Eastern Sun, 24 December 1968

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  • 21 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 862 Tuesday, 24 December 1968. MC (P) 0050 Price 15 cents
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  • 604 1 'BEATEN WITH FISTS, CLUBS' pANMUNJOM, Mon. (UPI) The skipper of the captured U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo led his 81 crewmen across a frozen bridge to freedom today after exactly 11 months of captivity, and charged that they were beaten with fists and
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  • 61 1 WASHINGTON. Mon (UPI) Having formed a Cabinet, given away his daughter and caught the flu. Richard Nixon decided on Monday it was about time he started his vacation But standing between the Presi-dent-elect and 10 days in Florida was the possibility that his doctor might not let
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  • 480 1 SPACE CENTRE, Houston, Mon. (UPI) Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders on Monday passed into the lunar gravitational field, speeding toward their historic rendezvous with the moon on Christmas Eve. "At the present time, we look very good,” mission control said
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  • 147 1 HONG KONG. Mon .(AFP) Peking has ordered an Increase in Communist subversive activities in Thailand. Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore in view of the peace prospects in Vietnam, the right-wing tabloid. The Star, reported here today. Quoting its own sources, the tabloid said the
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  • 83 1 TAIPEI. Mon. (AFP) President Chiang Kai-shek today reiterated his advocacy that political actions should be given preference to military operations in the nation's struggle against Communists. The Nationalist President made the remarks in his message to an annual meeting of the “Planning Committee for the Recovery
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  • 35 1 SAIGON, Mon (Reuter) Colonel George Patton son cf World War II veteran General George Patton has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery in the field, a US. spokesman said today.
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  • 76 1 BUDAPEST Mon <UPI) At least 33 persons were killed and 57 injured seriously, most of them children, on a Christmas holiday, when a passenger train slammed head on into a freight train on Sunday 45 kilometres <25 miles) southeast of Budapest. Radio Budapest announced today.
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  • 106 1 PARIS Mon <AFP> The South Vietnam National Liberation Front today flatly rejected a proposal by South Vietnam VicePresident Nguyen Cao Ky for direct contacts between the Front and the Saigon Government. The Head of the NLF. delegation to the Paris peace talks. Tran Buu Kiem.
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  • 93 1 BANGKOK. Mon (.AFP) South Vietnamese VicePresident Nguyen Cao Ky stated here this morning that he did not think the Vietcong would launch a major offensive in the near future “because we can then destroy them and the war will be over.” Marshal Ky. during
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  • 104 1 HONG KONG. Mon (Reuter) Officials at a local radio station running a fund-raising drive for poor children in Hong Kong today opened a parcel sent through the post to find US$lO,OOO parked in a cheap cigar box A note pinned to the money read “Just
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  • 248 1 Inducements To Skilled Labour HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) Hong Kong must take seriously Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s statement that he was considering offering inducements to skilled labour from Hong Kong, the afternoon newspaper, China Mail, said today. In an editorial comment
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  • 36 1 HONG KONG. Mon (UPI) One Hong Kong Chin-ese-language newspaper said on Monday that the release of the crewmen of the American spy ship USS Pueblo appeared to be part of a changing Communist policy.
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  • 133 1 BANGKOK. Mon. (UPI)' Communist China and North Vietnam are trying to woo Meo hill tribesmen away from the Thai Government by urging them to set up their own “Meo kingdom.” Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn said on Monday Thanom also said he believed some central Thais
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  • 42 1 VATICAN CITY. Mon. (UPI) America's Apollo 8 astronauts todav had the prayers and b'.essmg of Pope Paul VI. who said the US. moonshot “dazed” mankind. He called the exploits of the three astronauts in Apollo 8 “unbelievable adventure.”
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 461 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. Service ond voluntary organisations have been urged to play a part in making Singaporeans more conscious of physical well-being than before. The call came from Enche Othman Wok. the Minister for Social Affairs, in a speech delivered at the
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    • 304 2 SINGAPORE. MonA Bill to provide for a crash programme to increase the supply of seamen was passed in Parliament today. Called the Seamen’s Registry Board (Amendment) Bill it would allow shipowners to take on a flexible number of Singapore citizens to acquire the skills of seamanship
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    • 85 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Two UNESCO experts will arrive in a few weeks to advise the Minister of Education. Encbe Mohamed Khir Johari, on the introduction of sex education m Malaysian schools. The experts would be in this country for two to three months. The Minister said
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    • 356 2  -  By Suhaimi Bidin SINGAPORE, Mon. A Buddhist priest of the Leong Nam Buddhist Temple in Jalan Geylang Serai today threatened to burn himself when a team of demolition workers attempted to build a fence in the temple compound to mark out a
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    • 260 2 First Time in Decade That Phone Bills Being Increased Tang SINGAPORE. Mon Parliament today passed the Statutory Boards (Taxable Services) Bill to cover two of the new taxes introduced by the Government re- cently. The two new taxes are the 10 per cent levy on Public Utilities Board bids and
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    • 170 2 Count Eigil von Rosen, the Father Christmas from Stockholm, is the happiest Santa Claus in the world. He flew all the way from Scandinavia to disfri. bute gifts and bring cheer to the children of Singapore but to his surprise ended up with a gift himselfWhile
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    • 202 2 SINGAPORE. Mon Property purchasers will have to pay more stamp duties with the passing of the Stamp (Amendment) Bill in Parliament today. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Finance. Mr. Tang S« Chim. in moving the second reading of the Bill. said that 40 per cent
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    • 107 2 SINGAPORE. Mon The membership cl the Public Utilities Board will be increased from nine to twelve This Is due to the expansion of the Public Utilities Beard’s functions and the tremendous Increase in the work of the Board A Bill to this effect was passed In
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    • 174 2 SINGAPORE. Mon A German seaman. Bemd Kiessling, was today fined S5OO or three months' jail for causing hurt to Tay Kim Sal. by tiring rashly with an air-rifle. Kiessling, a Third Officer on board a Beirutregistered vessel committed the offence on Hari Raya Day. (Dec. 21)
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    • 65 2 Toto booths such as the one above are becoming a familiar sight in Singapore. Ninety booths have been placed at strategic locations by Singapore Pools (Fte) Ltd to sell Toto coupons. This is in line with the company's policy to expand sales of Toto. Since the
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    • 131 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. A 19-year-old National Serviceman, Pie. Salatoon bin Samood, today received a Commendation Certificate from the Commissioner of Police for his public spiritedness in helping to apprehend a snatchthief at Alexander Road on March 9 this year. The Commendation Certificate was handed over to him
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    • 123 2 SINGAPORE Mon Children born of Muslim parents out of wedlock, will become legitimate when their parents marry. This is provided for in the Legitimacy (Amendment) Bill passed by Parliament today. In moving the second reading of the Bill, the Minister for Law and National Development. Mr
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    • 66 2 SINGAPORE. Mon —KhoO Wang Tee. 27. was today fired $3OO or two months’ mil by the Ninth Magistrate'* Court here today. He pleaded guilty to a charge of being a member of an unlawful assembly and assaulting Tay Kim Chwe* in the company of six others by
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    • 17 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. Parliament was today adjourned sine die after passing a total of 14 Bills.
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    • 148 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. A Bill seeking to streamline customs procedures with a view to improving the efficiency of the Customs Department and reducing inconveniences to traders, was passed in Parliament today. Mr. Tang See Chun. the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, moving the second
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    • 459 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The President of the Singapore Garments Manufacturers' Association, Mr. Lam Thian, last night appealed to the Government to set up an advisory committee to develop the garments manufacturing industry in the Republic. Mr. Lam was speaking at the first anniversary
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    • 385 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Parliament today passed a Bill to prevent the piracy of gramophone records in Singapore. Moving the second reading of the Bill, the Copyright (Gramophone Records and Government Broadcasting t Bill. 1968, the Minister for Law and National Development. Mr. E.
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    • 653 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Singapore has amended its Merchant Shipping legislation to make it worthwhile for shipowners to register their ships in Singapore and fly the Republic's flag. Incentives to make it worthwhile for shipowners to register their ships in Singapore are provided in
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    • 68 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Two men. one armed with a dagger, this morning ordered a housewife to go back to sleep and then ransacked the house, getting away with $2,500 in cash and valuables. During the 15-minute robbery. Mrs. Gopal Nair's husband was fast asleep in
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    • 91 3 Mr. Hwang Tiaw Sooi, a senior meteorological officer in the Meteorological Services of Singapore recently attended an 11-day regional seminar on the interpretation of data from weather satellites, held at Melbourne, Australia. The seminar, organised bv the World Meteorological Organisation, an agency of
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    • 82 3 SINGAPORE. M on. Members of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) today brought Christmas joy to about 50 children from the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus Girls' Home. The children, invited to the SAF’s camp in Holland. were treated to a "makan kechil”. drinks, a games
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    • 123 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A technician who gave hi* name as Bobby Kok. told Police early this morning how two men robbed him of SB5 after one of them showed him tl-e butt of a revolver concealed at the waist. Kok said that he had gone to
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    • 131 4 CIHGAPORE, Mon. More than 160 passengers arriving here O today on the liner Chitral found themselves playing a role in a film which is being shot on location in Singapore. The film "Romance on the High Seas", which includes several top Hong Kong stars,
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    • 128 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Minister of Works. Posts and Telecommunications. Tun V. T. Sambanthan, has been elected President of the Malaysian Indian Congress for the 14th consecutive year. The results of the protracted elections, which began on Nov. 16 and ended on Dec 15.
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    • 44 4 KUALA LUMPUR Mon Malaysia will sent a fiveman delegation to the Fourth South-East Asian Ministers of Education Council (SEAMEC) meeting in Jakarta from Jan. 7 to 11. The Minister of Education Enche Mohamed Khir Johari. will lead the delegation.
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    • 34 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Two people were injured last night when a police patrol chasing a scooterist along Jalan Imbi. was involved in collision with the car they were travelling in.
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    • 73 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. The following are the results of the Lucky Donor Draw held on Friday at the Blood Transfusion Centre. The winning tickets bear the following numbers: *****0 *****2 *****6 *****1 *****9 *****1 *****0 *****2 *****5 *****8 *****0 *****5 *****2 *****7 *****1 *****3 *****9
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    • 106 4 A welcome Christmas Box came the way of Set. R.G. (Geordie) Palmer (41) erring at RA F. Bukit Gombak Air Defence Centre (Radar) in Singapore He was awarded 4110 and a certificate of merit hv the Air Commander, Fir East Air Force, Air
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    • 83 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Peranakan Association, formerly known as the Straits Chinese British Association will hold their annual Christmas dinner and dance at the Golden Crown Restaurant on Dec. 23 from 7.30 pm to 2 am. In conjunction with the dinner and dance a “Peranakan Queen
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    • 131 4 Although Utter is still a relatively minor problem in New Zealand, the authorities can see a menance looming ahead and they are not going to tolerate It Getting in early, a nationwide antl-litter campaign has hern launched with the avowed intention of bringing about
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    • Cultural and Music Corner
      • 183 4 pou TS'ONG, the celebrated Chinese pianist, will be presented by the International Concert Enterprises Ltd. on Dec. 27 at the Singapore Conference Hall. This will be his fourth visit since 1965 to this part of the world. He has more than 500 concerts to
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      • 28 4 7.45 p.m. National Theatre Club Indian dance practice. 9 a.m. to 5 n.m Exhibition of low-pncea college text books from Britain at University of Singapore Library.
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    • 115 4 MANILA. Mon (Reuter) The Executive Committee of the Philippine Foreign Policy Council today agreed on a new set of proposals aimed at reconciling differences with Malaysia over the Sabah dispute Informed sources said the proposals were actua ly a "new version" of
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    • 178 4 SINGAPORE Mon. A total of 2 119 persons from 438 families victims of the Carey Road blaze recently which wiped out the entire squatter colony had so far received more than t33n(K) in relief. So far they have received s first payment of cash relief
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    • 20 4 SING AFORE Mon There were 85 accidents 12 of them serious—during the past 24 hours in the Republic.
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    • 106 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. A special Sunday morning session will be held at the blood Donation Centre at Outram Road Genera Hospital on De 29 between 330 a m. and 12 noon. Says Dr Y W. Ong Acting Medical Officer-in-Charge of the Blood Transfusion Service: “If
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    • 86 4 SINGAPORE. Mon Parliament today rassed a 8.1 l to beautify the National Museum. This is the National Museum (Amendment) Bill, which was moved by the Minister for Science and Technology. Dr Toh Chm Chye Dr. Toh said the Bill provided for the setting up of a Museum
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    • 181 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. A 42-year-old farmer, Quek Chut was injured yesterday when he resisted six armed robbers who forced their way into his house. The armed robbers all wielding daggers and one of them masked appeared suddenly m front of Quek when
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    • 116 4 SINGAPORE Mon. Thieves broke Into a house at Mirl Road yesterday and took away cash totalling $375 and jewellery and clothing. The occupant. N. Ratpasamy. told Police that he left the house at about 1045 am and returned at 2.45 p.m to find that thieves
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    • 146 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A rapid expansion of Malaysia's poultry industry is foreseen by the Deputy Director of Veterinary Services, Mr. S. Thuraisingam. The industry expanded three-fold In West Malaysia in the last 10 years, with annual turnover of eggs and poultry meat
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    • 125 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. TV films on the crew of Apollo 8 at work on the way to the moon will be shown here next week, the Director of the Television Malaysia. Mr Ow Kheng Law told Bernama today He said: "Four film agencies in
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    • 242 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Ministry of Interior and Defence has temporarily lifted "Operation Bear Trap" mounted last month to capture "Benny" the stranded bear on the island of Blakang Mati. A MID spokesman said: “We’ve decided to let Benny enjoy some moments of freedom during the Christmas
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    • 145 4 Singapore. Mon Seven pioneer aircraft (four twin-engined and three singled-engined) of No 209 Squadron will stage a farewell fly-past on Friday over the thrpp Royal Air Force stations in Singapore. The squadron, commanded by Squadron Leader Vernon Small, is to disband at the end of
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 620 5 St. Vincent. British West Indies. (UPI) P erson s were missing and feared drowned slr >king of an intersch °nner In the Grenadine Islands on “fturday night. Another 38 persons had been rescued. SEBASTIAN. Spain. iT u 24 hour sit-in by basque nationalist ri^s°S ter i S ln
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    • 183 5 WASHINGTON, Mon. (Reuter) Mr. Charles Yost, President-elect Richard Nixon's new United Nations ambassador, said today the basic elements now existed for a Middle East settlement that could be accepted by both Arabs and Israelis without humiliation or undue risk. In an
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    • 101 5 CANBERRA Mon (Reuter) A misdirected suitcase spoiled a plot to smuggle ASIOO.OOO to Hong Kong, it was announced here today. The money, all in Australian notes and packed in the suitcase, was despatched as air cargo to Hong Kong, but accidentally sent on to Tokyo.
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    • 103 5 HONG KONG. Mon (AFP) Chairman Mao Tse Tung has started a nation-wide drive to get the educated young people of China to settle down in rural areas. In a “new directive” broadcast repeatedly today by Radio Peking and other Chinese provincial radios. Chairman Mao
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    • 83 5 EDINBURGH. Scotland. Mon. (UPI) Athletes in the 1970 Commonwealth games will take sex tests. fames chairman Sir Herbert Irechm said yesterday. “There are international regulations governing the question of sex and drugs and these will be carried out at the games”This will
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    • 87 5 LONDON, Mon. (UPI) British Sunday newspapers turned from sex and scandal to headline the Apollo 8 flight. The seven papers., with a total circulation of more than 25 million, devoted more than 400 column Inches of headline space to the moonshot. “Out 0 f this world.” said
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    • 38 5 JERUSALEM. (AFP) There is little prospect of United Nations envoy Gunnar Jarring finding a solution to the Middle East problem unless the Egyptians change their attitude. Foreign Minister Abba Eban told the Israeli cabinet yesterday.
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    • 185 5 MOSCOW. Mon (AFP) The unscheduled visit of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to Cairo is a sign of Moscow's determination not to he left behind in international affairs by the new American administration. diplomatic observers said here today. They considered also that Mr Gromyko's
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    • 148 5 NEW YORK. (AFP) Millions of televiewers yesterday watched a 15minute ’’live" programme from halfway to the moan. In Vatican City, the Pope, addressing pilgrims from a w.ncow of the Vatican, said of the Apol o spaceflight: When we open the window, instinctively our eyes thoughts
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    • 40 5 LONDON. (AFP) The Fussians have not given up the race for the moon, and they “are going to attempt to land a man on the moon before the Americans.” a Soviet space scientist said here yesterday.
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    • 56 5 PARIS: South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Can Kv with IS Ambassador Averell Harriman (right). Mr. Ky met after a news story in which Mr. Ky was reported to have said that he would ask the United States to quit Vietnam “if they tried to make Saigon
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    • 385 5 Saigon Must Face NLF ‘With Reality Says Ky WASHINGTON, Mon. (Reuter). South Vietnam's Vice-Pre-sident Nguyen Coo Ky said today the Vietcong's National Liberation Front (N.L.F.) must be dealt with as a reality even though the Saigon government did not accept it as a political entity. But jn a television interview
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    • 376 5 FORT MYERS, Florido, Mon. (UPI) Gary Steven Krist, 23-year-old "intellectual" charged with the bizarre kidnapping of heiress Barbara Jane Mackle, who was tracked down and captured in a mangrove jungle early yesterday is held under US$5OO,OOO the some sum as the ransom payoff. This left
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    • 121 5 MIAMI. Mon (Reuter) Barbara Jane Mackle. 20. Is suffering from low blood pressure as a result of her ordeal buried in coffin-like box for 80 hours after being kidnapped last Tuesday. The Mackle tamily physiclan. Dr Edward Lauth. told a press conference In the Miami Heart
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    • 88 5 SRINAGAR, Kashmir. Mon. (UPI) Shiek Abdullah today told a gathering of campaigners for a free Kashmir that Indian threats of “jail and bullets” could not compel Kashmiris to give up their demands for self-determination. Speaking to a large crowd of Muslims. Abdullah warned that Indian government
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    • 41 5 NEW DELHI. Mon. (IPI) Herds of wild elephants have killed four children, destroyed barns and farmyards, and created panic among villagers around the forests of Hazaribagh. in India's Bohar State, the press trust ol India agency said yesterday.
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    • 85 5 SAIGON. Mon (Reuter) Vietcong and North Vietnamese troops shelled the main gate of Da Nang airfield today killing 12 South Vietnamese civilians and wounding 19. a I.S. military spokesman said. Damage to military installations was light and there were only light U.S. casualties, he said.
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    • 40 5 MANILA Mon <UPI) A single-engine plane crashed on Saturday while on a mission to airdrop Christmas packages to remote villages in the Southern Philippines. killing two American missionaires aboard Civil Aviation Authorities reported today.
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    • 335 5 Nixon-Eisenhower Wedding NEW YORK. Mon (UPI) The marriage of two college sweethearts, who first met long ago as children at play at the White House, forged a formal and historically unprecedented link yesterday between two American presidential families. Julie Nixon, her chestnut hair curling down around a
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    • 32 5 NEW YORK Mon. (UPI) Striking fuel truck drivers yesterday voted to end their week-long strike and immediately resume deliveries to a city still operating under a health emergency.
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    • 345 8 WASHINGTON. U P I) The prospect for prompt action early next year on a treaty to stop the spread of nuclear weapons was diminished today when two senators announced they would wage a sessionopening fight to modify the senates filibuster rules. Sens. Jacob K Javits. R"«w York, and
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    • 122 8 MANILA. Mon (UPI) The Philippine foreign policy council today approved a draft counter proposal to Malaysia aimed at restoration of their diplomatic relations but without giving up the Philippine territorial claim to Sabah Details were not disclosed. but informed government sources said
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    • 56 8 SEOUL. Mon. (AFP) Seven more North Korean guerrillas were killed over the weekend, bringing to 106 the total number of North Koreans killed since they landed on South Korea’s eastern coastal province early November. It was announced today. Seven others have been captured. During the weekend operations,
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    • 27 8 UMUAHIA. (AFP) Nigerian airforce planes yesterday bombed three churches In this last Blafran stronghold, killing at least 28 persons, according to a Biafran government report.
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    • 107 8 MADRID Mon (Reuter > Undreamed -of wealth and the Christmas of a lifetime todav await hundreds of families in the small orange-grow town of Alclra 90 million pesetas (5.400,000 sterling) richer after an annual state lotteryFactory workers were adjusting to their newfound wealth following a
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    • 223 8 TOKYO Mon (Reuter) The United States today presented to Japan a plan providing for return, joint use or relocation of about 50 US military facilities and areas In this country This was announced after the ninth meeting here of the US-Japan security consultative
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    • 138 8 JAKARTA. Mon. < Reuter) At least two people were killed and about 20 injured by stray bullets fired by troops to celebrate the end of the Moslem fasting month at the weekend. One was a young mother sitting at her home with her
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    • 74 8 HONG KONG. Mon. (AFP) Workers In Peking were making active preparations for an Industrial “leap forward" In 1969 after having fulfilled their 1968 s production quotas by mid-Decem-ber. Radio Peking reported today. Industrial output in the Chinese capital had been on steady rise throughout the year
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    • 29 8 NEW YORK: Mr. and Mrs David Eisenhower, both 20. leave Marble Collegiate church following their Sunday wedding. She Is the former Juli** Nixon —UPI radio- photo.
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    • 125 8 Bonn ‘Unconcerned Over Third Defection To East BONN, Mon. (Reuter) Bonn government officials today reacted calmly to the defection to East Germany of physicist Peter Moebius the third West German scientist to go over to the East in four weeks. A science ministry spokesman described Dr Moebius whose defection was
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    • 82 8 CULGOORA. New South Wales. Mon (Reuter) Four girls ore of them Ameucan and another French, will spend a lonely Christmas in a building at this tiny outback settlement to help the American Apollo astronauts The girls are working in shifts at a solar observatory here. watching ihe
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    • 137 8 LONDON Mon (UPI) Ar. English housewife who claims she can exerc.se control over ’he world's weather yesterday promised to g;ve Londoners a mild Christmas “I didn't say it was not going to rain.” cautioned Doris Munday. 49 'At the moment I am trying to make
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    • 582 8  -  THE PRETTY MYTH FOR CHRISTMAS By Betty Bauer NORTH CHATHAM New York. (IPI) Seventy one years ago. 8-year-old Virginia O Hanlon w ondered whether there really was a Santa Claus, and received a memorable reply. Today, as another Christmas approaches, the little girl grown to be
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    • 714 8 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) The United States won the release of the crew of the USS Pueblo by signing a "confession of spying which it repudiated in advance. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said he could not understand why the North
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    • 172 8 PARIS. Mo n (AFP) The French socialist party decided at an emergency congre<« last night to form a new "socialist party” grouping all the nnn-Com-munist left The decision represented a difficult victory for retiring Socialist Partv Secretary General Guv Mollet. Fewer than three-fifths of the
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    • 102 8 MANILA. Mon. (AFP) Five persons taking an afternoon nap yesterday were killed in a fire started by a cigarette smoker who absent-mindedly threw a lighted matchstick into a pile of Inflammable materials The fire broke out on the second floor of an apartment building in
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    • 61 8 BRATISLAVA. Mon. (AFP) —The Slovak Academy of Sciences last night voiced strong support for National Assembly President Josef Smrkovsk in his bid to gain the leadership of the new Federal Assembly. Announcement of the mov# followed Slovak Communist Chief Gustav Husak's plea earlier In the dav
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    • 37 8 TOKYO: As new year approches shops selling the traditional battledore (Cloth and paper figures with a martial context) ply their wares in the com—pound of the Sensoji temple. The expensive ones cost as much as US$50 UPI.
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  • 220 6 THE American astronauts are well heading for a Christmas lunar orbit. Latest reports say they have passed into lunar gravitational field. This bold and epoch-making attempt by the United States, into which years of planning and precision work have gone, has rightly caught the entire imagination of
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  • 181 6 NEW YORK newspapers bannered the flight as man's greatest adventure in space. Even the Russians, who on Saturday had criticized the voyage as risky, acknowledged the historic moon trip. Nearly every major newspaper published on Sunday proclaimed the American flight to the moon with fat,
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  • 296 6 RETURNING from two and a half months abroad Premier Lee Kuan Yew had a number of things to say. but none more welcome or important that he found Singapore “cleaner than it was”. This is recognition that the Keep Singapore Clean campaign is taking noticeable
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  • 1799 6  - Tourism In Singapore: Prospects In The 70s By Citizen TN the Eastern Sun in August tms year attention was drawn to the tourism potential of Singapore. It is admitted that there is no great attraction in the manner of Angkor Wat or Borobudur, nor a national dance, but nevertheless if
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  • 514 6 WEST GERMANY: The Hamburg paper Welt Am Sonntag said millions of Americans had contributed billions of dollars for the flight and compared the expenditure to the Jewels Queen Isabella of Spain sold to finance the voyage of Christopher Columbus. AUSTRIA: “The greatest adventure of the
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  • 1705 6 with the Improving hand of the planner and developrr. And the motor workshops could perhaps be persuaded to perform with less obstruction in another area of the precinct. Here is an area which U immediately on the correct scale for the tourist. The arcaded
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 218 7 SINGAPORE. Mon- A major breakthrough in avoiding the hold-ups caused by customs inspections at airports has been introduced by London Airport. Faced with the prospect of an accelerated increase in the number of passengers using London airport when the jumbo jet s come
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    • 115 7 MANILA. Mon <UPI) The Aslan Development Bank <ADB» announced today acceptance of Canadas US$25 million contribution to its consolidated apeclal funds. A normal agreement was signed at the ADB Headquarters here by the Bank’s Vice-President. Mr C.B. Krishna Moorthi, and Mr. W Kenneth Wardroper. Canada's representative
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    • 62 7 HONG KONG. Mon <UPI) Money Quotations: H .-6 ***** per U S dollar HK*6 1225 per U S dollar TT HKSI4 49 per pound sterling HKS3OB 5 per tael of gold 94 5 per cent fineness HK5165.7 per 10,000 Japanese yen HK5142.25 per 100 Philippines pesos buyers
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    • 24 7 LONDON. Mon. (UPI) Rubber market opered quiet with spot 20-11 16 26-7 I NO. 1 RSS CIF basis ports Jan 19-7/8 20-1/16.
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    • 15 7 SINGAPORE. Mon. The tin price for today was $594 per picul, down $1.12-1/2.
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    • 416 7 SINGAPORE. Stork Eaehaoge told and ot her prtre* oftma II.? listed at tb* clot* of business INDUSTRIALS »CMA 2 4? 2 7* 2 B0 1. nco Blid 2 13 1*9 4 68 told Moracc S to .if mica l to 2.10 DBS 1 0i 1 03 3
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    • 52 7 iMiniim frlrf*) rir»t Malayan sriuiid Malayan Third Malayan Th* iimnirnr Industry XD Thf >aUn* Z 98 2 15 1 29 1 03 112 1 15 124 fc'n ntff Mala>*ian Inraatmant 1 35 1 25 FlrM H'koni ffcimil H kon* XD 1.23 97 ‘is: ktfrlin* 6/2 C'moility XD <•
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    • 24 7 A HONGKONG air-filled Santa was voted favourite passenger of the week by these four pretty Cathay Pacific Airways ground hostesses.
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    • 289 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The extension of world tin export restriction ‘‘fits in very well with Malaysia s production programme the Minister of t ommerce and Industry. Tan Sri (Dr) Lim Swre Aun. said today. Tan Sri Lim told Bernama that the decision by the
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    • 111 7 MKGABORt, Mon. The niKin price* 'he nmgapnre rntne«e pmoare exchange day are-.— Win Heliei Coconut Oil (FOB) Bulk AO 00 cot nil in till (FOB) Drum 52.50 Loo*e Copra Mtxed WW Huntnk Whiff Pepper if OBJ N.L.B ***** eat.iwih tillr Pepper <1.0 H.) 117 90 Harm* h n penai
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    • 304 7 SINGAPORE. Mon January first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m., in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 56-3/8 rents per lb., down five eighths ol a cent from previous close. The tone was very quiet. With the holiday in Malaysia and the approach of Christmas,
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    • 1646 7 SINGAPORE. Mon. Trading on the Stock Exchange of Singapore and Malaysia today was very get ive. The market opened the week's trading on an active front with prices, in most counters very much higher than the previous close The final gains ranged from one cent
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    • 98 7 SINGAPORE. Mon. The following ships are expected to be in port today. God owns Vessels. 1/2 Sahar 3 4 Slovenija S Wabana fi/7 Thors-epe 8 '9 Eiran Maru 10/11 Yewbank 13 14 Laomedon 18 Atsuta Maru 19 Panorea 21/22 Sletter 23/24 Barpeta 25/26 Euben Tipton 27/28 Angara
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    • 71 7 TOKYO. Mon. The nations wholesale price index for October stood at 105.4 (1565=100). an increase of 0.2 per cent over the previous month, the Bank of Japan announced. The increase was attribut- od to 12 per cent increase in the prices of foodstuffs. Prices of steel produc's.
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  • NEWS
    • 498 9 MANILA. Mon AFP) The high-powered Philippine Foreign Policy Council meeting behind closed doors today hammered out a statement recognizing Malaysia’s “de facto authority" over Sabah. The recognition, according to reliable sources, was subject to the usual reservation that it should
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    • 89 9 Siobhan Michelle had the distinction of being christened on hoard Her Majesty's Arms vessel 'Ardennes’ recently in Singapore harbour. Her father Warrant Officer Class II Patrick Wood is a member of 3.3 Maritime Regiment RCT so took the opportunity' of having the christening on board one
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    • 199 9 Kl ALA Ll'MPl'R. Mon The Minister without Portfolio Enche Abdul Ghaffar Baba left for Sabah today to inspect projects undertaken in the State by Mara and the Federal Agricultural marketing Authority. He to'd newsmen at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport that
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    • 99 9 TOKYO. Mon (Reuter) Four Japanese destroyers are expected to make a round of goodwill visits to Asian countr.es and Australia and New Zealand next summer. Defence Agency sources said today. They said the Teruzuki, 2.350 tons Takarami. Onami and Makinami, 1.750 tons ea
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    • 31 9 KATMANDU, Mon 'Pouter) President de Gaul.e may visit Nepal and India during the first half of next year French Ambassador M Jean Francis told reporters here today.
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    • 47 9 LONDON. Mon 1 Reuter) Admiral of the fleet s r Varyl Begg was named rodav as the new B' h Governor of Gibraltar He was knighted by Malaysia in 1968 He takes up the post next spring when Sir Gera*d Lathbury's term expires
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    • 37 9 TOKYO Mon fUPI) Crown Prince Aklhito was 35 today The future Emperor of Japan received congratulations from h:s wife Crown Princess Mlcniko and their two sons Mlchiko is expecting her third child in April.
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    • 298 9  -  By EDWARD K. DELONG SPACE CENTRE, Houston. Mon (CPI) A "celestial stomach virus." which plagued Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman briefly but violently yesterday, kept spaee doctors guessing today whether the other two moonflight crewmen with him also would become ill. If all thre* astronauts
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    • 98 9 TAIPEI. Mon (AFP) The Asian Development Bank will sign an agreement with the Nationalist Chiese Government on Dee. 2* for a loan to heln Taiwan de\elop its polyester fibre industry, it was learned today. Informed sources said that the loan will amount to U
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    • 38 9 WASHINGTON Mon (UPI) Former President Dwight D Eisenhower and his ailing wife watched on closed circur television in their hospital rooms yesterday as their grandson. David Eisenhowever married Julie Nixon In New York City.
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    • 289 9 SHAW# Oz>(*n lantlon WISH ALL MOVIEGOERS A v EKY >f fRB V HRIsrMAs D O Phone ***** Li‘» D*t! II im. 4 Mft pu SCHOOL CHILDREN *l.OO To Any S*at At All Shows' K:rk Douzla.s. Tony Curtis Ar Lsurenr« OH er “SPARTACIA" Technlr*m* 70 A- Co)*r Ul-SBi OPENS TOMORROW' Tear
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    • 314 9 TODAY and YOU... Tuesday, December 24. 1968. rv ARIES WAR. 21 1 APR. 19 10-22-33-52 64-75-85-88] TAURUS APR. 20 MAY 20 Oi 4- 6-19-36 GEMINI MAY 21 JUNE 20 <VM 1-13-25-37 <vy46-58-69 V CANCER JUNE 21 JULY 22 14-26-38-49 59-60-70 LEO JULY 23 a AUG. 22 20-21-31-43 D VIRGO AUG.
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    • 270 9 aso 8 nfi ee Cathay O' ORCHARD-***** T*4ay! I so, 4 no. (in 915 pm 'Tnm«rmt E*tr« Show 11 a m “The Impossible Year»”tMOM Crutina Eerrare ii David Nivn Pinavlaum Metroeolor Plua! Tom A Jerry Color Cartoon: "NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS" CATHAY ***** Last Da?! 11. 1.36. 4M. 30. *3O Jarr?
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  • WOMAN’S WORLD
    • Ikebana with Lady de la Mare
      • 383 10 THE flowing or Hanging style may also be called the Cascode style, because the Shin or the longest branch hangs down lower thon the top of the container. The procedure is as follows for today's arrangement: 1. Select a branch of the shrub.
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    • 245 10 Colour in holiday jewellery rather than glitter, with ropes of beads in turquoise, coral or jade, the dangle earrings and bangle bracelets ditto. The return to sleeves on evening dresses, but now lavishly decorated, sometimes with jewellering, at others with embroideries and cutouts. A trend in
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    • Femme
      • 1341 10  -  Thoroughly Modern Living *by H.C. TAN rpHE art of gracious living is very often a cultivated one! And if you have not acquired it, it's still not too late to learn. ‘Genteel’ living of course begins in your home whatever you make of it. Good taste
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    • 84 10 is one of those rare evening gowns which really spells Christmas. It has a special sequinned braiding in silver on a plain background of deep turquoise. This gown has a very simple cut, as Hai Choo shows you, but it is also very smartly tailored
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    • Article, Illustration
      350 10 COFFEE CI.OI'D CARE Ungreased round pan, flinch preheated 350‘F oven. Ingredients: 2 tablespoons powdered NESCAFE, j cup boiling water. 1 cup 4- 2 tablespoons sifted plain flour, 1J teaspoons baking powder, pinch of salt. 3 eggs, separated. J teaspoon cream of tartar or teaspoon lime juice. 1 cup caster
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 337 11 MEXICO CITY. Mon (CPI) West German soccer coach Helmut Schoen said on Sunday his bovs were luckv to come out of the last same of their Latin American tour, with Mexico, with a scoreless tie. He had high praise for his own team. which fought gamely
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    • 57 11 PARAMARIBO. Surinam, Mon. Reuter) Surinam yesterday beat El Salvador by four goals to nil in their Group 13C match of the qualifying round for the World Soccer Cup Half time score was threeBil The result had no effect on the final outcome of the eliminatories as El
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    • 911 11 PENANG. Mon.—Following are race weights for the Third Day Penang Turf Club X’mas/New Year Meeting on Saturday. Dec 28. HORSES CLASS 2 DIV. 2 —ABOUT 7 FURS Reganda 900 Sansulin 8 12 Limelight 8 12 Highland Joy 8 12 Bunga Merab 8
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    • 191 11 BUENOS AIRES Mon. (AFP) —Italian Andrea De Adamich. driving a Ferrari, won the Argentine "Temporada” Formula Two motor race series which ended here yesterday but Britain's Piers Courage, in a Brabham, won the fourth and final event. The Italian was assured of victory in the
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    • 400 11 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Singopore Cricket Association yesterday named a strong Singapore team for their forth coming three-week tour of New South Wales, Australia, from Jan. 16 to Feb. 8. The Secretary of the SCA Mr Osbert Rozario told Sunsport that Judging from the performances
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    • 151 11 HONOLULU. Mon. (I PI) Mike Doyle of California took first place and l'Ssl.ooo in prize money riding fifteen feet waves in the Duke Kahanamokou Surfing Classic on Sunday. And while that contest ended, another world famous surfing meet got underway less than 20 miles away on
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    • 73 11 DUBLIN Mon (UPI) Results in Sundays League of Ireland football competition: Limerick 0. Dundalk 3 Bohemians 0. Shamrock R 3 6: Patrick's Athletic 4. Cork Hibernians 0 Drogheda 0. Waterford 2 Cork Celtic 1. Shelbourne 1 Drumcondra 2. Sligo R 1 League Points Table: Limerick 13. St
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    • 69 11 JAKARTA. Mon (Reuter) Malaysia are to send a football team to Jakarta next month to take part in the 60th anniversary celebration of the Jakarta Soccer Association, the association said today. The Malaysian side is expected to include Armed Forces members and some national players. It
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    • 617 11 PENANQ. Mon Following is the Stipendiary Steward's report for the First Day. Penang Races hg.d on Saturday. Dec. 21. GOING VERY GOOD RACE ONE: Remember Me II (app C. Leong) and Pink Ro.-e (Oman were >-low to begin. After passr.g the 5 furlongs Sejarah (app P.K. Leong)
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    • 218 11 ADELAIDE, Mon. (Reuter) The West Indies cricket tourists struggled to a lucky draw against South Australia when their four-day match ended at Adelaide Oval today. At stumps the West Indies, chasing a target of 310 runs for victory, had lost seven wickets for 219 runs
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    • 115 11 MIAMI BEACH. Florida, Mon. (Reuter) Czechoslovakia's Jan Pisecky defeated fifth-seed Carlos De Brito of Brazil 6-4, 6-1 in the only upset in the first round of the annual Orange Bowl Junior International Tennis Tournament here. Top seeded Bob McKinley yesterday scored an easy 6-0. 6-0 victory
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    • 23 11 LONDON. Mon (Reuter) Results of Rugby League matches played yesterday were: Bramiey 10. Hull Kingston Rovers 20 Oldham 17, Whitehaven 7.
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    • 427 12 ADELAIDE, Mon. (Reuter) American tennis star Clark Graeb- ner, reinstated in the strongly favoured Davis Cup team to meet Australia in four days, is fighting a back injury and lock of match practice in his bid for the second singles berth. Graebner.
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    • 360 12 ADELAIDE. Mon. (UP!) The United States Davis Cup team today rounded off its gruelling preSaration for the challenge round against Australia, ecause their No. 1 hope. Arthur Ashe, was still nursing a “tennis elbow". Ashe suffered the injurv in London last October and has
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    • 126 12 ROME. Mon. (Reuter) Defending champions AC. Milan squeaked past Torino 1-0 yesterday to pull themselves up to within a point of First Division leaders Cagliari. Milan, who meet Glasgow Celtic in the European Cup quarter finals, had an unexpectedly tough time from Torino who
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    • 123 12 CAPE TOWN*. Mon. <AFP> Mr. Bob Steyger. past President of the South African Waterski Association. said here late yesterday that South Africa would fight to the bitter end against an attempt by Sweden to ban her from the World Waterski Championships in Denmark next year
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    • 232 12 ADELAIDE. Mon. (Reuter) Dashing West Indies batsman Clive Lloyd has only a 58-58 chance of playing in the second Test beginning in Melbourne on Thursday because of a badly bruised left forearm. This shock disclosure was made today by the touring
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    • 220 12 ASPEN. Colorado. Mon. < UPI) Hard-charging Hank Kashiwa. 19. of Old Forge. New York won the men's giant slalom In Aspen on Sunday the second day of the three-day Alpine holiday classic. Kashiwa* combined time for two runs down the course on Aspen mountains Little
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    • 448 12 Mrs. Gwen Hewlett of Liverpool Is spending two months in Singapore with her son. Army Sergeant Keith Hewlett and her daughter-in-law Margaiet. It will be a real family Christmas for the Hewlett? for ’Dad’ Leading Seaman Bob Hewlett of the Royal Nary,
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    • 579 12 MEXICO CITY, Mon. (UPI) An illnessweakened West German soccer squad, fighting desperately against a non-stop Me* xican siege, eked out a zero-zero tie on Sunday, ending their Latin American tour without a victory. The strain of the journey and the impact of
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    • 153 12 MELBOURNE. Mon.' (Reuter) Two dropped catches and forty minutes play lost because of rain and bad light today cost Victoria outright points in their Sheffield Shield match against New South Wa es Victoria won on the first innings by 85 runs putting them second on
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    • 152 12 CALCUTTA. Mon. (Reuter) Seventh seeded Martin Carlstein of Sweden won through easily Into the third round of the men's singles in the Asian International Lawn Tennis Championships at the South Club here todav The lanky, 26-year-old left-hander made short work of India s S S. Verma. winning
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    • 60 12 TIME AND TIDE Penang:: 10.12 am. (1.7 ft). 3.0| a.m. (8.1 ft). Port Swettenham: 2.53 p.m. (2.5 ft). 9.13 pm. (15.5 ft). Port Dickson: 3.10 a.m. (1.3 ft). 9.35 p.m (8.8 ft). Singapore: 8.35 pm. <O.B ft). 1.31 pm (ltt.O i >. Sedili Kechil: 6.48 p.m. (1.0 ft). 1.20 a.m.
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