Eastern Sun, 8 January 1969

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  • 21 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY fstd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 876 Wednesday, 8 January 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 364 1 T ONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Government heads of the 28-nation Commonwealth today opened a nine-day conAJ ference likely to produce fresh rows over Rhodesia and Britain's curbs on Commonwealth immigrants. A strong police force was on duty around Marlborough House, the
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  • 211 1 Priority For Rhodesia Issue Tunku LONDON. Tues (Reuter) Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman arrived here for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference today and said the Rhodesia issue should be given priority. “My African colleagues will be disappointed if the question of Rhodesia is not raised to pnority,” he said.
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  • 572 1 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore said yesterday the problems of Africa would not decide the fate of the world, but those of Southeast Asia may. Mr. Lee. preparing for today's opening of the 23nation Commonwealth Prime Ministers
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  • 147 1 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) New Zealand Premier Keith Holyoake said here yesterday his country may increase its military commitment in the MalavsiaSingapore area at the end of the Vietnam war. He told reporters on the eve of the Commonwealth Conference here that an end to
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  • 102 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues New Zealand decided to move Its troops from Terendak Camp In Malacca to Singapore because its resources were “hard-pressed the visiting New Zealand MP. Mr J F Luxton. said today “New Zealand’s resources are being hard pressed in meeting her commitments
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  • 81 1 MANILA Tues. (AFP) The Manila Overseas Press Club has invited Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew to speak before its members, it was learned here today. MOPC Programme Committee Chairman Napoleon Rama said the invitation was coursed through diplomatic channels and we “should be able to have
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  • 301 1 FIVE BOEING 737’s TO AUGMENT MSA’ s FLEET KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Five Boeing 737’s costing a total of SlB million will be added to the Malaysia-Singapore Airlines fleet during the second-half of this year. This was announced by the Minister of Transport, Tan Sri Sardon bin Haji Jubir. and the
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  • 141 1 JAKARTA. Tues. (Reuter) President Suharto of Indonesia said todas he saw good prospects for fulfilling an urgent need for regional co-operation in South-east Asia. Speaking at the opening of the fourth conference of the South-east Asian Ministers of Education Council < SEAMEC in Jakarta
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  • 115 1 PRETORIA. Tues. (AFP' World snake pit sit-in champion Jack Seale climbed back down amongst the serpents today although suffering from vision and balance troubles following a cobra bite. Jack, who was rushes to hospital after being bitten by two puff adders and the cobra. is
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  • 93 1 BEIRUT. Tues. (Reuter) Dr Abdullah Al-Yafi. the Lebanese Prime Minister, said here today he considered his government “as having resigned.” Dr. Yafi was speaking to reporters before attending a meeting called by President Charles Helou to discuss the Cabinet crisis. Cabinet Ministers were at their offices today
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  • 83 1 JAKARTA. Tues (Reuter) A well-known Army lawyer has said there are indications that former President Sukarno was involved in Indonesia’s failed Communist coup attempt in October. 1965, Antara news agency said today. Lieutenant-Colonel Durmawel. prosecutor a t the trial of former Foreign Minister Dr. Subandrio two
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  • 99 1 HONG KONG. Tues. (AFP) The Thai Communist insurgents have recently established a supreme military command w’th the objective of expanding the “people’s war” and launching more offensives in a planned and systematic way. Radio Peking reported today. Quoting the insurgents’ clandestine radio. “The
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  • 69 1 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) The dangers of the drug cannabis have been exaggerated and legal penalties for using it are too severe, a Governmentappointed Committee said today. In a report to the Home Office (Ministry), the advisory committee on drug dependence issued what it called “a
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  • 36 1 WASHINGTON. Tues. (Reuter) President Johnson paid a happy farew’ell to his political colleagues in Congress last night, telling them he hoped they would continue to rise tc meet the demands of the country.
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  • 82 1 THE HAGUE. Tues (AFP) A Dutch farmer was the toast of his village today after passing his driving test on the thirty-sixth attempt. The farmer, Mr. Steenbergen, from Hasselt. near Zwolle, is so elated that he had decided to organise a grand country fete to
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  • 119 1 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) Western diplomats warned today that a big power Middle East solution could do more harm than good for the peace of the embattled area. The big powers could “assist” in efforts to bring about a peace settlement between Arabs and Israelis
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  • 81 1 SAIGON. Tues. (Reuter) Vietcong guerillas kidnapped 150 villagers in a raid on Binh Chau hamlet. 36 miles south-west of here, a South Vietnamese military spokesman said today. The villagers were marched off. apparently to become porters for the guerillas, who for the past month have been
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  • 100 1 MELBOURNE. Tues. (Reuter) The Commonwealth Serum Laboratories here have developed a vaccine they say will beat the “Hong Kong’ variety of influenza. It will be released at the end of this month. A spokesman for the laboratories said today the Hong Kong virus would
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  • 129 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. President Yusof Ishak of Singapore arrived this evening to attend the funeral of his father, the late Enche Ishak bin Ahmad. who died here earlier today. Enche Yusof was accompanied by his youngest brother, Enche Rahim bin Ishak, who is
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  • 61 1 COMO ITALY. Tues. (Reuter) A man was in hospital today after a head-on clash with’ a charging ram. police said. Luigi Balierini 30. was walking on a country road apparently drunk when the ram charged. He lowered his head and stood his ground but walked
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  • 61 1 BEIRUT. Tues (Reuter) All shops and businesses in Sidon. South Lebanon, were closed today as part of a widespread strike In protest against lack of preparation for the Israeli commando raid on Beirut airport. The strike was total, but no demonstrations were staged Schools in Sidon and
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 233 2 Rothmans of Pall Mall Singapore Limited held a cooktall party at the Golden Lotus, Hotel Malaysia, Singapore, last night to bid farewell to their out-going managing director, Mr. J. M. Brown and his wife, Mrs. Brown. A large gathering was present at the party, Including the Minister of Social Affairs,
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  • 364 2 SINGAPORE, Tue s. The Medicines (Advertisement and Sale) (Amendment) Act, 1968 which prohibits certain types of medical advertisements will come into operation on Feb. 1. The Bill was passed in Parliament and referred to a Select Committee which heard representations from the public.
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  • 280 2 SINGAPORE. Tuts. “The Future of Christianity” will be discussed at length by Mr. Moses L. K. Yu at the special revival meetings organised by the “Fisherman of Christ” Fellowship. The meetings will be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall tomorrow and on
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  • 172 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. The People's Association and the National Pugilistic Federation will jointly organise a "Southeast Asia Pugilistic invitation Championships” to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of Singapore. The preparatory work in this connection is now in full swing. Copies of the regulations
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  • 62 2 KUALA LUMPUR Tues. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, said today that with the development of the Muda Kemubu irrigation schemes farmers in the country would have no choice but to practise mechanised farming. He was speaking at the opening of the United Manufacturers Sdn. Berhad assembly
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  • 573 2 Explosion That Killed 4-Inquiry SINGAPORE, Tugs. Most of the 30 villagers from Kampong Bereh did not realise the danger when they trespassed a prohibited area until four of them were killed and nine others seriously injured by a mortar explosion during military
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  • 59 2 SINGAPORE. TuM. Police estimated $180,060 worth of sundry goods were destroyed yesterday when a fire broke out in two godowns in Canning Lane here. Fire engines were summoned to the scene and kept the fire under control before it could spread to neighbouring godowns and shops. The
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  • 114 2 ‘S’ pore Boat Inside Indian Waters’ NEW DELHI. Tues (Reuter) A Singapore fishing trawler intercepted by an Indian patrol boat off the Andaman Islands two weeks ago was inside Indian territorial waters, official sources said here today. The Indian boat had acted “strictly in accordance with the law” and the
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  • 95 2 SINGAPORE Tue.-. The Singapore Lighter Owner's Association today announced the official lighterage rates and other charges on unclaimed import cargo discharged by ships at the road anchorages and landed by contract lighter at Telok Ayer Basin from Jan 1 An agreement on all aspects of these
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  • 170 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. Singapore will be among the 12 nations which will participate in an international seminar on medical education. The Other countries arOCembodia Fiji. Japan. Korea. Laos Malaysia, the Philippines. New Zealand. New Gui nea. Taiwan and Australia Prof R R Andrew. Dean of the
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  • 283 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. Singapore's former ambassador to Cambodia. Professor E. S. Monteiro has been appointed the Republic’s new ambassador to the United States. Professor Monteiro succeeds Professor Wong Lin Keng who recently relinquished his appointment as ambassador to the United States. Professor Monteiro. one
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  • 186 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. Sonco Ltd., a local company today obtained judgment for $24,660. 81 against an American ship Adri XXVI’’ in the High Court. The company’s claim was In respect of services rendered to the ship whilst it was in Singapore. Mr Tan Bok Hoay. who appeared
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  • 112 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. The employees of Jurong Shipyard Ltd. will celebrate their third annual dinner at the People's Association on Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. The celebrations will be held under the patronage of Rlr. Hon Sui Sen. chairman of the Development Bank of Singapore. The chairman
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  • 61 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. Two thugs, one armed with a revolver and the other a knife, robbed a young woman cashier. Kairon binte Maideen. 23. in an office in Chapel Road yesterday of $4,200 in cash. According to Police. Kairon was paying the staff of Sinnan City Trading
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  • 58 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Maj-Gen Haile Baykedagn, commandant of the Haile Selassie l Searar Military Academy of Ethiopia. this morning laid a wreath at the National Monument here. Maj-Gen Haile Baykedagn. who is on a week s visit to Malaysia, was accompanied by his wife and Col. Mohamed Ghazali
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  • 41 3 SINGAPORE. Tues A 30-year-old motor-cyclist, Moh Choon Teng died in the Genera Hospital here yesterday shortly after the motor-cycle he was riding collided with a stationary lorry in Thomson Road. Police said Moh did not wear a crash helmet.
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  • 136 3 SINGAPORE, Tues An American ship. St. Joan, anchored in the Western Roads, has reported a theft of about U. 553.500 and a revolver from the captain’s safe. The Eastern Sun learned of this theft report which allegedly occurred on Sunday from reliable sources today. The
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  • 114 3 SINGAPORE Tues. The main Keppel Harbour channel in the vicinity of godowns 5 and 6 across to the western end of Pulau Brani will be closed to all craft and vessels between 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Jan 13. During the period. underwater pipeline
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  • 213 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Minister of Finance, Tun Tan Slew Sin, will be asked during the budget session of Parliament which begins on Thursday, if he should consider completely rewriting the Employees’ Provident Fund Ordinance to bring it up to date. Instead
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  • 45 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. About 275,000 children in West Malaysia had their first taste of school life when schools re-opened for the first term yesterday. In Selangor itseif, 46.920 children were admitted into Standard I classes today 477 more than last year.
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  • 186 3 SINGAPORE. Tues A summons case. instituted by two trade unionists against Enche Mahmud Awang. former P AP Member of Parliament for Kampong Kapor for alleged defamation of character, was further postponed till May this year. The two trade unionists are Enche Hashim Idris, president
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  • 58 3 SINGAPORE Tues A youth. Koh Thian Laim. was sentenced by the Ninth Magistrate's Court today to six months jail on an extortion charge. He committed the offence in December last year with four unknown persons at a coffeeshop in Toa Pavoh by putting Annavi Karuppiah in
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  • 73 3 SINGAPORE, Tues Th e Singapore Armed Forces will be conducting a live firing exercise at the Southern Islands Artillery Ranges on Friday from 10 a m. to 6 p.m. During the exercise, artillery weapons will be fired from Pulau Semakau and Pulau Sudong on to
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  • 75 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. 17 45 pm. 2 P.m.: Rotary Club of Singapore's weekly luncheo n at Blue Room. Capitol Building 7 pm. 8 p.m Performance by Police Band at Chua Chu Kang <l6j m.s > VCC 77# p.m.: Free film shows by Ministry of Culture at Kampong Petani, Kampong
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  • 147 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. An Army Depot Policeman, Yusop bin Abdul Rahman, on a rape charge, was today granted a discharge amounting to an acquittal by the High Court. Wher the hearing commenced this morning. the Deputy Public Prosecutor, Mr. Isaac Paul Retnam told the court that
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  • 129 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A competition among past Koran reading champions might be held this year to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Koran reading competition. This was indicated today by ♦he Minister of Lands and Mines. Dato Ha.ii Abdul Rahman He said the competition should
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  • 251 4 6INOARORE Tues M6r« than 250 staff members of Rothman* Of Rail Mall iSmfcafibre) Limited, Including representatives of Rothmans’ distribution network attended a grand send-off dinner Ra.rtv in honour of Rothmans’ out-going Managing Director. Mr. J.M Brown and Mrs. Brown held last flight. At the dinner Mr.
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  • 117 4 KUALA LUMPUR Tues Mr John Brown, former mansging director Of Rothmans Of Malavsia. who is leaving fOr London to take up the managing directorship of Carreras, has made a parting donation of $l,OOO to the Selangor Tung Shin Hospital of which he is a patron.
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  • 523 4 SINGAPORE, Tues. Singapore today called on the South-east Asia Ministers of Education Council (SEAMEC) to ensure the projects planned are truly regional in character to attract financial support. The call came from Singapore's Minister for Education. Mr. Ong Pang Boon, who
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  • 35 4 SINGAPORE Tues All student* at the University of Singapore will be sitting for their examinations from Jan. 13 Students doing science courses will do their practical in two days time.
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  • 177 4 SINGAPORE. Tues A Royal Navy diving officer left Singapore today for Fiji, where he will help demolish coral reefs to open up small harbours to shipping He is 31-year-old Lieutenant Commander Brian Braidwood the Far East Fleet Clearance Djving Officer. The work
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  • 221 4 Dr. Goh In NZ On Defence CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, Tues. (Reuter) —Singapore Finance Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, said in an interview here last night that his country was building up an Army that could hit hard, if necessary, after the British withdrew in
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  • 320 4 SINGAPORE. Tues. Singapore’s Educational Television 1$ now highly regarded by countries wanting to start a similar service of their own Many of these countries have periodically sent their officers to Singapore to observe various aspects of ETV and regarded Singapore as one of the best
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  • 156 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues A contractor was yesterday robbed of his car by three men whom he had earlier treated to a cup of coffee Mr. Lai Yoke Chee. 32 told police he was pushed out of his Opel Kadetf valued at $B,OOO by
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  • 137 4 TEHERAN. Tues (AFP) Teheran looked like a dead city this morning as a result of the cold wave which has hit the country, causing extreme misery among the city poor shivering in their shoddy housing. As the temperature dropped to minus 8 Centigrade (176 F) last
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  • 167 4 SINGAPORE, Tues. The University of Singapore's Extramural Studies Department is organsing a new course on “critical thinking" consisting of 10 lectures. The lectures will be by Mr. J.J. Clarke, a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. The course is designed to sharpen understanding of language as
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  • 161 4 SAN DIEGO, California, Tues (UPI) The surviving crewmen of the intelligence ship Pueblo are becoming just another group of patients at Naval Hospital. Starting today, the men will begin dining with other patients and staff at the hospital instead of with their relatives at
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  • 46 4 FLORENCE. ITALY. Tues (UPI) A light earthquake shook Florence and a number of other centres in Tuscany about 11 p.m. last night. There was no immediate report of damage. A light earthquake without damage, was also felt last night at Chiavari near Genoa.
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  • 53 4 KUALA LUMPUR Tues The government ha? ?et aside sl33m for the construction of roads in the rursd areas this year Thi s was stated by the Deputy Pnm# Minister, Tun Abdul Razak. when addresOng a meeting of state development officers end officials from the Public Works
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  • 111 4 KUALA LUMPUR Tu4s A National Food and Agriculture Organisation committee has been formed to liaise between the various ministries and the Food and Agricultural Organisation and to advise the government In its dealings with the organisation The Minister df Agriculture and Co-operatives. Tuan Hajt
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  • 142 4 BANGK6K. Tues. (AFP) Seni Pramoj, former Prime Minister and leader of the Democrat Party, said here today that Thai military leaders had joined together to impose a constitution on the country which prevented anybody else from ruling Mr. SOni waS kicking off the rn for his party,
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  • 225 5 SAIGON, Tues. (UPI) More than 1,000 U.S. infantrymen were locked in combat early today with a well-armed force of Communist soldiers holed up in a bunker complex in the Mekong Delta, U.S. spokesmen said. The military command said at least 48
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  • 258 5 PRAGUE. Tues (Reuter) The removal of Mr. Josef Smrkovsky. a key reformer, from the leadership of Czechoslovakia's parliament was virtually sealed last night as the party body representing C-’ech Communists backed a 61ovak for the job A meeting of the Czech bureau of the party
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  • 119 5 ISTANBUL. Turkey. Tues. TOPI) Demonstrating students turned over the car of U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Robert S. Komer yesterday and set it afire wh(Jp he had lunch nearby with the rector of Middle East University. Soon afterwards, the leftwing demonstrators threw mud
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  • 192 5 N-Vietnam Won’t Budge On ‘Table’ PARIS, Tues (Reuter) North Vietnam rejected all American proposals implying a two-sided approach to the Vietnam peace talks, now two months overdue. It insisted at a press conference here that the enlarged Pans peace talks were between
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  • 73 5 RAWALPINDI. Tues <UPI> Five rightwing political parties comprising the Pakistan Democratic Movement < PDM) voted unanimously on Monday to boycott the 1970 general elections. The movement in a statement denounced the present Pakistani constitution and described any election under it as a “farce” to keep
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  • 269 5 LONDON. (Reuter) Hundreds of African students staged rival demonstrations in London tonight over the Nigerian-Biafra civil war Demonstrators. protesting Britain's arms supplies to Federal Nigeria, hurled flaming torches and waved banners: "Biafra Is Britain's Belsen" (Belsen was a concentration camp in Nazi Germany). LONDONDERRY. Northern Ireland, (Reuter) Catholic families
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  • 147 5 CAPETOWN. Tues (UPI)— Aileen Brassil. the seven-year-old Irish girl whose heart was rebuilt a’.most completely by Dr. Christian Barnard, was discharged from the Red Cross Children's Hospital here yesterday. Aileen will convalesce in Capetown before returning to Ireland with her mother Mary. The girl and
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  • 66 5 PARIS. Tues (UPI) The French government has added an embargo on spare parts for aircraft already sold to Israel and on ammunition and certain naval equipment” to its earlier embargo on the sale of more aircraft to Israel. Israel embassy sources said. The
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  • 70 5 LONDON. Tues. <UPI> Accident Investigators have found the “black box” flight recorder from the Afghanistan jetliner which crashed near Gatwick Airport early on Sunday morning, killing 50 persons, in a >'atement issued last night. Britain's Board of Trade said its investigators had found the
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  • 34 5 -AMMAN. Tues (UPI) Israel shelled the village of As-Safi. two and one half miles south of the Dead Sea. with field guns for 20 minutes yesterday, according to a Jordanian military spokesman.
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  • 42 5 WASHINGTON. (UPI) "Styles change." White House Press Secretary George Christian said explaining the drop in Pres. Johnson's sideburns. Christian was questioned about the sideburns after reporters noticed their slightly increased length at a news conference in the President’s office.
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  • 49 5 I.aird (2nd left) picked Stan Resor (1) Army, Dr Robert Seamans Jr.. Air Force. and outgoing Rhode Island Gov. John Chafee <R> Navy. UPI photo.
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  • 333 5 ‘Romantic’ Link: I Don’t Suffer Indiscreet Women Gladly PM Trudeau LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) An attractive blonde whose name is linked here romantically with Canada's Pierre Trudeau was today quoted as describing the bachelor Prime Minister as a swell guy. Canadian-born Mrs. Eva Rittinghausen. 35. who told a gossip writer of
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  • 90 5 ITHACA. New York. Tues. (Reuter) Modern pesticides are threatening the Peregrine Falcon with extinction in North America, a Cornell University ornithologist reported today. Mr. Tom J. Cade said he found on a recent trip to Alaska that the levels of DDT and other pesticides were
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  • 63 5 SAIGON, Tues. (Reuter) Extra bodygurads were last night assigned to senior government officials here after a terrorist lobbed a bomb into a car killing Education Minister Dr. Le Minh Tri. The 43-year-old minister, ■deeding from sharpnei spliners. was dragged from the 'aming wreckage of his
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  • 244 5 TEL AVIV. Tues. (AFP) —A Foreign Ministry spokesman said today that direct talks between Israel and Lebanon had taken Place in the last few days. He said representatives of the two countries met “to clarify problems relating to the cease-fire between the two countries’’.
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  • 126 5 HONG KONG. Tues. 'Reuter) Love for Chairman Mao inspired the peasants on a tiny island off Southern China to transform it from a barren desert to fertile farmland, the New China News Agency reported today. The 2.300 peasants on the unnamed island, just off the southwest border region of
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  • 90 5 BRADFORD. England. Tues. (Reuter) Conservative opposition parliamentarian Patrick Wall claimed here last night that continued attacks on British integrity and anti-British votes in the United Nations served to make Commonwealth unpopular in Britain. The right-wing MP told a political meeting that British support for the Commonwealth will
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  • 33 5 SAN FRANCISCO. California. (Reuter) A picket lire of about 2.000 people, including striking students and teachers, ringed San Francisco State College vesterday as the troubled campus re-open-ed after the Christmas vacation.
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  • 692 5 MOSCOW (Reuter) Two Soviet Navy ships will visit the Yemeni port of A1 Hudaydah later this week. Tass News Agency reports. The rocket cruiser Admiral Fokin and the destroyer Vriokhnovennnyv will visit the port from Januarv 0 to 12. Last week five Soviet warships made a friendly visit to
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  • 272 6 TWO top men have in recent days expressed their concern about the dangers of war. One is the Foreign Affairs Adviser to President Johnson Walt W. Rostow who feels that nuclear war, though ‘unthinkable’ because of the vast devastation to human life it would cause, is
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  • 243 6 AFP. COMMENTING on the Commonwealth Prime Ministers conference which opens today in London, the Guardian said in an editorial: “The annual Income per head in Malawi is £l9 14s 2d: In Canada it is £B3O 3s 9d. The economic incentives to migration are enormous and understandable.
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  • 210 6 (UPI) THE South China Morning Post said editorially on Tuesday that “a few hopeful signs” were developing in the case of a British newsman held under detention in Peking. The paper also said “there is hope” that other Britons and Japanese “who are unjustifiably being denied
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  • 599 6  -  By LIONEL TSAI TAIPEI, Tues. (Reuter) Taiwan looks ahead with fresh hopes that 1969 will shape up as a momen- tous year. President Chiang Kai-Shek has expressed the belief In his new year’s day message that Chairman Mao Tse-Tung Is nearing the
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  • 157 6 BOCHUM. Germany, Tues (UPI) The Director of the Bochum Institute of Space and Satellite Research said on Monday the Soviets will send bacteria to Venus which will generate oxygen in the planets atmosphere that could make human life possible. Director Heinz Kaminsky said the
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  • 88 6 SOFIA. Tues. (AFP) Otechestven Front, organ of the Bulgarian Assembly Presidium and Fatherland Front, today attacked former Czechoslovak Interior Minister JoEef Pavel for his alleged part in the creation of 26 concentration camps in the 1950’5. This was the second attack on the Former Minister to
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  • 798 6  -  BY BARRY RIDDELL TOKYO, Tues. (Reuter) Japan's wives no longer put up with husbands who flirt with Geisha girls, spend housekeeping money on wild living and answer wifely complaints with a slap. Love and marriage has changed in the land of
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  • 520 6 PRAGUE, Tues. (AFP) The Czechoslovak press and the army leadership today appeared to rally behind the Central Committee Presidium’s appeal on Saturday for an end to the campaign aimed at keeping Mr. Josef Smrkovsky in his post as chairman of the country's Lower Chamber. The Military Council
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  • 102 6 HONG KONG. Tues. (APT) Wen Hul Pao. the organ of the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee, today editorially complained that Chairman Mao’s latest series of directives and other policies from Peking had been poorly discharged in some units. The editorial, cited by Radio Shanghai. branded erring people in these
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  • 381 6  -  By MIN THU PEGU HILL. Central Burma. Tues. (Reuter) The central headquarters of the Burmese Communist Party in the Pegu Hill jungles is an elaborate make-shift bamboo complex designed for quick evacuation and retreat. i—- The Burmese armv. which is now conducting a big search and-destroy operation
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  • 491 6  -  By Colin McIntyre EAST BERLIN, Tues. (Reuter) East Berlin s main “intershop", a store supposed to cater only to international visitors, has become a little haven of rapitallsm attracting a small but lively black market trade between East and West. The shop,
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  • 254 6 LONDON. Tues (UPI) Lord Amulree. a British specialist in the care of the aged, on Monday said that heart transplants and "medicated survival" of dying bodies suggest that modern medicine has some of its priorities wrong. In an article in the “Journal" of the
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  • 50 6 PRAGUE. Tues. (AFP) Government spokesman here tonight denied rumours that Soviet military units had occupied factories, editorial offices and central authority buildings. The Ceteka News Agency quoted the spokesman as saying the rumours were “evident’y intended to spread anx;ety and uncertainty among the people".
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    • 610 6 IT is painfully regrettable that I have to touch upon a subject concerning our young people which is not creditable and which I hope they will 1 retrieve to preserve its respect to posterity. I refer to that gratuitous relation between the children and parents called
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    • 30 6 Eastehn Sun Singapore’t Own Sotional Daily WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8. 1969 23-8 Cantonment Road. 19. |alan Sultan. S'ngapora 2 Kuala Lumpur, Malaytia. Telephone: ***** 7 Telephone: ***** 6 CalU* Addrest: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 1380 7 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Development Bank of Singapore continued to sustain interests today in the market with a total turnover of 276.000 units at the end of the day with prices one or two points easier. C- O. Palms also captured considerable interests with a total
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    • 286 7 Rubber Up Cent SINGAPORE. Tues January fl: i grade rubber buyers closed ai .i pm in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at s?{ cents per Id up 4 of a cent from previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. London advices were higher than expected which caused some
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    • 66 7 TOKYO. Tues. (Reuter) Japan's motor vehile output in 1968 totalled 4.089.500 units, an all-time high and a remarka nle increase of 30 per cent c er the previous year, according to preliminary figures released today by the Japan Automobile Industry Association. This was the first
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    • 310 7 SINGAPORE. Tues. Fiftv-six check-in counters and four baggage claim areas, linked by an elaborate conveyor network, will enable personnel at Pan American World Airways’ new John F. Kennedy International Airport passenger terminal to handle 6.500 pieces of luggage during peak traffic hours.
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    • 234 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) The potentially explosive Middle East situation and the likelihood ol no movement at the Vietnam talks at Pans until Henry Cabot Lodge takes over the reins as new chief U.S. negotiator prompted a sharp stock market decline yesterday in moderately
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    • 38 7 TURIN. Tues AFP) Fiat Italy's biggest automobile company, had a turnover in 1968 of 1.330.000 mihion lines, compared with 1.194.000 million in 1967. the company has announced here. These figures include the associated companies of Autobianchi and
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    • 219 7 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) The market was Inclined to drift today with the FT index 3 5 off at 505 9 towards the close. Trading was moderate. Reports of backing for tough U.S. Import curbs, the prospect of capital spending In the UK. running at a
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    • 30 7 NEW YORK. Tues (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages 30 Industrials 936.66 20 Rail* 270.67 75 Util* 136.44 65 Stocks 339.08 40 Bonds 74-50 Commodity futures index 144.22.
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    • 131 7 SINGAPORE. Tues e following ships are expected to be in port today: God owns A*easels 1/2 Peisander 3 4 .Tessenice 5 Maren Maersk 6 7 Hessenstem 6/9 Marine Trust 10/11 Giso Maru No 45 13/14 Altasr 15/16 Tantalus 18 Telemachus 10 Eastern Luck 21 22 Chichow Frog
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    • 446 7 MN(.AI'«*KK Mu<H tv fhante Mild and other prices ottieially lined at the close ol huMness IMil M BI tl S t< M.l 2.45 2. IX Hen A. to 3.04 3.0(5 Ilorneo 2 00 2.02 Hou*tead inn < -urar 4 (ill 4** 1 o|«l Morale 5. in 5 45
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    • 62 7 HONG KONG. Tues (UPI) Money Quotations: HK$ 6.***** per US dollar. HKS 6.1175 per US. dollar TT HK$ 14.46 per pound gterlina HK$ 313.25 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness. HKS 163.2 per m ono Japanese vens. HKS 139.5 per 100 Philippine pesos buyers HKS
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    • 45 7 LISBON Tues (Reuter) A Lisbon shipyard plans to build a dry dock capable of handling ships up to 750.000 tons. It was announced today The yard already has the largest dry dock in Europe, for vessels up to 300.000 tons.
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    • 15 7 SINGAPORE Tues —The tin price for today was $585 per picul, down $1
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    • 46 7 Muffins*?* Prl< r > 1 ir*t >l.ila\an \f) 2.93 ’•inmii >|.<la\aii 1) 2.10 Third 'lala.'Mii 1.30 rh«* < nmmrrrf ln<lu<-fr« \l> 1 nr. 1 11 Thr Saiin; 1 und 1 1R 1 27 Malaran InteMliirnt Mind M> 1 30 1 40 Stirling Cir.odlty fl 5 r
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    • 115 7 >IN(>APORE. Tue« The noon nrn <•«. at the Singapore Ililiese Produce exchange torta' are:— Bin er seller i'ornnat oil lit) B.) Hulk 51 .50 t mint Oil (A O.B.) Itrom 54.00 Loose Copra Mixed 30.5(1 Xluntok Millie Pepper (1 OB) j M 140 00 Sarawak Mhlte Pepper II o
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    • 75 7 LONDON. Tues. (AFP) “Petroleum Press Service” announce* that oil prospect* in Alaska are “encouraging”. On the basis of 1,600 _prinspections made since 1957. the oil production from the region could top 35 million metric tons each vear foe the next twenty years, and. for the
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    • 34 7 TAIPEI. Tues. (Reuter) Taiwan reaped a bumper harvest of rice last year with a record production of 2.511.278 metric tons, according to Mr. R C. Li. Director of the Provincial Food Bureau.
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    • 212 7 UNITED NATIONAL FINANCE BERHAD (Incorporated in Malaysia) Consolidated balance sheet of United Matronal Finance Berhad and its subsidiaries as at 30th June 1968 30 6 67 30 6 67 In our opinion, (at the accompanying balance sheet* and profit and loss accounts with the notes thereon are properly drawn up
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  • 483 8 LOS ANGELES Tues. (UPI) In a courtroom sealed off by steel doors and with three dozen uniformed and plainclothes deputies standing guard, a “realistic” Sirhan B. Sirhan goes to trial today for the murder of Robert F. Kennedy. The 24-year-old Arab immigrant,
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  • 184 8 PHOENIXVILLE. Pennsylvania. Tues (UPI) PFC Donald G- Smith, 21. of Akron. Pennsylvania, was reunited with his family yesterday after seven months of captivity by the Vietcong. Smith, pale and weak but smiling, stepped from an Air Force ambulance and was whisked into a guest room at
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  • 182 8 HOUSTON. TEXAS, Tues. <UPI) A 17-year-old youth yesterday admitted strangling a 40-year-old barber because “it was a thrill.” “I always wanted to see somebody die.” police quoted Thomas Franklin Caraway. “I want to go to the electric chair. I want to see what
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  • 125 8 LOS ANGELES. Tues. (UPI) The International Association of Machinists yesterday called a systemwide strike for tomorrow against the Flying Tiger Line. The line transport's cargo primarily but also flies charter flights of military personnel. Frank L. Riggins. President of lAM Local 1903, said about 850 mechanics,
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  • 147 8 FT. LEWIS. Washington. Tues. (UPI) A draftee underwent psychological te;ts yesterday to determine his fitness for duty In Vietnam after his father claimed he was mentally retarded The father. Robert R Hinkle. Scappoose. Oregon, said his 21-year-old son. Robert, a private who was Inducted last June,
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  • 84 8 ANNAPOLIS. Maryland. Tues. (UPI) Three candidates to succeed Vice Presi-dent-elect Spiro T. Agnew as Governor of Maryland withdrew yesterday. increasing chances for House Speaker Marvin Mandel to be elected on the first ballot in the demo-cratic-con trolled legislature. Withdrawals were announced as the legislature opened
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  • 108 8 BANGKOK. Tues. (AFP) The world famous sleeping Buddha Temple of Bangkok is in danger of collapsing and it will be doomed if no preventive measures are taken, a spokesman he temple’s clergy said today. The spoke ,i said the temple housing the largest ‘‘reclining Buddha”
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  • 78 8 SAN FRANCISCO: Militant students and striking union teachers picket entrance to trouble-plagued San Francisco State College as the school reopened following a prolonged holiday recess Acting President S I. Hayakawa laid down stringent new rules for reopening of the campus which ban all rallies and
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  • 228 8 JAKARTA Tues (Reuter) A nine-year-old American boy from a missionary family spent two days in the care of Cannibal tribesmen when he escaped unhurt from an air disaster in West Irian, the m-ter-mission Business Office in Jakarta reported today. The boy. whose whole family
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  • 111 8 BANGKOK. Tues (AFP) Five persons, including two Americans, were killed and another American was seriously wounded when a fourseater Beachcraft airplane crashed near Nongkhai town. North Thailand, on Sunday, sccordmg to reports reaching here today Two of those killed were a Thai farmer and
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  • 67 8 KARACHI. Tues. (Reuter) One of the biggest fires here for 20 years swept through a warehouse in the port early today, damaging cotton and other export goods worth nearly £5,000 Firemen fought the blaze for three hours, and officials estimated 25.000 bales of cotton were
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  • 52 8 COLOGNE Tues. < Reuter) A West German Air Force Major was found dead at his home here today after apparently committing suicide with sleeping tablets, a police spokesman reported His death brought to 10 the number of suicides by West German government officials and high-ranking officers In the
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  • 176 8 NEW YORK. Tue: (Reuter' Three young nuns have been dismissed from a Catholic school here after being charged with teaching their pupils about the theory of evolution and not adhering to church doctrine on sin. angeLs and the devil The nuns, who include the school's principal,
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  • 133 8 FRANKFURT. Tues (UPI) U.S Military Police yesterday briefly detained two Soviet Journalists who were in a group of correspondents :nv:tPd by the Air Force to watch planes arriving In a massive US Military airlift. U.S, officials at RhineMaine Air Base said American Air Police detained
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  • 77 8 INVERCARGILL. New Zealand. Tues. (Reuter) Rats in the crew s quarters aboard the Taiwan freighter Tatung In the Port of Bluff. South Island, have held up of the loading of 8.000 tons of sprouted wheat. Health Department Inspectors found the rats after the ship's
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  • 93 8 TOKYO. Tues (Reuter) Japan’s Justice Ministry said today it had refused a visa for one of the Miles Davis Jazz Quintet to enter Japan but would not say who it was or why. A Japanese Promotion Company. Art Life Association, said the decision had upset a
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  • 119 8 TOKYO. Tues (Reuter) The Standing Committee of the Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC) will hold its third meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said today. The Ministry said the committee would exchange views on recent developments in the region. The Ministry did
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  • 347 8 MANILA, Tues. (AFP) Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos yesterday ordered the arrest of the dreaded “Monkees” in a bid to stem the wave of violence in Central Luzon where two more men were mowed down by gunfire last night. Mr Marcos issued the order to
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  • 113 8 HONG KONG. Tues (Reuter) The Canton Public Security Bureau in the Southern Kwangtung Province has crushed an underground headquarters of the dismissed Head of State Liu Shao-Chi and arrested its ring leaders, the English-language tabloid the Star said today Quoting unidentified reports from China, the Star said
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  • 81 8 TOKYO. Tues. (Reuter) Japan will send economic cooperation survey missions to Pakistan from January 12 to February 5 and to India from February 5 to 20. The Foreign Ministry said today the missions would survey how effectively Japanese economic aid was being used in the two
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  • 163 8 GENEVA. Tues. (Reuter)' A Nigerian plane bombed a Red Cross Hospital in Biafra on Sunday for the second time in a month, killing four and seriously wounding two people, it was announced here today by the Red Cross. The International Committee of the Red Cross said
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  • 55 8 BRADFORD. Pennsylvania. Tues (UPI) An Allegheny Airlines Convair prop iet crashed while trying to land at the Bradford Pennsylvania Regional Airport last night, killing at least 11 of the 28 persons aboard. Less than two weeks ago. another Allegheny flight crashed w-hile trying to land
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    • 201 8 SPECIAL CONTEST FOR ALL MEMBERS I MUST begin by apologising I to all of you for not contacting you last week on New Year s Day Well, the reason was that I attended a preNew Year party and It turned out to be a THRUSH trap. Anyway, agent thats me.
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    • 237 8 1) What roles do the following actors and actresses play in "The Girl From U.N.C.LE.” Series. (a) Randy Kirby (b) Noel Harrison (c) Stefanie Powers (d> Barbara Moore 2) Who co-starred with David McCallum In “Sol Madrid.” 3) Who acted as the daughter of a scientist In “The Man From
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    • 2544 9  -  By Sheilah Graham Til’lA Farrbw is plannA ing to be The Great Actress. After "John and Mary/ 1 she will play "Mary Queen of Scots" in England. And she is currently campaigning to play Sally Trench, the Evangelist, in the book that was
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    • 54 9 T\EAN Martin and Robert Mitchum demonstrate their gun-slinging styles on location in Durango, Mexico, during filming on Paramount's "5 Card Stud Martin plays a card-playing drifter, while Mitchum portrays a self-ordained, hell-fire preaching minister with a Bible in one hand and gun in the other. From:
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    • 79 9 H A N D I CAPPED Hero as if singing for the first time on the screen weren't enough, husky film hero Clint Eastwood finds he's required to do it with one arm in a sling He's shown here singing "I Still See Elis a," one of four
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    • 51 9 HOLLYWOOD. Turs. (NANA) Tennessee Ernie Ford, the blgrest seller of religious albums, is currently working on his 39'h for Capitol. Twentv-on# of the 39 have featured sacred music. The biggest seller. "Hymns.” was recorded in 1955 and still sells more than 30.000 copies a
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    • 195 9 FOK COMEDY TO 10l I.M 1 A COOL $9,475,685 IT HAh TO BE REALLY FINNY! "THE ODO CniriE" HAS JUST PONE THAT IN NEW YORK ENTER "THE ODD COUPLE' FUNNY LINE CONTEST When vou see Paramount s "THE ODD COUPLE you will literally split your side* with laughter at the
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    • 238 9 SHAWt Tiißfttlon LIDO Phone ***** OPENS TOnU! 11 am. 1.45. 4 00. 6 30 Ac 9.15 pm Robert Warner. iJiwford “DEADLY ROI LFTTE” Co < UI-SB 1 NFXT CHANGE An'h«nv New>v. Sandv Denma SWEET NOVEMBER** Color From Warner Bro< g*.cn Arts i.ant day::: 11 a m 1..111 I mi. n.
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  • 703 10  -  By O. N. Ganju JAMMU, Kashmir, (UPI) All is quiet on the border where India and Pakistan fought a tank battle during their 1965 conflict. Soldiers of both nations patrol the border and exchange friendly greetings despite the dispute of their governments over Kashmir. But the Pakistanis
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  • 372 10 pANGTOK. Sikkim. (UPI) Political unrest and disvJ astrous floods during the past vear upset the tranquillity of Sikkim, the storybook Himalayan kingdom which has an American queen. The new year was expected to bring increased agitation for more independence from India. Agitation has been growing since
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  • 420 10  -  By DONALD WOLFORD DORT MORESBY. Tues. (Reuter) Four years after his death, Ninjl Kama. the revered leader of a powerful New Guinea highlands tribe can finally lie at rest, with all his elaborate burial rites completed. The ceremonies, which began with months of Singsings (festivals),
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  • 823 10  -  By RAY MOSELEY VATICAN CITY. Tues. (UPI) In a dusty back room at the Vatican scholars from all over the world have begun a detailed scientific examination ot one of the most precious of Christian antiquities. It is an ancient wooden chair, heavily
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  • 771 10  -  By LEON DANIEL TOKYO Tues. (UPI) Three boldly provocative acts of aggression during 1968 clearly demonstrated that the North Korean Communists are willing to risk all-out war. Despite the return of the Pueblo crew, prosper*s for a workable peace in Korea during 1969
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  • 1103 10  -  By PATRICK J. KILLEN MANILA (UPI) They say the Philippine press is one of the freest in the world. It certainly Is one of the most verbose. Every day. Manila's seven English-language newspapers (English is the major language of journalism in the Philippines) print at least
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  • 67 10 LONDON. Tues (UPI* Thieves broke into a Mayfaii a tt gallery loaded with o!d master paintings during the night and made off with nine of the oils. They took the worst n f the lot. "The thieves did not have much taste.” said Gallery Director Richard
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  • Sun Sport
    • 297 11 SYDNEY, Tues. (t’PI) American Denis Ralston is almost certain to miss the New South Wales Open tennis championships at White City next week. Ralston, who is still in the United States, has developed a virus complaint. Professional tennis representative Bob Briner said Ralston
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    • 207 11 LONDON, Tues (Reuter) England are likely to field a new-look team for the world table tennis championship* at Munich, West Germany. In April. This Is indicated in the 1968 seeding list, issued yesterday. in w’hich several new players figure prominently. Trevor Taylor, a 16-year-old
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    • 167 11 SINGAPORE. Tues Kasim bin Sumbing (H'cap 8) shot a gross 76 over the Bukit Chermin par 63 links to win the 1969 Caddies Championship from 22 other A Division contestants. Best-gross score, a 36-36—72 was posted by Ahmad bin Bogek (H'cap 1). Ahmad who took part
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    • 296 11 MANILA Tues (AFPi A five-man South Korean professional team will take part in the 1.235 02-km. "Tour of the Philippines' bicycle Marathon scheduled for April 18 to 27. race organisers announced here today Gerunclo Lacuesta. organiser of the ten-day meet, said he received
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    • 48 11 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Results of football matches plaved last night were. English Football Association Cup 3rd Round replay; Millwall 1, Middlesbrough 0. (Winners are at home to either Barnsley or Leicester City in 4th round on January 25) Lnglish Division 111 StockpOrt county 0, Oldham 0.
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    • 267 11 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) The Davis Cup, the world amateur lawn tennis team championship, is Almost certain to be ooen in 1970. according to Derek Hardwick, the England LTA Chairman, who returned yesterday from a visit to Australia and South Africa. Mr. Hardwirk met delegates from
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    • 131 11 NEW YORK. Tues. (Reuter) Ron Clarke, multi-world record holder. and Ralph Doubell. Olympic 800 metres champion, are among leading athletes who will be competing in coming weeks on the US. indoor circuit. A third Australian. Kerry O'Brien, the Olympic steeplechaser. iS taking part in several
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    • 297 11 MELBOURNE. Tues. (Reuter) American Davis Cup player Charlie Pasarell took 2-12 hours before downing Sydney Junior John Alexander in the second round of the men's singles at the Victorian Open tennis championships at the Kooyong Stadium today. Pasarell, who until recently was ranked number one in America,
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    • 164 11 PRINCETON. New Jersey. Tues. (UPI) Four of Prmcettn University's five Negro football players say they will boycott the team next season to protest "exploitation" of biack athletes and "racist tendencies" among coaches. In a letter made public on Saturday by the student newspaper the Negroes
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    • 27 11 HULL. England. Tues (Reuter) St Helens beat Hull Kingston Rovers by sixteen points to five points in Rugbv League match plPyed here last night.
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    • 261 11 S’ pore-Virgin Islands By EASTERN KNIGHT Tan Lian Ann 1 Hook 0 Tan Lian Seng 1 Hoyt 8 Giam Choo Kwee 1 Potter P ChoongLiong On 1 GarriJfWi 0 4 0 Singapore scored her fourth successive 4-n victory in Round Eight of the finals. At this Stage Singapore was almost
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    • 200 11 MANILA, Tues. (AFP) Clark Graebner of the United States and Australian Davis Cuppers Bill Bowrey and Ray Ruffels may see action in the Philippine Open tennis championships scheduled in Manila from March 1-9. Philippine Lawn Tennis Association President Alberto Quiros Del
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    • 98 11 SHEFFIELD, England. Tues. |Reuter) Britain's Jonah Barrington. rated the world s best plaver, m favourite to wm the British Ope n squash racketa championship for the third successive year at the Abbeydale Club here on January 21-29 Barrington, winner of the Australian. South African and Egyptian titles
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    • 489 12 SYDNEY, Tues. (Reuter) A tenacious century by Basil Butcher today carried the third cricket Test between the West Indies and Australia into the final day tomorrow at the Sydney cricket ground. Butcher, batting with unusual restraint combined in a valuable partnership of 54
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    • 227 12 LONDON. Tues. <AFP> MCC have been requested to take a large supply of c r 'fket balls with them to Pakistan this winter. Colin Cowdrey. England's captain. mentioned this to members of the touring party when they held a net practice at the Crystal Palace
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    • 181 12 West Indie* Ist. Inns 264 Australia Ist. Inn*. 547 West Inddies 2nd Inns. R. Frederick c Redpath b Connolly 43 J. Carew c Jarman b Freeman 19 R Kanhai c Chappell b McKenzie 69 B Butcher e and b Gleeson 10l S. Nurse c Stackpole b McKenzie 17 G
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    • 214 12 LONDON. Tues Seven Northern and Midland National Hunt meetings In Britain In 1969 have more sponsored races than ever before between January 4 and May 26 they will offer nearly £25.000 in 19 steeplechase and hurdle races. Compared to the money put up for flat races this
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    • 59 12 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Alan Tottoh. the 24-year-old British amateur welterweight boxing champion, is to turn professional. Tottoh represented Great Britain in the Mexico Olympics, and has boxed for England on numerous occasions. He has been boxing since his schooldays. He applied for a professional licence
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    • 477 12 KobayashiNavarro Fight Plan TOKYO, Tues. (UPI) The manager of the World Boxing Association’s (WBA) world junior lightweight champion Hiroshi Kobayasm said today he had begun negotiations for Ruben Navarro of Los Angeles to be Kobayashis next challenger. Manager Shinichi Nakamura said he sent letters yesterday to several persons, including Bill
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    • 137 12 LIVERPOOL. England. Tues. (Reuter) Centre-half Brian Labone will be available to help England defend the World Soccer Cup in Mexico City next year. Labone. 28. announced here today that he had changed his mind about quitting lootball when his contract with English First Division Club Everton
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    • 168 12 Favourite, and a real thoroughbred, the $500,000 73ft I .S. ketch Ondine II fought tricky weather all the way and eroded the line first in the 1968 Syd-ney-Hobart yacht race. Australia's 41ft sloop Koom“oloo was named provis’onal winner on handicap. At the finish, crowds
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    • 332 12 LONDON. Tues. (AFP) English football clubs should be forced to accept full responsibility for the conduct of their players by the fining and suspension of directors whose teams are involved in violence on the field, maintains Mr. Denis Howell, Minister for Sport, in
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    • 80 12 TOKYO. Tue s < Reuter i Th e Japan Soccer League said today it will send a 23-mcmber tram to the Asian Football Confederation's annual champion teams competition scheduled in Bangkok from January 15—31. The Toyo Kogvo team, winner of this years National League championship.
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    • 195 12 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Mike O’Grady, winger for Inter-Cities Fairs Champions Leeds United, today returned to the England reckoning six years after making his only international appearance. O’Grady, whose one England cap was against Northern Ireland in 1963, was named in the party of 22
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    • 284 12 LONDON. Tues. The year 1968 has been a great year of sporting achievements for Britain. not the least of which was five gold medals won at the Mexico Olympic Games in October. The winners of these individual gold awards have been made Members of the Order
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    • 148 12 MELBOURNE. Tues. (AFP) Tomas Lejus of the Soviet Union loomed up as the threat to Australian and American players the only other players left when he entered the men's singles quarter finals of the first open Victorian tennis championships at the Kooyong courts here today. The
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    • 192 12 I LONDON, Tue*. (Reuter) Celtic and Rangers. Scotland s two leading soccer clubs, were given tcugn tasks in the draw for the first round proper of the Scottish Foo ball Association Cup. Celtic, current Scottish First Division leaders and their country's representatives in the
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    • 72 12 LONDON, Tues (AFP) Spain's world featherweight boxing champion Jose Legra arrived here today to prepare for his title defence against Australian Johnny Famechon in London on January 21. The Spanish-Cuban champion said on arrival that he would win the fight in two rounds. He added he felt
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    • 380 12 MELBOURNE, Tues. (Reuter) Horse racing experts here predict that the sale of horses owned by members of the Asian Group Racing Syndicate in Australia could realise up to Asl million (about £450,000). Members of the Sydicate will see more than 60 horses,
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    • 152 12 LONDON. Tues Fo r the first time in more than ten v ear s the world professional snooker championships have got under way in London during the past few weeks Already three men John SDencer. Rex Williams and Gary Owen, have won places in the
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    • 231 12 LONDON, Tues. A member of last year s Curtis Cup team. Vivien Saunders, a 22-year-old London University student, has decided to turn professional. She takes up a post as teaching assistant at a leading golf centre shortly and will be attached to the Leatherhead Club in
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    • 121 12 FA Cup Callover LONDON, Tues. 1 Reuteri West Bromwich Albion, the titleholders. were quoted as a 20 1 long-shot for the English Football Association Cup at last night's callover at the Victoria Club here. Leeds United the Inter-Cities Fairs Champ o is. were returned as 13 2
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