Eastern Sun, 28 May 1968

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  • 22 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 2 No. 658 Tuesday, 28 May 1968. MC(P) 0050 Price 15 cents
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  • 324 1  -  Several Govt. departments likely to scrap athletic meets By M. T. LINGAM I£UALA LUMPUR, Mon. Several Government departments in the country are considering scrapping their annual athletic meets for fear they might find themselves on the wrong side of the Anti-Corruption Agency. In the past various
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  • 100 1 PARIS. Mon. (Reuter) U.S. negotiator W. Averell Harriman today called on North Vietnam to Join in a request to the three nation International Control Commission to act immediately to restore the demilitarised rone between the two Vietnams as a neutral buffer area. Mr. Harriman
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  • 124 1 SAIGON, Mon. (UPI) For the first time in the war. North Vietnam is using radar directed. 100-MM anti-aircraft guns against U.S. bombers, the American Military Command announced today. Forward air controllers and pilots have spotted the heavy weapons during bombing missions over North
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  • 43 1 PAPANTLA. Mexico. Mon. (UPI) The 29-year-old wife of a poor farmer gave birth to quintuplet girls on Sunday in a little town outside Papantla. Two died later. Doctors said the* three survivors were “in good health”. The mother is Inocencia Hernandez.
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  • 170 1 •It was a happy and proud moment for Mrs. Sylvia Fogstad as she was embraced and kissed by Princess Sofia Desta (right) granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie at the Singapore airport yesterday morning. Mrs. Fogstad. her husband and their three children had arrived at
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  • 189 1 SAIGON, Mon. (Reuter) Helicopter gunships today blasted away at an estimated two battalions of Vietcong guerillas trying to break into the South Vietnamese capital. On the ground, South Vietnamese forces were battling them about four miles from the presidential palace, which is
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  • 331 1  -  By JAMAL ALI TZ'UALA LUMPUR, Mon. Russian seamen calling at Malaysian ports did not get the same shore facilities as seamen of other countries, said Mr. B. V. Kokorev, Chief of Trade Representative of the Soviet Union in Malaysia. He hoped the
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  • 43 1 PARIS. Mon. (Reuter) The French Government trade unions and employers today reached a settlement in the eight-day old strike paralysing France. Prime Minister Georges Pompidou announced the settlement after some 28 hours of negotiations at the Social Affairs Ministry here.
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 412 2  -  By Chan Kam You KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. An engineer* ing contract worth nearly $55 million would be awarded shortly to a purely domestic enter* prise, the Finance Minister, Tun Tan Siew Sin, announced tonight.
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    • 239 2 A LOR STAR, Mon. The serious financial plight experienced by the Kedah Government would in no way deter the Central Government from implementing economically beneficial projects in the State. This assurance was given by the Finance Minister, Tun Tan Siew Sin. when he
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    • 87 2 TELUK ANSON. Mon.— An appeal has been made to the Minister of works, posts and Telecommunications. Tun V.T. Sambanthan, as the National President of the Malaysian Indian Congress, to prevent fragmentation of big rubber holdings in the country. The appeal was made by the President of
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    • 114 2 9 am. 6 p.m. Bridge and Mahjong Drive in conjunction with the 16th International Bazaar for the Blind at the Island Club. 10 a.m.—6 p.m. 19th Local Artists’ Annual Exhibition at Victoria Memorial Hall. Empress Place. 3 p.m. 8 n.m. Free mass community X-rav station at Woodlands Community
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    • 488 2  -  By SIHAIMI BIDIN SINGAPORE. Mon. The first lot of 300.000 Toto coupons, the newly- introduced weekly 49number game, will be on sale from tomorrow. This was announced today by Mr. S. Thiruchelvam. Acting Deputy Secretary (Financial Administration), Ministry of Finance, who heads
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    • 107 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —The Selangor Government would need $6O million in the next 10 years to huild a State Secretariat building, a State mosque and quarters at Sungei Kenggam. 15 miles from here, the Mentri Besar. Haji Harun bin Idris, said today. The site has been obtained
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    • 338 2  -  By SEAGHAN MAYNES I ONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Singapore’s Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, is booked to leave for home on Wednesday after a week of government talks here on boosting the island’s defence capability and economy in the wake of Britain's military withdrawal
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    • 45 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. The M P for Moulmetn. Mr Lawrence Sia will officiate the opening ceremony of the Rangoon Road Primary School tomorrow at 7.30 p.m in Starlight Road here This Is the 87th school to be officially opened by the Government.
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    • 257 2 LUMPUR, Mon. A new and more powerful version of the short Skyvan twin-engined light transport aircraft will leave London on June 16 on a sales tour of the Middle and Far East, including Malaysia. Another Skyvan is already on its way to Central
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    • 434 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Finance Minister. Tun Tan Siew Sin, today said a general pay increase in the public service would cost the Government anything up to $lOO million a year. The country had achieved growth without inflation and it
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    • 313 2 DENANG, Mon. The State Government will make use of a $400,000 bonus it is expecting from the Central Government to extend water supply services to the kampongs. This was disclosed by the Chief Minister. Tan Sri
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    • 192 2 PORT SWETTENHAM. Mon. Two ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet. USS Bradley and USS Taussig will pay a three-day goodwill visit here from Wednesday. The two destroyers, which form part of Destroyer Squadron 31. are under the command of Captain John F.
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    • 530 3 gINGAPORE, Mon. The emphasis n Singapore's industrialisation drive must now be on a sophisticated and Creative approach. This stated today by the Acting Prime Minister and Minister for Financ®, iJr. Goh Keng Swee. when he opened the Blue Box Toy Factory Ltd.
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    • 198 3 QINGAPORE, Mon. Two men were jailed hv the Third District Court todav for breaking into the house of Mr. J. H. Bailey, the Acting Canadian High Commissioner, and making away with 54.000 worth of silverwares and electrical appliances. Tan Chiew Tee,
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    • 33 3 SINGAPORE Mon. Lee Yok Kiong was fined $2O bv the Ninth Magistrate’s Court today for having in h:s possession a Malaysian Socia' Welfare Lottery ticket at Woodlands Check-point On May 26.
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    • 105 3 SINGAPORE. Mon The Technical Association of Singapore has been formed and is awaiting the approval of the Registrar of Societies. In its annual general meeting in September last year, the association, then known as the Technical Association of Malaysia Singapore Branch, resolved that it should
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    • 243 3 SINGAPORE, M o n. •3 There were only two men among the large crowd which turned up for the Ikebana demonstration and exhibition of driftwood arrangements and sale at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Swee Cheng at Pasir Panjang H 11
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    • 66 3 GAPORE. Mon. p ent has introduced a new Bill which will enable wrmen officers who have joined the public service on c after July 1 1956 to re-ti-e at the op ional age of 80 The Bill, called an Act to amend the Pensions Ordinance.
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    • 117 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. An open-air art exhibition is to be held in Singapore for the first time next month. The National Theatre Trust wh ch is organising the exhibition, has invited local artists to display their works i n the forthcoming show. The exhibition’s organising
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    • 222 3 By K. S. SII)HU SINGAPORE. Mon. Two youths staged a daylight payroll grab in busy Robinson Road today. The youths surprised the accounts clerk of Metro-Goldwyn-M a y e r office while he was on his way back after cashing 53.800 from a bank.
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    • 209 4 KUALA LUMPUR/ Mon. A number of posts in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be reshuffled next month, a Ministry spokesman said today. This follows the appointment of Enche Hussin bin Osman, the Deputy Se- cretary of the Ministry, as Ambassador
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    • 364 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Emerging countries in the post-war years are desiring to be equals to their brothers in developed countries in the art of manage- ment. This was stated by Mrs. Susan Yuen, the SecretaryTreasurer of'the Indo-Pa-cific Committee of the International
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    • 401 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Mr. Robert W. Moore, Counsellor of the American Embassy here and his family left here this evening for the United States. Mr. Moore has served with the Embassy here since 1963. KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The Selangor Vocational Guidance Association hoped to organise a seminar
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    • 83 4 (Bernama). KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Enche Ariff Ahmad of the Ministry of Culture. Youth and Sports, and Major Abdul Rahman bin Haji Mahmud, of the Ministry of Defence, will leave tomorrow for a week's visit to Indonesia. They will have discussions with Indonesian military officers regarding
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    • 146 4 IPOH. Mon. A former Councillor of the Municipality of Ipoh. who had made three switches in his political career, has announced his resignation from the Democratic Action Party. He is Mr. Wong Kok Weng, who was onoe an active member of the People’s Progressive Party, which
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    • 373 4  -  By BEN VARIYAN KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Forty Korean doctors will have to leave Malaysia when their threeyear contract expires in November. Another batch of Indian doctors recruited from India will also have to leave when their contracts expire at the
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    • 104 4 Top Hong Kong film stars. Kelly Lei Chen and Betty Loh Ti (above) flew into Singapore by Malay-sia-Singapore Airlines yesterday. They will make appearances during the film pre- miere of “Duel at the Supreme Gate” at Odeon Theatre on May 29 at 9.15 p.m.
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    • 101 4 KOTA KINABALU, Mon. From Saturday, all trawlers In the State licensed under trawl fishery conditions, type ‘A’, will be restricted from fishing within 1-1/2 nautical miles from the shore in the Marudu Bay between Tanjong Perawan and Tanjong Agong-Agong in the Kudat District. This was
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    • 51 4 The Minister of Education. Enche Mohamed Khir Johari, who is also the Hon. President of the Karate Association Malaysia speaking at the opening of its $45,000 Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday night. On the left is Mr. Chew Choo Soot, its Hon Secre- tary. Eastern Sun Pix by Mok
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    • 81 4 National Art Gallery (Jalan Ampang): Exhibition of batek design and art 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. Peninsular Art Gallery (41, Jalan Raja Muda): Works of prominent Malaysian artists 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Jalan Weld Swimming Pool: 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. 2 to 5 p.m. 6 to
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    • 218 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The review of the Parliamentary and State constituencies by the Elections Commission will see an alteration in the boundary bf some of the Parliamentary constituencies in the 1969 general elections. The changes would made in keeping with the provisions of
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    • 353 4  -  By C. F. LEE JTUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A youth who tried to cash in on the recent kidnap and murder of Harjit Singh by citing it as a threat to extort money from a banker and two businessmen was today jailed a total
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    • 166 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. Lim Tian Huat. 20. told the Third District Judge. Mr. K T. Alexander, today that he had done n o work ‘‘besides stealing scooters.” Lim was before Mr. Alexander for theft of three Vespa scooters with a total va’ue of $3,350. He had
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    • 737 10  -  By H.M.S. SUTAN SINGAPORE, Mon. Embraces and kisses these were the re- wards for the Fogsfads, probably the only Ethiopian family in Singapore, when they went to the airport to say farewell to Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. When the royal visitor and retinue of 34
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    • 272 10 CINGAPORE, Mon. The Tourist Promotion Board has called on investors and developers not only to put up more suitable accommodation but other tourist facilities, amenities and attractions. In a statement today recording the continuing trend of tourist increases in Singapore, the
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    • 425 11 DR. TAN TO STUDENTS: LUMPUR, Mon. "The Malaysian student of today should be more attuned to the political realities of today and not lire in an ivory tower/' This advice came from Dr. Tan Chee Khoon, M.P. for Batu and pro tern Secretary-General of Gerakan
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    • 172 11  -  By L. D. Baptist PENANG, Mon. Bystanders scampered to safety when a police constable opened fire at a suspected car thief who was cornered with a car behind the Rex Theatre at Kinta Lane last night. The man how r ever escaped, but the
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    • 160 11 KOTA BAHRU. Mon The chairman of MARA. Senator Abdul Ghafar Baba disclosed today MARA would build an office here costing half a million dollars soon. Speaking to reporters on his arrival at the airport here this morning. Senator Ghafar said it would
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    • 36 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Ikebana International Kuala Lumpur chapter 72. will hold its fifth annual flower arrangement-exhibi-tion on June 14 and 15 at the Balai Ampang. A.I.A. Building, in aid of the Lady Templer Hospital.
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    • 40 11 PENANG. Mon. The H e Yew Seah will be holding its 50th ordinary general meeting and elect officebearers. at it s premises in Madras Lane on Sunday After the meeting an Ean Lor” party will be held.
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    • 227 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —The National Family Planning Board will hold a three-day seminar at Dewan Tuanku Abdul Rahman on June 10 to discuss what the board has done the past year. The seminar, which will be opened by the Minister of Education, Enche Mohamed Khir Johari.
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    • 75 11 PENANG. Mon. Four masked men armed with daggers last night held up Teoh Yong Choon, 43, and his wife at their Jalan Yoke Keow home and escaped with cash and jewellery amounting to $1,302. Teoh was awakened by sounds in the night to find himself
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    • 33 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman will open the ‘‘Second Anniversary Show” of the Samat Art Gallery at the Concourse Floor, A.I.A. Building, here at 5 p.m. on Monday.
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    • 48 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— A landslide on a mining site at the Ayer Itam Tin Dredging Company. 17 miles from here on Saturday afternoon claimed the life of Chan Chew, a crane operator. A rescue party working round the clock managed to unearth his body only yesterday.
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    • 25 11 MUAR, Mon. The Parti Rakyat yesterday held two public rallies here and at PanchOr to explain the party’s policies to the local voters.
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    • 32 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Lim Ah Fatt, aged two. was drowned yesterday afternoon when he fell into a pond at Jalan Pahang here He was earlier seen playing beside it.
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    • 99 11 STUDENTS from eleven nations, mostly South-East Asian and African, staged an Ail-Nations evening in the University of Queensland, with national songs and dances and a national-dress fashion parade to celebrate the success of the Host Family Scheme for Overseas Students. Malaysian Arts student
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    • 371 11 SUNGEI SIPl'T. Mon.— The M.I.C. National President. Tun V. T. Samhanthan. who opened the annual delegates conference of the Perak branch here yesterday was greeted on his arrival by loud cheers. But also present on the scene were 65 coconut estate
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    • 76 11 IPOH. Mon. The police today claimed to have crippled a gang of thieves, specialising In stealing office equipment with the arrest of four suspects yesterday. In the arrests, the police also recovered three typewriters, four adding machines and a taoe recorder. A senior police spokesman
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    • 171 11 IPOH. Mon. A 19-year-old Penang girl was abducted in Kuantan for “white slave” traffic In Ipoh. a senior police spokesman disclosed today. She was rescued last night, when a party of plain-clothes men and officers raided a house In Anderson Road here In
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    • 92 11 PENANG. Mon. The Chief Minister. Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee. will Inspect road, drainage and other projects, when he visits Bukit Mertajam District tomorrow. He will Inspect proposed roadside drains and kampong paths at King Cross Street. He will also visit similar projects at Kampong
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    • 44 11 PENANG, Mon. The Governcr of Penang. Tan ori Syed Sheh Shahabuddin will present prizes and trophies at the Penang Free School Annual Sports on Saturday. The sports will be held at the school’s ground in Green Lane at 2.30 pm.
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    • 492 11 I/UALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Indian Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, will arrive at Subang at about 7.20 p.m. on Wednesday for a fourday official visit. There is no ceremonial reception for her arrival, but the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, and Puan Sharifah
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    • 82 11 PENANG, Mon. No further case s of cholera wer« reported in the State U o to early this morning. However, diarrhoea patients were being given thorough examinations to ascertain that they were not cholera cases. The Chief Medical and Health Officer. Dato Paduka Dr. Abdul Wahab,
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    • 42 11 MUAR. Mon. Mr. Tan Chee Yong has been elected chairman of the Johore State Chinese Teachers’ Association. Other office-bearers: Vicechairman. Mr. Yong Yang Kian and Mr. Chow Chin Chuan; treasurer, Mr. Lina Chee Huat and welfarechief, Mr. Lee Boon Teck.
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    • 3482 13  - Case depended essentially upon circumstantial evidence —Seow GENE KOH MURDER TRIAL By R. V. Lingam OINGAPORE, Mon. The SolicitorGeneral, Mr. Francis T. Scow, today stressed that the prosecution case in the Gene Koh murder trial depended essentially upon circumstantial evidence. The Solicitor-General, n an hour-long address lo the seven-man jury,
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 192 5 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) Japanese ambassadors accredited to Asian and Pacific nations will meet tomorrow to discuss the present Asian situation and Japan's future Asia policy the mass circulation Mainichi reported. Mainichi said the annual meeting will be centered mainly on Japan's possible role to
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    • 142 5 SAIGON. Mon. (Reuter) Fresh fighting today flared on the Western outskirts of Saigon as government troops continued the threeday battle to push other Vietcong out of a northern suburb. Military spokesmen reported that a force estimated at up to two battalions were trying to push into
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    • 30 5 PARIS, Mon. Danny Cohn Bcndit the banned student agitator waves tattered passport as he tries unsuccessfully to sneak back into France. UPI Radiophoto.
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    • 232 5 IN GERMANY BONN, Mon. (UPI). Foes of West Germany's controversial "Emergency Laws" today proclaimed massive strikes and demonstrations in a last desperate attempt to stop the legislation clearing par- liament this week. The laws would allow the government to assume total power in
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    • 190 5 VATICAN CITY. Mon. (UPI) Pope Paul VI says world peace was today disturbed by “agitations, struggles, wars, competitions and hatreds" that raise questions as to whether man really wants peace. The Pope spoke to 3.000 sick persons after celebrating mass for them in St. Peter’s
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    • 389 5  -  50th YEAR OF RESTORATION OF MOSCOW PATRIARCHATE By HENRY SHAPIRO MOSCOW. Mon. (CPI). One of the most glittering assemblies in world Christendom in recent years gathered in Moscow yesterday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the restoration of the Moscow patriarchate the supreme authority of the
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    • 191 5 SANTA PAULA. California. Mon. (Reuter) An engine-powered glider crashed here yesterday, seriously injuring its pilot, just seconds before the end of a 6.000-mile flight from Scotland to California Mira Slovak, its 38-year-old American pilot, was taken to hospital here with serious internal injuries. The
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    • 128 5 LONDON. Mon. (UPI) The British quarterly economic magazine “Business Forecast” said today the United States could be forced within months to raise the price of gold or demonetise it by refusing to settle balance of payments differences except in dollars. The magazine said If U.S. authorities
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    • 79 5 SYDNEY. Mon. (UPI) The Royal Australian Air Force came to the rescue of Indian Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi today when an aircraft malfunction delayed her departure from Australia to New Zealand. Mrs. Gandhi who has been visiting Australia for the past six days was
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    • 391 5 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI). Australian Prime Minister John Gorton arrived in Washington last night determined, he said, "to draw Australia and the United States even closed together and they are already very close." The Prime Minister arrived in Washington at 5.40 p.m. aboard a presidential jet which
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    • 284 5 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) —British newspapers, spurred by weekend remarks from a cabinet minister, discussed today the possibility of Frenchtype disturbances breaking out in Britain. The topselling Daily Mirror (independent leftwing > said in an editorial: “Mr Anthony Wedgwood Benn believes that public discontent and
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    • 153 5 STOCKHOLM, Mon. (Reuter). Police last night prepared for a second night of student violence while about 700 university students occupying their union house debated wnether to organise a new demonstration. Police said all leave had been cancelled. Reinforcements from outside StocKholm were still in the city and
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    • 84 5 President Johnson and Mr. John Gorton held a surprise meeting aboard a yacht here last night shortly after the Australian Prime Minister arrived in the United States. In an almost unprecedented gesture which threw protocol to the winds. President Johnson personaly telephoned Mr. Gorton within 10 minutes of his
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    • 91 5 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) Pupils in Canton learn only politics and the thoughts of Mao Tse Tung, the Hong Kong Standard reported today. Quoting a» arrival from Canton, the Englishlanguage newspaper said most *>f the schools in Canton had now reopened. There are no textbooks for
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    • 84 5 KAMPALA. Uganda. Mon. (UPI) The mysterious disappearance of a Nigerian official yesterday led to the breakdown of peace talks between Nigeria and secessionist Biafra. The Biafran delegation, led by the breakaway state's Chief Justice, Sir Louis Mbanefo. said it would leave Kampala today. The talks appeared to
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    • 106 5 COPENHAGEN, Mon. (Reuter) Princess Margrethe, heiress to the Danish throne, gave birth to a son here just before midnight last night. It was a ceasarian birth. No official bulletin was issued but informed sources said both the 28-year-old Princess and her son who will not
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    • 410 6 4TASCADERO, California, Mon. (UPI) —Three dangerous and armed mental patients were at large in California yesterday. The three took four hostages with them as they escaped at gunpoint from Atascadero State Hospital, a maximum Security Mental Hospital. They were terrorising the area by
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    • 229 6 JAKARTA, Mon. (UPI) Indonesian Congress Chairman Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution has urged President Suharto to undertake an anti-corruption drive to .support the Government's economic development programme. Speaking in a series of meetings in several villages in West Java. Gen. Nasution
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    • 44 6 DYE OR ELSE SAIGON, Mon. (Reuter) Vietnamese civilians owning -military uniforms were today told to have them dyed within a month. A government statement also forbade any dealings in uniforms. Aim of the new edict is to halt use of the uniforms by Vietcong.
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    • 258 6 JERUSALEM, Mon. (UPI) Israelis today celebrated the first anniversary, according to the Hebrew calendar, of the reunification of this ancient city under Jewish Rule. The simple State ceremony followed a warning on Saturday night from Gen. Moshe Dayan that the Arab States would renew
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    • 171 6 MANILA. Mon. (Reuter) A town mayor from the southern Philippines has told police how he shot a young radio-television singer he found in bed with his wife. The 44-year-old mayor said he flew’ home to Manila and arrived at his residence
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    • 145 6 TOKYO. Mon (UPI)—A visiting three-man North Vietnamese delegation leaves Tokyo for home tomorrow after a month-long goodwill visit to Japan. The delegation, headed by writer Ha Xuan Truong, arrived in Japan on April 29 and has toured virtually every major city. It was th
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    • 42 6 LILLE. France. Moo (Reuter) The strike is really beginning to hurt in the north of France beer is running out. Strikes by delivery men and cafe staff, as well as brewers, have all contributed to the drain.
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    • 49 6 TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter)— —Japan Airlines will begin twice-weekly flights to San Francisco via Vancouver later this year, the Transport Ministry announced today. The airlines would also run temporary flights to Mexico during the Olympic Games this year, pending negotiations for a permanent service.
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    • 408 6  -  By MOHSIN ALI PARIS. Mon. (Reuter) The United States was tftue to put forward some new Ideas at today’s fifth full-scale session of its preliminary peace talks here with North Vietnam. But American officials declined to disclose these.
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    • 121 6 TEL AVIV. Mon. (Reuter) —Jordanian artillery opened fire across the Jordan River last night in an attempt to protect a fleeing band of Arab guerrillas, an Israeli Army spokesman said here early today. The spokesman said one member of the Arab band
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    • 80 6 MILAN. Mon. (Reuter) A time-bomb exploded at a Citroen car factory here tonight In another demonstration of sympathy with striking French students and workers. No one was hurt. Leaflets from the “internationlist anarchist grouD” declaring solidarity with “the current French revolution” were found scattered In
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    • 85 6 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) —The Commissioner of Police. Mr. E. C. Eates. who took a tough stand against leftist rioters last year, has applied for early retirement. Mr. Eates, 52, was awarded the C.M.G. for, what the citation said, displaying leadership integrity and devotion to
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    • 168 6 NEW YORK. Mon. (Reuter) Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro has reportedly expressed interest in a United States message aimed at reopening diplomatic relations between ihe two nations. “There appears to be a thaw in U S. relations with Cuba.” the News Magazine noted in
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    • 104 6 JAKARTA. Mon (Reuter) President Suharto has called on Indonesia university students to pursue national aims and not to harness themselves to the interests of political parties or groups. He said in a written message to a Roman Catholic Students’ meeting j n Semarang.
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      72 6 MANILA. Mon. The annual Carabao Festival, held in the town of Pulilan, north of Manila, attracts farmers from the surrounding districts. They jam the streets with their trained animals some of which bow and walk on their knees, at the tap of a stick. Some farmers claim that
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    • 147 6 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter* Three Catholics, including a nun were killed and 19 others were wounded when American aircraft dropped 500-lb. bombs and fired rockets on the Xa Doai Diocese in North Vietnam's Nghe An province on May 17, the North Vietnam
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    • 74 6 BANGKOK. Mon. (Reuter) Government forces killed two Communist guerrillas and captured seven more in Northeastern Thailand last week. Prime Minister Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn said today. The Premier said guerrilla activities in the region had decreased as a result of step-ped-up government operations. The military
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    • 53 6 BANGKOK. Mon. (Reuter) —Twenty children have died of dysentry since the disease broke out in Northeastern Thailand about two months ago. a police report said today. Two hundred other children are being treated for the disease, which spread because villagers ignored official warnings to boil
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    • 140 6 HONG KONG. Mo n. (UPI). Narcotics officers yesterday seized 484 pounds of opium and morphine valued at U.S. 550.000 from a car parked in an underground garage here, police reported. They said officers found the drugs in investigations stemming from the discovery of more
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    • 65 6 TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter) Three aftershocks of the destructive earthquake of May 16 today shock northern. Japan bringing the total number of aftershocks to 192. the Japanese metorological agency said. The earthquake on May 16 killed 48 persons and injured 308 in Hokka’do. Japan’s northernmost
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    • 67 6 KAMPALA, Mon. (Reuter) Nigerian and Biafran delegates met for only 20 minutes this afternoon on the fourth day of peace talks here Conference sources said they met as a steering committee to discuss procedure for the third item on the conference agenda conditions for a
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    • 669 7 Pilots of crashed passenger jet TAIPEI, Mon. (UPI) —The Taipei District Court today delayed the verdict in the case of American pilots who were being tried on criminal charges in connection with the crash of a civilian jet passenger plane on February
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    • 71 7 Belo Horizonte. Brazil. Mon (Reuter) A Brazilian law professor here has advocated legalised polygamy as the best way of populating the vast underdeveloped and unhabitated regions of the Amazon and the Mato Grosso. Professor Lidio Machado Bandeira de Melo. of the Federal University in this Minasgerais state capital,
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    • 77 7 On June 1 there opens in Caux an international conference to mark the 30th anniversary of Moral Re-Armament. One of its aims: “To develop and apply an answer to violence,
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    • 240 7 PORTLAND. Oregon. Mon. (Reuter) Senator Robert F. Kennedy todayurged President Johnson to sell Israel 50 Phantom supersonic jets to balance part of the heavy arms shipments received by Arab countries from the Soviet Union. Speaking to a Jewish congregation during f he Oregon primary
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    • 127 7 HOLLYWOOD. Mon (Reuter) Richard Burton. Paul Newman and Gina Lollobrigida are to have their names set in cement in an extension of Hollywood Boulevard’s “Walk of Fame” The original “Walk of Fame” was completed in 1960 with 1.50 ft names to fascinate
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    • 231 7 Reality of an N-defence stronger than ‘vague promises SYDNEY, Mon. (Reuter) Australia and India could not be made to give away the reality of a future nuclear defence weapon on the “vague promise’’ of the three great nuclear power to come to their help, the Sydney daily Telegraph said today.
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    • 865 7  -  EXPECTED TO LAST TWO YEARS By MICHAEL REUPKE ALSDORF, West Germany, Mon. (Reuter) One of West Germany’s biggest and most emo-tionally-charged trials opens here today with the men who manufactured the tranquilliser drug. Thalidomide, in 1957 as the accused. The greatest tragedy In medical history—with many thousands
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    • 97 7 EDINBURGH. Scotland. Mon. (UPI) The condition of 15-year-old Alex Smith. Europe's first lung transplant patient, is causing doctors at the Edinburg h Royal Infirmary “concern,” a hospital bulletin said. The youth received one lung from an 18-year-old girl who died after a drug overdose on May
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    • 76 7 LONDON. Mon (Reuter) Rival groups have petitioned Prime Minister Harold Wilson on Britain's race relations issue. A petition repudiating racialism. signed by 2.000 persons from different religious denominations including Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Michael Ramsey. was taken to 10 Downing Street last night. Within minutes a
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    • 98 7 THE HAGUE. Mon. (Reuter) The former President of the Philippines. Mr. Diosdado Macapagal. who is on a four-day visit to Holland. visited the Peace Palace and had lunch with the Philippine World Court judge. Mr. Cesar Bengzon, yesterday. He spent the rest of the day quietly sightseeing
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    • 286 7 MANILA. Mon. (UPI) The chief government official investigating Japanese business firms in the Philippines said today his committee so far had found the operations of the Japanese to be in order. Undersecretary of Industry Cesar Virata, who started the investigation on
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    • 148 7 CANBERRA. Mon (Reuter) Nearly 300 egg-throwing Ukrainians demonstrated outside the Soviet embassy here today against Russian rule in their homeland. They smashed an embassy window and tried to set fire to a high hedge surrounding the building. The demonstrators, who converged on the national capital from Eastern Australian
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    • 69 7 BRISBANE. Mon. (Reuter) The Duke of Edinburgh arrived in Brisbane today on his Australian tour. Prince Philip had piloted his plane from Moree. 250 miles from here, where he had spent the weekend. Scores of onlookers mostly women shouting “Good on yer mate.” “Isn’t the gorgeous.”
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    • 52 7 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Sir John Wolfenden. who headed an inquiry committee 12 years ago into homosexual offences and prostitution. is to be the next director and principal librarian of the British Museum. His appointment was announced last night in succession to Sir Frank Francis who retires on
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    • 271 7 PARIS, Mon. (UPI) France’s nationwide reference in June is shaping up as a straight fight between President Charles de Gaulle and the Communist Party. In announcing the referendum de Gaulle told the nation it will have to choose between himself and Communism. The 77
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    • 253 7 UNDERDOG: The candidate which the pundits consider the least likely to win. Right now. Eugene McCarthy would have to be considered the underdog in the Democratic race, since both Robert F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey have considerable more power and financial assets. But in the belief that
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  • 468 8 Tun Abdul Razaks European tour has highlighted one important fact. A young nation like Malaysia, which has managed to maintain stability and a viable economy since her independence, has won the respect of the advanced nations of Europe, both Communist and non-Communist. For two decades after the end
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  • 271 8 Bahaman bin Samsudin is the first Minister of Justice who has gone round the country to examine the dilapidated court houses, which were built 60 to 70 years ago by the colonial regime. Enche Bahaman wondered how judges and magistrates could work in such discomfort. In some
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    • 729 8 A nation without a soul THE tremendous efforts and progress of our Republic in recent years have won the admiration of all both at home and abroad. Three cheers for our P.A.P. government. It is great to have leaders of the present calibre and we confidently believe that we can
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    • 193 8 BY the introduction of the proposed Employment Act 1968. details of which were published last Sunday, it would appear that the Singapore Government is trying to create more employment among the elderly people people who have given their best years of their life to a job which
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  • 245 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt M/ n». »y 9, iwsnpsa (Author, "Handbook or BvtOene* tar Criminal Trio la”) KING was a popular dancing star in Hollywood. He decided to lend his name to be used for publicity. This would help advertise and successfully operate dance studios. Irene operated
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  • 1470 8  -  By Dr. Goh Poh Seng A talk to members of tho Y*s Men’s Club in Singapore last Saturday. THE subject of my talk this afternoon, the problem of leadership succession, may seem a premature topic and one that should not be taken either seriously or
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  • 494 8 From Sin Chen Jit Poh rpHE peace talks to -A end the Vietnam war having begun, the general consensus of opinion is that the talks will be long drawn out with difficulties galore. Although we all hope that both sides would exercise their good sense in self-restraint
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    • 41 8 Eastern Sun Independent National Newspaper TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1968 23-B. Cantonment Road, 39. |alan Sultan, Singapore 2. Kuala Lumpur, Malayila. Telephone: *****/7 Telephone: *****/6 Penang Office I. Leith Street, Tel: ***** Ipoh Office 77. Brewster Road. Tol: ***** Cable Address: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 1015 9 CANBERRA. Australia, Mon. Rice production In Australia had increased rapidly over the last seven years, the Minister for Primary Industry, Mr. J. D. Anthony, said recently. In 1960-61 production was 112,500 tons from 46,000 acres; this season 77,000 acres were expected to produce about 200,000
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    • 205 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, has given an assurance to the car assembly industry in Malaysia that the government would do everything in its power to protect their future. This was in view of the prestige the industry would bring to
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    • 22 9 HONG KONG. Mon.(UPI) —Money Quotations. HKS6.iI/8125 per U.S. dollar for cash. HK514.53 per pound sterling HK5312.75 per tael gold.
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    • 1213 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Stock Exchange began the week's business in firm conditions and trading rooms turnover exceeded 1.7 million shares. Continued good buying strengthened prices in the industrial section with some individual counters finishing at the day’s best. Outstanding in this connection was
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    • 384 9 BONN. Mon. The new lighting installed by Siemens on the three-lane Cologne Bonn motorway differs appreciably from all other conventional street lighting systems. The high-contrast fitting involved is a specular-re-flector lantern operated with a 400 W high-pressure mercury-vapour lamp. The lanterns are suspended
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    • 283 9 RUBBER UP CENT SINGAPORE Mon. June first grade rubber f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 53-1 2 cents per lb., up seveneighths of a cent from previous close. The tone wa3 steady quiet. London advices were higher than expected which made for an improved
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    • 15 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. —The tin price for today was $559 per picul, down 5f.25.
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    • 448 9 SINGAPORE. —Stock Exchange •old and offer prices officially listed at the close of business. INDUSTRIALS Boust t-ad XB1 1.83 1.85 C sugar 4.18 Chemical Co 1.49 Cold storage 4 80 5.00 Dunlop 3.10 E smelting 6.30 680 E\I •>.38 234 Esso Ords 294 2.95 Iit/patrichs 2.55 A. V
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    • 73 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —The Kaunting Tin Dredging Limited made an estimated profit of £610,000 ($4,483,500) after depreciation and depletion for the financial year ending March 31. 1968. A statement to shareholders says the output of tin was 1.920 tons. of which 566 tons were
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    • 49 9 (Managers* 1 Prices) First Mala>an 2.72 second Malayan 1 90 Third Malayan The Commerce 1.23 Industry XU The saving .97 1 00 Fund 1 09 1.18 First H'kong .8.* .90* second H'kong \U fiO .04* Malaxsian Investment Fund XU 1.15 1.25 Sterling C’modltv 5/4 <* Hong Kong Currency)
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    • 93 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The noon prices at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange today are:Buyer Seller Coconut Oil (F.O.B.) Bulk 66 75 Coconut Oil (FOB.) Drums 6325 Loose Copra Mixed Maj/June 39.50 Muntok White Pepper (F.O.B.) 96%N.L.W ***** Sarawak hlte Pepper (F.O.B.) 96% VL.W 115.50 Sarawak Special Black Pepper (F.O.B.) 96%
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    • 121 9 TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter) The first meeting of Commissioners General for the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka. Western Japan, opened its four-day session today in Kyoto, ancient capital in Western Japan, with 178 foreign delegates and observers participating. The participants included delegates from six
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    • 172 9 Singapore. Mon. The following ships are expected to be in port today;Godowns Vessels 1/2 Millstar 3/4 Java Mail 5 Halldor 6/7 Kristine Bakke 8/9 Quirinale 13/14 Tenbury 15/16 Bayernstein 18 Fernview 19 Unkai Maru No. 6 21/22 Cattle 23/24 Martine 25/26 Black Knight 27/28 Telamon 29/30 Rajula
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    • 234 9 BRUSSELS, Mon. (Reuter) Common Market Ministers of Finance, Agriculture and Foreign Affairs meet this week amid growing fears that the sixnation community is on the verge of a new crisis. No positive results are expected to emerge from the three meetings in the
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    • 1492 10 YOUR TV and BADIU TOPAY TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 KUALA LUMPUR and Palau Pinan*; 6 Ipoh and Melaka. 3 A 10 Johore Bahru; Taipinr. V Batu Pahat; 9 Aluang P.M. 5.45 Opening Annct. Prog. Summary; 550 N e w S Outline in the National Language; 555 National Songs; 600 News
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  • Femme
    • 525 12  -  By Joyce "WOMEN drivers e-eugh!" And that was the comment of one male driver. Frankly, I thought he didn't have to be that rude I admit, being a lady driver myself I do get infuriated by some of the other lady drivers on the
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    • 209 12 WHEN most local girls at the age of 12 are still using baby powder, their counterparts of the same age in New Zealand and Australia are using make-up. This was revealed by a London and Paris-trained beautician Mrs. Pauline Neoh. who returned recently
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    • 103 12 WOMEN in Singapore have been advised to wear bright colour dresses that would make them look outstanding in “this colourful country.” This advice came from a well-known Japanese publisher, Mr. Eitaro Ha.segawa. of Kamakura-Shobo Publishing Co., Ltd. which produces one of Japan's top international fashion magazines
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    • 35 12 Various kinds of sprays for clothing are recently becoming widely popular, such as a finishing spray which makes ironing easier. Now comes a spray which not only is a fabric finish but a deodoriser.
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    • 84 12 Gayle Kirkpatrick is a versatile designer who started with sportswear, went on to open his own fashion firm and is now getting seriously into children’s wear. He has already been doing children’s clothes as a kind of freelance thing, but he is now creating a collection
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    • 212 12  -  (By Mary Sue Miller) WHEN you wish to create a glamorous effect, you cannot underestimate the power of atmosphere. Attractive surroundings make you feel attractive. Like candlelight at dinner. It follows that one logical place for atmospherics is in the makeup area. Grubby cosmetics, jumbled together in
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    • 47 12 M ISS Shih Meichien, knitwear queen of China, places the crown on the new fashion Queen of Taipei, Miss Liu Yi-mon at the Mandarin Hotel in Taipei recently. The new Fashion Queen was presented with a certificate and NT$ 20,000 in cash. Panaphoto.
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    • 47 12 THE action look is for the young in a two-p ie c e that's almost one. Regal does it in stretch nylon, with striped tank top attached to the navy shorts by a buckled tab. Brass buttons dot the shorts Fa- shion League picture.
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      30 12 A metal dress for the lady and a mini one too was shown during the Tokyo swimming suit fashion show held at the newly built 36-storey. Kasumigascki, lecently.
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      477 12 HERE’S a fruit salad that doesn’t need any dressing. This recipe serves four. Ingredients:- One to three ounces package soft cream cheese, quarter cup mayonnaise, two tablespoons pineapple syrup, one banana (sliced), four cherries (cut in fourths), quarter cup nuts (chopped) and four pineapple slices (drained). Mix cream cheese,
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    • 97 12 The coat-dress, meaning a dress tailored with the precision of a coat, with a bucklet belt, perhaps a zip front, a neatly flared ckirt Midriff insets following up on the belted look, sometimes just a wide, fitted accent band, and others with a narrow belt crossing
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    • 204 13 SHAW GANISftnOM D O Phone ***** TODAY TOMORROW ONLY! 11 a m.. 130. 4 on. a 30 9 15 p m HMi Menu <fc Fu Che in *oh: the spring s hfre’ 1 Mandann in Color-English Subtltie* OPENS”THURSDAY! Simone Signnrct. Yve* Montand “THF SLEEPING HR MI RDFR*’ From Warner Brox-Seven
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  • NEWSFEATURES
    • 396 14 By Gerald Rousseau THE creation of a Pacific Fisheries Institute will be the chief item on the agenda of a fisheries meeting to be held in the first two weeks of June at Koror, in the United States ter* ritory. Koror is in the
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    • 1180 14  -  By Colin Mann pOOLAMON Farm, a rest home for racehorses at St. Mary's New South Wales, carries 100 thoroughbred guests worth generally in the vicinity of $2,000,000. Hock* deep in lush grass, the racehorses whinny to each other from their individual three-quarter-a ere paddocks.
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    • 406 14 By GERALD RATZIN PROPOSALS aimed at stemming the flow of scientists from developing countries to industrialised nations have emerged from a meeting of American and Canadian Scientists in the United Nations, New York. The suggestions are also designed to remove some
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    • 187 14 LEMBAGA LETRIK NEGARA SENARAI deposit 2 chagaran yang tiada di-tuntut bagi bekalan letrik ka-tempat2 yang di-kosongkan ant a r a lhb. September 1966 hingga 31hb. Ogos 1967 boleh di-lihat atau didapati di-pejabat2 Lembaga Letrik Negara yang berikut hingga 31hb. Ogos, 1968. Alor Star (termasok Kepala Batas) Arau/Kangar Bahau Batu Pahat
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  • Sun Sport
    • 353 15 MONTE CARLO, Mon. (Router) Britain's Graham Hill, leading from early on, won the Monaco Grand Prix for the fourth time yesterday and consolidated his commanding lead in the world champion. The 39-year-old Hill’s scarlet and gold LotusFord completed the
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    • 347 15 LISBON, Mon. (Reuter) Benflca. Porto, Setubal and Maritimo of Funchal yesterday won through to the semifinals of the Portuguese Cup, .the draw for which will be made today, Setubal won the second leg of their quarter-final against Guimaraes 3-1 at home. Setubal were
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    • 111 15 CAPETOWN. Mon. (Reuter) The British Lions rugby team have come under attack for travelling from their first match at Potchestoom against Western Transvaal to Capetown on a Sunday. An editorial in the current edition of the Dutch Reformed Church magazine. Die Kerkbode.
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    • 177 15 F R A N C O R CHAMPS. (Belgium), Mon. (Reuter) Jacky Ickx, of Belgium, and Brian Redman, of Britain, sped to victory in the Grand Prix De Spa 1.000 kilometres motor race here yesterday in driving rain. Driving a Ford GT-40 car, they
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    • 413 15 MILAN, Mon. (Reuter) Italy’s Sandro Mazzinghi, his face cut into a bloody mask, narrowly outpointed South Korean Ki Soo Kim yes- terday to win the world’s junior middleweight title. A crowd of 30,000 chanting “Sandro. Sandro” watched the 29-year-old Italian win back title he
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    • 62 15 JERSEY CITY. (New Jersey.) Mon. (Reuter) Glasgow Celtic, last year's European Cup winners, drew- 1-1 here last night with A.C. Milan the 1968 European Cup-Winners’ Cup-holders A crowd of over 20.000 watched the exhibtion match. Centre forward Willie Wallace gave Celtic the lead in
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    • 25 15 Norbert Huda, the 1968 German champion in the men's fancy diving, is seen showing his trophy to Angelika Hilbert, the women's fancy diving champion recently.
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    • 250 15 SINGAPORE. Mon. A hill climb at the BP Refinery at Pasir Panjang will highlight this year's BP South Malaysian Rally to be held this weekend in Singapore and Johore. The Rally is being jointly organised by the Forces Driving Club and the Singapore Motor Club.
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    • 428 15 PARIS, Mon. (Reuter) Australia regained supremacy in women's world team tennis when they beat the Netherlands in the Federation Cup final here yesterday. On the red clay centre court of the Roland Garros Stadium, the second-seeded Australian two-girl team of Mrs. Margaret Smith-Court and
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    • 132 15 MEMPHIS, Tennessee. Mon (Reuter)—Bob Lunn's eagle putt on the 16th hole turned out to be worth $20,000 yesterday a? the 22-year-old golfer won the Memphis Open by one stroke. Monty Kaser took $12,000 second prize, and finishing a stroke behind him for $7.500
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    • 762 15 ALOR STAR, Mon. Eight new records were established at the tenth annual athletic meet of the St. Michael's at the Darulaman Stadium here yesterday. Four of the records were In Class One. two each in Class Two and Class Three. Bernard House
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    • 176 15 PARIS, Mon. (Reuter) Blonde Australian Gail Sherriff has the distinction of hitting the first ball i n the first Open French Tennis Championships, which get under way here today despite the national crisis. She meets Bulgaria’s Federation Cup player, Lubka Radkova. But one
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    • 110 15 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Crowds of soccer fans yesterday invaded the pitch where Portuguese champions Benflca were training for Wednesday's European Cup final match with Manchester United. Police reinforcements had to be called In as about 3.000 enthusiasts flooded the Benfica practice pitch at
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    • 100 15 BERKELEY. California. Mon. (UPI) The United States completed a 5-0 sweep over Mexico in the North American Zone Davis Cup series yesterday as Clark Graebner and Lt. Arthur Ashe scored straight set victoriea over Mexico’s best. After clinching the best-of-five series on Saturday, Graebner and Ashe com*
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  • 399 16  -  By M.T. Lingam SEREMBAN, Mon. For the past months, officials of the Amateur Athletic Association of Negri Sembilan hare not responded to nudges to wake up and appear very unlikely that they will ever budge to save the associa- tion.
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  • 306 16 SINGAPORE. Mon—Keppel Club's 'SGA' League team defeated their SICC counterparts by the score of 5 to 1 on Sunday. KC’s victory was its first over the heavily favoured SICC since the SGA competitions started several years ago. As If wanting to prove that their
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  • 55 16 Otto Ziege, the trainer of the German amateur cycling team, armed with a stop-watch, poses with the fourman road race team. The four-man team represent the best cyclists in the Federal Republic of Germany. From left to right:— Burkhard Fbert (Berlin); Lutz Loschke (Berlin), Oleknavicius (Mannheim), Martin Gombert (Bremen), Dieter
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  • 40 16 MANAGUA, (Nicaragua.) Mon. (UPI) Chartchoi Choinoi of Thailand, world flyweight champion, will arrive here on Wednesday to complete his training for his June 8. 15-round title bout with Raton Mojica, promoter Evelio Areas Mendoza said.
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  • 39 16 MUAR. Mon. Local schools, clubs and associations and voluntary organisations and local residents in the Batu Pahat district are invited to take part in a district badminton tournament, organised by the Batu Pahat Badminton Association next month.
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  • 204 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Selangor Amateur Weight-lifting and BodyBuilding Association will hold the annual “Mr. Selangor” contest at the Chinw r oo Auditorium, here on July 21. The secretary of the organising committee. Mr. H. R. M. Storey, said because of the need to
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  • 304 16 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Minister for Social Affairs and SOSC president, Enche Othman bin Wok, has hit out at the lack of interest shown among sports organisations to re-adjust their activities to create a truly national image in the various specialised games in the
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  • 145 16 PEKAN. Mon—The royal team here defeated the 4th Malaysian Infantry Brigade 6—l in a tennis tournament here to celebrate the 64th birthday of the Sultan of Pahang. The royal team included the Sultan, the Tunku Mahkota. the Pekan District Officer and Enche Ridzwan bin Ja
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  • 42 16 EAST BERLIN. Mon. (Reuter)—Christine Spielberg. of East Germany, broke the women's worlddiscus record with a throw of 61.64 metres (202 feet--2-3/4 inches) today. The former mark, set by Liesl Westermann (West Germany), was 61.26 metres (200 feet 11-3/4 inches).
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  • 617 16 IPOH. Mon The following is the Stipendiary Steward's report on the First Day of the Perak Turf Club meeting on Saturday: Going good for 3 races, then heavy. Race 1: Horses class 4 Div. 3 5$ furlongs. Commando (Subramaniam) could not be placed in
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  • 819 16 3rd DAY IPOH, Mon. Weights for the Third Day of the Perak Turf Club meeting on Saturday. HORSES CLASS 4 Div. 1— 6 fur. Tudor Pirate 9.00 Film Studio V 9.00 Dollar Seeker 8.13 Red Tudor 8.13 Radiant Moon 8 12 Speed Orb
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  • 64 16 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Singapore Badminton Association will hold its junior inter-club and junior championship at the SBA stadium in July. The junior championships will be divided into men’s singles and doubles, and women’s singles and doubles and junior mixed doubles. Entries for the junior
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    • 61 16 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 12.50 a.m. (6.9 ft.), 12 56 p.m. (8.5 ft.) Port Swettenham: 6.34 a.m. (13.9 ft.), 6.36 pm. (14.5 ft.) Port Dickson: 7.00 a.m. (7.5 ft 7.29 p.m. (8.6 ft.) Singapore: 12.10 a.m. (7.4 ft.). 11.05 p.m. (8.7 ft.) Sedili Kechil: 11.23 a.m. (7.3 ft.), 9.12 p.m.
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