Eastern Sun, 24 February 1969

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  • 23 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ft Estd. 1960. Vol. 3 No. 921 Monday, 24 February 1969. ft MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 209 1 SINGAPORE. Sun. The Prim* Minister and Mrs. Lee Kuan Yew gave a farewell dinner at Sri Temasek last night to General Sir Michael Carver, the out-going Com-mander-in-Chief. Far East Command and Lady Carver. Among those present were. Dr. Toh Chin Chye. Minister for Science and
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  • 177 1 PUNTA ARENAS. Chile Sun 'Reuter) Britain s John Blscoe Research Station was In ruins today following a volcanic eruption which turned the Antarctic Island cf Deception into an inferno The five-man research team from the base are safely aboard the British research ship Shackleton after being
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  • 133 1 VATICAN CITY. Sun. (Reuter) Pope Paul called today for a new mentality to form a United Europe, which he said could not be neutral in the present world situation. In an apparent reference to the row between Britain and France over General de Gaulle's reported proposals
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  • 401 1 Anglo-French Row Threatens Unity LONDON, Sun, (UP I) Britain yesterday pledged anew her friendship for the United States aid loyalty to the Atlantic alliance amid a diplomatic row with President Charles de Gaulle over his reported proposal to scrap NATO and the Common Market
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  • 59 1 BRUSSELS. Sun (Reuter) —Extreme left wing socialists hoisted the Vietcong colours on the 15th century Brussels Town Hall today only hours before President Richard Nixon's scheduied arrival on the first leg of his European tour. The socialists, who belong to “The Young Socialist Guard." c.Vled a
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  • 68 1 UNITED NATIONS. Sun. AFP) United Nations experts are being sent to a number of African and Aslan countries to help the developing countries cope with the problems caused by the “population explosion” in those regions. It was announced today. One will be sent to India, and will
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  • 60 1 HONG KONG. Sun. (UPI) The year 1969 may be the Chinese year of the chicken, but it was not to some 1.400 which were burned when a fire gutted a chicken shed on Sunday. Firemen managed to put out the blaze but not soon enough to save any
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  • 415 1 SINGAPORE. Sun.—American investors, responding to Singapore's invitation to invest here, have invested approximately US$lOO million in Singapore in the past two years, the American colony here has more than doubled in size with 3,000 Americans now living here, and Americans spent about
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  • 426 1 WASHINGTON, Sun. President Nixon left for Brussels today to begin a five-nation West European tour clouded by French President Charles de Gaulle's latest proposals for scrapping the North Atlantic alliance. Mr. Nixon, who hopes to warm up the cool relationship between France and the United Staten,
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  • 123 1 SAIGON. Sun. (Reuter) The Vietcong clandestine radio called on the Vietnamese people to “liberate” the capital as a second wave of rockets thundered into central Saigon this evening. One of the 122 mm missiles. which carries 14 pounds of T.N.T., destroyed a house just behind the
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  • 63 1 NEW ORLEANS. (Reuter) The port of New Orleans yesterday resumed operations, the second major port to do so since a nationwide dock strike hit the United States on December 20. More than 4.000 dockers returned to their jobs after striking for 63 days. New York
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  • 60 1 HONG KONG. Sun. (Reuter) Mr. Angus Ogilvy, husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent, arrived in Hong Kong today on a business trip. He told reporters he hoped some action would be taken soon on the building of a cross-harbour tunnel here in which Wheelcok. Marden and Co.
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  • 34 1 MANILA. Sun. <UPI) President Marcos today announced the appointment of Ernesto V. Lagdameo as new Philippine Ambassador to Washington. Lagdameo a 55-year-old Manila businessman takes hi* oath of office on Monday.
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  • 38 1 Seventy per cent fall driving tests. Page 2. Pictorial social round-up, Page 4. Student Essays. Page 10. England-Pakistan first test. Page 12. Tunku Gold Cup Race results. Page 12. And world news and regular features.
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  • 123 1 UNITED NATIONS. Sun. (Reuter) Russia officially told the U.N. today it would not take part In preparation* for the Second U.N. Development Decade because of West Germany's Inclusion In a special working committee. In a letter to the president of the general assembly. Dr, Emilio Arenales
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  • 61 1 LECCO, Italy. Sun. (Reuter) A landslide crashed down a mountainside near here early today, completely destroying a house and killing six of its 10 occupant*, police said. The death toll was expected to rise to seven after rescuer* searching for an elderly woman in the wreckage of
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  • 53 1 DACCA. Sun. (Reuter) Pakistan's former Foreign Mi* nister Zulficar Ali Bhutto said todav he would step down as a candidate for the presidency if opposition parties could agree on a candidate from East Pakistan. Mr. Bhutto, chairman of th* left-leaning People’s Party, emphasised the next president should be
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 193 2 HONG KONG: An album photograph of the owner of the Swedish Yacht Reverie, showing him with his family. They are Mr. Christian F. von Svdow, his wife Joan and their three daughters, only two of whom are identified. Christine, 15. (right), and Sarah (smallest
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  • 166 2 3 Die After 11 DeathFree Days SINGAPORE, Sun Three persons were killed in accidents during the last 24 hours in the Republic after 11 death-free days. Police said today the three killed were motor-cyclists end a pillion rider. All three did rot wear crash-helmets. Motor cyclist. Pang Ah Ng, 17.
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  • 116 2 ISTANBUL*, Sun. (ATP) A world conference on religion and peace, to be attended by 300 delegates, will be held in Kyoto, Japan, at the beginning of September 1970, it was decided at an international meeting here today. The decision was made by some 20 religious and lay
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  • 43 2 AMMAN. Sun. (Reuter) Arab women and schoolgirls organised a silent march through Amman today to highlight the role of Arab women in the struggle against Israel. They carried banners calling on the Arab states to back the resistance movement against Israel.
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  • 58 2 MANILA. Sun. (UPI) A group of 47 American business and newspaper executives arrived today in Manila on the first leg of a 16-day Asian tour arranged by Time-Life International. The executives flew in from Honolulu for a two-day visit in Manila en route to Hong Kong.
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  • 169 2 HONO KONG. Sun. (UPI) —a Hong Kong newspaper today quoted ‘'official Portuguese opinion” In Macao as “believing” that the three yacht* apparently sized by the Chinese Communists seven days ago would be released "within two weeks.” The three yachts, riding across the Pearl River mouth
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  • 308 2 SINGAPORE. Sun.—The Scout and Girl Guide Association celebrated the birthday of their founder Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell, with a get-together dinner at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce Auditorium last night. Present at the dinner was the President of Singapore. Enche Yusof bin Ishak and the First
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  • 164 2 NEW YORK. Sun (UPI) A survey by the U S. Department of Labour released yesterday showed that a rise in the cost of living and new taxes wiped out all pay raises gained by New York area factory workers during 1968.
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  • 74 2 MANILA, Sun. (UPl)—The Philippines exported total of 8.6 million pesos (about 4 million U.S. dollars) worth of fish last year. Vice President and Secretary of Agriculture Mr. Fernando Lopez reported. Most of the exports went to Japan, the United States and Italy. Last year's
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  • 299 2  -  BY THAUNG MYINE BANGKOK Sun (Reuter)— Six of the 33 Thai women candidates who stood for the February IS general elections beat their male rivals at the polls and were returned te the House of Representatives. The elections were Thailand's first In 10 years since the late
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  • 429 2 YONG TO ‘REMEDY’ ADMINISTRATION SINGAPORE, Sun.— Over 70 percent of driving testees fail their tests! This wes disclosed by the Minister for Communications. Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, when he opened the Queenstown Driving Test Centre at Commonwealth Avenue this evening. He said this figure
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  • 196 2 SINGAPORE Sun A country like Singapore can build its prosperity by buying, selling and using raw materials from all over the world In this sort of economy, the skill, lmaginetion and capacity for hard work The Political Secretary to the Ministry of Education. Enche Ghazali
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  • 120 2 LONDON Sun <UPI) The Sunday newspaper the observer today condemned recent attacks on civil aircraft loaded with passengers and described them as an “outrage.” In an editorial th* Observer said "The fact that they are made by brave men and wo. men who feel themselvee
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  • 72 2 DAYTONA BEACH Florida Sun. (Reuter) Racing driver Don Mactavlsh. 26. was killed today when his car hit a wall at more than 100 mph (160 kph.) In a production car race at th* Daytona speedway here. A fraction of a second after Mactavlsh hit the
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  • 122 2 JAKARTA. Sun. (Reuter) An Indonesian exporter has proposed mass migration of Indonesians abroad as a means of boosting the country's foreign exchange revenue. A director of the All-Indo-nesia Exporters Association. Mr Challd Latlf. said yesterday that If 100.000 Indonesian* worked abroad and sent back US$lO a month
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 26 2 TOTO DRAWS SINGAPORE Sun following numbers were sy drawn in the last of th» >» Chinese New Years Pools:26 3 45 The additional r .<*•*»» drawn was: 20.
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  • 158 3 COLOMBO. Sun. (UPI) The Ceylon Dally News criticised Malaysia’s decision to buy fighter planes for its Air Force in an editorial on Saturday. The nation’s leading Eng-lish-language newspaper said: Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister appears to be sincere in his desire to maintain peace and stability in
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  • 87 3 MELBOURNE. Bun. (Reuter) Australia is moving towards a presidential system similar to that of West Germany or India. Mr. Gough Whltlam. leader of the Federal Labour opposition Party said today. Mr. Whitlam. speaking In a Melbourne television interview said he considered the appointment of Sir Paul Hasluck
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  • 124 3 MANILA. Sun. (UPI) Fire today destroyed the whole top floor of the four-storey Philippine Women's University (PWU> building, home of the Internationally known Bayanihan Dance Group. The two-hour blaze started at about 2 p.m. when the Bayanihan dancers were about to begin their regular rehearsals
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  • 51 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. (Reuter) Four people from one family died in a fire in the tin-mining town of Ipoh. 130 miles north of here, early today. The top floor of a shophouse in which they were living burned out, causing about $70,000 worth of damage, police
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  • 53 3 VATICAN CITY. Sun. (UPI) The Vatican newspaper Losservatore Romano says parliamentary proposals to legalise divorce for couples married in religious ceremonies would violate the Italian constitution. The paper said in an article that the intent of the concordat between the Vatican and Italy was to prohibit legal sanction
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  • 54 3 WASHINGTON, Sun (UPI) —The Communications Satellite Corporation say 6 its net income rose from USs4.6m. in 1967 to s6.Bm. last year. Comsat said growing use of the system and the availability of four satellites throughout 1968 as against only one in 1967 boosted operating revenues from $18.4
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  • 56 3 Eastern Sun picture of the Washington Ball shows (from left): Lt. Col. William Von Platen, of the U.S. Embassy in Singapore; Mrs. Francis J. Galbraith, wife of the American Ambassador; Mr. John Chandler as George Washington; Mr. Francis J. Galbraith. American Ambassador; Mrs. John Chandler as Martha Washington and Mrs.
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  • 105 3 JOHANNESBURG. Sun (Reuter) A South African Airways Boeing 707 airliner headed westward over the Atlantic today for Rio de Janeiro and New York on the first flight of a new service that has brought anti-apartheid pro. test in New York. As the orange-tailed Jet flight
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  • 42 3 JEDDAH. Saudi Arabia. Sun. (UPI) Moslems from all over the world are streaming into Saudi Arabia for the annual pilgrimage to the holy shrines at Mecca and Medina Officials here said 275.967 Moslems from other countries have arrived so far.
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  • 158 3 POITIERS France. Sun (AFP* Gaston Clement, a 40-year-old farmer, shot all the members of his family father, mother and aunt and then died on a funeral pyre of his own making today. surrounded by his cherished farm machines, also blazing Neighbours, drawn by the smoke, found
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  • 47 3 JAKARTA. Sun (Reuter) Jakarta customs officials have seized three cases filled with records of popular Indonesian pop singer Lilis Surjani being smugg ed into the country from Singapore. Indonesia's Antara News Agency reported today There is a heavy import duty on records in Indonesia
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  • 50 3 BANGKOK. Sun. (Reuter) An American Pilot was killed last night when he fell from the fourth floor of an apartment here. He was Identified as Mr T C. Bmlth. 40 a pilot with Air America Thai and American security men are investigating the cause of his death.
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  • 30 3 PARIS. Sun (UPI) A home-made bomb and a Molotov cocktail exploded in front of a left-bank bookstore and the offices of the left-wing -ewspaper. Action, early today.
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  • 81 3 NAPLES Italy. Bun (UPI) Police surrounded a lowrent housing project with men and security vehicles after a day of disorder by hundreds of squatters and homeless persons The fighting began on Friday when police tried to remove about 500 persons who moved illegally into low-rent apartments Slum-dwellers and
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  • 214 3 CAIRO, Sun. (UPI) A Swedish insurance representative says that the 14 ships trapped in the Great Bitter Lakes of the Suez Canal could be freed by next year. But Erik Hedborj’s optimism did not extend to the American ship Observer. 17.600 tons, trapped
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  • 59 3 TOKYO. Sun. (Reuter) A U.S. Navy ship rescued 14 Japanese fishermen floating aboard a life boat in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo today. the Maritime Safety Agency reported. The agency said all 14 crewmen of the Japanese fishing boat No. Five Sanmi Maru abandoned their
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  • 136 3 NAIROBI. Sun. (AFP) Seven blind young men who had climbed 19.340 feet to the crater of Mount Kilimanjaro Africa's highest mountain today rested at Loitokltok Kenya, after descending 13.000 feet in a day and a half. They had climbed back to the Outward Bound
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  • 112 3 SUVA. Fiji. Sun. (Reuter) When the preacher failed to arrive at the church in the Fijian village of Cuvu today a man stepped out of the congregation and took his place. It was evangelist Billy Graham. who is passing through Fiji on his way to
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  • 310 4 PUAN Noor Aishah, the Republic's First Lady was guest-of-honour at a children's party organised by the University of Singapore Students' Union recently. She spent some time playing with the children and distributing gifts and presents She is seen being greeted on arrival by Dr. Nalla Tan, principal
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  • Article, Illustration
    48 5 THE DANCING PRESIDENT JJANOI, Sun. This radiophoto, monitored here on Feb. 19, carried the caption from Hanoi as follows: "What a joy to dance with Uncle Ho. The children were calling on the President bringing him Tet (lunar New Year) greet- ings and presents/' UPI Photo.
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  • 823 5 VALPARAISO. Indiana. Sun. (UPI) Indiana State Police oc Saturday sought to identify the body of a voung red haired girl found buried in a shallow grave on a porter county farm near this college community. A coroner’s report indicated the victim had been slain by a bullet through her
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  • 758 5  -  BY HENRY KEYS \l’ ASHING TON, Sun (I'PI) Consultation, not dlcta- tion this is how President Nixon views the purpose of his eight-day mission to Europe for discussions with America's allies. The President spelled out his intention* and hopes in meeting with
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  • 151 5 NEW YORK. Sub. <t'Pl> Heart surgeon Christian Barnard *jri he has been thinking about alienating the shortage of heart donors by using baboon hearts as "an interim transplant" to keep the patient alive until a human heart is available Barnard made the remark in an
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  • 153 5 JERUSALEM. Sun. (UPI) Well-plai.ea diplomatic sources said yesteraay they expect UR. Middle East peace negotiator Gunnar Jarring to begin a new round of talks in Middle Eastern capitals. It is not known how long Jarring will pursue talks, the sources said. But it appears
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  • 31 5 TOKYO. (UPI) Robo. newly appointed Albanian ambassador to Red China, arrived in Peking on Saturday to assume his new post, the Communist New China News Agency reported on Sunday.
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  • 836 5 OAIGON, Sun. (UPI) Communist forces fired powerful rockets into Saigon early today and shelled scores of other cities, towns and military bases throughout South Vietnam. They threw strong ground attocks against American troops guarding northern approaches to the capital. Seven 122 mm rockets and
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  • 334 5 SPACE CENTER. Houston Sun (UPI) The astronauts who may be the first men on the moon are scheduled to start active training for their mission tomorrow with a geology field trip in the rugged Quitman Mountains of West Texas. Apollo 11 crewmen Neil Armstrong
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  • 210 5 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) —North Vietnam will continue military offensive to win favourable public opinion in the west, visitting Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman said today. "My feeling is that the Communists (in Vietnam) want to achieve military victory to force public opinion in the
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  • 304 6 THERE is much food for thought in the speech of Dr. Lee Chiaw Meng, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education, at the Y’s Men’s Club of Singapore recently on the new pattern of education for Singapore. He foresees that in Singapore soon one out of
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  • 203 6 (UPI) THE Washington Daily News on Saturday editorially expressed hope that Pakistani President Mohammed Ayub Khan's rivals will show themselves as much a patriot as the newspaper feels he is in the current government crisis. Ayub “seemingly took a page from Lyndon Johnson's book by promising
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  • 196 6 (UPI) THE New York Times commented in Sunday’s edition on President Nixon's trip to Europe. The daily said: ‘‘President Nixon crosses the Atlantic today to reassert American interest in Europe after years of neglect. The task of arresting the dis-lntegration of the nation’s most crucial
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  • 986 6  -  By Alain Guy (A.F.F.) Even in our childhood, who has not felt wonder at the sight of that marvellous silver baloon, the moon? How many hands have reached out towards that inaccessible toy? Does not the international competition for the conquest of our satellite derive
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  • 184 6 AntiSmrkovsky Attacks PRAGUE. Sun. (UPD Prague newspapers Saturday reported a resurgence of hard-line communist polltlcal activity Including Illegal pamphlets and Soviet-backed meetings. The Communist Party newspaper Rude Pravo said a pro-Bovlet meeting of the Soviet-Czechoslovak Friendship Society In the town of Semlll last week brought a clash between police and
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  • 355 6  -  BY SEAGHAN MAYNES BELFAST. Northern Ireland, Sun. (Reuter) Prime Minister Terences O’Neill tonight wound up his election campaign with a whistle-stop tour of key constituencies and recorded street broadcasts urging voters to throw out his party rebels. In villages and towns whree the O'Neill
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  • 95 6 NEW DELHI. Sun. (AFP) Talks between India and Indonesia on strengthening their re. lations ended here today with a final meeting between vtsitir.g Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik and his Indian counterpart Dinesh Singh. A spokesman for the Indian delegation to the talks said "certain foundations have
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  • 356 6 BY ANDREW TARNOWSKI MADRID. San. (Renter) Six Spanish Parliamentary deputies have protested against Spain's national state of emergency and have blamed It for “restlessness and unease” In the country, informed sources said here today. The protest, sent to VicePresident Lula Carrero Blanco on February 7. called
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  • 654 6  -  BY PETER JOB BALIKPAPAN, East Borneo. Sun. (Reuter) Indonesian Borneo is not exactly the wild place it’s thought to be. In parts, at least, oil is bringing it up to date. Primitive Dyak tribesmen are nowhere to be seen in most major towns
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  • 95 6 MOSCOW, Sun <R* U ter)—The Soviet N>», Agency Taas described a an ‘unfriendly act today China’s refusal to allow Soviet representatives tn visit Soviet war rrave« In China The Chinese have re. fused such permission which the Soviet Union requests every year, for the
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  • 549 6  -  BY RALPH C. DEANS OTTAWA, Sun. (l'PI) Though neither Canadian or American officials are willing to admit it, relations between the two countries have been troubled recently, and some of the irritations are bound to come up when Prime Minister Elliett Trudeau meets
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  • 113 6 MOSCOW. Sun. (Reuter) The Soviet Government newspaper Izvestia tonight described British and French wrangling over the future of Europe as a scandal, and laid the blame for It on Britain. Izvestia's Paris correspondent said Britain’s disclosure of a French offer of wider European co-operation if Britain
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  • 535 6  -  By JOHN STEPHENS BRUSSELS. Sun. (Reuter) President Nixon flies Into Brussels the capital of Western Europe tonight to begin his European tour amid a new political crisis and EastWest tension over Berlin. Only five weeks after taking office, the President will take the political oulse of
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 324 7  -  By Antonio Friginal II TAN I LA, Mon. (UPI) Indonesia has launched a drive to recapture its A position as the leading copra and rubber producer before World War 11. The Indonesian Government plans to set up a copra
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    • 538 7 THE first 747 Superjet in 1 the colours of Pan American World Airways emerged from the Boeing Company’s plant in Everett, Wash., recently. This aircraft is one in a fleet of 25 Superjets ordered bv Pan Am in 1966 an order which led Boeing
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    • 57 7 MAIN cabin of HewlettPackard Company’s DC-6B is outfitted with a broad variety of the firm’s products. In this section of the cabin are electronic, medical and analytical test and measuring instruments. In a second, smaller section are computers and calculators made by Hew-lett-Packard. Insert photo shows the Hewlett-Packard Company's DC-6B
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    • 161 7 NEW YORK. Sun (UPI) Man-made fibre production In the U 8 increased 29 per cent In 1963. according to the Textile Economics Bureau This compares with a 3 per cent rise in 1967 Polyester In particular showed rapid gains with a jump of
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    • 89 7 MELBOURNE. Sun. (UPI) The Ford Motor Company, Australia, and La Trobe University in Melbourne have finalised arrangements for special language courses for Ford salesmen, it was announced here recently. Ford Austral.a will pay a set fee per rear to the univer- sity for a year's
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    • 84 7 SYDNEY. Sun. (Reuter> A proposed merger of the Bank of New South Wales Australia's largest private bank with the Commercial 3mk of Australia has been called off. it was announced A brief statement Issued by the president of the Bank of New S'luth Wales Sir John
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    • 155 7 TOKYO. Sun (AFP) A Japan-Hcng Kong firm, manufacturing in Taiwan with cheaper labour, is being projected by the Japanese textile industry, it was learned today. The Toyo Rayon (Toray) Co. and Chu Itoh Trading Ca are co-operating with the Textile Alliance of Hong
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    • 169 7 The MSA film "A.sian Assignment” produced by Jackson Wain won the first prize at the 1969 Pacific Area Travel Association film festival held in Bangkok. The 28 minutes film in colour features the narration of a traveller through some of the
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    • 467 7 Airborne Technical Exhibition Comi ng To Singapore K.L. SINGAPORE, Sun An airborne technical exhibition of Hewlett-Packard Company's electronic instruments will be visiting Singapore and Kuala Lumpur as an important stop during the companv airplane's 110-day trip around the world. The aircraft left Oakland .International Airport on Jan. 24. "The airborne
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    • 280 7 THE display of goods offered by a whole country, particularly a country like Switzerland which has built ud the national economy on export trade is extremely varied. Even those who already have a good knowledge of the economic conditions in this country, with its leading influence
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  • 593 8 Despite Ayub’s ‘Step Down’ Announcement... KARACHI, Sun. (UPI) New riot ng broke out in Pakistan yesterday despite President Mohammad Ayub Khan's decision to step down next year to save the country from possible anarchy. At least six persons were reported killed yesterday and hundreds
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  • 835 8 f ONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Airlines in several counL* tries have taken stricter security precautions following recent hijackings and terrorist attacks on airliners but most of them refuse to reveal what these precautions are In Tel Aviv, special precautions to protect Israeli airliners and
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  • 94 8 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter)— The Sunday Telegraph reported yesterday that a major Chinese military build-up was taking place in Inner Mongolia, the Chines* northern region which borders the Soviet-orientated Mongolian People’s Republic. A Hong Kong dispatch by correspondent Gordon BrookShepherd in this rightwing weekly said first
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  • 66 8 ZULFIKAR Ali Bhutto, former Foreign Minister, released after three months from house arrest, makes a gesture of breaking chain to the welcoming crowd at Karachi’s cantonment station on Feb. 17. During Bhuttos triumphant procession through parked streets of Karachi, crowds cheered and danced with joy. But police had to move
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  • 81 8 TOKYO. Sun (Reuter) A minor earthquake jolted Tokyo and its vicinity today. the central meteorological agency reported No damage or casualties were reported The agency said the quake in Tokyo registered an intensity of one. or barely felt, in the Japanese scale of seven Nearby Yokohama
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  • 606 8 BRASILIA. (UPI)— A Brazilian and an American who was active in Brazil were caught and jailed bv Interpol in Europe for passing bad checks and fraud. The Interpol representative in the Brazilian capital said on Saturday that Brazilian Claudio Da Fonseca Motta, also known as Claude Fontiane, was caught
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  • 272 8 NEW ORLEANS. Sun (Reuter) A Federal Government firearms expert yesterday testified at the trial of Clay L. Shaw that the bullet that killed President John Kennedy in Dallas was fired from the Texas school book depository there Robert Frazier, chief of the FBI
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  • 134 8 CAIRO Sun. (AFP) Dr. Mahmoud Fawzy. President Nassers Foreign Affairs Adviser. will make a four day official visit to Britain next month, the Middle East News Agency announced today. Dr Fawzy who has been Invited by the British Government. will give Premier Harold Wilson a
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  • 255 8 WASHINGTON. Sun. (UPI) Former President Dwight D Eisenhower has developed signs of an "acute Intestinal obstruction” while recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre from a senes of heart attacks, hospital officials said last night. Doctors said "conservative measures" were being taken to relieve
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  • 157 8 WASHINGTON. Sun. (UPI) Sen. Barrv M. Goldwater, Repubiiean-Anzona, said yesterday the United States should give North Vietnam a reasonable time limit possibly within this year to complete the Paris negotiations and end the Vietnam war. “I think we have to begin to play in
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  • 36 8 PERTH. Western Australia. Sun. (Reuter) Aboriginal Artist Malcolm El’.is. 27, has won the Asloo fist prize in an art festival here. His landscape work was painted while he served a jail term.
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  • 195 8 LONDON. Sun (Reuter A Qantas Boeing 707 air. yesterday dived out of coir near Bahrain but landed 5= ly on the island with a n ber of injured passengers The airliner, flight from Sydney to London into the dive when th» 3 .*>
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  • 175 8 SYLVESTER. Georgia Bun (Reuter) Some 750 c A right* demonstrators headed by the Reverend Ralph Abernathy marched through the street* of this small yesterday in protest aga rs*, the arrest of a teenage N?g:a girl One of the demons*ra'-:s suffered a heart attack and
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  • 263 8 NEW DELHI. Sun (Reuter) Mr. Adam Malik. Indo. nesian Foreign Minister, and Mr. Dinesh Singb. his Indian counterpart, yesterday ended talks here on strengthening relations between the two countries A Joint communique is expected tomorrow when Mr Malik leaves for a visit to Pakistan
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  • 84 8 Hn.i (Reu ter > Two Brazilian football players fought a ?_h,22?.i P !Xt2,S 7 mov J n e mot orcycles yesterday, and today one of them was in hospital seriously injured The other was hiding from the police a botl cra f ck Payers from
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  • 354 9 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Central Council of the Singapore Teachers' Union has appointed a seven-man delegation to meet the Registrar of Trade Unions to seek guidance and advice on certain "disturbing issues" relating to the activities of the Union. The delegation, appointed
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  • 154 9 LECCO. Italy, Sun. (Reuter i Five people were killed and three injured bv a landilioe that completely engulfed a house here today, police said. Two more people were reported missing, believed dead, under the debris. The landslide crashed down the Monte San Martino at
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  • 107 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun The Minister of Finance. Tun Tan Slew Sih. today opened the $240,000 Chee Choong Temple in Pudu and stressed the importance of selfreliance. He praised the temple management for organising various activities, like providing scholarships for children of devotees and free medical treatment
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  • 229 9 BANGKOK, Sun. (Reuter) —Mr. R. sem Pramoj. leader of Thailand’s main opposition party, has said that he will support Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn for Prime Minister despite a move by some independents to nominate him fo r the office. Mr. Seni. leader of the Democratic
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  • 86 9 BRISBANE. Sun. (Reuter) Professor Sir Fred Schoneil. the Australian educationalist. died here last night at the age of 66 Sir Fred. Vice-Chancellor of Queensland University, was Kmghted in 1962 for his services to education. Twenty-two years of his career were spent in Britain. He became Professor
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  • 39 9 LONDON Sun (TM) Britain's National Health Service performed 14.564 legal abortions last year. the Health Ministry reported It said 41 per cent of the women were unmarried and 19 per cent of the unwed were under 18.
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  • 225 9 ‘Orientation Tour By UK Travel Agents SINGAPORE. Sun—A group of 11 travel agents from Britain arrived here today for a four-day “orientation tour of Singapore Whilst in Singapore the group will studv the tourist attractions and facilities in order to help promote the Republics tourist industry on their return. The
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  • 200 9 SINGAPORE. Sun. The Chairman of Britain* Commonwealth Development Corporation. Lord Howick of Glendale arrived here this evening for top-level discussions with Singapore's Prime Minister and senior government officials. He told newsmen at the airport. that the Commonwealth Development Corporation was interested in
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  • 145 9 WASHINGTON. Sun (Reuter) A ftve-year-old drive to provide food and jobs for some 30 million poor in the United States is undergoing an intensive White House study that could alter profoundly the war against poverty in America. The etfort, launched by President Johnson
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  • 51 9 MONTREAL. Sun. (Reuter) Two people were injured when an explosion here rocked the Liberal Party's Reform Club whose members include Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Police said two club employees were taken to hospital after last night's blast, believed to have been caused by a
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  • 88 9 SINGAPORE. Sun.—A brave young boy flew off to Australia tonight in search of a new life. For eight-year-old Joel Lee. (above) seen here being kissed by his three-year-old sister. Eunice Lee. has been suffering from a hole in his heart since birth. He will undergo
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  • 67 9 SINGAPORE, Sun. The famous Sin Tian Chai Teochew Opera from Hong Kong sponsored by the New Ideal Exposition will perform at the Gay. World Stadium on Feb. 27 at 7.30 p.m. The entire proceeds of the show will be donated to the National Defence
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  • 33 9 MOSCOW. Sun. (UPI) Soviet Union has offered Syria assistance In developing its oil Industry, representatives of Damascus and Moscow had discussed Joint “development of the national oil industry In Syria.”
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  • 157 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Malaysia and the People's Republic of Southern Yemen will establish diplomatic relations soon, the leader of a two-man Yemenese mission. Mr. Abdul Bari Qassem. said today. “The establishment of diplomatic relations will strengthen the existing ties of friendship and goodwill
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  • 288 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Democratic Action Party and the Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia today signed an electoral pact. The pact ensures that the two parties do not fight one another in the coming general elections. Later, the DAP Secretary General, Mr. Goh Hock Guan, one of the
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  • 47 9 VIENNA. Sun (UPI) Mihai Cluca. Internationally known bacteriologist died in Bucharest on Thursday, the Rumanian news agency Agerpress said today He’ was 86 years old. Cluca served as Secretary General on the International Malaria Commission under the League of Nations from 1928 to 1938.
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  • STUDENTS’ PAGE All TEN DOLLARS ESSAY WINNERS
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      474 10 AN ALSATIAN’ dog was given to me last year by mr uncle as a birthday present. At first, I was rather angry for having such a birthday gift. However, as time passed. I came to be very Interested in it and spent most of my time playing
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      353 10 THE Scout movement is well known and well established all over the world, with a total membership of over ten million. It is a J (raiseworthy movement, or it keeps the youths of a country usefully active. Through this movement, boys are trained to be good, useful, honourable, loyal
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      262 10 The sun was setting by the time I reached the outskirts of my estate. It was a tranquil and cool evening. I was wondering at the almost unnatural quietness when, suddenly, a deep-throat-ed snarl pierced the air. I hurriedly swung round to my right from where the
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    • 671 10 A LEADER is one who leads or conducts us. For example a political leader leads his country and looks after the welfare of the country. These are not his only jobs. He has many other jobs to handle. Therefore means that patience, intelligence, and
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    • 385 10 ROAD accidents are daily occurrences in Singapore. There are over ninety road accidents occurring each day of which one is fatal. Recently a “safety first" campaign was started to reduce the number of accidents so that there will be less suffering from injuries. Road accidents are commonly
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    • 267 10 NOWADAYS, the Singapore Government is encouraging students to participate in extracurricular activities because the government wants to build a rugged society so that we can progress and improve. If we participate in school extra curricular activities we can be strong and healthy, and thus avoid
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    • 401 10 SOME people take up reading as their hobby or for pleasure, but I think it is the thirst for knowledge. Knowledge is boundless and the more we read, the more knowledge we get. It helps us in many ways. People often say that gold and silver are
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    • 535 10 WHAT lies ahead when we leave school is a thought which needs to be considered. Time has flown past our very eyes without our knowing it. A week from now, we will have to leave our school forever and enter the wide world The precious
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    • 249 10 THE greatest problem that arises in Singapore and South-east Asia is defence. This is due to Britain’s withdrawal by 1971. There is a risk of attack from her neighbours who are more powerful than Singapore. Singapore has yet no air defence system, no air force and
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    • 440 10 Each individual he j his duties and responsibilities and he enjoys at the same time, the r tgh'i and privileges of the state or country. Though sometimes he has to face some inconvenience, most of the time he enjoys the benefits of the party he
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  • Sun Sport
    • 70 11 JOHANNESBURG. Sun Reuter) South African golf star Gary Player won the South African P G.A. title here yesterday with a 72holes aggregate of 272. He had rounds of 67. 63. 66 and 71. Player, holder of the British Open title, won by one stroke from fellow-South
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    • 530 11 r ONDON, Sun. (Reuttr) Leeds United sot snugly on the sidelines yesterday and watched their chances or winning the English First Division football championship soar as nearest challengers Liverpool dropped a point at West Ham. Leeds, whose game with Sheffield Wednesday was among
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    • 145 11 LONDON. Sun. It was in July 1948 that Sir Ludwig Guttman organised the first paraplegic games at the Stoke Mandeville hospital in Southern England. It was the year of the Olympic Games in London and 16 members of the British Armed Services and two girls
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    • 399 11 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Results of the only Scottish and English Football matches played yesterday were: Scottish Division One Kilmarnock 1, Hearts 0. Morton 0, Dunfermline A. 2. Scottish Division Two Dunbarton 0, Queen of South 2. Montrose 3, East Fife 1. Stirling 1, Alloa 1 Stranraer 1, Clydeband
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    • 1093 11 >HOCK TV and Radio ~«u T* 1 j TODAY J TV SINGAPURA (CHANNEL 51 PM. 5.50 Prog. Summary in all Languages 555 Belajar-lah Bahasa Kebangsaan; 605 Phantom Agent Operation Money Key «Part 2»; 6 30 Family Affair The Babv Sitters: 7.00 Piano Duo Ricardo it Joev Anciano repeat*; 7 40
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  • 1876 12  -  Theatre VI And Lotus Flower Spring Surprise By BIG BEN KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Choi Kion defied a 9.02 impost to capture the Tunku's Gold Cup worth $25,000 here today, concluding day of the Selangor Turf Club meeting. The Pipe of Peace Reid- lng was confidently ridden
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  • 409 12 LONDON. Bun. (Reuter) —England beat France for the first time since 1965 in the international ruebv union championship when they won an exciting clash bv 22 points to eight at Twickenham yesterday. For the English, who had conceded 43 points in their previous three
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  • 221 12 SINGAPORE Sun. Hotel Singapura defeated Sukaramai Sports Club by four goals to two in a Football Association of Singapore Division One fixture at Jalan Besar Stadium this evening. Exchanges were even in the first half but on resumption Hotel Singapura dominated play. Former State player. Mahat Ambu
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  • 352 12 LAHORE. Sun (Reuter) A fine inrings of 69 not out by Keith Fletrher halted a humiliating England collapse against Pakistan on the third day of the First Tes: match here England, who led by 97 on the first innings, lost half their second innings wickets for
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  • 53 12 SINGAPORE Sun. The Combined Armed Forces Fathul Karib team will meet the Yanmar team of Japan in a friendly soccer match at the Jalan Besar Stadium, tomorrow at 7.00 p.m. There will be a supporting match between Chua Chu Kang Malay School and the Telok Paku English School
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  • 1295 12 THE past year has been one of success and disappointment in British Sport. In this article Doug. Gardner, the Features Editor of “World Sports the magazine of the British Olympic Association, who is chairman of the British Sports Writers’ Association in London, discusses
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