Eastern Sun, 1 April 1969

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  • 22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 956 Tuesday* 1 April 1969. MC (P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 722 1 Wot Only Buying And Selling' CHNGAPORE, Mon. The Finance Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, said today Singapore wants to play a more useful economic role than "just buying and selling of Indonesian goods." Dr. Goh who led a 22-member investment mission to
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  • 150 1 KARACHI. Mon. (Reuter)— General Yahya Khan assumed the office of President of Pakistan today, six days after taking over powers from Marshal Ayub Khan, it was officially announced in Rawalpindi The 58-year-old General Yahya had ruled the country witj the title of Chief Martial law
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  • 107 1 LAGOS, NIGERIA. Mon. (UPI) Prime Minister Harold Wilson of Britain flew to Ethiopia today (at 1000 GMT) in search of an end to Nigeria's civil war. Wilson had talks with Nigerian Federal leaders but his offer to meet Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu. leader of secessionist Biafra, brought
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  • 151 1 JOHANNESBURG Mon. Reuter) A South African tennis official today emphatically denied reports that the South African Government had waived apartheid laws to allow Iran's Davis Cup squad to visit South Africa this month. "The report is absolutely wrong." Mr. Alf Chalmers. President of the South African
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  • 79 1 SYDNEY. Mon. (Reuter) Peter Alder. 25. who drove his sportscar alongside another sportscar and tooted his horn, was shot In the head because he upset a passenger In the other car. according to evidence in the Central Criminal Court here today. Robert George Archer, 21. who
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  • 110 1 ALTENRHEIN, Switzerland. Mon. (UPI) A woman parachutist on her first jump on Sunday survived: Dangling from a rope attached to a plane, while the rope tangled round her neck and arm. Being dragged for more than 200 metres (219 yards) on her back when the plane landed. The
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  • 112 1 SINGAPORE, Mon-—Another collision occurred today in the Port of Singapore Authority area. At about 11.10 a.m. the Norwegian cargo ship "Sira" (10.400 tons) collided with the South Korean cargo ship "Peng Juen" (5,100 tons) at the Quarantine Anchorage. The Korean ship was carrying clinker.
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  • 303 1 LONDON", Mon. (I'PI) Israel said today it was ready to talk peace with the Arabs and only with the Arabs. It rejected any outside interference, including Big Four talks scheduled this week to discuss the Middle East crisis. The Israeli Cabinet issued
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  • 59 1 TAIPEI, Mon. (UPI) A 30-year-old farmer from Chutun«. Central Taiwan, says he will give a public demonstration of his ability to converse with birds on April 20. when he will call in owls from the hills and have a chat with them. Hsu Chin-mei claims
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  • 85 1 THRAPSTON. England. Mon. (UPI) When the posters went up on High Street the eyebrows in this market town went even higher. Underneath a sketch of a naked man and a woman was the caption: "Nothing on? See you at the annual parish meeting. We can't guarantee a
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  • 833 1  -  By CHAN KAM YAU KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The President of the Sessions Court here, Enche Suleiman Hashim, today committed three company directors to stand trial in the High Court for alleged criminal breach of trust of $1,214,342.54 belonging to the Malaysian Government Utticers' Co-Operative
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  • 110 1 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Tass News Agency correspondent in Singapore, Mr. Yuri Asarov, and two other people were admitted to the General Hospital in a "critical condition** following a car accident at Nicol Highway early this morning- Mr. Azarov and three
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  • 88 1 WALTON ON THAMES. England, Mon. <UPI) Beatle George Harrison and his wife today pleaded guilty to Illegally possessing marijuana Each was fined £250 <USS 600'. Harrison. 25. and his wife. Patti Boyd 24, were accused of unlawfully having a quantity of marijuana in their £40.000
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  • 40 1 WASHINGTON. Mon (CFI) —Dwight D. Eisenhower's last words, as revealed on Sunday by President Nixon, were; "I've always loved mr wife. I've always loved my children. I've always loved my grandchildren. and I've always loved my country."
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  • 94 1 DURBAN. Mon (Reuter) An African servant whose employer often transports him in the closed boot of his car is considering changing his Job The African, who earns about four pounds 13 shillings sterling a month, said i*> an interview he had been offered several Jobs after neighbours
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 445 2 SAIGON, Mon. (Reuter) A mine embedded with steel barbs and believed to have been set off by a Vietcong teenager exploded near National Police Headquarters in Saigon today, injuring 11 people Police and military sources said four civilians and three children were seriously hurt in
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  • 45 2 PRETORIA, Man. (Reuter) —Mrs. Johann Jordaan died In a car accident here yesterday as she returned home from a mortuary, where she had identified the body of her husband, killed by a car when he was crossing a road only six hours earlier.
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  • 31 2 CAIRO. Mon. (Reuter) Hotels, apartments and office buildings in Cairo today swaved slightly as a 15-second earth tremor hit the city. There was no immediate news of damage
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  • 616 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. The majority of delegates to a national students seminar have agreed that there is a pressing need for a national body to represent them in the Republic. This was set out in a seven-page communique issued at the close of the
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  • 182 2 TOKYO, Mon. (Reuter) Japan is to seek support for an International conference to discuss waya to make the Malacca Straits, one of the world's busiest sea lanes, safer for big ships. The Japanese Transport Ministry said today at least 10 countries were expected to join
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  • 94 2 WELLINGTON. Mon. <Reuter) —New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr. Keith Holyoake said today that he would attend the forthcoming annual SEATO conference in Bangkok if the date wa« convenient. Mr. Holyoake, who is also Minister of External Affairs, told reporters he felt it desirable that he
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  • 283 2 THE VALLEY, Anguilla, Mon. (UPI) With apparent agreement on Ave of seven points for a political settlement on Anguilla, negotiators today argued over how long occupation troops would remain and what kind of interim government the rebel island would have. Lord Caradon, special British envoy
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  • 129 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. The National Productivity Centre of the Emnomie Development Board will run a seven-week course, "Job Evaluation and Incentives." from May 12. This is the sixth course organised by the centre this year to assist industries to increase output and reduce costs by employing definite
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  • 92 2 AMSTERDAM, Mon. (UPI) John and Yoko Lennon quietly ended their weeklong demonstration in bed for peace today and hurried off in the rain for Vienna. They left their Amsterdam hotel bedroom exactly a week after bedding down with a vow to atay there aeven daya
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  • 217 2 CAIRO, Mon. (R#uter) Egyptians today studied a new blueprint for social and economic change, amidst warnings from President Nasser that another battle with Israel may yet come. The National Congress of the Arab Socialist l T niOn ended it* first anniversary session of President Nasser's March 30
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  • 97 2 NEW YORK. Mon (UP!)— Sammv Davis Jr. has been honoured by the NaUonal Association for the Advancement of coloured People for "his superb and many-faceted talent and commitment to the enduring values of tse Judeo Christian tradition." The entertainer. supporter of Civ.! Right» programmes, received
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  • 98 2 JAKARTA. Mon (UPI) The Sudan may buy at much as 12.000 metric tons of surplus Indonesian coffee which thij country cannot sell to membe r nation* of the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) it was reported today. Sudan is not member of the ICO and therefore
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  • 61 2 RANGOON. Mon. ffteuter) —Fiv# p*opl» were killed and more than 15.000 mad# homeless in a fire which dett roved about 3.000 houses in Sagaing. near Mandalay. according to local press report® today. Several school building*, the Sagarn* railway station and government offices were destroyed In yesterday's fire
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  • 54 2 LONDON. Mon. (UPl)—The Automobile Associations* book of France, published today, believes that lots of water. Inside and out. is the anti-dote for too much alcohol. In case of hangover the book suggests: "Lots of water before you ileep and when vou wake, breakfast and a brisk walk
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  • 201 2 NEW YORK. Mon. (UPI) City police were called to the Metropolitan Opera House yesterday to calm about. 500 angry ballet enthusiasts arguing about who should be first in line to buy tickets for a coming performance of the Royal Ballet of England. A spokesman for
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  • 132 2 HONG KONG, Mon.( Reuter) Officials of the British Overs#a§ Aim ays Corporation (BOAC) in Hong Kong today arranged flights for passengers to other airline# as the company's pilots around the world walked off their jobs Tba strike staged to bark pay claims and caused the cancellation
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  • 272 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Democratic Action Party today strongly denied the charge by the Alliance Party that it had received financial support from the People's Action Party in Singapore but instead accused the UMNO of having received $1 million from "a foreign source". In
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  • 60 2 MANILA, Mon. (UPI) Fire that rafeo for 36 hours rWtroved two pine tree refoareas worth US f 125.000 in Malaybalay town n Southern Philippine*, the Philippines N«TI Service reported tonight. Government troopers, emr loyeet. civilian*, radio and press men helped contain the Haze to two hectares In each
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  • 197 2 MANILA, Mon (I PI) Asian countries must adopt a common front to fight discrimination and exploitation of their products by highly developed countries, Philippines Finance Secretary Mr. Eduardo KomuaJdei said today. Mr. Romualdez. who will lead the Filipino delegation to the 4th Asian Economic
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  • 60 2 SYDNEY. Mon (Reuter) Australia's first horse hospital —built at a cost of 250,000 Australian dollars (116.700 ■tarliii|) has op«ned at St Mary's In the foothills of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. The hospital has facilities for major operations and Xravs of racehorses Hydraulic lifts and an outsize
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  • 305 2 SINGAPORE. Mon.—The Traffic Police have asked motorists to avoid certain roads in the Republic during the Cheng Beng festival which begins on Friday to ease traffic congestion. During the festival, thousands of worshippers in vehicles are expected to visit the various Chinese cemeteries from
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  • 111 3 SYDNEY. Mon. fßeuter) An Italian greengrocer who tried to smuggle an assortment of pistols and flick knives through customs at Sydney Airport on his return from a trip to Italy because he "wanted protection", was fined 1.000 Aust dollars (466 sterling) in the special federal
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  • 92 3 JAKARTA. Mon. (UPI) A national defence board will be established shortly to advise President Suharto on defence and security matters, the official War News announced today. Its functions will be similar to that of the U.S. National Security Council, but it also will advise on
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  • 506 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Malaysia's newest multi-mil-lion dollar holiday resort project. in the Genting Highlands. 33 miles from here, was launched today by the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman. The Tunku also laid the foundation stone of the mul-ti-storey $8 million hotel to be built
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  • 214 3 Kl ALA LI MPI R, Mon. The Democratic Action Party will release its manifesto to the public on the eve of Nomination Day. spelling out its alternative policy to solve national problems something, which it claimed, the Alliance Party has failed to do. More than
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  • 30 3 MELBOURNE. Mon. (Reuter) World bantamweight boxing champion. Lionel Rose, is "comfortable"' following his tonsil operation at St. Vincent's Hospital today. and doctors described the operation as "quite satisfactory."'
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  • 259 3 WALTON-ON -THAMES, England, Mon. (Reuter)— Beatle George Harrison and his wife, model Patti Boyd, were each fined 250 sterling here today after pleading guilty to possessing cannabis resin. The charges followed a search of the couple s home earlier this month. They
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  • 223 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Time magazine business group which recently visited Malaysia has reported to President Nixon "new insights" gain in their "informative and stimulating "tour of the country." Time magazine publisher Mr. James R Shepley has written to the Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman thanking
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  • 94 3 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Armed h:-jackers grabbed £17.000 worth of precious metal from a bullion van in a rush-hour robbery here today. Police did not disclose the type of bullion stolen. Police said a gang of about eight men two of them carrying shotguns—stopped the van at about eight
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  • 397 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The re-elected chairman of the Automobile Association of Singapore Mr. Milton Tan today called on drivers to comply with the requirements of "Three Es" as summarised by safety first ex- perts. According to him. the famous "Three Es" are engineering,
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  • 267 3 SINGAPORE. Mon.—The Coroner, Mr. Chandra Mohan today praised the police for their efficient investigation and for the first time bringing to court both a witness and an owner of "a property'' Involved in a case. Mr. Mohan made this remark after he returned a verdict of
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  • 120 3 BANGKOK. Mon. (UPI) Ambassador Marshall Green, incoming U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for the Far East, left for Rangoon this morning after a three-day stopover in Bangkok to be briefed on Thai affairs. Mr. Green, who is making a swing through several Asian capitals to survey
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  • 266 3 KUALA. LUMPUR. Mon. Mechanisation in farming methods has become a permanent feature in Malaysia's drive towards "agricultural power.*' said the Minister of Agriculture and Co-opera-tives. Hajl Mohamed Ghazall bin Jawi today. Speaking a t the opening of the power tiller factorv PanMalaysian Agricultural Machinery Sendirian Berhad
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  • 268 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A two-tier system for the College Agriculture in Serdang to enable students to undergo either a degree aV j ip lo ma c l ours< was tod °y P r °Posed by the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak.
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  • 134 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The government would consider seriously the getting up of a school of dental surgery, the Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak, said last night. The setting up of the schooL he added, was on the list of the country's priorities. "The
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  • 165 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Two rooms in a leading hotel here were broken into over the weekend and nearly $1,200 la cash and belongings stolen, a police spokesman said today. One of the rooms was occujv led by a Thai visitor. Mr. Panbwatawa Tabtiong, who
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  • 22 3 SINGAPORE. Mon —There will be no delivery of correspondence or parcels on Friday which is a public holiday.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 49 3 SPORE DIARY 5.30 p.m. 9 o.m.r SATA free mass X-ray station at Commonwealth Crescent market square, block 118. 7.30 p.m: Free film shows by Ministry of Culture at Mandai Tekon* Resettlement Area 38. 8 p.m.: Magic and illusion course and Chinese drama lecture at National Theatre Club. Clemenceau Avenue.
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  • 278 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. The queuing up at bus stops campaign which concluded today has succeeded in stirring up public consciousness towards the need for order- liness at the bus stops. This was stated today by the chairman of the organising committee of the campaJgn. Dr. Lee
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  • 38 4 SINGAPORE Mon. Labourers working at a P.W.D. construction site in Palmer Road unearthed a hand grenade while digging the ground this morning. The hand grenade was later removed by a Singapore Armed Forces Ammunition technician.
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  • 48 4 SINGAPORE. Mon.—Applications for admission to the Farm School of the Primary Production Department are now open. The school runs a one-year Intensive training course in animal husbandry, horticulture. and fresh-water fish (pond fish and aquarium fish culture) for the new session beginning Sept. 1.
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  • 51 4 SINGAPORE. Mon.—Three photographs of three Royal Air Force men, showing them indecently expoiin* themselves at Bugis Street, were produced in the Ninth Magistrate's Court todayBrian Frederick. Thomas Moran and Anthony McParland. all 21, admitted committing the offence at 12.30 a.m. on March 30 They were find $3O
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  • 161 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. A Singapore boy at school In Britain ha* raised £215 on an Oxfam walk believed to be a record individual contribution for such walks to aid the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief He Is Geh Yang Tek. a pupil of Leys School. Cambridge and
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  • 161 4 Geh is in his fourth year at the school studying for his "A" level examination* In mathematics, physics and chemistry with a view to entering a university and becoming an electrical engineer He already ha* an •'A'* level in ancient hlstonr This is not the first of Oeh'a
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  • 56 4 SINGAPORE. Mon Two Thai naval ships arrived here yesterday fo r a informal visit before leaving for their homeland They are H.T.M S. Maeklong and H.M.TS Phosamton. The two ships arrived after a training programme in th* Indian Ocean and has some 200 cadets on board.
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  • 30 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. The mobile blood bank will be stationed at High Street car park adjacent to the High Court building on Wednesday between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
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  • 187 4 BANGKOK. Mon. (UPI) Five Thai and Malaysian polieemen were wounded when a joint border patrol force of 8 r men ran Into a terrorist band and a three-hour firefight developed, police said yestardajr. The fight took place on a jungled hilltop near the town of Waenr about 550
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  • 125 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. The keys of a lovely brand new Mercedes Benz 200 were handed over this morning to Mr. Tan Tjing Soei. first prize winner of the Lucky Draw held in conjunction with the Special Draws for the Chinese New Year. Mr Tan was all smiles u
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  • 209 4 PARIS the headquarters city for boutiques, and within Paris the neighbourhood to seek out for the largest concentration o< little fashion shops is on the Left Bank. Rue de Sevres la the street, near th* famed St. Germain des Pres area. Fifteen years ago. when the
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  • 83 4 SINGAPORE Moo. 1 he Chines* Chamber of Commerce will stage a colourful Fireworks Display on National Day. August 9. 4 o mark the Republic's 150 th Anniversary. The management committee of the Chamber adopted this resolution at its first monthly meeting, held here today The management committee
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  • 480 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. An eminent visiting linguistic expert from Britain, Professor Michael Halliday, said today Singapore provided a unique area for linguistic research in this region. Professor Halliday aaid that multi-lingual community structure of the Republic would be able to provide visiting scholars and language experts
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  • 208 4 SINOAPORE Mon. The Singapore Paediatrie Society In conjunction with the Society of Private Practice will hold the next Hand a* Memorial Lecture on Friday at the Pathology Lecture Theatr* Outram Road Oer.eral Hospital. The lecture is to commemorate the death of an eminent member of the medical profeailon.
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  • 163 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. An old man expressed f*ar of death to his daughter-in-law after he had heard someone say that he could not live long because he wn aufferlng from jwollen legs. the Coroner'* Court was told today. Can Chew, (14. was found dead on the ground
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  • 275 4 SINGAPORE. Mon.—The hard work put In by members of the National Theatre Trust have paid dividends. The National Theatre Companv will make its first overseas trip next year. This was announced by Dr. Goh Poh Seng. Chairman of the National Theatre Trust at a
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  • 267 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. A claim for damages by a family of a lorrv attendant who was killed in a road accident more than two years ago was dismissed by the High Court today. The claim was instituted bv Chut Hon* Heng. the administratrix and Teo
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  • 124 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Junior Chamber of Commerce here will erect a Jayeee Sign Post at the arrival lounge of the Singapore Airport and at the Port of Singapore Authority. Announcing thU. the Chairman of Public Relations Commission of the Chamber, Mr. Edward Wong said that this was
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  • 64 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Minister of Defence will be asked about the outcome of his examination into the problem of Issuing certificates of identity to non-citizens of Maliysian origin permanently resident in Singapore for purposes of travel between Singapore and West Malaysia. The question for oral answer during the
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  • 95 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. Police it* looking for relative* or ends of a Malay pedestrian who died at the Thomson Road General Hospital after he was 'fcck down by a motor scooter ilong Woodsville Road. ve«terday. Police who gave his name as Sadari bin Simok are unable to
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  • 259 5 Sunday ShootOut In Church DETROIT. Mon. fUPI) fclarir* Sl 0t hel r wav into a J? onalist meting i n a C 3 r a sst5 st Side Chu i"ch yesteroa> and arrested 135 persons nu fs after one policeman 3 4"} an d another wounded outside the building. Four
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  • 149 5 WASHINGTON. Mon. <UPD Three ministers of two protestant denominations will officiate today at the funeral service for Mr. Dwight D. Eisenhower at Washington National Cathedral. The rites will open with an orean chorale by Bach and close the strains of "Lead kindly ilght" The clergy
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  • 127 5 OLD BROOKVILLE. New York. Mon (Reuter) Stuart Johnson. 75. a wealthy retired ftock-broker who was host to Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva. when she first arrived In the United States In 1967, was found dead on a golf course here today. His body was found on the 16th
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  • 92 5 JAKARTA, Moo. (Reut«r)— Indonesian Army Chief General Panggabean said last night President Suharto had decided to send a number of generals to the Army Staff College in Bandung. West Java. General Panggabean declined to state the purpose of the decision, but it was seen here as
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  • 61 5 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter)— Indonesian police have called n parents to pay more attention to their daughters following indications of increasing moral decadence among girls in Solo, Central Java, Antara news agency reported The news'agencv quoting the city's Police Chief Inspector Nindyoroemekso, said that many girls
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  • 352 5 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Pilots of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) stopped work early today to back a claim, grounding 27 of the airline's jets in Britain. The Secretary for Employment. Mrs. Barbara Castle, who sponsored lastditch "peace" talks, said when she left her
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  • 94 5 FRANKFURT. Germany. (UPI) Leftists, ban-the-bombers and members of the so-called extra-parliamentary opposition clashed with police in four West German cities during two days of traditional "Easter peace marches" that ended last night. The demonstrators, were sponsored by the leftist Campaign for Democracy and Disarmament, were primarily
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  • 119 5 AYLESBURY. England. Mon. (Reuter) Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila. who set new Olympic marathon records at both the 1960 Rome games md the 1964 Tokyo games, has a broken neck and serious spinal cord injury, doctors said today. The barefoot athlete, aged 36. was flown to Stoke
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  • 66 5 MANILA. Mon (Reuter) The Philippines chief volcanologist Mr. Arturo Alcaraz said today the eruption of Didicas island volcano in the northern Philippines 10 days ago could be just the initial stage of a major eruption. But he said it was most improbable that Didicas island would suddenly sink
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  • 57 5 GALVESTON, Texas, (UPI) Bargainers for shippers and International Longshoremen Association (ILA) have agreed on a new three-year contract which should bring an end to the 100-day-old Texas dock strike by Tuesday. Only minor issues remain to be settled before the contract can be submitted to dockworkers
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  • Bulletins
    • 96 5 LONDON, (UPI) President Gamal Abdei Nasser of Egyot and the Israeli cabinet issued tough statements yesterterday on what they want from any Middle East peace settlement. In effect they ruled out acceptance of the new U.S peace plan for the area "Israel used to ask us
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    • 70 5 LONDON. (UPI) Police outnumbered demonstrators by more than three to one yesterday at the end of a march on the U S. embassy by about 300 anti-Vietnam war protestors. About 1.000 policemen ringed Grosvenor Square and cordoned of? neighbouring streets Twenty mounted policemen were present. The
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    • 78 5 SOI THAMPTON. England. (Reuter) Britain's new superlmer Queen Elizabeth 2 sailed from Southampton last night on an eight-dav proviirg voyage to the tropics a few hours after 200 chefs had walked off The chef s demonstrated for two hours on the quay complaining about bad vibrations in
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    • 66 5 NEW YORK. (UPI) A 21-year-old father estranged from his 18-year-old wife was arraigned today on charges of throwing their 15-month-old daughter to her death from the 13th floor apartment of a relative. Police said he grabbed the sleeping child, shouted "If I can't have her nobody
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    • 104 5 SAIGON. (L'PI) Communist gunners nurled rockets into Saigon for the first time in two weeks ?st night and also hit the headquarters of the Ist U.S. infantrv division north of the capit .1 U S military spokesr reported. The spokesmen said there was no apparent damage or
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    • 78 5 SYDNEY, (Reuter) Mrs. Rosalie Crombie, 27, slept through the night while she travelled by car from Melbourne for a holiday on Queensland's Gold Coast. But when her companions tried to wake her as the car approached the coast town of Kempsey i n Northern New South Wales,
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    • 49 5 CATANIA. Sicily (ATP) were keeping a close eye on Mount Etna today as the sleeping volcano showed signs of increasing activity. Thick clouds of smoke and incandescent material were spewed out from the crater yesterday, but the experts said there was nothing to worry about at present.
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    • 90 5 PASADENA, California, Mon. (UPI) The "perfectly operating'' Mariner-7 space craft will be left to guide itself on its journey to Mara until April 7 when engineers will slightly alter its course, a jet propulsion laboratory spokesman said today. The US$64 m craft and its predecessor, Mariner-6, will
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    • 56 5 KADUNA, Northern Nigeria, (Reuter) Seven people, including a former cabinet minister. were killed when their plane burst into flames and crashed today at Kano, 125 miles northeast of here, air* port officials said. The ex-minister was Mr. Sanna Bukar Dipcharima. who held the commercce portfolio in
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  • 312 6 HOT words are coming from the Middle East. In fact, they sound rather odd when the big four powers are to meet this week to find ways to solve the Mideast problem and ensure peace in the area. President Nasser, addressing the Congress of Arab Socialist Union
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  • 212 6 Reuter. TEE Soviet Union today launched a bitter attack on Czechoslovak leaders over the weekend sacking of the Soviet airline office in Prague and charged that Communist Party Presidium member Josef Smrkovsky took part In the outburst. The Communist Party organ Pravda said the incidents, which
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  • 155 6 AFP Defence Secretary Melvin Laird said in a magazine interview today that he "would accept a coalition government" if it were elected in South Vietnam. He told U.S. News and World Report: "if It were up to me I would certainly accept a coalition government if
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  • 684 6  -  By Patrick J. Killen MANILA. Mon. (UPI) The guard waved us through the iron rates of the old cream-coloured Spanish palace and we drove directly to the wing where the President of the Philippines receives callers. I thought briefly of the obstacles I had a few years
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  • 228 6  -  By David Hopkins NAIROBI. Mon (Reuter) Today is the deadline for hundreds of Asian traders who are not Kenya citizens to shut up their shops and make way for African businessmen. The closures could mean another large exodus to Britainthough entry is subject to British immigration restrictions.
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  • 485 6  -  BY JACK CLARKE. VANCOUVER, British Columbia. Mon. (Reuter) Canada and Australia are developing economic cooperation amid '-'k of a free trade for other Pacific Ocean countries. One key sign In the swing away from traditional trade with Britain and continental European countries is the scheduled Australia Trade
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  • 176 6 HONG KONG, Mon. 'AFP) Many major coal mines in China have already topped the first quarter's production plans, the New China Agency reported today. In the Penki Mine, an important coal producing centre in Northern China, quotas for coal, dressed coal and tunnelling were surpassed
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  • 157 6 HONG KONG. Mon (Reuter> The Peking Teachers Training Institute ha* set down aix guidelines which It says must be followed implicitly if China's educational revolution Is to be a success. Radio Peking reported today. The guidelines call for the: Exercise of workers' leadership in schools in accordance
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  • 101 6 HONG KONG. Mon (AFP) Peking todav kept silent about the Soviet Government's proposal to resume frontier talks between the two countries. The Soviet Government, in statement handed to the Chinese Embassy in Moscow yesterday, called on China to join in negotiating a settlement of the
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  • 121 6 PRAGUE. Mon. (UPI) East European sources gave no further information on Sunday on the four-power Warsaw Pact military exercise taking place In Czechoslovakia. Poland and East Germany. CTK News Agency announced on Saturday troops cave no further Information today In the four-power Warsaw Pact military exercise taking
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  • 110 6 WASHINGTON. Mon. (Reuter) The Washingion Star today praised Indonesian President Suharto for his "exceptional leadership." M N'o story in troubled Southeast Asia has been more dramatic or more encouraging than tbat of Indonesia." the newspaper said in an editorial. In contrast to what it termed former
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  • 228 6  -  By VINCENT BUIST BUCHAREST Mon. (Reuter) Rumania has completed a reshuffle in state organs which would make it constitutionally Illegal for the Soviet Union to send troops here—for manoeuvres or any other purpose without Rumanian national approval. The reorganisation also constitutionally bars anv dissident minority from inviting the
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  • 742 6  -  BY PETER GREGSON HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) Hong Kong s mourning the passing of one of Its most famous symbols with a bitter wrangle four years before it is due to die. Appropriately for a British colony, the dispute is about a cricket pitch. A
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  • 118 6 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI> The local Slnkiang daily in Communist China has said the long-awaited Bth National Party Congress will open in the "very near future. According to the local Sinkiang radio monitored in Tokyo, the local party daily carried an "important" editorial recently saying that "the long-awaited
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  • 825 6  -  (From Sin Chew Jit Poh In a recent issue of the organ paper of the Malaysian Chinese Association. «n article was published discussing the "stateless non-citizens" problem concerning Singapore and Malaysia, which the paper deemed as a humanitarian problem. It appealed to both governments of Singapore and Malaysia.
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 228 7 Japan China May Renew Trade Pact TOKYO, Mon. (Reuter) Japan and China art likely to conclude negotiations in Peking toon to renew their unofficial trade agreement, a spokesman for the Sino-Japan trade liaison office said today. The spokesman said a joint communique also would be issued as discussions on political
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    • 202 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Japan Air Lines will soon be inaugurating its new DC-8 Super 61 Jet service to Singapore and Malaysia, its regional manager here, Mr. M Fukoahima said. "JAL", he said, "has placed as order for eight DC-8 Super 61S of which only
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    • 112 7 Mr. N.S. Kirby, managing director of the Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia Ltd., has been appointed president of the Australian Mining Industry Council for 1969. it was announced in Canberra on March 10. He succeed! Sir George Fisher, who was the foundation president of the
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    • 1758 7 SINGAPORE, Mon. Easier conditions ruled in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore today as the market softened and turnover fell to 2.4 million units. The three leading sections of the market closed with a pronounced easiness and most counters declined on the
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    • 176 7 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) A world-wide co-operative company aimed at developing African countries is expected to be formed soon following the inauguration in Tokyo last month of the Private Investment Company for Asia (PIC for Asia). According to the mass circulation Mainichi, Standard Bank of Britain
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    • 219 7 SINGAPORE. Mon. Preliminary discu*sicn® are now underway to give a pension scheme and provide fringe benefits to employees of an American Arm here. If the discussions are fruitful, then the scheme will be implemented In about six to nine months' time. This was announced today
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    • 283 7 SINGAPORE. Mon. April first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m.. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 711 centa per ib down one eighth of a cent from the previous close The tone of the market was very quiet The market ruled very quiet hut
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    • 61 7 MR Peter Ng Teck Joo of Jurong Shipyard Limited has left for Japan for an orientation programme with the Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries, and will visit some of the major manufacturing Industries in Japan. Mr. Ng is the Purchasing Officer of the Shipyard and has been with the Company since
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    • 124 7 SINGAPORE. Moa. RobinBOBS Department Store art offering reductions of fifty oer cent to shoppers to commemorate the 154 year* anniversary of Singapore A spokesman said: "We are offerißf these bargains not so much as a sales gimmick but to clear the way for
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    • 151 7 KUALA LUMPUR Mon. Malaysia still Imports about 330.000 tons of rice worth $l5O million a year. Thii was disclosed during the weekend by the Minister of Agriculture and Co-opera-tives. Tuan Hajl Ghazali Jawl at the opening of a seminar on rice organised by
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    • 14 7 SINGAPORE. Mon.—The tin price for today was $599.75 per plcul, up $3.75.
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    • 523 7 M >OA PtlHK Stock ta(L)inir MID and other prices nftuiaily lined at bs ck sac ot hu»inNi JNDl STBIALS B 8. *OLA 2.43 Borneo Bbd. lis 188 Hou*tead 2.Iff Camel Plywood *73 2 80 < old storage 10 630 hemleal Co 1.88 I>M» 2 01 Ilunlop
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    • 52 7 Manager* Prlrc*) 1«t Malayan 8 08 2nd Malayan 2.22 3rd Malayan 1 40 The Commerce Ind. l.il 1.21 The *ailng l-uod 1 SO \D 1.20 M Invest lund 1 35 1 45 l*t Hons Koni 1 35 1.41* 2nd Honi knng .95 100* Merlin* Com 6/11 •Hnni Kong
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    • 114 7 !»!>>(» APOHE. Mon. Th« anon prim at the Mn»ap< re hincM Produce Exhtoti iixlay are:— Bayer •eiier tocunat on 4V 00 (FOB.) Bum t Of xnut Oil 51.50 (FOB.) Oram Mixed Copra 81.00 Muntok While Pepper 117 50 (F O B.) N L.W •iamwuit White Pepper 115 00 (F.OB.)
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    • 272 7 SINGAPORE. Mon. The following i* a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority: DEPARTTRE: Godowns Vessels 6/7 Yamahiro Maru 10/11 Pando Sound 23 24 Suez Maru 31 32 Compass Satu 40/41 Straat Cumberland 44 West Breeze 43 Cambodge N.W 3/4 Trang ARRIVAL: Godowns Vessels Yamahiro
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 144 7 NOTICE TAKE Notice that as from the First Day of April, 1969, Times Trading and Shipyard Ltd., having its registered office at 71-73 Jalan Benaan Kepal, Kallang Park Industrial Estate, Singapore, 14, will be under a new management being a wholly-owned subsidiary of Weng Chan Engineering Company (Private) Ltd. Weng
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  • 170 8 LONDON, Mon. (UPD Beatle John Lennon has been proposed for membership In the exclusive Traveller's Club by a former Prime Minister's brother "because he should get out more." the Observer newspaper said. But apparently Lennon. who ends his week-long hotel lie-in with wife Yoko Ono
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  • 66 8 KOBE. Jaoan. Mon (UPI) The theft of 34 million yen (U5594.444) in cash w-as reported bv the Sanwa Bank today The money was stolen from the safe in the basement of the bank's Sumiyoshi branch in Kobe, a port city in central Japan Police, who are
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  • 150 8 TOKYO. Mon. (AFP) Six major Japanese automobile tyre makers will soon send a mission to Indonesia to study the possibilities of operating a rubber plantation there in order to secure stable natural rubber supply sources, it was learned here today. In view of soaring rubber prices
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  • 83 8 LONDON, Mon (UPI) Prince Charles arrived by plane from Stockholm yesterdav at the end of a 10-day visit to Sweden as guest of the Swedish royal family. "I had a grand time and very good skiing,'* he told reporters. The 20-year-old hei r to the British
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  • 274 8 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter) President Suharto today launched Indonesia's five-year economic plan with a plea or national unity and a warning to be aware of the communist threat. Speaking at the Merdeka Palace, where he signed the budget for next year, the President said the aim of the
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  • 140 8 JERUBALEM. Mon. (UPD Both Israel and Egypt have rejected a U-S plan for a Mideast settlement. The proposal expected to be presented at a conference of the big four powers this week calls on Israel to withdraw from all occupied Arab areas except Jerusalem. It would also
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  • 70 8 MANILA. (UPI) An Indonesian embassy official was robbed at gunpoint of 760 pesos (US$l9O) a bankbook and travel documents on Monday morning on nis way to work. Adinugroho Asranudin. assistant administrative officer of the embassy, said he was getting into his car on his way to the
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  • 356 8 NEW ORLEANS M on. (L'PI) From a science laboratory has come a likely means of achieving what has been considered impossible: The elimination of the entire rat population. The means are defective male rats defective in only one particular. They're sterile. Nevertheless they have the normal
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  • 385 8 PRAGUE, Mon. (Reuter) Czechoslovak Army troops are currently taking part in their first Warsaw Pact military exercises since the August occupation of their country. It is believed nere that the manoeuvres may be on a small scale and designed mainly to restore Czechoslovak
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  • 59 8 JAKARTA. Mon f AFP> Army officers working as civil servant In Indonesia will be addressed only as "Mister" from tomorrow. A News Agency announce- 4 today. The agency sal- ,l iat an order to this effec* -od been issued by the A r rm' Com-mander-in-Chief General Maraden Panggabean
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  • 48 8 SEOUL. Mon (LTI) Eight direct telephones via trans Pacific communication satellites opened between South Korea and the United States today. The opening ceremonies were highlighted by an exchange of greetings between Deputy Premier Park ChoongHoon In Seoul and Korean ambassador in Washington Kim Dor.g-Jo.
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  • 234 8 VATICAN CITY, Mon. (UPI) Pope Paul VI appealed to the world's young people to abandon "negative" rebellion and take up what he called the more difficult and unpopuar task of serving as "apostles of Christ." Even as the Pope was delivering his palm on Sunday
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  • 52 8 WASHINGTON. Top: The Eisenhower cortege approaches the US Capitol after being taken from Washington National Cathedral. Bottom: View from high up in the dome shows Gen. Eisenhower lying in state in the rotunda of the US Capitol. The cataplague for the Eisenhower casket was used by Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
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  • 380 8 JERUSALEM. Mon. (UPI) Palm Sunday, 1969: On the traditional site of Christ's tomb, tiny Arab children gaze wide-eyed as a grey bearded patriarch drones the story of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem nearly 2,000 years ago. Palm Sunday. 1969: A 20-year-old American girl and
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  • 109 8 TEL AVIV. Mon. (Reuter)— People dashed into air raid shelters here today when two earthquakes shook Isr a e L Some shocks were registered as far south as the port of Eilath. An observatory in Acireale were felt in the Jordan Valley, at Beersheba in the Negev,
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  • 327 8 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) The Nixon administration this week maintained it hod a Vietnam policy of its own and was not treoding in former President Johnson's footstep?. At the same time. President Nixon and his government officials tried to buy time for their "new approach' to
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  • 125 8 ADDIS ABABA. Mon. (Reuter) Twenty-three people were killed and at least 160 injured when a series of devastating tremors virtually destroyed the small desert town of Serdo. about 280 miles north-east of here, police reported today. Police said more than 300 people were homeless. Jeeps and
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  • 101 8 CATANIA. Sicily. ißeuter) Frightened townsfolk of Giarre jumped into cars and headed for the coast today when a slight earth tremor shook several towns and villages near Mount Etna. The tremor damaged some houses in San Alfio. a village on the volcano's eastern slopes, and sent people
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  • 39 8 LAGOS, Mon. (UPI) British Prime Minister Harold Wilson carried his Nigerian civil war peace mission to Ethiopia today still uncertain whether Biafran Leader Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu will accept his last-minute offer of talks "somewhere in Africa."
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  • 184 8 BRUNEI TOWN, Mon. (Reuter) British High Commissioner AR- Adair and his wife find excitement and adventure in leaping from the sky and they do it as a holiday pastime. "I find it highly exciting.* said Mrs. Diana Adair who parachuted from about 2.700 feet above the
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  • 141 8 DUSSELDORF, Germany, Mon. (UPI) A gleaming Tupolev TUI34 Jetliner took off from the damp runway at Dusseldorf airport yesterday to open a new passenger service and simultaneously maite Communist aviation history The Soviet-built aircraft, owned by Yugoslavia's AvionGenex Airline, carried 72 passengers on the two-hour and
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  • 82 8 STUTTGART. Mon (AFP> Adolf Von Thadden, head of the extreme right-wing nationalist movement NPD. today called for the formation of a workers' "civic guard'* (Buergerwehr) to counter agitation by left-wing students by "stepping on their dirty toes." Herr Von Thadden mace the statement here at a NPD youth
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  • 65 8 MOSCOW, Mon. (UPI) The Communist Chinese embassy In Moscow has denounced the Soviet Union's bid to re-open talks on the disputed Sino-Russian border. The offer was branded by an embassy official as a slander" but he said It would be sent to Peking. The Sino-Soviet border
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  • 59 8 SARAJEVO, (AFP) Members of a bachelor's club at Martin Bro d Yugoslavia, want March 22 proclaimed a "festival fop men." They plan to propose this date to the United Nations for a "World Bachelors Day." One of the group s. id they were convinced that tl eir idea
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  • 415 9 SINGAPORE, Mon.— The Chinese Chamber of Commerce will soon launch a fund-raising campaign among its members to acquire funds for more scholarships to deserving students, in particular, for the development of technical education in the Republic. This was announced by the new president of
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  • 348 9 NEW YORK. Mon. (I'PI) United Press International and American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., announced vesterday thev will shortly publish a memorial biography of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The hardcover book wl in about three weeks. Its American Hero.'* The announcement said the
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  • 90 9 XZW DELHI. Mon. (UPI) foreign Minister Mr. Dmesh Singh today denied newspaper reports that Russian planes were flying arms to North Vietnam via India. "We do not allow the transshipment of arms over India," he told parliament. Mr. Dinesh Singh said Soviet civilian planes fly to
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  • 217 9 SUVA. Fiji. Mon. (UPI) The Fijian government is considering a protest to the Australian government in connection with the crew of the HMA S. Sydney hosing a crowd gathered to inspect the converted aircraft carrier at Suva's King Wharf on Saturday. government officials said today. As Fiji
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  • 152 9 MANILA. Mon. (UP!) Australia's Minister of the Army Mr. Philip Lynch arrived today from Hon* Kong for a "strictly private visit" to the Philippines. Mr. Lynch told UPI he had no meetings scheduled with Philippine officials and expected none during hia 48-hour stay. "This is strictly a
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  • 241 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. —Treat this Easter date of yours totally different. Commemorate the evening with a touch of the mistique. For this purpose, choose the Indian-inspired evening gowi: as shown by Jane Perkins in picture. It s so simple yet daring with a plunging V-neckllne
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  • 44 9 WASHINGTON, Mon (Reuter) Comedian Bob Hope arrived here last night from Los Angeles to attend the funeral ot Genera; Dwight D Eisenhower, his friend and former golf partner. Mr. Hope told reporters "It'g really sad trip and a sad occasion."
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  • 298 9 SINGAPORE. Mon.— The following are the reaults of the donation draw held by the Spastic Children'* Association of Singapore on Saturday: lit Prize: 3 5 9 2 5 2nd Prize: 5 9 2 7 3rd Prize: 3 4 8 0 7 4th Prize: (19 115 sth Prize:
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  • 173 9 MOSCOW. Mon. (UPI) The Soviets today accused Czechoslovakia's communist leaders of falling to prevent "dangerous" antl-Sovlet demonstrations In Prague and allowing "reactionary elements'' to use sports events "In the struggle against the socialist order." The Communist Party newspaper Pravda singled out deputy parliamentary leader Jozef Smrkovsky. It charged
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  • 323 9 TAIPEI, Mon- (Reuter) Taiwan's fishermen are planning to produce 800,000 metric tons of fish-worth ISSIOO m. hv 1972 and to achieve this they are building new craft and extending operations to the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. Meanwhile, a filhery conference has just
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  • 241 9 PASADENA. California. Mon (UPI) A computer analysis of the San Andreas fault indicates it Is unlikely Southern California will be hit by a major earthquake in the immediate future, two acientiats said today. The computer analysis of future earthquake probability did not completely rule out the chance
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  • 93 9 NEW DELHI. Men. (UPI)— A world bank commission led by former Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson arrived in Rawalpindi last night for talks with Pakistan officials on proposed aid from the bank. Radio Pakistan said today. Mr. Pearson and members of his commission are scheduled to
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 24 9 -ALL PRIZES GUARANTEED IN FULL Draw Bth April 1969 •t rit« Victoria Memorial Hall. Aviation tickets free. f tickets. avsilakletat* the office of SINGAPOR
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 263 9 7T: ri'VS] 'LIDO Phone ***** now showing: 11**.. 1.45. 4 00, 6-SO Joanne Woocfward "Barbel, Sarhel J inM OUon it Eitelle Parsons Tech-iieoior (Warner Bros-7 Arte) OROOVY EASTER ATTRACTION I Peter Sellers "I L«»e Ten Alice B. Toklas" Technieo'.or Leigh Taylor Yountr (WB-7 Arts) CAPITOL Phone *****| OPE TODAT! No
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    • 104 9 IfrcATHArJ OPENS THURSDAY |F?Snffynini Grand Easter Attraction! DAILY 4 SHOWS! 11 a m., 2.15. 5.30 8.45 pm. (NO FREE LIST) In 70MM aid FULL STEREOPHONIC SOUND! A Modern-Day Story of Faith. Courage and Intrigue That Reaches From The Shadow* Of The Kremlin To The Splendor A"d Pageantry Of The Vatican.
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    • 300 9 oy L, A !4 I S t, I I Q N Willi. CATHAY ***** LAST t DATS! 11 a n.. 1.4«> 4mi t> U> 0 M v m "THE STALKING MOOPT Oregory Peek Eva Marie 6*mt Panavision-Co.'or A CBB Release OPENS THVRSDAY! 70 MM Fuil Stereophonic Sound The >ho*» Of
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  • Jemme
    • 738 10  -  By Florence de Santis TF you're still shaking from the foshion blasts of the post few seasons, relax. Aside from a couple of pockets of resistance, about which we'll say more in a minute, the Paris couture has gone back to what it does
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    • 124 10 When Valentino solved the problem of how to let everyone know you're wearing designer clothes by using his initial as trim, he really started something. By this season, there's hardly an Italian. French or Ameican designer who isn't using his name or initials on either
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    • 324 10  -  Bv H.C. Tan THE secretaries of today belong to a very special category of people. These people who are an integral part of the business world, uphold tenaciously the prerogative of knowing company secrets and maintain discipline and order in the frenzied pace of business life.
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    • 113 10 Paris fashion trends point to the growing importance of the bodyshaping stretch foundations. With very soft, longtorso fashions, clingy fabrics like crepe, and pants costumes done with slacks, lingerie must come in a similar mood. Sleek bras, body stockings. body suits and light pantv girdles will
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    • 127 10 The big spring fabric news m Paris is the return of classic crepe de chine For those who are asking what's that, it LS the fine. plain silk crepe which was identified with the Twenties and Thirties. Of course, it comes in different colours
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    • 241 10  -  By Mary Sue Miller lITHEN it comes to appear if ance. we girls devote days and dollars to our figures and fashions But we seldom give a thought to carriage Yet. poor posture undercuts the attractiveness of fine figures and fine feathers. Both appear droopy or
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    • 118 10 At least one fashion designer doesn't see the clothes of the future being made out of geometric shapes and vinyl. Giorgio di 'Sant* Angelo. who won a special Coty Award last year for his accessories, thinks the future lies with soft fabrics. He thinks that
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    • 110 10 THAT newsy Greek influence is creeping into one fashion corner after another. Having hit jewellery designing. it's now causing stylists to look at certain classic Greek art motifs. One designer is using the so called Greek key pattern as stripe? on pantyhose. Fabric designers are taking
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    • 456 10 THERE'S no doubt that dresses have made a big fashion comeback. Both Parisian and American designers are mad about dresses. In the soft, swlngy mood of current fashion, the dress is the natural star. It comes in many styles enough to provide everv woman with a choice of
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    • 281 10  -  By Florence de Santis If recent observations on several plane trips are any standard of judgment, a new costume is making it on the travel scene. The pants suit, forecast by Norman Norell five years ago as the modern travel costume, is popping up on many air passengers
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    • 107 10 In it* constant dri*e for youth in clothe? Pan? isn't above stealing right from the kids At least two designers. Andre C°t* rreges and Emanel Ungaro. a-e repeating their attempts to put women into kids' socks Courreges started with the knee-high idea last yaar, as something
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    • 279 10 < LOOK fOR... -A revival of the Thirties spectator pump, now a snub-toed little thing with a low, stacked heel, in white with navy, perforated. sheer shirts for summer, iw voiles and chiffons, the colourl soft and dark, the prints hot and bright, the sleeves billowy. the !ong
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 249 10 TODAY an Tuesday, Ar 1, 1969. 19 17-22-35-45 f TAURUS \AML2O TKHAr 20 I 1- 5-10-31 49-60-73 Bj CLAY S. POLLANM Your paily Activity Guidf M According to tbo Start. < <» 4 To develop message for Tuesday, reod words corresponding to numbers of your Zodiac birth sign. ft 1
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 508 11  -  BY LESLIE NAKASHIMA < LTpi > Hiroyuki Ebihara n to defend his World Boxing Associac r® sn 90 days because he injured his left hand on Sunday night when he defeat- ""*-11 IIC uvicaied Jose Severino of Brazil. This is the statement made by Ebihara's
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    • 128 11 SINGAPORE. Mon. Gymnastics will for the first time be included in the forthcoming SEAP Games to be held in Rangoon, from Dec. 6 to 13 Thls was disclosed today by the Minister for Social Affairs. Enche Othman Wok. who attended the SEAP Games meeting held in
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    • 105 11 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Singapore Shooting Associa on have recommended to the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council their qualifying marks for the of SEAP Games to be held in Rangoon from Dec. 6 and 13. SOSC will meet tomorrow to discuss the qualifying standards set by various
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    • 324 11 NEW YORK. Mon (UPI) All the Boston Bruins hope for now is that Phil Esposito will retain his magic touch to the National Hockey Lea- gue's Stanley Cup playoffs. 1 Esposito completed a star- touched season on Sunday when he scored two goals and raised his
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    • 154 11 LONDON. Mon (Reuter) England Rugby Union selectors have made one change for the vital match againit Wale» at Cardiff Arms Park on Saturday. April 12. Bristol winger Ken Plummer has been chosen for the first time to rep'.ae« the Injured Ke.th Fielding Nineteen-year-old Fielding, a Loughborough
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    • 467 11 SINGAPORE. Mon. The South-east Asia Peninsular Games Federation have agreed to hold the Sixth SEAP Games in 1972. Instead of 1971. to give Singapore a chance to host the Games. This was discussed at the first session meeting of the
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    • 278 11 JOHANNESBI BG, Mon. (AFP)—Wimbledon champion Australian left-hander Rod Laver looks clear favourite to win the men's title in South Africa's first open tennis tournament, which opens on the Ellis Park hard courts here on Tuesday. Some 50 foreign competitors are taking part
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    • 141 11 SINGAPORE Mon— Paddy Rice won the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association 28mile walk held at Grange Road yesterday, with a time of 4 hrs. 21 min. and 15 sec In second place was Brian MrKenzie in 4 hrs 33 min. 27 8 min.. with R Sivapillau
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    • 181 11 MANILA, Mon. (T*Pl> Filipino Promoter Lopr Sarreal Sr. has offered I 5540.000 to new World Boxing Association (WBA) flyweight champion Hiroyuki Ebihara to defend his title against Bernabe Villarampo in Manila next June, it was learned today. Sarreal. who is now in Tokyo,
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    • 248 11 TAIPEI. Mon < AFP) The I Hi 000 Taiwan ODen Championship the sixth Irs of the current Asian golf circuit will begin on Wednesday with 100-odd professionals and amateurs teeing off at the acenic Taiwan Coif and Country Club in the suburban ancient harbour town of
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    • 105 11 SINGAPORE. Mon. Singapore will send a "token" ♦earn to participate in the forthcoming Asian Cycling Championships to be held in Seoul, Korea, from May 30 to .June 10. This was revealed today by the Secretary General of the S'ngapore Olympic and Srorts Council. Mr. Tang
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    • 181 11 MIAMI. Mon. tUPI) Bunky Henry, shot a 70 for a 10-under-par 278 on Sunday to win the US$2OO,OOO National Airlines Open Golf Tournament and take home US$4O,OOO. The 25-year-old native of Valdosta. Georgia, starred In football at Georgia Tech, birdied five of his first six holes
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    • 202 11 NORFOLK Virginia. Mon. (UPI > Han* Ploetz of West Germany won his first Caribbean circuit tennis match on Sunday, defeating Jan Kukal of Czechoslovakia 6-4. 9-7 in a 57-minute match in the Tidewater International Tennia Tournament. In the doubles finals, the second-seeded team of Gerald Battrick
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    • 244 11 CARDIFF. Mon (Reuter) British Lion Gerald Davles one of the key men named by the Welsh Rugby Union today for their prest.ge New Zealand tour, must prove his fitness before the trip. Davies. a strong hard-runn-ing centre, dislocated his elrvow against France just over j week
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    • 62 11 MELBOURNE. Mon (AFP) —Australia's world bantamweight boxing champion Lionel Rose, who successfully defended his title against Britain's Alan Rudkin on March 8. had hi? tonsils removed in hospital her* today. Rose broke a bone in his hand during the bout with Rudkin, and. since the hand is
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    • 58 11 LONDON. Mon (.AFP) Heather Nielsen of Surrey has been added to the England badminton team to meet Thailand in an interzone final of the Über Cup competition in Tokyo on June 8. If the English women beat Thailand thev meet the winners of the Indonesia USA
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    • 229 11 PARIS. Mon. (Reuter)—The International Hockev Board (IHB) Council decided at a meeting here yesterday to set up a sub-committee to discuss a Pakistani proposal to hold a hockey world cup tournament. The sub-committee will report to the next meeting of
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    • 163 11 SILVERSTONE, England, Mon. (UPI) Australia's Jack Brabham won the international Formula One race here on Sunday, leading all the way and coasting to victory with a dead engine Brabham crossed the finish line 100 yards ahead of Austria's Jochen Rindt. the Lotus team
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    • 40 11 LONDON. Mon. (Renter) Results of Rugby League matches payed yesterday: Batlcy 7 Bradford Northern 18 Halifax 13 Leeds 20 Hull 17 Bramey 18 Huyton 13 B'pool Borough 10 Featherstone R 24 York 2 Workington IS I>eigh 13.
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    • 148 11 RICCIONE. Italy. Mon (UPI) Reigning world champion motor-cyclist Giacomo Ago®. tlni of Italy riding an MV, duelled nine-time titllst Mike Hailwood of Britain on Sunday in the feature event of tht Riccione International Meet Agostml took the lead and kept In on the 17th of the
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    • 863 12 PARIS, Mon. (Reuter) Elo Hansen of Denmark won the men's singles final at the French international badminton championships here yesterday, beating Singapore's Lee Kin Tat in two sets. Hansen thus confirmed his second round win over the former world champion in the AllEngland Championships
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    • 120 12 TORONTO. Mnn. (Reuter) Rudy Hartono of Indonesia, the unofficial world champion. defeated Sture Johnson of Sweden. 15-11. 15-1, to win the men's singles title in the Canadian Open Badminton Championships here yesterday. Eva Twedberg of Sweden won the women's title by beating Retno Koestijan of Indonesia.
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    • 171 12 MADRID. Mon CReuter) Real Madrid, unbeaten in 27 League matches this season, clinched the Spanish Footoall League Championship with a 2-0 home win over Real Saragossa here last night. Madrid have now won the championship for three successive seasons, and this year's unbeaten run sets up
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    • 135 12 STOCKHOLM, Mon. (UPI) Russia downed Canada 4-2 in the last game of the World Ice Hockey Championships on Sunday night to capture the world title for the seventh year In a row. In an earlier games on Sunday Sweden edged Czechoslovakia 1-0 to finish second
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    • 38 12 JAPAN'S Crown Prince Akihito (centre facing the camera) along with his nine-year-old son Prince Hiro (foreground) are seen enjoying .skiing at Japan's famous skiing resort of Zao in Yamagata Prefecture recently. PANA photo. PANA photo.
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    • 614 12  -  By PETER GREGSON HONG KONG, Mon. (Reuter) A young Sydney pr~fes*icnol is burning up the For East Golf Circuit in the best display by an Australian on Asian courses this year. But 22-year-old David Giaham has his sights set on bigger targets.
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    • 251 12 HONG KONG. Mon. (I PI) Tall, handsome and young Ho Ming-rhung of Nationalist China has created history for the amateur golfer in the tar East golf circuit. Ho. 22. has won in succession the amateur title of the Singapore, Malaysian. Thai and Hong Kong
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    • 130 12 SAN VITTORE OLANO. Italy. Mon (Reuter) Kenyan Olympic gold medallist Kipchoge Kelno won the "Five Mills" International cross country race here yesterday. Kelno. who won the 1.500 metre* In the Mexico Olympics covered the 9.500-metre <5 9 mllei course near Milan in 29 minutes 50
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    • 228 12 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) —Leading goalscorers In the English Football League and Cup competitions are: DIVISION ONE L. F.A. Cup L. Cup Total Jimmy Greaves (Tottenham) 22 4 5 31 Geoff Hurst (Sest Ham) 24 2 4 30 Joe Royle (Everton) 21 4 3
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    • 1313 12 IPOH. Mon.— Following are the weights for the third and j fourth days, Saturday (April 5) and Sunday (April 6), of the Perak Turf Club's March/ April Meeting: SATURDAY Horses Class 3 DiT. 2 6 Furlongs Ultraman 9 00 Fighting Spirit 8 13 Green Son 8 13
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    • 203 12 NEW YORK. Moo (UPI) The underdogs continue to have a ball in the National Basketball Association playoffs. Both the wise old Boston Ce.tics and the brash New York Knickerbockers hold 3-0 leaHs m the best-of-seven competitions the favoured Philadelphia 76 ERS and Baltimore Bullets. In the
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