Eastern Sun, 8 April 1969

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    23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY <& Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 962 Tuesday* 8 A .pril 1969. MC (P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon S'pore Police Find 3 Guns
    155 1  -  Bv K. S. SIDHU SINGAPORE, Mon.—The Crime Branch of the Paya Leba r Police Station recovered three firearms hidden in a store of a house in Yio Chu Kang Road, this evening. The party of police officers who recovered the firearms had earlier apprehended a
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    Lock icon Another 'First' By Dr. Cooley
    135 1 HOUSTON. Texas, Mon. (UPI) Dr. Denton A. Cooley today began another medical "first" by replacing a manmade heart in an Illinois man with a "God-given'' heart from the body of a 40-year-old Lawrence. Massachusetts, widow. Cooley. who only last Friday had stunned the medical world
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    74 1 WINDSOR. England. Mon. (CPI) Prince Charles wag caught with his pants down while a female companion looked on. The 20-year-old heir to the throne was pictured in a London newspaper (Mirror) pulling off a pair of riding britches after a game of polo near Windsor Castle on Sunday.
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    Lock icon 'Britain Will Not Abandon Brunei'
    323 1 Sir Omars Confident Hope ORUNEI TOWN, Mon. (Reuter) The Brunei -L' Government hopes to persuade Britain to keep a military presence in Brunei despite the planned British troop withdrawal from East of Sues by 1971, former Sultan Sir Omar Aii Saifuddin said today. Sir Omar,
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    Lock icon Barnard's Fourth
    52 1 CAPE. TOWN. Mon. (Reuter) Professor Chris Barnard performed South Africa's fourth heart transplant today, hospital sources reported here. Famed Groote Schuur Hospital scene of the world's first heart transplant operation on Dec. 3. 1967 declined to confirm the new transplant, but announced an official statement would be made
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    Lock icon Nepal's New P.M.
    54 1 KATMANDU. Mon. (AFP) Former Deputy Premier Kirtinidhi Bista was named today to succeed Surya Bahadur Thapa as Nepal's Prime Minister. Mr. Thapa resigned last week after three years as Premier. The only new appointment in Mr. Blsta's 16-member Cabinet was Khadga Bahadur Singh, a persistent critic of
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    Lock icon 'Frustrated Homicide' Charge
    131 1 MANILA. Mon. (UPI) Six teenagers were charged today with "frustrated homicide as a result of the shooting of a son of the American Consul-General here. the Philippine News Service (PNS) said. Eric Chase. 13. son of Consul General Wilbur Chase, was shot and wounded on March 31
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    Lock icon Concorde 002 Bursts A Tyre
    104 1 BRISTOL. England. Mon (Reuter) Concorde 002. the British-built prototype of the Anglo-French airliner, burst a main undercarriage tyre in fast taxing trials here today. The plane, which is due to take off for the first time this week had just made a slow run at
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    Lock icon Asian Leaders Got Nixon's Assurance
    309 1 WASHINGTON. Mon. (L'PI) President Nixon told Asian leaders last week the I' S. will remain a strong military power in the Pacific long after the Vietnam war ends, and would not become preoccupied by Euro- pean affairs. Nixon also declared during private talks that bis
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    Lock icon DESAI CHATS WITH LEE
    50 1 All smiles are Mr. Morarji De&ai, (left) India's Deputy Prime Minister. and Singapore's Premier Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. Mr. Desal paid a courtesy call on Mr. Lee yesterday afternoon. •The Indian Deputy P.M. is on three-day visit to Singapore at the invitation of the Singapore Government.
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    Lock icon Why Queen E. Didn't Attend...
    201 1 LONDON. Mon. (UPI) A Buckingham Palace spokesman said on Bunday that Mrs Elsenhower had Invited Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip to attend the funeral of former President Eisenhower in Washington last week. But he said the Queen "never, never, never goes to a funeral except
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    Lock icon 27 Crew Missing After Collision
    169 1 NEW ORLEANS. Mon. (Reuter> Twenty-seven crewmen of a Taiwan freighter were missing today after the vessel was In collision near the city centre last night with a .string of barges laden with fuel oil. New Orleans harbour police reported that the 7.300-ton Union Faith, of
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    Lock icon Lady Churchill 'A Little Weaker'
    61 1 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Lady Churchill, 84. who is in hospital after a fall at her London home, was a little weaker today, a medical bulletin stated. The hospital said Lady Churchill, who fractured her thigh in the fall, had another restful night, however. Lady Churchill,
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    Lock icon £50,000 Job Offer To Dolly To Declare Himself Unavailable?
    394 1 LONDON, Mon (Reuter) British Minister of Sport Denis Howell was today considerinr reports that England Test cricketer Basil D'Oliveira was offered a £50.000 work contract to declare himself unavailable for the ill-fated tour of South Africa last winter. The Minister has
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    Lock icon 10 Killed In Easter Tragedy
    141 1 OAKWOOD BAYOU, Arkansas. Mon. (UPI Ten persons gathered for the Easter holiday In a 11-room house were killed on Saturday night when gasoline being used to light a wood stove exploded and touched off a fire that levelled the house. Five of the 10 victims,
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    Lock icon One C-in-C For Indonesian Forces
    143 1 JAKARTA. Mon. (AFPj Indonesian President General Suharto decided today on a drastic overhaul of the top structure of the armed forces After a conference with the President, the new Germantrained Chief of Staff of Defence and Security announced that the separate commands for the Navy,
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    Lock icon 250-FOOT PLUNGE
    47 1 GENEVA. Mon (AFP) A 12-year-old English girl plunged 250 feet to her death from a mountain path in the Champery region yesterday. She was named as Lorna Brown of Harlow (Essex). Guides said the girl, who was on holiday, fell after slipping on the path.
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    Lock icon 2 Hospitalised After Fight
    79 1 SINGAPORE, Mon. Two friends were rushed to the General Hospital and one of them Awara Singh, was plac ed on the "dangerously ill list" following a fight at Loron* Tai Seng, this evening. Eastern Sun under*' and* that both of them were having liquor at a
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    Lock icon 100 Houses Gutted In Bangkok Fire
    74 1 BANGKOK. Mon. (Reuter)' One hundred houses wer« destroyed and 700 people were made homeless m a fire which swept through the residential Yanawa District of Bangkok yesterday. Police said the fire, which raged for three hours, started in a Chinese noodle shop and that
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      341 1 mbt* hi This Issue... 9 EX-CPIB Director testifies Page 2. CUSTOMS chief off to America Page 3. DESAI's Visit Day Two Page 4. 'LIVING Dolls' of a diplomat's wife Page 10. JAPANESE golfers s»et for final leg Page 11- KUALA Lumpur race weights Page 11. NIXON to start U.S. baseball
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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    Lock icon Chua Inaugurates Kidney Foundation
    504 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. The National Kidne.v Foundation which will include a medical team capable of performing kidney transplants was inaugurated today by the Minister for Health, Mr. Chua Sian Chin. In a brief ceremony, the Minister recalled that a kidney unit had been operating in the Outram
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    Lock icon RAPE CHARGE
    39 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. A 58-year-old man, Naranian Singh, was charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court today with raping an eight-year-old girl at Hoy Fatt Road on Jan. 5. He was allowed bail of $5,000 pending a preliminary inquiry.
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    Lock icon King To Visit South Korea
    177 2 SEOUL, Mon. (Reuter) The Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, due in Seoul on April 29 for a five-day state visit, will hold talks with President Park Chung Hee on April 30. according to an Itinerary announced by the Foreign Ministry today. The King will arrive
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    Lock icon RAF Squadron To Quit Butterworth
    171 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. No. 33 (Surface to Air Missile) Squadron. R.A.F.. based at the Royal Australian Air Force base at Butterworth. Western Malaysia, is to be withdrawn from the Far East Air Force The Squadron's Bloodhound missiles and associated equipment will be returned to Britain. No.
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    Lock icon Accident Rate Down
    140 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. Except for the number of persons seriously injured in accidents, there was a general decrease in other areas last month according to latest Police figures. The total number of accidents for the month was 2,321 a decrease of 647 accidents compared with the corresponding month
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  • Article
    Lock icon Norwegian Ship For Repairs At Jurong
    260 2 SINGAPORE, Men. Another giant ocean-going Norwegian ship will call at the Juronjj Shipyard drydock for repairs tomorrow. According to a spokesman of Jurong Shipyard, the 109.000ton tanker with an overall total length of 881 feet is the biggest vessel to enter the shipyard's dry-dock
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    Lock icon KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION BY FOUNDATION POSSIBLE
    881 2 SrNGAPORE. Mon. The National Kidney foundation was today described bT Its chairman. Professor Khoo Oon Telk as "a Joint venture, incorporating the will and purpose of the people of Singapore, sharing in a common task of fighting the ravages of kidney disease". Professor Khoo was
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    Lock icon Former CPIB Director Gives Evidence In Defamation Case
    695 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. The former director of the Corrupt Practices Investigations Bureau, Mr. Richard Corridon, told a defamation case today that his attempts to put across to the Public Service Commission that allegations of corruption against DSP Ling Ing Huong were baseless did
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    Lock icon Poland Hopes For More Ties
    81 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Polish Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Wolniak said here today that he hoped that both Singapore and Poland would soon nave diplomatic ties and ircreased trade relations. Mr Wolniak was speaking to new* reporters on bus arrival here this morning at the
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    Lock icon Bargirl Awarded $5,000 Damages
    76 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. A bargirl, Salmineh binte Awang was awarded $5,000 damages m the High Court for injuries sustained in a motor accident more than two vears ago Salrruneh was cross:rg Sep. angoon Road on Oct. 22. 1968 when she wag knocked down by a motor car
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    Lock icon Notice Of War Games
    135 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. Military exercises will be conducted at the following areas: Clemen ti: Between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. from April 9 to 10. Tampmes and Ayer Gemuruh: From 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. on April 10. Ayer Gemuruh: From 10.30 p.m. to 6 a m.
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    Lock icon Culture Needs Aid
    178 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Chairman of the National Theatre Trust, Dr. Goh Poh Seng has appealed for more financial support from the Government and the private sector to help "produce culture ct a high standard." He said the moment was new a "test" for the people and the
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    Lock icon Today's Diary
    56 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. 5.30 p.m.-9 p.m.: SATA free mass X-rav station at Commonwealth Crescent market square. block 118 7.30 p.m.: Free film shows bv Ministry of Culture at Hwa Nong School (Jalan Alsagoff) and Jalan Chai Chee Housing Est at. 8 p.m.: Magic illusion course and Chinese drama rehearsal
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    Lock icon Customs Chief Off On US Trip
    188 3 SINCAPORE. Mon. Mr. Lim Thean Soo, the Comptroller of Customs and Excise has been awarded a grant by the U.S. Department of State for a 60-day leader/lecture programme In the United States. Mr. Llm Ls scheduled to leave tomorrow for the United States. During
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    Lock icon 'Vision' Talk On Thurs
    94 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. Dr. Joseph Busby, Mystic ic Universa list International President of the "Spiritual Unity oi Nations". will be giving a public talk on "Vision of things to come." on Thursday at 6.30 p.m. at the Singapore Theosophical Society, No. 8 Cairnhill Road Dr. Busby will
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    Lock icon Drowned In Well
    47 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. A seven-year-old Chinese boy was found drowned in a well at Jalan Kayu. today. Police gave his name as Phng Chuan Meng. His body was found in a well about 150 yards from his house. Police do not suspect any foul play.
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    Lock icon Spastics Lecture
    156 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Singapore Association for Retarded Children will hold its first workshop colloquim on Saturday at the Pasir Panjang Centre on "Toward* Understanding Mental Retardation". Five papers will be reading during the one-day colloqium organised by Mr. Ng Fook Kah, the Hon. Assistant Secretary of the association.
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    Lock icon Car Auction On Friday
    87 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Government is offering an assortment of 52 confiscated motor cars at a public auction to be held on Friday, at the sales room of Messrs Nassim i Co (Singapore) Ltd., Nos. 4 4-1. Collyer Quay, from 10.00 a.m. The cars can be inspected
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    Lock icon Tanker-Transfer Blaze Undetermined: Court Told
    490 3 SINGAPORE. Mon.—The cause of a tanker blare which began In the tanker's pump room, killing three crew members last month is "unknown" the Coroner's Court was told today. The incident occurred on board the Shell tanker S.S. "Hama" on March 21 when she was discharging
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    Lock icon Windfall For S'pore?
    176 3 SAIGON. Mon. (UPI> The Australian Army's 1.000ton Landing Ship Medium (LSM> CUve Steel may be sent to Singapore Instead of Sydney for a major refit, Army Minister Mr. Phillip R. Lynch said today. Mr. Lynch told United Press International the Cllve Steel which has been operating In
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    Lock icon Singapore TV Talents To Stage Show In KL
    185 3 SINGAPORE. Mon A host of top local talents j winners of the Radio and Te- i levislon talentlmes and re-1 cording artists of RTS Enterprises left here today for Kuala Lumpur to take part In a Grand Variety Show at Stadium Negara
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    Lock icon ORTHOPAEDIC LECTURE
    55 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. Mr. J.C. Scott. Senior Surgeon at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. will deliver a public lecture on Traumatic Orthopaedic Surgery on Wednesday. 9th April, 1969. at 4.00 p.m. at the Orthopaedic Lecture Theatre. Outram Road General Hospital. Singapore This lecture is organised by the School of Postgraduate
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    Lock icon Day Two Of Desai's Visit
    337 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. The 73-year-old holt and hearty-looking Deputy Prime Minister of India, Mr. Morarji Desai, today began the second day of his three-day official visit here by paying a courtesy call on the Republic's President, Enche Yusof bin Isnak. Later the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
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    Lock icon EATA Meeting In Manila
    88 4 MANILA. Mon (Reuter) The East Asia Travel Association (EATA) will hold Its third general assembly here from April 14 to 18 EATA president Roque Ablan Jr.. who made the announcement, said 20 delegates, guests and observers representing the national tourist associations of Japan. Nationalist China, South
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    Lock icon Jakarta's Birth Rate
    53 4 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter) Jakarta, with a population of four million, has an annual birth rate of 150.000. according to the capital's Governor. Major General All Sadikin. He told reporters during the weekend that he planned to expand the city to take In three towns to the south,
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    Lock icon Industrial Education For The Blind Soon
    287 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Steps are being taken to provide industrial and technological education to blind pupils, the Chief Education Adviser, Haji Hamdan bin Sheikh Tahir an- nounced today. The blind, he said, also required a diversified curriculum to prepare them for more useful and
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    Lock icon King Lays Wreath
    221 4 TEHERAN. Mon. (Reuter) The Malaysian Head of State Sultan Sir Ismail Nasiruddin Shah today laid a wreath at the Mausoleum of Reza Shah Pahlevi, founder of modern Iran and father of President Shah. Sultan Nasiruddin. on a week's State visit to Iran, was met at the tomb
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    Lock icon Rape: Sentence Cut To Two Years
    105 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. A fortune-teller. Ng Ah Bee, who was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on a charge of rape today had his sentence reduced by three years. Ng, conducting his own appeal before the Federal Court said that he intended to get married to
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    Lock icon No Quota Plea To Govt On Watches
    596 4 SINGAPORE. Mon The president of the Singapore Clock and Watch Trade Association. Mr. Song Chin Lock tonight called on the Government not to Introduce any quota restrictions or tariff on the import of watches Into the Republic. Mr Song speaking at the 40th
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    Lock icon Hippies Hold 'Bust-Out'
    124 4 NEW YORK. Mon (UPI) Hundreds of youths, many wearing hippie clothing, held a "bust-out" yesterday in Central Parks Sheep Meadow to celebrate the coming of spring. Highlight of the bust-out between Louis Abolafia and Yayoi Kusama. the self-styled "King and Queen of Love and Nudity." The ceremony
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    Lock icon Soviet Pianist To Perform At The Vic
    384 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. Donald Moor* Entertainments Limited will present Vladimir Ashkenazy, the world famous Soviet pianist in a concert at the Victoria Theatre on April 20 at 8.45 p.m. The following is a biography. Although Vladimir Ashkenazy was already an established soloist in the
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    Lock icon Private Sector To Take Part In Science Exhibition Too
    312 4 KUALA LUMPrR. Mon Private industry would be invited to take part in the National Science Exhibition here in August organised by the Ministry of Education. Disclosing this today. Enrhe Mnhamed Khir Johari. the Minister of Education, said the show would be
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      Lock icon EXCEPTED
      92 5 MANILA. (UPI) Three life insurance executives from Nationalist China were refused entry to the Philippines yesterday because they did not «ave visas, an immigration department spokesman said today. The three said they had been told by airlines emF oyees travellers did not need visas for 72 hours. They were
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      Lock icon A 4-MURDER YOUTH
      100 5 P Police said a 19-year-old youth nabbed as a suspect in a burglary has confessed to four murders last fall. -re youth, whose name was not revealed because of his w v s arrestef l near the Bleijl shrine in Tokyo shortly after a burglar broke into
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      Lock icon THREAT TO KILL NIXON
      89 5 HUDSON. New York, (UPI) I_K 20-year-old unemployed 3° u er wa s arrested by local Police and secret service agents yesterday on a charge of threatening the life of Pr 9r*n t Nixon. hori tl said Michael Snesky of this upstate New community made the inreat
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      Lock icon EORDER SHOTS IN SUDAN
      62 5 vr A"* Uflil SUDAN. Mon. (AFP) Sidanese and Ethiopian forces have exchanged fire across the borders in Eastern Sudan, unconfirmed reports said here today. The reports said that the Sudanese armed forces in the area had been strengthened In the border region. The lndependant newspaper Pal
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      Lock icon ANGUILLA'S DEMANDS
      46 5 LONDON. Mon. (AFP) The British government Is studying demands by Angulllan leader Ronald Webster that It recall Commissioner Tony Lee and British troops within one week, official sources said here last night. But Mr. Webster's criticism of British action was unofficially described as baseless.
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      Lock icon CRASH IN MISSISSIPPI
      64 5 NEW ORLEANS. Louisiana. /Reuter) A tug towing two or three barges collided with a ship on the Mississippi Fiver near mid-town New Orleans, setting off a series of violent explosions. The collision took place almost directly under the Mississippi River bridge and one eye-witness said flames engulfed
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      Lock icon STOKING SABAH CLAIM
      35 5 MANILA, (Reuter) The Philippines will submit this year the issue of its claim over Sabah either to the United Nations or the International Court of Justice, according to the Manila Times today.
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      Lock icon BOUNTY ON THIEVES
      38 5 CAIRO. (Reuter) Cairo has started a catch-a-thief scheme unde r which any citizen bringing one to book wins a prize. The plan follows increased activity by thieves and pickpockets on the city's trams and buses.
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      Lock icon LOCAL BARS PROTEST COMPETITION
      92 5 MANILA. (Reuter) Some 1.000 bar girls and nightclub hostesses are planning to demonstrate this week against the United States authorities of the Subic Naval Base north of here for operating nightclubs inside the base. Those planning the demonstration work in entertainment places just outside the American
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      Lock icon CARELESS BURGLARS KILL TWO
      80 5 HULST. Holland. (Reuter) A fire believed caused by careless safe-crackers killed two men in this town on the Belgian border. Firemen said they had found a welding torch and a safe with an L-shaped hole burnt out among the remains of two shops and a house
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      Lock icon CAN'T HEAR YOU
      78 5 CALCUTTA. (UPI)—A mob of movie fans who couldn't hear the "Playback Singers'* set fire to a stadium packed with sn.onn Other fang yesterday, triggering a stampede. Scores were injured but authorities said there were no initial reports of deaths. Several cars, including one police vehicle were burned
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      Lock icon BIAFRAN EVACUATION
      57 5 LONDON. (UPI) The Daily Telegraph says that Biafra has begun evacuating Umuahia, its last large town and its administration centre. The paper's correspondent says Biafra was angry wtth Paris for a slowdown in the supply of arms, but added this supply has now speeded France has consistently denied
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      Lock icon EGYPT'S BULGE
      76 5 CAIRO. (Reuter) Egypt is to make more cheap contraceptives available in a move to check a population explosion that has producer! 11 million children since 1952, it was announced today. The government will also train more personnel to advise on birth control. The decision wa; taken after a
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    Lock icon TOKYO: An aerial view of the newly opened highway connecting the metropolis with neighbouring prefectures, spotted this odd contrast on a spring holiday. Cars heading toward the Kawaguchi lake, resort area, out of Tokyo filled the one way, resulting in occasional halts with sometimes extending the lines of cars to 20 kilometres. It looks like only a car coming Tokyoward enjoyed its exhilarating driving. – UPI photo.
    66 5 TOKYO: An aerial view of the newly opened highway connecting the metropolis with neighbouring prefectures, spotted this odd contrast on a spring holiday. Cars heading toward the Kawaguchi lake, resort area, out of Tokyo filled the one way, resulting in occasional halts with sometimes extending the lines of cars to
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    Lock icon Thieu Gives His 6-point Peace Plan
    357 5 Angry Lynch Denies *Policy Suggestion SAIGON, Mon. (Reuter) Australia's Minister for the Army, Mr. Phillip Lynch, today angrily denied suggestions that Australian troops were breaking off battle contact with Vietcong to avoid casualties. Mr. Lynch was a>keri at a press conference in Saigon if
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    Lock icon A Guide For Doctors...
    264 5 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) When a woman tells her doctor she Is "in the pudding club" she is really only saying what she Is too bashful to admit, in plain English, that she Is pregnant Or If a man says he Is "high on surge." he really
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    Lock icon WAR BILL SOARS
    106 5 TEL AVIV Mon. (Reuter) Israel's defence spending > s now two and a half times what It was on the eve of the six-day June war in 1967. a defence ministry official said last night The official. Brigadier Yaacov Hefez. financial adviser to the chief of staff
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    Lock icon A Strange Co-driver...
    145 5 ROY AN. France. Mon. (Reuter) Zoo employee Jean Marcade drove on for three hours after a full-grow n tigress broke loose In his van, jumped onto the passenger seat and worked the windscreen wipers and direction indicators with her paws. M. Marcade said after the 125-mile drive
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    Lock icon RAINS KILL 20
    58 5 TEHERAN (Reuter) Twenty people have been killed in the last 48 hours in floods caused by torrential rains throughout Iran's province of Azerbaijan, it was officially reported today. The reports said 10,250 houses were destroyed in 384 villages in the northwestern province. Rail and road communication between
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    Lock icon Hitler's Doctor: Widow Sues Writer
    285 5 MUNICH West Germany, Mon (Reuten The widow of Hitlers personal physician. Professor Theodor Morell. Is suing a German writer for libel for alleging that treatment prescribed by her husband drove the dictator mad Frau Morell's attorney, Dr. Heinz Herrmann, said the case had already opened
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    Lock icon 'Incomes Policy Crisis'
    396 5 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) —Jetliners of British Overseas Airways Corporation flew yesterday after a weeklong pilots' strike settled on terms that could embarrass the government. The peace formula reached yesterday to end a pay dispute threatens a major breach of Britain's wage-restraint policy. The Labour government, which regards
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    Lock icon All's Fair In Trade...
    364 5 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) The magazine U.S. News and World Report predicts that "complaints against U.S. trade policies" will get "louder in Europe, Japan (and) nearly any nation that has something to sell." "Its all part of a new U.S. policy of looking out for its own
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    Lock icon Profane Preacher
    92 5 KEY BISCAYNE. Florida. Mon. (Reuter > A preacher tcld an Easter Sunday congregation that Included President Nixon and his wife that love "is a good four-letter word." The Reverend John A Huffman recalled a photograph in a local newspaper of a student painting the word "Love" on the
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    Lock icon 'SOLD AS IS'
    74 5 SYDNEY. Mon. (Reuter) An American ship torpedoed off New South Wales during World War Two and still lying on the Pacific Ocean bed is being offered for sale here. The vessel is the 7.176ton William Dawes which was sunk by a Japanese submarine off Narooma, 170 miles
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    Lock icon Patrols Out In Prague
    146 5 PRAGUE. Mon. (Reuter) Police reinforced by soldiers with machine-guns are patrolling the streets of Prague to prevent further outbursts of anti-Soviet feeling. The patrols were part o£ tough restrictive measures introduced by the Communist Party leadership on Moscow's orders following the burning of the Prague office
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    411 6 ACCORDING to US News and World Report, the influential news magazine subscribed by Big Business, the United States looks like heading for a severe showdown with Japan and Germany and other nations that export to the United States, over her de facto restrictive practices. The charge is self-interest, and
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    210 6 UPI. fTIHE Washington Post Sunday warned critics JL of the Nixon Administration's safeguard antiballistic missile system not to "attack what is better along with what is worse in the Administration's position." The newspaper said in an editorial the criticis "should make the Administration demonstrate that
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    114 6 UPI. THE magazine U.S. News and World Report said on Sunday the recent Party Congress in China had the "strong smell of a compromise The magazine said Mao Tse-tung's critics and enemies consented to attend the meeting only "if Mao promised to call a halt to
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    159 6 PRAGUE. Mon. (UPI) A pamphlet describing demands by the Soviet Union for the right to declare martial law in Czechoslovakia for limited periods and reporting a potential revolt in the Czechoslovak army circulated In Prague yesterday. The sheet, entitled "Information on the situation.' was mimeographed
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    455 6  -  BY EDOUARD DILLON PEKING. Mon. (AFP) China's Asia policy, at seen by the Ninth Party Congress, would seem to be for backing armed revolutionary struggle against governments in Burma. Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Japan. That, in the view of Peking diplomatic observers. Is the main conclusion
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    221 6 FT. DIX, New Jersey Mon. (UPI) A new newspaper called "Shakedown." which tells soldiers what is new in the anti-war movement, is circulating at this military base despite army objections. A high ranking officer stepped u© to a coin operated vending machine last week and pulled the
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    483 6  -  BY JOSE KATIGBAK HONG KONG, Mon. (Reuter) Many Hong Kong fishermen are deserting the junks they call home for the comforts and security of a land-locked residence. Of about 56.000 people directly engaged in fishing about 40 per cent now live on land, either in resettlement estates
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    386 6  -  BY JACK MARTIN EAST ST. LOUIS, Mon. (Reuter) A national crime expert is trying to clean up this violence-ridden Illinois town where guns are rarried by men and women as casually as wallets or compacts. Mr. Ross Randolph, recently appointed Public Safety Director, saya he
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    231 6 HONG KONG, MOB <leuter) The Polish Communist Party has denounced armed provocation* br the 'Soviet Imperialists' against China and said no reactionary force would stand up to the Chinese people's revolutionary will, the New China News Agency reported today. It was quoting a message of greetings
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    626 6  -  By John Rigos ATHENS, Mon. (UPI) Once, the feud between Aristotle Onossis and Stevros Niarchos was professional. Then it was personal. Now it is political. Their newest and bitterest, clash Involves not only the two multi-millionaire jetsetters, who Juggle complex business deals with the same ease they
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    601 6  -  BY MIN THI MACHWBAW. Kachin State. Mon. (Reuter) Kachin tribes In this northern hilly region of Burma love happy marriages and elaborate ceremonies but for the prospective couple love plays little part in their arduous journey into wedlock. Kachln tradition and custom demand that the bride and
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    186 6  -  (From Sin Chew Jit Poh ALTHOUGH the Soviet Union is closest to China, between the two countries there has never been any peaceful co-existence in the last 150 years Today. China has waken up from her 150year long slumber. Throughout her history, China has been entroubled by
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    612 6  -  BT JUAN J. WALTE WASHINGTON. Mon. (UPI) Tropical diseases in Latin America and guerrilla bullets in Southeast Asia have claimed most of the 10? U.S. diplomatic officials who have died in service since the American Foreign Office began operations. Moat of their names are engraved
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      245 7 j n Rcuter Financial leaders of 33 countries, including the United States Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. David Kennedy, are expected at the second annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank Board of Governors, beginning here on Thursday. They will discuss a proposal that
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      46 7 NEW DELHI, Mon. (UPI) A ftve-member delegation from Pakistan will visit Moscow next week to consult Soviet technologists on the construction of a steel mill near Karachi, Radio Pakistan reported yesterday. The mill would be built with Soviet aid, the radio said.
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      132 7 NEW YORK. Mon. (UPI) Millions of dollars are spent on research into how to beat the stock market Hundreds of thousands are spent to develop systems for winning at contract bridge or rummy. Now a Denver investment analyst, J. David Huskin, has come
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      305 7 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) Representative* of leading wheat producing countries emerged from a two day attempt to shore up the International grains agreement, acknowledging in a communique that wheat trade was in trouble. The meeting of delegations of leading exporting areas. Argentina, Australia. Canada, the European Economic
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      78 7 TOKYO, Mon. (UPI) The Japanese Government has approved establishment of a subsidiary by Chicago's BorgWarner Co. and Japan's Aisin Co. here to manufacture automatic for automobiles. The approval came after the U.S. manufacturer agreed to cwn 30 per cent shares rather than 51 per cent
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      123 7 SINGAPORE. Moo. The anon price* at inr Slncap' r> l hineM Produce Cue hann toda« are:— tfu>« arltri ((Miinai OH (F O B Balk M 4JM* 1 (M'llllUt Oil SI .V. (FOB.) Drum Mixed Opia SI (H) M IIII t nk While Pi rpper (FOB .N L.H 11? 4a
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      1654 7 By Our Marktt Correspondent SINGAPORE, Mon. Slightly easier conditions prevailed on the day's quiet trading in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore. The market was again subjected to profit-taking which further lowered some more levels. With the prevalent mood, the leading industrials
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      73 7 HONG KONG, Mon. (UPI) A four-msn cot.on textile finishing mission from the Uniteo Ststes arrived yesterday to conduct s seminar here tomoriow in co-operation with the Hong Kong Cotton Splnneis Association. The mission, sponsored by the Cotton Council International, works with the U.S. Department of Agriculture In promoting
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      76 7 SEOUL, Mon. (UPI) Scuth Korea will import 3.5 million cubic metres of lumber worth of US$l3O million this year, the Office of Foresty announced. The lumber to be used rrainly for plywood production will come ficm the United States the Philippines. Malaysia and Indonesia, according
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      225 7 HONG KONG. Mon. (AFP) A national textile conference held recently in North China has called upon the Industry to create "still better records" as a tribute to the ninth Party Congresa. The New China News Agency reported that delegates of the industry from 28 Chinese
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      80 7 TOKYO, Man. (UPi)_The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has decided to import 15.000 metric tons of pork as an emergency measure to cope with its rising prices, it was disclosed yesterday. Prices of pork began rising late last month and now averages about 470
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      73 7 HONG KONG. Mon. (AFP)—A Japanese un-offlcial trade mission has reached agreement with China on Sino-Japan memorandum trade matters for 1969 after two weeks of talks in Peking. A Joint-communique was signed in Peking on Friday after the conclusion of the talks, the New China News
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      258 7 TOKYO, Mon. (Reuter) Jspan face* a serious decline in log imports this year, forcing a steep rise in prices and pcsslbly an acute timber acsrcity and local log importing firms have suggested that Japan should seek larger log imports from Southeast Asia. Timber prices in Japanese
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      116 7 NEW DELHI. Mon. (Reu ter) India is anxious to gft a trade foothold in Latin American countries, Mr Dinesh Singh, Minister of External Affairs, said. He told a delegation of Indian businessmen and industrialists w ho will visit Latin America shortly that in
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      67 7 SINGAPORE. Mon Shipping ;s advised that for a period of approximately 6 weeks from the date of this c'rcular. a pile driving pontoon will be operating alcngsid- Wharf No. 8. The pontoon will be st t -e wh?rf head, with moor.n; wires extending about 20; feet to
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      240 7 LONDON, Mon. (UPI) Britain's consumer credit squeeze threatens to place 1 British colour television manufacturers at a disadvantage against foreign—particularly Japanese competition, the president of the British Radio Equipment Manufacturer's Association said during the weekend. Lord Thorneycroft made the statement in letter
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      297 7 SINGAPORE. Mon. The following is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for April 8: DEPARTURE: God owns Vessel* 6/7 Heinz Kapelle 8 9 Ben la rig 10/11 Bencleuch 21/22 Rajah Brooke 23/24 Nichirei Maru 25 26 Euphrate 27/28 Rama JayanU 35/36 Slra 44
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    228 8 MANILA. Mon. (UPI) Last Friday Wllburn D. Cobb of San Francisco offered to jell his pearl, which he said was the biggest In the world, lor the bargain price of US$3 5 million. He said the pearl was found in the Philippines in 1934 and was given
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    84 8 JAKARTA, Mon. (Reuter) Schoolboys and schoolgirls in the Central Java town of Jogjakarta found that the best way to enjoy their evenings was to ride their bicycles into town and race down the main streets. But the races became too popular and Police last week rounded
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    68 8 SEOUL. Mon. (Reuter) Prominent comedians and movie stars have joined police to start campaign to appeal to private carowners with empty seats to give a lift to school children during rush hours. Police have designated 29 congested areas in Seoul as stops for cars prepared to take
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    66 8 JAKARTA. Mon (UPI) North Sumatra hopes to boost exports of fish and shrimp to the United States. Japan. Singapore and Malaysia this year to 75,000 tons, a spokesman said today. Baharuddin Slregar. head of the Medan Government Fishery Office, said he was confident the 1968 figure
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    20 8 Almost like limbering up for the ball games.... the famed French ballet troupe "Etork" seen at the theatre in Paris.
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    123 8 AALBORG. Denmark, Mon (Xjpi) Houses cracked and windows were shattered when the seaside village of Klitmoeller in northern Jutland was hit by a strong earthquake on Saturday night. "We thought it was a Jetflghter, who broke through the sound barrier", the local police said. The quake was
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    94 8 MANILA. Mon. (UPD Police yesterday arrested three youths all aged 15 for the shooting of the son of U S. Consul General Wilbur Chase. Eric Chase 18, was shot and wounded while awaiting a taxi along with four others to take him home after attending a
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    102 8 HONG KONG. Mon (Reuter) Hong Kong students will *et a 15 per cent discount on their school essentials, thanks to a newly-introduced scheme. The scheme was organised by the Student Welfare Committee of the Hone Kong Students Federation which allows the students to buy books, clothings and even
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    49 8 Birgit Lystager from the Danish town of Aarhus has been named "Denmark's best jazz singer". She has been at it from the age of 16 and has come to settle down in Copenhagen for better success and fast career. PANA photo.
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    296 8 WASHINGTON, Mon. (Reuter) A Washington press report today that the United States was thinking of a unilateral withdrawal of some troops from Vietnam encouraged speculation here about a new American approach to the conflict. According to the report, in the Washington Star, the Nixon
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    178 8 MIYAZAKI Japan. Mon. (Reuter) The captain of a Japanese fieighter returned here today after being held In China for nearly five months on a spy charge. He is Yasuakl Hisamatsu. 44. skipper of the 451-ton Japanese vessel No. 5 Eitoku Maru which was held in Tientsin on November
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    106 8 KL'MAMOTO. Japan. Mon (Reuter) A 10-year-old boy described a thief by a sketch and led to the capture of the robber. Police said Toshio Tanaka. 30 wanted for robbery. was arrested when police trailed him to a pawnshop where he tried to sell a stolen camera. They
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    135 8 SYDNEY Mon (Reuter) The new U.S. administration Is unlikely to change Its policy in South-east Asia and the Pacific, the Australian Prime Minister. Mr. John Gorton, said today. But I would not presume to say that definitely." he told reporters on hi* return from a six-day visit to
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    137 8 BANGKOK, Mon. (Reuter) A three-day training course m shoe shining has just been completed by 40 school pupils at Thonbun, sister city of Bangkok and across the Chao Phya River. The course, conducted by the Thai government's departments of Public Welfare and Labour, had emphasis on odd manners
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    429 8 SCORNFUL OF SELF-APPOINTED FOUR TEL AVIV, Mon. (Reuter) The Israeli Defence Minister, General Moshe Davan, said last night that acceptance of the big four powers terms tor a East settlement would mean Israel's suicide. Addressing students at a village on the southern slopes
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    171 8 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Mon. (Reuter) The Arabian-American Oil Company (Aramco) was trying today to plus an unwanted oil well from which 15,000 barrels a day started flowing last week when workers were drilling for water. The company brought in experts from Houston. Texas, to help to
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    198 8 HOUSTON. Mon. (Reuter) More than a dozen people have telephoned St. Luke's Hospital here offering to donate their hearts to Haskell Karp. 47. who has the world's first artifical heart beating in his chest. The calls came in response to an emotional plea from Karp's wife. Shirley,
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    67 8 ADEN, Mon. (Reuter) President Qahtan Mohammed A 1 Sha'Abi of Southern Yemen last night named his foreign minister. Mr. Feisal Abdel Latlf, as the new Prime Minister. a post he had held himself. The change in the structure of the premiership, announced after a week-long session of the
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    417 8  -  By Vicente Maliwanag MT. SAM AT, Bataan. The Philippines, Mon. (UPI) More than 1,000 Filipino veterans of World War Two will return to this mountain top on Wednesday on a pilgrimage to the past the fall of Bataan 27 years ago. They will Join President Marcos, most
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    103 8 JAKARTA. Mon (UPI) Army Chief of Staff Gen. M. Panggebean said today he has ordered a special investigation of the poor condition of second-hand LST's (Landing Ships. Tank) bought from Argentina. He said the first three of the 10 vessels bought from Argentina arrived in bad condition and
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    72 8 SAIGON. Mon. (UPI) Mercenaries led by US Special Forces have captured Superstition Mountain near the Cambodian border which has been a Vietcong sanctuary for 20 years. The allied unit started the assault in midMarch. took a kev knoll on March 27 and started the drive to the too
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    175 8 TAIPEI. Mon. (Reuter) Miss Patsy Wu. recently crowned in Melbourne as Queen of the Pacific 1969 has become a public idol in Taiwan and one of the most sought-after figures on television and radio. Within a week of hep crowning, the 21-year-old Chinese beauty whose vital statistics are
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    88 8 MANILA. Mon. A group of young Filipino musicians who call themselves the aganonds" have arrived from Saigon penniless after a four-month stay in the Soutn Vietnam capital. The five Vagabonds, who play rock-and-roll music, alleged Filipino musicans were being exploited by managers and agents who entice them to play
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    39 8 PARIS. Mon (Reuter) Almost one in five of France s 15 million wsge-earners work r t l he sta e according to statistics published here todav. There are 2.749.014 French civil servants. Including teachers and post employees.
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    55 8 WASHINGTON. Mon.(Reuter) President Nixon today call* ea his top-level urban affairs council into session at the White House to explore further a national programme to solve the country's domestic ills. The agenda will include aid to city ghettoes. welfare payments, health aid and special education for
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    447 9 HEALTH IN TOTALITY SINGAPORE, Mon. The present effort, pressed forward with enthusiasm by the Public Dental Service could hit a dead end unless there is active appreciation of public responsibility and co-operation in the scheme. This warning was given last night by Professor
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    117 9 'Test Tube Babies Illegal In Egypt CAIRO, Mem (Reuter) Egyptian Moslem religious leaders announced today they have banned artificial insemination as illegal. The Fatwa (Moslem religious ruling) Committee said this method was against Islamic teachings and violated human dignity. It also ruled that babies bora by artificial insemination were illegitimate.
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    80 9 JAKARTA. Moo- (Reuter) Education Minister Mashuri has said the proposed joint spelling between Indonesia and Malavsia is necessary lor the growth of the Indonesian language, the independent KNI News Agency reported today. Mr. Mashuri said there was a possibility that Indonesian could become an area language in
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    148 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Three men. one armed with a pistol and the other two with daggers, herded 30 occupants of a house of Jalan Delima into the kitchen before making off with 51. 520 in cash and jewellery. This occurred while the occupants were watching
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    172 9 SINGAPORE. Mon —During the week a total of 396 blood donations were received a decrease of 319 donations over the previous week's figures. A total of 58? blood transfusions were given in Singapore hospitals during the week. The blood stock in the Blood Bank thi* morning
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    379 9 SINGAPORE, Mon The Singapore Port Workers Union haa charged the Port of Singapore Authority management with "bulldocing" the third shift system for port workers "just for the sake of exercising the authority's power The union in a circular said that the SPWU had strongly protested when
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    103 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Book Development Council Selling Mission from Britain which will be visiting Singapore from tomorrow to April 10 will arrive at 6.55 p.m. tomorrow. The aim* of the mission, which is also visiting Malaysia and New Zealand, are to sell British books;
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    72 9 SINGAPORE. Man Mis* Leone Pui Fun of Tanjong Katong Girls' School was one of the lucky 74 students to receive a token cash award from the Singapore Clock and Watch Trade Association for her performance in the 1968 school examinations Miss Leont is presently a Secondary Three student
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    263 9 SINGAPORE. Mon Lord Diplock. a Lord Justice of Appeal In England, will visit Singapore from tomorrow to Thursday on his way home after attending a conference in Tokyo of the Comlte Maritime International. He is taking the opportunity to visit Commonwealth countries in the region which
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    320 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. Workers must first understand that their interests are tied up with those of all others in society in order to prevent themselves from being used by pro-communists to further their own interests. This was stated today by Lee Peng Leng, a former president
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    79 9 MANILA. Mon. (UPI) The Asian Development Bank (ADB i announced today It will a. e 5M In two regional research programme involving vegetable raising and credit and security arrangements of local Asian Banks The Bank said It will contribute US$3OO.OOO to the Asian Vegetable Research and
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    120 9 ECAFE: SINGAPORE. Mon. Th» New Zealand delegation to the ECAFE Conference in Singapore from April 15 will be led by a senior Cabinet Minister. Mr. N. L. Shelton, Minister of Customs. Other members of the New Zealand delegation will b« Mr. G D L. White, the Deputy
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    698 10  -  By Florence de Santis WITH oil of fashion loosening up, taking fro all kinds of costume and foreign inspirations, jewellery had to follow. The uptight little pin, the "classic" pearl necklace, the restrained button earring, all are still with us, but
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    106 10 IT WAS one thing to get a new uniform wardrobe deSigned by Evan-Picone, but another for Pan American Airways to get the clothes onto 4.000 stewardesses scattered over half the globe. The airline set up eight centres from New York to Honolulu where the hostesses could
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    148 10 GIRLS looking for the new fancy bras to wear under sheer fashions this summer may find them in accessories departments rather than in the bra section of stores. These are the bras now being called "ready-to-wear bras" to distinguish them from all the usual kinds which
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    310 10  -  By Florence de Santis If summer means only a country or suburban scene, one doesn't have much trouble with clothes. But for those who work in towns and cities, it's always a problem to plan clothes that look well but are cool.
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    297 10 LOOK fOJt... NEW ways to belt the suit, now more often sashed, in pull-through tipped strings, in eather passed through grommets. In bowed patent. LIGHT coast for spring and summer in bright or bold cotton prints. water-repellent, with white buttons doub'.ebreasted. collar accents. SUDDEN* emergence of the sailor
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    269 10  -  Br Mary Sue Miller VfASTER the Grooming Alphabet and look flowerfresh. Feel flower-fresh! Ablutions. Not quick dips but thorough wash-ups. tubs and showers. Bathing beauty. Make a rite of baths with bubbles or oils, toilet soap and pumice stone, hand and body brushes. Complexion,
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    520 10  -  By H.C. Tan OICKING up souvenirs 1 from distant lands have always been an irresistable hobby with tourists. In fact any travel intinerary would be incomplete with out it. The unfailing charm of native products provides the lure and human nature does the rest.
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    100 10 ENGLISH designer Hardy Amies, who followed a star career as a women's designer with equal success in the men's field, has restored shape in a long torso line. For spring his menswear collection includes single-breas-ted suit jackets which can either be three-button or button up to the
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    99 10 A LEADING creator of bonding processes. Coin International. has been extending a programme of guarantees which enable consumers to bring complaints directly back to Coin itself, even though the firm simplv licenses others to make bonded fabrics with its processes. Where Coin believes its standards have been followed,
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    Lock icon Ungaro Hits Couture Top
    128 10 THERE'S still room in th« Paris couture for a talent based on solid classical training. and by this year Emanuel Ungaro has proved it. He has just received one of the 1969 Neiman Marcus fashion awards, and he Is having hil best sales season. Ungaro trained
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    136 10 A FEW months ago the fad for boxes used as handbags began with the sudden appearance everywhere of black metal lunchboxes which were covered with pictures or artwork. then lacquered. Now a New York store is carrying old Central European copper te a caddies for handbags
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      Lock icon Triumphant Japanese Golfers Back Home For Final Leg
      924 11  -  By LESLIE NAKASHIMA 'TOKYO, Mon. (CPI) Japanese golfers returned to Japan this week with a big smile, having won five of the six tournaments of the Asia golf circuit plaved so far tnis year. ne 5? av we,! ca P l u
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      Lock icon Hsieh Yung-Yo Of Taiwan Widens Lead In Circuit
      266 11 TAIPEI, Mon. (UPI) Nationalist Chinese pro Hsieh Yung-Yo on Sunday widened his lead in the overall standings of the Far East Golf Circuit by picking up another 16 points to bring his total to 74. The slender, former caddy of the Taipei
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      Lock icon Real Madrid Lose Unbeaten Record
      136 11 ELCHE, Spain. Mon. (Reuter) Spanish soccer champions Real Madrid la«t night lost their unbeaten rerord in this season's league competition with a 0-1 defeat by 10th placed Elche, after a recordbreaking run of 27 matches without defeat. For Real, battling to finish the 30-match competition
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      Lock icon Brabham Wins Tragedy Marred Race
      114 11 BATHL'RST. New South Hales, Mon. (Reuterl Australian Jack Brabham, three times world champion, easily won the 100-mile Gold Star Championship motor rare here today. His Repco Brabham V 8 tore round the 3.8 mile track in two minutes 13.2 seconds, breaking tke lap rerord of
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      Lock icon Britain's Adcocks Sets New Time In Marathon
      262 11 ATHENS, Mon. (UPI) Bill Adcocks of Britain won the Bth annual marathon on Sunday in two hours, 11 minutes and 7.2 seconds. It was a new record for the classic 26-mile, 385-yard event from the village of Marothon to Athens and was the
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      Lock icon New World Walking Record
      67 11 LONDON. Mon. (AFP) Britnh long-distance walker Boh Thlrtle set a new world walking record late yesterday by covering 201 miles 682 yards without stopping. The walk took 55 and a half hours to comolete Thirtle broke the o'd record of 200 miles 168 yards. He made
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      Lock icon LAWRENCE MAKES HIS BID
      53 11 EASTERN SUN picture shows: Graeme Lawrence (57) of New Zealand bidding to overtake Lionel Chan (56) of Singapore at the hairpin circus in the 60-lap GP for cars event held on Sunday. Lawrence emerged the overall winner in the new record time of 2 hrs. 9.0
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      Lock icon Sydney Cup To Lowland
      70 11 SYDNEY. MOB (AFP) Four-year-old mare Lowland, ridden by Australian Roy HigKin. won the CIS.JUH) two-mile Sydney Cup rlassic on the Randwirk racecourse here today. Starting at second favourite. Lowland outstayed last year's Melbourne Cup winner Rain Love over the la*t half furlong Lowland now retires and
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      Lock icon Vietnam Edge South Korea
      136 11 SEOUL. Mon. (UPI) South Vietnam took the two remaining singles today and defeated South Korea. 3-2. In the second round competition of the Eastern Zone's Section A' for the 1969 Davis Cup The Vietnamese, who trailed with two matches to one up on Monday, rallied in
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      Lock icon SEAP Games: Basis For Qualifying Standard
      282 11 SINGAPORE, Mon The second placing of the last South-east Asia Peninsular Games will be based as the qualifying standard for the forthcoming SEAP Games to be held In Rangoon, from Dec. 6 to IS. This wa.« announced today bv the Minister of Social Affair*.
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      Lock icon K.L. RACE WEIGHTS
      768 11 Following ore the weights for the weekend K.L. races starting on Saturday, April 12: FIRST DAY Horse* Class 1 Div. 2 6 Furlongs Mafoota 900 Earl Marshal 8 12 Currency Note 8.12 Galley Proof 8 12 Grand Volant 8.10 Jingle Bell 8 06 Flying Spark 8 06
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      Lock icon Nixon To 'Throw In' At U.S. Baseball's 100th Season
      464 12 YORK, Mon. (UPI) Bosehall's 100 th season, marked by a new four-division setup, opens today with traditional starts in Washing* ton and Cincinnati and an additional feature at Atlanta. President Nixon will throw out the first ball at Washington, where the
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      Lock icon Baltimore Orioles Best In Exhibitions
      349 12 NEW YORK, Mon. (tTI) The Baltimore Orioles, expected to battle the world champion Detroit Tigers for supremacy in the American League's Eastern Division. compiled the best exhibition record in spring trainlne The Orioles won 19 of 24 games to finish with a stunning .792 percentage.
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      Lock icon Aid For Destitute Fleetwood-Smith
      98 12 JOHANNESBURG. Mon. (Reuter) A Johannesburg millionaire has started a fund for Leslie FleetwoodSmith. the former Australian Test cricketer, who appeared in a Melbourne court recently charred with vagrancy. "He is not a criminal he has a philosophy which has moved me," said Barney Kramer, prominent city
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      Lock icon Mexico Held In 'Opener'
      136 12 LISBON, Mon. (Reuter) Mexico, host nation to next year's World Soccer Cup finals, opened their seven-match European tour by drawing zero-zero with a below-strength Portuguese team here yesterday. Portugal were without star forwards Eusebio and Jose Torres who are in South America with the Benefica Club,
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      Lock icon AMAYA ONLY A 'GYM FIGHTER'
      709 12  -  By Leslie Nakashima TOKYO. Mon (UPI) Panamanian challenger AnUvnio Amaya on Sunday night proved himself to be a gym fighter and thus failed to wrest the World Boxing Association's world Junior lightweight crown from Japan's Hiroshi Kobayashi. Amaya made the mistake of trying to win
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      Lock icon • Jerry's Special (Moses Lee astride) being led in by a representative of Jerry's Stable after scoring over the 9 furlongs at Ipoh on Saturday. Jerry's Special beat La Vite and Seajay narrowly — a neck and a nose.
      37 12 Jerry's Special (Moses Lee astride) being led in by a representative of Jerry's Stable after scoring over the 9 furlongs at Ipoh on Saturday. Jerry's Special beat La Vite and Seajay narrowly a neck and a nose.
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      Lock icon • Dato Chong Kok Lim is seen leading in Bambi II (Velu) who won the Class 3, Div. 4 — 6 furlongs event on the third day with 8.01. Bambi II came with a beautiful late run to get up in the last few strides and beat Seregalar by a short-head.
      49 12 Dato Chong Kok Lim is seen leading in Bambi II (Velu) who won the Class 3, Div. 4 6 furlongs event on the third day with 8.01. Bambi II came with a beautiful late run to get up in the last few strides and beat Seregalar by a short-head.
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      Lock icon • K.L. owner Mr. Chan Chow Meng is pictured leading in Onassis (Harbridge) at Ipoh on Saturday. Onassis beat Sokitomi by a short head over 6 furs, in a Class 4, Div. 5 event. Third was Brilliant Success. – Pictures by Chan Sam Lock.
      47 12 K.L. owner Mr. Chan Chow Meng is pictured leading in Onassis (Harbridge) at Ipoh on Saturday. Onassis beat Sokitomi by a short head over 6 furs, in a Class 4, Div. 5 event. Third was Brilliant Success. Pictures by Chan Sam Lock. Pictures by Chan Sam Lock.
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      Lock icon LITTLER'S 12-FOOT PUTT WINS HIM PLAYOFF
      196 12 GREENSBORO. North Carolina Mon (t'Pl)—Leading money winner Gene Littler sank a 13-foot putt for a birdie on the fifth hole or a sudden death playoff to win the 1969 Greater Green, sboro Open (GGO) Golf Tournament on Sunday and become the only two-time golf
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      Lock icon Kenyan Driver Hillyar Declared Provisional Winner
      466 12 East African Safari Ends Ir A Huff NAIROBI, Mon. (Reuter) Kenyan driver Robin Hillyar (Ford Taunus) looked the winner on points of the 17th East African safari which finished here today, but the official results will only be known later when cars have been
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      Lock icon Two S'pore Sikhs For Asian Highway Rally
      160 12 SINGAPORE. Mon. Two prominent Sikh leaders of the Republic are confident they will create a "up set" in the 1.900-mile Vientiane-Singapore Highway Rally. Thev are Mr. Hardit Singh Sandhu and Mr. Doola 1 Singh. Thi? Is the first time that the Sikhs have
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      Lock icon Atlanta Hawks Win Narrowly
      112 12 ATLANTA Mon. (UPI) The Atlanta Hawks clicked off 11 quick points to open up the fourth quarter on Sunday afternoon and then held on to the momentum to drop San Diego 112 to 101 in a first round National Basketball Association playoff game. The victory gave
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      Lock icon Bidding For T.T. Record
      62 12 MELBOURNE. Mon. (Reuter) Four Melbourne men are attempting to break the world record for non-stop table tennis. The record of 87 hours 11 mlnute s 53 seconds was set in England in May last year. Colin Kirby. Les Stivala, Roger Odnoral and Arthur Wood, of Dandenong
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      Lock icon Cambridge Will Do It Again Prediction
      415 12 LONDON. Mon. (UPI) The boatrace fans were speculating on Sunday that Cambridge, after its easy win over Oxford on Saturday in the 115 th university boatrace, would do it again when the two crews meet again on the Thames next year. Cambridge. leading from
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      Lock icon Fine Comeback
      239 12  -  By Arthur Ashe SAN JL'AN. Puerto Rico. Mon. (Reuter) America's Arthur Ashe made a dazzling comeback after dropping the first two sets to win the singles title in the 17th annual Caribe Hilton invitational tennis tournament here. Australians captured the women's singles and the men's and women's doubles
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      Lock icon Havlicek Shines For Celtics
      162 12 NEW YORK. Mon. (UPI) John Havlicek's 25 points, Including a key ihree-pomt play late In the fourth quarter, sparked the Boston Celtics to <• 108-100 victory over the New York Kmcks on Sunday afternoon in the opening game of the National Basketball Association Eas'ern Division playoff
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      106 12 Time And Tide TODAY Singapore town: 134 a.m. (9 ft. 3 Ins.); 8.26 a.m. (6 Ins.); 3.23 p.m. (7 ft. 3 ins.); 8.24 p m. (4 ft. 7 ins). Naval Dockyard: 1.49 a.m. (10 ft. 5 Ins.); 7.57 a.m. (9 ins); 3.07 p.m. (9 ft 2 ins.); 8.15 p.m. (5
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