Eastern Sun, 23 July 1968

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    24 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION ft Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 712 Tuesday, 23 July 1968. ft MC(P> 0050 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon P.I. Embassy staff in K.L. busy packing to leave
    216 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. —Members of the Philippine Embassy staff are now busy packing and making final arrangements to leave for Manila. The officials are expected to leave in a week's time. The move to cal] back the Philippines Ambassador here. Mr.
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    Lock icon In tomorrow's Eastern Sun
    72 1 Watch out in tomorrow's •ports columns for the first instalment of “Sports Talk by Chan Onn Leng. The writer needs no introduction. He was a top athlete in Singapore a little more than a decade ago. His first article deals at great length on dope-taking hab
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    Lock icon COOLING OFF EFFORT LIKELY
    555 1  -  Malik, Khoman expected to act as peace-makers By PATRICK J. KILLEN MANILA, Mon. (UPI) The regional friends of the Philippines and Malaysia are expected to act as peace makers in an effort to cool off the Sabah dispute. The controversy over Philippine claims to about three-fifths
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    Lock icon A BOEING'S EYE-VIEW
    61 1 e A Boeing's eve-view of the Subang Airport Control Tower. This picture was taken by Eastern Sun cameraman Mok Voon while seated inside MalaysiaSingapore Airlines’ new $22.5 million Boeing 707 at Subang airport yesterday. Neatly framed within the window of he plane is one of the most
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    Lock icon Appeal to Marcos by Sabah Filipinos
    730 1 KOTA KINABALU. Mon. The Chairman of the 8.000-strong Sabah Filipinos’ Association, Mr. William Abu Bakar Mendoza. appealed today to President Marcos of the Philippines to avoid any course of action that would lead to severance of diplomatic relations with Malaysia. He told Bernama any
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    Lock icon Miraculous escape for 2 families
    358 1  -  RAF HUNTER CRASHES By R.V. LINGAM OINGAPORE, Mon. Two families in a kampong had a miraculous escape this afternoon when a RAF Hunter ground-attack fighter crashed into a vegetable farm be- tween their houses. The plane which nosedived Into the farm was only about 20
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon CZECHS BRACE FOR REACTION TO ‘DARE’ TO MOSCOW
      298 5 PRAGUE, Mon. (Reuter) Defiant CzechoSlovakia waited today to see whether the Soviet Union would dare to move against her, a step which Western observers here sav would shatter Communist unitv and the calm of Eastern Europe Ominous reports of possible intervention poured
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      Lock icon Western newsmen quizzed
      173 5 PRAGUE, Mon- (Reuter) American and West German newsmen and television crews shadowing Russian troops evacuating Czechoslovakia were detained last night but later released. Stuart Smith of the American daily Baltimore Sun was questioned for 20 minutes by Czechoslovak police 30 miles northeast of Prague in an area
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      Lock icon 68 drown as mercury hits 88F
      141 5 TOKYO. Mon <UPI> Millions of Japanese flocked to beaches and swimming pools yesterday to seek relief from hot and muggy weather and at least 68 persons drowned in bathing accidents across the nation. The number of the victims set a weekend record for the
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      Lock icon W. German manoeuvres for Sept. ‘unchanged’
      255 5 BONN. Mon. (Reuter) —Manoeuvres by 30.000 West German troops close to the Czechoslovak border were today still set to go ahead in September despite uneasiness voiced by Foreign Minister H. Willy Brandt and other politicians who fear East European reaction. Defence Minister Gerhard Schroeder
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      Lock icon Seoul during heavy downpour...
      18 5 Seoul during heavy downpour SEOUL: Policemen carry villagers in the city during floods here last week. UPI radiophoto.
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      Lock icon ‘Clear warning US will not pick up UK’s role in SEA’
      239 5 ON THE RECORDS WASHINGTON, Mon. (Reuter) The United States told Britain it felt the planned withdrawal of British forces East of Suez was unwise, a high State Department official said in congressional testimony released today. The U.S. also made
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      Lock icon Thieu is back
      51 5 SAIGON. Mon. (UPI) President Nguyen Van Thieu arrived at Tan Son Nhut airbase today from his meeting in Honolulu with President Johnson. Among those greeting Mr. Thieu at Tan Son Nhut were Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky. deputy U.S ambassador Sam Berger and Prime Minister Tran Van
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      Lock icon 40 hurt as rock-n-roll tent folds up
      122 5 MILWAUKEE. Wis.. Mon. <U?I) More than 40 persons were reported injured I t nt-’ht when a large t' t c'il'pted on several hundred teen-agers attending a rock and roll show at the lake front. County emergency hospital officials said at least five patients
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      Lock icon ‘Belt-tightening exercise must go on’ warning
      210 5 THE US ECONOMY WASHINGTON, Mon. (Reuter) President Johnson's inflation-fighters today issued a stern warning to Americans that they were still on “a dangerous road” of excessive wage and price rises. The cabinet committee on price stability issued its statement, a spokesman said, to make
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      Lock icon Talks put off
      60 5 PARIS. Mon. (Reuter) The French Communist Party has cancelled a call for a meeting of European Communist parties on the Czecholsovak crisis. Fourteen parties had given their agreement to a principle to the meeting but they were asked “not to insist at present on the convening of
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      Lock icon Mussolini's widow wins pension awards
      149 5 ROME Mon. (Reuter) Italian dictator Benito Mussolini worked long enough in government service to earn a state pension and his widow should receive It, a court has ruled here. The court of accounts which deals with financial grievances against the civil service, pointed out that
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      Lock icon Threat to shoot Wilson
      113 5 DURHAM, England, Mon. (Reuter) A threat to shoot Prime Minister Wilson was disclosed last night by organisers of Durham Miners’ Gala which he visited yesterday. Mr, Wilson returned to London after a 24-hour visit to Durham that passed oft without Incident amid extraordinary security precautions. Gala
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      Lock icon Pope reveals secret mercy flights to Biafra
      272 5 CASTELG4ISDOLFO near Rome Mon. (Reuter) Pope. Paul today admitted for the first time that the Vatican had sent blockade-busting planes uith food and medicine into beleaguered Biafra. At the same time he renewed his appeal for Nigerian peace talks in his first public
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      Lock icon Hanoi claims two kills
      59 5 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) Radio Hanoi said yesterday that shore batteries in Thanh Hoa province sunk an “enemy commando boat” on Saturday. A broadcast monitored in Tokyo gave no further details. Thanh Hoa province is near Haiphong. The same broadcast said one American F 4 jets was
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      Lock icon LBJ closes Johnson- Thieu conference
      27 5 HONOLULU, Mon. Pres. Johnson delivers final speech yesterday at conference with Pres. Nguyen Van Thieu, while Mr. Thieu looks on. UPI Radiophoto.
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      Lock icon Thieu: No question of a withdrawal of American forces
      400 6 OAIGON, Mon. (Reuter) South Vietnam's President Nguyen Von Thieu said today there will be no let up in the bombing of North Vietnom until Hanoi responds with recirpocal action. In a press conference in Saigon's Independence Palace following his return from
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      Lock icon Bomb blast shatters windows of a bookshop
      134 6 NEW YORK Mon. <UPI) A bomb blast shattered the windows of a left-wing bookshop and an adjoining luncheonette on the fringe of Greenwich village early yesterday. There were no injuries. Police declined to speculate on whether this was another in a series of
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      Lock icon New methods to speed up cargo clearance
      111 6 SYDNEY, Mon. (UPI) Minister for Customs and Excise, Sen. Malcolm Scott, yesterday announced new methods to speed up cargo clearance in Australian capital city ports. ‘Customs officers will no longer be stationed permanently at individual wharves, and the ports will be divided into
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      Lock icon Police detain deputy Mayor and 5 Members of Parliament
      260 6 NEW DELHI, Mon. (Reuter) Police arrested the Deputy Mayor of Delhi and five Members of Parliament as they marched here today with 5,000 demonstrators protesting against Soviet plans to sell arms to Pakistan. About 400 demonstrators mostly from the rightwing Hindu
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      Lock icon Youth convicted of clashing with police
      107 6 TOKYO, Mon. (UPI) The Tokyo District Court today convicted a 20-year-old youth of clashing with police during demonstrations against Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's trip to the United States last Oct. 8. The Court handed Toshiro Yoshino a three years suspended sentence. He way charged
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      Lock icon ROK news briefs
      82 6 SEOUL .Mon (UPI) A total of 20 cases of encephalitis have been reported from various parts of Korea, the health-social affairs ministry said today. The sleeping desease has claimed seven lives, one has been cured and the rest are still under treatment, a ministry spokesman said. Newly
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      Lock icon Curfew reimposed on Akron
      359 6 CHICAGO, Mon. (UPI) A curfew was reimposed on Akron, Ohio, yesterday following new racial outbreaks and police In Benton harbour, Michigan used mace to break up a crowd of enraged Negroes. Roving Negro bands staged hit and run raids in Jackson. Michigan. The 700 national guardsmen
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      Lock icon Humphrey can be excused for considering invitation to Sen. Kennedy
      378 6 WASHINGTON. Mon. (UPI) Vice President Mr. Hubert Humphrey can be excused for seriously considering an invitation to Senator Edward M. Kennedy to run for Vice President on a Humphrey-Kennedy ticket. After all, the combination might well win the Presidency for
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      Lock icon Mattress catches fire in jail
      105 6 MEMPHIS. Tenr.esee. Mon. (UPI) A mattress caught fire last night in the third floor of the Shelby County Jail where James Earl Ray is housed in strict security, but firemen quickly extinguished the blaze and said another inmate apparently had dropped a cigarette on his
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      Lock icon NEW BRITISH COINS
      134 6 LONDON: Girls at tba Royal Mint here seen packaging souvenir sets of five of Britain's new decimal coins into plastic wallets. They were on sale at banks and main post offices from June. The Mint is producing more than 150.000 souvenir sets a week, and more than
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      Lock icon Ray’s lawyer visits scene of the crime
      282 6 MEMPHIS, Tennessee. Mon. (UPI) Arthur Hanes, attorney for accused assassin James Earl Ray, poked through the Elophouse yesterday where authorities claim Ray fired the shot that killed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The former Birmingham mayor, his son and a police bodyguard went
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      Lock icon FBI uncovers plot to execute Gov. Reagan
      160 6 LOS ANGELES. Mon. (Reuter) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was reported today to have uncovered a Negro militant plot to execute California Governor Ronald Reagan, possible Republican Presidential candidate. The Los Angeles Times said that a recent attempt by two young Negroes to
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      Lock icon SECOND OPERATION FOR LIZ
      88 6 LONDON. Mon. (UPI) Actress Elizabeth Taylor underwent surgerv yesterday at Fitzroy Nuffield Nursing Home, North London, a spokesman for the Home said. After the surgery her second operation in five days, the actress’ condition was described by the spokesman as “satisfactory.” The hospital discribed the surgery
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      Lock icon 2 US soldiers killed, 3 wounded
      97 6 SEOUL. Mon. (UPI) Communist North Korean infiltrators killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded two other Americans and a South Korean soldier in four incidents along the truce border since Saturday, U.S. Army spokesmen said today. All the four incidents took place along the western
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      Lock icon 44 killed, 34 injured in a wave of violence
      107 6 MANILA. Mon. (UPI) At least 44 people were killed and 34 others were wounded in a wave of violence in the Philippines last week, the Philippine News Service (PNS) reported. From July 14 to 20. the PNS said, 27 were shot.
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      Lock icon Proteins from leaves for hungry millions
      130 6 HARPENDEN. England. Mon. (Reuter) Healthgiving proteins extracted from plant leaves by a new process disclosed here may shortly be eaten by the world's starving millions to give them nourishment they now lack. The law of nature makes many animals depend on leaves for their
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      Lock icon New envoy to Ireland
      76 6 CANBERRA. Mon. (UPI) —External Affairs Minister Mr. Paul Hasluck announced yesterday that Lt. Col Ralph Honner. 64, has been appointed Australian Ambassador to Ireland. Col. Honner replaces Mr. Hugh Roberton who returned to Canberra after three years in Ireland. He is former President of the New
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      Lock icon Ayub denies arms supply poses threat to India
      190 6 TEHRAN. Iran. Mon. (UPI) President Ayub Khan of Pakistan denied yesterday that the supply of Soviet arms to his country poses any threat to India. President Ayub told a news conference the current clamour In India over the Soviet decision to supply
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      Lock icon Mexican divorce for governor's wife
      170 6 MADISON, Wisconsin, Mon. (UPI) The wife of Gov. Warren P Knowles received a Mexican divorce from her husband last Tuesday. The grounds were incompatibility, it was announced yesterday. The former Dorothy Camille Guidry and the Republican Chief Executive celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary last April
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      Lock icon Aussies seek accord with fishing nations
      315 7 12-mile claim row CANBERRA, Mon. (UPI) Nationalist China will seek a “phase-out” agreement with Australia to allow Its boats to fish inside Australia’s 12-mile territorial limit. The Chinese embassy counsellor, Chou YunTing, said today that negotiations with the Australian government would probably begin when
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      Lock icon Boy kills policeman to collect gun...
      150 7 Boy kills policeman to collect gun Violent example TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter) A 16-year-old Japanese auto repair shop worker has confessed to police that he stole a car and ran over a policeman to get hold of a pistol. The slain policeman’s pistol was found in the youth's straw-matted room which
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      Lock icon Austrians to build Thai school
      69 7 BANGKOK. Mon. (Reuter) Austria has agreed to help Thailand set up a vocational training school to which it will contribute technical equipment and the services of experts worth about 10 million baht (about £200.000 (sterling). Thailand made the request for the school, to be sited
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      Lock icon Might may not make right
      552 7  -  News analysis By Wellington Long VIENNA. Mon. (UPI) Czechoslovakia's fate has been sealed twice in a generation by the threat of foreign military Intervention. The Soviet Union is hoping to turn the trick a third time. In 1938 and 1939. Adolf Hitler backed his tough
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      Lock icon S'pore envoys meet in New York
      43 7 NEW YORK. Mon. Mr. Tommy TB. Koh (left) new Singapore envoy to UN talks with outgoing Ambassador Or. Wong Lin-Ken. DR. Wong retains his other two posts as Ambassador to the US and Brazil. UPI Radio- photo.
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      Lock icon Protests planned for Ayub’s visit in UK
      123 7 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) President Ayub Khan of Pakistan arrives in London today for a 10-day private visit with demonstrations against him threatened by Pakistani opponents of his regime. Two weeks ago a group of anti-regime Pakistanis invaded and briefly held the Pakistan High
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      Lock icon 9 drown in search for sun
      97 7 SEOUL. Mon. (UPI)—At least nine persons were reported drowned in Seoul and Pusan as half a million people flocked to beaches and rivers yesterday, a sunny holiday after a long spell of rains. In Seoul, three persons drowned while swimming and two high school
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      Lock icon Gl's die in Korean clash
      83 7 SEOUL. Mon. (Reuter) Two American soldiers, including an Army Second Lieutenant have been killed in four border clashes with North Korean infiltrators over the weekend, the U.S. Army announced today. Two other American soldiers and a South Korean serviceman were wounded, the announcement said. They
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      Lock icon Suharto seeks ties with Soviet bloc
      179 7 JAKARTA, Mon. (Reuter) President Suharto has said he hopes Indonesia's relations with the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries will be intensified. He told a press conference yesterday in Djambi, East Sumatra, that Indonesia's relations with these countries had the same basis as its
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      Lock icon Wife able to see Blaiberg
      90 7 CAPE TOWN. South Africa. Mon. (UPI) Dr. Philip Blaiberg saw his wife yesterday for the first time since his near fatal bouts with hepatitis and pneumonia two weeks ago. He sat up in bed and ate while he visited with her. Dr. Blaiberg. the world's
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      Lock icon 'Fight to end' call by China
      86 7 LONDON. Mon. (I'PI) Peking has renewed it's call on Hanoi to “fight to the end' as apparent price for further Communist Chinese aid But Hanoi has deftly avoided anv commitment to Mao Tse-Tung to change its present Vietnam strategy, diplomat said today. Peking's move
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      Lock icon RAF to ‘inherit’ N-bombs from the Navy
      174 7 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) The British Air Force is to be given a Navy stockpile of 100 nuclear bombs when it takes over Buccaneer bombers flown from aircraft carriers, the Daily Express reported today. Defence correspondent Chapman Pincher said the decision would produce an
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      Lock icon Tea for teens in HK
      165 7 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) Religious organisations in Hong Kong are operating three youth tea houses for young factory workers and shop assistants to relax and enjoy themselves after a day’s work. The youth tea house scheme based on the idea of coffee houses in Western
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      Lock icon Bundy in Seoul for talks
      101 7 SEOUL. Mon. (UPI) William P. Bundy. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs, arrives in Seoul this evening for a 36hour unofficial visit. Officials at the foreign ministry said Bundy will pay a rail on Korean President Park Chung-Hee tomorrow. He will also meet
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      Lock icon Air buildup in M-E by Britain
      74 7 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Britain plans to increase her air power in the Mediterranean. informed sources said today. Two squadrons of nuclearcapable V-bombers 16 aircraft will move to bases on Cyprus at the end of this year, replacing Canberras A squadron of Shackleton marine reconnaissance
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      Lock icon Japan wants ASPAC to remain as discussion group
      270 7 No anti-Red pact Mon. (UPI) Japan, which constitutionally renounces war, wants to keep the Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC) as a forum for regular consultation among its members. Informed Government sources made this known in commenting on the coming ASPAC meeting, scheduled
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      Lock icon Japanese students touring Australia
      108 7 SYDNEY. Mon. (UPI). Australia is playing host to 27 Japanese university students who are having their first look at the country. The students arrived in Sydney last week on a fiveweek exchange visit. The visit, organised by the Japan-Australia student Exchange Federation, will include homestays in
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      Lock icon Educated blockheads
      114 7 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) A Hong Kong University professor has stated that Hong Kong has too many “bookish blockheads- and there is no need to breed anymore Prof. Norman Henderson. head of the Department of Education, called for sweeping changes in the colony's education system to produce real
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      Lock icon By the sweat of your brows..
      103 7 Higher learning in the fields HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) The Peking People's Dally today called on Chinese youths to get two or three years practical experience in their fields of study after graduating from the universities or institutions of high learning. In an article
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      Lock icon Swimming rat pack attacks boat in PI
      126 7 MANILA, Mon. (CPI) A pack of swimming rats, so dense they resembled a school of fish, attacked and overturned a small fishing boat on Saturday night and caused the drowning of three brothers, it was reported today. Two other fishermen who witnessed the
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      Lock icon Singer persuades gangs to 'disarm'
      151 7 GLASGOW, Scotland, Mon. (Reuter) A ballad singer with curly black hair and a broad smile has beguiled Britain's toughest teenage gangs into mass disarmament. Police and social workers failed to pacify the razorwielding youths. Now it looks as if 40-year-old Frankie Vaughan has succeeded, writes
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    Lock icon NEW PARTIES
    726 8 T¥THEN the national elections draw near, It is the custom for opposition parties to break up and for political mutants to emerge as new parties. The first new party to proclaim its existence this year is the Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia. It claims to be the first party led
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    Lock icon Conscious public participation in health programmes needed
    3266 8 A lecture by Dr. K. Kanagaratnam, Deputy Director of Medical Services (Health) at the plenary session of the Peopled Association Management Committee Conference 1968 on Saturday. Tha health of o notion It Its Intangible wealth for with better health goes better living, higher
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      Lock icon 11 political pawns...
      133 8 IT was with some amuseI ment that I noted the Democratic Action Party’s nation-wide signature campaign for the 11 youths who were found guilty of consorting with armed Indonesians during confrontation. Though I am in full sympathy with the 11 youths I would be most careful before
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon Overseas demand for Australian ambulances
      240 9 SYDNEY. Mon. Agent* in Singapore are buying special ambulances from Australia, and there are prospects for export to other countries. An Adelaide firm. Moeller Industries Pty. Ltd., completed its first export order for a two-berth Holden ambulance last year and obtained a repeat order from
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      Lock icon Smallholders produce 400,000 tons of rubber yearly
      155 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The smallholders of West Malaysia produce more than 400,000 tons of rubber a year and their output increases steadily. There are two ways of Improving the marketing of smallholders' rubber and helping them receive the maximum benefit from their labours
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      Lock icon PI to keep its minimum commitment of sugar supply to US
      248 9 MANILA, Mon. (Reuter) The Philippines Intends to keep its minimum commitment to supply the United States with sugar, according to Mr. Ramon Nolan, Sugar Quota Administrator. Mr. Nolan said today the United States Department of Agriculture had been Informed
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      Lock icon Australia to increase imports of defence equipment
      178 9 CANBERRA. Mon. (Reuter) Australia is to increase imports of defence equipment by more than AS 100 million (40.6 million sterling) during the next 12 months. Treasurer William McMahon said today. But talking about its effect on the Australian trade balance, he said the
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      Lock icon 1.4 MILLION ORDER
      51 9 BANGKOK, Mon. (UPI) The Northeast Electricity authority has awarded a 1.4 million order to Fiat industries of Italy for a 15 megawat gas turbine generator for installation in Udorn, 400 miles northeast of here. Installation of the Turbine is expected nine months after a formal contract if
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      Lock icon Maize trade: Talks delayed
      55 9 BANGKOK. Mon. (UPI) —Negotiations on the current year’s maize trade between Thailand and Japan are being delayed over a formula for shipping the grain. Government sources said. A solution is expected by Wednesday. The Japanese want to be free to send the grain in carriers of
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      Lock icon Move to suspend operations
      86 9 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) Major Japanese iron and steel producers will suspend operations in some of their plants for about five days in August in order to cut down on production, according to sources here. The planned suspension corresponds with the sum- mer vacation system of such
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      Lock icon Call to help restrain price increases
      256 9 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) The Johnson administration urged business and labour leaders yesterday to help restrain wage and price increases during the next five months. The administration's call for aid to stem inflationary pressures came in a letter sent to several hundred top executives by
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      Lock icon Rubber up ⅛ cent
      277 9 Rubber up cent SINGAPORE. Mon. August first grade rubber f.o.b. clojed at 5 pm. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 54 cents per lb., up one eighth of a cent from previous close. The tone was quiet. The market ruled very quiet and thin during the morning. The undertone
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      Lock icon Industrials easier on balance: Interest in OCBC
      1276 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Stock Exchange was less active today with buying somewhat less enthusiastic after the weekend. Industrials were generally easier on balance. The volume of business was moderate while sellers were not very depressive and buyers held quietly at lower levels hoping
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      Lock icon S. Korea's auto industry growing rapidly
      232 9 SEOUL. Mon. (UPI). South Korea's auto industry is still in a budding stage, but it is growing rapidly. It represents a booming business though it is still in the stage where local manufacturers assemble cars with part supplied by leading foreign automakers. South Korea's
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      Lock icon YOUR SHARES-UR-DOWN-UNCHANGED
      363 9 SINGAPORE Stock Exchance sold and offer prices officially listed at the dose ol business. industrials 2.76 2.86 Ben Co XBI 3.10 .3.12 Borneo Bhd 2.IS 2.18 Boustead ISO 1.82 C sugar 4.48 4.50 Chemical Co 1.77 1.78 C. Storage XD 4 80 Dunlop 3 48 3..30 E. smelting
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      Lock icon Bank of Japan to reduce its rate
      116 9 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) The Bank of Japan is expected to cut its official discount rate around the end of August, according to informed sources here. The reduction, probably by 0.365 per cent per annum. will mean the end of a one-year tight money
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      Lock icon RUBBER QUIET
      22 9 LONDON. Mon. (UPI) Rubber opened quiet with spot 19-1 8 19-5/16. No. i RSS CIF basis portsAug. 18-7 8 19.
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS
      45 9 <Mana*em* Prices) First Mala'an XD 2.80 Second Malayan XD 2 01 Third Malayan 1.32 The Commerce Industry 103 1.1* The Savin* Fund 1.17 1.26 First H'Kona .93 .98* Second H'Kone .66 .70* Malaysian Investment Fund 1-25 135 Sterlin* C'modlty 5/9 Ron* Ron* Currency)
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      Lock icon PRODUCE
      101 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The noon prices at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange today are > Selle* Buyer Coconut Oil (F.O.B.) Bulk Coconut Oil 54 00 56.50 (FOB.) Drums Loose Copra Mixed July 30 00(h) Muntok White Pepper (F.O.B.) 96% N.L.W. ***** Sarawak White Pepper (F.O.B.) 96% N.LW. 107.50 Sarawak special
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      Lock icon St. Andrews golfers hotel opens
      127 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Old Course Hotel at St. Andrews in Scotland, the first British hotel in. which BO AC has invested money was opened on June 25. The four-storey structure overlooks the celebrated 17th green “the road hole” —of the Old Course at St. Andrews,
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      15 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The tin price for today was $552,874 per picul, down $1,624.
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      81 9 KOBE. Mon. (UPI) Kobe Steel has announced it will soon begin production of covered tubes for uranium fuel on a commercial business. The tubes are used to contain the uranium fuel which constitutes the heart of atomic reactors. The company has been producing the
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      185 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The following ships are expected to be in port today: Godowns Vessel* 3/4 Peleus 5 Helan Maru 6/7 Shunwa Maru 10/11 Bawean 13/14 Schle Lloyd 15/16 Vlminale 19 Salajar 21/22 Sea Express 27/28 Kyokai Maru 29 30 Halldis 31/32 Mozyr 33 34 State of Madras
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      1295 10 w YOUK TODAY TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL KUALA LUMPUK ud PnUo Flnaai; 6 Ipoh and Melaka; 3 A 10 Jobore Bahru; 4 Taipinr. 1 Bate Pabat; 0 AloancP.M. 545 Opening Annet. and Summary; 5 50 News Outlines in the National Language. 5.55 National Songs; 600 New* in Tamil 6.10 The Outdoorsman;
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      Lock icon General reform in Paris high fashion
      559 12  -  By Peggy Massin T>ARIS, Mon. A (Reuter) Paris high fashion is set for a general reform with smaller and less extravagant collections. Presentations for autumn and winter, starting today, will also feature simple, more restrained clothes. Designers acknowledge that few clients can pay prices
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      136 12 PEPPERMINT, sweet models take on the military look at the Robinson’s Peppermint Rock Teenage Fashion Show in Kuala Lumpur recently. This command was from “Field Marshal" Royston Consitliere, the designer and man behind this show the first of its kind staged by the departmental store for its
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      Lock icon RAF wives at 'teach in'
      119 12 HUNDREDS of R.A.F. wives have gone back to school in Singapore to polish up their cookery skill at the Adult Education Centre on the island’s longest-esta-blished Royal Air Force station at Seletar Nearly a score of sub- jects are taught at 30 classes at the
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      Lock icon Doris Day gets own fashion image for new film
      588 12  -  By Florence de Santis A SKED what her favourite outfit is for ■l** private life, Doris Day laughed and said, "Bermuda shorts, knee-length stockings, a turtleneck pullover and o windbreaker, topped off with a cap or scarf." That isn’t the Doris
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      226 12  -  By MARY SUE MILLER many a slip in packing for weekA ends. Own up, how often have you left some essential beauty or grooming aid behind? Unsettling, isn't it? One solution is to compile and “file" a list of your needs, and then refer to it when
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      61 12 THE stripes are back and they are going horizontally, diagonally and vertically, in rainbow colours too! Let’s be with It, says Brenda, who is in a many-coloured 'striped mini-skirt dress with a matching flopping hat. This was introduced at the Peppermint Rock Teenage Fashion Show by Robinson’s
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      128 12 BANGKOK, Mon. (Reuter) The Thai Government will impose strict controls on the quality of Thai silk produced for export, beginning next November. The Government will then begin inspecting all silk fabric destined for export and print on every yard an "approved handwoven" mark.
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      200 12 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Beatle John Lennon smiles, smiles and goes on smiling for 9o minutes in the latest film by his Japanese girlfriend Yoko Ono It was human bottoms, bottoms, bottoms 365 of them in naked close-up in the last movie by the Avantgarde artist, who has
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      74 12 BANGKOK. Mon. (Reuter) A children's foundation under the royal patronage of Queen Sirikit has launched a welfare scheme for the relief of child victims of slum life and natural disaster. Officials of the foundation for the promotion of cleanliness and health of school children say that 1 e
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      132 12 ATLANTA. Georgia, Mon, (Reuter) A social worker here has found a new way of getting summer employment for restless teenagers by forming the rent-a-kid organisation. For this purpose Miss Joy Cochran has brought a number of young people from poorer areas together to train them to perform odd
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      56 13 TRAVEL CENTRE OF SINGAPORE Well-known for personalised services E-10 INTERNATIONAL BUILDING panavislonV- metrocplof ORCHARD opens Thursday! PALACE RAQUEL WELCH Sets The Screen Sizzling With X-citement And Frolic Escapades! melro-goldwynmayer presents a shattel-stewart production rodertwagner raquel welch godtrey Cambridge biggest bundle f j ofttemi “Tvittono desca «edward g. nobinson WHO IS
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      177 13 11 a.I SHAW IGANISBT»'">W UST DAT! 1-tt. 4 00. 0.30 9.15 p.m Pietro Germf* "THE CLIMAX" (DA) Tognarri, 8tef«Bl» Sandrell! OPENS TOMORROW! Chenj Pei Pel In Shaw Productions THAT TIERT GIRL Mandarin in Shawscope Color) »ith English Sub*. No r LAST S DAYS —No Tree List! 11. 1-30. 4.00. 6.45
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      405 13 LAST 2 DAYS! See It Now! Please Note Time*: 11 am.. 2.30. no 9 no pm. R''" •‘-s a- -THE KING AND I” Cinemascope Color by DeLuse Deborah Kerr. Yul Brynner (FOX* School Conre**fon: $1 00 Te Anv Seat ror 11. 2.30 A **o pm show» CHARITY FILM PRKMIEItE! Tomorrow
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    1172 14  -  By H.L. Herschensohn, M.D. 'J’HE news that a famous baseball player was incapacitated because of mumps came as a surprise and raised these questions: 1. Isn't mumps a disease of childhood? Yes, it is. It appears mostly between the ages of 5 and 10. Sometimes the
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    712 14  -  BY JOHN F. BARTON United Press International WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) Indonesia's new Ambassador to the United States, Sudjatmoko, is telling American officials not to expect ony major foreign policy changes from the Government of President Suharto. Sudjatmoko was a personal adviser to Foreign Minister Adam Malik
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    243 14 Sydney, Australian agricultural experts who have offered so many new techniques to the farmers of Asia, have still the same call for their services at home from new generations of young Australian farmers The importance of the role of rural youth in the development of
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    173 14 ORISBANE. Pastoral conditions throughout Australia are now generally favourable and restocking of drought-affected areas Is under way. The Australian Minister for Primary Industry. Mr. J.D. Anthony, said this in his opening address as chairman of the Australian Agricultural Council, in July. Further improvements in wool
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    379 14 Mon. (Reuter) The Australian Government has infuriated leaders of some aboriginal tribes in the Northern Territory by its announced plans for a township to be built on land where they used to roam freely. Site for the proposed little town is crown land at Wave Hill,
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      Lock icon Richards slams dashing 176
      502 15 And it’s his 4th century of season LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Barry Richards, Hampshire's 22-year-old South African batsman, hit a dashing 176 yesterday for his fourth century of the season. Playing against Essex Richards was particularly strong in off-driving and hit one six and 21 fours during
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      327 15 SINGAPORE. Mon. A leading local tobacco company has written to the F A of Singapore offering to donate an handsome trophy to be played annually between Singapore and the neighbouring countries in this region. In a letter to the president of FAS. the
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      103 15 FRANCORCHAMPS. (Belgium), Mon. (Reuter) Luxembourg racing driver Nicolas Koob lay seriously injured in hospital last night sfter his car shot off the road during the Spa 24-hour motor race hereKoob received severe head, chest and fipinal injuries *hen his Alfa-Romed GTA -eft the track during the early stages
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      144 15 RIO DE JANEIRO, Mon. (Reuter) Brazil’s soccer world yesterday mourned the death of 23-year-old “Brandao” Luis Carlos de Nascimento shot dead by a military policeman after a quarrel at his Bonsucesso Club headquarters here last night. A Rio Club championship match between Bonsucesso and Flamngo,
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      189 15 SPAIN and West Germany emerged as the most powerful tennis nations in Europe as they won through to the interzone round of the Davis Cup yesterday. Spain completed a 3-2 victory over Italy In the European Zone Section “A” final in Barcelona
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      144 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon For the first time foreign boxers will be competing in the sth Malaysian Open Boxing Championships at the Stadium Negara here from Sept. 1-3. Previously only competitors from Singapore vied for honours in the Malaysian Open. Three of the six countries invited
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      123 15 DINARD. (France) Mon. (UP!) Australian boats placed first, fourth and fifth in the Captain Cook Trophy Race which ended yesterday Sponsored jointly by the Dinard Yacht Club and England’s Royal Yacht Club, the junior offshore group competition was held along a 154-mile course between Cowes, Isle of
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      Lock icon • THE Olympic Games In Mexico loomed large at this year’s “Kiel Week,” for yachtsmen from all over the world used the contests in the extreme north of the Federal Republic of Germany as dress rehearsal for the Games. The German yachtsmen were able to qualify for Mexico on the course where the Olympic sailing competitions will be held in 1972.
      106 15 THE Olympic Games In Mexico loomed large at this year’s “Kiel Week,” for yachtsmen from all over the world used the contests in the extreme north of the Federal Republic of Germany as dress rehearsal for the Games. The German yachtsmen were able to qualify for Mexico on the course
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      145 15 PARIS. Mon. (Reuter) Holland’s Jan Janssen yesterday won the 55th Tour de France Cycle Classic in the tightest finish ever seen here beating Belgium's Hermann Van Springel by only 38 seconds. The previous record was set in 1964 when Frenchman Jacques Anquetil beat his arch rival
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      368 15 Mon. (CPI) The Japan Olvmpic Committee s Standing Committee today derided on a delegation of 176 athletes and 33 official* for parti-* Cipation in the 1968 Olympic Games at Mexico City’. The total number of 209 compares to the 285-member delegation demanded by
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      177 15 LOS ANGELES. Mon (UPI) —Karen Muir of South Africa and Debbie Meyer of the Arden Hills Swim Club each set world records during yeslerday's final day of competition in the 10th annual Los Angeles Invitational Swimming Meet. MiES Muir surpassed her own previous world
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      863 15 IFOR, Mon. The folic- log are the weights of the First Day of the Sultan's Gold Vase meeting of the Pernk Turf Club on Saturday, July 27. HORSES CLASS 1 Div S 6 Furlongs Avenger II 9 00 Prince Dine 9 00 Rustic 9.00 Lord
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      174 15 IPOH. Men. The Sultan's Geld Vasa raee in the Perak Turf Club Meeting from Saturday. July 17 mill be on the fourth Day. Aug. 4 for Horses Class 1. Division 1, 5-1/? fur'ongs straight. The following are thr weights: King's Knight 9.03 Co-Prosperity 8.08 Oreenstone II
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      Lock icon SSGS just make it by one point in historic debut
      704 16  -  Story and pictures —by Little Nene Little Nene SINGAPORE, Mon. Members of the newly formed Singapore Senior Golfers Society comprising men golfers over 50, made their historic debut in a closely contested match against the SICC golfing ladies here today.
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      Lock icon Subramaniam fails
      276 16 His I: 55.7 run is far from qualifying mark MOSCOW, Mon. (Reuter) Roma Subramaniam, the Malaysian middle distance runner, failed to achieve his ambition of reaching the 800 metres Olympic qualifying time yesterday at the Znamensky Memorial track and field meetin g in Leningrad. Subramaniam clocked 1 min.
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      Lock icon Jega qualifies but fails to turn up
      143 16 MOSCOW. Mon. (Reuter) Asian sprint champion Mani Jegathesan (Malaysia) qualified for the 200 metres final at the Znamensky Brothers memorial athletics meeting in Leningrad, but was absent when the race was run. It was earlier believed he had failed to qualify. Jegathesan clocked
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      Lock icon Three marks toppled at SCSSSC meet
      176 16 SINGAPORE. Mon. Three records were toppled on the first day of the four-day annual athletic meet of the Singapore Combined Secondary Schools Sports Council held at Farrer Park centre today. The records shattered were in the shot putt event in the "A” division (boys),
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      61 16 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Jurong Shipyard Recreation Club have organised a month-long series of competitions in conjunction with the National Day celebrations. The competitions include basketball, sepak raga. volleyball. table-tennis, badminton and carromThe General Manager of JS Mr. K. Sakurai. will open the tournament at
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      Lock icon Thuan Heng fails to qualify in his second assault
      314 16 SINGAPORE. Mon. Tan Thuan Heng Singapore’s top swimmer again failed to make the grade for selection to the Mexico Olympic Games by only a tick of a second in the qualifying trials held at the Chinese Swimming Club here today. Thuan
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      Lock icon Strong Indon aquatic side for S'pore meet
      239 16 SINGAPORE. Mon. Indonesia will field a formidable contingent of swimmers and water-polo players to the Singapore International meet to he held next month. The meet organised by the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association has attracted entries from Philippines. Indonesia and Malaysia. The Indonesian team
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      658 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Ishtlaq Mobarak of the Jets Athletic Club today came very near qualifying for an Olympic berth with a record breaking 14.4 seconds for the 110 metres hurdles on the final day of the Selangor Amateur Athletic Championships at the Merdeka Stadium
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      154 16 SEREMBAN. Mon. Mr.-T-Mahima Singh, a Member of Parliament yesterday donated a cricket pavilion to the N.S. Club in honour of the 46th birthday of the Yang di-Per-tuan Besar of Negri Sembilan. The pavilion will be declared open shortly. Cricketers taking part In. yesterday's social cricket
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      50 15 [TIME AND TIDE Penan*: 11.34 am. (7.3 ft.). Port Swettenham: 4.07 a.m. (12.7 ft.), 4.09 p.m. (13 8 ft.). Port Dickson: 5.48 p.m. (7.7 ft.). Singapore: 10.46 a.m. (6.7 ft.), 9.12 p.m. (7.7 ft.). Sedili Kechil: 9.48 a m (7.2 ft.), 6.47 p.m. (6.1 ft.). Kuantan: 8.54 a.m. (8.4 ft.)_*
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