Eastern Sun, 20 January 1969

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  • 22 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORES OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1960. Vol. 3 No. 888 Monday, 20 January 1969. MC (P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 117 1 WASHINGTON. Sun. (AFP) The bibles on which President Richard Nixon swears his inaugural oath tomorrow will be opened to an anti-war verse, a spokesman for Mr. Nixon said over the weekend. The passage is chapter 2, eerse 4 of the book of Isaiah,
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  • 464 1 WASHINGTON, Sun. (Reuter) Richard Milhous Nixon takes charge of the United States tomorrow surrounded by scores of highranking officials left over by the Johnson administration, but with few clues so far known about his own policies. Transition of power from the Democratic Party to the first Republican
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  • 382 1 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew today expressed the hope that relations with China would improve under the new United States administration which takes over tomorrow. Interviewed on the commercial television programme, “Meet the press,’’ Mr. Lee was a'-ked his
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  • 106 1 CALCUTTA. Sun. (AFP) A baby wat born recently in Eastern India's Assam state with both male and female organs. Calcutta's English-lan-guage papers said today. The baby appeared healthy, but its development was being watched by government medical officers, since this was the second unusual case in
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  • 41 1 PARIS. Sun. (UPI) Acrobatic pranksters early today flew a giant Vietcong flag from the towering spire of Notre Dame Cathedral, then removed steps leading up its side to make sure the banner stayed there for a while.
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  • 386 1 PARIS, Sun. (I PI) The stage is now set and redecorated for the full-scale negotiations at the stalled-over-the-shape-of-the-table Vietnam peace talks here. The American envoy at the talks under the Johnson administration left for home prior to retirement “in full confidence” while the
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  • 298 1 Tunku To Grab A Lightning Or Buy A Mirage PXRIS. Sun (I PI) A struggle appeared to he developing today between Britain and France over who would provide equipment for the future defence of .Malaysia. Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman revealed
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  • 42 1 PRAGUE. Sun. (UPI) Student Jan Palach died today of burns suffered when he set fire to himself to demand political reforms in Czechoslovakia. the news agency CTK announced His death could bring major student unrest in the country.
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  • 100 1 PARIS. Sun. (IP!) Security was so tight at yesterday’s opening session of the expanded Vietnam conference that a housewife taking her loaf of bread home got a police escort. “But I live there." the unhappy woman wailed to one of several hundred policemen ringing the Foreign Ministry's
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  • 275 1 Down With Sharks In Choppy Sea LOS ANGELES, Sun. (I’PI and Reuter) A United Air Lines jetliner carrying 36 persons crashed into the Pacific Ocean during a rainstorm last night only minutes after takeoff from the Los Angeles International Airport for Denver. No
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  • 45 1 TOKYO. Sun. (AFP) The “citadel of Y'asuda" the nine-storey Yasuda auditorium building of Tokyo University fell tonight under attack by a police force of 2.300 with fire hoses, tear gas guns and nightsticks protected by duralmin shields. (See Page 8 for earlier story).
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  • 378 2 Seed Drop For A Robinson Crusoe Family Courtesy Of RAF SINGAPORE, Sun. A plane from Far East Air Force from RAF Changi has dropped maize seed for a Robinson Crusoe fomily in the Indian Ocean. The bags of seed dropped from the aircraft to the remote coral island will enable
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  • 454 2 WASHINGTON. Sun. (1 PI) Defence Secretary Mr. Clark Clifford said yesterday the Vietnam peace talks are underway in Paris because neither side can either win or lose the war Mr. Clifford said that the talks are occurring because each side hopes to pursue
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  • 84 2 SINGAPORE. Sun —An outing by 12 sea scouts to Bedok beach today ended in tragedy when one of them, Ahmad bin Samsuddin. was later found drowned. Ahmad and a companion, Hussein bin Raft were wading along the shorp when they were dragged into the
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  • 60 2 JAKARTA, Sun. (AFP) The head warden of the Johor® Prison, Haji Haron bin Kasim and his wife were received by Marine Corps Commander, Major General MukiJat yesterday. The warden is visiting Indonesia on the invitation of Indonesians imprisoned in Johore during tfee Indonesian confrontation period The marine
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  • 315 2 About That Mini SINGAPORE Sun Miniskirts are nothing hut a tantaiisingly deliberate exposure of flesh for purposes of provocation” a British church official has declared. Writing in “The Messenger”, official fortnightly publication of the British Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Dr. B Z. Seton says that “provocation
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  • 94 2 A congratulatory handclasp for an R.A.F. Changi bride from the O.C., No. 205 Squadron, Wing Com– mander J. V. Carter. The bride. 20 years old Miss Patricia Joan Elizabeth Ballard, a typist employed by the Squadron, was married to Shackleton pilot. Flying Officer Rodney George Leigh, of 205 Sqn., at
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  • 332 2 Role Of Sports Must Be Realised SINGAPORE. Sun. The importance of sports in nation building has not been fully understood or accepted by many here. This has resulted in halfhearted efforts towards sports promotion, the Parliamentary Secretary (Social Affairs), Mr. Chan Chee Seng said last
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  • 227 2 LONDON, Sun. The 1970 English Ope n championships due to be held at Brighton. the Southern England resort, jn February March next year is to be sponsored bv A G. Spalding, the London manufacturers of sports equipment. Despite generous help from the Brighton Corporation,
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  • 43 2 FONTEVEDRA. Spain Sun. (UPI) At least five persons were killed near here last night when a passenger tram ran off the tracks. First reports indicated that heavy rains had weakened a bridge which gave way under the train.
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  • 335 2 SINGAPORE, Sun. All community centres which provide facilities and service* within the reach of everyone in the Republic should finally be managed and financed b/ the area residents. Tlie Aid- Director (Field) of the People’s Association, Mr. Soh Teow Seng said this recently when
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  • 160 2 SINGAPORE. Sun Police have detained several suspects involved in the recent murder of a Royal Air Force cook, who was stabbed to death last week at Morse Road Police believe the murder of Arumngan Nedunseliyan 16 was connected with secret society rivalry. It is believed that
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  • 144 2 SINGAPORE Sun Two people were killed in separate accidents here during the past 24 hours. In the first case, a Malay youth. Hussein bin Ahmad. 17 died on-the-spot when he was knocked down by a car along Jalan Eunos, at 105 a m. this
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    • 521 4 Miss Rosalind Ong. “Miss Tourism Singapura 1969" was guest at a Radio Singapore Forum on Saturday. The panel included from left: Mr. Herbert Lint Eng Kwan, Chairman of the Singapore Tourist Association. Mr. lan Hope of Radio Singapore. Mr. George Howling, Director, Sales and Marketing, MSA and
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  • 473 5 For all practical purposes. Lyndon Johnson had cleared the White House of his personal belonging by yesterday evening. By then, all that remained was the man. his family and little more than their clothes. The final Legislative Act of Johnson’s career came shortly before
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  • 176 5 HONOLULU. Sun. (UPI) Th* fiery tragedy that struck the nuclear carrier USS Enterprise this week claimed another life yesterday, bringing the death toll to 26 The navy said an Enterprise crewman who had been under treatment at Trlpler Army Hospital here died of lnturles suffered in
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  • 145 5 WASHINGTON. Bun. (UPI) —Police maintained a 24-hour surveillance at the Virginia Home of Sen. Edward M Kennedy, Democrat Massachusetts. yesterday because of a telephone threat on the Senator’s life. A spokesman for Sen Kennedy said the police action was a “precaution that we take
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  • 454 5 SAIGON Sun. (UPI) South Vietnam yesterday thanked President Johnson for his 1965 decision drastically raising US. troop* strength in Vietnam and simultaneously took steps to reduce the number of American servicemen here. President Nguyen Van Thieu declared in a letter to Mr. Johnson It
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  • 458 5 HONG KONG. (UPI) Two badly decomposed bodies have been recovered in Hong Kong waters in the past two days, police reported today. Police said they had yet to determine whether the two bodies, picked up by fishermen floated here from Communist China or were that of local fishermen, although
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  • 290 6 THE student trouble in prestigious Tokyo University is causing great concern among parents in general and educationalists in particular. Violence and bloodshed have become the regular pattern of radical Japanese youths in propagating issues which have no bearing on students problems at all. The attempt by these ‘seekers
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  • 199 6 (AFP) IN an editorial entitled “African news on trial,” the New York Times said recently: “Newly independent states apparently find it hard to understand that internal criticism by newspaper and magazine editors is a sign of growing political health. For that reason the current
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  • 145 6 (AFP) ■pRAVDA has issued another stern warning to Bonn over the decision to elect West Germany’s next President in West Berlin on March 5. The Bonn Government was continuing its “policy of international provocations with an edge against the socialist countries, in the first place the German
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  • 700 6  -  By LEON DANIEL TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) American diplomats here have reason to be gravely Concerned, not so much about the battling at Tokyo University, but because the fighting on Saturday spread outside the campus. Thej fear that the antiAmericanism which tinges the student unrest Could spread
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  • 119 6 LONDON. Sun. (UPI) A Parliamentary Committee has accepted the design for a statue of Sir Winston Churchill in the lobby of the House of Commons. But it recommended a cut in the height of its pedestal so that Bri'ain’s World War Two Prime Minister will not overshadow
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  • 219 6 HONG KONG. Sun. (AFP) —The official New China New* agency today condemned Eton College and the whole “decadent. reactionary British bourgeois educational system”. The agency said that Eton College, the most famous of Britain’s public schools, specially cultivated representatives of the bourgeoisie who serve monopoly capital
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  • 127 6 HONG KONG. Sun (UPI)— Communist China said on Sunday the battle between Tokyo University “progressive' students and riot police “serves as a moral-booster to the revolutionary people of Japan a"d degrades the arrogance of the U.S. Japanese reactionaries Peking Radio commenting on the Tokyo University Incident
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  • 513 6 HONG KONG, Run. (AFP) Provincial radib broadcasts indicate that many Chinese parents are not enthusiastic over Chairman Mao Tse-Tung's directive sending educated youths from the towns to settle In the countryside. The Nanking Hsirthua Dally In an editorial quoted by Kiangsu Radio said:
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  • 207 6 MOSCOW, Sun. (AFP) The Soviet Party paper Pravda said today that the path leading to four-sided talks on Vietnam was open, in a commentary written several hours before the start of the enlarged Paris peace conference. It added that the United States was continuing its military
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  • 257 6  -  By JACQUES MOALIC HANOI. Sun. (AFP) Nhan Dan, the official party paper, today warned the North Vietnamese people that the expanded talks opening in Paris would be long and arduous because the US had not abandoned Its "recalcitrant attitude”. The warning came
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  • 121 6 JAKARTA. Sun. (Reuter)— The independent newspaper El Bahar today accused army authorities of being cruel in dealing with former President Sukarno now confined in Jakarta. The paper, run by Sukarno’s nephew Commodore Puguh, said: "The Dutch authorities were evidently more human than
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  • 1632 6 SPEECH BY THE PRIMF MINISTER MR. LEE KUAN YEW. AT THE SIXTH PLENARY MEETING OF THE COMMONWEALTH PRIME MINISTERS’ CONFERENCE AT MARLBOROUGH HOUSE. PALL MALL. ON FRIDAY, 10TH JANUARY. 1969 A few weeks ago. in mid-1 November, I wrote these
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 268 7 WASHINGTON, Sun. (UPI) Nationalist China has continued its impressive economic progress although Communist Chino has not abandoned its goal of seizing Taiwan, Defence Secretary Mr. Clark Clifford told Congress yesterday In his annual message to Congress on defence matters. the outgoing Defence Secretary said, however,
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    • 423 7 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI)— Japans balance of payments for calendar year 1968 registeied a surplus of US$l,lOO million, an all-time high, according to a Finance Ministry's estimate disclosed yesterday. The previous record surplus was US $404 million in calencar 1965The trade account in 1968
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    • 58 7 MANILA. Sun. (UPI) A Congressional Committee has recommended the closure of Chinese schools as a means of enhancing loyalty to the Philippines by Filipinos of Chinos origin. The recommendation bv the House Committee on Un-Fili-pno Activities (CUFA) was made on suggestion by the board of investments to
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    • 144 7 JOHANNESBURG. Sail. (AFP) South Africa* exports to Japan have made a significant advance last year showing an increase of some 30 million rands (42 million (dollars) informed sources disclosed yesterday. Official trade figures are not available yet. but according to reliable estimates
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    • 120 7 PARIS, Sun. (Reuter) The United States economy is poised for a sharp improvement in its externa] account this year, but internal demand pressures must be held in firm control, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warned here yesterday. This positive forecast is
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    • 356 7 i ’LEVELAND. Ohio. Sun V (UPI) A high rate of consumption is boosting steel demand and steel users, about through liquidating inventories, are placing orders to fill current needs, according to Steel Magazine. The increase was reflected in raw steel production as output for the week
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    • 196 7 TOKYO Sun. (Reuter) A South Korean official mission headed by Former Prlmier Key-Young Chang arrived here today to try to iron out major differences between the two countries. A lop-sided trade Imbalance In favour of Japan, a projected loan of
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    • 57 7 MR. J.J Chluski, (top) Allis-Chalmers Group Vice-President, announcing plans for the establishment of a mul-ti-million dollar parts depot and service training centre in Singapore at the recent regional meeting of the AllisChalmers International Division at the Hotel Malaysia. He said the new depot at the Jurong Industrial Estate would commence
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    • 215 7 NAGOYA. Japan, Sun. (I PI) A new United Nations centre for regional development survey programme opened yesterday in a ceremony in this major industrial city in Southern Japan. Government officials irom nine foreign countries attended the opening ceremony of the centre, one of 12 institutions set
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    • 184 7 NEW DELHI Sun i Reuter> South Korea is to import 45.000 tons of rails from India valued at U856f134.792 the Korean Consul General. Dr. Woonsang Choi, announced here yesterday Dr Choi speaking at a ceremony to mark the final shipment
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    • 118 7 MOSCOW. Sun (Reuter) Iraq and the Soviet Union signed an agreement here yesterday under which Soviet experts will assist the Arab country to create a fishing fleet and a fishing research centre. The agreement was signed by Mr. Alexander Ishkov, Soviet Minister of Fisheries, and Mr.
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    • 92 7 ST JOHNS. Antigua Sun. (UPI) Premier \ere Bird said here yesterday his government will support Black Power “if Black Power means giving the black man a chance to know himself and realise he hag nothing to be ashamed of.” At the inaugural meeting of the Afro-Caribbean
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    • 62 7 BRUNEI TOWN Sun. i Reuter* Brunei today stopped accepting all letter teles, am cables to Britain because of an impending strike by postal workers in London. The strike is due to start at 0730 local time tomorrow 'midnight Greenwich Sunday). A government spokesman said tonight Brunei will
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    • 131 7 JAKARTA Sun. (UPI) —A 86 illion dollar fertiliser plant with a capacity of 1,000 metric tons a day will be built 'hortly at Tjirebon in West Java, a joint project of the Indone-ian Government and Universal Chemical Co. of Nassau. Bahamas, it was announced
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    • 143 7 WASHINGTON. Sun. (Reuter) —The International Development Association said yesterday it wag making an in-terest-free loan of USI 5m to Papua and New Guinea to help the Pacific islands develop an oil palm industry. IDA. an affilmte of the World Bank said the money would
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    • 367 7 ROME. Sun—According to I data published by the Central Institute of Statistics Italian imports during the first seven months of the current year registered an increase of approximately 2 per cent while exports rose hy 13.6 per cent over the same period. During the past three
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    • 225 7 TOKYO, Sun. (Reutfir) Japan last year outstripped Italy and France to become the world's fourth largest exporter after the United States. West Germany and the United Kingdom, the Finance .Ministry said yesterday. The nation's 1968 exports totalled U 5512,979.2 m. in terms of Customs
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    • 135 7 MANILA. Sun. iUPIi Assemblers of popular German and Japanese cars have given in and agreed to reduce by one-half their 1969 imports of knocked down vehicles units. Industry sources said today. Delta Motors. DMG. Inc., and Universal Motors, assemblers of Toyota Volkswagen and Mcrcedez Benz
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    • 72 7 DAMASCUS. Sun (Reuter) All of Syria's estimated crude oil output until 1970 has been sold to foreign markets. Mr Zuheir A'gakham. Minister Of Economy and Foreign Trade, said here yesterday. Mr Khani said that he had told Mr. Valentin Shashin. Soviet Minister of the Oil
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    • 333 7 LONDON. Sun. (UPI) Bid fever or merger mania kept the stock market on the top this week and prices swung wildly in some of the busiest trading seen for a year or so. Prices ended higher over the five sessions. Prices
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    • 106 7 WASHINGTON. Sun (UPI) A US$l25 m. credit has been extended to support development programmes In India, the International Development Association (IDA) has announced The credit provides India with foreign exchange to cover imported production materials and components required by Indian manufacturers of priority capital
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  • 803 8 BATTLE AT TOKYO UNIVERSITY: Police Face Fire Bombs Of 200 Rebel Students TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) Riot police battled up the staircases of Tokyo University's main building today against fire bomb and rock attacks in an attempt to capture the last holdout of radical students. About 500 crack police wearing crash
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  • 376 8 London, sun. cupd The Hong Kong flu virus Is hopping across Europe, belting the Netherlands hard but leaving most other countries unscratched for the moment. Doctors warned yesterday the epidemic danger would persist at least another month. The bug appeared weaker than the one
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  • 241 8 Suharto Begins ‘Axing’ TopHeavy Army JAKARTA. Bun (AFP) Indonesia's President General Suharto has begun a vast weedlng-out of unoccupied senior officers In the Republic's top-heavy army. A reliable army source said today that the forced retirement of three major generals and 12 brigadier generals on Friday night would be followed
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  • 230 8 CAIGON. Sun (UPI) Communist gunners poured mortar rounds into two district towns in the Mekong Delta today killing one Vietnamese and wounding 22. military spokesmen said. The dual attacks, consisting of 22 rounds of 82 mm mortar fire, were launched shortly
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  • 84 8 STUDENTS called in from other universities by the anti-Japan Communist Party All-Campus Joint Struggle Committee of Tokyo University assemble in front of the university’s Yasuda Auditorium on Jan. 15 during a rally in which they pledged to crush their rival students and university authorities. Pro- and anti- Japan Communist Partv
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  • 143 8 WASHINGTON Sun (UPI) US Defence Secretary Mr. Clark Clifford declared yesterday that the United States has no Intention of replacing British military forces when they are withdrawn from Singapore and Malaysia In 1971 In his final messaze to Congress, the outgoing Secretary said
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  • 260 8 TEL AVIV. Sun. (UPI) Defence Minister Mo«he Dayan said last night Israel's commando raid on Beirut Airport was a warning to the Arab States to cease all hostilities against Israel and negotiate a peace agreement. Dayan said the devastating raid last month was
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  • 66 8 DIAMOND CREEK, Victoria, Australia: Lurching drunkenlv from its foundations. a house at Diamond Creek explodes in flames at the height of the disastrous bush fires which raged through the State of Victoria, on January 8. Fourteen persons were reported dead in the fires, and more
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  • 703 8 urARHTNGTON Sun (UPI) U.S Defence Secretary W ASl S?ciark Clifford said yesterday that relations with Japan might become strained over security matters, but gave no indication when the controvers al Okinawa problem might be resolved between the two na- tions. In his final
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  • 55 8 SAN DIEGO California. Sun (UPD The President of the American Federation of Teachers has called for additional teacher strikes to bring about “massive changes In education.” David Selden. speaking to some 210 AFT members here, said the only effective nonviolent action that Is open to
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  • 907 8 \rETONA. Italy. Sun. (UPI) —Mrs Martin Luther King, widow of the slam U.S. civil rights leader. accepted •he "Universal Love Prize” yesterday and said she hoped its spirit would pervade Vietnam peace talks in Paris. "To me. this prize Symbolizes not only the ’ove of man for man.” Mrs.
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  • 347 9  -  H. C. TAN. SINGAPORE, Sun. Experimental theatre work is bv no means an easy task especially when it comes to producing Brendan Behan's controversial Irish play "The Hostage.” The producer Kiru Joseph, not only faces the problem of training the actors
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  • 128 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. MARA has asked for 30 acres cf land from the Selangcr Government to set up a $4 million cloth factory with a Malaysian textile corporation. This was disclosed today by the Minister without Portfolio at d the Chairman of MARA. Et
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  • 100 9 SINGAPORE, Sun Films about New Zealand are available in Singapore. They cover a wide range of subjects including sport, scenic attractions, farming and industry, fishing. hunting, Maori culture. health and road safety and include some of the National Film Unit’s famous documentaries which
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  • 174 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. About 2,000 applications for admission to tbe George Taylor College in Pantai Valley have so far been received from pupils in Malaysia and Singapore wishing to prepare higher studies in Australia. Only .'OO will, however, he admitted when the college opens
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  • 146 9 KUALA LUMPUR Sun The Minster of Information auO Bicadcas ing Enche Senu bin Abdul Rahman told the Dewan Raayat yesterday the government had taken steps to counter Philippine propaganda on the air. Enche Scnu said: "I can clarify that my Ministry is Going everything
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  • 192 9 TOKYO. Sun. (AFP) Tokyo University has decided to build Japan’s fim fast neutron generating reactor for research in the physical properties of fast neutrons generated in nuclear reactors and for studying nuclear reartor materials. Tokyo University said today. When completed, it will be
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  • 173 9 SINGAPORE, Sun. For an old people's home entirely dependant upon charity except for a government grant covering electricity and water, virtually any gift is appreciated. And for the home run bv the Little Sisters of the Poor in Singapore the most recent gift
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  • 270 9 SINGAPORE. Sun. Singapore received Australian aid amounting to more than $2 million last year under the Colombo Plan bringing the total to more than $12.5 million. This assistance comes from an expanding Australian international aid programme which in 1968-69 will total 5465.5
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  • 272 9 KUALA LUMPUR Son. Tht Malacca Stale Government is to ask the Central Government for $7O million :o cushion the effects of the withdrawal of Commonwealth troops from Tercndak Camp the Chief Minister. Dato Haji Tallb bin Annul Karim, said today. He said
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  • 430 9 ‘No Matter How Many People Set Fire To Themselves’ PRAGUE. Sun. (AFP) Censorship would not be abolished in Czechoslovakia no matter how many people set fire to themselves in protest, a Prague Radio broadcast said yesterday. The broadcast wa? among the first official reactions to
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  • 113 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Members of the Library Association of Malaysia will visit Singapore libraries in conjunction with a seminar on "Planning for the seventies.” The visits from Feb 20 to 23 will take place m the Nanyang University Library and Language Laboratory, the University of
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  • 244 9 PRAGUE. Sun. (UPI) An estimated 500 young Czechs demonstrated outside Soviet Military headquarters last night over the self-burning of a student political protester, and two other youths began a hunger strike "against a policy that has begun to kill The hunger strikers set up
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  • 74 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Armed police this afternoon sped to the Indian Bank Limited at Jalan Mountbatten here when the bank’s burglar alarm sounded only to find that the alarm had gone off ber ause of a short circuit. The alarm. attract a crowd. The bank manager, Mr. R.
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    • 514 10 THERE is no better way of shattering the peace and quiet of woman than by making her invade the accepted occupation of men, for her world is a sensitive and delicate one. With emancipation and progress the women of today have found themselves
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    • 482 10 According to the law, children who have reached twelve years of age have to possess an Identity Card in order to identify oneself. Since I possess one. my mother wanted to keep it for me but I thought it would be very inconvenience
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      667 10 What causes war' In theii capacity for hatred, men are superior to animals that wander about in the Jungles. Nature has made men capable of planning vengeance. History has shown beyond. any doubt their desire to plunder, kill and raid. From our parents, we have often heard of the
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    • 306 10 WHAT is Juvenile Delinquency? The teenagers and adolescents who commit crimes and deprecate the law are termed as Juvenile Delinquency. The great explosion of world population is signifying the great increase of juvenile delinquency In urban areas, the active and vigorous adolescents join together and commit crimes, such
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    • 148 10 CLEANLINESS in our homes and surrounding areas is of great importance to all of us. It is cleanliness that creates a healthy atmosphere for the people to live in and it also impresses the tourists and investors who contribute a great deal towards the economy of the
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      258 10 IN this space age. newspapers circulate throughout the world everyday. Some are censored while others are free to report anything It receives. Newspaper is a cheap source for information and plays a very important part in our daily life. It gives us reports of what is happening in this
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    • 304 10 The show was over It was precisely eleven-thirty. The night was getting cold I looked up towards the sky. and noticed that there were no star and moon. I walked towards home which was a mile away. I was deep in thoughts Suddenly, there was a
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    • 327 10 MY neighbour indicated to a hou.se opposite us and told me that a woman had passed away there. Every night at one ocloek. she came to see her two children and there were a lot of funny sounds. When I heard this tale. I recollected one
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    • 348 10 ONE Saturday, I woke up early because I had to prepare for a trip to Panson. Panson is situated in the state of Selangor and it Ls a swimming resort. At eight o'clock in the morning. my classmates and I were in the bus heading
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    • 284 10 Essay writing: Rules to observe All entrants are requested to observe the following rules: 2. Each entrant must fill in his/her own writing the entry form appended below in block letters. 2. /Vo entry will be considered without the entry form properly filled up. 3. The entrant must attach his/her
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  • Sun Sport
    • 322 11 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) Following are results of football matches played resterday. ENGLISH DIVISION ONE Burnley 2 Queens P R 2 Chelsea 1 Liverpool 2 Everton 2 Ipwicb 2 Man. Ltd- 4 Sunderland 1 Newcastle 2 Arsenal 1 Notts 0 Leicester 0 Shelf 1 Man. City 1 Tottenham 0
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    • 107 11 CAPETOWN. Sun (Reuter) —Britain's Virginia Wade today won the 'ingles final of the Western Province tennis championships with a 6 •fi—l victory over her rival Put Walken of South Africa. Miss Walken, who had beaten Miss Wade in two of their <hree previous encounters on the
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    • 643 11 I ONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Liverpool forged further ahead in the English Football League championship yesterday with a 2-1 win against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Their nearest rivals all dropped points Leeds United being held to a goalless draw against Tottenham and Arsenal losing at Newcastle. Fourth-place
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    • 166 11 LONDON. Sun (Reuter) Results of F on matches played vederdav were: FINAL ENGLISH TRIAL: England 8 The Rest 16 (at Twickenham). FINAL WELSH TRIAL Probables 24 Possibles 3 (at Cardiff). CLUB MATCHES: Aberavon 11 Rosslyn Park 6. Bath 14 Metropolitan Police 3. Cambridge University
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    • 781 11 SYDNEY. Sun. (Reuter) Tony Roche caused an upset hv beating Wimbledon champion Rod Laver in four sets in the final of the New South Males Open tennis championship at the White City courts here today. Roche won 6-4. 4-6. 9-7, 12-10 in
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    • 1129 11 ENGLISH DIVISION ONE Liverpool Leeds Evertdn Arsenal P 2R 26 27 26 W 19 16 15 15 D 5 3 8 7 L 4 2 4 4 r 48 42 58 35 A 16 21 26 15 Pts 43 40 38 37 Chelsea 27
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    • 109 11 NAPA. California. Sun. fßeuter) Heavy rain caused first a suspension of play and then the cancellation of the entire third round of the Kaiser U *****,000 <£56.243) international golf event yesterday. The entire field of 92 players was out on the course when conditions became
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    • 261 11 MONTE CARLO. Sun (Reuter) —Monte Carlo rally drivers were today splashing through the rain on the final stages of their 2.000-mile run to Monaco. Only lour of the 184 crews to set off from eight points across Europe on Friday night officially retired
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    • 42 11 BOLOONA, Italy. Sun. (Reuter) Italy's Silvano Bertini captured the European welterweight boxing crown here last night when he knocked out the champion, Edwin "fighting” Mack from the Dutch Antilles, in the 13th round of a scheduled 15 round title fight.
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    • 156 11 RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT The Grady Wilson Singapore Crusade combined prayer meeting •t the Cantonese Methodist Church. Queen Street at 7.30 p.m. on Monday, 30th January and Sunday 26th January. All Christians All Languages SALES SERVICE TELEVISION/RADIO REDIFFUSION TELEVISION RENTALS HP. 4i CASH Complete range to suit everyone Showrooms: Clemenceau Ave„ Joo
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    • 1176 11 rom TV and Radio TV SINGAPURA CHANNEL 5 P.M. fi no Prog Summary in all language fi 10 Belajar-lah Bahasa Kebangsaan; b 15 Phantom Agent (Opeiation Diamond Part 1< fi 45 Family Affair (Best •1 R 15 Hit Parade by Carrie K" > Mei Ac Mona Fong "4" New* Ac
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  • 2330 12  -  By BIG BEN SINGAPORE, Sun. Wonderful Surprise, with Glynn Pretty astride, scored a winning debut when he beat his Class Four opposition over 6f to pay $27 for a win at Bukit Timah here today. Pretty, last year’s champion Jockey, also won on Regal Mate
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  • 52 12 EDINBURGH. Bun. < Reuter) Oon Chong Hau. a 22-yesr-old Malaysian student *t Cambridge University, captured the mien s singles title in the Scottish Open badminton championships here las* night. Th P Malaysian, runner-up in 1066. scored an unexpectedly easy 15—9. 15—4 victory over Eng’>sh international Ray Sharp in
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  • 294 12 SINGAPORE. Sun Following is the Stipendiary Steward’s report on today’s races at Bukit Timah: RAEC 1: Shortly after the start Wendy's Brother (app Sairi) stumbled slightly and bumped Okay Okay (app A. Ham). RACE 2 Imperator. who could not be placed in his starting stall, broke awa v
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  • 417 12 MANILA. Sun. (I'PI) The World Boxing Council yesterday stripped Hiroshi Kobayashi of Japan of his world junior lightweight title because of his alleged refusal to honour a contract to face Rene Barrientos of the Philippines. The decision was announced in a statement released by WBC
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  • 175 12 MELBOURNE. Sun (Reuter) Both Victoria and South Australia disappointed an expectant Sunday crowd with dull play in their vital Sheffield Shield match here today. Fireworks were expected as both sides need outright points to have a chance of wrestling the Shield from Western Australia. Victoria
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  • 91 12 MELBOURNE. Sun. (AFP) William Roycroft, the wellknown Australian show-jum-per. has received the M.B.E. (Member of the British Empire) in an addition to the annual New Year’s honours list of Queen Elizabeth of England, it was learned here today. Mr. Roycroft earned high praise for his courage in
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  • 137 12 LONDON. Sun. Indoor lawn tennis in Britain already boosted by the success of the Dewar Cup is likely to take another step forward with proposals for a European championship at Crystal Palace. London, from February 12 to 15. The tournament is likely to be called tl<e
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  • 88 12 CAPETOWN. Bun. (Reuter) Madras, ridden by N. Gottscho, won the 10.000 ra n d <£5833» Cape Merchants Cup run over six furlongs at Kenilworth here today. Second to the seven-to-one Madras was Barela's Pr>de (20 1) followed by Little Major, also 20 1. Ben/.0l and
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  • 213 12 SYDNEY. Sun. (Reuter) Gate-takings at the first New South Wales Open tennis championships which ended here today were a record for any state or national championship in Australia. The chairman of the N.S.W. Lawn Tennis Association Finance Committee. Mr. Colin Shiel, said today the association
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  • 133 12 MANILA. Sun. (Reuter) Bemabe Villacampo of the Philippines defeated European flyweight champion Fernando Atzori of Italy last night when. Atzori conceded the fight in the sixth round. Atzori injured his hand during a furious exchange of punches in the third round and was later found to
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  • 123 12 MANILA. Sun. (AFP) The Philippines’ No. 3 flyweight Dionisio Dayagonon last night scored a unanimous decision over Japan No. 4 flyweight Shinzaburo Kaneko in a ten-round bout marked ljiy wild booing and hissing. The three Filipino judges awarded the verdict to the Filipino although the 20.000
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  • 115 12 SINGAPORE. Sun. Dr. Lee Keo w Siong. (H'cap 15) shot a 43-36—79. nett-64 to win the KS/Gold Medal of 1968, while the runner-up honours went to Philip Phang (H’cap 1$) after posting a 42-43—83, nett 65. Other good scores were posted by Lim Jit Cheng, (H’cap
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    • 47 12 BIG SWEEP VALUE OF POOL $9,481 1st Prize: No. *****7 $4,256 2nd Prize: No. *****8 $1,216 3rd Prize: No. *****0 608 STARTERS ($300 each) Nos:— *****2 *****8 *****1 *****6 *****7 *****6 *****2 *****9 CONSOLATION: ($100 each) Nos:— *****9 *****4 *****8 *****9 *****1 *****6 *****9 *****3 *****0 *****3.
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    • 47 12 Time And Tide TODAY Singapore: 1 a.m (9 ft i ins.): 6.03 am. (4 ft 4 ins); 1152 am. (lo ft. 6 ins.), 6.53 p.m. TOMORROW Singapore: 1.36 am (9 ft. 1 in 648 a.m. (4 ft.); 12.39 pm (10 ft. 6 ins.); 735 p.m. (5 ins.).
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