Eastern Sun, 24 January 1968

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  • 23 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION TuT Estd. 1966. Vol. 2 No. 539 Wednesday, 24 January 1968. MC(P) 0050 Price 15 cents
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  • 1281 1  -  Tun Ismail: Britain can no longer afford role she played in the past By Chan Kam Yau Lim Thow Boon j£UALA LUMPUR, Tues. The former Minister of Home Affairs, Tun (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, today put forward a threepoint plan for the future security of
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  • 142 1 Mauritius bound. SINGAPORE, Tues—Four giant RAF Hercules transport planes were this morning air-lifting British troops from Changi to riottorn Mauritius. The soldiers are from the Kings Shropshire Light Infantry who had earlier dashed down from their camp in West Malays a to Singapore for the air-lift Aboard the planes with
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  • 44 1 WASHINGTON Tues. (Reuter)—The Department of Defence todav announced that a navy intelligence collection auxiliary ship, the USS Pueblo. waS surrounded by North Korean patrol boats and boarded bv an armed partv in international waters in the Sea of Japan, last night.
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  • 57 1 MANILA. Tues. (UPI) About 1.000 Filipino demonstrators burned an effigy of President Johnson, labelled in bold letters as “murderer.” in front of the Philippine Congress today in protest against U.S. Vietnam policy. Brandishing placards and chanting “Marcos puppet.” in criticism of President Ferdinand E Marcos, the demonstrators
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  • 293 1 PORT LOUS, Mauritius. Tues (Reuter) British troops arrived in Mauritius today to quell race riots that have claimed 14 lives. Troops were brought in by an overnight airlift from Singapore. First reports this morning as yet unconfirmed by police -'poke of new rioting today
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  • 173 1 JAKARTA. Tues (CPI) Thousands of Indonesian High School Action Front (KAPPI) students demonstrated in Jakarta for the second straight day in a row today. Th is time they demanded that Indonesia's Parlia- ment be reorganised to better represent the people of Indonesia.” There were
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  • 34 1 NEW DELHI. Tues. (Reuter) President Tito of Yugoslavia today met Indian Premier Mrs. Indira Gandhi for their first round of talks on the international situation particularly Vietnam and the Middle East.
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  • 517 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Tucs. The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, told the Dewan Ra'ayat today that he would like to hold an all-party meeting to discuss the question of elections for Town Councils and local authorities. He would like the meeting to be held
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 692 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Minister for Law and National Development. Mr. E. W. Barker, will introduce the “Recovery of possession of controlled premises (special provisions) Bill. 1968“ in Parliament tomorrow to remove “obstacles’* which stand in the way of private investors who
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    • 447 2 n n GAPORE Tues 1116 flrst Jumbo-Jet aircraft Boeing 747 carrying bar^by 0 *****^5 Will land at thc Singapore International Airport at Paya Le- This aircraft will be operated by Air India which had placed orders for two Boeing 747’5, one for
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    • 353 2 SINGAPORE, Tues. Labour is one of the most important factors that contribute to the economy of the country whether the participation by the workers is great or small. Trie Minister for Labour, Mr. Jek Yeun Thong, said this during his address
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    • 234 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. The visiting President of the Lions International. Mr. Jorge Bird, last night told members of the Lions Club here to set up a dynamic example by assisting the community to build a better society. Mr. Bird who arrived here on Sunday was accompanied
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    • 75 2 7.00 D.m.:- International Exposition 1968 at the New Word Amusement Park. Jalan Besar. 7.30 p.m.:- Free film show’s by the Ministry of Culture at Kampong Ayer Panas (off Sembawang Road), Lorong Fatimah. Hwa Ming School (Lai Hock Kee Hng) and Chwei Chiun School (Jalan Lama) 8.00 p.m. 9.00
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    • 27 2 SINGAPORE Tues A seven-man Japanese goodwill mission from the Osaka YMCA. will arrive here on Jan. 29. as part of a Southeast Asian goodwill tour.
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    • 91 2 SINGAPORE Tues A heart monitor machine will be presented to the Thomson Road General Hospital by the Y's Men's Club of Singapore. Beta Chapter, on Saturday. The presentation will be made by Mr. Chor Yeok Eng. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, on behalf of
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    • 246 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. A former waitress. Wee Leng Neo. was granted a divorce by Mr Justice Winslow in the High Court today on the grounds of desertion by her husband. Wee told the court that a few’ years after the marriage her husband. Ho Kim Yong started
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    • 63 2 SINGAPORE Tues A newly-metalled and drained road in Lorong Maha. serving 1.200 people of Ulu Sembawang village, was officially opened by the M.P. for Sembawang. Mr. Teong Eng Siong last night. The 3.500 feet long road with a width of 12 feet, with drains and a
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    • 250 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. More than 500 Rotarians will attend the Rotary Club of Singapore West's annual conference on March 15-17 at the Singapore Conference Hall in Shenton Way here. The past director of Rotary International, Mr. Harold Kessinger, who served four terms as judge in New
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    • 43 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. A man. Knm T;n. was todav fined $25 by the Fifth Magistrate's Court for buying a Malaysian Social Welfare lottery ticket at the Woodlands checkpoint on Jan. 17 this year Kom. from Johore Bahru, pleaded guilty to the charge.
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    • 212 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Police in a statement today urged the public to comply strictly with the government restrictions in regard to the letting off of fire-crackers during the festive season. Anyone who contravenes the restrictions imposed by the Government Gazette Notification under the Minor Offences
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    • 269 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Royal Mail Lines' 27.00 n-ton luxurious cruise liner, “Andes" will sail into Singapore in early February during her 78-day-long winter cruise around the world The “Andes" left Southampton on Jan. 7, this year and is scheduled to call at
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    • 260 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. The chief executive of the worldwide Bata Shoe Organisation, Mr. Thomas J. Bata and Mrs. Bata fly into Singapore tomorrow for a three-day visit of the Republic. Bata Shoe Organisation is currently the largest international shoe manufacturing and marketing organisation in
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    • 194 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. Mr. Lim Peng Boon was elected President of the Singapore Clock and Watch Trade Association for 1968. Others elected were: VicePresident: Cheng Moh Yu. Standing Committee: Quek Moh Teng. Tong Tuck Peng. Tay Thuan Boon General Affairs Officer: Song Chm Lock; Asst. GAO:
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    • 150 3 SINGAPORE. Tues Dancers from the Philippine Consulate in Singapore will perlorm “Tinikling Dance” in the “International Variety Show organised by the Permanent Board of Congress for Malay Language and Culture at the Victoria Theatre here on Jan. 27. The various art performing competitions will be held during
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    • 38 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. DrArthur Lim, President of the Singapore Medical Association. will speak at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club of Singapore at the Cathay Hotel tomorrow. He will speak on “Medicine and nation-building.
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    • 22 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. There were 92 road accidents of which three were serious during the past 24 hours in the Republic.
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    • 114 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. Thieves broke into the premises of Gammeters Ltd. at Winchester House and escaped with SBOO in cash and watches worth 56.0A0 yesterday. A police spokesman said this morning the thieves gained entry by forcing open the main door. The theft was discovered by a
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    • 196 4 SINGAPORE. Tues. Luen Wah Medical Company today donated $lO,OOO to the National Arts Council Building Fund, which was received by the Minister of State for Culture. Mr. Lee Khoon Choy, who is also the president of the Arts Council. In making the donation, the company decided
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    • 427 4 Peace and stability lies in neighbour's co-operation Sibree SINGAPORE. Tues. The future peace and stability of the region clearly lies in the measure of cooperation and mutual understanding that can be built up with our immediate and near neighbours. The Chairman of the Joint Standing Committee of the Joint Chambers
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    • 220 4 SINGAPORE Tues.— A bar waitress. Yeow Guat Beng. who was assaulted by her husband on a number of occasions was granted a divorce in the High Court today. Yeow told the court that her husband, Koh Ghee 800, 6 bank clerk used to return
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    • 95 4 SINGAPORE Tues The Police today called on the public to be more careful in their driving so as to reduce the number of arc dents on th° roads during the festive season. A Police statement said that last vear. during the Chinese New* Year festive period,
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    • 158 4 SINGAPORE. Tues—Wi*h the advent of the Chinese New Year, the Jalan Besar Citizens Consultative Committee will stage a Chinese cultural show in aid of two sports funds. Proceeds of the four shows will go to the Sports Promotion Fund, under the Ministry of
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    • 32 4 SINGAPORE Tue S The Deputv Prim* Minister of Singapore. Dr Toh Chin Chye. wjill declare open the new Vosper Thornycroft Uniteers L’d office tomorrow at 430 pm at Tanjong Rhu.
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    • 1266 4 Seeni accuses Govt of destroying the democratic way of life KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Mr. D. R. Seenirasagam, PPP member for Ipoh, today made o scathing attack on the Alliance Government's performance during the past 10 years. In an hour-long speech in the Dewan Raavat during the debate
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    • 479 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. An elderlv woman today admitted knowing that a love affair’between her daughter and a boy at a murder trial in the High Court here The woman. Chuay Siang Eng, 46. said however did not object to her daughter’s relationship
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    • 64 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Mr. Jorge Bird. President of Lions International the world’? largest service club organisation and Mrs. Bird arrived here today from Singapore. While here, they w*ill meet Lions in Malaysian Lions Clubs and review their projects to the needy and contributions *o\vards community betterment. Among
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    • 1927 10  -  Devan Nair says Tun Tan instead of acquiring virtues of solidity seems to have wandered Off.... “Country will be faced with serious inflationary tendencies By Chan Kam Yau Lim Thow Boon KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Democratic Action Party's M.P. for Bungsar, Mr. C. V. Devon
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    • 283 10 KOTA KINABALU, Tues. Malaysian Finance Minister. Tun Tan Siew Sin. has g<ven a “tax exemption” for all donations to the Sabah Flood Relief Fund, in the wake of devastation by flood in the State. This was revealed by Sabah s Minister of
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    • 76 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Three senior military officers of the Malaysian Armed Forces will be leaving for India tomorrow to attend a 4-month senior officers course at the school of infantry there. They are: Major Mohamed Ismail bin Omar, Second-in-Command of the 3rd Regiment. Malaysia Rangers.
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    • 205 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A University lecturer. Mr Lee Ming Chong, submitted today that the original cost of a fixed asset should be taken into consideration in determining provisions for depreciation of that asset. Mr. Lee. a lecturer on cost accounting from University of Malaya.
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    • 510 11  -  By Ben D’Cunha KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Five German shepherd dogs have joined the ranks of the Royal Malaysian Police. They all come from aristocratic families of the canine world with names like the arch duke of with thoroughbred family records dating back
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    • 354 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Press in Asia could play a dynamic role towards bringing nations closer in the spirit of togetherness to achieve social, political and economic progress. It should not only report on the daily events round the world but to be
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    • 120 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues An officer. a warrant effleer and two senior non-eommissloned-nflficers from several units of the Malaysian Army have been selected for various courses In Australia. They are second lieutenant Masuod bin Sukhlml and sergeant Loo Siew Hin from Ist Regiment Malaysian Artillery and
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    • 33 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— All offices of the High Commission of India, including the library of the Information Service of India will remain closed on Friday on account of India's Republic Pay
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    • 71 11 IPOH. Tues Rewards totalling 585.000 still hold good for information leading to the whereabouts of the missing American Tha- silk millionaire. Mr. Jim Thompson. who disappeared from the Cameron Highlands some time last year. The extension of these rewards ■was announced by a senior police spokesman here
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    • 80 11 MALACCA. Tues A sales-manager of Borneo Motors here. Tan Yak Kim. 36. was today charged in the magis’rates court with using criminal force on Tan Swee Bee. 31. a woman cashier of the firm, with intent to outrage her modesty. The offence was alleged to
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    • 358 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The prospects facing Malaysian tin miners, particularly the gravel pump miners, will not be as bright this year as in the pre- vious years. As such, prospective miners must adopt a more cautious attitude before investing in any new mining
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    • 45 11 PENANG. Tues. Two “suraus” for Muslim children will be included in the development and expansion plan of St. Nicholas Home and School for the Blind in Bagan Jermal Road. This was disclosed by the school principal. Mr. W. G. Broiuex, here today.
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    • 68 11 MALACCA, Tues. The Education Department here has instructed a certain school which collected school fees this year from pupils holding free places to refund any fees collected. The Chief Education Officer. Mr. Khoo Eng Choon. who confirmed this today, said the collection arose from a misunderstanding
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    • 288 11  -  By KEN STANLEY KAMPAR. Tues. The mining village of Tronoh near here, has its own child hero in an orphan. Ho Kam San. He achieved nothing he failed to save a friend from drowning in a mining pool yesterday. But today, every village talked about
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    • 165 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues— Toh Puan Raha, wife of the Deputy Premier Tun Abdul Razak' today praised the work of the Malayan Association of the Blind“lt is a progressive organisation and has recently expanded its work to include preventive work. “This is
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    • 33 11 PENANG. Tues. Two youths, attempting to snatch away a housewife’s gold chain, were apprehended by a keen-eyed Health Department employee, with help from a oassing police car at Siam Road yesterday.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 155 5 KONG KONG. Tues. (Reuter) Maoists ousted the supporters of President Liu Shao-Chi from one of their major strongholds in China when they took over Kansu province during the current cultural revolution. Radio Peking reported yesterday. The radio said the city of Lanchow, capital of
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    • 203 5 TAURANGA. New Zealand. Tues. (Reuter) Buttling grandmother Mrs. Lyla M Langtnn. 59. finally hauled a 510-pound broadbill swordfish from the sea near here today after it lowed her launch across fhe waves for over 18 hours. Mrs. Langton tussled with the 12 feet 6$
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    • 56 5 GHAZIPUR. Northern India. Tues. (Reuter) At least 28 people w T ere feared drowned after a ferryboat sank in the River Ganges near here yesterday, police said. The boat, carrying about 60 passengers, w*as reported to have sprung a leak In mid-stream and sunk almost Immediately.
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    • 585 5 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Britain will be the strongest military power in Western Europe after its current series of defence cuts, Defence Minister Denis Healey said last night. The Minister said the economy decision cancelling Britain’s order for 50 American F-11l bombers reduced
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    • 58 5 BONN. Tues. (Reuter) Malaysian and West Germany today signed an agreement on technical cooperation and education here. West Germany is to support the building of technical education cenires. supply teaching material, send teachers and make it possible for Malaysian students to receive training in West Germany,
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    • 66 5 STOCKHOLM. Tues (Reuter) Two more American military deserters have applied for political asyl im in Sweden, bringing the total to 16. the Swedish committee for Vietnam said today So far. only one American deserter has been granted political asylum although four sai'.orp who deserted from
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    • 74 5 JAKARTA. Tues (UPI) The Jakarta special court will open sessions next week to try the first two major corruption cases in Indonesia prepared by the recent ly-fnrmed “Anti-corruption team.” Judge Sutarno Sudia of the Jakarta court identified the defendants as an official of the Indonesian Bank
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    • 292 5 ON BORROWED HEART TAPE TOWN. Tues. (Reutr Dr. Philip Blaiberg. now the only person in the world with someone else’s heart beating inside him. is laying plans to take up a new career when he leaves hospital, one of his doctors said today. he
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    • 434 5 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Britain would be a "White slaver for Arab Sheiks" if it accepted a reported offer by oil Sheiks in the Persian Gulf to pay the cost of keeping British troops there, Defence Minister Denis Healey said last night. how
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    • 96 5 STRASBOURG. France. Tues. (Renter) The European Parliament opened its first session here this year yesterday with a call to review their policies for the forihroming United Nations Trade and Development Conference in New Delhi. The main debate in the Parliament’s five-day session is expected
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    • 109 5 TOKYO. Tues (Reuter) A special envoy of Indonesia's Acting President General Suharto has asked Japan to provide Increased economic aid to Indonesia, Kyodo News Agency reports. The Indonesian envoy, Mr. Alamsja, the top special assistant to Genera: Suharto. told Japanese Prime Minister Elsaku Sato that Indonesia needed
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    • 217 6 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) A Sydney Justice of the Peace, charged with conspiring to smuggle US $22.5 million worth of heroin into the U.S. bought U 5554,000 worth of international airline tickets during 1966. a Federal Court was told yesterday. This
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    • 146 6 LE MANS. Tues. Reuter) British driver Malcolm New was charged with manslaughter here today following a collision bettween his Ford Lotus Cortina and a private car in a Monte Carlo rally on Saturday night. New left Le Mans Hospital where he had been under
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    • 67 6 OSAKA. Japan. Tues. (UPI) Prime Minister Mr. Eisaku Sato has urged Japanese to save their money to build houses rather than buy automobiles and colour television. Postal Inspectors said Mr. Hiroshi Miura. 36. of the Osaka Central Post Office accepted the Prime Minister's advice and
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    • 357 6 Thieu’s approaches to the Front ‘just childish farces New YORK, Tues. (Reuter) A representative of the South Vietnam Liberation Front, political arm of the Vietcone. said in a television interview broadcast here tonight that reported attempts by the Saigon government to start talks with it were "just children farces.” The
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    • 140 6 TORONTO Tues. (UPI) A ranel of experts from Toronto General Hospital yesterday said it had completed a study of Dr. Gordon Murray's controversial sP' na l cord operation and found no evidence of a major advance in the treatment of patients with paraplegia or quadraplegia.”
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    • 192 6 Ample resources to defend Canadian -Sharp OTTAWA. Tues (Reuter) Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp said in the House of Commons today the government had ample resources to defend the Canadian dollar against a run of speculation, and was doing so. He said the market exchange rate strengthened today, enabling the government
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    • 81 6 CHRIST CHURCH. New Zealand. Tues. (Reuter) The tourist ship Magga Dan was freed from the ice off McMurdo Sound, in Antarctica. at noon today, a U.S. spokesman said. The shio was pulled clear of an iev shoal at the entrance to winter quarter bay
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    • 112 6 LOME. Togo, Tues. (Reuter) A mystery aircraft is being held under guard at the airport here following the discovery aboard it of Nigerian bank notes valued at seven million sterling when it landed to refuel on Saturday. Old-style Nigerian banknotes ceased to be legal tender as
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    • 239 6 WASHINGTON. Tues. (Reuter) Recent but still unpublished British studies have established a rause-an-ef-fect relationship between birth control pills and sometimes fatal lung clots, it was reported here yesterday. Dr Louis M Hel'man. chairman of a special advisory committee to the US Food and Drug Adml-
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    • 329 7 WASHINGTON. Tues. (Reuter) Four de-fused hydrogen bombs were possibly aboard a giant t -SAir Force B-52 bomber which crashed into deep ice in Greenland yesterday, official sources said today. The Defence Department said there was n® risk of a nuclear explosion because
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    • 238 7 Religion— Svetlanas cloak of convenience MOSCOW. Tues (UPI) A leading Soviet atheistic 'magazine said Svetlana A liluyeva. daughter of the late dictator Josef Stalin adopted a religious devotion to satisfy American prejudices. “Even traitors to our country who are always welcome in the United Spates must pretend they are ardently
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    • 150 7 NEW DELHI. Tues. (UPI) President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia has urged the United States to halt the bombing of North Vietnam "unconditionally and without delay.” Speaking at a banquet given in New Delhi in his honour by Indian President Zakir Husain.
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    • 49 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (Reuter) Mr Will Lang. 53. chief of Life magazine’s domestic and foreign news bureaus for the past four years died of a heart attack yesterday while skiin e with his wife and daughter in St. Anton. Austria, the magazine announced today
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    • 88 7 JAKARTA. Tues (Reuter) Australian opposition leader Gough Whitlam today bega n talks with Indonesian parliamentary and congress leaders at the start of his six-day visit here. He met the leadership of the House of Farliament and of the People's Consultative Congress Indonesia's supreme policy-making body. Later toefay
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    • 219 7 TOKTO. Tues. (Reuter)— The United States nuclearpowered aircraft carrier Enterprise left Japan this morning to shouts of “Enterprise go home” by demonstrators. The four-day visit to Sasebo port in Southern Japan by the Enterprise had caused confusion in Japan and left in its wake at least
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    • 189 7 SEOUL. Tues. <UPI) Communist Infiltrators fleeing from an attempted presidential assassination killed a South Korean soldier last night In another gun battle near Seoul, the South Korean Defence Ministry announced. The Ministry said Republic of Korea troops searching for the North Korean Invaders ran
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    • 69 7 LAGOS. Nigeria. Tues. (CPII The Nigerian Federal Government finally sprung the trap yesterday in a manoeuvre aimed at breaking the rebel Biafran region financially as well as militarily. At the rinse of hanking business at 1 pm. old Nigerian banknotes became worthless under a decree
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    • 71 7 JAKARTA. Tues. (UPI) Pilots of the state-owned Garuda Indonesian Airways have started a protest movement by refusing to wear their pilots hats and ranks on all domestic flight, according to the independent news agency KNI. The pilots are protesting the refusal of the Garuda management to grant
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    • 88 7 JAKARTA. Tues. (Reuter) The Indonesian customs netted US$BOO,OOO in fines and $330,000 in sale of confiscated goods in anti-smug-giing operations last year, according to official figures released here this week The statistics state that some 3.400 smuggling cases and violations of customs regulations were
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    • 135 7 MANILA. Tues. (UPI) An irate customer fired a 45 calibre pistol inside the Manila Hotel last night, setting off a stampede inside the hotel's roffee shop and upsetting a nearby banquet attended bv President and Mrs Ferdinand E Marcos. No one was
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    • 57 7 MANILA Tues <l'PI) Indonesia has accepted the nomination of Modesto Farolan a s the Philippines' new ambassador to Jakarta, the Foreign Office announced today. Ambavxador Farolan will succeed Narrisco G. Reyes. Philippine envo T |n Britain. Mr. Farolan has been ambassador to Switzerland since 1004
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    • 64 7 BIBAI. Japan. Tues (UPI) —Two miners reported missing since a gas explosion ripped through a mine last Saturday were found alive and rescued today. Shinharhiro Sakagurhi. 44. and Takao Aizaka. 28. were rescued after being trapped in the pit of the Bihai Coal Mine Company for more
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    • 152 7 UNITED NATIONS, New York. Tues. (Reuter) The likelihood of a meeting early next month between Pope Paul VI and Secretary-General U Thant grew stronger today. w tu 1 N s P okesma n said it was expected that u would make a stop in Rome
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    • 474 7 PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, Tues. (Reuter) British Sh f™r n t^ heir wa l he re 10 quell racial violence 14 people Pt th 1S and colony today Gibing at least Governor Sir John Shaw- Rennie, announcing this in a television broadcast, also said he had
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    • 118 7 WASHINGTON. Tues. (Reuter)—A “Mystery seaquake" occurred yesterday directly under the equator and about half-way between Africa and South America, the US. National Earthquake Information Centre announced today. Some initial reports soon after the tremors were felt at 1«12 GMT had placed it in the Pacific
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  • 665 8 IT is estimated that there are some 10.000 Malaysian students abroad. The question that arises is their future when they return home. Gone were the days when graduates came home from abroad with Jobs waiting for them. As Malaysia is a developing country, it is assumed that opportunities
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  • 219 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt (Author, "Handbook of Evidence For Criminal Trial*") pETITE Mari e, weighing a little over 100 pounds teas standing on the vanity stool in her motel room to turn on the air conditioner when the stool suddenly collapsed. Marie died as a result of
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    • 1199 8 I AM writing you in connection with your editorial entitled First Things First of the January 17 issue of Eastern Sun/' which I believe does not express correctly what has been said by President Marcos and makes grossly misleading assumptions and interpre* tation
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  • 134 8 T'HE quest for minerals and the exploitation of marginal pastoral land in Australia has gradu a 11 v led people into the lonely, deserted regions of the continent. Such an environment no doubt encourages independence and resourcefulness, but these are not substitutes for education. This
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  • 274 8 The F-III K France’s 'Mirage G' TT was with keen interest that I read your excellent article, Five-Power Far East Defence Talks," on page eight of the 19th January, 1968, edition of your newspaper. I would like to point out, however, one small inaccuracy in the hope that it will
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  • 77 8 I refer to the letter written by “Pro PR” captioned “It could have been green all the way on the first day” and shall be obliged if you could request “Pro PR” to either write to me or call at my office, when I shall be glad to
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    • 257 9 JAKARTA, Tues. (UPI) An Indonesian Mining Ministry spokesman said today the Japanese Nickel Company of Sumitomo has withdrawn from the bidding for extensive Nickel Mining rights in Sulawesi (Celebes). According to the spokesman, Simitomo has “reversed its business policy”, leaving
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    • 225 9 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Selling far out pa red buying on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. With the closing bell for the first shortened trading session only minutes away, volume was close to 10 million shares, well above the total traded at the
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    • 133 9 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) The Stock Market tended slightly easier today with small selling bringing leading industrials fractionally lower. However, tobaccos and some stores were firm spots and fair interest was noted in take-over stocks, especially ever-ready. Australians were generally better. Metals exploration featured following reports
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    • 69 9 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) Rubber closed slightly easier and uncertain with spot 161/8 16-3/8. Settlement House Feb. 16-1/4 16-3 8 March 16-3/8 16-9/16 April 16-9/16 16-3/4 April/June 16-13/16 16-15/16 July/Sept 17-5/16 17-7/16 Oct Dec. 17-5/8 July/Sept 18-1/8 18-5/16 Oct/Dec 18-1/4 18-3/8 Jan/March 18-3/8 18-9/16 April/June 18-1/2 18-11/16 General
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    • 284 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. For the first time in Singapore. amateur moviemakers will be able to process their “colour movie films” locally and at a much shorter period, too Kodak (Malaya) Limited has made this possible with the introduction of the new Kodak Ektachrome II Movie
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    • 274 9 LONDON, Tues. A fairly slow start was made to the week's business on the freight markets. Grain chartering was very thin, only three fixtures being reported up to the time of writing. Out of the Gulf. The Christine was fixed to Japan with a
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    • 961 9 SINGAPORE. Tues The industrial section of the Stock Exchange opened firm today, but towards the afternoon met profit-taking which made the prices look easier at the close. It was quite a natural behaviour for the market after the appreciation of price in the past few days.
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    • 43 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Watches of Switzerland Limited will officially open a new shop in Jalan Bukit Bintang here on Saturday. It will display a wide range of quality watches, clocks and gifts of many kinds costing from $2O to $4,000.
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    • 21 9 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) Opening rubber quiet with spot 16-3/16 16-g. No. 1 RSS CIF basis ports Feb 16-1/8 16}.
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    • 19 9 WASHINGTON. Tuei fßeuter) No offers were received today to buy government-stockpiled tin. General Service Administration said.
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    • 298 9 Rubber up cent SINGAPORE. Tues. February first grade rubber f.o.b. buyers closed at 5 pm. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 47 cents per lb., up a quarter of a cent from previous close. The tone was quiet. London advices were lower than expected and opening prices were marked
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    • 57 9 LOS ANGELES. Tues. (Reuter) Britain's largest stock-brokers. Cazenove and Company, have become a member of the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange here the first brokerage house outside North America to hold a seat on a U.S. Stock Exchange Two other British brokers who have bought
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    • 448 9 SIMiAPOKE—Stock tn dans? nlrt and otter prices official!? listed at the close of business. INDUSTRIALS Ben A- Co n> oo 2.23 Bmistead i .65 1.66 sugar 2 21 2.22 Chemical t o i.'i.i 1.51 Cold storage 3.92 3.96 K •'melting 4.22 4.36 E.A 1 2.23 226 Esso (irds
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    • 95 9 SINGAPORE. Tues The Association of Banks in Malaysia today made the following changes in its rates to merchants: NEW YORK: Buying TT. 32-5; Airmail OD 33; 90 d/st. 33} credit bills; 3313/16 trade bills. CANADA; Buying T. T. 35|; Airmail OD. 355: 90 d/st. 36-9/16 credit bills; 36§
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    • 15 9 SINGAPORE. Tues.— The tin price for todav was $556.75 per picul, down $1.50.
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    • 46 9 (Managers’ Prlres) Ftr»t Malayan \l» 2.35 second Malayan \D 1.63 Third Malayan 1.09 The Commerce Industp- 90 99 The Saving Fund 93 1 03 I1r«t Hongkong .80 .85* Second Hongkong Ji5 -59* Malayan In\estment Fund 100 110 Sterling Commodity 4'1 4/8 Hong Kong Currency)
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    • 115 9 SINGAPORE. Tup*. The noon prices at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange today are > Buyer Sellet Coconut Oil (F n R Bulk 5850 Coconut Oil (l.o r.) Drums 61 00 Lnn*e Copra Mixed Jan Feb 35.00 Muntok White Pepper (FOB.) 96% 1 W 132-50 Sarawak White Pepper (I.O.B.) 96%
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    • 67 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. The following ships have laid anchorage in port today: Godowns Vessels 1/2 Centaur 3/4 Hoegh Dene 6/7 Kristin Bakke 8/9 Rotti 15/16 Sumatra 18 Var 19 Wandebori 21/22 Katong 23/24 Shavit 25/26 Kinabalu 29/30 Caprera 31/32 Toledo 38/39 Colombo Maru 42/43 Texaco Glasgow 44 Wonosobo
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    • 284 9 AIR MOVEMENTS—S'PORE, K. LUMPUR ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE. MSA ML 029 12.30 am. from K.L. MSA ML 309 7 20 am. from Perth/Jakarta. MSA ML 019 8 am. from KL. MSA ML 121 9.30 am. from KL. MSA ML 005 10.25 a m. from Penang Ipoh, K.L. Malacca. MM Ml. 451
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    • 284 9 MSA AIL 454 10.20 a.m. to Jesselton. MS.A ML 636 11.15 a.m. to K.L. Hongkong/Talpeh. MSA ML 008 11 a.m. to K.L./Ipoh Penang. MSA ML 052 335 p.m. to Malacca K-L./Ipoh/Penang. MSA ML 054 4.10 p.m. to KL./Penang. MSA ML 510 4.20 pm. to Bangkok. MSA .AIL 128 630 p.m.
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    • 311 9 Time 1.25 p.m. Airline MSA (ML 043) from Kota Batiru. Time 1.50 p.m. Airline MSA (ML 661) from Kota Bahru, Penang. ipoh. Time 2.30 p.m. .Air Ce.vlon, Rome. Karachi. Colombo. (AE 118/116 from London, Time 3.15 p.m. Airline MSA (ML 007) from Penan*. Time 4.55 p.m Airline MSA (ML 052)
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    • 1499 10 your TV Radio today TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 KUALA LUMPUR and Pu!au Pinang; 6 Ipoh ana Melaka; 3 A 19 Johore Bahru: 4 Tatping; 7 Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang. P.M. 5.45 Opening Annct Prog. Summary; 5.50 News Outlines in the National Language; 555 National Songs; 6.00 News in Tamil. 6
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    • 495 12  -  By GEOFFREY MURRAY Reuter. TRIGGER wedding and funeral feasts are to be permitted in India under an official order indicating that the country's food shortage is easing. Austerity measures imposed during the twoyear drought and famine that finally broke with the 1967 monsoon have
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    • 775 12  -  By Harold Dunmore I P F. Hut pi ere work means trouble, NHtj& the i/nrtors who hare been studying what happen* when you work. k TEAM of Swedish scientists, headed by Doctor Lennart Levi of Stockholm, have been making tests among workers in various
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    • 1378 12  -  KILL HITLER by Robert Jackson IPF. TT was five o'clock in the morning of Whit Monday, 1939, and the main road between Oberkochen and Konigsbronn was deserted. Suddenly the roar of a powerful engine split the morning silence, and an
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    • 367 12  -  By Andrew Waller Reuter. W O R L D health experts in Geneva are calling for an inventory of the world's water supplies as the first step towards combating pollution and ensuring enough water for everyone. They have said it Is necessary to make
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    • 457 12  -  By WALTER DAVIS Reuter. Falls, a roaring, cataract higher than Niagara Falls will virtually disappear by 1975 as port of a U *****,000,000 hy-dro-electric project. Now under way in remote Central Labrador, 650 miles north-west of St. Johns, Newfoundland, the project involves diverting the
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    • 118 13 CATHAY: THE BIG BREAKTHROUGH IN SUSPENSE! SATURDAY MIDNIGHT! OF Ot R C.R\NT> CHINESE NEW TEAR ATTRACTION! sA ■< r A GENIUS PLAN TO GIVE THE ROYAL BANK THE ROYAL TREATMENT. Stephen Boyd Yvette-Mimieux Giovanna Ra I I ml ■3'y COLOR aiw IN' CaßwvaL apTweves CATHAY: OPENS TOMORROW! FUNNIER... than the
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  • NEWSFEATURES
    • 666 14  - Religious in one crucible: ‘Many roads to the same summit By LOUIS CASSELS WASHINGTON, Tues. (UPI) After centuries of strife, the world’s great religions are moving into a new era of mutual respect and cordiality. The changed climate was strikingly evident at a conference on inter-religious understanding held last week
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    • 285 14  -  By PEGGY MASSIN PARIS, Tues. (Reuter) Elizabeth Taylor made her dehut as a fashion designer here yesterday with the showing of a collection featuring some startling ultra-mini skirts. The actress and her husband. Richard Burton, flew here from their film location in
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    • 114 14 CAPE KENNEDY. Tues (Reuter) The United States today fired a 16-ton unmanned spacecraft into orbit around the earth as a dress rehearsal for an eventual landing of men on the moon. The bug-like lunar module. designed to carry two men from their orbiting Apollo
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    • 29 14 CARMEL. California Tues. (L'PI). Comedian Jerry Lewis became a grandfather yesterday when a seven-pound baby girl was born to Sarah Lewis, wife of his son Gary.
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    • 147 14 TAIPEH. Tues. (Reuter) Young and ambitious people on Taiwan need not be discouraged when they find themselves with no money to start a business The youth guidance committee of the cabinet has inaugurated a loan fund to help capable voung men and women washing to
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    • 102 14 HONG KONG. Tues. (Reuter) The Acting Commissioner of Hong Kong Police. Mr. C P. Sutcliffe, says the younger generation is mainly responsible for the recent upsurge of crime in the colony. There had been an increase of 13.5 per cent in serious crimes committed by persons
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    • 102 14 BRISBANE. Tues. (Reuter) A shark fisherman had a lucky escape when he was spiked in the chest by an eight inch barb from a giant stingray as it struggled to free itself from shark nets at the Gold Coast, about 30 miles from here. The fisherman. Noel
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    • 322 14 Apples, Beetles, Chickens, WASHINGTON, Tues. (UPI) Statues of famous men and women have been erected in many countries of the world including the United States. Statues in honour of such lowly things as chickens, beetles, water melons and doughnuts probably are rare but they abound in
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    • 119 14 MANILA. Tues. Free training of selected male youths In technical skills has been offered by the Philippine Air Force to boost the government’s manpower development programme An Air Force press release said an Initial class of 20 high school graduates who could not afford
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    • 80 14 SYDNEY. Tues. (Reuter) A leading Australian churchman left here today for Manila to attend a conference which will complete plans for a five million dollars <£2.3m) Roman Catholic radio network to broadcast throughout Asia. Bishop TW. Muldoon. of Sydney, will join leading Asian bishops to discuss the
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    • 134 14 BANGKOK. Tues. (Reuter) The Thai police department is seeking to prevent students going to schools in regulation white shirts and blue shorts from carrying bags in which they can conceal weapons or plain clothes. The police said that while searching students arrested afte r an
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    • 360 14 NEW YORK. Tues. (Reuter) Excerpts from a film showing results of the bombing of North Vietnam were seen by American television viewers yesterday despite attempts by a group of Congressmen to prevent it being broadcastAbout 50 television stations affiliated to the National Educational Television
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    • 1110 14 Eastehn Sun Classified advertisements can be accepted at the following addresses: MONT DOR MILK BAR. Ngee Ann Building, Singapore. S.S. MUBARUK Brothers. 63, Bras Basah Road, and 2, Maju Avenue, Serangoon Carden Estate, Singapore. TAY BUAN CUAN LTD.. SUPERMARKET 83, East Coast Road, Singapore 15. Tel: *****9 HAMIEM STORE. 1419,
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  • 379 16  - Malaysia Thailand for high altitude training soon By R. D. SELVA KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A joint Malaysia-Thailand high oltitude training project in preparation for the Mexico City Olympics in October is to be held soon. The Ministry of Culture. Youth and Sports and the Olympic Council of Malaysia will jointly
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  • 226 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Motor sports, tenpin bowling and yachting are included for the first time for the Malaysian National Sports Awards 1967 Minister of Culture. Youth and Sports. Enche Senu bln Abdul Rahman, who disclosed this here today said nominations for the 1967
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  • 114 16 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Singapore Amateur Boxing Association have secured the facilities for a modern boxing gymnasium to be built at Farrer Park recreation ground. Disclosing this here today. SABA Vice-President Mr. Frank Pestana said the new gymnasium would be completed shortly.
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  • 105 16 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) The English Football Association yesterday lifted their 12-month ban on players and officials returning to Britain from the “rebel soccer league” in the United States and Canada. Mr. Denis Follows, the association secretary, said the ban had been lifted
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  • 250 16 SINGAPORE. Tues. An emergency meeting will be convened among all affiliated clubs to study in detail the Government's call to support Its soccer promotion programme. The meeting will be held on Friday. Feb. 2 at the Singapore Chinese Football Association Hall. More
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  • 237 16 SINGAPORE. Tues Naval Base Secondary School 'A' team finished in the Third annual inter school road-relav league competition. held at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre here, today. Naval Base ‘A’ team, consisting of four athletes, running a distance of 2.7 miles each,
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  • 1359 16 CL L Div. 2—6 F. 584 New Liberty 6y 900 New Liberty St RS. B'kelen 7 Dukedom II 4y 8 13 Dato Datin K.L Chong West 175 Let Me Go 5y 8 12 Open Stable Tjoa 993 Sir Argent 7y 8 12 SK Stable R-
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  • 856 16 BRISBANE, Tues. (Reuter). Indio, needing 218 runs for victory with six wicket* standing, left themselves with a reasonable chance against Australia after the fourth day of the Third Cricket Test here today. India, extricating themselves from earlier difficulties when they
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  • 644 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak. declared today that if blame should be placed on anyone it should be upon the Olympic Council of Malaysia for the downfall of Malaysia including her prestige in the recent SEAP Games at
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