National Language bill. The Tunku, who was speaking to pressmen on
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    Lock icon Saturday night's Jalan Besar blaze
    122 1 Eastern Sun picture shows firemen directing their hoses at the devastating fire which occurred in Jalan Besar on Saturday night shortly after 8 o'clock. More than 50 attap and plank buildings and a number of timber yards were razed. One hundred and fifty families comprising
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    Lock icon NOW A BAN ON STUDENT RALLIES IN JAKARTA
    275 1 JAKARTA, Sun. (AP) The Jakarta Military Commander on Sunday told a gathering of 30 military battalions that students would not be allowed to demonstrate anymore. The strong statement by Major General Amir Machmud came as several thousand students were preparing to hold
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    Lock icon Tunku has 'welded people into cohesive unit'
    229 1 PENANG, Sun. —The people ore confident that under the able leadership of the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, activity in all fields of endeavour will go on to pave the way for greater progress. This was stated by the Chief Minister, Tan Sri
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    Lock icon Ben Arda wins S'pore Open
    57 1 SINGAPORE. Sun Filipino Ben Arda today won the Singapore Open golf title in a dramatic "sudden death" playoff with H. Suffimoto of Japan at the Bukit Course. With this triumph in $40,000 event. Arda became the first Asian to snatch the Singapore title. (See Page
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    Lock icon Malik: Ho ready to negotiate
    84 1 JAKARTA, Sun. (AP) Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik said on Saturday his contacts with Hanoi indicated North Vietnam was prepared to sit down at the negotiation table. Mr. Malik, in an interview with American Broadcasting Company correspondent Sam JafTe. said cessation of American bombing; in
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    Lock icon 7 Sarawak Reds killed in clash
    86 1 KUCHING. Sun. A security forces spokesman said In Kuchlng today that on Friday, at 1.15 p.m. a platoon of Malaysian armed forces unit made a headon contact with a party of seven members of the Sarawak Communist organisation at the Gunong Gadong area, about
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    Lock icon 10,000 FLOWERS TO RAISE FUND
    188 3 Voluntary helpers wanted to help in Flower Day in aid of the Lady Templer Hospital Fund ITl T ALA LUMPUR, Sun. Orchids In red, white, yellow, purple and pink some of the 10,000 plastic flowers which will go to boost the Lady Templer Hospital Fund.
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    Lock icon More flood donations
    904 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. More donations to the NATIONAL DISASTER RELIEF FUND: Through the Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Phun Kong Lyn, c/o B.S.C. Hospital, Kuala Belait, Brunei (from his pension of April, donated to the Fund by letter to Accountant General) $101.01; Teachers and students of Sekolah Kebangsaan
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Killing of 2 youths: reward offered
      548 5 ROCKFORD, Illinois,, Sun. (UPI)'.—,A $2,500 reward was posted yesterday for apprehension of the gang style executioner of two 14-year-old boys found shot to death on Thursday night in a Park Pavilion. The reward was posted by Rockford Newspapers inc. publisher of the Rocktord Register-Republic
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      Lock icon Goldberg meets Sato
      40 5 Prime Minister Mr. Eisakn Sato (rirht) gestures to sit w thl,r i floldberr United States ambassador to the United Nations, S Mr rth "T Tin hi a courtesy call on the Premier at the latter's official T<
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      Lock icon Soviet fishing vessel a spy ship
      142 5 COPENHAGEN. Sun. (UPI) The Soviet fishing vessel Tukan, which sank with a loss of 57 lives on Tuesday morning off Jutland, was a spy ship, a Copenhagen newspaper said yesterday. The newspaper. Ekstrabladet, claimed Soviet salvage vessel sent to the site of the Sin
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      Lock icon Narrow mishap for labourer
      140 5 DUNDEE, Scotland, Sun (Reuter) A 43-year-old labourer fell more than 100 feet here today and walked away with only slight injuries. Tom Markie was working 13 storeys up on a giant new block of flats when the scaffolding collapsed and threw him out from the building.
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      Lock icon Speck spends another quiet weekend in detention cell
      368 5 PEORIA, Illinois, Sun. (UPI). Richard Franklin Speck, accused of killing six American and two Filipino nurses in Chicago last July, spent another quiet weekend in his courthouse detention cell while his attorneys mapped strategy for his murder trial. Speck spent his time
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      Lock icon Smith denies secret talks
      156 5 JOHANNESBURG. Sun. (UPI) Vacationing Rhocesian Prime Minister lan Smith continued last night to deny persistent rumours he had held top secret meetings with South African Premier Balthazar Vorster. Rumours of a secret summit meeting aboard the liner SA Oranhe have been sweeping South Africa ever since
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      Lock icon State of emergency in Sierra Leone
      138 5 FREETOWN. Sierra Leone. Sun. (AP) A state of emergency has been proclaimed In the western area and part of the eastern porvince of Sierra Leone. At Kono, in the Eastern Province, troops are reported standing by. The emergency was Invoked late Friday night for
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      Lock icon Grenade injures leader
      84 5 TOULO, France, Sun, (AFP) French rightist leader Jean-Louis TixierVignancour was injured by a teargas grenade hurled at him here tonight. Tixier Vignancour, head of the Republican Alliance Party, is a candidate in tomorrow's first round of Parliamentary elections. He was taken to a hospital for treatment. Police
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      Lock icon Maharaja named Minister
      110 5 BOMBAY. India, Sun. (AP). Maharaja Fateh Sinhrao Gaekwad of Baroda last night was named named a Minister in the new Cabinet of Gujarat State. This was announced in Ahmed Abab by Chief Minister Altendra Desa. The ruling Congress Party In Gujarat survived a determined bid by the
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      Lock icon ORBITER-3 CAMERA JAMMED
      53 5 PASADENA. California. Sun. (UPI) A team of experts was assembled here yesterday to investigate the trouble-plagued camera system of Lunar Orblter-3 which ended transmission of moon pictures to earth prematurely. Officials at the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported on Friday that the cameras film
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      Lock icon U Thant in Rome
      39 5 Rome, Sun, (AP) United Nation Secretary -General U Thant stopped over at Rome's Fiumicino airport on his way to London today. U Thant was welcomed at the airport by Italian Foreign Minister, Mr. Amintore Fanfani.
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      Lock icon Lord Snowdon in Japan
      90 5 Wearing worker's clothes and hanging cameras on neck, Lord Snowdon, Husband of Britain's Princess Margaret, is shown in this picture which was taken in Japan recently. Lord Snowdon came to Japan on a photographic assignment for a British newspaper (The Sunday Times) but many fail to
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      Lock icon ROCK 'N'ROLL SINGER BUYS DIAMOND RING FOR BRIDE-TO-BE
      287 5 BEVERLY HILLS, California, Sun. (AP). —Rock 'N' Roll singer Gary Lewis bought a three-karat heartshaped diamond ring yesterday for his bride-to-be, Sara Jane "Jinky" Suzara. The 21 year old Lewis and Miss Suzara. 22. of the Philippines, picked out the ring and
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      Lock icon Duke is late for church
      107 5 MELBOURNE. Sun. (Reuter) The Duke of Edinburgh apologised to the rector for being late for morning service today at a tiny century-old country church near Melbourne. The church of St. John at lilydale, about 20 miles east of the city, was packed to capacity with
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      Lock icon 120 killed
      38 5 Casablanca, Sun, (AFP) —At least 120 persons were killed by a flash flood on Friday night in the town of Goulimine in Southern Morocco, it was learned here today. The flood wiped out half the town.
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      Lock icon Kosygin to visit Japan
      139 5 TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) Prime Minister Mr. Elsaku Sato has Invited Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin to visit Japan, it was disclosed today. Mr. Sato conveyed the Invitation through outgoing Soviet Ambassador to Japan Mr. Vladmir Vinogradov when he called at the Prime Minister's official residence on Friday
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      Lock icon Quake hits Greece
      72 5 ATHENS, Sun. (UPI) An "extremely strong" earthquake rocked Greece last night from the Albanian frontier to the Southernmost Island of Crete. The Athens observatory said the main quake struck at 8.02 p.m. It described the tremor as "extremely strong." Further tremors were continuing an hour later but
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      Lock icon Newly-weds killed
      68 5 BOMBAY. India, Sun (AP) A car being driven through the western Ghat mountains on Thursday night after a wedding plunged into a 200-foot ravine and 14 people died. They included the bride and the bridegroom, who was driving the car. Only one of the 15 people in the
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      Lock icon TV actress is Johnson's special assistant for Consumer Affairs
      279 5 San Antonio Texas. Sun. (UPI) President Johnson has picked television actress Betty Furness. lamed for opening and closing refrigerators on television, as his special assistant for consumer affairs. Miss Furness, in a red sheath three inches above the knees, was on
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      Lock icon Dr. Leakey suffers heart attack
      114 5 Chicago, Sun. (AP)-Dr. Louis Leakey, world renown e d anthropologist, suffered an apparent heart attack yesterday and was listed in critical condition at Augustana Hospital. Dr. Leakey, 63 was travelling by automobile from O'Hare International Airport to deliver an address before the Chicago Academy of
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      Lock icon Sir Albert dies at 80
      57 5 Fordingham, England, Sun (UPI) Sir Albert Charles Gladstone, the grandson of William E. Gladstone who served four times as Queen Victoria's Prime Minister, died at his home here, it was announced yesterday. Sir Albert, a Director of Bank of England from 1924 to 1947, died
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      Lock icon Life sentence for saboteurs
      58 5 BEIRUT, Sun (UPI)— A Jordanian Military Court yesterday jailed four Syrian saboteurs for life with hard labour, Amman Radio reported. It said the men confessed to having carried out sabotage acts in Jordan on the orders of the Syrian authorities. The four men were arrested last
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      Lock icon Scientists, Kennedys call for halt to war
      608 6 100,000 MAY DIE THIS YEAR BOSTON, Sun. (UPI). Scientists and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, backing his brother Sen. Robert F. Kennedy to the hilt, took issue with the Johnson administration's South-East Asia programme yesterday and urged new peace initiatives now to halt the
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      Lock icon GETTING TO KNOW YOU...
      136 6 WELLINGTON, New Zealand. Sun. (Reuter). —New Zealand's Governor-Gener-al, Sir Bernard Fergusson. thinks that Maoris and European New Zealanders, do not do enough to get to know each other socially. Sir Bernard has long been interested In fostering unity among the two races, and last year his
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      Lock icon Time-Life's Luce is buried
      65 6 MONCKS CORNER. South Carolina, sun. Reuter Henry Luce, founder of the Time-Life-Fortune magazine empire, was burled here yesterday. Luce, who died on Tuesday in Phoenix. Arizona, aged 68. was buried in the grounds of Mepkin Abbey which the Luce family donated to the Roman Catholic Trappist
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      Lock icon 'Cancer' (brand) cigarette on sale
      160 6 BEAVERTON. Oregon. Sun. (UPI) Three pharmacists have marketed their own brand of cigarettes with the word '•cancer" lettered in white on the black packages. "This is a cigarette designed to slow down the people who just can't seem to quit." said drugg st Howard Steinback.
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      Lock icon PARIS, Sun. — One of the youngest candidates in the French General Elections today is Marie-Helene Delayhaye, 27, seen here (top) campaigning in a Paris Restaurant. A press attache in a Social Security Centre in Paris, she s a Centre Right-wing candidate for the Centre Democrate et Republicain. Second block shows former French Premier, Pierre Mendes France (with hand on face), in France's political world activerly seek political come-back, as he clashes with French Premier Georges Pompidou in electorial campaign debate in Grenoble city recently.
      84 6 PARIS, Sun. One of the youngest candidates in the French General Elections today is MarieHelene Delayhaye, 27, seen here (top) campaigning in a Paris Restaurant. A press attache in a Social Security Centre in Paris, she s a Centre Right-wing candidate for the Centre Democrate et Republicain. Second block shows
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      Lock icon 10,000 homeless in Mozambique Satellites to study violent storms
      373 6 CAPE KENNEDY. Florida. Sun. (AP). Using satellites, aircraft and earth-based electronic rear, a scientific task force is converging on three small Pacific islands to study how tropical storms are born. Similar to one that is now devastating Mozambique. Because tropical storms
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      Lock icon De Gaulle's eleventh hour polls appeal
      251 6 PARIS, Sun. (UPI) President Charles de Gaulle last n?ght aopealed to Frenchmen at what he said is a decisive movement in their history to five a massive new vote for the fifth reoubiic. He warned that if he Is faced with a hostile parliament.
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      Lock icon A famous French hair stylist. Bernardi Mario of Syudicar Haute Coiffure Francaise shows his latest creations in hair-style with help of two Japanese models' called "Corn Leaf" (right) and "Fresh-flower" in front of large gathering at the Yahama Hail in Ginza in downtown Tokyo when the "Evasion 67" hair styling show opened in Tokyo and Paris simultaneously last week.
      59 6 A famous French hair stylist. Bernardi Mario of Syudicar Haute Coiffure Francaise shows his latest creations in hair-style with help of two Japanese models' called "Corn Leaf" (right) and "Fresh-flower" in front of large gathering at the Yahama Hail in Ginza in downtown Tokyo when the "Evasion 67" hair styling
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      Lock icon Germans to talk with US in unity bid, signs accord with Seoul
      343 6 BONN. Germany, Sun. (AP). West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger said yesterday that a meeting with President Johnson would be usual for talks about the "great common interests of our peo- ples." Relations between the two countries have
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      Lock icon ICBM to become space launchers
      140 6 LOS ANGELES. Sun (UPI) The Air Force said yesterday that it was evaluating ways of converting excess Minuteman-1 inter-continen-tal ballistic missiles to space launch vehicles. Turning the excess minutemen into space boosters would save millions of dollars, the Air Force said. The Air Force said
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      Lock icon Armenian church to sue Sotheby's on 23 manuscripts
      430 6 LONDON. Sun. (AP) The head of the Armenian Church In Britain announced yesterday that he will sue famed Sotheby's auction house if it tries to sell 23 biblical manuscripts allegedly stolen from Jerusalem's Armenian Catholic Cathedral. "We will not let these manuscripts
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      Lock icon Caution on US-Soviet rundown on arms race
      201 6 WASHINGTON, Sun. (UPI) Caution has re. placed the enthusiasm which greeted President Johnson's announcement on Thursday that Soviet Russia is ready to discuss li. miting the arm race in offensive and defensive nuclear missiles. While the President's statement was carefully restrained, the fact
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      Lock icon Trans-Pacific confab by telstar
      97 6 TransPacific confab by telstar TOKYO. Sun. (UPD The first trans-Paclflc television meeting of U.S. and Japanese government leaders today successfully overcame the Pacific ocean gap. With the Lani Bird satellite serving as the link, the U.S. panel led by Secretary of State Dean Rusk discussed Asian problems with Japanese Foreign
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      Lock icon JAPAN AS AN N-POWER
      802 7 FIRST NATION TO HAVE NDELIVERY SYSTEM BEFORE HAVING ACTUAL WEAPON WASHINGTON, Sun. (UP!). —Two retired American diplomats v th long experience in Asia have concluded Japan may eventually emerge as a nuclear power. Former ambassador William J. Sebald, one time political adviser to Gen. Douglas Mac
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      Lock icon 'DON'T PRESS SOEK TOO HARD'
      110 7 JAKARTA. Sun. (AFP) Indonesia's People's Congress. the nations highest legislative body, is expected to announce a milder verdict on President Sukarno following yesterday's appeal by Army strongman General Suharto not to press too hard on Pres. Sukarno to avoid new conflicts in the country, according
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      Lock icon US draft to be by lottery
      207 7 SAN ANTONIO. Texas. Sun. Reuter Conscripts for the American Forces may in future be chosen by lottery instead of the present system of individual selection. This is one of the recommendations made last night by a commission appointed by President Johnson to advise him
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      Lock icon THE FOOD LOOTERS
      41 7 NEW DELHI, India. Sun. (AP). Police reported yesterday the second serious incident this week of looting of food grain shops by demonstrators demanding lowering of food prices. The latest report came from Ferozabad. 130 miles South-East of here.
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      Lock icon RANGOON, Burma. Sun. UN Secretary General U Thant (centre) and his wife (right) are shown at a traditional Burmese Buddhist ceremony during which he offered breakfast to 71 Burmese Buddhist monks and over 1000 lay guests including foreign diplomats, government officials, family and friends. The ceremony was held at the Burmese Buddhist Meditation Centre in Rangoon last week.
      60 7 RANGOON, Burma. Sun. UN Secretary General U Thant (centre) and his wife (right) are shown at a traditional Burmese Buddhist ceremony during which he offered breakfast to 71 Burmese Buddhist monks and over 1000 lay guests including foreign diplomats, government officials, family and friends. The ceremony was held at the
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      Lock icon Vatican: State with only 545 people
      130 7 VATICAN CITY. Sun. Reuter The Vatican City, the world's most sparsely populated Independent state, had only 545 people living in it at the last count. More than 40 per cent of them were guards and gendarmes. Another 120 Vatican citizens. Pope Paul's representatives in
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      Lock icon Dewi now waiting for baby
      127 7 TOKYO, Sun. (AFP) The Japanese wife of sident Sukarno. Ratna Sari Dewi, entered Keio University Hospital in Tokyo today to give birth to the long-awaited presidential baby. The delivery is now expected quite soon, hospital people said. There had been several days' delay in her
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      Lock icon 'Please, don't car-ry on like this'
      284 7 NEW YORK, Sun. (Reuter) Faced with the task of hauling more than 1.500 derelict cars away from kerbside "graveyards." city officials here are appealing to motorists not to abandon cars in the street. Every year, thousands of drivers give up the battle to keep
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      Lock icon Red China warns the US
      87 7 TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) Communist China today issued its 427 th "serious" warning to the United States for alleged Intrusion of three warships and two military planes into Chinese territory, It was reported The report was made by the Communist New China News Agency, monitored in
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      Lock icon 2 million slaves have to wait...
      191 7 GENEVA, Sun. (Reuter). There may be as many as two million slaves in the modern world but so far the "immediate" and effective measures" demanded by the United Nations have not been implemented. The age-old problem has been thrust before the 32nation U.N. commission
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      Lock icon Envoys confab
      29 7 Sagion, Sun, (AP) United States Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge left here today for Bagio in the Philippines for a conference of American envoys in the Far East.
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      Lock icon Shaw hearing set for March 14
      643 7 JFK assassin probe NEW ORLEANS, Sun. (UPI and Reuter). District Attorney Jim Garrison closed his office yesterday either to take a dayoff or to confer with investigators on whether he wants to bare his case on a blot to assassinate the late Pres. John
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      Lock icon 'Missing link' Leakey has heart attack
      218 7 CHICAGO. Sun. (Reuter) Dr. Louis Leakey, 63, the British anthropologist who won fame with his discoveries of relics of ancient man, was stricken with a heart attack here yesterday. He was taken to Augustana Hospdtal where his condition was listed as critical Dr. Leakey,
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      Lock icon Fashion off the floor
      67 7 LADIES, this latest done on fashion ig something to think about before you head for it!! These charming British girls dressed in "shifts" and a gentleman in n ght shirt are made from plastic floor coverings. Hardy Amies, the desicner of these colourful dresses, displayed his
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      156 6 HHH 0)1 Iffi ■■M HfltSH OVER THE OUTSKIRTS OP FARM, A CQMMEM-' UV ORATIVE AIR RACE TURNS INTO A REAL-LIFE POGFIGHT AS THRUSH AGENTS MARK NAPOLEON SOLO AND ILLYA KURYAKtN FOR SUPPEN DEATH/ *NO UNCLE'S 'ACE' AGENTS WWW SURVIVE THE RRE...OR THEIR ORGANIZATION WILL FACE Pt&ASTERI At uncle heap--OUARTERS IN
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    Lock icon BURYING OLD SCORES
    694 8 mHE most refreshing item of news last weekend filtered in from Perth in Western Australia. Speaking to Malaysian and Singapore students there, the High Commissioner for Singapore, Mr. S. T. Stewart, said, "We must not look back on the past. All Singapore Ambassadors and Commissioners have received
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      Lock icon Credit to Tunku for promoting 'golf summit'
      363 8 "A Fresh Start" it the released result of the Malaysia-Singa-pore VlP's competitive golf played at the Cameron Highlands last wiik. Not only the people of th two countries welcome this initial score, but the good news will reverberate with the same welcome throughout
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      Lock icon Don't expect too much of modern teachers
      301 8  -  Ranny U The Minister of Education charged members of the National Union of Teachers for having committed an "indefensible and despicable social crime." The Minister then urged all teachers to emulate the spirit and work of the Christian Brothers and SLsters in the
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      Lock icon Registrar's memo to UMNO sets posers
      440 8 I read with apprehension and anxiety the memo forwarded by the Registrar of Societies to Singapore UMNO requesting the said Party to change the name and symbol within three months from the date of the issued memo or face deregistration according to Article 24
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      Lock icon Political apathy of doctors
      185 8 Two points in Prof. Yeoh's speech (Eastern Sun 22/267) need clarification viz: the political apathy and so-called lack of civic consciousness of our doctors. Their political apathy may be due to the fact that they are just not interested in politics (which I believe is allowed
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      Lock icon Laymen and the National Language
      179 8 I READ your editorial on the National Language, Act but as a layman I am very much worried about the following points:— Can the public still correspond with Government Departments or officials in English? Will the implementation of the National Language Act mean rejection of
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      Lock icon Finance Bubble ?
      128 8 Finance Bubble I WANT to congratulate you (or your excellent editorial on Finance Shops appearing in a recent issue of your paper. Certain Finance Shops by offering extra inducements, such as higher rates of interest and other gimmicks are catching the gullible unaware and. in th« end, the poor depositors
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      Lock icon Sell it the way the NUPW wants it or...
      304 8  -  EASTERN LION. J oil ore. Looking back 20 years ago on newspaper reports then about the Trade Unions. Malayan Communist Party and the hard pressed estate employers. your editorial on Fragmentation of February 19, and Mr. P. P. Narayanan's talk to
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      Lock icon Malaysian accountants are just as good
      515 8  -  THOMAS R.P. DAWSON. Kuala Lumpur. I READ with considerable interest your Editorial of February 17th 1907 on the above topic. The Hon'ble Mr. Tan Toh Hong, M.P. Is to be congratulated on his recent outspoken speech in the Parliament regarding the difficulties experienced by
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      Lock icon Accountants must bring home the message...
      244 8  -  PATRICK LIM Petallng Jay a. I wish to refer to your Issue of 17th February, 1967, and the editorial entitled "Accountants and Doctors." I note from the first few lines of the third paragraph that you said: "According to the Parliamentary Secretary to the
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      Lock icon Creating posts for blue-eyed boys
      104 8 THE Ministry of Education has long been termed the "House of Frustration." There are so many principals who have been made to act for ages without being confirmed and yet they are prepared to appoint people in the Ministry who have no experience at all
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSRTRIAL
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      Lock icon Market more lethargic than in recent weeks, says report
      1234 9 SINGAPORE Sun. According to the market report by a broker's firm, the market was more lethargic than in recent weeks and one might have inferred that the belly of the speculative section was satiated. It is doubtful that activity will stagnate,
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      Lock icon Board approves formation of billion $ bank
      233 9 Board approves formation of billion bank WASHINGTON, Sun. (UPl).—The Federal Reserve Board has approved, by a 6-1 vote, the formation of a billion-dollar bank holding company that will bring together four banks in upstate New York. The Board agreed to an application by Lincoln first group of Rochester, New York
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      Lock icon Plessey signs 5-year trade pact with Russia
      153 9 MOSCOW, Sun. (Reuter) The British Plessey Company today signed a five-year technical agreement with Russia which may open up big new possibilities for the sale of automation and electronic equipment. The agreement was concluded between Plessey's and Russia's state committee for science and
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      Lock icon JAL's first entrant at Hostess Quest
      130 9 Japan, Sun. Miss Nobuko Gotoh, right above, was Japan Air Lines, first entrant in Australia's annual Miss International Hostess Quest at Surfer s Paradise, Queensland recently. There were 37 entrants from 21 countries. Winners were Eva Dunet of Transair, Margaret McCullough of Eastern Airlines,
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      Lock icon Chartered Bank's dividend
      121 9 SINGAPORE. Sun. At the annual Generil Meeting of Stockholders on March 29, Directors of The Chartered Bank will recommend final dividend 7-1/2-0/0 actual less income tax. The Consolidated profits of the year 1966 amounted to £1,886.657 (1965 £1,310.062). After deducting allocations of £483,143 to reserve funds (1965
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      Lock icon Declining profits for US textile industry
      123 9 NEW YORK. Sun. (AP)— The American textile in dustry fact's smaller sales and declining profits this year. the Wall Street Journal has reported. The paj>er, whose one million circulation makes it America's second largest. blajned the textile recession ton "overcapacity," sliding demand and declining
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      Lock icon New link with Bahrain
      131 9 SINGAPORE, Sun. Qantas will Introduce the ttmy Persian Gulf country of Bahrain as a regular port of call on Its Kangaroo Route services between Singapore and Tiondon from April. Bahrain Is an 011-rlch archipelago of small lowtying Islands that, because of Its location, /forms an lmoortant
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS-S'PORE, K. LUMPUR
      896 9 ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 12.05 a.m. Airline MSA 029 from K.L. Time 8.3.1 a.m. Airline ML 019 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 9.30 a.m. Airline ML 121 from Knala I.nmpur. Time 10.30 a.m. Airline ML 451 front Kuchlng. Time 10.55 a.m. Airline ML 00S from Penang. Ipoh,
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      Lock icon No sugar shortage despite big demands
      110 9 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter). There will be no sugar shortage this year despite growing world demands, the International Sugar Council announced here today. Delegatas representing 45 Importing and exporting sugar countries have been meeting here for the past two days to make a reassessment of
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      Lock icon Car making operation back to normal
      84 9 DETROIT, Sun. (UPI) General Motors' car making operation will be almost back to normal by Monday, a GM spokesman has said. The spokesman said only assembly plants at Los Angeles and Fremont. California. will be idle due to a parts shortage caused by a
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      177 9 MARSEILLES, San. The French refrigerated cargoship Oyonnax (4.950 tons gross), described as the most automatic shin In the world, has a Rank Xerox 813 cooler on board to enable Captain Frances to communicate easily with his crew of 25. Here Cant. Frances is seen mak'ng a
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      314 10  -  tfrultleas attempt to integrate volatile S'pore under the PAP 'SZSm M- rpHE Federation of Malaya, while still experiencing racial tensions, also displayed remarkable and (in the eyes of many observers) surprising stability. "Among the contributory factors were the relative economic prosperity of Malaya and the sheer necessity of
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      757 10 ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER JR. dedicates his book THE BITTER HERITAGE Vietnam fir American Democracy 1941-66 (Andre Deutsch. 127 pp. 15s net) "for those fighting in Vietnam." And why not? As he points out, the U.S. has 400,000 of her troops in Vietnam.
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      122 10 Two novels in brief and I mean brief. Whitman is the soul of America. His poetry shows his love for freedom, space, democracy. "Whitman appeals to the masses: it is for that reason that I believe he will be acceptable in China today in many of
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      444 10 THE Borneo Literature Bureau has announced the publication of fire books, three in lban one in Malay, aid one in English. They are: 'ljau Berani' (Iban) by Jacob Imang; 'Tigabelas Bengkah Mimpi' (Iban) by Benedict Sandin; Temati Raja Ular' (Iban) by Denis Guang;
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    224 11 Bowden says Britain will hold considerable forces in the Far East SINGAPORE, Sun. There hat been no definite decision on any further reduction of British Forces in the Far East, although troops ranging from 5,000 to 10,000 had been mentioned in the British Parliament. This
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    98 11 SINGAPORE. Sun. The nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the Royal Navy, H.M.S. Valiant sailed into Singapore this afternoon. The trip is undertaken to Gin valuable experience of r operational qualities on long sea voyages.... The Valiant commanded by Commander Peter Herbert came in from Mauritius where her erew
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    186 11 'JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. A. Government caretaker's relentless search for a pet ended here today when he stumbled on a 12-foot python near the 15-storey flats along Jalan Lumba Kuda. Enche Jamaludin bin Omar, 35, a caretaker and father of eight, was
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    25 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Malaysian Soprano Miss Florence Pong left for Tokyo this morning to take part in the first world-wide Madame Butterfly Competition.
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    262 11 SINGAPORE. Sun. The Minister for Finance, Mr. Llm Kim San will officiate at the swearing-in ceremony of the 34th Session's general and executive committee of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, on Mar. 15. The president. Mr. Soon Peng Yam made this announcement at the Chamber's
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    382 11 JOffORE BAHRU, Son. A warning against exploiting the language Issue ha« been given to "undesirable elements" in the State. The warning came from the Mentri Besar, Dato Haji Othman bin Mohamed Sa'at yesterday. He pledged whole-hearted support for the Central
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    245 11 SINGAPORE, Sun. An attractive runner-up of the "Miss Tourism Slngapura" contest Miss Ang Chin Geok. 24, has left for Australia and New Zealand by BOAC to sell and promote the theme of the international tourist year. Lovely twenty year old Miss Wee Hong Neo, the 2nd
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    220 11 SINGAPORE, Sun: The new "one-way traffic system" embracing Orchard Road. Clemenceau Avenue, Stamford Road, Bras Basah Road, Hifh Street, Hill Street, Coleman Street went Into full operation at dawn this morning. Traffic policemen manned all important junctions to help motorists to solve any immediate confusion which
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    306 11 Bargains, and special discounts are being offered by Singapore's leading shopping centres for tourists, housewives and general shoppers. For the tourist: For souvenirs, curios. Arts and Crafts of every description what better place than ASIA CRAFTS, the fully air conditioned souvenir-hunting paradise at 40, Upper
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    52 11 BRUNEI TOWN. Brunei. Sun. (Reuter) A Malay-sian-Singapore Airlines twin Pioneer crashed at Limbang Airfield in Sarawak today, according to reports reaching here. Limbang lies 15 miles south east of Brunei Town. The crashed Pioneer aircraft was returning from an interior flight, it was learnt. One passenger was
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    273 11 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Pioneer Industries Employees' Union has been colled on to continue ploying its port in paving the way towards economic progress and future security of the Republic. The call was made by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of
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      351 12 1 could still remember the expedition vividly as I look back to the last vacation. It was early In the morning. the weather being fine and ideal for outing. We, a group of nine boys, carrying our knapsacks, were climbing Gnnong Angsi. At first, we followed the
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      429 12 TUST think of all the millions of hungry people in India and Indonesia —we could have been among them. The thought of what help I can offer towards relieving their situation brings around the subject of money. Should I be rich enough to merely help
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      361 12 VUHEN primitive men wished to communicate with someone at a distance or leave a permanent record, they drew pictures on a stone or a bone. When the first picture message was read, reading was born. How long ago, no one seems to know. To read such
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      205 12 market is a fascin a ting place for everybody. We can And various articles such as clothes, books, toys and shoes at economical prices in a night market. A night market comes to •my area every Sunday evening. On such a night, .the area where the hawkers display
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      519 12 OHOULD examinations be abolised? This question is often in the minds of students, parents, teachers and education authorities. Most people are against examinations and thinking over it, I agree with them. I do not think examinations are necessary in education. As a result of
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      567 12 AN'E night, I did not have a sound sleep. I passed the night rolling in bed and dreaming. I had many dreams, but when I got up in the morning, I remembered only one of them. In that dream, I had attended a wedding reception
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      192 12 pVERYTHING that exists In this world has its bad and good points. Likewise, fire can be Man's best friend or his deadly enemy. However, Man should know how to utilise it for the good. Fire was discovered in the prehistoric era. It was produced by
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      504 13 I would like to begin by introducing myself, I am known as Locomotive, a student of the Malaysia Ghosts College. I am one hundred and fifteen years old. Below is my weekly diary taken in January. Monday 21st. As I was go-tig to
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      256 13 Last month I visited an exhibition held at a Malay Primary School. The exhibition was produced by farmers living in the surrounding kampongs and held over a week. My mother accompanied me to the exhibition on the second day. Our first Impression on entering
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      141 13 DURING leisurely hours it is quite natural for people to have some form of entertainment. And most people find it relaxing. There are many forms of entertainment such as dancing cinema going, bowling and many others. I like listening to music best of all. I
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      388 13 ADVERTISING is a big-time market in the world today. There are thousands of big and small advertising: agencies catering for the numerous commercial organisations and enterprises keen to promote their products to the people. There are several patterns of advertising. The
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      123 13 CHINATOWN is the 'hub' of the glittering shopping arcade in Singapore. In the day the crowded streets serve as a market, and when night falls the mile down Chinatown Is converted into a "nocturnal fairyland". Chinatown has also its tourist attractions and is locally
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      777 13 TNDEED, any sensible person who visits my hometown will not hesitate to condemn the surroundings as mast unhygenlc and most unfitting for human beings... the twisting and turning roads, much punctured with pot-holes.. the filthy streets infested by hawkers.. .the drains which are
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    269 14 WIGAN, England, Sun. (Reuter) —Seven goals by fullback Pierre Lacaxe gave France victory over Britain by 23 points (seven goals, three tries) to 13 points (two goals, three tries) in rugby league international here today. Britain led eight-two during the early stages before Lacaze changed
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    58 14 SEREMBAN, Sun— Negri Sembilan Hockey Association has warned their affliates and council members that in keeping with the new rules of the association any member or affliate who absents from three consecutive council meetings will cease to be a member of the NSHA council. The only exemption
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    135 14 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Lee Kin Tat (Singapore) won the men's singles title in the Middlesex Open badminton tournament for the seventh time since 1959, by beating Scottish international Bob McCoig 15-7 15-5, in the final here last night. Lee's victory, however, was not
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    66 14 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Results of rugby league matches played today were: League matches: Blackpool Borough 9, Liverpool City 10. Bradford Northern 13, Hallfax 23. Bramley 10, Barrow 9. Hull Kingston Rovers 17, Featherstone Rovers 17. Keighley 12, Leigh 15. Leeds 26. St. Helens 20. Wakefield Trinity
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    120 14 KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sun. (AP) Australia's Tony Roche won the finals of the men's singles In the international lawn tennis competition at St. Andrew Club here yesterday when he beat Yugoslav Nlkl Pllic 6-4. 6-4. The women's singles went to Frances Francoise Durr who defeated Mrs.
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    99 14 BANGKOK, Sun. (Reuter) Thai world flyweight boxing champion Chartchai Chionoi is spending a week in a Buddhist monastery near here to learn how to dispel nightmares he has been having in recent weeks. Chionoi shaved his head and put on saffron robes before entering a
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    2153 14 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Queen's Pork Rongers yesterday became the first third division team to win the English football League Cup when they pulled back a two-goal halftime deficit to beat the holders, West Bromwich Albion, 3-2 in a final watched by
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    207 14 JOHANNESBURG, Sun. (Reuter) Graeme Pollock, 23-year-old Springbok star, made a superb 132 not out in 140 minutes to give the South African Invitation XI a three-wicket win over the Australian cricketers in a one-day 50-over match here yesterday. The Australians, in the final
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    2541 15 Penang race results SPECTACULAR $l3l UPSET BY NOBLE CHOICE PENANG, Sun. Satellite II (Harbridge) ond Jerry's Special (Pretty) fought a terrific finish to share the honours in a deadheat in the Penang Cup run over ten furlongs here this afternoon, concluding day of the Penang
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    53 15 H. SUGIMOTO of Japan is seen here attempting to putt at the decisive second hole in the sudden death play off. Suglmoto's chip from just outside the left bunker crossed the pin and landed slightly over the green. It cost him the title. On the left Is Ben Arda who
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    335 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The retiring president of the Selangor Shooting Association, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, said today that he had every confidence in the future of the association, which he described as a premier association in Malaysia. He was hopeful that
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    173 15 ARCADIA. California. Sun. (Reuter) Ruken. a California-bred brown Colt ridden by Fernando Alvarez, yesterday won the 139.900 dollar (49,600-sterling) Santa Anita Derby here, the major U.S. West Coast test for three-year-olds. A length and a half behind was Tumble Wind, the favourite, with Sand Devil,
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    52 15 SEREMBAN, Sun. Fifteen teams have indicated that thev would take part in the NSHA six-a-side hockey competition to be played here shortly. They include the NS Ceylonese Association, N.S. Police. N.S. Telecoms. N.S. Rangers (2). N.S.C.R.C. (2), Harimau Sports Club (2), N.S. Club (3).
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    82 15 OAKLAND, California, Sun. ißeuter) Tracy Smith of Oregon broke Australian Ron Clarke's world indoor record for three miles here last night with a clocking of 13 minutes. 16.2 seconds at the U.S. Amateur Athletic Union Indoor Athletics Championships here. The 21-year-old Smith knocked more than
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    84 15 SANTOS, Brazil, Sun. (Reuter) Pele. Brazil's world-famous soccer star yesterday extended his contract with Santoe Football Club for a further six months until August. The extension of Pele's contract puts paid temporarily to recent rumours that the star of three World Cups would transfe.: to
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    52 15 PENANG. Sun. The Penang State Junior Swimming Championship will be held at the Chinese Swimming Club here on April 1 and 2. The events will start at 2.30 p.rr. on both days. There will he 24 events on the first day and 18 events on the
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    1280 16  -  'SUDDEN DEATH' PLAYOFF DECIDES WINNER By R.V. Lingam,Low Teo Ping SINGAPORE, Sun. Thirty-eight yearold Filipino veteran, Ben Arda today became the first Asian to win the Singapore Open Golt Championship in a "sudden death playoff with H. Sugimoto of Japan at the 207-yards par three second
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    114 16 SINGAPORE, Sun. Ben Arda of the Philippines after today's victory in the Singapore Open Golf Championships, the second leg of the Far East Circuit, leads in the Dunlop $2,000 Circuit Prize award. The placings (after the second-leg): Ben Arda (14+22) 36; Lu
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    288 16  -  TAY TO TALK TERMS IN H.K. By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Sun: The F.A. of Singapore is to initiate top moves to bring 'box office" soccer attractions to the Republic in May/ June this year. The vice-president of FAS, Mr. Tay Soo Yong,
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    64 16 MALACCA. Sun. Selangor women clinched the title in the five-state women's hockey carnival which ended here today. Selangor. who won all her four matches, today beat Malacca 2-0 to put the issue beyond doubt. Yesterday, Selangor beat Singapore 3-1. Negri was runner-up, followed by Singapore and
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    397 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Malaysian Government Services and Recreational Council is taking steps this year to invite ASA countries, Thailand and The Philippines, to compete in the Government Services triangular meet here. I This was disclosed by Tan Sri Jamil
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    482 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Malaysia's national champion, S. A. A/man. won the the men's singles title when he put up a magnificient display to beat A. Rahman Bakar 7-5. 6-2 in the Selar.gor Lawn Tennis championships played at the Selangor Club courts here today Azman who
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    97 16 SYDNEY, Sun. (Reuter) The recent Philippines Open Golf Championship P "a tremendous boost" to gou throughout Asia. v et f. ra Australian professional N° r man Von Nida wrote toaa.v in his column in the Syd n<,v "Sunday Telegraph." Von Nida said
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    278 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.—Singapore Joint Services, playing their usual four-two-four game, beat Malaysian Armed Forces 2-0 in the second round of the FAM Cup at the Merdeka Stadium tonight, thus qualifying to meet Singapore in the semi-finals. Joint Services playing in
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    72 16 TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) World junior welterweight champion Sandro Lopopolo of Italy will stake his title against hard hitting Paul Takeshi Fuji of Honolulu in Tokyo. April 13 the Sankei today. Fuji, 26, who turned professional in Japan in April, 1964 and is a member of the
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    155 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun The standard of basketball in Malaysia is far behind that of other countries, and this is because of the lack of Government support. The game is thriving solely due to private fondness. This is stated in the report on the Malaysian National
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    44 16 NEW YORK. Sun. (Reuter) Australia's Rod Lavar and Pancho Gonzales of California advanced to today's final in the professional tennis tournament here with semi-final victories last night. Laver eliminated Earl Buchholz of Missouri, while Gonzales beat Spain's Andres Gimeno.
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    50 16 MUAR, Sun. The Johore State table-tennis association will hold its second annual Johore State men and women tabletennis championships. The two-day tournament which will be held at the Kluang Diamond Jubilee Hall has been tentatively fixed on April 22 and 23. Entries close on March
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