Eastern Sun, 3 April 1969

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    21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 958 Thursday, 3 April 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon 'DAP Short Of Funds'
    213 1 —Devan >air KTALA LUMPUR. Wed V?]! C D s v an Nair, former 7 Me ™ber of Parliament U^ gs ar toda y told Tunku Abdul Rahman that the DemoAct, 2 n Party far r< »m receiving financial assistance from the People's Action Party or Singapore
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    Lock icon WILSON BACK IN LONDON
    57 1 LONDON. Wed. (AFP) British Premier Harold Wilson returned to London today from his five-day fact-finding trip to Nigeria followed by talks ir Ethiopia. Mr. Wilson made no statement when he arrived here by •ir from Addis Ababa at 1.50 pm (1250 GMT). He W3s expected to
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    Lock icon POLICE LOCATE TREASURE DUMP
    350 1 Wartime Loot In Gold, Jewellery SINGAPORE, Wed. Police have found a big war-time multi million dollar treasure dump of gold ingots and jewellery buried in thick jungle, two miles inside Macßitchie Reservoir. The treasure hunt was a follow-up to information received that millions of dollars worth
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    Lock icon Soviet Med. Fleet
    36 1 LONDON. Wed (UPl)—The Soviet Union is again rapidly reinforcing its Mediterranean fleet, defence sources said today. The sources said the Russian move significantly coincided with imminent diplomatic moves in the Middle East crisis.
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    Lock icon 4 Fires Hit Manila
    182 1 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) Four Aires hit Manila and nearby Pasay City within hours of each other today, causing damage estimated at 10 million pesos (.US$2.5 million). The Pasay Are. described as the biggest to hit the area since it became a city In 1947. destroyed three
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    Lock icon 18 MINERS KILLED
    101 1 SAPPORO. Japan Wed. (UPI) —A gas explosion knled 18 miners trapped in a pit of a coal mine some 80 miles north of this Hokkaido City this afternoon. A rescue party found the bodies of two more miners some eight hours after the blast shook the Nojrri
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    Lock icon Corruption Among HK Police
    77 1 HONG KONG. Wed (Reuter) A senior Hong Kong Government, official admitted on television here tonight that there was corruption among the British Colony's police. But he denied the Government and police were shutting their eyes and doing nothing about it. The official. Defence Secretary Alastalr Todd,
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    Lock icon 'Rebellious Priests Crucifying Church'
    88 1 VATICAN CITY. Wed (Rcuter) Pope Paul today told 1.000 Easter pilgrims that rebellious Catholic priests and laymen were crucifying the church. He told the pilgrims at a general audience in St. Peter's Basilica that the church was suffering from authoritarian regimes in many countries, from the
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    Lock icon Yong: S'pore Will Support Common Mart Proposals
    323 1 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Minister for Communications. Mr. Yong Nvuk Lin, said that Singapore would strongly support anv proposals for the formation of a common market Involving countries in this region. Mr. Yong. who Is leading a flve-man team to t'ue 4th Ministerial Conference
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    Lock icon Cao Ky At White House
    56 1 WASHINGTON: President Nixon escorts South Vietnamese Vice-President Nguyen Cao Ky (centre) from the White House on April 1 after talks. The I S. Ambassador to South ietnam Ellsworth Bunker Is at left. Nixon's calendar was filled with appointments with global leaders who came to the
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    Lock icon DANGERS OF OBESITY
    174 1 LONDON. Wed (UP I) Smoking 25 cigarettes a day may be healthier than carrying 10 pounds of excess fat, according to a report by a British research company published today. The office of health economics report. "Obesity and Disease", said: "It has been suggested that to be
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    Lock icon Survives Fall From 10th Floor
    73 1 SANTOS. Brazil. Wed. (Reuter) Three-year-old Fabio Paccolini fell from the 10th floor of an apartment building here, picked himself up. and complained: "I have a pain in my tummy." Fabio was playing by an open window last night when he overbalanced. His fall was broken
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    Lock icon No Hope For 178 Miners
    63 1 MUZQUIZ, Mexico. Wed. (Reuter) —The danger of fresh explosions threatened grimy men fighting their way into a crippled mine here today in a rescue attempt which officials already regard as hopeless. None of the 178 miners trapped by an explosion which shattered the Guadalupe coal
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    Lock icon 70 Feared Drowned
    67 1 NEW DELHI, Wed. (UPI) As many as 70 persons are feared to have drowned in a ferry mishap near Siwan City in North Bihar State, reports from the area said today The Press Trust of India quoted local police as saying the overloaded ferrv capsized in midstream
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    Lock icon Suharto: Improve Our Products
    205 1 JAKABTA. Wed. Beuter)— President Suharto has called for the improvement of Indonesian agricultural products quality to prevent the commodities from flowing to Singapore. "Our coffee, copra, rubber and other products are mostly exported to Singapore where they at* processed and re-ex-ported. This gives Singapore considerable profit.
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    Lock icon Portraits Too To His Dismay
    89 1 REGGIO CALABRIA. Italy Wed (UPl)—Paolo Marcurio. 18. learned to his dismay on Tuesday that although Swiss painter Otto Brunderer prefers landscapes, he can also do good portraits. Brunderer gave poiice a sketch of the man he said robbed him of several thousand lire on a
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    80 1 BEACONSFIELD. England Wed. (UPD—Tim Kay lost two Mxpences (worth six cents each) in a pay phone. Earh time he put in his money, the phone went dead. So he called the operator to complain, but said he refused to follow her suggestion. "Well send you back the money.
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    Lock icon Israeli Air Raid On Jordan Condemned
    427 1 UNITED NATIONS, Wed. (Keuter) The U.N. Security Council, last night condemned the March 26 Israeli air raid on Jordan and warned of possible sanctions if Israel repeated such attacks. The vote divided the Big Four powers on the eve of their critical talks to
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    Lock icon Smrkovsky Criticised
    102 1 PRAGUE. Wed. 'Reuter) The Czechoslovak Party leadership today publicly criticised leading reformer Joseph Smrkovsky for failing to follow party policy. Smrkovsky. former chairman of the National Assembly and now Deputy Chairman of the Federal Assembly, came under attack at the weekend in the Soviet press, which claimed he
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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    Lock icon Land Sold To Housing Society Twice Its Value, Court Told
    317 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A piece of land in Penang was sold to the Government Officers Co-operative Housing Society for 5994,000 twice its original value, the Sessions Court was told_here_today.^ j The land was first bought by S. M. Manickam from
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    Lock icon Gerakan's 'Simple Broad-based' Manifesto
    536 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Gerakan Ra'ayat Malaysia todav released its 'simple and broad-based" election manifesto entitled "Equality. Justice and equal opportunities for all The party, in its 30-polnt manifesto, pledges to press for a review of the existing tax system, to provide betT*<reliefs and solve the
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    Lock icon Post Ban On Novel Off
    79 2 CANBERRA. Wed. (Reuter) --Australian Postal Minister Mr. Allen Hulme today lifted a ban on sending a novel called "Dead Man Running" through the post, explaining it had been re-assessed. The New South Wales branch of the Post Office had refused to handle the book because
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    Lock icon Course In Tai Chi Chuen
    181 2 BINQAPORE Wed. The Adult Education Board will be organism? a new course In "Tal Chi Chuen. Chinese Art of Self Defence*. The course of 12 weeks duration, conducted In English and Chinese will be held on Saturdays and Sundays 4 00 8 00 p m.
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    Lock icon Carrousel De Paris Coming
    148 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. The world famous "Carrousel De Paris", a star-studded night-1 club troupe of seven, will arrive here on Sunday for a season of appearances at the Tropicana's Orchid Lantern. The "Carrousel De Paris'*, which ranks along with the Folles Bergere and the Blue Bells, is
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    Lock icon Paris Pantomime Group To Perform In S'pore
    282 2 SINGAPORE, Wed.—Hippies la Singapore? Looks like it, but they are not. These are members of the famed pantomime group 'Theatre de la Mandragore" from Paris under the dLirection of Wolfram Mehring. "This is just the way we like to dress for comfort." said
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    Lock icon Tourist Influx In Five Years' Time
    233 2 SINGAPORE Wed A leading American hotelier predicted today that the tourists influx to Singapore would Increase by leaps and bounds in the next few years He is Mr. John PT Suterland, Senior Vic«-President, Operations of the Intercontinental Hotels, New York. 4 Mr. Suterland envisaged
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    Lock icon Singapore Cadets Back In UK From Training Cruise
    511 2 LONDON. Wed. The first four Singapore cadets to undergo training at the Britannia Roval Naval College at Dartmouth. in Southwest England, have just returned from a twelve-week voyage in the Mediterranean. Cadets Kong Chan Wai. 20. of Lor on g One. Toa
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    Lock icon No Increase In Gold Holdings
    131 2 TOKYO. Wed (Reuter> Japan has not Increased her gold holdings despite a marked rise in her external reserves in the past vear, Japanese government officials said today. She would like to buy more gold, if she could do so at the official price and without
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    Lock icon Sweet Merger
    83 2 LONDON. Wed 'Reuter) A 47 million sterling sweets merger bid between Rowntree's. the chocolate firm which recently turned down an American takeover bid. and John Mackintosh. the "quality street" firm, was announced today. Rowntree are biddin* for Mackintosh. whoa® director* are »aying "yea.' Rowntree are offering one of
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    Lock icon Pres. Nixon's Final Respects For Ike
    139 2 WASHINGTON. Wed (UPI) President Nixon flew from Washington today headed for the nation's heartland to pay hia flntl respects to his mentor, Dwight D Eisenhower. Accompanied by his wife. Pat. and daughter Trie:a. the President was to attend the burial of Eisenhower in Abilene.
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    Lock icon New Governor Of Sarawak Named
    94 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Yang d:-Pertu«n Agong todav announced the appointment of Tan Sri Tuanku Bujang bin Tuanku Haji Othman as the new Governor of Sarawak Tan Sri Tuanku Bujang bin Tuanku Haji Othman. 71, succeeded the late Tun Abang Haji Openg who died on
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    Lock icon Two Farmers Burnt Alive
    68 2 MANILA. Wed (Reuter) Two chicken farmers were burned alive in a havstack after being kidnapped by armed men yesterday and beaten up. according to sketchy police reports reaching Manila from Pampanga Province north of the capital. The reports said relatives found the charred bodies of Lazaro
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    Lock icon Cat-Sense
    68 2 PLYMOUTH. England Wed (UPI) —A. tortoise-shell cat here needed a home for her four new kittena. so she dropped them on the front doorstep of a local maternity home. James Knox. Director of Plymouth's Animal Shelter, picked up the kittens but the next day the mother came back looking
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    Lock icon About People In Singapore
    513 2 MR. TAN BOON CHIANG, president of the Industrial Arbitration Court has been elected president of the Singapore Scout Association Geylang District for the sixth consecutive year at its annual meeting he.d on March 29. Other official* chosen were: Mrs. Ng Kong Kai (re-elected), Dr. Wong Kum
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    Lock icon Woman Awarded $2,260 Damages
    103 2 SINGAPORE. Wed A housewife. Suppammg e®* was todav awarded s_.«6o damages in the H:gh Court for injuries sustained in an accident about two years ago She was boarding a bus Keppel Road when she fell off the bu» a? it moved forward before sh® had boarded
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    Lock icon Hindi Course For Beginners
    224 3 ..SINGAPORE. Wed. The oSini Educatl °n Board is s ng a Hindl language lish £in°L beginnners En 8- USed aS the me SS® 0 f Instruction and explanation throughout the be by a Qualified Instructor who has wide exln tlle teaching of Hindi especially to adults.
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    Lock icon An Evening Of Music & Songs
    111 3 An Evening Of Music Songs SINGAPORE, Wed. The National Theatre Company will present "An Evening of Music and Songs" at the National Theatre on April 6 at 9 p.m. Admission will be strictly on invitation. Those featured in the evening will be the National Orchestra, the Chinese Orchestra and the
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    Lock icon Judging Of Colour Slides Competition
    107 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Photographic Society of Singapore will hold the judging of colour slides for the 20th Singapore International Salon f Photography at the Odeon Hollywood Room on April 5 and 6. The times for the judging for both days will be 2 p.m. and
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    Lock icon Boat Club's 1st Adventure Trip
    113 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Singapore Armed Force s Boat Club's first adventure trip will take 16 of its members from Pulau Blakang Mati to Pulau Tioman, on the East Coast of Malaysia and back again a distance of approximately 250 miles. The 16 members consisting t>f
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    Lock icon JAL'S GIANT JET LANDS AT PAYA LEBAR
    380 3 SINGAPORE, Wed The biggest aircraft ever to call at Singapore Japan Air Lines' giant DC-8 Super 61 touched down at Paya Lebar International Airport this morning to inaugurate JAL's new service in the region. The flight, from Jakarta, had 188 passengers. The DC-8
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    Lock icon Follow Singapore's Example SEA Urged
    150 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. South-east Asftn countries were today urged to follow the fine example of "good leadership of Singapore This striking remark was made by Senator Hynh Van Cao of Vietnam when he mjade a brief stop-over in Singapore on his tour of South-east Asia. He
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    Lock icon SHUTTERS UP
    54 3 NAIROBI. (Reuter) The shutters were up outside some Asian-owned businesses here yesterday the dav after the expiry of a three-month winding up period under Kenya's new trade licensing acts. But many of the traders affected are still trading as they are waiting for the Government's answer to applications
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    Lock icon $12.9 m. Contract To German Firm
    152 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. —The Public Utilities Board has awarded five internationally-tender-ed contracts totalling $12.9 million to a West German firm. Messrs Calor Emag. for the supply of power distribution and transmission equipment. The Board, announcing this today, noted that the equipment would be delivered between
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    Lock icon Unemployed Left A Suicide Note
    198 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Coroner's Court today returned verdicts of suicide on two cases and misadventure on another. In the first case, an unemployed Gee Chia Keong. 51. was found hanging In his bedroom at 7.10 am. on March 10. A note which said "I committed
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    Lock icon Music Festival
    84 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Indian Fine Arts Society will celebrate 'Mummoorthigal Vizha* a music festival in commemoration of the three great composers of South India. They are Saint Thyagarajah Swamigal. Muthuswamy Deekshitar and Shyama Sastrigal. The festival will be held at Vatapathira Kaliamman Temple in Serangoon Road on the
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    Lock icon Police Nab 16 Persons
    97 3 SINGAPORE. Wed Police officers from the Secret Societies Section of the CID arrested 16 persons yesterday morning in Toa Payoh Estate when they carried out antisecret society operations The 16 persons were picked up in various place* in the estate. Police have established that eight of
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    Lock icon Chap-Ji-Kee: Woman Charged
    76 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. A 51-year-old woman. Tan Mui Suan. was charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court today with assisting in promoting Chap-ji-kee lottery. Tan. who is allegd to be a second rank promoter, denied committing the offence at Rochore Canal Road this morning She is alleged to have
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    Lock icon A GIANT DOCK TO BE BUILT IN SEMBAWANG
    626 3 SINGAPORE, Wed A giant dock, capable of accommoding vessels up to 400,000 tons will be built in Sembawang, it was disclosed today. The site and soil investigations had already been completed, said Mr. B. I bison, managing director of the Sembawang Shipyard
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    Lock icon Why Robberies Increasing—Judge
    207 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. Do you know why robberies are on the Increase In the Republic these days? "Because Judges have been giving the culprits candies and toffees and probations." This classic answer was given by the Third District Judge, Mr. K T. Alexander, when he sentenced a youth
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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      38 3 Abu By LIM KOi SOME &OYWERI HOV DASH/NO s I SUPPOSE YOUTH/NKI AM UGLY' OF COURSE. WE CANT ALL BE HANuSi WING VJAfT A MINUTE AM BECOMING TOO CMBBWL l CAN'T HELP fT THE VJAY VJAS BOkn! 5
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    Lock icon The Artful Dodger
    257 4 For a youngster whose screen role, in the lavish film musical "Oliver!", is that of a Dickens character familiarly known a# the Artful Dodeer. impish Jack Wild has been movinr upward In a very straight Hne indeed. Jack was one of Fagir.'s band of young pickpockets and
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    Lock icon Mr. Bumble
    93 4 One of the Jovial stars of English life, Harrv Secombe starred aa Pickwick in that later musical of a Dickens work But the role of Mr. Bumble in Lionel Bart s masterpiece 'Oliver!" is the one that should make an international by-word of his name. As comedian, singer
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    Lock icon Meet Bill Sikes
    88 4 OLIVER Reed. who plays Bill Sikes In the screen version of Lionel Bart's '"Oliver!", once was described as "mean, moody and murderous." He Is all of that In the new Romulus production, and he's very happy about it. Reed Is surrounded in "Oliver!" by people who sing
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    Lock icon RON MOODY Fagin
    220 4 The filrn version of "Oliver!** has one major contact with the original stage production, and that Is the presence in the leading role of Fagin of the man who created the role in Lionel Bart s musical Bon Moody. Acclaimed and overnight elevated to the ranks of
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    Lock icon Little Oliver's Search For Love
    639 4 AS IN virtually all of the great stories which last, love is at the core of "Oliver!" Its theme is the search for love. That is little Oliver's search from the very beginning. and even though it is punctuated with a great variety of stunning
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    71 4 Wed The Romulus production of Lionel Bart* 'Oliver international!* successful mu*ir*| version of Charles Pickens novel Oliver TwW Is now on show at Orchard This special feature is in coniunction with its opening. THE CAST Mark Lester as Oliver' ROIJ Moodr as 'Fagtn',' Oliver Reed as "Bill Sike* Hsrrv
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  • SPECIAL FEATURE ON 'OLIVER'
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      Lock icon SHAM WALLIS AS NANCY
      127 4 Shani Willis, who star* Sinry in the exuberant ■creep version of Lionel Bart's "OUrer!", is as much at home in Lu VetM M she is in her native London Now an international singing star records, television, night clubs and the musical comedv stage—the titian-hair-ed Miss Wallis
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      Lock icon What The Press Say
      174 4 "A GLEAMING BTEAMING. RUM PLUM PUDDING OF A FTLM!" Time Magazine. "The best musical I have ever seen!" Wanda Hale New York Daily Newt. 'Oliver!' 1* more than a musical! A picture that will a.< firmly Imprint itself on the imagination of the young as did
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      Lock icon Mark Lester As Oliver
      250 4 Mark Lester la a talented British youngster who won the plum title role in Lionel Bart's "Oliver!", the Columbia Pictures release in Panaris ion and Technicolour. after some 2,000 other boys had applied and about 250 of them had been tested for the oart He met
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      Lock icon The Making Of The Film
      669 5 IF there was one first principle to govern all those entrusted with bringing Lionel Bart's "Oliver!" to its definitive production on the screen where film perpetuates it not merely for today's audience but for your children and even your children's children it is that they
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      Lock icon Builds Old London For 'Oliver'
      300 5 BOXS ARMY they were called The production designer of the lavish Aim version of Lionel Bart s hit musical "Oliver!", John Box had 350 men constructing sets for the Romulus production. This is how Box. prize-win-ning designer of such hits as "Lawrence of Arabia." Doctor
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      Lock icon Dickens' London
      131 5 PROPERLY to evoke the contrasts of elegance and poverty about which Dickens so feelingly wrote, researchers for the screen version of "Oliverl" went through private and public libraries, art galleries, print collections and attics. They needed the uniforms and the costumes of that lusty pericd and they also
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      Lock icon The Door To A New World
      303 5 IN 1960 Lionel Bart opened the door to a new world, the world of "Oliver!" As its author that rarity, the tri-ple-threat creator who writes music, lyrics and book of a musical it was Bart who unlocked Charles Dickens from the storehouse and translated
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      Lock icon 'O' For Oliver And For Originality
      219 5 O stands not only for "Oliver!" hut also for Originality. Like all the jrrrat works of the modern theatre and screen. that's what "Olirer!'' has. "Oliver!" is an oriliail. In the nearly ten vears between the time Lionel Bart first set pen to paper
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      233 5 fly Thai International ai»d you H never ge* crammed into a narrow uncomfortable centre seat tor one very simple reason There is no centre seat On every Thai international Gazelle Jetliner there are onty two seats abreast Two wider more spacious more comfortable sea's tha: give you all the room
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    Lock icon NINTH PARTY CONGRESS
    259 6 IN Peking the Ninth Communist Party Congress Is In session and its opening is reported a surprise to the Soviet Union. From the tone of recent verbal exchanges between Moscow and Peking not to speak of the border clashes the Congress will have more surprises for the
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    Lock icon 'PLAY OF POWER POLITICS'
    272 6 UPI rl the play of power politics "the people of Central and Eastern Europe have a card to play never available to them before in their long history: China," according to an editorial in Tuesday's Christian Science Monitor. The daily noted that previously these nations "have
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    Lock icon 'EVEN MICE OUGHT TO ROAR'
    151 6 UPI THE Washington Daily News on Tuesday described tiny Anguilla as the tiny Caribbean "mouse that roared" and added that "the whole affair (the British invasion) may turn out all right after all." The newspaper, commenting on the agreement reached between Anguilla and Britain on
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    Lock icon Electronics—A Growing Industry In Taiwan
    297 6  - Electronics —A Growing Industry In Taiwan BY LIONEL TASI TAIPEI, Wed. (Reuter) Taiwan's low labour costs and abundant manpower have been attracting growing American and Japanese investments in electronics, an industry almost non-existent on the island a few years ago. Electronics is now becoming one of Taiwan's most Important industries
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    Lock icon Italy Developing Trade Ties With China
    131 6 TURIN. Wed. (ATP) Italy is developing "interesting contacts" with China for *he purpose of Improving trade and establishing political relations with the Fekm* government, Wittorlno Colombo, Minister of External Trade. sa:d in a newspaper interview today China's market of 700 to 750 million consumers
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    Lock icon NYT On Ninth Congress
    277 6 NEW YORK. Wed. (AFP) The New York Times wrote editorially today: "The opening of the long delayed Ninth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party Is a major event in the development of both China and of the world communist movement. The prime function of this meeting
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    Lock icon Finnish Communist Party Congress
    119 6 HELSINKI, Wed. (AFP) The Finnish Communist Party opens a four-day Congress here tomorrow amid reports that its Secretary General Ville Pessi, 67. will resign from his post and that a number of central committee members will not be re-elected as a result of the divergencies in
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    Lock icon Do We Need 'Eton' Type Schools?
    788 6  -  (From Sin Chew Jit Poh IN the recent years, because of the unceasing increase in the numbers of students to be enrolled and graduated, in both Singapore and Malaysia a similar problem now under consideration is how our educational standard may be enhanced under
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    Lock icon Peking—A Carnival City Now
    602 6  -  BY EDOUARD DILLON PEKING, Wed. (AFP) Exactly what Mao Tsetunr and his heir apparent Lin Piao told the opening session today of the long-awaited Ninth Communist Party Congress will not be known until an official record is unveiled. But diplomatic observer* believed the political line taken
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    Lock icon A Firm Hold For Mao
    605 6 PARIS. Wed. (AFP) Mao Tse-Tung. Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, will sit more firmly in the saddle after the 9th Party Congress that began yesterday, In the view of Paris experts on Chinese affairs. Chairman Mao will no doubt review three years of "Cultural
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    Lock icon Vice-Chancellor Of Nehru University
    68 6 NEW DELHI, Wed. (Reuter) Mr. O. Parthasarathl. a former Permanent Representative of India at the United Nations, has been appointed tht first Vice-chancellor of the Jaraharlal Nehru University In Delhi. The university Is being set up to commemorate Nehru. Mr. Parthasarathl, aged 56, a former Journalist
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    413 6  -  BY AGUSTIN FUENTES MANAGUA, Nicaragua. Wed. (Reuter) A bitter tariff war currently is being waged between Nicaragua and other states within the five-nation Central Ameri. can Common Market The grouping, comprising Costa R:ca. Nicaragua. Honduras. El Salvador and Guatemala, was set up in
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    177 6 HONG KONG, Wed. (AFP) China is today using wired broadcast networks for fast propagation of Mao's directives and international news in rural areas, according to Radio Peking tonight. A typical examole is the network set up by Er Long Commune Revolutionary Committee in Central China
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    54 6 MOSCOW. Wed. (UPI> The Soviet# on Tuesday accused Chins of seeking to block a peaceful settlement of the Middle East crisis. The magazine Kommumst, nrgan of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, said China is trying to fan conflicts" to spread its influence among developing countries
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    37 6  -  Charles Dickens. •'Now what I want Is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else... Stick to Facts, Sir!" Charles
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    140 6 MOSCOW. Wed (AFP) The surprise opening of the Ninth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Peking today appeared to have caught the Soviet leadership by surprise. Informed sources said the Soviet party was not invited to attend. Observers here thought that the first consequence 0
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    66 6 PATNA. Wed. (Reuter) The Jagadguru of Purl, ore of the four main leaders of Hinduism, and one of the main organisers of the anti-cow-slaughter demonstration in Delhi two years ago which ended in a riot, said he would launch another agitation against the killing of cows He
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      170 7 m n LONDON, Wed (upi) Industrial stocks turned Gown on the stock market yesterday with retail stores Buffeted by signs that government curbs on spending have hit consumer spending. Pre-holiday profit taking was also a factor. Many blue crips took losses Among British government
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      36 7 NEW YORK, Wed. (UPI)— Dow Jones closing averages on the New York stock exchange: 30 Industrials 933.08 20 Rails 242.58 15 Utilities 129.82 65 Stocks 323.57 40 Bonds 73.00 Commodity futures Index 138.31
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      Lock icon Rubber: 70 7/8 Cts.
      260 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. April first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m.. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 70-7 8 cents per lb-, down one eigth of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was very quiet. The market ruled quiet and
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      161 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Gold price® rose In moderately active trading yesterday on world markets. Dealers said some buying was attracted by Monday's sharp drop In prices. In London, gold gained 20 cents a 1 the moming fixing and an additional five cents for
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      Lock icon Cotton Mill To Be Set Up In Jurong
      109 7 TOKYO. Wed. (Reuter) Japan's Nichibo Company said today it plans to establish a cotton spinning mill in the Jurong dutrict of Singapore, Jointly with local concerns. The Joint firm will be named Singapore Spinner s Ltd. It will be capitalised at two
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      50 7 Manager* l»rl« r» 1 1st Malayan 2nd Malayan i.Zt 3rd .Malayan 1.37 The Commerce Ind. 1.11 1.21 The Having l-uiui \D 1 £9 1 SO M Intfl lund 1 35 1 4* I*t H<n* Knng 1.33 1.39* 2nd Hone Rung .96 1.01* Merlins Com «/U (•Hong Kong currency)
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      15 7 SINGAPORE, Wed. The tin price for today was $595 per picul, up $1.75.
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      1359 7 SINGAPORE, Wed. The return to the previous weeks' steadiness gained further momentum in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore today. The market opened slightly steady and despite some brief profit-taking in the course of the dav, rallied to close steady. More buying power
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      63 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Association of Banks in Malay-sia-Singapore today made the following changes in its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency). SELLING TT. or O D ready: Deutsche Marks $76.4275; Holland Guilders $84,6525; Swiss Francs $71.1450; Belgian Francs $6.1100;
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      62 7 HONG KONG Wed. (UPI) —Money Quotations: HK $6.***** per US dollar. HK $6.0875 per U.S dollar TT. HK $14.53 per pound sterling. HK $319.5 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness HK $162.7 per 10.000 Japanese yens. HK $132.0 per 100 Philippine pesos buyers. HK $133.0
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      Lock icon Malaysian-Japanese Project To Manufacture Plastic Projects
      107 7 Mala ysian-Japanese Project To Manufacture Plastic Projects TOKYO, Wed. (AFP) A Malaysian-Japanese joint enterprise to manufacture plastic goods will be established in Ipoh. Malaysia, it was announced here today. Toyo Plastic Co. of Osaka will co-operate with the Rayat Finance Co. of Ipoh in setting up a new company, named
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      126 7 NEW YORK, Wed. (UPI) Stocks finished irregularly lower yesteday in heavy turnover. Profit taking checked an earty upswing which seemed generated largely by prolonged Vietnam peace hopes and an optimistic news background, including record February conduction contracts, spreading aluminum prices increases and an aggressive demand
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      43 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) futures closed 15 to 20 points lower on no sales yesterday. May 26 85 July 25.30 Oct. 26.25 Nov. 25.85 Jan. 25.83 Mar. 25.85 May 25 85 LocaHy. No 2 RSS was 26-3 4 cents per pound.
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      295 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. The following i g a berthing list rexeased by the Port of Singapore Authority for April 3: DEPARTURE: Godowng Vessels 1/2 GlenafTrie Seiyo Maru 13/14 Cypria 18 Emma Bakk« 21/22 York 3l 7 32 Tambang VII 33 34 Hammonia ARRIVAL: Godowns Vessels 1/2 Kyokuyo Maru
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      488 7 ARRIVALS 6 00 am MSA M 1.029 Kuala Lumpur. 615 am LT% IT 1575 Lnlted States. Papeete Pacific 9 Oil a m MsA MLII 9 Kuala Lumpur 9 35 a m. O %Kl l>A 0A982 Jakarta. 10 15 am. MsA MLI2I Kuala Lumpur 10 25 am. MsA MLOOS
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      Lock icon Stock Exchange Closing Prices
      597 7 HIMMPOHK Ntorfc El rhinir sold and other price* nrti<mil> iineo at the close ol flU'lnesS INDUSTRIALS Aetna 2 35 2 39 B«n Co. 2 42 Borneo Bhfl. 1.89 Bou«tead 1.15 217 Camel PI;wood 2 80 Cold storac» 6 30 6.45 Chemical Co 18? 1.88 CC.M Deb
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      102 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. The nixtn pri(N at ihf SlB|«p«r« < hinr»t Produce Eii bang* today ■re >— Buyer (teller or on at Oil 4900 (FOB) Bulk < rx ooui Oil 51.50 (FOB.) Drum Mlxfd Copra 8100 VIitii(ok White Prpper 117.50 (F O B 96% VI-W narawak White Pepper 115.00 (F.OB.)
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      Lock icon PEKING CONGRESS
      102 8 HONG KONG, (Reuter) The Chinese Communist Party's ninth Congress enters its second day in Peking today with more than 1.500 delegates getting down to business to discuss Defence Minister's Lin Piao's "state of the nation" report. The short, bullet-scarred Lin Piao. party Vice-Chairman and Chairman Mao Tse-Tung'* heir
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      Lock icon PROTECTION FOR EMPEROR
      56 8 TOKYO. (UPI) Emperor Hirohito will stand behind a bullet-proof glass partition when he receives the greetings of the Japanese people on his 68th birthday on April 29 at the Imperial Palace. The precautionary measure was taken, according to officials of the Imperial Palace Agfncy. to prevent, anyone
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      Lock icon DIVORCES SOAR
      47 8 TOKYO. (UPI) A total of 86.921 couples terminated their marriages in 1968 to set a record for divorces in Japan Officials of the Health and Welfare Ministry said the number of divorces last year was the highest since officials started keeping such statistics in 18P9.
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      Lock icon ELEPHANTS, TIGERS TOO
      93 8 SAIGON. (UPI) Australian troops have more than Communist to fight in Vietnam. During their current operation "Federal" in Bien Hoa as part of an Allied force defending the big US. bases at Bien Hoa and Lone Bmh the Aussies have killed three elephants in surrounding jungle and
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      Lock icon BETTY GRABLE'S DEBUT
      59 8 GLASGOW. Scotland, (Reuter) Hollywood star Betty Grable made her European stage debut here last night In a spectacular Wild West musical 'The Piecefull Palace." Miss Grable. a pin-up girl of World War Two and now a 52-year-old glamorous grandmother, got a great reception from the opening night
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      65 8 SYDNEY. (Reuter) The Australian Post Office has refused to handle a novel by A'asiralian author D'ircy Nilaisd because of a fourletter word spoken by a parrot. Mr. J. Sare Australian Director of the publishing firm Hodder and Stoughton, said here today that the Post-master-General's Department had refused to register
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      Lock icon CANTON FAIR
      81 8 TOKYO. (UPI) About 200 Japanese firms planned to send a total of 1.200 of their staffers to the one-month long Canton International trade fair this spring but were urged to cut the number of their participants by 40 to 50 per cent it was disclosed on Tuesday. The
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      Lock icon NUGENT'S HOMECOMING
      63 8 WASHINGTON. (UPI) Airman I.C. Patrick J. Nugent, son-in-law of former President Johnson will return from Vietnam today. His wife Luci is planning a big homecoming for nim in Austin, Texas. Pat. went to Vietnam at Easter time last year after switching from the Air National Guard reserves to
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      Lock icon IT'LL TAKE 200 YEARS
      60 8 BANGKOK. (UPI) The Director of Thiland's rural electrification programme said oc Monday it will take at least 200 years to put current in every household in Thailand. Tha wee Asawanocd. DirectorGeneral of regional electrification, said his department had electrified only 400.000 households about eight per cent
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      61 8 TOKYO, (UPI) The National Police Agency announced on Tuesday that 3,506 persons were killed in traffic accidents throughout Japan in the first three months of 1969. an increase of 449 over the corresponding period last year. An agency spokesman said more reports of death on highways were
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      Lock icon ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
      65 8 HONG KONG. (UPI) Police searched today in the New Territories district bordering Communist China for 12 illegal immigrants reported to have escaped from China last Sunday. Police learned of the escape following the arrest of a 19-year-old farmer on Monday. The farmer said he escaped from Poon Tong
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      Lock icon MISSING YACHTS MEN
      85 8 HONG KONG, (UPI) Six weeks after the seizure of three yachts by Communist Chinese gunboats, there is still no official information about the 15 persons aboard. China has not acknowledged that the six Americans, two Britons, a Swedish national, a Frenchman, an Australian girl and four Hong
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      Lock icon 130 DOCTORS QUIT
      54 8 DURBAN. fßeuter) More than 130 non-white doctors at two Durban hospitals yesterday handed in their resignations in a move that threatens chaos to Natal's hospital services. The doctors, who are angered at getting less pay than white doctors for the same work, work at the city's King
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      Lock icon BOMBER GETS 'LIFE'
      82 9 MONTREAL. (Reuter) Pierre-Paul Geoffroy, 25, was sentenced to jail lor life here today on 124 charges connected with 31 bombing incidents in the Montreal area. He had admitted he acted on the borders of a member of the French-speaking separatist Front De Liberation Quebecois (FLQ). He pleaded
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      70 9 JERUSALEM, (Renter) Israeli Prime Minister Mrs. Golda Meir said tonight that if the four great powers reached agreement on a solution to the Middle East crisis Israel would not accept it In ®n interview broadcast over Israeli radio the Prime Minister was asked if she bell eved
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      Lock icon LANA'S 6TH DIVORCE
      68 9 SANTA MONICA. California. (Reuter) Actress Lana Turner, Hollywood's original "sweater girl." yesterday divorced her sixth husband. 38-year-old businessman Robert P Eaton. Miss Turner. 48. testified that Eaton made her nervous. Stayed away from home overnight. and told her it wag none of her business where he had
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      Lock icon LEE'S FIRST MEETING
      87 9 THE VALLEY. AnguiUa. (Reuter) British Commissioner Tony Lee yesterday held his first meeting with the Anguillan Advisory Council w.th which he will administer the secessionist Caribbean Island under a compromise agreement. As 100 of the 350 British paratroopers who seized the island on March 19 began packing
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    Lock icon Bid To Reduce B-52 Raids In Vietnam To 1,600 Monthly
    543 8 WASHINGTON, We d. (Reuter) Defence Secretary Melvin Laird said yesterday the Nixon administration was planning to reduce giant B-52 bomber raids in Vietnam to an average of 1.600 monthly from the current rate of 1.800 He said the decision was
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    Lock icon White Slave Ring In Cairo Smashed
    200 8 CAIRO. Wed. (CPI) Police have smashed a white slave ring which lured hundreds of teen-age Egyptian girls 10 Beirut with offers of paying jobs and then forced them to work in local bordellos, police reports said on Tuesday. The girls were rarely heard from
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    Lock icon Russia-China War: No Foundation To Hope
    237 8 HOUSTON. Texas Wed. (UPI) —There is no foundation to the hope that Russia and China would ever clash in full-scale war. a noted China expert said. Erie Chou, who defected from China in 1961, made the comment during a lecture tour in Houston this
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    Lock icon No New Trial For Ray Despite Judge's Death
    208 8 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Wed. (Reuter) James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, will not be automatically entitled to a new trial by the death of the judge who sentenced him, the Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court said today.
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    52 8 JAKARTA. (Reuter) Foreign Minister Adam Malik said yesterdav the forthcoming visit of Indian Pr.me Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi, to Indonesia was aimed at strengthen- ing good relations between the two countries The Indian leader will arrive here in June at the invitation of th Indonesian Government. Mr.
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    Lock icon Safety Guide To Reduce Electrical Accidents
    282 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Publie Utilities Board has issued a safety guide to reduce and prevent the number of electrical accidents. It said every year a few fatal and near-fatal electrical accidents occurred in Singapore but, fortunately, such accidents were few by comparison with figures
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    Lock icon Air-Sea Rescue Service For Brunei
    116 9 BRUNEI TOWN. Wed Neuter) Brunei is to establish an air-sea rescue service to patrol the Sultanate'* coastal waters. The new service will be run by the Royal Brunei Malay Regiment which has four helicopters. one fast 50-knot patrol boat, a number of smaller craft and
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    Lock icon Brunei Now Safer Place
    193 9 BRUNEI TOWN. Wed. (Renter) Brunei Is becoming a safer place to live with not a single murder and only one case of rape last year. The wealthy British protectorate on the west coast of Borneo with a population oi about 120.000 also had fewer cases of
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    Lock icon S'pore Envoy In Ottawa
    146 9 OTTAWA. Wed. (Reuter)— Canada's Governor-General. Mr. Roland Michener, reived Mr. Koh Thong Bee Singapore's first High Commissioner here yesterday when he presented his letter of commission. After an informal meeting. Governor-General and Mrs. Michener and Externa! Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp had lunch with the 31-year-old High
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    Lock icon This Week's First Lucky Shopper
    101 9 A $2O rift voucher awaits the ladv (circled) in the above picture. She has been picked as this week's first Eastern Sun Luckv Shopper after being "caught" by our roving cameramen shopping at C.K. "fang fn Orchard Road on Tuesday. The lady Is requested to
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    Lock icon Soviet Navy Presenting 'Serious, Growing Threat'
    218 9 WASHING TON. Wed. (CPI) L.B. Navy Secretary John H. Chafee said today Soviet naval advances werr presenting the United States with "a serious and growing threat to our continued supremacy on the high seas." Chafee testified at a closed meeting of the Senate Armed
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    Lock icon Chinese Guerillas Trying To Operate In Sarawak
    282 9 KUCHING, Wed. (Reuter) Chines® Communist guerilla remnants have been making new attempts to cross back from Indonesia to operate in Sarawak's spartelv-settled Third Division, police sources in Hu- rtling revealed today. They said that the begin- j nlng of the year Malaysian security
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    Lock icon When She Called Halt...
    85 9 LONDON. Wed (UPI) A 18-vear-old boy stabbed his 14-year-old girl friend with a penknife when she tried to call a halt to a heavy petting session, a northeast London Court was told yesterday Court Chairman Peter Mason sentenced the boy, who admitted stabbing the girl in
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    Lock icon Malaysian Air Mission In Montreal
    143 9 MONTREAL Wed. (Reuter) A team of Malaysian air force officers and Government officials arrived here yesterday for an evaluation of Canada's CF-5 supersonic fighter aircraft The seven-member team, headed by Air Commodore Sulaiman bin Sujah of Kuala Lumpur, will spend two days at the Canadalr
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    Lock icon Pedestrian Succumbs
    82 9 SINGAPORE. Wed —A 28-vear-old pedestrian. Ang Kan Kia, alias Ang Ah Eng. of Lorong Kuchai, di*d several hourj later in hospital at 9 45 p.m. yesterday after he was knocked down by a car at the junction of Sim Avenue and Upper Paya Lebar Road. Eye-witnesses to the
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    Lock icon Veteran Journalist And Publisher Dies
    101 9 HONG KONG. Wed. (Reuter) —Mr Norman Soong. veteran Journalist and publisher, died here today after a brief lllneas. He was 58. Mr Soong was co-founder of the Asia Magazine and founder of the English-lan-guage Asian Industry. He was also managing director of Pan-Asia News Aeency
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      159 9 LIDO Phone ***** LAST D\Y: 11 1 iS. 0«. «A* 4 »IS p m Jeanne Wooaward "Barbel. Ri.feri T »mes Ol*on Ac E*?e"e Par-ona Technicolor (Warner Bros-7 ArU» Opens Tomorrow Ea«ter Special Peter Sellers "i l«t» Alice B Toklaa" Technicolor Leigh Taylor Youna WB-7 CAPITOL Phon. 297'AJ i LAST DAT!
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      349 9 I SPORE DIARY j 1 p m. 2 p m Rotarv Club of Singapore-West's weekly luncheon at Hollandsche (Dutch) Club, Camden Park off Adam Road. 530 p m 9 p.m.: SATA free masa X-ray atation at Commonwealth Crescent market square, block 118. 6 30 p.m.: Malay dance practice for beginners
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      89 9 CATHAY Til 3 3400 DAILY 4 SHOWS AT 11a.m.. 2.15, 5.30 8.45 p.m. (SO FREE LIST) fcMvv I'lV lOlJvOtl p«.«K> t«>H THE SHOES IOF THE FISHERMAN Anthony Quinn Oskar Werner David Janssen VittorioDeSica Leo McKern Sir John Gielgud Barbara Jefford Rosemarie Dexter in 70MM and full STEREOPHONIC SOUND A Modern-Day
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      275 9 iTomorrow Eatra Show 10.JO a.m.) i Adm tl 50, S3 SO 4.00 'Wo Preo List) Lionel "AI TVFR" Paoarlalon I Bart's vLI" Lit Technicolor A Columbia Picture I School Concession II 50 To Any Seat ball* at 148 A t U P™ Show* Sandays Holiday* Kxtra Show at 10 so
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      395 10 SOME people think that money can solve their problems. Yes, this may be quite Vue. But not all problems can be solved by money. In fact, sometimes money brings worries. For the rich, they may consider a one dollar note as a small amouiht. Rich people
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      322 10 EVERYDAY there are many road accidents in Singapore. Some of the accidents that occur are serious and most of them are minor accidents. Accidents always occur because, although Singapore is very small in size compared to U.S.A.. she is becoming more industrialised and thus traffic has
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      Lock icon The Value Of Sports
      271 10 EVERYONE should take part in sports or games. The word sports stands for all kinds of physical games. There are various types of games such as football, netball, badminton, hockey, table-tennis and so on. Some people take up one game and they become a specialist in
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      530 10 THE character of a person is very important. It indicates the sort of a person you are and the type of family you belong to. But some people don't realise the importance of it. From your character, people form opinions about you, whether you are capable, good or kind.
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      380 10 TELEVISION is very popular in Singapore. Since it appeared, it has been a subject of argument. Some people are of the opinion that it is an effective educational medium while the others hold the opinion that it distracts the concentration of school children from
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      Lock icon A Week In Hospital
      496 10 WHILE I was having my breakfast one day, I felt a pain in my threat. At once I knew my tonsils were giving trouble again. I had been suffering from tonsillitis, for quite some time. I told my mother about it and she brought me to
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      440 10 HOBBY Is a way of spending your leisure time. It Is an activity that provides enjoyment and pleasure. Choice is given to you to choose your hobby. Most people spend their free time on their hobbies because they are interested In them. Wherever you live, whatever things you do.
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      Lock icon The Dignity Of Manual Work
      442 10 MANUAL work means the work which is done by hand, such as cleaning the window, sweeping the floor, washing and ironing clothes, mending a torn shirt or white-washing a new house. In doing these types of jobs, one needs to make good use of one's
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      Lock icon Co-education
      348 10 CO-EDUCATION Is the education of the two sexes together in the same school and in the same classes. Co-education should be based on schools genuinely shared upbringing, as far as possible, both in and out of the classroom. They should be a training ground for mals; outdoor hobbies and
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      185 10 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN'S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears In this page every Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And what better way to
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      Lock icon India May Not Compete
      89 11 Thomas Cup NEW DELHI. Wed. (AFP) —lndia may not compete in the next Thomas Cup badminton tournament for financial reasons, it was learnt here today. This results from the All India Sports Council's refusal of the All-Indian Badminton Association's request to take part in the event
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      Lock icon Littler Back To The Top
      128 11 PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida. Wed. (Reuter) Gene Littler has regained the lead from fellowAmerican Miller Barber in the 1969 United States golf tour earnings list, Professional Golfers Association statistics showed today. Littler shared 18th place in the rich National Airlines Open to earn U.S $2,400
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      Lock icon EBIHARA'S CROWN
      67 11 With blood splashing to his trunks. Jose Severino of Braii) (left) holds himself against lefts and rights of Hiroyuku Ehihara of Japan during a 15-round match for the World Boxing Association's flyweight crown last Sunday at the Sapporo Nakajima Sports Centre. Fbihara won the title by a unanimous
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      Lock icon Leicester Sin Deeper Into Relegation Despair
      252 11 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Leicester City, surprise FA. Cup finalists, sunk deeper into relegation despair last night when beaten 1-0 by Coventry City in their battle for survival in the English First Division. Coventry stole their home win with a last-minute goal by Neil Martin
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      Lock icon Ramsbottom Signs Nadkarni
      92 11 LIVERPOOL. Wed (Router) —All the cricket professionals who will be playing in the Lancashire League In 1969 are overseas-born players. The League lLst was completed when the Ramsbottom Club signed Indian Test all rounder RG. Ndakarnl. The other professionals who will be playing in the League are
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      Lock icon Rangers Tipped To Beat Atletico
      225 11 BILBAO. SPAIN. Wed. (Reuter) Glasgow Rangers, of Scotland, are favourites to beat injury-hit Atletico Bilbao and move into the semi-finals of the Inter-Cities Fairs Soccer Cup here tonight. Four defeats in the last four matches have brought Atletico's morale to a low ebb, and they
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      Lock icon New Mascot For Cup Holders
      104 11 LONDON. Wed (AFP) The English Football Support ers Association have adopted a two-year-old bulldog. Winston, as the mascot for World Cup holders England when they defend the trophy in Mexico next year. Thus "World Cup Willie." the successful small lion symbol that acted as England's
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      Lock icon Massie Joins Kilmarnock CC
      43 11 KILMARNOCK. Scotland. Wed. (UPl)— Kilmarnock Cricket Club have engaged 22-year-oid Bert Massie of Western Australia as professional for the coming season. Massie is a right-arm. fast medium bowler currently heading the Sheffield Shield average* and a middleorder left-arm batman.
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      Lock icon Dolly Affair A Blot On Name Of Cricket
      392 11 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) The D'Oliveira affair, which led to the cancellation of last year's planned M.C.C. tour of South Africa, is a blot on the name of cricket, in view of Norman Preston, editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. "Cricket has been the
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      106 11 JOHANNESBURG Wed. (Re'iter) The South African Open tennis championships got off to a quiet start here yesterday with onlv unseeded players in action. Gordon Forhes. former South African Davis Cup player, beat promising young Australian Alan McDonald 7-3. 6-3. <l-3. Other South Africans who won
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      133 11 LAS VEGAS. Nevada, Wed. (UPI) Matchmane r Teddy Brenner of New York' 6 Madison Square Garden said vejiterday that negotiations for a Jure heavyweight title fight between flve-s»ate champion Joe Frazier and Jerry Quarry were strictly exploratory." Brenner's statement came after several hours of what he
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      65 11 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI) Results of baseball matches plaved yesterday: Rarims City 3 Baltimore 0 Atlanta 7 Chicago White Sox 5 New York Mets 7 Pittsburgh 3 Montreal 5 Cincinnati 0 Boston 2 New York Yankees 0 Philadelphia 11 Minnesota 5 St. Louis 5 Detroit 4 (10 innings
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      253 11 LONDON. Wed The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) have announced that the pools promoters in Britain will operate a cricket pool on their new Sunday Cricket League this year The Imperial Tobacco Company are sponsoring the Sunday League to the extent of some 4160.000 and the pools
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      214 11 Selangor GP KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Out of 35 entries for the Rothmans international trophy rare for cars in the coming Selan for Grand Prix, nine have been rejected. This was disclosed today by Mr. f) Gustavus. Secretary nf the Malaysian Motor Sports Club, the organisers of the
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      195 11 CHICAGO Wed (UPT A spokesman for Caxslus Clay, said yesterday the former heavyweight champion was meditating and would not comment on published report* that he had deferred to Black Muslim leadership and had given up thoughts of making a boxing comeback. Last Friday the Chicago dally Defender,
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      98 11 LONDON, Wed. ißeuter) Tommy Booth, the 19->ear-old defenoer who won a Manchester City first team place only this season, stands bv to make his England debut against Portugal in the L'noer--23 soccer international at Coventry on April lfi. Booth is the only centre-half included in the
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      155 11 BOAT RACE LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) The heavyweight Cambridge University boat crew were in record-break-ing form in an impressive trial yesterday for their race with Oxford next Saturday. With the wind and the tide behind them, rowing over the reverse course the Cambridge eight spurted over the
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      32 11 LONDON, Wed. -Reuter) Results of rugbv matches played last night were RI'GBY LEAGUE Salford 29 Widnes 3 RCGBT UNION Llanelli 32 Swansea 8. Streatham and Croydon 8 Aberdeen University 8.
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      196 12 By BIG BEN PDH. Wed. Theatre IV (Wilson) impressed in a 3f trial in 38 2/5 on a yielding track here this mornine. It was the fastesi workout of the morning. Dolphin's Bay went attractively in a 3f sprint in 39 2/5 Semangat Berjuang covered 3f in
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      213 12 Guineas Trial LONDON. Wed tßeuter) Nine acceptors were announred toda v for the 2.000 Guineas trial stakes to be run over seven furlongs at Kempton on Baturdty. They are with probable Jockeys: Varna unjockey. Whistling Top A. Barclay, Silverware L P srsott. Laser Light J L'ndley.
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      59 12 MELBOURNE tVictona). Wed Two Australians have get a new re<-ord for endurance squash playing. Erie Bcndg and Ralph Scates. both 27. played for 24 hours 13 mmutfj at Toorak Squash Club in Melbourne. The previous record was 22 hours 7 minutes set by New Zealanders Richard Corant and
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      245 12 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) —Three full internationals are Included In an English Football Association team to tour New Zealand. Malaysia and Hong Kong in May and June. The international trio are full-back Jimmy Armfleld. who will be player-manager, goalkeeper A.an Hodgklnson and inside-forward George Eastham
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      141 12 SYDNEY. New South Wales. Wed. The Austra lan Rugby league have broken with tradition by appointing a nonplaying coach for the sixmatch tour of New Zealand this year. The appointment has gone to Harry Bath, manager-coach of the Sydney Club. Newton. Normally the A R L.
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      177 12 LONDON Wed The first national sailing coach has been appointed by Britain's Royal Yachting Association (RYA) He 1» Robert Bond, who will begin work in June co-ordinating the efforts of sailing organisations throughout the country, developing a national coaching scheme and arranging courses, conferences and lectures
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      75 12 LONDON Wed (UPI) Bnti*h welterweight champion Ralph Charle* scored hi g fourth win of the y* ar when he flopped Luis Vinales of New York, in n round last night. The bout in the Ariglo-Amert-can Sporting Club at H Iton Hotel was scheduled for 10 round* but
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      168 12 TOKYO. Wed < UPI Lanier Allan Johnn T Colter, Arizona's Junior lightweight champion, tonight usrd h.s long teach to good advantage and pounded out an upurt 10-round split decision o\er Japanese pride Fghtng Ha ar.» in a hard fought battle A capacity house of 2.5'J0 at
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      83 12 BRISBANE. Wed <Reute r > Sydney >acht* have filled the fir*t three placing* for lire and handicap ho our* in the 6<* -irult Sydney to Brisbane yacht race "Sundower skppered by Ron Swanson, mas first ac:o-s the line here with an elapsed time of 136
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      41 12 LONDON. Wed. 1 UPI) Australian Jocke v Val Faggotter ha* returned to Britain after a successful winter spell in India in time to ride at Eas'er race meetings. *****'er. now a fieelance. rod# 13 winner* in Calcutta
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      294 12 TOKYO. Wed (Reuter> Jarma world Junior lightweight champion Hiroshl Kobayashi today held back from showing hi* form for his title defence on Sunday. It was a disappointment for Ramon Dosman. manager of the Panamanian challenger Antonio Amaya who m »de no secret yesierday of his peak
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      72 12 TOKYO, Wed. (AFP) Fifty-three international referees from the Asian basketball Confederation got together in Tokyo today to attend the first Asian referees' semi* nar. The main aim of the seminar is to make new rulings, drafted by the International Basketball Federation, generally known among the Asian referees.
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      489 12  -  By R. Nathan SINGAPORE, Wed. Hong Kong's Albert Poon, twice winner of the Singapore Grand Prix, tonight tipped last year's winner, Garrie Cooper, to give a repeat performance in the Grand Prix for cars to be held at the ThomsonSembawang Road circuit from Friday to Sunday.
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      165 12 TAIPEI. Wed 1 AFT) Japan's Hideyo Sugimoto and Korea's Hahn Chang-Sang were low scorers in todav's pro-am warm-up for the China Open. Both golfers shot seven under par 65. Hahn paired with amateur T. L. Rayner. three handicap, had a team total of 60
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      134 12 SACRAMENTO. California Wed <UPI) Former featherweight champion Raul Rojas returned to the ring last n fht to stop Roberto Ar'-as in the last round of a scheduled 10-round Junior lightweight match Arias. 138. of Hermosillo. Mexico, fought Roia g on almost even terms and staggered the exchamp
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