Eastern Sun, 15 February 1969

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    21 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE’S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 914 Saturday, 13 February 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon More Guardsmen Ready To Move On Wisconsin University
    356 1 MADISON. Wisconsin. Fri. (Reuter) One thousand more National Guard troops prepared to move on to the University of Wisconsin campus today to join 900 other guardsmen and 400 police in an effort to quell student strikers. The extra troops were ordered to
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    Lock icon Combined Move Against Illicit Drug Traffic
    107 1 CSANBERRA. Fri. tßeuter) Australian Federal and 6t?ke Government Ministers help a special meeting here toctay to plan a combined attaiSc on illicit drug traffic. Hhe meeting follows Federal Customs Minister Senator Mitlcolm Scott’s shock announcement this week that lllljclt drug traffic in Australia had
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    Lock icon HAND TO HAND WITH 300 BABOONS
    63 1 MOGADISHU. Somali Re public. Fri. (Reuter) Police foir«ht hand to hand with 300 baboons to drive them off a Stste farm which they attacked near Berbera. Reports reaching Mogadishu toe lay from the area. 20C miles <3-t0 kms) west of here said thr» baboon*
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    Lock icon Canberra Talks Put Off Till June?
    114 1 CANBERRA. Fri (Reuter)— Australia would not object to a month’s postponement of the five-power talks on Malaysian defence originally due to be held in Mav, Government sources said here today. No. 4 K Australia the host country, has suggested to the other four nations
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    Lock icon Quemoy: 5-Day Ceasefire
    112 1 TAIPEI. Fri. (Reuter) The Quemoy Garrison Command today ordered a five-day ceasefire during the lunar New Year holidays to enable people on the opposite coast of East China’s Fukien Province to celebrate, the Central News Agency reported. The command, in an announcement broadcast to the China mainland.
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    Lock icon Australian Railways Back To Normal
    49 1 SYDNEY. Fri. (Reuter) Railway services In Australia’s five mainland States returned to normal this morning after a 48-hour strike when union leaders forced agreement by railways commissioners not to oppose their wage claims. The strike was the second nationwide rail stoppage in tyo weeks.
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    Lock icon Fourteen Shot As Violence Erupts In Karachi's Liaquatabad Area
    600 1 PAKISTAN’S STATE OF EMERGENCY TO END MONDAY XT'ARACHI, Fri. (Reuter) Pakistan's state emergency will be lifted on Monday, the Government announced today as a national general strike touched off a bloody shooting affray in a Karachi suburb. Regular Army troops were
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    Lock icon U.S., Saigon Considering Tet Holiday Ceasefire
    281 1 WASHINGTON. Fri. (fPI> The United States and South Vietnam are considering a ceasefire during the Tet holiday starting Monday, the U.S. State Department said yesterday. It said the Saigon Government had indicated it would agree to a short ceasefire. But press officer Robert J
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    Lock icon Apollo 11 Undergoes Docking Operation Test
    224 1 CAPE KENNEDY, Florida. Fri. (I’PI) The Apollo 11 spacecraft set to land two men on the moon this summer was linked to its command ship on Thursday in a test of the docking operation moon pilots must exe- cute in lunar orbit. The test'
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    Lock icon 2 Indian Marathon Rowers Sighted
    123 1 CALCUTTA. Fri. (Reuter) —An Indian Air Force plane sighted two Indian marathon rowers about 160 miles (250 kms) from here in the Bay of Bengal today after they had been out of touch for seven days. A pilot ship also received a radio message from
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    Lock icon Minus 35 Degrees In Oslo
    48 1 OSLO. Fri. (Reuter) Oslo had its coldest day of the winter today with temperatures in the city falling to minus 35 degrees Centigrade (minus 31 degrees Fahrenheit). But girls in mini-skirts were not intimidated. They were seen braving the cold in Oslo’s mainstreet.
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    Lock icon Lightning Hits Mosque
    39 1 JAKARTA. Fri. (Reuter) Lightning struck a mosque during a religious. lecture at Karawang 30 miles west of Jakarta recently knocking down many worshippers and destroying the roof and windows. the Army newspaper War News reported today.
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    Lock icon Bhutto Begins Scheduled Fast
    88 1 KARACHI. Fri. (Reuter) Mr. Bhutto began his fast on schedule at l. e OO local (100 fl GMT) despite the Government announcement, and planned to continue it until the emergency was actually lifted. A spokesman told Reuter by telephone from Larkana that several of the leftwing
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    Lock icon Napalm Raids By Israeli Fighters
    167 1 AMMAN. Fri. (Reuter) Israeli fighters today launched two napalm and machinegun attacks on Al-Kitaf, two miles west ot Shuneh in the North Jordan valley, a Jordanian military spokesman said. There were no Jordanian casualties, but plantations in the area were damaged. Two Israeli Mystere jets
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    Lock icon Caught Himself
    46 1 JAKARTA Fri. (Reuter) An Army corporal in Central Java was catching flsh by throwing hand grenades in the water but he was caught himself when a grenade exploded too early, the Armed Forces bulletin reported today. He was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
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    Lock icon New Phase In Japan. S'pore Technical Co-operation Ushered In
    920 2 SINGAPORE, Fri. The Prototype Production and Training Centre ushers in a new phase in technical cooperation between Japan and SingaporeThis is because the centre, which provides practical as well as theoretical training to engineers, technicians and workers in the Republic, is
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    Lock icon Dr. Goh: Need To Re-orientate Our Thinking On Future
    602 2 SINGAPORE. Frl. The Minister for Finance. Dr. Goh Keng Swee. today stated that though the opening of the Prototype Production and Training Centre at River Valley Road was a symbol of the Republic’s progress in industrialisation, it was also symbolic of
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    Lock icon Rush To Get Married Before Chinese New Year
    118 2 BRUNEI TOWN. Frl. (Reuter) There is a last-minute rush on here to get married before Chinese New Year February 17. The reason the Chinese consider it lucky to be married in a leap year and the year of the monkey Just about
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    Lock icon Young Gaming Offenders ‘Being Used As Pawns’
    558 2 SINGAPORE, Fri. Singapore's teenagers hauled Into Court for gaming offences were in most cases “pawns” of illegal chap-ji-ki operators. This was stated today by Mr Chong Yuen Yee, Singapore’s Juvenile Court Magistrate and one of the guest speakers In a forum on the
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    Lock icon Sterling Leaps Ahead
    180 2 LONDON. Fri fßeuter) Sterling leaped ahead on the foreign exchange market here todav and everybody seemed to be buying it. The revival of confidence in Britain's economy following yesterdays Overseas trade figures boosted sterling and wrtthin minutes of the market opening it had soared by 17 points
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    Lock icon Dowry Too Meagre, So He hilled Her
    92 2 TAIPEI. Frl. (t'Pl) A young fanner in Southern Taiwan beat his bride of 20 days to death because he considered her dowry too meagre, police reported. Police said Lo Wen-Chu. a 26-year-old farmer at Pitou Village, was infuriated hT the scanty furniture and
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    Lock icon Health Ministry To Absorb All New Dental Surgeons
    503 2 SINGAPORE. Fri. The Minister for Health. Mr. Chua Sian Chin, said today that the Health Ministry could absorb all the dental surgeons expected to graduate this year for paid dental houseman ship at the various dental clinics. Eastern Sun understands that this
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    Lock icon 5 Thai Soldiers Wounded In Ambush
    128 2 BANGKOK. Frl. (UPI) Five soldiers were wounded on Tuesday in the ambush of a Jeep near the Government outpost of Thap Bhoek about 10 miles northwest of Lomsak Town In Northern Thailand. Government sources said today. The incident was the most serious of the
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    Lock icon Royal Tiger Shoot
    67 2 KATHMANDU. Fri (Reuter) King Mohammed. Zahir Shah of Afghanistan and two of his eons will arrive here on Sunday for a State visit which will be combined with a tiger shoot. The King and the Princes Mohammad Nadir and Mohammad Daoud will spend half of their eight
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    Lock icon MSA Planning To Operate Singapore-London Via Tashkent Route
    239 3 SINGAPORE, Fri. Malaysia-Singapore Airlines is planning to operate a route from Singapore to London through Tashkent, Russia, the Minister for Communications, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin disclosed today. The Chairman of MSA, Mr. Yong Pung How, has been asked to make an immediate
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    Lock icon Russian Supersonic Jets Will Eventually Call Here
    204 3 SINGAPORE, Fri. The R ssian supersonic Tul44s jets will eventually call at Singapore, the Russian Minister of Civil Aviation, Marshall Y. F. Loginov, said today. He was speaking after signing an agreement on behalf of his country with Singapore. Marshall Loginov said that
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    Lock icon Warsaw Pact Military Manoeuvres
    274 3 MOSCOW. Frl. (AFP) Persistent but unconfirmed rumours circulating in East European circles here claim that the Warsaw Pact High Command has decided to organise military manoeuvres around Berlin and to the west of the city before and during the West German Presidential elections in West Berlin
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    Lock icon Military Training For New Indonesian Doctors Advocated
    254 3 JAKARTA, Fri. (Reuter) New Indonesian doctors should refuse to take part in compulsory military training. the head of the Graduates Committee Dr. Enud Surjana said last night. He told a group of new graduates of the medical faculty of the University of Indonesia
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    Lock icon Malik To Talk With Thanat
    91 3 JAKARTA. Fri. (Reuter)— Indonesia's Foreign Minister Mr. Adam Malik will visit Thailand for talks with Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman on his way to India and Pakistan next week Foreign Ministry sources said today. The sources said Mr. Malik would discuss tn Bangkok, developments within the
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    Lock icon Is This Lucky Shopper YOU?
    121 3 Picture shows Eastern Sun's sixth Lucky Shopper who was photographed at C. K. Tang on Thursday. A $2O gift voucher awaits the prettv girl (circled). If the face belongs to you. please call at Eastern Sun, 23-B, Cantonment Road. Singapore. and claim your prize. Eastern
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    Lock icon Indian Frigates To Visit P. Swettenham
    149 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri Two training frigates of the Indian Navy. Cauvery and Tlr. will arrive at Port Swettenham on Feb 24 for a four-day Informal visit. The Commanding Officers will call on the General Manager of the Port Swettenham Port Authority. Enche Mohamed Zaln
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    Lock icon Japanese Air Force Plane Crashes
    50 3 TOKYO. Fri (Reuter) A Japanese Air Force C-46 transport plane crashed on take off from Matsushima Airbase. Northern Japan, today injuring six of the 10 men aboard. There was a little property damaee because the plane crashed in a rice paddy field, the spokesman said.
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    Lock icon Course On How To Achieve Higher Productivity
    169 3 SINGAPORE, Fri. The National Productivity Centre is organising a course next month to explain how firms can achieve higher productivity by the use of Standardisation and Simplication techniques. This is the sixth of such courses to be organised this year to assist firms
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    Lock icon Cultural Dance Course
    115 3 SINGAPORE. Fri. The National Trades Union Congress will soon be organising a “cultural dance course” for its members. The course, tentatively scheduled to commence on Feb. 25 at the Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School, will be held on Tuesdays between 7.30 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. Only 40
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    Lock icon Girl: He Pulled Me Into Bathroom
    184 3 SINGAPORE, Fri. A one-legged man, Tay Seng Teck. 35, today appeared in the Fourth District Court on a charge of having carnal connection with a 15-year old girl. Tay was alleged to have committed the offence in a bathroom at the Malayan Breweries, Alexandra
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    Lock icon Thieu To Visit Taiwan
    71 3 TAIPEI. Fri. (Reuter) —South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu will visit Taiwan later this year, the Foreign Ministry announced today. No date has yet been set. Ministry spokesman Yu Peng told a press conference that an itinerary for the State visit was being worked out by
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    Lock icon Man And Woman Friend Found Guilty Of Assaulting Wife
    233 3 SINGAPORE, Fri.—The proprietor of a petrol kiosk, Kenneth Foo See Kuan, and his woman friend, Annie Tan Soo Lian, were today found guiltv of assaulting his wife, Rosalind Seah, by the Eighth Magistrate’s Court. Foo was also found guilty of criminal
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    Lock icon Sharp- Hsueh Talks
    123 3 SharpHsueh Talks OTTAWA Fri. (Reuter) Canadian External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp and Taiwan Ambassador Hsueh Yu-Chi held talks tonight on the China-recognition issue at the official residence of the Nationalist envoy. It was their first meeting since Mr. Sharp announced in the Commons last Monday Canada's initial step towards possible
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    Lock icon TREE OR JAIL
    69 3 MANILA, Fri. (AFP) The Tuguegarao Municipal Council in northern Philippines has passed an ordinance making a family liable to one-day imprisonment if it fails to plant at least two coconut trees in its backyard, the Philippine News Service reported The ordinance provides an alternative penalty of five
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    Lock icon Varsity Law Results Out
    416 4 SINGAPORE, Fri. The University of Sin gapore has released the results of the final ex amination for the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Of those who passed, four received Class II Honours (Upper Division); 24 received Class II Honours (Lower Division) and 12 received Class Honours.
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    Lock icon Malay Qualifying Examination
    81 4 SINGAPORE. Fri A Qualifying test (Ma.ay Med iufn) for acceptance of Singapore private candidates intending to sit for the School Certificate (Malay) Examrnation in 1970 or subsequent years, will be held on Dec 8. Candidates will be examined in the Malay Language The entry fee is $5.00
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    Lock icon New Year Toto Draw
    133 4 SINGAPORE. Fri The very special Chinese New Year Draw will be telecast ‘live’ by TV. Singapura on New Year s Eve at 3.25 p.m By the trend in the sa.es this week and exceptionally large participation in TOTO is foreseen and participants are expected to win
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    Lock icon • ENCHE Muhammad bin Simin, President of the Singapore Malay Teachers’ Union hands over a cheque of $2,778 to Mr. Lim Kim San.
    135 4 ENCHE Muhammad bin Simin, President of the Singapore Malay Teachers’ Union hands over a cheque of $2,778 to Mr. Lim Kim San. THE Singapore Mercantile Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society Limited donated a sum of 811,107 towards the National Defence Fund. Picture shows two of the official* (from left) Mr.
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    Lock icon Killed By Falling Plank
    58 4 SINGAPORE. Fri The Coroner's Court today returned an open verdict into a case of a 57-year-old labourer. Wong Kam Tong who died in hospital on Jan 6. after a plank fell on him at a worksite. The incident occurred on Dec 31. last year at the
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    Lock icon • HERE was on caller who was Permitted outside visiting hours, Majorie, Countess of Brecknock, the Superintendent-in-Chief of the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade, at present visiting Singapore and Malaysia.
    95 4 HERE was on caller who was Permitted outside visiting hours, Majorie, Countess of Brecknock, the Superintendent-in-Chief of the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade, at present visiting Singapore and Malaysia. ted r th f Brl t I ,l I Mili M ar > r Hospital yesterday one of the patients she ii
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    Lock icon Raja, Tunku Hold Talks On Trade Expo
    154 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fli Singapore’s Foreign Minister. Mr S Rajaratnam today had discussions with Malaysian Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman, on the possibility of Joint participation by the two countries at the 1970 Trade Exposition in Osaka. Japan It is understood that there would
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    Lock icon New Post For Shri Nair
    52 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Shri KC. Nair. at present joint secretary in the Ministry of Exemal Affairs. Government of India, New Delhi, has been appointed High Commissioner for India in Malaysia in succession to Shri M.A. Rahman. Shri Nair is expected to take over his new
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    Lock icon Defence Fund Now $8.2m
    296 4 SINGAPORE, Fri. The National Defence Fund now stands at $8.2 million. During the last two weeks, the Minister of Defence. Mr. Lim Kim San received a total of $41,659 for the National Defence Fund. The largest donation received by Mr. Lim today at his fort might
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    Lock icon Anti-Corruption Study By Indons
    78 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A four-man Indonesian team left here for Singapore today after studying the set-up of the Anti-Corruption Agency in Malaysia. The leader of the delegation. Mr Priajatna Abdul Rashid said that it would submit a report of its findings to the Indonesian Government. The
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    Lock icon Advice To Ships
    65 4 SINGAPORE. Fri The Port Master's Department today issued a circular advisina the shipping community that for the next six weeks, a pile driving pontoon will be operating alongside Wharf No. 7. The pontoon will be at the wharf head, with mooring wires extending about 200 feet seaward.
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    Lock icon 3 More Thai Trawlers Seized
    175 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Three more Thai trawlers have been intercepted in Malaysian territorial waters off the east coast of West Malaysia since yesterday, a spokesman of the Ministry of Defence said here today. The spokesman said that the latest Thai trawler intercepted was sighted by
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    Lock icon 72 Accidents
    25 4 SINGAPORE Fri. There were a total of 72 road accidents of which two were serious during the past 24 hours in the Republic.
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    Lock icon UNESCO Writers Contest
    135 4 SINGAPORE. Fri. Writers participating in the UNESCO National Contest for Writers are reminded that the last day for submitting their manuscripts is on Feb. 28. Writers are requested to send three copies of their manuscripts to the Director, National Library, Stamford Road, Singapore, 6. Manuscripts should not
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    Lock icon ‘No Rockets, Please’
    160 4 SINGAPORE, Fri. The letting of rocket fireworks and rocket firecrackers is prohibited, Police reminded today. It will be an offence to let off all types of rocket fireworks and firecrackers and any person committing such an offence is liable to be arrested and punished on conviction. He
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    Lock icon KILLED BY OLD TREE COURT TOLD
    75 4 SINGAPORE. Fri Branches of an old tree fell and killed two children on Jan 9 at Jalan Teck Kee. off Yio Chu Kang Road, the Coroner's Court was told today. The dead were Chan Si ok Kim. 16 and Chan Siok Eng. s—children of
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    Lock icon Open Day
    34 4 The President Enehe Yusof bin Ishak, has ordered the grounds of the Istana to be open to the public on Monday, being Chinese New Year's Day from 800 am. to 6.30 p.m.
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    Lock icon A Sailing They Would Go... 34 TO BRAVE PAHANG RIVER
    528 4 SINGAPORE. Fri. Nine six-man teams comprising British and Malaysian soldiers will challenge the Pahang River in Malaysia next month.’ The team members comprise eight from the Royal Army Ordnance Corps of the British Army, and one from the Ordnance Corps
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    Lock icon Laird Revives Sinophobia In His D-planning
    312 5 WASHINGTON, Fri. (Reuter) Defence Secretary Melvin Laird 1 Q y e WQ deeply concerned that China would present a nuclear missile threat to the United States in the early 1970'5. But in o reference to the growing political opposition to construction of the controversial
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    Lock icon Thai Statement Adds Problems To Aussie Planners
    407 5 ‘U.S. TO QUIT WHEN WAR ENDS’ SYDNEY, Fri. (Reuter) The revelation by Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman that his country wonted the United States to leave after the Vietnam war threw a new joker into the pack of longterm defence conundrums now in
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    Lock icon US Troops Alerted To VC Threats
    172 5 BAIGON Fri (Reuter)—UB troops in the Saigon area were today confined to their billets and told to always carry guns after Vieteong bomb squads were reported trying to enter the capital. “There are strong indications that American forces have become the number one targets
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    Lock icon A ‘Confused’ Polls Setting For N. Ireland
    361 5 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) Nominations closed resterday in Northern Ireland leaving the deeply split British province facing its most confused general election later this month. In the final line-up 11 candidates from 14 parties are competing for votes on February 24 There will be
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    Lock icon CALCUTTA: Jubilant Red supporters parade through streets following Communist success in West Bengal.
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    Lock icon A MAJOR CABINET RESHUFFLE IN INDIA
    716 5 NEW DELHI, Fri, (Reuter)—lndia's Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, has handed the Foreign Affairs portfolio she has held for 18 months to Commerce Minister Mr. Oinesh Singh in a major cabinet reshuffle. Mr Dinesh Singh. 44. had been tipped as a likely candidate for
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    Lock icon ‘T.K. MUST BE IN A UNITED EUROPE’
    94 5 BONN. (Reuter) Britain end West Germany today anr.ounceo that a United Europe was inconceivable without Britain. A declaration by Mr Harold Wilson. British Prime Minister, end Dr. Kurt George Kiesinger. West German Chancellor, after two-day talks here pledged them to work out with
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    746 5 STOCK MART BOMBED MONTREAL. (Reuter) Four people were injured and taken to hospital today after a bomb exploded in the visitors’ gallery of the Montreal Stock Exchange The explosion occurred at about 2 45 p.m. The exchange is in a 40-storev building known as the Stock Exchange Tower. SUEZ
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    Lock icon ‘East Pakistan May Secede’ Warning
    489 5 KARACHI, Fri. (Reuter) A militant opponent of President Mohammed Ayub Khan warned him that any attempt to end political agitation by force could lead East Pakistan to secede. Mr J A Rahim, acting president of the left-leaning People's Party of former Foreign Minister Zulflcar Ali
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    Lock icon Tycoon Cleared Of Stealing Flowers
    110 5 LONDON. Fri (Reuter) Carnaoy street tycoon John Stephen was presented with a giant bunch of daffodils today after a Jury cleared him of a charge of stealing two bunches of the flowers from a prominent West-End tobacconist. But Mr Stephen, who developed the street into
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    Lock icon Chris Barnard To Operate Chris Barnard
    116 5 CAPE TOWN. Fn (Reuter i Chris Barnard will operate on Chris Barnard when the famous heart transplant pioneer performs openheart surgery on a two-year-old namesake later this month or in March. The younger Chris, son of a gold miner, was bora with a heart
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    Lock icon THE CHANGING SCENE
    378 6 IN Pakistan, pressure on President Ayub Khan is mounting. Events there during the week reminds one of Pandora’s box. The plethora Of political parties in Pakistan adds to the complexity of the problem besides the East and West Pakistani divergencies. The country is now facing a general
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    Lock icon AL AHRAM ON BR. ARMS SUPPLIES
    182 6 (AFP) BRITAIN is not going to cease arms supplies for Israel, which is now interested in strengthening its navy, the semi-official A1 Ahram said here today in a report from its London correspondent. The newspaper reported that Egyptian Ambassador to London Ah Fiki had
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    Lock icon MR. SMITH’S NEW IDEA
    115 6 (AFP) IN Salisbury the widely read “Rhodesia Herald” warned today that should there be no clear cut consent for the new constitution at the May referendum, the country would be in a worse state of confusion than before and Rhodesia might be throwing away her last
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    Lock icon A Pledge And Then The Wedding
    134 6 HONG KONG, Frl. (Reuter) Mao TseTung s portrait may not exactly be an ideal wedding decoration, but to a peasant woman in East China's Chekiang Province It is aa essential in a wedding ceremony as bride and groom. Radio Chekiang reporting this today said
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    Lock icon HOLY RIVER HELPS THE FARMERS
    446 6  -  BY JOHN ROGERS BENARES, India, Frl. (Reuter) Fanners in Eastern Uttar Pradesh State are going through a minor revolution thanks to the sacred waters of the River Ganges. In areas that were bone dry through failure of the monsoons for the last three years, pumps
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    Lock icon Man’s First Commercial Nuclear Explosions
    539 6  -  BY HUGH SCHMITT CAPE KERAUDREN. Western Australia. Fri. (Reuter) Man's first commercial nuclear explosions are planned for a corner of Australia so desolate that not even rabbits could thrive there. Her# in this southern continent's far northwest. Cape Keraudren is a tiny, scen.r isthmus jutting
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    Lock icon Discussion On Investments In Developing Nations
    152 6 UNITED NATIONS. New York. Fri. (Reuter > High Government officials from Asia, Africa and Latin America will discuss the role of private foreign investment in aeveioping countries with business representatives from advanced nations at a special conference beginning on Sunday in Amsterdam. The heads
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    Lock icon ‘The New Trojan Horse’
    183 6 WARSAW. Frl. (.AFP) Polish newspapers today accused Britain of wanting to form “something like a Bonn-London axis In Western Europe” In the hope that German support would help her break French opposition to her entering "Little Europe”. "We can now fully appreciate General de Gaulle's farsighted
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    Lock icon Washington Post On U.S. Troops In Thailand
    452 6 WASHINGTON, Fri. (UPI) The Washington Post expressed hope on Thursday editorially that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee give a "thorough airing" to the stationing of U.S. troops in Thailand. The editorial was In answer to a letter to the newspaper by Ernest K.
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    Lock icon Nixon And World Trade
    310 6 WASHINGTON. Frl (UPI) The Washington Post yesterday in an editorial criticised the approach President Nixon had taken on matters of international trade. The editorial said In full: “Mr Nixon's forthright stand In support of free trade looks was next to his announcement that he's already trying
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    77 6 ATLANTA. Georgia. Fri. (Reuter) The United States Army is trying to pre-deter-mine what kind of person is likely to be a battlefield bero. An Emory University scientist has been given a Federal grant to study hormones to find out if they indicate whether a man would perform
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    258 6  -  By Asrar Ahmed RAWALPINDI, Fri. (CPI) A former ally of President Mohammed Ayub Khan who proposed a national caretaker government until the settlement of the political crisis in Pakistan found himself a prisoner on Thursday. Air Marshal Asghar Khan, retired Air Force Chief of Pakistan, was
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    720 6  -  BY JOSE KATIGBAK HONG KONG, Fri. (Reuter) Concubinage, an r age-old custom which authorities say is rapidly dying out in Hong Kong, is likely to be speeded to extinction l sooner by legislation. i At present the Government t is studying a White Paper
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    156 6 TOKYO, Fri. (Reuter) Japanese newspapers today frontpaged a photograph of what they said was a Russian nuclear missile submarine cruising in waters near Japan. The papers said the picture, released yesterday by the Japanese Defence Agency, was the first clear picture of a
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      563 6 I enjoyed immensely the past weekly TV debates by the school boys and girls but I i felt somewhat bored each time the judges Started to sum up. whose views and criticism > were, to my mind, biased and over-done. In the
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      28 6 Eastern Sun Singapore’* Own National Daily SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1969 23-8. Cantonment Road. 39. |aUn Sultan. Singapore 2. Kuala Lumpur, Malay*!*. Telephone: *****/7 Telephone: *****/6 Cable AAdreu: AWNEWS
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      Lock icon Sino-Japan Trade Being Renewed
      372 7 TOKYO, Frl. (AFP) Japanese trade delegation left here for Peking today to negotiate for a re*f ‘ho private Sinotr?le agreement which expired last December. Their primary effort will be to find means to increase the sagging Sino-Japanese trade fißur having dwindled from US$62 lm in issnm
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      85 7 LONDON. Fri (UPD P ibber market closed steady with fellers reserved NO l RSS spot 22), 23. Settlement House March 22-3/4 23 April 22-3/4 23 Apr/June 22-13 111 23-1/16 July Bept 22-11 16 22-15/16 Oct Dec 22-5/8 22-11/16 Jan Mar 22-1 2 22-11/16 Apr/June 22-3 ft 22-9/16 July/Sept
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      40 7 NEW YORK. Frl. (UPD Dow Jones closing average on the New York stock exchange: 30 Industrials 952 70 20 Rails 277.58 15 Utilities 138 55 65 Stocks 345.82 40 Bonds 75 01 Commodity futures Index 139 14.
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      362 7 LIMA, Peru, Frl. (UPI) Peru soyi It would lodge a formal complaint of "economic aggression" against the United States if Washington took any reprisals ogainst it for the expropriation without compensation ef the multi-million dollar properties of International
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      123 7 SINGAPORE. Fri. The Associaton of Banks in Malay-sia-Bingapor« today made the following change* m its rates to merchant* (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency). SELLING TT Or OD ready: Deutsche Mark* $76.5275; Holland Guilders $84.7525; Swiss Frane* $71.1100; Belgian Francs $8.1325; French
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      98 7 SINGAPORE. Fri. The following ships are expected to be in port today: Godowns Vessels 1/2 Sata Maru 3/4 Elizabeth 6/7 Nara 8/9 Martha Bakke 13'14 Mihara Maru 1V16 Hoegh Elite 18 Riverbank 19 Sir Galahad 21/22 Rajah Brooke 23/24 Dagan 25 26 Lyonia Golikov 29/30 Jens Maersk
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      255 7 LONDON. Fri (Reuter) The International Tin Council’s buffer stock manager boueht no tin off the market for a whole week in September. It was disclosed here today. The council brcke its usual policy of secrecy by announcing that on September 30. some 11.290 tons was
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      62 7 HONG KONO Fr Router, —The H ong Kong Government announced today woul<j restrain ‘t* exports of woollen •weaters. jumpers gn© cardigan* to Sweden up to Jung 3o this year. It said jt was taking this action beeau?* of the difficulties which the Swedish garment industry was
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      111 7 SINGAPORE. Frl. The noon prices ai the Bln*sp..rr 1 blnese Produce Ekchanes tods' are:— Hum Uellei oc.innt Oil (F t) B > Bulk 50 0V m.iiiut OD (FOB) Drum 5250 Loose I opra 'lived 31 50 Mnnlok While Pepper IF 08, 96% MM 112.50 9araw in While Pepper (F
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      394 7 CAIRO. Frl (Reuter) The Egyptian government has agreed to an offer by owners of ships trapped in the blocked Suez Canal to survey the southern part of the waterway. The offer was made during talks here between representatives of owners of the 14
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      252 7 BIRMINGHAM. England. Fri. (Reuter) There is no widespread espionage ot patents and designs by Japanese manufacturers, a Midlands businessman wno commutes between here and Japan told industrialists today. "Contrary to a widely held belief, the pirating of designs and patents is no worse
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      1596 7 SINGAPORE, Frl. Very steady conditions prevailed in trading in the Stork Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore today. Contrary to most popular beliefs that quiet dealings will wind up the week's business, the market was verv active especially In the afternoon session and trading had
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      290 7 Rubber: Up 1 Cents SINGAPORE. Frl. March first grade rubber buyer* closed at 5 p m., in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 65 cents per lb., up one and one-eighth of a cent from previous close. The tone of the market was quiet after steady. Very steady London advices
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      15 7 SINGAPORE. Fri—The tin price for today was $582 25 per picul, up $0.25,
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      538 7 KIMiAPOKK Moo* K*mange Mild and offiiiail* litipd at Du'IneM INUt STRIAL0 R 8. AC M A 2 13 5.10 lion n \ALL liomoo Rhrl 2.00 1.91 1.90 HouHtuil I Mlgar 4 BA 3.;o 470 I olil Morn;:** 1 »R^ 1.80 3.75 1 Mill lop 3.68 1.
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      59 7 < Manaser* Prlfft > 1«t Mala tan \U 2.99 2nd Malayan \l* 2 17 rd Mala tan 1.35 1 he iniimerre Ind. 1.06 1 10 1 he it ms 1 line! 1.2(1 1 30 M nvr*t fund ISO 1 10 Nt Hon* l\<in* 1.37 1 13* !ml Hong
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      319 7 WASHINGTON. Fri (Reuter) A U S Federal Agency today accused a number of high level Wi;l Street brokers and firms Of fraudulently manipulating the government securities market for their private profit. The Securities and Exchange Commission the Federal Governmeftt'* Stock Market watchdog agency said
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    123 9 SINGAPORE. Frl. A vege table-seller, Goh Kee Haw. was today awarded 56.136 damages in a suit brought against a motor mechanic, 100 See Ban. Goh was riding his motorcycle along Alexandra Road near the Delta Circus, when he was knocked down by a car omen
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    138 9 The famed Tai Ihean Kew Circus which has just completed a successful tour of Thailand began its Singapore season last night with a charity performance in aid of the National Defence Fund. The circus which has opened its season to coincide with the Chinese
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    265 9 KUCHING. Frl (AFP) An English playwright Ben Travers. 82. famous for his play “Cuckoo In the Nest” arrived here this week on a three-month visit. Mr. Travers was the author of a series of farces produced in London over a period of ten years,
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    151 9 MOSCOW. FH (Reuter I—The Soviet Union announced today it is offering a spy film clearly based on the activities in Britain of Kremlin master agent Gordon Lonsdale for sale on the world market. The film. The Dead Season, played to packed houses here
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    Lock icon Stolen Spares Case: $1,000 Fine
    56 9 SINGAPORE. Fri A driver, Chua Keng Teck. 45, was fined $l,OOO or one year s jail by the Second District Court today for assisting in concealing stolen motor-car spare parts, valued at $15,769. He was found guilty of committing the offence at his house in
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    76 9 THIS was a picture taken in Singapore some time this week as the rehearsal of the Stage Club's forthcoming production. "The Letter.’* Picture shows Murray Willson as Leslie Crosbie shooting Geoffrey Hammond played by Paul Burgon. Judi Newman, who is producing Somerset Maughams "The
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      159 9 DOUBLE CHINESE NEW YEAR JOY FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! VISIT THE TRADE FAIR and SEE THE CIRCUS at GREAT WORLD AMUSEMENT PARK CIRCUS PREMIERE TOMORROW9.3Opm From Monday l'th to Sunday 23rd lehruary: 3 shows dally at 3. 7 3.30 pm. Tickets: S 3. S 3. S 3 $7 Children Concession
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      233 9 When the weather is sultry, all forms of fever will come unavoidably. Three Legs Brand RHINO-HORN FEVER WATER not only good for relief of all fevers, it is also a cure for baby’s measles and box fevers. C S, /n d m ft igJM N \\lu& iili WEN KEN DRUG
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      400 9 SHAW# nlaation vow showing S„ fr n s sl 7 *»»*»ed Times 10 a m 1 #> f, ou)n if VO iv A,fc£s P Chtn«e New Yea- Attraction H-i’d»r Cliff Robe-taon THE nrviL S BRIGADE" Panavision A: Color iUA) T O l' orrr ,r s T 'dnight U »t Capital
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      60 9 [jjl, orchard I TONIGHT MIDNIGHT! (Xo Free List) Grand Chinese New Year Attraction! SEASON STARTS TOMORROW AT 6.30 ft 9.15 pm. PARAMOUNT DEALS YOU A HAND IN THE MOST EXCITING SUSPENSE WESTERN EVER PLAYED! ...the ...the hellfire gunfire gambler preacher ■SEAN and ROBERT MR MARTIN MTTCHUMs—i HAIWUUS J 5 CARS
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      249 9 SIMULTANEOUSLY AT ODEON PAVILION CATHAY (SINGAPORE» iKt'UA LI MPt *1 (PENANG) no FREE LIST CASH BOOKINGS ONLY. 14TH WEEK IN TOKYO 14TH WEEK IN OSAKA 10TH WEEK IN HONG KONG BTH WEEK IN MANILA Metro-Gcldwyn-Mayer presents Clint Eastwood Richard Barton Mary Ui O>IM (Slniaport) Panartsion. MrtroColor e Ingrid Pitt THE
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      114 9 NEXT DRAW TOM FEBRUARY, I FROM FEBRI V 1969 SINGAPORE SWEETS AGENTS M- T<j« Wee to* 1 Hue CKr»g Cr Co ’l* V 800- 4 S ■‘flop" Te ***** 4 ***** Mr Kg L©rg Kee V' Geek K*m, C o N*g Norn Thyt. 201 S*t?* 5-jop T« ***** 4 641*40
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      354 9 [CATHAY ORCHARD-***** La*t 2 Days! I.4ft, 4. 6.30 A 9.15 DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD” Color Sydney Jam®* Kenneth Williams A Rank Organisation Picture Tonight Midnight (No Free List) Season Start* Tomorrow at 6.3 ft A 9.15 p.m. Grand Chinese New Year Attraction Paramount's "5 CARD STUD** Dean Martin. Robert Mitchum
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    Lock icon Another $50m CDC Investment In Malaysian Projects
    341 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Commonwealth Development Corporation is to invest another $5O million in agricultural and industrial projects in Malaysia, bringing its total commitments here to $lBO million. Of the $5O million, $35 million would be invested in East Malaysia, the Chairman of
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    Lock icon $66,000 Aid Programme By R.S.L.
    270 10 CANBERRA Fn, (Reuter)— Australia's Returned Soldier’s League today announced an A520.000 (£9.333) international aid programme. National R.S.L President Sir Arthur Lee told Federal Government Ministers at a luncheon that Australia’s wellbeing was inevitable tied to South-east Asia’s progress and the aid programme was designed to
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    Lock icon Farm House Siege Enters Seventh Day
    158 10 BORDEAUX, Franc®. Fri. (Reuter) —A farm house siege entered its seventh day today after a radio news bulletin told an armed Frenchman inside the building near here he was a killer. A Paris doctor yesterday spent over an hour talking with 38-year-old Andre Fourquet.
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    Lock icon Thai Accuse Cambodia Of Piracy
    115 10 UNITED NATIONS, Fri. (UPI) Thailand accused Cambodia of piracy on the high s eas m a protest to the Security Council released at OR. Headquarters On Thursday. In dated last Monday Thai Anand Panyarachun reported on a clash between dtThai and Cambodian naval vßsels in
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    161 10 LAS VEGAS. Nevada. Fri Reuter) Search aircraft scoured desert and mountain terrain overnight in the hope of sighting distress signals from two crewmen of a missing Air Force F-11l fighter-bomber Fifteen aircraft took part in a massive air search yesterday for the missing plane
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    118 10 HONG KONG. Fri. (Reuter) —The Hong Kong Government is revoking an emergency law which makes it an offence to possess a simulated bomb. The move announced today brings to eight the number of emergency regulations to be repealed since they were introduced during the 1967 Communist
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    47 10 A 240 mm Communist rocket sits on a primitive launcher. 60 miles northwest of Saigon after rockets and other weapons were discovered recently in the biggest South Vietnamese weapons find in the war. The rocket, nine feet long, has a range of 20 miles.
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    156 10 SANTA BARBARA. California. Fri (Reuter) A new eight-mile oil slick is oozing ominously from an offshore drilling platform here, alarming coastal dwellers whose beaches are already fouled by an earlier leak. The leak has sprung in the same Union Oil Company well, six miles out in
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    Lock icon Dag's Tragic Plane: Expert's Accusation
    104 10 STOCKHOLM Fri. (Reuter) A Swedish medical expert has accused the Swedish authorities of concealing the real cause of the plane crash in which Dag Hammarskjoeld. Secretary-General of the United Nations, died in 1961 Dr. Aake Hassler—who was formerly attached to the Swedish Air Force as
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    39 10 HONG KONG. Fri. (Reuter) —A junk loaded with 39.000 pounds of soap sunk at Hong Kong's harbour today, prompting a police to say “It looks as if we will have the clearest harbour in the world.”
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    Lock icon Tunku Plans To Set Up Home For Poor
    169 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. —The Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman. fiUns to set up a home or the poor and distressed in his home town in Alor Star, his political and press secretary. Mr. Yap Chin Kwee. said today. Mr. Yap said in
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    214 10 NEW DELHI, Fri. (Reuter) Joseph Stalin's nephew by marriage became Indias Foreign Minister today after a major Cabinet reshuffle. Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi handed the foreign affairs portfolio she has held for 18 months to 44-year-old Commerce Minister Dinesh Singh genera ly regarded as being
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    234 10 KUALA LUMPI'R, Fri. Malaysia was today assured of more aid from New Zealand under the Colombo Plan. The assurance was given bv a two-man Colombo Plan mission from New Zealand which arrived this morning for a three-day visit to discuss with Malavsian Government
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    Lock icon Thai Govt To Boost Majority In Parliament
    268 10 BANGKOK. Fri. (Reuter) The Government will nominate 42 new members to the Senate next week to bring the Upper House to full strength and boost its overall majority in Parliament, informed sources said today. Thailand’s new constitution promulgated last year pegs Senate membership
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    Lock icon 800 Road Fatalities In Taiwan
    53 10 TAIPEI. Fri. (Reuter) Almost 800 people died tn r©ad accidents On Taiwan last year and most of them were caused by careless driving, the Central News Agency reported today. Quoting police statistics, the agenev said 751 people were killed and 5.004 injured in a total
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    Lock icon All-out Bid To Make Fish Scheme A Success
    212 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority is to make an all-out effort to make a success of its fish, padi and pepper marketing schemes, the Minister without Portfolio. Enrhe Abdul Ghafar bin Baba. said. He told Bernama that the schemes
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    Lock icon Gen. Moore On Aussie Defence Assistance
    108 10 CANBERRA. Fri. (Reuter) —Malaysia and Singapore would need Australian defence aid for many years to come. British General Sir Rodney Moore said here today. Sir Rodney said he thought Australian defence aid should mean having troops ready to be sent to the area if
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    Lock icon ‘Syphilis Is Common On U.K. Warships’
    119 10 JAKARTA, Fri. (Reuter) A British Navy doctor was reported in Jakarta today as having said syphilis is the most common disease found on British warships. Indonesia's Antara news agency said the unnamed doctor aboard the H.M.S. Triumph told thi s to Indonesia's ninth Maritime
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    Lock icon ‘I Divorce You’ Legal If Letter Written By Husband—Imam
    256 10 I Divorce You Legal If Letter Written By Husband—Imam KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A Muslim husband in Malaysia can divorce his wife by saying “I divorce you three times but this must be confirmed in the Mus- lim (Shaariah) Court. The Chief Imam of Masjid Negara. Haji Mohamed Saleh bin Hassan
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    135 10 SAIGON, Fri (Reuter) President Nguyen Va n Thieu today called on US. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker to discuss the Paris peace talks and a possible Tet lunar new year cease-fire. Vice-President Nguve n Cao Ky. special adviser to the Saigon delegation in Paris, and Foreign
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    Lock icon Japan's Exports To Taiwan Hit Record
    105 10 TOKYO Fri. (Reuter) Japan s export* to the People's Republic of China last year hit an all-time record of U*****,438.000. the Japan External Trade Organisation tJETRO) said today The previous record export wa* USs3lj million in 1966. The semi-official trade promotion body said, however,
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    Lock icon Nothing New In UK Offer Says Tunku
    234 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri—The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, today described the latest British offer to supply Malaysia with two types of aircraft in two stages as “not different” from that made to him by the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Michael Steward, in London
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    Lock icon Representation By All-Japan Cotton Spinner 3
    200 10 TOKYO. Fri. (Reuter) The All-Japan Cotton Spinners’ Association has made representation to the Foreign Ministry asking for measures to prevent further textile import restrictions by the United States, the association said today. A memorandum was handed to Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi yesterday by the
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      341 10 TODAY and YOU...\ Saturday, February 15, 1969. ARKS WAR. 21 APR 19 )24-29 37-43 5^64-74-84-88 TAURUS APR 20 MAY 20 -38-52-57 59-65 72 JR Da GEMINI (CC* MA^ J1 r V JUNE 20 Ok 3- 4- 5- 6 7 -13 56 D CANCER JUNE 21 JULY 22 ,19 27-35 47
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    216 11 Soccer Postponements LONDON. Fn (Reuter) The Pools Promoters Association today named the panel who will decide the “results” of unplayable soccer matches on Saturday for the British pools if widespread postponements because of the weather make this necessary. Last week, the pools had to be abandoned
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    32 11 BIRMINGHAM England. Frl (Reuter* Australia won the world squash rackets team championship when they beat Bri’ain two-one here. Both team* had previously been unbeaten In the *lxnatton tournament. UPI pix.
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    Lock icon Saijo Retains Crown
    47 11 Japan’s Shozo Saijo raises his hand as he is picked up bodily by his admirer after retaining his world featherweight crown with a unanimous 15-round decision over the challenger Pedro Gomez of Venezuela on Feb. 9 at Nippon Rudokan Hall in Tokyo. PANA pix.
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    Lock icon Cottam In Line To Win First English Test Cap Against Pakistan
    344 11 LAHORE, Frl. (Reuter) Bob Cottam. the 24-vear-old medium-paced bowler, is in line to win his First English Test cap against Pakistan next Friday. Cottam the only uncapped player in the MCC party, was last night named among the 12
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    89 11 PHOENIX. Arizona. Fri. (Reuter) Beven players shared the lead In the opening round of the US$lOO,OOO (about £41.000' 34th annual Phoenix Open here today, all shooting a six under par 65 Another large block of players were one shot behind at 66 on the
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    Lock icon Greco-Roman Wrestling Loses Appeal
    117 11 MOSCOW. Fri. (Reuter* Greco-Rnman wrestling is losing its appeal as a spectator sp >rt. That Is the conclusion drawn bv the 1955 Russian world champion. Alexander Mazur, in an article in the Soviet Magazine “Physical Culture and Sport.” Mazur considers "the technique and tactics of any
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    230 11 MEXICO CITY. Frl. (Reuter* Mexican boxing promoter Pablo Ochoa will leave for Australia early next month to see if he can persuade Australian world bantamweight and featherweight champions Lionel Rose and Johnny Famechon to defend their titles in Mexico Ochoa, the
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    Lock icon Hutchinson 'Fakes Over The Lead
    117 11 DURBAN. Frl. (Reuter) South African professional Dennis Hutchinson stormed into the lead with a tremendous six-under-par 66 in the second round of the South African Open golf championship here yesterday. Hutchinson mastered the tricky wind conditions to finish on 136 one stroke better than South
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      571 12 SYDNEY, Fri. (Reuter) A great unbeaten stand of 217 by Bill Lawry and Doug Walters rescued Australia from a threatened disaster on the first day of the vital fifth Test against the West Indies at the Sydney cricket ground today. At stumps Australia was
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      82 12 MANILA. Fri (Reuter) Malaysia's Lun Shook Keng toda v smashed his way into the finals of the Junior men s singles at the Asian badminton championships. Lim defeated Filipino James Lim 15 —9. IT —16. in their semifinal match today. Lim now face s Wai Nyunt
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      60 12 MANILA, Fri. (AFP) Malaysia’s P. Gunalan pulled off a sensational upset tonight when he beat defending champion Dinesh Khanna of India117.5 —7.18 —3 in the semifinal of the men’s singles of the Asian badminton championships here tonight. In tomorrow’s final. Gunalan will play Indonesia's Muljadi who
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      164 12 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) BrL tish Olympic walker John Webb has turned down an invitation to compete in the South African Game s at Bloemfontein next month because he disagrees with apartheid. Webb said today: “I definitely disagree with aparthied, both in life and sport I
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      87 12 LONDON. Fri (Reuter) European champions Manchester United joined Everton. losing finalists last year as 11/2 favourites for the English Football Association Cup at the Victoria Club call-over here last night. Chelsea, who defeated Stoke City 3 —2 in their fifth-round tie last night, were quoted at
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      91 12 BLACKBURN. England Fri. (Reuter) The Disciplinary Committee of the English Football Association yesterday suspended two Blackburn Rovers players for 14 days from next Monday. It was a further blow to Blackburns FA. Cup hopes. On Wednesday, their ©ostponed fifth round tie against Manchester Citv was put back
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      68 12 SINGAPORE Fri. The Ministry of Interior and Defence 'A’ team entered the Singapore Youth soccer final when they beat Special Constabulary 5-0 at the Jalan Besar Stadium last night. They will meet the winner of the other semi-final match between Farrer United and Bumley United at the Jalan
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      89 12 MANILA. Fri. 'AFP) Eva Chang of Nationalist China von the 13th Filipmo-American women's golf tournament by a stroke today, scoring a 72-hole total of 284 at the John Hay airbase course in Baguio City, Northern Philippines. The Chinese golfer shot a five-over-par 75 in the
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      150 12 SINGAPORE. Fri. Two soldiers exchange a trophy and two of the widest smiles possili'e between a Lieutenant General and a sergeant They both had reason for feeling pleased. The British Army had just trounced the Royal Navy by five goals to nil in the Singapore
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      153 12 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) Col. Johann Westerhoff, former Secretary-General of the Inter, national Olympic Committee, last night criticised ageing President Avery Brundage for trying to run a "one-man show.” Col. Westerhoff in a television interview here broke his silence to the press since his resignation in
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      Lock icon Hardaker Hits Out On The Offside Law
      477 12 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) Mr. Alan Hardaker. Secretary of the English Football League, considers that a loose interpretation of the offside law is contributing to fewer goais being scored and therefore to a bigger number of drawn games. Writing in the current issue of
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      142 12 BRISBANE FrL (Reuter) Queensland's hopes in their Sheffield Shield match against Victoria at the Brisbane cricket ground slumped today when they were dismissed for a first innings total of 210 runs. 30 minutes before stumps. Queensland captain Sam Trimble was bowled in the last over before
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      72 12 PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida. Fri. 'Reuter) American Jack Nicklaiis maintained his lead on this year’s United States golf circuit, according to figures released bv the Professional Golfers' Association here today. Nicklaus heads the list with prize money earnings of US$36.950 (£*****' Californian Billy Casper, winner of the
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      Lock icon Inquiry On Follow Me: Owner Gives Evidence
      120 12 MELBOURNE. Fri. (AFP) Filipino millionaire. Felipe Ysmael denied before the Victoria Racing Club Committee here today that he had ever asked anybody to restrain his colt, FOLLOW ME, before the Moonee Valley race on Dec. 21. Mr. Ysmael was giving evidence in support
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      38 12 LAS pALMAS. Canary Islands. Fri. (Reuter) Morocco eliminated Senegal in their play-off match her e last n'ght in the qualifying rounds of the World Football Cup. Morocco won 2—o Neither side scored in the first half
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      146 12  -  By BIG BEN PENANG. Fri. Newcomer Onassis shaped like a winner when he went better than Demovel in a 3f workout in 38 on a good track here this morning. If he keeps up to the track form Onassis should score first time out in the Class
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      Lock icon Three More Registered In Top Class
      581 12 SINGAPORE Fri. Thre* more horses have been registered in class one. states the Malayan Racing Association today They are: Moenia Lsaga. Huang Ho and Jingle Bell. Other classifications: PROMOTIONS: From Class 2 to Class I: Copper Quest. Medal Music, Treble J. East Kalimantan From
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      Lock icon Amateurs Will Be In Limelight In S’pore Open Golf Tourney
      221 12 SINGAPORE, Fri. While favourites in tho Singapore Open Championship like Hsieh Yung Yo. Lu Liang Huan. both from Taiwan. Austral-a’s Frank Phillips and Randall Vines, Tadashii Kitta. Hideo Sugunoto, Kenji Hosoishi, Tomoo Ishii, Mitsutaka Kono and KOl- Ono, all from
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      84 12 SINGAPORE. Fri. The fifth film in Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf sth series featuring Ramon Sota playing against Bobby Nichols at the Club rie Campo, Madrid in Spain has now arrived and may be borrowed by golf clubs and enthusiasts in Singapore. Commentary in this film
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      54 12 Time And Tide TODAY Singapore: 3.34 am. (6 ft. 1 in.); 9.30 a.m. (9 ft. 9 ins.): 3 57 p.m. (1 ft. 1 in.); 11.26 p.m. (10 ft. 7 ins.). TOMORROW Singapore: 4.18 am. (5 ft. 3 ins.); 10 33 a m. (10 ft. 7 ins.); 4.42 p.m. (7 ins);
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