Eastern Sun, 11 January 1968

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  • 23 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 2 No. 526 Thursday, 11 January 1968. MC (P) 0050 Price 15 cents
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  • 1271 1  -  Tunku to Marcos: We can map out a new era if we pool our limitless collective potential By Tai Sing Onn J£uala Lumpur, Wednesday—Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman tonight spoke of the truly limitless “collective potential” of South-East Asian nations to map out a new
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  • 68 1 NEW YORK Wed (Reuter) Louis Block, a 57-year-old retired fireman, died from complications early today. seven-and-a-half hours after receiving the transplant of a woman s heart in a New York hospital. His was the world's fifth human heart transplant operation here. Doctors at the Maimontdes
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  • 26 1 CANBERRA. Wed (Reuter)— Senator John Grey Gorton was sworn in as Australia's New Prime Minister today by the Gover-nor-General Lord Casey.
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  • 347 1  -  By BEN D'CUNHA Kuala lumpur, Wed. A British pull-out from Malaysia and Singapore by 1971 and the British troop pull-out from Terendak Base in Malacca by 1969 appear likely. These were the indications here following the visit of Commonwealth Secretary. Mr George
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  • 38 1 ATHENS. Wed. (UPI).— A 55-year-old woman underwent an emergency operation on Monday for the removal of a thermometer which she swallowed in the mistaken belief it was a drug. the Athens news agency said today.
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  • 313 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman disclosed today that he had no intention of going to Britain to have further talks with British Premier Harold Wilson on the proposed British defence econo- mies. “I don’t think we
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 556 2  -  Across the table and on the golf course By MUSA SCULLY and KEN STANLEY Kuala lumpur, Wed. Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, on his second day Here today, had the opportunity for on exchange of views with top Malaysian leaders, on various subjects, all contributing towards the
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    • 706 2 Kuala lumpur. wed. Visiting Philippines President Marcos tonight said his visit to Malaysia should lay at rest all speculations of his country's desire to draw closer to the countries of South-east Asia Speaking at the Government banquet for him and his wife at Parliament
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    • 190 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. A bumboat, carrying 540.000 worth of rubber bales caught fire this afternoon It was npar a group of other bumboats berthed at the bank of the Singapore River directly opposite the Marine Police Station. It took the firemen one hour
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    • 398 2 SINGAPORE. Wed The City Mobile Immunisation Team will he carrying out a further programme of immunisations in various places beginning next month. The team will he visiting the various places on the dates and times shown below to give small pox. diphtheria, tetanus, whooping-cough
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    • 83 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed A police party, led by the AOCPD here. ASP Omar bin Mohamed. today swung into action as a result of a brutal murder of a housewife of six last night. The victim. Chee Miow Khin. 38, was slashed all over the
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    • 90 2 The Filipino hat is nice, we agree, and so is pretty 19-year-old Maridi Henson, who is seen trying it on here. You can meet both at the Philippine Informa- tion Exhibition at the Hotel Merlm lobby in Kuala Lumpur. The exhibition has been nut up hv the Philippines Fmfiassy in
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    • 235 2  -  By C. F. LEE Kuala lumpur, wed. Unbelievable! This was how President F F. Marcos of the Philippines described the progress made by Malaysia under her national and rural development programme. He gave this compliment after receiving a one-and-a-half hour briefing on the programme
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    • 318 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. Participation in extracurricular activities and the results of physical tests should be considered in the selection of student teachers. These were two of the points proposed by discussion groups at the Teacher Education Conference. today, held at the Teachers’ Training College. The discussions
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    • 93 3 SINGAPORE, We d. A total of 242 people was killed in road accidents last year. Singapore Traffic Police figures showed today. While the number of people who died in road accidents was almost the same as in 1966 (244). the number of cases of road
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    • 86 3 SINGAPORE. Wed Dr G D James, a well-known Singapore preacher and General Director of Malaysia Evangelistic Fellowship, will be the speaker of a four-night evangelistic meeting at Te.ok Blangah Chinese Methodist Church at the junction of Morse Road and Wishart Road. 3$ m.s., Telok Blangah Road here
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    • 36 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. A 21-vear-o’.d woma n who fell from the first floor of Block 52. Prince Philip Avenue, was rushed to the General Hospital where her condition was described as “serious" last night.
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    • 118 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. —An annual meeting of Japanese trade envoys in South-East Asia opened today at the residence of the Japanese Ambassador here, Mr. K. Voshida. It is understood that they will have an exchange of views on trade and economic co-operation with Asian
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    • 63 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. Mr Lee Choon Eng was elected president at the annua! general meeting of Hoover Park and Neighbourhood Residents’ Association recently. Messrs. Yue Hock Yin and Tan Kam Yang were elected vice-presidents. Mr. P.K. Menon was elected general secretary and Mr. Huang Chong Wan. assistant secretary. Mr.
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    • 33 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Republic’s First Lady. Puan Neor Aishah. will attend a Hari Raya party organised by the Young Women’s Muslim Association to he held on Jan- 13 at Haigsville Dn«t
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    • 44 3 SINGAPORE. Wed.—The funeral of the 'ate Mr. Moh Lee Chiang will be held on Friday at 1 pm. The Swee Kee Chicken Rice Restaurant, of which he was the part-proprietor, will be closed till Saturday. Mr. Moh died two days ago.
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    • 426 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Singapore Musical Society will present “Kam Kee Yong String Orchestra” on Jan. 21 at 8.45 p.m. at the Singapore Conference Hall. Soprano Miss Soh Yean Chin will be featured in the programme. The String Orchestra was founded in 1965
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    • 637 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Automobile Association of Singapore has urged more private and industrial organisations to lend support and help resolve the wide variety of problems facing society. The editorial in the latest Issue of “The Highway”, official organ of
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    • 88 3 SINGAPORE. Wed A seminar on Malay education will be held at the University of Singapore from Jan. 13 to 15. It is organised by the Kesatuan Guru-Guru Melayu Singapura and the Lembaga Tetap Congress. The seminar will be of great interest to the public, especially the
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    • 60 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. The meat of a buffalo which was seized by the Ministry of Health Disposal Squad, was distributed to one hospital and three charitable institutions yesterday. This brings a total of animals seized and disposed of under the Cattle Ordinance (1964) to 121. The
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    • 141 3 10 a m -5.30 p.m.: Exhibition of children’s books at Lecture Hall of the National Library. Stamford Road. 10 am.-6 p.m.: Chinese painting and calligraphy exhibition at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Hill Street. fi.3o p.m.: A talk on “Spirituality in Everyday Life” by Ven Sariputra at the
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    • 841 4  -  Imelda: I don’t feel like having left home By MAUREEN LEE ITUALA LUMPUR, Wed. “I felt from the very start that I had ne\er left home’’ this was what Mrs. Imelda Marcos said here today on the second dav of the State visit of her husband. the
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    • 345 10 CANBERRA, Wed. (Reuter). —Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has appealed to the new Australian Prime Minister, Senator John Gorton, for support in his opposition to Britain's defence cuts. A spokesman for the Australian leader said Mr. Lee had
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    • 474 10 WELLINGTON. Wed (Reuter) A five-power conference on the defence of South-East Asia will probably be held in a few months as a result of the current whirlwind tour of the British Commonwealth Secretary. Mr. George Thomson. Mr. Thomson said on his arrival at Wellington
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    • 266 10 SINGAPORE. Wed The Chief Justice, Mr. Justice We® Chong Jin. todav set aside the conviction and sentence on a former Police Constable and ordered a re-trial The former Police Constable, Quek Swee Sam. was convicted by the lower court on a charge of attempted extortion and
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    • 68 10 new Premier SINGAPORE, Wed. The Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuon Yew, has sent a congratulatory message to Mr. John Gorton on his election os Prime Minister of Australia. Mr. Lee's message, sent last night, reads Congratulations on your election lo leadership. May the links between us
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    • 329 10 SINGAPORE. Wed A Police Constable todav told the Fourth District Court that the Reserve t’nit troop had to use tear-gas to flush out demonstrators who were hurling missiles at them from a stationary bus. The incident occurred at Geylang Road on May
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    • 78 10 SINGAPORE. Wed The Singapore branch of the Eastern Photo Company was officially opened today, with a large gathering of guests present. The company specialises in audio equipment. From left in this Eastern Sun photo are: Messrs. Pek Kim Cheng (Director, Singapore). Pak Keam Hong
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    • 58 10 SINGAPORE, Wed The People's Emporium Ltd. will open its departmental store at Geylang Road Tan.iong Katong Road on Sunday. The opening ceremony at 2 p.m. will be officiated by Mr Soon Peng Yam. President of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. A cocktail party will be
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    • 50 10 SINGAPORE. Wed A 19-year-old boy was found drowned in the sea in front of a night-club in Tanjong Rhu this morning. Police are looking for the relatives and friends of the boy to report to the nearest police station Police do not suspect any foul play.
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    • 505 10 Wed. (Reuter) Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew flying here for urgent defence talks this weekend, has little chance of getting drastic revisions in Britain's new plans to hasten its military withdrawals from the For East, informed sources said today. Mr
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    • 156 11 CEREMBAN, Wed. Copper wire thieves hove struck again after a 73 hours' lay-off. The extensive "Operation Copper Wire" launched here five days ago by the Negri Sembilan Police have not brought in any re- suits so far. Last night despite police vigilance the
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    • 236 11 PENANG. Wed —Three robbers in dark glasses, armed with daggers, escaped with 52.870 in cash, liquor cigarettes and jewellery from a sundry goods shop in Mount Erskine Road yesterday. They entered the shop on the pretext of purchasing sweets. The proprietor. Tan Hock Hast. 49. said
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    • 62 11 SIRE MB AN. Wed. Thieves got away with a toiler value-* a 4 $1 500 las 4 .night from 4 he work site of the new hospital here Another report .cf theft wa< reported when jewellery valued a 4 s6*l2 was stolen from the labour lines a'
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    • 51 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— The MiruS 4 er o' Agriculture and Co-Operatives. Haji Mohd Ghazali rin Haji Jawi, will open a seminar for about ion committee members of the Midlands Co-Operaive Union Ltd., from Selangor and Negri Sembilan. at the training room. MCIS Building. 36. Jalan Ampang on Jan
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    • 94 11 SEREMBAN. Wed A New racket involving bogus Customs officers has been brought to light here today. Several liquor shops in town have been visited by a group of youths posing as Customs officers They demanded checks on liquor licences and stock at the premises Requests
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    • 84 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Balloting for stall sites and squatter pitches will take place on Monday at 2 pm. in the Jalan Pasar Market for the allocation of 183 s all sites on Se-vice Road in front of premises Nos. 2-88. Jalan Pasar Bahru for
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    • 42 11 PENANG. Wed. School textbooks, stolen during the holidays, were discovered in second-hand book-shop* here yesterday. According to the police. 25 had been recovered and investigations were proceeding. They were reported stolen from the Technical Institute in Green Lane
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    • 339 11 KOTA KINABALU, Wed. About forty teacher trainees from West Malaysia have been selected for a two-year training course at the Gava College here. The course is scheduled to begin early nex* month and the trainees will arrive here by the end of
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    • 134 11 KOTA KINABALU. Wed For the first ten months of 1957, more than 22.000 school children had been given anti-polio immunisation bv the Medical Department. A spokesman for the Ministry ol Health said that during the same period about. 3.000 school children had received
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    • 65 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed— A Malaysian P ::ce armament expert. Chief Inspector, A isvanathan, left police headquarters here today on transfer to Penang. He will be the armament officer for Penang. Kedah and Perils. His successor here will he Che Salleh bin Ismail from Kedah A keen sportsman.
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    • 48 11 PENANG. Wed Fire broke out in the kitchen of a bakery in Dato Kramat Road early this morning Damage was estimated at $2.00n. Neighbours wcke up the proprietor's wife. Madam Lau Kooi Gaik. 37. who was sleeping wi h her four children on the first floor
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    • 102 11 KAMPAR. Wed. The results of the Lower School Cert'ficate of Education in certain schools were poor because some teachers spent more time on union activities than the classroom, the Assistant Minister of Education. Mr. Lee Siok Yew. said tcd»y. The students also became victims cf
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    • 48 11 THE five young artists at Exposisi Quintet, British Council Centre. Kuala Lumpur on Monday. They are (from left): Ching Ata; See Siew Choo; Ho Soo Choo: Chong Kwai Kuen and Kee Choon Sing, all 18 Their exhibition which opened on Monday will last until Jan. 13.
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    • 300 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Courts are concerned only with the administration of justice and not with the policy of the Government. Tan Sri Justice H T. Ong made this observation in the Federal Court yesterday during an appeal by the Deputy Public Prosecutor.
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    • 83 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Institute of Public Relations. Malaysia, today announced it would shortly launch the first professional course in public relations in the country. The institute's newsletter said the type and length of the course would be decided in the light of the response
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    • 95 11 KUALA LUMPUR Wed.— Thieves broke into two premises here and got away with $1,350 in cash and valuables between last night and this morning. Case one: The Lee Guan Esso Service Station at Jalan Campbell lost $531. Also missing was a wristwatch valued at $3O. Thieves got
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    • 75 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Two armed youths held up a salesman. Tan Hong Ho, of Jalan Sitang, of $295 and cigarettes worth $290 at Jalan Duta yesterday afternoon. They also took away his wrist-watch valued at $5O. Tan was travelling along the highway when the two youths
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    • 60 11 SUNGEI PATANI, Wed.— The Sungei Patani Branch of the Kedah Blood Transfusion Association will be holding its 1967 raffle draw for blood donors on Friday at the Ibrahim Secondary School here. At the same time medals will be presented to blood donors by Mrs S. Duckworth, wife
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    • 63 11 SEREMBAN. Wed. Two motor-cars were stolen here last night. A Volkswagen bearing registration number NC 3571 was found missing from Rahang Square. The car belongs to Mr. V. Sivalingam, a clerk in the Drrinage and Irrigation Department. here. Another Morris Minor 100 (NA 8635) belonging to Mr.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 88 5 SAO PAULO. Brazil. Wed. (Reuter) Olga Pereira Dos Santos had police, firemen and all her neighbours searching for more than a week for quadruplets which she said had been kidnapped from under her nose in a hospital. But the phantom babies. three boys and one girl,
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    • 119 5 PORTLAND. Naval Base. England. Wed. (Reuter) The United States. Britain. Holland and Norway have assigned warships to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's new permanent standing force, it was announced today. The force, made up of US.S. Holder (2.425 tons), an escort destroyer. HM S.
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    • 213 5 PHNOM PENH, Cambodia. Wed. ißeuten. President Johnson's special Envoy. Mr Chester Bowles, will have his second round of talks with Cambodian Prime Minister Mr. Son Sann here today. Mr. Bow es began talks with Mr. Son Sann yesterday in what was officially
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    • 460 5 State of Great Britain: LONDON, Wed (Reuter) Two Labour parliamentarians hope to see Singapore Premier Lee Kuan Yew when he comes to London this weekend to tell him they oppose proposed British defence cuts in the Far East. They are Mr. Roy Roebuck (Harrow) and
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    • 524 5 AUSSIE PM SWORN IN TODAY SAN ANTONIO. Texas. Wed. (Reuter) President Johnson looks forward to working "very closely” with Senator John Gorton, the New Australian Prime Minister-designate, the White House says. Senator John Grey Gorton. 56. was being sworn In todav as Australia's
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    • 110 5 HONG KONG. Wed. Twice as many girls as boys ran away from home in Hong Kong last year, according to a senior police inspector here. Inspector John Collins, officer in charge of the Police Juvenile Liaison Office, said more than 8n teenagers who ran away from home last
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    • 366 5 SAN ANTONIO. Texas. 1 night that the dollar must ruptcy of our own prosper! to our own.” He linked the strength of the dollar with the administration’s new programme to redress the U.S. balance of payment deficit and called on American business for support.
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    • 117 5 TOKYO. Wed. Three teenage girls in a central Japanese city became so fascinated by pop musicians that they turned to prostitution to subsidise their favourites. police said. Police in Nagoya reported that three of nine teenage girls recently taken into protective custody for running
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    • 417 6 200 DIE IN FIGHTS HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) Hungry Kwangtung province villagers rummaging for food touched off street fighting in which more than 200 persons were killed, the Ming Pao newspaper reported today. The paper said Red Chinese soldiers had to
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    • 168 6 W A S H I NGTON Wed (UPI) Official American sources said yesterday the United States has decided to provide Thailand with surfaced o-Air Hawk Missiles. The officials would not reveal when or how many missiles will be delivered But they did indicate that
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    • 58 6 VALPARAISO. Indiana Wed. (UPI) —Thieves broke into St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church early yesterday and finished a job they apparently started late last year stealing the goldadorned tabernacle containing the Communion Host. About three weeks ago, burglars broke into the church and moved the tabernacle
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    • 426 6 SAIGON, Wed. (Reuter) Twenty-nine American helicopters were destroyed or damaged today by Vietcong who slipped past American defensive position at a (JAMS. Kease early today, a South Vietnamese military spokesman said here. Several of the Vietcong. weighted down by the weight of the explosives they
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    • 111 6 PARIS. Wed (LTI) South Vietnamese Foreign Minister Dr. Tran Van Do remained in seclusion last night waiting for the North Vietnamese representative in Paris to make the first move for possible negotiations on a Vietnam settlement. But there were no apparent indications anyone from
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    • 26 6 o?."'S!b D m Br,d,e T he R d Rl H,„», folio wine „,lk„ F 5 Thundorohlof 0 ,l„„ -sasa s-wjsss yawsa? tsamsssi
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    • 144 6 WELLINGTON. Wed. i R«y ter) N4w Zealand Prime Minister Mr Keith Holyoake. said today he looked forward to working closely with Australia’* new Prime Minister. Senator John Gorton. In a formal message to Senator Gorton. Mr. Holyoake sent congratulations and good wishes
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    • 114 6 KUCHING Wed (UPI) Italian journalist Soldi Fioring drowned over the weekend when the speedboat in which he was travelling hit a submerged log and capsized in the Reiang River 150 miles northeast of Kuching, a police spokesman said today. The spokesman said three other Italian tourist*, a
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    • 52 6 SANTIAGO Chile. Wed. (UPI) Chile's Cen'ral Bank yesterday devalued the Escudo in the first devaluation of 1968. The bank dollar went op from 5.79 to 5.90 Escudos, buyers, and 5.80 to 5.91. sellers The brokerage dollar went up from 670 to 684 Escudos, buyers, and 6.72 to 6
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    • 199 6 S. Union France seek joint spaceshot MOSCOW Wed. (UPI) The Soviet Union and France yesterday formalised plans for a joint spaceshot around the moon late this year, according to a French spokesman. The spokesman said the “Grande Commission” for Franco-Soviet commercial, cultural and scientifictechnical co-operation also wrapped up plans for:
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    • 154 6 MOUNT POCONO. Pennsylvania, Wed (UPI) The mother of 19-year-old Michael Lindner, one of four US navy enlisted men granted political asylum by Sweden, was “delighted” at the news yesterday “I'm delighted Sweden has taken this step”, said Mrs. Charles Lindner, who was contacted at
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    • 116 6 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) New Yorks Governor Nelson Rockefeller has admitted It appeared former Vice President Mr. Richard M. Nixon was ‘•well out in front” in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination. Mr. Rockefeller, one of the leaders of the liberal wing of the
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    • 38 6 DANANG: Senator Ted Kennedy talks with a doctor in a refugee ramp, 20 miles south of Da Nang recently. The camp holds 33.000 refugees. Sen. Kennedy is in South Vietnam for a fact finding mission.
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    • 263 6 NEW YORK, Wed. (UPI) Mr Howard C. Johnson has been named President and Chief executive of the World Banking Corp. it was announced yesterday by Mr Robert B Anderson. Chairman of the multi-national banking and investment institution, which has headquarters in Nassau. Mr. Johnson comes
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    • 77 6 HONG KONG. Wed (Reuter) The Cambodian Foreign Minister Prince Norodom Phourissara recently paid a secret visit to Hanoi for talks with North Vietnamese leaders. the official North Vietnam news agency reported tonight. The agency said that while in Hanoi Prince Norodom Phourissara met Mr. Nguyen Duy
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    • 139 6 TOKYO Wed (UPI).—An American Marine who had absconded three months ago because he thought the Vietnam war was ‘‘silly” yesterday gave himself up to American military authorities in Yokohama. Private First Class Peter Vail Wiggins. 21. walked into the Military Police Headquarters at 5 p.m. in the
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    • 104 6 Religion—-for-peace conference in Delhi NEW DELHI. Wed. (Reuter) —Representatives of the world’s major religions arrived here for a six-dav international inter-religious symposium On peace starting today. The object of the conference is to discuss the contribution religions can make to world peace through the creation of world-wide public opinion against
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    • 115 6 SAN FRANCISCO. Wed. <UPI)—A newspaper blackout in San Francisco hampered numerous businesses vesterdav o n the fifth dav d f a strike that has shut down the city's two major dailies. Meanwhile a judge issued an order prohibiting strikers from blocking entrances to the newspaper plants but
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    • 91 6 DANANG, Vietnam. Wed (UPI) A Vietcortg mine blew up a civilian bus today killing at least six Vietnamese and wounding 22, military spokesmen said. The report carrying the corrected casualty figure came from I Corps headquarters. which earlier had said 25 oersons died and
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    • 463 7 TOKYO. Wed. (UPI) George Brown, Britain’s outspoken Foreign Minister, stood up for the United States in Japan on the question of how to secure peace in Vietnam. “I intend to stick closely to my notes,” said the portly diplomat, fingering a copy of his
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    • 266 7 UNITED NATIONS. Wed. (UPI) “Meeting of minds" between Israel and the Arabs is not enough to attain peace In the Middle East. Israeli ambassador Gideon Rafael said last night What is needed is a “meeting of bodies" around a conference Mr. Rafael made his remark at
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    • 95 7 BURNLEY. England. (UPI) Prime Minister Harold Wilson welcomed the mushrooming “I’m hacking Britain" campaign and said it should be extended to everyone. “What we want is 'Back Britain.’ not hack biting Mr Wilson told a dinner audience of government workers and businessmen Mr. Wilson said the idea that
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    • 422 7 Vatican calls the shots NEW YORK. Wed (Reuter) The New York Times said today that Pope Paul's campaign to end the war in Vietnam has evoked a response where it could be expected to produce a maximum effect among South Vietnam's
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    • 114 7 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Ceylon-born Dr. Emil Savundra. 43. former head ©f a London insurance company that collapsed with a deficit about £3m. went on trial for fraud here yesterday. Also faring trial was Mr. Stuart de Quincy Walker. 41. British co-director of the Fire. Auto and
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    • 48 7 CATANIA. Sicily. Wed (CPI) A new crater on the Eastern slope of Mount Etna has begun to ooze steam and lava but snow and poor visibility prevented officials from investigating fissure. The volcano ha* been rumbling with renewed activity for almost a year.
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    • 41 7 TOKYO: British Foreien Secretary George Brown (right) shakes hand with Japan’s Foreign Minister Taken Miki before their two-hour and 25-minute economic talks on Monday. They devoted a little more than half of their meeting to a discussion of Vietnam. UPI radiophoto.
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    • 439 7 LONDON, Wed (UPI) Writer Malcolm Muggerldge has compared the storing of spare human organs for transplant operations with Nazi atrocities. Mr. Muggeridge, speaking on a British Broadcasting Corn (BBC) television programme, said the thought of keeping human “spare parts” was “deeply repugnant” to him
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    • 220 7 NEW DELHI. Wed. (Reuter) The recently-freed Kashmiri leader. Sheikh Abdullah, said today there was a danger of a small incident sparking off a big conflagration while Indian and Pakistani armies faced each other across the cease-fire line in Kashmir- Addressing a meeting here he
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    • 106 7 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Britain and France today signed an agreement for joint production of 400 super-sonic Jaguar striketrainer military aircraft. The contract is estimated to be worth about £2oom. The agreement was signed here for Britain by Defence Minister Denis Healey and John Stonehouse. Minister of
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    • 209 7 MONTREAL. Canada, (CPI) A marijuana raid on a downtown church yesterday led to the closing of a gathering place of Montreal's hippies, and brought on the disillusionment of a young priest who was trying to instil the ways of discipline in the "Flower children.” Montreal
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    • 114 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol yesterday urged young American Jew's to go to Israel and help him build the country. “We want you to secure, to defend and build the land we need you.” Mr. Eshkol told students at the Yeshiva University.
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    • 72 7 COLOGNE. West Germany. Wed. (Reuter) A 10-year-old boy kiiled his father with a hatchet last night after his mother had been beaten, the public prosecutor's office here said today. The couple, who were divorced. still shared a flat. The father was relaxing in
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    • 269 7 BRITAIN AND C-MART BONN, Wed. (UPI). The British government has rejected proposals by Bonn that it accept a form of associate membership in the Common Market as away around the French veto on full membership. Associate status was suggested by France thrice, and thrice rejected Lord
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    • 74 7 MADRID, Wed (UPI) Philippine Ambassador to Spain Luis Gonzalez May presided ox-er the opening of the Spamsh-Philippine Chamber of Commerce. The Commerce group was set up as a result of the success of the Philippine exhibit in the Seville Trade Fair last year. Though
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    • 145 7 EFTA take stock after devaluation GENEVA. Wed. (Reuter) —Economic exports from countries of the European Free Trade Association (E F.T.A today examined likely effects of sterling devaluation on their trading group. The EFTA bankers and financial officials were meeting here for the first time since three E F T.A. partners
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    • 88 7 JOHANNESBURG Wed. (UPI) —Siamese twins Catherine and Shirley O’Hare are successfully living lives of their own after their separation operation, a hospital bulletin said today. The three-month old twins were joined at the head until the rare and delicate operation on Saturday. This morning's bulletin said
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    • 41 7 It tatmMn.winuMO |M9<M9S6 lIaMT n 1 BlrwW Scwch^Vsty An IINNff 'HCH ref T* <* Co* r* 1 !r~ i It* "WTt MOtSl »*mut in tor’ ■■•uiiimii co vi a One whisky is valued more than any other The Whisky is White Horse
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  • 767 8 ON his return from Washington, Premier Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore held a series of press conferences to explain certain statements he had made in the United States. He blamed the news agencies for having given the wrong interpretation to some of his policy statements as
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  • 2299 8 A talk on **ldeology and Education given by Professor C. J. Eliezer, head of the Mathematics Department of the University of Malaya at the second All Malaysian Congress of the Teaching Profession in Kuala Lumpur on Jan 5. I would like to draw your attention to a
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    • 230 8 IT IS shocking to read about University of Malaya undergraduates in a large group molesting their lady counterparts in the campus of that highly regarded institution of learning. The fact that the ‘cream* of our society have succumbed to the temptation to indulge in such disgraceful hooliganism alone
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    • 256 8 rPHE proposal of Tun Tan Slew Sin to form an AllRaces Association is getting wide support and its advantages and benefits to the peoples of Malaysia cannot be over emphasised. In view of this, it is not out of place to mention that some
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    • 99 8 FOR the past several Sundays we have been watching football matches which have become monotonous and according to the printed programme in your esteemed paper Golf will be screened during the coming weekend. What has happened to all the “wrestling” pictures which viewers of a neighbouring
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    • 41 8 Eastern Sun Independent National Newspaper THURSDAY, JANUARY. 11. 1968 23-B. Cantonment Road. Singapore 2. Telephone: *****/7 Penang Office Ipoh Office 39. Jalan Sultan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Telephone: *****/6 8, Leith Street, Tel: ***** 77, Brewater Road. Tel: ***** Cable Address: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 437 9 XIONG KONG. Wed (UPI) Hong Kong yesterday 11 closed a month-long run of the “Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Hong Kong products.” a testament to the fact that this Asian trading post does not live by imports and exports alone After a nervous
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    • 84 9 LONDON. Wed (UPI) Rubber market closed veryquiet with spot 17-5/16 17-9/16 Settlement House: Feb 17-7/16 17-9 16 Mar 17-9/16 17-11/16 April 17-11/16 17-7/8 April/June 17-13/16 18 July/Sept 18-1/8 18-1/4 Oct/Dec. 18-7/16 18-1 2 Jan/Mar 18-9/16 18-11/16 April/June TB-11 06 18-7/8 July/Sept 18-13/16 19 Oct /Dec 18-15/16
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    • 149 9 continues to make progress LONDON. Wed (UPI). The pound continued Its recent strong progress In very quiet foreign exchange markets today and shot higher against the dollar snd most European currencies. The pound opened at its best level for several weeks at 2.4107-} in terms of the dollar, then eased
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    • 78 9 HONG KONG. Wed '(UPI) The United States was Hong Kong's largest supplier of rice in December 1967, the Commerce and Industry Department reported yesterday. Statistics showed that the United States supplied 20.820 tons of the total rice imports of 37.057 tons during December. A
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    • 196 9 SINGAPORE. Wed The member of Far East Organisation. Far East Curio Centre Ltd. has opened for business today. They are dealing in the widest range of world-wide products. Jewelleries, crafts, gems, pearls and indoor exercise equipments. This super departmental store is the first golden palace
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    • 73 9 SINGAPORE. Wed The Association of Banks in Malaysia today made the following changes in its rates to merchants: New York: Buving T.T. 3215'16; Airmail OD 33-1/16; 90 d/st. 33-9/16 credit bills. 332 trade bills. Canada; Buying T.T 3511/16; Airmail OD 35-13/16 90 d/st 36} credit bills; 369/16 trade
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    • 278 9 KOTA KINABALU, Wed Mr R Martono Soekastowo. the Indonesian government trade representative, has arrived in Sabah. Mr. Martono is appointed by the Indonesian government under the basic arrangements on trade and economic relations between Malaysia and Indonesia signed in May last year. He will be
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    • 786 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. Industrial share prices eased on broad front on the Stock Exchange today. Buying power was fairly weak This could be due to dealers holding of! and awaiting for the report of the coming Malaysian Budget due soon At the close, 34
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    • 184 9 LONDON. Wed (UPI) Industrials held firm on the stock market yesterday although heavy show storms weeping London and the South of England handed the exchange a very slow start and thin attendance cut into trading volume. A strong showing by the pound on foreign
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    • 15 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. The tin price for today was $561 per picuL up $2.00.
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    • 197 9 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Stock prices rose along a broad front in active trading yesterday for the second consecutive session. Shortly before the end of the first hour of trading. the United Press International stock market indicator rose 0.48 percent with 1.283 issues
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    • 286 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. January first grade rubber fob. buyers closed at 5 pm in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 48-7 8 cents per lb., up one eighth of a cent from previous close. The tone was Inactive Idle conditions ruled in one sheet during the morning with
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    • 35 9 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) General Services Administration today sold 5 long tons of grade “A” tin at $154 per lb., to Wyre Wynd Inc. Delivery will be made from Stockpile at Anniston. Alabama.
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    • 27 9 HONG KONG Wed. (UPI) Monev quotations: HKS6 045 6 065 per US dollar for cash HKSI4 47 per pound sterling. HK3287-5 per tael gold.
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    • 493 9 X1MMPOKK—siiKk Exchange nid and offer prices officially listed at the close of business. INDUSTRIALS Ben Co 2.17 2 18 Roust eacl 1 64 l sugar 2.12 2.13 Chemical Co 1 48 1 19 Hun lop 2 .40 2.32 f smelting 4 18 LAI. 2.18 2 24 I.ssn Ords
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    • 47 9 (Manager*’ Prices) First Malayan XT> 2.34 -econrt Malayan XI) l.fi8 Third Mala) an XD 1.10 The Commerce Industry .89 .98 The having Fund 93 1.02 Hrst Hongkong .80 .85* Second Hongkong .55 .59* .Malayan Investment Fund 1.00 1.10 Sterling Commodity 4/2 4/9 Hong Kong Currency)
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    • 106 9 SINGAPORE. Wert The noon price* at tne Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange today are > Buyer Seller Coconut Oil (FOB.) Bulk 58.50 Coconut Oil (F O B > Drum* 61.00 Loose Copra Mixed Dec/Jan 35.00 Muntok White Pepper (FOB.) 96% N.L.W 130 00 Sarawak White Pepper (F.O.B.) 96% N.L.W 127.50
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    • 46 9 NEW YORK, Wed. <UPI> Rubber futures closed Tuesday 15 points lower on no sales. all asked prices Jan 18 20, March 18.60. May 1880, July 18.95. Sept 19 05, Nov 19 25. Jan (1969) 19.45. The RSS spot pnee waa 17} cents, unchanged.
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    • 72 9 KOTA KINABALU, Wed. For the benefit of importers in Sabah effective from Jan 4. the importation of ceiling fans from all countries is subject to import licensing. Cotton blankets, woollen blankets and blankets of other textile materials and fertilizers, two classes of goods
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    • 197 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. The following ships are expected to be in port today: God owns Vessels 1/2 Partizanskaya Slava 3/4 President Jackson 5 Kota Selatan 6/7 Ocean Builder 8/9 Tjimanuk 10/11 Halldis 13/14 Peisander 15/16 Iwate Maru 18 Nestor 19 Pagan 21'22 Etsuzan Maru 23/24 Mikumo Maru 25/25
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 1257 10 YOU# TV and TODAY TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 KUALA LUMPUR and Pulao Pinang; 6 Ipoh and Melaka: 3 10 Jotaore Bahru: 4 Taipine: 7 Batu Pabat: 9 Kluang. A M 543 Opening Annct Prog. Summary.'; 550 News Outlines in the National Language. 5.55 National Songs: 6.00 News in Tamil: 6
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL $5 ESSAY WINNERS
    • 262 12 LAST year, during my school holidays, one of my friends in Kuala Kangsar invited me to spend holidays with him. He promised to wait for me at the railway station. I gratefully accepted his invitation because I had never been there before so I decided
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    • 293 12 DURING the school holidays my cousin decided to go to Johore. She chose to go there by train. So I went to the Railway Station to see her off. When I arrived at the station it was still early. The passengers had not arrived
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    • 460 12 My life as a note I AM a dollar note. I was born in England many years ago. I am just a piece of paper with words and figures on me. My body was new' when I first arrived at the bank in Kuala LumpurI was locked inside a big
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    • 304 12 EACH part of a day has its own attraction and beauty. The afternoon with its brightness, the night with its twinkling stars and sometimes with its moon, and the morning with its quietness. The part of the day that appeals to me most is
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    • 253 12 I stood looking from one of the windows of the top floor of my uncles house, and saw the wide beautiful harbour of Singapore The first thing that caught my eyes was the brilliant blue sea which was still covered with some mist. The gentle
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    • 175 12 ONE dark night my parents and sisters went out living me alone in the house. As there was nothing to do I went to bed. Suddenly. I heard fome dogs barking very loudly. I went near the window to see what was happening At the same
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    • 440 12 fpHE night was silent and cool. The coconut trees were standing still and the whole place was quiet. I was doing my work at home. Suddenly a wind blew over my face and made my eyes smart. I felt sleepy with the blowing
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    • 272 12 MALAYSIA is not a paradise on earth, nor is it a place where its people live luxuriously. The Malaysia I want is a place where its citizens can live wellcontented. decent. useful, active, and peaceful lives. Such a life can be led in happv-surroundings
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    • 255 12 SINGAPORE is a busy city. There are many vehicles plying in the city area. As a result, many accidents often occur. One Saturday afternoon I was on my way to visit my uncle in Victoria Street. When I neard a loud sound caused by
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    • 222 12 I SAW an accident while walking to school. Like most people. I stopped to look at it. After the excitment, I realised that I must be on my way to school. I looked at my watch. It was already five minutes to eight. I hurried
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    • 221 12 IT was on a Monday that this incident occurred. I was with friends in the science laboratory. After explaining how to do the experiments, our teacher, Mr. Low, went out leaving us to do our work. We were busy doing the experiments. When there was
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    • 252 12 ONE day m y mother went out visi ing some friends and my father was outstation. I had to do all the odd jobs with my sister. Before going out she told us not to open the doors for s rangers. She secured all the
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    • 161 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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  • Eastern Sun Special
    • 1187 13  -  YOUR FACE IS THEIR FORTUNE By MARION FROST UELENA Rubinstein left £36,000,000 when she died two years ago. Elizabeth Arden was not far behind. Yardley's is worth 14 million of anybody's money any day For all these big concerns, your face is their fortune. You
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    • 868 13  - How broad-minded are you Could you be human? By LAURENCE BOOKMAN You may have two eyes, two ears, and two of everything you’re supposed to have two of. you may even look human but do you really know? These davs of highpressure and pushing and shoving, it’s easy to forget
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    • 258 13 ’SHAW tGANISATTON LIDO Phone ***** New Shewing! 11. US, fi so jjs Burt Reyno'd* "Vvvuo JOE” Technicn’or 4: Tochniscope <Cai NEXT CHANGE Ssniir*' Dee Rosalind Russell. Brian Ahern* ROSIE!" Technlcn'or 'UT-SB OPENS TODAY —Nn Free List! Montgomery Wood <!fc Fernando Sancho -revenge of ringo" in Actionscnpe A; Color 'SB> Capitol
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    • 107 13 11 a m 1 3l>. (10. 0.30. A 0 SO p m ODEON: OPENS TODAY! YOU ONLY EXPERIENCE ONCE IN A LIFETIME... A MOTION PICTURE OF SUCH MAGNITUDE IN THRILLS AND ACTION! LANG JEFFRIES LUIS DAVILA IN YOU .Only Live once TECHNICOLOR TECHNISCOPE (Chinese Subtitles) Released by SOUTH-EAST ASIA FILM
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    • 364 13 KSEag ORGANISATION CATHAY ***** OPENS TODAY: Daily Show*: 11 am.. ISA. 15 A 9 is pm Paramount* HIKBY BUNDOWN" Michael Caine Jane Fonda Panavislon. Color 2nd MIDNIGHT SAT'-FTbAY! THE SPIRIT IS WILLING" Color Vera Miles 'Paramount! OOEON 21 116 OPENS today: 11 a ra. 1.30. 4.00. 0.30 A 8 30
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  • NEWSFEATURES
    • 239 14 MADRID. Wed. (UPI) The man who will probably be King of Spain reaffirmed that “Each country must have its nw n monarchy.” Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon deftly avoided saying, however, whether he planned or hoped to become King. Juan celebrated his 3ftth birthday on
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    • 107 14 MANILA. Wed. (Reuter) A nationwide search has been started for the “Mr. and Miss Filipino teenage ambassadors” who will represent the Philippines on a round the world goodwill mission to teenage organisations of other countries The contest, to promote a current educational, membership and fund
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    • 236 14 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter). The hands on a symbolic doomsday clock moved to seven minutes before midnight the moment of nuclear disaster today. The clock appears on the cover of the bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, a magazine for American nuclear experts. Its time
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    • 58 14 TOKYO. Wed. (UPI) It’s the season to get real cozy with your fellow straphangers on the Tokyo commuter trains. The Japanese National Railway Corp. noting that winter is truly here and everyone is wearing bulky coats that take up subway space, announced that its special squad
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    • 258 14 ‘Black market in hearts NEW YORK. (Reuter) The New York Times foresaw the possibility of a black market in hearts or livers with murder gangs supplying surgeons with healthy organs from the victims for transplant operations. In an article headed “Living transplants 1984.” the newspaper said the South African heart
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    • 392 14 HERE IS A BRIEF HISTORY OF HEART TRANSPLANTS: CAPE TOWN Louis Washkansky. 33. a Lithua-nian-horn wholesale grocer. received history’s first heart transplant on Dec. 3. 1967. in Groote Schuur Hospital. A team of surgeons headed by Dr. Christian N. Barnard removed WasLkansky’s damaged organ and replaced it with
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    • 400 14 Feud at the top By Merriman Smith. I'PI White House Reporter WASHINGTON, Wed (UPI) Backstairs at the White House: There has to be some fire behind the smoke that swirls over relationships of the Johnsons and the Kennedys. Fire signals show up periodically on
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    • 487 14  -  By John Stephens SAN FRANCISCO, California. Wed. (Reuter) Research workers here hope that a recent outbreak of a rare venereal disease which affects the eyes, will help in the treatment of trachoma, biggest single cause of blindness among the world’s poorest peoples. Dr. Chandler Dawson
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    • 123 14 PARMA. Italy Wed. (UPI) It wasn’t sn much the length but the combination of length and width that won 80-year-old Livio Tencati the 1968 title of “King Nose” on Saturday. Tencati. a former butcher in nearby Soragna. won by a nose that measured (they used a compass) two
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    • 50 14 ONCE you are on the Altai mountains you are sure never to forget the beauties of the place. Over 15.000 tourists will pass the Altai mountain routes this year. Over 6.000 schoolchildren will spend their summervacation at the tourists’ centres of “Rassvet”, “lunost” and in tourist camp “Medvezhonok”. TASS photo.
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    • 549 14 TENDER NOTICES J.K.R. PULAC PINANG IKLAN TAWARAN TAWARAN daripada pemborong2 yang berdaftar diJ K.R., di-dalam kelas D dan ka-atas (Kepala V) (kerja2) aka n di-terima di-Pejabat Jurutera Negeri, J.K.R, Pulau Pinang. hingga jam pukol 12.00 tengah hari pada 17hb Januari, 1068. untok:MENIMBUN TANAH KAPEMBENTOKAN JALAN DI KOMPLEX B U K
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  • Sun Sport
    • 130 15 THE doubles match in the second day’s play was as disappointing as were the singles the previous day. The Australian pair, Newcombe and Roche, blasted their way through Santana and Orantes to win 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to give Australia an unbeatable lead of 3-0 in the Challenge Round and retention
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    • 314 15 MIAMI. Wed «UPI) A eoT’ally pronrnent Miami man shot to dpath and his wife wounded on Sunday night in the couple's fashionable home In a gunbattle that police said was provoked when two wouldbe robbers started to manhandle the wife. Ike Macy. 65.
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    • 313 15  -  By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Wed. The Football Association of Singapore will start the 1968 season with the first soccer engagement against Negri Sembilan in the FAM Cup competition to be played at Jalan Besar Stadium on Jan. 21. The clash against Negri
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    • 154 15 LONDON. Wed. Honoured for his services to sport in Britain's new years honours list is Tom Graveney. the England crirke’er who has played in 65 Test matches. Graveney. whose strokeplay ranks him as one of cricket’s elite, scored his first century against India at Bombay in the
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    • 301 15  -  By R. D. Selva KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Moloysion Cricket Association which holds its annual meeting here on Sunday should seriously consider a call for a change in the rules for this year's competition It will be recalled that
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    • 101 15 LONDON. Wed. A British company is to provide a large part of the athletic equipment to be used at this year’s Olympic Games in Mexico. The firm, the London equipment company, of Cambridge, England, met the total requirements for the 1948 Olympic Games in London and
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    • 241 15 LONDON. Wed. Among 42 British entries competing in next month's annual Monte Carlo Rally in France will be three past winners. Paddy Hopkirk. T i m o Makinen and Rauno Aaltonen will drive three of the four “S" Type Mini-Cooper saloons that have
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    • 486 15  -  By BEN VARIYAN KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Fourth Asian Amateur Boxing Championships will be held here next year. This was disclosed here by the secretary of the Malaysian Amateur Boxing Association, Mr. Foo Yeow Theng. Mr. Foo told Sunsport the MABA
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    • 252 15 LONDON. Wed <Reuter) British newspapers yesterday condemned the International Lawn Tennis Federation's lILTF' decision to ban British players over the issue of open tournaments. Thev were commenting on the tLTF s Rome announcement that British players will be banned from world-class tournaments from April 22
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    • 254 15 KLUANG. Wed. Singapore will meet Malacca Indians at Kluang Town Padang on Jan. 14, in the final of the South Zone Bardhan Cup competition. Johore Indians, who are so far unbeaten in the competition are already in the lead with 10 goals for and 5
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    • 92 15 JOHORE. BAHRU. Wed. Forty British soldiers will go on a 450-mile relay from Kota Bahru to Johore Bahru starting on Jan. 12. Each of them will rover about 40 miles by foot The soldiers, attached to the 3rd Squadron. Royal Corps of Transport of
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    • 477 15 TOKYO, Wed. (UPI) Mitsunori Seki departed for London yesterday by BOAC plane, determined to win the world featherweight boxing title on Jan. 23 by defeating Howard Winstone of Wales. Seki, the World Boxing Association’s No. 3 featherweight, told some 50 persons who
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    • 621 16 They steer Trinidad to 194 in rain-hit match PORT OF SPAIN, (Trinidad), Wed. (Reuter) Charlie Davis, who hit 158 not out against M.C.C. last week, and young batsman Richard De Souza steered Trinidad to 194 tor three against the touring team on the opening of
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    • 271 16 SEREMBAN. Wed The Malaysian Hockey Federation s choice of officials to accompany the Malaysian teem to Lahore came in for bitter criticism here yesterday. Mr N. Balasubramamam. secretary of the N S H.A. and also the State's representative to the MHF. is
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    • 104 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Lawn Tennis Association of Malaysia expect to get the services of a foreign coach from India early next month The coach is expected to be here in time to tra n the Malaysian team for the Davis Cup zone ties
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    • 119 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed Entrance to the outer enclosures for this weekend s speed event organised by the Malaysian Motor Sports Club at the Selangor Racing Circuit. Batu Tiga will be free of charge Entrance to the grandstand will cost $2 00 The paddock area
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    • 116 16 ALOR STAR. Wed Alor Star will soon boast of the first public swimming pool in the State The pool which is at the Kedah Club will be available to club members and associate members only. Costing $30,900 the 55-vard by 40-yard pool was built through
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    • 54 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Olympic Council of Malaysia Planning Committee will meet here on Jan. 21 The meeting is being convened to study the sports facilities of international standard. It is understood that this is being done with a view to holding the Asian
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    • 348 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Selangor's local rugby teams hod been put to shame by an outstation side known as the N.S. Pirates XV who eventually became the new holders of the Selangor Rugby Union's senior league title which ended in mid-December. The Negri Pirates,
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    • 400 16  -  By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Med. The Minister of Defence, Air. Lim Kim San, said the stand made bv the selectors in insisting on quality and not quantity when choosing the Republic’s contingent to the SEAP Games “is now fully justified by the results” achieved
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    • 546 16  -  By Little Nene SINGAPORE, Wed. Philippines Benjamin Arda (unattached to any golf dub) will defend his Singapore Open Championship title during the first week of March at SICC Bukit Course par 35-36 71 links. Arda who won the title from Hidevo Sugimoto of
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    • 248 16 ROME. Wed. (Reuter) Dr. Giorgio De Stefani, president of the International Lawn Tennis Federation. said t<«da.v he was willing to work out a compromise with Britain to settle a crisis in world tennis. Dr. De Sielani announced last night that the
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    • 300 16  -  BY M. T. LINGAM KI’ALA LUMPUR. Wed. An 18-member Malaysian Hockey Federation team will leave here for Lahore tomorrow morning faced with “the biggest challenge any sports team ever had in the country”. The team will be led by Dr. Aziz Durairatnam, the
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    • 137 16 SIDNEV Wfd. (Reuter) The Indian cricketers struggled to a draw here todav after New South Wales' fast bowlers Renneberg and Corling had ripped through the early part of their second innings. Set to score 215 in 184 minutes for victory, the Indians were 100 for
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 52 16 Penang: 10.12 a.m. (4.8 ft.). 10.37 p.m. (6.5 ft.) Port Swettenham: 1.37 a.m. (12.8 ft.), 216 p.m--(11.2 ft.) Singapore: 6.56 a.m. (7.9 ft.). 9.29 p.m. (6.9 ft.) (5.7 ft.) Port Dickson: 3.09 a.m. (7.2 ft.), 3.23 pm. Sedili Kechil: 4.59 a-m. (6.9 ft.) Kuantan: 3.35 a.m (6.8 ft 7.36 pm.
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