Eastern Sun, 10 December 1968

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  • 23 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 849 Tuesday, 10 December 1968. MC (P) 0050 Price 15 cent*
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  • 313 1 2 U.S. Destroyers ‘Show The Flag In Black Sea TSTANBUL, Mon. (UPI) Two American destroyers slipped through the Bosphorus Straits in foggy weather today and entered the Black Sea to "show the flag" in what some have called the Soviet Union's private lake. There were no crowds on the European
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  • 248 1 P*FIS. Mon. (I’PI) t inted States and South Vietnamese negotiators today plunged into an urgent round of consultations to map out a common strategy for the opening of the broadened Vietnam conference. The conference opening date remained uncertain pending agreement between the United States
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  • 87 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon President Joseph Mobutu of the Congo has sent a •‘message'’ to the Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman, through his Roving Ambassador. Mr. Marcel Lengema. Mr Lengema. who arrived today, however, declined to reveal what the message was. He only said he
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  • 486 1  -  by DEV SHRIDHAR KUALA LUMPUR Mon complete the withdrawal o prrper by March. 1970. con matic observers here said Her pullout in earnest will begin much earlier than expected next April when the 3rd Light Infantry Brigade will leave Terendak Camp in
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  • 160 1 KOTA KINABALU Mon fAFP> —A top Sabah F.hpino leader. Datu Bachtiyal bin M Tabbuvong. from Sandakan has been detained by Sabah Police for alleged subversion. He was flown to Kuala Lumpur immediately after his arrest in Sandakan at 2 a m. exactly one week ago.
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  • 28 1 INVERNESS, Scotland. Mon (UPI) Mike Kluczyvski claimed Scotland's egg-eating championship on Sunday after downing 33 fried eggs at a single sitting The closest challenger at* 32.
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  • 81 1 ON Sunday a t the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka in Kuala Lunipur, the Portuguese Cultural Society of Malacca gave a two-hour performance before a large crowd which included the Minister of Culture. Youth and Sports, Lrn he Senu bin Abdul Rahman Eastern Sun pix hv Yap
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  • 87 1 MANILA. Mon. (Reuter) The Philippine*, has decided to wait until after Malaysian elections expecied next April before making any further moves in its claim to Sabah, outgoing Foreign Secretary Narciso Ramos said today Mr- Ramos told reporters the Government had found it would be favourable to
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  • 174 1 BANGKOK. Mon (AFP) Thai Prime Minister Thanom Kitikachom said here today that Thailand would try and peisuade Malaysia and the Philippines to leach an understanding on the Sabah dispute during the Asian economic co-operation minis:erial meeting starting her* later this week. Marshal Thanom told press
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  • 636 1  -  By A.A. HAMID KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Malaysian and Thai police have launched an intensive operation along the border to track down a 200-strong terrorist gang which attacked and wounded three Thai policemen and a Malaysian Police Field Force member last Saturday. The
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 599 2  -  Work With Added Vigour Appeal By M.B. Johore Bahru, Mon. By K. G. THARAM *pHE Mentri Besar Doto Hoji Othman Haji Saat introduced a surplus 1 budget for next year in the Johore Legislative Assembly here today. This is the second surplus budget he presented to
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    • 66 2 SINGAPORE. Mon Parliament today approved supplementary estimates of over 521 million for this year The bulk of the estimates about 519 million have been allotted to the Ministry of Interior and Defence for buying aircraft and equipment. About $t million are for the Prime Minister's Office
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    • 472 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. It is the job of all hotels, catering and entertainment industries to keep their customers happy and informed. This was said today by Mr. Herbert Lim Eng Kwan. Chairman of the Singapore Tourist Association (STA). He was speaking at the Cultural
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    • 368 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. A Thai girl, Ratrhini Saksetan. 17. told the Fourth District Court today that she earned over $5,000 during her stay here entertaining ‘‘guests’’ at a house in Geylang. She said that she ‘entertained*’ about eight to 10 "guests” a day. She was
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    • 178 2 JAKARTA. Mon (Renter) Indonesia's Foreign Exchance Bureau has announced that it will accept bills of ladine issued by three Singapore and Hong Kong Shipping companies formerly blacklisted for alleged involvement in trading frauds. The Bureau's decision dated Dec. 4 names the companies as Unique
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    • 87 2 THE Acting Minister of Health. Dato Ganle Gilong. accompanied by the Director of Medical Services. Tan Sri (Dr.) Mohamed Din bin Ahmad, and the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry, Raja Zatnal Abidin bin Raja Haji Tachik yestrrday made a twohour long fact-finding lour of the General Hospital.
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    • 18 2 KOTA KINABALU. Mon MARA has offered scholarships to local boys for courses In advanced motor mechanics.
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    • 132 2 SINGAPORE Mon. Half the amount of the stake money for the 6-out-of-49 draw for Toto is set aside for prizes, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance. Mr. Tang See Chim. said today. He disclosed this in reply to a question raised
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    • 106 2 IPOH. Mon.—The Perak State Legislative Assembly today unanimously passed the 1969 S tate budget totalling $62,279,323 after two davg of debate. There were no alterations to the original allocations for the various items of expenditure Following the adoption of the budget, the Mentri Besar of Perak,
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    • 1054 3  -  ACCUSED WAS HUMILIATED AND VICTIMISED COUNSEL By R.V. LINGAM SINGAPORE, Mon. An Ameri-con-Filipino, seaman, Elias P. Basco, 41, was today sentenced to eight years' imprisonment by the High Court when he pleaded guilty to two charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder for causing the
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    • 155 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Singapore Polytechnic is to have the latest IBM 1,130 Computer System for scientific teaching purposes. The IBM 1,130 Computer System the first to be installed in Singapore is the latest low-cost computer system that can be used both for engineering and
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    • 93 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. A small group of Primary School trainee-teachers from the Teachers’ Training College are holding story-time, book talk, games and craft sessions during school holidays on three days a week at the Children’s Section of the National Library. They will show children how to
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    • 259 4  -  by Khoo Boon Choo PENANG, Mon- Tb# Member for Sunset Pinang, Mr. DS. Ramanathan. (Alliance) today said opposition members have now become psychedelic and were providing themselves with illusions of grandeur. Mr- Ramanathan was speaking in support of the motion moved by the Chief Minister. Tan
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    • 118 4 KCALA LUMPUR. MomPolice this morning recovered an identity card from the scene of a $29,000 burglary at the premises of KA J. Chotirmall and Co Ltd in Jalan Tnanku Abdul Rahman here The identity card was found in the air-conditioning rent through which
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    • 294 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon “It is people like Dr Chen Man Hm 'National Chairman) and hi* political party (DAP> that are constantly casting disrepute and disaffection of the Malaysian Chinese community in Malaysia in particular and in South-east Asia in general.” This aas stated
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    • 282 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon: A surplus budget for next year is planned by the Selangor Government as it intensifies its austerity drive. The Mentri Besar. Dato Haji Harun bin Idris, said today: "We are going to spend less next year. We w ill be more austere Dato
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    • 119 4 THE Portuguese Cultural Society of Malacca gave a lively two-hour public performance at the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday before a near full-house which included tbe Minister of Youth. Culture and Sports. Enche Senu bin Abdul Rahman. Portuguese culture brought to Malacca
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    • 284 4  -  By Chan Kam Yau KUALA LUMPUR Mon An Australian firm of mineral consultants and explorers is to undertake a $500,000 survey to determine the mineral potential of a 60-square mile area at the Temengor River valley in Perak before It is flooded by a dam
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    • 915 4  -  by BEN VARIYAN KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A housewife told divorce Court here today of a Sunday she visited a childhood friend of hers and found that she had been crying the whole day because her husband had said she
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    • 753 4  -  By IKMAL YUSOFF KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Holy Koran in the National Language will be available to Muslims in the country by the end of this month. Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman made the happy announcement to thousands of
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    • 590 4  -  By L.D. BAPTIST PENANG. Mon. Multi-millionaire Mr. Soon Cheng Sun. carried out weekly checks on a book, in which were recorded the consumption of eggs at his Xortham Road home. “And, if he found that the amount was a lot, he
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    • 264 4  -  by KEN STANLEY TAIPING Mon. Perak police have mounted a big manhunt for a gang of robbers in Kampong Lima Puloh near Simpang today. The gang about five or six in number had earlier broken into a farmer's house and failing to get anything, fired
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    • 81 4 PETALING JAYA Mon. The 12-day-old strike at the Peony Blanket Industrial Co. Ltd. here ended today. Thie manager of the Japanese firm. Mr. J. Yamada. told Bernama “the Issue ia now settled.” He said that all. except the 10 dismissed before the strike began returned
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    • 690 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. Th« Chairman of the Swan Hunter Group, Sir John Hunter, today hoped that the sophisticated facilities available in the new Sembawang Shipyard (Private) Limited would attract business from the United States and other navies. Sir John was speaking at a
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    • 64 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. A retired Police Sergeant, Ahmad bin Yassin, was killed on the spot when the motor-cycle he was riding collided with an on-coming car at Jalan Dilal and Bedok Road yesterday. Ahmad was not wearing a crash helmet. Meanwhile, Police disclosed that there were 43 road
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    • 42 10 < 45 p.m.—Chinese drama lecture at National Theatre Club. Clemenceau Avenue 815 p.m.—Reports on cases of hypolipoprotemaemia. pulmonary and intestinal tuberculosis and a case of a genesis of the left lobe of liver at Pathology lecture theatre. Outram Road General Hospital.
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    • 204 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. —A former sailor, Tan Tee Seow, was stabbed to death at the Blue Flower Nightclub in Mayo Street last night when he and his friends were involved in what was described by the Police as a ''secret society clash" with unknown persons. Tan’s body
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    • 232 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Ministry of Health today announced that 412 persons were convicted and fined sums up to SlOO each for breaches of the various health laws, during November. The Ministry noted that the number of prosecutions for the month of November had however
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    • 535 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. Fifty-three civil servants were dismissed and nine compulsorily retired from service for indebtedness between January 1966 and June 30 this year. The Parliamentarv Secretary to the Minister for Finance. Mr. Tan* See Chim. gave these figures in Parliament when he answered a
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    • 121 10 SINGAPORE. Mon A suggestion to lower the minimum age of voting from 21 to 18 was rejected today by the Acting Prime Minister. Dr. Gob Keng Swee Answering a question raised by the MP for .Too Chi at. Mr. Yeoh Ghim Seng, in Parliament.
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    • 85 10 SINGAPORE. Mon The Pasir Panjang branch of the People's Action Party will hold an educational film show for its members at the branch's premises in Alexandra Lane on Friday at 3 p.m. The chairman of the branch. Enche Othman Wok. who is also the
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    • 337 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. Another 730-ton oil tanker “Rasa”, built at a cost of $1.4 million by the Jurong Shipyard, was officially launched today to operate principally in the Singapore and Malaysian areas next year. The tanker was built for the Straits Steamship Co. Ltd., one of the
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    • 116 10 SINGAPORE Mon —US Senator Allen J. Ellender. a member of the Democratic Party from the stale of Louisiana. is in Singapore for a two-day visit While in Singapore. the Senator will tour the Jurong Industrial Estate and the Singapore Experimental Farm, he has meetings scheduled with
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    • 69 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. A 20-year-old coflee-shop assistant. Tan Wok Hua. who was found lying unconscious with injuries at Shaik Madrasah Lane last Friday, died in the General Hospital the following day. Police believe the victim was set upon by at least five persons who attacked him with
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    • 47 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. A 15-year-old girl. Miss Ang Lai Choon, was found hanging in her room at Old dementi Road yesterday at about 4.35 p.m. Police said that she was found by her father. Mr. Ang Chooi Chin. Police do not suspect any foul play.
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    • Article, Illustration
      32 11 YAP CHAI CHAI, 18. of Jalan Ipoh. being led away by the police yesterday (Dec. 9) after he pleaded guilty to robbing the Malayan Banking, Setapak Branch. Eastern Sun picture.
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    • 400 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Malaysian econotnv is much more resilient now than it was some ten years ago. said the Minister of Finance. Tun Tan Siew Sin, today. This is mainly due to the agricultural diversification introduced by the Government. the Minister
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    • 91 11 KUALA LUMPUR Mon. A textile importer and exporter here reported the loss of 11 crates of goods valued at $12,000 from Port Swettenham harbour. The businessman, K. D Vasmani told police the missing gooos were among the 21 crates of ladies blouses and sport
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    • 44 11 iPCH, Mon —A 60-year-Old watchman. Lakhmir Singh, was today charged in the magistrate's court here with murdering another watchman, Inda Singh, at Labrooy Siding, in Cherry Lane last Saturday. No bail was allowed. Lakhmir was remanded for another week for mention.
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    • 44 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —The MARA Education Foundation has offered five scholarships to bumiputras to study science and technology in Indonesian Universities and colleges The scholarships are tne first to be offered bv the Foundation since its establishment in October i&ernama).
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    • 313 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A youth, who admitted to stealing 25 cars, worth 5112,000. during the past few years, today pleaded guilty to robbing the Malayan Banking branch in Setapak of $2,786 last month. Yap Chal Chai, 18. of Jalan Ipoh. also pleaded guilty to stealing a car
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    • 156 11 IPOH. Mon. A tailor Koon Kok Peng. 27. died in the General Hospital early this morning after he had been assaulted in his shop in Yau Tet Shin Street yesterday. Koon. who sustained head injuries, went to the police station in New Town and made a
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    • 56 11 THE Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Enche Senu bin Abdul Rahman who is also the President of the National Boys Brigade Association, inspecting a guard of honour by the National Boys Brigade at the official opening ceremony of the fifth Annual National Boys Brigade meeting at the Methodist Boys
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    • 711 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Tho Minister of Commerce and Industry, Tan Sri Dr. Lim Swee Aun, today disclosed there would be a definite change in the country's pattern of industrialisation by 1970 to cope with the rapid advancement of the Steel Age. He
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    • 28 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —The l.nnO-strong National Language Teachers Association has dissolved itself to enable its members to join the Malay Teachers Union of West Malaysia. (Bernama).
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    • 103 11 National Art Gallery: Special exhibition m honour of British sculptor Henry Moore 10 a m. to s*o pm. Samat Art Gallery (AIA Building. Jalan Ampangi: Batik painting* by Khalil Ibrahim 9 a m to 6 pm Jalan Weld Swimming Pool: 9 am to 12 30 p.m and—2 to
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    • 27 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —The Democratic Action Party today accepted the Gerakan's challenge to a debate on the Internal Security Act and arbitrary detention.
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    • 212 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Tan Sri (Dr.) Lim Swee Aun. has written to the Perak State Assemblyman. Enche Mohamed Jumah bin Satir (All for more information regarding his allegation that adulterated petrol Is being sold in the State. Enche Jumah
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    • 637 13 SINGAPORE, Mon. Singapore is looking into the possibility of introducing the metric system. A study had already been Initiated at the Industrial Research Unit to look Into the many problems connected with the changeover. the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance. Mr Tang See
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    • 81 13 SINGAPORE. Mon. The expansion of the civil service and the establishment of new ministries and departments had resulted in the large number of officers 946 being put in acting capacities. This. Parliament was told, was because of the difficulty In recruitment. However, the Parliamentary Secretary (Finance).
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    • 33 13 SINGAPORE. Mon —There were 110.176 combined television and radio licences issued during the year ending Oct. 31, Parliament was told today. During the same period. 78.920 radio licences were issued.
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    • 70 13 SINGAPORE. Mon. Special concessions on property tax to Housing and Development Board flat dwellers will not be fair to other residents living in the same area. This was stated by the Parliamentary Secretary Finance). Mr. Tang See Chlm. In Parliament today. He added that rationalisation of
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    • 44 13 SINGAPORE, Mon A sudden fire in an oil drum at the Pa*ir Panjang Power Station this afternoon was immediately put off hy firemen. There was no damage and no one was injured. The cause of the fire is still not known.
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    • 47 13 SINGAPORE. Mon. During his tour of Army installations in Singapore today, the British Minister of Defence for Administration. Mr. GW Reynolds, paused to greet Lalsoir. wife of LanceCorporal Karnabahadur Gurung. 1 2 Gurkha Rifles, in the Families Ward of the British Military Hospital.
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    • 74 13 SINGAPORE Mon. Johart bln Abdul Majid today pleaded guilty to a cheating charge and was sentenced to nine months’ jail by the Ninth Magistrate’s Court. Johart admitted cheating Sahabi bln Dahari of $2O on the pretext of securing for him a job as an office-boy at
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    • 55 13 SINGAPORE. Men. A 33-year-old woman Madam Wong Chee Lung was fined $3O in the First District Court today for failing to regiser for the new laminated Identity card before the closing date on Jan. 31 last year. She reported to the National Registration Centre seven months later
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    • 73 13 SINGAPORE. Mon. Only 17 Government officers out of 479. who were sent abroad for training, resigned before completing the period of their bond between 1964 and this year. Parliament was told today. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Finance Minister. Mr. Tang See Chim, said that in every case
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 294 5 'SHOW FLAG' CASE ASHING TON, Mon (Reuter) Two American flestroyers were ploughing steadily northwards yesterday on their controversial mission to the Black Sea but there were conflicting reports on whether they had already entered the vast inland water. Moscow said they had. Istanbul, gateway to the
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    • 117 5 HONG KONG. Mon (Reuter) Medical workers in the northernmost Chinese province of Heilungkiang are being urged to settle in the countryside. They are being told to fellow Chairman Mao TseTung's instruction to place importance on rural areas while carrying out medical and
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    • 97 5 NEW DELHI. Men (AFP) One student was stabbed and another thrown out of a second storey window as riot flared for the third successive day. yesterday a'. Banaras Hindu University. Uttar Pradesh. The students were later reported out of danger in hospital Police meanwhile made 150
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    • 58 5 KARACHI. Mon (Reuter) Police used staves against strike pickets and water cannon to disperse a political gathering in the eastern capital of Dacca today. They were enforcing a ban on public assembly imposed afte* violent rioting yesterday ir which two people died. No major Incident was
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    • 27 5 70 Czechoslovakian models displayed th best of the Czech-mode at the Fashion Show which opened at the Berlin's Euro recently. PANA Photo.
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    • 246 5 Ky’s ‘nationalistic’ line ‘a surprise PARIS TALKS SAIGON, Mon. (AFP) Vice President Nguyen Coo Ky's strongly nationalist pronouncements on arrival in Paris for the expanded peace talks were greeted with surprise and, given their source, with a certain measure of satisfaction in Saigon today. Compared to the Saigon regime's usual
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    • 148 5 LUXEMBOURG. Mon. «Reuter > European Common Market and Luxembourg security officials have launched an inquiry into the disappearance of Herbert Patzelt. a community expert on atomic energy problems who 1* reported to be in East Germany. informed sources said today. But the sources
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    • 180 5 PARIS. .Mon. (Reuter) French notice fear that Paris might be threatened with a serious sabotage campaign following a series of bomb blasts here over the weekend President de Gaulle Is taking a personal interest in the bomb attacks at a time when the government Is putting
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    • 98 5 CAIRO Mon. (UPD Five persons. Including '.he Cairo news editor of the Associated Pi css. were officially charged yesterday with spying for Isreel. The five, charged in four separate cases also included one former Foreign Ministry official, another newsman, one reservist Naval Officer and a
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    • 520 5 WARSAW PACT EXERCISES BUCHAREST, Mow. (UPI). Romania has not agreed yet to allow the Soviet Army into this independent-minded Communist country for Warsaw Pact manoeuvres, high Romanian officials said yesterday. Diplomats here believe it is possible Romania may have to live up to its promise to
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    • 56 5 WASHINGTON Mon (UPI) Three Air Force jet trainers crashed near Sondestrom Air Force base on Greenland yesterday, but the four crewmen aboard the planes parachuted to safety, the Pentagon said. A spokesman here said that bad weather may have prevented the planes from landing
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    • 126 5 LONDON. Mon. (AFP) British Foreign Secretary Mr. Michael Stewart, said last night he is to re-examine the 'whole matter” surrounding the detention in Peking of Reuter's correspondent Mr. Anthony Grey Speaking at Heathrow airport on his return from a 12day visit to India and
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    • 123 5 WALTHAM, Massachusetts, Mon (UPI) An analysis of the 1968 voting records shows ‘.he vast majority of Jews remain Democrats regardless of their status and continue to be suspicious of President elect Richard M Nixon, a political scientist said today. Dr. Lawrence H. Fuchs said an
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    • 286 5 LONDON, Mon (Reuter) The independent London Times today carried a gloomy. twn-and-a-half column editorial appraisal of the nation's ills. It began with the words: “If one is British one can only feel heart-siek about the state of the country.” The 2.300-word leading article ranged across students. the
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    • 472 6 YITASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) A Government botanist who noticed poisonous “beans'' in costume jewellery pins while Christmas shopping said yesterday the decorative seeds contain ''one of the most deadly poisons in the world." “It’s just a infinitesimal the amount It
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    • 132 6 SANTA PAULA. California. Mon. (UPI) An inflight collision between two light planes yesterday claimed at least five lives and possibly a sixth. Investigators said the victims were four men and one woman. They were also checking out the possibility that another woman might have been
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    • 63 6 NEW YORK. Mon (Reuter) A nine-day-old strike by 20.000 New York electricity and gas workers has been tentatively settled, but the men will not return to work before next Saturday. Terms of a new contract offering improved fringe benefits have to be mailed to the workers,
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    • 69 6 r- a A M o UR u.’i November wa s seen clearly in the Federal Republic of Germany. Opticians distributed cardboard spectacles (right) with 156 perforations to test sight and the inscription: “Anvone who could see better with these spectacles than without should have his
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    • 158 6 SYDNEY. Mon (UPI) The Medical Superintendent of St. Vincent’s Hospital. Dr. M. P Clearv said yesterday that the death of Richard Pye. Australia's first heart transplant patient, was “one of those things" that could happen after any major surgery. The three-hour
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    • 153 6 lOWA CITY, lowa. Mon. (UPI) Mr. Arthur Goldberg. former U S. Ambassador to the United Nations, yesterday dismissed reports of a possible defence pact between Albania and Communist China as having little bearing on the European situation, even If the reports were true. Mr. Goldberg, there for
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    • 85 6 LAS VEGAS. Mon (Reuter) A 35 kiloton nuclear explosion today blasted a crater about 200 feet (61 metres) deep and 700 feet (213 metres) in diameter in the Nevada Desert, the US. Atomic Energy Commission’s office here announced. The explosion, sixth in the project schooner series
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    • 92 6 HAMBURG—Arthur Coburger, eurhythmies teacher of Hamburg. Federal Republic of Germany, reckons music is the best remedy for a drop In performance both at school and in business. His method helps solve both difficulties in learning and making contacts and difficulties with manager's disease.
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    • 116 6 HONG KONG. Mon (UPI) Hong Kong's triad societies were brought under control but may never be completely eradicated, the Anti-Triad Society Bureau Chief said. The societies, once a powerful force in the world of organised crime, still have as many as 5,000 members
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    • 57 6 AIKEN, South Carolina, Mon. (UPI). Sen. StrOm Thurmond, Republican-South Carolina. 66, and his fiancee, Nancy Moore, 22. will marry during the Christmas holidays, sources close to the Republican Senator disclosed yesterday. For Mr. Thurmond, it will be his second marriage. His first wife, the former Jean
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    • 298 6 BANGKOK. ,on (t*PI) Lynda Bird Robb, eldest daughter of President Johnson flew into Bangkok early today for a first anniversary reunion with her husband. Marine Maj. Charles S.' Robb on rest and Recreation leave from his post in Vietnam. Mr. Robb was not
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    • 60 6 RAWALPINDI. Mon. (Reuter) President Ayub Khan of Pakistan will pay a fourday state visit to Saudi Arabia from January 1 at the invitation of King Faisal. An official announcement here tonight said President Ayub would leave Jeddah on January 5 for London to attend
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    • 166 6 MANILA. Mon. (UPI) Twenty-three-year-old Macy Shlh of Nationalist China, adjudged the most beautiful girl of Asia last night, said today she feels as If she were still In a dream world. “I'm still feeling so excited that I got. up early.” the five-foot-five
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    • 359 6 SANTA MONICA, California Mon. (LPI) Two little rich girls, who denounced their mother as too much of a swinger, have decided that her $300,000 home is better than a cot in Juvenile Hall and she isn’t so bad after allMary Ann
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    • 106 6 SALISBURY. Maryland. Mon. (Reuter) A county sheriff and one of his jailers were shot dead by an escaping prisoners last night only hours after publication of a newspaper interview in which the sheriff said his jail was foolproof. State Police immediately set up road blocks on
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    • 120 6 NEW YORK. Mon. (Reuter) Columbia Pictures has bought the film rights to Vladimir Nabokov’s latest novel. “Ada Or Ardor,” for more than $500,000 (200,000 sterling), it was announced here today. This will be the first of Nabokov’s novels to be filmed since
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    • 283 6 MANILA. Mon (UPI) The Asian Parliamentarians Union (APU) ended its fourth annual meeting in Manila today with a pledge to work for closer political and economic teamwork among Asian nations. At its concluding session, the APU General Assembly approved some 60 working resolutions.
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    • 68 6 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI)' Taiwan and Hong Kong are jointly considering kidney transplant financing Hilton Cheong-Leen. Lion District Governor, told the Hong Kong Standard yesterday upon return from his trip in Taiwan that a kidney transplant centre may be organised i n Taiwan Funds will be raised
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    • 215 6 TIFFIN. lowa. Mon. (UPI) Three armed men, modernising a technique used by Jesse James and his bothers on trains, stopped a Greyhound bus en route from San Francisco to Chicago yesterday and robbed the 23 startled passengers of $1,500 in cash
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    • 253 7 SAIGON, Mon. (AFP). The arrival of the South Vietnamese delegation at the Poris peace talks was marked here by the bloodiest fighting between Americans and North Vietnamese for a week, the U.S. command reported today. Marines lost 16 killed
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    • 174 7 HONG KONG, Mon. (Reuter) China has set up a microwave receiving station on Hainan island off the southwest coast to spy on U.S. and Russian satellite communications, the Hong Kong newspaper The Star reported today. Quoting escaoees from Hainan in Hong Kong. The Star
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    • 186 7 LONDON Mon CUPD Forget that apple a day. An orange a dav Is five times better than an apple, fays Dr. Geoffrey Taylor, a dietician who Is making a study of British eating hablta. According to Taylor. Britons certainly need the orange He
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    • 66 7 TOKYO. Mon (UPI) Japan has agreed to “lend* 300 000 tons of rice to drought and flood hit South Korea. Ambassador Um Min Yung met with Agriculture and Forestry Minister Mr Shiro Hasegawa to make the request. Mr Hasegawa said terms have vet to
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    • 101 7 MOREHEAD CITY. North Carolina. Mon. (UPI) A fishing boat, tattered by raging seas and sub-freezing gale-force winds, sank in the Atlantic killing seven of her 14-man crew, the Coast Guard said today. The survivors, spotted near the capsized vessel by nearby ships, were plucked
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    • 79 7 LONDON. Mon (UPI) Godfrey Smart can’t dance and refused to embarrass Princess Margaret by trying. Smart, student body President at Keele University, should be the Princess’ partner last nigbt at the annual dance. The Princess is the University’s chancellor. Smart said he had no sense
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    • 58 7 SAIGON. Mon (UPI) Communist gunners downed another US reconnaissance jet over North Vietnam today. The plane was the fourth US jet to be lost over North Vietnam since the end of US bombing on Nov. l. The plane went down off Dong Hoi The two
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    • 83 7 MANILA. Mon (UPI) The Japanese delegation to the Asian Parliamentarian Unions (APU) meeting in Manila has renewed a pledge to help In the rehabilitation of Vietnam. It was learned today. Senator Pham Van Trian of the Vietnamese delegation said the Japanese made the assurances to
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    • 45 7 JAKARTA. Mon. (AFP) Indonesia will send twelve Balinese cows for experimental husbandry in East Pakistan. The Indonesia-Pakistan Economic Co-operation Council (IPECC) has agreed to exchange Indonesian cows with Pakistani horse 9 for experimental husbandry. Twelve Pakistani horse* arrived here last month.
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    • 189 7 FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, Mon. (Reuter) The Queen Elizabeth docked here today, marking the end of a 28-year career as the world's biggest liner and the start of a new life as a permanent recreation and convention centre. The 83,000-ton ship navigated the narrow
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    • 303 7 'Arms deal and rocket bases' report BELGRADE, Mon. (Reuter) China and Albania are believed to have concluded an arms agreement recently but reports of Chinese manned rocket bases and naval installations in the Balkan Republic could not be substantiated here today. Yugoslav sources said they
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    • 54 7 JAKARTA. Mon. <AFP)— Thousands of rats last week attacked rice fields In the Tjirebon district of West Java. Farmers had to mobilise their districts Civil Defence Corps to repulse the attack. Four thousand rats were killed within one week, but only after they destroyed 20 hectares
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    • 150 7 ROME, Mon. (UPI) Pope Paul VI observed the centennial of the foundation of the Catholic Action Movement in Italy with an appeal to members yesterday to serve the church in its apostolic mission. “Take up the journey toward the new service
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    • 134 7 JAKARTA. Mon (Renter! An Indonesian Moslem priest alleged to have bought women for hi s harem has been arrested along with his four wives and three concubines in a military raid on one of the biggest mosque* in Palembang, South Sumatra. Indonesia's Antara News Agency reported
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    • 125 7 NEW YORK. Mon (UPI) The influence of defence manufacturers poses “the most serious internal threat facing the United States” Sen Gorg C. McGovern. DemocratSouth Dakota, said last night. McGovern said Presidentelect Richard Nixon will take office with a defence budget of more than US$B2 billion
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    • 99 7 QUE QUE, Rhodesia. Mon. (Reuter) A political party, dormant since 1965, may make a comeback to give moderate whites a second alternative to Prime Minister lan Smith s Rhodesian Front. The Reform Party, formed in 1965 lo contest the general election in which the Rhodesian Front
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    • 292 7 SPACE CENTRE, Houston, Mon. (UPI). A USsl.9m. moon landing trainer crashed yesterday in a ball of fire during its final checkout flight, dealing the Apollo lunar landing effort an undetermined setback. Test pilot Joe Algranti ejected safety from the spidershaped trainer, one of three in
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    • 93 7 BOURNEMOUTH, England. Mon (UPI) City officials today investigated the hysterical collapse of seven youngsters at a youth club’s psychedelic dance. The children. 12 and 13. were rushed to a hospital with what ambulance attendants called "audio-epilepsy.” The basement room was darkened and the group
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    • 290 7 Malik and... JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter) Indonesia’s Foreign Minister, Mr. Adam Malik, said today Southeast Asian countries could counter Communist subversion by regional cooperation. He told the daily newspaper Indonesia Raya that "the important thing for countries in South East Asia at present is the existence of mutual
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    • 51 7 CHARLESTON. South Carolina, Mon. (UPI) Firemen pumped steam into the sealed hold of the Prince Line's freighter English Prince last night in an effort to halt a fire raging through the ship’s cottonfilled cargo section The blaze was discovered when longshoremen came aboard to fmiaii loading the
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  • 435 8 PEACE and goodwill seemed to be the keynote struck by South Vietnam's Vice-President Nguyen Cao Ky on his arrival in Paris. This is a pleasant surprise after the outbursts of President Nguyen Van Thieu in recent weeks. If the South Vietnamese delegation is imbued with the sentiments
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  • 343 8 THE education seminar in the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur over the weekend was told far too many students In the Sixth Form classes in the country are “colourless personalities” Interested only in science subjects and are "complete illiterates” in other subjects Mr. John P. Doraisamy,
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  • 953 8  -  By Florence Short TO GET people to reolise what they need and then to help them to meet their needs that is the way community development con contribute effectively towaros raising standards and thus ploy a vital role in the progress of developing
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  • LETTERS...
    • 250 8 r ITERATURE is the written expression of life: If a Malaysian expresses Malaysian life as he sees It in a language that is used and understood here, then it is Malaysian literature. His work cannot be disqualified as part of Malaysian literature merely because it is no*, written
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  • 1177 8 Kuala Lumpur A SURPLUS of unemployed graduates would be produced if expansion in the field of education is not geared to the immediate and longrange needs of the country, the Chief Education Adviser, Haji Homdan bin Sheikh Tahir, has warned. He was presenting a paper
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  • 210 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt (Author, "handbook of Evldaaea For Criminal Trials'*) JLCTION was brought by John for personal Injuries and property damage resulting from a collision of his auto with the state's rotary snow blower. was driving up a hill about 25 miles per hour in a
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  • 244 9 (R<>U Ministry of Economic < h *Y predlcted ‘hat foreign and overmfllinn h nnl n, 'n mfnt Taiwan will reach $95 million to flop million at the end of this year. They attributed the record capital Influx to the improved investment climate
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  • 169 9 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) The world's leading economists will gather in Tokyo In September next year to discuss ways and means to conduct a joint prediction on the world's economy, a Tokyo newspaper reported. The mass circulation Mainichi Shimbun reported yesterday that a total
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  • 105 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. Mr. A an Fleming. BOAC Manager Pakistan. has been appointed Traffic Terminals Manager for the airline and will be based at London’s Heathrow Airport His new post means that Mr. Fleming wi 1 be involved in many ot the ground preparations for the Boeing
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  • 68 9 MANILA. Mon. (AFP) A leading Filipino banker has proposed the creation of a Federation of Southeast Asian commercial banks to standardise banking practices In the region. Mr. Chester Babst. President of the Bankers’ Association of the Philippines, said bankers from Thailand. Singapore and Hongkong had
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  • 126 9 CANBERRA. Mon (UPI) Minister for External Affairs Mr. Paul Hasluck. will lead the Australian delegation to the third Ministerial conference on Asian economic co-opera-tion beginning in Bangkok next Wednesday. The conference has been called by the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East
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  • 199 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The following ships are expected t be in port todev: C rlouns Vessels 1/2 Lica Maersk 3 4 Roseville 5 Motoshima Maru 6/7 Kavo Grossos 8 9 Talthybius U 11 Priam 13 14 Ha en 18 Bombala 19 Begonia Rbx 2) 22 Bachtera Kits 27
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 292 9 Rubber Down Cent SINGAPORE. Mon. December first grade rubber buyer f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 587/8 cents per lb., down one quarter of a cent from previous close. The tone was quiet. The market eased slightly during the morning in quiet conditions. Releases
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    • 195 9  -  Mr. Tshe Weng Siang SINGAPORE. Mon. Mr. Tshe Weng Siang. 22-year-old Production Control Assistant at Diethelms Furniture Division has left Singapore for Germany. He will join the Rosenheim Holztechnikum to take a two-year course in Wood Technology. Sponsored by Diet helm, for whom he
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    • 508 9 MN<JAP<<KK Rlmt t* rhanae »«li| an<1 other prlt e» omciallv lioled at buolneoa the cloke ol INDUSTRIALS ACM* 2 23 2.24 Hen 4 I 2 73 Borneo Bhd 1 84 Bou»tcatl 1 85 i Ntigar 4.26 4 28 (old otorare •a on < hemlcal Co 2.03 UHo 111!
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    • 123 9 MNGAPORE. Mon. The niHin price* at rue kingapore Chino.* Produce Etrbante l» day arc:— Kuter Pellet toennuf Oil (F O B > Bulk 47.75 I'miinui oil (F O B Dram 50 25 Lm»f 1 opra 'lived *8 SO Muntnk Mfiltr I’cppcr < F OB) '*0% N.L.U. 122.50 White Pepper
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    • 62 9 i Manager* Price* Hr»t Multi'an 2 HI >ec<inrl M.ila'an 2 10 Thlnl Mul.i'an 1 26 1 h«* i f ln<1u«.lr* \D 1 1*0 1 00 1 lie 'iMItlx luml 1 10 I 19 ln%t«tmrnt Mind \l> 1 20 1 30 Hrv| H K-mic 120 1 2*>» »er»ml H
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    • 15 9 SINGAPORE. Mon —The tin price for today was $593.50 per picul, down $5.25
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    • 1712 9 SINGAPORE. Mon —Trading on the Stock Exchange today began on an active note. As it progressed through the day, the tempo increased and at the close prices were much improved. Two suspensions of trading were enforced one in the morning and the second in
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  • Femme
    • 178 12 Storys Maureen Lee Pix: Mok Yoon IT'S the girls' night out. And what they have found to put on for the date are rather shimmering. Parading down the catwalk to show you what they've got are picture on right from left: Pamela in a silver
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    • 539 12  -  By H.C. Tan A FAMOUS beautician once said: "Beauty is a state of mind which needs concentration!" It is true indeed if you take a look at beauty news for this Christmas. Through the aid of cosmetic powers, they have conjured up the
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    • 313 12 Cucumber mint soup Ingredients: Four cups or two large peeled diced cucumbers, half cup diced onion, three cups stock or three chicken cubes dissolved in water, two sprigs of mint, one teaspoon salt. oneeighth teaspoon pepper. Also needed are one tablespoon cornflour, one cup undiluted Carnation evaporated milk, green
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    • 63 12 LONDON’. Mon. (l*PI) Britain’s cleaning women. known in the precomputer age as Mrs. Mopps or Charladies, have a new official title: Lady Cleaning Operators. The British Institute of Cleaning Science said a housewife who has never wielded a mop or bucket for pay suggested
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 132 12 TODAY Tuesday, December 10. 1968. I. v ARIES MAR. 21 APR. 19 2-15-18-32 j* TAURUS APR. 20 MAY 20 IT' 44-47-53-58 R>72-78-83-89 GEMINI AMY 21 JUNE 20 i t < c 41-45-51-55 61-67-70 CANCER JUNE 21 JULY 22 2- 7-16-20 0/25-63-65 1 LEO JULY 23 AUG. 22 4- 5-10-24 31-42-74
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  • Special features
    • 367 14  -  by H.L. Herschensohn, M.D. ATLANTA. Georges. Mon. (UPI) The lethal “Green Monkey Disease" that killed seven persons in Germany last year has yielded some of its secrets but it still is a mysterious malady that medical scientists at the National Communicable Disease
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    • 1248 14 TN spite of all the evidence that eating animal fats, including rich dairy products, predisposes a person to atherosclerosis and coronary heart trouble, there is a group of medical authorities who will questions this. They believe that it is the excessive use of sugar,
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    • 1287 14 IT HAS become evident thot Lionel Rose's success in Tokyo, where he captured the World Bantamweight Boxing Champ ionship in February, has not been confined to the ring. Rose, personable, intelligent and articulate, also conquered the Australian press and through it, the public. He
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  • 340 15 Though they are favourably placed. T>RIjBANE, Mon. (Reuter) —The West Indies cricketers welcomed the rest day in the first test against Australia here today, though they are favourably placed to force victory in the match. The respite could not come at a better time for
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  • 327 15 SINGAPORE Mon The Singapore Blacks Rugby Football Club completely outclassed the visiting Cobras to win by 41 points to three in the first annual Yeo Hock Seng Trophy match played on the SCC. padang this evening. Cobras Combined Old Boys Rugby Association of Selangor who
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  • 94 15 TAIPEI. Mon 'AFP) MrYang Chuan Kuang and Miss Chi Cheng Taiwan's two ace athletes today took the oath to become members of the ruling Kuommtang (Nationalist# Party. The v were given party certificates by Secretary General Chang Pro Shu Mr. Yang. 35. is Taiwan* decathlon
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  • 457 15  -  By Leslie Nakashlma TOKYO. Mon. (l'PI) Nicolino Locche of Mendoza. Argentina, was a picture of complete confidence today as he boxed four rounds to complete his sparring schedule for his challenge against world junior welterweight champion Paul Fuji on Thursday night. Manager-trainer Francisco
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  • 394 15  -  By M T. LINGAM SEREMAN. Mon The organisers of the table tennis championships now being held at the Town Hall here must indeed carry the cake for appallingly bad relations with the press. I do not intend to be rude but at the same time cannot he.p
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  • 95 15 CHAI KIAN. winner of the Class 1. Div. one mile event on Sunday, last day of the Singapore December meeting, being led in by Ylrs. Tan Chin Tuan of Chen's Stable at Bukit Timah. Coleman is the jockey. Cl T M DIVIDEND, with Pretty astride, being led
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  • 510 15 PHILADELPHIA, Mon. (UPI) —Heavyweight champion Joe Frazier, unbeaten in 21 bouts, is a 9-5 favourite to retain his title on Tuesday night against the challenge of Oscar Bonavena of Buenos Aires, who floored him twice in one round in their previous bout two years
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  • 321 15 SYDNEY, Mon. (I'PI). Australia hopes to stage its first world championship Grand Prix motor race in December. 1970. at Warwick Farm. 15 miles from Sydney, It was disclosed on Sunday. Track officials at Warwick Farm said official application had been made
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  • 249 15  -  BRIDGE By A. A. HAMID KUALA LUMPUR. Mon With 15 of the 18 sessions already completed. Taiwan now takes a commanding lead over the rest of the other nine nations competing in 'he open :2th Far East Bridge Federation Championships here She has 94.08 victory points
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  • 57 15 PORT LOUIS. Mauritius. Mon (AFP) Zambia defeated Mauritius 3—2 after extra time in their African Nations Football Cup first round return leg match here yesterday. Zambia take the tie on aggregate five-four, the first leg having ended in a twoall draw The winning goal came
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  • 65 15 ADDIS ABABA. Mon (AFPi Two Renault 16 Ts cars took first places in the gruelling three -day Ethiopian High Plateaux rally which ended here yesterday. Carl Forsmack of Sweden in a Saab 96. was third. Winning drivers were William Hayler of Germany, and Italian Nivla Olivier.
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  • 83 15 LONDON. Mon. (UPI) A three year -old British thoroughbred racehorse had been sold for 32.000 guineas (U 5580.640) to Japanese shipping company director T. Kanasashi of Tokyo by Mrs. Carole Dunham of New York, it was announced yesterday. International Thoroughbred Agency, which effected the sale,
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  • 142 15 SINGAPORE. Mon Singapore Cricket Club have picked a strong side to meet the Young Men’s Sikh Association in the Singapore Hockey Association Division Two league match to be played at the padang tomorrow at 5.15 p.m. SCC will be led by the current State
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  • 110 15 BRATISLAVA, Mon i.AFP) Sweden won the King of Sweden Cup. European's major indoor tennis championship. by the narrowest of 2-1 margins against Holland in the final which ended here yesterday. Trailing one-nil after yesterday's opening singles Swedish No. 2 Martin Carlstein levelled the scores by
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 64 15 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 9.46 am. (2.5 ft), 2.43 a.m. (8 0 ft). Port Swettenham: 2.43 p.m. (4.3 ft), 9.06 p.m. (13.8 ft). Port Dickson: 3.16 a.m (2.1 ft). 9.15 a.m. (7-9 ft). Singapore: 8.03 p m (1.5 ft). 1.14 pm. (9.1 ft). Sedili Kechil: 636 p m (15 ft).
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  • 2257 16  -  London-Sydney Marathon Car Trial By COLIN MANN SYDNEY, Mon. While it has its share of fine highways, Australia has some outback tracks that would challenge a billygoat. Organisers of the Lon-don-Sydney Marathon car trial which began in London on Nov. 24 and ends in Sydney, New
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  • 477 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Programme for the Selangor Amateur Meeting 1968 to be held on Dec 14 is as follow* THE PATRON S Ct P M A R A Class 1 7 Furs. Handicap: 11 si. to 13 st. 7 lbs. Pinkson 13 00 Grenadier 12
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  • 566 16 IPOH, Mon. Autocross or crass track racing in Malaya has been an almost exclusively Royal Perak Motor Club affair. The RPMC has been holding regular grass track races at least three times a year at the Kuala Kangsar polo ground for the past
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